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Aide: Trump flew into rage Jan. 6, lunged at Secret Service agent Tribune Content Agency WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump and his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, were aware the Capitol was a target of violence and that Trump supporters were armed with weapons when the president urged them to march to the building on Jan. 6, 2021, a former aide testified in a bombshell hearing Tuesday that also revealed Trump repeatedly pushed to pardon those involved in the attack.

In a hearing abruptly Hutchinson said called by the House Trump told the panel investigating the Capitol insurrection, Secret Service, ‘I Meadows’ former aide don’t effing care Cassidy Hutchinson gave a detailed accounting that they have that the Secret Service weapons, they’re informed Meadows in advance that violence not here to hurt was possible Jan. 6, and me. Take the effing that Trump expected mags away.’ to lead the crowd to the Capitol to pressure lawmakers to keep him in office – an act the White House counsel warned could be a crime.

Hutchinson also said that Trump’s aides pressured him into giving a speech the next day with threats that he could be removed from office under the 25th Amendment.

In addition, the committee suggested Tuesday that it has evidence Trump’s supporters are attempting to tamper with witness testimony to the panel.

Tuesday’s testimony from Hutchinson was the most direct evidence provided by the committee that Trump and his inner circle knew of but disregarded the threats to the Capitol.

Hutchinson said she learned that Trump went so far as to grab the steering wheel of the presidential SUV and attack a Secret Service agent when he was told his security detail would not take him to the Capitol on Jan. 6.

She added that Trump was furious that the audience at his speech near the White House wasn’t at capacity, even though he was told by the Secret Service that there was a large number of people outside the fence who had weapons and weren’t submitting to screenings by magnetometers, referred to as “mags.”

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A three-alarm blaze burns a field along Sunset and Railroad avenues in Suisun City, Friday.

County board votes to put ‘fire tax’ on November ballot Todd R. Hansen

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FAIRFIELD — Solano County voters in November will decide whether to support a one-eighth general sales tax increase for wildfire prevention and protection needs.

The Board of Supervisors voted 4-1, with Supervisor Erin Hannigan dissenting, to place the measure on the Nov. 8 ballot. A non-binding advisory measure that spells out what the estimated $9 million in annual revenue will be used for also will be on the ballot.

“Hope is not a strategy,” board Chairman John Vasquez said about continuing to do nothing to address the increasing threat of wildfires in the county.

“I think the communities

Cassidy Hutchinson, a top former aide to Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, is sworn in as she testifies during the sixth hearing by the House Select Committee on the Jan. 6 insurrection in Washington, D.C., Tuesday.

with its approach, but has opposed the idea of the tax increase from the outset for a variety of reasons.

She has publicly stated that while Vallejo residents will have to pay the tax, she said they will not benefit from its use. She also has favored setting aside some of the funds for open space and park needs.

“We are not thinking big enough,” Hannigan said on Tuesday, echoing some of her more recent comments.

“I cannot support this. I don’t think this is enough of a change.”

The supervisor said it was like putting “lipstick” on the problem.

She also said she would favor a

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FAIRFIELD — The Solano County supervisors on Tuesday agreed to give $4.5 million in ARPA funds to an affordable housing project in Fairfield, officially allocated $5 million for emergency food needs and set aside $10 million for revenue recovery for Covidrelated losses the county has sustained.

The $4.5 million to Fairfield is for the 67-unit Tabor Commons complex – one unit for the complex manager – and is half what the city had originally asked from the county. The housing will serve individuals and fam-

ilies with low and really low incomes, plus a set number of units for residents with mental or physical disabilities.

The $44.7 million project is located at 212 E. Tabor Ave. and includes a community room with a kitchen, a computer room, children’s play area, an on-site laundry facility and space for on-site resident services and case management.

“This is an opportunity to put our money where our mouth is,” Supervisor Mitch Mashburn in his push to support the project and added to the muchneeded affordable housing supply in the county.

The emergency food

allocation is divided, with $2 million going to immediate food needs. Qualified agencies can apply for what amounts to grants for shares of the funding.

The other $3 million is for capacity building for

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expect a little more protection,” he said.

Supervisor Jim Spering, who sits on the Fire Ad Hoc Committee with Vasquez, called the tax a necessary first step.

He said the voters have the right to say whether wildfire protection is a pri- HANNIGAN ority, and pointed out that had the wind shifted during the LNU Lightning Complex Fire in 2020, parts of Rancho Solano would have been torched.

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Mothers see danger everywhere; children mostly fearless

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my first child was born. y mother tried to teach me to see After my third, I could danger. Even the see danger everywhere. kind you can’t see until Even the kind you can’t it’s too late. see until it’s too late.

“You have to watch My main mission for it,” she’d say. “Pay in life (along with attention and try to use cooking, cleaning and the sense God gave you!” trying to stay sane) was I remember an Sharon Randall simple: I had to keep my autumn when the trees children safe. were ablaze with color.

I tried to teach them to see “Look, Mama,” I said, “aren’t danger. Look before crossing those trees just beautiful?” the street. Never run with scis“If I had my way,” she said, sors. If you fall off the roof, just “I’d cut ’em all down. I’m scared remember on the way down I they’ll fall on this house!” told you not to go up there.

She saw danger everywhere.

But far more than danger, I saw my share of it. But mostly, I taught them to see beauty, to I saw what fear did to her. How feel joy and live life to its fullest. it kept her from enjoying life.

I never wanted them to be a How it locked her up in a prison prisoner of fear. I just wanted of her own making. And how, if I them to be safe and stay alive. let it, it would lock me up, too.

I meant well. But they My mother meant well. But were young, full of themI was young, full of myself and selves and thought they’d live thought I’d live forever. I tried forever. They tried their best to my best to be fearless. be fearless.

My fearless days ended when Somehow, by the grace of

God, they survived. They are now responsible, caring adults with children of their own. I never worry about my grandchildren. Their parents are teaching them a perfect balance of freedom and safety. If there are dangers, they see them long before I do.

When my kids were small, their favorite beach was Lovers Point, a sandy cove a short mile from our home in Pacific Grove, on California’s rocky coast.

The water is cold, below 65 degrees, but it’s a bit sheltered from the wind and the waves lap more than crash. We didn’t own wet suits, so the kids mostly waded in the surf and built castles in the sand.

It’s now the favorite beach of four of my grandkids, ages 7 to 11, who live nearby. They often swim there in wetsuits, while their mothers sit on blankets, as I once did, watching over their babes like ducks on June bugs.

On a recent day, they

planned to meet friends at the beach but cancelled at the last minute.

That morning, a man who was swimming just off shore was attacked by what officials said was a 20-foot great white shark.

Several people – including a police officer and a nurse who were in town to celebrate their wedding anniversary, and a surfing instructor who was teaching a class – heard the man’s screams and paddled out to pull him to shore. He was taken to a trauma center with massive injuries. But thanks to those who saw the danger, and yet risked their lives to save him, he is expected to survive.

Meanwhile, children who had been in the water stood dripping on shore watching the dramatic rescue. Who knows what they will take from that experience?

Life is not one thing, but many: Joy, heartache, heroes

and villains, bravery and fear, danger and deliverance. In the same way we teach children to avoid what may harm them, we need to teach them to embrace what will heal them – what will build them up, make them whole and give them peace.

That story is not just about a shark attack. It’s about bravery, compassion, kindness, survival and good people who faced danger to do the right thing.

If those children (and others like my grandchildren who weren’t there, but will hear about it) remember anything about that day, I hope they’ll remember the heroes. And soon, whenever they are ready, I hope they’ll get back in the water.

Sharon Randall is the author of “The World and Then Some.”

She can be reached at P.O. Box 922, Carmel Valley, CA 93924 or www.sharonrandall.com.

Phi Kappa Phi adds several from Solano to ranks Daily Republic Staff

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uby Morales of Vallejo was recently initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective all-discipline collegiate honor society.

Morales was initiated at California State University, Sacramento.

Solano County residents initiated at the University of California, Davis are Brendan Borrero and Heather Ringo of Fairfield; Luke Brenner and Austin Haddox of Vacaville.

From San Jose State University are Jacqueline Flores of Suisun City, Jessica Van Der Meer of Vacaville and Allyson Tabas of Vallejo.

The Solano students are among approximately 25,000 students, faculty, professional staff and alumni to be initiated into Phi Kappa Phi each year.

Membership is by invitation only and requires nomination and approval by a chapter. Only the top 10% of seniors and 7.5% of juniors are eligible for membership. Graduate students in the top 10% of the number of candidates for graduate degrees may also qualify, as do faculty, professional staff and alumni who have achieved scholarly distinction.

Phi Kappa Phi was founded in 1897 under the leadership of undergraduate student Marcus L. Urann, who had a desire to create a different kind of honor society: one that recognized excellence in all academic disciplines. Today, the society has chapters on more

than 325 campuses in the United States, its territories and the Philippines.

French of Benicia earns All-Valley softball honors Grace French of Benicia was one of four softball players at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois to earn second-team All-Missouri Valley Conference recognition, according to the league press release. French was a first-time allleague honoree.

In addition to the all-conference recognition, French was also named to the MVC’s AllDefensive team.

French is the second player in program history with four or more homers who collected 10 or more wins a season. She was second on the squad in runs (30), doubles (10), homers (4) and RBI (26), while leading the Braves with a 3.32 ERA and owns a 10-10 overall record in the circle. French is Bradley’s first pitcher to win 10 games in a season dating back to 2015 and tossed the first no-hitter for the Braves since 2007, doing so in early March against St. Thomas.

At the plate, French boasts a team-best 11 multiple-RBI games and had a career-best reached base streak of 18 consecutive games. In league play, French was 8-5 with a 3.44 ERA and scored

a team-best 16 runs in Valley play while hitting .284. She was named MVC Player of the Week on April 5 after hitting .571 with three doubles and one homer at the plate, in addition to going 2-1 with a 3.05 ERA in four outings.

French is currently ninth in Bradley history with 29 career victories.

Ikenaga named to college’s dean’s list Jason Ikenaga, of Benicia, was named to Washington College’s spring dean’s list.

Students at the in Chestertown, Maryland, college must have a 3.5 grade-point average or higher to make the list.

There were 461 students who qualified.

arships during 2021.

The program recognizes and rewards students who show initiative and creativity in helping Denny’s bring communities together.

Solano alumni graduate from OU Several students from Solano County graduated this spring from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.

They are Tariq Jamille Mahmood, of Fairfield, Naomi Love, from Vacaville, and Ryan De Los Reyes and Michelle Delarazan, of Vallejo, all of whom graduated with a bachelor’s degree in

nursing from the university’s College of Health Sciences and Professions; Danielle Bonham, from Vallejo, graduated with a master’s degree in public administration from the university’s Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service.

More than 4,400 students graduated during the spring semester.

Fairfield alum earns master’s at Iowa Monica Vree, of Fairfield, recently graduated from the University of Iowa with a master’s degree in art history.

More than

5,100 students earned their degrees.

Two Solano residents make CU honor list Cedarville University students Joel Ward, of Fairfield, and Rhyan Fought, of Vacaville, were named to the dean’s honor list for spring semester.

Ward is majoring in computer engineering, Fought is majoring in nursing.

Student must have a 3.75 grade-point average or higher to qualify for the honor list at the Cedarville, Ohio, school.

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Fairfield resident wins Denny’s scholarship Elijah Gaddis, of Fairfield, was one of the Denny’s Hungry for Education scholarship recipients.

Gaddis, a finance major who attends California State University, Fullerton, was selected by the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities.

It stated in Gaddis’s project material: “Denny’s can bring communities together by doing what it does best and that’s getting families together and providing great inexpensive meals. Denny’s can bring communities not only together but closer to one another.”

Denny’s awarded more than $300,000 in schol-

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VACAVILLE — The Vacaville Toy Anime Comic Con will offer fun for cosplayers across the county on Sunday.

Come dressed to impress to this kidfriendly event. A cosplay contest, with prizes, will begin at 2:30 p.m.

The event will take place from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Loyal Order of Moose Vacaville, 6585 Gibson Canyon Road. Tickets are $7 to $8.

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Vacaville Museum to celebrate July 4th VACAVILLE — Celebrate Independence Day with classic Fourth of July fare, including hot dogs, lemonade and popcorn at the Vacaville Museum.

The free event will take place from 1 to 3 p.m.

Monday at 213 Buck Ave..

Located within the courtyard, visitors can enjoy the outdoor musical performances featuring jazz vocalists and bands from Vacaville.

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Dixon Grillin’ and Chillin’ returns DIXON — The 13th annual Grillin’ and Chillin’ Car and Truck Show welcomes visitors to their old-fashioned, family friendly street fair on July 16.

In addition to cars and trucks on display, enjoy lots of food and drink offerings, unique crafters and artisan booths lining Highway 113 in downtown Dixon. A children’s area will have a water slide, bounce house and other fun activities.

The event will take place from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.

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Family Fun Day returns to museum SUISUN CITY — Bring the whole family out to the Western Railway Museum for a day of memorable activities.

Ride the interurban train, hop on a vintage railroad speeder, operate a 100-year-old velocipede and more.

There will be free popcorn. Bring a picnic basket and enjoy a day with your family.

The event will take place from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. July 23 at the museum, 5848 Highway 12, east of Suisun City.

For more information, visit WRM.org.

Suisun Wildlife Center goes wild in July SUISUN CITY — The Suisun Wildlife Center will host a Wild Time event on July 16.

Visitors can get up close to birds of prey, mammals, learn about Native Americans, rocks and minerals. The event will take place from 1 to 3 p.m. at 1171 Kellogg St., in Suisun City.

The next event will be Aug. 13.

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Covid numbers slide down over weekend, but have been pretty flat Daily Republic Staff

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FAIRFIELD — Solano County last week experienced a little bump in its coronavirus case reporting, but that trend was down over the weekend.

Still, Dr. Bela Matyas, the county public health officer, said the numbers have been pretty flat in recent weeks, with the strong likelihood of another spike following the Fourth of July activities.

The county reported 850 new cases since its update on Thursday, of which 741 were actually from the four-day period.

The 10-day daily case Aaron Rosenblatt/Daily Republic average of 175.3 comA pedestrian wearing a face mask is seen walking in downtown Fairfield, Monday. pared to 188.5 four days earlier – for a pandemic number of residents who There were three patients 262 new cases for a total were in area hospi- in intensive care units, the total of 97,291. of 26,090. Vallejo added There were no new tals with a positive test same as Thursday.

Fairfield added 298 cases for a new count deaths reported, and the dropped from 42 to 35.

of 29,511. Vacaville is at 24,662 after 169 new cases, the county reported.

Suisun City (6,840) added 46 cases; Dixon (4,763) added 31; Benicia (3,856) added 35; Rio Vista (1,361) added eight; and there was one additional case in the unincorporated area for a new total of 208, the county reported.

The county reported 75% of residents 5 or older have been fully vaccinated, while 83% have received at least one shot. There have been 173,943 booster shots given, an increase of 1,041 since Thursday’s update.

Children 5 to 11 have received 13,055 vaccinate shots, 35.2% of that population. Information for 6 months to 4 years old was not available.

DUI-related deaths spiked in U.S. during 2020 Todd R. Hansen THANSEN@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET

FAIRFIELD — The first year of the Covid-19 pandemic showedajumpinimpaireddriving that resulted in 1,512 more DUI-related deaths than in 2019.

“With 11,654 deaths, drunk driving accounted for 30% of all road fatalities – the worst year since 2005. Furthermore, drunk driving fatalities are up a staggering 1,512 deaths (14.9%) compared to 2019,” states a report by Zutobi, an online driver education and safety site.

The report was issued leading up to the Fourth

of July holiday, which according to federal studies, is the deadliest road holiday on the calendar.

Why the numbers spiked in 2020 is not entirely clear.

However, “the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism has determined that overall alcoholic beverage sales increased during the pandemic.

The increase in alcohol consumption correlates well to the increase in drunk driving deaths for the same time period but it does not explain the entire increase,” Zutobi reported.

Local reclamation district paid $276,000 for 2017 storm damage Daily Republic Staff

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FAIRFIELD — Reclamation District No. 2130 has received $250,965 in storm damage reimbursements from the state Office of Emergency Services.

The reimbursement “covers the costs of repairs to a levee damaged during storms and flooding that occurred in January 2017, that were not covered under the federal major disaster declaration for that

event,” the state agency said in a statement.

The district is located along Honker Bay. The payment represents the state’s 75% share of $334,620 in repair costs incurred by the district, which is eligible for assistance under the California Disaster Assistance Act for the declared emergency in Solano and four other counties.

Cal OES also approved $25,096 to help the district cover administrative costs.

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According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, a driver with a blood-alcohol content of 0.08 percent will “experience concentration difficulties, difficulty maintaining speed, impaired perception, impaired judgment, short-term memory loss and difficulty processing information,” the Zutobi

report states.

“Even a (blood-alcohol content) of 0.05 percent, which is within the legal limit, will result in reduced coordination, reduced ability to track moving objects, difficulty steering, and reduced reaction times.”

California had 780 DUI-related deaths in 2020, of which 628 were

men and 152 were women, Zutobi reported.

“Men are more than four times as likely to be involved in a fatal drunk driving accident compared to women. What does this mean exactly?

Well, 6,923 impaired male drivers were killed in drunk driving See DUI, Page A4

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Obituaries

Amelia H. Dominguez Feb. 11, 1947 — June 25, 2022

Amelia H. Dominguez, ‘Mel’ as she was lovingly known by all who knew her, left her earthly life for her eternal life in heaven with our Lord on June 25, 2022, at the age 75.

Born on Feb. 11, 1947, in Angeles City, Philippines, a daughter to Brigido and Margarita Hernandez.

Amelia went to school at Holy Angel in Pampanga, before marrying the love of her life, Eleazar, on June 2, 1974.

A proud military wife, she accompanied Eleazar while he served the United States Air Force, and traveled all over the world with her children.

She worked at Kaiser Santa Clara in medical records and later at the United States Post Office as a postal clerk.

Amelia will always be remembered for her vibrant personality, adventurous nature, love of movies, music and dancing, and unconditional love for family and friends.

She was an amazing woman, loving and devoted wife, caring mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and loyal friend who found happiness in the simple things in life such as raising her children and grandchildren, going to the movies, gambling at the casino, bowling and cooking Kapangpaan dishes.

She was a parishioner of Our Lady of Peace and

member of several groups, The Rizalian Club, Fil-Am Association and American Legion.

Amelia will be dearly missed by family, all those who knew and loved her, including her extensive family all over the world.

The Family will be forever grateful to the many nurses and doctors at Fresenius Dialysis Center and David Grant who served her in her time of need, who cared for her so well and showed great compassion to the family.

She is survived by her husband of 48 years, Eleazar Dominguez; six daughters, Mahlanie, Melinda, Maila, Felicitas, Elaine (James) and Ely-mel (Brian); adopted children, Victoria, Junita, Felix, Robert and Abel (Britney); sister, Angelina; 14 grandchildren, Jaelynn, Serena, Ares Eleazar, Thalia, James, Kaelani, Dominic, Aiden, Richella, Erica, Mayan, Marla, Anthony, Niko; three great-grandchildren, Reina Amelia, Francisco Zayden and Amara Dawn.

Amelia is preceded by her parents, Brigido and Margarita; siblings, Zenaida, Ruben, Victor, Danilo, Roberto and Angelita. Rest in Paradise.

She will be laid to rest at the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery, 5810 Midway Road, Dixon, California.

Johnny ‘John’ Earl Miller It is with deep sorrow and broken hearts that our family mourns the passing of our beloved Johnny ‘John’ Earl Miller on May 13, 2022, at his residence in Sacramento, California, at the age of 66.

John will be lovingly remembered by his mother, Jacqueline Grace Staats of Fairfield, California; sister, Charlene Anne Gadow of Vacaville, California; brother, Kenneth David Miller of Medford, Oregon; sister, Patricia Lee Vierra of Fairfield, California; brother, Donald Bryce Miller of Fairfield, California; as well as his stepfamily members, Suzanne Esparza of Pacific Beach, California, Nancy Fleckenstien of Napa, California, Betsy Giugni of Fairfield, California and Carolyn Staats of Napa, California.

John was preceded in death by his father, Elmer Fred Miller of San Leandro, California, in March of 2008.

Service will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 5, 2022, at the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery, 5810 Midway Road, Dixon, California. Our family will be holding a celebration of life for John at 11 a.m. Friday, July 8, 2022, at Calvary Chapel Solano, 1180 Western St., Fairfield, California.

If you feel led to make a small donation in John’s name, feel free to do so to the life-changing nonprofit recovery organization U Turn For Christ. Thank you and God bless!

County dedicates $2M toward First 5 Center in Fairfield Todd R. Hansen

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FAIRFIELD — An agreement between Solano County and Fairfield was approved Tuesday by the Board of Supervisors that provides $2 million in previously received state funding to establish a First 5 Center at the North Texas Recreational Facility.

The City Council had approved the memorandum of understanding on May 3.

First 5 Solano learned in July that the state budget included $2 million to help establish the First 5 Center in Fairfield. The city agreed in December to incorporate the Fairfield First 5 Center at its new North Texas Recreation Facility.

It will include a multiuse facility, park, sports fields, open spaces and an inclusive playground for

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FAIRFIELD — Solano County Supervisor Jim Spering described the recent death of YoloSolano Air Quality Management District executive Mat Ehrhardt as a “real tragedy.”

The board closed Tuesday’s public session in his memory.

Ehrhardt, the executive director and air pollution control officer for the district, died Sunday when he was struck by a car while riding his bicycle in downtown Sacramento.

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Suba, Terry Lee, 80, of Suisun City, died April 26, 2022.

Service will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, June 29, 2022, at the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery, 5810 Midway Road, Dixon, California.

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history and psychology.

To qualify for the president’s list students must earn a 3.8 grade-point average or better.

Madeline Beyer, of Benicia, was named to the University of Alabama president’s list for the spring semester with a 4.0 grade-point average.

Students with a 3.5 GPA or better are placed on the dean’s list. Students must have a 4.0 GPA to make the president’s list. A total of 11,224 students qualified for one of the academic honors.

Three Solano County residents have graduated from the University of Maryland Global Campus in Adelphi, Maryland.

Those students were Travis Austin Muller, of Vacaville, with a bachelor’s (cum laude) in business administration; Celina Michelle Perez, of Vallejo, with a bachelor’s in public safety administration; and Rana Susan Garcia, of Travis AFB, with a bachelor’s (cum laude) in social science.

Vaca native graduates from DeSales Villalpando inducted Vacaville native Jacob into Phi Kappa Phi W. Gooding graduated from DeSales University with a bachelor’s degree in history.

The university’s 53rd Commencement ceremony was on May 21 in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Fairfield resident makes president’s list Erica Nelson, of Fairfield, was named to the College of Charleston spring president’s list.

Nelson is majoring in

Victoria Villalpando was recently initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective all-discipline collegiate honor society.

Villalpando, of Dixon, was initiated at California State University, Sacramento.

Villalpando is among approximately 25,000 students, faculty, professional staff and alumni to be initiated into Phi Kappa Phi. Member-

Forensic Lab-Toxicology Expansion Project at 2201 Courage Drive in Fairfield. n Approved revenue contracts totaling up to $6.28 million for the life of the contracts with Solano Community College, Solano County Office of Education, city of Dixon, and North Bay Schools Insurance Authority for the Department of General Services-Fleet Management Division to provide vehicle leasing and vehicle maintenance services for up to a nineyear period, from July 1 to June 30, 2031. n Approved $620,700 contract amendment with Bay Area Community Resources, for a total contract of $2.29 million, extending the term through June 30, 2023. n Approved 69 Health and Social Services fiscal See County, Page A6

“Mat served the board of directors with unwavering dedication, protecting and improving air quality for communities within the district. His knowledge and EHRHARDT leadership will be sorely missed. I extend my sympathies to his family during this time,” Rio Vista Mayor Ron Kott, who serves as chairman of the board, said in a statement released by the district on Tuesday.

Ehrhardt, who held a degree in mechan-

ical engineering from California State University, Sacramento, came to the district in 1997 as an associate air quality engineer, was promoted to supervising air quality engineer in 2000, deputy air pollution control officer in 2002, and in 2005, became the executive director. He also served as president of the California Air Pollution Control Officers Association in 2009 and 2010.

“We are deeply shocked and saddened by

this sudden and tragic loss.

It was a great privilege to know him personally and work alongside Mat for more than 28 years,” Paul Hensleigh, deputy air pollution control officer, said in the statement.

Details regarding services will be provided at www.ysaqmd.org.

The district includes Dixon, Rio Vista, Vacaville and the surrounding rural areas of Solano County, with three county supervisors and council members from the three cities sitting on the board of directors.

the total number of road fatalities, 30% involved impaired drivers, with 354.6 DUI arrests per 100,000drivers,and4.2fatalities per 100,000 drivers, Zutobi reported.

Montana had the worst severity score in the nation, with 45% of the state’s road fatalities in 2020 involving a drunk driver, and there were 473 DUI arrests per

100,000 drivers. The score was 84.1 out of 100.

Montana was followed

by South Dakota (80.4), Wyoming (78.7), North Dakota (74.8) and Texas (64.4). These are the same five states that topped the list in 2019.

Delaware had the lowest score at 27.9, with only 23% of the state’s road fatalities involving an impaired driver.

The national average is 30%. The state reported 294 DUI arrests per 100,000 drivers.

Delaware was followed

by Massachusetts (31.7), New York (32.1), New Jersey (34.5) and Hawaii (36.1) with the lowest severity scores.

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Stanislaus State Locals among Georgia honors Class of 2022 Benicia resident Local alumni graduate Tech graduates Eight Solano County makes president’s list from UMGC alumni recently graduRobert Lizama, of ated from California State From Page A2

the Solano County Water Agency to fund an erosion control project. n Accepted the Quarterly Review of the Statement of Assets of the Solano County Treasury as of March 31. n Approved $23,855 in write-off of accounts receivable due to Solano County resulting from benefit overpayments due from former employees. n Approved as completed the CAC Plaza Fountain Improvement Project at 675 Texas St. in Fairfield. Swierstok Enterprise Inc. doing business as Pro Builders, of Stockton, was the contractor.

The project had a final cost of $980,000, the budgeted amount. The construction cost was $606,548. n Approved a $188,000 agreement with Swierstok Enterprise Inc. doing business as Pro Builders, of Orangevale, for the District Attorney

Longtime Yolo-Solano air district executive killed in traffic incident

crashes, whereas only 1,579 impaired women drivers died during the same period,” Zutobi reported.

California had a 2020 DUI “severity score” of 47.6 out of 100, ranking it 26th in the nation. Of

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The total project cost is $14.8 million. Fairfield has the funding for the remaining costs. Construction is expected to begin in July.

In other action, the board: n Approve a $134,500 contract amendment with the Center for Volunteer and Non-Profit Leadership Inc., from July 1 through June 30, 2023. The full contract is $890,356. n Appointed SafeQuest Solano Inc.; Catholic Charities; ChildHaven, doing business as Victor Community Support Services; Seneca Family of Agencies; and Empowered Aging to the Technical Advisory Panel to the Solano Family Justice Center Advisory Committee. n Approved $441,535 appropriation transfer in hazard mitigation grant funding on behalf of

Vallejo, and Reese Peterson, of Vacaville, recently graduate from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia..

Lizama received a master’s in computer science, and Peterson earned a master’s in mechanical engineering.

They were among 4,500 spring graduates.

Benicia alum graduates from Findlay Nicole Stewart, of Benicia, has graduated from the University of Findlay in Findlay, Ohio.

Stewart received a master’s in business

University of Stanislaus. n Jonathan Bins, of Fairfield, graduated with a degree in computer science. n Ryan Canlas and Timothy Ha, of Fairfield, and Katrina Cassandra Carreon, of Vallejo, graduated with degrees in nursing. n Milissa Bradley, of Benicia, graduated with a degree in educational leadership. n Tyler Cavett, of Vacaville, graduated with a degree in psychology. n Abraham Rantisi, of Fairfield, graduated with a degree in mathematics. n Britney Hayes, of Vallejo, graduated with a degree in social work.

Zachary Johnson, an Armijo High School alum, was named to the president’s honor list in Engineering at Cal Poly Pomona.

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FAIRFIELD — The Solano County supervisors on Tuesday recognized July 17-23 as Probation and Community Supervision Week.

The theme this year is “Solano Probation: Making a Difference, One Client at a Time.”

“This week has been set aside to recognize and celebrate the dedicated and caring individuals whose genuine desire to protect and serve their community is apparent in their dedication, compassion, and hard work to make Solano County a safer place to live, learn, work and play,” the staff report to the board states.

The Solano County Probation Department employs 78 probation officers, two mental health clinicians, three social workers and five social service workers to supervise and support more than 3,000 adults and 250 youth annually, and 52 juvenile correctional counselors to supervise up to 28 youth detained at the

Juvenile Detention Facility, Challenge Academy and the newly opened Reaching Into Successful Endeavors Program.

Among the department’s accomplishments are: n Providing short-term housing options to youth and adults. n Delivering food and other basic needs to

clients’ homes. n Sending five youth to the United Kingdom through collaboration with the Yoche Dehe Wintun Nation and XL Mentoring. n Assisting the Solano County Office of Education with the Evergreen Academy high school graduation ceremony for 11 youth at JDF. n Expansion of the

Construction Trades Program at JDF. n Continuing to provide services (group and individual) to adults at the Centers for Positive Change and youth at the Youth Achievement Center. n Forming a Wellness Committee, which See Work, Page A6

Police: Man shot Man facing 27 years in state prison following pursuit, flees before guilty verdict returned exchange of gunfire Daily Republic Staff

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FAIRFIELD — Police vehicles were struck with bullets Sunday, and an officer who was part of the pursuit was narrowly missed, as officers chased a man who they said failed to pull over during an attempted traffic stop.

The pursuit started about 10 p.m. on the 3000 block of North Texas Street and ended near Griffin and Gateway drives in Vallejo after a spike strip was deployed, the Fairfield Police Department reported in a statement released Monday.

“During the pursuit, the suspect shot at officers, striking their vehicles.

One of the suspect’s bullets penetrated an officer’s windshield, striking the driver’s side headrest and narrowly missing the officer,” the police said in the statement.

Fairfield police Chief Deanna Cantrell called the near-miss of one of her officers “frightening.”

“This was a very close call, as bullets barely missed one of our offi-

cers,” Cantrell said in a statement. “It’s a frightening example of just how much potential danger the men and women of the Fairfield Police Department face every single day as they safeguard the lives and property of the people we serve, while also enforcing the law.”

No officers were injured.

The man who police said fired the shots, identified as Patrick Hall, was later shot during an exchange of gunfire. He sustained non-life threatening injuries and was taken to a nearby hospital, the police statement said.

It was not immediately clear which department officer was involved in wounding Hall. His age and city of residence were not made available. Fairfield police referred all calls to the District Attorney’s Office. A message was left without immediate response. Which agencies were involved in the incident also went unanswered.

The Solano County Major Crimes Task Force is investigating the case.

FAIRFIELD — A Solano County Superior Court jury recently found James McClary, in absentia, guilty of injuring a cohabitant and causing great bodily injury and of assault with a firearm causing great bodily injury.

Clary, who was freed on $250,000 bail, fled the area before the verdict

was returned on Friday, the District Attorney’s Office said in a statement.

McClary also was found guilty of being a felon in possession of a firearm.

McClary, the prosecution proved, had in December 2020 “struck his girlfriend in the face after an argument” near a fast food restaurant on Mini Drive in Vallejo.

“He continued to strike her by ‘pistol-whipping’

her in the face with his handgun, causing severe injuries to her face and hands.

She was taken by a bystander to her mother’s home, who then immediately took her McCLARY to Kaiser Vallejo where she was treated for her injuries,” the District Attorney statement said.

McClary faces up to 27 years and 4 months in

state prison.

The case was prosecuted by Deputy District Attorney Luke Leichty. District Attorney Investigators Charles Renfro and Jason Scott assisted with investigation. Victim Witness Advocate Andrea Vela provided victim advocacy and support during the trial.

Soroptimist International of Central Solano announces Chance to Rise Award recipients Susan Hiland

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FAIRFIELD — The Chance to Rise Award recipients of the Soroptimist International of Central Solano County were announced this month.

The award program is for women in the Fairfield-Suisun area who have overcome substantial life challenges, and have developed a plan for a successful future through further education or vocational training.

Recipients for the

award cycle ending May 2022 are: n Margot Juan, of Fairfield, an immigrant and first-generation college student, She is entering her second year at University of California, Davis majoring in biological sciences, with plans to graduate in 2023 and enter physician assistant school. Her long-term goal is to be a doctor. n Sophia M., of Suisun City, a survivor of domestic violence and a single mother of two. Completing her associate’s degree at Solano Community

College this fall, she plans to attend California State University, East Bay with a major in human development. Her career goal is to become a social worker in Solano County. n Alma Rodriguez, of Fairfield, a DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) student. She attends University of California, Berkeley and plans to graduate by fall 2023 with a bachelor’s degree in sociology. A single mother of two, her long-term goal is earn a doctorate in sociology,

and to teach the subject, focusing on immigration and the struggles of undocumented students. n Ashley Shrum, of Fairfield, who attends Pacific Union College.

She plans to complete her degree in nursing in December 2023. She plans to become an intensive care unit or pediatric nurse. n Olga Whitman, of Fairfield, who attends American Intercontinental University and is pursuing her bachelor’s See Award, Page A6

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Stargazing at Rush Ranch returns Work

their setup and arrive before dark.

Children are welcome, but must be supervised at

all times. Warm clothing and mosquito repellant are encouraged. To protect night vision, flashlights

must be covered with red cellophane, available at the ranch, and late-comers are asked to dim their headlights.

Clouds or inclement weather will force the cancellation of the outdoor part of the event. Admission and parking are free, but donations will be accepted.

The event is offered by the Rush Ranch Education Council and Solano Land Trust, owner of Rush Ranch. Registration is required.

More stargazing events are planned for Aug. 19 and Sept. 23.

For more information and to register, send an email to di@solano landtrust.org or call 707-420-1041.

contracts and contract amendments totaling $3.02 million, effective July 1; and approved three annual and multi-year revenue contracts, memorandums of agreement and amendments, effective July 1. n Approved 15 Probation Department annual and multi-year contracts and contract amendments totaling $4.96 million, effective July 1. n Approved the $285,000 annual agreement between the Regents of the University of California, Sacramento County, Solano County and Yolo County (multi-county partnership) for the provision of the UC Cooperative

Extension Program from July 1 through June 30, 2023. n Approved contract amendments between the Workforce Development Board of Solano County and various vendors for continued support services, extending services for one month for later discussion and increased contract amounts by $328,798, for total contract amounts of $1.24 million. n Approved a renewal of the Master Memorandum of Understanding for 2022-25 to fulfill the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act’s requirement for a local agreement between the county and the Work-

force Development Board; and approved a renewal of the Partner Memorandum of Understanding for 2022-25 to be executed between the WDB and its mandated partner agencies for the local One Stop Career Center system titled the “Americas Job Centers of California.” n Approved a $176,495 contract between Workforce Development Board of Solano County and First Place for Youth to serve as the WIOA Youth Program Provider for one month for future discussion. n Placed a 7-ton weight limit on a half-mile stretch of Midway Road from Timm Road to the Vacaville city limits.

full-time in the health care field and helps support her extended family, including four children. She plans to graduate in September 2023, and pursue a career in health care con-

sulting for skilled nursing.

A total of $24,000 in scholarships were awarded.

Awards ranged between $2,000 and $5,000.

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result of a generous gift to the club from club member Sally Silvia and her husband, Jim Hudak, who indicated their wish to focus the program’s efforts toward supporting

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SUISUN MARSH — Astronomy enthusiast Jon Pannier will share what to look for in the Solano County skies in the coming months, and give updates on astronomical news.

The next gathering of skygazers will begin at 8 p.m. July 22 at Rush Ranch, located on Grizzly Island Road, approximately 2 miles south of Highway 12 in rural Suisun City.

An indoor gathering will start the evening’s activities. The outdoor viewing will begin at dark. Telescopes will be on hand. Personal scopes are welcome, but users should be familiar with

County From Page A4 year 2022-23 contracts for a total of $55.66 million, effective July 1. n Approved a $3.74 million revenue contract with the California Department of Aging to provide services to older adults from July 1 to June 30, 2023; and approved 11 Napa/ Solano Area Agency on Aging service contracts for fiscal year 2022-23 for $3.03 million, from July 1 to June 30, 2023. n Approved 10 Sheriff’s Office annual and multi-year expenditure

Award From Page A5 degree in health care management. She works

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Stargazer Bob Madsen, 9, right, looks up at the stars while waiting for David Allain to adjust his telescope towards the rings of Saturn during a Saturday evening stargazing event at Rush Ranch, May 28, 2009.

From Page A5 encompasses peer support.

In other action, the board: n Recognized Col. Corey A. Simmons, commander of the 60th Air Mobility Wing at Travis Air Force Base, for his service and contributions to Solano County. n Recognized Jo Ann Iwasaki Parker, deputy county counsel, upon her retirement after more than 33 years with Solano County. She also was acknowledged for her work on the behalf of children by Presiding Superior Court Judge Donna L. Stashyn and received a Congressional Proclamation from Rep. John Garamendi’s office. n Recognized Kelley D. Baulwin-Johnson, Probation Services manager, upon her retirement after 24 years with Solano County. n Recognized Lawrence Patterson, facilities supervisor with General Services, upon his retirement after 15 years with Solano County. n Recognized Terri M. Palmer, accounting technician with Department of Child Support Services, upon her retirement with more than 28 years with Solano County. n Recognized Valerie Williams, Solano County 4-H Program representative, upon her retirement after 28 years with the UC Cooperative Extension. women who have experienced social, financial, personal, medical or other difficulties in their lives.

Applications will be available in January 2023 for the next

n Recognized Sheila Bakke, administrative assistant and 4-H Program representative, upon her retirement after 12 years with the UC Cooperative Extension. n Recognized Desiree Carr, with the Public Defender’s Office, as “Employee of the Month” for July. n Recognized the Rev. Cathy Morris, minister of Dixon United Methodist Church, upon her retirement after 35 years. n Approved a $1,250 contribution from the District 5 General Fund account to benefit Meals on Wheels Solano County. n Approved a $4,750 contribution from the District 4 General Fund account to benefit Saving Gracie ($750), Napa Solano Habitat for Humanity ($750), Dixon Family Services ($500), Center for LandBased Learning ($500), the Vacaville Museum ($1,000), Chabad of Solano ($500), Sudie M. Smith Scholarship ($500) and Pena Abode Historical Society ($250). n Approved a $9,000 contribution from the District 3 General Fund account to benefit Meals on Wheels ($2,000), Suisun American Little League ($2,000), Suisun Veterans Memorial Building Association ($3,000), Child Haven ($1,000) and Solano Alpha Crisis Pregnancy Center ($1,000). n Recognized July 2022 as Parks and Recreation Month, and July 15 as Park and Recreation Professionals Day in Solano County. round of awards.

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FAIRFIELD — Alison Guernsey has been selected as the Elementary School Administrator of the Year by the Solano Charter of the Association of California Administrators.

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She was nominated

by her peers.

Guernsey has been principal at Weir since 2018.

She previously served as a teacher at Weir before moving into school administration.

“My proudest accomplishment this year was bringing back in-person assemblies and events. Our

community loved celebrating kids and showed up for our honor roll Assemblies, character assemblies, and our family events,” she said.

While the pandemic presented difficulty for schools, Guernsey believes the time period produced some positive outcomes for communities.

“The pandemic provided us with new methods to communicate. Parents feel comfortable messaging or emailing me, something that hardly ever happened preCovid,” she said.

The academy serves more than 600 students.

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FAIRFIELD — Several Solano County residents were recently recognized for their volunteer work with the North Bay Chapter of the American Red Cross.

Ken and Paula Blackshear, Jody Kimbrel, Nanette Shamieh, Pamela Ingram and Janis Dmytriw were among 22 residents from Solano, Marin, Napa and Sonoma counties who received recognition during a virtual event held on June 2.

“The time and energy volunteers dedicate each day makes the work of the Red Cross possible,” Jeff Baumgartner, Red Cross North Bay Chapter executive director, said in a statement released on Monday. “This past year, 452 dedicated North Bay Chapter volunteers contributed more than 22,955 hours to support the mission of the Red Cross. They continue to work tirelessly to ensure families in our North Bay communities will not face the next emergency alone.”

The Solano Leadership Team also received the Teamwork and Collaboration Award.

Angela Hunt, who works out of Napa and Sonoma counties, received the Clara Barton Award for Meritorious Leadership, the chapter’s top honor.

To become a Red Cross volunteer, go to redcross.org/volunteertoday.

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Court: Texas clinics can resume abortions Tribune Content Agency DALLAS — Texas abortion clinics can temporarily resume abortions up to six weeks of pregnancy, following a ruling from a state court blocking the enforcement of pre-Roe laws banning abortion.

The court granted a temporary restraining order Tuesday in response to a lawsuit filed June 27 by the Center for Reproductive Rights and other groups on behalf

of several Texas abortion providers. Another hearing is set for July 12.

All Texas clinics stopped providing abortions on June 24 after the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 ruling in a case from Dallas County that established the constitutional right to an abortion.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued an advisory shortly after the Supreme Court’s ruling, stating that the trigger law on the books

will go in to effect 30 days after a judgment is issued overturning Roe vs. Wade.

A judgment is typically issued at least 25 days after the opinion, meaning the state’s trigger ban will likely not take effect for more than two months.

However, Paxton said providers could be criminally liable based on pre-Roe laws that were unenforceable before the Supreme Court’s judgment, leading Texas clinics to stop providing abortions.

Marc Hearron, senior counsel for the Center for Reproductive Rights, said it was a relief that the court granted the temporary restraining order.

“This decision will allow abortion services to resume at many clinics across the state, connecting Texans to the essential health care they need,” Hearron said in a statement. Every hour that abortion is accessible in Texas is a victory.”

Amy Hagstrom Miller, CEO of Whole Woman’s

Health, tweeted shortly after the ruling: “We can resume abortions care in Texas.” Whole Woman’s Health has four Texas clinics, including locations in Fort Worth and McKinney.

Planned Parenthood was not one of the plaintiffs in the case, and will not resume abortions at this time, the organization announced.

“This is a rapidly evolving situation and legal teams are still reviewing this order and its potential

implications for Planned Parenthood health centers in Texas,” according to a joint statement from Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas, Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast and Planned Parenthood South Texas.

Though some clinics will resume providing abortions, these are likely to be short lived, as the state’s trigger law barring almost all abortions will go into effect in the coming months.

Anti-Asian hate crimes in state jumped 177% in 2021 Tribune Content Agency LOS ANGELES — The number of hate crimes in California rose for the third year in a row in 2021 and included a sizable uptick in the number of anti-Asian crimes, according to a report from the state attorney general.

The California Department of Justice released its annual report on hate crimes on Tuesday morning, noting 1,763 reported hate crimes, up 33% from the year prior.

Hate crimes against Asian Americans saw another year of triple-digit percentage increases, with crimes increasing 177.5% from 2020 to 2021, according to the report. Over the last year the number of anti-Asian hate crimes rose from 89 to 247.

“Today’s report reflects a grim reality our diverse communities know too well,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta said at a news conference Tuesday morning. Bonta pointed to the pandemic as giving way to “an epidemic of hate.”

Bonta said that hate crimes have increased to a level California hasn’t seen since the spike in the aftermath of 9/11. At the time, hate crimes jumped to 2,261 reported incidents.

Anti-Asian crimes

have become a larger portion of the state’s hate crimes involving race.

Two years ago, about 8% of race-based hate crimes involved Asian Americans. In 2021, that number rose to 21%.

During that time, the largest share of racebased hate crimes targeted Black people.

Anti-Black hate crimes rose 13% to 513 in 2021.

Hate crimes against Latinos also saw a 30% increase in 2021, and anti-Jewish hate crimes rose 32%.

Bigotry has become more pervasive in recent years, and has spiked particularly around “conflictual events” such as elections and protests, said Brian Levin, who leads the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at Cal State San Bernardino “It’s not just the darkest corners of the internet anymore, it’s in every space from sports to gaming,” Levin said.

Hate crimes saw a sharp uptick in June 2020 following the police killing of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter protests that followed, Levin said. Historically, hate crimes tend to fall after a spike, but that didn’t happen in 2020. Instead, the trend of increased hate crime has become more “sticky and elongated,” Levin said.

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Calvin Truong, 15, left, Bailey Nguyen, 15, and Leanna Luu, 15, are participating in a Youth Against Hate rally for a solidarity in light of anti-Asian violence and hate crimes in Los Angeles, May 8, 2021.

In brief

Grief management classes coming in August FAIRFIELD — “Journey Through Grief” is a 10-week series of classes focused on learning about healing from grief.

Each participant must have been bereaved, or in mourning, for three months before beginning the class.

Each session is facilitated by a grief therapist and is offered free to residents of Solano County. The class is limited to 12 people.

The classes will take place from 6 to 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday evenings on Zoom.

The next series of classes will be Aug. 23 to Nov. 1.

They will also be offering six classes of “Grief During the Holidays” from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Nov. 8 to Dec. 20, on Zoom.

Due to Covid-19 safety mandates, all grief support groups are offered only online, via Zoom, until further notice.

To register, call 707-646-3517.

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Former Bremerton High School assistant football coach Joe Kennedy answers questions after his legal case,

Kennedy vs. Bremerton School District, was argued before the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., April 25.

School prayer ruling stirs debate over how far religion will seep into campus Tribune Content Agency The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to permit a high school football coach to pray on the field after games is expected to reopen a vigorous and probably tense debate among parents, educators and others over how far religion can enter public school grounds, California education and legal experts said Monday.

Conservatives and some Christian leaders praised the court’s action, saying it allowed for the personal religious expression of the coach and those who voluntarily followed him, a reasonable accommodation to religious and free speech rights. But civil libertarians and many educators said allowing a coach or any other school authority figure to lead a prayer amounted to the kind of establishment of religion that the Constitution forbids.

“The court has opened the door to prayer in schools more than at any time in the last 60 years,” said Erwin Chemerinsky, a constitutional law expert and dean of the law school at U.C. Berkeley. “There will be much litigation. And it is not at all clear where the court will draw the line.”

A 60-year-old decision by the high court to bar an official prayer in New York schools had created a bright line for school officials: that practices and policies on campus should have strictly secular purposes. Monday’s ruling has blurred that line and will invite additional challenges by those who want more room for religious expression in schools, said John Rogers, a professor of education at UCLA and an expert in training school administrators.

“One of the results of this decision is that it probably is going to open up more conflict in schools,” Rogers said.

“It’s probably going to create more challenges for principals and other

district leaders, as new efforts are made to bring religion into the space of public schools. In some school settings, religious minorities or people who are not affiliated with any religion are going to feel some sense of compulsion or some sense of silencing or alienation.”

Monday’s decision came in the case of Joe Kennedy, an assistant coach at Bremerton High School in Washington state. Kennedy began kneeling by himself on the 50-yard line after games to pray, though the sessions soon became highly publicized and drew crowds of players and spectators to the field.

When the prayers became a public event, school officials warned the coach that they could be seen as violating the Constitution’s ban on an “establishment of religion.” Kennedy was suspended when he refused to follow the district’s guidance.

He was not rehired for the next year.

Lower courts ruled against Kennedy, but the conservative majority on the Supreme Court found that the coach’s prayers were protected under two other provisions of the 1st Amendment – the free speech clause and the “free exercise” of religion clause.

“The Constitution and the best of our traditions counsel mutual respect and tolerance, not censorship and suppression, for religious and nonreligious views alike,” Justice Neil M. Gorsuch wrote for the 6-3 majority.

The court’s action spurred a lively discussion Monday on a Facebook group for parents who support teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District and are generally aligned with their union.

One parent cheered the protection of Kennedy’s free speech and religious freedom rights, saying that the coach never forced others to join in the prayer ses-

sions. But several other parents objected, saying that players and students could feel ridiculed or excluded if they were in the minority who did not join in the prayers.

Other parents wondered how receptive the high court would have been to the freedom arguments if the coach in question had been a Muslim, who placed a prayer rug at midfield and bowed in prayers to Allah.

“I don’t know if this Supreme Court would take a decision this far if it were another religion besides Christianity,” said Tracy Abbott Cook, one of the parents in the discussion group.

“And why does this coach have to bring religion into this moment in public?

Maybe people want a break from religion and politics when they go to a sporting event. . . . Why muck it up?”

Los Angeles schools Supt. Alberto M. Carvalho said the district’s policy already made clear that employees are allowed to pray, but on their own time and in their own place. The district forbids prayers that would make students feel compelled to join, Carvalho said.

“To the extent that you engage in prayer, by yourself, outside of the actual (school) event – and you did not compel anyone to accompany you in prayer – then that is within the guardrails of free speech, which you do not lose when you enter a public school,” he said. “If it goes beyond that, it will continue to not be allowed.”

But even in the nation’s second-largest school district, it seemed apparent those guidelines aren’t uniformly followed.

Football coaches at three high L.A. Unified schools said they were aware of rules requiring separation of religion and school functions, though they said players would sometimes informally lead prayers, sometimes in small groups.

Stafon Johnson, foot-

ball coach at Dorsey High, said he regularly leads prayers just before and after games. “I’m just praying for their comfort, praying for … injury-free, praying for other teams so that they can travel safely,” said Johnson, who said he finds the practice brings players comfort.

He said he references “God” in his prayers but considers it a universal term and that Muslim players and coaches “participated in their manner.”

Carvalho said that he would have to know details about the Dorsey High prayer sessions but that they sounded “inconsistent” with the district’s policy.

Ken Williams, an Orange County Board of Education trustee, applauded the court for its ruling, saying that the celebration of religious diversity and expressions of faith are central to the American identity.

“I totally understand that you cannot force someone to pray or believe in the same things that I believe in,” said Williams, a Christian. “I think that’s very American, but I also think religion is important. This nation was founded by men of religious faith.”

In the Central Valley’s Clovis Unified School District, board member Steven Fogg said he would support a change in policy to allow teachers and coaches to lead prayers at athletic events.

The district previously allowed only students to lead prayers.

The district had for years opened school board meetings with a prayer, a routine discontinued after a federal appeals court ruled against the practice in 2018 in a case involving a school board in Chino Valley.

“I hope people aren’t threatened by prayer.

They shouldn’t be,” said Fogg, who is Mormon.

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Maxwell gets 20 years in prison for enabling Epstein’s abuse of girls Tribune Content Agency NEW YORK — Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced 20 years in prison Tuesday for enabling Jeffrey Epstein’s serial abuse of underage girls for a decade.

The former British socialite appeared in Manhattan federal court wearing a blue jail jumpsuit and shackles on her ankles.

The steep prison term all but ensures Maxwell, described at trial as Epstein’s “lady of the house,” will remain imprisoned until her twilight years.

“Today’s sentence holds Ghislaine Maxwell accountable for perpetrating heinous crimes against children. This sentence sends a strong message that no one is above the law and it is never too late for justice,” Manhattan U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said.

Testimony during last year’s trial revealed Maxwell instructed victims on how to pleasure Epstein beginning in the mid-1990s, forcing them into repeated rapes and sexual assaults at his Palm Beach mansion, Upper East Side Townhouse, and remote “Zorro” ranch in New Mexico. Epstein’s routine of abuse typically began under the guise of a massage.

Maxwell sometimes participated in the abuse and took sexually explicit photographs of Epstein’s victims for his gratification, victims said.

Witnesses recalled Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, Prince Andrew and other powerful men flying on Epstein’s private planes.

A photo introduced at trial showed Epstein and Maxwell lounging at the

Queen of England’s Scottish castle.

Speaking to victims in court, Maxwell expressed remorse but stopped short of an apology.

“Jeffrey Epstein should have been here before all of you,” Maxwell said.

“I’m sorry for the pain you experienced. . . . May this help you travel from darkness into the light.”

A naturalized U.S. citizen, Maxwell, 60, also holds British and French citizenship. Her siblings previously protested her innocence by pointing out that she didn’t flee upon Epstein’s arrest or his death.

She was arrested in July 2020 at an isolated, opulent timber-frame mansion on a 156-acre property in New Hampshire purchased through an LLC. Prosecutors said she lived a “transient lifestyle” after Epstein’s arrest and that she was “skilled” at hiding.

Maxwell lost repeated bids for bail while awaiting trial, despite offering to put up tens of millions of dollars as collateral.

Epstein hanged himself in 2019 while awaiting trial for underage sex trafficking. Maxwell had argued that the feds, embarrassed by his suicide, unfairly substituted her for Epstein.

Evidence obtained through civil lawsuits against Epstein and Maxwell showed the financier gave his former flame advice in 2015 as questioned mounted about their sick lifestyle.

“You have done nothing wrong and I would urge you to start acting like it,” Epstein wrote Maxwell.

“Go outside, head high, not as an escaping convict.

Go to parties, deal with it.”

Antisemitic flyers attacking Disney execs, lawmakers left at homes Tribune Content Agency Dozens of homeowners in Coral Gables and Miami awoke Tuesday to plastic bags filled with candy corn and pictures of Disney characters on their front lawns.

But the package wasn’t meant as a gift. It was a blatant antisemitic affront, with the candy serving as weights to hold down paper pictures of the characters – six Disney World executives with blue Stars of David stamped into their foreheads and the word “Jewish” in capital letters written under their names.

“Every single aspect of Disney’s child grooming is Jewish,” the pamphlets said. “Protect your children.”

Coral Gables residents said the flyers landed on the lawns of dozens of homes throughout the city, from Granada Boule-

Campus From Page A8 “Prayer should not be something that brings animosity, otherwise it’s a false prayer. We certainly do not want anyone to feel excluded. It should be something that brings people together.”

But lawyers who had argued against organized prayer on school grounds said the practice tends to become coercive, and exclusionary, when it is

vard to Capri and Cordova streets. Only a couple were found in Miami, one on a porch near Southwest Fourth Avenue and 21st Street and the other on a lawn down the road.

Similar antisemitic flyers focusing on other topics like gun control and immigration were also dropped on lawns overnight. One says: “Every single aspect of mass immigration is Jewish,” and another, with pictures of lawmakers, says the same about gun control.

Law enforcement sources said similar flyers showed up overnight at homes from Fort Pierce to Orlando to Jacksonville.

It wasn’t immediately clear how the antisemitic attacks were coordinated.

The Miami Herald has chosen not to publish or show the material due to its offensive nature. led by coaches and other authority figures. The ACLU of Washington noted that one of Kennedy’s players participated in the prayer against his own beliefs for fear of losing playing time if he declined.

“This decision strains the separation of church and state – a bedrock principle of our democracy – and potentially harms our youth,” said Taryn Darling, senior staff attorney for the ACLU of Washington.

“Some parties see a political game to be

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Police guard an area at the scene where an abandoned tractor-trailer was discovered with migrants inside on

the roadside on the outskirts of the San Antonio, Texas, Monday.

50 migrants die after tractortrailer abandoned in Texas Tribune Content Agency SAN ANTONIO — The number of migrants who died after apparently being abandoned in a sweltering tractor-trailer in Texas rose to 50 on Tuesday in a suspected human-trafficking attempt now under investigation by the Department of Homeland Security.

Federal officials said agents had detained three people believed to be a part of the “smuggling conspiracy.”

Among the dead were 22 Mexican nationals, seven Guatemalans and two Hondurans, Mexican Foreign Affairs Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said on Twitter Tuesday.

“We are in mourning,” Ebrard wrote.

World leaders – from Pope Francis to President Joe Biden – weighed in on the tragedy, with the Pope urging prayer “for these brothers and sisters who died following their hope of a better life.”

At the same time, migrant advocates renewed calls for more legal pathways to enter the U.S. as well as harsher punishment for human traffickers on both sides of the border.

The trailer was discovered Monday evening near a stretch of railroad tracks in an industrial section of San Antonio after a worker heard a cry for help, San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said.

The worker opened the doors, found “a number of deceased individuals inside” and called police.

First responders discovered 46 migrants dead in the truck along with 16 survivors – 12 adults and four minors – who were taken to hospitals.

The survivors were too weak to exit the trailer on their own, said San Antonio Fire Chief Charles Hood, who described their bodies as “hot to the touch.”

“They were suffering from heat stroke, heat exhaustion,” said Hood, who said there

made from having our public schools be theaters for conflict,” Rogers of UCLA said. “And I think that’s to the detriment of public schools, which require some level of common purpose in order to advance our shared interest in developing the capacities of young people in serving the broader community.”

Monday’s decision did not overturn previous court rulings that forbid more direct intrusions of religion into the curriculum and the school day.

In 1962, the high court

was no sign of water or working air-conditioning in the vehicle.

Temperatures in San Antonio on Monday hovered around 100 degrees.

Judge Nelson Wolff, the top elected official in Bexar County, where San Antonio is located, told the Associated Press on Tuesday that local authorities believe the truck came from Laredo, a border city 150 miles to the south and the nation’s largest inland port.

“They had just parked it on the side of the road,” Wolff said.

“Apparently they had mechanical problems and left it there.”

Stephanie Leutert, director of the Central America and Mexico Policy Initiative at the University of Texas at Austin, said smugglers often ferry migrants from the border in tractortrailers or car trunks to avoid detection at migrant checkpoints that dot southern Texas.

The vehicles are often bound for San Antonio, she said, where migrants are dropped at safe houses and later ferried to other parts of the country.

On Tuesday morning, investigators and local residents were searching for clues along Quintana Road, where the tractortrailer was discovered.

About a mile down the road, the owners of Leo’s Truck & Trailer Repairs were reviewing their surveillance camera footage.

Cynthia Rocamontes, who owns the shop with her husband, said she had been headed to lunch shortly before 11 a.m. Monday when she saw several minivans speed by.

It stuck with her because it was a rare sight on the deserted roads. So on Tuesday, she summoned her daughter-in-law and grandson to help her scroll through the footage.

“All right look, look!”

Cynthia exclaimed when the first minivan appeared. They counted six minivans, the drivers ruled in Engel vs. Vitale that the Board of Regents of New York could not impose a prayer on students. The court turned down the proposal from the New York educators, even though they argued their one-sentence prayer was nondenominational.

Justice Huge Black found that the mere introduction of the prayer (“Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee, and we beg Thy blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers and our country. Amen.”) was, by its very nature,

obscured by tinted windows, front license plates difficult to read.

“Those were the pickup people,” her grandson, Aydyn Rocamontes, speculated.

At age 11, he already knew how smuggling operations worked.

“It’s where we live,” his mother, Shelly Rocamontes, explained.

“We talk about stuff like that.”

The family wondered whether the truck’s driver may have detoured from Interstate 35, a major smuggling artery that is a straight shot north from Laredo. They said there was a major wreck on the interstate Monday – a truck hauling cows collided with two others in the median.

Police were still searching the lots abutting Quintana Road with dogs Tuesday, business owners said.

Tony Bokanian said he found police behind his A-1 Salvage yard soon after they discovered the tractor-trailer Monday.

Standing atop the bed of his truck, Bokanian said he could see over his rear fence with a direct view of the back of the trailer. By then, police had removed several bodies and covered them with yellow sheets, he said.

“I saw the bodies, two heads. There were yellow sheets, but it was windy,” he said. “They were young kids: 20, 21.”

Bokanian immigrated to the U.S. from Iran with a student visa in 1999, became a citizen five years later and is raising his three children in San Antonio.

He said he realizes his experience was different than that of migrants coming from Mexico and Central America. “There should be a better system” to enter the U.S. legally from those countries, he said. “The way it’s going is very dangerous.”

The migrant trail has grown increasingly perilous in recent decades, and the number of migrants relying on smugglers has

exploded. Deadly accidents are common.

More than 650 people died while trying to cross the U.S.-Mexican border last year, according to the International Organization for Migration, a United Nations agency.

In 2017, 10 people died after they were left in a tractor-trailer outside a Walmart in San Antonio. The driver, James Matthew Bradley Jr., was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

In 2003, 19 migrants died after they were abandoned in a trailer at a truck stop in Victoria, Texas. The driver, Tyrone Mapletoft Williams, was convicted and is serving a sentence of nearly 34 years in prison.

Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei on Tuesday called for stiffened sentences for smugglers.

“It is inexcusable that innocent lives continue to be lost to migrant smuggling!” he wrote on Twitter. “It is imperative that mechanisms are found to toughen sentences and that smuggling is a crime for which perpetrators can be extradited.”

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said at a news conference Tuesday that his country was ready to support the investigation.

“I want to express my deepest condolences to the families of Mexican, Guatemalan and Honduran migrants who died yesterday asphyxiated in a trailer,” he said, adding that he plans to address the incident during a meeting in Washington next month with Biden.

In a statement, Biden, who is in Europe for G-7 and NATO summits, blamed smugglers for the tragedy, saying they “have no regard for the lives they endanger and exploit to make a profit.”

“This incident underscores the need to go after the multibillion-dollar criminal smuggling industry preying on migrants and leading to far too many innocent deaths,” he said.

sufficient to constitute an illegal establishment of religion, even if participation in the prayer was not overtly coerced.

In subsequent decades, the Supreme Court would reject an Alabama law permitting a minute of prayer or meditation during the school day and prohibited prayers led by religious leaders at school graduation ceremonies.

In 2000, the court also rejected a Texas school board’s policy that allowed students to decide, by majority vote, whether to have a student-led “invo-

cation” at football games, graduations and other school gatherings.

“The religious liberty protected by the Constitution is abridged when the state affirmatively sponsors the particular religious practice of prayer,” Justice John Paul Stevens said in the 6-3 opinion nixing the school prayer plan.

Stephen Breyer is the only justice remaining on the court who concurred in that opinion. He is set to retire this summer.

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Crime logs Fairfield SATURDAY, JUNE 25 12:57 a.m. — Shots fired, 100 block of BEL AIR CIRCLE 1:00 a.m. — Shots fired, 5000 block of ROWE DRIVE 1:16 a.m. — Assault with a deadly weapon, 1200 block of B. GALE WILSON BOULEVARD 1:49 a.m. — Battery, 1500 block of PHOENIX DRIVE 2:39 a.m. — Drunken driving, 2400 block of PERIWINKLE PLACE 2:48 a.m. — Battery, 1500 block of PHOENIX DRIVE 4:43 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 100 block of HAWTHORN DRIVE 5:16 a.m. — Commercial burglary, 1700 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 6:58 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 1900 block of WEST TEXAS STREET’ 8:24 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 5000 block of WEST CORDELIA ROAD 9:21 a.m. — Reckless driver, CLAY BANK ROAD 9:41 a.m. — Fight with a weapon, 1900 block of WALTERS COURT 9:42 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 1500 block of OLIVER ROAD 10:09 a.m. — Vandalism, 4800 block of BUSINESS CENTER DRIVE 10:40 a.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 200 block of STEPHEN STREET 10:50 a.m. — Hit-and-run with injury, 2500 block of HILBORN ROAD 11:19 a.m. — Indecent exposure, 3500 block of NELSON ROAD 2:03 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 800 block of EAST TRAVIS BOULEVARD 4:37 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 1300 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD 4:55 p.m. — Reckless driver, 2700 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 5:03 p.m. — Trespassing, 2100 block of WALTERS ROAD 6:21 p.m. — Drunken driving, 3500 block of GLENWOOD DRIVE 6:29 p.m. — Forgery, 200 block of EAST ALASKA AVENUE 8:16 p.m. — Battery, MALLARD COURT 9:09 p.m. — Battery, 1700 block of WEST TEXAS STREET 11:11 p.m. — Shots fired, 3900 block of BUSINESS CENTER DRIVE 11:39 p.m. — Drunken driving, EASTBOUND AIR BASE PARKWAY 11:40 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, DOVER AVENUE

SUNDAY, JUNE 26 1:59 a.m. — Prowler, 4700 block of STONEWOOD DRIVE 7:21 a.m. — Brandishing a weapon, 3300 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 8:19 a.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, SAN PEDRO STREET 10:02 a.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 1200 block of OLIVER ROAD 11:08 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 1300 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD 11:14 a.m. — Battery, 500 block of AIRLIFT DRIVE 11:43 a.m. — Vandalism, 1900 block of CARDINAL WAY 11:47 a.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 5000 block of BUSINESS CENTER DRIVE 12:38 p.m. — Battery, 1800 block of INDIANA STREET 1:54 p.m. — Battery, 1600 block of GATEWAY BOULEVARD 2:30 p.m. — Vandalism, EL BASSET COURT 2:49 p.m. — Vandalism, 1800 block of CLAY STREET 5:01 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 1300 block of MEADOWLARK DRIVE 5:23 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, SUNSET AVENUE 5:25 p.m. — Trespassing, 2700 block of ELDERBERRY COURT 5:33 p.m. — Shots fired, 100 block of BEL AIR CIRCLE 5:43 p.m. — Vehicle burglary,

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MONDAY, JUNE 27 12:15 a.m. — Battery, 1400 block of HAWAII STREET 2:08 a.m. — Fight with a weapon, 400 block of TULIP STREET 5:59 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 900 block of PACIFIC AVENUE 7:00 a.m. — Forgery, 2100 block of WEST TEXAS STREET 8:45 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 2200 block of GATEWAY COURT 9:18 a.m. — Indecent exposure, 2300 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 9:35 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 5300 block of ONE LAKE DRIVE 10:23 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 900 block of TEXAS STREET 10:23 a.m. — Vandalism, 1700 block of ENTERPRISE DRIVE 10:32 a.m. — Trespassing, 1800 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 10:54 a.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, SUNSET AVENUE 11:11 a.m. — Grand theft, 2100 block of CADENASSO DRIVE 11:13 a.m. — Trespassing, 2000 block of CADENASSO DRIVE 11:45 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 1300 block of GOLD HILL ROAD 12:30 p.m. — Grand theft, 5200 block of PERRY POLK DRIVE 1:03 p.m. — Drunken driving, AIR BASE PARKWAY 1:47 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 1700 block of RIVER OAKS CIRCLE 2:49 p.m. — Reckless driver, DOVER AVENUE 2:50 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 100 block of SERRANO DRIVE 4:15 p.m. — Battery, 900 block of BUCHANAN STREET 4:23 p.m. — Trespassing, 300 block of TULIP STREET 4:29 p.m. — Trespassing, 3000 block of REDWOOD DRIVE 7:11 p.m. — Battery, 100 block of EAST TABOR AVENUE 7:20 p.m. — Drunken driving, OHIO STREET 8:30 p.m. — Trespassing, 2200 block of ROSS PLACE 8:31 p.m. — Drunken driving, TRAVIS BOULEVARD 8:34 p.m. — Assault with a deadly weapon, 1000 block of WEBSTER STREET 8:47 p.m. — Shots fired, 2000 block of PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE 9:39 p.m. — Drunken driving, MANUEL CAMPOS PARKWAY 10:27 p.m. — Shots fired, 2000 block of KIRKWOOD COURT 10:53 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 1900 block of GRANDE CIRCLE

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From Page One Hutchinson said Trump told the Secret Service, “I don’t effing care that they have weapons, they’re not here to hurt me. Take the effing mags away.”

After the speech, in which Trump told the crowd that he would be going with them to the Capitol, the Secret Service instead returned him to the White House because of the violence already underway at the Capitol. Trump became irate, Hutchinson said she was told by Anthony Ornato, Trump’s chief of operations. The head of Trump’s security detail, Secret Service agent Bobby Engel, who was traveling with the president, was in the room when the story was relayed, she said.

“The president reached up towards the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel. Mr. Engel grabbed his arm, and said, ‘Sir, you need to take your hand off the steering wheel. We’re going back to the West Wing. We’re not going to the Capitol.’ Mr. Trump then used his free hand to lunge towards Bobby Engel,” Hutchinson said, adding that the agent gestured toward his clavicles to describe where the president lunged at him.

Trump denied the allegation during the hearing in a post on his Truth Social platform.

As the White House struggled with how to respond in the days after the Jan. 6 attack, including discussions among the president’s Cabinet of invoking the 25th Amendment to remove him from power, Meadows and Trump lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani both sought presidential pardons for their actions on Jan. 6, Hutchinson said.

Trump agreed to give a speech on Jan. 7 calling for unity after aides convinced him it was necessary to protect his legacy and to stave off talk of invoking the 25th Amendment. Rather than calling for rioters to be prosecuted, as early drafts had done, Trump and Meadows pushed to include language in the speech indicating the president might pardon those involved.

“He didn’t think that they did anything wrong.

The people who did something wrong that day, or the person who did something wrong that day was Mike Pence by not standing with him,” Hutchinson said of the president.

Hutchinson’s in-person testimony before the committee Tuesday came just a day after the panel scheduled the hearing in order to “present recently obtained evidence and receive witness testimony,” despite setting

Tax From Page One specific tax rather than a general tax – and while a specific tax would require two-thirds of the voters to support it while a general tax requires a simple majority – she said the specific tax would set in stone the tax uses.

Jeff Toynbee, repre-

ARPA From Page One level of funding should the county carve out of the American Rescue Plan Act funds to recover some of its own losses during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The board agreed with Ian Goldberg, assistant county administrator, that

expectations last week that it needed time to review new information and wouldn’t meet again until mid-July. Little known outside the White House or Capitol Hill, Hutchinson was a constant fixture at Meadows’ side, giving her a detailed knowledge of the inner workings of the Trump White House and putting her in a position to overhear conversations as Trump and his advisers planned to reverse Joe Biden’s victory.

Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said in his opening statement that the evidence presented Tuesday could not wait until the committee reconvened next month.

“It’s important that the American people hear that information immediately,” Thompson said.

Surprise witnesses are rare at congressional hearings. The last major surprise witness was White House aide Alexander Butterfield, who in 1973 confirmed the existence of a recording system in the Oval Office during the Watergate hearings, testimony that led to President Richard M. Nixon’s resignation and changed U.S. history.

Hutchinson has sat for at least four depositions with the House select committee, including once within the last two weeks. As Meadows’ top aide, she was present at or briefed on several key meetings at the White House leading up to Jan. 6 and was backstage while Trump gave his speech at the “Stop the Steal” rally on the Ellipse near the White House.

She was also the main point of contact between Meadows and many members of Congress.

Hutchinson has been particularly forthcoming since she recently changed attorneys from Stefan Passantino, who was a White House ethics lawyer early in Trump’s tenure, to Jody Hunt, who is a longtime confidante of Jeff Sessions, Trump’s first attorney general.

Much of the deposition footage shown Tuesday appeared to be from her most recent deposition.

“I think part of the legal advice (Hutchinson) was receiving didn’t allow her to be as forthcoming as we thought,” Thompson told reporters after the hearing. “So at some point, she changed attorneys, and she began to open up more and more about what was happening around Jan. 6.”

Thompson praised Hutchinson’s courage in speaking publicly and urged other recalcitrant witnesses to reconsider their earlier statements to the committee.

“If you heard this testimony today and suddenly you remember things you couldn’t previously recall, or you discover some courage you had hidden away somewhere, our doors remain open,” he said.

Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, one of two Republicans on the committee, whispered to Hutchinson, “I’m proud of you,” as she was escorted out of the hearing room.

Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., vice chair of the committee, also indicated that the panel is aware that people in Trump’s orbit are pressuring witnesses not to be honest with the committee, and has potential evidence of witness tampering or obstruction of justice.

She displayed several text messages to witnesses that the committee has obtained. “(A person) let me know you have your deposition tomorrow. He wants me to let you know that he’s thinking about you. He knows you’re loyal, and you’re going to do the right thing when you go in for your deposition,” said one message to an unnamed witness.

Hutchinson’s depositions have already been the source of some of the committee’s biggest revelations to date, including that Trump cheered on rioters who chanted “Hang Mike Pence,” something she spoke to in greater detail Tuesday.

Hutchinson said she overheard discussions in the Oval Office dining room about the chants as she was bringing Meadows his cellphone, and also overhead Meadows and White House counsel Pat Cipollone arguing about it as they went back to Meadows’ office.

“I remember Pat saying . . . ‘They’re literally calling for the vice president to be effing hung.’ And Mark had responded something to the effect of, ‘You heard him, Pat. He thinks Mike deserves it.

He doesn’t think they’re doing anything wrong,’” Hutchinson said.

Around the same time, Trump tweeted, “Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done.”

“As an American, I was disgusted,” Hutchinson said. “It was unpatriotic, We were watching the Capitol get defaced over a lie. ... I still struggle to work through the emotions of that.”

Hutchinson also provided new details about Trump’s intention to lead his supporters to the Capitol and about Meadows downplaying the threats posed by the crowd. Hutchinson said Giuliani told her on Jan. 2, 2021, after a meeting at the White House that Trump would be going to the Capitol on Jan. 6. Hutchinson said she asked Meadows about it immediately afterward.

“He didn’t look up from his phone and said something to the effect of, ‘There’s a lot going on, Cass, but I don’t know. Things might get real, real bad on Jan. 6,’” she said.

About 10 a.m. Jan. 6, Meadows was briefed by Ornato about the number of people Secret Service had identified in the crowd who were carrying handguns, rifles, body armor and bear spray, and who had affixed spearheads to the ends of flagpoles.

“I remember distinctly Mark not looking up from his phone,” Hutchinson said of Meadows, noting it took him a few moments to respond. When he did respond, he asked Ornato, “All right, anything else?”

Later, Meadows “almost had a lack of reaction,” to being told about the violence at the Capitol, Hutchinson said, and he noted that the president wanted to be left alone.

In a video deposition taped before the Tuesday hearing, Hutchinson said she remembered hearing the names “Oath Keepers” and “Proud Boys” in planning around the Jan. 6 rally, particularly when Giuliani was present. On Jan. 5, Trump instructed Meadows to make contact with former national security adviser Michael Flynn and former adviser Roger Stone, who were being escorted by the members of those groups, to discuss what would occur the next day, Hutchinson said.

Cipollone was worried about the language the president wanted to use in his speech, Hutchinson said, particularly his declaration that he would go with protesters to the Capitol, the phrases “fight for me” and “fight for the movement,” and references to the vice president.

Hutchinson said Cipollone approached her on Jan. 3 after Meadows raised the idea of Trump going to the Capitol.

“This would be legally a terrible idea for us,” Hutchinson said Cipollone told her.

Cipollone also pulled Hutchinson aside on Jan. 6 on the way to Trump’s speech and told her “please make sure we don’t go” to the Capitol.

“We’re going to get charged with every crime imaginable if we make that movement happen,” Hutchinson said Cipollone told her, citing obstruction of justice or defrauding the electoral count as possible charges.

Hutchinson also told the committee in her depositions that Trump, Meadows and members of Congress pushed a plan to try to have state electoral slates dismissed even after the White House counsel’s office repeatedly said it was unlawful, and that Meadows burned documents in his office after a meeting with Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., in the weeks after the 2020 election.

She also gave the committee names of Republican members of Congress who sought presidential pardons after Jan. 6.

senting the International Association of Firefighters Local 1186, endorsed the tax measure.

City fire chiefs, who opposed the tax in March, did not address the board on Tuesday. Vasquez hinted that some kind of consensus had been reached with the chiefs and rural districts. He credits Toynbee for making that happen.

“We are not opposing

the sales tax measure,” Chris Concepcion, the Vacaville fire chief and president of the City Fire Chiefs Association, said in a phone interview Tuesday afternoon.

He said the association changed its opposition position after being “assured that we are going to be involved in the planning . . . and how that money will be used for fire protection in

(the county).”

Toynbee also said it was time for the county to consolidate all its rural districts into a single county department, and strongly supports a centralized dispatching service for fire needs.

The consolidation of districts is something the Ad Hoc Committee continues to address though the Local Agency Formation Commission.

the county should opt to use the calculated recovery formula to determine what it might be eligible to take, rather than a flat $10 million slice.

“It is a positive direction for us,” Goldberg said.

The calculation formula puts the county’s losses for 2020 and 2021 at about $41.14 million. The board opted to set aside $10 million of that total

for the time being.

Supervisor Jim Spering was not convinced the county should earmark anything for revenue recovery until finishing with the ARPA request format, which has the county, to date, committing about $35 million of the $86.9 million available.

However, the recovery funds have more flexibility built into their

available uses, and more flexibility in when they must be used. Supervisor Monica Brown favored setting aside the full $41 million to take advantage of the limited restrictions.

“I don’t think it is a detriment and that is how I am going to vote,” Brown said.

Brown joined the full board in putting aside the $10 million.

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Turkey drops opposition to Finland, Sweden joining NATO The Washington Post MADRID — Turkey agreed on Tuesday to drop its opposition to the NATO bids of Sweden and Finland, paving the way for the alliance to grow and highlighting how Russia’s war in Ukraine is reshaping the post-Cold War order and reinvigorating transatlantic ties.

As NATO opened a three-day summit in Madrid, those countries’ leaders signed a memorandum confirming that Turkey will support the two Nordic nations’ paths to accession. “Welcoming Finland and Sweden into the alliance will make them safer, NATO stronger and the Euro-Atlantic area more secure,” NATO

Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said at a news conference after the signing ceremony.

“This is vital as we face the biggest security crisis in decades.”

The question of how to respond to the crisis triggered by Russia’s fullscale invasion of Ukraine is front of mind for President Joe Biden and other heads of state and government who have gathered this week, first in Germany for a Group of Seven meeting and now in Spain with NATO’s meeting.

The news of Turkey’s turnaround after a month of opposition drew an even greater spotlight to a summit expected to focus on Ukraine’s urgent need for more advanced

weapons as its fighters are hammered in the east by Russian forces.

The leaders here are also expected to address longer-term strategic questions raised by the Kremlin’s aggression and China’s global ambitions.

The sudden announcement Tuesday evening followed a commitment by G-7 leaders earlier in the day that their countries would “urgently” explore ways to impose price caps on Russian oil and gas to hurt Moscow’s ability to finance the war. But those leaders, meeting at Schloss Elmau in southern Germany’s Bavarian Alps, stopped short of agreeing to new energy sanctions.

The Madrid summit will be closely watched not

only for news on weaponry but as a sign of Western resolve for Ukraine, said retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, a former commander of U.S. Army Europe. “The Russians are just so confident that we cannot stay together, that we can’t sustain what we are doing through a long hot summer,” he said.

Allies, he added, intend to send a message to the Kremlin that NATO has “an unmistakable commitment to making sure that Ukraine wins, not just survives.”

The deal with Turkey adds momentum heading into what officials and diplomats call the most significant NATO summit in many, many years.

Sweden and Finland

are both close NATO partners who remained officially military nonaligned until Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine pushed them toward the 30-member military organization. Since they applied last month, Turkey had blocked accession talks over what Ankara said was the two countries’ support for Kurdish militant groups.

Weeks of talks appeared to yield little progress – though NATO leaders and officials remained upbeat.

On Tuesday, just as the summit got underway, Biden spoke with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Erdogan then met for several hours with

the Finnish president and Swedish prime minister, as well as Stoltenberg.

The memorandum signing quickly followed.

“I’m pleased to announce that we now have an agreement that paves the way for Finland and Sweden to join NATO,” Stoltenberg said, noting that the memorandum addressed arms exports and the fight against terrorism.

In addition to discussing military support for Ukraine, summit participants on Wednesday and Thursday will debate plans to bolster NATO’s eastern flank and release a new strategy document laying out the challenge that Russia and China pose, diplomats said.

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The Giants will be excited when they get LaMonte Wade Jr. back in the lineup after recently completing his rehab

assignment. He has missed almost all of San Francisco’s first 73 games this season.

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SAN FRANCISCO — LaMonte Wade Jr. has never had a bobblehead of himself, so good thing all signs point to him being activated this week, possibly as soon as Wednesday, ahead of the promotion in his honor coming up later this home stand.

“That’s pretty cool. I’m looking forward to it,” Wade said, noting both his parents should be in attendance Saturday, when the Giants will hand out 20,000 figurines bearing his resemblance.

In reality, the bobblehead couldn’t further from Wade’s attention (“When’s that?” he initially responded). Top of mind Tuesday afternoon at Oracle Park was his pending return from a knee injury that has forced him to miss almost all of the Giants’ first 73 games

this season.

Wade was back with the Giants after playing seven games with Triple-A Sacramento on his second rehab assignment for inflammation in his left knee that first popped up during spring training.

Giants manager Gabe Kapler said before Tuesday’s series opener with the Detroit Tigers that there was a “good chance” Wade would be activated Wednesday and back in San Francisco’s lineup for the first time since May 18.

“I feel good about the direction we’re heading there. It’s going to be nice to have LaMonte back,” Kapler said. “Hopefully that’s (Wednesday). … I wouldn’t call it 100%, but that’s where we’re trending.”

Wade has appeared in more rehab games this season (14) than he has with the Giants (10).

Wade briefly returned from the original injury and contributed six hits, including a home run, in 25 at-bats (.240/.375/.360), but the knee flared up again, prompting him to be shut down again and seek additional treatment. His second rehab assignment was delayed by a more than week after he tweaked his hamstring in the same leg while running the bases.

Wade admitted Tuesday that he wasn’t 100% when he came back the first time.

“The whole situation has been frustrating,” Wade said. “Nobody wants to miss time, and I’ve missed a lot of time. It’s definitely been frustrating, but I’m excited to be back.”

Since reinjuring the knee, he has received a series of injections intended to reduce the See Return, Page B12

Toscano-Anderson shares trophy with Mexican president Tribune Content Agency Oakland native Juan Toscano-Anderson’s connection to the Bay Area fanbase is strong because of his hometown roots.

But he also means a great deal to many people thousands of miles from the Warriors’ home at Chase Center.

Toscano-Anderson, 29, became just the second known player of Mexican descent to win the NBA Finals when the Warriors clinched a series victory over the Celtics in Boston nearly two weeks ago.

He took the Larry O’Brien Trophy south of the border for a visit with Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who shared a video of their

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“It’s an honor to represent Mexicans at the highest level in the world.

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López Obrador spoke the Mexican flag.

Mexico, preceded to the pride Toscano“This man is a player Toscano-Anderson as a Anderson takes in his of that outstanding team Mexican-American NBA Mexican heritage. It was that gave us a lot of champion, winning the on display during the pride because he came 1989 and 1990 titles with Warriors’ championship out with the flag of our the Detroit Pistons. parade last week, when country,” López Obrador Of course, Toscanohe interacted with fans said. “He does not forget Anderson’s connection to waving Mexican flags the origin of his family. the country goes beyond and waved one of his And we appreciate that his heritage. He played own. Toscano-Anderson very much, Juan. Greet- four seasons in Mexico also wore a custom War- ings to all your Mexican between clubs Soles de riors jersey for the dunk relatives.”

Mexicali and Fuerza Only Mark Aguirre, contest this February featuring the three colors of whose father was from See Mexico, Page B3

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Fairfield Pacific takes on Benicia at 3 p.m. Saturday.

Games will be held throughout the week with a championship showdown set for noon, Sunday, July 10, and, if necessary, a second championship game at 5:30 p.m., Monday, July 11.

The 9-10-11 bracket takes place in Benicia and features Cordelia Tri-Valley, Sonoma, Napa National, Yountville, Vallejo, Fairfield Pacific, Napa American and Benicia.

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Montas made his first-ever start for the Athletics at Yankee Stadium Tuesday night.

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The Athletics are 25-51, and in the process of compiling the worst record in the majors have scored one run or fewer in 12 of Montas’ 16 starts and been shut out five times.

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The 8-9-10 bracket will be in American Canyon.

The host city will be joined by Benicia, Napa American, Napa National, Sonoma, St. Helena and Tri-Valley. Cordelia TriValley opens Saturday with a 10 a.m. game against St. Helena.

That tournament has its championship contest scheduled for 1 p.m., Saturday, July 9, with a second game, if necessary, slated for Sunday at a time to be determined.

The Junior Bracket will take place at home sites with games beginning Saturday.

American Canyon, Benicia, Napa, Sonoma, St. Helena and Suisun all have teams. Suisun will play Saturday at 10 a.m. at Napa High School against host Napa.

The Junior championship is scheduled for 4 p.m., Sunday, July 10, in Benicia. A second game, if necessary, would be July 11.

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Montas walked two, struck out seven and tied his season-high with 105 pitches. He walked two and struck out seven – including major league home run leader Aaron Judge three times. His best fastball topped out at 99.1 miles per hour.

Montas, 29, has a record that in no way reflects how he’s pitched. His earned run average was 3.20, he was fourth in the American League in innings pitched, sixth in strikeouts and his 16th start was the most in the majors.

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Tribune Content Agency DENVER — Freddie Freeman has reportedly filed paperwork to terminate his relationship with his longtime agents at Excel Sports Management, saying in a statement his “representation remains a fluid situation” barely three months after he signed a six-year, $162 million contract with the Dodgers.

Earlier Tuesday afternoon, ESPN reported that Freeman was planning to change representation.

According to a person with knowledge of the situation who wasn’t authorized to speak on the record, the MLB Players Association sent an email to all agents asking them not to contact Freeman, a procedure that typically takes place after a player changes representation.

In his statement, which was provided to MLB.com, Freeman said he is “working through some issues with my longtime agents at Excel” and that he will “update [the situation] if needed.”

The move served as the latest sign that Freeman was seemingly unhappy with the way his free agency unfolded before the season, when the longtime Atlanta Braves star failed to strike a new contract with his old team despite his publicly stated desire to remain in Atlanta.

Entering the offseason, the industry expectation was that Freeman would re-sign with the Braves.

Even the Dodgers, who quietly courted him before MLB’s 99-day lockout, weren’t initially optimistic of luring the former most valuable player away.

But when free agency resumed following the lockout’s end in March, negotiations between the Braves and Freeman’s camp quickly fell apart.

At the crux of the fallout was a reported March 12 deadline Freeman’s agents at Excel gave to the Braves. According to an ESPN report at the time, the Braves had offered a deal of five years and $140 million, to which Freeman’s agents responded with two counterproposals, one for five years and another for six years, both for signif-

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The two sides failed to find middle ground. And two days later, the Braves acquired All-Star first baseman Matt Olson from the Oakland Athletics, effectively eliminating any chance of Freeman returning to the only club for which he’d ever played.

After signing with the Dodgers on March 16 – in a deal that included $57 million in deferred payments, giving it a present-day value of just over $148 million – Freeman voiced displeasure with the Braves during his introductory news conference with the Dodgers.

He said he had been “blindsided” by the Olson trade, maintaining that up until that point he still believed he’d return to Atlanta.

He noted that Braves brass had only contacted him directly twice during the entire process, bemoaning that “the communication wasn’t there as we went through the offseason.”

He even seemed to doubt the sincerity of Braves general manager Alex Anthopoulos’ tearful reactions earlier that week over the apparent loss of the franchise first baseman.

“The last week has been a little bit of a whirlwind,” Freeman said at the time. “But I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else right now.”

In the three months since, however, Freeman’s view of his free-agency process seems to have changed.

He had a three-hour FaceTime call with Anthopoulos in which “he said his side and I listened,” Freeman said. “And that was the closure I needed.”

He spoke glowingly of his time with the Braves during an emotional return to Atlanta last weekend, crying several times at the reception he received from his old club.

And, while he didn’t offer many specifics while reflecting on his free agency, his stance toward the Braves appeared to have softened from the spring – while his dissatisfaction with his agents had apparently skyrocketed.

“I know a lot of people don’t know exactly what happened, and I’m not going to be one to put it in quotes and the media, I’m just not here to do that PR stuff,” he said. “I talked to the people I needed to talk to after everything went down. My wife and I are at peace. If you think about the past, it’s only going to affect your happiness in the present and the future. That’s where we have settled on.”

Freeman added: “Can’t change anything that happened. All you can do is learn from your experiences.

And I have definitely learned a lot.”

Serena Williams loses first match to French woman at Wimbledon Tribune Content Agency LONDON — Seventime champion Serena Williams was unable to summon the old magic as her Wimbledon return ended in a first-round defeat to little-known Frenchwoman Harmony Tan. Stepping out on court to play singles for the first time since leaving Centre Court prematurely and in tears after suffering a hamstring injury in the opening round 12 months ago, Williams was rusty and error-prone.

The will remained and, cheered on by a supportive crowd, she looked like she might stumble over

the finish line after coming from a set down and then saving a match point in the 12th game of the decider.

But Williams instead suffered just her third first-round loss at a grand slam, going down 7-5 1-6 7-6 (7) in a deciding tie-break after three hours and 10 minutes.

Tan, a 24-year-old debutante ranked 115, is the type of player Williams used to beat before even stepping on court but no one, including probably the 40-year-old herself, knew what to expect here.

Williams was rusty in the extreme in the first two games, her footwork leaden and her ball-striking wayward, but she

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gradually began to find some rhythm.

The American was particularly vocal, shrieking at every winner and error, and it worked as she moved into a 4-2 lead.

But the main question mark was always going to be around Williams’ fitness and she was puffing hard as Tan eventually broke back after a long service game.

The Frenchwoman could not hope to match her opponent for power but had considerable success with deft drop shots and lobs and looked to be enjoying herself as she moved into a 6-5 lead.

Williams had a chance to draw level

and force a tie-break but looked anxious and was unable to convert as Tan moved ahead.

With darkness closing in, a brief pause for the roof to be closed worked in Williams’ favor.

She cut out some of the errors and set about retrieving the deficit, breaking Tan in the second game of the set after a remarkable run of 12 deuces.

When Williams, who won the last of her seven singles titles here in 2016, moved 3-1 ahead in the deciding set, it appeared the hard part was behind her.

But she still didn’t have enough to pull out the win.

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He saw the doctor who performed his March wrist surgery Tuesday

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After he starts swinging full speed off the tee, the progression to hitting pitches from a machine will be 10 days, according to Tatis. A rehab assignment is expected to follow.

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Colorado Avalanche right wing Logan O’Connor hoists the Stanley Cup after defeating the Tampa Bay Lighting at Amalie Arena, Sunday, in Tampa, Florida.

Westbrook staying put with Los Angeles Lakers Tribune Content Agency LOS ANGELES — Russell Westbrook will exercise his player option and stay under contract for another season, guaranteeing a $47 million salary, sources told The Los Angeles Times.

Westbrook needed to make a decision whether to opt in or become an unrestricted free agent

by Wednesday. The move was widely expected.

Westbrook posted a video of himself singing

Cincinnati

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TAMPA, Fla. — Avalanche forward Logan O’Connor further etched his name in Colorado hockey history by becoming the 33rd player all time to win an NCAA national championship and a Stanley Cup. O’Connor, 25, helped the University of Denver win the 2017 NCAA title in Chicago and he hoisted the Stanley Cup with the Avs on Sunday after a 2-1 Final-clinching victory over Tampa Bay at Amalie Arena.

“It hasn’t sunk in,” O’Connor said of winning both titles within five years. “I don’t know when it will. It’s awesome just sharing this with friends, family, all the guys. It’s a dream come true for everyone.”

O’Connor is just the second former Pioneer to go on and win the Stanley Cup. John MacMillan captured NCAA titles with DU in 1958 and 1960 before winning the Stanley Cup with the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1962 and 1963. MacMillan is the uncle of current DU assistant coach Tavis MacMillan, whom O’Connor played for from 2015-17 at Denver.

O’Connor said the 2017 Pioneers and 2022 Avalanche have similar qualities.

“The same championship intangibles have to go into it within the team,” he said. “Honestly, right away when this playoff started I knew this team was something similar, I felt, with the DU guys. A swagger. A con-

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stant relentlessness to perform and execute at a high level.

“And honestly, good people throughout the organizations. That’s the biggest thing. DU had great people, we have great people here. You want to go to war a little harder when you have good people in your corner.”

O’Connor also won a national title in North America’s premier junior-A loop (20-under), the United States Hockey League. He helped the Sioux Falls Stampede with the 2015 Clark Cup. O’Connor is the first former DU player to win the Stanley Cup since Tyler Bozak in 2019 with the St. Louis Blues. And O’Connor stretches the DU’s streak of having a former Pioneer win the Stanley Cup for the fourth consecutive time.

Lightning assistant coach Derek Lalonde, a DU assistant under George Gwozdecky from 2006-2011, won the Cup with Tampa Bay in 2020 and 2021.

Minutes after taking the postgame team photo on Sunday, O’Connor celebrated with the Cup from the ice with family and friends – many of the same folks who were with him in Chicago in 2017.

The group included his father, Myles O’Connor, who had a nine-year professional career that included 43 NHL games.

“They deserve this as much as me, helping me get to this point,” Logan said of his family. “Every guy is the same way – having the village it takes everyone to this level.”

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the chorus to Beyonce’s “Break My Soul,” repeatedly singing “You won’t break my soul” Tuesday morning.

After being acquired by the Lakers last offseason, Westbrook struggled, averaging 18.5 points, 7.4 rebounds and 7.1 assists, all numbers below the standards he’s set for himself.

The Lakers failed to make the playoffs.

The Lakers enter free agency Wednesday.

Texas 8, Kansas City 3 Colorado 7, L.A. Dodgers 4 Chicago White Sox at L.A. Angels, (N) San Diego at Arizona (N) Baltimore at Seattle, (N) Wednesday’s Games OAKLAND at N.Y. Yankees, 10:05 a.m.

Detroit at San Francisco, 12:45 p.m.

Milwaukee at Tampa Bay, 9:10 a.m.

Pittsburgh at Washington, 10:05 a.m.

Houston at N.Y. Mets, 10:10 a.m.

Texas at Kansas City, 11:10 a.m.

San Diego at Arizona, 12:40 a.m.

Baltimore at Seattle, 1:10 p.m.

Atlanta at Philadelphia, 4:05 p.m.

Boston at Toronto, 4:07 p.m.

Minnesota at Cleveland, 4:10 p.m.

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

Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs, 5:05 p.m.

L.A.Dodgers at Colorado, 5:40 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at L.A. Angels, 6:38 p.m.

Thursday’s Games OAKLAND at Seattle, 7:10 p.m.

Minnesota at Cleveland, 10:10 a.m.

Atlanta at Philadelphia, 3:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Houston, 3:10 p.m.

Milwaukee at Pittsburgh, 4:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Toronto, 4:07 p.m.

Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs, 5:05 p.m.

San Diego at L.A. Dodgers, 7:10 p.m.

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Draymond Green keeps his media tour ongoing, and feud with Perkins Tribune Content Agency The first thing Trevor Noah said to Draymond Green when the bigtalking Warriors star came on to The Daily Show was what so many have wondered.

“I’m shocked that you have time to do anything after winning your fourth NBA championship,” Noah said.

But Green has, apparently, found all sorts of time to promote himself and his work on a variety of platforms.

And he’s made sure to ratchet up some personal rivalries, too.

On his latest edition of “The Draymond Green Show” that posted on Sunday, Green had more words for ESPN analyst and former NBA player Kendrick Perkins and seemed to escalate their beef, calling Perkins a racial slur in the middle of a rant about Perkins’ commentary style.

Perkins took offense to the use of the slur and posted a response to Twitter, which he has since deleted “out of respect for my company and colleagues” but Perkins added that “I was heard loud and clear.”

“Hey Draymond, you good? The [expletive] you talking about? Didn’t you just win your fourth championship? What the [expletive] you worried about me for?” Perkins said. “What, you mad? You made because I’m doing it

my way and it’s happening to work? I’m doing it my way. I ain’t gotta do it your way, I’m doing it my way.”

Perkins also intimated that those in the NBA believe Green is a big talker, but does not back up his words with actions.

“We all know you’re all bark and no bite,” Perkins said. “We know this. The NBA brothers know this.

A lot of them that’s talking behind your back, the whispers, they know this.

They know you’re not going to do nothing. This is proven. This is facts. Stop with all the tough talk.”

Green did stop with the tough talk for a portion of the NBA Finals, saying he was playing “soft” during the NBA Finals and struggling in Games 3 and 4, to the point of being benched for a critical stretch of the fourth quarter in Game 4.

But after back-to-back sterling efforts helped clinched the title, Green has been back to his bashful ways, including on NBC’s multi-network coverage of the championship parade on June 20.

“I told y’all, ‘Don’t let us win a (expletive) championship and clearly nobody could stop it. I warned y’all,” Green said at a pre-parade event televised by NBC Bay Area.

“So I’m just going to continue to destroy people on Twitter, as I have been.”

The telecast was not able to censor any of Green’s curses – both before and during the parade – fast enough to

keep them off the air. It even led to NBC Bay Area’s Raj Mathai to quip that the FCC was not going to be happy with his network.

But an NBC spokesperson told Bay Area News Group that the FCC has not made the station aware of any complaints over Green’s comments as of Monday, June 27, one week after the parade.

With a week since that parade, Green has struck up a media tour for his various endeavors. A new Amazon Prime show called “The Sessions,” released its first episode focused on Green on June 17. The show looked at how Green is trying to “unlock further levels of greatness” by working with self-help guru Deepak Chopra and wellness expert Devi Brown.

Green also has his own podcast, which had the episode that talked about Perkins, and recorded a special cross-platform episode with JJ Redick and his “Old Man and the Three” podcast that was released on Tuesday.

And Green also went on Comedy Central’s Daily Show with Noah, where Green was asked about finding the balance between fans cursing at players and his desire to respond. Green, while praising NBA commissioner Adam Silver for being “one of the best CEOs in America,” asked for the right to respond to fans in the same way they are talking to him.

Source: Kings pick up team option on forward Trey Lyles Tribune Content Agency SACRAMENTO — The Kings liked what they saw from Trey Lyles after acquiring him at the NBA trade deadline in February. Now, they want to see more.

A league source told The Sacramento Bee on Tuesday the Kings are expected to pick up a $2.6 million team option on Lyles for the 2022-23 season, confirming a report from ESPN 1320’s James Ham. Lyles, 26, is a seven-year NBA veteran who came out of Kentucky as the No. 12 pick in the 2015 draft. The 6-foot-9, 234-pound forward spent two seasons with the Utah Jazz, Denver Nuggets and San Antonio Spurs before joining the Detroit Pistons last season.

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Newsom, legislators fast-track state budget deal

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hen Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled his proposed 2022-23 budget in January, he spent hours explaining its details to reporters and anyone else who wanted to watch his webcast.

Four months later, Newsom did it again when he proposed revisions to the budget.

And then the curtain fell.

The Legislature passed a placeholder budget bill to meet a June 15 constitutional deadline but everyone knew that it wasn’t the real budget, which was being negotiated behind closed doors. Everyone also knew that Newsom and legislative leaders disagreed on how a multi-billion-dollar package of rebates, tax breaks and other payments should be framed.

Dan Walters Finally, on Sunday night, they emerged with a deal on that and other budget issues that included two “budget bill juniors” to modify the placeholder version and more than two dozen “trailer bills” to implement the budget’s provisions but also containing an unknown number of policy decrees, some of which had little or nothing to do with the budget.

On Monday, just hours after the agreement was announced, legislative committees staged pro forma hearings on the budget deal – after giving the public, the media and affected interests almost no time to assess what was being proposed.

In stark contrast to Newsom’s lengthy dog-and-pony shows in January and May, there was no detailed presentation of the final budget’s provisions. There was just a joint statement from Newsom, Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon and Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins congratulating themselves for doing a great job of spending about $300 billion.

“California’s budget addresses the state’s most pressing needs, and prioritizes getting dollars back into the pockets of millions of Californians who are grappling with global inflation and rising prices of everything from gas to groceries,” they said.

“The centerpiece of the agreement, a $17 billion inflation relief package, will offer tax refunds to millions of working Californians. Twenty-three million Californians will benefit from direct payments of up to $1,050.

The package will also include a suspension of the state sales tax on diesel, and additional funds to help people pay their rent and utility bills.”

“In the face of growing economic uncertainty, this budget invests in California’s values while further filling the state’s budget reserves and building in triggers for future state spending to ensure budget stability for years to come,” Newsom, Rendon and Atkins concluded.

Newsom had proposed payments to motorists based on how many cars they owned – in theory to offset higher fuel prices – but legislative leaders wanted to concentrate relief on low- and moderate-income families. The final form of income-based payments indicates that Newsom backed down.

After leaving the bills in print for the minimum three days required by law – a law passed by voters over the opposition of Capitol politicians – the Legislature will pass and Newsom will sign the final budget just in time for the new fiscal year to begin on July 1.

Those with stakes in or curiosity about the new budget will then spend weeks trying to figure out just what it does beyond the splashy election year giveaways Newsom and legislative leaders are touting.

The secrecy and fast-track handling of the budget deal drew sharp criticism from Sen. Jim Nielsen, a Yuba City Republican who is also the vice-chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. He complained that Republicans were given the budget package too late for complete analysis before the committee voted.

“Where is the information?” Nielsen asked during the committee’s brief hearing on Monday. “What are you afraid of?” It’s a lousy way to spend the public’s money but it’s the way it is.

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Taxpayers not school district’s piggy banks

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along with the majortion to be discussed and voted ity of taxpayers in Fairon by the entire board. field and Suisun City voted Now, imagine my surin 2016 to pass Measure prise when the superintendent J, which was a $249 million announced the need for an bond to support our schools. I additional bond measure. was confident two years later Mind you, in 2002, Fairfield that I had made the right deciand Suisun City taxpayers sion when on Aug. 10, 2018, approved a $100 million bond the Daily Republic published Ana Petero (Measure C); in 2016, we voted a press release from the Fairto approve $249 million with field-Suisun School District stating Measure J. Now, just six years later, that, “the purpose of Measure J is to the district wants us, taxpayers, to upgrade, modernize and construct fork over an additional $200 million classrooms, science labs and libraries, because the district ran out of funding improve technology infrastructure, from Measure J, to expand the repair outdated electrical and plumb- parking lot at Anna Kyle or repair ing systems, and improve safety, bathrooms at Armijo High School. security and access for all students Students spend six hours a day, including those with disabilities.” five days a week in school and require I ran for the school district govclean, functional bathrooms for erning board in 2020, and in my their physical health and hygiene. interview with the Governance ComFourth on the list are Career Techmittee, I asked how many additional nical Education programs. Yes, the classrooms were built with Measure J very programs where taxpayers actufunds. After some obfuscation, which ally get a return on their investment, included the fact that there were new because adequate facilities for auto classrooms built (meaning classrooms shop, plumbing and nursing, to name were upgraded), Superintendent a few, prepare students to be careerKris Corey finally told me that three ready upon graduation. additional classrooms were built.

Unfortunately, bathrooms and CTE Out of $249 million, three additional programs fell by the wayside in order classrooms were built in a district to build a $38 million “. . . state-of-theof approximately 20,000 students, art performing arts center at Fairfield many of whom are in overcrowded High School . . .,” as the facility is classrooms. described in a school district press Wait, it gets better. release on May 4.

After I was elected in November Here’s where it gets better.

2020 and became a member of the First, the performing arts center school board, I was assigned to the does not meet any of the criteFacilities Committee where we are ria mentioned in the 2018 press informed of completed projects, projrelease. This was further reinforced ects in progress, future projects and at the June 16 board meeting in how much they cost. On action items, which the bond resolution was Item the committee makes a recommenda- 16 on the agenda and states in part,

“whereas in 2016 the District asked voters for assistance in funding repairs and upgrades to school facilities and technology by passing two general obligation bond measures (Measure J) . . . .”

Second, when I learned of the plans for the performing arts center, I asked the superintendent what the rationale was; the response I received was, “If you build it they will come.” Currently, music programs in the district are struggling and not fully staffed while the Theater Department at Fairfield High School is in dire straits.

Inadequate attention to music coupled with a floundering theater program do not warrant a 25,000-square-foot, $38 million theater at a high school campus, for community use, when repairing bathrooms is a more pressing and urgent matter.

Finally, Superintendent Corey, in a joint school district/Fairfield City Council community meeting, informed the mayor and his staff that the performing arts center would be for community use as well. We already have a community theater.

Downtown. On Texas Street.

I ran for the school board to ensure that our taxes are spent effectively; therefore, I cannot, in good conscience, vote to burden us all with an additional $200 million when students’ needs are put on the back burner in order to satisfy the district’s pet projects. If this bond is on the ballot in November, vote your conscience. I will.

Ana Petero, a resident of Fairfield, is a trustee with the Fairfield-Suisun School District. This column represents her own views and not those of the school board.

COMMENTARY

Gas tax holiday would be nothing to celebrate

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refiners would not be able to n a disturbing sign of simply adjust supply from one just how much the White state to another; they would House has lost its way, just have to produce more gasPresident Joe Biden is oline. Yet a lack of refining asking both Congress and capacity is precisely why U.S. state governments to agree gasoline prices are so high to to a three-month suspenbegin with. sion of the gasoline tax.

Biden seemed to recognize Gas tax holidays are generthis fact in a letter he sent to ally a poor tool for combating Karl W. Smith refiners last week urging them rising prices, but they would to increase their production. To do be especially damaging right now.

When the government passes a tax that, they would need to invest both time and money. A three-month tax cut, it can’t control directly who benholiday would increase demand now, efits. The so-called incidence of the encouraging consumers to do more tax cut is determined by the forces of vacation driving – before capacity can supply and demand. If demand is relbe increased – and then would push atively fixed, then the tax will tend demand down later in the year, after to benefit buyers. If supply is more capacity investments have been cominelastic, then more of the benefits pleted. Instead of saving consumers will go toward sellers. The best the government can do is observe how the money, a nationwide gas tax holiday is likely to lead to even higher profits incidence of taxation lands in pracfor refiners in the short term while tice, then adjust policy accordingly. reducing their incentive to invest for Consider the case of Maryland, the long term. which suspended its gas tax for a Meanwhile, it’s clear that the month last spring. Analysis sugadministration would like to reduce gests that consumers may have demand for oil and gas over the next saved up to 26 cents per gallon – with decade, potentially stranding any new another 10 cents captured by sellers. investments that the industry makes.

That extra 10 cents per gallon profit It’s precisely this mismatch between encouraged gasoline refiners to push more supply into Maryland instead of the White House’s short-term demands and its long-term policy that other states. has made the entire oil and gas indusIt was that extra supply, not the try hesitant to expand. tax suspension, that lowered costs If the White House were serious to Maryland residents. After the about addressing the issue of gasotax holiday ended, gas prices were line shortages, there are steps it could higher in Maryland than in neightake – but it needs to be more creative. boring states.

One such idea comes from Employ If all 50 states and the federal govAmerica, a left-of-center think tank ernment enacted a gas tax holiday,

that takes the market seriously: The Department of Energy could work with the Federal Reserve to sell insurance to oil producers against falling prices. If demand for oil stays high, or if geopolitics takes more supply off the market, then the insurance will expire unused. If the demand for oil drops, the Department of Energy can take advantage of the lower prices to both refill and expand the U.S.’s strategic petroleum reserve, thus blunting the price shock.

Instead, the administration is threatening refiners with antitrust actions, while congressional Democrats are mulling a windfall profits tax. A gas tax holiday – and the increase in windfall profits – would put Congress and industry on a collision course.

If the Biden administration wants the oil and gas industry to produce more gasoline to bring down prices, then it will have to do something it seems loath to do: work with industry to put it in a more dominant position globally. That way, even as demand from the U.S. falls, the industry can increase its exports. A three-month gas tax holiday would be the worst of both worlds – encouraging more domestic consumption precisely when production is at capacity, while doing nothing to help industry expand internationally.

Karl W. Smith is a former assistant professor of economics at the University of North Carolina’s school of government and founder of the blog Modeled Behavior.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 21).

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CANCER (June 22-July 22).

Altruism involves giving what you have to give, not giving until the others are dependent on you or until you are in a precarious and needy position.

You’ll set limits that serve the best interest of all.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22).

When you extend a secret generosity, you won’t only be uncredited but you won’t be there to see how others react.

Just know they’ll love it. It will delight them. To be generous is kind. To be generous anonymously is noble.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).

You’ve known people to tell you what they want while being entirely unaware of what

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needs his family’s approval of you, but it sounds like he does and that they don’t approve. So, either he makes that right, or you find a new boyfriend.

Dear Readers: Below are a few of my favorite motivational quotes to begin each day or to boost your mood anytime you need a little lift in your energy.

They highlight the importance of gratitude, kindness, exercise, being in nature and being in tune with your heart.

“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.” — Henry David Thoreau.

“Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.” — Henry David Thoreau “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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by Holiday Mathis

Today’s birthday Your personal life finds a rhythm of deep satisfaction; what eluded you in your early years finally falls firmly into your grasp. More highlights include an eating style that gives you increased vitality, nights spent in an entirely new landscape and a message you send that helps someone on the other side of the world.

Libra and Sagittarius adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 10, 7, 18, 5 and 44.

they need. Sometimes it takes an intuitive other to notice.

It is more helpful to speak to needs than want.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).

Kindred spirits will be drawn to the same thing. The only thing that can get in the way is people trying to be cool. Go the opposite way. You’ll find out more because you open up, start conversations and ask questions.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).

Trustworthy people are willing to earn your trust over time.

They will not rush you or be pushy, nor will they lean on you emotionally. They will not take anything from you without a fair exchange.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21). You don’t prioritize luxury as highly as some, but you’ll admire the ideas and craftsmanship that goes into a beautiful thing. It’s one thing to

appreciate and quite another to buy, which will be a matter of deliberation.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19). A disciplined investor tests the market before going all in, which is even more crucial in nonfinancial matters.

You’ve much to invest of your heart, time, creativity and hopes. Choose two. If those pay, double down.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18). Someone makes your responsibility feel more meaningful yet lighter. You need more of this energy in your life – either a bigger dose of this person or more people like this in your world.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20).

As you choose to see people as interesting, they will become more so. The fact that you have to do this consciously points to less than compelling environs.

Make the most of it while considering travel.

CELEBRITY PROFILES: With over a hundred film credits, Gary Busey has been known to play a lunatic or two on screen, true to the name of his ruling luminary. In folklore, Luna causes mysterious behaviors – ah, luna-cy! With four luminaries in moon-ruled Cancer, Busey gets a big dose of this mysterious, complex, highly artistic, soulful and everchanging energy. Listen for his voicing of John C. Calhoun in the documentary “The Gettysburg Address.”

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Bridge

by Phillip Alder

After an identical auction, North making a limit raise and South going on to game, West leads the heart king.

Here, to defeat the contract, West must continue with the heart queen and hold the trick. Then West plays his third heart to East’s ace. Finally, a fourth round of hearts from East promotes West’s spade queen as the setting trick.

How is East supposed to know which defense to adopt? He doesn’t: He has a guess. However, there is one solution: Rusinow leads.

In Rusinow, you lead the lower of touching honors: the king from A-K, the queen from K-Q and the jack from Q-J. This applies unless the two honors are doubleton, in which case you lead the top honor. So, in yesterday’s deal, West would lead the heart king. When he follows with the queen, East knows the honors are doubleton. Here, West leads the heart queen. When he continues with the king, East knows his THE OTHER SIDE partner has at least one more heart.

OF THE COIN Rusinow has one major drawback: when West leads from honor doubleYesterday’s deal contained the same ton. Suppose West leads the queen North and East hands, but West had from Q-J or Q-x. Thinking partner has only the K-Q doubleton of hearts. To the K-Q, East might make a fatal duck defeat four spades, East had to of the ace. For this reason, I don’t use overtake the heart queen at trick two Rusinow leads, but maybe you would and give his partner a heart ruff. like to give them a trial.

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Yesterday’s deal contained the same North and East hands, but West had only the K-Q doubleton of hearts. To defeat four spades, East had to overtake the heart queen at trick two

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Carol Burnett has been tapped to star in the final season of the acclaimed drama “Better Call Saul.”

AMC announced Monday that Burnett will guest in multiple episodes of the series’ sixth season, playing a character named “Marion.”

The gritty “Breaking Bad” spinoff, which returns for its final six episodes beginning July 11, happens to be the six-time Emmy Awardwinner’s favorite show.

In a short statement Monday, Burnett said: “I’m thrilled to be a part of my favorite show.”

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‘Days of Thunder’ better than ‘Top Gun’

and delivers more reasons for a full ’90s rewatch Nina Metz

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op Gun: Maverick” is the biggest global blockbuster of Tom Cruise’s already blockbustery career. Perhaps you’ve been compelled to rewatch the original “Top Gun” from 1986 – or, depending on your generation, watch it for the first time. But me? I went back to revisit another movie Cruise made with director Tony Scott and producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer: 1990′s “Days of Thunder.” It’s more or less the same movie as “Top Gun” – speed, testosterone, soaring guitars – but with race cars instead of warplanes, which on its face makes it better.

Way better.

Cruise plays Cole Trickle, a novice stock car driver with something to prove.

He’s recruited by a fledgling NASCAR team owner (Randy Quaid as an ambitious car dealer looking to make his mark) and trained by grizzled crew chief Harry Hogge (Robert Duvall as the seasoned good ol’ boy whose instincts are as sharp and tangy as his one-liners). The neurologist who treats Cole after a bad crash (Nicole Kidman in maybe the one American movie where she uses her native Australian accent) becomes his love interest and the only person who bothers asking if it’s all worth it when the stakes are possibly getting smashed to pieces or dying a fiery death.

Everyone else has their eyes on the prize: Winning Daytona.

Like “Top Gun,” the story is straightforward: Can this young hotshot be the best?

“Cole, you’re wandering all over the track,” Harry says into this headset mic during a race.

“Yeah, well the sonofabitch just slammed into me!” Cole yells

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back. “No,” Harry tells him, “he didn’t slam into you. He didn’t bump you. He didn’t nudge you.

He rubbed you. And rubbing, son, is racing.”

I don’t know anything about NASCAR. Doesn’t matter. The movie sells it. I could do without the opening montage briefly featuring Confederate flags flapping in the breeze at the track. But they’re an early symbolic hint of the movie’s white and male tunnel vision. It’s 30 minutes into the film before a woman speaks a line of dialogue. When Cole and the good doctor meet for the first time, he puts her hand on his groin and it’s a callback to an earlier joke, both of which treat sexual harassment as something to laugh at. It’s not a buzzkill to point this out. It’s there, you can’t pretend you don’t see it.

You just have to take the movie on its terms. “Days of Thunder” is hardly alone in this.

“Days of Thunder” is what happened when the massive success of the first “Top Gun” gave Cruise the clout to start shaping his movies It was Paul Newman, his co-star in “The Color of Money” (which opened in theaters six months after “Top Gun”), who got Cruise into racing. NASCAR team owner Rick Hendrick let Cruise drive one of his stock cars around Daytona. “I think I hit 175 mph,” Cruise said in an interview years later. “The second I climbed out of that car on pit road, I said, ‘We have to make a movie about this!’”

He came up with an outline for a story and reteamed with adrenaline specialists Simpson and Bruckheimer. Here’s how the producers (who were also the pair behind “Flashdance” and “Beverly Hills Cop”) are described in an oral history of the movie published by ESPN: “They were known as ‘Mr. Inside’ and ‘Mr.

Outside,’ Simpson bringing the Hollywood Rolodex while Bruckheimer delivered a getyour-hands-dirty knowledge of film production.”

Scott was also back as director, recycling at least one shot from “Top Gun” of two lovers in silhouette going in for a kiss.

A number of people worked on the screenplay, but it was Robert Towne (an Oscar winner for “Chinatown”) who got it to gel. (Towne would work with Cruise again on “The Firm” and the first two installments of “Mission: Impossible.”)

This wasn’t NASCAR looking to Hollywood for a marketing boost. Cruise and company were slack-jawed by the highinjection, grease-stained world of racing and wanted to capture that in a palpable way.

I’m not saying that’s purer than “Top Gun’s” origins. But maybe I am.

In the worst kept secret ever, “Top Gun” was made with the specific purpose of rebranding the Navy’s image in the ‘80s, when the ghosts of Vietnam were barely more than a decade in the past. A similar intent – oh, let’s just call it what it is: propaganda – fuels the sequel.

I’m far more inclined to fist-pump car racing than . . . war. And just the Duvall of it all! He’s playing a man who is easily amused by the absurdities of life, which is maybe the key factor keeping the story glued together. And the movie ends with a freeze-frame, which somehow tapped into nostalgia I didn’t know I had. Dear Hollywood: Bring back the freeze-frame ending.

Of course, I went back and rewatched the ‘86 “Top Gun” too. Cruise was already famous by that point, thanks to his role in “Risky Business,” but “Top Gun” elevated him to

Bridge

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answer. Which applies in today’s deal?

North’s two-no-trump response was the Jacoby Forcing Raise. South’s four-heart rebid showed a minimum opening with no side-suit singleton or void.

West led the spade 10. East won with the jack and continued with the king and ace. Declarer ruffed the last of these, drew trumps and took an unsuccessful diamond finesse. East exited safely with his last diamond.

Exhibiting good technique, South cashed his second diamond trick before trying to guess the clubs.

What had South learned? That West began with five diamonds, one heart and – probably – five spades. (If East had a low spade, perhaps he wouldn’t have smoothly played the jack at trick one.) That meant West had started with two clubs, and East with five. If you didn’t have extra information from East’s pass as dealer, this would make the odds 5-to-2 that East held the club THE CLUES MAY queen.

However, stop and count the points.

SEEM TO CONFLICT East showed up with 11: the spade One of the most frustrating play A-K-J and the diamond king. If he had problems is having a two-way guess for the club queen as well, he would have a queen. However, if you leave the opened the bidding as dealer. Therecritical suit until late in the play, you fore, West must have the club queen. might have enough clues to resolve the Always count the high-card points; quandary. Perhaps you will learn that doing this will often help to avoid an one opponent started with more cards apparent guess. in the suit than his partner, or maybe the point-count will provide the COPYRIGHT: 2022, UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE

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One of the most frustrating play problems is having a two-way guess for a queen. However, if you leave the critical suit until late in the play, you might have enough clues to resolve the

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Days From Page B7 International Movie Star status and he hasn’t looked back since.

That got me thinking about his career in the 10 year span that followed “Top Gun.” The pool hustling in “The Color of Money.” The trick bartending in “Cocktail.” The roadtripping in “Rain Man.” The war serving and subsequent war protesting in “Born on the Fourth of July.” The race car driving in “Days of Thunder.” The Irish immigrating of “Far and Away.” The lawyering in “A Few Good Men” and “The Firm.” The bloodsucking in “Interview with a Vampire.”

The covert missioning in “Mission: Impossible.” The agenting in “Jerry Maguire.”

I wouldn’t say Cruise has tremendous range, but that doesn’t mean his talent isn’t substantial.

A singer doesn’t have to have a four-octave range to be considered good, and an actor doesn’t have to be a shapeshifter to be considered good either.

So yes, Cruise is always playing a version of the same guy. Cocksure with something to learn. Intense. (Can you imagine Cruise playing someone who isn’t dialed in?) He’s the blazing talent who is somehow also the underdog and he is forever in search of male bonding and father figures who are otherwise missing in his life.

But look at those films listed above. So many different types.

Some of these roles suit his talents better than others. But I like that he went for it. And he’s squaring off with some towering old guard names: Duvall, Newman, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Nicholson, Gene Hackman. Even with top billing, he was willing to take roles where wasn’t always the most important person in the story.

Curiosity piqued, these past few days have resembled a mini-Tom Cruise film festival as I’ve gone back through these movies that I haven’t seen for years.

Cruise used to seek out more variety. I miss that. His output in the last decade is primarily the “Reacher” movies, the “Mission: Impossible” movies and . . . more of the same but called something else. My mental image of Cruise lately is that of the guy who talks about doing his own dangerous stunts.

That he’s a tremendous movie star was always a given. But I forgot what a good actor he can be – I was glad for the reminder – I forgot how willing he was to play around in different genres. Cruise almost always plays guys who are smart, but I love that he’s such a ding-dong in “The Color of Money.”

(It’s really Newman’s film, especially those first 20 minutes when it’s all about Newman’s subtle facial expressions as he sizes up the kid.) There’s 1994′s “Interview with a Vampire,” which is a terrible movie, full stop.

I forgot how wooden Brad Pitt’s performance is, and Cruise is probably miscast as well, but he so rarely plays unlikeable characters that I felt a strange thrill watching him attempt to take on the high gothic drama of Lestat.

Who knows why stars pick the projects they do.

Cruise has been pretty one-note for a while now, and maybe for reasons that might be less about what interests him personally and more about the movie business itself and what gets people to hit pause on streaming and head to a theater.

But go back and watch what he’s doing in the 1993 legal thriller “The Firm.” First off, pianist Dave Grusin’s score is just a thing of propulsive beauty. And here’s Cruise in a familiar role – a winner on his way to becoming a loser if he doesn’t clock what’s going on around him – but there’s so much skill to how he’s playing this young lawyer, Mitch McDeere, who is in over his head when he joins a firm that’s doing business with the mob.

Mitch is confident, but Cruise doesn’t push as hard as you might expect. There’s a stillness, even as you see the gears moving inside his head when he realizes the mess he’s in, and then brainstorms a way out. The guy has a soul. Doesn’t hurt that the script, adapted from John Grisham’s novel, has a tight plot and a sardonic approach to storytelling.

Just a month after its release, “Top Gun: Maverick” has grossed roughly $1 billion worldwide. A lot of that is because of Cruise. But if you have the inclination and access to the right streaming subs, it’s worth revisiting the varied titles from earlier in his career when he was actually embodying some maverick instincts of his own.

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Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: June 16, 2022 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2022001044 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR#00056108 Published: June 29, July 6, 13, 20, 2022

LOCATED AT 1162 Benicia Rd, Vallejo CA 94591 Solano. Mailing Address 1162 Benicia Rd, Vallejo CA 94591. ARE HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S) Saul Espinoza Sandoval. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Saul Espinoza Sandoval IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION June 16, 2027.

THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE).

Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: June 17, 2022 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2022001057 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR#00055913 Published: June 22, 29, July 6, 13, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS FACS, INC.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS M&M STYLISTIC

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS MCGUIRE REAL ESTATE

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS PAWSH PLACE

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS MANGIATA CATERING

LOCATED AT 861 Kells Circle, Vacaville, CA, 95688 Solano. Mailing Address P.O. Box 2544, VacavilleCA, 95696. ARE HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S) Fiduciary and Community Service Office, Inc. CA. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a Corporation The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 10/27/2021.

I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Liliana Beingolea IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION June 9, 2027.

THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE).

Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: June 10, 2022 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2022001014 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR#00055795 Published: June 15, 22, 29, July 6, 2022

LOCATED AT 1652 West Texas Suite 205, Fairfield CA 94533 Solano. Mailing Address 33 Valencia Dr, Fairfield CA 94533. ARE HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S) Mercedes Maiden 33 Valencia Dr. Fairfield, 94533.

THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 06/09/2022.

I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Mercedes Kaye Maiden IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION June 8, 2027.

THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE).

Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: June 9, 2022 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2022001004 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR#00055759 Published: June 15, 22, 29, July 6 , 2022

LOCATED AT 548 Main Street, Vacaville CA 95688 Solano. Mailing Address 548 Main Street, Vacaville CA 95688. ARE HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S) Mark McGuire 548 Main Street Vacaville, 95688. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business n a m e o r n a m e s l i st e d a b o v e o n 05/01/2022.

I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Mark McGuire IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION May 31, 2027.

THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE).

Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: June 1, 2022 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2022000942 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR#00055593 Published: June 8, 15, 22, 29, 2022

LOCATED AT 218 Dobbins Street Vacaville. Mailing Address 5607 Via Avion Granite Bay, CA 95746. ARE HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S) Pawsh Place Veterinary Corporation, APC 5607 Via Avion Granite Bay, CA 95746. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a Corporation The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on.

I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Bhanu PS Chaudhri, President IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION June 1, 2027.

THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE).

Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: June 2, 2022 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2022000955 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR#00055755 Published: June 15, 22, 29, July 6, 2022

LOCATED AT 4251 Green Acres Crt, Fairfield CA 94534 Solano. Mailing Address 4251 Green Acres Crt, Fairfield CA 94534. ARE HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S) Mangiata LLC CA. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a Limited Liability Company The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 01/01/2022.

I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Nick Nicora Treasure IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION June 9, 2027.

THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE).

Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: June 10, 2022 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2022001013 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR#00055794 Published: June 15, 22, 29, July 6, 2022

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS AMENTI BODY LUXE LOCATED AT 5282 Larson Lane, Fairfield CA 94533 Solano. Mailing Address 5282 Larson Lane, Fairfield CA 94533.

ARE HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S) #1 Cheron Durley-Williams 5282 Larson Lane Fairfield, 94533 #2 Charlene Wayne-Durley 5282 Larson Lane Fairfield, 94533. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: Copartners The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Cheron Durley-Williams IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION June 1, 2027.

THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE).

Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: June 2, 2022 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2022000957 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR#00055631 Published: June 8, 15, 22, 29, 2022

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS SELF-CARE HEALING 4 U, SPIRITUAL & MENTAL HEALING, SMH LOCATED AT 597 Stewart Way, Rio Vista CA 94571 Solano. Mailing Address 2730 West Tregallas Road #2951, Antioch CA 94531. ARE HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S) Malorie Branch 597 Stewart Way Rio Vista, 94571. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 04/29/2022.

I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Malorie Branch IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION May 31, 2027.

THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE).

Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: June 1, 2022 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2022000948 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR#00055627 Published: June 8, 15, 22, 29, 2022

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE Trustee Sale No. 154019 Title No. 95523938 NOTE: THERE IS A SUMMARY OF THE INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT ATTACHEDYOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 11/07/2008. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. On 07/21/2022 at 9:30 AM, The Mortgage Law Firm, PLC, as duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust recorded 11/17/2008, as Instrument No. 200800091826 and Modified by Modification recorded 1/15/2013 by Instrument No. 201300005017, in book xx, page xx, of Official Records in the office of the County Recorder of Solano County, State of California, executed by Angela R. Beasley, An Unmarried Woman, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, CASHIER'S CHECK/CASH EQUIVALENT or other form of payment authorized by 2924h(b), (payable at time of sale in lawful money of the United States), At the Santa Clara Street entrance to the City Hall, 555 Santa Clara Street, Vallejo, CA 94590. All right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County and State, described as: FULLY DESCRIBED IN THE ABOVE DEED OF TRUST AND ATTACHED AS EXHIBIT "A". APN 0181-583-070 EXHIBIT A LEGAL DESCRIPTION THE LAND REFERRED TO IN THIS GUARANTEE IS SITUATED IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SOLANO, AND IS DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: LOT 86, AS SHOWN ON THAT CERTAIN MAP ENTITLED: "FINAL MAP OF SOUTHBROOK, UNIT NO. 10", FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY RECORDER, SOLANO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, ON AUGUST 26, 2004, IN BOOK 79 OF MAPS, PAGE 42. EXCEPTING THEREFROM ALL OIL, GAS, MINERALS AND OTHER HYDROCARBON SUBSTANCES IN AND UNDER OR THAT MAY BE PRODUCED FROM A DEPTH BELOW 500 FEET FROM THE SURFACE OF SAID LAND, WITHOUT RIGHT OF ENTRY UPON THE SURFACE OF SAID LAND FOR THE PURPOSES OF MINING, DRILLING, EXPLORING OR EXTRACTING SUCH OIL, GAS, MINERALS AND OTHER HYDROCARBON SUBSTANCES OR OTHER USE OF OR RIGHTS IN OR TO ANY PORTION OF THE SURFACE OF SAID LAND TO A DEPTH OF 500 FEET BELOW THE SURFACE THEREOF AS EXCEPTED IN THE DEED FROM LOUIS B. GARIBALDI, ET AL, TO ASTER LAND CONSULTANTS, INC., A CORPORATION, DATED JUNE 9, 1969, AND RECORDED JUNE 11, 1969, IN BOOK 1569 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS, PAGE 672, AS INSTRUMENT NO. 10381.

ALSO EXCEPTING THEREFROM ALL THE SUBSURFACE WATER NOW OR HEREAFTER FOUND OR LOCATED IN ALL OR ANY PART OF THE LAND ABOVE DESCRIBED, LYING BELOW THE SURFACE THEREOF, AND EXPRESSLY RESERVES THE RIGHT TO GRANT LEASES FOR SUCH WATER WITHOUT THE RIGHT TO ENTER UPON THE SURFACE OF SAID LAND FOR THE PURPOSE OF RECOVERING SUCH WATER, AS RESERVED IN THE GRANT DEED DATED OCT 6, 2006, AND RECORDED OCT. 16, 2006, AS SERIES NO. 2006-130642, SOLANO COUNTY RECORDS. Assessor's Parcel Number: 0181-583-070 The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 4990 Ridgefield Circle, Fairfield, CA 94534 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said note(s), advances, if any, under the terms of said Deed of Trust, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is: $649,314.60 If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder's sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. The beneficiary under said Deed of Trust heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and written Notice of Default and Election to Sell.

The undersigned caused a Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the county where the real property is located. Dated: 6/22/2022 THE MORTGAGE LAW FIRM, PLC The Mortgage Law Firm, PLC.. may be attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained may be used for that purpose. Adriana Durham/Authorized Signature 27455 TIERRA ALTA WAY, STE.B , TEMECULA CA 92590 (619) 465-8200 FOR TRUSTEE'S SALE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 714-730-2727 NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder's office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call (714) 730-2727 for information regarding the trustee's sale or visit this Internet Web site - www.servicelinkASAP.com - for information regarding the sale of this property, using the file number assigned to this case: 154019. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. NOTICE TO TENANT: You may have a right to purchase this property after the trustee auction pursuant to Section 2924m of the California Civil Code. If you are an "eligible tenant buyer," you can purchase the property if you match the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. If you are an "eligible bidder," you may be able to purchase the property if you exceed the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. There are three steps to exercising this right of purchase. First, 48 hours after the date of the trustee sale, you can call (714) 730-2727 for information regarding the trustee's sale, or visit this internet website www.servicelinkASAP.com for information regarding the sale of this property, using the file number assigned to this case 154019 to find the date on which the trustee's sale was held, the amount of the last and highest bid, and the address of the trustee. Second, you must send a written notice of intent to place a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 15 days after the trustee's sale. Third, you must submit a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 45 days after the trustee's sale. If you think you may qualify as an "eligible tenant buyer" or "eligible bidder," you should consider contacting an attorney or appropriate real estate professional immediately for advice regarding this potential right to purchase. A-4752597 06/29/2022, 07/06/2022, 07/13/2022 DR#00056015 Published: June 29, July 6, 13, 2022

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS MH CONSULTING SERVICES LOCATED AT 5054 Oakbrook Circle, Fairfield, CA 94534 Solano. Mailing Address 5054 Oakbrook Circle, Fairfield, CA 94534. ARE HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S) Michelle Hightower 5054 Oakbrook Circle Fairfield, 94534. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 05/17/2022.

I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Michelle D. Hightower IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION May 16, 2027.

THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE).

Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: May 17, 2022 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2022000865 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR#00055608 Published: June 8, 15, 22, 29, 2022

ANYONE KNOWING THE WHEREABOUTS OF HOWARD ANTHONY ROBINSON PLEASE CONTACT ATTORNEY KEITH DOLEY AT 504-943-7071 DR#00056075 PUBLISHED: JUNE 29, JULY 1, 3, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS D & K HEATING AND AIR CONDITIONING LOCATED AT 7602 Locke Rd, Vacaville CA 95688 Solano. Mailing Address 7602 Locke Rd, vacaville CA 95688.. ARE HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S) David White 7602 Locke Rd Vacaville, 95688. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ David White IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION June 7, 2027.

THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE).

Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: June 8, 2022 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2022001001 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR#00055773 Published: June 15, 22, 29, July 6 , 2022

Lien Sale Auction Advertisement Notice is hereby given that Pursuant to the California Self-Service Storage Facility Act, (B&P Code 21700 et. seq.), the undersigned will sell at public auction; personal property including but not limited to furniture, clothing, tools, and/or other misc. items Auction to be held at 12pm on July 13th, 2022 at www.selfstorageauction.com.

The property is stored at: Solano Storage Center, 350Travis Blvd, Fairfield, CA 94533.

NAME OF TENANT Desiree Camacho Florence Henry-Bell Kerry Booker Rachel Aguilar Christian Brennan DR#00056007 Published: June 29, July 6, 2022 NOTICE OF PUBLIC LIEN SALE Notice is hereby given by the undersigned that a public sale of the following described personal property will be held on the 15th of July 2022 at or after the hour of 7:00 A.M. and continuing until all units are sold. The sale will be conducted at: U-HAUL MOVING & STORAGE OF Downtown Fairfield 1327 W Texas St Fairfield, CA 94533 (707)434-0989 The items to be sold are generally described as follows: clothing, furniture, and or household items stored by the following persons: #378 Janee Benton #329 LAWRENCE CRAWFORD #500 april castaneda #414 dimietri reveda 6/29, 7/6/22 CNS-3599350# THE DAILY REPUBLIC DR#00056010 Published: June 29, July 6, 2022 NOTICE OF PUBLIC LIEN SALE Notice is hereby given pursuant to Sections 21700 through 21716 of the California Business and Professions Code, Section 2328 of the UCC, Section 535 of the Penal Code, the undersigned will sell at public sale by competitive bidding on Tuesday, July 12th,2022 commencing 10:00AM @ALMOND TREE STORAGE, 725 RAILROAD AVE, SUISUN CITY, CA 94585 the following delinquent tenantʼs items described as; miscellaneous furniture, tools, household items, appliances, electronic equipment, toys, clothing, luggage, boxes & bags- contents unknown: • SPACE NAME • C063 Lee R Lobdell • B112 Waynette Winters Purchases must be paid for at the time of sale in cash only. All purchased goods are sold “as is, where is” and must be removed at the time of the sale. Sale is subject to cancellation in the event of settlement between owner and tenant. Almond Tree Storage reserves the right to dismiss any unit from the auction.

Auctioneer: Storage Auction Experts, Bond #5860870 Site Manager: Lara Smith, Phone (707) 425-4520 DR#00056092 Published: June 29, July 6, 2022 NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS NOTICE IS GIVEN that the Solano County Assessment Appeals Board will sit as the Board of Equalization, beginning July 2, 2022 to equalize the assessment of property on the local roll and shall continue in session for that purpose, from time to time, until the business of equalization is completed.

Any taxpayer who feels his/her/its assessment is unjust, may petition the Assessment Appeals Board for reduction in an assessment by filing an application along with a $35.00 processing fee per parcel with the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors between July 2, 2022 and November 30, 2022 at 5:00 p.m. Application forms and information may be obtained by visiting www.solanocounty.com/depts/clerk_of_the_board/assessment_appeals.asp or upon request from: Clerk of the Board of Supervisors 675 Texas Street, Suite 6500 Fairfield, CA 94533-6342 (707) 784-6100 clerk@solanocounty.com DR#00056078 Published: June 29, 2022 Lien Sale Auction Advertisement Notice is hereby given that Pursuant to the California Self-Service Storage Facility Act, (B&P Code 21700 et. seq.), the undersigned will sell at public auction; personal property including but not limited to furniture, clothing, tools, and/or other misc. items Auction to be held at 11:00AM On July 6, 2022 at www.selfstorageauction.com.

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LOCATED AT 1324 West Texas St, Fairfield CA 94533 Solano. Mailing Address 2772 Toland Dr, Fairfield,CA 94533. ARE HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S) Delhi Bazar Fairfield LLC CA. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a Limited Liability Company The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/(Sanjay Kumar Thakur) Managing Member IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION June 20, 2027.

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Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: June 21, 2022 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2022001067 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR#00055910 Published: June 22, 29, July 6, 13, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS GS PANDHER CORPORATION DBA MAJOR MARKET LOCATED AT 1901 Grande Circle, Fairfield, CA, 94533 Solano. Mailing Address 1901 Grande Circle, Fairfield, CA 94533.

ARE HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S) GS Pandher Corporation CA. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a Corporation The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 01/01/2022.

I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Rajkamal Pandher Chief Financial Officer IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION June 7, 2027.

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Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: June 8, 2022 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2022000996 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR#00055778 Published: June 15, 22, 29, July 6, 2022 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: RICHARD A. LAWLESS Case Number: FPR051404 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Richard A. Lawless A Petition for Probate has been filed by: Marcus Lawless in the Superior Court of California, County of: Solano The Petition for Probate requests that: Marcus Lawless be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: DATE: AUGUST 5, 2022 TIME: 8:30 a.m. DEPT.: 4; Rm: 305 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, County of Solano 600 Union Avenue Fairfield, CA 94533 Probate If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for petitioner: Ann Harding Battin Battin Law Firm, 3260 Blume Drive, Suite 225, Richmond, CA 94806 510.210.2755 DR#00056104 Published: June 29, July 3, 6, 2022

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NIL has boosters, schools clashing on ‘collective efforts’ J. Brady McCollough LOS ANGELES TIMES

The announcements came in a flurry as soon as the calendar flipped to July one year ago.

Miami quarterback D’Eriq King was among the first college athletes to capitalize on the use of his name, image and likeness, signing a deal with a moving company worth about $20,000. Wisconsin quarterback Graham Mertz and Oklahoma quarterback Spencer Rattler tweeted out their new personal logos, showing they were open for business. Hanna and Haley Cavinder, twin basketball players from Fresno State who were mostly unknown to the sports world aside from their massive social media following, suddenly found themselves posing in New York City promoting a mobile technology company and a whey

protein brand.

It was all so . . . fun and seemingly innocent – and long overdue. When college sports’ NIL era began, businesses were paying current athletes either to reap the benefits from their fame or to create a buzz within the industry as a bold entrant into the new advertising space.

Then boosters started making their moves. Nearly a year later, Ohio State coach Ryan Day had to tell the local business leaders that the Buckeyes would need around $13 million yearly to compensate his five-star-studded roster.

“Collectives” of donors across the country have tossed their riches together into funds, and the more brazen among them have reportedly offered sixand seven-figure agreements to high school players and college athletes who have entered the transfer portal. This alleged

assault on the NCAA’s long-held rule that recruits could not be induced to attend a school by the promise of financial gain forced the association to threaten punishment in the coming year.

How did we get here? And where are we going? The upcoming one-year anniversary of this momentous change feels like a good time to explore.

What was NIL supposed to be and what is it today?

I have been writing about college athletes and the NIL since before the 2014 Ed O’Bannon v. NCAA trial. As Americans, we all have rights to use our NIL to make money, but college athletes did not due to the NCAA’s amateurism rules that were meant to differentiate between college

and pro sports – and keep money in the pockets of the schools.

O’Bannon did not appreciate the NCAA being able to use his NIL in classic broadcasts or video games without him seeing a cut of the profits. He was right to step forward.

This year, thousands of athletes have made varying amounts of money off legitimate use of NIL. The confusion has come when collectives are throwing large sums of money at football and men’s basketball players under the guise of NIL, when it is hard to imagine an exchange of services that could possibly equate to an amount like the reported $8 million deal a Tennessee collective gave to quarterback Nico Iamaleava of Long Beach Poly to secure his commitment.

In these cases, “NIL” is functioning as pay for play. I have no problem with college ath-

letes being paid by schools or donors for immense gifts on the field, as long as all competing schools are playing by the same rules, which certainly does not appear to be the case across the Power Five.

“There is athlete-driven NIL, and there is athletics-driven NIL,” says Blake Lawrence, the founder of Opendorse, an app that connects athletes with brands, donors and fans. “Athlete-driven is student-athletes getting paid for social media promotions, merchandise sales, camps, clinics, appearances, where athletes are acting entrepreneurially. Athletics-driven is really the sponsors and donors in a certain market that are already supporting [the athletic department] in that market compensating student-athletes that happen to play their favorite sport at their favorite school.”

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Big leap of faith from Samoa to USC, to a whole new sport Ryan K artje

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Until his cousin, Bernard Afutiti, visited from the mainland nearly five years ago, the notion of playing college football had never occurred to Tyrone Taleni. And why would it? Taleni didn’t know football. He’d neither played nor spent any time watching the sport. Sure, football might be ingrained into the cultural fabric of nearby American Samoa, but on his home island of Savai’i, the western-most island in independent Samoa, rugby was still king.

When it came to rugby, Taleni was a natural. In his small mountain village of Vaiola, they played most days when school was out and the chores were done, sending punt after punt soaring over unspoiled paradise. Over the years, his family had carved out their own slice of this island oasis, living off the land, tending to chicken and cattle and pigs on a family homestead, where cacao, taro, bananas and mangoes grew plentifully.

His connection to the village ran deep, but after spending two years on a mission in Arkansas, Taleni returned to Vaiola in 2017 uncertain of his next steps. That’s

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when Afutiti and his wife, Crystal, came to the island for a visit.

It was Afutiti, a former college football player, who first floated the idea, planting a seed that would send Taleni careening down an unlikely path in an unfamiliar sport.

Afutiti figured his cousin’s rugby talent might translate. Never in his wildest dreams did he believe that conversation would, years later, lead Taleni to USC. He knew Taleni had designs on becoming a doctor, to help bring better medical access to Samoa.

But pursuing that plan meant leaving the island for a higher education in the States, and college was costly. “He didn’t want to put any more burdens on his parents,” Afutiti says.

So Afutiti suggested football: “I told him it was probably his best way to earn a free education,” he said.

Taleni told his cousins he would pray on it.

A few weeks later, Taleni boarded a plane to California. He hasn’t been back to Samoa since.

“I was all-in,” Taleni said. “I didn’t know much about football at the time or how the education system works out here, or anything like that, but just the idea of him saying, ‘Come out here and try school, try foot-

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ball, you never know what might happen,’ I was very excited. . . . I guess, you could say it was a big leap of faith, leaving everything and not knowing what could happen.”

A few more leaps of faith would be required before Taleni found himself sitting across from Lincoln Riley in his office last January, including a big one from USC’s coach. Taleni was not exactly a proven commodity. He played fewer than 100 snaps of Power Five football over two years at Kansas State, where Riley first saw him when he was Oklahoma’s coach. Something in his film had given Riley faith.

“When you started to research him, the worker,

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Defensive end Tyrone Taleni of Kansas State sacks Kansas quarterback Jalon Daniels (17) while playing in Manhattan, Kan.

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his journey in football, it kind of made sense. The snaps he did play, we saw some things that we thought were intriguing,” Riley said. “But the more we found out about him, we were confident in the kind of kid we were bringing in here.”

Sitting with the coach and her cousin in Riley’s office, cousin Tutasi Asuega-Matavao could barely contain herself.

She asked the coach if she could snap a selfie to commemorate the occasion, much to Taleni’s chagrin.

Their whole family had grown up as avid USC fans. Now Taleni was a Trojan? Seriously?

“It still blows our mind,” AsuegaMatavao said.

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Over his final four rehab games, Wade had five hits, including a homer and two doubles, in 16 at-bats.

“Probably the fourth day or the third day, I started feeling all right,” Wade said. “It was weird seeing pitchers again. It kind of felt like everything was getting on me, but after that fourth game I started settling back in and started hitting some balls.”

The Giants will have to clear a spot on the active roster for Wade, meaning Yermín Mercedes’ time in San Francisco could be short-lived, even though the recent waiver claim received his first start Tuesday.

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With a heavy twoseam fastball (sinker), a splitter and a slider, Montas at 6-foot-2, 255 pounds is the kind of power arm teams will be looking at closely at the trading deadline on Aug. 2 or sooner.

Montas also is relatively affordable, making just over $5 million this season. He is arbitration eligible in 2023 and isn’t scheduled for unrestricted free agency until 2024.

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Montas hasn’t pitched less than five innings in any of them and in his previous start on June 23 in Oakland against Seattle took a no-hitter into the eighth inning before giving up two hits. He left with a 1-0 lead only to have his bullpen give up two runs in the ninth.

Until Tuesday night, Montas had started against the Yankees just once – pitching seven innings in a 3-2 win last August in Oakland.

Montas gave up no runs with one strikeout and six walks. He also pitched an inning in relief in Yankee Stadium in 2017.

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González (low back strain) is still awaiting clearance to resume baseball activities, possibly putting into question his ability to return Saturday, the first day he is eligible to come off the 10-day IL. Brandon Crawford (left knee inflammation) is “doing well,” Kapler said, and still on schedule to return Monday, when he is eligible to be activated.

Jakob Junis (Grade 2 hamstring strain) is still a ways from rejoining the Giants’ rotation, but he made progress in his recovery from the hamstring strain he suffered earlier this month by throwing a bullpen session Tuesday at Oracle Park.

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