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Fairfield police marks 38th anniversary of officer’s death Daily Republic Staff

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FAIRFIELD — The city Police Department on Friday marked the 38th anniversary of Sgt. Arthur W. Koch’s death in the line of duty.

Koch died in the early hours of July 29, 1984.

“The 34-year-old father of three was finishing what would have been his last shift as a patrol officer, when he responded to a call for shots fired. As he exited his vehicle and walked toward the suspect’s house, Koch was ambushed,” the Police Department said in a statement.

“After striking Sgt. Koch with bullets from a high-powered rifle, the suspect continued his barrage of bullets, keeping rescuers at bay for nearly 20 minutes. With the assistance of the Fairfield Police Department, officers were able to rescue Sgt. Koch and transport him to a local hospital. Unfortunately, he later succumbed to his injuries.”

Friday’s statement goes on to say: “Today, we remember and honor the sacrifice of fallen hero Sgt. Arthur W. Koch.”

Koch was Fairfield’s first officer to die in the line-of-duty.

“But to all of us – his family, friends and community – he represents so much more. He’s an example of what it means to serve your community with passion and purpose. May his memory live on in each of us – in word and in deed,” the statement said.

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The Fairfield Police Department marks the 38th anniversary of Sgt. Arthur W. Koch’s death.

Benicia brings music, food and shopping with Waterfront Festival Susan Hiland

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BENICIA — After a two-year hiatus due to a pandemic, the Benicia Waterfront Festival returned with plenty of family friendly fun.

“It has been amazing to be back again,” said Nancy Martinez, Executive Director of the Benicia Main Street Program.

The Main Street Program is a state and national network of grassroots downtown revitalization projects coordinated by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Benicia was chosen to be one of the fifteen demonstration cities to participate in the program back in 1987. The selection was based on the commitment expressed by the City, downtown businesses, property owners, and residents to support this program.

The Benicia Waterfront Festival ran for about 10 years before stopping during the 90’s. Later it was replaced with a jazz festival and over the last few years it has become a festival with several See Benicia, Page A11

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Matthew Engelhart, left, gives a tour of Be Love Farm during a Solano County Farm Bureau Farm Tour, Thursday.

Land use decisions key to agriculture growth, survival in Solano County Todd R. Hansen

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FAIRFIELD — Ian Anderson – like a lot of other concerned observers – is nervous about the Flannery Group.

The mysterious group has purchased nearly 40,000 recorded acres in Solano County – mostly in the Montezuma Hills area and at times for a price much higher than the consensus value.

That 40,000 figure is tracked by the Department of Resource Management. The Assessor’s Office sets the figure at 27,840, but there is about six months of ownership changes that have not been reviewed.

What is not known is what Flannery intends to use the land for, allebit, it is possibly an invest-

ment strategy alone. The group’s intention, many believe, will come to light only when the county begins its General Plan revision, which is expected to start in the next few years.

“This is a great county for ag, but it is always at risk,” Anderson said during a Thursday tour of wide-ranging farming operations organized by the Solano County Farm Bureau.

It included stops at the larger Robbins Farms in Dixon, with its high-quality Dixon Ridge soils, to the soil poor rangelands of Montezuma Hills, to the wine country of Suisun Valley and ending at the eclectic Be Love Farm in Pleasants Valley.

Farmers and ranchers like Anderson, who rely on being able to lease extra land on a long-term

basis, are concerned that could go away, and with it, his and his neighbors’ ability to make a living.

The Anderson family has been working the lands around Rio Vista and Birds Landing for six generations.

The operation’s success relies on a host of factors, but diversity and being able to plant enough acres, are among the more important on that list.

“He needs the extra land to make his operation work,” Sean Favero, president of the Farm Bureau said later. He said no farmer is going to plant a crop without knowing his lease will extend out far enough to see the harvest.

So land-use decisions concerning the ground being gobbled up by See Land, Page A11

As flooding death toll in eastern Kentucky climbs to 25, Beshear warns of more rain Tribune Content Agency LEXINGTON, Ky. — The death toll from floods that hit eastern Kentucky this week has risen to 25, and it is likely to climb higher as search and rescue efforts continue, Gov. Andy Beshear said Saturday.

At the same time, the region is struggling with impassable roads and outages of water, electricity, natural gas and cellphone service, he said.

Knott County has had the most fatalities, with 14 reported as of Saturday morning. Other counties where people have died

include Breathitt with four deaths reported, Perry with three and Letcher and Clay counties, with two deaths each, Beshear said in a briefing at noon Saturday.

Beshear said a previous report that six children had died was incorrect, and only four of the victims were children.

“Information is going to change as we get it,” he said. “This is still an emergency situation.”

He said it’s been difficult to get an accurate count of missing people because cellphone service is still down in

some places.

“Keep praying. I’m worried that we’re going to be finding bodies for weeks to come,” he said.

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American vehicles changing the meaning of ‘old car’

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they were a year ago f you’re an average (and who wouldn’t want American, you drive a to be only two months 2010 model car. older than they were a Well, that’s not year ago?). absolutely true. The This is the continuaaverage American car is 12.2 years old (meaning tion of a long-term trend. it’s a 2009.8 model), but Back in the 1970s (the if you’re in an average furthest back I could American family, you reliable data for the Brad Stanhope find probably have two cars – average age of cars), our Like I was sayin’ cars then were much, one that was produced much, much newer. The before 2010, one after. average automobile in 1970 was They average 12.2 years old.

5.6 years old. By 1980, the That’s the rather stunning average was 6.6, by 1990, it was data from S&P Global Mobility.

7.6 and by 2000 it was American cars are an average 9.0 years old. of 12.2 years old!

Now the average is 12.2.

This is the fifth straight year Really, the trend makes that American cars reached a sense. Because despite what new record for average age. typical car guys say, the average Cars are two months older than

CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS A story that appeared in Friday’s Daily Republic should have stated that outgoing Travis AFB Commander Col. Corey A. Simmons will next serve as the chief of staff to Air Mobility Commander, Gen. Michael Minihan.

Incoming Commander Col. Derek M. Salmi’s previous assignment was in Washington, D.C., at the Pentagon, serving as the deputy director of the Strategy, Concepts and Assessments Directorate for Logistics (J-4), Joint Staff. n n n It is the Daily Republic’s policy to correct errors in reporting. If you notice an error, please call the Daily Republic at 425-4646 during business hours weekdays and ask to speak to the editor in charge of the section where the error occurred.

car in 2022 is much more durable than one from 1970. Or 1980.

Our cars last longer because they’re designed to last longer.

The Stanhopes are, in this respect, at least, typical Americans. Mrs. Brad and I each have a vehicle. They’re the same make and model, although different eras of the cars.

I drive a 2005 Toyota Prius with more than 200,000 miles on it. It’s old. There are new rattles.

I suspect the mysterious parts that make it a “hybrid” will start falling off soon. The radio only picks up episodes of “The Lone Ranger” and the back seat is filled with “I Like Ike” posters.

It has a rumble seat (whatever that is).

Mrs. Brad drives the newer car, which still seems space-age to me. It has dozens of gauges and buttons and knobs (really very few knobs, but I needed a third thing). It has a backup camera! It has cruise control that can measure how far the vehicle is behind other cars!

Her car is 10 years old, so none of those things are really new to a normal person. But to someone who drives a car with a rumble seat (whatever that is), it’s miraculous.

So our cars are made better and last longer than they were 10, 20, 30, 40 or 50 years ago.

When we think of the glory days of American cars (I’ll pick 1970, although I suspect most car guys would set that date a

few years earlier), we think that old cars were better built for less money. Well, the average new car in 1970 cost about $3,500 and lasted 5.6 years.

Adjusted for inflation, that’s $26,300 in 2022 dollars. According to the Kelly Blue Book people, the average new car in 2022 cost about $46,000 (yikes!).

So modern cars last twice as long (or more), but cost twice as much. In terms of per-year expense, it’s stayed pretty stable.

Kind of like the rumble seat (whatever that is) in my Prius.

Reach Brad Stanhope at bradstanhope@outlook.com.

Water Institute for Teachers starts 2nd year Daily Republic Staff DRNEWS@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET

FAIRFIELD — The second Solano Water Institute for Teachers will take place Aug. 3-5 and includes visits to Solano County parks and open spaces, as well as a boat tour of Lake Berryessa.

The institute, put on by the Solano Resource Conservation District, “is an intensive three-day workshop designed to support K-12 educators in teaching watershed science and land preservation from a locally relevant perspective.”

“We’re looking forward to another successful program this year,” says Marianne Butler, education director for Solano Resource District.

Conservation “Our place-based learning experiences help

educators teach environmental science by connecting students to the place they live. Making that connection helps students develop a sense of stewardship for local natural resources. We’ve found that using our local parks and open spaces as laboratories make the subject relevant and encourages youth to explore parks and open spaces on their own.”

The training begins Wednesday at Rush Ranch Open Space near Suisun City “with a place-based learning experience at the Suisun Marsh.” The group will tour the marsh and receive presentations from local education and conservation leaders.

They will also learn about hands-on activities teachers can take back to their classrooms.

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Solano County educators learn about managing the Suisun Marsh as part of the 2021 Solano Water Institute for Teachers hosted by Solano Resource Conservation District.

The boat tour will be on Thursday, and includes “commentary and activities featuring a panel of local experts from the Solano County Water Agency, the state Department of Water Resources, the city of Benicia, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the Yocha Dehe Wintun tribe, and the state Water Education Foundation’s

Project WET.” Teachers will engaged in hands-on training activities on the final day, presented by the awardwinning Project WET at Fairfield’s Dunnell Nature Park and Education Center.

Participants will receive a $250 stipend upon completion of the program, and certified teachers can claim

27 hours of continuing education credit.

The Solano Water Institute for Teachers is funded by the Solano County Orderly Growth Committee; the California Department of Water Resources; the Water Education Foundation; the School Water Education Program, including the cities of Vacaville, Fairfield, Suisun City, Vallejo, Dixon and Benicia; Fairfield-Suisun Sewer District; and Solano Irrigation District.

The workshop is hosted by Solano RCD with support from Brian Brown, Project WET coordinator for California. For more information, visit https://www. solanorcd.org/projectsand-programs/education/ educator-workshops. html or email education@ solanorcd.org.

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Operation Homefront’s ‘Back-toSchool Brigade’ returns to Travis

All victims in recent fatal crash near Rio Vista identified Todd R. Hansen

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TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE — The annual “Backto-School Brigade” returned to Travis Air Force Base on Friday, bigger and better than ever as 650 backpacks and numerous school supplies were distributed over a three-hour period by members of the 660th AMXS KC-10 Maintenance Squadron.

Staff Sgt. Mark Cameron ran operations with Senior Master Sgt. Randal Moser, along with Moser’s wife Jessica, in a drive-thru distribution format as families prepared for the Aug. 11 opening of Travis Unified School District.

For those who live off base and attend schools there, classes begin Aug. 17 in the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District. Vacaville Unified School District kicks off its new school year Aug. 18.

Each year, though, the Back-toSchool Brigade is a welcome gift to those in the military community.

“It really helps us out each year,” said Larry Burns, retired military and the father of a 13-yearold daughter and 10-year-old son.

“The military doesn’t pay a lot and this really makes a difference.”

The Back-to-School Brigade is Operation Homefront’s annual nationwide school supply collection and distribution campaign.

Since its inception, there have been 465,000 backpacks given to military children, saving families what they estimate at nearly $50 million in school expenses.

Operation Homefront also estimates, through the Center for Digital Education, that the average school supply cost per U.S. family is $600 per student, particularly during the Covid-19 pandemic when at-home, online learning was so prevalent.

Backpacks are distributed age-appropriately, from pre-kindergartners all the way to seniors in high school. Cameron said

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Airmen from the 660th AMXS KC-10 Maintenance Squadron prepare books to give to kids during Operation Homefront Back-to-School Brigade at Travis Air Force Base, Friday. the supplies include binders, paper, scissors, rulers, calculators, pens, pencils, protractors and much more.

“This is my first time participating in the event,” Cameron said. “It feels great to get involved and help give back to the community. We know everyone is going through tough times these days and we know the parents appreciate it.”

There was a line of tables and people were already lining up before the 9 a.m. start time. Not only were there backpacks, but kids could pick up a variety of reading books, candy, information on Operation Homefront and coffee for the parents.

The distribution has traditionally been an indoor event but in recent years the pandemic has caused some modifications. It was held outdoors one year, and this time they turned to the drivethru model used during other base events like Christmas and Easter.

“The first year I volunteered we gave out 100 backpacks,” said Jessica Moser, who has been helping with the event for five

Airman Cameryn Leonard gives a backpack to a parent during Operation Homefront Back-to-School Brigade at Travis Air Force Base, Friday. years. “This year we are giving out 650. Some 450 of those backpacks have come from Operation Homefront and 150 from location donations.”

Moser was looking for an opportunity to volunteer and found that this project “provided tangible resources for many military families.”

For more than 13 years, Dollar Tree Inc. and Operation Homefront have been in partnership collecting and distributing school supplies to military children each school season.

MISSING DOG

RIO VISTA — Three of the four individuals who died in Wednesday night’s two-vehicle collision near Rio Vista have now been identified as Vacaville residents.

The first reports had just one local victim.

The Honda Accord they were in had a case of empty beer cans and a half-empty bottle of hard alcohol, though the investigation into whether alcohol was a factor in the crash has not been completed, the Rio Vista Police Department reported.

None of them was 21.

The driver of the Accord is identified as Jordan Colvin, 20, from Vacaville. He was ejected from the car along with the backseat passenger, identified as Lacey Conway, 19, of Vacaville, the Rio

In brief

Rezone swap goes before county Planning Commission Daily Republic Staff DRNEWS@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET

FAIRFIELD — The Solano County Planning Commission on Thursday will consider a rezoning request for property on Stonefield Lane.

The applicants Steven Siegal and Weiyao Ou are looking to rezone 8,145 square feet from Rural Residential, 5 acre minimum, to Exclusive

Vista police reported.

The front-seat passenger is identified as Erica Anderson, 19, of Vacaville, the Rio Vista police reported.

The fourth victim was Laura Poiret, in her 70s, who was in the Suburban. The other six victims in the Chevy, all taken to area hospitals, were 8 to 37 in age. There were two children.

All of those in the Suburban were Mexican nationals who were vacationing in the U.S., the police reported.

The incident occurred about 8:10 p.m. on Highway 12 between Summerset and Church roads.

The Honda, traveling west, had veered off to the road to the right, overcorrected, and crossed into the eastbound lane where it collided with the Suburban, the police reported.

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The commission meets at 7 p.m. in the Board of Supervisors chamber on the first floor of the government center, 675 Texas St., in Fairfield.

The county zoning administrator is to take up the lot line adjustment request for the same property, 4311 Stonefield Lane, 1 mile northwest Fairfield, at 10 a.m. Thursday.

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Obituaries

Murray T. Bass

‘A message from Murray Bass to all his friends and loved ones.’

reaffirmed my conMurray T. Bass was born in San victions when I was Gabriel Canyon, right. They helped California, May 10, me find the path 1928. to wisdom, a destiMarried 60 nation I was never years to a beautiquite able to reach. ful redhead, Zella I have entered Edora Bass. Lucky into the eternal man. vacuum of anonymMine was a ity. While I will genuine ashes to certainly be soon ashes life. Started forgotten, I pray as nothing with U.S. ARMY VETERAN nothing and took that some of the nothing with me when I died. things I tried to achieve in I had a good life. Not an easy my lifetime will continue to one, but good. live through the lives I had a God guided my footsteps small part in changing. as I grew older. He made my To everyone I leave life worthy and worth living behind I have these parting with the help of wonderful friends. I have laughed and words, the lyrics of a song: cried with the people I loved ‘When you’re all alone and and who loved me. I became blue, No one to tell your troua better human because bles to, Remember me, I’m of my critics. They taught the one who loves you.’ me when I was wrong, and Service will be private.

Robert Glenn Salas Nov. 2, 1954 — June 7, 2022

family and veterans On Tuesday, for lunch or at the June 7, 2022, Catholic War VeterRobert Glenn Salas (also known as ans office helping Bob) passed away other veterans with peacefully at home their VA benefits. surrounded by his He was a wonfamily at the age of derful husband, a 67. Bob was born great father and a on Nov. 2, 1954, at fantastic grandpa. the U.S. Army HosHe is survived by his wife, Cheryl; pital in Fort Leavthree daughters, enworth, Kansas, SaBina, Tiffany and to Robert Acfalle U.S. ARMY Samantha; daughSalas and Maria VETERAN (Santos) Salas. ter-in-law, Charity; Bob received his asso- son-in-law, Clint; older ciate degree in Police brothers, Charles (Alan), Science/Corrections from Harold and Melvin (Paul); Solano Community College younger sister, Diana; and and his bachelor’s degree in grandchildren, Lucas and Business Management from Janese; as well as several aunts, uncles, cousins, the University of Phoenix.

He served in the Army nieces and nephews.

Bob is preceded in as Military Police from 1973 to 1979 and spent a death by his father, Robert; few of those years over- mother, Maria; brother, seas in Germany. He later Roland; and son, Robert Jr. Viewing will be held became a Police Officer for Southern Pacific Railroad, 1 to 3 p.m. Monday, Aug. Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 8, 2022, at Bryan-Braker and the city of Fairfield; then Funeral Home, 1850 W. finally, he became a Private Texas St., Fairfield, CaliforInvestigator before he offi- nia. A funeral service will be cially retired. After retire- held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, ment, Bob was a volunteer Aug. 9, 2022, also at Veterans Service Officer Bryan-Braker Funeral and Commander for the Home, followed by mililocal Catholic War Veter- tary honors and services ans Post 1952 for the last at 12:30 p.m. at the Sacra13 years until his death. mento Valley National CemOn Aug. 22, 1987, he etery, 5810 Midway Road married Cheryl Lynn (Lloyd) Dixon, California.

Salas. They had one daughIn remembrance of ter, Samantha. Bob also Robert Glenn Salas’ life, the had two daughters, SaBina family asks that any chariand Tiffany, and one son, table donations be made to Robert Jr. from his previous your local veteran’s organimarriage. zations, or to an AlzheimBob had a passion for er’s or dementia foundation/ the military, helping vet- organization. All expreserans in need, serving his sions of sympathy, including community, and spending flowers, honorary donations time with his friends and to a favorite charity, and family. He also loved to go cards are welcome. camping, hunting, shooting Arrangements under and watching 49ers football the care of Bryan-Braker games. You could often find Funeral Home, 707-425him frequenting the local 4697, www.bryanbraker. eateries with his friends, com.

Alice Marie Battaglia Nov. 1, 1942 — July 1, 2022

Alice Marie Battaglia passed away on July 1, 2022, in the presence of her husband and close friends at her home in Suisun City, California, following a long illness.

She was born on Nov. 1, 1942, in Kansas City, Missouri, and moved to Benicia, California. She graduated from Benicia High School in 1960 and earned a BA in history from UC Davis in 1964. She also earned an AA in health information technology at Chabot College in 1992.

Electing to not enter the workforce until her children were in high school, she participated in charitable work. Her main focus was Girl Scouts and she started as a Brownie Troop leader and became President of the Napa-Solano Girl Scout Council from 1984-1987.

Alice was a dispatcher with the Benicia Police Department from 19801984. This was followed by several administrative positions until she became a medical record coder for Kaiser Permanente in 1992 and retired as lead coder in 2007, at Kaiser Vallejo Medical Center.

Asking the question

‘What can I do to help?’ was her way of serving everyone she met. She always had a way of helping anyone in need, giving her life meaning and purpose. She especially enjoyed helping young women succeed in life.

In retirement, Alice enjoyed gardening, bird watching, reading, her pets and day trips, and loved to share these activities with friends, neighbors and family.

She is survived by her husband of 59 years, Larry A. Battaglia; daughter, Lisa B. Riess; son, Anthony J. (Trayce) Battaglia; grandchildren, Allison Reiss and Stephanie Reiss; brother, James (Alexandra) Anderson.

Alice was preceded in death by her parents, Milton L. and Marian Anderson; and infant daughter, Sarah L. Battaglia.

A memorial celebration of life will be held at a future date.

In lieu of flowers, the family is asking donations be made to the Alzheimer’s Foundation.

Arrangements under the care of Fairfield Funeral Home, 707-425-1041.

SOLAN0 Sandra Stelter

Sept. 19, 1953 — July 13, 2022

Sandra Stelter, JD, CPO, CPES, of Fairfield, went to her Eternal Home on Wednesday, July 13, 2022, after a short hard fight with cancer. Sandy was born Sept. 19, 1953, in Houston, Harris County, Texas, to O.H. and Mary Margolius Stelter.

Sandy graduated from Houston’s Lamar HS, earned a BA in Library Science from Texas Women’s University, then worked for Shell Oil’s Information Services.

In 1980, she moved to California, earned a Doctorate of Jurisprudence from Golden Gate University in 1984 and managed Matthew Bender legal publishing firm’s technology quality assurance.

From 1994 to her death, she owned Strategic Organizing Solutions, helping multitudes of grateful clients as professional organizer and business efficiency consultant. For over two decades she helped countless entrepreneurs start or grow their businesses, teaching NxLevel classes at Napa and Solano Colleges’ Small Business Development Centers (SBDC). She taught TIPS alcohol certification training, now a legal requirement for all who serve liquor.

Sandy said volunteering was her hobby!

She was an enthusiastic member of National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO), as local and national officer. She received several awards as a Fairfield-Suisun Chamber of Commerce Ambassador over many years. She was a member of Le Tip networking, and since 1999, of Business Networking International (BNI), often as an officer.

Sandy served the LGBTQ community with pride and unique wisdom on Solano Pride Center’s Board of Directors for over 25 years. She was treasurer of MCC church of Concord in the 1980s-90s. In 2006, she joined Holy Family Old Catholic Church in Fairfield, recently as national delegate.

Sandy is intensely missed by her wife, Donna J. Harris; stepmother, Claire Stelter; siblings Paul (Susan) Stelter and Susan (Scott) McKee; siblings-inlaw, Kathryn Harris and Kenneth Harris; children, Stephan (Kuilani) Sendlakowski, Michael (Mia) Sendlakowski, Christine (John) Mani and Heather (Robert) Nobriga; grandchildren, Jessicca McGowan, Mikol (Matt) O’Connell, Aristotle (Alyssa) Mani, Alana Sendlakowski, Benjamin Sendlakowski and Cassidy Nobriga; nephews, Philip Stelter, Ryan McCauley, Matthew McCauley; nieces, Stephanie (Ryan) Myers, Shelley (Justin) Farmakakis, Holly McKee and Robin McKee; great-grandson, Kelvin O’Connell; grandniece, Kayla Farmakakis; and former wife, Nancy (Eileen) Gordon-Hugman.

As her life here ends, her life in Heaven begins.

Sandy’s Celebration of Life will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022, at St Mark’s Lutheran Church, 1600 Union Ave., Fairfield, California. Reception will follow at Joseph Nelson Center, 611 Village Drive, Suisun City, California.

In lieu of flowers, Sandy’s family would appreciate donations to Solano Pride Center or a local food bank in her name.

Nancy C. Guest

Jan. 28, 1932 — July 14, 2022

Nancy Cecilia Guest, 90, passed away on July 14, 2022. She was born on Jan. 28, 1932, in Columbus, Ohio, to Paul C. Linder Sr. and Ruth Pauline (Williams) Linder.

Nancy was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and community volunteer. She provided integral support to her husband, Ralph, throughout his 24-year U.S. Navy career, followed by his 22 years with U.S. Customs, as well as raising their six wonderful children. She also enjoyed her nine grandchildren and eight greatgrandchildren and the many beloved family dogs and cats.

She delighted in being an ‘urban farmer’ out on the Guest ‘ranchette’ in English Hills. She oversaw raising horses, goats, ducks, chickens, rabbits and various other critters.

She was active at St. Mary’s Catholic Church for 50 years. Over the years, she taught Sunday School (CCD), was a member of the Women’s Club and volunteered at the Food Locker.

She was a lifelong artist.

From poetry, drawing and painting, Nancy had a talent for the arts. She loved combining poems with collages in creating custom cards on her beloved computer, that she then enjoyed sending out to family and friends.

Nancy was supportive of her children’s activities whether it be paper routes, riding lessons, horse shows, dance and gymnastics. She was a 4-H leader, Girl Scout leader, was active in Pony Club, a youth recreational riding organization, and she raised eight puppies for Guide Dogs for the Blind.

Her most rewarding volunteer work was the 17 years she spent volunteering for the Horseplay Therapeutic Riding Center, a program for disabled children and young adults.

Nancy is survived by her daughter, Kathryn S. Killinger (Tony) of Inyokern, California; granddaughter, Darcy Topper (Desi); son, James W. Guest (Beth) of Gouldsboro, Maine; grandson, Jason Guest (Jenna); great-granddaughters, Danielle, Isabelle, Lilac and Noelle; granddaughter, Lisa Tyler (Geoff);

great-granddaughter, Isla; daughter, Janet A. Garcia of Vacaville, California; granddaughter, Sally Hausler (Tom); great-granddaughters, Claire and Chloe; grandson, Vincent Garcia; daughter, Jean T. Barchers (Mike) of North Richland Hills, Texas; granddaughter, Kelli Couch; great-granddaughter, Audralyn; daughter, Karen L. Mraz (Chris) of Vacaville, California; grandsons, Mark and Scott Mraz; and granddaughter, Megan Mraz.

She is preceded in death by her parents, Paul and Ruth Linder; husband of 53 years, Ralph W. Guest; son, Thomas M. Guest; brother, Paul C. Linder Jr.; son-in-law, Anthony (Tony) Garcia; and her step-grandson, Josh Killinger.

Public visitation will be held from 5 to 8 p.m.

Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022, at Vaca Hills Chapel, 524 Elmira Road, Vacaville, California. A Funeral Mass will be held at 10 a.m.

Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 350 Stinson, Ave., Vacaville, California. Interment will follow the service at the Vacaville-Elmira Cemetery, 522 Elmira Road, Vacaville, California. There will be a reception at St. Mary’s Church Hall following the interment.

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VACAVILLE — Contributions are being accepted for the Boys & Girls clubs as part of the “Help Local Kids Learn” campaign.

“Beginning July 30, customers in Vacaville can make a monetary contribution at their local Ross Dress for Less location during checkout to

be donated to the Vacaville Neighborhood Boys & Girls Club, through Aug. 21,” the local club said in a statement.

This is the eighth year Ross stores have participated in the campaign, and Ross will match the first $400,000 raised.

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Donna Rae Mullin

April 26, 1934 — Nov. 11, 2020

Donna was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, to Clarence and Mae Peterson.

She had a hard time growing up, in and out of foster homes, mainly because of her young mother.

Her father was a police officer.

She met Raymond Mullin in high school and soon married after graduation in 1952. Donna and Ray left Iowa to make a life in Fairfield, California. They both worked in the grocery industry. Donna worked for Safeway and Ray was a driver for Wonder Bread.

Raising two boys, four and six years old, kept them very busy.

Donna sadly lost her husband, Raymond, to melanoma in 1974.

Donna retired from Safeway and went to work part-time at Campos Food Fair in Fairfield. She held a position as a board member for the Retail Clerks Union for 10 years. She then retired in the early ’80s.

Donna loved dancing, Lake Tahoe, Reno, cruise ships and Hawaii. She was a member of the Moose and Elks Lodge, The Wednesday

Club, Eastern Star, Masonic Lodge and 50 years in Beta Sigma Phi Sorority, where she made lifelong many friendships.

Her biggest love was being Nana to her two grandchildren. Babysitting was now Donna’s new full-time job.

Following hip surgery, Donna had a stroke, which left her paralyzed and immobile for 30 months before having a fatal heart attack at home. She is now reunited with her husband, Raymond Clark Mullin, in heaven.

She is missed dearly and loved greatly by her family.

Donna is survived by her brother, Butch Peterson; sister, Kate Peterson; brothers-in-law, Bill Mullin, Jerry Mullin, Russ Mullin, Jimmer Hatcher; sons, Rodney Mullin, Walter (Litsa) Mullin; grandchildren, Sean Clark Mullin, Selena Renee Smith; greatgranddaughter, Joslyn Clair Smith; great-grandsons, Zackery Raymond Mullin and Dyllon Al Mullin; and her companion caregiver, Robert Tice.

Geneva Irene Johnson Aug. 23, 1938 — July 9, 2022

On July 9, 2022, our Lord and Savior called Geneva Johnson home.

She’s preceded in death by her husband of 63 years, Charles M. Johnson; and her son, Jerome Eugene Johnson.

Geneva was born in Georgia in 1938. Several years later, Geneva and her mother moved to New York to be with other family members. She excelled in her educational studies and in high school she became a varsity cheerleader and pep squad member. That’s how she met Charles, who was all an all-star/all-state basketball player. Geneva and Charles became high school sweethearts in 1953. They got married in 1957, shortly after Charles completed his Air Force boot camp training.

The happy couple had four children, all boys.

Geneva is survived by three of her sons, Charles M. Johnson and his wife, Deborah, William M. Johnson (Spud) and Antoine Anthony Johnson and his wife, Kelly; three grandchildren, Jayce Johnson and his wife, Natasha, Aaliyah Johnson and Alyssa Johnson; and two great-grandchildren, Jazmyne Johnson and Jazelle Johnson.

During Charles’ 24-year military career; the family lived in multiple states. In 1970, the family made their final move to Travis AFB, California. Over the years the Johnson household was like a community center on whichever base they

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Geneva was a terrific mother to her children and a mentor to many young adults. She deeply loved her grandkids, her Golden State Warriors, playing pinochle and getting away on casino trips.

Viewing and service for Geneva will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, at Bryan-Braker Funeral Home, 1850 W. Texas St., Fairfield. A procession will follow the service to the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery, 5810 Midway Road, Dixon. Geneva will be laid to rest with her husband, who was a veteran and honorably discharged from the Air Force. Repast from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. at Shiloh Baptist Church, 185 Chandler St., Vacaville, California.

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FAIRFIELD — The gross value of Solano County agriculture commodities, including livestock, increased by more than $50 million in 2021 and marked the single highest value in county history.

The agricultrual report shows a gross value of the nearly 100 county commodities of $407.64 million – up from $357.16 million in 2020.

“This sets a new record high value surpassing the 2014 peak of ($378.54 million) – a remarkable feat considering the ongoing effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on supply chains, production costs and agriculture workforce,” Ed King wrote in the introduction to the 2021 Solano County Crop and Livestock Report. “Moreover, persistent dry conditions saw the entire county is a state of exceptional drought from late-May into mid-November.”

A 40% increase in the value of the county’s top crop, almonds, was a big reason for the overall increase. Almonds went

from $50.7 million in gross value to $71.12 million, the report states.

The report will be presented to the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday.

Processing tomatoes, at $44.11 million, remained the county’s second most valuable crop, followed by nursery products ($43.09 million), cattle and calves ($31.88 million) and alfalfa/hay($28.61million).

Wine grapes climbed to sixth from seventh with a value of $25.44 million, while walnuts dropped from sixth to seventh with a value of $20.31 million.

Sheep and lambs moved into the top 10, showing up in the ninth spot with a gross value of $8.92 million.

The board meets at 9 a.m. in the first-floor chamber of the government center, 675 Texas St., in Fairfield.

Also on the agenda is a final vote on placing the one-eighth cent general sales tax increase measure on the November ballot, consideration of ARPA funding for housing recovery project funding, including direction on accessory dwelling criteria.

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Young almond trees grow in a lot off Meridian Road, outside of Vacaville, in 2015. Almonds were the county’s top crop of 2021 according to the recent Solano County Crop and Livestock Report

Farm to Table event in Vacaville returns in September Daily Republic Staff

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VACAVILLE — The Farm to Table Dinner event is coming back.

“We couldn’t be happier to bring back one of our favorite Vacaville experiences,” Melyssa Reeves, Visit Vacaville president and chief executive officer, said in announcing the event.

“Dining outdoors in Vacaville is always lovely in the fall, but the chance to savor special dishes from our top chefs and farms all in one meal is what makes this event so exceptional.”

The alfresco dining event will take place Sept. 30 at Andrews Park.

The reception will be at 5 p.m. Dinner will be served at 6.

“The multi-course meal features cuisine from a

Clubs From Page A4 a safe and supportive place to spend their outof-school time, a place that offers life-enhancing experiences, opportunities and hope for their future,” the club said in

variety of local chefs with produce and meat sourced from the city’s farms and ranches, as well as from producers within a 30-mile radius of town,” organizers said in a statement. “Dishes are planned based on seasonal availability for peak freshness and will be served with wines from the region that complement each course.”

General tickets for the event are $150 per person and include dinner and paired wines.

A VIP ticket option is $200 per person and includes admission to the pre-dinner reception at Makse with cocktails, wine and beer.

To purchase tickets, contact Delaney Holden, Visit Vacaville community engagement manager, at 707-450-0500 or send an email to delaney@visitvacaville.com. its statement.

“Since we opened 19 years ago, we have made a positive difference in the lives of more than 4,000 Vacaville girls and boys.”

The club is enrolling children 6 to 17 for the 2022-23 school year. Go to www.vnbgc.com to learn more and to find registration forms.

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Trower Park 1st of 6 Vaca parks getting overhauls Matt Miller

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VACAVILLE — Six of Vacaville’s neighborhood parks have been budgeted to receive major park amenity improvements through Measure M funding, and the first will be Trower Park.

The City Council voted this week to allocate $2.5 million to the Markham Avenue location after some $700,000 in amenities were added to what they had previously approved of in June. The project was targeted for $1.8 million at that time.

Feedback was taken from neighborhood residents. Neighbors and city staff explored potential value engineering options.

The modifications include the potential for pollinator gardens, tiled art walls, sculptures, interactive water features, a skateboarding area, basketball-football area with a painted court, enhanced play structures with zip line and hillside slides, and a designated turf area. It would all be enhanced by bright colors and a theme that befits the area.

“Many parks want to focus on the culture of the community,” recreation Manager Melody Ocampo

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The Vacaville City Council approved $2.5 million in Measure M funding this week to renovate and do major upgrades to Trower Park on Markham Avenue. said. “We see an opportunity to do that here as well. We want to give a sense of being in the outdoors in nature.”

The play area would include swings and a merry-go-round, with a portion of it being all inclusive for those with special needs. The skate area was reduced but remained in the plan, and the flat turf area was enhanced.

The City Council approved of the final master plan with a 4-0 vote. Absent from the meeting were council members Jeanette Wylie

and Jason Roberts and Mayor Ron Rowlett. To move forward without the full council, it required the unanimous vote.

Those council members present were enthusiastic about the project, particularly Councilman Michael Silva, whose district includes the Markham area.

“I’m excited with this opportunity, and the people that I’ve spoken with are generally excited as well,” Silva said. “I’m getting a little tearyeyed. I appreciate that there is a high price tag,

but this area supports many kids and families and recreational space is important. This is an opportunity to do something really different.”

Councilman Nolan Sullivan called the project “a home run” and councilman Roy Stockton said he “loved all the amenities and the hard work” that was put into the project.

“This is an amazing project,” Councilman Greg Ritchie said. “I grew up here going to parks. This is very special. I’m excited to see this park get a welldeserved facelift.”

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UC Cooperative Extension expanding staff, programs

Road repairs to close Highway 37 for 5 nights starting Aug. 14

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FAIRFIELD — Nearly 470 youth participated in various 4-H programs during the past year.

“One of the cornerstones of our work in Solano County is the 4-H Youth Development Program,” Susan Ellsworth, director of the Capitol Corridor Office of the UC Cooperative Extension, told the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday.

The program involved 467 youth – 198 from military clubs – working in four general areas: civic engagement, leadership, healthy living and STEM. There were 107 adult volunteers. STEM is an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, Math.

Two other volunteer-based programs are the Master Gardeners and the Master Food Preservers.

The Master Gardeners program has 148 certified volunteers who put in 4,689 hours of service and created nine demonstration gardens, while the Master Food Preservers had 29 certified volunteers who put in 1,548 hours and created 37 classes and demonstrations.

The Cooperative Extension also added Sustainable Solano as a local partner for culinary arts programs.

Still, the backbone of the Cooperative Extension remains extending the university system’s research and expertise to help farmers and ranchers in the various counties – from large operations to small farms, from crops and orchards to rangeland and livestock.

The importance of the work is obvious given what ag represents to the local, regional and state economies. The gross value of Solano County agriculture in 2020 was $357.16 million, the county Livestock and Crop report states.

“We have eight academic advisers within areas of agriculture and pest management,” Ellsworth said.

“The emphasis of these programs includes climate change adaptation, sustainable use of inputs and natural resources and reach-

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connecting to westbound Highway 12, to Highway 121 and back to westbound Highway 37, Caltrans said.

The ramp from the Walnut Avenue/Railroad Avenue interchange leading to westbound Highway 37 will be closed. The remaining ramps will stay open.

Eastbound Highway 37 will not be affected.

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VALLEJO—Westbound Highway 37 – between Walnut Avenue and Highway 121 at Sears Point in Sonoma County – will be closed each night from 8 p.m. to 4 a.m. from Aug. 14-Aug. 19.

The closure is to repair deteriorated pavement and shoulders on the 6-mile stretch between Walnut Avenue and Skaggs Island Road, the state Department of Transportation reported.

Traffic will be detoured to northbound Highway 29,

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Agriculture, Horticulture and Pest Management programs are offered by UC Cooperative Extension. ing out to underserved agriculture producers.”

Ellsworth gave the board a presentation on the past, present and future of the multi-layered, 117-year-old agency that has been serving Solano County agriculture since its inception.

Solano, since 2014, has been part of the Capitol Corridor Office along with Yolo and Sacramento counties.

“The idea was that pooling funds would enable us to more effectively leverage resources across all three counties, which, in fact, it has done,” Ellsworth said.

The 2020-21 budget for Capital Corridor is $6.63 million, with $900,000 in fund support from the three counties and another $218,843 of in-kind support from the counties. Solano’s share is $300,000 in direct contributions and $74,823 in in-kind contributions. Yolo and Sacramento also give $300,000 in cash contributions. Sacramento’s in-kind contribution is $133,173; Yolo County’s is $10,847.

In-kind is primarily facility costs and rent, overhead, copier and phone, the agency said.

The biggest share of the budget comes from the university system at $4.06 million, with another $1.45 million from grants, donations and other sources, the Cooperative Extension reported.

Statewide, the Cooperative Extension received a $34 million funding boost, and Ellsworth, in response to a question by Supervisor Monica Brown, said she is hopeful that the increase support will be ongoing. Systemwide, between 100 and 110 new program advisers are expected to be hired.

“But nothing is etched in stone,” Ellsworth said.

“I’m excited about the fact that we have a little bit more money and were able to reach a little further out,” added board Chairman John Vasquez, who sits on the Capitol Corridor’s advisory committee along with county Agriculture Commissioner Ed King and a representative from the county administration.

Ellsworth said the new funding will “set the table” for program expansion, including the hiring of five new advisers in Solano County.

Among the hires will be a regional food systems adviser, an environmental horticulture adviser, a vegetable crop adviser and an urban integrated pest management adviser.

The nutrition and health program operating in Sacramento and Yolo counties also is expected to expand into Solano.

“We are very excited about this period of growth,” Ellsworth said.

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Hospices have become big business Finding silver linings in economic cloud for private equity firms, raising concerns about end-of-life care T K aiser Health NEws Hospice care, once provided primarily by nonprofit agencies, has seen a remarkable shift over the past decade, with more than two-thirds of hospices nationwide now operating as for-profit entities. The ability to turn a quick profit in caring for people in their last days of life is attracting a new breed of hospice owners: private equity firms.

That rapid growth has many hospice veterans worried that the original hospice vision may be fading, as those capital investment companies’ demand for return on investment and the debt load they force hospices to bear are hurting patients and their families.

“Many of these transactions are driven by the motive of a quick profit,” said Dr. Joan Teno, an adjunct professor at Brown University School of Public Health, whose work has focused on endof-life care. “I’m very concerned that you’re harming not only the dying patient, but the family whose memory will be of a loved one suffering because they didn’t get adequate care.”

According to a 2021 analysis, the number of hospice agencies owned by private equity firms soared from 106 in 2011 to 409 in 2019, out of a total of 5,615 hospices. Over that time, 72% of hospices acquired by private equity were nonprofits. And those trends have only accelerated into 2022.

Hospice is an easy business to start, with most care provided at home and using lower-cost health workers. That allowed the entry of smaller hospices, many launched with the intent of selling within a few years. Private equity firms, backed by deeppocketed investors, could then snatch up handfuls of smaller hospices, cobble together a chain, and profit from economies of scale in administrative and supply costs, before selling to an even larger chain or another private equity firm.

Private equity-owned hospice companies counter that their model supports growth through investment, which benefits the people in their care.

“Private equity sees a huge opportunity to take smaller businesses that lack sophistication, lack the ability to grow, lack the capital investment, and private equity says, ‘We can come in there, cobble these things together, get standardization, get visibility and be able to create a better footprint, better access, and more opportunities,’” said Steve Larkin, CEO of Charter Healthcare, a hospice chain owned by

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Rapid growth has many hospice veterans worried that the original hospice vision may be fading, as those capital investment companies’ demand for return on investment and the debt load they force hospices to bear are hurting patients and their families. the private equity firm Pharos Capital Group.

But he acknowledged that not all of those entering the hospice market have the best intentions.

“It is a little scary,” he said. “There are people that have no business being in health care” looking to invest in hospice.

A boom industry With the U.S. population rapidly aging, hospice has become a boom industry. Medicare – the federal insurance program for people 65 and older, which pays for the vast majority of end-of-life care – spent $22.4 billion on hospice in 2020, according to a Medicare Payment Advisory Commission report to Congress. That’s up from $12.9 billion just a decade earlier. The number of hospices billing Medicare over that time grew from less than 3,500 to more than 5,000, according to the report.

But with limited oversight and generous payment, the industry is at high risk for exploitation.

Agencies are paid a daily rate for each patient – this year, about $200 – which encourages for-profit hospices to limit spending to boost their bottom lines.

For-profit hospices tend to hire fewer employees than nonprofits and expect them to see more patients.

Many hospice nurses and social workers are booked for 30-minute appointment slots throughout the day, unable to spend more time with patients if needed.

For-profit hospices hire more licensed practical nurses than registered nurses, who are more skilled, and rely more on nurse’s aides to further cut costs. One study found patients in for-profit hospices see doctors or nurse practitioners one-third as often as those in nonprofit hospices. The U.S. Government Accountability Office found in an analysis of federal data from 2014 to 2017 that patients in for-profit hospices were less likely than patients

in nonprofit hospices to have received any hospice visits in the last three days of life.

“The main way of making the bottom line look good is decreasing visits,” Teno said.

According to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, for-profit hospices had Medicare profit margins of 19% in 2019, compared with 6% for nonprofit hospices.

For-profit hospices also enroll a different set of patients, preferring those likely to remain in hospice longer. Most costs are incurred in the first and last week of hospice care. Patients who enroll in hospice must undergo several assessments to develop a care plan and set their medications. In their final days, as the body begins to shut down, patients often need additional services or medications to stay comfortable.

“So the sweet spot is kind of in the middle,” said Robert Tyler Braun, an assistant professor of population health sciences at Weill Cornell Medical College.

That makes dementia patients particularly profitable. Doctors have a harder time predicting whether a patient with Alzheimer’s disease or another form of dementia has less than six months to live, the eligibility criterion for enrollment.

For-profit hospices enroll those patients anyway, Teno said, and stand to profit the longer those patients live. They tend to enroll fewer cancer patients, whose prognosis is generally more predictable but who usually die sooner.

“It is a very simple business model,” Teno said. “Go to assisted living facilities and nursing homes, and it’s onestop shopping.”

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FAIRFIELD — Local Applebee’s locations in Solano County will be participating in a fundraising effort in August.

The restaurants in Fairfield and Vallejo will be hosting the 18th annual fundraising campaign to benefit Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation, a pediatric cancer charity funding cancer treatment research, now through Aug. 21.

Participating Applebee’s locations will donate 25 cents from each traditional lemonade and flavored lemonade sale, in addition to 10 cents from each Strawberry Summer Squeeze or Electric Lemon Crush sale, to benefit the foundation.

All Applebee locations on Aug. 20 will donate 25 cents from all lemonade sales on National Lemonade Day. Since the fundraising campaign’s inception, Applebee’s

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The Rev. Ken Dugger has worked as a chaplain in Denver for 13 years at both for-profit and nonprofit hospices.

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At one for-profit hospice, “the word on the street was [that] we were the dementia hospice because we had so many dementia patients,” Dugger said. “We wound up discharging a lot of patients because they had long lengths of stay and no longer met criteria.”

He said about a third of a hospice’s patients die each week, so agencies need to market heavily to replace them. That leads to some hospices making promises to families – such as daily visits from a nurse’s aide – that they can’t keep.

“Some people see dollars and they go, ‘Wow! It’s a great chance to make some money here,’ and they don’t understand that hospice isn’t easy,” Dugger said.

For-profit agencies counter that their nonprofit counterparts have cornered the market on cancer patients and that they are expanding access by serving patients with other diagnoses.

But if patients become too costly, requiring expensive care or medicines, hospice providers can discharge them, and take them to a hospital emergency room to get services the agencies don’t want to pay for themselves, said Christy Whitney, former CEO of HopeWest, a nonprofit hospice serving five western Colorado counties.

A 2019 report by the Milliman consulting firm found that 31% of patients in nonprofits had cancer, while 15% had dementia.

At for-profit hospices, 22% of patients had cancer, and 22% had dementia, said the report, funded by the National Partnership of Hospice Innovation, a

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Cities still seeking housing quota escape plans

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hen state officials issued markedly higher regional quotas for zoning land for new housing a few years ago, and regional agencies imposed specific numbers on cities, the reaction among local officials was sharp and negative.

Resistance was especially stout in small cities containing mostly single-family homes occupied by affluent families because the state’s orders emphasized building more multi-unit projects for low- and moderate-income families.

It would, residents and officials in those cities complained, undermine local control and change community characDan Walters ter. The state housing agency, however, was armed with new tools to enforce its dictates and has been insistent on compliance.

In turn, some rebellious city officials have tried to find ways around the state’s orders that they zone enough land to meet their housing quota, particularly after the Legislature passed and Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation that allows construction of duplexes, or in some cases fourplexes, on lots zoned for singlefamily homes.

As many as 40 California cities adopted policies that were clearly aimed at discouraging the kind of dense development the state sought. The most famous, or infamous, example was Woodside, a very wealthy San Francisco Peninsula hamlet, which early this year declared itself mountain lion habitat.

Woodside, under pressure from the state, quickly backed down, but local officials’ search for an escape hatch from the state’s pro-housing pressure has continued.

Last week, a new wrinkle in the guerrilla war between the state and rebellious cities surfaced in Santa Monica, a very wealthy coastal community west of Los Angeles.

In June, Santa Monica’s city council very reluctantly accepted its quota of 8,895 units, most of which are to be designated for low- and moderate-income residents, reversing a previous rejection vote.

“I am appalled by the state’s approach to this whole process and I still believe that they shouldn’t be allowed to do this and that there should be controls on this and there probably ought to be a lawsuit,” Mayor Sue Himmelrich, said before moving to accept the quota.

In the aftermath, two of the council’s most vociferous opponents of the quota, Oscar de la Torre and Phil Brock, drafted an amendment to the city charter and urged their colleagues to place it on the November ballot.

It would establish new pay scales for workers on projects built to satisfy the quota, as high as 2.7 times the local prevailing wage for construction work.

The amendment declared that mandating high wages would “preserve and protect the character of housing, neighborhoods, and the community; maintain social and economic diversity; protect the health and safety of Santa Monica residents; encourage the development of affordable housing within the limitations and capacity of Santa Monica’s infrastructure and geography; and ensure the payment of living wages to the construction workers working on large projects in the city so they may live where they work.”

That lofty language notwithstanding, the true purpose of the proposal was clearly to make construction cost-prohibitive, undermining the state’s housing quota.

The proposal came before the council last week and it was decided that it wouldn’t be placed on the ballot but would be considered later for adoption as a city law.

The Santa Monica dodge may or may not become law, but it indicates that the search for ways to escape the state’s pressure to build more housing is continuing.

Meanwhile, however, the state’s housing crisis grows worse each day. The state needs two-plus million more units, particularly those for low- and moderate-income families, but construction is barely half of what the state says we should be building each year.

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Please, city planners or whoever was responsible for this change, don’t get any more bright ideas.

I’m writing concerning the Letter to the Editor written by Eddie Flores, published in the July 24 newspaper, addressing the changes to West Texas Street.

I agree with Mr. Flores that it was a waste of taxpayers’ money. It is annoying to have to stop at every corner waiting for no or little traffic.

It causes drivers to waste gas, and may cause traffic jams because drivers are not used to stop signs.

Further, I think that the lack of signals may cause confusion with pedestrians versus cars, since pedestrians do not have a stop sign, and no longer have traffic lights.

I would also like to add that it is annoying that the city could “sneak in” this project. I could be wrong, but I don’t recall seeing or hearing anything about this prior to a big shock I had when I drove down the street for the first time since it was changed.

The people I’ve talked to absolutely do not like what the city has done to the street, including the very wide bicycle lanes and the bright green paint slapped on the street at every corner. In the 45 years I’ve lived in Fairfield, I could count on one hand the number of times I’ve seen a bicycle rider on West Texas Street.

Whose bright idea was it, and how could the city make this change without asking the opinion of the people who live in this city? People live here because we like the smalltown feel and the freedom we get with that. We don’t want Fairfield to turn into a Berkeley or Alameda or any

Pat Sivigliano Fairfield

Sports calendar should include WNBA games I often read the calendar of the sports section in the paper in order to inform me of the upcoming sports events.

However, lately I have seen several WNBA games by thumbing through my channels not listed on the calendar, including (the recent) Chicago Sky against the New York Liberty, and the Las Vegas Aces against the Los Angeles Sparks games.

One of the reasons I subscribe to the paper is to inform me of the upcoming sports events, which should also include the WNBA games.

Anthony F. Williams Suisun City

Sharing religion is nice, sharing ‘right’ religion more important We must laud the efforts of Pastor Stetins and “group” at St. Marks Lutheran Church (see July 17 issue of Daily Republic). They seek to better understand and even appreciate outside devotees of “faith.”

True faith, however, must not be confused with any religion.

In Isaiah 64:6 we read that our religion is like “filthy rags.” And many “faiths” do not represent righteous communication with our creator! We are reminded also that Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except thru me.” (John 14:6). If this fact is not paramount in our minds and heart, then the study of faith or religion is a dangerous exercise in eternal futility. We always want to be broadminded and inclusive (it sounds so un-arrogant).

But in Matthew 7:14, “Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life – and there are few that find it.”

I agree with Pastor Stetins that sharing our faith is important. And there can be a transference of faith as suggested in 2 Timothy 1:5. But stories of ancestors is not a prerequisite for believing today.

Acceptance of biblical truths now is crucial regardless of nature of past family stories. There are many “faiths” that may sound prophetical but are not saving faiths of a living Savior. While we need not be connected to stories of the past, we can so be inspired and our faith strengthened as indicated by Pastor Stetins.

God has given each of us a measure of faith (Romans 12:3) but it is dynamic only when it is nurtured by God’s Word.

And let us not fall victim to the false belief that the “faith of our fathers” or a parent will sustain us as well.

William Coburn, M.D. Fairfield

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Proceed with caution when choosing assisted living home Dear Annie: When food, money and books – my husband died, my things you could fit in son and daughter-in-law a hand – went missing. put me in what was supWhen I reported the posed to be one of the losses to the head of best homes for the aged. the place, she told me I My husband of 45 years was the only one having died unexpectedly. I these problems. But was 68 at the time, and I that same day, I said was in shock. I did need Annie Lane something about it to a some guidance. fellow resident and was Dear Annie The first year I was told that this happened there, I just did as I was told. almost every day.

However, anyone who knew In any dispute, the manageme would know that was not ment of our home always backs the place for me. My mind was the employee. They assume that not damaged. the staff is always right and the I am writing to offer advice residents are always wrong. to people who are thinking For my son’s birthday, I about sending their relatives bought him something that had to a nursing home. Make sure special meaning for us. It disthe place has a reputation for appeared. It was still in my honesty. I am in a home where room when I left for a doctor’s too many of my belongings have appointment, but I discovgone missing. ered that it was gone when First, my husband’s coffee I returned. cups disappeared. Then clothes, I reported it to the man who

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was in charge, and he came to the room and started going through my cabinet. I asked him what he was doing, and he said he was looking for the gift I bought for my son. He didn’t find it.

So if you are thinking of nursing homes, please check them out – with more than one visit. And go on unplanned visits.

It’s a terrible place to go, but if it is needed, please check it out. — Unhappy with Disappearances Dear Unhappy: Thank you for your letter. Your experience sounds awful. I hope you share all the details with your son and daughter-in-law and that they get you out of there and find a better home for assisted living.

I am sorry for the loss of your husband, and I hope that your letter encourages other readers to be extra cautious in checking

out elderly care facilities.

Dear Annie: I have a wedding invitation etiquette question.

My niece is getting married and has only invited five of her six cousins. The one cousin not invited happens to be one of my sons. I am very upset that she has chosen not to invite him. We have not had many family gatherings since the pandemic. My mother passed last year, and the funeral was our last gathering.

This niece no longer has any grandparents alive – only cousins, aunts and uncles – and this could be the only family celebration for quite some time.

I know this is her big day, but to exclude only one cousin is very upsetting to me. I have expressed my concerns to her, yet she still chooses not to invite him. Is it proper etiquette to exclude a family member from this event? Any advice would be

appreciated. — Concerned Aunt Dear Concerned Aunt: Did she give a reason why she didn’t invite your son? It is understandable that you are upset.

It is not proper etiquette to exclude your son. However, your niece might have had a bad experience with your son, and she thinks his presence would be toxic or somehow ruin her big day. She might also be cutting back on costs.

It is great that you expressed your concern, but I would talk to her again to find out the reason, and if she refuses to say anything and insists on excluding your son, you have to decide whether it is worth it to you to go to the wedding under those circumstances.

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

FOR YOUR HEALTH

by Holiday Mathis

Today’s birthday You’ll travel lighter emotionally and physically. Your cosmic birthday gift is a spotlight on the essentials; you’ll let go of what you don’t need. With energy rising, you’ll attract a crew of co-creators and get to work on a new project. While you’re busy making new things possible for the next generation, you’ll build a legacy. Scorpio and Virgo adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 8, 44, 4, 11 and 16.

ARIES (March 21-April 19). You make the extra effort to see someone. It’s actually good if it’s a little inconvenient to do so because it shows that you value the other person. The benefits of keeping up with relationships will far outweigh the trouble you go to.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Too often, you carry more than your load. This is a day to carry only what you need to get through the day. Less will be more. Better yet, carry what you’ll need this hour.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). List three things you can do to move forward and execute it. Even if they are the wrong three things, you will still progress and learn enough to choose a more effective list tomorrow.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). There’s a role to fill, and you’re an excellent casting director, but there’s no perfect person for this. You’d have a better probability of finding Bigfoot. So, when you land on a pretty good fit, take it, and move to the next challenge.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). The more structures and plans you have in place the better, as it makes you feel both secure and free to be very clear about your options.

You don’t have to leave room for the unexpected; it will happen anyway.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You’re not always in the mood to be acknowledged.

Because it sometimes feels embarrassing and unnecessary to have the attention on you, you might decide to keep your contributions low-key or completely anonymous.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). A relationship paradox: You can’t always do what you want to do and what they want to do at the same time. Sacrifices will be made. You will give up a bit of autonomy and personal freedom at the altar of the relationship.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). The game you’re playing has a prize you hadn’t considered, and you’re catching up to it, too.

This is getting interesting! Of course, you stopped playing for the prize a long time ago.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).

People use any number of methods for attention and leverage. A manipulator may be apologetic, offended, ill or desperate.

You have a sense about these things today and can avoid nuisance by heeding it.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You’re like a hybrid car, toggling between different types of fuel to keep your wheels spinning. Energy sources may be emotional, inspirational, nutritional and caffeinated.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Keep your impressions in check. Be careful not to glorify anyone just because they do a few things right. Likely, they struggle with better and lesser impulses, just like everyone else trying to rise to the moment.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). People develop expectations of you that you cannot control. Subsequently, they may get their feelings hurt by the reality of the situation. You’ll draw on your deep wells of compassion.

CELEBRITY PROFILES: In a stroke of cosmic intuition, J.K. Rowling gave Harry Potter the same birthday as hers and has been known to release books on that day, too, taking advantage of the luck that comes with a solar return. Leos are creators and entertainers. Rowling also has very strong Virgo energy in her natal chart, with her moon, Mercury, Venus, Uranus and Pluto all in this grounded, hardworking sign.

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Breast-feeding serves as a child’s first immunization, providing protection from potentially life-threatening ailments.

August is National Breastfeeding Month Teri Ewell, MPH, RD, IBCLC

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he theme for National Breastfeeding Month 2022 is “Every Step of the Way.” It is important that pregnant people are provided education and support every step of the way in their breastfeeding journey – from conception to delivery to weaning. Continuity of care spans all fields, from health care providers, clinics, hospitals, public health programs and, ultimately, the community.

The purpose of National Breastfeeding Month is to bring awareness to the importance of supporting and protecting breastfeeding, particularly during disasters or pandemics when health inequities are magnified.

Exclusive breastfeeding is the cornerstone of child survival and child health because it provides essential, irreplaceable nutrition for a child’s growth and development. It serves as a child’s first immunization, providing protection from respiratory infections, diarrheal disease and other potentially life-threatening ailments.

Human milk provides virtually all the protein, sugar, fat and nutrients a baby needs to be healthy. It contains many substances that support the baby’s immune system, including disease fighting antibodies, immune factors, enzymes and white blood cells – all essential components to build a resil-

ient and thriving child.

In addition to providing needed physiological benefits, breastfeeding is important for the mother’s mental health by reducing maternal depression and anxiety. During times of stress, breast-feeding signals the mother’s body to produce oxytocin, a relaxation hormone. The infant also produces oxytocin while breastfeeding, causing the infant to sleep and relax with a feeling of being nurtured and cared for. Studies show breastfeeding reduces stress, resulting in better maternal mental health.

Breastfeeding can ensure a healthy infant receives the “gold standard” of nutrition, while providing a cost savings to the family. Breast-fed infants have fewer ear and respiratory infections. A key component in maintaining an infant’s food security is accomplished by ensuring the mom and baby dyad is supported with resources by focusing breastfeeding services to underserved and economically disadvantaged communities. The focus of National Breastfeeding Month is the urgency to restore breastfeeding support systems to the pre-pandemic levels and strengthen the capacities of these systems to achieve the World Health Organization’s 2025 global nutrition targets of exclusive breastfeeding in the first six months of half of the infants born.

The Breastfeeding Coalition of

Solano County, in conjunction with the Black Infant Health Program and The Women, Infants and Children Supplemental Nutrition Program (WIC), will commemorate National Breastfeeding Month by sponsoring two events: Milk at the Market at the Fairfield Farmers Market in Fairfield on Aug. 4 where they will have games, giveaways and lots of breastfeeding education for patrons of the market; and on Aug. 11, they will have their long-awaited Donor Milk Drive that will commemorate the official grand opening of the Solano County Donor Milk Collection Center. This collection center will be the only site on the I-80 corridor between San Francisco and Sacramento that receives and ships donor breast milk to the Mothers’ Milk Bank of San Jose. When a breastfeeding mother has an excess of stored breastmilk, they will be able to donate so it can be provided to vulnerable infants, especially those in the Neonatal Intensive Care Units. A prescreened milk donor can drop off their breast milk at the collection center in Fairfield.

Trained staff will accept the donation and forward it to the Mothers’ Milk Bank, which screens, processes and dispenses donated human milk to the recipients.

Teri Ewell is a lactation educator and counselor at Solano County Health & Social Services, Solano Public Health, Nutrition Services Department.

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positions about energy sources and their dependence on autocratic regimes.

Around the world, investment in renewable energy is surging and governments that were previously skeptical about nuclear power are reconsidering their opinion. Even Japan, which suffered the Fukushima disaster in 2011, is hoping to restart more nuclear reactors.

There is nothing like some fear and serious disruption to provoke governments, companies and individuals to reconsider their preferences and how they do business. If the world emerges from the coming downturn with inflation under control, more resilient supply chains and on the path to more secure energy supplies, the pain will have led to an improved result. Let us hope so.

trade group of nonprofit hospices.

Patients in nonprofits had more nursing, social worker, and therapy visits. For-profit hospices, the report found, had longer lengths of stay by patients, discharged more patients before death, and had profit margins nearly seven times higher.

Other studies have found that forprofit hospices have higher rates of complaints and deficiencies, provide fewer community benefits, and have higher rates of emergency room and other hospital use.

Braun said financial pressures are worse for private equity-backed hospices than for other for-profit hospices, partly because of the way hospice acquisitions are financed. A private equity firm will typically put up only 10% to 30% of the acquisition cost itself, borrowing the rest. The acquired hospice not only has to generate profits to satisfy its private equity owners but is stuck with the costs of the loan as well.

Private equity firms typically look to flip their hospice investments in three to seven years.

Mark Sievers, president of Epsilon Financial Group, is a certified financial planner with a master’s in business administration from the University of California, Berkeley. Contact him by email at mark@wealthmatters.com.

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“They get paid the same as us, but they don’t take the same patients. They don’t provide the covered services that are supposed to be covered to be paid a per diem,” said Whitney, the former HopeWest CEO, who spoke with KHN before she retired in June. “They’ve developed kind of a shadow business that really has very little to do with the business that I run. But they’re called the same name.”

Larkin, the Charter CEO, bemoaned a lack of progress in quality metrics as the hospice industry has grown.

But he said that wasn’t limited to private equity-backed or even for-profit hospice providers.

“There’s bad companies all over,” Larkin said. “There’s people who are misaligned, there’s people who have bad intentions, there’s companies that aren’t focused on the right things.”

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In 2017, Webster Equity Partners bought Bristol Hospice, with 45 locations in 13 states, for $70 million. Last year, the firm reportedly entertained purchase offers for the hospice chain as high as $1 billion.

Because hospices are inspected every three years, some are bought and sold without a state or federal inspection – and sometimes without regulators even knowing about the sale.

And quality oversight is weak.

Hospices have a financial interest in reporting quality metrics to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, but there is no penalty for poor performance tied to those metrics.

Cordt Kassner, CEO of the Colorado-based consulting firm National Hospice Analytics, said 17% of Colorado hospices are now owned by private equity, higher than the 13% rate he found nationally. When he looked at metrics reported to Medicare, he found that private equity-backed firms scored lower than average on self-reported quality metrics.

“It’s not a huge difference,” Kassner said. “Because nationally scores are also tight and there’s not a lot of variation, we look at any kind of difference even if it’s a percentage point less.”

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THURSDAY, JULY 28 3:11 a.m. — Grand theft, 700 block of WREN COURT 5:24 a.m. — Commercial burglary, 1200 block of OLIVER ROAD 5:37 a.m. — Grand theft, 3400 block of NORWALK PLACE 5:43 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 4700 block of BUSINESS CENTER DRIVE 7:16 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 1700 block of YORK STREET 7:45 a.m. — Reckless driver, CHADBOURNE ROAD 7:50 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 2200 block of GATEWAY COURT 8:18 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 5200 block of GRAMERCY CIRCLE 8:45 a.m. — Fight with a weapon, 3500 block of NELSON ROAD 8:51 a.m. — Commercial burglary, 5000 block of PEABODY ROAD 9:34 a.m. — Residential burglary, 700 block of EMERALD HILLS CIRCLE 9:38 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 100 block of STEPHEN STREET 9:53 a.m. — Indecent exposure, 2400 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 10:47 a.m. — Battery, 3200 block of RANCHO SOLANO PARKWAY 10:54 a.m. — Grand theft, 1000 block of WEBSTER STREET 10:56 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 2200 block of GATEWAY COURT 10:58 a.m. — Fight with a weapon, 1700 block of SYCAMORE DRIVE

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7:57 p.m. — Brandishing a weapon, PEABODY ROAD 9:05 p.m. — Trespassing, 2000 block of PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE 10:20 p.m. — Vandalism, 1800 block of WOOLNER AVENUE

FRIDAY, JULY 29 8:10 a.m. — Vandalism, 1700 block of KIDDER AVENUE 8:24 a.m. — Battery, 500 block of CARPENTER STREET 9:43 a.m. — Grand theft, 2100 block of SUNHAVEN CIRCLE 11:02 a.m. — Vandalism, 800 block of EAST TRAVIS BOULEVARD 11:23 a.m. — Vandalism, 1300 block of OLIVER ROAD 12:09 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 5100 block of BUSINESS CENTER DRIVE 1:10 p.m. — Drunk and disorderly, 1100 block of UNION AVENUE 2:46 p.m. — Vandalism, 200 block of RED TOP ROAD

11:29 a.m. — Brandishing a weapon, 2500 block of HILBORN ROAD 11:34 a.m. — Reckless driver, NORTH TEXAS STREET 11:41 a.m. — Vandalism, 600 block of EAST TABOR AVENUE 12:02 p.m. — Robbery, 1400 block of HOLIDAY LANE 12:24 p.m. — Vandalism, 300 block of EAST TABOR AVENUE 1:43 p.m. — Forgery, 1300 block of COOLIDGE STREET 2:15 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 1300 block of HOLIDAY LANE 3:03 p.m. — Forgery, 4700 block of SUMMERSET DRIVE 3:25 p.m. — Grand theft, 3300 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 4:14 p.m. — Forgery, 1700 block of ASHTREE COURT 4:40 p.m. — Fight with a weapon, 2100 block of CADENASSO DRIVE

3:06 p.m. — Battery, 2400 block of THAMES COURT 4:16 p.m. — Brandishing a weapon, 2900 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 4:27 p.m. — Reckless driver, EASTBOUND AIR BASE PARKWAY

5:37 p.m. — Vandalism, 1500 block of GATEWAY BOULEVARD 5:56 p.m. — Battery, 1200 block of TABOR AVENUE 7 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 200 block of PITTMAN ROAD 7:28 p.m. — Battery, 800 block of EAST TRAVIS BOULEVARD 7:31 p.m. — Reckless driver, 2900 block of GULF DRIVE 8:17 p.m. — Grand theft, 700 block of EAST TABOR AVENUE 9:51 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 3300 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 11:34 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 3300 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

Suisun City 10:48 a.m. — Fraud, 100 block of SUNSET AVENUE

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5:07 p.m. — Battery, 1800 block of SANTA MONICA STREET

10:23 a.m. — Vandalism, 1200 block of ANDERSON DRIVE

5:19 p.m. — Reckless driver, 1400 block of GATEWAY BOULEVARD

10:36 a.m. — Vandalism, MAIN STREET

5:35 p.m. — Grand theft, 2400 block of WATERMAN BOULEVARD 6:05 p.m. — Trespassing, 1200 block of TABOR AVENUE

11:23 p.m. — Reckless driver, HIGHWAY 12/MARINA BOULEVARD 1:10 p.m. — Fraud, 1600 block of LITTLE ROCK CIRCLE

7:17 p.m. — Battery, 1800 block of SANTA MONICA STREET

8:37 p.m. — Reckless driver, HIGHWAY 12/MARINA BOULEVARD

7:41 p.m. — Trespassing, 200 block of EAST TABOR AVENUE

11:24 p.m. — Vandalism, 200 block of ASHWOOD DRIVE

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“Tortilla Soup Band returned this year again in the same time slot because that is what they like,” said Martinez.

“They also come with a lot of fans.”

So the Waterfront Festival was revived, focusing on rock music and merchants. It’s been going strong ever since with visitors packing the downtown area.

This year they have 40 food and merchant vendors along with three bands each day.

They wanted to do the festival last year but didn’t feel comfortable with the Covid exposures and decided to put it off one more year.

“It worked out because the bands were available that we had booked before and we didn’t have to search for new

Flood including national guard units from Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia, Kentucky State Police and Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, Beshear said.

“To everyone in Eastern Kentucky, we are going to be there for you today and in the weeks, months and years ahead.

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THURSDAY, JULY 28 4:35 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, HARBOR CENTER

4:50 p.m. — Shooting into a dwelling, 3100 block of POTRERO WAY

Flannery is important, Anderson said.

The longtime farmer pointed to a number of reports and studies that have been done over the years that emphasize the importance of agriculture in the county – which has a gross crop and livestock value of $407 million in 2021 – and noted the importance of the green barriers between committees, and even said voters in the county should be looking to candidates who are friendly to those land-use traditions and agriculture.

Wooden Valley Winery also was a stop on the tour, and owner Ron Lanza also noted the importance of land-use decisions being made

by Fairfield and the county in order to protect Suisun Valley.

“I have never seen the valley as successful as we are today. I don’t know anyone who can’t sell their grapes,” Lanza said.

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like those frogs in a slowly heating pot; we just don’t realize the freedoms we’ve lost,” Engelhart said.

He said Solano County charged him $1,800 for two greenhouses he recently added.

“No one is living there; no one is sleeping there,” Engelhart said. “Why is the county charging $1,800 for permits for greenhouses?”

Aaron Rosenblatt/Daily Republic Tracy Ellison, the Visitors walk along a path at Be Love Farm in Vacaville Conservation Program during a Solano County Farm Bureau Farm Tour, Thursday. manager for the Solano Land Trust, spoke to the From his father’s Lanza said it will not tour participants as they vision for the valley, to be long before Suisun were traveling on the bus the early leadership of Valley is no longer that from one site to another.

Roger King with the place near Fairfield, and She emphasized the growers association, and the city, instead, will value of conservation now the validation with come to be known as that easements, which can put kingpin Caymus arriv- place near Suisun Valley. ready cash in the hands ing, Lanza said Suisun Moreover, Matthew of the farming landownValley’s future is wide Engelhart, owner of Be ers, and in turn, keeps the open as long as it is Love Farm, said the pow- land in farming uses or not encroached upon by ers-that-be could do a open spaces forever. urban interests. Deci- lot for artisan farmers But even Ellison wonsions by Fairfield officials like himself if they made dered what the effect working on their general it easier to build labor Flannery might have on plan revision are critical. housing on their prop- existing agreements, and He said the next erty and if they were the future of secur10 years will launch the more sensible about ing agriculture operations valley as a premiere permit costs and other and open space. wine-producing region regulations.

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While Saturday remained dry, Beshear said more rain, perhaps in the neighborhood of 1 to 2 inches, is expected in counties south of the Mountain Parkway later in the day Sunday and into Monday, “which could be rough.”

The National Weather Service in Jackson issued a hazardous weather outlook Saturday morning, saying ”Showers and thunderstorms are possible at times Sunday through Thursday. Heavy rainfall may occur, especially on Sunday and Monday which could lead to localized flash flooding.

Excess rainfall may also contribute to additional river flooding.”

While it’s not expected to be as much as hit the area earlier this week, Beshear urged people to “make a plan” before the rain comes and “get to a safe place.”

“It’s not fair that it’s going to rain again,” he

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Cooper Muegge, 9, of Pleasant Hill checks out the handmade three string guitars at the Benicia Waterfront Festival, Saturday. ones,” she said.

Sadly a few of the regular vendors had to close down and will not be returning to the fair.

“They just couldn’t keep going since these events are their jobs and all that closed down,” Martinez said.

The bands on Saturday included Wake the Neighbors, Strange Brew, and In Living Color.

On Sunday the bands will be House of Floyd, Cut Loose, and Tortilla

Soup which has been performing at the event for several years.

Anna Matlos-Massey and her husband David Massey came from Grass Valley to support the band Wake the Neighbors, who went on first.

“I have known the bass players since I was 10 years old,” said Anna.

“It’s been really pleasant weather today,” said David. “It was an easy drive.”

It was the first time

said before urging people to “be careful.”

“There’s still a lot of water with a current out there,” he said.

After the rain moves out, Beshear said hot weather may create new challenges as people without power won’t have air conditioning.

“As it gets hot next week, it could create its own emergency,” he said.

Beshear said the state is looking into setting up cooling centers to aid people in that situation.

He said the agency is also providing 18 tractor-trailer loads of water, since that continues to be a major concern as numerous water systems have been affected by the flooding.

Thousands of customers were without water Saturday. Three drinking water systems were not operational and 19 water systems were functioning with “limited operations” because of power outages, Beshear said.

Beshear said there were 26,480 service connections with no water and 29,214 service connections under a boil water advisory.

In addition, 18 wastewater systems were experiencing limited operations, according to the Emergency Response Branch Division of Waste Management.

Team Kentucky fund to pay for funerals As of Saturday, more than $684,000 has been donated to the Team Eastern Kentucky Flood Relief Fund, which was set up to help victims.

Beshear said its first expenditure will be paying for funerals of those who died in the flooding.

“The least that we ought to be able to do is grieve together,” he said.

FEMA offering assistance, water outages persist President Joe Biden signed a disaster declaration Friday, which will allow for federal funding to begin coming in.

A state of emergency has been declared in 14 counties and at least three cities, Beshear said.

He said Saturday that FEMA is already moving people into the state who can help with claims processing as it continues to help out with search and rescue.

“FEMA’s actually moving ahead of schedule,” he said.

Power restoration underway Kentucky Power said it had 15,789 customers still without power as of Saturday morning, the vast majority in Breathitt, Leslie, Knott, Letcher, Perry and Pike counties.

“As crews are able to get in the severely damaged areas, they are reporting that entire sections of circuits are destroyed and will have to be redesigned and rebuilt,” Kentucky Power said in a news release.

“Roads and terrain are so damaged to the extent that crews cannot rebuild in the same areas.

The company said efforts to restore power for people in Breathitt, Knott, Letcher and Perry county will continue “well into next week,” while

they came to the event.

Cigar Box Kitchen is a new vendor this year. Steve Zwetsch and partner Chris Morgon started scrounging for parts to make guitars. On display and for sale were guitars made from cigar boxes, cookie tins, and even a pool rack strung with three strings.

“Three strings is easier to start with than six,” said Zwetsh.

“We just started doing events about four years ago,” said Zwetsh. “So far it has turned out pretty well. We get lots of special requests from customers.”

The festival also has bounce houses for the kids along with several food vendors.

The festival continues from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday at First Street Green, 1st and East B Streets.

The Main Street Program is always looking for volunteers for different events. Everyone is welcome. most Leslie County customers and people in the South Williamson area should have electricity back on by Saturday night, and 95% of people in Floyd and Pike counties should have power by Sunday night, assuming they don’t have damage to their home or meter loop.

More than 700 people were working to restore power Saturday, including crews from Ohio, Indiana and Michigan.

Drones and a helicopter were being used to assess damage in areas that still couldn’t be reached by vehicle.

The company said that as of Friday night, it had logged reports of “more than 60 broken poles, 17 damaged transformers, 50 broken cross arms and over 225 spans of downed wire.”

Letcher County imposes curfew The Letcher County Sheriff’s Office announced that a curfew will be enforced from midnight to 6 a.m. beginning Saturday night, and off-road vehicles including four-wheelers will be under a curfew from dark until daylight.

Exceptions will be made for first responders, people experiencing medical emergencies and those traveling for work, the sheriff’s office said in a Facebook post.

“We will not tolerate anyone taking advantage of our already vulnerable community. We have lost enough! We are better than this! If you see anyone looting, call 911,” a statement posted on Facebook said.

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FAIRFIELD — The decades-long and popular Cirque du Soleil performance, “Alegría,” is showing under the Big Top in Sacramento.

Cirque du Soleil raised its 2,600-seat Big Top at Sutter Health Park for a month-long showing of the famed production.

“Undeniably the most iconic Cirque du Soleil production, “Alegría” is an all-time classic reimagined for a new generation to fall in love with.

An uplifting immersive experience, “Alegría” whisks audiences away to a mystical world sprinkled with visual poetry and acrobatic extravagance,” organizers said in a statement.

“With its unforgettable soundtrack, exciting acrobatics, surreal costume designs, vibrant sets and playful humor, “Alegría” joyfully touches the soul and lives up to its global

reputation of quintessential Cirque du Soleil spectacle.”

The show runs through Aug. 28. Tickets are available at cirquedusoleil. com/alegria.

“Alegría,” which first premiered in 1994, travels with 65 trailer trucks carrying close to 2,000 tons of equipment. It has been seen by more than 14 million people in 255 cities and 40 countries.

“In 2019, in celebration of its 25th anniversary, “Alegría” was restaged under the Big Top in a whole new light, ensuring that all its components – stage direction, music, acrobatics, sets, costumes, lighting and makeup designs – would be as inspiring for today’s audiences as they were at the time of the original creation,” organizers stated.

For more information, visit cirquedusoleil. com/alegria.

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middle-aged protagonist’s expectations of growing old in comfort and style with their rich, handsome partner in a tastefully grand Manhattan apartment are unsparingly dashed when said partner makes an abrupt departure. Stunned and devastated, the childless protagonist looks to a pair of longtime pals for support, as well as a prickly new friend who comes attached to a major real estate deal. A spirited but shambolic co-worker encourages the protagonist to figure out the next chapter of their life, while shots of a squeakyclean, casually plutocratic New York, set to a jaunty, jazzy

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Neil Patrick Harris’s character, Michael Lawson, is a man adrift after his longtime boyfriend moves out unexpectedly. Tisha Campbell plays his work colleague, Suzanne, who, like other characters on the show, receives little development until the final episode. score, suggest that one’s post-40 years can be so much more than fretting in front

of a mirror.

That’s the story of the quinquagenarian Carrie Brad-

shaw in “And Just Like That . . . ,” the “Sex and the City” sequel series that premiered last year. It’s also the plight of Neil Patrick Harris’s Michael Lawson in “Uncoupled,” the charmless new Netflix comedy from Jeffrey Richman and Darren Star, the latter of whom created the iconic HBO show (and later ceded creative control to Michael Patrick King).

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s soon as Beyoncé’s staggering new album starts making your head feel fizzy, try to reorient yourself to the fact that all of this sweaty maximalism is unfolding in a neat, 90-degree angle between the mirror and the dance floor. Affirmation and locomotion are her twin

REVIEW themes here, and when she gets their edges to align this perfectly flush, it’s an invitation to shake your body to something that feels more optimistic than escapist, which is exactly how a superstar earns the right to name her pandemic-era album “Renaissance.”

This is feel-good music in the sense that it’s also feel-everything music. Drawing on the forwardmotion pulses of house, disco and more, Beyoncé́uses rhythm to push in expansive emotional directions, singing about dignity and desire in high detail. On top of that, amid thick layers of instrumentation and See Beyonce, Page B3

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Beyonce From Page B1 sampling, she’s speaking to the extraordinary breadth of Black American dance music writ large. With so much to excavate, the only thing more impressive than the deepness is the lightness. Just watch the auteur hopscotch across “Summer Renaissance,” a fleet, ornate interpolation of “I Feel Love” by Donna Summer: “I’m feeling way too loose to be tied down/Can you see my brain open wide now?” Yes, and we can hear it, too.

Beyoncé’s psyche may know no borders, but what about the rest of us? In the titular opening line of “All Up In Your Mind,” she delivers her monosyllables in a skull-penetrating staccato, then burrows in deep, the way only the best pop singers can.

Elsewhere in the track list, she experiences a flash of carpe-diem panic while romping through the disco plushness of “Virgo’s Groove,” singing about how she consulted a psychic who “told me we got s--- to do, we ain’t got time like we used to.”

Her music has long been rooted in empathy, but now it might be extending toward something like telepathy.

Listen to how the tracks on “Renaissance” melt into one another like a seamless DJ set. Or, if

Over From Page B1 after years of feeling settled – though in his case, it’s because his boyfriend, Colin (Tuc Watkins), moves out after 17 years together with nary an explanation. For most of the season’s eight episodes, Colin remains a cipher (though it’s not as if any of the other characters get much fleshing-out).

Dating as a gay man in one’s late 40s is a nightmare, Michael complains, particularly when so much has changed about hookup culture since the mid-2000s; an entire episode is dedicated to the norms and mores of Grindr. But the real estate agent doesn’t get much sympathy from his richest client, Claire (Marcia Gay Harden, seemingly willing herself into camp diva status through overthe-top line deliveries).

Mid-divorce from a philandering husband, the loudly self-pitying Claire dares Michael to compare his situation to hers – and

you’re willing to take it to another plane, try to hear it as a metaphor for a blended super-consciousness.

She isn’t ignoring the world outside her head, though. Amid the tumultuous tempo surges of “I’m That Girl,” she’s reconciling her “un-American life” with her ability to “shine right through the blinds.” Moments later, on “Energy,” she sings about how the momentary relief of “voting out 45” can’t erase the continuous threat of White supremacy, “’cause them Karens just turned into terrorists.” Then everything pivots into “Break My Soul,” a neo-house balm with a refrain – “You won’t break my soul” – that feels stronger than anything she’s sung since Destiny’s Child.

Beyoncé’s importance often gets warped by the hyperbole that surrounds her, but “Renaissance” gives us something to think about: Who in pop music has stayed this relevant for this long?

Sadly, not Prince. The Beatles broke up. Maybe Michael Jackson, but she’s gaining fast. And while celebrity might be a longevity competition, music isn’t.

Beyoncé sounds like she’s never cared about her music more. She knows all about mirrors, and dance floors, and extra-dimensional planes of consciousness, too. May she never find the ceiling. he’s happy to oblige.

Star’s characters have tended to grow older with him. The former wunderkind behind “Beverly Hills, 90210” followed up “Sex and the City” with “Younger,” the irrepressible romantic sitcom starring Sutton Foster as a 40-year-old woman who poses as a 20-something when no one will hire her for an entry-level job, and “Emily in Paris,” the weightless but compulsively watchable girlboss fantasy in which Lily Collins’s titular ingenue will never be as interesting or charismatic as her middle-aged French colleagues.

One might hope, then, that Star’s latest show would offer some insight into the aging process, especially given that it’s the gay TV auteur’s first series with a gay male protagonist. But “Uncoupled” is flat, joyless and surprisingly cold-looking. Star’s best shows, like “Sex and the City” and “Younger,” tend to be triumphs of casting, but it’s hard not to get the sense that Harris – so heartbreaking in his recent

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B.J. Novak’s directorial debut ‘Vengeance’ a smart social satire K atie Walsh

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.J. Novak opens his debut feature “Vengeance,” which he wrote, directed and stars in, with a scene of acidic social commentary that lays the tone for the smart satire of contemporary media culture that ensues.

In a scene that targets the mating rituals of the urban-dwelling modern American cad, interspersed into the opening credits with an almost jarring violence, Ben (Novak), a writer for The New Yorker, and the unlikely, sometimes unlikeable, hero of “Vengeance,” parries back and forth with his friend John (played by singer John Mayer) about their vapid dating lives.

As they debate the merits of seeing six women or three, question whether a cellphone contact labeled “Brunette Random House Party” refers to a woman met at at publishing event or a just a “random house party,” and falsely declare that they’re not afraid of emotional intimacy, Novak does something important with his character: he makes him a buffoon, first and foremost, in this bracing setup that allows him to carefully thread the needle on his American tale.

turn on HBO Max’s AIDS drama “It’s a Sin” – is substantially miscast, seemingly handcuffed by the demands of broadappeal likability.

The actor is most inventive in roles that evince authority, like the smarmy, manic knowit-all Barney Stinson on “How I Met Your Mother.” As the perplexed and adrift Michael, who’s not sure how he’s supposed to feel about being the wreckage of someone else’s midlife crisis, Harris seems less assured, more stuck in his head.

Though it takes a couple of episodes to get there, the actor does conjure a playful spark with Tisha Campbell, who plays his office partner, Suzanne. But it’s not until the final episode that Suzanne and Michael’s friends – libertine weatherman Billy (Emerson Brooks) and hangdog art dealer Stanley (Brooks Ashmanskas), analogues for Samantha and Charlotte, respectively – get any significant character development.

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In “Vengeance,” Novak sets his sights on lampooning the big city media types who go chasing stories in middle America and return with observations from the “flyover states” that are usually condescending, preachy or inauthentic, and in doing so, he finds the humor, and something honest too.

Ben ends up in smalltown Texas thanks to one of his numerous hookups.

The family of aspiring musician Abilene (Lio Tipton), who has met a tragic end in what appears to be an accidental overdose death, is convinced that Ben was her serious boyfriend, and implores him to come to her funeral. When Abilene’s brother, Ty (Boyd Holbrook), insists that his sister was murdered, and enlists Ben in his quest for revenge, his journalist ears perk up – this would be a great podcast.

He quickly pitches it to a producer back in New York, Eloise (Issa Rae), and equipped with some Amazon flannel and the Voice Memos app, he sets out to tell the tale of a dead white girl, and of course, of America itself.

The way in which Ben finds himself embroiled in the mystery swirling around a stranger’s death is reminiscent of the Serial podcast “S-Town,” and it’s clear that Novak knows this genre of “prestige journalism” well: when Ben speaks, even as we know we’re supposed to chuckle at his purple descriptions of the Texas sunset, he nails the style and cadence, the slick language of a mediasavvy writer. It’s funny, but it’s also insightful too.

Ben’s work passes muster, which lend’s Novak’s film merit, and another layer to the complexity of this movie.

“Vengeance” is fast

and loose, moving quickly, the punchlines only landing before we’re on to the next joke. The fantastic ensemble cast, including J. Smith-Cameron and Ashton Kutcher make meals out of their dialogue, and though some of the plot’s twists and turns are a bit facile, and too heightened, it serves the mystery that churns the story along.

In “Vengeance,” Novak’s linguistic blade is simultaneously incisive and skewering. He indicts Ben’s pretension and the craven way he seeks to extract Abilene’s story for his own gain, inspecting the media’s role in the “culture wars,” and the socially constructed divisions in our country.

But the film manages to land somewhere between sour and sincere, as Ben makes meaningful connections with both Abi’s family, and Abi’s story, finding the heart after all. As Ben does, so does Novak, unearthing some profound truths, wrapped in comedy, about America right now, too.

lacks most conspicuously, though, especially given its fatalistic air, is moments of emotional groundedness. There are a few scattered about, most poignantly Claire’s loss of her friends postdivorce, since they decide to side with her much-

wealthier husband.

“Uncoupled” tries to balance out its aspirational trappings with sexual frankness, but the perfectly trim and hairless bodies on display undercut that effort, too.

If “And Just Like That . . . ” made female middle

age look like one long slog, “Uncoupled” doesn’t have much to add from a gay man’s perspective, despite the small representational milestone it achieves.

Perhaps it’s fitting, then, that it’ll mostly just make you nostalgic for Star’s earlier work.

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B.J. Novak stars as Ben Manalowitz in “Vengeance.”

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God has not given up on anyone, any nation L ast Sunday, one of the readrepentant sinners even if their sin ings in our church was from was to abandon God. the Old Testament book of the If Israel would come back to prophet Hosea. The first three God, God’s punishment of them chapters of Hosea’s book include would end. . . . In my mind, I hear aspects of his personal and something very similar to that, family life, which was unusual to coming from some quarters of say the least: Hosea was comChristianity. Have you heard it? manded by God to “If only America would come marry a whore.

Karen Freeman back to God, God’s punishment Hosea’s early prophecies were would end . . . ” There’s talk in Religious view full of references to adultery, some circles that America’s unfaithful children and divorce. He problems are because we have strayed compared the relationship between God from God, and that God would once and God’s chosen people to a marriage in again bless this country if we would only which Israel had taken her husband’s turn back to him. wealth and used it to sell herself to the I’m all for people turning to God, but I Canaanite gods, in the hopes of a return don’t believe that God cares more about of good crops and prosperity. Hosea’s America than God cares about any other children, Jezreel, Lo-ruhamah and country. God’s invitation to the people of Lo-ammi, are given these names as America is the same as God gives to symbols of God’s judgment. Hosea’s everyone else in the world: “God so loved calling to life with an adulterous wife and the world that he gave his only begotten prodigal children was held up to Israel Son to the end that all who believe in him as an allegory of the nation’s infishall not perish, but have everlasting life. delity to God. For God did not send his Son into the But Hosea saw that behind the wrath world to condemn the world, but to save of God, there was a love that would not the world through him” (John 3:16-17). let the people be completely wiped out.

Since the coming of Jesus Christ, God Hosea prophesied that if Israel would has shown that God has not given up on come back to God, God’s punishment of anyone, or any nation. Many of the them would end. Ultimately, Hosea’s problems we have in this country are message is about God’s redemptive love: simply evidence of the evil that lies in although God will forsake those who our own human hearts, to be self-serving forsake him, God is willing to forgive people (or in words that Hosea might

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Illustration of Hosea and Gomer from the Bible Historiale, 1372. say, whoring ourselves for power and material gain), using other people to satisfy our desires, worshiping false gods and listening to false prophets. But our work as the Church is not to point out other people’s sins. Our work, out of gratitude for the love of God and the forgiveness of our sins, is to share the gospel and to testify to Jesus as our hope.

Our job is to aim our lives in the direction in which Jesus leads us.

We need Jesus. And thanks be to God that Jesus has promised never to abandon us.

The Rev. Karen Freeman is the rector of Grace Episcopal Church in Fairfield. She can be reached by email at rector. gracefairfield@gmail.com.

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Expos ready to host best of the West Matt Miller

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FAIRFIELD — Fairfield and Laurel Creek Park will become the hub of the West for American Legion baseball beginning Wednesday when eight teams square off in tournament action to determine the Western Regional Champion.

The Fairfield Expos host the event for the second straight year and the seventh time in team history. Their seven oppo-

nents come from League City, Texas (Houston suburb), Honolulu, Hawaii (defending champion), Albuquerque, New Mexico, Tucson, Arizona, St. George, Utah, Green Valley, Nevada (Las Vegas

suburb) and Petaluma, the Expos’ long-time rivals.

Games will be held from Wednesday through Sunday this week. The tournament winner earns an all-expenses-paid trip to the American Legion World Series the following week in Shelby, North Carolina.

“These teams are all good,” Expos manager and tournament chairman Brad Hanson said.

“Most of them are better than your typical junior

college teams.”

Hanson said he has spent his days leading up to the tournament getting the field ready, setting up shade covers, working on the bullpens, putting up signage, and doing general cleanup and pressure washing. All the teams have their expenses paid for to participate in the regional as well.

Fairfield has become a logical tournament host for the regionals, Hanson said.

“We fit the bill with everything,” he said. “We have the hospitality, we have a quality facility, the location is within 70 miles of four major airports.

We meet the criteria and have done it quite well in the past.”

Wednesday’s opening day schedule has Tucson going up against St. George at 9:30 a.m. That is followed by League City against Honolulu at 12:30 p.m. Green Valley takes on Petaluma at

4 p.m. in the first of the night games. The Expos host Albuquerque at 7.

Games will continue Thursday through Saturday, leading up to Sunday’s championship at 1 p.m. A second game would follow at 4 p.m., if necessary. The rest of the tournament is based on the results of the day before. Early trips into the loser’s brackets can pay a toll on team pitching.

“Our pitching is a little See Expos, Page B12

White Sox topple A’s on a wild pitch, snap streak Tribune Content Agency

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Connor Ard of the Solano Community College men’s tennis team recently won a national award for sportsmanship.

Solano’s Ard recipient of national tennis award Matt Miller

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FAIRFIELD – The Solano Community College men’s tennis team recently earned some national recognition, and not for the excellent won-loss total on the court this season but for the behavior of one of its top athletes.

Connor Ard was named the recipient of an International Tennis Association Arthur Ashe Jr. Leadership and Sportsmanship Award.

Outstanding student-athletes in all five divisions – from NCAA Division I to junior college – are honored each year for exhibiting outstanding sportsmanship and leadership, as well as scholastic, extracurricular and tennis achievements.

The award dates back to 1982 and is named in honor of the late pioneer and tennis great Arthur Ashe. Ard will attend a special weekend in New York Aug. 26-28 that includes

an awards banquet at the Yale Club in New York City and participation in Arthur Ashe Kids Day as well as the Tennis Mentoring Program at Cary Leeds Center for Tennis and Learning in the Bronx.

The weekend is also centered around the U.S. Open, tennis’ fourth major, held each August-September in Flushing Meadows.

“I think it’s pretty amazing,” Ard said. “It’s one of those once-in-a-lifetime awards that is really special.”

Ard played No. 2 singles as a sophomore and partnered with Jackson DeVries in No. 1 singles for the Falcons last season. Solano concluded a stellar run at 13-2 overall, 8-0 in conference. The Falcons won the Big 8 South Conference Championship and made a deep postseason run, eventually falling in the Northern California semifinals to American River.

Ard now will transfer to Fresno State and work toward a degree in

Biology, hopefully taking that into Veterinary Studies. He’ll put down is racket as far as collegiate competition but plans to continue a lifetime of play in club and recreation leagues.

Leadership and sportsmanship are attributes that Ard said he puts much emphasis on.

“I’ve always liked being a leader of a team and setting standards, holding myself and my teammates to a level of sportsmanship,” Ard said. “I’ve always wanted to be someone people could look up to. I was raised to think that it wasn’t all about winning and losing, but to love the game, have fun and enjoy it, and continue to learn every time out.”

Head Coach Connor Van Alstyne was in his first year with the Falcons’ program and noticed Ard’s personality and interaction with teammates right away. That See Solano, Page B12

Going with Trey Lance a big bet for 49ers, but worth the gamble Dieter Kurtenbach BAY AREA NEWS GROUP

SANTA CLARA — Trey Lance might not be the quarterback that the 49ers want him to be. He might not take this team from good to great – the mandate that comes when you replace a quarterback like Jimmy Garoppolo.

But though his first few days as the Niners’ clear-cut No. 1, it’s easy to see why Shanahan bet it all on Lance. No. 5 is as physically talented as any quarterback in the NFL, and his head is screwed on straight.

If a change had to be made at quarterback in San Francisco – and I would certainly argue that the Niners had reached their peak with Jimmy Garoppolo at the helm – then this is the kind of quarterback that’s worthy of a tall

ANALYSIS stack of chips.

We won’t have a real read on Lance until we see him play a great deal of real football. A few days of padless practice is not a quality barometer. Now, we might have answers in the winter, not the end of August. What we’ve seen so far through the early days of no-pads training camp is some up and some down.

The down is stuff we’ve seen before. Accuracy, especially on short passes, has been Lance’s bugaboo since he was at North Dakota State.

For instance, at Thursday’s practice, he didn’t see safety Jimmie Ward over the middle and threw an interception right to him.

It was a Jimmy G pick – a first-year starter

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49ers quarterback Trey Lance at practice during an offseason workout in Santa Clara, in June. mistake for a quarterback who is actually a firstyear starter.

But a play or two before that woeful interception, Lance made a play that few quarterbacks in the NFL would even dare and even fewer would attempt.

Flushed out of the pocket by the Niners’ fearsome defensive line,

Lance, a righty, rolled to his left, but on the scramble turned his shoulders, dropped his arm slot, and sidearmed an on-thebutton pass to a slanting receiver over the middle.

It was not a Jimmy G throw.

The ceiling is skyhigh.

The floor is See Lance, Page B12

CHICAGO — Gavin Sheets came about as close as a baseball player not named Shohei Ohtani can to winning a game by himself.

The White Sox right fielder tied the game against the A’s with a two-run homer, and then started a rally in the bottom of the ninth with a double. Pinch-runner Adam Engel ended the game a few batters later when a Zach Jackson pitch veered wide of the catcher and allowed him to run home for the 3-2 win.

Sean Murphy started the game by making quick work of the quickworking Johnny Cueto.

The A’s catcher took the 36 year-old veteran deep for a first-inning solo home run. When Seth Brown hit his 15th home run of the year and third bomb in two nights during the third, that gave A’s starter Paul Blackburn a two-run cushion to work with.

The A’s lone All-Star entered his second start since the break on a skid

of sorts. Blackburn had lost his last three starts, and had continued a troubling trend where his ERA had increased over each month. Blackburn’s ERA went from 5.13 in June starts to 9.15 in July starts. Blackburn ended Saturday with a final line of five innings pitched and five hits allowed.

“We’ve talked about mechanical adjustments, and that even when he’s not right, and that he’s still competing,” manager Mark Kotsay told reporters before the game.

Shorstop Elvis Andrus stopped what could have been a big White Sox inning with great glovework in the bottom of the fourth. With runners on first and second with a single out, Yasmani Grandal sent a sharply hit ball up the middle.

Andrus went to one knee and snagged the ball before he quickly flipped it to Nick Allen to start the inning-ending double play.

Blackburn ran into more trouble in the next inning. Two runners got See A’s, Page B12

Report: Giants now willing to listen to offers

By Shayna Rubin

BAY AREA NEWS GROUP

SAN FRANCISCO — Despite losing eight of their last nine, the Giants were reportedly going to hold on to their trade chips. But new reports indicate the team’s brass are shifting course.

The Giants’ front office is now listening on offers for any player not named Logan Webb, which includes starting pitcher Carlos Rodón, outfielder Joc Pederson, according to the New York Post.

After crossing the 110 inning mark last week that activated the opt-out clause in his contract for next season, Rodón is likely to elect free agency after this season and would be an obvious trade candidate on a hot starting pitching market.

The Seattle Mariners traded three of their top five prospects to the Cincinnati Reds for starter Luis Castillo, a haul that opened a lucrative market for teams selling starters. A handful of contenders, including

the New York Yankees, St. Louis Cardinals, Los Angeles Dodgers and Minnesota Twins, are looking for a starter.

Rodón’s 3.18 ERA and league-leading 2.14 FIP would put him at the top of the list.

The Giants may not be able to command a return for him that Castillo or Oakland’s Frankie Montas might because both have one year of team control remaining.

Pederson, Wilmer Flores and Brandon Belt along with reliever Dominic Leone are among the players on expiring contracts that could be moved. Pederson, an All-Star, could command a decent haul for a handful of teams looking to add outfield depth.

This doesn’t mean the Giants are sure to sell. Despite losing eight of their last nine games after the All-Star break, they still remain four games back of a wild card spot entering Saturday.

The Atlanta Braves hold a 6.5 game lead for the first spot.

B6 Sunday, July 31, 2022 — DAILY REPUBLIC

Scoreboard BASEBALL National League

CALENDAR TV sports Baseball • MLB, Oakland at Chicago White Sox, NBCSCA, 11 a.m.

• MLB, Chicago Cubs at San Francisco, NBCSBA, 4 p.m.

Golf • DP World, Hero Open, final round, GOLF, 3 a.m.

• Women’s Scottish Open, final round, GOLF, 5:30 a.m.

• Rocket Mortgage Classic, final round, GOLF, 10 a.m.

• Rocket Mortgage Classic, final round, 5, 13, Noon.

Motor Sports • F1, Hungarian Grand Prix, ESPN, 5:55 a.m.

• NASCAR, Verizon 200 at The Brickyard, Cup Series, 3, 11:30 a.m.

• NHRA, Northwest Nationals, 2, 40, 1 p.m.

Soccer • UEFA, Women’s Euro2022 final, Germany vs.

England, ESPN, 8:30 a.m.

Softball • A.U.Softball, Team Eberle vs. Team Zerkle, ESPN2, 4 p.m.

• A.U. Softball, Team Ocasio vs. Team Chidester, ESPN2, 6:30 p.m.

Live events. Not all sports channels are listed.

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Head coach Kliff Kingsbury and Kyler Murray of the Arizona Cardinals look on during the second half against the San Francisco 49ers at Levi’s Stadium in November.

Kyler Murray’s ‘homework’ clauses hurt QB and Cards

By Pat Leonard

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

The Arizona Cardinals did irreparable damage this week to their credibility while simultaneously shaming quarterback Kyler Murray.

The team successfully included an “independent study” clause in Murray’s new contract that demanded four hours of homework a week to avoid defaulting on the agreement.

“Never seen that before,” one executive said.

The clause specified that Murray would not receive credit for studying on an iPad if he was simultaneously playing video games, watching TV or surfing the internet.

Then the information leaked before Murray’s contract even had officially hit the NFL players union’s leaguewide database.

Some league sources believe Arizona owner Michael Bidwill was behind the idea to send his franchise QB that message, perhaps in response to agent Erik Burkhardt’s page-long February statement urging Arizona to pay Murray because “actions speak louder than words.”

Regardless, it did way more harm than good.

Not only is it clear the Cardinals don’t believe Murray works hard enough. The organization just demonstrated it is willing to pay a player who doesn’t work hard enough to lead them.

The public blowback was so swift that Arizona already has agreed to remove the clause from Murray’s contract.

“Because it doesn’t just make Kyler look bad. It makes the team look bad, too,” one source said.

ANALYSIS But the damage already was done in more ways than one.

From the perspective of many NFL agents, Murray’s contract was a step back for quarterbacks.

Deshaun Watson just got $230 million fully guaranteed from the Cleveland Browns despite sexual assault allegations that are threatening his 2022 season.

Murray’s $230.5 million in new money contains only $103.3 million in full guarantees, with up to $160 million in guarantees available, plus contingencies, per overthecap.com.

Even with the “homework” clause removed, for example, a startling $9.3 million of Murray’s money is tied to workout bonuses. It’s an average of $1.6 million from 2024 through 2028.

“That’s high for a franchise quarterback,” one source said.

To compare, Buffalo’s Josh Allen averages $750,000 per year in workout bonuses in his new deal. Patrick Mahomes has a flat $550,000 annually all the way through with Kansas City.

The decision to include the clause also reflects a ridiculous lack of judgment from the Cardinals’ brass of Bidwill, GM Steve Keim and coach Kliff Kingsbury, assuming all three knew the clause was in there.

There is no justification for paying a player big money if the team has to insert a clause that indicates they don’t trust his work ethic to begin with.

Burkhardt didn’t respond to a request for comment.

American League East Division W L 69 33 56 45 54 47 51 50 50 52 Central Division W L Minnesota 53 47 Cleveland 51 49 Chicago White Sox 50 50 Detroit 41 61 Kansas City 39 62 West Division W L Houston 66 35 Seattle 54 47 Texas 45 54 L.A. Angels 42 58 OAKLAND 39 64 N.Y. Yankees Toronto Tampa Bay Baltimore Boston

Pct GB .676 — .554 12½ .535 14½ .505 17½ .490 19 Pct GB .53 — .510 1½ .500 2½ .402 12½ .386 15 Pct GB .653 — .535 12 .455 20 .420 23½ .379 28

Philadelphia 4, Pittsburgh 2 N.Y. Yankees 11, Kansas City 5 Detroit 4, Toronto 2 Cleveland 4, Tampa Bay 1 Milwaukee 4, Boston 1 Atlanta 5, Arizona 2 Houston 11, Seattle 1 L.A. Dodgers 5, Colorado 4 Texas 7, L.A. Angels 2 San Diego 10, Minnesota 1 Saturday’s Games Chicago White Sox 3, OAKLAND 2 Chicago Cubs at SAN FRAN, (N) Tampa Bay 6, Cleveland 4 N.Y. Yankees 8, Kansas City 2 Toronto 5, Detroit 3 Milwaukee 9, Boston 4 N.Y. Mets 4, Miami 0 Cincinnati 8, Baltimore 2 Seattle 5, Houston 4 Washington 7, St. Louis 6 Philadelphia 2, Pittsburgh 1, 10 innings Minnesota 7, San Diego 4 Atlanta 6, Arizona 2 Colorado 5, L.A. Dodgers 3 Texas at L.A. Angels, (N) Sunday’s Games OAKLAND at Chicago White Sox, 11:10 a.m.

Chicago Cubs at SAN FRAN, 4:08 p.m.

Detroit at Toronto, 9:05 a.m.

St. Louis at Washington, 10:35 a.m.

Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, 10:35 a.m.

Kansas City at N.Y. Yankees, 10:35 a.m.

Milwaukee at Boston, 10:35 a.m.

Arizona at Atlanta, 10:35 a.m.

Baltimore at Cincinnati, 10:40 a.m.

East Division W L Pct GB 63 37 .630 — 61 41 .598 3 54 47 .535 9½ 47 54 .465 16½ 35 67 .343 29 Central Division W L Pct GB Milwaukee 57 44 .564 — St. Louis 53 48 .525 4 Chicago Cubs 41 58 .414 15 Pittsburgh 40 61 .396 17 Cincinnati 39 61 .390 17½ West Division W L Pct GB L.A. Dodgers 67 33 .670 — San Diego 56 45 .554 12 SAN FRANCISCO 49 51 .490 18 Colorado 46 56 .451 22 Arizona 45 55 .450 22 Friday’s Games OAKLAND 7, Chicago White Sox 3 Chicago Cubs 4, SAN FRANCISCO 2 Baltimore 6, Cincinnati 2 N.Y. Mets 6, Miami 4 St. Louis 6, Washington 2 N.Y. Mets Atlanta Philadelphia Miami Washington

N.Y. Mets at Miami, 10:40 a.m.

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

Seattle at Houston, 11:10 a.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Colorado, 12:10 p.m.

Texas at L.A. Angels, 1:07 p.m.

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

Monday’s Games L.A. Dodgers at SAN FRANCISCO, 6:45 p.m.

Cincinnati at Miami, 3:40 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at Washington, 4:05 p.m.

Seattle at N.Y. Yankees, 4:05 p.m.

Arizona at Cleveland, 4:10 p.m.

Detroit at Minnesota, 4:40 p.m.

Baltimore at Texas, 5:05 p.m.

Boston at Houston, 5:10 p.m.

Kansas City at Chicago White Sox, 5:10 p.m.

Colorado at San Diego, 6:40 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games OAKLAND at L.A. Angels, 6:38 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at SAN FRANCISCO, 6:45 p.m.

Colorado at San Diego, 1:10 p.m., first game Colo. at San Diego, 7:10 p.m., second game Cincinnati at Miami, 3:40 p.m.

Milwaukee at Pittsburgh, 4:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at Washington, 4:05 p.m.

Seattle at N.Y. Yankees, 4:05 p.m.

Toronto at Tampa Bay, 4:10 p.m.

Arizona at Cleveland, 4:10 p.m.

Philadelphia at Atlanta, 4:20 p.m.

Detroit at Minnesota, 4:40 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at St. Louis, 4:45 p.m.

Baltimore at Texas, 5:05 p.m.

Boston at Houston, 5:10 p.m.

Kansas City at Chicago White Sox, 5:10 p.m.

Trayce Thompson feels he is back where he belongs with Dodgers

By Jack Harris LOS ANGELES TIMES

LOS ANGELES — Bat bags and an extralarge suitcase.

In many ways, they’ve been the defining mementos of Trayce Thompson’s transient career path.

Over 13 years in professional baseball, the journeyman outfielder has been with nine franchises; played for 19 major and minor league teams; been traded, purchased or claimed six times.

At the end of each revolving stint, two things usually happen: He packs up his suitcase to move to a new city, a new clubhouse, a new organization.

And he stows the old bat bag in his family’s storage unit, adding to a collection that now feels like a kaleidoscope of discarded baseball relics.

“It’s a little daunting,” he said, “to see all the different colors.”

Indeed, the spectrum ranges from Chicago White Sox black to Oakland Athletic green, Arizona Diamondback red to San Diego Padre brown.

Reflecting back on all the change recently, Thompson couldn’t help but sigh.

“Coming up, you always think you’re gonna be with one team,” he conceded. “It’s been a mental grind.”

But then, he proudly noted, his collection always has featured more Dodger blue than anything else.

It’s the club with which, six years ago, he experienced the peak of his career.

And the team that, over the last month, has given him a long-awaited opportunity back in the majors.

“I knew I could get to the big leagues and contribute and reestablish myself and be an impact player,” Thompson said recently, now more than

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Trayce Thompson (25) of the Dodgers celebrates his threerun home run at Dodger Stadium, July 4. a month removed from a trade that brought him back to Los Angeles, where he is emerging as a midseason surprise with a .301 batting average, four home runs and 17 RBIs in 30 games.

“But to do it here, with a lot of guys I know, a lot of people I’ve spent a lot of time with, I think the common theme is just special,” he continued. “It’s something I never really thought could happen.”

There was a time Thompson thought he’d be with the Dodgers for the long haul.

A Southland native who attended Santa Margarita High in Orange County, Thompson was drafted by the White Sox in the second round in 2009, then traded to the Dodgers after a successful MLB debut in 2015.

He immediately felt at home.

Thompson made the opening-day roster coming out of spring training in 2016. He developed quick bonds in his new clubhouse, even moving in with Joc Pederson, Corey Seager and Alex Wood.

And during the first half of the ensuing campaign, he flourished as a 25-year-old rookie, posting a .796 on-baseplus-slugging percentage and 13 home runs in his first 73 games while, occasionally, batting as high as

third in the lineup.

“He carried for us for a month or two,” manager Dave Roberts recalled.

At the time, Thompson said he “felt like I was gonna be here for a while.”

Instead, his career quickly unraveled.

He aggravated a back injury that July. An X-ray a few weeks later revealed two fractured vertebrae, an injury that brought his season to an end.

His time with the Dodgers was on the clock too.

After bouncing between Triple-A and the big leagues in 2017, batting just .122 in 27 games, Thompson was designated for assignment by the team at the end of spring training the next year, claimed off waivers by the New York Yankees, then again by the Athletics two days later.

“I didn’t play well,” Thompson said of his first Dodgers stint. “That’s what it comes down to.”

His next couple years weren’t much better: A self-admitted “disaster” in 2018, when he batted just .117 in 51 games with the A’s and White Sox; a mediocre 2019 season with Cleveland’s Triple-A affiliate; and a pandemicshortened 2020 campaign spent entirely at the Diamondbacks’ alternate training site.

“I just lived out of one big suitcase,” he said with

a self-deprecating laugh.

“Learned to be efficient with my packing.”

Despite the setbacks, he didn’t contemplate retirement.

“I always knew I was capable,” he said, “so I always saw a light at the end of the tunnel.”

But he was also aware his career was on the brink.

“I had to dig deep,” he said. “I didn’t want to finish my career thinking that I didn’t leave it all out there.”

Trayce wasn’t the only member of the Thompson family experiencing adversity at the time.

As he toiled in the minors, trying to rediscover his game, his older brother Klay Thompson, the All-Star guard for the Golden State Warriors, was tethered to the bench with a string of serious injuries, missing all of the 2019-20 season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament and all of 2020-21 with a with a ruptured Achilles tendon.

Trayce said Klay came to him for advice about how he had dealt with the disappointment of his back injury and how he coped with the mental struggles of a long-term rehab.

Their talks, however, were impactful for Trayce too.

“Seeing his mental strength to go through all that and see the light at the end of the tunnel, it’s similar to what I’ve had to go through,” Trayce said.

“Not necessarily because of injury, but just because of performance and everything that’s happened in my career.

“I’ve certainly looked at him as inspiration.

He came back from two major injuries when a lot of people counted him out and didn’t know if he was gonna be who he is or whatever. So I had no excuse but to do everything I can to get back [to the majors]

49ers’ DTs hurting, Verrett on mend Cam Inman

BAY AREA NEWS GROUP

SANTA CLARA — Maurice Hurst’s bad injury luck has struck again and it likely will keep him off the field again this season for the 49ers.

Hurst, who broke into the NFL as a promising defensive tackle with the Raiders, is done for 2022 after tearing his biceps in Friday’s training camp practice.

It’s the 49ers’ most severe injury through the offseason program and three practices at camp, though it’s not the only issue among defensive tackles.

Starter Arik Armstead sprained his right knee two snaps into camp, and newcomer Hassan Ridgeway endured a minor quadriceps strain Friday. Both linemen will be out a couple of weeks, coach Kyle Shanahan said.

On the positive side, the 49ers are welcoming Javon Kinlaw into his first team drills of camp Saturday. Kinlaw is expected to start and be part of a fierce front, assuming the 2020 first-round draft pick continues to progress well in his comeback from anterior cruciate

ligament repair.

Hurst got injured reaching to stop rookie Danny Gray on a jet-sweep run midway through Friday’s practice.

Hurst figured to work into the defensive line’s impressive rotation, which he barely made a cameo last season because of more health issues. Ankle and calf injuries limited him to two games last season.

Hurst was a 2018 fifth-round pick out of Michigan by the Raiders, after his stock fell at the combine upon a diagnosis for a congenital heart problem. He produced 7 1/2 sacks his first two of three seasons with the Raiders.

After re-signing with the 49ers this spring on a $1 million deal, Hurst was one of the somewhat secret weapons on a seemingly deep line that is suddenly thinning, although No. 1 enforcer Nick Bosa is happily healthy in camp, for a change. Hurst was on the first-string defense Friday at left defensive tackle.

Kinlaw will not be thrust into a full-time role this camp but rather be eased into action, Shanahan said.

“I just want to see him get

through practice,” Shanahan said.

“He was able to get a good surgery and he’s taken the right steps. He’ll be in position to be healthy to practice. If he can practice consistently, we’ve got to be smart with his history. We feel we’re in very good spot right now.”

The 49ers already have signed two reinforcements at defensive tackle this camp: former Arizona Cardinals first-round pick Robert Nkemdiche and USFL product Tomasi Laulile. Nkemdiche has been very aggressive and physical so far this camp. n Cornerback Jason Verrett, the Rodriguez High School graduate, remains on the physically-unableto-perform list but Shanahan is among those optimistic about Verrett’s potential contributions, perhaps even as a nickel back.

“Jason can play anything,” Shanahan said. “It’s about getting healthy and matchups with (Emmanuel Moseley) and (Charvarius Ward).

Jason is as good a corner as there is.

We’re pulling for Jason to get healthy and he’s on the right path. If he does get there, we’ll figure out a way to balance those guys out.”

SPORTS

DAILY REPUBLIC — Sunday, July 31, 2022 B7

Rising tennis star Brandon Nakashima building brand

By Helene Elliott LOS ANGELES TIMES

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A fan community gathers in a suite at Wintrust Arena for a game between the Chicago Sky and Las Vegas Aces.

Fan-powered communities are helping grow WNBA’s audience

By Shakeia Taylor CHICAGO TRIBUNE

CHICAGO — For many, fandom goes beyond a team or city. It’s an opportunity to build a community and find their people, often spilling into real life. And WNBA fans might be organizing exactly what the league needs to grow its audience.

Lorri Gyenes – aka Sky Mayor Redhead Lorri – has been a WNBA fan since the league’s inception and is popular among the Wintrust Arena faithful. She’s a Chicago Sky season ticket holder who has been backing them since Day 1, following the team from what used to be UIC Pavilion to Allstate Arena to its current home in the South Loop.

In the beginning, Gyenes and her fellow “Sky Riders” used message boards to connect and plan tailgating activities, but they since have moved on to what’s known as #WNBATwitter.

“On WNBA Twitter, I feel like I made friends,” she told the Chicago Tribune. “I met a guy several years ago. He was from Sweden, and he flew from Sweden to come watch the WNBA and then we met at the game.”

“You just feel like you’re a part of something. I’m a former psychologist. . . . A lot of the people who come to these games are actually kind of introverted people, but they feel like they belong, and that’s important too. So it’s not just the sport, you know? There’s more to it than that.”

That same sentiment of belonging is shared by Alliya Pinckney, a member of the PWRFWD (power forward) women’s basketball fan community.

“I don’t actually have an interest in the NBA,” said Pinckney, a former player and coach at St. Thomas University in Miami.

“The women’s game is all that I really have ever been super, super into because of the fundamentals, because of the attention to detail and things of that nature.

“When I stepped away from playing and coaching, I didn’t have people that had the same interest as me. It was always about the men’s game. So when I found PWRFWD, it was literally the best thing ever because it was the community that I

never knew that I needed.”

Originally focused on being a platform that would allow athletes to take control of their personal brand, PWRFWD shifted to an online community of fans with more than 1,000 members.

“We were kind of accidentally building a community bigger than, like, anything, any product”, cofounder and CEO Luke Bonner said.

“So we eventually realized we were in a unique spot. It was really like being a bridge between athletes, fans, agents, sports executives, so on and so forth.”

PWRFWD has members from all over the world, and they congregate on the group’s Discord app, discussing WNBA games and vying for a chance at its courtside seats.

They have two courtside tickets for every WNBA market, and members nominate people to win “the experience of a lifetime,” said Nadia Eke, PWRFWD’s head of community.

“People make a plea to the communities that nominate them,” Eke said. “The reason why we did it that way is because we wanted people to have the opportunity to get to know each other. I think a lot of times when people are building communities of this scale, there’s that element of interpersonal warmth that’s missing. We really wanted to bring that back into the space that we were creating.

“What was really important to our community members is to be connected to other people that are so passionate about what they do and what better way to connect them than to make them get to know each other.”

Though not strictly a WNBA fan group, participation skews heavily toward women’s professional basketball as fans are desperately searching for places to connect.

In addition to their usual seats, PWRFWD had a suite Tuesday at Wintrust Arena for the Commissioner’s Cup final between the Sky and the Las Vegas Aces. PWRFWD invited its Discord members to experience the game. Pinckney, a Chicago-area native who lives in the Bay Area, flew to Chicago to join the group, and two other fans drove from Minnesota. Morgan Park grad-

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Niners Sweeps First Flight, 11- 6 Net 1, Genny Lopez, 26 2, Marlene Brown, 28 3, Barb Jacobson, 31* 4, Kitty Lockwood, 31* 5, Ann Rollin, 32 Second Flight 17-18 Net 1, Linda Perry, 27 2, Pat Moffett, 28 3, Ilene Plile,r 29 4, Jodene Nolan, 31 Third Flight 19-22 Net 1, Sandy Latchford, 27 2, Judy Horan, 28 3, Trellis Moore, 30* 4, Megan Kramer, 30* 5, Barb Ray, 34 Fourth Flight 23-25 Net 1, Willa Sheppard, 23 2, Shirley Morris, 25 3, Connie Watson, 27 4, Barb Rigdon, 28 5th Rosemarie Chonzena 29

Paradise Valley Women’s Golf Club Game: 2-5-2: First Flight: 1st: PJ Lowrey, net 30 2nd: Jakki Kutz, net 30.5 3rd: Jackie Smith, net 32 4th: Chris Moore, net 32.5 Second Flight: 1st: Joan McCluskey, net 30.5 2nd: Maria Quaintance, net 31.5 3rd: Myrna DeMartino, net 32 4th: Oksun Parrott, net 32.5 Third Flight: 1st: Beryl Bridges, net 30.5 2nd: Lisa Finnegan, net 31 3rd: Rita May, net 31.5 4th: LeeAnne Fortney, net 31.5 Fourth Flight: 1st: Kathy Tomko, net 26.5 2nd: Nanci Stevenson, net 28 3rd: Anita Johnson, net 28 4th: Cathy Adams, net 32.5 Closest to Pin, Hole #3:

uate Subria Whitaker also was in attendance.

Whitaker and her friend Aaliyah Granger, a Mississippi native, created Grow the Game, a group of fans that meets across the country for WNBA games. Unlike PWRFWD, there are no season tickets, but it’s grassroots fandom in its truest form.

After Whitaker noticed interest piquing on her social media accounts, she started inviting people to games.

“In the years that I’ve been a WNBA fan, I’ve always been very vocal about it,” Whitaker said. “But there was something from last year where more people started to notice, especially on Twitter. People would say, ‘Oh, you’re always at these WNBA games and you’re always talking about it and it looks fun, and I want to go.’ ” Grow the Game has organized so many fan gatherings that it has been recognized by the Sky and given its own ticket link. A portion of the proceeds goes back to Grow the Game to help organize more meetups and bring in new fans. Since Whitaker and Granger began, they estimate they’ve helped more than 250 people go to WNBA games.

A common refrain from detractors of women’s sports is, “They don’t have any fans.” But the avid following the league has inspired believes otherwise. Complaints are frequent about the game’s accessibility with there being so few teams, so few games and no consistent television schedule.

When the 3-point and skills competitions during All-Star Weekend were closed to fans, the WNBA was shutting out some of its most fervent supporters and overlooking the keys to its current and future success.

Despite that, the All-Star Game drew 9,572 fans. The Sky are averaging 7,008 fans this season, up from 3,187 in 2021. Online fan communities are showing up and helping bridge the gaps created by the league’s missteps.

“I love sports,” Gyenes said.

“Part of it is supporting women, but part of it is feeling like I belong somewhere, like I can come out of my shell.”

1st: Jakki Kutz, 13’10-1/2” 2nd:- Kim Greer, 21’5” Birdies: Jakki Kutz, #3 PJ Lowrey, #14 LeeAnne Fortney, #12 Chip Ins: Sandy Kreger, #1 Nanci Stevenson, #10

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LOS ANGELES — If you haven't heard of Brandon Nakashima, you will soon.

Not because the San Diego native has climbed from No. 355 in the men's world tennis rankings at the start of 2020 to a career-best No. 49 last week after he reached the third round at the French Open and followed up with a five-set loss to volatile Nick Kyrgios in the round of 16 at Wimbledon last month.

Nakashima, who will be 21 on Aug. 3 and is now ranked No. 56, is the fifth-youngest player in the men's top 100. He's got a terrific backhand, strong court sense, and a solid serve that makes up in precision what it might lack in power. Through last week he had won 73.95% of his first-serve points in 2022, not far behind 21-time Grand Slam singles winner Novak Djokovic (74.54%) and world No. 1 Daniil Medvedev (76.38%).

Nakashima played in the most recent Challenger tournament in Fairfield in 2019, the NorthBay Healthcare Men's Pro Championship.

He remains a friend to tournament chairman and local legendary tennis instructor Phil Cello.

"I think his strength is that he doesn't really have any weaknesses," said Gary Swain of WME/IMG Tennis, who has represented John McEnroe for 32 years and took on Nakashima as a client a few months ago. "I think his next level is going to be learning to play more aggressively and dictating more on the court."

Nakashima is also calm. Mature. He probably won't ever throw a racket, thanks to the ethic instilled by his mother Christina, a native of Vietnam, and father Wesley, a Californian of Japanese heritage. Both are pharmacists. They taught him the value of hard work and didn't have the inclination to pay for wrecked equipment or half-hearted efforts by him or his younger brother Bryce.

"It's fun to work with someone who is so smart and responsible. Just solid in character as an individual," Swain said. "I think he's a good role model. I hope he achieves his full potential because he can be great for the game."

As he prepares for his quarterfinal match Friday in the Atlanta Open – his runnerup finish there a year ago launched him into the top 100 for the first time – Nakashima is a face in the crowd of youngsters chasing the esteem and titles earned by gritty Rafael Nadal (22 Slam singles titles) and graceful Roger Federer, who has

20 Slam event singles titles. Nakashima is refining his footwork and movement to the net to separate himself from that crowd. He's taking smart steps to stand out off the court too.

Realizing he had to upgrade his coaching and support teams to crack the upper reaches of the rankings, Nakashima partnered with IMG to reach out to high-powered sponsors to help him pay the bills.

Nakashima, who won academic and athletic honors in his one year at the University of Virginia, sees similarities between college athletes' new options to market their name, image and likeness and his strategy to define and capitalize on his image with a global audience.

"I think social media has really enabled young athletes to find their voices and values earlier in life, allowing us to connect more directly with companies and fans that want to support similar interests and values," he said via email. "I'm only beginning to understand the broad implications of this. It's about creating a brand, and it's fascinating to me."

Nakashima has deals with sports-related companies Fila and Babolat, as well as Motorola and SentinelOne cybersecurity, but he estimated his budget this year could hit $500,000. His coaching team is led by Eduardo Infantino and ideally would include trainers, physiotherapists, hitting partners and data analysts, among others. According to the ATP tour he has earned $670,195 in 2022.

He pays the salaries and expenses of his entourage. "Everything: breakfast, lunch and dinner," said Christina Nakashima, who takes turns with her husband in attending Brandon's far-flung tournaments.

"It adds up quickly."

He has a team of four. "And I still think I'm resource-constrained compared to top young pros like Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner," he said of the world's fifthand 10th-ranked players, who have huge teams.

"In order to achieve my tennis goal of reaching the top of the rankings, I've learned that it requires more than just hard work.

I'm now trying to work smart while investing in my team as if we were a startup company. The resources are out there, and the players who are able and willing to invest will have a competitive advantage."

Swain plans to capitalize on Nakashima's multicultural background, his youth and his community involvement.

In 2020, Nakashima led a shoe drive that benefitted health care professionals in San Diego; a few months ago.

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Brandon Nakashima hits a shot against John Millman of Australia during Day Three of the Atlanta Open at Atlantic Station, Wednesday.

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF LYNDA G. CHRISTIAN NEE GREGORIAN CASE NO. P051564 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: LYNDA G. CHRISTIAN NEÉ GREGORIAN A Petition for Probate has been filed by SHIRIN C. SAMILJAN in the Superior Court of California, County of SOLANO. The Petition for Probate requests that SHIRIN C. SAMILJAN be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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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 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME PETITION OF: JAYDEN CHRISTIAN-IMANI BENJAMIN CASE NUMBER FCS058427 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: Jayden Christian-Imani Benjamin filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: a. Jayden Christian-Imani Benjamin Proposed Name: a. Jayden Christian-Imani Flemming 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.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: SEPT. 14, 2022; Time: 8:30 am; Dept: 12; Rm: 1 The address of the court is SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, County of Solano 580 Texas Street Fairfield, CA 94533 Civil 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: JUL 14, 2022 /s/ Christine A. Carringer Judge of the Superior Court FILED: JUL 25, 2022 DR#00056825 Published: July 31 Aug. 7, 14, 21, 2022

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DR#00056858 Published: July 31, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS FOR HIS PURPOSE NIGHT CARE LOCATED AT 1456 Humphrey Drive Apt C, Suisun, CA 94585 Solano. Mailing Address 1456 Humphery Drive Apt C, Suisun, CA 94585. ARE HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S) For His Purpose Night Care CA. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a Limited Liability Company The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 01/03/2022 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/ Yolanda Ardoin 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 26, 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 27, 2022 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2022001287 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR#00056821 Published: July 31 Aug. 7, 14, 21, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS ARTUROS TAQUERIA 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

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: IRENE L. AQUINO AMENDED Case Number: P051471 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Estate of Irene L. Aquino A Petition for Probate has been filed by: Richen C. Aquino in the Superior Court of California, County of: Solano The Petition for Probate requests that: Richen C. Aquino be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: DATE: AUG. 26, 2022 TIME: 8:30 a.m. DEPT.: 4 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, County of Solano 600 Union Avenue, Third Floor Fairfield, 94533 Probate If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

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

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

Attorney for Petitioner: Rita A. Holder, Esq. 3100 Oak Road Ste. 100 Walnut Creek, CA 94597 925-482-8910 DR#00056845 Published: July 31 Aug. 3, 7, 2022

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season-tanking low. This is a truly grand experiment.

Lance’s establishment as No. 1 also requires change.

The Niners’ offense under Shanahan has been about precision and sequencing. The big throw has never really been an option, either because the quarterbacks didn’t have the arm (Brian Hoyer, Nick Mullens), the confidence (Garoppolo), or the accuracy (CJ Beathard) to connect deep downfield to a receiver with even a modicum of coverage around them.

But there is no part of the field that isn’t available to Lance.

He might not have the consistency to dink-anddunk the offense down the field just yet, but why take eight plays to do what can be done in one?

Add in the quarterback’s running ability, and the Niners should effectively be running a different offense with Lance at the helm this season.

I doubt we see that offense fully unleashed during Training Camp or preseason. You save that stuff for the regular season and practices that are behind closed doors.

Lance has a tremendous amount of pressure on his shoulders. This team has a chance to be outstanding this season, but as the 49ers know all too well, NFL teams can only go as far as the quar-

thin,” Hanson admitted.

“If we keep winning, we should be OK. If we get into the loser’s bracket, that would be tough.

We’ve got some pretty good front line pitchers, four to five. After that, we’re grasping.”

The Expos are 59-15 overall. They won a tuneup Wednesday night against the Fairfield Indians by scoring seven runs in a 9-0 win in the second inning against the collegiate summer squad.

Fairfield had an 11-game winning streak going before losing the final two games in the state tournament at Fresno State University.

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49ers are heading into the new season with Trey Lance listed as their No. 1 quarterback on the roster. terback can take them.

But there’s also pressure on Shanahan. He’s all-in on Lance, but can he tailor his offense to best fit the quarterback’s skill sets? Lance is being asked to mold and adapt to Shanahan’s playbook – can Shanahan mold and adapt the playbook to Lance?

This league is defined by offensive head coaches and their quarterbacks.

Give-and-take is necessary to have a long-lasting, quality relationship.

In the meantime, there will be a referendum on Lance every day for at least this first season at the helm. It’s ridiculous, but it’s understandable – a team in the NFC Championship Game is switching quarterbacks and going with a complete unknown.

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the degree to which he was a leader up there at North Dakota State, the degree to which he threw the football, beautifully, up there at North Dakota State.

“I think we’ll all see why Kyle wanted this guy. . . . This is why he believed he could take this football team to a whole new level. As much as I love Jimmy G, he will be a distant, distant memory, and San Francisco will be hoisting Super Bowl trophies again.”

We won’t know if Riddick is right about Lance’s star potential for a long time.

But Riddick is right – right now – about one thing: It’s clear why Shanahan wanted this guy.

Lance has everything you look.

Solano From Page B5 is why he was thrilled that Ard earned the national award.

“This is such an outstanding achievement and I am so proud of the leader, role model, and amazing teammate you have been this year and always,” Van Alstyne wrote in recognition of Ard to the ITA. “Never have I felt so honored and overjoyed to coach

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Almanac

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

Temperature High/Low.............................83°/59° Average high .......................... 89.7° Average low............................ 57.5° A year ago............................ NA/NA Barometric pressure............29.83 Humidity...................................46%

Air Quality Index 39 Precipitation 0-50 51-100 101-150 151-200 201-300 Last 24 hours................................0″ Good Unhealthy Unhealthy unhealthy Month-to-date.............................0″ Moderate sensitive Very Normal July rainfall ............... 0.04″ Source: Bay Area Air Quality Management District Season-to-date.......................... NA Normal seasonal rainfall....24.81″ UV Index This date last year...................... NA 9 Source: NWS and NOAA <2 3-5 6-7 8-10 11+ Source: United States Environmental Protection Agency

That’s bold!

So you’d expect there will be plenty of emotions tied to such comments and proclamations. Flags will be planted, even before August starts.

ESPN NFL analyst Louis Riddick went on ‘First Take’ this week and planted a flag – he made Lance his long-shot bet to win NFL MVP this season.

The Niners’ quarterback is currently at 40-to-1 odds with FanDuel.

“It may start slow, but this kid is a unique individual in the way that he is wired and the athletic ability that he possesses,” Riddick said.

“You will see all the things that I know I personally fell in love with about his football character, his football intellect,

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a player like yourself, and for the many reasons you are deserving of this award you will always stand out as a generationaltype athlete with the most impeccable display of sportsmanship.”

Ard said he’ll take away great memories from his time with the Falcons.

“I loved representing Solano and being a student-athlete,” he said.

“The whole team on the men’s and women’s sides were great.”

tration, and then former batting champion Tim Anderson whiffed on a breaking ball to end the inning.

Anderson is set to serve a three-game suspension for making contact with an umpire during Friday’s game, but he was allowed to play on Saturday after he appealed.

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on with no outs in the fifth. Blackburn then channeled his All-Star form to work his way out of a jam. Sheets popped up, Josh Harrison struck out and then smashed his bat into pieces in frus-

Petaluma won the California championship that weekend and Fairfield advanced to the Western Regional as the tournament host.

Fairfield has been to the World Series in 1993 and 1997. The Expos came one out away from winning the regional championship in 2012, Hanson said.

Hanson said it isn’t pitching, defense or offense that stands out the most about the 2022 Expos. It’s the ability to play as a team.

“They have a tremendous camaraderie,” Hanson said. “They back each other up.

We have zero stars or college players, and only two 19 year olds.

We are a bunch of nonames that play pretty good baseball.”

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