Daily Republic, Sunday, September 25, 2022

Todd R. H anSen THANSEN@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET

SUISUN VALLEY — Ann and Mark Sievers work hard to promote the California olive oil industry.

They sit on the state commis sion that certifies the oils, and work to purify the brand so oils that claim they are from California come from California olives grown in the state.

But at the heart of the Il Fiorello Olive Oil Company is the work the Sievers do on their 17-acre farm in Suisun Valley, where they grow 3,000 trees representing 13 of the 1,400 olive varieties that represent “an immense variety of flavors,” Ann Sievers said.

They also have a farm in Green Valley with 250 trees.

“And there are going to be more soon,” said Sievers, who recently hosted a couple of the chefs from Suisun Valley wineries who dropped by to learn more about olive oil and its uses.

In fact, Il Fiorello is a popular learning center for area chefs, Sievers said.

And virtually every day, the Sievers provide a 40-minute tuto rial for their Il Fiorello customers.

Sievers say they teach people how to taste the oils, why they taste the oils and then they pair them with foods to show the variety of uses.

The Sievers took that phi losophy to another level

recently, presenting a business abstract – what amounted to an Il Fiorello manifesto – at a confer ence in Rome to representatives from Yale University, the Uni versity of Rome Italy and the University of Bari Italy.

“It’s an overview of what we do on our farm and (how we) educate our customers, which helps make our industry viable,” Ann Sievers said.

Sievers notes the farm, started in 2007, is biodiverse with mulch and compost created from the farm and used back on the farm, along with grey water and a drip irrigation system. They also grow lemons, figs, hazelnuts,

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FAIRFIELD — Jelly Belly has Candy Palooza fever this weekend with a carnival, vendors and tons of fun for the whole family.

Franklin Lloyd sat with his son Tristan, 5, upstairs with five choices of choco late and five ones to match for a chocolate tasting event. He waited patiently for his wife Annah to come and sit with them.

Candy Palooza is an opportunity for the community to enjoy

a fun, essentially free weekend with some tasty local treats.

In addition to the events happening outside, inside on the second floor is a room full of choco late samples for all – and a little wine for adults – and a factory tour.

“This is our first time here,” Franklin Lloyd said. “I have wanted to do this for years but haven’t had the time.”

Finally his wife sat down and the tasting began.

“It’s taste and sip,”

A look of bliss crossed his face in a moment and he pointed to the dark choco late truffle.

“That is good,”

he said. “This year is a little different. We have the Oscar Mayer Weiner truck here,” said John Jamison, vice

Fairfield-Suisun chamber to host candidate nights Monday, Tuesday

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FAIRFIELD — Suisun City mayoral and council hopefuls, plus the runoff candidates for the 3rd District seat on the Solano County Board of Supervisors, are sched uled to participate in a candidates forum Monday at the Fair field City Hall.

The Fairfield mayoral and council candidates will follow Tuesday.

The Fairfield-Suisun Chamber of Commerce political action com mittee is hosting the forums, both set for 6 to 8 p.m., in the council chamber, 1000 Webster St., in Fairfield.

Larry Brumfield will be the most comfortable

candidate in the room as he is the lone chal lenger for the short-term mayor’s post in Suisun City. His term will run a matter of days or a couple of weeks at most. Who will replace him will be determined by the contest between James Berg and current Vice Mayor Alma Hernan dez. Berg ran for the 11th District Assembly seat in June, but finished out of the runoff.

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Mental health projects up for possible pandemic funding at Solano supervisors session

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FAIRFIELD — Solano County supervisors on Tuesday will receive a presentation on possi ble pandemic funding for Behavioral Health project options.

There are four proj ects totaling $3.41 million in American Rescue Plan Act requests identified by the working group addressing the topic.

The project options include $2.07 million for operational costs of the Beck Campus Mental Health Treat ment Facility; $637,236 for a Behav

ioral Health internship program; $550,000 in matching and set-up funds for a new substance abuse treatment facility; and $150,000 for Behav ioral Health and Courts Mapping and Policy Development, the staff report to the board states.

The supervisors meet at 9 a.m. in the first-floor chamber of the govern ment center, 675 Texas St., in Fairfield. A closed session follows the public session, during which the board will be update on labor negotiations and anticipated litigation.

The board also will

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A stronomy can be confusing, but if you don’t know the difference between a random planet and Uranus (hah! The inevitable joke!), I’ve got a trick to remember the planets in our solar system.

The eight planets (nine if you count Pluto) are like an extended family.

While the sun is the com bined grandmother/grandfather around which many (both healthy and dysfunctional) fam ilies rotate, the planets are each a type of cousin. You are Earth in this discussion. The others?

Starting from those closest to the sun:

Mercury and Venus, the two closest planets to the sun are our

cool cousins who gen erally blow off family events because they’re doing things beyond our imagination (following their favorite band on an around-the-world trip; hiking the Pacific Crest Trail; living in a trailer in Mexico for a year).

Mercury and Venus are different and a little crazy (did you know Venus rotates in the opposite direction of the other planets?). They’re both way too hot to explore. We secretly like them, but don’t know them. They’re our cool cousin planets. Mars is our closest cousin. Mars spent two weeks at our house every year when we were young. We were Mars’ wedding party and vice-versa.

We talk about taking vacations together with Mars, although we haven’t done it. If we were to die an early planetary death, Mars would be asked to be a pallbearer and to speak at the funeral.

Jupiter is the older, slightly intimidating cousin (Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system and has 63 moons and a ring system we can faintly see). We’ve always known Jupiter existed, but it feels more like an adult than most of the other planets. Jupiter didn’t pick on Mars and us when we were younger planets, because it didn’t interact with us. However, we still watch it. From afar.

Saturn is the crazy cousin who we don’t really understand but admire. It’s the best-looking

of all the cousins because of its rings, but it also has a cool name and is mysterious. Like Jupiter, it has more than 60 moons, but we suspect Saturn’s moons are bizarre in some way. If Saturn shows up at a family reunion, it’s dressed differently than anyone and listening to a kind of music we’ve never heard.

Uranus is our oddball cousin. The name, for self-evident reasons. But Uranus also spins on its side – different than any other planet. The entire time we’ve been in the same solar system, the other planets have snickered at Uranus’ name and the way it rotates. Meanwhile, Uranus stays consistent. It comes to every family gathering and talks about science fiction that we don’t understand.

Neptune is cold and distant,

both as a relative and as a planet. We know it’s there but don’t know when it will be any where near us. Most of us don’t know much about it (Was Neptune in the Army? Does it live in Nevada? Montana? Ten nessee? Was it ever married? Divorced?). Neptune is part of the family, but a distant part. Neptune may come to a family gathering once a decade and when it leaves, we know nothing more about it.

Pluto is not a planet, offi cially. It’s the “cousin” who is really a neighbor who still shows up at our family reunions. Kind of the Cousin Oliver of planets.

Reach Brad Stanhope at bradstanhope@outlook.com.

Look out Guitar Heroes, Trombone Champ is taking over the internet

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The trombone has gone viral.

Trombone Champ, the self-proclaimed world’s first trombone-based rhythm music game, has racked up tens of mil lions of video views on social media since it launched last week.

With a similar game design to Guitar Hero, players command a virtual trombone with their computer mouse in an attempt to follow the melody of classical music like Mozart’s Eine Kleine, Strauss’s Blue Danube Waltz and the US national anthem, The StarSpangled Banner, with predictable results.

Its wildly chaotic and silly gameplay makes Guitar Hero seem like something on offer

at Julliard.

Warbling notes, multiple unexplained ref erences to baboons, and loading screens explain ing that “two to four spiders – on average –live inside a trombone” keep the entertainment factor high.

The gaming commu nity is impressed. PC Gamer declared it to be a “serious contender for game of the year.” Game reviewer IGN proclaimed, “move over Guitar Hero,” and the London Sym phony Orchestra invited people to go “head-tohead with our trombone section” on Facebook.

Some corners of the music world aren’t so ecstatic. Jazz expert and author Ted Gioia wrote that he is “embarrassed” by the game, and said

he wishes “it had really just been a joke,” in an email to Bloomberg News.

Although he admits to laughing when he first saw a video of the game.

His concern is for musicians. “Trombonists don’t get much respect in the world, and I doubt this game will help their cause,” said Gioia.

The game’s creator Dan Vecchitto was pre pared for worse. “I honestly expected real trombonists to hate the game, because it’s not even remotely realistic,” he told PC Gamer. “The reception from them has been extremely positive.”

Steven Greenall, the creator of the pBone, a plastic and affordable trombone which sells for £140 ($155), is effusive in his praise for the game.

As a trombone player who’s used to sitting in the back of the orchestra, “it’s nice to be in the spot light, for once.” He notes that during the pandemic, brass playing was banned and business was bad. Now he sees the potential for higher sales. “Any thing that clarifies what a trombone is good, it will inevitably raise aware ness,” he adds.

The viral success of Trombone Champ invites comparisons to the mid2000s craze for Guitar Hero and its plastic music accessories, which gen erated billions in revenue for Activision Blizzard Inc. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock racked up more than $1 billion in sales alone.

Vecchitto plans to cap italise on the game’s

viral popularity. He spent four years working nights and weekends at his home in Brooklyn, New York, to build the game’s code with the help of his wife, Jackie, who together own the game development company Holy Wow Studios. They consulted musicians and worked with play-testers and visual artists to make sure the tone was just right, and that the virtual character was holding the instrument correctly.

The idea for the game came when Vecchitto, a saxophone and clari net player who has never played the trombone, was building an arcade cabinet, or machine, for an earlier game. “I sud denly had the idea for an arcade cabinet with an enormous rubber (it had

to be floppy rubber) trom bone controller, with the player desperately trying to match a bunch of squig gly note lines headed their way,” he told PC Gamer. Future devel opments might include leaderboards so players can compete with friends, the ability to add new songs and the possible addition of a rap song.

In his definitive history of jazz standards, Gioia writes that “not every horn [like the trombone] survived the transition from swing to bop during the middle years of the twentieth century.” Will the trombone survive its transition to the rhythm game universe? Its future may be in the hands of a game devel oper who, in fact, plays the saxophone.

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Vacaville celebrates fall with Oktoberfest

they were selling hats and T-shirts like in past years.

VACAVILLE — The brats sizzled on the grill Saturday while the beer bubbled into cups for the annual Oktober fest downtown.

Pure Grain German Bakery has hosted the event for 15 years in conjunc tion with the Downtown Vacaville Business Improvement District.

Michael Miethe and Holger Seibert, co-own ers of Pure Grain German Bakery, are childhood friends who graduated from the same high school in a small town near Saar brücken, Germany. They both served as appren tices in a local bakery owned by Seibert’s father.

While on vacation to the U.S., they were inspired to bring a Ger man-style bakery to the states, choosing Vacaville

because of nearby Travis Air Force Base’s large European population.

Pure Grain Bakery opened in Town Square in late 2004. The meal was created with recipes from Seibert’s wife’s family, who owned a restaurant in Germany.

Robert Jones carried a box of strudel in one hand Saturday and a beer in the other. On his head was a

felt pointy hat he got three years ago when he came to the event.

Jones has lived in Fair field for the past 54 years and only has come a couple of times to Vacav ille’s Oktoberfest.

“It is nice to get out of the house with the epi demic,” he said. “People are enjoying themselves and I love that.”

Jones said he wished

“That would be a great way to make some extra money,” he said.

Vacaville’s Oktober fest celebration coincides with the opening of Okto berfest in Munich, which ran from Oct. 12-17 in 1810, but was later moved forward to September to take advantage of better weather.

The famous Gruber Family Band brought the Town Square alive with music and people took advantage of the tunes and danced, while others sang along.

Organizers this year had more vendors with about 45 booths. They also had additional food booths to add lemonade, desserts and more to the experience. A car show featured about 15 cars parked downtown.

Flood walk participants review possible waterfront flooding sites

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SUISUN CITY — Kim Rodriguez likes to take walks along the trails by the marina. One thing she has noticed over the past few years is that some pieces of land are now underwater.

“When I first moved to the area I wanted to buy a house along the water in Suisun, but then I worried about flooding,” she said.

“It wasn’t something that had happened but it was on my mind.”

Instead, 20 years ago, she chose Fairfield – and she is glad she did.

“The area over there,” she said as she pointed toward the water’s edge, “that was where some homeless were living but it’s gone.”

An educational Flood Walk, sponsored Satur day by Sustainable Solano along with the Resilient Neighborhoods program, took 12 participants on a journey through the marshlands, by the docks and through some resi dential areas in Suisun City, showing the areas that could be affected in the future by flooding.

“It seems weird talking

about flooding when we are in a drought,” said Alex Lunine of Sustain able Solano and program manager for the Resilient Neighborhoods program.

Sustainable Solano is a grassroots movement to unite people to work toward a future that is ecologically regenerative while also economically and socially supportive of local communities.

A brief overview of Suisun City’s history shows the community has flooded more than once downtown and inland, so it was no surprise to long time residents that this is a continued issue.

Suisun City and Fair field would be affected differently at different total water levels.

Sustainable Solano, along with the city and the San Fransisco Bay Conservation and Devel opment Commission, plan to develop a Flood Resil ience Action Plan over the next few years. The plan will look at the impact of flooding in both Suisun City and Fairfield.

“We are working on mixing strategies to address the flooding issues,” Lunine said.

Several types of events

that could affect the water levels are sea levels rising from ice melting; tidal flooding, which happens at king tides; and storm surges. Surges happen when there is a buildup of water during a storm that whips up high winds and us accompanied by low atmospheric pressure.

A king tide is a non scientific term people often use to describe exceptionally high tides, according to the National Weather Service.

Some ideas Sustain able Solano is working on include preparing for the potential for flooding, learning about flooding in the areas where people live, learning to adapt to the new reality of higher water or evacuating in the end to a safer place to live.

A series of older levees and a robust water man agement strategy can manage current pres sures – within reason. But as the threat poten tial continues to increase in coming years, Suisun City is working toward action to collectively weather the storm.

Sustainable Solano is focused on build ing what it characterizes as organically resilient

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neighborhoods in the most environmentally and socially vulnerable com munities of Seabreeze, Victorian Harbor and Old Town. Their research has shown these com munities will be the most affected by future flood ing, while also having the smallest means to imple ment change.

To get more infor mation on various Sustainable Solano projects, go to http://sus tainablesolano.org.

Fairfield-Suisun school board OKs unaudited financial report

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FAIRFIELD — Fair field-Suisun School District trustees on Thursday approved the unaudited financial report for the previous academic year.

The report represents the financial status of all funds of the district at the end of the school year on June 30. It will serve as the basis for the 2021-22 audit report submitted to the Solano County Superintendent of Schools, according to Amanda Rish, direc tor of Fiscal Services, who presented the report to the board.

Revenues were $212.1 million and expenditures totaled $168.7 million. The dis trict received funds totaling $43.1 million from other sources.

“This gave us an unre stricted funds balance of an increase of $345,493,” Rish said. “The unre stricted general fund balance as of June 30 was $31.6 million.”

The unrestricted funds were made up of several funds including Non-Spendable Reserves at $448,723; Accrued Vacation funds at $1.3 million; Insurance Liability Deductible Reserve at $775,000; and Unrestricted Grants at $1.5 million, which

will be carried over to the next year because some of them were received late and unable to be spent, according to the report.

The Capital and Non-Capital Projects Carryover came out to $2.8 million because not all projects were com pleted last year. The Local Control Funding Formula/Supplemental Concentration Carry over was $8.5 million, which left the Undesig nated Unrestricted Fund Balance at $16 million, according to the report.

The restricted fund balance ended the fiscal year at $28 million. Revenues totaled $62.3 million against $94.4 million in spending, accord ing to the report. The district received other sources of funds total ing $37.9 million, which represented a total increase in fund balance of $5.8 million.

“We did anticipate ending the year with a higher fund balance due to the one-time values over the last year,” Rish said.

A new fund was created this year for retiree benefits tracking. The revenues for this fund were $3.5 million with expenditures of only $1,289 making for a negligible change in the balance.

VACAVILLE — Parents and students gathered Friday night for a fair at Will C. Wood High School fled for safety amid fears that a loud popping sound was a gunshot.

The noise appears to have come from a balloon that popped, police report.

Police received reports shortly before 7:45 p.m. of a shot being fired and an armed person with a firearm at the fair in the campus quad area. A call went out for all available officers to descend on the campus at 998 Marshall Road.

There was no shooter, according to school staff, but police searched the campus anyway. No evi dence of a shooting was found, and no shooting victims were found.

It turns out a single balloon popped and a child yelled that someone was shooting. police report. Word of a shoot ing quickly spread, resulting in “chaos” as panicked parents and stu

Suisun climate panel to discuss Sustainable Solano session

SUISUN CITY — A virtual meeting of the city’s Environment and Climate Committee is set for 6 p.m.

The agenda lists dis cussion about the Oct. 22 Sustainable Solano meeting and review of topics of interest for 2023 as determined by a recent survey.

Access to the meeting is at https://us06web. zoom.us/j/84495504564. The Webinar ID is 844 9550 4564. The public also may call into the meeting at 707-438-1720.

Police: Will C. Wood ‘shooting’ scare a false report

dents fled from the quad, police report.

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Bethany Dodine of Pure Grain German Bakery sells large homemade pretzels at the festival, Saturday.

Ralph MacDonald Brown

Ralph MacDon ald Brown passed away peacefully on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022, sur rounded by family. He was 83 years old.

Mac was born in Fullerton, Cali fornia, to Ralph and Thelma Brown. He adopted the name Mac since his best friend and father were both named Ralph.

He spent his childhood years in Bellflower, Califor nia. Cars, pets and athletics were his passions.

After graduating from Bellflower High School, Mac went on to Compton Junior College for two years. He earned a B.S. at CSU Long Beach where he was a member of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity. It was here that he met the love of his life, Paige Peterson. They were married in 1964 and shared 56 wonderful years together.

Mac served two years in the Army during a break from studies at CSULB. For a brief stint, he worked in the aeronautics industry for McDonnell-Douglas in Long Beach. He then transitioned to teaching primarily at Vanden High School (Travis Air Force Base). He taught an array of elective classes, including drafting, autoshop, and flight ground school. Mac was also a farmer in Suisun Valley.

Having a keen sense

of adventure, Mac loved the outdoors. In his youth, he worked as a ranger in Kings Canyon National Park. He led many family backpacking trips in the Sierra Nevada mountains. He enjoyed boating, sailing and flying. He traveled with his wife in Europe, the Caribbean and the Pacific Islands. Mac was a car, tractor and firearm enthusiast. He spent his time buying, selling and driving his lovingly restored ‘toys’. He was equally com mitted to winemaking and was an award-winning amateur vintner; he loved to share his wines with friends and family.

He is survived by his mother, Thelma; sister, Sue Bergman; son, Peter; and daughters, Keri and Loralee. Mac is preceded in death by his beloved wife, Paige. The family would like to express their appreciation to the wonderful care he received in his final months at Eskaton Lodge Cameron Park; he was loved and we could not have asked for better care.

Please send condo lences to MacBrownMemo rial@gmail.com. In lieu of flowers, dona tions can be made in memory of Mac to the UC Davis Cardiovascular Divi sion Support Fund (https:// give.ucdavis.edu/donate/ yourgift/card400).

Tyler William West June 8, 2001 — Sept. 2, 2022

Tyler William West was born on June 8, 2001, in Flor ence, Alabama, and passed on Sept. 2, 2022, in Vacav ille, California, sur rounded by family after a vehicle acci dent. Tyler was born to Nancy West-Wauters and Starlin ‘Shawn’ McGee.

He attended Vanden High School and Keystone Education.

He loved art, hiking, playing with his puppies (Paris and Isis), gaming, traveling, as well as all-star cheer and dance. He had a special interest in fashion design.

Tyler is survived by his mother, Nancy WestWauters; stepparent, Dave Wauters; father, Shawn (Misty) McGee; siblings, Isa bella, Ava, Wyatt, Madison, Gracie and Shelby Wauters; grandparents, Lauren and

Tim West; greatgrandmother, Doris McConnell; grand mother, Roberta Calhoon; greatgrandmother, Gladys Winning ham; aunt, Karen Clagg, aunt and uncle, Sarah and Justin Wilson; great-aunt and uncle, Shirley and Jim Griffin; uncle, Shane (Nicole) McGee; cousins, Ryan and Kassie Clagg, Annelise Lambrecht-Wil son, Jessa Wilson, Lexi McGee; and many other loving family members.

Tyler was preceded in his death by his great-grand father, Leo McConnell; and grandparents, and Debbie and Troy McGee.

Arrangements under the care of BryanBraker Funeral Home, 707-425-4697.

Gary Darville Feb. 17, 1950 — Sept. 4, 2022

It is with great sadness that the family of Gary Dar ville announces his passing after a long illness.

Gary was born in Fairfield, the sixth generation to live in Suisun Valley. He attended Suisun Valley Ele mentary School, and graduated in 1968 from Fairfield High School as part of the first graduating class.

After a four year stint in the U.S. Navy, Gary and his family lived in Fair field where he worked over 20 years for AnheuserBusch. In addition, he also worked as a volunteer

Sandra McCurdy-Sirois sadly passed away on July 1, 2022, after battling a long illness. Sandra was born in Napa, Cal ifornia, on Jan. 1, 1966. She grew up mostly in Napa and Vacaville.

Sandy worked as a hair dresser, security guard, and recently retired from Solano County, where she worked for 15 years as a custodian.

Sandy is survived by her husband, Joseph Sirois; father, Richard McCurdy; daughter, Tanya McCurdy; brother, Robert Howard; sister, Bridgette Pannell; stepbrother, Lorenzo Arriola; stepsister, Delfina Taylor;

Arie Lee Wil liams, 93, passed peacefully at his home in Fairfield, California, on Sept. 13, 2022.

Arie was born in Delray Beach, Florida, and was most affectionately known as Brother Williams.

Arie served in the USAF for 26 years. After retir ing from the Air Force as a MSgt., he continued to serve at Mare Island for an additional 15 years, totaling 41 years serving the federal government.

Arie is survived by his wife, Rita; daugh ters, Gail Williams and Lisa Cook; sons, Alvin Wil liams, Anthony and John

MacIntosh; grand son, Delfonte Wil liams; and a host of nieces, nephews, grandchildren, great-grandchil dren, other relatives and close friends.

Funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Monday, Sept. 26, 2022, at Mount Calvary Baptist Church, 1735 Enterprise Drive, Fairfield, California.

Military Burial Service will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022, at the Sacra mento Valley National Cem etery, 5810 Midway Road, Dixon, California.

Arrangements are entrusted to Fair field Funeral Home, 707-425-1041.

Barbara Hagadorn Dec. 29, 1932 — Sept. 11, 2022

Barbara Haga dorn went home to be with our Lord and savior on Sept. 11, 2022, at home with her husband and mate of 39 years by her side.

Barbara was born Dec. 29, 1932, in Cle burne, Texas, to Euell and Dorothy Cosgrove. She has been a resident of Fairfield, California, since 1965. She married Thomas Hagadorn on July 22, 2000, and was his partner since 1983.

Barbara earned her mas ter’s degree in English Liter ature from the University of California at Davis. She went on to teach Shakespeare, Steinbeck and others at Armijo High School for 20 years, retiring in 2004.

She enjoyed jazz and rock ’n’ roll music, going to concerts, dancing and reading mystery novels.

She was a member of Berean Baptist Church for 12 years, enjoying Sunday school, potluck dinners and the fellowship with other

members. She is survived by her husband, Thomas Hagadorn of Fairfield; son and daughter-in-law, Richard and Vivian Mugg of Vallejo; and nephew, Gary Giese of San Antonio.

She was preceded in death by her parents; sister and nephew, Mary Hendrix and Richard Giese of San Antonio.

Visitation will be held from 10 a.m. to noon Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022, at Bryan-Braker Funeral Home, 1850 W. Texas St., Fairfield. A brief grave side service will be held at 12:30 p.m. at Suisun-Fair field Cemetery, 1707 Union Ave., Fairfield, California.

In lieu of flowers, memo rials may be made to any Alzheimer’s/dementia research foundations.

Arrangements are under the direction of BryanBraker, 707-425-4697. You may sign the guest book at www.bryanbraker.com.

Lois S. Dittmer July 28, 1919 — Sept. 6, 2022

Lois S. Dittmer, 103, a Fairfield res ident since 1949, died Sept. 6, 2022, of a short illness surrounded by her family. She was born July 28, 1919, to her parents, Emory and Fannie Bell Sell of Dalhart, Texas.

fireman and EMT for Vacaville Fire Department.

Gary is sur vived by his mother, Dorene Darville, of Lincoln, California; sons Eric (Vi) of Manteca and Kevin (Lisa) of Costa Rica; and two grand sons, Oliver and Ezra, also of Costa Rica; brother, Ron (Mindy); and sister, Jan Hess (Karl) live in Lincoln.

Gary is preceded in death by his father, Ralph Darville.

Service will be private. Donations can be made to cancer or hospice organizations.

After finishing high school, she earned her Bach elor’s Degree at Texas Tech College in Lubbock, Texas, and she was a Red Raider for life and always enjoyed watching Texas Tech bas ketball. She graduated from college during the second World War (1939-1945), and she was needed to support the war effort so she began working as a civilian on an Army air base. She quickly advanced to become the Assistant Civilian Person nel Officer and soon after, in 1949, she was transferred to California to work at the Fairfield-Suisun Army Base. It is there that she met and fell in love with the air base Assistant Fire Chief, Robert Dittmer, and they were soon married.

Suzanne Bezel (Dave) of Gilmer, Texas; two granddaugh ters, Stepha nie Carpenter (Bob) of Tucson, Arizona, and Joanne Canciglia of Austin, Texas; two grandsons, Robert Dittmer of Seattle, Washington, and Matthew Dittmer of Fairfield, California; and two great-granddaughters, Madeline and Hannah Car penter, both of Tucson, Arizona.

Neighborhood group plans Fairfield council candidates meet and greet event

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FAIRFIELD —

The Rolling Hills Neigh borhood Network has scheduled a meet-the-can didates night Thursday.

This will be a town hall-type of forum where members of the audience will ask questions, accord ing to June Johnsen, charwoman of the neigh borhood network.

Each candidate for office in Fairfield will have 3 minutes at the beginning to introduce themselves.

A moderator will ensure each candidate gets equal time to answer questions and present their views. The program will allow time after the forum for candidates to speak oneon-one with voters and

shake hands.

Organizers will provide a table outside the room for candidates to place their campaign literature.

The Rolling Hills Neighborhood Network was established more than 30 years ago to watch out for not only the neighborhood, but the community as well.

The forum starts at 7 p.m. and is scheduled to end at 9 p.m. at the Northern Solano County Association of Realtors office; 3690 Hilborn Road.

Local groups plan candidate sessions for Vacaville, Benicia

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VACAVILLE —

A number of commu nity groups have banded together to host a pair of candidate forums starting next week for Vacaville City Council candidates.

The first forum is from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday for Vacaville mayoral can didates as well as those for the city’s District 4 seat. The second forum is from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Oct. 3 for the District 2 and District 6 council seats in Vacaville.

Both forums are open to the public and are expected to be streamed live.

The League of Women Voters Solano County, Solano Valley Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., Theta Pi Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc., TriCity NAACP and Solano Youth Coalition are spon soring the forums but do not support of oppose any political party or candi date, the agencies said in a press release.

Moderator for both sessions is writer and col umnist Danette Mitchell. The forums takes place at IEBW Local 1245, 30 Orange Tree Circle in Vacaville. The ses sions will be streamed on the League of Women Voters’ YouTube channel at https://www.youtube. com/channel/UCKs WzzfO 8WOe8GB1HCn6FvQ.

The League of Women Voters and the American Association of University Women plan a candidates forum from 7 to 9 p.m. Oct. 12 for Benicia City Council candidates. That forum will take place at the Benicia Senior Citizen’s Center, 187 E. L St. A recording of the forum will be made avail able a few days later on the League of Women Voters’ YouTube channel.

For more informa tion about the League of Women Voters, its partnerships and pro grams, send an email to lwvsolano@gmail.com or visit http://lwvsolano county.org/.

grandchildren, Markell Burnside, Angaliya Griffin, Tanayah Lewis and Tiana Lewis; along with numer ous aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews.

Sandy was pre ceded in death by her mother, El Rae Pannell; and her son, Lonnie Griffin.

A Celebration of Sandy’s life will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022, at Fairfield Masonic Lodge, 412 Travis Blvd., Fairfield, California. Please join us for an afternoon of stories and laughter, the way Sandy would have wanted it. Potluck dish is optional, casual dress.

While working at the Fairfield-Suisun Army Air Base, the civilian workers wanted to start a savings and loan. When the word spread, the military members also wanted to be eligible to use the new banking institu tion so her boss went to work and was able to get the polit ical approval to charter the savings and loan. He then turned it over to his assistant, Lois, and said to her, ‘now get it done.’ She studied, handled all the paperwork and appli cations, found the first depos itor and helped create the S&L that was known then as the Fairfield-Suisun Army Air Force Savings and Loan. Later, once the officers and board members of the S&L were in place, she was able to turn over her paperwork and her responsibilities to the board. That little savings and loan is now known as Travis Credit Union.

Bob, a 4th generation Suisun Valley native, and Lois worked, lived and started their family here. Lois is sur vived by her husband of 73 years, Robert Warren Dittmer; son, Jeff Dittmer (Leslie) of Fairfield; daughter,

She was a substitute teacher for many years with the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District, and was a volunteer with the Inter-Community Hos pital Guild when volun teers went on a local campaign door to door col lecting donations to fulfill the dream of a local inde pendent hospital that we now know as NorthBay Medical Center. She was a member of a women’s bridge club that could fill the house with ladies playing bridge, was a fan of the San Francisco Giants and the Golden State War riors, a member of Green Valley Country Club and was a Super Mom support ing her kids’ activities.

She was laid to rest Friday, Sept. 23, 2022, at the Rockville Cemetery.

Arrangements are entrusted to Bryan-Braker Funeral Home, 707-4254697, www.bryanbraker. com.

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Early bird tickets available for Learning Advocates Gala

VACAVILLE — Early ticket sales for the Academy of 21st Century Learning Advocates Gala have opened.

The cost is $100, increasing to $125 Nov. 1.

Organizers are seeking event sponsors, as well as donations for the live and silent auctions.

The event will occur Feb. 10 at the Vacaville Opera House, 560 E. Main St., Suite C. It begins with a 6 p.m. reception, fol lowed by dinner, dancing and the auction.

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FAIRFIELD —

The Solano County Office of Education has been awarded a $300,000 Bay Watershed Education and Training grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The grant focuses on engaging teachers and students in citizen science to help solve a mystery threatening the salmon population in California’s ecosystems.

Solano County Office of Education’s grant program, dubbed the Spinning Salmon Citizen Science Monitoring Project, launched Friday with a two-day training for a small pilot group of teachers from across Solano County at Office of Education’s main office in Fairfield.

The Spinning Salmon project was developed through a collaborative effort with Solano County Office of Education, NOAA, the University of California, Davis Center for Watershed Sciences, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and the UC Davis Center for Community and Citizen Science. Other commu nity organizations like the Solano Land Trust and the Fairfield-Suisun

Sewer District also sup ported the project and teacher training.

Teachers will lead Solano County high school students through a part nership with researchers from UC Davis and facil itate the collection of data in the classroom to support UC Davis’ work.

“Exposure to STEM (science, technology, engi neering and mathematics) and STEM-related fields can be a significant equal izer for students,” Solano Superintendent of Schools Lisette Estrella-Hender son said in a press release. “We are excited to be awarded this grant that will provide students the opportunity to provide real research and data that can help CDFW and UC Davis scientists solve a problem endan gering salmon in our local ecosystems.”

A mystery emerged in 2020, according to the release, when experts at the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Fish Health Laboratory and UC Davis Aquatic Animal Health Laboratory dis covered something was causing young salmon in fish hatcheries to swim in corkscrew pat terns and die at unusually high rates. Investigators with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Califor nia-Nevada Fish Health

Suisun council swears in fire chief; OKs fiscal review of warehouse projects

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SUISUN CITY — A big crowd came out to watch Brad Lopez take his oath of office as the city’s new fire chief.

Many of those who attended the City Council meeting Tuesday were from Winters. Lopez served 30 years in that city’s fire department, including three as chief.

He started his duties in Suisun City about five weeks ago.

The council also autho rized City Manager Greg Folsom to execute a professional services agreement with Goodwin Consulting Group of Sac ramento to complete a fiscal impact analysis for the development of two logistics centers totaling 3.4 million square feet of industrial space within the city’s sphere of influence.

Buzz Oates Construc tion is looking to annex the proposed Suisun Logis tics Center and Highway 12 Logistics Center into the city.

The Suisun Logistic Center is at the southeast corner of Petersen Road and Walters Road and totals 2.1 million square feet of warehouse uses on approximately 120 acres. The Highway 12 Logistic Center is at the southwest

corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and Highway 12 and totals 1.3 million square feet of warehouse and logistics uses on approximately 93 acres.

The analysis will deter mine the possible impacts the projects would have on city services com pared to taxes and other revenues generated by the centers.

In other action, the council:

n Amended job descriptions for the public safety dispatcher I and II positions and the senior public safety dispatcher position to reflect updated qualifications.

n Met in closed session on an employee disci pline matter and labor negotiations. No action was reported.

Center noticed that a bath of thiamine immediately revived the ailing juve niles. They now suspect the problem is linked to a deficiency of thiamine in returning adult salmon that fed off the coast of central California.

Solano County Office of Education’s Spinning Salmon project will place fish tanks, research equip ment and salmon fry in local classrooms.

Teachers received training and permit ting from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife allowing them to legally possess the wild species. The program aims to provide real-world data collected by Solano County high school stu dents to support research looking to uncover what is causing the deficiency in the salmon, which play a critical role in our Californian and global ecosystems.

The program is a com petitive grant program that promotes Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences: activities driven by rigorous aca demic learning standards that aim to increase participants’ understand ing and stewardship of watersheds and related ecosystems, according to the press release.

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Domestic Violence Awareness Month is October.

Domestic violence is known by other names, of course, including intimate partner violence, domestic abuse and family violence.

How pervasive is this problem? The World Health Organization estimates that a third of women experience domestic violence during their lifetimes. It is a noto riously under-reported phenomenon, frequently imbedded in cultural norms with respect to gender inequality. More over, violent actions may be intergenerational, rep resenting a vicious cycle.

To be sure, domes tic violence also may be inflicted upon men. Women and children, however, are more fre quently victimized. If the assailant is of the belief that such behavior is con doned, it is more likely to occur. Child marriage increases the likelihood of violence directed against someone who is both female and underage. In a broader sense, child mar riage, along with forced marriages, are them selves abusive in nature.

Some other predis posing factors include a sense of isolation and rel ative lack of power on the part of victims. Caring for children and requir ing financial support may mitigate in favor of indi viduals feeling unable to flee. We also know there are complex psychological manifestations of abusive relationships in which

individuals blame themselves or iden tify with abusers.

An analogous situ ation would be the Stockholm Syn drome, in which kidnap victims feel unable to flee for similar emo tional reasons.

Efforts to cat egorize violence against women are subsumed under a specific series cat egory by Wikipedia, based on WHO data and other sources. This horror shop of specific acts includes homicidal acts (bride burning, honor killing), sexual assault (forced prostitution, rape), dis figurement (acid attacks) and miscellaneous other acts including marriageby-abduction. This is a partial list of examples. Some of the examples cited, including the ancient Japanese prac tice of foot-binding, may be archaic. In research ing this piece, I also came across droit du sei gneur, an ancient term describing the right of nobility to take advantage of young women.

This problem has a long legacy, to be sure. I hope we are progressing.

With respect to vio lence against men, examples include andro cide, patricide, malicious castration, groom kid napping and prison rape. While working as a doctor in the state prison system, I expected to see more individuals victimized by sexual assault. Staff inter actions with inmates were illegal, of course. But what about sexual relation ships between inmates?

The code of silence among inmates mitigated against discussion of rape by inmate-patients in most clinical settings. More over, the power inequality between individual inmates no doubt resulted in coercive acts, even if they occurred “below the radar.”

I have some connec tions with the active-duty military community. The awareness of sexual harassment and domes tic violence is way beyond what I learned decades ago. For example, officers are taught that harass ment or assault must be taken just as seriously whether it occurs within a marriage or not. Rape must be considered as a crime, of course, whether male or female individuals are being assessed. Men often take longer to report being victimized, due to societal norms that view male victims of assault as being weak or ineffectual. Male assault victims are attacked by multiple per petrators, often within the context of hazing.

Emotional abuse deserves mention. This encompasses efforts to dehumanize, humiliate or constantly criticize. Eco nomic abuse includes preventing a person from functioning indepen dently from a financial standpoint or pressuring individuals to sign away legal rights.

Efforts to prevent domestic violence have been elaborated by the United Nations, includ ing the 2016 Spotlight Initiative. Resources for domestic violence inter vention are available

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The World Health Organization estimates that a third of women experience domestic violence during their lifetimes. It is a notoriously under-reported phenomenon.

at https://www.solano county.com/civicax/ filebank/blobdload. aspx?BlobID=11004.

Included are phone numbers for report ing child abuse, adult abuse/neglect and elder abuse/neglect.

Wearing a purple ribbon, representing bravery and courage, is a great way to support Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

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

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Measure S would authorize the sale of general obligation bonds of the FairfieldSuisun School District in series in the aggre gate amount of up to $249.6 million. Measure S will not amend any existing laws. The dis trict’s governing board placed Measure S on the ballot.

The California Constitution limits the use of proceeds from such bonds to construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation or replacement of school facilities, including the furnishing and equipping of school facilities, or the acquisition or lease of

real property for school facilities.

The bonds would be repaid through a prop erty tax levied and collected by the county each year on all taxable property within the district in an amount sufficient to pay the interest and principal coming due prior to the next year’s tax levy.

would be $619.662 million.

a $220 property tax for all homeowners within the district.

For as long as 40 years.

located within the district. A “no” vote is a vote to not autho rize the issuance of the bonds.

The district’s stated best esti mate of the average annual tax rate that would need to be levied to fund the proposed bonds is $40 per $100,000. The district estimates the total debt service during the life of the bonds, including principal and interest,

A bond works like a govern ment credit card – paying off that credit card requires the government to raise your taxes. The increased taxes you will be forced to pay would be in addition to all the other taxes Fairfield/Suisun City residents already pay, including: property taxes; existing Solano Commu nity College bond taxes; income taxes; sales taxes; utility taxes; gasoline taxes. This is a tax you will be probably paying for 40 years. Aren’t you taxed enough already?

Tomato festival, really?

This year’s Tomato Festival (dubbed “Tomato and Vine”) was improved over previous renditions. With vendors offer ing higher quality items and a far better arrangement of music venues and food vendors, the event was more interesting, easier to navigate and more comfortable for families.

The major shortcoming, however, was terribly obvious. The beloved Solano County tomato, namesake of the annual event, was only a minor feature of the festival. Only four kinds of tomatoes were offered for sampling and, by 2:20 p.m., that number had dropped to three.

Organizers should have created a much greater celebration of the red fruit. Didn’t anyone think of staging cooking demonstrations? At various sta tions, attendees could have learned how to make salsa with different varieties of locally grown tomatoes.

Also, how about a demonstration of ways to make pasta sauce, ketchup and other food items that feature tomatoes? Other demonstrations might include how to sun-dry tomatoes at home and incor porate tomatoes into breads, tortillas and desserts.

It would take very little imagina tion to make the tomato festival actually feature tomatoes. Let’s hope someone on the organizing committee has some imagination.

Jeff Dwyer Fairfield

Vote for Garcia in Suisun City

Katrina Garcia is a Suisun City Council candidate who has been married for 25 years and is the mother of five children. When you vote for Katrina, you’re voting for a safer, more family friendly city.

Katrina is committed to expanding street repair and public safety services, so you can feel confident raising your family here. She’s also open to explor ing options that bring together kids from all different types of schools. So whether your kids go to public school, charter school or are homeschooled, they’ll have the chance to interact and learn from each other.

Katrina is running for office because she wants to make a difference in her community, and she has the experience and drive to make it happen.

Vote for Katrina Garcia. She’s the change we need.

Mandy Harrison Fairfield

Sierra Club endorses candidates for Nov. 8

The Sierra Club is proud to endorse the following candidates in Solano County.

In Benicia, we support Terry Scott and Kari Birdseye for City Council. We also are supporting a Yes on Measure K vote, which we believe will help preserve our critical open space in the county.

In Suisun City, we are supporting Alma Hernandez for mayor and Princess

Six years ago (2016) Fair field/Suisun City residents passed Measure J and gave $249 million to the school dis trict. You are still paying and will be paying for many more years for this bond. Fairfield/ Suisun residents cannot afford another tax increase.

Measure S requires approval by 55% of the voters of the dis trict voting on it.

I don’t usually share my political views but in this case I can’t just stand by and keep watching our government tax, tax and tax us for things already paid for through our taxation. It’s not more money the govern ment needs; it’s better spending habits. I hope this November you will join me against this tax on our community.

The median home price for Fairfield is $555,000 (accord ing to Trend Graphics BAREIS MLS as of Aug. 22, 2022). That’s

A “yes” vote is a vote to authorize the issuance of bonds totaling up to $249.6 million to fund specified school facilities projects secured by the levy of ad valorem taxes on property

Don McDonald is a resident in the Fairfield-Suisun School District, a former member of the Fairfield Planning Commission and a founding partner of Re/Max Elite Partners. THE

Williams for City Council. We hope they continue the trendsetting environmen tal work the city has achieved with the last council.

In Fairfield, we are endorsing George Kennedy in District 1, who was the only candidate we heard from who supports the sunsetted Measure L and believes that issue needs to come to a vote by the local electorate.

In Vacaville, we support Jeannette Wylie and Sarah Chapman in their respective districts and Jason Roberts for mayor. Vacaville needs a council majority to deal with the fire threats and 117-degree heat that climate change is bringing to all of us.

In Vallejo, we are supporting Ruscal Cayangyang in District 4 and Don Jordan in District 2. The threat to open space by the Nimitz Group on Mare Island means we need an independent council, people who won’t rubber-stamp a new site-specific plan.

We also reaffirm our support for Wanda Williams for the 3rd District on the Board of Supervisors. Not only did Williams do great work in her time on the Suisun City Council, she has been a longtime friend of the club, listening to many of our concerns.

Joseph Feller, Sierra Club, Solano Group chairman Vallejo

Measure S not an economic draw to region

A recent pro-Measure S letter (DR 9/18/2022) focused on the regional eco nomic draw of a good school, but didn’t define what constitutes a good school.

Certainly, elementary and high schools do not provide skilled and edu cated workers that relocating employers are looking for with STEM education. Even local community colleges are a stretch for that employee pool.

For sure, attracting and retaining quality employees is an ideal goal for employers, but those employees are cul

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tivated in higher education resources and from previous and current work experience, not from graduating high school seniors. It is historically evident that experienced and quality teachers and exemplary curriculum is what is going to prepare students for college or the professional workforce. The school building is the place students go to meet and learn from those teachers. Measure S does not support quality education. It provides bond money to construct school facilities. Period.

The Fairfield-Suisun School District is being disingenuous by stating in its Measure S ballot language that a new school bond will not increase district property taxes.

High property taxes in a city are not usually an economic draw to employers or to relocating employees or homeown ers. The idea that Measure S will protect property values makes no sense. Look at your property tax bill for the number of and amounts of each school bond you are now paying.

If Measure S passes, the school dis trict will carry a combined $500 million bond debt with Measure J, plus another $100 million-plus for interest and admin istrative costs for the next 40 years. Where is the money coming from to pay off that debt? Higher property taxes, of course.

Barbara Pisching Suisun City

Republican Party and immigrants with a twist

The lights went on for me when Gov. Gavin Newsom recently talked about the Marxist behavior of Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida, and the Repub lican Party.

The Latin American and Asian immi grant communities have been and are the cornerstone of America’s prosper ity for decades, filling the necessary jobs that Americans just don’t do.

Most domestic services, health care

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services, construction work and the building trade industries would come to a standstill without their employment. The farming community would also fail because farmers could not harvest their crops. For decades, Republican farmers turned a blind eye to illegal immigrants, putting them to work as fast as they came across the border.

Why are the immigrants now being publicly demonized, caged and cast out by the Republicans? Why the sudden attention change? The immigrants coming to America from Third World countries have seen their democracy destroyed and taken over by fascism step by step. They have experienced their way of life, financial support and equality eroded by fascism in their countries.

That democracy erosion is exactly what the Republican Party is now doing to America. They don’t want people who lived in fascism, who can identify it, who can talk about it, and who can become U.S. citizens because the party wants to turn our America into a fascist state. The steps taken by today’s Republican Party, and especially the Trump followers, by enacting voter suppression, gerryman dering, erosion of civil rights and human rights violations are obvious.

Americans who have grown comfort able and withdrawn from the political system need to wake up to the fact that their participation is necessary to keep our democracy and Constitution safe from a fascist and cult-like Repub lican Party.

Ric Wright Suisun City

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Crime logs

FairField

THURSDAY, SEPT. 22

1:10 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, UNION AVENUE

1:48 a.m. — Shots fired, 500 block of ALASKA AVENUE

2:21 a.m. — Fight with a weapon, 2200 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

2:21 a.m. — Fight with a weapon, 2200 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

10:49 a.m. — Grand theft, 1500 block of WEBSTER STREET

11:37 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 200 block of DITTMER ROAD

12:20 p.m. — Indecent exposure, 2300 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 12:38 p.m. — Reckless driver, 200 block of CONCORD AVENUE 12:40 p.m. — Vandalism, 800 block of OHIO STREET

1:06 p.m. — Forgery, 5300 block of GATHER WAY

1:42 p.m. — Battery, 1900 block of BLOSSOM AVENUE

2:11 p.m. — Vehicle bur glary, 1500 block of GATEWAY BOULEVARD

2:32 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 1600 block of CLAY STREET 4:11 p.m. — Reckless driver,

CLAY STREET 4:32 p.m. — Reckless driver, CLAY BANK ROAD

5:05 p.m. — Grand theft, 1600 block of PARK LANE 10:16 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 2100 block of CADENASSO DRIVE

10:27 p.m. — Assault with a deadly weapon, 4600 block of CENTRAL WAY

SuiSun City

THURSDAY, SEPT. 22

8:38 a.m. — Trespassing, YOSEMITE WAY

4:44 p.m. — Fraud, 300 block of MAYFIELD CIRCLE 4:49 p.m. — Vandalism, 600 block of BONITA COURT

pomegranates, and they have 10 beehives and 40 chickens.

Ann Sievers starts the video by noting they are the “owners, growers and millers,” and the purpose of the presenta tion is to emphasize the educational, health, eco nomic and sustainable aspects of the olive oil and their operation.

“Every topic is center gistic and applies directly to the economic viability of our olive farm and our visitors center,” Sievers says on the video.

“As a California grower and miller of cer tified extra virgin olive oil, we have a responsibil ity to our guests to share our knowledge,” Sievers continues. “Our motto is olive oil is an ancient food that deserves a place on the modern table.”

The farm milled 300 tons of olives for 350 custom growers in 2021, and expects that number to increase this year. Sievers also expects Il Fiorello to mill more olives during its two com

munity milling days. Last year, 64 families brought in 14,000 pounds of olives.

“This allows small growers, 2 to 500 pounds of olives, to participate in the olive harvest.” she said.

To qualify as a pre senter at the conference, Sievers had to send a report, including the science and other issues related to their operation, to the organizers.

The conference was held Sept. 15-18, and for the Sieverses, there was

only one person to rep resent them.

Their daughter, Elis abeth Fiorello Sievers, a master of Italian wines and fluent in the lan guage, was sent to Italy to make the presenta tion, working off the seven-minute video Ann Sievers created.

The Sieverses also have a younger daugh ter, Katherine Sievers, who is a professor of marine ecology at James Cook University in North Queensland, Australia.

California that isn’t cer tified,” Sievers said in the interview.

Sievers hopes con ferences like the one in Rome will soon be held in California as well, in essence, bringing the message home.

A YouTube video of the presentation, “Sus tainable Farming Rome,” may be found at the Il Fiorello YouTube site.

Other videos, includ ing food-related clips, as well as tours of the gardens, retail store and a general over view also are available.

Go to www.youtube. com/channel/UCtarV52 JojKqSN2l-5CbsUA.

Governor signs Dodd’s feral pig bill

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FAIRFIELD — Sen. Bill Dodd announced Friday that Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed his legislation to help control the state’s growing wild pig population, reduc ing damage caused by the invasive species to the environment, private property and agriculture.

step closer to control ling our destructive wild pig population, which is exploding across Cali fornia,” Dodd, D-Napa, said in a press release.

“These non-native, feral animals are endangering sensitive habitats, farms and wildlife. By increas ing opportunities to hunt them, we can reduce the threat to our state.”

boar and pig breeds were introduced centuries ago, according to the release. They now can be found in 56 of the 58 counties.

management., according to the press release.

president of retail opera tions for Jelly Belly Candy Company. “They stopped by a few months ago and I asked how we could get them for this event.”

They signed the papers and this weekend the Oscar Mayer Weiner mobile is on display with crews selling hot dogs at a discount inside the factory.

“We also are showing our new museum off,” Jamison said.

Candy Palooza this year the most booths of arts, crafts and food ever, with more than 60 vendors.

“That is up like 30%,” Jamison said.

A huge car show is scheduled Sunday.

“They like doing the car show Sunday because we usually have a lot more people come out for that,” Jamison said.

The event is a draw for the past nine years with family coming from all over.

“I saw the big ad for the event and we had to stop by,” said Emily Ma of Richmond.

Both her and her son, Adrian Adhikari, 7, fell in love with the Bean Art.

“It is so cool,” Ma said.

The fun continues from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday at Jelly Belly Visitor Center, One Jelly Belly Lane.

design and construct rail overcrossings at Vanden Road in Fairfield and Parkway Boulevard in Dixon will also be up for a vote.

“I commend the gov ernor for bringing us a

California’s wild pig population has soared since various non-native

Numerous environ mental and public health problems are associated with pigs and the Califor nia Department of Fish and Wildlife allows yearround pig hunting. Senate Bill 856 lifts remain ing hunting restrictions, allowing for better popu lation control and habitat

SB 856 has support from wildlife officials and farmers, among other groups. It passed the Leg islature before it was signed by Newsom.

Dodd represents the 3rd Senate District, which includes all of Solano County and all or portions of Yolo, Napa, Sonoma, Contra Costa and Sacramento counties.

Fairfield Planning Commission takes up apartment complex proposal

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FAIRFIELD — The city Planning Commis sion on Wednesday will conduct a public hearing on a proposed 130-unit apartment development at the southwest corner of Sunset and East Tabor avenues.

“The apartments will be sited within 26 two- to three-story buildings and include 90 two-bedroom units and 40 three-bed room units. Additionally, the project will include a single-story leasing office, recreational amenities, parking, landscaping and

associated site improve ments,” the staff report to the commission states.

About 2.82 acres of the 8.71-acre site will need to be annexed into the city, with a zoning change from a Low Medium Density res idential district to a Medium Density district. The annexation and zone change will require City Council approval.

The commission is set to meet at 6 p.m. in the Council Chamber at City Hall, 1000 Webster St.

The public also can access the meeting at https://fairfieldca. zoom.us/j/9706560749

8?pwd=a1dnaVY2Uz FINU4xaU5sS0FET09 qZz09 or by phone at 408638-0968. The Meeting ID is 970 6560 7498. The passcode is 66781819.

Also on the agenda is a public hearing on a host of code changes, including what staff said is needed to correct an inadvertent mistake by rezoning 1100 Texas St. to Downtown District. Also up for consideration are adjusted permitted and conditionally permitted uses in Residential, Heart of Fairfield, Commercial, and Industrial zoning dis tricts in alignment with existing General Plan and

Specific Plan goals.

The commission will consider an update of small lot develop ment standards to require recreational amenities; clarify that Accessory Dwelling Units and Junior Acces sory Dwelling Units garage conversions do not require replacement parking, and among other details, reduce Heart of Fairfield residen tial side yard setbacks and multiresidential parking standards to attain what’s described in a staff report as desired urban character.

consider, as part of its consent agenda, a threemonth extension to the exclusive negotiating rights agreement with Industrial Realty Group LLC for development of the Solano County fairgrounds as part of the Solano360 project. There is also an option that would allow the Dec. 31 extension to be pushed back to March 31.

Letters to the Cali fornia Public Utilities Commission for funding to

Supervisors will con sider paying Play 4 All Park Inc. $400,000 to com plete the first phase of the Vacaville Play 4 All Park. The contract would be through June 30, 2023. It would be the first inclusive park and play ground in Solano County and would be located at 815 Elmira Road.

The Solano County Single Audit Report for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2021, is on the agenda, too.

Woman held in suspected attempt to lure young girl away from Fairfield school

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FAIRFIELD —

A woman who police suspect tried to lure a 12-year-old girl away from the E. Ruth Sheldon Academy of Innovative Learning on Tuesday surrendered to author ities two dates later, police report.

Angel M. Paige, 22, of Fairfield, was booked Thursday into the county jail on suspicion of attempted kidnapping and making criminal threats, both felonies, and misdemeanor allegations

of refusing to leave a school and providing false identifying information to a police officer, according to jail booking records.

Bail was initially set at a combined $110,000.

Paige was also held on three misdemeanor bench warrants out of Fairfield for failure to appear in those cases: one a battery case, one a petty theft case and one related to driving with a sus pended license, according to jail booking records.

Jail records available online did not list Paige as being in custody as of midday Saturday. No

Garcia, Jenalee Dawson and Charles Lee Jr.

new case for Paige was listed in online Superior Court records.

Police credit school staff for thwarting the suspected attempt to kidnap the girl from the campus at 1901 Woolner Ave.

Paige is suspected to telling the girl her mother had sent Paige to pick her up from school, police report. Staff members inter vened and questioned Paige, who, according to police, threatened the staff members and other children in the are before fleeing from the scene.

Officers assigned to the case identified Paige and found she is related to a boy who attends the school. The boy, according to police, had “previously expressed issues with the 12-yearold girl,” police report. The officers visited Paige’s home and spoke to her relatives, urging them to have Paige sur render to authorities.

Paige walked into the lobby of the Police Department on Thursday and surrendered. She was in jail by 4:30 p.m.

Monday’s forum are the candidates for the two open seats on the Suisun council: Coun cilwoman Jane Day and challengers Prin cess Washington, Katrina

Wanda Williams, who sits on the Suisun council, and Chuck Timm, a Fairfield council man, also are scheduled to appear. They are seeking the county super visor’s seat currently occupied by Jim Spering, who did not run for re-election.

Tuesday’s forum shifts to Fairfield hopefuls, including the three candi dates seeking the mayor’s seat. They are four-term incumbent Harry Price, Councilwoman Catherine Moy and local business man Chauncey Banks.

The candidates for the council’s District 1 post – K. Patrice Wil liams, Nora Dizon and

George Kennedy – the candidates for the Dis trict 3 post – Doug Carr and David Verza – and the candidates for the District 5 post – Council woman Doriss Panduro, Scott Mulvey and Jeremy Ferrell – also are scheduled to appear at the event.

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Ann Sievers stands by the mill at Il Fiorello in rural Fairfield, Wednesday. The Sievers family recently presented a business abstract at a conference in Rome to representatives from Yale University, University of Rome Italy and the University of Bari Italy.

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The Candy Palooza event at Jelly Belly drew thousands out for some fun and chocolate, Saturday. Upstairs at Jelly Belly was a long table with plenty of treats to purchase.

The inflation rate contin ues to rip the fabric of every one’s budget, and so far, there is no sign of it abating.

The Federal Reserve is aggressive in its efforts as on Wednesday it raised interest rates for the third time, another 75-basis points. The Bank of England raised its rate a full percent on Thursday. The objective is to persuade businesses and households to reduce spending and demand for goods, services and labor. As demand declines, so will prices.

These actions will have broad results because both economies are so large. The rest of the world will also feel the effects. Do not expect a rapid or smooth result. Reducing the highest inflation rate in 40 years will be painful. Here are some thoughts about how all of us may feel the effect.

Official statements from the Fed predict “unfortunate costs” including a rise in the unemployment rate. The currently low rate of 3.7% could rise to 4.4% by the end of next year and the Fed has stated it is willing to see rates as high as 5% before chang ing strategy.

Such an increase would mean a loss of 2 million jobs, consistent with a recession. For per spective, the last three recessions had jobless rates peak at about 14.7%, 9.5% and 5.5%. Be cautious, though, because none of those recessions were pre ceded by inflation as high as today. This downturn could be more painful.

Some good news has been that wages have grown at 5.2% favoring the lowest paid workers most. Such increases are unlikely to continue, and they contribute to inflation as well. The demand for labor, and the shortage of people seeking work, has been a major factor in the wage increases. Now, with more people seeking work and many compa nies cutting staff, any more wage increases are unlikely. The result will be that unless infla tion comes down quickly, more workers will see their paychecks have less purchasing power.

Despite the interest rate increases, the every day prices, like food and gas, are determined not by the Fed but by global factors affecting supply. Gas prices are lower but still higher than last year.

Food prices are 11% higher than last year and not likely to decrease due to the ongoing war in Ukraine as well as severe droughts in Europe and China. Russia may threaten the Black Sea corridor, limiting grain exports. And, by the way, the U.S. Midwest is expecting a much lower harvest this year.

The housing market has suffered the hardest and fastest changes. Mortgage rates have doubled in eight months to a 6.25% for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage. Now fewer potential homebuyers qualify, so demand for mortgages and houses is down. Expect to see layoffs in the lending industry.

The supply of houses

in total is so low that prices will not neces sarily decline that much. The average house price nationally remains 7.7% higher than last year. Unfortu nately, the higher interest rates mean higher monthly payments and many potential buyers are no longer qualified.

Oxford Econom ics estimates that about 17 million fewer house holds have the income to qualify for a mort gage for a median-priced home today versus at the end of last year.

The housing supply has shifted. Just in Solano County, the list of houses for sale has risen from almost nothing to about 1,000 across the county. And just in four months. Sale prices may be sticky and not drop quickly but will eventu ally; selling and moving will be harder; layoffs in the real estate industry are likely.

The rental market remains tight with no declines in rents and often increases. Recent rent increases have appeared as high as 8.6% over last year suggest ing rents are still process of accelerating and have yet to flatten.

One encouraging point is households can expect to see a higher interest rate on their savings accounts, par ticularly at online institutions. However, generally, banks are slow to pass on the Fed’s rate increases to savers and do so in much smaller amounts than the Fed increases. Do not forget finance companies, which will raise their rates on most consumer and auto loans, rates that are generally far above the central bank’s bench mark to begin with.

During such chal lenging times, the importance of savings and an emergency fund is apparent. So is a thoughtful budget. You have heard me speak on those points many times. Hopefully you have a nice sum in place.

Mark Sievers, presi dent of Epsilon Finan cial 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@wealth matters.com.

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Stock markets sank to their lowest levels since 2020 on Friday, con tinuing a bad slump that began in August as inves tors try to grapple with economic head winds in the United States and around the world that are only likely to worsen.

Stock indexes were on track to close out the week with losses, capping the fifth decline in the past six weeks. The Dow Jones indus trial average dropped by nearly 600 points, or 1.8%, by early Friday after noon, and fell below its 30,000 mark. The S&P 500 slid by almost 2%, as did the Nasdaq Composite.

The Federal Reserve has pledged to get inflation back under control – even if slowing the economy means unemployment rises and households and busi nesses feel some pain. And although the Fed’s move to raise interest rates this week was widely expected, stock markets are feeling that pain already.

The bad market news – and the Fed’s forecast of a sharply slowing economy – could also affect campaigns for this fall’s midterm elec tions in Congress, where Republicans have been hoping voters will blame President Biden and Dem ocrats for high inflation.

The full weight of the Fed’s actions since March – pushing a key interest rate up by 3%.ge points already, with more increases still to come –may not be felt until later this year or next. But finan cial markets are taking in the central bank’s promise and sending alarms back out – making clear that no matter how many times Fed officials say they’re going to do whatever they can to crush inflation, the idea still roils Wall Street.

“I believe it’s prob ably going to get worse before it gets better,” said Dan Ives, manag ing director and senior equity research analyst at Wedbush Securities.

Analysts say the drop is not only about the Fed’s moves so far, but also about further tight ening ahead, and the growing likelihood that the Fed cannot get infla tion down without causing a recession.

“A soft landing would be very challenging, and we don’t know – no one knows – whether this process will lead to a recession or if so, how sig nificant that recession would be,” Fed Chair Jerome H. Powell said Wednesday, after the Fed’s rate announcement.

The central bank is

rushing to cool down the economy and get consumer prices down. Officials are not seeing enough progress yet. But the market jitters reflect a domestic and global economy already headed for a slowdown.

Oil prices fell to the lowest levels since January. The S&P energy sector was also down more than 6%.

Shares in large tech firms including Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta Platforms fell Friday. (Amazon chairman Jeff Bezos owns The Wash ington Post.) Goldman Sachs cut its year-end S&P 500 forecast, driven largely by climbing inter est rates. On the flip side, bond yields rose this week after the Fed’s latest rate hike, and the 2-year and 10-year Treasury rates hit highs unseen for more than a decade.

Major market indexes are down significantly for the year so far, though the long bull market that lasted until recently means they’re still up more than 30% over the last five years.

The brutal close to the week came after the Fed raised rates yet again by

three-quarters of a%.ge point, its third such move and fifth hike of the year in its fight against inflation.

Wednesday’s increase would have been consid ered outlandishly large until recently. But Fed officials want to push rates past the “neutral” zone of roughly 2.5%, where rates neither slow nor juice the economy,

and into “restrictive ter ritory” that dampens consumer demand.

The Fed’s benchmark interest rate now sits between 3% and 3.25%, and officials expect it to cross 4% by the end of the year, well into what is con sidered restrictive.

That rate does not directly control rates for mortgages and other loans. But it influences how much banks and other financial institutions pay to borrow, which helps drive loan pricing more broadly. And crucially, the Fed’s own communications – be it remarks from Fed officials or policymakers’ economic projections – are key to shaping financial condi tions, and getting the markets to start pricing in rates hikes that are still to come.

Mark

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FAIRFIELD — Alvon Johnson, fresh off his elec tric performance at the second annual Mare Island Dock of Bay Festival, will be the headliner of the final concert of the Fairfield Summer Music Series.

Johnson, a San Francisco native and Vallejo resident, is most certainly a blues artist, but is quick to say he is not easily boxed into a musical style.

“There is a lot of rejection of people’s categorization of their music style, and I guess I am one of those,” Johnson said in a recent phone interview.

He also plays jazz – influ enced heavily by guitarist Wes Montgomery – loves the big

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band sound, the crooners and was music director of The Coasters for two years, and per formed with the group for a couple of years, too. So he is into rock ‘n’ roll. And don’t forget renowned pickers like Roy Clark, who he admires.

“Anyway, I love all styles of music,” Johnson said.

He said he often lets his audi ence dictate the kind of show he puts on, and that will likely be the case at 6 p.m. Friday when he performs on “The Lawn” at Texas and Jefferson streets.

“So I will probably do some rock ‘n’ roll, Motown, and I will probably do some funk and some jazz,” Johnson said. “I kind of try to read the audience to see what they want.”

Born in San Francisco,

after high school Johnson went to the University of Oregon. When he decided music was going to be his life, he headed to Los Angeles.

Since then, he has traveled the world, with frequent con certs in Russia, Poland and other parts of Europe.

Johnson said it does not matter if he is playing a big arena or at a city park, he tries to bring the energy and hopes his music touches the people listening.

“I’m looking forward to going down there and doing my show,” Johnson said of down town Fairfield.

The summer series started June 24 and featured six concerts – four at Texas and Jef ferson, as well as wildly popular

events held at Ridgeview Park and Dover Park.

“I think it went excellent. Every (event) it seemed to be bigger and bigger,” said Jeff Trager, a partner in Frazier Trager Presents, which booked the series for the city.

“We had four shows down town, different types of shows, so we had four different audi ences, and that’s what I wanted. That’s Fairfield, I think,” Trager said.

Trager said it was impor tant to have a presence in the downtown area, but added that depending on what the city wants to do next summer, he would like to see more con certs and more parks used for the shows.

“The people came out of their

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homes until it was pitch black to listen to the music. We never had a problem,” Trager said.

The promoter credits the city’s Park and Recreation Department staff for having the venues in perfect condi tion, and the Police Department for having a presence at the shows, too.

“I would definitely do more shows. Six shows was fine, but we would like to do more shows,” said Trager, who added he would even consider weekly concerts.

A city spokesman said Fair field does not have specific plans, yet, but will want to see more held in community parks to spread around the city.

ment’s fire turnout gear. The department in prior years has had to take their turnouts off site to be laundered. This will be the 10th year of the car show, which has not been able to be held in recent years because of the Covid-19 pandemic. For information, call Pattie Macy at 707-331-5846.

James Verniere BOSTON HERALD e was the first Black male Academy Award winner. He was the first Black male movie star. For many white people, children included, he was the first Black male actor they loved. It is at first surprising to see Sidney Poitier talk

about himself in an existing interview in Reginald Hudlin’s

deeply insightful and loving tribute “Sidney,” a biographical docu mentary about arguably the most important American actor of the 20th century. So many of us are still stinging from his loss.

A poor, barely edu cated son of Bahamian tomato farmers, Poitier

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Vallejo’s Alvon Johnson will be headlining the final concert of the Fairfield Summer Music Series.

Attendees socialize at the Gordon Valley Car Show at the Gordon Valley Volunteer Fire Department,

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Sidney Poitier, in Apple TV+’s documentary “Sidney.”

T he mockumentary has two faces. Or, more accurately, the comedy format is ideally suited to showcase the multiple faces most of us need to get through certain social situations.

On “The Office,” the camera captured the employees of DunderMifflin trying to create professional distance between themselves and their attention-hun gry boss Michael Scott, gritting their teeth or giving the unseen TV crew periodic looks of sothat-happened behind the manager’s back to cope with his petty dictatorship.

“Parks and Recre ation’s” Leslie Knope is a more benign figure, but her friends and co-work ers regularly confided in asides to the camera their slightly under handed techniques for dealing with the civil ser vant’s inexhaustible, and thus utterly exhausting, enthusiasm. And argu ably no activity plasters a frozen smile on our faces faster than talking about our day-to-day domes tic lives to outsiders – a routine (in both senses of the word) played up by “Modern Family.”

The mockumentary was supposed to have died sometime in the mid2010s, when the setup

Poitier

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seeks his fortune in the United States at age 15, abandoning a Ku Klux Klan-riddled Florida for the more welcoming streets of Harlem. In New York City, Poitier gets a job as a dishwasher in midtown, where a Jewish waiter helps him improve his reading skills, using New York daily newspa pers as his primer. Poitier auditions for the Amer ican Negro Theater and gets thrown out. As a young actor, he gets a big break in Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s “No Way Out” (1950) playing a Black doctor tending to a racist criminal played by Richard Widmark. Poitier hangs out with actor and music star Harry Bela fonte and Broadway and method acting sensation Marlon Brando in 1950s New York City. His rela tionship with acting rival Belafonte is rocky, but long lasting.

Previously, Black men were represented on the screen by such comic relief actors as Stepin Fetchit (“Showboat”) and Mantan Morland (“Mantan Messes Up”). During the HUAC/Red Scare period, Poitier, a friend of the black

seemed to have been sucked dry. But “What We Do in the Shadows” breathed new life into it in 2019 by, ironically, coating it in dust and spiderwebs; we were told by its vam pires of their eternal cool and saw for ourselves how neutered and mildewy the undead actually are. The revival continues with ABC’s “Abbott Elemen tary,” which pulled off an even more impressive feat with its Emmy-winning debut season: making the network sitcom relevant once again. (Season 2 pre mieres Wednesday.)

On “Abbott” – named after the underfunded school where the series is set – teachers put on happy or hopeful or encouraging faces for their (mostly Black) stu dents, and sometimes even for each other, while knowing they’re set up

listed Paul Robeson, gets another break in Richard Brooks’ groundbreaking “Blackboard Jungle,” a 1955 film featuring “Rock Around the Clock” as its theme song. Stanley Kramer’s revolutionary hit “The Defiant Ones” (1958) makes Poitier a star. “A Raisin in the Sun,” “Paris Blues” and “Lilies of the Field,” the film for which the actor wins his 1964 Academy Award for best actor, follow. At the height of a civil rights movement of which he was an impor tant part, 1967 is dubbed “Sidney Poitier Year.” He stars in “In the Heat of the Night,” “To Sir with Love” and “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” becoming the country’s biggest box office draw.

Culture historian Nelson George observes how Poitier, “a walking Yoruba mask,” capti vated the camera. To help place all of this in context, Hudlin has assembled cul tural historian George and critic Greg Tate, as well as Poitier’s daugh ters and his surviving wives Juanita Poitier and Joanna Shimkus. Among the artists inter viewed for the film are Morgan Freeman, Lou Gossett Jr., Halle Berry, Denzel Washington, Barbra Streisand, Lenny Kravitz, Robert Redford

to fail by the larger edu cational apparatus. “Welcome to the Philly public school system,” says a veteran teacher in the new season, “where you never have what you need.” The jobs of edu cators aren’t merely to instruct, but to never let on to their young charges how powerless they sometimes feel, nor their awareness of how much students have to go without.

Receiving textbooks just a few years old is a cause for celebration in the “Abbott” universe, but the laugh-track-free comedy isn’t part of the ongoing trend of socially conscious Bummer TV. Inspired by creator and star Quinta Brunson’s mother’s experiences as a Philadelphia school teacher, the show is meant to be a celebration of the persistence and resource fulness of educators, rather than a dwelling on deprivation.

Viewers are given the leeway to read as much or as little social commen tary as they wish into the small-scale stakes: ide alistic newish teacher Janine’s (Brunson) quest to replace the rug in her second-grade classroom with a pee-free one, for instance, or educational lifer Barbara’s (Sheryl Lee Ralph) determina tion to find a desk for an incoming student with a wheelchair.

and Lulu. Spike Lee pays his respects with keen observations, including his memory as a child that he would not have jumped off that train to help Tony Curtis in the aforementioned “The Defiant Ones.” Oprah Winfrey adds a deep level of personal appreciation. Poitier’s daughters are admirable representatives of his legacy as a father.

Belafonte and Poitier accompany fellow actors James Garner, Brando, Paul Newman and Charlton Heston to the 1963 March on Washington.

Norman Jewison’s “ In the Heat of the Night,” the film that featured “the slap heard round the world,” hit me like a ton of bricks. But I also love “To Sir with Love,” featuring that theme song by cast member Lulu.

We learn of the affair with the beauti ful Dianne Carroll, his “Paris Blues” co-star. In 1967, The New York Times prints a story titled “Why Do White People Love Sidney Poitier So?” beginning a period when the actor would be seen as “not Black enough” by more radical leaders. But Poitier endured and grew, founding First Artists with Newman, Strei sand, Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman and

Brunson came up from the world of web comedy –her memoir is titled “She Memes Well” – and accordingly, the scripts are full of sharp gags about social media and pop culture, lending the show a contemporary effervescence.

So many TV series, especially on the broad cast networks, strive for a four-quadrant appeal and have only flop sweat to show for it. But here, the generational divide among the teachers feels organic to the setting, and the jokes are so rooted in character there’s some thing for everybody.

Janine and her fellow neophytes – White guiltridden Jacob (Chris Perfetti) and substituteturned-full-timer Gregory (Tyler James Williams of “Everybody Hates Chris”) – keep the ref erences current, while the seasoned Barbara and Melissa (Lisa Ann Walter) laugh with cus todian Mr. Johnson (William Stanford Davis) at their younger counter parts’ romantic notions of overcoming the grind ing bureaucracy that the old-timers have figured out how to work around. If there were a shortcut, the school’s doyennes prob ably would’ve figured it out by now.

One of “Abbott’s” three Emmys for its first season was for casting – a richly deserved distinction, con

directed “Stir Crazy” (1980) with Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor, one of the highest grossing films of its time.

“I was not expected to live,” he reminds us of his premature birth. But thankfully for all of us, he did.

sidering how quickly the chemistry on the show formed among the actors. Yes, the clear stand out is Ralph, who this year became the second Black supporting actress to win on the comedy side (35 years after Jackée Harry for “227” in 1987; the entertain ment industry is so deeply embarrassing sometimes). But nearly as worthy is the energetic Janelle James, who plays Abbott’s hilariously unscrupulous principal, Ava – a delicate balancing act of a perfor mance that requires that she be so riotously funny that we find her wasting of school resources on herself instead of the students entertaining, rather than enraging. (Somehow, she pulls it off every episode.) But if

James could be called a scene-stealer, so could the instantly appealing Walter and Williams.

If you’re heading into “Abbott” for the first time, it’s well worth catching up on Season 1 first. The first two episodes of the new season (the portion screened for critics) build on the character develop ment of those 13 earlier episodes, like Janine’s will-they-or-won’t-they with Gregory and her lessons from Barbara and Melissa on how not to burn out in a caring pro fession. (“More turnovers than a bakery!” laments Barbara about the school’s constant churn of inex perienced instructors.)

By giving the tropes of yore such a fresh update, Brunson may have forged a new classic of her own.

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The official memori alizing of the late Queen Elizabeth II shifted state side Wednesday, filling Washington National Cathedral with black-clad ambassadors, military leaders from both sides of the ocean, three of the country’s most powerful political leaders and one Episcopal bishop, whose sermon honored the queen both as a historic figure and as simply one of “God’s children.”

Wednesday’s service in Northwest D.C., follow ing days of American remembrances – and debates – outside the British Embassy and elsewhere, symbolized the deep reli gious ties between Britain and its former colony. The cathedral, a regular site of major political and social services, is also the seat of the U.S. Episcopal Church, which began as a branch of the Church of England in the early 1600s.

The British monarch is the “supreme governor”

of the Church of England, though the position is cer emonial and symbolic only.

The queen had nothing of the religious stature of, say, a pope, but she represented in life, and death, an image of an enduring, quiet faith,

experts on the monarchy and the Church have said.

Michael Curry, pre siding bishop of the Episcopal Church, speak ing on Wednesday to a cathedral full of invited mourners that included

Vice President Harris, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), offered a sermon that tied together the queen, Jesus, Martin Luther King Jr.,

Toni Morrison and gospel icon Mahalia Jackson. The first African American leader of the denomination, Curry avoided debate about colonialism and instead declared that Elizabeth II’s legacy must reflect Jesus’ call that the way to live forever is to serve others.

“We aren’t here just to consume oxygen! . . . We are here to give back! Back to the world! Can I get an amen?” Curry, in his white-and-red vestments, invited from the tower ing Canterbury Pulpit.

“We have assembled here this morning to give God thanks for the ways her majesty served, often at some personal sacrifice.

Her commitment to serving others was a common refrain by commentators and people who stood in lines, sometimes up to 16 and 17 hours to pay their respects, and to say thank you.”

The cavernous cathedral filled with applause.

Queen Elizabeth II became more open about her personal faith after

the early 2000s, and Curry quoted her 2014 Christ mas message, saying that Jesus was a role model because “he stretched out his hands in love, accep tance, and healing.”

“Christ’s example,” the queen said then, “has taught me to seek to respect and value all people of whatever faith or none.”

Washington National Cathedral was founded in the early 1900s to be the Westminster Abbey of America, a goal that reflected the early, elite status of the Episcopal Church. But church-state relations are very differ ent in England, where the population is much more secular and the Church of England is the official state church, whereas the U.S. Constitution bars gov ernment establishment of any religion.

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New perspectives on brokenhearted grandmother

Dear Annie: I must disagree with your advice to “Broken hearted in Ohio.” These adult children should not have to be reminded to call or send a card to their grandmother on her birthday or any holiday. They are being very disrespect ful, no matter how busy their lives are.

Beyond her apparent focus on expensive gifts from the past, Grandma likely feels unloved, disrespected and forgotten. We need to show more love and attention to older adults because they truly are easily forgotten. This Ohio grandmother feels more hurt in her heart than bit terness or jealousy, and my heart hurts for her, too. — Dis agreed With Your Advice

Dear Disagreed: Thank

you for your insightful letter, and thank you to my readers for keeping me constantly thinking about new approaches to life situations. Your letter illuminates the core issue: The grand mother feels unloved and forgotten – feel ings I pray no one ever feels. The best way to feel love is to give love; there fore, I suggested that she reach out more to them with love. But you are right to focus on the raw feelings she is expressing. I hope that all grandchildren and parents who see this letter will pick up the phone and call their grandmothers.

Dear Annie: This grandma gave love, attention and gifts to her granddaughters, who now ignore her. All you did was crit icize her current attitude. How

Horoscopes

by Holiday Mathis

Today’s birthday

You’ll make good on financial opportunity and subsequently have fun in sensible and silly ways. Your collaborations will contribute to the common good. Your team’s success will thrill you on three occasions. One partnership will be particularly it brings out surprising

ARIES (March 21-April 19). You’ll speak carefully, not because you want to please anyone but because you know words have the power to shape you inside and out. You’ll think what you say, say what you think and wield your influence well.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You notice what people are good at and you encourage them to do more of it, not in a pushy way but in a way that makes them feel seen and appreciated. It’s no wonder people want to be around you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You’ll become a fan and get invested in under standing in depth what someone brings to the world. You’ll loyally go along for the journey, through wins and losses, vicari ously experiencing the highs and lows.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). It’s not like you think your life should be prob lem-free – no good life could be! You just don’t want to waste your time on problems you’ve already seen. You’ll move along to challenge yourself with fresh complexity.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). “Stay ready and you won’t have to get ready,” they say. But what exactly are you ready for? The answer has changed for you. Get clear about your current position and ambition. What is the opportunity you’re looking for?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You know your motive. You’re not trying to hide it necessarily, rather you delay coming out with it until you know what the other person wants and has to offer. By seeking the right fit, you save everyone some time.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). For compet itive children, the fight over who gets the back seat or the pink cup or the tallest ice cream cone can seem like all that matters in the world. Some never grow out of the mentality, as you’ll witness today.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You’re good with strong personalities, some of which won’t back down even when clearly in the wrong. This doesn’t mean they are not affected by the interaction. You’re patient, kind and gracious. Change takes time.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Today, you have to go narrow to go deep. It’s not hard to figure out which options aren’t worth focusing on, and cutting out all that’s superfluous and distracting won’t be hard at all. In fact, it will be a relief.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You’re in a vigilant mode. Make a rule and you’ll follow it without fail. To take the best advantage of your current strengths, make one rule that, when followed, will affect dozens of other factors.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You seem to be experiencing a scene differently from the others. No one’s way is more correct, only more or less fitting for what they are trying to get out of the situation. You’re looking for fun, and you’ll certainly find it.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You’re well aware that each person operates inside their own mostly invisible territorial lines. You’re sensitive to subtle reac tions, and if you go carefully enough, you won’t have to cross a line to understand where it is.

CELEBRITY PROFILES: Life imi tated art when a kid from West Philly starred in the “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” and became a millionaire by the age of 20. With a winning smile and his mega watt personality, Will Smith turns projects to gold. Smith’s natal sun, Mercury and Venus are placed in Libra, with the moon and Neptune in Scorpio, lending a rebellious edge.

about some empathy? She is not getting what she put in and feels sad about it. I am certain your response, which totally lacked validation, made her feel even worse. — Empathetic Dear Empathetic: I agree that by focusing on going forward, I failed to honor the grandmother’s feelings. In fact, the situation is incredibly unfair to her, and she is not alone. Several readers faced similar situations and found texting to be helpful for improving communication between grand parents and grandchildren, as you will see in the follow ing letters.

Dear Annie: The letter from “Brokenhearted Grandma”

anything back.

I talked with my oldest grandson about this, and he asked if I could start occasion ally texting and video calling him. He was 12 at the time. At first, I was reluctant, not knowing how to text or use FaceTime, but he kept walking me through the process and now we communicate con stantly. This has brought us much closer, and we feel closer to his father (our son) as well. –Social Media Pro

Dear Annie: My grandkids are busy and rarely remem ber to call me. I fear I will lose them if I don’t stay in their lives. I have a rich and colorful relationship with their mother

them, ask meaningful questions, get replies and discuss future plans. — Trying Hard Dear Annie: An advantage of modern life in America is that we have mobility and can move wherever we want. One disadvantage is that we can lose touch with our families, and I think that is what befell the grandma who does not get Mother’s Day or birthday cards from her grandchildren.

In many countries, the extended family lives under one roof, so there is almost daily contact. The type of negligence that the woman is experiencing results from family members not seeing one another. Out of sight, out of mind. — Geography

Preventive health – screening for cervical cancer

Colleen Townsend FOR THE DAILY REPUBLIC

Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer for women in the United States and is the second most common cancer in developing countries. In the past two years, many women have been unable to have routine screenings for cervical, breast and other cancers. Cervical cancer screening with simple in-office exams has greatly improved survival and reduced complications from cervical cancer. There are treatments available to treat cervical cancer.

Infection with human papilloma virus. or HPV, is common in women and men who are currently or pre viously have been sexually active with one or more partners. HPV is a common risk to develop cancer of the cervix. The cervix is located in the vagina and is the opening to the uterus (womb). HPV is an infection that is passed between people during sex.

There are many types of HPV. Most people will have HPV at some point in their life and for most women, HPV will go away on its own. However,

HPV can stay in the vagina and on the cervix for a very long time. Some types of HPV will cause changes in the cervix that can lead to cervical cancer over time.

Cervical cancer occurs in women who have been sexually active. Cervi cal cancer is rare in women who have never been sexually active. Other risks for cervical cancer include HIV infec tion, using birth control for more than five years and having several sexual partners over your lifetime. Your medical provider can test for cervical cancer with a Pap and HPV test.

The Pap test looks for pre-can cers, cell changes on the cervix that may become cervical cancer when not treated. The HPV test looks for the HPV virus in the vagina, which can cause these cell changes on the cervix. Both tests are typically done in a pro vider’s office or clinic.

During the Pap test, the provider will use a speculum to open the vagina in order to examine the vagina and the cervix. They will collect a few cells and mucus from the cervix. This sample is sent to a laboratory where the cells are closely examined. In a Pap test, the cells will be checked to see if they look

normal or if there are signs of cancer or pre-cancer changes. In an HPV test, the cells will be tested for virus.

Abnormal results do not always mean there is cancer present. Further testing and/or treatment may be needed to prevent cancer from developing. It is recommended that screening tests begin at age 21 for all women and the frequency for which a person is tested depends on the type of test your provider does in their office. Please talk with your provider about a cervical cancer screening test.

Cervical cancer can be preventable and can be treated when found early. Screening guidelines for cervical cancer vary based on an individual’s risks. All women should talk to their health care provider about the time to start screening and the frequency of cervical cancer screening. Medical providers can discuss the steps to take to prevent HPV infection and can share information on early detection and treatment of cervical cancer.

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

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Cervical cancer can be preventable and can be treated when found early.

Five keys if 49ers are to beat Broncos in prime time

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SANTA CLARA —

Once last Sunday night’s Packers-Bears game ended, NBC’s broad cast customarily teased its coming attrac tion: the 49ers at the Denver Broncos this Sunday night.

Or, more specifi cally, Jimmy Garoppolo’s reprisal as the 49ers’ starting quarterback, pitting him against former NFC West foe Russell Wilson.

Trey Lance’s seasonending ankle injury in last Sunday’s win over Seattle launched Garop polo’s comeback, and it was NBC’s hook from the jump. Host Mike Tirico promptly hailed 49ers general manager John Lynch’s instincts to retain Garoppolo after no pre-season trade materialized.

“He figures out a way to keep him there, and now he looks like a genius, because Garop polo is the quarterback of a team that made it to the NFC Champion ship Game last year,” Tirico said on NBC’s

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postgame show.

That sultry storyline is perfect for prime time. Are these teams, overall, worthy of such a spotlight?

The 49ers (1-1) and the Broncos (1-1) each rebounded from seasonopening heartbreak and won last week.

Each team boasts a top-10 rushing attack to complement its veteran quarterback. Defen sively, the 49ers are yielding the NFL’s fewest yards, and the Broncos’ rank No. 3, all while both allow just 13 points per game (tied for third).

Coach-wise, the 49ers’ Kyle Shanahan finally makes his offi cial Denver debut, where the Broncos’ Ring of Fame includes his father, Mike, a two-time Super Bowl-winning coach. And the Shanahans might be more welcome in

A’s rough up Mets, deGrom in 10-4 victory

By Jerry McDoNalD BAY AREA NEWS GROUP

OAKLAND — The Athletics dealt the New York Mets a costly loss in a pennant race Sat urday and did it against star right-handed pitcher Jacob deGrom.

The Athletics gave deGrom a harder time than he’d seen in his pre vious nine starts and parlayed clutch hitting and solid defense for a 10-4 win at the at the Coliseum.

The Athletics improved to 56-96 before a crowd of 16,041, many of them Mets fans. New York, which began the day with a 2 1/2-game lead over the Atlanta Braves in the National League East, fell to 96-57.

By the time he was fin ished after four innings, deGrom (5-3) trailed 5-4 and surrendered season highs in hits (six), earned runs (five) and walks (four). He struck out five and threw 80 pitches, 49 for strikes, giving way to Trevor Williams to start the sixth inning. In his previous start,

deGrom become the only major league pitcher to strike out 13 batters with no walks in five innings against the Pitts burgh Pirates.

Ken Waldichuck (1-2) made it through the fifth and got his first big league win before Austin Pruitt took over. He gave up five hits, four earned runs with no walks and four strikeouts.

While the A’s were able to add on five runs against the New York bullpen after deGrom’s exit, A’s relievers Pruitt (two innings), A.J. Puk and Tyler Cyr blanked the Mets over the final four innings.

The Athletics had home runs by Seth Brown, his 24th, and Connor Capel, his second. Capel had a homer, triple and single in his last three at-bats. For the Mets, Pete Alonso hit his 38th home run of the season, with Mark Vientos getting his first career home run.

A two-out ground ball single up the middle by Brown in the sixth

Injury brings abrupt end to the Rodriguez victory over Benicia

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BENICIA — Rodri guez High ended its nonconference schedule Friday with a 50-21 win at Benicia High’s George Drolette Stadium in a game that was called with 6 minutes and 13 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter after an injury to a Benicia player.

Benicia’s Morgan De Lago was hurt on what turned out to be the game’s final play when, after a 32-yard catch that carried the Panthers across midfield, he suf fered an apparent broken right leg while being tackled on the Rodriguez (3-2) sideline. As De Lago exited the playing field on a stretcher, his Benicia (2-2) teammates mobbed him in support.

Moments later, the two schools agreed to end the game early in light of

the injury.

“This game was over,” said Rodriguez coach Myles King. “It was just for the safety of everybody.”

The abrupt finish halted a dominant stretch for the Mustangs, who outscored the Panthers 27-7 in the truncated second half.

Magic worked for a second time in the

first two minutes of the third quarter for Rodri guez’s Dylan Burke, who scored his second rushing touchdown of the game – this time a 41-yarder – on a similar fake-handoff-turned-quar terback-keeper to the one that also helped him put the first touchdown of the game on the board, a 30-yard tote.

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utes later in the third, the Mustangs took a 37-14 lead after Leroy Bryant picked off a pass from Benicia’s Roman Lavezzo and stormed untouched to a 64-yard pick six.

It was the second time in the game Rodri guez’s defense put points on the board. With just more than a minute to go in the second quarter, Gabriel Batres gobbled up a bobbled punt snap in the end zone for a Mus tangs touchdown.

Despite the fumble recovery for a touch down and interception return for a score, King said there’s still room for his team to improve on defense.

“We’ve got a lot to clean up, defensively, and we will,” King said.

Batres helped Rodri guez push its lead to

Tough losses close out nonleague season for Armijo and Fairfield

M att Miller MMILLER@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET

FAIRFIELD — The football teams at Fairfield and Armijo high schools couldn’t find the win column Friday night in their final tuneups before the start of Monticello Empire League play next week.

Fairfield played at Dixon and lost 47-6. Armijo played at Natomas and lost to the Nighthawks 41-6. Fair field finished the nonleague season 0-5 and Armijo is 3-2.

At Natomas, Kimani Dokes hauled in a 24-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Willie Nickson in the fourth quarter for Armijo’s only score. Natomas kept up the pressure all night by scoring seven points in

the first quarter, 20 in the second and 14 in the third.

The highlight of the night for the Nighthawks was a 70-yard punt return by Mekhei Byrd.

“They’ve been taking some lumps and wanted to show every one they are ready for league,” Armijo head coach Don Mosley said of Natomas.

Tamarcus Williams and Dailey Sparks recovered fumbles for the Royals.

At Dixon, Donte Williams hauled in a 38-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Isaiah Nolan for the Falcons in the second quarter. Wil liams also had a pass interception on defense that he was able to run back 60 yards to give Fairfield good

field position.

The Falcons were without eight starters, according to head coach Alex Hubbard, because of injuries, missed practices and grade checks. He said he was pleased with those who took the field.

“What I’ll remember is the pos itivity on the sideline,” Hubbard said. “They are coming together. There was no finger pointing and they were holding each other accountable. Things are moving in the right direction.”

Armijo opens the MEL season at home next Friday against defending state champion Vanden. Fairfield will be home for its opener against Will C. Wood.

Vacaville offense struggles in homecoming loss to El Cerrito

VACAVILLE — Homecom ing night for Vacaville High School featured a matchup with an unbeaten team, and while the Bulldogs turned in a stellar defensive performance, there was little offensive production to speak of in a 14-9 loss Friday night to El Cerrito at Tom Zunino Stadium.

El Cerrito went up 14-0 at halftime after two long offen sive pass receptions for scores. Those points held up the rest of the night as the Gauchos improved to 5-0.

Micah Navarro booted a 27-yard field goal in the third quarter for Vacaville, cutting El Cerrito’s lead to 14-3. The Bull dogs added six more points on a touchdown pass from quarter back Alex Barkley to running back Cristian Diosdado in the fourth quarter that went for 10 yards. After a missed 2-point conversion run, it was 14-9 Gauchos.

Vacaville tried an onside kick with 1:30 to play in the game, but El Cerrito was able to scoop up the ball and run the final seconds off the clock for the win. The loss dropped Vacaville to 2-3 heading into

next Friday’s Monticello Empire League opener at home against Rodriguez.

“We brought in another undefeated team for home coming and we wouldn’t want it any other way,” Vacaville head coach Mike Papadopou los said. “We are learning every time we go out there. The kids moved the ball well. We’re just not getting it all the way to the end zone yet.”

Diosdado ran hard and col lected most of the offensive production on the ground. He finished with 28 carries for 144 yards. The Bulldogs would net 135 yards on the ground and

just 51 yards in the air.

“We just struggled out there,” Diosdado said. “We’ve got the players, the team, the coaches, and everyone is working hard. We just have to play smoother.”

El Cerrito quarterback Michael Vanhook threw for 185 yards. He completed a 29-yard touchdown pass down the right sideline in the second quarter to Warren Smith for the first score. Ten minutes later, Vanhook connected on a deep crossing pass for 46 yards to LeDuane Thomas for the second touchdown. Nathaniel Arce booted both extra point kicks.

The Bulldogs did their job stopping the run and held the Gauchos to a net 29 yards rushing. El Cerrito rarely had another opportunity to score, though there was one field goal attempt late in the third quarter that failed.

“The kids are doing a phe nomenal job on defense and keeping us in every game right now,” Papadopoulos said. “We did make some mental mistakes in certain situations and there was a couple of really bad errors in the kicking game that really cost us in being able to get our

Aaron Rosenblatt/Daily Republic photos

Rodriguez High School’s Donovan Troupe, right, tackles Benicia’s Morgan De Lago during the football game at

Benicia High School, Friday. The Mustangs went on to a 51-21 victory and improved their record to 3-2.

Rodriguez High School quarterback Dylan Burke runs the ball for a touchdown at Benicia, Friday.

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Sunday’s TV sports

Baseball

• MLB, San Francisco at Arizona, NBCSBA, 12:30 p.m.

• MLB, N.Y. Mets vs. Oakland, NBCSCA, 1 p.m.

• MLB, Boston vs. N.Y. Yankees, ESPN, ESPN2, 4 p.m.

Football

• NFL, Las Vegas vs. Tennessee, 2, 40, 10 a.m.

• NFL, Kansas City vs. Indianapolis, 5, 13, 10 a.m.

• NFL, Green Bay vs. Tampa Bay, 2, 40, 1 p.m.

Scoreboard

Minnesota 8, L.A. Angels 4 Detroit 7, Chicago White Sox 2 San Diego at Colorado, (N) St. Louis at L.A. Dodgers, (N) Sunday’s Games N.Y. Mets at OAKLAND, 1:07 p.m. SAN FRANCISCO at Arizona, 12:40 p.m. Houston at Baltimore, 10:05 a.m. Atlanta at Philadelphia, 10:05 a.m. Toronto at Tampa Bay, 10:10 a.m. Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh, 10:35 a.m. Washington at Miami, 10:40 a.m. Milwaukee at Cincinnati, 10:40 a.m. Seattle at Kansas City, 11:10 a.m. L.A. Angels at Minnesota, 11:10 a.m. Detroit at Chicago White Sox, 11:10 a.m. Cleveland at Texas, 11:35 a.m. San Diego at Colorado, 12:10 p.m. St. Louis at L.A. Dodgers, 1:10 p.m. Boston at N.Y. Yankees, 4:08 p.m.

FOOTBALL

• NFL, San Francisco at Denver, 3, 5:20 p.m.

Golf

• Presidents Cup, Final Day, 3, 9 a.m.

• LPGA, Northwest Arkansas Championship, Final Round, 9 a.m.

• PURE Insurance Championship, Final Round, GOLF, Noon.

Motor Sports

• NASCAR, AutoTrade EchoPark Automotive 500, Cup Series Race, USA, 12:30 p.m.

Volleyball

National League

East

• College, Purdue vs. Iowa, ESPN2, 10 a.m. 9 Minnesota 74 78 487 11 Kansas City 62 90 408 23 Detroit 59 92 391 West Division W L Pct GB y-Houston 99 53 651 Seattle 83 68 550 15½ L.A. Angels 66 86 434 33 Texas 65 86 OAKLAND 56 96

Central Division W L Pct St. Louis 89 63 586 Milwaukee 82 70 539 Texas

Kevon Looney happy to be back with Warriors as camp tips off

By M adeline K enney BAY AREA NEWS GROUP

SAN FRANCISCO —

After the confetti stopped falling and the cham pagne-pouring slowed from the Warriors’ cham pionship celebrations, Kevon Looney had some uncertainty of his future with the only NBA team he had known and wanted to be with.

Of course, he wanted to return to Golden State, who drafted him No. 30 overall in 2015. But worries over the team’s long-term financial con straints due to being so deep into the luxury tax complicated his situation.

Looney entertained other suitors. But ulti mately, the three-time NBA champion and the Warriors were able to agree on a three-year, $22.5 million deal.

“I wanted to come back here, have another chance at a champion ship,” Looney, speaking for the first time with the media since he signed the deal in July, said Saturday after the War riors’ first day of training camp. “This is the final place, where I really wanted to be.”

After an offseason of celebrating and training, Looney, the only War riors player to play all 104 games (including playoffs) last season, said his “body is feeling better than ever.” Playing all

82 regular-season games is still a goal of his, though he said he won’t say no to rest if the train ing staff thinks it’s in his best interest for his longterm health.

Looney is the team’s obvious starting center. But the Warriors will have more depth at center with the return of James Wiseman, who finally has a clean bill of health after he missed all of last season as he was slow to recover from a torn meniscus in his right knee.

Near the end of the first day of practice, Looney and Wiseman were going head-to-head under a basket on the side of the practice court at Chase Center. Looney didn’t take it easy on Wiseman, who looked gassed at times in the final 15 minutes of what coach Steve Kerr called a “heavy load day.”

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“It’s definitely a lot easier to be able to teach somebody or even just learn from being on the court with somebody,” Looney said. “We both play the same position, we’ve been playing in the same offense, so we both can see different things on the floor. He helped me, I can help him. I kind of know all the ins and outs of the offense. I know what Steph [Curry], Draymond [Green], Klay [Thompson] are think ing out there, Jordan [Poole], I know what they want the big to be at, so I can kind of share that knowledge that took me years to learn and just kind of tell him where to

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kind of be at.

“But once you get to experience it live and firsthand, it makes things a lot easier to understand and see the pictures a lot easier . . . It’s good to see him out there playing, he’s healthy, he’s out there super athletic and just as strong as ever.”

Looney has already seen Wiseman make strides this summer in regaining his feel for the game and improving his timing. The veteran also said Wiseman, the No. 2 overall pick in 2020, has become more vocal in practice and confident on the court.

Looney said the two are friendly competitors and both are prioritizing the team’s goal of winning rather than individual recognition.

“We both gotta go out there and do the dirty work and we both take pride in that and we will go out there and do it to the highest level,” Looney said. “So we’re just trying to compete and show that we can be one of the best tandems in that position in the league.”

Looney smiled when asked about the “lively” scrimmages played at practice Saturday between the starters and bench players.

“Our team got a lot of wins,” Looney said. The team’s effort in Day 1 got Kerr’s stamp of approval.

Sac State enjoys a stunning victory

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Sacramento State earned something of a double-bonus on its trip to Fort Collins in the Rocky Mountain State on Saturday afternoon.

NFL

American Conference East W L T Pct. PF PA Miami 2 0 0 1.000 62 45 Buffalo 2 0 0 1.000 72 17 New England 1 1 0 500 24 34 N.Y. Jets 1 1 0 500 40 54 North W L T Pct. PF PA Cleveland 2 1 0 .667 85 72 Baltimore 1 1 0 .500 62 51 Pittsburgh 1 2 0 .333 54 66 Cincinnati 0 2 0 .000 37 43 South W L T Pct. PF PA Jacksonville 1 1 0 .500 46 28 Houston 0 1 1 .250 29 36 Indianapolis 0 1 1 .250 20 .000 p.m. Atlanta at Seattle, 1:25 p.m. Green Bay at Tampa Bay, 1:25 p.m. Monday’s Game Dallas at N.Y. Giants, 5:15 p.m.

Solano volleyball splits a pair of home matches

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ROCKVILLE — The Solano Community College women’s volley ball team split a pair of matches Friday at home, beating Ohlone in five sets before falling to the top-ranked team in Cali fornia, Feather River, in three sets.

Solano moved its record to 11-6 on the season. Bay Valley Con ference action begins Wednesday for the Falcons at Mendocino. Solano returns home Friday to host Yuba.

The scores in the Ohlone win were 24-26, 25-17, 20-25, 25-15, 15-11. Kelsey Wall led the way on offense with 16 kills and added 13 digs. Rachel Lin added nine kills, serving 14-for-14 with 12 digs. Dani Rydjord chipped in seven kills, serving 25-for-26, leading the way on defense with 18 digs and running the offense with 40 assists.

Crystal Carroll was perfect on 18 serves against Ohlone with three aces and nine digs. Hannah Del Rio led at the net with five blocks and seven kills. Lili Ayala chipped in seven kills. Layla Morales served well, going 12-for-13.

“This was definitely our best night with both of our middle hitters having a great match,” Solano head coach Darla Wil liams said in an email.

Solano lost to Feather 12-25, 9-25, 19-25. Sammy Brown led the team with eight kills. Carroll led the way on defense with 11 digs. Wall added four kills and served 9-for-9.

Rydjord chipped in three kills on zero errors, four digs and 12 assists. Eryka Ferrer added four digs and served 3-for-3. Morales served 5-for-5 and chipped in four assists.

on goal with Amber Morales and Kate-Lynn Jimenez have two scoring attempts apiece. Goal keeper Fatima Guzman made one save.

The Falcons are now 1-5 this season. Solano will play Tuesday at American River.

Solano was coming off Tuesday’s 7-0 victory over Evergreen Valley, the team’s lone win of the season thus far.

Volleyball Rodriguez varsity girls net victory

FAIRFIELD — Khaycee Cadenas had nine assists, three service aces and two kills as the Rodriguez High School girls volleyball team earned a 25-10, 27-25, 25-10 win Thursday over Fairfield.

Lauren Morehead also had eight kills for the Mus tangs and Kalea Carson knocked down four.

“The team worked on a few new lineups and maintained good compo sure to some pressure,” Rodriguez head coach Christopher Co said. Rodriguez also won the junior varsity match 25-12, 25-10. Sohni Peaker had seven assists, three kills, three aces and two digs. Manizha Ahmady added two kills and four aces. Trinity Harris contributed four aces and two kills.

Rodriguez will be home for Will C. Wood Tuesday.

Armijo girls roll to win over Will C. Wood

FAIRFIELD — The Armijo High School girls volleyball team secured a 25-21, 25-12, 25-22 win Thursday night over Will C. Wood.

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Third Flight 18, Marilyn Weaver, Barb Ray, Marge Tye,

First 2, Lisa Hoekwater, 151 3, Pla Lee,

Second Gross Maria Quaintance, 193 Low Net 1, Jackie Harbert, 146 2, Mary Fowler, 150 3, Vicky Flandi ,151

Third Flight Low Gross Loretta Ortenblad, 210 Low Net 1, Lisa Finnegan, 147 2, Rita May, 151 3, Elaine Hahn, 155

Fourth Flight Low Gross Henrie Newland, 213 Low Net

1, Becky Carroll, 148 2, Beryl Bridges, 149

The No. 6-ranked team in the FCS clobbered higherdivision Colorado State on its home turf 42-10. And the Hornets were sure to take home a check of some $500,000, the norm when FCS teams take on FBSteams.

The Hornets’ twoheaded quarterback combination of Jake Dunniway and Asher O’Hara was too much for the belea guered Rams, who fell to 0-4. Dunniway passed for 164 yards and a touchdown, and O’Hara com pleted all 10 of his passes for 71 yards and a score.

“I was happy with our fight and hard work in set three,” Williams said in her email. “We started to relax and just play ball. We served better as a team in all three sets against Feather River.”

Butte edges out Solano soccer

ROCKVILLE — Ani Lopez scored on a penalty kick but that was all the Solano Community College women’s soccer team could tally Friday in a 2-1 loss to visiting Butte.

The goal by Lopez came at the 31:30 mark of the first half. Butte scored midway through the first half and just before the break to account for all the scoring in the match.

Solano put seven shots

Erina Conception had 16 assists and Kaylie Reyes added 13 kills. Vic toria Vera and Wendy Heredia combined for 13 service aces. Amanda Ret contributed 13 digs and Jasmine Murphy added six kills.

Armijo improved to 3-3 in Monticello Empire League matches.

The Royals will host Vacaville Tuesday, the leader thus far in MEL action.

“The players won the game not only through skill but through the mental aspect of competi tive sports, which is what I believe is 80% of the game,” Armijo head coach Mark Reyes said in an email. “They persevered over what was thrown at them and they all stayed composed and showed a lot of maturity. I’m very proud of them.”

The seven-year veteran swatted away one of Wiseman’s shots with authority and made all of his attempts difficult. Wiseman returned the favor when the ball was in Looney’s hands.

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Kevon Looney is back with the Golden State Warriors after weighing his options to play elsewhere.

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Denver right now than firstyear Broncos coach Nathaniel Hackett, whose game manage ment got vociferously mocked by home fans last game.

Here is what the 49ers need to do Sunday night to win for only the third time in eight alltime trips to Denver:

5. Mood Lighting

A few mental hurdles to clear: prime-time kickoff, alti tude, and crowd noise.

The 49ers went 1-3 in primetime games each of the past two seasons, after going 5-1 in 2019 en route to the NFC’s No. 1 seed. Of those 14 games, only three were on the road: 2019 wins at Arizona and Seattle (see: Wilson’s fourth-down, goal-line incompletion), and last December’s loss at Tennessee.

As for the mile-high alti tude, “you just can’t quite feel like you’re catching a full breath, but it’s not like it’s debil itating, that’s always been my experience with it,” said 49ers run-game coordinator Chris Foerster, who played center at Colorado State 40 years ago. Some 49ers experienced the altitude in a 2019 preseason stop, and they’ll encounter it again Nov. 21 in Mexico City against the Arizona Cardinals.

As for the crowd noise, the 49ers may not need to resort to a silent count, thanks to Garop polo’s strong cadence before the snap. “Jimmy sets the gold standard for cadences in the league,” center Jake Brendel said. “. . . You can definitely hear him more than any other quar

terback in the league.”

4. Garoppolo’s clean sheet

Garoppolo’s turnover-free relief work last Sunday was a welcome look. He got inter cepted in each of last season’s three playoff games, after two interceptions in each of his pre vious two regular-season games.

It’s been a month since he rejoined team practices, so Garoppolo’s chemistry with receivers will be tested, especially if he enjoys the selfdescribed “freedom” he covets to wing it more often. It’s not like Garoppolo has a short leash, not with Lance’s ankle in a cast back home.

Tight end George Kittle’s season debut should make life easier for not only Garop polo but the whole offense. The offensive line, off to a com mendable start, must ward

off Bradley Chubb and Randy Gregory, the later of whom injured Garoppolo’s shoulder in the 49ers’ playoff win at Dallas (thus triggering Garoppolo’s March surgery, and eventual return to the 49ers). Jimmy G lost three fumbles in the first four games of last season, so consider that a reminder how pocket awareness is also vital.

3. Tug-of-War

Both offenses want their run games to keep flourishing, or as Broncos defensive coordinator Ejiro Evero simply said of the 49ers: “The run game is the key to their success.”

The 49ers have a NFL-high 82 carries, but they’ve lost a running back to injury each game – Elijah Mitchell (knee, Week 1), Ty Davis-Price (ankle, Week 2). Look for Jeff Wilson Jr. to remain the workhorse,

although help will come, from perhaps Deebo Samuel, perhaps rookie Jordan Mason’s first NFL touches, perhaps Marlon Mack’s 49ers debut.

In their way is former 49ers nose tackle D.J. Jones, who is “a little bit shorter, a little bit stockier of a guy,” Brendel said. “He’s strong, but I’ve seen him before, (Aaron) Banks has seen him before. It’s (Spencer) Burford making sure what he sees on film and studies well.”

Denver is platooning Melvin Gordon (22 carries, 105 yards; three catches, 20 yards) with the more versatile Javonte Williams (22-118; 12-75). Their pres ence is restraining Wilson from scrambling. The 49ers have the NFL’s second-stingiest run defense (67.5 yards per game).

2. Curse of Wilson

Nobody’s dominated the 49ers more the past decade than Wilson. He went 17-4 as the Seahawks’ starter, including the 2013 season’s NFC Champion ship Game. Only Johnny Unitas (18-10; 1956-73) has more wins over the 49ers.

“Can’t escape (him),” line backer Fred Warner said of Warner. “Just playing against him all these years, his escap ability, and just the savvy, his big-play ability, you just have to make sure, in the front, that you’re containing him. If you give him that sliver of space, he’ll take it.”

Added Nick Bosa: “You can never underestimate him, so we’ll be ready for a battle.”

When Wilson escapes poten tial sacks, he can unleash one of the NFL’s best long balls, and Courtland Sutton is his top target, even more so with Jerry Jeudy (ribs) ailing. “One thing

we’ve been harping on is just: Russell is still Russell,” 49ers’ defensive coordinator DeMeco Ryans said.

1. Niners D in spotlight

OK, so this directly ties into the above category of stop ping Wilson. But the 49ers defense can make a resound ing statement to the league on Sunday night’s stage, espe cially Nick Bosa.

Bosa got one sack in Week 1, two sacks in Week 2. If he gets three or more this game, such a breakout game early in the season will boost his shot at earning his first All-Pro honors – and NFL Defensive Player of the Year votes.

“He’s a monster off of the edge,” Wilson told Denver reporters about Bosa.

“I’m hoping a shoelace breaks a couple of times in that game or he has to come out a few times, but he’s a game wrecker,” Broncos offensive coordinator Justin Outten added.

Beyond Bosa, Wilson also made it a point to praise Warner as “one of the best in the busi ness . . . who is on the verge of doing some amazing things.”

Added Wilson: “You cherish the moments of playing against some all-time greats, and they definitely have those guys.”

The 49ers’ secondary has opened strong with cornerbacks Mooney Ward and Emmanuel Moseley, and safeties Talanoa Hufanga and Tashaun Gipson. It’ll be interesting to see how the 49ers use (and possibly blitz) Sam Womack or Deom modore Lenoir at nickel back, where their former starter, K’Waun Williams, is now a Broncos asset.

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44-14 in the third after making a leaping catch at the edge of the end zone to haul in an 11-yard pass from Burke for a touchdown. Burke led all passers with 119 yards.

Bentley Williams added a 35-yard rushing touchdown. Jeremiah Hill had the night’s final TD, catching a 23-yard pass from Burke just over the goal line.

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against Joely Rodriguez brought home Vimael Machin and gave the Athletics a 7-4 lead.

In the bottom of the seventh, Nick Allen bounced a single to right to score Capel, who tripled to open the inning against Adam Ottavino.

Capel’s home run, his first with the A’s, gave Oakland a 6-4 lead in the fifth and came against Williams. His two-run single in the eighth against Trevor May brought in the last two insurance runs.

Vientos tied the score 4-4 in the second with his first career home

“We finally played to the level that we’re capable of, I feel like,” King said. “We continue to get better each week. That’s what it is.”

A fourth-quar ter touchdown and extra-point conversion powered Rodriguez’s junior varsity team to an 8-7 win.

run, an opposite field shot against Waldichuck, with the Athletics regain ing the lead in the third on Brown’s home run to dead center field against deGrom.

The Athletics, down three to deGrom after the top of the first, managed put four on the board in the bottom of the inning as the Mets’ right-hander struggled with his control. Machin hit a one-out single, fol lowed by walks to Sean Murphy and Brown.

Dermis Garcia hit a solid liner to left, with outfielder Jeff McNeil stumbling as the ball whizzed over his head for a two-run double. Garcia eventually scored on an infield grounder by Capel to tie the score 3-3.

heavyweights in Oak Ridge (62-0), Granite Bay (35-13) and now El Cerrito this year.

defense off the field.”

Papadopoulos said he play loaded nonleague schedule in an effort get ready league play. They lost three

Wins came against Davis (49-12) and Cardinal Newman (14-7).

“Our kids embrace it,” Papadopoulos said of the schedule, “and it is making us better.”

VictoryRodriguez’s Matteo Arias booted a 34-yard field goal in the first quarter to go with four successful pointtouchdown

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san Francisco 49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo (10) celebrates his 1-yard touchdown run with teammates against the seattle seahawks in the fourth quarter at Levi’s stadium in santa Clara, sunday.

Aaron Rosenblatt/Daily Republic rodriguez’s Leroy Bryant, right, returns the ball down the field during the football game against Benicia, Friday.