Daily Republic, Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Mayoral candidates see Suisun heading in different directions

Todd R. H ansen THANSEN@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET

FAIRFIELD — Alma Hernandez has been running the show for the Suisun City council since April. She wants the job for the next four years.

However, James Berg has a differ ent election scenario, one in which he becomes mayor, and he made it clear he does not think the current council has the city going in the right direction.

The two faced off at a candidates forum Monday. The event was hosted by the Fairfield-Suisun Chamber of Com merce Political Action Committee in the council chamber at Fairfield City Hall.

There were about two dozen people who attended. It was not known how many were watching via Zoom.

The forum also included the can didates for the 3rd District seat on the Solano County Board of Supervisors and three of the five candidates seeking two seats on the Suisun City council.

Berg, a local businessman, raised concerns about public safety, the clean liness of the city, which he said keeps residents from shopping locally and keeps new businesses from coming into the city. He also said the budget is too dependent on grants and other outside funding.

Hernandez painted a quite dif ferent picture and said she has had

Questions paint supervisor hopefuls as

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FAIRFIELD — Wanda Williams started the runoff election with a head start.

She was the top vote-getting in a five-candidate primary that left the Suisun City councilwoman and Fairfield Councilman Chuck Timm left stand ing for the Nov. 8 general election.

The two candidates for the 3rd District seat on the Solano County Board of Supervisors squared off Monday during a forum hosted by the Fair field-Suisun Chamber of Commerce Political Action Committee in the council chamber at Fair field City Hall.

Timm was painted, by one question, as a lackey for developer money. Williams was painted, by another question, as a servant to the interests of unions – and specifically labor groups representing county employees.

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Suisun council candidates agree a lot, but not completely

Todd R. H ansen THANSEN@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET

FAIRFIELD — Voters had an opportunity Monday to hear three of the five candidates for two open seats on the Suisun City council answer questions on the same topics.

By the end, Katrina Garcia, Jenalee Dawson and Charles Lee Jr. had formed an admiration club for each other, noting each were motivated to help the city but that each brought different qualifica tions to bear.

Councilwoman Jane Day and challenger Princess Washington did not participate.

The forum was held in the council chamber at Fairfield City Hall. It was hosted by the Fairfield-Suisun Chamber of Commerce Political Action Committee. About two dozen people attended. It was not clear how many may have watched via Zoom.

Garcia said she had been doing the job of a council member without being in office, noting her work on

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MIAMI — Hur ricane Ian’s projected path shifted to the south Tuesday and farther away from Tampa Bay, a heavily populated region highly vulnerable to storm surge flooding, but the storm was still shaping up a potential wide-ranging disaster for Florida.

Much of the penin sula was under hurricane or tropical storm warn ings. More than 2.5 million people had fled homes in high-risk coastal areas, some that could see storm surge up to 12 feet deep. Flash flood warnings were posted for Central Florida with up to 24 inches of drenching rains possi ble for days to come.

Schools were closed in many counties, includ ing Miami-Dade and Broward. So were Orlando

theme parks. Massive power outages are likely.

In its 5 p.m. Eastern time Tuesday forecast,

the National Hurricane Center said the most direct and damaging impact from Hurricane Ian is expected to be somewhere along the Gulf Coast between Fort Myers and Sarasota. Ian could come ashore as a Cate gory 3 or 4 storm, packing 130 mph winds and pos sibly bringing historic levels of storm surge to the Sarasota area.

One of the Floridi ans evacuating was Jeff Carey, a 59-year-old mold remediation specialist who left his Venice home in the Ridge wood Mobile Home Park Tuesday evening.

Carey has lived in this gulf shore community for more than a decade, and he’s seen the after

math of hurricanes Ivan and Katrina, and he’s not taking any chances with Hurricane Ian. He knew that the water could rise high in his home.

“Just get out. Don’t stick around,” he said about an hour before

evacuating to a friend’s sturdier building several miles inland. “If you’ve got any place to go, go. This is not a thing to mess around with. Very serious, and it’s like I said, it’s one of the biggest ones I’ve

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Tampa Bay area residents and drivers fill the lanes on I-4 as they escape the high winds and flood waters of Hurricane Ian with just a day left before the storm lands in Tampa, Florida, Tuesday.

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Local candidates appear at a forum at the Fairfield City Council Chambers, Monday.

Board of Supervisors candidates Wanda Williams, center, and Chuck Timm, left, as well as short-term candidate for mayor Larry Brumfield, right, appear at a candidate forum at the Fairfield City Council chamber, Monday.

A forum Tuesday for Fairfield council hopefuls was continuing at press time. The forum was scheduled to include the three candidates seeking the mayor’s seat: four-term incumbent Harry Price, Councilwoman Catherine Moy and local businessman Chauncey Banks. It was also scheduled to feature candidates for the council’s District 1 post – K. Patrice Williams, Nora Dizon and George Kennedy – candidates for the District 3 post – Doug Carr and David Verza – and candidates for the District 5 post – Councilwoman Doriss Panduro, Scott Mulvey and Jeremy Ferrell.

All women should experience Queen for a Day status

Every woman, at least once in her life, ought to be Queen for a Day. My sister Bobbie waited 80 years for her turn.

It came last week on her 80th birthday, when we honored Her Majesty with a royal wingding.

The celebration was shared by some 30 guests: Bobbie’s children and grand children, our brother Joe and more cousins than I’ve hugged since I ran off to live in Califor nia of All Places.

Every story, no matter how it’s told, has different meanings for different people. This story is about my family. But I hope it’s about your family, too.

My sister was always “the pretty one.” In her 20s, she worked on an assembly line in a mill and modeled the mill’s line of clothing for corporate buyers.

When her children grew

up, she earned a nursing degree and spent years doing three 12-hour shifts a week as an ICU nurse.

After she retired, the strokes began and life became a series of bad falls and hospital food.

Her latest fall con fined her to a wheelchair and a nursing home. She keeps in touch by phone with family, especially Joe, who is blind and disabled by cerebral palsy. She calls him daily or he calls her. If she doesn’t answer, he calls me in a panic.

I had planned to do a party for Bobbie, but was thrilled when Cousin Sara and her sweet husband, the Bear Man, offered to host it at their home. They did everything. My only job was to transport the guests of honor to and from the party.

So last week I flew to Char lotte, North Carolina, drove to

Landrum, South Carolina (my hometown), and checked into a place on a lake.

Joe and Bobbie were 30 miles away in Spartanburg. For three days, I drove back and forth to visit them. Then on Saturday, I hurried down to pick them up.

I knew it wouldn’t be simple. Suffice to say, I’ll forever be in debt to all the folks who helped get them in and out of the car.

I wanted to do Bobbie’s makeup for the party. (Before the strokes, she never left home without it.) But she did it all herself. I just blended the blush (so she looked less on fire) and put her hair up in a bun.

Staring at a mirror, she shook her head, as if to say, “I’m not young any more.” But to me, she will always be the “pretty one.”

Joe is a big fan of the Clemson Tigers. He was listen ing to their game on the radio, but gave it up to go to the party.

When I couldn’t find the game on the car radio, he said, “It’s OK, Sister. You tried your best.”

On the 40-minute drive to the party, Joe kept saying he could hardly wait to see everybody.

Then, for three fine hours, the remnants of our family talked and laughed and ate and doted on both Bobbie and Joe.

I kept watching them for signs of fatigue. Joe heard Clemson won in double over time, so he was grinning like a mule eating briars and happy to stay for a second helping of cake.

Bobbie was hard to read. Strokes have dimmed her daz zling smile. But her eyes told me she felt safe and loved wrapped in the arms of her family.

I wish you could’ve seen her.

Finally, it was time to go. Bobbie’s grandson Cree held her close and eased her into the front seat of the car. Bear Man helped Joe into the back.

Pick a chunky champ for Fat Bear Week

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It’s chow-down time for the brown bears at Brooks Falls in southwest ern Alaska. That means a daily diet of salmon, salmon and more salmon. A large adult male bear can catch and eat more than 30 a day. That’s more than 120 pounds of fish!

This happens all summer at Brooks Falls, a popular spawning site for sockeye salmon, which makes it a very popular fishing site for bears in Katmai National Park and Preserve. More than 80 gathered there last summer. Their fishing styles vary: Some scoop, some dive and one wise old fellow just plops in the river and waits for lunch to come swimming by.

Lian Law, visual infor mation specialist at the park, said she never gets tired of watching the bears. “I get to see them, not in a zoo, but living their lives in their own habitat.”

Ordinary moments for the bears – such as chasing gulls or playing with one another – are surprising and special when observed in the wild, she said.

With October approaching, the park’s 2,200 brown bears need to pack on a few final pounds before winter hiberna tion, during which they neither eat nor drink, but live off their stored fat. When spring arrives, they will have lost a third of their weight, and the salmon feeding frenzy will begin again. The bears will need to eat a year’s worth of food in the next six months.

Here’s how to vote

Contest details are at explore.org/fat-bearweek. A parent or guardian must okay your vote because an email address is required for submission. Each address gets one vote per day. The site also has details on live chats about the bears (beginning Wednesday), ideas for classroom activities and other links.

Fat Bear Junior voting is Thursday and Friday.

Voting for the main event runs October 5 to 11.

You can see what the bears are up to at the falls right now in the embedded video above or by going to the Explore. org brown bear livecam. There is a lot of other cool info on the site, too.

Some people travel to Alaska to witness this spectacle. For the rest of us, the National Park Service and explore.org have set up live webcams along the river. Then they invite the public to vote online for their favorite

tubby bear.

This annual compe tition, called Fat Bear Week, runs October 5 to 11 this year. Each day, pairs of bears face off. Those getting the most votes advance to the next round. At week’s end, a champion is declared.

Will it be last year’s winner, Otis, going for an unprecedented fifth title? Or Chunk, who, despite weighing more than 1,200 pounds, has yet to claim the crown? Or maybe 2019 champ Holly? She’s known for moth ering two of her injured cubs as well as adopt ing an orphan.

A two-day “play-in” competition, called Fat Bear Junior, precedes the main event. The winning chubby cubby advances to the finals to go up against the big fellas.

Size isn’t the only factor in picking a winner. Style and persistence count. So does cuteness. Nearly 800,000 votes were cast last year, more than eight times as many as in 2014, the contest’s first

year. Your vote can help pick the 2022 champ. The winning bear

As we pulled out, all the family lined up along the drive way to wave us a royal farewell.

The drive back was quieter than the drive to the party. But at one point, Joe said, “It sure was great having our family together again.” And Bobbie whispered, “Yes, it sure was.”

I left Joe in a recliner at his apartment, and Bobbie in bed at the nursing home, kissed them both and said I’d be back the next day. Then I drove to the lake, singing a song of thanks to Cousin Sara and her Bear Man and to God and all his angels for an unforgettable day.

Our family was together. Joe’s Tigers won. And best of all, my sister got to be Queen for a Day.

Sharon Randall is the author of “The World and Then Some.” She can be reached at P.O. Box 922, Carmel Valley, CA 93924 or www.sharonrandall.com.

BROWN BEAR FACTS

•Brown bears are one of eight species in the family Ursidae, which includes polar bears and giant pandas. Grizzly bears are a type of brown bear.

Brown bears are found in North America, Europe and Asia. The total population is estimated at more than 200,000, with about half of them in Russia.

•Cubs weigh about one pound at birth. Most adult males weigh 600 to 900 pounds in midsummer; hefty eaters top 1,000 pounds by October or November. Females weigh about one-third less.

•In the wild, brown bears can live 20 to 30 years.

•Brown bears are not picky eaters. They like grass, fruit, nuts, insects, reptiles, honey and, for those fortunate to be in Alaska, salmon.

receives nothing but the promise of a long win ter’s snooze.

Sharon Randall

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A well-fed and heavy Otis, left, catches a salmon in 2021 at Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska. Otis has won the Fat Bear Week tournament four times. Holly is

seen in 2021 at Katmai National Park and Preserve after fattening up for the winter. She won the 2019 Fat Bear Week contest.

Leaven Kids expanding to Texas, taking local lessons with it

Todd R. H ansen THANSEN@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET

FAIRFIELD — The Blueberry Room at Jelly Belly filled up Monday with stories of children who had limited pros pects being given hope and opportunities when Leavens Kids set up its tutoring and men toring centers in their neighborhoods

Supervisor Jim Spering told a story of how a youngster who would not even raise his head to look adults in the eye later con fidently declared he was going to be a doctor or an engineer.

A Fairfield neighbor hood where the children were used as lookouts during drug deals, expe rienced a 60% decline in calls for police service after a center opened, a statistical comparison of five years before the center opened to five years after.

Representatives from San Antonio, Texas, are hoping the same success will come to their city.

“What I’m hoping is to build that trust between the police department and the neighborhoods that have a large number of calls for service,” said Douglas Greene, an engagement officer assigned to the chief’s office and a 12-year veteran of the San Antonio Police Department.

“They already have a site picked out and they have already hired a site director,” Greene said.

It will be the first Leaven Kids Center for Children At Risk outside

of California.

The group eating lunch at Jelly Belly were on a tour of some of the 11 centers the organiza tion has in Solano County, five of which are in Fair field. There are 21 centers in all. There were stops in Vallejo, Suisun City and Vacaville as well.

Among the partici pants were retired Gen. David Goldfein, the former chief of staff for the Air Force, retired Gen. Maryanne Miller, former commander of the Air Mobility Command at Scott Air Force Base, Illi nois, and Maj. Gen. John C. Flournoy Jr., deputy commander of Air Force Reserve Command and former commander of the 349th Air Mobility Wing at Travis Air Force Base.

They also were part of the Sunday gala that raised more than $500,000, said Mark Lillis, the chief executive officer of Leaven Kids. He said the organization does receive a small amount of Community Develop ment Block Grant funding from the government, but the vast majority comes from private and corpo rate donations.

He said that money goes to work in the neigh borhoods where Leaven Kids sets up centers for children from kinder garten to fifth grade. The organization was founded in 2009. That is when Lillis took the reins.

“Fairfield’s my home town. I’m born and raised here and I have seen neighborhoods increas ingly change for the better

because of our work,” Lillis said in an interview.

The military ties to Leaven Kids is one of the reasons San Antonio was selected for the group’s first foray outside California.

Those city representa tives, who also included a housing executive and a Leaven Kids program manager, were given advice on how to make the center successful, a list that started with picking the right people to be involved.

Miller said that is proving to be more and more difficult.

“Our challenge is going forward, just like you people in the commu nity . . . to find the right people,” said Miller, lik ening trying to build the organization as similar to building the Air Force or a police department.

She said the pool of good individuals is shrinking, but noted that

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Benicia detective, county paramedic earn 2022 heroes designation

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FAIRFIELD — Benicia police Detective Rory Logan and Robert O’Connor, a Solano County paramedic, have been selected as the 2022 Solano County Public Safety Heroes in the 5th Congres sional District.

Logan was recognized by Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, for his work that led to an arrest in the robbery of the Rose Market in March. Clerk Bahadur Singh was killed during the robbery.

O’Connor, a recruit with the Vallejo Fire Department at the time of the July 1 inci dent, was recognized for providing life-saving medical care to two indi viduals in a car crash he had come upon. He put his own life at risk by climbing into one of the badly damaged vehicles to render medical help.

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“Our first responders play an essential role in keeping our communi ties safe and saving lives. Every year, it is a great honor to be able to recog nize some of our public safety heroes from our district for their incredible work on behalf of our communities,” Thompson said in a statement released Sunday.

“Detective Logan and Mr. O’Connor play vital roles in supporting and protecting our communities, and their efforts are deserving of rec ognition. From stopping crime to providing lifesaving medical care, their actions are truly exem plary of what it means to be a public safety hero,” Thompson said in the statement.

Logan and O’Connor were the Solano County representatives among 17 individuals who were recognized by Thomp son from other counties in his district.

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Mark Lillis, chief executive officer of Leaven Kids, speaks to a room of local leaders during a tour of the organization’s

centers in Solano County, at the Jelly Belly Factory in Fairfield, Monday,

Fairfield Police Chief Deanna Cantrell speaks to a room of local leaders during a tour of Leaven Kids’ centers in Solano County, at the Jelly Belly Factory, in Fairfield, Monday.

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Obituary

Robert Yancey

Jan. 31, 1948 — July 23, 2022

Robert Yancey went home to be with our lord on July 23, 2022.

Bob was born in Illinois Jan. 31, 1948, to Robert and Helen Yancey. He has been a resident of Fairfield, Califor nia, since 1953.

Bob played football for Armijo High School and graduated in 1967. He was a volunteer firefighter 19691973. Solano County cor rections 1974-1981. Retired from the department of for estry 2011.

Bob enjoyed fishing and collecting baseball cards, comic books, cookie jars and much more.

Bob was a member of Church of God for over 20 years. He managed the welcoming and actions committee, managed the mission program over seas by collecting donated

recyclables. He was a member of the prayer team and was greatly known for making daily/ weekly phone calls to check in on other members. Bob was a man of faith and would end every conversation with ‘God Bless’.

He is survived by his chil dren, Heidee Sisk, Robert Yancey and Christopher Yancey; sisters, Dawn Mor rison and Barbara Ross; seven grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Robert Guy Yancey and Helen Eliza beth Yancey.

Service will be held at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022, at Church of God, 928 Empire St., Fairfield, California. Please email any questions you may have to Barbara4ma@gmail.com.

Rowland Freedom Center to host Night at the Museum

Daily Republic Staff DRNEWS@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET

VACAVILLE —

The Rowland Freedom Center will host a movie night screening the film “Night at the Museum” in October.

Visitors can expe rience the aviation and military artifacts of Rowland Freedom Center at night.

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Leaven Kids is building that back up.

“So everything you do makes an impact,” Miller said.

Spering added, “The real benefit of Leaven is not today, it’s when these kids become our leaders.”

The San Antonio con tingent also was told how important commu nication is, and similarly, how critical integrity is in building up those neighborhoods.

Paul Adler, director of Government Affairs and Community Rela tions for Valero Energy in Benicia, said build ing partnerships in the private and public sectors is a must, too.

He talked about the three legs that hold up a stool: the community,

Popcorn and candy will be available for pur chase. Costumes are encouraged.

The event starts at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 15 at at the museum, located at the Nut Tree Airport at 300 County Airport Road, Suite C4.

For more information, visit RowlandFreedom Center.org.

the public sector and the private partnerships.

“We need to have a safety net for kids and we need to have these (three legs) to make the safety net work,” Alder said.

He was particularly pleased with the choice of San Antonio, which is where Valero has its headquarters.

Lisa Rowland Brasher, president and chief executive officer at Jelly Belly Candy Company, said for her it goes beyond making Leaven Kids one of Jelly Belly’s primary chari ties of choice.

“To me it’s personal,” said Brasher, adding it is not just the money, but the time spent with the children.

“Sometimes you wonder how kids make it with what they go through,” she said.

Brasher said it was critical to make a dif ference early in these children’s lives.

Solano labor groups protests as contracts near expiration date

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FAIRFIELD — Two labor groups protested downtown Tuesday to pressure the Solano County Board of Super

visors to address the number of vacancies in the county ranks and to settle contracts that expire Oct. 21.

Members of the Service Employees International

Union Local 1021 and the International Federation of Professional and Tech nical Engineers Local 21 took part in a “Staff Up Solano” demonstration starting at 9 a.m. in front

Solano church talks pet heaven, blesses animals

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SUISUN VALLEY —

The annual Blessing of the Animals will happen in October at Rockville Presbyterian Fellowship.

This year’s bless ing includes at 7 p.m. Oct. 21 on whether pets go to heaven. The talk features the national award-winning Solano College speech and debate team. One side will debate that pets go to heaven and the other side will debate pets do not. Admission is free with free snacks and drinks. The talk is open to the public, with dona tions accepted.

The next day will see the Blessing of the Animals from 9 a.m. to noon.

Each pet/animal will

be blessed, giving thanks and hoping for a long and healthy life. All animals are welcome.

Dogs must be on leash, cats in a carrier and all others under control. One of the most unique pets blessed to date was an African grey parrot named Gregory Peck.

Rockville Presbyte rian Fellowship is located at 4177 Suisun Valley Road in Suisun Valley, 1 mile past Solano Com munity College if coming from Interstate 80 and just past the intersection at Rockville Road.

For more information, contact Gary Dreibelbis at dr.dribs@yahoo.com or 707-631-4573.

Home Show Fall Festival returns

Daily Republic Staff DRNEWS@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET

VACAVILLE — This year’s Home Show Fall Festival will give visi

tors a chance to take a look at numerous ideas for the home.

The event will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 22 and 10 a.m.

to 4 p.m. Oct. 23 at the Harbison Event Center, 1661 E. Monte Vista Ave.

For tickets or more information, go to solano homeshow.com.

of the government center at 675 Texas St.

The county adminis tration reports that, as of Sept. 17, there were 486.79 vacancies across the county departments.

Vacaville Museum Guild sets Fall Festival sale

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VACAVILLE — The Vacaville Museum Guild will host a Fall Festi val courtyard sale from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 15 at 213 Buck Ave.

Guests visiting the outdoor setting may check out items the museum and guild are offering, along with goods from vendors. Breakfast refreshments are planned.

The gift shop will be open during the event. The courtyard will include items donated by members, such as 19 unique, hand-blown glass pumpkins ranging in size from 2 to 5 inches in size, and a blownglass redwood tree that stands a foot tall and rep resents El Palo Alto, the 120-foot-tall and beloved 1,082-year-old coastal sequoia. There will also be ironstone soup tureens with pumpkin, turkey,

President: Dorothy Andrews dorothy.andrews@sicentralsolano.com

Membership: Karen Calvert karen.calvert@sicentralsolano.com www.SICentralSolano.com

Aaron Rosenblatt/Daily Republic file (2016) The Rev. Larry Vilardo, left, blesses Holly, a black Labrador, with Julie Hietala of Suisun City, top right, and her son, Christopher, 14, during a Blessing of the Animals at Rockville Presbyterian Fellowship in Fairfield, Oct. 22, 2016

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Members of the Service Employees International Union Local 1021 and the International Federation of

Professional and Technical Engineers Local 21 took part in a “Staff Up Solano” demonstration in Fairfield, Tuesday.

Nut Tree Plaza preps for festive pumpkin trail, gourds weigh-off

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Nut Tree Plaza will once again celebrate Hallow een with some family fun in October.

Trail Map will allow vis itors a chance to win a prize after following the Pumpkin Trail through the Nut Tree Plaza and visiting stores from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 8.

The 2nd Annual Giant Pumpkin Weigh-off, from noon to 4 p.m. that day, is not just about who has the biggest pumpkin but also about allowing everyone to have some fun.

Planned activities include face painting, a petting zoo, balloon twist ers, a master pumpkin carver and an online drawing for the pumpkin carving class.

Visitors that day will have an opportu nity to donate new and unwrapped toys for the annual Toys for Tots col lection. People may also bring canned, nonper

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crab, fall and pheasant themes along with some milk glass, decorative glass items, signature succulent pumpkins and more. Merchandise from vendors will include Tupperware, jewelry, woodworking, cutting boards and embroidery items.

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Massive pumpkins are shown while on display for the Great Pumpkin Weigh-Off at the Nut Tree Shopping Center in Vacaville, Oct. 9, 2021.

ishable and packaged donations Oct. 1 through Oct. 9 for Vaca Fish Food Pantry, The Vacav ille Storehouse and the SPCA of Solano County.

The tally will be announced at the end of the day for the biggest pumpkin in Solano County.

For more information, visit NutTreeVacaville. com.

This fundraiser pro vides financial support to the Vacaville Museum, whose mission includes the cultural and his torical preservation of Solano County.

The museum offers exhibits, publications and educational programs.

For more informa tion about the museum, call 707-447-4513. For more information about the Fall Festival court yard sale, call Pat Zetah at 707-290-3181.

Gov. Newsom signs 13 abortion protection, reproductive health bills

SACRAMENTO —

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed 13 abortion pro tection and reproductive health bills Tuesday, cod ifying the final pieces of California’s campaign to counter the effects of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to over turn Roe v. Wade.

The newly signed laws aim to increase the number of abortion providers, provide finan cial assistance to patients and clinics, increase out reach and strengthen legal protections – all for res idents living in and out of the state.

Newsom’s signatures were expected after the governor advocated for many of the measures and come after Califor nia launched a publicly funded website this month to make it easier for those seeking to end their preg nancy to find services and financial assistance. The state announced the website – at abortion. ca.gov – the same day Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina pushed for a nationwide abortion ban after 15 weeks of pregnancy with rare exceptions.

Newsom then began promoting the website on billboards in seven states with the most restrictive abortion bans, telling women living there that California “will defend your right to make decisions about your own health.”

“Abortion is legal, safe and accessible here in California – whether or not you live here, know that we have your back,” Newsom said in a state ment. “As Republican states continue rolling back fundamental civil

rights and even try to prevent people from accessing information online or crossing state lines for care, you’re welcome here in Califor nia and we’ll continue to fight like hell for you.”

California officials began preparing a year ago for the potential effects of Roe v. Wade being overturned, with Newsom asking Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California and dozens of other supporters to develop a plan for the state to become a sanc tuary for anyone denied abortion services in other parts of the country.

Lawmakers sent Newsom 15 bills this year to strengthen Cal ifornia’s already robust abortion protections, two of which were previously signed into law while some signed Tuesday were already funded in the budget passed in June.

That budget included $200 million in new spending for reproduc tive health care services and outreach.

Among the bills signed Tuesday was SB 1142 by state Sen. Anna Caballero, a Salinas Dem

ocrat, which required the state to create the abortion services website launched earlier this month.

“This new website is a critical resource, provid ing essential information to patients in and out of California, and can hope fully serve as a model for the rest of the nation,” Jodi Hicks, president of Planned Parenthood Affil iates of California, said in a statement. “No person should be forced to travel outside of their home state for essential health care, including abortion care, yet extreme politi cians are making that a reality for millions across the country.”

Newsom signed SB 1245, by state Sen. Sydney Kamlager, a Los Angeles Democrat. It sets aside $20 million for the Los Angeles County Abortion Access Safe Haven Pilot Program, which would expand reproductive care programs in the county.

Senate Bill 1375 by Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins, a San Diego Democrat, also signed into law by the governor, will allow trained nurse practitioners to perform first trimester abortions

without the supervision of a physician. Newsom gave final approval to AB 2205 by Assembly member Wendy Carrillo, a Los Angeles Democrat, which will create new transparency require ments for health plans participating in Covered California on how much insurers collect in abor tion premiums and what portion is used for abor tion services.

Carrillo said the bill will “ensure regulators and policymakers are aware of the amount of funds being collected as we consider options available for payment of abortion services.”

AB 2223, which was particularly targeted by anti-abortion groups, would prohibit a coroner from holding an inquest after a fetal death, includ ing in cases in which drugs are suspected as causing a stillbirth. The bill’s author, Assembly member Buffy Wicks, an Oakland Democrat, said AB 2223 ensures pregnancy loss is not considered a crime, regardless of the circumstances. The bill has been targeted by antiabortion groups, which said the measure would make it difficult for law enforcement to investigate the death of a newborn.

“The reason we did this bill was because we wanted to ensure and enshrine that no person can be criminally prose cuted for something that happens in utero, which has happened in Califor nia,” Wicks said.

Newsom signed AB 1242, by Assem bly member Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, an Orinda Democrat, which prohib its state law enforcement agencies from helping

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Newsom signs bill allowing state IDs for immigrants in the country illegally

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LOS ANGELES —

Throughout her life in Cal ifornia, Kassandra Merlos has relied on her Mexican passport as her sole form of identification.

When she has rented apartments, she has been reluctant to mention that she’s in the country without legal status and only has her passport for identification. When she has gone out to bars with friends, she has felt dis criminated against when told she needs a California license or an ID to get in.

For nearly a decade, immigrants who are in the country ille gally have been able to get a restricted Cali fornia driver’s license, but Merlos doesn’t drive.

The 26-year-old applied for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program – better known as DACA – to get a work permit, but the program is no longer processing new applications.

Her mother and brother, who has epi lepsy, also don’t have driver’s licenses. None of them have state-issued identification.

That’s expected to change now that Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed into law Assembly Bill 1766, also known as “Cal ifornia IDs for All.” Under the bill signed last week, California ID eligibility will be expanded for close to 2 million people who lack legal status.

The law will go into effect no later than July 1, 2027.

“I feel honestly like it’s a huge relief,” said Merlos, an Oakland res ident. “If I get stopped, now I have something to identify myself with – not

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with out-of-state abor tion investigations. The bill, which was sponsored by Attorney General Rob Bonta, also requires outof-state law enforcement agencies seeking data from California corpora tions to attest that their investigation is not related to an abortion.

“This is an unprec edented step to protect abortion privacy across the country,” BauerKahan said after the bill passed the Legis lature. “We have no obligation to be complicit in enforcing laws that are antithetical to our own values and legal system in California.”

In June, Newsom signed a bill that created immediate liability pro tections for California abortion providers when caring for patients travel ing from areas where the procedure is now banned or access is narrowed. AB 1666, by Bauer-Kahan,

just my Mexican pass port. It’s just something that identifies you in this country.”

In a statement Friday, Newsom touted the bill, along with other legis lation that would allow street vendors to more easily obtain local health permits and provide immigrant students with improved access to instate tuition at public colleges and universi ties and to ESL courses at community colleges.

In addition, he signed a bill that will provide low-income Californians, regardless of their immi gration status, eligibility for legal assistance in civil matters affecting basic human needs.

“California is expand ing opportunity for everyone, regardless of immigration status,” Newsom said in a written statement. “We’re a state of refuge – a majorityminority state, where 27% of us are immigrants.”

Newsom said signing the bills would “further support our immigrant community, which makes our state stronger every

ensures that providers and patients in California can’t be held civilly liable for judgments based on claims made in antiabor tion states.

Newsom signed SB 245, by state Sen. Lena Gonzalez, a Long Beach Democrat, in March, effectively eliminat ing out-of-pocket costs for abortions, including co-pays that on average range from $300 for a medication abortion to nearly $900 for a proce dural abortion, according to the California Health Benefits Review Program.

California law allows a person to have an abortion until the point that a phy sician determines “there is a reasonable likelihood of the fetus’ sustained sur vival outside the uterus without the application of extraordinary medical

single day.”

The governor’s stance is in sharp contrast to what has unfolded in places such as Florida and Texas. Republican gov ernors there have taken to transporting recently arrived immigrants to liberal cities and states, and at times right to the homes of political oppo nents, in what critics have called a political stunt at the expense of vulner able people.

“We are not a sanctu ary state and it’s better to be able to go to a sanc tuary jurisdiction and yes, we will help facili tate that transport for you to be able to go to greener pastures,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said earlier this month.

“The Biden-Harris administration continues ignoring and denying the historic crisis at our southern border, which has endangered and overwhelmed Texas com munities for almost two years,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said in a news release, explaining his justification for sending immigrants out of the

measures” or if the proce dure is necessary in order to “protect the life or health of the woman.” In most cases, doctors have considered a fetus viable at 24 weeks.

Nearly two-thirds of California voters said they support legislative fixes that help people from other states obtain an abortion in Califor nia, according to a UC Berkeley Institute of Gov ernmental Studies poll released last month.

Voters will be able to weigh in on Califor nia’s abortion protections in November after law makers placed a measure on the ballot that would explicitly protect a per son’s right to an abortion. The UC Berkeley IGS poll found 7 in 10 voters support that measure, Proposition 1.

state to “sanctuary cities.”

Immigrants have arrived in New York City; Chicago; Martha’s Vine yard, Massachusetts; and, at one point, at the door step of Vice President Kamala Harris’ Washing ton, D.C., home.

“This is one of those times that I’m really proud that Gov. Gavin Newsom is my governor,” said state Assembly member Reggie Jones-Sawyer, a Los Angeles Democrat, who co-authored AB 1766. “Governors all across the country right now are doing things to immi grants that are not human, transporting them to other places and really using them as pawns. This gov ernor is taking a really crucial step to support California’s undocu mented population.”

California has long set itself apart in its support of immigrants who are in the country illegally.

In 2013, then-Gov. Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 60 into law, which requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue driv er’s licenses if applicants can prove their identity and California residency, as well as meet all testing requirements, regardless of whether they can show they are in the country lawfully.

The front of the licenses includes the phrase “Federal limits apply,” and the back states: “This card is not acceptable for official federal purposes. This license is issued only as a license to drive a motor vehicle. It does not establish eligibility for employment, voter regis tration or public benefits.”

Report: Secret Service seizes 24 phones from agents in Jan. 6 probe

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The Secret Service has reportedly seized 24 phones from agents in connection with a controversial investiga tion by the Department of Homeland Security inspector general into the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

The two dozen agents’ phones, which are not believed to include mes sages from Jan. 6, were handed over to Home land Security Inspector General Joseph Cuffari in July shortly after he opened a probe into missing text mes sages from the day of the attack, NBC News reported Tuesday.

It’s not clear what information if any Cuffari, a Trump appoin

tee who previously worked for Republican officials in Arizona, has gleaned from the agents’ phones, which are gov ernment property.

The revelation about the phone seizures does little to clear up puzzling questions about Cuffari’s probe and his oversight of the Secret Service in the months since the attack.

He revealed over the summer that text messages from Secret Service agents involved in the response to the Jan. 6 attack were mostly scrubbed in what the agency has described as a preplanned tech upgrade coincid ing with the incoming administration of Presi dent Joe Biden.

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Citing unspecified “health issues,” Jimmy Buffett has canceled two of his upcoming fall tour dates and postponed three others, including his Oct. 22 concert at San Diego State University’s new Snapdragon Stadium.

In an announcement made Tuesday morning, the veteran singer-song writer’s representatives stated that “on doctor’s orders,” Buffett “must take this time to recu perate and heal,” adding: “Jimmy looks forward to getting back on stage next year.”

The statement also referenced his “brief hos pitalization” as a reason Buffett, 75, will need to “refrain from touring for the rest of the year.” No details were provided

about what health issues he faces, the reason for his hospitalization, or when and where it occurred.

Buffett’s Oct. 8 and 15 concerts at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas have been resched uled for next March 4 and 11, respectively.

However, no new date has been announced yet for his now-shelved Oct. 22 San Diego show. It would have been the first concert at the newly opened Snap dragon Stadium.

Buffett’s Oct. 10 and 12 shows in Utah and Idaho have been can celed outright. Tickets for his postponed October concerts will be valid at the rescheduled dates or can be refunded at point of purchase, with the exception of his San Diego show.

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FRIDAY, SEPT. 23

1:03 a.m. — Brandishing a weapon, 2400 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

2:33 a.m. — Sexual assault, 1200 block of B. GALE WILSON BOULEVARD 4:47 a.m. — Shots fired, 1200 block of B. GALE WILSON BOULEVARD 5:10 a.m. — Battery, 1200 block of B. GALE WILSON BOULEVARD 8:28 a.m. — Vandalism, 3900 block of BUSINESS CENTER DRIVE 9:59 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 1000 block of OLIVER ROAD 10:35 a.m. — Drunk and disorderly, 9000 block of MISSOURI STREET 10:42 a.m. — Battery, 200 block of DAFFODIL DRIVE 11:59 a.m. — Embezzlement, 400 block of SAN MARCO STREET 1:44 p.m. — Embezzlement, 2900 block of PEABODY ROAD 2:56 p.m. — Reckless driver, GREEN VALLEY ROAD 3:59 p.m. — Residential burglary, 5000 block of ELLIS GODFREY DRIVE 4:30 p.m. — Trespassing, 1900 block of WEST TEXAS STREET 4:40 p.m. — Battery, 2600 block of DERONDE DRIVE 5:22 p.m. — Indecent exposure, MADISON STREET 6:03 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 2000 block of CADENASSO DRIVE 6:09 p.m. — Reckless driver, TRAVIS BOULEVARD 6:50 p.m. — Vandalism, 500 block of JACKSON STREET 8:05 p.m. — Trespassing, 2500 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 8:53 p.m. — Shots fired, 800 block of BROADWAY STREET 9:24 p.m. — Reckless driver, NORTH TEXAS STREET 11:30 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 1600 block of KIDDER AVENUE SATURDAY, SEPT. 24 9:48 a.m. — Grand theft, 100 block of MERLOT COURT 10:24 a.m. — Trespassing, 400 block of PACIFIC AVENUE 10:27 a.m. — Trespassing, 2900 block of GULF DRIVE 11:08 a.m. — Battery, 1700 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 12:12 p.m. — Trespassing, 400 block of PACIFIC AVENUE 1:38 p.m. — Grand theft, 1000 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 1:48 p.m. — Trespassing, 2200 block of PEACH TREE DRIVE 2:19 p.m. — Trespassing, 1400 block of HOLIDAY LANE 2:26 p.m. — Drunken driver, WESTBOUND AIR BASE PARKWAY 4:08 p.m. — Fight with a weapon, 300 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD 4:45 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 800 block of EAST TRAVIS BOULEVARD 5:29 p.m. — Trespassing, 800 block of EAST TRAVIS BOULEVARD

6:52 p.m. — Brandishing a weapon, 5100 block of BUSINESS CENTER DRIVE 8:51 p.m. — Grand theft, 5200 block of GRAMERCY CIRCLE 9:15 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 200 block of ALASKA AVENUE 9:18 p.m. — Fight with a weapon, 1200 block of HORIZON DRIVE 10:33 p.m. — Reckless driver, 2000 block of WALTERS ROAD SUNDAY, SEPT. 25

1:34 a.m. — Residential burglary, 1600 block of UNION AVENUE 3:48 a.m. Assault with a deadly weapon, 1000 block of EISENHOWER STREET 6:48 a.m. — Sexual assault, 1300 block of GATEWAY BOULEVARD 7:16 a.m. — Assault with a deadly weapon, 1200 block of B. GALE WILSON BOULEVARD 8:25 a.m. — Vandalism, 800 block of FINCH WAY 9:39 a.m. — Grand theft, 1700 block of SAN JOSE STREET 10:12 a.m. — Grand theft, 600 block of EAST TABOR AVENUE 10:49 a.m. — Grand theft, 1900 block of SAN CLEMENTE STREET 10:52 a.m. — Grand theft, 900 block of BRETON DRIVE 11:10 a.m. — Trespassing, 1600 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 11:23 a.m. — Grand theft, 1200 block of TABOR AVENUE 11:39 a.m. — Brandishing a weapon, 2200 block of WOOLNER AVENUE

11:45 a.m. — Vandalism, 700 block of ASH COURT 12:22 p.m. — Drunken driver, 2100 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 2:45 p.m. — Trespassing, 2400 block of MARQUETTE WAY 3:16 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 700 block of EAST TABOR AVENUE 4:22 p.m. — Brandishing a weapon, 500 block of BERKELEY WAY

5:04 p.m. — Vandalism, 400 block of TABOR AVENUE

5:15 p.m. — Grand theft, 1300 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD 5:37 p.m. — Trespassing, 1300 block of GATEWAY BOULEVARD 5:54 p.m. — Reckless driver, BUSINESS CENTER DRIVE 6:42 p.m. — Battery, 1400 block of WEST TEXAS STREET 7:18 p.m. — Battery, 1700 block of WEST TEXAS STREET 7:25 p.m. — Shots fired, GREAT JONES STREET 8:02 p.m. — Indecent exposure, 1900 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 8:26 p.m. — Residential burglary, 2000 block of PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE 9:07 p.m. — Drunk and disorderly, 3300 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 10:50 p.m. — Drunken driver, 3300 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

TUESDAY, SEPT. 26

1:11 a.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 1600 block of CLAY STREET 8:10 a.m. — Battery, 1700 block of ENTERPRISE DRIVE 10:19 a.m. — Robbery, 4300 block of CENTRAL PLACE 10:35 a.m. — Battery, 1600 block of WEST TEXAS STREET 10:48 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, W.R. GLUSEN DRIVE 11:39 a.m. — Fight with a weapon, 3100 block of BUSCH DRIVE 12:28 p.m. — Battery, 700 block of OAKBROOK DRIVE 1:05 p.m. — Robbery, 1900 block of PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE 1:51 p.m. — Trespassing, 1400 block of WOOLNER AVENUE 1:56 p.m. — Vandalism, 1100 block of DANA DRIVE 3:42 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 4900 block of PEABODY ROAD 3:50 p.m. — Vandalism, 2900 block of CORDELIA ROAD 3:57 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 5000 block of RED TOP ROAD 4:34 p.m. — Indecent exposure, 2000 block of CADENASSO DRIVE 6:42 p.m. — Trespassing, 1300 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD 8:29 p.m. — Trespassing, 1300 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD 9:08 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, TRAVIS BOULEVARD

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FRIDAY, SEPT. 23

8:53 a.m. — Burglary, 1200 block of CHULA VISTA WAY 12:41 p.m. — Grand theft, 800 block of LOTZ WAY 3:16 p.m. — Fraud, 1600 block of DULUTH LANE 3:34 p.m. — Assault, 400 block of WHISPERING BAY LANE

SATURDAY, SEPT. 24

12:40 p.m. — Burglary, 300 block of CANVASBACK DRIVE 1:24 p.m. — Burglary, 300 block of LINE STREET

SUNDAY, SEPT. 25 12:39 p.m. — Grand theft, 300 block of MAIN STREET 7:52 p.m. — Reckless driver, REBECCA DRIVE

TUESDAY, SEPT. 26

2:19 a.m. — Grand theft, MOSSWOOD DRIVE 10:49 a.m. — Burglary, 600 block of CIVIC CENTER BOULEVARD 7:42 p.m. — Assault, 400 block of WHISPERING BAY LANE

ever seen.”

Gov. Ron DeSantis urged Floridians in man datory evacuation zones to heed officials and get out before it’s too late to leave.

“You don’t get a mulligan on this. It’s better to take the pre caution and not have a significant impact than the reverse,” he said.

Two days out from landfall, South Florida was already feeling Ian’s first gusty, rainy bands – particularly in the Keys, where king tides were also worsened some street and neigh borhood flooding.

The latest forecast also moved landfall up by perhaps a half day to Wednesday after noon, bringing a tropical storm warning to all of southeast Florida, includ ing coastal Miami-Dade and Broward. South Florida was already seeing street flooding Tuesday morning, and officials urged residents of the Keys to take shelter as tornado warn ings popped up.

As of a 6 p.m. position update from the NHC, Hurricane Ian was about 210 miles south-south west of Punta Gorda and about 45 miles southsouthwest of the Dry Tortugas, back in the Gulf of Mexico after dragging through Cuba.

It was still a Cat egory 3 storm with 120 mph maximum sus tained winds and a wind field that had grown to 140 miles from its center by Tuesday evening. It was heading north at 10 mph.

Ian’s center made landfall just southwest of La Coloma in the

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a hand in the eco nomic development and other improvements to the city. In contrast to her opponent, she noted the city’s beautifi cation efforts, a program she helped initiate, and emphasized the city has a balanced budget with a 20% reserve.

Before the winner of that race is sworn in, however, Larry Brum field will serve as the city’s top elected official.

Brumfield, who retired from the Air Force after

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Both candidates dis agreed with the tone of the questions.

Timm said he won’t apologize for supporting housing projects, arguing that housing is a crit ical piece to so many issues facing the county, including the need for workforce housing, affordable housing and housing for the homeless.

Williams said she will not apologize for caring about the quality of life of county residents, includ ing those who work for

Pinar Del Rio Province of Cuba as a Category 3 with maximum sus tained winds of 125 mph at 4:30 a.m. Tuesday.

“It should be empha sized that this track remains uncertain, with a typical spread in the steering features leading to big speed and track differences down the line, not to mention the oblique angle of approach to Florida,” forecasters wrote in the 5 p.m. update.

Earlier tracks beelined into Tampa Bay, which hasn’t seen a direct hit in a century. The bay is uniquely vulnerable to storm surge, a trend potentially worsened by rising sea levels.

The population bloomed in the past hundred years, setting nearly 3 million people up for devastation in what Jamie Rhome, the acting director of the National Hurricane Center, called a near “worst case sce nario” for the area.

The city of Tampa ran out of sandbags by noon Tuesday after dis tributing nearly 50,000, and Tampa General, a waterfront hospi tal, had armored itself with an 8-foot storm surge barrier.

But on Tuesday, NHC forecasters nudged the track south, shifting the worst of the wind and storm surge impacts to the Sarasota area.

However, Rhome said, the drenching rains and still-high storm surge could lead to intense flooding.

“There’s been a nar rative today that Tampa Bay has dodged a bullet. That is not true,” he said. “While the surge threat may have gone down a little as the track shifted . . . a band of very heavy rain looks like it’s going to set up to the north of

more than 22 years, is the lone candidate for what will be the remain ing couple of weeks on Lori Wilson’s term, which has been vacant since she won a seat in the state Assembly in April to fill the final eight months of the term vacated by Jim Frazier.

Wilson is in a runoff election with Vacaville’s Jenny Leilani Callison to determine who gets the new full term. Berg also ran in that race, but fin ished a distant third and out of the runoff.

Brumfield said he decided to run for the short term because he wanted to air out some of

the county.

“They expect me to care; they expect me to be fair,” Williams said.

Each candidate also took a swipe at the other.

Timm said Williams supports a warehous ing project that could encroach on Travis Air Force Base, and Williams said Timm has a history of allowing housing in areas where there are no services, transportation or other needs of those new residents.

The warehouse project is one in which the Suisun council recently approved a fiscal impact analysis, though the review does not address Travis. Williams noted

where the center cuts through the state.”

DeSantis said Tuesday that officials are still pre pared for that scenario, with food and water pack aged staged across the state and a helicopter ready to deliver it to the Pinellas County penin sula if the bridges go out.

“Hopefully, it doesn’t come to that,” he said.

Ian is now forecast to be a Category 4 hurricane by the time it’s offshore of Florida’s west coast, with a potential landfall north of Port Charlotte on Wednesday afternoon with 130 mph winds and gusts up to 160 mph.

At that point, the hur ricane center expects Ian’s forward speed to slow to 5 mph, prolonging the heavy rains and storm surge and overall giving the storm much more time to soak Florida as it inches inland.

Because of that major slowdown, Florida is expected to see a lot of rain this week. South Florida and the Keys could see 4 to 6 inches, while the Tampa Bay area could see more than a foot of rain, with up to 2 feet in some spots.

Rhome, acting direc tor of the hurricane center, warned that Ian’s rains will arrive long before the winds will,

his concerns with the city, and more importantly, express the views of res idents he has talked to and whose comments he carries around in a note book. He said no matter what, he will continue to be involved in city government.

Everyone agrees homelessness contin ues to be a problem in the city, and for the most part, everyone agrees the new regional approach started by the 2X2 initiative is the right way to go. Still, the need for more mental health and other ser vices is needed. Everyone also supports protecting

it is just an impact analysis and the actual project has not been approved or denied.

Furthermore, Wil liams emphasized her service history of bring ing different interests together, noting a Good Neighbor policy that will allow those with concerns about the warehouse project to meet and talk to the developer before any council decision is made. Building coalitions, Williams said, is one of her strengths.

Timm noted his own history of public service, which includes build ing relationships with people who have often become critical part

which could lead to signif icant flooding risk hours before Hurricane Ian’s center nears the coast.

“A typical summer time thunderstorm here in Florida would put down 1 inch. Multiple that by 10 or 15,” he said.

Key West was feeling tropical storm level winds Tuesday evening, and hurricane-force winds will hit the Cape Coral to Tampa area beginning Wednesday afternoon. They should be wrapped up by the end of the week, as Ian moves northeast across the state.

Nearly the entire state – except Southeast Florida and parts of the Panhandle – could see storm surge greater than 2 feet above dry land. The Sarasota area is the worst, with predictions for 8 to 12 feet from the middle of Longboat Key to Bonita Beach.

Michael Lowry, mete orologist for WPLG-TV, wrote in his Tuesday newsletter that the sever ity of the storm surge forecast “cannot be overstated.”

“Ian has the poten tial for delivering the type of life-threat ening coastal flooding this stretch of Florida hasn’t seen in modern memory,” he wrote.

Travis Air Force Base at all costs, and agrees the Chamber of Commerce will be an important part of the promotion and development of the busi ness community.

That work, they said, also will help buffer against at least some of the pain of inflation.

Brumfield said he thinks the city needs to give small businesses as many tax breaks as are available.

Hernandez said she has been working with the chamber for 10 years, plus her more recent work with the Solano Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

ners on matters that did not even exist when those relationships were formed. He said that is why he answers all calls and emails.

“You don’t know who a possible partner is going to be at the time,” Timm said.

Both support the regional approach to finding solutions to homelessness.

The forum also included the candidates for Suisun mayor and three of the five candi dates seeking two seats on the Suisun council.

About two dozen people attended the event. It was not clear how many may have watched via Zoom.

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the city’s Public Safety Committee as well as her work with the Adopt a Neighborhood program.

Dawson coordinates a regional nonprofit and noted her experience in dealing the state and federal agencies and their resources. She also has been involved in senior and other local advocacy work.

Lee said it is a life time of public service

he brings to the task, decades of time in federal law enforcement, half of which was in manage ment or supervision.

All three emphasized they would protect Travis Air Force Base interests at all costs.

Some differences emerged when asked what the biggest threat to small business was in Suisun City.

Lee said, “Amazon,” explaining that with the pandemic and other changes in lifestyles, local residents have gotten used to shopping online

and local businesses are suffering because of that.

Garcia emphasized the need to do a better job in promoting local busi nesses, not only to local residents, but to the sur rounding areas. She also said outreach must use more modern commu nication techniques. She also would support an internship program that would help businesses as well as the youth in the city.

Dawson said the biggest threat is the increasing level of blight, crime and homelessness

in the city, which she said is hurting local businesses and keeping new businesses from relocating.

All three candi dates agreed a regional approach to homeless ness is the right way, with Garcia emphasiz ing the need for more faith-based programs and pointing out the lack of mental health and other professionals is stall ing progress.

Dawson said there has to be a greater emphasis on preventing homelessness, too.

Martha Asencio-Rhine/TNS City employees load sandbags into people’s cars as they pull up to a station at Northwest Park, in preparation for Hurricane Ian, in St. Petersburg, Tuesday.

Stopgap funding measure back on track

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WASHINGTON — The path to averting a partial govern ment shutdown by Friday night just became a little easier to see, after Senate Democrats said they’d drop a contentious environmental policy rider that had drawn critiques from the right and left.

Sen. Joe Manchin III, D-W. Va., agreed Tuesday to remove his energy infrastructure per mitting proposal from the short-term spending bill the chamber will take a procedural vote on later in the day. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer said on the floor he accepted Manchin’s offer and

will offer a new version without the permitting language.

That concession ends days of uncertainty and likely ensures Democrats will have the 60 votes needed to end debate on the motion to proceed to the legislative vehicle that’s being used to carry the stopgap funding measure.

“Sen. Manchin, myself and others will continue to have con versations about the best way to ensure responsible permit ting reform is passed before the end of the year,” Schumer said Tuesday shortly before the planned cloture vote on a motion to proceed.

Manchin said in a statement that a “failed vote” on his pro posal would “embolden” leaders like Russia’s Vladimir Putin and push the federal govern ment to the brink of a partial government shutdown. Current appropriations are set to lapse at midnight Oct. 1.

The move likely paves the way for quicker passage of the continuing resolution in the Senate, with time running short before Friday’s deadline. The House has “same-day” author ity to take the measure up as soon as it reaches that chamber, but fewer procedural hoops for the Senate to jump through will give congressional leaders and federal agencies a little more breathing room.

The underlying bill would extend current govern ment funding levels through Dec. 16 with certain exceptions, or “anomalies,” for specific pro grams that need higher rates of funding. Congressional leaders also agreed to tack on $12.3 billion for assistance to Ukraine and $5 billion for assorted other purposes, like disaster relief and caring for unaccompanied migrant children at the border.

Victims of a devastating New Mexico wildfire would be

eligible for $2.5 billion in com pensation under the measure, and the State Department would receive as much as $3 billion from existing Pentagon funds to help resettle Afghan refugees.

Before Manchin’s announce ment, Republicans had steadily increased the drumbeat against inclusion of the permitting pro visions, which they viewed as not sufficient to speed up pri ority projects and also an unjustified political payoff for the West Virginia Democrat.

Inclusion of the permitting language in the must-pass CR was Manchin’s price for signing off on Democrats’ prized domes tic policy accomplishment, the climate, tax and health care rec onciliation package that became law in August.

“If tepid Democrat support for this phony fig leaf is all that our colleague from West Vir ginia got in return for approving yet another tax and spending

spree during an inflation crisis, it’s hard to imagine a worse bargain for a senator or for the country,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said earlier on the floor, before Man chin’s announcement.

McConnell said the rest of the bill’s contents have biparti san support.

The bill also would have seen Democratic defections in both chambers over the permitting language. The agreement likely removes obstacles to clearing the measure in the House later in the week, after more than 80 Democrats in that chamber expressed opposition to pairing the stopgap measure with Man chin’s proposal.

“Taking the dirty permitting rider out of must-pass govern ment funding is the right decision and I’m grateful to my colleagues for making it,” House Natural Resources Chair Raúl M. Gri jalva, D-Ariz., said in a statement.

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10-mile line at Russian border as many flee mobilization

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A traffic jam at Rus sia’s border with Georgia has stretched for nearly 10 miles after Pres ident Vladimir Putin’s partial military mobi lization order, satellite images show.

The line of cars and trucks trying to leave formed at a crossing point on the Russian side of the border, according to U.S.-based firm Maxar Technologies, which released the photos on Monday. “The traffic jam likely continued further to the north of the imaged area,” the U.S.-based firm said. Aerial photos from

the company show vehi cles snaking into another long line near Russia’s border with Mongolia.

Cars have also lined up at Russia’s borders with Finland and Kazakh stan since last week, when Putin announced a call-up of hundreds of thousands of reservists to fight in the Kremlin’s faltering war in Ukraine. It marks Russia’s first military mobilization since World War II.

Soon after the speech, tickets sold out to the few cities that still have direct flights from Russia, and Google searches rose for queries like “how to leave Russia.”

Confusion over who

could be summoned has also pushed thousands to flee, along with fears that Russia’s borders could shut to men of military age.

They don’t have many options if they don’t want to deploy to Ukraine. Russian flights in E.U. air space are banned, and Baltic nations closed their land borders. In recent days, piles of abandoned bicycles near border posts appeared in social media footage.

Russian news agency TASS said more than 5,000 cars were waiting for hours at the border with Georgia on Tuesday.

In Kazakhstan, Pres

ident Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said Tuesday his country would talk with Moscow about the influx and sought to “maintain agreement with neigh boring countries.” He called it a “difficult situa tion” but said there was no reason to panic after tens of thousands of crossings by Russian citizens were reported in recent days.

Finnish authorities said they saw a nearly 80% increase in entries from Russia after the mobili zation, but the Finnish Border Guard also said Tuesday that “the major ity of arrivals move on to other countries.”

Saudi king names Crown Prince Mohammed as PM

Tribune ConTenT agenCy

Saudi Arabia’s 86-year-old king appointed his son, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, to replace him as the kingdom’s prime minister, state-run news agency SPA said.

Crown Prince Mohammed, 37, has been gradually taking on greater powers in the world’s largest oil exporter under his father, King Salman bin Abdulaziz. SPA did not give a reason for the move.

The crown prince,

known by his initials MBS, already oversaw many of Saudi Ara bia’s major portfolios, including oil, defense, economic policy and internal security – while his father remains head of state.

Heir to the throne since pushing aside an older cousin in 2017, MBS has steadily con centrated authority in his hands, detaining potential opponents and overturning the decadesold tradition of balancing power between branches of the royal family.

49ers’ Stock Report – who’s up, who’s down

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BAY AREA NEWS GROUP

SAN FRANCISCO —

There’s not much love to be divvied out in Santa Clara following the 49ers’ embarrassing 11-10 loss to the Denver Broncos, but stock must be taken following the game, and contrary to popular belief, the Niners did do some things well.

So let’s go over the good, a whole lot of bad, and what it all means moving forward following

the Niners falling to 1-2:

Stock Up SS. Talanoa Hufanga

Find yourself someone who loves you the way defensive coor dinator DeMeco Ryans loves Hufanga.

The do-it-all strong safety was marvelous again on Sunday, dom inating near the line of scrimmage and holding his own in coverage. If

he can maintain that formula, he will be a Pro Bowl-caliber player for this defense. It’s a tall ask, but Hufanga is the kind of player who sees the game in slow motion – I wouldn’t put it past him.

RB. Jeff Wilson Jr.

Wilson made plays when no one else on the Niners’ offense seemed capable of doing much right on Sunday. Yes, he fumbled to lose the game, but let’s be honest, he was doing everyone a favor by bringing that contest

to an end early. What a thoughtful guy.

Wilson could stand to improve in the pass game, but he is the unquestioned No. 1 back for the 49ers. That means you don’t have to worry about that position for a while.

Deommodore Lenoir

The second-year player out of Oregon finally took at nickelback this week after strong showings in practice and more than a year of the 49ers’ keeping the spot warm for him. He was solid in coverage

and tenacious in the run game. This is his spot until Samuel Womack (who was wonderful on special teams) can catch up to NFL speed in the slot. The Niners might have a con troversy brewing here. The good kind.

P. Mitch Wishnowsky (and the 49ers’ special teams unit)

I was skeptical of the 49ers extending Wish nowsky this month – he’s been fine but unspectacu lar during his tenure as the 49ers’ punter – but Sun

day’s performance in the altitude showed his full skillset. It wasn’t just the distance – it was the accuracy. His punt that landed a nanometer in front of the goal line was simply perfect.

Better than that was the execution of the punt team to down that ball. The aforementioned Womack made the play of his career keeping that ball in the field of play in Denver, but just as impressive was the

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Giants’ 2023

bullpen starts to take shape right now

By Evan WEBEck THE MERCURY NEWS

SAN FRANCISCO —

The Giants took nearly the same group of relievers into this season as the one from their playoff roster last year, when they were the best in the majors.

Come September, the faces have changed, the results have been wildly different, and there is no playoff roster to account for.

Thus is the fickle nature of bullpens.

Solano women’s soccer can’t

slow American River on pitch

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ROCKVILLE —

Interim head coach Pernille Kelm says she is starting to see progress in her Solano Community College women’s soccer team, even with the wins hard to come by in the first half of the season.

The Falcons had a pair of strong scoring chances in the first half Tuesday in a 3-0 loss to American River on the Rockville campus. But they spent much of the 90 minutes on the pitch turning away a barrage of opportunities by Amer ican River College.

“Very much,” Kelm said of the improvement. “Every player on this team has developed their skills

from when I first saw them. I’m very proud of them.”

Kelm is overseeing the program this fall with longtime head coach Jeff Cardinal out on sabbati cal. The going thus far has been challenging. The team is off to a 1-6 start and lost four of those matches by shutout.

American River spent the bulk of the game Tuesday on the attack. But Solano did have a few breaks into the American River side of the pitch for scoring chances. Claire Sawin and Kate-Lynn Jimenez had the best shots on goal in the first half. Jimenez broke free for a oneon-one with the goalie but couldn’t find the net.

While American River kept goalkeepers Fatime Guzman and

Jessica Biasotti busy in front of the net, Isabella Lew was able to strike twice to give American River a 2-0 lead. Lew booted a long shot from the left side at the 40 minute mark, then found her way to the middle for a second solid strike 10 minutes later. Jada Wilson scored the final goal off a penalty, just minutes before time expired.

The game proved to be quite physical with a number of inju ries, including a collision between an American River player and Guzman in front of the net. Bia sotti took over.

“We played very good in the first half and had two very big chances on goal,” Kelm said. “I’m very proud that we didn’t lose by more than we did.”

Bailey earns conference honor as Sac State knocks off Colorado State

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FAIRFIELD — Sacramento State senior linebacker Armon Bailey (Vanden) earned honors as a Big Sky Conference Defensive Player of the Week.

Bailey led the Hornets defense in a 41-10 win Saturday at Colorado State. He had eight total tackles, including two for loss and also forced a fumble while guiding Sac ramento State to its first win over an FBS team since 2012.

The honor is the first for the former Viking during his colle giate career. He becomes the first Hornet to earn the award since Dariyn Choates in 2019.

The Hornet defense was domi nant throughout the game, limiting the Rams to just 10 points and only

10 first downs. The Rams finished the game with only 75 rushing yards and did not score a point in the second half.

Sacramento State is now 3-0 on the year – the first time since 1992 – and enters this week's Big Sky opener at Cal Poly ranked fifth in both the Stats Perform FCS media poll and the AFCA FCS coaches poll.

Here's what other athletes from the area did last week: Junior center Jake Leven good (Vacaville) helped lead Oregon State to a pair of touch downs and 177 yards of offense, but the Beavers (3-1) lost for the first time this season, falling to the USC Trojans 17-14 at home in Corvallis. Oregon State is at Utah

Looking ahead to next year, key holdovers from 2021 – Dominic Leone and Jake McGee – are already gone. Others, such as Tyler Rogers and Jarlín García, have assumed lower-leverage roles.

One arm, attached to Camilo Doval’s right shoulder, looks like a fixture for years to come.

The Giants have cycled through 16 reliev ers this month as they attempt to mold their next relief corps – to surprising success. The ragtag group ranks sixth

in the majors this month with a 3.18 ERA – nearly a full point better than their season mark, 4.01, which ranks 19th – and were the driving force behind their 6-1 road trip, covering 70% of the innings and posting a 1.23 ERA in two tough pitching environments.

With the season winding down, let’s assess how next year’s bullpen is taking shape.

Job locked down, role secure

Camilo Doval, RHP, age 25 September ERA: 0.77 (11 G, 11⅔ IP)

Manager Gabe Kapler refused to name a closer this spring, but with his strong finish to 2022, Doval gives the Giants one known quantity enter ing next year. Added a third pitch, a sinker, at midseason to much success – a 1.69 ERA since he started throw ing it around the All-Star break – and has recently

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Warriors head for preseason trip to Japan

By MichaEl noWEls BAY AREA NEWS GROUP

SAN FRANCISCO —

The Warriors were on an 11-hour flight across the Pacific Ocean Tuesday afternoon, and they’ll arrive midday Wednesday in Japan.

Any jetlag suffered is the price of expand ing the reach of the game – and the Warriors’ brand – in Asia. They’ll have more than two days to rest up before they take the court against the Wizards, who are traveling from Wash ington D.C. Tuesday evening. They’ll play games at 7 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. Sunday local time ( 3 a.m. Friday and 10 p.m. Saturday in the Pacific Time Zone).

Coach Steve Kerr said after prac tice Monday that he feels mostly positive about the trip.

“We know the bigger

picture and this is growing the game and sharing our team, our game with fans in Japan,” he said, “and it’s a good chance for us to bond as a team to do some fun things, see a beautiful country.”

The Warriors are popular in Asia as a star-studded West Coast team that has come to prominence as the game has exploded globally over the last decade. They’ve also been intentional to foster rela tionships in Asia, such as K-pop star BamBam’s endorsement of Andrew Wiggins in All-Star voting which helped the Warriors forward reach his first All-Star Game last season. The Wizards are an obvious choice to play in Japan, forward Rui Hachimura became the first Jap anese-born player to be selected in the first round of the draft.

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Senior linebacker Armon Bailey (30) has stepped up and helped key the Sacramento State defense.

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Solano College’s Rebecca Smith, right, and American River’s Kennedy Stevens battle for the ball during the

women’s soccer game at Solano College in Rockville, Tuesday.

CALENDAR

Wednesday’s TV sports

Baseball

• MLB, Colorado vs. San Francisco, NBCSBA, 6:30 p.m.

• MLB, Oakland vs. L.A. Angels, NBCSCA, 6:30 p.m.

Volleyball

• College Women, Baylor vs. Iowa State, ESPN2, 6 p.m.

Thursday’s TV sports

Baseball

• MLB, Colorado vs. San Francisco, NBCSBA, 6:30 p.m.

• MLB, Oakland vs. L.A. Angels, NBCSCA, 6:30 p.m.

Football

• College, Utah State vs. BYU, ESPN, 5 p.m.

• NFL, Miami vs. Cincinnati, Amazon Prime (Live Streaming), 5:15 p.m.

Golf

• DP World, Dunhill Championship, GOLF, 4 a.m.

• LPGA, Volunteers of America Classic, Round 1, GOLF, 9:30 a.m.

• PGA, Sanderson Farms Championship, Round 1, GOLF, 12:30 p.m.

Kings’ Murray managing his high expectations

by chRiS biDeRman THE SACRAMENTO BEE

SACRAMENTO —

One of Keegan Murray’s first tests since the Kings drafted him fourth overall over the summer didn’t come on a basket ball court. It came on a ping-pong table.

“I’m not even good at ping-pong,” Murray said Monday at Kings’ media day, his unofficial intro duction alongside other players before Tues day’s start of training camp. “I just make the other players make the mistake.”

Murray and his new Kings teammates put together an informal ping-pong tournament at an offseason gather ing. The group had been working out at the team’s facility, playing pickup games, working out and getting to know one another before the rigor ous start of the season.

Murray, despite saying he’s no good at table tennis, made it to the championship round of the tournament. His opponent was Matthew Dellavadova, the veteran point guard vying for a roster spot after signing a nonguaranteed con tract in July.

Alumni

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on Saturday.

Senior kicker Brandon Talton (Vacaville) was said to have an undis closed injury that kept him out of Nevada's game Friday night at Air Force. The Wolf Pack (2-3) fell to the Falcons 48-20. Nevada is at Colorado on Oct. 7.

Sophomore defensive lineman Emmet Espino (Armijo) started on the defensive front for Minot State in a 27-20 overtime loss to Southwest Minne sota State. Espino was not listed among the Beavers' tackle leaders. Minot State will try and rebound Saturday afternoon with a home game against Bemidji State.

Jackson Troutt (Rodri guez) is a junior defensive back for the U.S. Mer chant Marine Academy. The Mariners earned a 9-7 victory at Kean in Union, New Jersey, and improved to 2-1. The Mer chant Marine Academy takes on Worcester Polytechnic Institute on Saturday.

Two local products saw action for the Uni versity of San Diego in Indiana against Valpara iso. The Toreros came away with a 28-21 loss and fell to 1-3. Defen

“And Delly ended up being really good at pingpong,” Murray said. “I got to the championship and he beat me like 21-2. It was rough.”

Things had not been so rough for Murray over the last 12 months.

This time last year, he was preparing for his sophomore season at Iowa after aver aging 7.2 points and 5.1 rebounds per game as a freshman bench player. His numbers in Year 2 jumped to 23.5 points and 8.7 rebounds while shooting 55% from the floor and nearly 40% from 3-point range. He was arguably the best college basketball player in the country. Of course, that meteoric rise led to him becoming the No. 4 overall pick by Sacra mento in June.

And then Murray was named the MVP of Las Vegas Summer League –and was recently named the No. 95-ranked player on ESPN’s Top 100, joining top overall draft pick Paolo Banchero as the only rookies on the list.

All of which raised the expectations for the guy who received only one scholarship offer out of high school.

sive lineman Muhindo Kapapa (Armijo), listed as a graduate student, had a busy game with five solo tackles, four assists, two tackles for losses and a blocked pass. Senior defensive back Amir Wallace (De La Salle), a Fairfield resident, added one solo tackle. San Diego has a home game at Stetson on Saturday.

Minnesota-Morris picked up its first win of the season, beating Law rence 49-14. The Cougars (1-3) won thanks in part to senior defensive lineman Mondo Calderon (Fair field), who contributed two solo tackles, five assists, one sack and was credited for sharing another tackle for loss. Minnesota-Morris plays Westminster College (Missouri) on Saturday.

Senior defensive back Zach McClellan (Will C. Wood) saw action for Adams State in a 52-17 win over Fort Lewis College. Adams State is 1-3 with a game against visiting New Mexico Highlands.

Junior wide receiver Asa Wondeh (Will C. Wood) had three catches for 84 yards in Eastern New Mexi co's 43-10 loss to Texas A&M-Kingsville.TheGrey hounds are 1-3 with a game at home Saturday against Central Washington.

Scoreboard

BASEBALL American League

East Division W L Pct GB

x-N.Y. Yankees 95 59 617 Toronto 87 68 561 8½

Tampa Bay 85 69 552 10 Baltimore 80 74 519 15 Boston 73 81 474 22

Central Division W L Pct GB y-Cleveland 86 68 558 Chicago White Sox 76 78 494 10 Minnesota 75 79 487 11 Kansas City 63 91 409 23 Detroit 61 92 399 24½ West Division W L Pct GB y-Houston 102 53 658 Seattle 83 69 546 17½ L.A. Angels 67 86 438 34 Texas 65 87 428 35½ OAKLAND 56 97 366 45

National League

East Division W L Pct GB x-Atlanta 97 58 626 x-N.Y. Mets 97 58 626 Philadelphia 83 70 542 13 Miami 64 90 416 32½ Washington 53 101 344 43½

Central Division W L Pct GB y-St. Louis 90 65 581 Milwaukee 82 72 532 7½ Chicago Cubs 86 86 442 21½ Cincinnati 60 95 .387 30 Pittsburgh 58 97 .374 32

LOCAL REPORT

West Division W L Pct GB y-L.A. Dodgers 106 47 689 San Diego 85 68 556 21 SAN FRANCISCO 75 78 490 31 Arizona 71 84 .458 36 Colorado 65 88 .425 41

Monday’s

Pittsburgh 8, Cincinnati 3 Atlanta 8, Washington 0 Toronto 3, N.Y. Yankees 2 Baltimore 14, Boston 8 Tuesday’s Games OAKLAND at L.A. Angels, (N) Colorado at SAN FRANCISCO, (N) Tampa Bay 6, Cleveland 5, 11 innings Pittsburgh 4, Cincinnati 1 Detroit 4, Kansas City 3 Atlanta 8, Washington 2 N.Y. Yankees 5, Toronto 2 Baltimore at Boston, 4:10 p.m. Miami 6, N.Y. Mets 4 Chicago Cubs 2, Philadelphia 1 Minnesota 4, Chicago White Sox 0 St. Louis 6, Milwaukee 2 Houston 10, Arizona 2 L.A. Dodgers at San Diego, (N) Texas at Seattle, (N) Wednesday’s Games OAKLAND at L.A. Angels, 6:38 p.m. Colorado at SAN FRANCISCO, 6:45 p.m. Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 9:35 a.m. Tampa Bay at Cleveland, 3:10 p.m. Kansas City at Detroit, 3:40 p.m. Atlanta at Washington, 4:05 p.m. N.Y. Yankees at Toronto, 4:07 p.m. Baltimore at Boston, 4:10 p.m. Miami at N.Y. Mets, 4:10 p.m. Philadelphia at Chicago Cubs, 4:40 p.m. Chicago White Sox at Minnesota, 4:40 p.m. St. Louis at Milwaukee, 4:40 p.m. Arizona at Houston, 5:10 p.m. L.A. Dodgers at San Diego, 6:40 p.m. Texas at Seattle, 6:45 p.m. Thursday’s Games OAKLAND at L.A. Angels, 6:38 p.m. Colorado at SAN FRANCISCO, 6:45 p.m. Kansas City at Detroit, 10:10 a.m.

Chicago White Sox at Minnesota, 10:10 a.m. Baltimore at Boston, 10:35 a.m. Philadelphia at Chicago Cubs, 11:20 a.m. Tampa Bay at Cleveland, 3:10 p.m. Miami at Milwaukee, 4:40 p.m. L.A. Dodgers at San DIego, 6:40 p.m. Texas at Seattle, 6:40 p.m.

FOOTBALL

NFL

American Conference East W L T Pct. PF PA Miami 3 0 0 1.000 83 64 Buffalo 2 1 0 .667 91 38 N.Y. Jets 1 2 0 333 52 81 New England 1 2 0 333 50 71 North W L T Pct. PF PA Cleveland 2 1 0 .667 85 72 Baltimore 2 1 0 .667 99 77 Pittsburgh 1 2 0 .333 54 66 Cincinnati 1 2 0 .333 64 55 South W L T Pct. PF PA Jacksonville 2 1 0 .667 84 38 Indianapolis 1 1 1 .500 40 61 Tennessee 1 2 0 .333 51 84 Houston 0 2 1 .167 49 59 West W L T Pct. PF PA Kansas City 2 1 0 667 88 65 Denver 2 1 0 .667 43 36 L.A. Chargers 1 2 0 333 58 84 Las Vegas 0 3 0 000 64 77 National Conference East W L T Pct. PF PA Philadelphia 3 0 0 1.000 86 50 Dallas 2 1 0 667 46 52 N.Y. Giants 2 1 0 667 56 59 Washington 1 2 0 333 63 82 North W L T Pct. PF PA Minnesota 2 1 0 .667 58 55 Green Bay 2 1 0 667 48 45 Chicago 2 1 0 .667 52 57 Detroit 1 2 0 .333 95 93

23,

Indianapolis 20, Kansas City

Miami 21, Buffalo 19 Minnesota 28, Detroit 24 Baltimore 37, New England 26 Cincinnati 27, N.Y. Jets 12 Tennessee 24, Las Vegas 22 Philadelphia 24, Washington 8 Jacksonville 38, L.A. Chargers 10 L.A. Rams 20, Arizona 12 Atlanta 27, Seattle 23 Green Bay 14, Tampa Bay 12 Monday’s Game Dallas 23, N.Y. Giants 16 Week 4 Thursday’s Game Miami at Cincinnati, 5:15 p.m. Sunday’s Games Minnesota at New Orleans (London), 6:30 a.m. Cleveland at Atlanta, 10 a.m. Buffalo at Baltimore, 10 a.m. Washington at Dallas, 10 a.m. Seattle at Detroit, 10 a.m. L.A. Chargers at Houston, 10 a.m. Tennessee at Indianapolis, 10 a.m. Chicago at N.Y. Giants, 10 a.m. Jacksonville at Philadelphia, 10 a.m. N.Y. Jets at Pittsburgh, 10 a.m. Arizona at Carolina, 1:05 p.m. New England at Green Bay, 1:25 p.m. Denver at Las Vegas, 1:25 p.m. Kansas City at Tampa Bay, 5:20 p.m. Monday’s Game L.A. Rams at SAN FRANCISCO, 5:15 p.m.

DelaTorre helps power Rodriguez girls golf past Vaca in MEL match

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FAIRFIELD — Darla DelaTorre fired an impres sive round of 33 over nine holes Tuesday at Rancho Solano Golf Course and led the Rodriguez High School girls tennis team to a 206-247 win against Vacaville.

The rest of the Mus tangs’ top five included Jody Castillo (38), Nikki Chindavong (44), Coco Trotter (44), Noelle Con cepcion (470) and Ellie Steiger (48).

Erica Villegas led Vacaville with a solid 34. She was followed by Brooke Williams (45), Raquel McGrath (52), Grace Kramer (54) and Katie McMahon and Maya Farris, who each shot 62.

Rodriguez will play Fairfield on Thursday at Rancho Solano.

Vanden girls get forfeit victory

VACAVILLE — Vanden High School’s girls golf team shot a score of 238 Tuesday at Cypress Lakes Golf Course.

The Vikings went up against Fairfield in a Mon

Volleyball

Junior setter Camille Rivers (Vacaville) had five service points, one kill, 22 assists and seven digs for Holy Names (6-8) in a 3-2 loss to Stanislaus State last week. She added three service points, three kills, 15 assists and four digs in a 3-0 win over Dominican.

Junior setter Kayla Somonton (Vacaville) recorded four service points, 23 assists and eight digs for Simpson (2-13) in a 3-1 loss to EmbryRiddle, and had three service points, 15 assists and six digs in a 3-0 win over Benedictine. Junior setter Emily Hansen (Buckingham) added two service points in the Bene dictine match.

Senior middle blocker Lindsey McLaugh lin (Rodriguez, Solano) played for Cal Poly Hum boldt (1-8) in a pair of matches last week. She had three service points, one kill and three digs in a 3-0 loss to Cal State Mon terey Bay and two service points, one kill, one block and one dig in a 3-0 loss to San Francisco State.

Junior middle blocker Megan Stanek (Vacav ille Christian) had a busy week for Linfield (6-4). Stanek had three service points, one kill and three blocks in a 3-0 loss to Saint Martins.

ticello Empire League match, but the Falcons could not field a team and had to forfeit.

Maggie Taylor and Zoe Zanassi each shot rounds of 45 to lead the Vikings. Diana Borchert finished with a 47, Fatum Souma horo had a 48 and Kara Chung shot a 53 Vanden is now 7-4 in MEL matches.

Tennis Vanden girls net win over Rodriguez

FAIRFIELD — The Vanden High School girls tennis team earned an 8-1 win Tuesday over Rodriguez.

The Vikings had singles wins in straight sets from Sasha Smith, Delaney Ramsell, Camille Arca, Jeanelle DelaCruz and Hailey Lam.

Safiya Rapolla was a winner for Rodriguez in No. 6 singles. Gianna Anselmo of the Mustangs pushed Ramsell to 6-4 in the second set.

Vanden’s doubles teams of Danali Hard wick-Kaylani Payne, Kalyse Pane-Katlyn King

She collected four service points, four kills, three blocks and three digs in a 3-2 win over Pacific Lutheran. Against George Fox on Saturday, she contributed four service points, five kills, one block and one dig.

Junior middle blocker Coco Ikpe (Vanden) played for UC Riverside (2-9) in a 3-1 loss to UC Davis and had one service point and a kill.

Sophomore outside hitter Taylor Whyte (Vanden) played in two matches for Chico State (3-10). Whyte had three service points and 10 digs in a 3-1 lost to Cal State East Bay. She had three service points, two assists and 10 digs in a 3-1 loss to Cal State San Marcos.

Women's Soccer

Sophomore forward Summer Baron (DaVinci Academy) played in 25 minutes of action in a 3-1 loss for Chico State at Sonoma State. The Vacav ille resident had a shot on goal in 30 minutes as the Wildcats (5-1-2) won at San Francisco State 1-0. Sophomore midfielder Kylie Rolling (Will C. Wood) saw action in both games, playing 10 minutes at Sonoma State and 11 minutes at San Fran cisco State.

Senior forward Karla

and Kailey Payne-Miley Dial won in straight sets as well.

The Vikings are 5-2 in MEL matches.

Armijo can’t slow Vacaville on courts

FAIRFIELD — The unbeaten Vacaville High School girls tennis team posted a 9-0 win Thurs day at Armijo, though the Royals fought hard in a couple of matches.

Gabriella Perry, Brook lyn Purcell, Ayanna Gentry, Reese Hsiao, Paige Witte and Ava Shep pard all earned singles victories for the Bulldogs.

Armijo’s Neveah Kil patrick battled Gentry to a 7-5, 2-6, 10-6 defeat.

Lucy Herston took Witte to a 7-5 second set. Marian Supapo took Sheppard to a 6-4 second set.

The Vacaville doubles teams of Ella AguirreDawnica Martin, Lola Lafon-Lucie Addiego and Ruby Brazelton-Kylie Gress won handily.

Vacaville is now 10-0 overall and 7-0 in Monticello Empire League matches.

Cardinal (Vacaville, Solano) played 48 minutes in a 9-0 loss to Eastern Oregon. The Beacons are 0-8 on the season.

Senior defender Abby Wolf (Armijo) had one shot on goal in 90 minutes of action for the Univer sity of the Pacific in a 2-0 win over Santa Clara. The Tigers are now 5-0-6.

Men's Tennis

Junior Marcus McDan iel (Kimme Academy) claimed victory in his singles consolation final in the Commodore Invi tational at Vanderbilt University. In the flight ‘A’ southwest final, McDan iel lost his first set in a 6-7 (2) decision but rallied in the final two with 6-2, 10-7 wins over Vander bilt’s Joubert Klopper. McDaniel and his doubles partner fell to an Auburn duo in the green draw west finals.

Sophomore Zach Lim (Rodriguez) joined his Penn teammates for the Princeton Farnsworth Invitational in New Jersey. He went 2-2 in singles competition and 2-3 in doubles.

Professional Football

Third-year linebacker Mykal Walker (Vacav ille) had eight solo tackles, one assist and a pass

Volleyball Vanden girls pick up win against Armijo

FAIRFIELD — The Vanden High School varsity girls volleyball team rolled to a 25-5, 25-9, 25-11 win over Armijo, Tuesday.

Breanna Davis led the Vikings by going 13-for-13 serving with five digs. Makenzie Lovell was 26-for-28 with five aces. Sumerlyn Spencer also had four aces.

Fran King had a strong game with three aces and 18 assists. Anaya Thrower, Ariah Isadore and Jada Cuffie had six kills apiece. Lilli Mass also had six digs.

Vanden is 6-2 in league.

The Vanden junior varsity team earned a 25-7, 25-15 victory. Lydia Keele had 8-for-8 serving with five aces. Izzy Taylor added five kills and three digs.

The junior varsity “B” squad was a 25-11, 25-17 winner. Jayden Voorwinden knocked down three kills. Leila Malabuen was 19-for-19 serving with eight aces.

deflection as the Atlanta Falcons earned their first win of the season, a 27-23 victory at Seattle. Atlanta (1-3) will take on Cleveland on Sunday.

Defensive back Jason Verrett (Rodriguez) is a week away from being able to practice for the first time with the San Francisco 49ers, accord ing to media reports from head coach Kyle Sha nahan. Verrett has been out of action since a knee injury in the opening game of the 2021 season at Detroit.

Professional Baseball

Right-handed pitcher Jesse Scholtens (Rodri guez) is 4-4 with a 4.19 ERA for Triple-A El Paso. He has played in 36 games for the Chihua huas with 15 starts and one save in 81.2 innings with 89 strikeouts. In his most recent outing Satur day, he worked 1.1 innings with two strikeouts and no runs allowed against Oklahoma City.

Catcher Carter Bins (Rodriguez) has a .199 batting average in 287 at bats with 40 runs scored, 57 hits, 11 home runs, 36 RBIs and four stolen bases. He played Saturday against St. Paul and went 0-for-3 with a walk.

State refuses to release school test results

California’s Department of Educa tion has finally acknowledged the obvious: It is arbitrarily delay ing the release of results from this year’s round of academic testing.

In years past, scores from the spring Smarter Balanced tests of academic achieve ment have been released in late summer or early fall, but this year, the department denied a request for statewide results even though it authorized individ ual districts to make their data available.

Why?

Mary Nicely, chief deputy state superintendent for instruction, told EdSource, a website devoted to California education issues, which had requested the data, that the numbers would be released as part of a “dashboard” that includes other “metrics” on how schools are performing.

“We are on track to release the data as we did last year. If we can come out sooner, we will,” she said. “We are not withholding anything; people are working hard to final ize the data.”

That doesn’t wash.

There’s absolutely no reason that data already given to school districts should not be made public now and included in the “dash board” later.

It’s likely the test results will show a sharp decline in the abilities of California’s school children in basic skills, such as reading and math, due to the state’s shutdowns of schools during the Covid-19 pandemic.

State officials probably want to sugarcoat the bad news by delaying it until after the Nov. 8 election and combining it with other material that would dilute its importance.

Tony Thurmond, the state schools superin tendent, will be on the ballot along with Gov. Gavin Newsom and other Democratic office holders and while all are favored to win re-election, bad news on schools would be embarrassing.

We know the post-pandemic test results are likely to be disappointing. That’s been the pattern in other states. Los Angeles Unified School District has already released its quite negative test results, reversing about five years of gradual progress in the state’s largest school system.

About 72% of students in the Los Angeles schools did not meet state standards in math, five percentage points higher than pre-pan demic testing. In English, 58% were subpar, two points higher.

“The pandemic deeply impacted the per formance of our students,” said Los Angeles schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho. “Particularly kids who were at risk, in a fragile condition, prior to the pandemic, as we expected, were the ones who have lost the most ground.”

If LA Unified had enough guts to tell its voters and parents the harsh truth, there’s no valid rationale for Thurmond not to do so for the entire state.

After its request for statewide results was denied, EdSource pressed the issue with a letter from its attorney requesting reconsideration.

“EdSource considers delay tantamount to denial as it effectively robs the public of its vital role in overseeing the CDE (Department of Education) and individual districts and in holding both accountable to its students and the public. This is especially important during what continues to be one of the most challeng ing and impactful times to our educational system due to the Covid pandemic,” EdSource attorney Duffy Carolan wrote.

EdSource’s letter told the Department of Education that it “cannot identify any ‘public’ interest in nondisclosure that could justify its denial position, let alone an interest that ‘clearly outweighs’ the substantial public interest in access to this information.”

This is not only a politically tinged edu cation issue but a major test for the state’s Public Records Act, which allows public agencies to withhold information only under extreme circumstances. If records can be withheld for obvious political purposes in this case, the Public Records Act might as well be junked entirely.

CalMatters is a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how Califor nia’s state Capitol works and why it matters. For more columns by Dan Walters, go to calmatters.org/commentary.

SOLANO VOICES

Is abortion the government’s business?

The creator gave mankind the ability to think – to take a situation or an idea and analyze it.

Proposition 1 is on the November ballot as an amendment to the Califor nia Constitution. The law currently states, “. . . the Reproductive Privacy Act . . . prohibits the state from denying or interfering with a person’s right to choose or obtain an abortion before viability of the fetus. . . .” Prop osition 1 removes the qualification, “before viability of the fetus.” This deletion will enable abortion through out pregnancy to actual birth. Let’s think about that.

How did we get here?

In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court decided in Roe V. Wade that abortion was a constitutional right and over ruled the laws of a majority of the

states. A few months ago, the Supreme Court decided Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, stating, “The Constitution makes no refer ence to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provi sion. . . .” Dobbs overturned Roe, but did not make abortion illegal. The court simply said abortion is none of the federal govern ment’s business.

Most societies have historically considered the fetus a human being. After Roe came onto the scene, the idea was floated that the fetus was just part of a woman’s body and she could do with it as she pleased. ‘Choice’ has been the main argument since. Is it valid?

“Follow the Science,” we’ve been told recently, over and over again. OK, let’s look at the science.

The fetus has its own unique DNA. It has its own heart, brain and organs. It is a complete human being that depends on its mother for nourish ment and protection. It is not part of his/her mother’s body – like a kidney or liver.

Think about that.

If a fetus was like a spare kidney, there would be no need for Proposi tion 1 because nobody would object to removing it. But the fetus is a new human being – and most people know it. That’s why Proposition 1 is on the ballot.

With the ability to think comes the ability to decide.

Abortion is not the federal gov ernment’s business. It should not be California’s business, either. Think about that.

John Takeuchi is a member of the Central Solano Citizen Tax payer Group.

Fears about Italy’s Giorgia Meloni overblown

Giorgia Meloni, who will likely take power in Italy after Sunday’s elec tion, has caused much concern in Europe and the United States because of her party’s historical ties to neofascism and her praise of Hun gary’s Viktor Orban. Those fears are overblown, but no one should underestimate the populist leader’s desire for signifi cant political and economic change.

Meloni co-founded the Broth ers of Italy in 2012 as a breakaway from the country’s main centerright party, People of Freedom. The Brothers was nationalist from its inception, taking its name from a line in the Italian national anthem. It uses colors and symbols associated with the post-war Italian Social Move ment, a party founded by supporters of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. It has never advocated fascism, but its pedigree has nevertheless always raised concerns.

But Italy is not Hungary. It has a robustly free media and has been a Western democracy for nearly 80 years. Moreover, Meloni’s party has never embarked on a crusade against liberal democracy the way Mussolini or even Orban has. The Brothers party doesn’t want to end democracy; it wants to respect Italy’s national traditions and restore the country’s economic freedoms.

Those twin concerns mark Meloni’s rise and explain her appeal. She came to prominence when she proclaimed in 2019 that “I am a woman, I am a mother, I am Italian, I am a Chris tian.” This social conservatism isn’t rooted in the past; rather, it is rooted in a sense that Italy’s past is worthy of respect and can form the foundation for its future.

The economic issues are also crucial to explaining her rise. Italy is a founding member of the euro zone, but its economy has largely stagnated after adopting the euro in 2002. Since then, Italy’s economy has never grown by more than 2% annually, except for last year’s post-pandemic bounce. It also never recovered from the 2008 financial crash; unemployment

has never dropped below 8% since then, and its real GDP per capita remains lower than it was in 2007.

This has produced politi cal upheaval, of which Meloni and her party are the current beneficiaries. Italy’s 2006 elec tion featured two traditional coalitions, center-left and center-right, which received almost all of the votes. Pro-European traditional parties anchored each coalition, with no serious populist opposition. By 2013, an anti-estab lishment populist party, the 5 Star Movement (M5S), received more than 25%. Five years later, M5S won nearly a third of the vote and 22% went to the Brothers and the League, which had taken a populist, anti-immigrant turn.

That majority reasserted itself Sunday, with the Brothers taking the lead. Meloni’s party received 26% of the vote, and M5S and the League together pulled in 24%. A further 5% voted for a variety of populist and sovereigntist parties, includ ing one that wants Italy to leave the European Union.

Clearly, staying the course is not on Italians’ agenda. Thus, Meloni has every incentive to depart from Italy’s recent past.

Doing so won’t be easy. She will be hamstrung by Italy’s massive debt, which causes it to rely on support from the European Union and Euro pean Central Bank. Her social conservatism could also be opposed by the European Parliament. France’s prime minister reacted to Meloni’s win by saying France would “be atten tive” to Italy’s abortion laws to protect women’s access to the procedure. The E.U.’s recent move to withhold finan cial aid to Hungary – which Meloni’s party opposed – shows Brussels is not afraid to put its money where its values are.

Meloni knows she needs to move carefully. She took pains during the campaign to say Italy will be fiscally responsible under her leadership. She supports sanctions against Russia and expresses broad support for the Western alliance. No one should expect her to make waves in these

areas once she takes power.

Nevertheless, Meloni cannot operate as a normal European leader. Italians want change and, in recent years, they have moved to which ever party credibly promises to deliver. So to stay in power, she must show she can push the E.U. to give Italy more slack to execute what the nation wants.

That conflict will likely emerge on three fronts: migration, E.U. financial support and capping energy prices. With regard to the first, Italy is a frontline nation when it comes to migration from Africa and the Middle East. Meloni has previously called for a naval blockade to prevent mass immi gration. Restricting immigration is popular in Italy, and she will likely be willing to stand up to the E.U. if it dis approves of her efforts to limit it.

Second, the E.U.’s financial support to Italy comes primarily from its coronavirus recovery program, NextGenerationEU. That support is substantial but comes with many strings attached. Meloni has argued for renegotiating with the E.U. to give her more flexibility in using the funds. Expect her first budget, due later this year, to lay down that challenge.

Finally, Meloni has stated the E.U. needs to cap energy prices and that Italy will act if the E.U. does not. Such a cap could be extremely expensive, as it would require substantial govern ment transfers to energy companies to keep them solvent. Germany is said to be looking at some form of energy price cap, which could produce room for agreement. But Meloni knows standing up to Brussels and Berlin to protect Italians’ energy bills would be extremely popular if she had to do so.

Many in the European establish ment believe they can tame Meloni as they did her predecessors. But Italy’s first female prime minister is not likely to go along meekly. Given Ital ians’ strong desire for change, she is likely to be a stronger change agent than many think.

Henry Olsen is a Washington Post columnist and a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

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My boys won’t work through their childhood trauma

Dear Annie: I have two grown sons, ages 32 and 24, and they are my oldest and youngest children of six. At the age of 15, the 32-yearold was accused of a crime that the family knows he did not commit. But the accu sation resulted in his spending approximately 15 years in and out of the penal system. He entered a facility for adult inmates when he was barely 16, since he was charged as an adult.

My 24-year-old was the accuser (at roughly age 11). The accusations tore our family apart. The oldest went to prison; the youngest and one other of my children were removed from my custody and sent to foster homes and group homes.

Cut to today, years later: The boys are at war. Both are accusing the other of “ruining my life.” They have been around each other a few times, and most of those times were cordial. The last time was a couple of months ago.

I live in Ohio, while the

youngest lives in Mis souri and the oldest is in Arizona. I hadn’t seen my oldest son in several years, so he drove to Ohio to surprise me. When he left, he had plans to go to Oklahoma to visit another sibling, but he decided to go to Missouri to visit the youngest and meet his niece and nephew. I was skep tical about this, due to threats they had previously made against each other. It went exactly as I prayed it wouldn’t.

They got into a screaming match, hurling angry threats and insults at each other in front of my autistic grand son’s second birthday party! Now they are saying the other one is dead to them, along with the children!

Annie, I can’t divulge per sonal information regarding the nature of the alleged crime, but I can tell you that this mama is torn in two. The boys aren’t asking anyone to take sides, but we all are feeling jerked back and forth. What can I do, as a mother, to get two very stub born, traumatized and angry

Horoscopes

ARIES (March 21-April 19).

You have range. Choosing the right mode can be challenging. You can be professional and cordial or irreverent and funny. To be appropriate in every situation means being inappro priate in the ones that call for it.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20).

Everyone knows there’s more than meets the eye, but some need to poke through the paper scenery to peer to the other side, and others don’t. Your curiosity will get the best of you, and you’ll cut yourself a small window.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21).

Perfectionism is a form of fear. If you never take the product out into the world, you never have to face the music of the market. Be bold. Take your chances. The worst that can happen is that you’ll learn what to work on next.

CANCER (June 22-July 22).

Honesty moves you, even if it’s fiction. Emotional truth and factual truth are different kinds of honesty that don’t always show up together. Keep in mind that emotions can be manipu lated by skilled actors, liars and storytellers.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22).

People will talk, but the words aren’t what they are really saying. If you listen to just the words, you’ll miss the meaning. Mentally distance yourself to see the bigger dance and the motivations that drive it.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).

Sure, you don’t want to cause anyone a hassle. But don’t be too concerned with making

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Today’s birthday

Your solar return brings a jump into action, and you will be invigorated by juggling many projects simultaneously. How satisfying it will be to finish them one by one and enter 2023 on a level of accomplishment that allows you a new station. Subsequent themes include: love and celebration, investment and enrichment. Gemini and Scorpio adore you.

Your lucky numbers are: 4, 44, 38, 18 and 19.

everything easy either. When people have to work for some thing, they value it more and derive greater pleasure from the experience.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).

Who comes through for you every day? Take nothing for granted. These loyalties are hardy and may remain whether you nurture them or not. But you’d rather be known as someone who nurtured the very best in others.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).

The work you’ve done will be useful one day, meaningful the next and then obsolete – and much later, historic. So you may as well commit as though it’s everything. In many ways, it is.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21). Stay open to your muses, if not for yourself for those you’re sure to inspire.

young men to get help with their relationship? Individu ally and, possibly, together? We don’t want two different holiday gatherings. And we don’t know how to tell the grand kids why their uncles won’t be around each other. What can we, as a family, do to bring our boys back together? — Torn Apart Mother

Dear Torn Apart: There is so much past resentment that needs to be forgiven and worked through in therapy between the brothers and you, their mother. Without pro cessing the deep hurt and resentment that each has toward the other, every time they get together, it has a huge potential to end in a terrible fight. The fight only makes the rift deeper. They are grown adults so they have to want to make their relationship work better. You can encourage each of them to forgive, or to speak about their past hurts and traumas, but in the end, it has to be up to them to want to work on their relationship.

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You’ll surround yourself with things that reflect who you are. Your values, taste and sensibil ity shine through as you share from the heart.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19). You love people in dif ferent ways and for different reasons. Relationships shift with time, and you’ll roll with the changes, whether they be toward depth, friendliness or familiarity. It’s nothing to fear.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18). There is a benefit in everything you experience, even if you may not understand it at the time. Therefore, today’s cosmic gift of immediate com prehension is no small boon. You’ll base your next move on this valuable learning.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20).

It would be senseless to pine after unpossessed talents when you own so many, though everyone does this from time to time. Avoid the tendency! Winning move: Key into your strengths and ignore everything else for now.

CELEBRITY PROFILES:

Naomi Watts stars in a remake of the Australian horror film “Goodnight Mommy,” to be released in time to give Hal loween thrills and chills. Watts is a lovely Libra with Mercury, Venus and Neptune in magnetic Scorpio. Such a configuration brings intensity and charisma, which are grounded by Mars, Jupiter and Pluto in hard working Virgo.

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Bridge

WATCH CLOSELY AND THINK CLEARLY

A good way to improve your memory for bridge is to take, say, eight cards, shuffle them and lay them out in a line. Look at them for 20 seconds, pick up the cards, shuffle them and try to put them back as they were. (Maybe you will need a friend to write down the sequence for you.) Shuffle up the cards again. Do something else for 20

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minutes; then take the cards and try to put them back in the same order.

You could increase the number of cards until you have 13. If you do, you will find it a little easier to sort the cards into suits.

However, it isn’t enough just to watch all of the cards. You must draw inferences too. (This game can be so frustrating!)

In today’s deal, defending against four hearts, West leads the club jack: three, two, queen. Declarer plays the diamond four: two, 10, nine. Next comes the heart queen: two, three, king. What should West lead at trick four – and why?

In the auction, South might have rebid three no-trump, which would have made. However, North, with a low doubleton, probably would have retreated to four hearts.

From the play at trick one, West knows that the defenders cannot win a club trick, emphasized by East’s dropping of his lowest club. The diamond play strongly suggests that declarer started with K-Q-4. Partner’s diamond nine looks like the top card from a doubleton.

To defeat the contract, the defenders have to cash three spade tricks now. West must switch to the spade nine, hoping partner has ace-third or -fourth.

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Bridge

WATCH CLOSELY AND THINK CLEARLY

Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 grid contains the digits 1 through 9, with no repeats. That means that no number is repeated in any row, column or box. Solution, tips and computer program at www.sudoku.com

A good way to improve your memory for bridge is to take, say, eight cards, shuffle them and lay them out in a line. Look at them for 20 seconds, pick up the cards, shuffle them and try to put them back as they were. (Maybe

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Annie Lane Dear Annie

Kansas carries on into its sixth decade playing its classic tunes

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ATLANTA — The original members of the progressive rock band Kansas in the 1970s hailed from Topeka and quickly became the most famous music act from that mid-sized Kansas town.

But around 1977, after “Carry On Wayward Son” became a massive hit, band members began venturing south to Atlanta, where a few had started dating flight attendants. Not coinciden tally, Hartsfield International Airport, the name at the time, made touring far more conve nient as well.

Lead guitarist Rich Wil liams said Kansas performed many times at Alex Cooley’s famed Electric Ballroom in Midtown in the 1970s. “Atlanta was a very hopping music scene at the time for rock,” he said in a recent interview with The Atlanta Journal-Constitu tion “It was a fun city coming from Topeka. I met my second wife there.”

He would be one of the last Kansas band members to move to Atlanta by 1979 and ended up staying for 41 years until 2020, when he and his wife Debbie decided to move to a gated community in the moun tains of North Carolina during the pandemic.

“We see more bears, turkey and deer than we ever see people,” he said.

But Williams, now 72, is happy to return Atlanta for a concert at the 4-year-old 1,070-seat Byers Theatre at Sandy Springs Performing Arts Center on Friday.

“We used to live down the street from there,” Williams said. “We watched that place get built.”

Kansas, which formed in 1970, now just tours more or less perpetually.

“I recommend this job to anybody,” Williams said. “It sure beats working. The venues come and go. When the lights go out, it’s all the same. And it’s all very familiar. I’m playing with some of the same guitars as I did in the 1970s.”

Williams said he has only had non-musician jobs twice in his life: a liquor store in college for four months and construct ing decks in the 1980s when the band was on hiatus. “It wasn’t out of financial necessity,” he said. “I had built houses in Atlanta and wanted to learn the process and get hands-on expe rience. I quickly learned how hard it is to earn $100 swing ing a hammer. That was work. What I do now is more like joy.”

Right now, he said, they do about 80 dates a year. That comes out to about three con certs every other weekend. “That seems to be the bor derline between fun and not fun,” he said, while remaining profitable.

And while peer bands like Styx, Journey, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts and REO Speedwagon eagerly do combo tours in big stadiums, Kansas prefers to do smaller shows on their own. Their schedule is a mix of theater shows, festivals and casinos.

“Once in awhile we do shows with those bands and it’s nice to see them,” Williams said, “but we’d rather be on our own stage. You can do a full set. You start and end the show. It’s easier to control.”

Most of the time, they end their concerts with their signa ture song “Carry On Wayward Son.” It remains a staple on classic rock stations along with tunes like “Dust in the Wind” and “Point of No Return.”

“Carry On Wayward Son,” Williams said, was the last song they recorded for their 1976 album “Leftoverture,” a make-or-break record for them. “Carry on Wayward Son” became their gateway to success.

“The version you hear is the first time we played it cor rectly,” Williams said. “It’s got so many hooks in it. A cappella chorus in the beginning. That iconic guitar riff. Halftime with that other guitar riff . . . It is a bit of an anthem with that singa-long chorus. People might mumble the verses but they all scream the chorus.”

He noted how different the song sounded compared to any thing else on top 40 at the time. It peaked at No. 11 on the Bill board Hot 100 the same week ABBA’s “Dancing Queen” hit the top. “It broke through anyway,” he said.

More recently, the song got bonus exposure on the long-time CW drama “Super natural,” which ran 15 seasons from 2005 to 2020 and would use the song during every season finale. (The show is now available on Netflix.) “It’s been gigantic,” he said. “We have so many younger kids come to our shows because of ‘Supernatural.’”

Williams and drummer Phil Ehart are the only origi nal members left from the band. After lead singer Steve

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Walsh retired in 2014, the band selected Chicago-born cover band singer Ronnie Platt to take over.

Platt, 62, is a decade younger than Williams or Ehart. He recalls hearing “Carry on Wayward Song” constantly in the late 1970s as a teen. “It made an impact on me,” he said. “It was really the begin ning of me becoming a toxic prog rocker.”

He had a cover band in the 1980s called Chaser that not only performed the big Kansas hits but deep cuts. “We didn’t care if the audience didn’t know them,” he said. “It was self-indulgent.”

When he heard in 2014 of Walsh’s retirement, he contacted Williams. “Totally out of character for me to do that,” Platt said. “I talked to him Thursday, met Phil on Friday. They flew me to Atlanta Monday. On Tuesday, I got an email. I was in!”

Platt feels grateful he is one of a handful of “substitute” lead singers manning major rock acts citing examples like Boston, Journey and Foreigner.

“I wonder if they were really so much in love with their per spective bands as I was with Kansas,” Platt said. “I’ve been such a hardcore fan my entire life. I not only know the vocals but so many of the keyboard parts, so many bass guitar parts. I did it for my own selfgratification long before I was in the band.”

He would occasionally play a keyboard riff of some obscure Kansas tune and a veteran band member would look at him and ask, “What was that?”

“They hadn’t heard it in such a long time,” Platt said. “In my memory here and there they would come out of nowhere!”

And Kansas is not phoning it in. Platt said before each concert, they rehearse 60 to 90 minutes. “We drill and drill and drill, not only songs we are doing that night but songs we might do in the future,” he said. “There’s no focus on the pay check, just an obsession with getting this difficult music as good as we can get it.”

Bridge

REMEMBER THAT PARTNER IS HUMAN

There are times when an expert makes an abnormal play that works brilliantly. There is someone in the back of the expert’s mind telling him that this is the moment to deviate from the textbook. Today’s hand is a good example.

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limit raise, inviting game. South, with a hand not worth an opening bid despite its 13 points, passed promptly. West led the club seven: three, ace, five. Back came the club jack: queen, king, six. Reading the club position accurately, West switched to a deceptive heart four. East won with the ace, and declarer dropped the jack. Stopping to count the points, East realized there was no future in diamonds, so he returned the heart five: queen, seven, six. Not anticipating the danger, declarer ran the spade queen. However, East won with the king and played a third heart, which West ruffed to defeat the contract.

Note that if West had switched to the heart seven at trick three, playing high-low, declarer would have foreseen the potential ruff. Then he probably would have played the ace and another spade and not risked the finesse.

Apparently, that was a brilliant defense. But now it is time to come clean. That was how West hoped the play would go. But he had a partner who also saw the heart four. Knowing this couldn’t be high from a doubleton, East, after winning with the heart ace, returned the club nine! Now declarer could afford to take the losing spade finesse and still make his contract. The best laid plans o’ mice an’ bridge experts, gang aft a-gley.

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Bridge

REMEMBER THAT PARTNER IS HUMAN

Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 grid contains the digits 1 through 9, with no repeats. That means that no number is repeated in any row, column or box. Solution, tips and computer program at www.sudoku.com

There are times when an expert makes an abnormal play that works brilliantly. There is someone in the back of the expert’s mind telling him that this is the moment to deviate from the

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Musician Rich Williams of Kansas performs onstage at the “Supernatural” panel during Comic-Con International 2017 at San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, July 23, 2017.

Martin

‘I loved him’ but working with

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Kelly Ripa is finally ready to reminisce about her complex relationship with former “Live With Regis and Kelly” co-host Regis Philbin.

In a recent interview with People, Ripa spoke of the difficulties she had when writing about her time with Philbin in her new book, “Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories.”

“There were good and bad days. I don’t want to feel like I’m slam ming anyone or that I’m being disrespectful,” Ripa said of her experi ence with Philbin. “But I also want people to know it was not a cake walk. It took years to earn my place there and earn things that are rou tinely given to the men I worked with. Including an office and a place to put my computer.”

Ripa, who co-hosted the morning talk show with Philbin from 2001 to 2011, rejected the idea that stepping into the role Kathie Lee Gifford left behind “came easily.”

“People think I just showed up one day and was handed a job and I lived happily ever after and now everything’s perfect. But it never is that way.”

The 51-year-old recalled the strange circumstances of her onboarding for the talk show. In the wake of Gif ford’s departure, Ripa served as guest co-host three times, but was repeatedly told that the network was not looking at the moment for a per manent co-host. Then one day she received a call from her agent saying she had been offered the posi

tion full time.

But the offer came with a warning.

“They want you to know who your boss is,” she said, referring to Philbin. “It was very ominous, and it did not feel good.”

According to Ripa, Philbin didn’t want her “bringing an entourage” on set, with her recalling, “I came with hair and makeup. It was not an unusual thing for people on a television show to show up with.” Before taking the stage, Philbin greeted her and execu tive producer Michael Gelman, saying, “Uh-oh, Gelman, it’s got an entourage.”

“I felt horrible. He was probably trying to be funny, but at the same time it felt like a pile-on,” Ripa said of the incident. “I understand that prob ably he didn’t want a co-host, but the network wanted me to be the co-host and I didn’t think I should pass up that opportunity. I don’t think it was fair to him. But it was also not fair to me.”

In spite of the rocky times, Ripa noted she fondly remem bers Philbin, who died in 2020.

“Off camera and outside of that building, it was a different thing. The handful of times we spent together, I so enjoyed,” she said. “We went to the same resort once on vacation and he came to a dinner I hosted – one of the favor ite nights of my life. I never laughed so hard.”

She added she aspires to be as good a racon teur as her former on-air partner, whom she called “the world’s best storyteller.”

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Neilson Barnard/Getty Images/TNS file (2011) Regis Philbin, left, and Kelly Ripa on set during Regis Philbin’s final show of “Live! with Regis & Kelly” at the Live with Regis & Kelly Studio in New York, Nov. 18, 2011.

Worried about the economy? Demand for these jobs is high and growing

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Elsa Reaza was ready to leave her job when a friend suggested she apply for a housekeeping position at the Conrad, a new luxury hotel in down town Los Angeles.

Reaza worked at a senior home, feeding, taking blood samples and cleaning up after patients. The work was emotionally draining even before the pandemic arrived, taking the lives of residents with whom she’d grown close.

Reaza’s new job as a housekeeper pays about the same but offers better benefits – free bus passes and occasional meals – with a lot more opportunity to advance in the company. “I’m hoping to stay here for a while,” she said.

The Covid-19 pandemic pushed many Americans out of their jobs and forced others – such as Reaza – to rethink theirs. Some participated in a wave of job-leaving dubbed the Great Res ignation; others sought improved work-life balance through what they called “quiet quitting.”

Now, with inflation on everyone’s mind and many economists fore casting some degree of recession in the near future, locking into the best job to ride out the economic uncertainty may seem more appealing.

“It’s an unusual job environment with the economy under pres sure, with higher interest rates and higher

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inflation and with a tight labor market,” said Nancy Vanden Houten, lead U.S. economist with Oxford Economics.

With California’s unemployment rate at its lowest point in more than two decades, workers are in short supply all over the economy, but that could change fast if aggres sive interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve depress business invest ment and hiring. Based on state employment studies and interviews with econ omists and academics, here are the jobs expected to be in highest demand over the next year in Cal ifornia – arranged roughly from lower skill/pay to higher skill/pay – and some of the pros and cons involved.

Leisure and hospitality workers

This category includes cashiers and staffers at hotels, restaurants and theme parks. In Califor nia, leisure and hospitality had the largest job loss of any sector in the early pandemic: 990,200 jobs vanished from Febru ary to April 2020, or 1 out of every 3, according to the state Employment Development Depart ment. Although the sector has recovered about 85% of those lost jobs, the state still expects leisure and hospitality to be the biggest creator of jobs over the next year.

The drawbacks: Demand can be seasonal and the median annual

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LOCATEDAT143MainStreet,RioVista CA,94571Solano.MailingAddressP.O. Box576,RioVistaCA94571.ARE HEREBYREGISTEREDBYTHEFOLLOWINGOWNER(S)RioRestaurant GroupLLCCA.THISBUSINESSISCONDUCTEDBY: aLimitedLiabilityCorporation Theregistrantcommencedtotransact businessunderthefictitiousbusiness nameornameslistedabov eonN/A. Ideclarethatallinformationinthisstatementistrueandcorrect(Aregistrantwho declaresastrueinformationwhichheor sheknowstobefalseisguiltyofacrime.) /s/ChrisWakeman INACCORDANCEWITHSUBDIVISION (a)OFSECTION17920AFICTITIOUS NAMESTATEMENTGENERALLYEXPIRESATTHEENDOFFIVEYEARS FROMTHEDATEONWHICHITWAS FILEDINTHEOFFICEOFTHECOUNTY CLERK,EXCEPTASPROVIDEDIN SUBDIVISION(b)OFSECTION17920, WHEREITEXPIRES40DAYSAFTER

ANYC HANGEINTHEFACTSSET FORTHINTHESTATEMENTPURSUANTTOSECTION17913OTHERTHAN ACHANGEINTHERESIDENCEADDRESSOFAREGISTEREDOWNER. ANEWFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENTMUSTBEFILEDBEFORE THEEXPIRATIONSeptember21,2027. THEFILINGOFTHISSTATEMENT DOESNOTOFITSELFAUTHORIZE THEUSEINTHISSTATEOFAFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAMEINVIOLATION OFTHERIGHTSOFANOTHERUNDER FEDERAL,STATEORCOMMONLAW (SEESECTION14411ETSEQ.,BUSINESSANDPROFESSIONSCODE). FiledintheOfficeoftheCountyClerkof SolanoCounty,StateofCaliforniaon: September22,2022 NewASSIGNEDFILENO.2022001632 CHARLESLOMELI,SolanoCountyClerk DR#00057941 Published:Sept.28Oct.5,12,19,2022

wages are about $32,000 –a level many workers find insufficient to afford housing and transpor tation in Los Angeles. Union leaders such as Kurt Petersen, co-presi dent of Unite Here Local 11, which represents 32,000 hotel, restaurant, airport and sports arenas in Southern California, are trying to boost that by organizing workers. “I’m optimistic that these jobs can sustain a family,” he said. “I think it will take a lot of work.”

Fast-food workers

Because we love to eat on the run, the demand for fast-food cooks and counter workers contin ues to grow, with the EDD forecasting 243,000 open ings being filled between 2021 and 2023.

The drawbacks: The industry has a notoriously high turnover rate, which

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THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS LOVE-ENTERPRISES

LOCATEDAT190LawrenceDr.#120, VacavilleCA95687Solano.ARE HEREBYREGISTEREDBYTHEFOLLOWINGOWNER(S)JohnNewtonFoster 190LawrenceDr#120Vacaville,95687. THISBUSINESSISCONDUCTEDBY: anIndividual Theregistrantcommencedtotransact businessunderthefictitiousbusiness nameornameslistedaboveon 09/01/2022. Ideclarethatal linformationinthisstatementistrueandcorrect(Aregistrantwho declaresastrueinformationwhichheor sheknowstobefalseisguiltyofacrime.) /s/JohnN.Foster INACCORDANCEWITHSUBDIVISION (a)OFSECTION17920AFICTITIOUS NAMESTATEMENTGENERALLYEXPIRESATTHEENDOFFIVEYEARS FROMTHEDATEONWHICHITWAS FILEDINTHEOFFICEOFTHECOUNTY CLERK,EXCEPTASPROVIDEDIN SUBDIVISION(b)OFSECTION17920, WHEREITEXPIRES40DAYSAFTER ANYCHANGEINTHEFACTSSET FORTHINTHESTATEMENTPURSUANTTOSECTION17913OTHERTHAN ACHANGEINTHERESIDENCEADDRESSOFAREGISTEREDOWNER. ANEWFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENTMUSTBEFILEDBEFORE THEEXPIRATIONSeptember21,2027. THEFILINGOFTHISSTATEMENT DOESNOTOFITSELFAUTHORIZE THEUSEINTHISSTATEOFAFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAMEINVIOLATION OFTHERIGHTSOFANOTHERUNDER FEDERAL,STATEORCOMMONLAW (SEESECTION14411ETSEQ.,BUSINESSANDPROFESSIONSCODE). FiledintheOfficeoftheCountyClerkof SolanoCounty,StateofCaliforniaon: September22,2022 NewASSIGNEDFILENO.2022001630 CHARLESLOMELI,SolanoCountyClerk DR#00058124 Published:Sept.28Oct.5,12,19,2022

partly explains why there are so many openings. These are often mini mum-wage jobs – paying a median annual salary of $32,000. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legis lation on Labor Day to create a panel of appoin tees empowered to set minimum standards for wages, hours and working conditions for fast-food workers in California. But opponents filed for a refer endum, seeking to block it until the matter can be put before voters.

Home health care and personal care aides

With baby boomers reaching retire ment age and beyond, experts predict a surge in the number of Amer icans entering nursing homes or needing per sonal care aides. By 2030, all baby boomers

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THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS)

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THEFILINGOFTHISSTATEMENT DOESNOTOFITSELFAUTHORIZE THEUSEINTHISSTATEOFAFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAMEINVIOLATION OFTHERIGHTSOFANOTHERUNDER FEDERAL,STATEORCOMMONLAW (SEESECTION14411ETSEQ.,BUSINESSANDPROFESSIONSCODE).

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will be 65 or older, a trend some are calling the “silver tsunami.”

The EDD projects more than 200,00 home healthcare and personal care aides are needed in California between 2021 and 2023. “The labor market is dynamic and it adapts to these demographic changes,” said Ratika Narag, an associate professor of eco nomics at USC.

The drawbacks: The job can be emotionally draining and the median annual wages are less than $32,000. Patricia Santana, 53, became a personal care aide to care for her husband, who lost his sight and had both feet amputated because of dia betes several years ago.

“This work is very dif ficult,” she said, noting that it pays slightly above minimum wage. “You can work at McDonald’s and

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THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS BARAJAS CONCRETE LOCATEDAT1961AlethaLnApt4,Vacaville,CA95687Solano.MailingAddress1961AlethaLnApt4,Vacaville,CA 95687.AREHEREBYREGISTEREDBY THEFOLLOWINGOWNER(S)Barajas ConcreteLLCCA.THISBUSINESSIS CONDUCTEDBY: aLimitedLiabilityCompany Theregistrantcommencedtotransact businessunderthefictitiousbusiness nameornamesliste daboveonN/A. Ideclarethatallinformationinthisstatementistrueandcorrect(Aregistrantwho declaresastrueinformationwhichheor sheknowstobefalseisguiltyofacrime.) /s/JorgeBarajasLinan-Manager INACCORDANCEWITHSUBDIVISION (a)OFSECTION17920AFICTITIOUS NAMESTATEMENTGENERALLYEXPIRESATTHEENDOFFIVEYEARS FROMTHEDATEONWHICHITWAS FILEDINTHEOFFICEOFTHECOUNTY CLERK,EXCEPTASPROVIDEDIN SUBDIVISION(b)OFSECTION17920, WHEREITEXPIRES40DAYSAFTER ANYCHANGEINTHEFACTSSET FORTHINTHESTATEMENTPURSUANTTOSECTION17913OTHERTHAN ACHANGEINTHERESIDENCEADDRESSOFAREGISTEREDOWNER. ANEWFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENTMUSTBEFILEDBEFORE THEEXPIRATIONAugust30,2027.

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get paid the same but we are saving lives.”

Green energy workers

The Inflation Reduc tion Act signed into law last month by President Biden created billions of dollars’ worth of tax credits for companies that make electric cars, rooftop solar panels and wind turbines, and incen tives for the people who buy them. The legisla tion could create at least 1.5 million jobs nation wide by 2030, primarily in the manufacturing indus try, according to a study by Energy Innovation Policy & Technology, a nonpartisan energy and climate policy think tank.

“I think that creating a more sustainable economy creates good-paying jobs for workers who already have those skills,” said Enrique Lopezlira, a labor economist at the University of California Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education.

An electrician working in California’s green energy sector can earn a median salary of about $73,000 a year, according to the EDD.

The drawbacks: Much of this work, such as installing rooftop solar panels and working on wind turbines, is phys ically demanding and risky. The Bureau of Labor Statistics rated wind turbine technicians as having one of the highest rates of injuries and illnesses among all occupations.

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THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS COYOTE CREEK CONSTRUCTION

LOCATEDAT729NevadaSt,Fairfield CA94533Solano.MailingAddress729 NevadaSt,FairfieldCA94533.ARE HEREBYREGISTEREDBYTHEFOLLOWINGOWNER(S)DanielGonzalez 729NevadaStFairfield,94533.THIS BUSINESSISCONDUCTEDBY: aCorporation Theregistrantcommencedtotransact businessunderthefictitiousbusiness nameornamesl istedaboveonN/A. Ideclarethatallinformationinthisstatementistrueandcorrect(Aregistrantwho declaresastrueinformationwhichheor sheknowstobefalseisguiltyofacrime.) /s/DanielGonzalez INACCORDANCEWITHSUBDIVISION (a)OFSECTION17920AFICTITIOUS NAMESTATEMENTGENERALLYEXPIRESATTHEENDOFFIVEYEARS FROMTHEDATEONWHICHITWAS FILEDINTHEOFFICEOFTHECOUNTY CLERK,EXCEPTASPROVIDEDIN SUBDIVISION(b)OFSECTION17920, WHEREITEXPIRES40DAYSAFTER ANYCHANGEINTHEFACTSSET FORTHINTHESTATEMENTPURSUANTTOSECTION17913OTHERTHAN ACHANGEINTHERESIDENCEADDRESSOFAREGISTEREDOWNER. ANEWFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENTMUSTBEFILEDBEFORE THEEXPIRATIONSeptember22,2027. THEFILINGOFTHISSTATEMENT DOESNOTOFITSELFAUTHORIZE THEUSEINTHISSTATEOFAFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAMEINVIOLATION OFTHERIGHTSOFANOTHERUNDER FEDERAL,STATEORCOMMONLAW (SEESECTION14411ETSEQ.,BUSINESSANDPROFESSIONSCODE). FiledintheOfficeoftheCountyClerkof SolanoCounty,StateofCaliforniaon: September23,2022

NewASSIGNEDFILENO.2022001639

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CLERK,EXCEPTASPROVIDEDIN SUBDIVISION(b)OFSECTION17920, WHEREITEXPIRES40DAYSAFTER ANYCHANGEINTHEFACTSSET FORTHINTHESTATEMENTPURSUANTTOSECTION17913OTHERTHAN ACHANGEINTHERESIDENCEADDRESSOFAREGISTEREDOWNER. ANEWFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENTMUSTBEFILEDBEFORE THEEXPIRATIONAugust15,2027.

THEFILINGOFTHISSTATEMENT DOESNOTOFITSELFAUTHORIZE THEUSEINTHISSTATEOFAFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAMEINVIOLATION OFTHERIGHTSOFANOTHERUNDER FEDERAL,STATEORCOMMONLAW (SEESECTION14411ETSEQ.,BUSINESSANDPROFESSIONSCODE).

PIRESATTHEENDOFFIVEYEARS FROMTHEDATEONWHICHITWAS FILEDINTHEOFFICEOFTHECOUNTY CLERK,EXCEPTASPROVIDEDIN SUBDIVISION(b)OFSECTION17920, WHEREITEXPIRES40DAYSAFTER ANYCHANGEINTHEFACTSSET FORTHINTHESTATEMENTPURSUANTTOSECTION17913OTHERTHAN ACHANGEINTHERESIDENCEADDRESSOFAREGISTEREDOWNER. ANEWFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENTMUSTBEFILEDBEFORE THEEXPIRATIONSeptember8,2027. THEFILINGOFTHISSTATEMENT DOESNOTOFITSELFAUTHORIZE THEUSEINTHISSTATEOFAFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAMEINVIOLATION OFTHERIGHTSOFANOTHERUNDER FEDERAL,STATEORCOMMONLAW (SEESECTION14411ETSEQ.,BUSINESSANDPROFESSIONSCODE). FiledintheOfficeoftheCountyClerkof SolanoCounty,StateofCaliforniaon: September9,2022 NewASSIGNEDFILENO.2022001562 CHARLESLOMELI,SolanoCountyClerk DR#00057870 Published:Sept.14,21,28,Oct.5,2022

THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS WONDER WORLD BARBER SHOP LOCATEDAT3099TravisBlvd,Fairfield, CA94534Solano.MailingAddress3099 TravisBlvd,Fairfield,CA94534.ARE HEREBYREGISTEREDBYTHEFOLLOWINGOWNER(S)MinhTran3099 TravisBlvdFairfield,94534.THISBUSINESSISCONDUCTEDBY: anIndividual Theregistrantcommencedtotransact businessunderthefictitiousbusiness nameorn ameslistedaboveon 09/08/2022. Ideclarethatallinformationinthisstatementistrueandcorrect(Aregistrantwho declaresastrueinformationwhichheor sheknowstobefalseisguiltyofacrime.) /s/MinhTran INACCORDANCEWITHSUBDIVISION (a)OFSECTION17920AFICTITIOUS NAMESTATEMENTGENERALLYEXPIRESATTHEENDOFFIVEYEARS FROMTHEDATEONWHICHITWAS FILEDINTHEOFFICEOFTHECOUNTY CLERK,EXCEPTASPROVIDEDIN SUBDIVISION(b)OFSECTION17920, WHEREITEXPIRES40DAYSAFTER ANYCHANGEINTHEFACTSSET FORTHINTHESTATEMENTPURSUANTTOSECTION17913OTHERTHAN ACHANGEINTHERESIDENCEADDRESSOFAREGISTEREDOWNER. ANEWFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENTMUSTBEFILEDBEFORE THEEXPIRATIONSeptember7,2027. THEFILINGOFTHISSTATEMENT DOESNOTOFITSELFAUTHORIZE THEUSEINTHISSTATEOFAFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAMEINVIOLATION OFTHERIGHTSOFANOTHERUNDER FEDERAL,STATEORCOMMONLAW (SEESECTION14411ETSEQ.,BUSINESSANDPROFESSIONSCODE). FiledintheOfficeoftheCountyClerkof SolanoCounty,StateofCaliforniaon: September8,2022 NewASSIGNEDFILENO.2022001556 CHARLESLOMELI,SolanoCountyClerk DR#00057860 Published:Sept.14,21,28,Oct.5,2022

1491B,FairfieldCA94534Solano.MailingAddress1758BartonCt,FairfieldCA 94534.AREHEREBYREGISTEREDBY THEFOLLOWINGOWNER(S)AudazInc

businessunderthefictitiousbusiness nameornameslistedaboveonN/A. Ideclarethatallinformationinthisstatementistrueandcorrect(Aregistrantwho declaresastrueinformationwhichheor sheknowstobefalseisguiltyofacrime.) /s/SilviaSanchezCEO INACCORDANCEWITHSUBDIVISION (a)OFSECTION17920AFICTITIOUS NAMESTATEMENTGENERALLYEXPIRESATTHEENDOFFIVEYEARS FROMTHEDATEONWHICHITWAS FILEDINTHEOFFICEOFTHECOUNTY CLERK,EXCEPTASPROVIDEDIN SUBDIVISION(b)OFSECTION17920, WHEREITEXPIRES40DAYSAFTER ANYCHANGEINTHEFACTSSET

FORTH INTHESTATEMENTPURSUANTTOSECTION17913OTHERTHAN ACHANGEINTHERESIDENCEADDRESSOFAREGISTEREDOWNER. ANEWFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENTMUSTBEFILEDBEFORE THEEXPIRATIONSeptember21,2027. THEFILINGOFTHISSTATEMENT DOESNOTOFITSELFAUTHORIZE THEUSEINTHISSTATEOFAFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAMEINVIOLATION OFTHERIGHTSOFANOTHERUNDER FEDERAL,STATEORCOMMONLAW (SEESECTION14411ETSEQ.,BUSINESSANDPROFESSIONSCODE). FiledintheOfficeofthe CountyClerkof SolanoCounty,StateofCaliforniaon: September22,2022 NewASSIGNEDFILENO.2022001631 CHARLESLOMELI,SolanoCountyClerk DR#00058126 Published:Sept.28Oct.5,12,19,2022

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THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS HUMANALYTICS

LOCATEDAT2475SalishanCt,Fairfield, CA94534Solano.MailingAddress2475 SalishanCt,Fairfield,CA94534.ARE HEREBYREGISTEREDBYTHEFOLLOWINGOWNER(S)HumanalyticsLLC CA.THISBUSINESSISCONDUCTED BY: aLimitedLiabilityCompany Theregistrantcommencedtotransact businessunderthefictitiousbusiness nameornameslistedaboveon 04/0 1/2017.

Ideclarethatallinformationinthisstatementistrueandcorrect(Aregistrantwho declaresastrueinformationwhichheor sheknowstobefalseisguiltyofacrime.) /s/MatthewTryonCEO INACCORDANCEWITHSUBDIVISION (a)OFSECTION17920AFICTITIOUS NAMESTATEMENTGENERALLYEXPIRESATTHEENDOFFIVEYEARS FROMTHEDATEONWHICHITWAS FILEDINTHEOFFICEOFTHECOUNTY CLERK,EXCEPTASPROVIDEDIN SUBDIVISION(b)OFSECTION17920, WHEREITEXPIRES40DAYSAFTER A NYCHANGEINTHEFACTSSET FORTHINTHESTATEMENTPURSUANTTOSECTION17913OTHERTHAN ACHANGEINTHERESIDENCEADDRESSOFAREGISTEREDOWNER. ANEWFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENTMUSTBEFILEDBEFORE THEEXPIRATIONSeptember7,2027.

THEFILINGOFTHISSTATEMENT DOESNOTOFITSELFAUTHORIZE THEUSEINTHISSTATEOFAFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAMEINVIOLATION OFTHERIGHTSOFANOTHERUNDER FEDERAL,STATEORCOMMONLAW (SEESECTION14411ETSEQ.,BUSINESSANDPROFESSIONSCODE). FiledintheOfficeoftheCountyClerkof SolanoCounty,StateofCaliforniaon: September8,2022 NewASSIGNEDFILENO.2022001560 CHARLESLOMELI,SolanoCountyClerk DR#00057867 Published:Sept.14,21,28,Oct.5,2022

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THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS HUMANALYTICS

LOCATEDAT2475SalishanCt.,Fairfield, CA94534Solano.MailingAddress2475 SalishanCt.,Fairfield,CA94534.ARE HEREBYREGISTEREDBYTHEFOLLOWINGOWNER(S)MatthewTryon 2475SalishanCtFairfield,94534.THIS BUSINESSISCONDUCTEDBY:

anIndividual Theregistrantcommencedtotransact businessunderthefictitiousbusiness nameornameslis tedaboveon 04/01/2017.

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THEFILINGOFTHISSTATEMENT DOESNOTOFITSELFAUTHORIZE THEUSEINTHISSTATEOFAFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAMEINVIOLATION OFTHERIGHTSOFANOTHERUNDER FEDERAL,STATEORCOMMONLAW (SEESECTION14411ETSEQ.,BUSINESSANDPROFESSIONSCODE). FiledintheOfficeoftheCountyClerkof SolanoCounty,StateofCaliforniaon: September23,2022 NewASSIGNEDFILENO.2022001638 CHARLESLOMELI,SolanoCountyClerk DR#00058138

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entire punt coverage unit knowing how to play such a ball.

The Niners might not always execute on special teams, but the unit is evidently well-coached. That’s the last thing you could say about it last season.

LB Demetrius Flannigan-Fowles

With Azeez Al-Shaair out and the Niners keen to play plenty of base defense this season, defensive coordinator DeMeco Ryans turned to DFF to fill in at weak-side line backer Sunday.

This flew under the radar in the game – let’s be honest, you were probably asleep – but he looked really good in relief. All the Niners do is produce great linebackers, and while DFF is a drop-off from AlShaair, he looks more than capable of filling in for weeks to come.

Stock Down

QB. Jimmy Garoppolo

I don’t need to explain how Garoppolo was bad on Sunday. You watched the game.

Yes, one-read Jimmy was in full effect. So much for quarterback ing this offense being “like riding a bike.” Garoppolo must need training wheels.

It’s understandable why the speed of the game would shock Jimmy. He’s only started 45 games for the 49ers. He only played three quarters last week.

The good news is that things will improve in the weeks to come. They can’t get any worse than an inad vertent safety being a better option than the pick-six on the same play.

HC. Kyle Shanahan

The Deebo Samuel-as-a-runningback play still works, but there is no longer an element of surprise to it. You could say the same for the entire 49ers’ offense.

Given how bland the Niners’ offense was with Trey Lance in the first five quarters of the season and Sunday’s performance against the Broncos, it’s fair to wonder if Shana han has lost his magic touch.

This is a head coach and quar terback league. Success is tied to those two roles. Right now, both are lacking for the 49ers.

And I won’t give him quarter on the playbook needing to change from Lance to Garoppolo. He shut that down when I asked him about it last week. Apparently, it’s all the same plays, but from different formations.

OT. Jaylon Moore

It was a bit of a shock that the Niners went with Moore at left tackle after Trent Williams sprained his ankle. It wasn’t a shock when seven plays later, they pulled Moore for Colton McKivitz.

Moore was on the field for four pass-blocking downs. He allowed two pressures and a sack. Pro Foot ball Focus gave him a pass-blocking grade of zero for the game.

With Dan Brunskill likely back in the fold this week, Sunday might be the last we see of Moore in a 49ers uniform.

OT. Mike McGlinchey

The Niners’ right tackle wasn’t much better. On his 33 snaps, he allowed three pressures and picked up a penalty, per PFF. That grading seems generous.

McGlinchey was partly responsible for Garoppolo’s Nin ers-blunder-of-the-century, having missed his block. He was routinely lifted out of his position by Broncos defenders, and save for a few nice plays on the Niners’ touchdown drive, and he wasn’t making up for his pass-blocking deficiencies in the run game.

The Niners have a real problem at tackle. Just what you want when you have a non-running quarter back who is good for a handful of illogical throws per game.

DT. Javon Kinlaw

The Broncos offense wasn’t any good on Sunday, but they did find some success by running directly at Javon Kinlaw.

hit new highs on the radar gun, 104 mph, with his four-seamer. Three saves away from the sec ond-most in a season by a pitcher 25 or younger in Giants history.

Job secure, role in question

John Brebbia, RHP, age 32

September ERA: 3.86 (10 G, 9-plus IP)

Arbitration-eligible for the first time in 2023, maybe Brebbia should petition to be paid like a starter. He leads all relievers in games “opened” this season, with eight. Then again, his 71 appearances are also near the top of the major-league lead erboard. From Tommy John patient to the Giants’ Mr. Reliable, expect Brebbia to be back next season in a similar role.

Tyler Rogers, RHP, age 31

September ERA: 0.00 (7 G, 11-plus IP)

The Giants’ faith in Rogers never wavered, and it has paid off this September. Pitching more bulk, low-leverage innings, Rogers has pos sibly carved out a role for himself next season. What’s changed? Rogers is throwing more strikes and, while he is generat ing the same soft contact, defenders are doing a better job of turning it into outs. Since the start of last season, only six relievers in the majors have a lower home run rate than Rogers.

Jarlín García, LHP, age 29 September ERA: 3.55 (9 G, 12-plus IP)

Like Rogers, García has moved into more of a bulk role of late, with success. Six of his past 10 outings have been at least four outs, including two pitching three innings. Even in an up-and-down season, García’s 2.98 ERA ranks third in the bullpen.

Jakob Junis, RHP, age 30 September ERA: 5.04 (5 G, 25 IP)

Even if the Giants don’t bring back Carlos Rodón, four rotation spots will already be accounted for before the Giants make a single move this off season. A far different position than last year, when Logan Webb was the only starter under contract days before the lockout. Junis will be arbitration eligible and should be a surefire bet to bring back, but whether it’s in the rotation or out of the bullpen – you’ve seen him pitch behind an opener twice this month – could depend on how the offseason goes.

Strong first impressions

Scott Alexander, LHP, age 33

September ERA: 1.69 (11 games, 10-plus IP)

Giants relievers have struggled all year to get out lefties — opponents’ .265 batting average is higher than every team but Colorado — but the team possibly found an answer in Alexander, an established but oftinjured arm whom they quietly signed in May.

After months of rehab, Alexander looks to have regained his effective old form, when he posted a 3.16 ERA in 211 appear ances over six seasons in Kansas City and Los Angeles. Eligible to become a free agent, but shouldn’t be hard to coerce back: Alexander grew up in Santa Rosa

rooting for the Giants.

Shelby Miller, RHP, age 31

September ERA: 0.00 (1 G, 2-plus IP)

Only one appearance so far, but it was elec tric: seven strikeouts, no walks while blank ing the D-backs in 2-plus innings of relief. A former top prospect, an All-Star at 24 year old and the centerpiece of two blockbuster trades, San Francisco is Mill er’s sixth stop while trying to resurrect his career following Tommy John surgery in 2017. Saved the first games of his professional career while posting a 2.87 ERA at Triple-A this year, his first full season as a reliever.

Luis Ortiz, RHP, age 27

September ERA: 1.42 (4 G, 6-plus IP)

Singled out by Kapler when he was optioned earlier this month. The Giants value strike throwing above all else, and Ortiz fills the zone with the best of them.

Thomas Szapucki, LHP, age 26

September ERA: 2.70 (5 G, 6-plus IP)

Alex Young, LHP, age 29

September ERA: 2.08 (8 G, 8-plus IP)

Young and Szapucki are also vying with Alex ander for left-handed relief roles next season. While Alexander can decline a minor-league assignment — and did with the Dodgers – both players will have options, giving the Giants more flexibility.

Making names for themselves

Cole Waites, RHP, age 24

September ERA: 2.08 (5 G, 4-plus IP)

Shot through the Giants’ farm system about as quickly as his heater, going from High-A to the majors, and his fastball was as-advertised in his bigleague debut. Has work to do with his second ary pitch (a slider) and his command but could break camp with the big club next spring.

Sean Hjelle, RHP, age 25 September ERA: 8.10 (3 G, 10 IP)

Proving he is more than a novelty with the two best majorleague outings of his career coming this month, but with one stinker in between them, apparently needs to do more to prove he’s worthy of filling a rota tion spot, even in Alex Wood’s absence.

Outside looking in Jharel Cotton, RHP, age 30

September ERA: 0.00 (2 G, 3-plus IP)

A former top pros pect making a comeback as a reliever, like Miller, with plenty of success in Minnesota’s bullpen this season (2.83 ERA, 25 appearances). Tough to pencil into next year’s bullpen with only two appearances since being plucked off the waiver wire, but certainly pos sible Cotton figures into the puzzle.

Yunior Marte, RHP, age 27 September ERA: 5.40 (8 G, 8-plus IP)

Unable to consistently get major league hitters out, despite his electric fastball-slider combo. Should return as an optionable, controllable arm, however.

Zack Littell, RHP, age 27 September ERA: 9.53 (6 G, 5-plus IP)

Mouthed off to his manager and wasn’t heard from again.

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Deommodore Lenoir (38) of the 49ers tackles Javonte Williams (33) of the Broncos during the third quarter at Empower Field at Mile High sunday in Denver.