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Fairfield school board OKs $249.6M facilities bond Susan Hiland

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FAIRFIELD — A divided school board this week voted 6-1 to place a quarter of a billion dollar bond on the Nov. 8 ballot to provide what the Fairfield-Suisun School District describes as facilities improvements.

Trustee Ana Petero voted against the plan.

Superintendent Kris Corey said the bond will not increase taxes for the community. Instead, it will extend the terms of the combined Measures C and J bonds. By extending the terms and not increasing the tax rate, she said, the community will generate $249.6 million to use for school facilities projects.

The bond must be approved by 55% of those who vote in order to pass. The tax measure would generate approximately $17.7 million annually at a cost of approximately 4 cents per $100 of assessed valuation, according to the resolution approved by the board. Passage of the bond would fund a laundry list of projects that range from maintenance work to include such things as repairs to leaking roofs, to site leasing and acquisition to add classrooms at existing schools, to building a new school.

Measure J is a $249 million school facilities bond passed by voters in June 2016. Measure J came after Measure C, a $100 million school facilities bond passed by voters in March 2002. The school district leveraged Measure C money to See Bond, Page A10

Drought restrictions to meet state order part of Fairfield council meeting Todd R. Hansen

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Hazel Figueroa helps make ballots scannable at the Solano County Government Center, in Fairfield, June 7.

Candidate filing period for Nov. 8 election opens Monday Todd R. Hansen

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FAIRFIELD — Suisun City voters will elect a candidate to replace Lori Wilson as mayor – and on the same Nov. 8 ballot, will elect a candidate to serve a new four-year term as mayor.

The short-term candidate may only hold the office for a matter of days, and certainly no longer than a few weeks before giving way to the full-term winner.

Councilwoman Alma Hernandez hopes to win both elections, and has declared her intent to run for the mayor’s post. Any challengers can file their candidacies starting Monday. Additionally, there are two at-large seats open on the Suisun City council.

1st District on the state But Suisun City will not be the only election Board of Equalization show to watch during and the superintendent the general election. of public instruction.

The candidate filing The 11th Assembly period opens Monday District office-holder Solano Votes for seats on the seven also will be selected for city councils as well as for eight a full term with Assemblywoman school districts, two county boards Wilson, D-Suisun City, currently of education, the Solano Commu- filling out the final nine months of nity College District board and four the term vacated by Jim Frazier, special districts. and challenger Jenny Callison, Additionally, the runoff elec- an independent from Vacaville, tion for the 3rd District seat on the seeking office.

Solano County Board of Supervisors The Fairfield City Council has will be decided. three posts up for election – Districts Final decisions also will be made 1, 3 and 5 – as well as the mayor’s on the U.S. Senate and three House office. Councilwoman Catherine of Representative offices, and on the Moy has declared her intention state offices of governor, lieutenant to seek the mayor’s chair. Mayor governor, attorney general, treasurer, insurance commissioner, the See Filing, Page A10

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FAIRFIELD — The City Council will consider implementing Stage II water use reductions when it meets Tuesday.

The action, listed as part of the council’s consent agenda, is in response to the conservation order issued in March by Gov. Gavin Newsom due to the ongoing drought.

The staff report states a water master plan and service cost analysis will be started in 2023-24 and will “address future rate increases” as part of the cost analysis.

The meeting is set for 6 p.m. in the council chamber at City Hall, 1000 Webster St. It follows a closed session at 5:30 p.m. during which the council will be updated on a possible settlement in the legal matter of East of Eden v. City of Fairfield.

The council, on May 7, was given a report on the city’s water supply, and was told that despite the statewide drought, there were no problems in Fairfield. The staff report for Tuesday’s meeting reasserts “the city’s updated water supply and demand assessment confirm that the city will not be experiencing water shortages any time soon.”

State Water Resources Control Board See Drought, Page A10

1 dead, 1 hospitalized after shooting in Vallejo Daily Republic Staff

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VALLEJO — A homeless man was shot and killed Friday at a homeless camp and a women who was also remained hospitalized Saturday, police report.

Vallejo police officers responded shortly after 9:55 p.m. Friday to a report of a shooting in a homeless encampment on the 2400 block of Sacramento Street.

Officers who arrived at the came found two adults, one male and one female, each with at least one gunshot wound. Both were taken to local hospitals for

medical treatment.

The man, described by police Saturday as a 57-year-old unhoused resident of Vallejo, was pronounced dead at the hospital by medical personnel. The 46-year-old woman was currently being treated., police reported Saturday. Her current medical prognosis has not been determined.

Vallejo police detectives responded to take over the investigation.

Police report the motive and circumstances related to the shooting remain under investigation.

The victims’ identities were withheld pending family notification by

the Solano County Coroner’s Office.

This is the city’s 11th reported homicide in 2022.

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When a dumb joke in a column prompted a picket line against me

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been brought to my y best journalism attention that some story is of a people in the band were picket line. mad at me because of Nearly 30 years ago, a satirical column I’d dozens of members of written in the “Best of the Fairfield High School Solano” special section Scarlett Brigade Marchput out by the paper. ing Band protested me The annual publication outside the Daily Republic building. With signs.

Brad Stanhope celebrated things and It was 1993, weeks Like I was sayin’ places that Daily Repubbefore my second (and lic readers voted as their final) child was born. I learned favorites. Best hamburger. Best there was a potential problem park. Best winery. Best local when I got call before heading sports team. Best shoe store. into the newsroom to start Best local band. my evening shift. I was told I My column was an attempt might want to come in a back to add some levity by mocking way. The editor had heard some of the strange votes. For from the Vallejo Times-Herald instance, The Liquor Barn got that the high school band was votes as best winery. A congoing to picket against me. It venience store got votes for could be ugly. best sushi. And for best local What. Had. I. Done? band? Well, I stepped in it, That was my first thought: unthinkingly.

Me? Really?

I don’t remember who won, A day or so earlier, it had but I’m forever scarred by the

fact that I chose to make fun of two recipients of votes – thinking of how different they were: “The Scarlett Brigade Marching Band and Crotch Rot tied for third as best band,” I wrote. “Shouldn’t their votes be combined? Isn’t Crotch Rot the nickname of the Scarlett Brigade brass section?”

Hah hah hah.

Ooops.

I wrote the column in February and probably published two dozen sports columns between then and when the column was published. The students in the band were livid, inspired by the band director. Someone made a copy of that paragraph and passed it around, fanning the flames.

Anyway, I arrived at work on the day in question and things were fine. Nothing going on.

At around 4:30 p.m., chattering started. Then others from

the newspaper building came into the newsroom, giggling.

“They’re out there. They’re protesting.”

Sigh.

I got up from DOING MY JOB and walked over to the window. A few dozen kids with signs were marching. Signs that said I was evil. At least one said, “Stanhope = Crotch Rot.” (Which was reasonably clever, to be fair.)

Something had to be done.

However . . . I wasn’t ready to go face what I perceived as an angry mob. Didn’t they know I wrote it as a joke? That I had forgotten writing it? Didn’t they recognize there were a bunch of silly one-liners in the column?

Nope.

Eventually, a group of kids came in. I tried to explain satire.

They said it wasn’t funny.

Neither of us would give in.

Eventually, they finished

up and left. The newspaper printed one of those semi-apologies where you say you’re sorry someone was offended.

The hard feelings from some of the kids undoubtedly persisted.

I moved on and largely forgot about it, except for occasionally telling it as a great newspaper war story to new friends and colleagues.

Recently, a friend’s son – now in his late 40s – told me about being part of the band. He was uncomfortable and may have expected me to be upset at him or to have negative memories.

I didn’t. I told him the truth: “That’s a great story. It makes me seem way more important than I ever was.”

Reach Brad Stanhope at bradstanhope@outlook.com.

Meet a beloved neighborhood celebrity: a huge tortoise named Tyrion “It’s related to the time he was born,” he said of the name. “If somebody 75 years from now asks where did the name come from, you [could say] a long time ago, it was the most popular TV show for a short period of time.”

Tyrion is an African spurred tortoise, a large species that gets its name from the rough spikes on its forearms. While he mainly eats grass, Tyrion’s favorite snacks include cucumber, cantelope, strawberries and lettuce. He is partial to romaine, but eschews the taste of spinach and kale.

But his most prized treat is dandelion flowers.

“Their favorite food is dandelions, that’s more than any other food,” said Kalahurka. “They will stop everything if you give them a pile of dandelions. They’ll just go at it.” He added that during peak dandelion season, neighbors are welcome to stop by the yard and toss some of the freshly-picked flowers into Tyrion’s enclosure.

Tribune Content Agency KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Pedestrians along 63rd Street in the Brookside neighborhood of Kansas City walk by many attractions, from cozy cafes to boutique gift shops. But one mustsee sight along this busy road is a large pet tortoise named Tyrion, who calls a spacious fenced yard at Oak and 63rd streets home.

“He’s famous in the neighborhood,” said tortoise owner Bill Kalahurka. “It seems like I’m always meeting a new stranger. They’ll just come and ask a bunch of questions about him.”

The Kalahurkas adopted Tyrion from a reptile show as a hatchling, back when his shell was no bigger than a softball. Baby pictures show him lounging in a small tupperware container, his owner’s hand looking huge by comparison. Now, the tortoise weighs around 70 pounds and sports a shell nearly 2 feet long, turning heads in passing cars and delighting visitors of all ages.

Not too hot for Tyrion While Tyrion is loved by the community yearround, he isn’t always visible in the Kalahurkas’ front yard. During the winter months, his owners move him into a basement enclosure where he can keep warm during this low-energy season.

“During the winter, if I’m out, people will ask me when the tortoise is coming back,” Kalahurka said. “So there’s definitely some familiarity.

There’s definitely a tortoise off-season.”

A popular Reddit post from 2019 showed the tortoise back outdoors after

‘Game of Thrones’ and dandelions Among the most common questions Kalahurka gets from passersby are the tortoise’s age, favorite snacks and how old he is likely to get. He told The Star that while Tyrion is 7 years old now, his veterinarian estimates he could live to be as old as 120.

Kalahurka wonders whether the tortoise’s “Game of Thrones” name, already a bit dated in 2022, will inspire curiosity decades from now.

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Kansas City resident Bill Kalahurkain feeds his 7-year-old tortoise, Tyrion, July 6. his winter hiatus, along with a large sign reading, “Tyrion the Brookside Tortoise wishes you a Happy Spring!” While the sign hasn’t been displayed in recent years, neighbors see the return of the iconic reptile as a harbinger of the warmer seasons.

While cold temperatures below around 55° F don’t agree with him, Tyrion’s species is built to handle the heat of subSaharan Africa. In the hottest months of the summer, he often relaxes in one of his two wooden huts or takes a dip in his enclosure’s shallow pool to cool off. His owners also add water-rich treats like cucumbers and melon to his diet to prevent dehydration.

moving and couldn’t bring him along. Tywin enjoys lounging in his large burrow and snacking on fresh produce.

Kalahurka has plans to expand Tywin’s enclosure so he can roam into the front yard as well– but the two tortoises don’t

get along well enough to share a space.

“It’s very common that male tortoises will not get along,” he said. “I haven’t actually put them together for a couple of years. . . they just butt heads. They’ll try to snap at each other a little bit.

[And] there’s two prongs that are under the neck, [they’ll] try to lock those into each other.”

He added that the tortoises’ contentious relationship mimics that of their namesake characters from “Game of Thrones.”

Will the tortoises outlive their family?

Both Tyrion and Tywin could live as long as another hundred years.

Given their extremely long lifespans, many tortoises end up in their owners’ wills to ensure they will be passed on to loving homes. Kalahurka hasn’t thought that far ahead yet.

“Everybody makes the comment about putting the tortoise in the will,” he said with a laugh. “I have the same answer: I don’t know, maybe I should think about that.”

While he doesn’t have immediate plans to adopt another tortoise, Kalahurka didn’t take the option off the table.

“If I could be guaranteed that all my tortoises were going to get along and live with each other, I would just make one big huge enclosure and let them all hang out,” he said.

Wait – there are two tortoises?

While Tyrion enjoys his status as a minor local celebrity, he isn’t the Kalahurkas’ only shelled reptile. Another African spurred tortoise named Tywin lives in a large enclosure in the family’s backyard.

Tywin is an older, less active tortoise estimated to be in his mid-20s.

The Kalahurkas adopted him in 2019 from an acquaintance who was

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Dixon draws visitors with rib cookoff, car show

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DIXON — Dylan Zimmerman brought six racks of ribs over from Rio Vista for a friendly little competition Saturday in downtown Dixon.

For the 13th year the Dixon Grillin’ and Chillin’ event has brought competitors from far and wide to test the palates of visitors.

Zimmerman named his booth the Rio Good BBQ. His ribs leaned toward the mix of sweet and heat.

“I have been cooking since I was a teenager,” Zimmerman said. “But last year I decided to step it up a level with competitions.”

This is his first year at the event and he was enjoying getting out and meeting new people.

“The first time I did a competition I was nervous, but not anymore,” he said. “I am here to have fun.

Also to win.”

Down the road from Zimmerman was a Jailhouse BBQ booth, which was painted with bars and had a tiny window to peek through.

Dale and Valentina Ayers of Folsom came out with a theme because they both worked at the Folsom Prison. Dale dressed in jailhouse black-and-white strips for the competition.

“Since retiring I had to find something to do,” he said. “I really liked barbecuing so I thought I would do some competitions.”

Dale Ayers said he likes his ribs sweet and

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The Dixon Grill’n and Chill’n event returned for the 13th year. Visitors got to check out the cars, vendors and food while competitors cooked up ribs in a bid for first place, Saturday. a little spicy. Valentina Ayers likes them hot and very spicy.

“It has been two years since I started. I like doing the rib cookoffs because it is easier.

You get to enjoy the day more,” Dale Ayers said.

Seeing people again coming out for events has been a thrill for both of them. They missed meeting new people and chatting.

The event also includes vendors, food, a children’s section with bounce houses, and a car show.

There were 227 cars on display. About 197 signed up and drivers of the rest surprised organizers Saturday morning.

“We have had upwards of 300 cars,” said Leah Marlin, a board member for the Dixon Action Team, which hosts the event.

Marlin said they had fewer vendors

than in past years: 32 craft vendors and 11 food vendors along with 30 contestants for the rib cookoff.

“A lot of businesses closed because of Covid,” she said. “So we have less vendors.”

The Dixon Action Team didn’t think the event was going to happen this year because of restrictions from Covid-19. But a couple of months in they found out they could have it. The plans and preparations have been a whirlwind of activity since then.

The day is a major fundraiser for the Dixon Action Team, a 501(c) (3) nonprofit. Their goal is to help different organizations and groups in Solano, Yolo and neighboring counties. They do this by sponsoring family friendly events that are organized by volunteers and raise money that is distributed among many

Trustees in Fairfield-Suisun look ahead to new school year Susan Hiland

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FAIRFIELD — The Fairfield-Suisun School District is gearing up for the new school year.

Board members heard an update Thursday on all the new things staff and students can expect when they come back to campus.

Schools are still dealing with Covid-19 issues but some things have changed from last year, according to Sheila McCabe, director of Secondary Education.

For the coming year, masks are strongly recommended when indoors but are not required.

The schools will provide masks if they are requested. Happy news for some, there are no indoor physical distancing requirements. The state still is strongly advocating for Covid-19 vaccinations.

It is recommended for those unvaccinated that they receive Covid testing regularly.

The school district is adhering to all CAL/ OSHA guidelines, according to a staff report.

The schools will follow quarantine and isolation guidance per the California Department of Public Health and protocols are in place for anyone who is experiencing symptoms.

New this year is a mandatory training program for staff and the governing board on Covid-19 protocols. This goes along with three other programs that have nothing to do with Covid but include mandated attendance, anti-harassment, and suicide prevention.

In addition, 43 new administrative positions

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have been filled for the district and 120 current certificated (teachers, psychologists, speech therapists) positions were filled so far, along with 143 classified and support hires.

“This has been one of the most difficult hiring years,” McCabe said.

The district is still looking to fill positions and plans a job fair in the coming weeks. Applicants should expect a quick phone call after applying online.

Staff will be moving from B. Gale Wilson Elementary School to the newly reopened Sullivan Elementary School.

The move will have 15 classrooms moving to the Sullivan site and seven classrooms moving on-site to the B. Gale Wilson campus.

The new principal at Sullivan will be Ashley

Kelley. The school enrollment is 390 students.

Expect a grand opening party in the coming weeks, district staff informed the governing board. Information will be sent out when the date is set.

Students can look forward to not just new classrooms but also a renovated library, new restroom building, play structures and a shade structure.

Parents will see changes with the parking area and the front office has been moved.

The annual Back to School Resource Fair is from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Aug. 13 at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, 1600 Union Ave., Fairfield.

Donations and volunteers are still needed for this year’s event. To help out, go to https:// www.fsusd.org/donate.

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Groups that have benefitted from the group’s generosity include 4-H, veterans, schools, FFA, churches and sports organizations.

Robert and Itzel Escobedo brought their cherry red 1951 Plymouth Concord from Fairfield for the event.

“I worked on it for six years,” Robert Escobedo said.

He got the car from his brother and has enjoyed coming to the different local car shows.

“I have done three so far: the one in Fairfield, Travis Air Force Base and this one,” he said.

After Covid, they both felt they needed to do something out in the community.

“It feels so great being out and seeing people,” Robert Escobedo said.

“Everyone is enjoying themselves.”

FAIRFIELD — The Police Department announced in a press release Thursday night that an arrest was made of a suspect in a robbery that occurred July 7 on the 1500 block of Gulf Drive.

Omari D. Garland, 30, of Fairfield, was booked Tuesday into the Solano County Jail on suspicion of felony robbery. Police believe Garland assaulted a 70-year-old man at his home, taking his cellphone at gunpoint. The incident was captured on home video.

The victim’s stolen cellphone was quickly recovered by police, and detectives began investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident.

Officers identified Garland as the suspect and entered his vehicle information in the Flock license plate readers system. Officers later received a Flock alert about the vehicle and Garland was taken into custody without incident,

In brief Vacaville Fire seeks more Explorers

VACAVILLE — The Fire Department is looking to grow its Fire Explorer Program.

The program is open to youth between the ages of 15 and 18 who are interested in learning about a career in the fire service. This is a hands-

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Garland is also being investigated for several other incidents, police report. Police did not release details of this incidents, citing the ongoing investigation.

Bail for Garland was initially set at $7,500 but later was raised to $45,000. Garland posted bail Friday, according to court records. He is scheduled to appear in court Aug. 5 for early arraignment and again Sept. 14 for arraignment.

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Obituaries

Alexander Branch

Sept. 26, 1933 — July 11, 2022

Alexander approach. He was Branch, dedicated a model employee father, husband, who never ceased grandfather and to demonstrate friend, passed his gratitude and away on Monday, commitment to his July 11, 2022, with work, always arriving 90 minutes prior his grandson and to his shift so he daughter lovingly could be effective by his side. daily. Out of loyalty, Alex was born he bought C&H in Dillwyn, Virginia, sugar his entire life on Sept. 26, 1936, AIR FORCE since his employwhere he lived until U.S. VETERAN he was 18 years old. ment allowed him After high school gradu- to provide for his family. ation, Alex joined the United Through the years, Alex States Air Force and served enjoyed deep sea fishing, his country for 12 years with gardening and watching pride and created lifetime classic western movies. He memories, which he cher- also enjoyed ’50 and ’60s ished his entire life. During rhythm and blues music his tenure withthe USAF, he with his favorite artists lived in several U.S. cities, being Junior Walker and Ray and resided in several coun- Charles. tries with long-term stations In addition, despite in Vietnam, Korea and Japan. having deep-seated roots in While stationed at the Northern California, he was Itazuke Air Force Base he a loyal Los Angeles Dodgers met his bride of 51 years, fan and often reminisced Keiko, who he married in about listening to baseball the Kyushu City, and later games on the radio, hoping moved to the United States. Jackie Robinson would hit Upon Alex’s return to the a home run. When the U.S., he and his bride lived Dodgers came to Japan in Glasgow, Montana, where during his time at Itazuke their first child, Alexandra AFB, he proudly bought beer Dolores, was born. They later for the Dodgers team. moved to Travis Air Force He is survived by his Base and Fairfield, where daughter, Rowena Murata; their youngest, Rowena and grandson, Brennan Murata, was born.

Alexander.

After retiring from the Alex’s passing was preUSAF, Alex worked for C&H ceded in death by his wife, Sugar Company located Keiko; and his daughter, in Crockett, California, Alexandra Dolores.

Alex loved the city of where he was a production manager, and received Fairfield and wanted his several awards for his stan- life to end here. His Memodards of excellence during rial Service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 13, his 30 years of service.

When Alex retired, he 2022, at the Fairfield Comwas overwhelmed with col- munity Center Patio Room, leagues singing his praises 1000 Kentucky St., Fairfor his honesty, and ability field, California, where close to lead with compassion family and friends only are and with a fair-minded invited.

Kimberly Jackson

May 27, 1961 — July 1, 2022

Kimberly ‘Kim’ Jackson, daughter of the late Maggie Hall and J.D. Jackson, was born May 27, 1961, on Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, California.

Kim graduated from Fairfield High School then went on to cosmetology school to jump start her career as a master hairstylist in 1980.

At an early age she professed her faith in Jesus Christ and kept Him at the center of her life as a longtime member of Mount Calvary Baptist Church.

In 1984, Kim gave birth to her pride and joy, her one and only son, Christopher Neil Broughton Jr. Kim was a great mother and introduced Chris to her love of being outdoors and doing activities such as gardening, fishing and camping.

Kim and Chris were longtime residents of Old Suisun and were loved by everyone in the community.

Kim loved to cook, celebrate holidays, watch her sports favorite teams – San Francisco 49ers and the Golden State Warriors – and spend time with her family. She was truly the life of any party: Kim loved to laugh, dance and live life in her own way.

Kim is survived by her son, Christopher Neil Broughton Jr., and wife, Shannon Broughton; granddaughter, Emika Broughton; sisters, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Izetta Jackson, Dezorah Jones and Soncerra Watson; and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Maggie Hall (Raymond Hall) and J.D. Jackson; and her brothers, J.D. Jackson Jr. and Randle Jackson.

Celebration of Life will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, July 29, 2022, at the Suisun Marina.

Deborah Lum Chew

Sept. 10, 1951 — June 18, 2022

On Saturday, June 18, 2022, Deborah Lum Chew, loving wife and mother of three children, passed away at the age of 70. Debbie was born on Sept. 10, 1951, in Fairfield, California, to Charlie and Jessie Lum. She was a graduate of Armijo High School, and she received her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from California State University, Chico.

On June 4, 1978, Debbie married Frank Chew.

Together, they raised two daughters, Jaime and Jennifer, and a son, Scott.

Debbie was a great cook and an exceptional baker, known for her ranger cookies and from-scratch apple pie. She was also extremely crafty, from sewing costumes and clothes to creating wreaths and hand-painted shirts and sweatshirts. Debbie

also successfully ran her own jewelry business ‘Designs

by Debbie’ for 10 years.

She was outgoing, friendly and a beautiful person inside and out. She had a warm, charismatic smile, and always put others before herself.

Survived by her caring mother, Jessie Lum; devoted husband, Frank; children, Jaime (Jeremy), Jennifer (Ron), Scott; four grandchildren, Riley, Jaxon, Preston, Chase; and numerous other relatives.

Debbie is preceded in death by her father, Charlie Lum. A service will be held on Wednesday, July 20, 2022, but will be limited to immediate family and close friends only.

In lieu of flowers, please consider donating to the Alzheimer’s Association at www.alz.org.

solano Marci Ruth (Heckmann) Coglianese Aug. 30, 1942 – May 19, 2022

Marci Ruth (Heckmann) Coglianese of Rio Vista passed away on May 19, 2022, at NorthBay Medical Center in Fairfield, California. She was 79 years old. Marci was born on Aug. 30, 1942, in Chicago, Illinois.

She was the eldest of three children born to Martin F. and Doris (Adams) Heckmann. She also had a halfbrother, Don Ganoung.

The family moved to Elmhurst, Illinois in 1948 where Marci attended school and met her future husband, Albert Joseph Coglianese while enrolled at Immaculate Conception High School. Al was her date when she was crowned Senior Homecoming Queen.

They were married for 52 years until Al’s death.

Marci and Al moved from Chicago to San Francisco in 1965 with their son, Peter, and eventually settled in Rio Vista, California where Al and Marci resided until their deaths. During this time, they added Laura and Gregory to their family.

Marci received her bachelor’s degree from UC Davis in 1980 and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and she also received her Juris Doctor from UC Davis in 1983.

She was a municipal and environmental law attorney, city attorney, and land use advocate. Marci served her community as a city council member and mayor and was instrumental in protecting Solano County farmland.

She also chaired the Delta Levee and Habitat Subcommittee of the California Bay-Delta Public Advisory Committee. She was both Director and President of Solano Land Trust and an active member of the Rio Vista Army Base Steering Committee. This spoke to her belief in honoring the intrinsic value of small towns and the importance of preserving their unique appeal.

She also co-founded the California Statewide Inmate Family Council, which supports connections between inmates and their families through improved communication, shared information, issue identification, and resolution. Always putting the well-being of others first, she exemplified determination and courage by becoming an advocate for fairness and racial and gender equality in local government and beyond.

It’s no surprise that Marci received so many

outstanding awards over her lifetime, perhaps none more allencompassing and prestigious than being honored with ‘2014 Woman of the Year’ by Congressman, John Garamendi, in recognition of her service to her community.

She loved to read, write, watch movies and sports.

She loved road trips and marveled at the beauty and splendor of National Parks. In her twilight years, she enjoyed Zoom conversations with former schoolmates and childhood friends.

She was a kind and devoted wife, a patient and loving mother, a proud and doting grandma, and a very generous friend and colleague. She was quickwitted and a natural-born lover of laughter. Nothing slipped passed Marci. She was extremely perceptive.

To put it simply, she was an extraordinary woman who excelled at everything she put her mind to, and she managed to accomplish so much despite many personal life challenges and the adversity she often faced.

Deeply spiritual and religious, she honored God and dedicated her remarkable life to selfless service.

She will forever be remembered for staying true to herself and for never compromising her values and beliefs. Marci Ruth Coglianese was greatly loved and admired by all who had the honor and privilege of knowing her. True to form, she again humbly ‘Pays It Forward’ by leaving a rich legacy to all whose lives she has touched.

Marci was preceded in death by her parents, Martin and Doris Heckmann; husband, Albert Joseph Coglianese; brother, Don Ganoung; and sister, Elizabeth McEachern.

Survivors include her sister, Ellen Gorelick (Walter); son, Peter Coglianese; daughter, Laura Coglianese Pearson; son, Gregory Coglianese; granddaughter, Abigail Grace Pearson; and numerous nieces, nephews, and friends.

Friends are invited to attend Marci’s Celebration of Life at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022, at St Joseph Parish, 130 S. 4th St., Rio Vista, California.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to the donor’s favorite charity in Marci’s memory.

Vickie Mae Hardy

Nov. 18, 1949 — July 3, 2022

Vickie Mae Hardy, 72, passed away Sunday, July 3, 2022, after a long illness. She lived in Vacaville, California.

Vickie was born Nov. 18, 1949, in Vancouver, Washington, while her father served with distinction in the U.S. Air Force.

After graduating high school in Virginia, Vickie returned to Fairfield, California, to be with her parents and sister.

In 1972, Vickie married Dallas T. Hardy Jr., and they moved to Vacaville, California. They owned and operated Gum Tree Ranch Stables in Vacaville until 1997.

Vickie then became a successful real estate agent and worked for two decades for Forecast Homes and K. Hovnanian Homes. Real estate proved to be a great passion for Vickie until her retirement in December 2020.

She is survived by daughter, Samantha (Hardy) Wallace; stepdaughter, Catherine Hardy (Jerry Lipkin); stepson, Michael Hardy (Laneia Hardy); and stepdaughter, Kelley Sullivan (Mike Sullivan).

She was preceded in death by husband, Dallas

T. Hardy Jr.; sister, Dianne Bradshaw; parents, Victor and Vada Loomis; stepdaughter, Susan Hardy; and stepson, Dallas T. Hardy III. A Memorial Service will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday, July 21, 2022, at Bryan-Braker Funeral Home, 1850 W. Texas St., Fairfield, California. Family and friends are invited to share their favorite memories about Vickie during the service.

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Fairfield-Suisun school board updates job descriptions, makes salary changes Susan Hiland SHILAND@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET

FAIRFIELD — The governing board for the Fairfield-Suisun School District approved updates this week to several job descriptions for the coming school year as well as made changes for some salaries.

Job descriptions were updated Thursday for several positions, including the senior director of Elementary Education; assistant director of Elementary Education; director of Special Education; assistant director of Human Resources-Risk Management; compliance office; assistant director of Curriculum Instruction and Assessment; executive director of Communications and Community Engagement; director of Human Resources; and assistant director of Human Resources.

Trustees also approved an authorization for employment on a variable term waiver for certificated employees.

This will give applicants additional time to complete the requirements for the credential that authorizes them to work in the district.

In addition, the Fairfield-Suisun Man-

agement Association agreed to a 3.6% increase for the 2022-23 school year. The increase was included with the CSEA tentative agreements by the Governing Board on June 16.

FSMA compensation increases reflect that of other positions in the district.

Part of the update was to the stipends for master’s and doctoral degrees. The stipend for a master’s degree is now $1,785; it is now $2,213 for a doctoral degree, according to Ken Whittemore, assistant superintendent of Human Resources.

Also changed were several salary schedules assistant superintendent positions, and new agreements with Assistant Superintendent of Educational Services Sheila McCabe ($216,545 in the first year), Assistant Superintendent of Business Services Laneia Grindle ($204,125 in the first year), and Whittemore ($216,545 in the first year).

The annual salary for each year of these agreement will be adjusted automatically to an equal percentage provided on the classified and certificated management salary schedule, the district reports.

Joy Linquist It is with a joyful heart that Joy Linquist has passed into the kingdom of heaven.

Joy was born on Feb. 7, 1926, in Pocatello, Idaho, to Marie and Wesley Damron. When she was 10 years old her mother died and she and her brother Glenn were bounced around between relatives until they finally settled in with her grandparents, Lavina and James Edward Pickett in Pocatello.

Upon graduating from Pocatello High School, she met and married the love of her life, Milton (Milt) Linquist, who was serving in the Army Air Corps.

Within a few months they married and after Milt finished college on the GI Bill, they moved to Jamestown, New York, to be near Milt’s family. A short time later they moved to Pennsylvania where Milt took a job with Timken Roller Bearings. They raised their two daughters in Pennsylvania, California and Ohio, wherever his job took them.

While living in Ohio, Joy volunteered for ‘Information and Referral,’ which helped needy families.

She and Milt, along with their family, took vacations and traveled with friends and relatives. Aunts, uncles and cousins were always in the mix. They also loved to entertain and most times the evening was finished with games that everyone enjoyed.

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The family has so many wonderful memories of Joy. We will miss her terribly and are grateful to have had her with us for so many years.

She valued our closeness as a family.

She leaves two daughters, Pat Collins (Mike) of Fairfield and Jeanne Rose (Duane) of Sacramento; grandchildren, Chris Collins (Grace) of Discovery Bay, Amy Mercier (Tom) of Vacaville and Emily Rose of Brooklyn, New York; great-grandchildren, Collin Garant, Calvin Collins and Allie Collins; also many nieces and nephews spread across the country.

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P L E A S A N T S VALLEY — The pink tire swing drew the children Saturday at Soul Food Farms, while the farm stand in the back drew the eyes of the adults.

The fifth annual Vacaville Farm Days welcomed visitors for a calm, leisurely afternoon on local farmers.

The Pleasants Valley Agriculture Association hosts the events. They formed a collective of farmers, agriculture and ancillary business owners in the rural areas of Vacaville with a collective interest in agriculture tourism, preserving agricultural land and cross-promoting with local businesses in Solano County.

After 25 years in the business of farming, owner Alexis Koefoed of Soul Food Farms is seeing a dream come alive.

“I also saw in my mind a farm that was open to the community,” she said.

People come to her farm because it is tranquil.

They can bring a picnic lunch, sit at the tables and chat. With little traffic and set back off the road, it is a nice, quiet retreat from the hustle of town.

The farm stand is a new venture for the farm. It is a small building that has retail items from small farmers in Solano, Yolo and Amador counties.

“We have fresh jam from Erickson Ranch, homemade ice cream, pies, honey, lavender goods as well as antiques,” Koefoed said. “I always wanted to do this and I think it worked out well.”

Rosalie Keltz of Vacaville brought her granddaughter, Talula

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Visitors at Morningsun Herb Farm enjoyed strolling the property looking at the plants and animals for the 5th Annual Vacaville Farm Day, Saturday.

Yackel, 10, from Alameda for a day out together.

“I wanted to do something fun for her today,” Keltz said. “It’s hard to find fun things when they are at that age.”

Her granddaughter thought it was pretty fun and seemed to be happy spending the day outdoors.

Up the road, Morningsun Herb Farm welcomed visitors with a chance to check out their goats, chickens and plants.

“I decided to be very low-key today,” said Rose Loveall-Sale, owner of Morningsun Herb Farm.

“With the heat and my employees are out with vacations, I think we will close early.”

She decided to do a fresh tea stand with various herbal blends from her gardens that she sells at the gift shop.

The previous years’ fires definitely had an adverse effect on the farm day event.

“We have few places open this year because they are almost all rebuilding,” Loveall-Sale said.

Vacaville Farm Day was online last year with aerial tours for visitors.

“It wasn’t the same,” Loveall-Sale said.

This year the Pleasants Valley Agriculture Asso-

Teens learn basics of life finances at Mad City Money session Susan Hiland

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VACAVILLE — Lisa Verdon wanted her 13-year-old daughter to get a head start on learning about financing.

That is why she dropped her off Friday at Travis Credit Union’s headquarters for the Mad City Money program.

“When my husband and I were younger, we just didn’t know anything about financing,” Verdon said.

After 12 children, she sees the importance of learning early how to keep a budget and be financially responsible.

“I hope it helps her learn to start saving early,” Verdon said.

“Because kids just aren’t getting this kind of information in school.”

Mad City Money is a financial program that helps teens and young adults understand how budgets work along with some basics on credit cards, loans and balancing a checkbook, to name just a few things.

Since starting the Mad City Money initiative in 2009, Travis Credit Union and the Travis Credit Union Foundation have helped thousands of students in their journey to financial literacy.

Damian Alarcon, director for the Community Relations Department at Travis Credit Union in Vacaville, helped facilitate the program at the main building.

Alarcon had to learn earlier, and on his own, about money after being

kicked out of his home at 15 years old. He didn’t finish high school for several years until reaching California. In that time period, he had to learn to hustle to make ends meet.

“It has really been a journey of learning,” he said. “I hope these kids don’t have to do it the way I did.”

Mad City Money reached its 10-year anniversary this year of educating youth. Last year was a first for them going totally digital.

“It is important to practice this kind of education,” Alarcon said.

The teens received information on a lot of different aspects of finance, then they virtually purchased items and saw how much that took out of a budget. They learned how to balance a checkbook.

“It seems like nobody writes checks anymore,” Alarcon said. “But people still get paid by check.

You need to learn where the bank routing numbers are on the check and account numbers to make a deposit.”

The three-hour course teaches children and teens ages 12 through 16 the importance of keeping a budget and learning to work within that number.

“We also have a class for college-age students, because they are going to need to know this information,” Alarcon said.

Travis Credit Union has been working toward the goal of helping 1,000 students this year.

Friday was the day they See Money, Page A11

ciation is creating a new monthly magazine, Ag & Art for Solano County, to keep people in the loop of what is going on in the Vacaville farm community.

Lisa Murray, editor and chief of the magazine and one of the founders of the Pleasants Valley Agriculture Association, was happy to see people out in the valley.

“The magazine will be out monthly promoting events and activities going on at the farms,” she said.

“I was really surprised to see how many things are going on in the valley.”

It is a time-consuming effort but one that is worthwhile. Morningsun Herb Farm owner, Loveall-Sale, is also contributing to the magazine.

The magazine can be viewed at www.agandartmagazine.com.

FAIRFIELD — Rep. John Garamendi voted this week to pass the “National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023” in the U.S. House of Representatives.

The legislation includes provisions that will benefit Solano County.

The annual legislation provides the legal authority for all aspects of the United States military, including all personnel, installations and equipment used in national defense. The House of Representatives passed the legislation by a bipartisan vote of 329 to 101 and the legislation will now be reconciled with the U.S. Senate’s version of the bill.

Garamendi, D-Walnut Grove, formally added the Readiness Subcommittee’s NDAA provisions to the full legislation. He also secured funding in the legislation for several projects at Travis Air Force Base and Beale Air Force Base.

Both based are in his congressional district.

The legislation includes $7.5 million for a KC-46 Simulator Facility at Travis as well as $33 million for

Garamendi Beale Air Force also included an Base’s 940th Air amendment to Refueling Wing. the legislation Garamendi also that clarifies that secured $5 million the Sacramentoto support bioinSan Joaquin Delta dustrial research National Heriand training at schools and busitage Area, which Garamendi estabnesses throughout GARAMENDI lished through his the district in support of the Inter- Sacramento-San Joaquin state 80 bioindustrial Delta National Herimanufacturing and tage Area Act in 2019, research corridor. includes the Rio Vista/ Included in the legisla- Expansion Area.

G a r a m e n tion is a requirement for the Navy to plan annual di’s “Berryessa Snow maintenance for vessels Mountain National Mon30 years in advance, ument Expansion Act” along with the Navy’s was included in the current annual 30-year legislation. shipbuilding plan. This This legislation would could help revitalize expand the National MonAmerica’s shipyards, like ument designated by Mare Island in Vallejo.

President Barack Obama It also requires the in 2015 to include an adjaNavy to certify addi- cent federally owned tional commercial U.S. parcel in Lake County shipyards for Navy main- known as the “Walker tenance, including an Ridge” tract. Garamenassessment of the ship- di’s bill also renames entire ridgeline yards that could perform the Navy maintenance if cer- in Lake and Colusa tified, like Mare Island. counties from “Walker Facility develop- Ridge” to “Condor Ridge ment legislation would (“Molok Luyuk” in the allow the Department of Patwin language), befitDefense to develop bio- ting the area’s cultural industrial manufacturing significance to Native facilities in partnership Americans like the fedwith universities and erally recognized Yocha businesses, such as the Dehe Wintun Nation.

Interstate 80 bioindusThe complete legtrial manufacturing and islation can be viewed research corridor that at https://www.congress. transects Garamen- gov/bill/117th-congress/ house-bill/7900. di’s district.

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What should state’s future look like?

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hen UC-Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies conducted one of its periodic polls of California voters early this year, it discovered that just 36% of them believed the state is “moving in the right direction” while 54% had a negative view.

The positive feelings about the state had declined by 10 percentage points from a previous poll just seven months earlier and were the lowest recorded in a decade.

OK, so Californians are generally unhappy about the state’s direction, meaning they are sour on its future Dan Walters if conditions don’t change.

The negative vibes may explain, at least in part, why the state is losing population.

To be certain, there’s much to dislike about California today, including the nation’s highest level of homelessness, its highest level of poverty, its extreme economic disparity, its housing crisis, its water supply crisis, its epidemic of wildfires, its crime spike and, of course, its extremely high cost of living.

However, if we don’t like what’s happening, or not happening, in California, how would we want it to change? One suspects the 54% of Californians who dislike the state’s direction would disagree sharply over where California should be heading and how it should get there.

Nevertheless, thinking about the future and how to make it better is important for both people and societies – much better than passively letting it happen.

Unfortunately, politics is a poor vehicle for contemplating – and perhaps altering – the future. To most politicians, long-term is the next election cycle.

There is, however, one effort underway to contemplate California’s future. Two think tanks, the Institute for the Future and California 100, have developed a “toolkit” of potential scenarios for California 10, 30 and 100 years into the future.

“The stakes have never been higher,” Marina Gorbis, executive director of the Institute for the Future, said in a statement as the organizations released their project late last month. “As the fifth-largest economy in the world, decisions made in California today will have far-reaching implications for the country and the world – tomorrow.”

Karthick Ramakrishnan, executive director for California 100, a joint project of UC-Berkeley and Stanford University, said the project hopes to “engage Californians in possible scenarios with a 10-year, 30-year, and 100-year timeframe. This toolkit, our research, and our innovation and engagement work, will inform our engagement activities including work with stakeholders, government agencies, community groups and Californians in the coming months and year.”

The scenarios developed by panels of researchers vary widely, but can be generally described as conservative, progressive, status quo and self-protective. One of the 10-year scenarios, for example, is labeled “Texas Done Right,” erasing much of California’s infamous red tape and regulatory thicket to allow private enterprise to flourish.

Another is “California New Deal,” roughly approximating the expansive welfare state that current policies, particularly those introduced by Gov. Gavin Newsom, would create.

The third, most passive, scenario for the next decade is called “Together in the Struggle,” and it doesn’t try to remake California but envisions making what we already have work better.

Finally, there is “Protecting One’s Own,” which is defined as Californians clustering with each other in enclaves and erecting barriers to perceived threats.

These and other scenarios for further into the future are thought-provoking, as intended, but they also leave readers wondering how any of them would be achieved, given the limits of politics. The project would have been more useful had its authors at least briefly listed potential policy changes or other actions that would be necessary.

Nevertheless, it’s something anyone who hasn’t already lost faith in California should read.

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don’t think I’ve ever sives have called on the Biden had a breakfast taco. administration to support (it I’ve had all kinds of hasn’t). Polls show 55% of all tacos – fish, beef, chicken, Americans back the concept, among other savory fillings – and roughly 7 in 10 think a but never ones as unique as public health insurance option the San Antonio breakfast is a good idea. tacos that first lady Jill Biden Latino voters have repeatalluded to Monday while edly said health care should speaking at the annual conIsaac Lozano be a top priority for politiference of Latino civil rights cians. That’s hardly a surprise group UnidosUS. when Latinos are less likely than The first lady, attempting to praise both white and Black Americans to the Latino community’s diversity in be insured, with roughly half saying America, said we’re “as distinct as that limited access to quality medical the bodegas of the Bronx, as beauticare is a major reason for worse ful as the blossoms of Miami and as health outcomes. unique as the breakfast tacos here in Democrats have struggled with San Antonio.” She also mispronounced messaging since the 2020 presidenbodegas, New York City’s famed local tial election, when Latinos made a grocery stores, and later apologized less impressive showing than some for the whole debacle. The gaffe was Democrats hoped for. Latino men, as cringeworthy as when her husband in particular, turned out in higher played the Spanish-language pop song numbers for President Donald Trump “Despacito” at a Florida campaign compared with the 2016 election. It’s appearance. true that Latinos aren’t a monolith, As a Latino, I’m not angry that the and that they’re driven by a diverse set first lady compared me to a breakfast of concerns, including the economy, taco. I’m more upset she hasn’t pushed immigration, Covid-19 and, of course, for a proposal such as “Medicare for health care. These issues were, to All” – and that she thinks Latinos varying degrees, the reason Trump would rather hear platitudes about made strides among our community, “admiration and love” than support for according to some scholars. the policies we actually need.

Trump spoke to economic frustraI want elected officials who think tions and emphasized his desire to boldly and critically about what grow the economy and find jobs, mesLatinos want, and polling shows saging that may have moved Latinos there’s a slew of policies Jill Biden and in places such as South Texas, which her husband could be pushing for. is stricken by high rates of poverty and Take Medicare for All, the ambiwas hit hard by Covid-19. In the countious proposal to create a single-payer ties near the Texas-Mexico border, health care system that progresJoe Biden won by 17% in 2020 com-

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the aerials that climb higher than our roof lines and then come down on dry debris.

This year was no different but I decided I would go away for a few days to avoid the domestic terrorism of the illegal fireworks sounding like a war zone and hoping my house didn’t catch on fire.

If a small town like Suisun City can’t keep illegal fireworks from having such a negative impact on our lives every July, I have no hope that gun control is even possible.

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These hearings are happening because the vast majority of Republican senators toed the party line at Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial. I blame Sen. Mitch McConnell. On Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021, as I watched the Senate conviction vote failing, my thought was united we stand, divided we fall.

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pared with Hillary Clinton’s 33-point margin in 2016. Nationally, Trump earned 28% of Latino votes in 2016 and approximately 32% in 2020.

But I think this shows why Democrats can’t try to placate Latino voters with platitudes and flimsy taco praise. Democrats need to be far more attuned to the economic and social policies that Latinos have said they care about. That’s one reason Bernie Sanders, the self-proclaimed democratic socialist, gained favor among Latinos, who turned the tide in his favor during key primaries. Sanders got 53% of Latino voters in Nevada; 49% in California and 39% in Texas.

He addressed the everyday economic issues that affect many Latinos and earned their trust.

“He has a lot of credit in the Latino community because he’s honest and he doesn’t pretend to be something he’s not,” Belén Sisa, Sanders’ former deputy press secretary, said in a 2020 interview with Jacobin. “He’s not going to throw out a few phrases in Spanish and assume that’s enough for you to feel that you can trust him.”

Jill Biden was probably well-intentioned in her remarks at the San Antonio conference. I’m sure breakfast tacos are unique and delicious.

But instead of hearing truisms about our community, Dr. Biden could make a bigger impact by declaring her support for the legislation we desperately need.

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were doing her a favor, and she put you down.

Tell her that your feelings were hurt by her reaction, and ask her about what might be going on at work. Sometimes, when people get really upset over small things or hurt people they love, it’s really because they can’t get mad at their boss or someone else.

Dear Annie: I have read your column for years because I enjoy it. I’ve even written in myself once or twice. I find some of these letters hitting very close to home lately, and it’s comforting to know other

people have some of the same issues as I do, but it’s frustrating that your answers always seem to recommend speaking to a marriage counselor.

Maybe you could have a counselor assist with answering some of the questions?

I, for one, am not interested in going to see a marriage counselor, but I am interested in hearing a short opinion from one on the subjects at hand.

Thank you for listening. — Anywhere USA Dear Anywhere USA: Thank you for your letter and recommendation that one see a

counselor for an opinion only, rather than counseling. If that works for you, it might also work for others, so I appreciate your suggestion.

However, many of the couples who write to me need to express their opinions and work things out together over time, with the help of a professional, and they have great success doing so. That is why I am never reluctant to recommend couples counseling.

Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@ creators.com.

FOR YOUR HEALTH

by Holiday Mathis

Today’s birthday This solar return brings a sweet serving of poetic justice. The plot comes full circle with connections that satisfy on multiple levels. A new venture will begin with a risk, and then relationships and alliances form. You’ll get to choose your speed: an immersive experience with quick results or a languid stroll with beautiful scenery. Gemini and Capricorn adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 3, 2, 11, 38 and 17.

ARIES (March 21-April 19). You can be tender or jovial, protective or daring. Different sides of you will be highlighted before the day is through as you fulfill the need and flesh out the potential of various moments and environments.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). If you choose to venture into the unknown, new situations will open to you.

Lower your expectations or eliminate them altogether, and you’ll be in the perfect position to make the most of what’s there.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You’ve had to compromise often enough lately, and it’s time you had a whole day to do it your way. If this doesn’t work with what you’ve already got going on today, at least put it on the schedule for soon.

Declare it and follow through.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). You’ll do everything you can to make your people happy. There are no guarantees when it comes to other people’s happiness, but you have a solid sense of how to push things in that direction.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You’ll be in a position to make up with someone you’ve been at odds with. It won’t be necessary to admit you were wrong, which is so good because you still feel that you weren’t. Could you just agree to start anew?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Show up and see what there is to discover. If it seems like there’s nothing, take it as an excuse to think a little deeper into things to get to a more profound level of observation.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Perhaps the people who can assist you don’t realize that you need them, or maybe they don’t know exactly how to help.

Tell people what you want, and they’ll support you in more ways than you can imagine.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Sometimes hard work is a choice, but right now it feels like a necessity. Before you wear yourself out, take a step back.

There are more options available to you than you’ll see at first. How can you work smart instead of hard?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). A task you would usually do by rote will seem somehow strange to you, profound or perhaps absurd or meaningless.

There’s a change in you, and certain things won’t fit like they used to. You’re heading for a breakthrough.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Criticism is valuable to you. Admittedly, it can be difficult to listen to what you could have done better, but if you can consider feedback in small doses, you’ll develop skill quickly and be offered opportunities for advancement.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You won’t give into the urge to complain because complaining is an indicator of weakness, and you’d rather put everything you have into fixing the situation.

The solution you come up with will be brilliant.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Your mind doesn’t like an open loop. Resolution calms you and readies you for the next thing. If resolution is not forthcoming, your mind will make something up just to close the circle. It’s a necessity to moving along.

CELEBRITY PROFILES: With over 75 million records sold, Luke Bryan is among the world’s bestselling musical artists. The country star was born when the sun and communication planet Mercury were in Cancer, the sign associated with home and America – two prevalent themes in country music. A fiery Aries moon speaks to passion, and his natal Venus and Saturn are in Leo, the sign of entertainment.

Write Holiday Mathis at HolidayMathis.com.

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Extreme heat has been shown to have negative impacts on health, ranging from dehydration to heat stroke and even death.

can affect health

K eira Dagy

REDWOOD COMMUNITY HEALTH COALITION

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id-July in Northern California is peak summertime with the hottest and humid days.

Extreme heat and heat waves are most common during this time of year as well.

Extreme heat is defined as summertime temperatures that are much hotter than average for that time of year and climate. Heat waves are also measured relative to the normal climate and are defined as a period of prolonged extremely hot weather.

While there is no specific definition of extreme heat and heat waves, Californian’s are all too familiar with them when they occur.

These weather events are becoming more common and more intense each year with climate change affecting the long-term weather patterns.

Climate change increases the overall temperature of the atmosphere and oceans, which causes changes in wind, moisture and heat circulation patterns.

These changes contribute to increased frequency, duration and intensity of extreme weather events, including extreme heat events. In California, it is important to understand how extremely hot weather can affect health, and what to do to prevent and treat illnesses associated with extreme heat.

Extreme heat has been shown to have negative impacts on health, ranging from dehydration to heat stroke

and even death. Exposure to high temperatures compromises the body’s ability to regulate internal temperature and causes a cascade of increasingly serious illnesses including heat cramps, heat exhaustion, heatstroke and hyperthermia. These heat-related illnesses can start to develop very quickly after exposure to extreme heat (i.e., within hours) or sometimes can have a lagged effect with symptoms appearing several days later. Extreme heat can also worsen chronic conditions including cardiovascular, respiratory and diabetes-related conditions.

Knowing the signs and symptoms of heat-related illnesses is essential to recognizing them early on so you can address them as soon as possible, as these illnesses can quickly progress into life-threatening situations.

There are a wide range of symptoms to look out for during extremely hot weather. Depending on the different types and stages of heat illnesses, there are different symptoms someone may experience. Some of the first symptoms may include excessive sweating, heat rashes, cramps, dizziness and fatigue.

However, if there is prolonged exposure to heat, you can quickly begin to develop more serious symptoms including nausea, high body temperature, fainting, fast pulse, confusion, muscle twitching, throbbing headache, seizures and unconsciousness. It is imperative to treat heat-related illnesses seriously in the summer months, as seemingly mild

symptoms can quickly progress into medical emergencies.

The best way to handle heat-related illnesses is to prevent them from developing altogether.

High-risk populations for heatrelated illnesses including the elderly, children, individuals who work outside and individuals with pre-existing conditions are especially vulnerable to heat and should take extra precautions during heat waves. Preventing heatrelated illness includes drinking plenty of water, wearing light, loose-fitting clothing, scheduling outdoor activities during the morning and evening, cutting down on strenuous exercise and staying indoors in a cool, air-conditioned place when possible. If you or someone else begins to experience symptoms of heat-related illness, be sure to move to a cooler place as soon as possible and call 911 if the symptoms worsen or if you believe medical attention is necessary.

While summer is considered by many to be one of the best times of the year in California, extreme heat events will undoubtedly continue to occur each year. Knowing the dangers of extreme heat, the signs of heat-related illness and preventive measures against heatrelated illnesses are essential to staying safe and healthy throughout the rest of the summer.

Keira Dagy is a program manager at Redwood Community Health Coalition, a partner of Solano Public Health.

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Let’s honor our neighbor’s faith

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group of us at St. Mark’s and various ways. This book, Lutheran Church have while a great start, inspires us been making our way to find ways to hear the stories through this wonderful book of our siblings of faith. written by a variety of It is human nature to want religious leaders and pubto share our stories and to lished by Augsburg Fortress. hear the stories of others.

Each week we walk through Throughout history, whether the pages of various religious it be sacred writings or traditions – not as written by Karen Stetins secular, we come to know and Lutherans, but written by be known through the stories Religious view leaders in that particular that have been shared over faith tradition. time. In our faith traditions, passing Our goal is to come to a deeper down the stories of those who have understanding of all faith traditions. come before us has been vital to the We believe it is in educating ourcontinuation and growth of our faith. selves that we find our commonalities Before the written word, families and learn to respect our differences. routinely shared the stories with their Included in this journey are the writ- children and their children’s chilings of more than 30 different faith dren. Opening our hearts to these communities – Christian and nonstories allows us to see people of God Christian. We are reading about everywhere not as “the other” but beliefs, practices, histories and other as “one of.” characteristics.

We, in some ways, have lost the This journey has brought up many art and gift of storytelling. We make questions in our group and inspired assumptions about other people us to dig deeper into our own trabased on what the media says or dition – to explore what is assumed what someone else who is sure they about ourselves and what is at the “know” says. When we honestly hear the stories of others, we become conheart of our understanding of God. nected on a very deep level.

We are learning that God is called In religious communities, we on by many people from many places come together regularly to hear the and by many names. We are learning that God can and does reveal love, stories over and over again. Stories of people who shared their faith so that grace, mercy and justice in many

we might believe today. In some traditions, we call this “the great cloud of witnesses.” We treasure these stories – not because they are wordfor-word absolutes, but because they lead us and guide us to God. When was the last time you shared your faith story with someone? Oh, I don’t mean preached at them about what they should do or believe, but shared why you believe what you believe – from the heart; sharing the stories of how God has been and is active in your life right now. I pray I remember to share my stories with my grandson and the children at St. Mark’s so they may share them one day with their grandchildren. That is how the faith lives on. That is how we come to understand our neighbor’s faith as well as our own. Share the stories – share your faith. Our children, grands and the world are hungry to hear them.

May God bless you in your storytelling.

We worship at 9:30 a.m. Sundays in person and via YouTube. Checkout our website for details: www. stmarksfairfield.org.

The Rev. Karen Stetins is senior pastor at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Fairfield. She can be reached at pastorkaren@stmarksfairfield.org.

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Return Home CEO Micah Truman shows a demonstration “vessel” for the deceased, decorated with flowers and compostable mementos on top of a bed of straw during

a tour of the funeral home, which specializes in human composting in Auburn, Washington, March 14.

Is California ready for

‘human composting’ as an alternative to casket burial, cremation?

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uring a rafting trip in the West, Angela Bean took a palm full of her son’s ashes and spread them across rushing water. Her 27-year-old son, who died in a fatal fall from a pickup truck in 2015, had told her he wanted to donate his organs and be cremated.

Years later, Bean found out about human composting, an alternative burial method to cremation and conventional casket burials that had been legalized in Washington and other states.

“If California had that option back then, I know he would’ve liked to have been composted,” the Oakland resident said about her son, who studied natural resources at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

Now, it may soon be legal in California.

Assembly Member Cristina Garcia (D-Bell Gardens) this year introduced Assembly Bill 351, a bill that would make California the fifth state to legalize human composting. This is the third time California lawmakers are considering legalizing the alternative method, a proposal that has strong bipartisan support. Garcia said it is not entirely clear to her why the bill failed in 2020 and 2021, but she assumes it’s because the topic feels daunting.

But this year, she’s confident it will fare better.

“Talking about what happens to our bodies when we die makes people feel uncomfortable or icky,” she said.

Human composting – or natural organic reduction – is an eco-friendly alternative burial option to the traditional casket burial or cremation methods.

When composted, a body is placed in a steel vessel and buried in wood chips and other biodegradable materials that allow the body to naturally decompose over a 30-day period.

Once the body decomposes fully into soil, it is then returned to the family’s possession, similar to the practice of cremation. Natural organic reduction has gained in popularity mainly because it produces far fewer greenhouse gases than other burial methods and is less invasive of a process.

“I want to become a plum tree,” Garcia told The Times, saying if the law passes, she would choose to be composted.

Washington was the first state to legalize human composting in 2019, and Colorado, Oregon and Vermont soon followed. Massachusetts lawmakers are also considering legalizing the burial method, and are expected to vote on the measure this summer.

Garcia, as both a Catholic and Mexican American, celebrates the Day of the Dead and is a caretaker for her own family – a cultural practice that she says has left her curious about what options she wants to have during her own death planning.

The Catholic Church has been an outspoken opponent of the bill, arguing that it is an undignified practice. The California Catholic Conference, listed as the only opponent to AB 351, did not respond to a request for comment from The Times.

Garcia said while she respects the religious sentiment that opposes human composting as an option, she does not want to let religious doctrine control what people can do with their

bodies once they die.

Cremation is already out- live out their values of sustainSupporters of the legislation pacing burials in the United ability and repair the Earth for say it will introduce an eco- States. In California, by 2040, future generations. We’re gratefriendly option in an otherwise only about 13.5% of those who ful for . . . Garcia’s leadership on polluting industry. die will be buried – one of the this issue.”

Residents are hoping the bill lowest projections of all U.S. Human composting is not passes as they confront the first time death care their own mortality, such has been re-imagined. as a Sacramento woman California has already Human composting is an eco-friendly with Stage 4 cancer sanctioned alkaline alternative burial option to the traditional who asked to not give hydrolysis – cremation casket burial or cremation methods. When her name to protect her by water – when thenmedical privacy.

Assemblyman Todd composted, a body is placed in a steel vessel “When I saw the bill Gloria (D-San Diego) and buried in wood chips and other was passed in Washauthored AB 967 in 2017. ington, it was like, Similarly, green burials, biodegradable materials that allow the body to ‘eureka!’ This is it for a natural burial method naturally decompose over a 30-day period. me,” she said. that usually buries a Transporting her body in a shroud, make body out of state once up only a small percentshe dies would be an added cost states, according to the National age of the country’s burials, and burden on her family, she Funeral Directors Assn. according to the most recently In California, cremations are available statistics published by said. By legalizing composting in California, she and many expected to jump to 80% that the Green Burial Council, which other residents would have more same year – and environmental estimated about 1 in 20 – or 5% – advocates argue that crema- of burials were green in 2019. affordable and local access.

Recompose, a Seattle-based tion, which produces nearly While a traditional burial company and the first funeral 6.8 million metric tons of carbon emits about 250 pounds of home to build a human com- dioxide each year, poses its carbon, a green burial can posting facility in the country, own environmental toll on the actually sequester 25 pounds, places the body into a steel planet as do casket burials and assuming that a green burial vessel – each 8 feet long and embalming chemicals. site would require no mowing, Spade was inspired by the watering or fertilization, accord4 feet tall – that is then filled with wood chips, alfalfa and decades-long agricultural prac- ing to the Green Burial Council. straw. Microbes enable bodies tice that decomposes dead “Whether it’s green burial, to decompose into one cubic livestock into soil. According natural organic reduction or yard of nutrient-rich soil within to Recompose, each body that water cremation, people are is composted can prevent one interested in options that are about a month.

The service, which costs metric ton of carbon dioxide more ecologically friendly,” about $7,000, is slightly more from entering the atmosphere. said Caitlyn Hauke, the pres“This is a question of con- ident of Green Burial Council affordable than a casket funeral and more costly than cremation. sumer choice, and Californians International.

“We’ll never be the least should have access to a death Los Angeles resident Donald expensive funeral option,” said care option that is natural, car- LaFrance said he knows his Katrina Spade, the company’s bon-neutral, and a sustainable burial preference for certain. alternative to cremation or He would rather choose to be chief director.

Spade said that the price burial,” said Haley Morris, a composted than buried through accounts for the time it takes to spokesperson for Earth Funeral, green burial because “you’re tend to one body. Recompose, another human composting still taking up a plot of land.” however, keeps a reserve com- facility based in Auburn, Wash.

“Why,” he said, “am I going to munity fund for those who can’t “We believe soil transforma- have what’s little left of my body afford the whole price. tion empowers people to fully take up a place on this Earth?”

Study: Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for long Covid could be the key Tribune Content Agency A new long Covid study will likely provide hope for the millions of people suffering from the debilitating condition, as researchers on Tuesday revealed that hyperbaric oxygen therapy is the key to a long Covid treatment.

The study included 73 long haulers with

post-Covid-19 cognitive symptoms, such as brain fog, inability to concentrate, forgetfulness and difficulty recalling desired words or thoughts.

These symptoms had persisted for more than three months following a confirmed virus infection – a crippling condition that affects up to 30% of Covid patients.

Participants in the study were divided into two groups: 37 patients received hyperbaric oxygen therapy treatment and 36 were designated into the sham-controlled group (placebo sessions received normal air).

Those who received the hyperbaric oxygen had 40 daily treatment sessions – five sessions per

week within a two-month period.

The patients entered a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, and breathed 100% oxygen by mask at twice the atmospheric pressure at sea level, for 90 minutes with oxygen fluctuations.

According to the study’s results, patients treated by hyperbaric oxygen had “significant

improvement in their global cognitive function and more cognitive improvement related to their specific damaged brain regions responsible for attention and executive function.” Patients also saw significant improvement in their energy, sleep, psychiatric symptoms and more.

Participants who

received only the placebo treatment did not experience significant improvement in their persistent long Covid symptoms.

The study was conducted by the Sagol Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Research at Shamir Medical Center and Tel Aviv University.

A10 Sunday, July 17, 2022 — DAILY REPUBLIC

Crime logs Fairfield THURSDAY, JULY 14 12:02 a.m. — Battery, GRANDE CIRCLE 2:08 a.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 2500 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 3:55 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 1000 block of HAYES STREET 4 a.m. — Forgery, 1000 block of WEBSTER STREET 5 a.m. — Commercial burglary, 4400 block of CENTRAL WAY 5:16 a.m. — Vandalism, 2700 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 6:35 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 1800 block of VIRGINIA STREET 7:08 a.m. — Shooting into dwelling, 2200 block of BELLAMY COURT 7:25 a.m. — Vandalism, 800 block of CHADBOURNE ROAD 7:29 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 100 block of DEL NORTE COURT 8:23 a.m. — Battery, 1200 block of TABOR AVENUE 8:54 a.m. — Forgery, 2900 block of AUTO MALL PARKWAY 9:12 a.m. — Commercial burglary, 1500 block of HOLIDAY LANE 10:05 a.m. — Battery, 1700 block of NEWBURGH COURT 10:33 a.m. — Battery, 2100 block of CEDARBROOK DRIVE 10:34 a.m. — Robbery, 1800 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 11:07 a.m. — Vandalism, 1900 block of DORLAND DRIVE 12:28 p.m. — Reckless driver, 1700 block of WEST TEXAS STREET 12:59 p.m. — Sexual assault, 1200 block of B. GALE WILSON BOULEVARD 1:56 p.m. — Forgery, 1200 block of WESTERN STREET 2:51 p.m. — Sexual assault, 100 block of BODIN CIRCLE 3:38 p.m. — Forgery, 900 block of EAST ATLANTIC AVENUE 6:09 p.m. — Trespassing, 3500 block of NELSON ROAD 11:04 p.m. — Grand theft, 2100 block of BURGUNDY COURT 11:45 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, EAST TABOR AVENUE

block of PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE 7:28 a.m. — Vandalism, 200 block of DAPHNE DRIVE 8:18 a.m. — Arson, 1200 block of EMPIRE STREET 9:20 a.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 4900 block of PEABODY ROAD 9:39 a.m. — Residential burglary, 1500 block of EMPIRE STREET 10:01 a.m. — Reckless driver, CLAY BANK ROAD 10:53 a.m. — Trespassing, 2300 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 12:02 p.m. — Grand theft, CIRCLE DRIVE 12:26 p.m. — Forgery, 700 block of WREN COURT 1:12 p.m. — Reckless driver, MANUEL CAMPOS PARKWAY 1:27 p.m. — Trespassing, 1700 block of UNION AVENUE 1:40 p.m. — Robbery, 2500 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 1:40 p.m. — Grand theft, 3300 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 2:09 p.m. — Trespassing, 1100 block of TAFT STREET 2:19 p.m. — Grand theft, 2000 block of CADENASSO DRIVE 3:08 p.m. — Commercial burglary, 100 block of EAST ALASKA AVENUE 3:55 p.m. — Grand theft, 1300 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD 4:03 p.m. — Trespassing, 1200 block of SPRIG COURT 5:45 p.m. — Residential burglary, 600 block of VINTAGE VALLEY DRIVE 7:44 p.m. — Reckless driver, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE 7:45 p.m. — Reckless driver, CAMBRIDGE DRIVE 8:11 p.m. — Battery, 1800 block of MICHIGAN STREET 11:51 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 4000 block of SCOTCH PINE COURT

Suisun City THURSDAY, JULY 14 11:42 a.m. — Assault, 100 block of SUNSET AVENUE 1:28 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 300 block of SANDY LANE

FRIDAY, JULY 15

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12:27 a.m. — Trespassing, 1300 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD 1:47 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 1900

10:10 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 1000 block of WHISTLER DRIVE 7:01 p.m. — Vehicle theft, YOSEMITE WAY

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the staff reports.

The city is working with the Solano County Water Agency on what steps are necessary to implement the state order.

Stage II demand reductions include, but are not limited to, the following: n Routinely check for and repair leaks, breaks and malfunctions in a timely manner. n No irrigation of landscape between the hours of noon and 6 p.m. n Limit irrigation of landscape to four days per week or less. n Use water features (i.e., fountains) that recirculate water. n Use shut-off nozzles with hoses to conserve water.

“In addition to declaring a Stage II demand reduction, the state’s conservation regulation also calls on urban water suppliers to conserve 10-20% of consumption. Thus far, the city is on track to meet the conservation goals set by the state,” the staff report states.

Reduced water use in the city will also cut back on city revenues.

The council also is expected to conduct a public hearing and consider final action on annual fees for 16 lighting and landscaping districts.

From Page One requires urban water suppliers “to submit a preliminary supply and demand assessment, implement Stage II demand reductions outlined in the city’s (Water Shortage Contingency Plan), adopted in July 2021, as well as submit a final water supply assessment. In order to enforce those actions outlined in the city’s WSCP and the Municipal Code, council must declare the adopted Stage II demand reductions to be in effect,” the staff report to the council states.

“Although the council will be adopting Stage II of its (Water Shortage Contingency Plan), the city’s water supply remains healthy as the city has access to multiple water supplies. Lake Berryessa will continue to be the reliable safeguard that keeps the city from experiencing water shortages and the State Water Project (the less reliable of the city’s two water sources) will continue to be utilized in a manner that maximizes and offsets usage out of Lake Berryessa,”

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Concealed weapons: State looks to restrict how people can carry guns in wake of court ruling Tribune Content Agency When the Supreme Court ruled that states could no longer require gun owners to show a need for self-defense in order to carry concealed weapons in public, Calimmediately ifornia advised local governments to take a close look at an applicant’s “moral character” – not just their criminal record, but any evidence of dishonesty or hatred, disrespect for the law, character references, and possibly what they have said on social media.

Now state lawmakers are preparing to go further and restrict the areas where concealed firearms could be carried – bans that would include not only schools, courthouses and other government buildings, but also public parks and playgrounds, hospitals and bars, buses

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Bond From Page One tap into additional money from various sources to complete more than $200 million in projects.

Measure C has all been spent, Corey said. Most of the Measure J money is spent as well.

“We have sold the last series of bonds for Measure J,” Corey said Saturday. “The funds remaining will cover the cost of the final projects, which are the Fairfield High School performing arts building; Fairfield High kitchen expansion; Fairfield High sports medicine, CTE and fitness room; Cleo Gordon library and permanent classrooms – replacing old portables; and the B. Gale Wilson gym and locker rooms.”

Money to repay the bonds is drawn from the twice-a-year taxes on properties located within the district’s bounds. Bonds sold would have payoffs not to exceed either 25 years or 40 years, depending upon whether they are sold under requirements of the state Education Code or the state Gov-

Filings From Page One Harry Price has not made public his final decision on whether he will run for a new term, but has said that is his intention.

District 1 is currently represented by Chuck Timm, who is not seeking re-election to the City Council. Instead, he is in a runoff with Suisun City Councilwoman Wanda Williams to see who replaces Jim Spering in 3rd District seat on the Board of Supervisors.

District 3 on the Fairfield council is represented by Moy, and District 5 is represented

by Doriss Panduro.

The mayor’s seat and council Districts 2, 4, and 6 are open in Vacaville.

There are two at-large seats open in Benicia; and Districts 1 and 2, plus the citywide city clerk’s post, are available in Dixon.

Voters will decide on two four-year council terms and one two-year term in Rio Vista. The seats for Districts 2, 4 and 5 will be contested in Vallejo.

and trains, and demonstrations requiring government permits. The legislation would also increase the minimum age for concealed-carry from 18 to 21.

The court’s 6-3 ruling June 23 found that Americans have a constitutional right, intended by the nation’s founders, to carry guns in public. It struck down a New York law requiring applicants to show a special need for selfprotection, and applied equally to similar laws in a half dozen states, including California.

The Second Amendment to the Constitution “is not a second-class right,” declared Justice Clarence Thomas in a ruling that could also be used to challenge California’s ban on semiautomatic rifles that the state defines as assault weapons.

But it did not take state

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ernment Code.

“Typical bond payments are Feb. 1 and Aug. 1, whicharepaidfrom tax collections in December and April,” Corey said.

Jon Isom of Isom Advisors COREY presented the governing board with three options in November. Two of the options involved tax rate increases. The third option was to extend the current terms of the combined Measures C and J and not increase the tax rate.

The governing board favors an extension of the terms of the two measures because the amount available by doing so has increased from the original $214.6 million that was reviewed by the board late 2021.

An updated analysis by Isom Advisors shows the growth of assessed values along with new interest rate assumptions will generate more money at the same tax rate with the proposed extension.

Such a plan, while it may keep twice-a-year property tax rates at the current level, will ultimately cost taxpayers the full amount of the new bonds plus interest as the new debt is paid

officials by surprise.

“We’ve been preparing for this moment . . . for months,” Attorney General Rob Bonta said at a news conference hours after the ruling.

A day later, Bonta’s office sent a “legal alert” to all city police departments and county sheriff’s offices in California. It said they could no longer enforce a requirement to show “good cause” to carry a concealed gun in public, a standard that has been used in many urban areas of the state to deny virtually all concealed-carry applicants. But it quoted the ruling’s language that states could still require gun-carriers to be “law-abiding, responsible citizens,” wording that Bonta said would justify review of an applicant’s moral character.

In addition to a person’s criminal record and mental health, Bonta said,

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off over the life of the bonds.

“What we are most excited about with this structure is the fact that we have the Measure C bonds dropping off in a few years, and we will be able to replace those bond payments with this new 2022 bond program,” Corey said.

“So, the school improvement projects that are sorely needed can be completed sooner, we can lock in both lower interest rates – as they have been rising and are projected to continue to rise – and construction costs that have been increasing as well, all without increasing taxes.”

The district’s gross bonding capacity as of 2020-21 was $470.1 million, according to the staff report.

The total remaining bond debt from Measure C and Measure J is $260.3 million.

The current net available bonding capacity is $209.8 million.

The school district’s bonding capacity changes over time as the current debt is paid down and assessed values increase, Isom said. Corey on

a law enforcement office could consider evidence of “trustworthiness, diligence, reliability, respect for the law, integrity, candor . . . respect for the rights of others, absence of hatred and racism,” quoting standards now in use by the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office.

He said an agency could also require a search of “publicly available information, including social media accounts,” for evidence of moral character.

“With gun deaths at an all-time high, ensuring that dangerous individuals are not allowed to carry concealed firearms is more important than ever,” Bonta said.

The guidelines would likely lead to continued rejections of large numbers of concealedcarry applicants. They are also likely to be challenged in court.

HONEYCHURCH Friday said the district’s bonding capacity is calculated at the time bonds are issued and considers outstanding debt at that time as well as current assessed property valuation.

“It is a snapshot calculation,” she said. “We don’t expect to exceed our capacity as the assessed values are projected to rise and the district will continue to reduce the debt.”

The district will deposit the proceeds of the bonds, subject to voter approval, in a separate account that will have an annual audit, according to the staff report. The district will also appoint a citizens’ oversight committee with at least seven members from the community.

They are estimating the total bond repayment costs (both principal and interest) to be $619.6M. This is an estimate only at this time according to Corey.

If the bond is approved by voters in November, the total bond amount will be sold by series over the course of the bond program with each sale being within the district’s bonding capacity at that time, according to the staff report.

Candidates Fire Protecfor city posts file tion District with that city’s (three seats); clerk office.

Divisions Seats are open 1 and 5 on the for Trustee Areas Solano Irriga3, 4 and 6 on tion District the Solano County and board; Board of Eduthe Rural WILSON cation, as well HERNANDEZ North Vacav- CALLISON ille (three as Trustee Areas 2 and 5, which include seats) and the Maine parts of Solano, on the Prairie (three seats) Yolo County Board of water districts.

All qualified indiEducation. Trustee Areas 1, 2, 4 and 6 on the Solano viduals who wish to Community College Dis- become a candidate trict board will also may file nomination papers with the Regbe decided.

Elections will be held istrar of Voters Office, TIMM WILLIAMS for Trustee Areas 4, 675 Texas St., Suite 5 and 7 in the Fairfield- 2600, in Fairfield.

The filing period Suisun School District, and Travis School Dis- ends at 5 p.m. Aug. 12, trict will contest Trustee but will be extended Areas 1 and 2. to Aug. 17 if the Other school districts incumbent of any with openings are Benicia of those posts does (Trustee Areas 1, 4 and not seek re-elec5); Dixon (three seats); tion. Candidates can MOY Vacaville (Trustee Areas make an appointment PRICE 1, 3 and 5); Vallejo City with the Registrar reviewed at http://solano(Trustee Areas 1, 3 and of Voters at www.solacounty.com/elections.

5); River Delta (Trustee nocounty.com/depts/rov/ Areas 1 and 3); and the candidate_info_n_filers/ Anyone interested in Winters School District appointment_request.asp. volunteering at a polling Polls will be open (Trustee Areas 2 and 3). location may send an The special districts between 7 a.m. and with November elec- 8 p.m. on Election Day. email to pollworker@ tions include the Cordelia All voting options can be solanocounty.com.

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Washburn Fire contained in Mariposa Grove. Where is it burning now?

Tribune Content Agency The Washburn Fire is now contained throughout the entirety of Yosemite’s Mariposa Grove and residents in Wawona can return to the area beginning Sunday.

The fire, which has been burning for just over a week, continues to be active, especially to the east toward Iron Creek.

It had burned 4,822 acres and was 37% contained as of the Saturday morning update from incident commanders.

Operations continued to be active on the east side of the fire on Saturday after a “very successful day” Friday. “It was the day we were waiting for,” Operations Section Chief Matt Ahearn said in the Saturday morning update.

There was no lightning on the day that the fire started, according to Yosemite National Superintendent Park Cicely Muldoon, and it appears the fire was caused by people.

But the cause of the wildfire remains under investigation, incident managers say.

Wawona reopening While the area of Wawona remains under a fire advisory, evacuation orders have been lifted and residents and property owners will be able to return to the area under escort and with proof of residency, starting at 8 a.m. Sunday.

Beginning at 8 a.m.

Monday, Wawona Road will be opened for commuting purposes for those who reside or work in the park. Wawona itself remains closed and other visitors, including vaca-

tion rental guests, National Forest, which closed several won’t be allowed roads in the Bass on the road until Lake Ranger Disfurther notice, though trict including Mt. the restriction will be Raymond Road, Big reassessed daily.

Sandy Road, White Officials will be priChief Mountain Road, oritizing year-round Sky Ranch Road, residents, as no homes Lost Lake Road, Lost or structures have Lake Road, Chiqbeen damaged by the Eric Paul Zamora/Tribune Content Agency uito Lake Road and fire. Rental or vacation property owners are A plane drops fire retardant as the Red Top Road.

Off-roaders are being asked to delay Washburn Fire as it burns near the any trips by several Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias also being asked to and the south entrance of Yosemite avoid the Kamook days, if possible.

National Park Monday, July 11.

Staging Area. FireThe south entrance fighters are using ( Highway 41) to the National Park Service has the site for heavy equippark remains closed. Visinew fire restrictions for tors coming from the south areas below 8,000 feet of ment staging. Officials on Highway 41 can detour elevation, and specifically suggest alternative spots in Oakhurst to Highway for residences in El Portal along the Lone Sequoia 49 north to Mariposa, and Foresta, where there trailhead/campground on then pick up Highway is a high potential of fire the 5S24 road, or any dis140 into the park, which danger. Smoking is being persed site along the 5S15 road in Miami Trails. remains open. restricted parkwide.

Fire restrictions inside Yosemite National Park Beginning Sunday, the

Sierra National Forest fire closure

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“We planned for it to be at the end of the year but with so many signing up for today, it happened earlier,” Alarcon said.

Most of the students were not really aware of what they were going to learn but their parents said they had to come to the event.

For Rafeal Gonzalez, 14, of Fairfield, attendance wasn’t an option.

“I hope to learn about credit scores,” he said.

“I hope this is something useful.”

Several groups came from across the county, such as Leaven Kids and the Boys and Girls Club of Vacaville, among others, filling the room with about 85 teens and preteens.

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Teams compete at the Mad City Money Finacial Boot Camp at the Travis Credit Union in Vacaville, Friday.

Those interested in learning about money and how to handle the ins and outs of financial adulthood can sign up for the next session from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Aug. 26 at Solano Community College, 4000 Suisun Valley Road, in rural Fairfield.

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Timmy and Poppy are now able to walk due to their new prosthetics.

VACAVILLE — Funky Chicken Rescue, a nonprofit 501(c)(3), all animal sanctuary, will be featured at 4 p.m. Sunday on the national TV show, “Wizard of Paws.”

The TV show will feature a young lamb, Timmy, and a goat, Poppy, who both have trouble walking.

Derrick Campanana, who travels the world creating pros-

thetic devices to get animals walking again, created a brace for Timmy and a prosthetic device for Poppy. The 30-minute TV show features Derrick assessing the two animals, casting them for devices, creating the devices and fitting the animals with them. It is a heartwarming story of triumph. It will air Sunday on the BYUtv network and then be replayed on the National Geographic channel in the future.

Funky Chicken Rescue is

home to more than 200 animals, many with disabilities or from neglect/ abuse situations.

The sanctuary is run by a family of three, and a few animalloving volunteers. There are blind animals, animals with three legs and animals with mobility issues.

Timmy and Poppy both came to Funky Chicken Rescue for a second chance at life.

They couldn’t walk and they See Animals, Page B3

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Suzanne Bruce holds poetry books in Fairfield, Thursday. Bruce has been named Fairfield’s new poet laureate and will serve in this position for two years.

New poet laureate wants to invigorate Fairfield troubadours

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FAIRFIELD — Suzanne Bruce speaks in broad strokes about her role as the city’s latest poet laureate.

It is not, as often defined by sonneteers or lyricists or balladeers and rhymists, a metered composition of thoughts and observations or even dreams – though Bruce admits she has always been a daydreamer and is still one at 65.

She said she wants “to excite” city residents about poetry.

“In the world of instant media, poetry can be a door that opens corridors to your physical surroundings and perspectives beyond yourself,” Bruce said.

The essential wording of her job description as poet laureate for the next two years is to write

poems for city events and city proclamations.

Bruce is good with that – even excited about working on her city chores. But she sees a tenure of expanding that outward exposure for individual expression.

She envisions nature walks that inspire the written word; linking the arts with poetry; and working with Solano College, the high schools, libraries and art associations.

Bruce also hopes to enlist help from the Daily Republic for a program she calls “Poetry Connections,” a monthly collaboration to feature the work of new-found poets in this very space.

Bruce is the co-author of two books with Janet Manalo, more

partnership. “I would write to her art, and sometimes she made art to my poetry.”

Bruce had been in Fairfield for about five years or so when she met Manalo.

Her husband, Ed Bruce, had been transferred to Travis Air Force Base.

He is a retired lieutenant colonel, and leads the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps program at — Suzanne Bruce Armijo High School.

Suzanne Bruce said she was always interested in litThe second of those has sold out.

Bruce and Manalo, an artist erature and even wrote for some who recently moved to Sierra base and military publications Madre, met through their common during their time in the military. interest in yoga sometime around She also taught in early childhood 2002 or 2003. programs for about 17 years.

“We called them duets,” said Bruce, describing the ekphrastic See Poet, Page B3 accurately stated, perhaps, as Bruce as the writer and Manalo as the artist: “Her Vision Her Voice” and “Voices Beyond the Canvas.”

‘In the world of instant media, poetry can be a door that opens corridors to your physical surroundings and perspectives beyond yourself.’

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Courtesy of National Galleries of Scotland

An X-ray image of a Vincent Van Gogh self-portrait; Van Gogh’s “Head of a Peasant Woman,” 1885.

Frances Fowle, the senior curator at the National Galleries of Scotland, got what was likely to be the most exciting text message of her career while waiting in line at a fish shop on a Friday

afternoon. It was an image from an X-ray. Not of broken bones – but of a previously unknown self-portrait by Vincent Van Gogh.

“Look what I’ve discovered,” wrote her colleague Lesley Stevenson.

Stevenson, a conserva-

tor at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, found the painting when she X-rayed another piece by Van Gogh, “Head of a Peasant Woman,” ahead of an exhibition – a routine step that See Gogh, Page B3

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Gogh From Page B1 normally does not reveal such a major find.

Hidden under layers of glue and cardboard was another painting on its reverse – a portrait of a man in a hat with a scarf tied around his throat.

“I saw it then and there: It was a self-portrait by Van Gogh, on the back of our painting,” Fowle said.

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam has examined the X-ray of the newly uncovered painting, which is “almost certainly” a Van Gogh self-portrait, the National Galleries of Scotland said in a news release. Still, experts are searching for ways to uncover it without damaging the painting under whose canvas it sits so they can confirm its authenticity.

Van Gogh was known to reuse canvasses because of lack of money, and Scottish conservators believe that was the case here. Several other self-portraits from the Nuenen period – between 1883 and 1885, when Van Gogh lived in the southern Dutch town – have been discovered on the backs of his paintings and now hang in museums in the Netherlands and the United States.

Conservators suspect that, at some point, the self-portrait was covered up to make room for “Head of a Peasant Woman,” an 1885 study for a larger painting, “The Potato Eaters,” widely considered one of Van Gogh’s masterpieces. It had been hiding in plain sight, inside a painting that had belonged to the National Galleries of Scotland for over 60 years.

Conservators who were preparing for the exhibition on impressionist art at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh said they didn’t expect anything much from the X-ray.

“This is a routine type of investigation that conservators have been using for quite some time,” Stevenson said in an interview released by the National Galleries to promote the exhibition – and the possible new Van Gogh self-portrait. “It gives us information about how the composition evolved, whether or not there were any changes.

And lo and behold, we were quite surprised to discover a completely different painting in the X-ray image.”

Experts think the selfportrait was covered up with cardboard around 1905, “when the Peasant Woman was lent to an exhibition at the Stedelijk

Poet From Page B1 Born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, she has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Tulsa in early childhood and elementary education – a double major – with graduate studies at Wichita State University with an emphasis on behavior disorders.

But it was not until 2000 that Bruce started to take her poetry seriously, when, as she noted, she found her voice.

Her resume is long and highlighted in achievements and accolades.

She does not fit well into the formal structures

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The back of “Head of a Peasant Woman.”

Museum, Amsterdam,” according to a news release. “At this date the Peasant Woman was evidently considered more ‘finished’ than the Van Gogh self-portrait,” it added.

“Head of a Peasant Woman” changed hands several times in the years following, until it was acquired by private collectors in Scotland and given to the National Galleries in 1960.

“Knowing that [the newly uncovered selfportrait is] there – in a painting that’s in the National Galleries of Scotland, in a collection that belongs to the people of Scotland – is incredibly important and significant,” Stevenson said. “Hopefully, it will encourage people to come and have a look.”

The National Galleries of Scotland already own three works by Van Gogh, painted between 1885 and 1889 – “and then suddenly, we have potentially another, which is probably the most exciting one of all,” Fowle said in the series of interviews released Thursday by the public art body.

This kind of “major” discovery “happens once, twice in a conservator’s lifetime,” Stevenson said.

This particular find was “extra special,” she said, because she believes it is a self-portrait, and “those images of the artist by the artist have a special quality – they’re very enigmatic. They’re giving us an insight into how [the artist is] thinking of themselves.”

The announcement of the find early Thursday generated interest from social media users, who joked that they would check the backs of paintings in their homes, just in case they contained a stray masterpiece or two.

But they may be disappointed: According to the Guardian, in a typical year, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam “gets up to 300 inquiries from people believing they own a lost Van Gogh.

Very few of those make it to the museum, and even fewer are found to be the real deal.”

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here are many questions a person might ask after watching the trailer of the new Netflix adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Persuasion,” which started streaming Friday.

What’s going on with the “Fleabag” asides?

Did the term “exes” actually exist in early-1800s Britain? And is Dakota Johnson’s bright-eyed, irreverent Anne Elliot a brilliantly modern depiction, or a blasphemous crime?

But for me, there’s a different question I’ve been obsessed with for the past two years.

Why is “Persuasion” – Austen’s long-overlooked and underappreciated final novel about a regretful almostspinster – suddenly having a moment?

I started to notice the phenomenon in the summer of 2020. The constrictions of lockdown and constant mortal terror meant that all you could do was ask people what they were reading.

And everyone, it seemed, was suddenly reading “Persuasion.”

I’d felt the same pull.

In the land of Austen novels, there are the Big Three: “Pride and Prejudice,” “Sense & Sensibility” and “Emma.”

They’re the reliable crowd-pleasers with the name recognition, the volumes of fan fiction, the gazillion movie remakes.

Against the buoyant energy of those novels, “Persuasion” can be a melancholy book: It centers on Anne Elliot, the sensible middle daughter of an aristocrat, who falls in love with a poor sailor but is persuaded by her snobby family to end their engagement. Eight years later, she’s a regretful spinster with money problems; he’s a successful, rich naval officer.

Circumstances throw them back together.

Around the time that others started baking bread and growing green onions, I reread “Persuasion.” And my longtime appreciation for this novel became a deep, abiding enchantment. I listened to the audiobook on long walks, texted quotes to friends, turned plot points over in my head in the shower.

(I was so immersed in this novel, I even aspired to make a podcast about “Persuasion.”)

of poetry writing, describing herself as a modern poet with a freeform style, though she holds true to the importance of understanding the foundation of the craft.

She has been inspired by such new generation poets and writers as Maya Angelou, Mary Oliver and, perhaps most of all, Joy Harjoy, who also hails from Tulsa.

In other ways, however, she is very much an old soul with old-school, traditional ways.

“I always say I start with my heart and head, with pen in my hand,” Bruce said.

Yes, she prefers to write in longhand, with a common process of eight

revisions, before turning to more modern tools such as a computer.

Scattered notebooks litter her home. When she gets an idea for a poem, she will often retrieve those notebook ideas and reflect.

Her style may be her own, but it carries with it time.

So who better than Shakespeare to validate her ideas of what poetry is, and its inward well of creativity?

“To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.”

For more information, contact Suzanne Bruce at fairfieldpoetlaureate @gmail.com.

“Wizard of Paws,” Timmy and Poppy are both mobile. Timmy is now able to run on his own and makes the rounds feeding the animals.

“Timmy will make you believe in miracles, because he is one,” said Darcy Smith, co-founder Funky Chicken Rescue,

in a press release. “His transformation is nothing short of miraculous and a lot of it is due to his custom brace made by Derrick on the show.”

For more information about the nonprofit, visit funkychickenrescue@gmail.com.

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Dakota Johnson as Anne Elliot in Netflix’s “Persuasion.”

Then, in September 2020, the mystery deepened. “Persuasion” was becoming a movie.

Except, not this movie.

Another movie, produced

by Searchlight Pictures and starring Sarah Snook, who plays Shiv Roy in HBO’s “Succession.” Netflix announced its own “Persuasion” adaptation in April 2021, just a few months before the Bedlam theater company staged the play in New York. An adaptation, mind you, that was different from the new theater adaptation put on in London and Oxford earlier this year.

(The Persuasion field has gotten so crowded, Searchlight Pictures has put their production on hold, Snook told Vogue Australia.)

See? This 205-yearold book is suddenly in the zeitgeist. And I wanted to hear some theories on why.

“It is a book about figuring out your priorities,” said Alice Victoria Winslow.

Winslow co-wrote the new Netflix film. She’s loved the book since college, when she took a Jane Austen class and bemoaned that there weren’t more recent and more popular film adaptations. (Her writing partner, Ron Bass, is a screenwriting legend, known for churning out such box-office hits as “My Best Friend’s Wedding” and “Stepmom.”)

Anne is relatable for modern readers: She’s older, more contemplative and has to choose between priorities: the man she loves, the friend and mentor she values, and the snobby family she feels obligated to care for.

“She’s sort of not preoccupied with the need to get married,” Winslow said. “There’s just a lot going on for her that is external to the marriageas-aspirational plot line.”

Damianne Scott sees another corollary with our pandemic era: the fatigue of caregivers.

Scott, who teaches

English composition at two Cincinnati colleges, is the creator of the Facebook community “Black Girl Loves Jane.” She is also writing her own novel, a modern-day interpretation of – what else? – “Persuasion,” set in a present-day Black megachurch.

Scott points out that Anne is a caregiver. She spends much of the book appeasing her sisters, nursing various family members after grievous injuries, and serving as her family’s de facto house manager and financial planner. Being stuck in those roles sharpens her regret about the alternate life she could have lived as the wife of a naval officer.

“A lot of people, including myself, are in caregiver roles [that] they didn’t choose,” Scott said. “But life and circumstances made them have to be. And so people can relate to Anne in that notion as well.”

Perhaps the part of “Persuasion” that feels most resonant now is the sheer amount of time that the protagonist is stuck thinking – it’s been almost eight years since she saw Captain Wentworth, and she has spent every day contemplating her other life, wondering if she’s wasting her current one.

“The novel is so obsessed with time,” said Stefanie Markovits, who teaches English literature at Yale. “And to my mind, that’s what is most reflective of the moment that we’re in.”

The pandemic has made us similarly cognizant of time: The feeling that the past two-plus years have gone by so fast, or so slow; the loss of precious moments with the people we love; the need to understand how we’ve grown (or not) since this period of hardship began.

When – spoiler alert – Anne finally reunites with Wentworth at the end of the novel, there’s “the desire to at least imagine

that those eight years weren’t wasted,” Markovits said.

“Are they happier now than they would have been, or not? We don’t know. Anne doesn’t know.

She doesn’t pretend to know,” she said. “And yet she’s going to try to rescue some kind of meaning from the way in which time did flow.”

“That’s what we’re all looking for now, right?”

Markovits added. “We’re looking for silver linings to this experience.”

That real, profound loss may be why the criticism of this new movie and its irreverent, snarkier tone has felt so impassioned.

The Independent called it “vaguely mortifying to watch.” The Guardian declared it “a travesty.”

“I don’t get it,” novelist and essayist Brandon Taylor wrote in a scathing essay about the movie. “It’s like they looked at Persuasion and they were like, let’s turn this into a real love story, but they took out all of the parts that make it a real love story.”

The audience for this movie isn’t averse to radical reinterpretations of Austen novels.

This year’s “Fire Island,” a queer, sexed-up and yet delightfully earnest retelling of “Pride and Prejudice” won rave reviews, as did the tart and zippy “Emma” remake of 2020, in which whole bare regency buttocks were revealed to the audience.

When I asked Winslow about the backlash to the trailer, she was magnanimous.

“I love this book so deeply. And everyone involved in this project loves the book so deeply.

We all have a deep and long emotional connection to the material. So nothing was done carelessly,” Winslow said.

“And I hope that everyone comes with an open mind . . . and an understanding that Austen has such a playful spirit.”

After two years of the pandemic, perhaps “Persuasion” fans are not feeling playful. We’re feeling sad and griefstricken, and tired and taken for granted, cleareyed about what we’ve lost and the stakes of the time we have left. And we want to see our own melancholy reflected back to us.

We know what Anne Elliot has been through.

Because we’ve been through it, too.

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Fridays in the office are over The Washington Post Haley LaFloure picked up a couple dozen doughnuts on the way to work.

She forgot it was Friday.

The surprise she’d planned for her colleagues turned out to be on her: The office was empty. Everyone else at the St. Louis investment firm where she works had decided to close out the week from home, which meant LaFloure was stuck at her desk with enough sugary fried dough to last her a month.

“I don’t even like doughnuts,” the 25-yearold said. “I sat down and was like, ‘What am I going to do with these?’ “ As white-collar workers across the country settle into hybrid work routines, one thing is becoming clear: Nobody wants to be in the office on Fridays.

The last day of the workweek, once synonymous with long lunches and early departures, has increasingly become a day to skip the office altogether. The trend, which was already brewing before the pandemic, has become widely adopted, even codified, in recent months and is creating new challenges for employers.

Just 30% of office workers swiped into work on Fridays in June, the least of any weekday, according to Kastle Systems, which provides building security services for 2,600 buildings nationwide. That’s compared to 41% on Mondays, the day

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Lunch at Online Optimism, July 8. with the second-lowest turnout, and 50% on Tuesdays, when the biggest share of workers are in the office.

“It’s becoming a bit of cultural norm: You know nobody else is going to the office on Friday, so maybe you’ll work from home, too,” said Peter Cappelli, director of the Center for Human Resources at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.

“Even before the pandemic, people thought of Friday as a kind of blowoff day. And now there’s a growing expectation that you can work from home to jump-start your weekend.”

So far, employers appear divided on whether to embrace a remote end to the week or to try to lure employees to the office. There are taco trucks and wine carts, costume contests

and karaoke sing-offs, all aimed at getting workers to give up their couches for cubicles.

Even buttoned-up employers are learning to let loose. Citigroup has deemed Fridays “Zoomfree,” while accounting giant KPMG promises “no-camera Fridays” and lets employees clock out for the weekend at 3 p.m. in the summers.

“We want to make sure people are getting a break so they can recharge their batteries,” said Paul Knopp, chief executive of KPMG U.S. “We’re giving them a lot more agency about how they work –and where they work.”

Some start-ups and tech firms have begun doing away with Fridays altogether. Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter and online consignment shop ThredUp are among a small but growing

number of firms moving to a four-day workweek that runs from Monday to Thursday.

Executives at Bolt, a checkout technology company in San Francisco, began experimenting with no-work Fridays last summer and quickly realized they’d hit a winning formula.

Employees were more productive than before, and came back to work on Mondays with new enthusiasm. In January, it switched to a four-day workweek for good.

“There was no hesitation: Everybody was like, ‘Sign me up,’ “ said Angela Bagley, the company’s head of employee experience. “And it was amazing: We kept getting the job done. Managers were onboard, people kept hitting their goals.

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Fairfield PAL receives $300,000 grant from Lowe’s Hometowns Daily Republic Staff

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FAIRFIELD — The Fairfield Police Activities League was awarded $300,000 in funding as part of Lowe’s Hometowns, an initiative by the building supply company that is helping to restore and revitalize spaces that serve as the hubs of communities.

According to a press release from the Fairfield Police Department, the funding will help with the

cost to add gym space at the new location, 2256 N. Texas St. Gym space provides teens with a place to play basketball, volleyball or other sports – for free. It also means more opportunities for teens to get exercise and the exact types of physical activity that increases social skills, focus, selfregulation of emotions, overall health and academic achievement while decreasing anxiety and stress, according to the

press release.

This year is the first of a five-year, $100 million commitment from Lowe’s to the communities it serves, with this year’s projects spanning 40 states and Washington, D.C. This year’s Lowe’s Hometowns projects are slated to be completed

by November.

The Fairfield PAL Program is open to Fairfield, Suisun City and Travis Air Force Base students ages 13 to 18 who

are enrolled in school.

Memberships are free and can be applied for at the Fairfield Community Center, 1000 Kentucky St., with a current ID and parent-guardian signature. The PAL Center is currently closed as it prepares to re-open at the new site later this summer.

For more information about PAL, call 707-330-8757 or visit the program’s webpage at Fairfield.ca.gov.

Big Creek Lumber to acquire O’Connor Daily Republic Staff

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VALLEJO — Big Creek Lumber is in the process of acquiring O’Connor Lumber and Ace Hardware in Vallejo, the company announced in a press release. The name will be changed to Big Creek Lumber when the sale is finalized.

The store will remain open with the same products and staff.

“Big Creek Lumber is pleased to have found a great fit with O’Connor Lumber. We like that it is a turn-key, well-run yard with a knowledgeable team that we can grow into the future. We plan to keep most things the same and are excited to also offer a full-service lumberyard with more lumber selection and a larger inventory,” Kevin Dussault, retail divisional manager at Big Creek Lumber, said in the press release.

Big Creek’s leadership team is eager to carry on the traditions set by Joe and Rose Pierre and their family for the past three

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Big Creek Lumber is in the process of acquiring O’Connor Lumber and Ace Hardware in Vallejo. generations.

“Rose and I really enjoy working with Big Creek and their staff.

We are so grateful that our employees are being given the opportunity to work for Big Creek,” Joe Pierre, the current owner of O’Connor Lumber, said in the press release.

Big Creek Lumber was founded in 1946, remains locally and family owned, and is currently led by the third generation of the McCrary family in the business.

The acquisition brings a sixth retail lumber and Ace Hardware store into the Big Creek portfolio.

“Big Creek would like to welcome the O’Connor employees to

our team and congratulate the Pierre family on their retirement. We’re really excited about the opportunity to complement our operations with another really well-managed facility. It also is well-located to expand our market area,” Ellen McCrary Rinde, vice president of HR and part of Big Creek’s ownership group, said in the press release.

As a part of the transition, Big Creek will roll out some customer service initiatives that include offering customer credit accounts, an expanded delivery zone and a larger assortment of lumber and building materials, according

to the press release.

All O’Connor Lumber employees are encouraged to stay on the team as it transitions to Big Creek Lumber.

A grand opening will be scheduled for the fall.

Big Creek Lumber Company has been in business since 1946 and remains a family owned lumber company. The McCrary family has lived and worked on California’s Central Coast for seven generations.

They currently operate a sawmill, wholesale sales department, five Pro Dealer lumber yards, a forestry department and a logging operation. Big Creek has a long history of practicing superior and sustainable forest stewardship – growing, selectively harvesting and milling Central Coast redwood and Douglas fir.

O’Connor Lumber and Ace Hardware is located at 4310 Sonoma Blvd.

For more information on Big Creek Lumber, its products and lumber yards, visit www. bigcreeklumber.com.

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Mettler-Toledo Rainin posts plan to expand into Vacaville Daily Republic Staff

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VACAVILLE — MettlerToledo Rainin LLC has announced their expansion into Vacaville’s Interchange Business Park.

Rainin, a part of the Mettler Toledo family, manufactures liquid handling instruments and consumables for the life sciences industry. The company is based out of Oakland.

“We are excited to expand our manufacturing operations in Vacaville,” said Werner Maas, general manager for Rainin, in a press release.

“The city of Vacaville has been very welcoming and accommodating, giving us the confidence that we will be successful here. The high cost and scarcity of real estate

in the central Bay was one of the key considerations in our decision to expand operations here.”

The purchase of the 93,240-squarefoot facility continues to move Vacaville into a global hub for ROWLETT biomanufacturing.

“I couldn’t be more pleased that Rainin has chosen to invest in the city of Vacaville,” Mayor Ron Rowlett said in the release. “As we continue to attract more biomanufacturing and medical device companies, Rainin will help to strengthen the city’s biotech ecosystem. We will work with Rainin through our Biotechnology Fast Track permitting program to get this expanded site up and operational as

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But for other companies, finding the right balance has been trickier.

“Employers recognize that it’s tougher to get people to come back in, so they’re asking, ‘What can we do?’ “said Julie Schweber, an adviser at the Society of Human Resource Management. “The answer is basically: If you feed them, they will come. Food trucks, special catered events, ice cream socials, that’s what’s popular right now.”

Online Optimism, a digital marketing firm with offices in New Orleans, Atlanta and Washington, D.C., has a Friday routine of free lunches and free-flowing happy hours beginning at 4 p.m. sharp.

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quickly as possible, and we will continue to connect them to the resources they need to be successful in Vacaville.”

The city announced in October 2020 the start of the next generation of its biomanufacturing cluster with the identification of 300 acres available for development. Capable of an estimated 3 million additional square feet of biomanufacturing, this space houses the Polaris acquisition and the recently announced Agenus Inc. Acquisition, a Lexington, Massachusetts-based biotech company that recently purchased 120 acres to build a 72-acre biomanufacturing campus.

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“Honestly, the best socializing happens on Friday,” he said. “Why not have a beer or two? If people are going to be a little less productive one day of the week, I’d rather it be Friday than Monday.”

Those shifting norms are rippling across the economy and reshaping business patterns for commercial real estate firms, parking garage operators and the many eateries that cater to workers during the week. The drop-off in office work, particularly on Fridays, has led coffee shops to reduce their hours, delis to rethink staffing and bars like Pat’s Tap in Minneapolis to kick off happy hour earlier than ever – starting at 2 p.m.

“Since they’re not at the office, people come in early to pluck away at their laptops while they sip a cocktail or two,” said General Manager Dave Robinson. “By 4:30 or 5 on Fridays, we’re completely full.”

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Bases-loaded balk lifts Giants past Brewers

By Evan Webeck BAY AREA NEWS GROUP

SAN FRANCISCO — It couldn’t happen again. It wouldn’t, right? Surely, the thoughts racing through the heads of so many of the 41,257 Giants fans in attendance Saturday afternoon when Mike Yastrzemski stepped in against Brewers reliever Jandel Gustave with the bases loaded, tied at 1, in the bottom of the eighth.

A night after he played the hero with a walk-off grand slam, Yastrzemski had his chance

at an encore (albeit an inning early). If you liked that, how about . . . a balk? It was no grand slam, but Wilmer Flores jogged home to score the go-ahead run when home plate umpire Pat Hoberg called a balk on Gustave before his 1-2 offering to Yastrzemski.

Powered by Alex Cobb’s best outing in orange and black, the Giants beat the Brewers 2-1, securing at least a split in this four-game series with the NL Central leaders and further correcting course from an alltime skid with one game to go until the All-Star break. After

dropping 14 of 18, the Giants have won six of their past eight games.

The Giants’ only run through seven innings looked like it would hold up behind Cobb, who took a shutout into the eighth.

Darin Ruf broke a scoreless tie with a solo shot to left in the sixth inning, his second homer in as many games after he smashed one of three ninthinning blasts in Friday night’s comeback win. It also served as only the Giants’ second hit, as Brewers starter Eric Lauer traded zeros with Cobb for much of the afternoon.

But as Cobb tried to complete eight innings for what would have been his first time since 2018, Austin Slater appeared to get turned around on a fly ball from Hunter Renfroe. It fell to the warning track, bounced off the wall and Renfroe chugged in to third, setting him up to score on a sac fly from the following batter, Omar Narvaez.

Cobb had to settle for a standing ovation, a no-decision and his longest outing since tossing 7-plus innings for the Angels last April. He hadn’t pitched past the sixth inning in 13 previous starts this season.

Cobb has been beset by bad luck, bad defense and bad health while taking a 4.57 ERA into his last start before the All-Star break. Since flashing a sinker that touched 96 mph during spring training – an uptick of 2-plus mph – the pitcher on display Saturday was the one the Giants have touted all season as their latest rotation breakout candidate.

Cobb’s is only the latest in a growing line of strong starts from the Giants’ rotation. Since June 28, no group of starters in the majors has a lower ERA than the Giants’ mark of 2.25.

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Vanden High School head coach Sean Murphy celebrates after the Vikings defeated Aquinas in the CIF Division

3-AA State Championship game at George A. Gammon Field, Dec. 11, 2021.

Murphy’s law: State title defense at Vanden, new AD responsibilities Matt Miller

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FAIRFIELD — The last time Sean Murphy was on the turf at George A. Gammon Field after a football game was when his Vanden High School Vikings notched an improbable comeback to beat Aquinas of San Bernardino and win the California Interscholastic Federation Division 3-AA state title.

The Vikings head coach was celebrating a 13-2 season, a mighty postseason run and the school’s first state title since Cal-Hi Sports crowned the 1995 team the Division IV champion.

At the time, though, the coach couldn’t put into words what it meant to him. But seven months later, on the cusp of a new season,

Murphy admits there was a sliver of sorrow.

“The thing about a championship is that there is a little sadness,” Murphy said. “You know your journey with that particular team is over.”

For Murphy, it was an opportunity to win a state football title as a head coach and player. He was a part of that powerful 1995 team that ran roughshod through a perfect 13-0 season, ending with a 26-10 win over Bear River of Lake of the Pines in the Sac-Joaquin Section Division IV title game. At the time, there were no state title games.

The Vikings of 2022 have no plans to sit on their laurels. They have been putting in the conditioning and officially begin the new season July 25 for the team’s first

official practice.

What can Vanden do for an encore? Plenty. Murphy has many players back from last season’s team, including his record-setting quarterback, Tre Dimes.

There’s still plenty of goals ahead, like trying to top Vacaville.

Despite the championship season, the Vikings again had to settle for a runner-up season in the Monticello Empire League. That’s just one of their many quests.

“We’re excited about a run at the league, section, and we’ll see what happens after that,” Murphy said. “We’re just focused on Yuba City (the Aug. 19 opener) right now.

When we get into league, we know that Vacaville is still the team to See Murphy, Page B12

McIlroy, Hovland avoid miscues to grab share of lead at the Open

By Sam Farmer

LOS ANGELES TIMES

ST ANDREWS, Scotland —They chatted, they chuckled and they gradually pulled away from the field Saturday in the third round of the British Open.

Rory McIlroy and Viktor Hovland, good friends in the second-to-last group, shot identical scores of 66 at the Old Course to share a commanding four-shot lead at 16 under par heading into Sunday’s final round.

At one point, while waiting to hit, they had a pleasant chat that completely belied the magnitude of the moment.

“We talked about a whole bunch of stuff,” McIlroy said. “Talked about footwear. Talked about what he did the last couple of weeks.

He went back home to

last year’s British Open, McIlroy is considerably more experienced. He won four majors early in his career, but he hasn’t done so since 2014 – a span of 29 majors without that elusive fifth win.

“I’ve got myself in a great position after three days,” McIlroy said. “I finished off enough golf tournaments in my time to feel like I know what to do tomorrow.”

Paul Ellis/AFP/Getty Images/TNS A pivotal point for Norway’s Viktor Hovland, right, and Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy came on the McIlroy shake hands on the 18th green after their third par-four 10th, when he rounds at the British Open Golf Championship, Saturday. holed out for eagle from a greenside bunker. The Norway. He’s going back is the first player from crowd erupted and he to Norway after this. Just Norway to lead any round shot his arm into the air to of a major championship. kept it nice and loose.” acknowledge the gallery.

That was reflected in “But as we saw, it was still “The support that I’ve their play. They were as pretty slow out there, and gotten this week has been breezy as the light winds we had to wait on a lot of absolutely incredible,” blowing through the birth- tee boxes. . . . We chatted it said McIlroy, 33, of Northup a little bit.” place of golf. ern Ireland. “I appreciate Whereas Hovland’s “I think we were obviit and I feel it out there. best finishes at a major ously both kind of doing our own thing,” said were ties for 12th at the Hovland, who ESPN noted U.S. Open in 2019 and See Open, Page B12

FAIRFIELD — The Fairfield Expos came out swinging in their first two games of the Area 1 American Legion Baseball Tournament at Laurel Creek Park.

The Expos stunned the favorite Chico Nuts 14-6, Thursday, and followed it up with a 20-7 win over Vallejo Post 550, Friday.

Fairfield faced Yuba City in a game played late Saturday night, after the Daily Republic’s press time, but qualified for one of Sunday’s semifinals regardless of the outcome.

Sunday’s semifinals are at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.

The Expos’ semifinal game time was determined by the result of their result late Saturday.

Check for the outcome on the team’s Facebook page, Expos News, to confirm the time.

The Expos season record was 53-14 heading into Saturday’s game.

The championship game is slated for 7 p.m., Monday. The top two teams advance to the state championship July 21-25 at Fresno State University. The Expos

have already qualified for the Western Regionals Aug. 3-7 because they are hosting the tournament at Laurel Creek.

In Friday’s win over Vallejo, Grant Kerr was the hit leader. Kerr went 4-for-6 with a double and five RBIs. Aidan Robles had three hits, including a double, and knocked in two runs. Noah Rodda delivered two hits and drove in two runs. Drew Carrington was also 2-for-4 with a double and an RBI. Ryan Kariolich had a double.

Teagan Gonzalez pitched 5 2/3 innings, allowed no earned runs, gave up four hits and struck out five batters.

Trevor Morse pitched one inning with no earned runs allowed and two strikeouts. Vallejo did the bulk of its scoring by taking advantage of five Fairfield errors.

The Expos opened with five runs in the first inning and closed with six runs in the seventh. Fairfield collected 16 hits.

On Thursday against Chico, Rodda went 4-for-5 at the plate with two RBI. Eli Blurton, Robles and Bryce See Expos, Page B12

Stevens finishes 24th in World 20K race walk Daily Republic Staff

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VACAVILLE — Robyn Stevens didn’t quite hit the top-20 goal she was shooting for but she did better her Olympic finish of 2021 by coming in 24th overall Friday in the women’s 20K race walk at the World Championships.

The 39-year-old Vacaville native was the top American finisher and completed the course around Eugene, Oregon, in 1 hour, 36.16 minutes.

American teammate Miranda Melville was 35th (1:39.38). Stevens finished 33rd at the Olympics last year in Tokyo, Japan.

There were 36 runners who completed the course Friday in Oregon.

Two others did not finish the race and three were disqualified.

Kimberley Garcia Leon of Peru was the gold medalist with time of 1:26.58. Katarzyna Zdzieblo of Poland was the silver medalist (1:27.31)

and the bronze went to Shijie Qjeyang of China (1:27.56). Garcia Leon and Zdzieblo set new records for their country.

Stevens entered the competition ranked 45th in the world. Her best time this season was the 1:32.15 she clocked in the Czech Republic in April.

She had hoped to compete in the 35K at the Worlds, her best of the race walk events, but was unable to after failing to finish because of an injury at a qualifying race in January near San Diego.

Fairfield native and Armijo High School graduate Luis Grijalva will be competing in the 5,000 meters for Guatemala. The heats in the 5,000 will begin at 6:10 p.m. Thursday, with the finals at 6:05 p.m.

July 24. Grijalva finished 12th overall at the Olympics last year.

Grijalva competes for Guatemala by virtue of being in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

DAILY REPUBLIC — Sunday, July 17, 2022 B7

CALENDAR Sunday’s TV sports Baseball MLB • Oakland at Houston, NBCSCA, 11 a.m.

• Milwaukee at San Francisco, NBCSBA, 1 p.m.

• MLB Draft, ESPN, 4 p.m.

Basketball NBA Summer League • Championship Game, ESPN, Noon.

Three-On-Three • Big3 Basketball, 5, 13, Noon.

WNBA • Las Vegas vs. Connecticut, 7, 10, 10 a.m.

Amateur • Street Ball, ESPN2, 4 p.m.

Cycling • Tour de France, Stage 15, USA, 5 a.m.

Golf • British Open, final round, GOLF, 3 a.m.

• British Open, final round, 3, 4 a.m.

• PGA, Barracuda Championship, GOLF, 3 p.m.

Motor Sports • FIA Auto Racing, 5, 13, 10 a.m.

• NASCAR, Ambetter 301, Cup Series, USA, Noon.

• NHRA, Mile High Nationals, 2, 40, 1 p.m.

Skateboarding • Street League, ESPN2, 11 a.m.

Soccer MLS • Orlando City vs. Atlanta United, 7, 10, Noon.

• New York City FC vs. New York Red Bull, ESPN, 2 p.m.

• Houston vs. San Jose, NBCSCA, 6 p.m.

UEFA • Women’s Euro2022, Netherlands vs. Switzerland, ESPN, 8:30 a.m.

Track and Field • IAAF, World Championships, 3, 11 a.m.

Verlander keeps A’s in check as Astros win 5-0 Tribune Content Agency HOUSTON — Pit the most anemic offensive team in baseball against a future Hall of Famer and the end result is what happened to the Athletics Saturday in a 5-0 road loss to the Houston Astros.

The A’s spotted Justin Verlander a 4-0 lead in the second inning on a grand slam by Martin Maldonado against starting pitcher Jared Koenig and the 39-year-old righthander took care of the rest with relief help from Phil Maton, Hector Neris and Bryan Abreu for one inning each.

Verlander gave up six hits in six innings, throwing 106 pitches – 73 of them strikes – while improving to 12-3 and lowering his earned run average to 1.89. He struck out 10, leapfrogging Curt Schilling (3,116) and Bob Gibson (3,117) and moving into 14th on the all-time major league list with 3,121 and improving his record to 238-132.

Houston, the division leaders, improved to 59-31, with the Athletics at the other end of the A.L. West standings at 31-61.

In the sixth, Verlander finished with a flourish,

striking out the side. In all, the A’s swung and missed 19 times. Every A’s hitter struck out at least once except leadoff batter Vimael Machin.

Koenig, 1-3, had a 10-pitch first inning with a pair of strikeouts then got the first two hitters of the second before disaster struck.

Suddenly unable to keep pitches from being up in the zone, Koenig gave up sharp singles to left center to both Yuli Gurriel and Jake Meyers before walking Chas McCormick.

Maldonado, the No. 9 hitter, was next, and he hit a 1-0 pitch well over the left centerfield fence.

The drive left the park at 106.1 miles per hour and carried 416 feet. It was Maldonado’s ninth home run of the season.

The Astros added a run in the fourth against Koenig with the help of a leadoff walk to Aledmys Diaz, who eventually scored on a sacrifice fly

by McCormick.

Recalled from Triple-A Las Vegas on Tuesday, Koenig had his best major league start despite the obvious second-inning mistake. The Aptos product pitched seven innings before being taken out.

Local scores Club Golf

Rio Vista Women’s Golf Club Game of the Day: Straight Low Net Golf Flight One: 7 players First: Denise Sargent Natour: net 67 Second: Marsha Berry: net 72 Third: Sandy Smith: net 75 Flight Two: 7 players First place tie: Suzi Masterson, net 76; Bessie Dunn: net 76 Third: Diane Scholz: net 78 Flight Three: 7 players First: Jan Benner, net 77 Second place tie: Terri Anesko, Ladell Manion, Marcia Frankhouser, net 81 Flight Four: 7 players First: Darl McCarthy, net 76 Second: Joanne Smith, net 77 Third: Jill Smith, net 79 There were 4 chip-Ins: Darl McCarthy on Hole 8; Marsha Berry

on Hole 12; Pam Fashing on Hole 16; Diane Scholz on Hole 18 Pam Fashing birdied Hole 13; Doris Sundly was closest to the hole on 2 at 9’10”; broke 100: Denise Sargent-Natour, 90; Sandy Smith, 94; Marsha Berry, 98; Pam Fashing, 98

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SAN FRANCISCO 47 43 .522 12½ Colorado 43 49 .467 17½ Arizona 39 51 .433 20½ Thursday’s Games Milwaukee 3, SAN FRANCISCO 2 Miami 3, Pittsburgh 2, 11 innings Colorado 8, San Diego 5 Cincinnati 7, N.Y. Yankees 6, 10 innings Atlanta 5, Washington 4 Kansas City 3, Toronto 1 Tampa Bay 5, Boston 4 Cleveland 4, Detroit 0 L.A. Dodgers 4, St. Louis 0 Chicago White Sox 12, Minnesota 2 N.Y. Mets 8, Chicago Cubs 0 Seattle 6, Texas 5 Houston 3, L.A. Angels 2, 10 innings Friday’s Games OAKLAND 5, Houston 1 SAN FRANCISCO 8, Milwaukee 5 N.Y. Mets at Chicago Cubs, Postponed Philadelphia 2, Miami 1 Atlanta 8, Washington 4 Boston 5, N.Y. Yankees 4 Toronto 8, Kansas City 1 Cleveland 6, Detroit 5 Tampa Bay 5, Baltimore 4 Seattle 8, Texas 3 Chicago White Sox 6, Minnesota 2 St. Louis 7, Cincinnati 3 Colorado 13, Pittsburgh 2 San Diego 5, Arizona 3

L.A. Dodgers 9, L.A. Angels 1 Saturday’s Games Houston 5, OAKLAND 0 SAN FRANCISCO 2, Milwaukee 1 Minnesota 6, Chicago White Sox 3 St. Louis 11, Cincinnati 3 N.Y. Mets 2, Chicago Cubs 1, 11 innings Colorado 2, Pittsburgh 0 Toronto 6, Kansas City 5 Atlanta 6, Washington 3 Seattle 3, Texas 2 Philadelphia 10, Miami 0 Cleveland 10, Detroit 0 Baltimore 6, Tampa Bay 4 N.Y. Yankees 14, Boston 1 Arizona at San Diego, (N) L.A. Dodgers at L.A. Angels, (N) Sunday’s Games OAKLAND at Houston, 11:10 a.m.

Milwaukee at SAN FRANCISCO, 1:05 p.m.

Kansas City at Toronto, 9:05 a.m.

Atlanta at Washington, 10:35 a.m.

Boston at N.Y. Yankees, 10:35 a.m.

Philadelphia at Miami, 10:40 a.m.

Detroit at Cleveland, 10:40 a.m.

Baltimore at Tampa Bay, 10:40 a.m.

Chicago White Sox at Minnesota, 11:10 a.m.

Cincinnati at St. Louis, 11:15 a.m.

N.Y. Mets at Chicago Cubs, 11:20 a.m.

Seattle at Texas, 11:35 a.m.

Pittsburgh at Colorado, 12:10 p.m.

Arizona at San Diego, 1:10 p.m.

MLB commissioner talks about state of game at All-Star break

By Bill Shaikin LOS ANGELES TIMES

NEW YORK — On July 8, 1980, the day of the last All-Star Game played at Dodger Stadium, the No. 1 song in America was Paul McCartney’s “Coming Up.” In 2019, McCartney performed at Dodger Stadium. He’s still got it.

And, three years later, the All-Star Game is back at Dodger Stadium. The ballpark has still got it too.

Before the stars take the stage, here is a conversation with Rob Manfred, the major league commissioner.

Q: The A’s would like to know by the end of this year whether their waterfront ballpark project in Oakland will be approved.

If not, they have made no secret that Las Vegas is their Plan B. In 1992, when the Giants ownership could not secure a new ballpark in the Bay Area, the team was about to move to Florida when MLB stepped in. New local owners were found, and the Giants have been a model franchise since then, with a beautiful new ballpark in San Francisco.

If the A’s ownership cannot get the waterfront ballpark done, would you step in to try to find new local owners before you would approve a move?

Manfred: I think the A’s situation is different than the situation that existed when baseball stepped in with respect to the Giants. No. 1, I think (A’s owner) John Fisher – really at my urging – has done everything humanly possible to find a viable stadium plan in Oakland.

He’s spent millions and millions of dollars.

He’s focused solely on Oakland for years.

Secondly, unlike the San Francisco situation, Oakland was granted permission to explore the Las Vegas alternative, for the simple reason that the progress in Oakland at the time was not far enough or fast enough. Having said all that, Mayor [Libby] Schaaf has done an unbelievable job moving the process forward. I’ll say it for the second time: I’m a

1st, Trellis Moore, 29 2nd, Colleen Berumen, 31 3rd, Rosemarie Chonzena, 35 4th, Diane Viera, 37 Fifth Flight, 25 Net 1st, Barbara Rigdon, 27 2nd, Connie Watson, 31 3rd, Shirley Morris, 36 Chip-Ins Jenne Meyers #4 Rene Romiski #4 Kay Bone #1 Birdies Rene Romiski #4 Ann Rollin #1

First Flight, 11-15 Net 1st, Ann Rollin, 28 2nd, Rene Romiski, 31 3rd, Chris Robertson, 32* 4th, Genny Lopez, 32* 5th, Marlene Brown, 33 Second Flight, 16-18 Net First Flight: 1st, Kay Bone, 29 1. Lisa Hoekwater, net 71 2nd, Linda Perry, 31* 2. Regina Cortez, net 71 3rd, Ilene Pliler, 31* 3. Jackye Harbert, net 72 4th, Liz Dykstra, 33 4. PJ Lowrey, net 73 5th, Cathy Treece, 34 Second Flight: Third Flight, 19-20 Net 1. Rita May, net 73 1st, Megan Kramer, 29 2. Henrie Newland, net 74 2nd, Shirley Helmich, 31 3. LeeAnne Fortney, net 75 3rd, Barb Ray, 32 4. Karen Moore, net 75 4th, Sandy Latchford, 33 Third Flight: 1. Debbie Dahl, net 74 Fourth Flight, 22-23 Net

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Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred answers questions during an MLB owner’s meeting in Orlando, Florida, in February. glass-half-full guy. I hope she delivers.

Q: With all due respect, John Fisher has done everything humanly possible in Oakland except consider the site where the A’s are playing now.

He might not want to play there, but what the Angels were proposing in Anaheim could basically have been the same in Oakland: a parking lot, with easy access and mass transit, redeveloped into an urban village.

Manfred: A couple of things. No. 1: When you’re going to privately finance a ballpark, to the tune of a billion dollars, I think you’re entitled to a certain amount of respect, with respect to where you want to make that investment.

No. 2: I think the economics of development at the Coliseum site are not comparable to the economics of development in a place like Anaheim.

Q: Gabe Kapler, the Giants’ manager, went to the mound the other day to tell the outfielder he had pitching not to throw so hard, so he wouldn’t risk getting hurt – in a game the Giants won.

When position players rarely pitched, it was a great, fun story. Now, even with 13 pitchers on a team, it’s become routine and arguably silly.

Can you envision giving teams the choice between using actual pitchers or just calling off the rest of the game?

Manfred: The increased trend of using position players as pitchers, particularly when there are other indications

2. Stella Gaudet, net 77 3. Nanci Stevenson, net 79 4. Kathy Tomko, net 84 Closest to the Pin, No. 12: 1. Regina Cortez, 5’0” 2. Chris Moore, 26’8-1/2” Eagles: Jackye Harbert, hole 17 Birdies: Lisa Hoekwater, hole 6 Regina Cortez, hole 12 Kathy Pascal, hole 8 Chip-Ins: Jackye Harbert, hole 17 Anita Johnson, hole 2 PJ Lowrey, hole 14

Nine Arounders Low putts with a tie of 15 putts.

The winners are Jaacque Welch and Kitty Lockwood.

Here are the winners of the sweeps.

First Flight, 14-16 1st Jacque Welch 59/43* 2nd Mona Begall 57/43* Second Flight 1st Kitty Lockwood 52/33 2nd Genny Lopez 56/39 3rd Stephanie Adams 61/43* 4th Rene Romiski 60/43*

of noncompetitiveness, is not a positive force. It’s something we need to think about.

Q: Do you believe baseball has gotten to a point where smart management can outweigh a low payroll?

Manfred: That’s a really hard question. I would say this: I think good management is necessary to have any chance to overcome the advantage that is created by payroll disparity.

Q: Average attendance this season is at its lowest since 1995, a season which was delayed by a player strike, and otherwise since 1988. What do you believe explains this decline, and how are you working to reverse this trend?

Manfred: I think the decline is principally related to the pandemic.

Obviously, we’ve had two really difficult years. I’m a glass-half-full guy. We think we’re going to be back to 95% of our 2019 level. When you go through a period of time like we’ve gone through, you’re going to have damage to your business, and it takes time to build it back.

(Average attendance through Wednesday: 25,927; in 2019: 28,203; in 2007: a record 32,696; in 1995: 25,021; in 1988: 25,237; data via baseballreference.com.)

Q: Half an hour has been cut from minor league games in which a pitch clock is used. If the competition committee decides to recommend a pitch clock in the major

Third Flight 1st Ann Rollin 59/31 2nd Kim Weaver 56/36 3rd Barbara James 61/40 *tie breaker

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leagues next year, is it as simple as saying half an hour would be cut from major league games?

Manfred: No, for two reasons. The major leagues are different than the minor leagues. Every time you talk to a major league player, they remind you of that fact – and I’ve been talking to a lot of them! And I don’t think the issue in front of the competition committee is as easy as pitch clock or no pitch clock.

What are all the little rules that are going to go along with it? Which ones that we are using in the minor leagues may need to be modified for use in the major leagues? So I don’t think you can just jump to the conclusion it’s going to be the same savings.

(The minor league pitch clock has reduced the average time by 28 minutes, with more action: fewer walks, fewer strikeouts and a 26% increase in stolen bases, according to data compiled by MLB.) Q: Do you have fan studies or marketing surveys that tell you attendance will go up if time of game does go down by half an hour? Or is this just a logical conclusion?

Manfred: Our fan research suggests time of game is a limiting factor in terms of fandom and consumption. There is absolutely no question about that.

Q: The average price of a major league ticket this season is $36, which means a family of four pays $144 before parking, eating or buying any souvenirs. How concerned are you about pricing out the middle-class family, and with it the kids who would become your next generation of customers?

Manfred: Not only am I concerned, I think the clubs are concerned.

That’s why you see clubs have family-focused promotions.

We understand that for family groups, which are a really important part of our fan base, affordability is a big issue.

Editor’s Note: The Q&A was edited for relevance to Bay Area baseball fans.

W L Pts Sons Of Italy 25 11 392 Roll’Em 20 16 334 Bocce Bulldogs 20 16 332 Holey Rollers 16 20 307 Oh Sugar 14 22 277 Andiamo Amici 13 23 274 Thursday AM League W L Pts What If 26 10 385 Red Devils 25 11 381 Bocce Cruisers 23 13 342 Mama’s & Papa’s 19 17 335 Real McCoys 13 23 285 Slow Rollers #2 2 34 161 Tuesday AM Weekly Results Do It Again 2, Bocce Friends 1 Plan B 2, Capitani 1 No Mercy Bye Tuesday PM Weekly Results Bells & Beaus 2, Rollers #1 1 Bocce Buddies 2, New Bee’s 1 Untouchable 3, La Bocce Vita 0 Casino Royal Bye Wed. AM Weekly Results Bulldogs 3, Andiamo Amici 0 Oh Sugar 2, Holey Rollers 1 Sons & Daughter 2, Roll’Em 1 Thursday AM Weekly Results Bocce Cruisers 2, What If 1 Red Devils 3, Slow Rollers #2 0 McCoys 2, Mama’s & Papa’s 1

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BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S) GXP Consulting 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/ Josie Mae Lake, Owner 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 19, 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 20, 2022 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2022001061 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR#00055997 Published: June 26, July 3, 10, 17, 2022

LOCATED AT 1702 Stoneman Dr, Suisun CA 94585 Solano. Mailing Address 1702 Stoneman Dr, Suisun CA 94585. ARE HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S) Celise 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/ Kristen Knott 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 21, 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).

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AUCTION NOTICE: AS DEFINED BY: The California Self Storage Facilities Act, Chapter 10 Commencing with Section 21700, Division 8 of the California Business and Professions Code, AIRPORT ROAD SELF STORAGE – 1604 Airport Rd, Rio Vista, CA 94571 will conduct an Auction on July 22, 2022 at 10:45 AM. AUCTIONEER: A Ward Auction Jeff Vercelli #MS324-27-4. Agent for Owner: Diede Property Management. Units being sold: Brian Figueroa, Steven Cole, William Rehlaender and Timothy Siewart Jr. Items being sold: Furniture, tools, Vacuum, compressor, wheel barrow and misc. tubs and boxes.

This ad will publish 7-10-2022 & 7-17-2022. In accordance with the California Self Service Storage Act, should bids fall short agents predetermined fair market value on a given Storage unit, agent shall have the right to halt the sale of said storage unit.

DR#00056367 Published: July 10, 17, 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 10am On July 28, 2022 at www.selfstorageauction.com.

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME PETITION OF: ERICA JOLEEN BAYNE CASE NUMBER FCS058257

LOCATED AT 1290 Jack London Dr, Vallejo California 94589 Solano. Mailing Address 1290 Jack London Dr, Vallejo California 94589. ARE HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S) Arturo Jimenez Meza 1290 Jack London Dr Vallejo, 94589. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 06/28/1980.

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/ Arturo Jimenez Meza 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 July 11, 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).

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LOCATED AT 5140, Business Center Drive Suite 170, Fairfield CA. Mailing Address 312 Cernon Street, Suite D, Vacaville. ARE HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S) Soyo Inc. CA San Francisco, 94116. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a Corporation 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/ Pablo Wong, 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 July 5, 2027.

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TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: Erica Joleen Bayne filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: a. Erica Joleen Bayne Proposed Name: a. Erica Joleen Hardy THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

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TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: Jacqueline Cristin Gan filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: a. Liam Christopher Dim Proposed Name: a. Liam Christopher Gan THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

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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).

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS LIVING GREEN MICROS LOCATED AT 191 B St, Vallejo, CA, 94590 Solano. Mailing Address 191 B St, Vallejo, CA, 94590. ARE HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S) Living Green Organics 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/ Amelia Gay, Owner 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 July 5, 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: July 6, 2022 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2022001148 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR#00056366 Published: July 10, 17, 24, 31, 2022

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Warriors’ fans found partying at British Open with winnings Alex Simon

Back at the start of the season, bets on the Warriors to win it all could be had at 10-to-1 odds – meaning a $100 bet would have $1,000 winnings, if it hit – and, as the season went along, Beliveau placed more money on the Warriors at 5 or 6-to-1.

All told, the group had somewhere between $5,000 and $6,000 on the Warriors winning. Once Golden State finished off the Boston Celtics in six games? Their winnings totaled roughly $30,000.

With their winnings, the group rented an Airbnb across the street from the 18th green, allowing them easy access to the 150th Open Championship.

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It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Warriors fans are still celebrating their team’s 2022 championship a month after they won the title.

But for one particular group, the title was a windfall that led to a grand trip – and had them showing their love for the Dubs in quite the Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group unusual place.

Seven Warriors fans Warriors fans get blanketed in confetti during the were spotted at the Old Championship Parade on Market Street in June.

Course in St. Andrew’s Klay Thompson, Draywearing matching yellow recent title.

Andrew Beliveau, who mond Green and the Kevon Looney throwback jerseys, with one lives in Minnesota, said 2021-22 Warriors that he of the fans telling Golf. he’s a diehard Warriors and some of his buddies com the jerseys were their fan that rarely misses a placed bets in Iowa on way of paying homage game. He was so confi- Golden State to win to their favorite team’s dent in Stephen Curry, the NBA title.

Open From Page B6 But at the same time I’m trying my hardest just to stay in my own little world because that’s the best way for me to get the best out of myself.”

The two Camerons atop the leaderboard after Friday couldn’t quite keep pace. Cameron Smith, who had been the solo leader, shot a one-over 73 that included a double bogey

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on 13. Cameron Young, who began the day two strokes behind Smith, double bogeyed 16.

It would take a meltdown at the top for a major winner such as Scottie Scheffler (minus11), Dustin Johnson (minus-10), Matthew Fitzpatrick (minus-9) or Jordan Spieth (minus-8) to move into contention.

But that’s far from out of the question at the Old Course, where fickle winds and weather can cause fortunes to shift in an instant.

Almanac

Statistics for Travis Air Force Base for yesterday through 5 p.m.

Temperature High/Low...........................102°/56° Average high .......................... 89.9° Average low............................ 57.7° A year ago............................ NA/NA Barometric pressure..............29.8 Humidity...................................10%

Air Quality Index 49 Precipitation 0-50 51-100 101-150 151-200 201-300 Last 24 hours................................0″ Good Unhealthy Unhealthy unhealthy Month-to-date.............................0″ Moderate sensitive Very Normal July rainfall ............... 0.04″ Source: Bay Area Air Quality Management District Season-to-date.......................... NA Normal seasonal rainfall....24.81″ UV Index This date last year...................... NA 9 Source: NWS and NOAA <2 3-5 6-7 8-10 11+ Good Moderate

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“I hit a lot of good putts out there – they’re just dodging the cup,” said Scheffler, who won this year’s Masters and was a runner-up at the U.S. Open. “Never know what can happen.”

Shane Lowry had backto-back eagles but faded with three bogeys on the back nine.

“It was a very emotional day,” he said. “I felt like through the middle of the front nine I was just going along OK, not doing anything great. Obviously 9 and 10 happened and I

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felt like I was in the tournament. And did well to play my way out of the tournament from there.”

McIlroy said his goal Sunday is to focus on himself.

“If I go out and I post a good number, I can’t worry about if it’s Viktor or if it’s the two Camerons, if it’s whoever it is,” he said. “I just have to do my thing. And I’ve been doing my thing for the last three days and it’s put me in a good position.”

beat. I think our league will be more competitive than it has been in a long time.”

Vanden not only has Dimes but many of its offensive linemen and running backs. The wide receiver core will be fairly new, but Brayden Chavez returns to lead the unit. The Vikings also have the bulk of their front seven on defense.

They just have a new group of talented youth athletes in the secondary.

“We’ve had really good numbers come out for conditioning,” Murphy said. “We’re excited for the upcoming season. Our defensive back coaches have been working really hard to get them ready for a trial by fire.”

Vanden is ready to build on what was the highest scoring team in city history. The defensive unit of 2021 was also well crafted to score points of its own and set up the offense for other scores.

The Vikings were a juggernaut in the playoffs with decisive wins over Dixon (61-0), Vista del Lago (6727), Merced (49-21) and

Expos From Page B6 Dichoso had two hits apiece. Aaron Strong, Kerr and Robles hit doubles, while Carrington delivered a triple.

Fairfield had fourrun innings in the second and fifth. They had threerun innings in the sixth and seventh.

Kerr pitched 6 2/3 innings, allow-

ing five hits and two earned runs with three strikeouts. Dayton Hicks got the final out with a strikeout.

In other games Thursday, Napa Valley beat Tomson Cabinetry 9-0, Yuba City rolled over Vallejo Post 550 17-7 and Petaluma defeated Humboldt 12-10.

On Friday, Petaluma beat Tomson 10-2, Yuba edged Chico 6-5 and Napa Valley held off Humboldt 9-8.

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Windsor (56-28). They rallied for two fourthquarter touchdowns that featured scoring connections between Dimes and receiver Jamai East t0 grab the title.

Murphy added to his responsibilities during the offseason when he was named the school’s new athletic director. He jokes that “you have to be careful what you ask for,” but said he loves the new responsibility and has been working alongside former AD Matthew Bidou, getting ready for the school year.

The offseason as athletic director has included the hiring of some new coaches and continuing a search for a swim coach, even though the school doesn’t have a pool.

“It’s still a little bittersweet,” Murphy said.

“I’ll only teach three classes instead of five and I love being in the classroom. Matt did such a great job. He was able to rebuild our weight room and I never thought that would happen. He’s still around helping me get acclimated to the position and I’m blessed to also have a great coaching staff. It’s very exciting to see where we are as an athletic department.”

Now it’s time to build new memories.

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