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FAIRFIELD — Police are searching for those responsible for a shooting late Friday that left one person dead and another person injured.

The shooting was reported at approximately 11:15 p.m. on the 1700 block of Enterprise Drive. Officers who arrived there found several people who were participating in the making of a music video.

Officers located one male who had been shot and died, according to a press release from the Police Department. Another male who had been shot was transported to a local hospital. His condition was not released other than to say he was stable.

Police did not release the name, age or city of residence for either of the two people who were shot.

This is the city’s sixth reported homicide of the year.

Anyone with information about the shooting Friday is asked to call the Fairfield Police Department’s Investigations Bureau at 707-428-7600.

Oak Fire explodes to 11,900 acres

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10 structures destroyed, thousands threatened Tribune Content Agency LOS ANGELES — A brush fire in Mariposa County showed extreme behavior as it exploded in size to 11,900 acres by Saturday evening, threatening thousands of homes and quickly becoming one of California’s largest wildfires of the year.

The Oak Fire, which started around 2 p.m.

Friday, was 0% contained as of 6:45 p.m. Saturday, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. The fire has destroyed 10 structures, damaged five and is threatening 2,000 more.

Areas under mandatory evacuation orders Friday night stretched for several miles, from the unincorporated community of Jerseydale south See Fire, Page A11

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A firefighter from San Luis Obispo maintains a perimeter watch around a burning shed in an effort to protect nearby homes on Triangle Road in Mariposa from the Oak Fire near Yosemite Park, Saturday.

Jeff Dunlap of Napa shows his grandson, Alden Kaiser, 2, some train parts during Family Fun Day at the Western Railway Museum, Saturday.

SUISUN CITY — Some families brought picnics to the annual Family Fun Day at the Western Railway Museum on Saturday.

Jeff Dunlap of Napa came out with other family members to celebrate his grandson’s birthday. Alden Kaiser, 2, will turn 3 on Monday but he got an early birthday party at the museum this weekend.

“We wanted to do something fun,” Dunlap said.

Marciel and Daniel Kinsella came over from Benicia with their 2-year-old son, Hunter, to ride a train.

“These two love trains,” Marciel Kinsella said, pointing to her husband and son.

They came out to the museum for the first time last year and realized how much See Railway, Page A11

Supervisors consider formalizing proposed ‘fire tax’ ballot measure Todd R. Hansen THANSEN@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET

FAIRFIELD — The Solano County supervisors on Tuesday will consider introducing the ordinance to place a one-eighth cent, countywide sales tax on the Nov. 8 ballot.

The board, on a 4-1 vote with Supervisor Erin Hannigan dissenting, has already approved putting the tax before the voters.

The resolution introducing the measure states that the county recognizes the grand jury’s call for additional wildfire pro-

tection funding, but also notes there is “little discretional funds available to address such needs as additional wildfire protection services.”

“Solano County can better meet the needs of its population with an additional local source of revenue to fund essential County services . . . a (one-eighth percent) countywide general transactions and use tax (sales tax) would generate an estimated $9 million annually . . . 100% of funds from a local sales tax would remain here in Solano County, overseen by a citi-

zens’ oversight committee, with annual independent audits, and no funds could be taken by the state.” the resolution said.

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Coffee a miraculous life extender, even if you use sweetener

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offee makes you determined to be live forever! life-extending.

That was a The study determined (semi-) logical reacthat of the slightly more tion to a study out of than 170,000 people folEngland, published in lowed for over a decade, the Annals of Internal those who consumed Medicine (slogan: Don’t moderate amounts of forget the second “n” coffee (for my purposes, in the first word of our Brad Stanhope I’ll define “moderate” title!) that concluded Like I was sayin’ as two or three cups a that moderate consumpday. Maybe four. Or tion of coffee – either with or five in a bad day. But rarely six, without sugar – was associated although maybe sometimes. with decreased mortality.

Put simply: People who drink But hardly ever seven.) died at a lower rate of common causes coffee live longer than those when the data was adjusted for (losers) who don’t. lifestyle, sociodemographic and Great news, right?

Well, maybe. Because I don’t clinical factors.

Yes. Coffee is the drink coffee black and I don’t anti-cigarette. drink coffee with sugar.

While anyone who smokes I drink coffee with artificial sweetener and that wasn’t is more likely to die of virtually

every cause (including catching your body on fire while trying to light a cigarette while weaving in and out of traffic), the study indicates that moderate consumption of coffee with or without sugar makes you less likely to die of everything (including the aforementioned body-on-fire scenario, since you’d likely have coffee with you to put out the inferno).

However, as mentioned earlier, it isn’t so clear for those of us who use artificial sweeteners. According to the study’s authors, “the association between artificially sweetened coffee and mortality was less consistent.” Their conclusion was that it was difficult to know whether artificially sweetened coffee corresponded with

longer life.

Come on, man!

Many of us who drink coffee with artificial sweeteners have no other choice. I’m a Type 1 diabetic (something I’ve bored long-time readers with over the decades), so my choice for coffee is to drink it black (or only with cream) or with sweetener. Since the only people I know who drink black coffee are cops on TV shows and people born before 1930, it’s really a choice between drinking coffee with sweetener or not drinking coffee.

Is that really a choice? Again, come on, man!

I’m going to go ahead and take it on faith that it’s likely that coffee makes you live longer even if it includes artifi-

How Covid-19 pandemic changed California State Fair for farmers

cial sweeteners.

I say that because that would be good news for me because if I had to stop drinking coffee (and believe me, if I had to drink it black, I would quit), I would likely die sooner.

If for no other reason, because I might take up smoking. And how long would it be before I’d catch my body on fire while trying to light a cigarette while weaving in and out of traffic, without a coffee to douse the flame? Not very long.

Here’s the bottom line: Drinking coffee extends your life, because even in the worstcase scenario, it can work as a fire retardant.

Coffee: The wonder drug.

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Tribune Content Agency The California State Fair returned in full force this summer for the first time in three years, but participating farmers are still feeling the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The State Fair offers livestock shows and competitions throughout its 17-day run, showcasing animals that range from guinea pigs to 2,000-pound cattle. The livestock available for view rotate based on the fair’s show schedule, with several groups of animals typically on display in the Livestock Pavilion on any given day.

For returning farmers, the fair typically means reuniting with the same cohort of family farmers year over year. Goat farmer Dylan Howell compared the social scene among farmers to the 2000 mockumentary “Best in Show,” adding that while everyone generally gets along well, “occasionally you get those crazy goat moms.”

“We all know each other,” Howell said. “Both of our daughters grew up showing in 4-H. They’ve grown up, and we’re still here. It’s something to look forward to in the summers.”

But this year, as the fair returns from the Covid-19 pandemic, several returning farmers told the Bee that many faces are missing.

Natalie Reis, 35, has been showing cattle at the fair since she was five years old, and said that even some of the families who have been coming to the fair for as long as she has did not return after the pandemic.

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Sarah Leeman, 13, of Rio Linda, plays a video game on her phone while talking to her favorite white pig as she waits to show her in competition during the State Fair at Cal Expo, July 12, 2015.

Reis said. “I think it’s not just Covid, it’s everything else going on. A lot of people are not going to sell cows because of the drought, and you can’t buy hay because it’s so expensive because of fuel.

It’s just a combination of everything.”

Goat farmer Jean Davis noticed a similar phenomenon, pointing to stalls of the barn that have been filled with goats in past years and now stand empty, as fewer farmers return.

Where there used to be a row of Nigerian Dwarf goat farmers, Davis said, there are now only five.

The absence of inperson fairs over the Covid-19 pandemic has also taken its toll on returning farmers. Cattle farmer Linda Hill said cows that typically become exposed to strangers during a circuit of county fairs are now coming into the State Fair without experience being around people.

“There’s been very little going on,” Hill said. “Some of the (cattle shows) were able to go along with Covid but a lot of them had to drop off because all the fairgrounds were closed down. It’s just been kind of Covid-chaotic.”

If the State Fair hopes to return the number of participating farmers to pre-pandemic levels, Reis said, it must prioritize making the experience “exhibitor-friendly.”

Exhibitors at the fair receive two complimentary tickets, Reis said, but because she brings four cows, she has to pay out of pocket for the staff she brings to help take care of them and the costs of showing livestock adds up.

“That’s why the barn is empty,” Reis said. “If we’re going to spend $5,000 dollars between the hotel and the fuel and all that to go to a show, I’m going to choose the ones that they want me to be at.”

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Najwa Chaar trims gyro meat at the Athenian Grill in Suisun City, Friday. Despite 1,400 new local jobs in Solano

County, including 400 in area restaurants, unemployment increased to 4% in June.

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FAIRFIELD — The unemployment rate in Solano County climbed to 4% in June despite a report of 1,400 more local jobs.

The unemployment rate in May was 3.5% in Solano County.

The Labor Market Division of the state Employment Development Department reported that there were 139,200 jobs in the county during June, up from May’s report of 137,800 jobs.

The Leisure & Hospitality Sector accounted for 500 of the jobs – with Accommodation & Food Services up 500, and Food Services & Drinking Places and restaurants each adding 400 jobs.

The losses were recorded across the larger Private Service sector, under which Leisure & Hospitality falls.

Farm sector added 100 jobs, as did construc-

Shelly Kontogiannis, second from right, gathers her employees in a circle before the Athenian Grill in Suisun City opens, Friday. tion and manufacturing, the EDD report states.

Government added 200 jobs with gains reported in the cities and the county, and losses at the state level, including education.

The state and national unemployment rates also went up, from 3.5% to 4% for California, and 3.4% to 3.8% at the national level, the EDD reported.

Solano’s civilian labor force went from 199,200 in May to

199,500 in June when there were 191,500 residents employed – compared to 192,200 in May – while 8,000 residents sought unemployment benefits compared to 7,000 in May, the EDD reported.

Solano ranked 33rd among the state’s 58 counties, with San Mateo reporting the lowest unemployment rate at 2%. Imperial County had the highest at 13%.

Solano had the highest rate among the nine Bay

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VACAVILLE — The City Council will consider Tuesday night whether to approve a disposition, development and loan agreement with Solano-Napa Habitat for Humanity for affordable housing on city property at Scroggins Court and East Monte Vista Avenue.

As currently proposed, there would be nine parcels featuring 14 resident units. All nine would be sold to households earning at or below 80% of the area median income.

On April 12, the council approved $1 million in American Rescue Plan Act Funds toward affordable housing. This contract with Habitat would be for $300,000.

If approved by council, Habitat will complete predevelopment work, begin the formal entitlement process and offer public outreach and engagement to inform the community of the project.

Habitat is an independent affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International, founded in 1976. Habitat for Humanity International has helped more than 39 million people construct, rehabilitate, or preserve their homes around the world through their affiliates.

The local Habitat was founded in 1991 and has completed more than 50 house builds or repair projects in Solano and Napa counties. Four of the houses were built in Vacaville. Habitat’s model works to reach lower-income earners that are outpriced by current market conditions.

With local jurisdiction support and homeowners contributing “sweat equity,” and using vol-

unteers during the construction of their own home, overall costs are lower, enabling lowincome households to obtain homeownership and begin to build wealth.

Housing and Community Services staff reviewed the application submitted by Habitat.

Staff has reached a tentative agreement with Habitat on the terms and Tuesday will seek See Housing, Page A4

Area counties. The next closest was Contra Costa at 3.2%, the EDD reported.

VACAVILLE — The Hometown Hero banners will be on display in the city, again, starting July 28.

“I’m proud to see our veteran and active military members now honored through the Hometown Hero banners,” Mike Little, the past commander of VFW Post 7244, said in a statement released by the city on Friday.

“It has been great working with the city of Vacaville councilmembers, city staff and PG&E to make this once again an opportunity to show our gratitude for those who have served.

As a veteran myself, I’m honored to be a small part in recognizing others for their service to our great nation,” Little added.

The Hometown Hero Banner pilot program started in 2019 and was previously located on Peabody Road, which connects residents to Travis Air Force Base.

However, high winds made the location difficult, so the banners are being relocated to Merchant Street near the Vacaville Veterans Memorial building where the group involved in the program recently met to announce the change and to ensure the banners will fly prior to Memorial Day.

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T h e H o m e t ow n H e r o Banner pilot program started in 2019.

Family members nominate individuals who are from Vacaville who have served or are serving in the armed forces.

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Leslie Rosenberger

Aug. 10, 1943 — Aug. 3, 2020

Burial service to be held at 9 a.m.

Monday, Aug. 1, 2022, at the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery, 5810 Midway Road, Dixon, California. Followed by a potluck reception from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at The Moose Lodge, 6585 Gibson Canyon Road, Vacaville, California.

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FAIRFIELD — Cadets from the 2022 Explorer Academy recently graduated from the program during a ceremony held last weekend at the Art Koch Training Facility.

The Fairfield Police Department hosted the event, which also included cadets from the Vacaville Police Department, Solano County Sheriff’s Office and the Antioch Police Department.

Twenty-two cadets successfully graduated from the four-day academy during a ceremony on July 17. Fairfield Police Chief Deanna Cantrell was the guest speaker.

“Started in 2017 as an annual event and designed to serve as a miniature police academy, interested youth gain insight into the criminal justice system through training, practical experiences, competition and other activities,” a statement released Friday by the Fairfield Police Department said. “The academy also promotes personal growth through character development, respect for the rule of law, physical fitness, good cit-

Sally Green

Sept. 9, 1943 — Oct. 16, 2020

Burial service to be held at 9 a.m.

Monday, Aug. 1, 2022, at the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery, 5810 Midway Road, Dixon, California. Followed by a potluck reception from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at The Moose Lodge, 6585 Gibson Canyon Road, Vacaville, California.

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FAIRFIELD — Rep. John Garamendi helped secure $32 million Friday for local transportation, affordable housing, drinking water improvement and flood control projects as part of a government funding package for fiscal year 2022-23.

The legislation passed the U.S. House of Representatives by a vote of 220 to 207 and now heads to the U.S. Senate for consideration.

Garamendi, D-Walnut Grove, added the funding for these local projects to the legislation as Community Project Funding requests, a new initiative that allows members of Congress to request direct funding for important projects in their districts.

“I was pleased to vote for this strong government funding package, which includes much-needed federal support to bolster

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Cadets from the 2022 Explorer Academy recently graduated from the program during a ceremony that took place last weekend at the Art Koch Training Facility. izenship and patriotism.

Those accepted into the academy range in age from 14 to 18.”

The cadets’ days were spent on “physical fitness training, team

building exercises and drills in addition to the practical portion of the curriculum.”

The academy was held July 14-17, with the cadets staying overnight at the

range facility.

BayNorth Church of Christ helped pay for the sleeping mats. Food was provided by the participating agencies.

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Tom Hoover, 83, left this world on June 14, 2022, at his home in Stockton, California. He was born in Los Banos, California.

Tom participated fully in life, continued to work well past retirement age and regularly traveled to hunt and visit the many friends he made throughout the years. Tom was well-known in the duck hunting community of California and was a wetland specialist, having worked for over 30 years on Grizzly Island for Wetland Construction of Fairfield.

Tom was a loving father, grandfather, husband and friend. He will be missed.

He is survived by his wife of 38 years, Carolyn; his daughters; grandchildren; and great-grandchildren.

Service will be held at 11:45 a.m. Friday, July 22, 2022, at the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery, 5810 Midway Road, Dixon, California, with Jim Knoll officiating.

In lieu of flowers, please consider planting a tree for future generations to enjoy.

affordable housing, transportation, drinking water, and flood control throughout our Congressional District,” Garamendi said in a press release. “This legislation will address some of the most urgent challenges facing our communities and ensure that hardworking families across America have the support and care they need. I urge this legislation’s passage in the U.S. Senate, and I will continue to work tirelessly until it becomes law.”

The Interstate 505/ Vaca Valley Parkway Corridor Multi-Modal Improvements Projects in Vacaville would receive $4 million. This would help the Solano Transportation Authority make improvements along the Vaca Valley Parkway corridor from west of the East Monte Vista Avenue/ Crocker Drive intersection to east of the northbound on/off ramps with I-505.

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Fairfield Planning Commission going to school FAIRFIELD — The city planning commissioners are set to be schooled on development permitting and the California Environmental Quality Act when they meet Wednesday.

The City Attorney’s Office is providing the tutelage. The commission also will select a new chair and vice chair.

The meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. in the council chamber at City Hall, 1000 Webster St. The public can also access the meeting at https:// fairfieldca.zoom.us/j/97065607498?pwd=a1dnaVY2UzF INU4xaU5sS0FET09qZz09; it will be streamed live at www.youtube.com/user/FFCATV/live; and available by calling 408-638 0968. The Meeting ID is 970 6560 7498.

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Benicia council, planners to discuss housing BENICIA — A joint meeting of the City Council and Planning Commission has been scheduled for Tuesday to receive a presentation on the city’s general plan Housing Element.

The video conference meeting is set for 6 p.m.

The agenda and various ways the public can access the meeting is available at www.ci.benicia. ca.us/agendas.

This project diesel bus fleet would replace with battery-electwo signals and tric buses, taking a stop-controlled delivery of four intersection with additional batterythe construction of electric commuter three, coordinated coaches, reducroundabouts.

It ing noise pollution will also help build and emission of new pedestrian GARAMENDI greenhouse gas. and bicycle access.

Some $750,000 would The access to Travis go to affordable housing Air Force Base and Canon in Vacaville. This would Road Safety Improvebuild 14 new affordable ments has also received $4 million. It would con- residential units in Vacavstruct a four-lane arterial ille for individuals and roadway at the intersec- families making between tion of Vanden Road that 50% and 80% of the area includes a future grade median income.

Drinking water would separation to replace the existing two-lane, at-grade be improved in Solano crossing. The project County, according to Garalso includes the instal- amendi’s legislation, and lation of complete street the supply from the improvements, consist- Quail Canyon Improveing of sidewalks, bike ment District with federal lanes, landscaping and funding of $2.8 million. streetlights.

Quail Canyon is one of SolTrans would receive nine small rural public $2 million for battery elec- water systems throughtric buses. This would out the county that Solano allow Solano County Transit to replace its aging See Funding, Page A5

‘The Godfather’ star Caan’s cause of death revealed Tribune Content Agency James Caan’s cause of death has been confirmed, just weeks after the beloved actor’s sudden death.

The Bronx, New Yorkborn Oscar-nominated “Godfather” star died from a heart attack and coronary artery disease, according to his death certificate obtained by TMZ. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and congestive heart failure also afflicted the “Misery” actor, according to the outlet.

Caan died July 6 at the age of 82.

Multiple famous friends, including co-stars from “The Godfather,” came out to mourn the actor after his unexpected passing.

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tional brother and my lifelong friend,” said Al Pacino, who starred as Michael Corleone in the 1972 cinematic staple opposite Caan’s Sonny. Pacino remembered Caan as “a great actor, a brilliant director and my dear friend. I’m gonna miss him.”

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 favorite sports 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.

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The council will also consider approving the Trower Park modified master plan and the allocation of an additional $700,000 of Measure M funding for party amenity improvements.

Vacaville’s City Council meets in the council chamber in City Hall, 650 Merchant St., beginning at 6 p.m.

From Page A3 final approval from the council.

Among other items on the agenda, the council will consider authorizing the city manager to execute a purchase agreement with Walker Telecomm, Inc. for the installation of parking

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Marine stabs pregnant ex-wife to death on busy Hawaii highway Tribune Content Agency A Marine allegedly stabbed his pregnant ex-wife to death following an argument on a bustling Hawaii highway – even as passersby and commuters hopped out of their own vehicles and desperately tried to stop him.

Dana Alotaibi had opened up about the alleged abuse she’d faced in her marriage on social media before she was murdered on the H-3 Freeway on Wednesday night. Witnesses driving by at the time, several of who stopped in a bid to intervene, told authorities they “observed a male standing over a female, stabbing her multiple times,” Deena Thoemmes, homicide lieutenant of the Honolulu Police Department’s criminal investigation division said in a press conference on Thursday.

The suspect, identified as Bryant Tejeda-Castillo, then turned the knife on himself before fleeing into a nearby wooded area, according to police.

One witness, who wanted to remain anonymous, told KITV4 he “froze out of fear and shock,” but watched while others attempted to perform CPR in a bid to revive 27-yearold Alotaibi.

“It was just her face, she just looked past the point of no return, you know,” he told the outlet.

“Could you imagine being stabbed in the neck and then watching as your life just literally leaks out of you, and everyone around you either doesn’t know what to do, or is too shocked to do anything about it? I couldn’t imagine that.”

Responding officers with the Honolulu Police Department located Tejeda-Castillo hiding in some brush nearby. As they approached, he again started using the same knife to stab himself before he was taken into custody.

Tejeda-Castillo is facing a charge of second-degree murder and

is being treated at a Hawaii hospital for selfinflicted injuries.

Alotaibi was also rushed to the a hospital in critical condition, but she was pronounced dead a short time later.

Her friends said she was expecting a baby with her new boyfriend and had plans to move back to Virginia. She was about 13 weeks pregnant at the time of her death.

“It has been determined that the victim and the male were married, and had recently been going through marital problems,” Thoemmes told reporters. “At the time of the incident, they were arguing before he stabbed her multiple times that caused her fatal injuries.”

In November, TejedaCastillo filed for divorce, and it was ultimately granted by a court last month, friends said.

They’d been married for three years.

In a series of videos shared on YouTube in recent months, Alotaibi detailed for viewers the abuse she’d faced in her marriage, claiming her husband hit her, pulled her hair, choked her, cheated on her and even threatened to kill her. In one clip, she can be seen sobbing in a call to the National Suicide Prevention Hotline, according to Hawaii News Now. She complains to the operator about how the military has provided her little assistance despite her repeated reports of domestic violence and infidelity.

“It’s haunting me, like, all the incidents that he’s hit me and done horrible things to me,” she says.

“Even when I reached out for help, like nothing was done at all. And I’m thinking like, what can I do, why is he so untouchable?”

“Why isn’t he getting jail time? Why isn’t he getting demoted in rank?

Why isn’t he getting kicked out?” Alotaibi adds.

Tejeda-Castillo, assigned to the Marines’ 3rd Littoral Combat Team, was being held on $1 million bail.

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FAIRFIELD — Mount Calvary Baptist Church will host its annual Super Dynamic Backpack and School Supply Drive in August.

The event will be a drive-thru pickup from

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The reactivation would support work by a broad coalition of landowners, water suppliers, local governments, academic institutions, environmental non-governmental organizations, and the state to implement costshared, nature-based solutions to reactivate floodplains, provide fish rearing habitat, generate fish food, improve fish passage, and enhance overall ecosystem function while maintaining farming, flood protection, and managed wetland operations.

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Post-Roe, many autoimmune patients lose access to ‘gold standard’ drug Tribune Content Agency Six days after the Supreme Court struck down the right to abortion, lupus patient Becky Schwarz got an unexpected message from her rheumatologist.

“This is a notice to let you know that we are pausing all prescriptions and subsequent refills of methotrexate,” the message read. “This decision has been made in response to the reversal of Roe v. Wade.”

Schwarz was stunned.

Methotrexate is a cheap, common drug prescribed to millions of Americans.

Like her, many have rheumatic illnesses. Others take it to treat inflammatory bowel disease, psoriasis or cancer.

Yet few are aware that it is used off-label to end ectopic pregnancies, or that it could be restricted by doctors or pharmacists even in states like Virginia that do not ban abortion.

The reasons are numerous, and muddy.

In Texas, dispensing methotrexate to someone who uses it to induce a miscarriage after 49 days of gestation is a felony; that makes pharmacists hesitant to fill such prescriptions for almost anyone with a uterus. A new total ban on abortion in Tennessee will effectively criminalize any

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Sarah Blahovec of Alexandria, Va., has Crohn’s disease and is waiting to see whether her methotrexate prescription will be refilled in the coming weeks. medication that could disrupt pregnancy past the point of fertilization, with strict exceptions for a patient who will otherwise die. And in Virginia, confusion over rules about who is permitted to prescribe drugs “qualified as abortifacients” may be blocking access to the medication.

“That’s what was shocking to me,” said Schwarz, a 27-year-old who lives in Tysons Corner, Virginia. “In a state where I thought I was relatively protected regardless of what the Supreme Court decided, I found out I wasn’t.”

Methotrexate was originally developed as a

chemotherapy agent more than 60 years ago. But in low doses, it has proved to be one of the safest, least expensive and most effective treatments for roughly a dozen autoimmune conditions, from juvenile idiopathic arthritis to Crohn’s disease.

“It’s one of the most common medications that I prescribe,” said Dr. Grant Schulert, a pediatric rheumatology specialist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. “It’s really a mainstay of our practice.”

Indeed, methotrexate was first approved to treat rheumatic illnesses in 1959, before Schulert was born and almost 15 years

before Roe v. Wade was decided.

Since its reversal, many patients have been delayed or denied this “gold-standard” treatment for conditions that have nothing to do with pregnancy.

“I have gotten some reports where children have been denied methotrexate for their juvenile arthritis until they’ve proven they’re not pregnant,” said Dr. Cuoghi Edens, an assistant professor of internal medicine and pediatrics at University of Chicago Medicine and a rheumatology expert who treats See Drug, Page A6

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Pope heads to Canada with apology on agenda The Washington Post TORONTO — Pope Francis on Sunday is scheduled to begin a visit to Canada, where he will come face-to-face with one of the country’s core tragedies: the often-abusive residential schools, run with the help of the Catholic Church, designed to extinguish Indigenous culture and family ties.

This long-awaited trip is unlike any other in papal history: Expressing remorse is its primary purpose.

Francis has faced calls throughout his papacy to apologize in Canada for the church’s role in the residential school system, but pressure grew in the past year as several Indigenous groups said ground-penetrating radar had uncovered evidence of hundreds of unmarked graves at or near the sites of former schools.

The findings spurred a national reckoning over Canada’s treatment of Indigenous people and diminished the church’s reputation here. After resisting calls for an apology, Francis told an Indigenous delegation at the Vatican in April that he was “sorry” for the behavior of “a number of Catholics” and intended

Drug From Page A5 adults and children.

In one case, a pharmacist initially refused to dispense methotrexate to an 8-year-old girl in Texas. In a note the child’s doctor shared with Edens, the pharmacist wrote, “Females of possible child bearing potential have to have diagnosis on hard copy with state abortion laws.”

Methotrexate is a folate antagonist, which can cause miscarriage at high doses. Although it is not used in medication abortion, it is the preferred treatment for ectopic pregnancy, a rapidly fatal complication that affects about 100,000 patients per year in the U.S. In an ectopic pregnancy, the fertilized egg never reaches the uterus and instead implants, for example, in the fallopian tube. Such pregnancies are always fatal for the fetus and can also kill the mother.

Those patients represent about 2% of the 5 million Americans who take methotrexate. Yet this uncommon, off-label use is the basis for tight new restrictions on a medication that is disproportionately prescribed to women and girls of reproductive age.

“The majority of rheumatic diseases affect females at substantially higher rates than males,” Edens explained. “The prevalence of rheumatoid arthritis in women to men is 3-to-1. For lupus it’s 10-to-1. And so rheumatology is a very female-predominate patient population.”

Such patients take a far lower dose of methotrexate than is used to treat ectopic pregnancy or breast cancer. Most are counseled to use contraceptives, and to switch to alternative treatments if they seek to get pregnant.

Nevertheless, some doctors have already stopped prescribing methotrexate rather than risk falling afoul of antiabortion laws.

Many pharmacists have likewise refused to fill methotrexate prescriptions, or have demanded additional proof before dispensing the medication to patients they believe could get pregnant.

Experts say it’s not clear yet how many

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Pope Francis arrives for the weekly general audience at St. Peter’s square in The Vatican, June 15. to visit Canada.

Randy Ermineskin, chief of the Ermineskin Cree Nation in Alberta, said he hopes the pope’s remarks bring healing.

“We want the truth about what happened at these schools to be shared to the public,” he said. “Everyone needs to know what happened to us, and that it will never happen again.”

Beginning in the 19th century, at least 150,000 Indigenous children were separated from their families, sometimes forcibly, to attend residential schools, which were funded by the government and run by churches. The last school closed in the 1990s. patients will lose access to their medication in the wake of the Supreme Court decision, or even which states might try to limit it.

That’s led to panic for many patients who rely on the drug.

“The biggest thing that right now I’m hearing is just a lot of fear of what is going to happen next,” said Schulert. “Even in patients who are doing well who stop a medication, about half will flare their disease in six to 12 months.”

Without methotrexate, many of Schulert’s juvenile idiopathic arthritis patients could no longer hold a pencil or type on a computer. Others face irreversible damage to organs and joints.

“Patients are saying, ‘I’ve been on this medication for years, I’m finally feeling like myself again, I don’t want to have to switch,’” said Zoe Rothblatt, a community outreach manager at the Global Healthy Living Foundation, a patient advocacy organization.

“It’s the gold standard, and we need to get the word out so people aren’t scared and they’re able to get their medication.”

Methotrexate belongs to a class of medications called “disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs,” or DMARDS, that also includes the anti-malarial medication hydroxychloroquine, which former President Donald Trump touted as a treatment for Covid-19.

Some lupus patients were switched to methotrexate from hydroxychloroquine in the

By all indications, they were schools in name only. Children were punished harshly for speaking their native languages and practicing their traditions, and many of them suffered neglect and sexual, psychological and physical abuse.

Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission concluded in a 2015 report that the residential school system perpetrated a “cultural genocide,” leaving deep wounds and intergenerational trauma within Indigenous families that traces across Canada.

The commission devoted much of its report to unmarked burial sites and children who went early months of the pandemic, when the federal government briefly stockpiled the drug. Now, they fear having to scramble to find a new alternative their body will tolerate and their insurance will cover.

That’s because methotrexate isn’t just effective.

It’s also extremely cheap.

Many chain pharmacies charge less than $10 to fill a typical monthly prescription of the round yellow or orange pills.

“Methotrexate is often a first medication that a person has to use before they can go on to the next step of medication called biologics,” Edens said.

“There’s a reason why it’s recommended first, and that’s because it works.”

When DMARDs fail, biologics can be equally or even more effective for treating illnesses such as lupus, ulcerative colitis and psoriasis. But most are new, patent-protected drugs delivered via IV infusion at a medical center. They cost thousands of times more.

“We spend a fair amount of uncompensated time fighting with insurance companies for those even when they’re approved,” said Schulert.

“Even if the financial cost is not large to patients, if they have good insurance coverage, there’s a lot of worry of ‘Will it get approved?’ and they have to reapprove it every year.”

Biologics also carry risks that DMARDs don’t, including a rare but serious risk of opportunistic infections.

That’s what happened to Sarah Blahovec of Alexandria, Virginia, a

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missing at the schools.

It identified 3,200 children who died, a figure that has grown since publication. The rate was higher than for non-Indigenous children.

Children died of disease, by suicide, in accidents or while trying to escape. Sometimes, neither the government nor the school recorded the names of students who died or reported deaths to their families. Many children were not returned home and were buried in unmarked graves.

Most of the schools were run by Catholic entities. Among the commission’s 94 calls to action was a formal papal apology on Canadian soil.

Francis is the first pope to travel to Canada since Pope John Paul II’s visit in 2002 for World Youth Day, which included an outdoor Mass at a Toronto park that drew several hundred thousand pilgrims. This trip will have a different tenor.

Papal apologies are hardly novel, and they’ve addressed past errors specific and vast, including the sins of colonialism and church discrimination against women. But when such apologies have come during foreign visits – like John Paul

II, in Cameroon in 1985, apologizing for white Christian involvement in the slave trade – they’ve been tucked into otherwise standard papal programs of celebration and meet-and-greets.

The trip to Canada has much less pomp: “A penitential pilgrimage,” Francis recently called it.

Over six days, Francis has at least five scheduled meetings with Indigenous groups, and he is expected to issue a series of remorseful messages, not just one, including on Monday after visiting the former site of the Ermineskin Residential School in Maskwacis, Alberta.

Though he arrives on a Sunday, Francis will not publicly celebrate Mass until Tuesday. Rev. Cristino Bouvette, the national liturgical director for the visit, said that was deliberate.

“I think he’s signaling that he’s come with a mission in mind and that is to encounter Indigenous people on their land,” said Bouvette, a priest whose grandmother was a residential school survivor, “and to extend that symbolic olive branch in the hope of reconciliation. . . . What he’s coming here to do is quite specific.”

Crohn’s disease patient who is waiting to see if her methotrexate prescription will be refilled in the coming weeks.

“I’ve tried all the options,” she said. “Anything weaker, I’ll go out of remission. And anything stronger, I’ll get these infections.”

That’s part of what

makes the legal chaos around methotrexate so distressing, even to patients who still have access to the drug.

“All medicines are not created equal,” Edens explained. “Some of our medicines don’t work as well as methotrexate. Other medications also have side effects that

WHO chief declares monkeypox emergency Tribune Content Agency The monkeypox outbreak is a public health emergency of international concern, the head of the World Health Organization said, overruling a divided expert panel to issue the group’s highest alert.

The move paves the way for stepped-up global cooperation to stop the virus, which has spread to dozens of countries. The last time the WHO made a similar declaration was during the early stages of the Covid-19 outbreak in January 2020.

Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus personally intervened after nine members of the expert committee were against declaring the monkeypox outbreak an emergency, while six were in favor.

Tedros and the health organization had faced criticism in some quarters that they acted too slowly to ratchet up the alarms on Covid.

“We have an outbreak that has spread around the world rapidly through new modes of transmission,” he said during a press briefing in Geneva on Saturday. patients are not able to tolerate, or they interact with other medications that they have to take.”

For such complex patients, even a delay in their medication can make them sicker.

“As a physician I took an oath to do no harm,” Edens said. “To me, this is doing harm.”

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But the City Beautiful might have another claim to fame that’s more perspiratory than aspirational.

Orlando has been named the “sweatiest city in America,” according to a study from MyDatingAdviser. com. Based on data from America’s 200 largest metro areas, Florida has four of the 10 sweatiest cities in the entire country, including Tallahassee, Cape Coral and Jacksonville.

The ranking considers factors such as the number of days above 90 degrees, population density, availability of air conditioning and bodies of water to cool down.

According to this survey, factors working in favor of Orlando sweat include an average summer temperature of 83.5 degrees Fahrenheit, a relative humidity in July of 78% and 97 days in a year that reach above 90 degrees. In addition, the exercise rate of the City Beautiful population is 50.6% and our population density is more than 2,600 people per square mile.

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The homeless industrial complex comes under scrutiny R

ecently, a Solano County civil grand jury investigating homelessness in Solano County opined that added monetary expenditures might serve to fund the “homeless industrial complex.”

President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned Americans of the “military industrial complex” during his presidency.

Scott Anderson Eisenhower Ask Dr. Scott warned of a troubling alliance between the military and private industry. Eisenhower’s military history lent authority to his words. He knew whereof he spoke.

Similar concerns have been voiced in other spheres of academia, government and industry.

Consider, for example, the socalled prison industrial complex, fostering higher incarceration rates, or the medical industrial complex, fostering more use of health care resources and pharmaceutical agents. Animal rights activists decry the animal industrial complex, leading to breeding of livestock for human consumption.

More whimsical terms include wedding/marriage industrial complex (shunning inexpensive weddings), celebrity industrial complex (fostering star-obsessed journalism) and even a baby industrial complex (fostering expensive diapers). The poverty industrial complex impacts homelessness.

We encounter encampments along interstate freeways, under overpasses and next to on-ramps and off-ramps. It is clearly unhealthy to camp out by a freeway, given the noise, pollution, dust and lack of personal security. I am amazed that such encampments are not cleared

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A homeless man sleeps near the entrance to Allan Witt Park on West Texas Street in Fairfield, Oct. 8. away by law enforcement for public safety reasons. I notice more pedestrians walking along freeways, near tent cities. Homelessness encampments are the new normal in the Golden State.

Is this sad situation reasonably attributable to inadequate public funding?

Todd R. Hansen, writing in the Daily Republic, noted homelessness has been described as a “billion-dollar industry,” incentivized toward allowing the problem to persist, if I may paraphrase. Indeed, San Francisco alone has spent nearly $3 billion on the problem since 2016. The grand jury recommended holding private shelters accountable for quality and quantity of services.

A total of 14 specific findings, with recommendations, were issued by the grand jury.

Edward Ring has written about the homeless industrial complex for the California Policy Center. The term has been around for about a decade, at least. Governmental programs, homelessness nonprofits, contracting construction companies and real estate developers perpetuate the homelessness crisis

by charging fees or constructing so-called “bridge housing” or “supportive housing” at inflated prices. Ring notes, “Government funded programs are rarely considered bargains.”

Solano County, according to data available online, reported 1,151 people as homeless in 2019, with 900 lacking shelter. About a third are in Vallejo and a third are in Fairfield, with 11% in Vacaville and 10% in unincorporated areas, according to Kevin W. Green’s description of the problem in this paper.

The Board of Supervisors has lamented this problem. Lack of affordable housing is cited as a major cause, although drug use, alcoholism and mental illness are clearly major contributing factors as well.

Has the homeless industrial complex served our nation well in fighting the scourge of homelessness? The federal government gives housing assistance through the Section 8 housing program, spending more than $19 billion annually on fighting homelessness. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, the rate of homelessness ticked

down from 18.3 per 10,000 people in 2015 to 17.7 per 10,000 in 2016. The economic dislocation due to the Covid-19 pandemic led to enormous government “stimulus” expenditures to help out-of-work Americans. Time will tell what impact these public policy decisions had on homelessness rates.

The NCSL reports lifetime homelessness rates of 4% in Italy, 3.4% in Belgium, 2.4% in Germany and 6.2% in America. On the other hand, European youth may not leave home. According to the European Union, 39% of young adults live with at least one parent. In Denmark, 4% of those between age 25 and 29 qualified. In Croatia, by contrast, the figure was 75%. Cultural factors may be relevant considerations. Economic imperatives, no doubt, also influence individual housing outcomes.

Scott T. Anderson, M.D. (standerson@ucdavis.edu), is a clinical professor at the University of California Davis Medical School. This column is informational and does not constitute medical advice.

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New attack on Proposition 13 involves racial inequity

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t’s amazing, in a way, that as California’s politics drifted leftward over the past several decades, the iconic symbol of its once-conservative mien, Proposition 13, has remained intact.

Overwhelmingly passed by voters in 1978, Proposition 13 froze property tax rates (1% plus bonds) and limited the growth of taxable values to 2% a year as long as property did not change hands. It also made it more difficult to enact new taxes of any kind, either by politicians or voters.

Like all tax policies, ProposiDan Walters tion 13’s provisions were arbitrary.

With property tax bills soaring at the time due to high inflation, anti-tax gadflies Howard Jarvis and Paul Gann, saw an opportunity and took it, overcoming fierce opposition from leaders of both political parties and those who disliked the notion of tax and spending limits.

Proposition 13’s critics widely assumed that it would be temporary because either the courts would invalidate the measure or voters would repeal it. Neither happened. Both the state Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court upheld its constitutional validity and in subsequent years, voters bolstered its provisions.

The state’s leftward turn in the last quarter-century has spawned new efforts by those who detest Proposition 13 – public employee unions and other advocates of additional spending – to modify or repeal it, but so far they have been unsuccessful.

Opponents believed that the most salable change would be to remove property tax limits on commercial property, while leaving them in place for houses and other residential property.

They chose 2020’s presidential election, with an anticipated heavy turnout of anti-Donald Trump Democratic voters, as the most favorable venue.

However, they couldn’t make the sale for a “split roll” and Proposition 15 was defeated, albeit not by a wide margin.

So what’s next in the perpetual battle over Proposition 13?

Last month, some left-of-center academics ginned up a new study framing Proposition 13 as a racist tool because white and Asian homeowners allegedly receive disproportionately high benefits from its limits vis-à-vis Black and Latino Californians.

“Generations of Californians have been harmed by this policy – especially Black and Latino Californians, those with lower incomes, and those with less property wealth,” the study declares. “The policy has benefited older generations of Californians at the expense of those who have followed.”

The income and wealth disparities among Californians are well-known and regrettable but they they stem from multiple reasons that have nothing to do with Proposition 13, as the study, conducted for and released by the Berkeley-based Opportunity Institute, alleges. White homeowners benefitted heavily from property tax limits because they were more likely to be homeowners in the first place.

The study essentially catalogs a bunch of social ills that emerged after Proposition 13’s passage and attempts to tie them to the measure – guilt by chronological association, one could say. But the effort is undercut by one revealing paragraph: “We find that housing-wealth disparities have widened. Although we cannot causally connect these patterns to Proposition 13, they nonetheless paint a troubling picture of disparities that undercut California’s values related to equal opportunity for all.”

So on one hand it blames Proposition 13 for disparities and on the other says it “cannot causally connect” them to Proposition 13. That qualifies as intellectual dishonesty – starting with a conclusion and then cherry-picking data to make its case.

The study concludes that “scholars, public finance experts, local leaders, and movement builders should collectively determine what it will take to overcome political and taxpayer resistance to changing Proposition 13 and other policies that constrain taxation and budgetary decision-making in California.”

That statement is also revealing. The study’s real goal is getting more tax money to spend, not righting some moral wrong that it cannot convincingly prove.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Looking for clarity on Covid reporting After reading the July 1 frontpage article, “Solano experiences Covid increase,” I had these thoughts: When the article states “residents in area hospitals” and “number of patients in intensive care units” is it referring to people who are there because of Covid, or patients who have tested positive for Covid, or all people who are there for any reason?

It is hard to understand what is going on with Covid when the reporting is so unclear.

Marshall Dawson Fairfield

Keep comments in chronological order Comments in response to articles or Letters to the Editor should be kept in chronological order.

The way they are presented right now, it is easy to lose the train of thought as you go along. In the recent Jay Ambrose column, The Real Sage of Fairfield asked if there was a right to privacy in the Constitution. I answered his question, and at most I was the third one to do so at that particular post.

My comment, just over two hours from the original question, was soon about two-thirds of the way down the comments, with most of the inter-

vening comments coming after I had my comment posted. This makes no sense. Your software for the comments sections should keep the comments in chronological order by default.

When The Real Sage of Fairfield posts a comment, all of the replies to his comment should be seen, in order, until the next new comment is posted.

Dave Shreeve Suisun City

What’s the status on the state of emergency?

I have some questions about California’s state of emergency.

First, why has our governor not removed it? It’s been in place for over two years now. Covid is here to stay and life continues. The restrictions associated with the state of emergency need to go away. Second, why has our governor not been challenged about the legality (or perhaps illegality) of this executive order?

We live in a democracy with checks and balances for reasons such as this.

Third, why did Solano County tie its emergency status to the state’s?

Our county will not be officially out of the state of emergency until the governor says California is out of it.

Can Solano County not extricate itself from this situation and be able to govern more fairly and effectively than our governor’s unilateral decision allows? We’ve waited

long enough, and now we need some answers.

Karen McCall Vacaville

Traffic jam downtown I just want to voice my opinion on the latest waste of taxpayer money in Fairfield.

Last week I drove through downtown on Texas Street and had to stop for newly installed stop signs at every block. It was Sunday afternoon and there was nearly no traffic.

I had to bring my vehicle to a complete stop every block to wait for absolutely no traffic. If the economy is not already bad enough. I wasted gas stopping and starting my vehicle.

And electric cars will also have to use more electricity to get a 2,500pound car going as well.

Not only did it cost me more, but it also created traffic jams. Friday after work I was heading east on Texas Street and the bottleneck effect was on the West Texas side of Pennsylvania Street. I notice that there were cars stopped on each block. Now we are going to have idle cars downtown at every stop sign and pedestrians breathing in the carbon monoxide. I’m not the smartest person but even I think this was just plain stupid and nonsensical.

Been here all my life and this is the most ineffective and wasteful use of taxpayer money I’ve witnessed.

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Who is to blame for the summer of flight delays and cancellations?

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Los Angeles Times It’s been called the summer of “revenge travel” – a time when Americans who stayed home for the last two years because of the pandemic splurge to book their dream vacations to make up for lost time.

But that surge in demand, coupled with an airline industry that is still understaffed, Covid-19 outbreaks among pilots, flight attendants and mechanics and severe storms, has instead created a summer of chaos travel.

Flight cancellations and delays have been surging, especially on heavy travel periods such as weekends and holidays. Since the start of June, nearly 26,000 flights, or 2.2% of all flights by U.S. carriers, have been canceled and 260,000, or 22% have been delayed, according to FlightAware, a flight tracking company.

“In my 37 years in the industry, I’ve never seen a summer like this,” said William McGee, a former airline operations manager and consumer advocate for the nonprofit American Economic Liberties Project.

So, who’s to blame? There has been plenty of finger pointing in the last few weeks, aimed at pilots and air traffic controllers, among others.

But industry insiders put much of the blame on airline executives who scheduled thousands of additional flights to cash in on the upswing in demand this summer. With the workforce awash with new inexperienced staff and plagued by Covid outbreaks, the result has been ugly.

“A major contributor is that demand has been coming back so quickly and airlines are jumping to try to meet it and overpromising and putting in too much capacity,” said Sara Nelson, president of the Assn. of Flight AttendantsCWA, AFL–CIO. Airline executives admit that they overcommitted and have reduced capacity by 16% since

FAIRFIELD — Food 4 Less is moving into the space once occupied by one of its competitors.

Councilwoman Doriss Panduro announced Tuesday that Food 4 Less has agreed to move into the space left vacant by Food Maxx at 1833 N. Texas St. Panduro said the new tenant also plans to

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Air travelers wait in line to board their aircraft at Midway International Airport in Chicago, April 19. this spring.

“We’ve taken any growth out,” Delta Air Lines Chief Executive Ed Bastian told analysts during a July 13 earnings call. “We’re positioned not just for the next month or so, we’re positioned for the balance of this year to kind of stay where we’re at. And that level of stability gives the operations the capability to focus on the task at hand rather than the continuing to invest and build on growth at the same time.”

The problems are not new. Cancellation and delay rates also soared last summer and recent holidays when travel demand surges. And passengers are fed up.

“It was so frustrating going around and around,” said Huntington Beach resident Sarah Huoh, who was stuck with her husband and two daughters for nearly 12 hours in Switzerland last week when their flight to London’s Heathrow Airport was canceled at the last minute. The family then missed a connecting flight to Los Angeles International Airport. “No one in the airport would helps us. They would just tell us to call the service line, but no one was answering that.”

After she found a flight from London to Dallas, her connecting flights on American Airlines from Dallas to Los Angeles was also canceled and Huoh had to book another flight on American Airlines to Santa Ana. Carrie Padgett, a tech writer from Central California, was headed to Buffalo, N.Y., on a business trip from Fresno on Sunday when her 6 a.m. flight was canceled. She was rebooked for later that day, but by the time she landed in Buffalo the shuttle to her hotel had stopped running, forcing her to pay for a taxi ride at midnight in an unfamiliar city.

Given all of the cancellations and delays this summer, Padgett said she was not surprised.

“I’d have been surprised to make it to Buffalo without a problem,” she said.

Frustration with the airlines has been growing for months – even before the summer surge.

The number of complaints about airline service filed with the U.S. Department of TransporSee Delays, Page A10

Twitter trial exposes betrayal of Saudi dissidents Bloomberg Twitter cultivated Saudi Arabian leaders to boost the use of its platform in the Middle East.

At the same time, it prided itself on providing a forum where the country’s dissidents and activists could anonymously post their criticism of the royal family and organize.

But as it tried to achieve contradictory goals, the dissidents were allegedly betrayed by a former Twitter staffer.

That’s the story unfolding at a criminal trial in San Francisco federal court, just blocks from Twitter’s headquarters. Current and former employees of the social media company are testifying against Ahmad Abouammo, their former colleague who was a rising star at Twitter. He is charged with spying for the Kingdom and outing the dissidents -- exposing them to imprisonment and torture.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Colin Sampson elicited testimony from the witnesses in an attempt to substantiate the government’s charge that Abouammo, a U.S. citizen fluent in Arabic, was recruited as “an operative, a mole” by Bader Al-Asaker, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s “right-hand man.”

Sampson described for jurors a conspiracy that spanned the globe but started with a bribe to Abouammo of a Hublot watch. In addition, the Twitter employee also collected $300,000 from the Saudis. In exchange, Binkasakar gave Abouammo “a shopping list of Twitter users that he wanted an insider to keep track of,” Sampson said.

The former Twitter employees explained the company’s privacy

and data access policies, which Abouammo would’ve violated if, as alleged, he turned over to Saudi Arabia users’ email addresses, phone numbers, IP addresses, and dates of birth.

Abouammo faces numerous charges including acting as an illegal foreign agent in the U.S. and obstruction of justice, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. The trial is scheduled to take about two weeks.

For Twitter, the trial reanimates the company’s most damaging security lapse. Other breaches have gained more attention, including when personal information of celebrities was hacked.

But U.S. and human rights organizations say the information stolen

by Abouammo and his alleged co-conspirators in 2015 resulted in the gravest consequences: critics of Saudi Arabia being held in secret prisons, suffering electric shocks, sleep deprivation, beatings and other forms of torture.

Abouammo’s prosecution contrasts with President Joe Biden’s more recent attempt to warm relations with Saudi Arabia, a paradox epitomized by his controversial fist bump with the crown prince, known as MBS, whose photograph prosecutors featured for jurors atop a pyramid of figures they say are responsible for the breach at Twitter.

Biden’s visit to Saudi Arabia last week compelled him to backtrack on an earlier vow to isolate Riyadh and relegate it to a “pariah” for the 2018 killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. MBS has denied responsibility for Khashoggi’s murder.

Yoel Roth, Twitter’s

head of safety and integrity, told jurors that Arabic is one of the most used languages on the platform -- by hundreds of millions of users. Its availability to human rights advocates and activists is critical in Saudi Arabia because it offers a “robust space” for dissent, he said.

Katie Jacobs Stanton, a former vice president of global media at Twitter and Abouammo’s supervisor, recounted how the two visited the home of Saudi billionaire and royal Al Waleed bin Talal Al Saud. She rode a camel and they had a two-hour dinner with the prince, she said. Prosecutors showed jurors a 2015 email Abouammo sent to Stanton and the global media team announcing he brought “onboard of a new government leader.”

“I have built a strong relationship with the team of HRH Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud,” Abouammo wrote, referring to the King of Saudi Arabia and MBS’s father. “I am working with His Majesty’s team for an official announcement for Twitter now.”

Abouammo’s promotion of Twitter among royals in Saudi Arabia was part of his job of finding “the world’s best content creators” and “making them successful” on the social platform, Stanton explained.

Abouammo left Twitter in 2015 for a job with Amazon Inc. in Seattle.

Despite the government’s argument that he’s a flight risk, judges handling his case have granted him bail because he’s lived in the U.S. for more than 20 years and has a family.

In opening arguments Thursday, Abouammo’s lawyer, Jerome Matthews, a federal public defender, said his client has cooperated with federal agents.

“Things aren’t always as they seem,” Matthews told the jury.

“Context matters, looking at the whole picture matters.” The case against Abouammo is “handpicked and curated by the government” from a large amount of data, he said, adding that his client’s alleged co-conspirator fled the U.S. and now lives in Saudi Arabia.

“Given every opportunity to evade an investigation, every opportunity to flee the country, every opportunity to shut up, Mr. Abouammo remained here and went about his life,” Matthews said.

make about $8 million in improvements to the storefront.

Food 4 Less is a collection of employeeowned grocery chains.

The largest is the parent company, Kroger Family of Companies.

Food Maxx is owned

by Kingswood Capital Management LP, which acquired the Save Mart Companies, which included Save Mart, Lucky and Food Maxx.

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DIXON — Matt Crowley has joined First Northern Bank’s Advisors Team as vice president.

Crowley is responsible for providing non-FDIC insured investment and brokerage services, as well as investment advisory services for the bank’s Rancho Cordova, Davis and Dixon markets.

First Northern Bank is headquartered in Dixon.

These products include securities, mutual funds, 401(k) plans, annuities, tax and investment planning, asset management, retirement planning and estate planning. First Northern Advisors is a part of the Bank’s Wealth Management Division.

Crowley has 22 years

of financial advisory experience;. He most recently served 13 years as an assistant vice president/financial adviser for Wells Fargo Advisors.

Prior to that, he did the same at Merrill Lynch.

He has a bachelor’s degree from the University of California , Santa Cruz. He holds securities licenses and a Life Insurance license in California.

He and his wife, Shawna, and their three teenage children live in El Dorado Hills. He works out of the Rancho Cordova office.

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FAIRFIELD — The nomination period for the annual Buzz Awards is open.

“We are so excited to announce that the Buzz Awards will be held on Sept. 9. The theme is Hollywood Greats. Who will you be? Indiana Jones?

Groot?

Axel Foley?

Sarah Conner? Or maybe you’ll go classic Holly-

wood and be the Lone Ranger; the possibilities are endless,” the Fairfield-Suisun Chamber of Commerce announced.

“We’ve added a few awards this year, we know you’ll be just as excited about them as we are,” the announced added.

To make your nominations, go to www. surveymonkey. com/r/569W8TS. The deadline is Aug. 2.

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Delays From Page A9 tation jumped 237% in May, with 4,344 complaints, up from 1,289 complaints received in May 2019. The annual airline satisfaction study by J.D. Power reported in May that satisfaction levels among airline passengers dropped more than 20 points, on a 1,000-point scale, compared with a year earlier.

The research and analytics company attribute the decline to a failure by the airlines to manage the increased demand in travelers.

The frustration among fliers may be aggravated by the rising price of airline tickets, which have been pushed primarily by higher fuel prices.

In June, the average domestic round-trip airline ticket was priced at $605, a 33% increase over the same month last year, according to Airlines Reporting Corp., which settles ticket sales between airlines, travel agencies and travel manage-

ment companies.

The airlines’ problems originated in spring 2020, when the pandemic took hold and air travel came to a near standstill. The federal government approved $54 billion in relief for the airlines on the condition that carriers keep workers on the payroll. But to save cash, many airlines offered pilots, flight attendants and other workers early-retirement packages, which thinned the workforce by thousands.

The overall staffing levels in the U.S. airline industry have rebounded to a level slightly below 2019 numbers. Still, industry experts point out that many of the recent hires are inexperienced workers who are at the bottom of the learning curve.

Expecting them to operate effectively during the summer’s high-demand conditions has been a mistake, they said.

“A large number of new employees are not up to speed or fully trained at this time,” said Randy Barnes, president of Transport Workers Union, Local 555, which represents ramp, operations and cargo workers for

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Southwest Airlines said it has hired 10,000 new employees in 2022 and cancellation rates have dropped below 2019 and 2020 levels.

“The continued training and onboarding of these employees, along with the hiring of thousands more, is our focus for the remainder of the year,” the airline said.

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The pace of training and retraining for pilots has also been slower than usual because Covid protocol require flight simulators to be cleaned and disinfected after each use. Social distancing can be nearly impossible in some cockpit simulators and classes.

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The Federal Aviation Administration, which oversees the air traffic control system, fired back, saying United Airlines had confused weather-related problems with staffing issues.

“The reality is that multiple overlapping factors have affected the system, including airline staffing levels, weather, high volume and ATC capacity, but the majority of delays and cancellations are not because of staffing at FAA,” the agency said in a statement.

The Air Line Pilots Assn., which represents 59,000 pilots from 35 U.S. and Canadian airlines, pushed back against the often-repeated suggestion that a shortage of pilots is responsible for the cancellations and delays, calling it a “narrative that many in the industry are using as a cover for profit-first business decisions.”

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Responding to frustrated fliers, federal lawmakers began last month to put pressure on airlines to fix the problems. Sens.

Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) all wrote to airline executives, urging them to reduce the delays and cancellations.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg met virtually with airline executives to discuss the problem, but only days later his own flight between Washington, D.C., and New York was canceled. “I thought, this is pretty on the nose,” Buttigieg told NPR. “It illustrates what millions of passengers are concerned about right now.”

Airlines have at times blamed others for the mess – only to catch angry pushback.

After the Fourth of July weekend, a United Airlines executive suggested in a staff memo that most of the delays and cancellations were due to labor shortages in the air traffic control system.

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FRIDAY, JULY 22 5:54 a.m. — Vandalism, CORTEZ COURT 8:03 a.m. — Residential burglary, 1600 block of PARK LANE 8:27 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 2700 block of PEPPERTREE DRIVE 8:55 a.m. — Trespassing, 800 block of EAST TRAVIS BOULEVARD 9:31 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 1900 block of WEST TEXAS STREET 10:20 a.m. — Reckless driver, CANON ROAD

10:22 a.m. — Drunken driving, 4700 block of GOLD HILL ROAD 10:32 a.m. — Reckless driver, HILBORN ROAD 10:39 a.m. — Grand theft, 1500 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD 12:32 p.m. — Trespassing, 2000 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 1:06 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 2000 block of CARDINAL WAY 1:17 p.m. — Trespassing, 4400 block of CENTRAL PLACE 1:52 p.m. — Brandishing a weapon, 300 block of EAST BELL AVENUE 2:12 p.m. — Trespassing, 3300 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 4 p.m. — Vandalism, 900 block of OAKBROOK DRIVE 6:52 p.m. — Indecent exposure, 4400 block of CENTRAL PLACE 6:55 p.m. — Robbery, 1300 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD 7:11 p.m. — Battery, 1300 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD 7:43 p.m. — Drunk and disorderly, 1300 block of PHOENIX DRIVE 7:52 p.m. — Shots fired, ACACIA STREET 8:38 p.m. — Trespassing, 1300 block of MARYLAND STREET 8:45 p.m. — Trespassing, 300 block of BECK AVENUE 9:16 p.m. — Shots fired, 3100 block of PUFFIN CIRCLE 9:36 p.m. — Shots fired, 11000 block of TEXAS STREET 10:04 p.m. — Trespassing, 300 block of BECK AVENUE 11:13 p.m. — Shots fired, 1700 block of ENTERPRISE DRIVE 11:14 p.m. — Assault with a deadly weapon, 1700 block of ENTERPRISE DRIVE 11:37 p.m. — Battery, BLOSSOM AVENUE

Suisun City THURSDAY, JULY 21 11:15 a.m. — Vandalism, 1900 block of WALTERS ROAD 3:55 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 1100 block of WHIPPORWILL WAY 8:13 p.m. — Shots fired, CORDELIA STREET / PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE 6:29 a.m. — Hit-and-run with injury, HIGHWAY 12 / MARINA BOULEVARD 4:45 p.m. — Reckless driver, SUNSET AVENUE / RAILROAD AVENUE 5:32 p.m. — Reckless driver, MONTEBELLO DRIVE / BELLA VISTA DRIVE 9:01 p.m. — Vandalism, 700 block of SUNSET AVENUE

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Tribune Content Agency KYIV, Ukraine — Russia unleashed missiles on the port of Odesa on Saturday, a day after an agreement was reached on exporting Ukrainian grain via the Black Sea that bans such attacks, according to Kyiv.

“Yesterday the export by sea was agreed, and today the Russians are attacking the port of Odesa,” the head of the Ukrainian presidential Office, Andrii Yermak, announced on Saturday.

According to the Ukrainian military, two Russian missiles were intercepted by air defenses and two others hit the commercial port.

Russia had pledged in the agreement on Friday to let the ships sail through a sea corridor and not to fire on them.

The ports involved were also not to be attacked.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of breaking the agreement.

“Whatever Russia promises, it always finds a way not to fulfill it,” he said.

The missile attack casts doubt on the agreement signed in Istanbul, said Oleg Nikolenko, spokesman for the Foreign Ministry in Kyiv.

With his missiles, Russian President Vladimir Putin is “spitting in the face” of U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

If the agreement is not implemented, Russia bears responsibility for the global food

crisis, he said.

Ukraine wants to export around 20 million metric tons of grain trapped in the country.

Guterres “unequivocally condemns reported strikes today in the Ukrainian port of Odesa,” the U.N. chief’s deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said in a statement.

“Yesterday, all parties made clear commitments on the global stage to ensure the safe movement of Ukrainian grain and related products to global markets. These products are desperately needed to address the global food crisis and ease the suffering of millions of people in need around the globe. Full implementation by the Russian Federation, Ukraine and Turkey is imperative,” the statement said.

Top EU foreign affairs envoy Josep Borrell wrote on Twitter: “EU strongly condemns Russian missile strike on Odesa’s seaport.

Striking a target crucial for grain export a day after the signature of Istanbul agreements is particularly reprehensible and again demonstrates Russia’s total disregard for international law and commitments.”

Turkey claimed that Russia had made assurance that it was not responsible for the missile attack. Moscow had said that it wanted to investigate the incident, Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said.

Earlier on Saturday, Zelenskyy thanked the U.S. for intensifying its military assistance with

the upcoming deliveries of more rocket launchers, vehicles and drones, which could prove key as Kyiv fights to regain territory in the south.

“Thank you President [Joe] Biden for the new defense aid package for Ukraine.

Critically important, powerful arms will save our soldiers’ lives, speed up the liberation of our land from the Russian aggressor,” Zelenskyy tweeted on Saturday.

The White House announced on Friday additional heavy weapons shipments to Ukraine worth about $270 million, bringing the total military assistance to the country to $8.2 billion since the start of the Biden administration.

Included in the latest package are four additional HIMARS artillery systems. Kyiv has said the U.S.-supplied high-tech, long-range rocket launchers will be critical to a planned counteroffensive to retake territory captured by Russian forces.

The new U.S. package also includes 36,000 artillery shells, vehicles and up to 580 Phoenix Ghost drones.

Russia has warned the U.S. and NATO that supplying weapons to Ukraine will only prolong the war.

This week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the longrange weapons being sent to Kyiv by the West have changed the dynamic of the war and this is leading Moscow to redefine its aims.

At the moment, the Ukrainian military has been laying the groundwork for a major push to liberate the occupied southern region of Kherson, located just north of the Crimean Peninsula. Heavy fighting has been reported there in the past 48 hours.

For instance, a critical vehicular bridge over the Dnipro River in the city of Kherson – the administrative center of the region with the same name – was shut down in Ukrainian strikes this week.

Kyiv hoped to make it difficult for Moscow to keep supplying its forces by rendering unusable the bridge that links Russian-occupied Kherson with other Russian-held areas.

Elsewhere in Ukraine, at least three people were reported killed and nine others injured in Russian missile strikes on a military airfield and railway infrastructure in the central Kirovohrad region.

A total of 13 missiles hit the Kanatovo airfield and sites belonging the railroad, Gov. Andriy Raikovych said on Telegram.

One soldier was killed in the attacks, as well as two workers at a transformer station, Raikovych said.

The U.S. Department of State said two U.S. citizens had been killed in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas.

A spokeswoman for the department said that they are in contact with the families and are providing consular assistance.

Beds with privacy screens were set up in the school cafeteria and three daily meals are being served, Poisall said. A pet shelter was also opened at the school by the Central California Animal Disaster Team.

“We had a lot of people evacuate last night with their animals,” Poisall said. “Animals are family too.”

The evacuation center was initially set up east of town at the New Life Christian Fellowship, which had been used in prior fires. But within the first hours of the fire, it was moved to the elementary school for safety “We moved because the wildfire was moving so quickly,” Poisall said.

Some residents evacuating the Oak Fire posted photos to Twitter of a pyrocumulus cloud ballooning into the atmosphere. The cloud top reached altitudes of 25,000 to 30,000 feet early Friday night, according to Andy Bollenbacher, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Hanford.

Pyrocumulus clouds are formed by plumes of smoke rising vertically

over wind-driven fires.

Heated air from the fire rises rapidly, creating even gustier conditions and making suppression more difficult. Under certain conditions, that fast-rising air can create a fire tornado. The black pyrocumulus clouds carry soot, ash and other pollutants as high as 10 miles into the atmosphere.

In the most extreme cases, a wildfire can create its own weather when smoke forms what is known as a pyrocumulonimbus cloud. Like a thunderstorm, such clouds produce lightning and potentially stronger winds, which can start and spread more fires in a chain reaction.

Though conditions in the Oak Fire area were not yet that severe, they helped drive the fire’s rapid growth, Bollenbacher said. Relative humidity was very low – about 7% to 8% – and temperatures hovered around 95 degrees. Winds came out of the northwest at 5 to 10 mph and gusted to about 20 mph, he said.

Lighter winds Saturday could bring limited relief and tamp down the extreme spotting behav-

ior observed Friday, but temperatures and humidity will stay about the same, Bollenbacher said.

The fire tore through an area with extremely dry fuels near “subdivisions nestled in the foothills amid dense vegetation,” Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA and a California climate fellow at the Nature Conservancy, said on Twitter.

“With #OakFire, streak of relatively modest and non-destructive wildfires in CA so far this season appears to be over,” Swain said in a later tweet. “This continues to be an intense & fast-moving fire, and is now burning into the wildland-urban interface, with some level of structure loss already.”

There were other social media reports of structure loss, but officials with Cal Fire were not able to confirm whether any structures were damaged or destroyed Friday night.

Less than 10 miles east of the blaze, the Washburn Fire was still burning in Yosemite National Park. That fire has scorched nearly 5,000 acres since igniting July 7 and was 79% contained as of Friday.

on the spot, the group bought the train.

The group created the Bay Area Electric Railroad Association to foster interest in the streetcars, interurbans and mainline electric railroad operations, and to preserve these rapidly vanishing pieces of history.

They collected more and more trains over the years and it became clear by 1960 that they needed a permanent home for the cars they were collecting.

The Rio Vista Junction was an actual stop on the electrically powered Sacramento Northern main line in Solano County. It became the new home of the museum. The 22 vacant acres over the years became a hub for trains in need of loving care but were not going to be going on treks around the cities or far-off places.

The name Western

Railway Museum was officially adopted in 1985.

Eric Mencis is the new executive director for the museum. This was his first Family Fun Day and he said he was excited to see all the visitors returning.

“The first train has 50 people scheduled for it,” he said.

The second train had 80 passengers and they hoped to see more than 200 visitors for the day. “(Family Fun Day) is about being a part of the community and reminding people we are here,” Mencis said.

There were extra rides available during the day to accommodate the turnout.

Visitors were able to enjoy a nice, quiet ride through the fields. Children could craft with paper and glue or could ride the speedsters,

which are the old inspection cars they used to use to look at the tracks.

Popcorn and ice cream sandwiches were also available. Some people elected to bring their own picnic foods and rented space on the grass for a family reunion.

“We do rent space here if people want to come out,” Mencis said.

The Western Railway Museum has a new staff member – a very tiny kitten named Comet.

“We think someone dumped her here,” Mencis said. “So I took her to the vet and got her checked out. She is good to go.”

The kitten has the run of the place and stays in one of the trailers at night.

“She is so friendly and just wants to be petted,” Mencis said. “She just loves attention.”

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Fire From Page One to Bootjack and other areas along Highway 49.

“Fire activity is extreme with frequent runs and group torching,” according to Cal Fire.

“Vegetation is very receptive to new spot fires due to the hot, dry weather and drought. Heavy fuels, strong winds and low humidity are also influencing fire behavior.”

Assisted by several water-dropping helicopters, nearly 400 firefighters are battling the blaze.

Fire officials said it could be a week before the fire is fully contained.

Authorities are investigating what caused the blaze, which began in the area of Highway 140 and Carstens Road near Midpines.

By noon Saturday more than 60 people had checked into the evacuation center at Mariposa Elementary School, said Taylor Poisall, spokeswoman for The American Red Cross of the Central Valley.

Railway From Page One fun it was checking out the trains, and going on a leisurely ride through the fields.

“We loved it so much we became members,” she said. “It is an easy drive, too.”

The options for local train museums are slim in the area without a lengthy drive. So the Western Railway Museum seems to be the best bet for rail fans.

The museum began after a group of rail fans in 1946 learned that an old Oakland streetcar that they had chartered for a day’s outing was to be scrapped within a week. This promoted some digging around for pocket money and

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ne of the cool things about when a local theater company performs a show I reviewed years ago is that I can just plagiarize myself when doing a current review.

That is, if what I said back then still rings true today. In the case of Missouri Street Theatre, which is staging “Legally Blonde the Musical” after a decade, the following summation from 2012 still applies: “MST’s “Legally Blonde” was an exhilarating ride fueled by clever songs delivered crisply, intense choreography, unbelievable costumes, sets and props and

a cast that just flat-out killed it.”

“Legally Blonde” was a hit 2001 film starring Reese Witherspoon that cleaned up at the box office and begat a successful sequel, 2003’s “Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde.” “Legally Blonde the Musical” debuted on Broadway in 2007.

The story is basically about a fashion-conscious, pink-obsessed young woman named Elle Woods who is dumped by her Harvard Law School-bound boyfriend just when she thinks he is going to propose. So she hatches a scheme to win back his affections by following him to the Ivy League school and along the way discovers deeper truths about herself.

Katie Jordan as Elle Woods

spent nearly every minute of the show onstage. If she wasn’t convincingly conveying the range of emotions her character goes through from pitiable co-dependency to triumphant self-confidence, she was singing or dancing, or both. Jordan was superb on numbers like “What You Want” and the ebullient “So Much Better” and many more.

I’ve been a Jonathan Kalinen fan for some time and have seen him crush several roles in MST productions including ones in “Seussical,” “The Rocky Horror Show,” “Into the Woods” and more. As the cold-blooded, rather self-absorbed love interest of Elle, See Blonde, Page B3

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FAIRFIELD — The popular Papa Joe & The New Deal will perform Friday on the lawn at the corner of Texas and Jefferson streets in downtown Fairfield.

The fee concert is part of the Fairfield Summer Music Series, which runs 6 to 9 p.m.

The band, which plays a variety of sounds, from James Brown to Bruno Mars, or as founder Joe Lucero has been known to say, anything to please whomever shows up to party.

Lucero is the guitarist in the group, which also includes Vallejo’s own Ed Rillera on keyboards. Lucero’s son, Elias Lucero, plays the bass. Other members include Lani Parker and Janice Hoang Dispo on vocals, John Duarte on percussion and Dave McClure

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Papa Joe & The New Deal, from left: drummer Dave McClure; Lani Parker, vocals; Papa Joe Lucero, guitar and vocals; Ed Rillera. keyboard and vocals; Selia Lucero, vocals; Janice Dispo, vocals; John Duarte, percussion; and Elias Lucero, bass and vocals. on drums. Lucero’s daughter, Selia Lucero, also sings with the band.

This is the third of six con-

certs scheduled. The next is Aug. 12 and features SOUL’D OUT at Ridgeview Park on Silver Creek Road.

FAIRFIELD — The Fairfield Police Officers’ Association invites adults to have some summer fun and help support teens in Fairfield, Suisun City and Travis Air Force Base at 8 p.m. Aug. 27 at the Downtown Theatre.

The event will be hosted by David Lew, comedian and producer and will feature headliners Joey Medina (known from the “Original Latin Kings of Comedy”) and Justin Rupple, who has appeared in “How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World”, “Spider-Man: Homecoming” and “The Fate of the Furious.”

Medina, a Puerto Rican who was born and raised in the Bronx, New York, is one of the freshest and funSee Comedy, Page B3

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FAIRFIELD — The Fairfield Suisun Visual Arts Association is seeking artists to participate in “The Crush.”

“The Crush” is the annual art and wine festival, which is scheduled this year for Sept. 24 at the Village 360 Winery, located at 4949 Suisun Valley Road.

“If you are an artist and looking to show your work, we would love to have you participate,” the association said in a statement.

Artists who specialize in painting, photography, sculpture, jewelry and glassware and mixed media work are wanted, the association said in a statement.

The festival also will feature the music of

Comedy From Page B1 niest comedians around today. He spent most of his teen years perfecting his boxing skills that would one day earn him a state championship as a professional and a shot at the world title before becoming a heavy-hitter in the comedy arena.

Medina is a veteran of more than 50 television appearances including his own Showtime comedy special, titled “Joey Medina: Taking Off The Gloves.” Medina hosted his own morning radio show in Los Angeles on KXOL 96.3 FM. Recently, he toured alongside Russell Peters in New Zealand and Australia, where he performed in front of more than 36,000 fans.

Rupple is a Los Angeles-based stand-up comedian, actor and voice actor. He is known for his impressions on the new USA show “First Impressions” with Dana Carvey, and in the upcoming film “Operation Chromite,” starring Liam Neeson.

Blonde From Page B1 Warner Huntington III, he brought the appropriate amounts of charm and smugness that was ultimately tempered with self-discovery as well.

And of course he brought his powerhouse voice to songs like the duet “Serious” and others.

Madison Moisa was another familiar face as she was recently in MST’s “The Sound of Music” and “Nunsense.” As Vivienne Kensington, she adroitly conveyed a conniving b-word (this is a family newspaper) who later redeems herself. On the song “Legally Blonde Remix” she showed off her considerable vocal power and control.

Austin Mark Nunn was a new face and as Emmett Forrest he was the driven yet compassionate friend that Elle needed at the exact right time. Nunn’s warm and resonant voice powered “Chip on My Shoulder,” the title tune and others.

Now, my only quibble with his character was that he seemed to somehow have escaped from the Friend Zone, which every man knows is as impossible as light escaping from a black hole, but that wasn’t Nunn’s fault, he didn’t write it, he just performed it very well.

F. James Raasch is an old faithful MST veteran and as the demanding

Vacaville’s Netty and the Yuppie Liberation.

Applications are available at www.fvaa-arts. org, or at the Solano Town Center Gallery, located upstairs next to Macy’s in the mall, 1350 Travis Blvd.

“Artist booths will be set up outside and within the Village 360 gallery space. Each artist will be assigned a (100-squarefoot) space and booths can be shared. Member booths are $60 and non-member booths are $70. Some outdoor booths are available but going fast,” the association stated.

Parking and admission are free. Food will be available for sale at the winery’s restaurant, The Landing.

For more information, contact association President Dennis Ariza at 707-688-8889.

Funds raised from the show will be used to help add a computer lab, an HVAC system, floor mats, wall mirrors and more to the new PAL location.

Funds raised from the show will be used to help with the board’s $1 million goal to finish the work to the new PAL location, including adding a computer lab, an HVAC system, floor mats, wall mirrors, upgrading the fire sprinklers, electrical and plumbing work, creating a kitchenette and other modernizations.

The Fairfield PAL Teen Center opened in 2009 and has served more than 4,000 local teens and their families. Fairfield PAL uses traditional recreation to engage teens and help build great skills.

Tickets are $54 per person and can be purchased at www.down towntheatre.com.

For more information about Fairfield PAL or the event, call 707-249-1379.

The theater is located at 1035 Texas St.

and, well, ultimately a li’l creepy Professor Callahan, he was perfect and brought that huge voice I can’t get enough of to songs like the jazzy, jaunty number “Blood in the Water.”

Director Dae Spering is one of the few ties to the last time MST performed “Legally Blonde,” and in addition to laser-focusing the talents of the cast that, again, just flat-out killed it, she joined them as Paulette the hair dresser. She was hysterical and her moment to shine was the song “Ireland,” which allowed her to show off her superpower of being able to both belt and then sweetly land a song. I also must mention that while I know Spering is an actor, it was obvious that her glee at performing with her beloved pooch Mattingly was genuine.

By the way, Mattingly was a serious upgrade from the K-9 who played Rufus 10 years ago who repeatedly tried to get amorous with an actor’s leg onstage.

Other highlights included, but were not limited to: • The Greek chorus featuring Pilar (Jayda Sorrell), Serena (CeCe Cece Donathan) and Margot (Macey Cook).

They were energetic, sassy, funny and fabulous.

• Casey Petal Ellis as Enid, who delivered some of the funniest lines with precision timing.

• The tune “There!

Right There!,” which is one of my favorite parts

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Afincáo will present a free outdoor concert at 7 p.m. July 28 at the Rotary Park Gazebo in Winters.

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WINTERS — The Winters Friends of the Library summer concert series concludes Thursday with a free outdoor concert by Afincáo at the Rotary Park Gazebo.

The performance is scheduled for 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Afincáo plays a variety of Latin music, including boogaloo, Cuban son, cumbias and boleros.

“The band features seasoned performers with roots in rock, jazz, and rhythm and blues as well as Latin music. Their smoking hot percussion section, passionate guitars and smooth vocals make the most of the complex Latin rhythms,” the Friends of the Library said in a statement.

To learn more about the band, go to instagram.com/_afincao_.

The gazebo is located on Main Street at Railroad Avenue, in front

of the Community Center.

“Pack a picnic, bring a blanket or lawn chairs or sit on the grass, sip a cool drink, and enjoy some fine live music. Bring some cash for the donation basket if you can – all proceeds benefit the Winters Community Library,” the statement said.

For more information about the Winters Friends of the Library, visit wfol.org.

Sesame Place ‘wholeheartedly’ apologizes to Black family snubbed by actor in Rosita costume Tribune Content Agency PHILADELPHIA — Sesame Place offered a new apology to the family of the two young Black girls who were seemingly snubbed by a costumed character at the park, this time saying they “wholeheartedly apologize” and renewing a pledge to institute mandatory diversity training.

Last weekend, an employee dressed as the turquoise Muppet Rosita was recorded appearing to refuse to high-five two 6-year-old Black girls during a parade at Sesame Place in Langhorne. The video, recorded by Jodi Brown, spread on social media and prompted calls to boycott Sesame Place and for an explanation from the company. of the show.

• Shane Burrows as UPS guy Kyle. When I replay his entrances and exits in my mind I can’t help but chuckle. Every.

Single. Time.

The costumes (Barbara McFadden), lighting design (Annie Morris), sound design (Mike Meszaros), orchestra (led by Melinda Ellis) and aforementioned intense choreography (Kevin Michael Gruwell) were all on point. Gruwell is a retread from a decade ago as well. Back then he brought the house down as (gay or European) Nikos.

I need to give a special shout-out to Jenn Rivers, who was the stage manager during rehearsals and Jeff Bristow, the production stage manager who took over from tech week on. I mean, wowzers what a balancing act that is with the show’s numerous set pieces like tables and chairs and a golf cart plus a bajillion lightningfast costume changes.

Having Bristow come out from the dark inner sanctum where he usually dwells during shows and onto the lighted stage in a cameo as the Jet Blue pilot (like he did 10 years ago) was an Easter egg.

A couple of mild criticisms: some of the topics that were kinda not even in vogue 10 years ago like Enya, “Girls Gone Wild” DVDs and compact discs seemed even less fresh in 2022. But that’s just nitpicking. I was slightly disappointed that Soundy McMi-

The nine-second clip shows the mascot waving at and high-fiving a few people and then apparently waving off the two girls who had outstretched hands. Brown said that she was outraged by the experience her daughter and niece went through and hired a lawyer, B’Ivory LaMarr, to represent them.

LaMarr, on behalf of Brown and the girls, called on the company to issue a formal apology and to fire the employee who allegedly snubbed the girls.

On Thursday night, Sesame Place issued the fresh apology and said they had been in touch with Brown and LaMarr and were planning to meet to apologize in person and to listen to the family’s experience and crophone’s pre-show/ intermission playlist featuring songs that reflect the title or themes of the show didn’t include “Sister Golden Hair” by America, “Lawyers in Love” by Jackson Browne and “I Fought the Law” by The Bobby Fuller Four, but no biggie.

The bottom line is that

work toward fixing the park for good.

“We sincerely and wholeheartedly apologize to the Brown family for what they experienced,” Sesame Place said in the statement. “To be very clear, what the two young girls experienced, what the family experienced, is unacceptable. It happened in our park, with our team, and we own that. It is our responsibility to make this better for the children and the family and to be better for all families.”

At a Wednesday news conference in New York, Lamarr and activist Tamika Mallory of Until Freedom had called for the employee donning the turquoise costume to be fired. The Thursday statement from Sesame Place did not indicate whether Missouri Street Theatre gave an awesome opening statement, followed it up with a presentation of talented testimony and entertaining evidence and ended with a most convincing closing argument.

My verdict? Hilarious.

Fairfield freelance humor columnist and

the employee was facing termination or discipline.

The company said it was trying to set up a meeting so the family could tell their story of what happened that day and the company could use it to learn and improve.

“We want to listen to them to understand how the experience impacted their family and to understand what we can do better for them and all guests who visit our parks,” the company said.

Sesame Place is owned and operated by SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment, but the park’s use of the characters is through a license with Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit responsible for the long-running TV show Sesame Street. accidental local historian Tony Wade writes two weekly columns – “The Last Laugh” on Mondays and “Back in the Day” on Fridays. Wade is also the author of The History Press books “Growing Up In Fairfield, California” and “Lost Restaurants of Fairfield, California.”

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‘Work’s already done . . . war’s already won’ F irst, I would speak blessing and invisible forces which upon all who read this article. produce energy, i.e. wind, Please believe and receive in gravity, radiant elements, et al. the “spirit” in which it is offered, 2. There remains a testament which is the spirit of love. of how and when these things I am basing my opinions on my took place recorded in personal experiences and the ancient writings. revelation (the Holy Bible) which I had the powerful experience has enabled me to believe and of standing mere inches away live out the eternal principals Patrick Serna from one of these “testaments” presented therein. called the Dead Sea scrolls Religious view Sir Isaac Newton, an which received their name from acclaimed scholar and teacher, estimates the area where they were discovered, that the date of the origin on what we estimated to be more than 1,000 years now call the universe, specifically the old. Wow! I was blown away to behold planet called Earth, is between 3,000 and the evidence of God’s sacred words 5,000 years ago. The phrase “in the imparted to men. beginning” clearly declares that there You see, God has a bigger plan for was a “beginning” and that there also mankind than the time we have here on was an experience before that time in earth. All along the way, He had selected which God resided thus the phrase “in certain men whom today we call prophthe beginning.’” ets and teachers to assure that all men Some of the most significant concepts would know of His existence and also for (truths) set down in this earliest writing the glorious and eternal redemptive plan (given to Moses and subsequently to (Jesus) He has for each of us. He others) have been recorded, written revealed this plan to men through the down on animal skins and papyrus, or prophets and Apostles by calling them into service to bear witness of the nature chiseled into stones, preserved for us to of His divine plan and future study and learn of our earliest for mankind. beginnings.

This all sounds pretty good until an 1. There was a beginning at which time God said these mighty and powerful adversary, a powerful angel named Lucifer (Satan) seduced by pride and words, “Let there be.” At His command arrogance decided to challenge and what we call the universe was estaboverthrow God and there was war in lished, the planets, the stars, all matter

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A detail from “The Creation,” from “Illustrations of the Bible,” by John Martin, 1831. heaven. Satan and many of his followers were defeated and cast out of heaven and down to abide on earth. And know this, he, Satan, remains on the job. He is a liar and the father of lies and does his best to deceive those he can. Yet, his future is sure, and not good.

There is so much more to say and I would invite you to call me for coffee or just to visit if you have questions or observations. May God richly bless you.

“What if I was to tell you, that the work’s already been done; what if I told you that the war’s already been won.”

It’s the best news ever! (lyrics from a contemporary Christian praise song).

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Be comfortable with your gift; don’t judge friend for gift Dear Annie: I love energy, money and, your column and am most importantly, the writing to offer a difdesire to drive all over ferent point of view the state searching for for the woman whose the perfect gift. I think family does not celemy friend and this dear brate her birthday or woman should take a Mother’s Day or Christhint. Yes, people do give mas the way she wants. what they would want to She says she gives them Annie Lane receive. I would love one presents, but they don’t restaurant or Walmart Dear Annie reciprocate. or Target gift card Well, I have a friend who and that’s it! goes overboard in celebrating If a person doesn’t give you these holidays. She will spend something, maybe they don’t an entire year looking for the want something. This woman special gift. At times, it’s more should try it. They might wish like 50 gifts, and, of course, her a happy birthday or Mothmy friend feels let down at my er’s Day. They could give her a ONE gift card. greeting card. But that should Annie, I don’t have the time, be enough. Just because this

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woman decorates and does all this other stuff doesn’t mean everyone else wants to do the same. I know I don’t.

I repeatedly tell my friend that we should stop with the gift giving. But she doesn’t get it, and year after year I can tell that she is disappointed.

I really don’t want other people to give me extra special gifts, because I don’t want to do this for them.

My suggestion is that my friend and the woman who wrote to you should save all this hoopla they spend on other people and throw their own party for themselves, because in reality, that is what they want.

Thanks for listening to me. —

Over the Top Dear Over the Top: Why not just be comfortable with your gift and also be comfortable with your friend who seems to enjoy going above and beyond?

Many people express their love through giving and doing, and clearly that describes your friend. Why judge her for it?

Just be secure with your gift.

The quality of time you spend with her is much more important than receiving or giving large quantities of things.

Dear Annie: My husband recently got promoted to CEO of the company he works for. At first, we were all so excited for him. In the last two months, he has seemed to become almost

arrogant toward us. He just complains at the dinner table about how no one can do the job as good as him. Not really sure where this arrogance came from. What do I do to help him slow his roll? — Married to an Ego Man Dear Married: One of my favorite quotes is: “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” Talk to him and point out how his arrogance will only hurt himself and others in the long run.

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

FOR YOUR HEALTH

by Holiday Mathis

Today’s birthday It’s not enough for you to get what you want. You prefer to obtain it with grace and high standards, which is exactly what happens this year. Social ties will bring you to new financial prospects and/or a professional breakthrough. Family makes you proud, if not a little famous. Free travel is part of the fun, too. Capricorn and Libra adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 27, 3, 38, 19 and 48.

ARIES (March 21-April 19). Because you’re feeling grounded and confident, everything gets simpler. You offer no explanations, excuses of apologies.

Instead, you’ll stand behind your actions and act in a way you can stand behind.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You’ve a strong drive to make sense of contradictions and inconsistencies. In some instances, you’ll connect the seemingly unconnected. When you can’t do this, you’ll accept what is and experience peace.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Like a child building a fort with friends, you will delight in taking control of your surroundings and changing things up to create your own little world with good company. Enjoy this magical, if temporary, space.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). There’s no time to waste complaining about any one of life’s ingredients. In coffee, chocolate, relationships and more, bitter pairs nicely with sweet. With the right balance, intense ingredients can make the recipe sing.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). A relationship you thought was mostly transactional in nature will surprise you with unexpected feeling and evidence that there’s more beneath the surface. You may even sense that you are mystically intertwined.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Not everything you desire would be good for you to have. Try to understand and address the core of what you want. There’s more than one thing that would satisfy your needs, so you may as well choose the healthiest route.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You know where you want to end up, but you’ll need a map to get there. Find someone who’s been there and ask for specific directions, or, better yet, ask for a guided tour.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You might be surprised how your friends and neighbors regard you. Your kindness and neighborly gestures will boomerang back to you, and you’ll feel the impact of your habits of conscientiousness.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).

Short presentations take longer to prepare than lengthy ones. That’s why you don’t have to work out the details of a casual conversation with your friend, but a brief meeting with a VIP will require craft and practice.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Doing what you said you would do may be hard.

But it will only be hard the first time, and the next 10 times, and the 10 times after that. Then it ceases to be hard or be any effort at all. It just becomes who you are.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Changing other people is nearly impossible, but the changes you make in yourself will inspire others and transform relationships. Eventually, you may even notice that everyone in the group has changed at least a little.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). People will take you seriously, so speak carefully and decide what’s worth expressing.

This may require soul searching and/ or taking stock in your beliefs. You’ve outgrown a few, though your values remain unchanged.

CELEBRITY PROFILES: Lioness Anna Paquin makes a habit of winning major awards. With her astrological chart, the Oscar, the Theatre World Award and the Golden Globe she won for playing telepathic barmaid Sookie Stackhouse of “True Blood” fit perfectly into her star-studded destiny. Paquin’s sun and Mercury are in the sign of the entertaining Lion, and four Libran influences indicate artistic and political talent.

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Babies and young children are at highest risk for negative effects from lead poisoning.

Lead: an old toxin in a modern world

Dr. Colleen Townsend

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ead is a metal added to common materials such as gasoline, paint, pottery, dishware and makeup.

People exposed to lead over time may become very sick and can die due to high lead levels in their body.

There is no safe lead level. Lead poisoning occurs when people swallow or breathe in lead particles, which then enter the body’s blood stream. Babies and young children are at highest risk for negative effects from lead poisoning. Lead harms the brain, slows growth and causes hearing, speech, learning and behavioral problems.

There are regulations in the United States that limit lead from being used in common products. However, lead is still found around us. Lead was used to make pipes that carry water into our homes; these pipes remain in older homes. Lead pipes are a common source for lead poisoning in children. Lead dust is found in dirt around older homes that were built and painted before 1978 with leadbased paint. Toys, jewelry and candy from other countries may also contain lead in them.

Children in households below the federal poverty level and those living

in houses or apartments built before 1978 have a higher risk of lead exposure. Young children put their hands and objects into their mouths. When these items (toys, pottery and jewelry) have lead in them, the lead passes into the blood system and affects the brain and bones, causing problems with growth and development. Many countries outside of the United States do not regulate the use of lead paint in toys.

Lead also passes from a mother to a developing baby in pregnancy. Adults who work in certain industries may be exposed to lead at work and bring lead home on their clothes and shoes.

Families can limit lead exposure and lead poisoning in the following ways: prevent young children from licking painted surfaces or eating paint chips (especially from homes built or painted before 1978); do not cook with, eat or drink from pottery made outside of the United States; avoid candy from outside of the United States; and limit the use of toys with old paint (from prior to 1978) and toys from other countries.

Most children with lead poisoning do not look or act sick. Children with high levels may have stomach problems, poor eating, headaches and they may be cranky. The lead level in

children or adults can only be found with a blood test. Every child should complete standard blood lead screening tests before they are 6 years old.

Medical practices that treat young children should have a standardized system for screening young children for lead levels. Screening should occur at 0-6 months, 12 and 24 months. All children should be screened at least once before they are 6 years old. Any child who is new to Medi-Cal should be screened if there is no record of a prior screen. Any child with a high risk for exposure who has not been screened should be tested.

Any amount of lead can make it hard for children to learn, pay attention and grow. When lead is found in the blood, the source of lead must be found and eliminated to prevent further lead poisoning. Based on the lead level and children’s symptoms, the medical provider will recommend more treatment to lower the lead levels.

Talk with your child’s primary care provider about lead screening and prevention of lead poisoning for your family.

Colleen Townsend, M.D., is the regional medical director for Partnership HealthPlan of California, a partner of Solano Public Health.

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Giants can’t match Dodgers’ star power

By Evan Webeck BAY AREA NEWS GROUP

LOS ANGELES — Logan Webb said it best Friday night: “It’s an AllStar team over there.”

Up and down the Dodgers’ lineup, there is no respite. It was their No. 8 hitter – a former MVP, no less – who delivered the deciding blow on Friday to saddle Webb with a nodecision. But let’s focus on the top.

No. 1: Mookie Betts, acquired via trade.

No. 2: Trea Turner: acquired via trade.

That’s two superstars who did superstar things Saturday, less than 24 hours after Webb’s postgame assessment, to hand the mix-and-match Giants their third straight loss here at Dodger Stadium. Their back-toback homers off Alex Wood in the third inning looked to be decisive until San Francisco rallied off Reyes Moronta and David Price in the ninth inning.

So in the end, it was the

Dodgers’ other marquee addition that did in the Giants, as Freddie Freeman’s seventh-inning solo shot provided the necessary insurance to hand San Francisco a 4-2 loss.

Austin Slater, the Giants’ hottest hitter this month, came to plate as the potential go-ahead run but was called out on strikes to end the game.

Only a few miles from Hollywood’s star-studded Walk of Fame (and a few days since this site played host to this year’s All-Star

Game), it has been more apparent than ever this series that these Giants don’t have any. Betts stole the show Thursday night with a tiebreaking homer and a dazzling game-ending catch. On Friday, it fell on Cody Bellinger, the 2019 NL MVP who is now a regular presence at the bottom of the Dodgers’ order, now that Betts (traded from Boston), Turner (traded from Washington) and Freddie Freeman (signed this offseason) provide

most of the firepower.

Of the Giants’ supposed stars, Brandon Belt was yanked for a pinch-hitter in the game’s biggest moment Friday.

Evan Longoria appears to be headed to the injured list after straining his right hamstring Saturday running out a double play, and Brandon Crawford (left knee inflammation) is already there. Joc Pederson, who sat Saturday with the lefty Urías pitching, is stuck in his own 7-for-49 (.143)

slump since the calendar turned to July.

Paging Juan Soto.

Aaron Judge? A reincarnation of prime-age Barry Bonds? Good for Buster Posey that he’s enjoying retirement; not so much for the Giants.

At least Slater has played like a superstar this month, raising his average in July to .440 (22-for-50) with a double to lead off the game and a line-drive single the other way in the third inning in the third inning.

A’s catcher Murphy puts value in his durability

By Matt K awahara,

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

Pat Brandon/Special to the Daily Republic

Leah Pruett turned in the top qualifying time Saturday in the top fuel competition during the Denso NHRA Sonoma

Nationals at the Sonoma Raceway. Her top speed on the drag strip was 327.59 mph.

Capacity crowd turns out for drag racing at Sonoma Raceway Sonoma Raceway SONOMA — Looking to become the first driver in NHRA history to win four straight races at Sonoma Raceway, Funny Car’s Robert Hight secured the No. 1 position in front of a capacity crowd on Saturday at the 34th annual Denso NHRA Sonoma Nationals.

Leah Pruett (Top Fuel), Erica Enders (Pro Stock) and Angelle Sampey (Pro Stock Motorcycle) also qualified No. 1 at the 12th of 22 races during the 2022 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series season and the second stop of the three-race NHRA Western Swing.

Hight’s run of 3.825-seconds at 332.75 mph from Friday in his 11,000-horsepower Auto Club Chev-

rolet Camaro held up, giving the Funny Car points leader his third No. 1 qualifier this season and 74th in his career. In addition to his three straight wins at Sonoma, Hight also has five victories in 2022, including two in a row, and he will open eliminations against Jeff Diehl on Sunday.

“There’s a lot on the line, but we just need to take it one round at a time,” Hight said. “You’ve got to try to be perfect and you have to be aggressive out there. To win rounds and come out on top, you’ve got to be on edge, and I’ve got the best guys in the business behind me to get this done. We’re very confident right now because we’ve won the last two races and we qualified No.

1 here, but you have to continue to take it one round at a time because the competition is so good. There’s a lot of good cars right now so to do what we’re doing makes it that much more special.”

Defending world champ Ron Capps qualified second with a 3.846 at 334.48 and Alexis DeJoria qualified third with a 3.867 at 330.63.

In Top Fuel, Leah Pruett earned her first No. 1 qualifier this season and 12th in her career when her pass of 3.689 at 327.59 in her 11,000-horsepower Rayce Rudeen Foundation Top Fuel dragster stood up. Pruett closed out qualifying with a solid run as well, giving her confidence heading into

OAKLAND — Forty minutes before first pitch Friday, catcher Sean Murphy strode from the Coliseum clubhouse tunnel to the Oakland Athletics’ dugout, gear bag slung over his shoulder. Murphy donned his shin guards and a forward-facing helmet and headed for the leftfield line, prepared to warm up an A’s starting pitcher in a scene that has played out prior to games this season with notable regularity.

What defines durability at a position known for its physical demands?

Earlier this year, Murphy said, he set a kind of benchmark, a number of games he would like to catch during the season.

“I don’t know if I’m on pace for it, but shooting for like 130, 135 – just a healthy number,” Murphy said. “If I hit it or I don’t hit it, you try and stay off the IL and make yourself available every single day.”

The A’s had an evening game at the Coliseum against the Texas Rangers that finished after the Daily Republic’s Saturday night deadline.

No AL catcher logged more innings behind the plate in the first half than did Murphy, 27.

He started nearly three-

fourths of Oakland’s games at catcher, 69 of 93. In the majors, only the Phillies’ J.T. Realmuto has caught more innings.

Still, at his pace, Murphy would finish this season with 120 games caught.

Teams widely manage their catchers’ workloads. In 2009, the last season in which an A’s player caught in at least 135 games ( Kurt Suzuki), four MLB catchers logged that number. In 2008, it was seven. Zero players caught 135 games last season – Boston’s Christian Vazquez led the majors in games (132) and innings (1,051 1/3 ) caught.

It aims to preserve the player while balancing the absence of a valuable presence. In Oakland’s case, Murphy won a Gold Glove last year and is compiling another strong defensive season. FanGraphs rated Murphy its secondbest defensive catcher (behind the Yankees’ Jose Trevino) entering Friday. Sports Info Solutions had Murphy at minus-3 defensive runs saved, conversely, though also its fifth-best pitch framer. He had caught 12 of 37 (32%) would-be basestealers entering Friday; league average was 25%.

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Expos top Clovis Myles King has lofty goals for his with big rally at Rodriguez football team this year state tournament Matt Miller

MMILLER@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET

FAIRFIELD — Myles King, Rodriguez High School’s second-year head varsity football coach, already has Monday mapped out: Hand out gear, a little running and workout, fundraising and pictures.

Monday is the first official day of practice for high schools throughout Solano County and the Sac-Joaquin Section.

It’s the first official time the Mustangs get ready for their season opener in Stockton at Bear River, Friday, Aug. 19.

King expects to have 50 varsity athletes ready for workouts, up from last year’s total that was just under 40. It was his first run as the varsity leader after serving as the junior varsity head coach.

Rodriguez rallied

King joked.

“The biggest difference is definitely game speed,” he said.

King considered his first year as varsity coach “tremendous” and gives a great deal of credit to his coaching staff and the players on the team.

Expectations are high this go-around with a talented group ready to suit up for the Mustangs.

“They did great putting Aaron Rosenblatt/Daily Republic file (2021) in our system and did everything we asked of Myles King watches his players practice at Rodriguez High them.” King said. “HopeSchool in Fairfield in June 2021. fully, we can build on last year’s success and behind their new coach rience. The (Monticello get back into the playto go 7-4 overall and earn Empire League) is tough. offs. That’s our goal. We a trip to the Sac-Joaquin Nothing’s guaranteed.” want to take our best shot One difference from Section Division III playat winning league and offs. The Mustangs lost JV to varsity, King said, winning a section title.”

30-16 to Christian Broth- was the maturity of King dropped several the athletes, both physiers in the first round names of players to keep but got a taste of the cally and mentally. Many an eye on this season, upperclassman balance postseason. and starts with senior “I definitely learned a football with school and cornerback-receiver lot last year,” King said. jobs, while freshman you “It was a different expe- can “tell what to do,” See King, Page B8

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FAIRFIELD — The Fairfield Expos rallied from a 5-0 deficit to beat Clovis 8-5 and win the American Legion State Tournament opener Friday night at Fresno State University.

Fairfield was down five runs after two innings and didn’t give up another run the remainder of the game.

The Expos methodically worked out of the deficit with two runs in the third inning, one run in each of the fourth and the fifth, and four more in the sixth.

Grant Kerr threw the first 2 1/3 innings on 44 pitches, Trevor Morse threw three innings on 44 pitches and Peyton Olds threw 1 2/3 innings on 29 pitches. The tournament rule states that

if the pitcher throws 46 pitches they must rest two full days, and if they throw 31 pitches they must rest one full day. So the Expos saved ample pitching for Sunday.

Noah Rodda had three hits and a walk, while Cy Dempsay collected two hits, including a double. Aidan Robles also doubled. Eli Blurton, Blake Bozzini and Bryce Dichoso had hits.

On Saturday, the Expos had a 3:30 p.m. game suspended at 5 because of time constraints. Fairfield holds a 7-6 lead over El Segundo in the fourth inning. The game will be picked up at 8 a.m., with the start of another bracket game later in the day.

The Expos have won 10 games in a row and are 57-14 overall.

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Basketball • Big3 Basketball, 5, 13, 10 a.m.

• The Tournament, ESPN, 10 a.m.

• The Tournament, ESPN2, 4 p.m.

Cycling • Tour de France, Stage 21, USA, 7 a.m.

• Tour de France, Stage 21, 3, 11 a.m.

Extreme Sports • X Games, 7, 10, 10 a.m.

Report: Sharks ‘zeroing in’ on Quinn as coach from 1993-1996 before he started a 14-year NHL playing career, Quinn spent many years there, first as a player from 1984-1987 before taking on two five-year stints coaching the team, first as an associate coach under Parker from 2004-2009, and then as Parker’s replacement as the Terriers’ head coach from 2013-2018.

Quinn left BU in 2018 to become the coach of the New York Rangers, who were about to enter a self-described rebuild.

Quinn’s Rangers went 96-87-25 over three years, making the qualification round of the expanded 2020 postseason. When New York missed the playoffs after the shortened 2021 season, Quinn was fired.

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SAN CLEMENTE — Some good things are worth waiting for, like an ice cream cone on a summer day, a parking spot near a bustling beach or a clean bill of health with another Larry O’Brien Trophy to go with it.

Klay Thompson knows that all too well.

After spending the last three summers recovering from two major injuries, Thompson is finally getting to relax.

“It’s the best offseason ever, especially when you win a championship,” Thompson said during a recent visit to Orange County, where he hosted a 15-year-old boy recovering from cancer.

This downtime has been a long time coming for Thompson, whose last few summers haven’t at all felt like offseasons for the Warriors star.

A torn left ACL in 2019 and a ruptured right Achilles in 2020 had Thompson out of commission for 2 1/2 seasons. But after a rough few years, Thompson – named Comeback Athlete of the Year at the ESPYs Wednesday – finally feels free in his body again.

“It’s the best, man,” he said, “I’m so happy.”

Overcoming a torn left ACL and a ruptured right Achilles that sidelined him for 2 1/2 seasons has given Thompson a new perspective on life as he’s learned to slow down and

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Klay Thompson cradles the Larry O’Brien Championship trophy during the Warriors’ Championship Parade in June on Market Street in San Francisco. appreciate everyday normalities that some might take for granted.

“Just to be able to walk around, smell things, feel things, be active, be athletic, it’s a blessing,” Thompson said. “It can be taken away from you so quick, you just want to embrace every day.

Health is wealth, and just embrace your youth while you have it.”

So how is the nowfour-time NBA champion celebrating the “best offseason ever”?

Thompson is splitting time between the Bay Area and Orange County.

When he’s not working out or getting shots up, his favorite summertime activities include boating, fishing, going to support his baseball-playing brother Trayce at Dodgers games and reveling in his team’s most recent title win by jumping on Instagram Live to call out

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Speaking of which, Thompson has a message for both the diehard Warriors fans and haters.

“You’re going to get this championship content the whole summer,” he said. “We earned that.”

Waiting, hoping and talking won’t get you an NBA ring. But the Warriors kept the receipts on the skeptics who’ve opened their mouths over the last few years.

And Thompson, alongside Stephen Curry, aka the self-proclaimed “Petty King,” and Draymond Green, has made it clear he’s ready to call them out.

Thompson’s accountability tour began during his postgame news conference after beating the Celtics in six games for the title: Thompson said Jaren Jackson Jr., of the Memphis Grizzlies, was a “bum” and a “clown” for mocking the Warriors’ “Strength in Numbers” slogan after a regular-season win over Golden State.

Just last week, Thompson was walking into an ice cream parlor in San Clemente when he was first spotted by beachgoers. Some fans took photos from afar while a young boy worked up the courage to ask for a selfie.

Thompson happily obliged before entering the business.

But while inside, a snarky man chirped at Thompson from outside the doorway.

“Are you Steph Curry?” the guy said

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• NASCAR, Whelen Modified, USA, 6 a.m.

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Lacrosse • PLL, Cannons vs. Archers, ESPN2, 11 a.m.

• PLL, Chrome vs. Waterdogs, ESPN2, 1 p.m.

SAN JOSE — When the Sharks hired Mike Grier as their new general manager, one person quickly emerged as a leading candidate to potentially take over as San Jose’s next head coach.

Fewer than three weeks after Grier’s hiring, the Sharks are “zeroing in” on David Quinn to be their head coach, according to a report from Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman.

Quinn, 55, has deep ties to Grier, as both played at Boston University under legendary former Terriers coach Jack Parker, though not with each other.

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Klay Thompson enjoying his ‘best offseason ever’ after NBA crown

Golf • LPGA, The Evian Championship, final round, GOLF, 2:30 a.m.

• Senior Open Championship, final round, GOLF, 6 a.m.

• Senior Open Championship, final round, 3, 9 a.m.

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Rio Vista Women’s Golf Club Step Aside Scramble Tournament First Place: Denise SargentNatour, Bessie Dunn, Cat Goff, net 55 Second Place: Mitch Ybarra, Jackie Evans, Terri Anisko, Joanne Smith. Net 57 Third Place: Marsha Berry, Doris Currie, Donna Nunes, Darl McCarthy, net 61

4, Diane Viera, 34 Fifth Flight, 25 1, Suellen Johnston, 26 2, Connie Watson, 34 3, Barbara Rigdon, 35 4, Willa Sheppard, 36 Chip-Ins Genny Lopez #18 Chris Robertson #13 Birdies Chris Robertson #18 Sandy Austin #10

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Team Play First Place: Claudia Archer, Kim Greer, Anita Johnson and Kathy Pascal, 134 Sweeps Second Place: Vicky Flandi, First Flight, 11-14 Net LeeAnne Fortney, Mary Fowler and 1st, Genny Lopez, 29 Rita May, 135 2nd, Rene Romiski, 31 Third Place: Linda Grace, Lisa 3rd Nancy Schlesinger, 32 Hoekwater, Kathryn Houk and 4th Barbara James 34 Nanci Stevenson, 137 Second Flight, 15-18 Net Fourth Place: Cathy Adams, 1st, Sandy Austin, 24 Kelyne Maertz, and Kathy 2nd, Ilene Pliler, 29 Tomko,138 3rd, Marlene Brown, 30 Closest to the Pin No.4: 4th, Kay Bone, 31 1, Oksun Parrott, 1’1” 5th, Linda Perry, 32 2, Kathryn Houk, 1’8-1/2” Third Flight, 19-21 Net Closest to pin, No. 5 1, Diane Stephens, 29 1, Sandy Kreger at 2’3 -1/2”” 2, Kim Weaver, 32 2, Lynn Csanyi 2’8-1/2” 3, Judy Horan, 35 4, Sandy Latchford, 36 Closest to pin, No. 15 1, Kathryn Houk, 26’11-1/2” Fourth Flight, 22-23 Net 2, Lynn Csanyi, 58’8” 1st, Jenny Sperandio, 25 Hole in One: 2, Rosemarie Chonzena, 31 3, Trellis Moore, 33 Kathy Tomko, #12

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A’s From Page B6 importance in rest for catchers and their bodies from the toll it takes on them,” manager Mark Kotsay said. “You talk to the player in Sean, how he’s feeling. There are times he’s going to be honest, then there are times you can kind of read . . . he’s trying to be a tough

King From Page B6 Leroy Bryant, who the coach says, has already committed to the University of Washington. Then there’s Jeffrey Missouri, a junior safety, senior defensive end-tighten Gabriel Batres, junior middle linebacker-fullback Trevor Crommie, junior receivercornerback Jeremiah Hill and junior defensive tackle Ke’Shaun Gresham.

Senior Kenen Jones is expected to the starting quarterback. Jones backed up Miles Meadows last season.

When King took the varsity job in 2021, he became the 12th head coach in the school’s 21 seasons. What made the job even more meaningful was the Rodriguez is his alma mater. He played

guy, wants to play every day. But you know there’s a limit to it and you try to balance it.”

With Christian Bethancourt traded to Tampa Bay, the A’s have catchers Murphy and Stephen Vogt active.

Murphy caught the final six games before the All-Star break; Kotsay emphasized the A’s have confidence in Vogt as well: “Sean is on pace to catch somewhere around

an integral role in three RHS teams that reached the section playoffs, two of which won Solano County Athletic Conference titles (2008, 2009) and the other a section Division III crown (2007) as a quarterback.

After finishing at Rodriguez, King helped lead Solano Community College to two Bay Valley Conference championships and went onto play for Graceland University, an NAIA school.

King was an assistant JV coach at Armijo in 2016 before serving as head JV coach in 2017. He made his way to Rodriguez where he served as a varsity assistant in 2018ww. He became the head JV coach in 2019.

Now he is ready to guide the varsity Mustangs again, with a year of experience under his belt.

Eagle: Kathy Tomko, #12 Birdies: Lisa Hoekwater, #12 Vicky Flandi, #12 Mary Fowler, #12 Kim Greer, #3 Lynn Csanyi, #3 Regina Cortez, #12 Chip-Ins: Kathy Tomko, #12 Kelyne Maertz, #12

Nine Arounders Sweeps Tournament Chip In on No. 9: Ann Rollin First Flight 1, Mona Begell, 52/38 2, Glora Ostrum, 56/40 Second Flight 1, Genny Lopez, 54/36 2, Sandy Austin, 57/39* 3, Kitty Lockwood, 58/39* *tie breaker Third Flight 1, Barbara James, 56/35 2, Sandy Latchford, 61/37 3, Ann Rollin, 63/43

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130 games; I know he wants to catch more than that, but I think that’s a pretty solid number in today’s game.”

Last season, Murphy ceded playing time in the second half after the A’s acquired veteran Yan Gomes at the trade deadline. It partly reflected offensive struggles. This season, Murphy entered the second half arguably the A’s hottest hitter. He was batting

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From Page B6 eliminations. She’ll start raceday against Jim Maroney and after finishing as runner-up in Sonoma last year, Pruett will try to finish the job on Sunday and pick up her second consecutive win this season in the process.

“It’s extremely exciting to qualify No. 1 and it shows just difficult it is for anybody,” Pruett said. “We know exactly where we’re at. It feels like the work has been validated and we’re just going to keep digging on that. If we’re able to do what we did in Denver and make it to the final and possibly win it, that’s when we’re really going to see it come full circle.

We are racers and we are finally feeling like we get to race, and that’s what is most exciting for us.”

Doug Kalitta stayed in the second spot with his 3.694 at 331.45 and points leader Mike Salinas jumped to third after going 3.696 at 332.67 on Saturday.

Enders grabbed the No. 1 spot from Elite Motorsports teammate Troy Coughlin Jr. on Saturday, as the Pro Stock points leader jumped to the top with a standout run of 6.506 at 210.97 in her Melling Performance/ Elite Motorsports Camaro. It gives Enders, the four-time world champion, her third No. 1 qualifier of the season and 26th in her career and she will open eliminations against Fernando Cuadra Jr. Enders will

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.310 over his past 35 games entering Friday.

“You look at guys like ( Yadier Molina) and ( Salvador Perez), those guys have put some crazy innings behind the plate – obviously it’s doable,” Murphy said.

“That’s something that I think is sort of a badge of honor for a catcher.”

Briefly: The A’s called up reliever David McKay from Triple-A Las Vegas and optioned reliever.

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also try to pick up her first win at Sonoma Raceway, something that has eluded her thus far.

“It’s been a dream season to this point,” Enders said. “It’s always big to qualify on the pole.

The other two we have this season we’ve carried it all the way through on Sunday and got it done.”

Defending world champ Greg Anderson, who has six wins in Sonoma, made a big move on Saturday into the second spot with a run of 6.518 at 209.43, while Coughlin will start raceday from third thanks to his 6.521 at 210.90.

Sampey put on an incredible show on Saturday in Pro Stock Motorcycle, making the quickest run of each session and blistering the track record with an incredible pass of 6.700 at 200.95 on her Mission Foods/Vance & Hines Suzuki. That run closed out qualifying and also tied the third-quickest run in class history, putting Sampey in a prime position heading into eliminations. It’s her third No. 1 spot of 2022 and 56th in her career as she looks to leave Sonoma with the points lead in the class.

Steve Johnson, the points leader and provisional No. 1 qualifier on Friday, took the second spot with a 6.743 at 198.73 and Joey Gladstone moved to third with a 6.757 at 200.26.

Eliminations for the Denso NHRA Sonoma Nationals begin at 7:30 a.m. on Sunday at Sonoma Raceway. Television coverage on the FOX begins at 1 p.m.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS ARTUROS TAQUERIA

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS SIERRA QUALITY AUTO SALES

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).

Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: July 12, 2022 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2022001197 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR#00056513 Published: July 17, 24, 31 Aug. 7, 2022

LOCATED AT 1350 Hayes St Suite 100 GG, Benicia California 94510 Solano.

Mailing Address 1350 Hayes St Suite 100 GG, Benicia California 94510. ARE HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S) Sierra Quality Sales 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 06/23/2022.

I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Abass Lamin 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 23, 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 24, 2022 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2022001085 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR#00056383 Published: July 10, 17, 24, 31, 2022

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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NOTICE OF HEARING Date: AUG. 3, 2022; Time: 9 am; Dept: 3; Rm: II The address of the court is SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, County of Solano 580 Texas Street Fairfield 94533 A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Daily Republic Please file proof of newspaper publication at least 5 business days before hearing (newspaper does not file w/ court) zoom ok. zoom invite will be emailed 1-2 days before hearing Date: JUN 4, 2022 /s/ Stephen Gizzi Judge of the Superior Court FILED: JUN 17, 2022 DR#00056200 Published: July 3, 10, 17, 24, 2022

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS HEALTH & BEAUTY CENTRO DE DISTRUBUCION LOCATED AT 1584 Rayburn Ct #1584, Fairfield CA 94533 Solano. ARE HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S) Maria D. Lila 1584 Rayburn Ct #1584 Fairfield, 94533. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 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/ Maria del Carmen Lila Carrada 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 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: July 20, 2022 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2022001249 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR#00056679 Published: July 24, 31 Aug. 7, 14, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS KW GREEN VALLEY PARTNERS 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.

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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Beautiful Browns Valley 4BR 3.5BA+ lrg office/library w/1BR 1BA ADU/Apt above detached 3car garage. Main home w/ spacious living areas. Spacious kitchen w/ granite counters, tile floors+ butler’s pantry.

FR w/fp, formal LR & Dr +so much more! $1,299,000

Updated 4bd/2ba. Porcelain floors - entry, kitchen & dining areas. Newer laminate 1st level/stairs. Updated kitchen. Living Room & Dining Room, Family Room-wet bar, pellet stove. RV parking. $735,000

Sandy Stewart & Associate

Monique Kenner & Associate

REALTOR®, BRE#01038978

REALTOR® DRE#01475803

(707) 696-7063

(707) 297-9266

Ralene Nelson

REALTOR® BRE#01503588

(707) 334-0699

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Open House Sat & Sun 1-3PM 1501 Osborn Drive, Woodland Beautiful 3bed/2.5ba+ loft in the Springlake area. Over 1800 sqft, 4 years new with open concept great room, spacious kitchen w/island.

Fully landscaped corner lot. $649,000

Paul Wittenmeier & Anna Duesenberry

REALTOR® DRE#02116500 & #02114795

(707) 688-4858 or (530) 574-4321

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Open House Sunday 12-2PM 101 Cedar Ridge Drive, Rio Vista Beautiful 2bd/2ba-Trilogy senior community.

Shows like a model home. Right on golf course (11th tee). Easy walk to club house & pool. Short drive to town or nearby cities.

Non-HOA RV storage available. Washer, dryer & refrigerator included. $480,000

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Don Preston & Associate

REALTOR® DRE# 01277960

(707) 718-0360

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