Daily Republic, Friday, September 30, 2022

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FAIRFIELD — Someone lobbed a curveball into what has been a game of straight hardball this campaign season.

The candidates for the Fair field mayor’s office were asked at a forum hosted Tuesday by the Fairfield-Suisun Chamber of Commerce Political Action Com mittee which council member did he or she most align themselves with politically or with regard to

public policy.

Newcomer Chauncey Banks had nothing but kind things to say about his opponents: incumbent Harry Price and Councilwoman Catherine Moy – and most partic ularly Price. But his soulmates on the council, he said, were Coun cilwoman Pam Bertani, largely due to her Christian faith, as well as Councilwoman Doriss Panduro because of his and her common work in the community.

But Banks also emphasized he is the only business owner running

for mayor, and he views many of the toughest issues facing the city being related to the health of the business community: home lessness, crime and business attraction. He said it was essential the city listens to business owners when addressing those issues.

Price and Moy also got to take a swing at the curveball.

Price named all of the other council members, sans Moy, which fit into his general message

shootings

his medical condition.

VALLEJO — Two shootings – possibly related – left one man dead and another man hospitalized late Wednes day in the city.

The shootings were reported within minutes of one another.

Officers responded at 11:04 p.m. to a report of a shooting on the 1500 block of Sacramento Street. They found a 37-yearold Vallejo man with a least one gunshot wound. The man was taken to a local hospi tal, where police report he died as a result of his injuries.

The man’s name was not released.

Officers responded at 11:07 p.m. to a report of a person shot on the 1300 block of Santa Clara Street. There they found a 41-yearold Vallejo man who also had at least one gunshot wound. That man was transported to a local hospital for treatment.

Police did not provide information about the severity of his injuries or

Detectives have taken over the investigation into the shootings, which police report in a press release Thursday appear to be related.

“Community violence takes lives and is a severe public health crisis,” Police Chief Shawny K. Williams said in the press release. “We must overcome gen erational trauma by actively pur suing real solutions with comprehensive prevention strat egies. I am calling on our commu nity leaders, residents, elected officials, federal, state and local part ners to assist us in this endeavor.”

The shooting death is the 23rd reported homicide of the year in the city. Of those, 22 are being handled by the Vallejo Police Department. The Solano County Sheriff’s Office is handling the investiga tion into a deputy’s fatal shooting in June of an armed man in the city.

September has been a particularly deadly

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FAIRFIELD — The City Council election this November is divided among three districts –and eight candidates.

There are three vying for the District 1 seat, two for District 3 and three more for District 5.

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Seven of those hopefuls par

ticipated in the candidate forum hosted Tuesday by the FairfieldSuisun Chamber of Commerce Political Action Committee in the council chamber at City Hall.

Jeremy Ferrell, who is running in District 5, did not participate.

Councilwoman Doriss Panduro holds that District 5 seat and said she wants the opportunity to con tinue to work on the issues she has

been engaged in for the past two years – specifically the regional homeless efforts, economic devel opment along North Texas Street and crime reduction in the district. The forum left no doubt that District 5 suffers greatly from crime and homelessness, and Panduro said it is a region that had

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Fairfield mayoral candidates, from left, Chauncey Banks, Mayor Harry Price and Councilwoman Catherine Moy

take part in a candidate forum at City Hall hosted by the Fairfield-Suisun Chamber of Commerce, Tuesday.

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WILLIAMS

MAYOR

I am calling out generational appropriation

If you do not know the definition of the term cultural appropria tion, please take a second and search for it on Google because I ain’t gonna go into it here. The reason for that is because if I defined it or gave an example, that’s all many people will blah blah blah about.

What I actually want to focus on is a similar phenomenon called generational appropri ation. It hit me it was a thing the other day when me and a co-worker were having a pop culture discussion and it somehow triggered him to sing the first line of the cartoon “George of the Jungle.” I imme diately blew a whistle and threw a penalty flag.

Said co-worker was not born until 1987 and so could not have been an original fan of that goofy, but memorable animated Tarzan spoof. He had commit ted generational appropriation. Now, he could argue he was around for the 1997 Brendan Fraser live action adaptation, but I can swat that away with three points:

First, to not commit the grievous sin of generational appropriation, one must have at least been alive when the movie, TV show or song was

first released. Second, remakes or adaptations do not count. Third, if you are using Brendan Fraser to bolster any argument, you have already lost.

“George of the Jungle” premiered in September 1967 and, following my own guide line, I was alive then. To be sure, I was only 3, but had gone through the Summer of Love unscathed so I have gener ational cred on that account.

What follows are other examples of generational appro priation I have experienced:

Classic album T-shirts: So this is a hard one for me because on one level my music lover soul is always buoyed when I see a teenager wearing a T-shirt with the cover of a classic album on it as opposed to a flavor of the week 2022 auto-tuned pop artist. (Not judging. Much).

So young people, gone witchya bad selves and rock those Prince “Purple Rain” or Beatles “Abbey Road” tees, but there’s one I’m asking you to leave alone that I see way too many of y’all wearing: AC/DC’s 1980 breakthrough hard rock masterpiece “Back in Black.”

It is one of the best-selling albums of all time, having been certified 25× Platinum by the

Recording Industry Association of America and, along with “Led Zeppelin II” and Stevie Won der’s “Songs in the Key of Life,” is on the list of my stranded-ona-desert-island must-haves.

I paid my dues to wear a “Back in Black” shirt as it first hit when I was a junior in high school. Unless you have des perately tried to look cool while rolling into the Armijo High parking lot with the title song blaring on the FM radio in your friend’s parents’ canary yellow AMC Matador, you have not earned that right.

Exaggerated styles: Remem ber Spirit Days in high school? If memory serves (and often it instead betrays) they happened in the week leading up to home coming. There would be theme days where students and some faculty would engage in Crazy Hair Day or something. One of the most popular used to be ones featuring fashions based on bygone decades.

How generational appro priation fits in is the styles are always wildly exaggerated or even caricatured. I realize that mainly it’s for fun and that’s what sells at Party City, but the problem comes when people start to believe every body in the 1960s were hippies with beads, wore psychedelic threads and talked like Shaggy

from “Scooby-Doo.” Or that everybody in the 1970s wore ginormous bell bottoms or a white John Travolta disco finger costume. Or that everybody in the 1980s wore a Member’s Only jacket and had a Jheri Curl or wore red spandex hair metal pants.

Now, just an aside, I remem ber a New Wave/Punk Rock Spirit Day in the early 1980s where I donned some Corey Hart sunglasses that accentu ated my dad’s vintage yellow jacket I wore. The exclama tion point on the ensemble was a plastic, full-size guitar I wore around my neck. I had found a dead mouse in my garage and glued it on the guitar and spray painted the whole thing silver, mouse included. That the spraypainted dead rodent fell off the guitar in Mr. Well’s sixth-period chemistry class and freaked out some people who didn’t know it was real, made it even more punk rock.

Accept no substitutes: Orig inal ideas for TV and movies do happen and are welcomed because so much of what is pro duced nowadays are rehashed, repackaged or remade ver sions of older shows. “Quantum Leap,” “Hawaii 5-0,” “Mac Gyver,” “Battlestar Galactica” and “Magnum P.I.” are recent examples of boob tube

Wildlife is recovering in Europe after decades of

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European populations of mammals like beavers and bison, and birds like the osprey and Barna cle goose, are bouncing back following decades of successful conservation initiatives.

Most of the 50 species tracked by Rewilding Europe are increasing in numbers and spread ing to new areas across the continent, accord ing to the non-profit’s latest Wildlife Comeback in Europe 2022 report released on Tuesday. The findings contrast with the biodiversity crisis unfolding on a global level, as dozens of species disappear and hundreds shrink in numbers. It also offers hope.

“Wildlife and nature can bounce back if we make the right deci sions, if we allow that to happen,” said Rewilding Europe executive direc tor Frans Schepers. “This comeback should be seen in the perspective of the much higher numbers we had in the past – it’s the start of the recovery.”

Globally, rising green house gas emissions and human activities like fishing, hunting and defor

estation are wrecking ecosystems and threaten ing the survival of plants and animals. Biodiversity loss is worse than previ ously thought, according to a major scientific study published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environ ment in July, with about a third of species globally threatened or driven to extinction since 2015.

Wild animals have been hunted and poisoned in Europe for centuries, while urban development, pollution and major infra structure have decimated habitats and contributed to dwindling populations. The European Union has made conservation and restoration of natural hab itats and wildlife a key part of its strategy to fight climate change, wildfires and disease outbreaks. It plans to spend 20 billion euros ($24 billion) per year on biodiversity con servation through 2030.

The species now thriv ing in Europe are shielded by legislation that pro tects their habitats, forbids hunting and pun ishes poisoning, Schepers said. Programs targeting the recovery of specific species or efforts to create wildlife corridors between different natural areas are

also helping.

Among the most suc cessful species is the Eurasian beaver, whose population has soared by over 16,000% since 1960. The continent’s largest herbivore, the iconic European bison, went from being extinct in the wild to a popula tion of 6,819 in Europe in 2020, with free-living bison present in countries like Belarus, Germany, Poland, Romania, Russia and Ukraine.

The Iberian lynx, one of the most endangered carnivore species globally, is making a comeback on the Iberian peninsula, with an estimated popula tion of over 1,100 in 2020. Habitat management and reintroduction programs helped save the predator, which would have oth erwise become extinct, according to research cited in the report.

The Grey wolf has recolonized most of its previous range along Italy’s Apennine Moun tains and the Po lowlands in just 40 years, and its presence has been recorded in almost all European countries. The population increased over 1,800% from 1965 to 2016, and there

were at least 17,000 wolves in Europe in 2018.

Among the species ana lyzed in the report, six bird species are now seen in narrower range. Pop ulations of White-headed duck, Audouin’s gull, and some Eurasian lynx are still declining, despite recently recovering from historical lows.

shows that are like “Walking Dead” zombies.

The same is true of the big screen. I, quite intentionally, have never seen the 2005 Adam Sandler remake of the 1975 foot ball classic “The Longest Yard.” And without having viewed a second of it, I know it is an abomination. Why? Because there are some films and TV shows that do not need to be redone. I mean, is there anyone clamoring for someone to repaint the Mona Lisa?

For those keeping score at home, yes, in fact I did just compare Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece to a movie that features Burt Reynolds’ quar terback character Paul Crewe twice firing a football into the crotch of a blitzing rusher.

Only those practicing gen erational appropriation don’t appreciate that kind of hilarity.

Fairfield freelance humor col umnist and accidental local historian Tony Wade writes two weekly columns: “The Last Laugh” on Mondays and “Back in the Day” on Fridays. Wade is also the author of The History Press books “Growing Up In Fairfield, California” and “Lost Restaurants of Fairfield, California.”

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Bay Area agency adopts policy to promote housing near transit stations

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FAIRFIELD — The Metropolitan Transpor tation Commission on Wednesday adopted a Transit-Oriented Commu nities Policy designed to boost the housing supply and increase residential densities in what the agency describes as “tran sit-rich areas” throughout the Bay Area.

The policy also seeks to spur more commercial development near transit hubs served by multi ple agencies; promote bus transit, walking, biking and shared mobility in transit-rich areas; and foster partnerships to create transit-oriented communities where people of all income levels, racial and ethnic back

grounds, ages and ability levels can live, work and thrive, according to an agency press release.

The new policy applies specifically to areas within a half-mile of BART, Cal train, SMART, Capitol Corridor and ACE sta tions; Muni and VTA light-rail stations; Muni and AC Transit bus rapid transit stops; and ferry terminals.

Such locations already exist in the FairfieldVacaville area, in Suisun City and in Vallejo in Solano County.

“The Transit-Ori ented Communities Policy is truly ground breaking,” Metropolitan Transportation Commis sion chairman and Napa County Supervisor Alfredo Pedroza said in the press release. “Using

transportation funds as an incentive, the policy encourages cities and counties to upzone tran sit-rich areas so transit, walking and biking can be viable travel choices for more people, and so we can generate maximum value from the billions of taxpayer dollars that have been invested in our transit network over the years as well as new transit lines that will be built in the years to come.”

Pedroza said the policy specifically encourages the development of afford able housing and protects current residents from being displaced by new development.

The Transit-Oriented Communities Policy links all four of the themes – transportation, housing, the economy

and the environment – of Plan Bay Area 2050, the long-range transporta tion plan and sustainable communities strategy adopted in 2021 by the Metropolitan Transporta tion Commission and the Association of Bay Area Governments, according to the press release.

Minimum residen tial density requirements range from 25 units per acre for locations within a half-mile of ferry terminals; SMART, ACE and Capitol Corridor stations; and Caltrains sta tions south of San Jose’s Tamien station up to 100 units per acre within a half-mile of BART stations in downtown San Fran cisco and Oakland, and within a half-mile of San

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VALLEJO — A survey of residents living in some of Vallejo’s lowincome and underserved communities found most respondents thought ferry fares were too expen sive and most were not familiar with the service’s operations, benefits and discount ticket programs.

The research was con ducted by local outreach firm BrandGOV working as a contractor with the Water Emergency Trans portation Authority, the organization that runs the San Francisco Bay Ferry service. The sur vey’s main purpose was to assess ways to enhance equity and access to the ferry system.

Survey results were announced in a press release.

“The findings were not entirely unex pected,” BrandGOV CEO K. Patrice Wil liams said in the press release. “Although the ferry launches from here in Vallejo every day, we found that most of our respondents didn’t use the ferry for work; they used it for fun, for the occasional trip to tourist attractions in San Fran cisco, for example, and they weren’t aware of all the various Clipper Card discount-fare programs, including ones for seniors and teens.”

BrandGOV used tar geted research to identify people, communities and employers whose employ ees might benefit from

FAIRFIELD — A Fairfield man is fighting for his life after what police describe as an exchange of words with a pair of men ended in gunfire.

The shooting hap pened just after midnight Tuesday when the 33-year-old was walking in the parking lot of his apartment complex on the 800 block of East Tabor Avenue.

Two men walked by him, according to police, and all three exchanged words before one of the men pulled a gun and shot the victim.

Fairfield police and firefighters responded to the scene. The man was taken to a local hospi tal where he remained in critical condition Wednesday with what a police spokeswoman described as life-threat ening injuries.

Detectives are

working several leads but no arrests have been made, police report.

The shooting comes less than two days after a deadly shooting shortly before 3:50 a.m. Sunday on the 1000 block of Eisenhower Drive. The name, age and city of residence were not released for the man who was killed.

It was the city’s seventh reported homi cide of the year and the third on East Tabor Avenue. The first two are from the same incident.

A 44-year-old Fair field resident was shot and killed and two men from Suisun City were injured in a shooting shortly after 5:15 a.m. March 13 near a con venience store on the 200 block of East Tabor Avenue. One of the Suisun City men died two days later after being taken off life support. Their names were not released.

Shooting leaves Fairfield man hospitalized Mechanical failure grounds Delta ferry that serves Ryer Island

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Ferry agency to identify

inequities in Vallejo

discount fares. It also rec ommended streamlining the application process for the Clipper Card and consideration of a dis count ticket program for college students.

RIO VISTA — The Real McCoy Ferry II was taken out of service Wednesday after crews found a mechan ical issue on the ferry’s compressor, the state Department of Transpor tation reports.

Slough, remains in oper ation and can be used for crossings on demand 24 hours per day.

For real-time traffic information, go to http:// quickmap.dot.ca.gov or download the free Cal trans Quickmap app from the App Store or Google Play.

ferry service, according to the press release. The company then conducted both in-person and online surveys, using commu nity meetings and a social media campaign.

A total of 250 people responded to the survey.

Of those, more than 43% listed expensive fares as the reason they did not take the ferry; more than 14% said the hours didn’t work for their schedule; another 15% said they preferred other forms of travel; 62% were not aware of the ferry’s dis count ticket programs; and 70% said they used the ferry for recreational travel only.

Most respondents were female (65%) and people of color (61%). More than 48% were younger than 50; more than 45% were older than 50; and 5.5% were between the ages of 18 and 25.

Forty-three percent had household incomes below $75,000, with more than a fourth of that number below $50,000.

The company’s key rec ommendations to WETA were a stronger market ing campaign, especially in underserved commu nities, to create greater awareness of the ferry’s services, schedules and

WETA does currently have a pilot discount fare program called Clipper START. It offers people between the ages of 19 and 64, who do not have a Clipper Card, sin gle-ride discounts on the ferry, Caltrain, BART and other major Bay Area transit services. Par ticipants must live in the Bay Area and have household incomes consis tent with federal poverty guidelines.

For more infor mation, visit www. clipperstartcard.com.

There was no esti mate for when repairs would be completed. The ferry serves motorists on Highway 84 and provides access to Ryer Island across the Cache Slough.

The Delta’s compan ion ferry, the Highway 220 J-Mack Ferry that crosses Steamboat

For the latest Delta ferries information, call the Caltrans Ferry Update Line at 510622-0120. Motorists may also find information on Caltrans’ Delta Ferries webpage: https://dot. ca.gov/caltrans-near-me/ district-4/d4-projects/ d4-solano-delta-ferry.

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The Suisun City Train Depot in Suisun City, Wednesday.

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission adopted a new policy designed to build affordable housing units near public transportation hubs.

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A ferry motors along Mare Island Strait in Vallejo.

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The Real McCoy II ferry.

Obituaries

Dr. William Adorno

April 6, 1930 — Sept. 15, 2022

William (Bill) Adorno, age 92, passed away peacefully on Sept. 15, 2022, after suf fering a fall and a stroke. He was at home, surrounded by his wife, daugh ters and grand daughter. Bill was born to Gregorio and Catalina Otero Adorno in Spanish Harlem in NYC on April 6, 1930.

Bill graduated from the High School of Commerce where he met his future wife, Anna Renta. He served in the Air Force in Korea. After he and Anna married in NYC, they moved to Cali fornia where they remained.

A lifelong educator, he graduated from UCLA in 1960, and received his PhD in Leadership and Human Behavior in 1973. He worked for San Diego State Univer sity as Director of the Multi functional Resource Center, and later as bilingual admin istrator in the Bilingual Education Office of the California Department of Education.

Bill was a man of God and his deep faith sustained him. He and Anna were members of Saint Felici tas Catholic Church in San Leandro and later, the Holy Family Old Catholic Church in Fairfield. Bill joined Faith in Action Fairfield and became a peer counselor.

He co-founded La Casa de Puerto Rico (San Diego) in 1972, was VP of the San Diego Chapter of the Califor nia Association of Bilingual Education, and a member of

the San Diego Con sortium of Hispanic Professionals.

Bill will be remembered as a gentle, kind and compassion ate soul, a man of honor. Nothing was more important to him than family and friends. He took a genuine interest in people and drew them out with thought-provoking questions.

He is survived by the love of his life, Anna Renta Adorno; his two beloved daughters, Lauren Adorno Weatherford and Lisa-Marie Adorno; granddaughters, Kiyoko and Sachiana; greatgrandchildren, Lincoln and Frankie; brother, John Adorno; sisters, Auria Adorno-Duncan and Carmen Clarisia Adorno; and numerous nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents; brother, Gregory (Soly) Adorno; and his sister, Cata lina Adorno.

Funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. Satur day, Oct. 1, 2022, at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, 1600 Union Ave., Fairfield, California.

The Adorno Family would like to express sincere gratitude for the out pouring of love and support. The family requests that in lieu of flowers, donations be given in Bill’s name to the House of Puerto Rico San Diego or Faith in Action Solano County (faithin actionsolanocounty.org).

MaryAnn Duran

May 21, 1956 — Sept. 25, 2022

MaryAnn Duran, 66, passed away Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022, surrounded by her two sons and extended family.

MaryAnn was born May 21, 1956, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and would later come to share her birthday with her first grandson. She was one of four children to Raymon and Josie (Warder) Duran, and as the only girl was doted on.

MaryAnn was a wonder ful mother and grandmother to her five grandchildren. Her grandchildren espe cially enjoyed her extraor dinary face-painting skills, her embellished holiday cel ebrations and playing tea party.

She is survived by her brother, Larry Long; two sons, David Poole and Michael DeAlmeida; daughter-inlaw, Natalie McCullough;

and grandchil dren, Raymon, John, Brayden, Eloise and Anneliese Duran.

MaryAnn is pre ceded by her broth ers, Michael and Jimmy Duran; and husband, Joseph DeAlmeida.

Viewing will be held from noon to 2 p.m. Monday, Oct. 3, 2022, at All Souls Cem etery and Funeral Center, 550 Glen Cove Road, Vallejo, California. She will be laid to rest at St. Antho ny’s Cemetery in El Porvenir, New Mexico.

Please send con dolences and a fond memory to her family at 4842 Springwood Circle, Fairfield, CA 94534.

Local arrangements entrusted to the direction and care of Twin Chapels Mortuary, Vallejo, www. twinchapelsmortuary.com, 707-552-6696.

Fairfield, Vaca fire departments plan open house events

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FAIRFIELD — The Fairfield and Vacav ille fire departments are planning open houses in the coming weeks.

Residents are invited to visit Station 37 in Fairfield from 5 to 8 p.m. Oct. 13.

Plans call for a chil dren’s activity course, inflatable fire educa tion house, hands-on fire extinguisher demon strations, a photo booth, cornhole games and fire engine tours. Free hot dogs and refreshments will be served. Children will have a chance to meet Sparky the fire dog and will receive goodie bags and gifts.

The open house is also a chance for residents to meet city firefighters.

Station 37 is located at 1200 Kentucky St. and exits onto Pennsyl vania Avenue.

Firefighters in Vacav ille will host open houses from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Oct. 15. Open houses are planned at Station 71, 111 S. Orchard Ave.; Station 72, 2001 Ulatis Drive; Station

73, 645 Eubanks Court; Station 74, 1850 Alamo Drive; and Station 75, 111 Cogburn Circle.

Guests at Station 71 may visit the safety house and see Sparky the fire dog throughout the open house. Visitors at Station 72 may watch a vehicle extraction dem onstration at 11 a.m.

Guests at Station 73 may witness a dollhouse burn at 10 a.m. and a police K-9 demonstration at 11 a.m. Visitors at Station 74 may view

Homeless population up slightly since last ‘point-in-time’ count

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FAIRFIELD — The latest homeless count con ducted in Solano County puts that population at 1,179 individuals, 78% of whom are unsheltered with 16.5% being chron ically homeless, CAP Solano reported.

That figure is slightly up from the 1,151 point-intime count completed in 2019, but still lower than the 1,232 counted in 2017, the executive summary posted by the Commu nity Action Partnership of Solano JPA states.

Those numbers are still widely viewed as well below the actual number of homeless in the county, and the report does not break down the popu lation by city or other jurisdiction.

“I believe the number in the aspect is a snapshot in time; it’s a three-hour window,” said Dawn La Bar, manager of homeless services for Fairfield and executive director of CAP Solano JPA.

She said the count, which was conducted Feb. 23, satisfies the federal Housing and Urban Development requirement for funding.

But the count param eter has a narrower definition of what home

less means than what local agencies use, and again, represents a small window of time for the overall count.

“So do I think it is all the homeless in Solano County? No,” La Bar said. “And there is a bigger push through out the country for us to use our (Homeless Management Information System) data.”

That information, she said, provides agencies a more accurate day-today accounting based on service and other contacts with those individuals.

“It should not be the only tool we use,” La Bar said of the point-in-time count, “and thankfully it isn’t.”

La Bar said she was pleased to see the

chronically homeless per centage dropped from 19% to 16.5%, which she thinks reflects the strate gic efforts to address those specific issues.

The report shows 73% of the population has been homeless for a year or less; 8% for one to two years; 12% for two to three years; and 6% have been homeless for three or more years.

The report states 29% have been in Solano County for a year or less; 61% for one to two years; 7% for two to three years; and only 3% have been in the county for three or more years.

The CAP Solano report further shows 9% of the population was left homeless due to the Covid-19 pandemic and

2% by wildfires. The largest cause of becom ing homeless was losing employment or having hours cut back (15%); 12% due to eviction; 12% due to mental health or physical disabilities; 7% due to divorce or breakup; and 6% each for being asked to leave by family or friends and because of substance abuse.

The largest share of the population is white, close to 60%, followed by the Black population, then Hispanic, Native Hawai ian/ Pacific Islander, those identifying as multiple races, Native American and Native Alaskan, and the smallest percent age being Asian, the report states.

Males make up 65.4% of the population, females 32.8% and transgen ders represent 1% of the homeless.

The largest age group that is homeless are those 35 to 44 at 31.4%, followed by 55 or older (22%), 25 to 34 (20.7%), 45 to 54 (20.2%), 18 to 24 (3.2%) and those younger than 18 represent 2.5%.

Additionally, 6% of the population is classified as children or youth who are on their own.

The report states 3% of the homeless population are veterans.

Prescribed fire fund bill now law

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FAIRFIELD — Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Tuesday to enhance wildfire preven tion by establishing a $20 million prescribed fire claims fund.

“With the increasing destruction and loss of life caused by climate-driven wildfires, we must ramp up prevention – and pre scribed fire is a proven way to do that,” Sen. Dodd,

D-Napa, said in a press release of Senate Bill 926, which he authored.

Dodd in the press release described the legislation as “a cost-effective way to min imize the intensity and scope of wildfires.” SB 926 follows up on legisla tion last year from Dodd to encourage greater use of prescribed fires.

“Now we will have a fund to cover some costs for prescribed fire pro fessionals,” Dodd said in

the press release.

“The new law is a step toward achieving Cali fornia’s goal of treating a halfmillion acres annually to manage our forests.”

Prescribed fire, also known as con trolled burning, has been used for centuries to clear tinder-dry trees and brush that are known to fuel runaway wild fires. Rarely do prescribed

Ex-con faces new allegations after home search yields 14 guns

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FAIRFIELD — An ex-con making his way through the court system in connection with a sus pected weapons-related offense faces additional weapons-related allega tions after a search of his home this week yielded more than a dozen fire arms and thousands of rounds of ammunition, police report.

The case got its start Sept. 9 when a patrol officer stopped to check out an unoccupied vehicle on the sub-100 block of Alaska Avenue and, as the officer approached the vehicle, he “could clearly see” the stock of a rifle sticking out of a backpack, police report.

The driver, Carl Cances, 55, returned to the vehicle and further

inspection of the rifle revealed it was an illegally possessed short-barrel rifle, police report. A 9 mm handgun was also found.

Cances, a convicted felon, was arrested and held on suspicion of various weapons-related allegations.

Detective Shane Raftery of the Special Operations Team, after reviewing the case, wrote a search warrant Tuesday for Cances’ home in the belief additional firearms would be located there. A warrant was subse quently obtained to search Cances and his home in an unincorporated area of Vacaville.

Cances was due in court Wednesday for the Sept. 9 case. To make sure the warrant could be safely executed, the

Special Operations Team worked with the Solano County Sheriff’s Office to have Cances detained while in court. Members of the Special Opera tions Team and members of the Safe Streets Task Force, of which Raftery is a member, then executed the search warrant on the property.

The search yielded three handguns, three shotguns and eight rifles, to include another ille gally possessed assault rifle, as well as “thousands of rounds” of various calibers of ammunition, police report.

All the weapons and ammunition were con fiscated and Cances was booked into jail on suspicion of possess ing an assault weapon, police report.

fires escape their bounds and cause damage to neigh boring properties. Yet affordable insurance is dif ficult to secure, preventing prop erty owners from treating their land.

Senate Bill 926 creates standards for a fund to help cover costs. It follows Senate Bill 332, which was signed into law

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Jose’s Diridon Station. The policy also eliminates minimum parking requirements in many transit-rich areas, allows for shared parking between resi dential and commercial uses, and mandates at least one secure bike parking space for each new dwelling unit.

Supervisor Jim Spering represents Solano County and its seven cities on the Metropolitan Trans portation Commission, which serves as the regional transportation planning, financing and coordinating agency for the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area.

Aaron Rosenblatt/Daily Republic A homeless encampment is set up beneath the Highway 12 overpass in Suisun City, Thursday.

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Supes dedicate $3.4M in ARPA funds toward mental health projects

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FAIRFIELD — More than $2 million in federal pandemic relief funding will go to support the county’s residential mental health facility, and another $550,000 will go toward a 62-bed substance abuse treatment facility in Fairfield.

The Solano County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved $3.41 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding toward four mental health projects or programs.

The largest share, $2.07 million, will support the second-year oper ations at the 32-bed residential facility on Courage Drive. The total operations budget is about $2.9 million annually, but some of that cost will be covered by state Propo sition 47 grants, Emery Cowan, director of the county Behavioral Health Division, told the board.

“None of the grants that we applied for (covers) operations costs ongoing,” Cowan said, “so we are going to need to fill that gap for year two.”

The project that got the most attention was a 62-bed substance abuse treat ment facility that Archway Recov ery Services is developing in Fairfield. The exact location was not disclosed, and the project – according to Archway Executive Direc tor Kevin Phillips – is not going through the usual city permitting channels.

The placement of these kinds of facilities, though mainly sex offender halfway homes – has drawn criticism in the city and in the county because of the lack of neigh borhood input.

The county board approved $550,000 in federal pandemic funding as local matching and start-up funds. The treat ment facility, which includes detoxification and residential services, is viewed as a critical need in Solano, which has 16 detox beds available now.

“We know there’s a major gap in detox beds,” said Cowan, who added that since January there

have been 46 overdose deaths in Solano County, and those are only the ones that go through the Sheriff-Coroner’s Office. The primary cause is fentanyl.

This facility would offer an additional 10 acute detox beds, 20 more subacute beds and the rest would be part of a residential treatment program that is usually about 90 days.

Phillips said Archway also is working with Shelter Inc. to develop additional transitional housing for those indi viduals leaving the residential program, and he said Archway also is developing a work force program.

The supervi sors also approved $637,236 to support a behavioral health intern

ship program, and $150,000 to fund a Behavioral Health and Courts Mapping and Policy Develop ment program. The intern ship program is viewed as a way to help ease the recruitment issues in Behavioral Health, while the mapping program is designed to help iden tify and find solutions for individuals with mental health issues who are going through the justice system.

Supervisor Mitch Mashburn suggested talking to Sheriff’s Office staff about how intern mental health provid ers were hired for the jail without going through Human Resources, a big concern raised by Super visor Jim Spering because of the existing workload and delays.

Supervisor Monica Brown also re-emphasized her belief that the county needs to hire more grant writers to find resources for these programs, notably the new county facility on Courage Drive.

Health order changes ease requirements for health workers, hospital visitors

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FAIRFIELD — Anyone visiting someone in a hos pital will no longer have to show a vaccination record or proof of a negative coronavirus test.

Similarly, health care workers who were not vaccinated will no longer have to be tested on a weekly basis.

The two state health order changes are part of a trend that matches the downward trend in the disease.

Solano County Public Health reported Thursday a total of 109,714 cases since the pandemic’s start, an increase of 307 since the last report Sept. 22. Of those 307, 296 were from the past seven days.

That puts the daily case average at 42.3, while the 10-day average dropped to 43.6, the county reported.

There was one addi tional death: an elderly woman living in a care

facility. She was unvac cinated, but had serious health issues. It brings the total of Covid-related deaths in the county to 439 and marks the seventh since this latest surge that started at the end of March into early April.

The number of resi dents in hospitals with a positive coronavirus test is at 16, down one from the previous report, with two in intensive care units with the disease, also down one from Sept. 22, the county reported.

Fairfield added 75 cases to take its total to 29,799. Vallejo added 109 for a new count of 33,274. Vacaville is at 27,477 after 62 new cases were added, the county reported.

Suisun City (7,685) added 22 cases; Dixon (5,246) added 12; Benicia (4,479) added 26; and Rio Vista (1,532) added one. There were no new cases in the unincor porated area, leaving

that total at 222, Public Health reported.

Dr. Bela Matyas, Solano County’s public health officer, has previ ously indicated Covid-19 case counts are likely much higher with the use of in-home testing, results of which are not generally reported to government agencies and in many cases are not shared with medical providers if medical treat ment is not needed.

The vaccination numbers have been updated under the new state calculations, which mostly affected booster totals. The changes had to do with the timing of when the shots were taken in relation to the prior vaccine shot, Matyas said Thursday in a phone interview.

The county reports that 80% of the popula tion 5 or older have been fully vaccinated, with 72% having received at least one shot. There have been 181,166 boosters adminis

Republic Services starts delivery of in-home food waste containers

Daily Republic Staff DRNEWS@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET

FAIRFIELD — Repub lic Services is in the process of delivering kitchen compost pails to all single-family house holds in an effort to encourage organic recy cling, the city reports.

Senate Bill 1383 was signed into law earlier this year and establishes statewide organic recy

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the department’s aerial ladder throughout the open house. Guests at Station 75 may take part in the Junior Firefighter Challenge with the depart ment’s Explorers.

Children who com plete a passport with a stamp from each station will have a chance to win a ride to school on one of the city’s fire engines.

The open houses coincide with National Fire Prevention Week, Oct. 9-15.

cling requirements for both residents and busi nesses to reduce statewide emissions of short-lived climate pollutants and

greenhouse gasses.

SB 1383 requires that residents separate all

tered, the county reported.

The county reported 35.8% of children 5 to 11 have received at least one vaccine shot, and 8.8% of those 6 months to 4 years old.

The number of Solano residents with the mon keypox virus held at 39.

Calls to tip line lead to man’s arrest in narcotics case

Daily Republic Staff DRNEWS@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET

FAIRFIELD — A nar cotics investigation that spanned months ended this week with a Fairfield man’s arrest.

The investigation got its start based on anony mous tips, police report.

Officers with the Special Operations Team served a narcoticsrelated search warrant early Tuesday at a resi dence on the 2000 block of Davis Street. Several residents were detained.

The search yielded a bolt action rifle, ammuni tion for an alternate rifle and methamphetamine, police report.

Several code viola tions were identified, which will require cleanup and may result in fines for the home owner if not resolved.

Jon C. Nelson, 50, was arrested and jailed on suspicion of being a felon in possession of a firearm and illegal pos session of ammunition, both felonies, and for misdemeanor possession of methamphetamine. Bail was initially set at a combined $57,500. Calls to the narcot ics tip line initiated the investigation, police report. The tips produced evidence of narcotics sales at the home.

New law doubles – and triples –state auto insurance minimums

FAIRFIELD —

Drivers in California will soon have to carry twice – and in once case triple – the insurance coverage they must cur rently have based on a bill the governor signed into law Wednesday.

Senate Bill 1107 by Sen. Bill Dodd increases the minimum require ment for liability coverage for California motorists, “protecting people injured in crashes as well those who are exposed to paying higher medical and vehicle repair bills,” Dodd’s office said Thurs day in a press release.

“California drivers

have been underinsured for too long – and it has been costing them dearly,” Dodd said in the press release. “With the signing of this bill we can ensure crash victims get the financial support they need while covering those who might be liable for soaring medical and prop erty damage costs. This modernizes our insur ance laws, bringing our state in line with what the rest of the country deems the right amount of coverage.”

California set the current mandatory insur ance minimums 50 years ago, requiring drivers to carry $15,000 in cover age for a single injury or

death, up to $30,000 per accident and $5,000 for property damage. Only four states have the same or lower limits.

Many drivers are under the false impres sion that carrying the current minimum would protect them from finan cial liability and make victims whole after a crash, Dodd’s office said in the press release. The standard is espe cially hard on low-income or fixed-income residents who lack a safety net to cover damages.

SB 1107 increases the minimum coverage to $30,000/$60,000/$15,000, “bringing it in line with increased costs over

the past half-century on everything including vehicle repairs, medical care and emergency ser vices,” Dodd’s office said in a press release.

The bill was sup ported by California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara. It also was backed by consumer and senior groups.

“Consumers expect to be made whole by their insurance after a traffic accident, but the current minimum coverage levels often leave California’s drivers at risk of being one accident away from finan cial ruin, especially those from our most vulnerable communities,” Lara said in the press release.

Legislation to enhance response to climate change becomes law

Daily Republic Staff DRNEWS@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET

WINTERS — The gov ernor on Tuesday signed into law Cecilia AguiarCurry’s Assembly Bill 1902, which updates the authority of resource con servation districts, such as the Solano Resource Con servation District, to fight climate change.

Resource conservation districts are special dis tricts created in the 1930s to serve as the local con nection to state and federal conservation pro grams in response to the dust bowl. Such districts over the decades have evolved into a network of 95 districts across the state to meet the natural resource needs of rural, urban and suburban communities.

As California’s natural resource challenges have evolved, so has the role of resource conserva tion districts.

These districts today employ and contract with conservation profession als and local experts to

implement programs and projects and to provide technical assistance and education to landown ers of public and private natural, working and urban lands to achieve California’s climate, conservation and environ mental goals.

Resource conservation districts are governed by California Public Resource Code Division 9.

Aguiar-Curry’s office in a press release said Division 9 is out of step with the types of projects resource conservation districts now undertake. These districts are neither enterprise districts (fees for services) nor nonenterprise (tax supported) and are largely dependent on state grants.

Relying on grants has led resource conserva tion districts to take on service programs beyond the clear and/ or explicit provision in statute, according to the press release.

“RCDs are doing incredibly important work, including growing

efforts to address climate change,” Aguiar-Curry, D-Winters, said in the press release. “In my dis trict, RCDs are reforesting areas hurt by wildfires, supporting water conser vation, controlling erosion, managing soil health and so much more. Many of these RCDs, however, are located in rural com munities and have small budgets and few resources to do the work they’re responsible for. We have a responsibility to make it easier for RCDs to receive grants from the state and to make sure that the law is updated to reflect the work that these resources professionals are already doing.”

Solano Resource Con servation District staff most recently coordinated Solano County’s participa tion in California Coastal Cleanup Day on Sept. 17.

AB 1902 adds a number of conservation activities that resource conservation districts may be formed to address. In addition to their current authorization to control

runoff, prevent or control soil erosion, the develop ment and distribution of water, and the improve ment of land capabilities, resource conservation dis tricts now have statutory authority in line with their current work.

These authorities range from protecting people, communities and ecosystems from wild fire, drought and other disasters wrought by climate change to controlling and eradicat ing invasive species to providing technical assis tance to landowners to enhance the landowners’ knowledge of resilience practices, according to the press release.

Other bills by Agu iar-Curry that have been signed into law include:

n AB 1726 – Address confidentiality program. Signed by the governor Wednesday.

n AB 2303 – Agave spirits: labeling. Signed Wednesday.

n AB 32 – Telehealth. Signed Sunday.

Newsom signs bills to boost ranks, training of mental health pros

Daily Republic Staff DRNEWS@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET

WINTERS — A pair of bills by Assemblywoman Cecilia Aguiar-Curry to expand the use of telecon ferencing both for training current mental health pro fessionals and supervision of those seeking specific mental health care licens ing became law this week when the governor signed off on the legislation.

The bills are designed to modernize training and expand opportunities for learning and licensure.

Assembly Bills 1758 and 1759 will increase the availability and improve the training of mental professionals by ensuring up-to-date train ing and coursework are more accessible and by including the provision of care via telehealth for the first time, according to a press release from Agu iar-Curry’s office.

“This is a win for

mental health,” Aguiar-Curry, D-Winters, said in the press release.

“The extraor dinary stress of the pandemic exacerbated our national mental health crisis and led to an explo sion of homelessness and a new wave of vio lence, including mass shootings. Meanwhile, we faced new barriers to getting qualified mental health professionals into the field. Anything we can do to connect those in crisis with the people who’ve been educated to help them is going to help us attack these problems.”

People seeking licen sure with the Board of Behavioral Sciences as a marriage and family therapist, clinical social worker or professional clinical counselor must obtain 3,000 hours of

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last year, which protects landowners and pre scribed fire managers from having to pay fire suppression expenses unless they have acted with gross negligence.

SB 926 was spon sored by The Nature Conservancy.

“If we are going to restore our forests at pace and scale, we need to reduce barriers to pre scribed burning – our most effective long-term landscape fire manage ment tool,” Jay Ziegler, director of policy and external affairs at The Nature Conservancy, said in the press release.

“Science shows pre scribed fire is critical to curbing catastrophic megafires in California and SB 926 will help us

do more of it.”

Other bills by Dodd that have been signed into law include:

n SB 468 – State of emergency: local emer gency: electromagnetic pulse attack. Signed Sunday.

n SB 856 – Wild pigs: validations. Signed Sept. 22.

n SB 979 – Health emergencies. Signed Sept. 18.

n SB 440 – State Board of Equalization: returns and payment: extension: state of emer gency. Signed Sept. 13.

n SB 846 – Diablo Canyon power plant: extension of operations. Signed Sept. 2.

Dodd represents the state’s 3rd Senate Dis trict, which includes all of Solano County and all or portions of Yolo, Napa, Sonoma, Contra Costa and Sacra mento counties.

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organic waste, including food waste and yard waste, and food soiled paper such as used napkins and coffee filters. Instead of going to the landfill, organic waste is taken to a sep arate facility where the material is turned into

The kitchen food waste pail will be delivered by Republic Services to the curbside of singlefamily homes on their normal collection day, and will contain information about SB 1383, how res idents can use their pail, what materials go inside the organics cart, and other tips and tricks, the city reports.

experience under the supervision of a licensed mental health profes sional. Previous law required those seeking certifica tion to meet with their supervi sor in person on a weekly basis, unless they were working in an exempt setting such as a governmental entity; a school, college or university; or an institu tion that is nonprofit and charitable.

Supervision via two-way, real-time video conferencing was allowed in exempt settings. AB 1758, signed into law Aug. 29 by the gover nor, allows this direct supervision to occur in all settings via real-time teleconferencing.

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The Covid-19 pan demic abruptly changed

City residents with questions related to the kitchen compost pail, SB 1383 or general ques tions about solid waste and recycling are asked to call the Fairfield Public Works Department at 707-428-7528 or Republic Services at 707-437-8900.

More information about SB 1383 is available at fairfield. ca.gov/sb1383.

the way mental health care professionals were able to provide care, needing to switch almost overnight from in person to providing services via teleconferencing. As a result of stay-at-home emergency orders, Gov. Gavin Newsom, via exec utive order, granted the director of the Depart ment of Consumer Affairs

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Ryan Reynolds: Jackman returning as Wolverine

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It’s finally happen ing: Longtime frenemies Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman are reunit ing onscreen for “Deadpool 3.”

Reynolds announced Tuesday on social media that Jackman will return as Wolverine for the highly anticipated Marvel film, coming to theaters Sept. 6, 2024.

“We’ve been working very hard on the next ‘Deadpool’ film for a good long while now,” Reynolds said in a video to fans. “I’ve had to really search my soul on this one. His first appearance in the MCU obviously needs to feel special.

“We need to stay true to the character, find new depth, motivation,

meaning. Every ‘Dead pool’ needs to stand out and stand apart. It’s been an incredible challenge that has forced me to reach down deep inside, and I . . . have nothing. It’s completely empty up here and terrifying.”

Enter Jackman, who casually strolls into the frame and munches on an apple – without glanc ing at Reynolds or the camera – as the “Free Guy” star continues, “But we did have one idea.”

“Hey, Hugh,” he says. “You want to play Wol verine one more time?”

“Yeah,” Jackman replies. “Sure, Ryan.”

The announcement comes about five years after Jackman last played Wolverine in “Logan” and allegedly retired from portraying the character.

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Crime logs

FairField

TUESDAY, SEPT. 27

12:08 a.m. — Assault with a deadly weapon, 800 block of EAST TABOR AVENUE

3:57 a.m. — Battery, 2200 block of GATEWAY COURT 4:54 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 2300 block of FAIRFIELD AVENUE 6:40 a.m. — Grand theft, TABOR AVENUE 7:53 a.m. — Battery, 1900 block of PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE 8:23 a.m. — Battery, 2000 block of PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE 9:46 a.m. — Fight with a weapon, 200 block of PITTMAN ROAD

9:49 a.m. — Grand theft, 2700 block of PEPPERTREE DRIVE 10:46 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 1100 block of MCKINLEY STREET

10:54 a.m. — Battery, 1800 block of WEST TEXAS STREET 11:06 a.m. — Grand theft, 2400 block of FLATLEY CIRCLE 11:18 a.m. — Vandalism, 2200 block of SANTA FE STREET 2:28 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 1600 block of KIDDER AVENUE

2:44 p.m. — Hit-and-run prop erty damage, 2300 block of SANCTUARY DRIVE

3:21 p.m. — Reckless driver, TEXAS STREET 4:02 p.m. Battery, 1300 block of PHOENIX DRIVE 4:12 p.m. — Forgery, 1300 block of WOOLNER AVENUE 4:13 p.m. — Hit-and-run prop erty damage, FULTON DRIVE 5:24 p.m. — Drunken driver, 2700 block of VISTA SERENA 5:32 p.m. — Battery, 400 block of EAST TRAVIS BOULEVARD 7:30 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 3300 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 7:53 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 1700 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD 9:13 p.m. — Battery, 2500 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 9:42 p.m. — Assault with a deadly weapon, 2700 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 9:47 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 300 block of TABOR AVENUE 10:19 p.m. — Trespassing, 1200 block of QUAIL DRIVE WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 28 1:14 a.m. — Trespassing, 600 block of EAST TABOR AVENUE 2:18 a.m. — Battery, 1200 block

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of B. GALE WILSON BOULEVARD 6:33 a.m. — Grand theft, 2800 block of CORDELIA ROAD 8:28 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 100 block of MIDWAY ROAD 8:39 a.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 2300 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 9:16 a.m. — Forgery, 300 block of TABOR AVENUE 9:24 a.m. — Trespassing, 1900 block of WEST TEXAS STREET 10:30 a.m. — Trespassing, 600 block of EAST TABOR AVENUE 12:06 p.m. — Reckless driver, CAPITOLA WAY 12:40 p.m. — Vandalism, 700 block of OHIO STREET 12:41 p.m. Grand theft, 2800 block of DOVER AVENUE 1:31 p.m. — Grand theft, 3500 block of ASTORIA CIRCLE 2:15 p.m. — Shooting into a dwelling, 2300 block of JOSIAH WING DRIVE

2:21 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 2700 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

2:41 p.m. Battery, 5000 block of RED TOP ROAD 4:20 p.m. Reckless driver, EAST TRAVIS BOULEVARD 5:37 p.m. — Forgery, 4900 block of SUMMER GROVE CIRCLE 6:04 p.m. — Battery, 1800 block of PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE 6:50 p.m. — Forgery, 4900 block of SUMMER GROVE CIRCLE 7:17 p.m. — Grand theft, 1700 block of WEST TEXAS STREET 8:33 p.m. — Fight with a weapon, 1600 block of TRAVION COURT

SuiSun City

TUESDAY, SEPT. 27 9:33 a.m. — Reckless driver, GOLDEN EYE WAY 5:26 p.m. — Hit-and-run no injury, SUISUN STREET 6:02 p.m. — Assault, SUNSET AVENUE / RAILROAD AVENUE 7:42 p.m. — Reckless driver, HIGHWAY 12 / MARINA BOULEVARD

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 28 10:50 a.m. — Hit-and-run no injury, HIGHWAY 12 / MARINA BOULEVARD 12:04 p.m. — Robbery, 1200 block of REBECCA DRIVE 4:30 p.m. — Robbery, 1000 block of ARMSBY WAY 5:18 p.m. — Hit-and-run with injury, MAIN STREET / LOTZ WAY

US jobless claims fall unexpectedly

Applications for U.S. unemployment insurance dropped unexpectedly to a five-month low, led by a sizable decline in Michigan, suggesting robust demand for workers amid economic uncertainty.

Initial unemployment claims decreased by 16,000 to 193,000 in the week ended Sept. 24, after downward revision in the prior week, Labor Depart ment data showed Thursday. The median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of economists called for 215,000 new applications.

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stabbing reported shortly before 9:25 p.m. Sept. 11 on the 100 block of Yolano Drive.

Searchers hunt for victims of Hurricane Ian amid a wide swath of destruction

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Emergency crews and search teams deployed across the Ian-battered flood zones of Southwest Florida on Thursday, hunting for survivors and the missing while only beginning to measure the massive scope of destruc tion wrought the day before by one of the most powerful hurricanes ever to hit the United States.

More than 2.5 million Floridians remained without power in a region where a three-pronged punch of storm surge, fearsome winds and downpours inundated roads, flipped boats, unmoored houses from their foundations and destroyed at least two bridges to barrier islands.

Yet even as the Gulf Coast emerged from more than a day of harrowing weather, Ian made clear it was not yet finished. Early Friday, weakened to a tropical

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storm, it dumped recordsetting rain on what officials predicted would be a deadly and costly path across the peninsula. Then it moved offshore into the Atlantic, where it strengthened again into a hurricane. It is expected to slam into South Caro lina on Friday.

Flooding across a wide swath of Florida’s hard-hit coastal counties made rescue missions slow and challenging, officials said, offering widely varying estimates of a death toll. Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said early Thursday that “hundreds” may have lost their lives to the wrath of Hurricane Ian, which made landfall as a Cat egory 4 storm. Later, Florida Gov. Ron DeSan tis said two people had been confirmed dead, and it was not yet clear whether the storm was to blame. President Biden, who declared the state a major disaster area,

warned of “substantial loss of life.”

The U.S. Coast Guard and Urban Search and Rescue Teams, joined by 28 large helicopters, were performing “active rescue missions,” partic ularly near the barrier islands that surround Florida’s southwestern coast, DeSantis said.

Whatever the casualties, he said, Ian’s damage appeared “historic” and its legacy immense.

By midafternoon Thursday, more than 500 people had been rescued in Charlotte and Lee counties since oper ations began in the morning, the Florida Division of Emergency Management said.

Far from the blud geoned southwest coast, Ian was still making its mark, unloading 10 to 20 inches of rain across a wide belt of Florida. Orlando, in central Florida, set a 24-hour rainfall record

with 12.49 inches through 8 a.m. – roughly twice its monthly average. Over night Wednesday, nearly 17 inches of rain fell near the city, where the storm had forced Walt Disney World to shutter. (The theme park was set to reopen Friday.)

On the Atlantic coast, 28 inches fell in New Smyrna Beach. In St. Augustine, about 30 miles south of Jacksonville, storm surge caused the Matanzas River to over flow, flooding downtown streets. The National Hurricane Center pro jected a peak surge of up to 4 to 6 feet in the area.

Multiple rivers were at or headed toward record levels. Because the ground was already saturated from rain, Ian’s downpours had an even greater effect, said Rick Davis, a meteorol ogist with the National Weather Service’s Tampa Bay office.

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month in Vallejo, with eight of the city’s reported homicides:

n A 35-year-old Fair field man was shot at approximately 10:30 p.m. Sept. 6 on the 2400 block of Sacramento Street. He was transported to a local hospital for emergency medical attention and died Sept. 12 as a result of his injuries.

n A 45-year-old Vallejo man was stabbed to death shortly after 6:45 a.m. Sept. 8 on the 400 block of Virginia Street.

n A shooting reported shortly after 6:25 p.m. Sept. 9 left a 23-year-old Vallejo man dead on Sonoma Boulevard near Nebraska Street.

n A 46-year-old Vallejo man died at the scene of a

n A 29-year-old Vallejo man was shot shortly after 3 p.m. Sept. 14 on the 2600 block of Springs Road. The man was hospitalized and died Sept. 18 as a result of his injuries.

n A 30-year-old Vallejo man was shot shortly after 11:45 a.m. Sept. 19 on the 2600 block of Solano Avenue. He was taken to a local hospital, where he died as a result of his inju ries.

n A 21-year-old San Francisco man was shot shortly after 10:05 a.m. Sept. 24 on the 1500 block of Valle Vista Avenue. He died at the scene.

Anyone with informa tion about the shootings Wednesday is asked to call Detective Bryan Murphy at 707-648-5430 or Detec tive Yanette Hernandez at 707-648-5425.

been overlooked for too long. But she also noted the First 5 Center that is coming to the city and a pair of affordable housing projects also coming to Fairfield – all of which she said she was involved in making happen. She said what others see and label as problems, she views as opportunities for improvement.

The other candidate for District 5 is Scott Mulvey, the minister at City Church, who has a background that includes housing development as well as small and medium business ownership.

He noted the success his church has had helping the homeless, and favors developing a facility on the outskirts of town where those indi viduals can go to find a bed, food, shower, clinical help and other services, including job training and placement.

Mulvey also noted he chose not to try to bring a restaurant to town because of the crime and other issues facing the city. Those need to be addressed before exist ing businesses can thrive, and in order to attract new business to the city. But he did not let the residents off the hook entirely. He said they need to support local businesses if they want businesses to support the services they favor.

David Verza, running for District 3, said he threw his hat into the ring because his car was stolen and he is tired of the crime and the unabated homelessness. He took a hard stand on the issues, calling to elim inate all homeless camps, and calling for a greater police presence even if it means expanding the

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that he should be elected to a fifth term because of his ability to work with others, to build coali tions, and his long history of making essential con nections in government, at Travis Air Force Base and with public organiza tions. But he specifically noted Bertani’s efforts to bring Christianity into the public mix, and the positive results of those efforts.

Moy said she is most closely aligned with Bertani and Panduro because they have served on the same commit tees and have addressed some of the same prob

department.

His opponent is Douglas Carr, who emphasized the need to approach homelessness with the same strategy used with the Center for Positive Change at the county Probation Depart ment. Each individual must be viewed uniquely because the problems are unique.

If elected, Carr said he would work to set up “one-stop hubs” around town where the home less population can be assessed and the needed services provided. He also said the city needs to make an effort to make the business centers more attractive, not only to bring residents in, but to attract new businesses.

K. Patrice Williams said she brings business experience and com munity advocacy on her resume for District 1.

She emphasized the need to lift the profiles of local businesses up to compete with the online shopping trend, but also to provide the train ing and assistance these mostly small businesses need to compete in the

lems in the community and on the council. In the end, though, Moy, who has called some of her colleagues corrupt but has not identified to whom she was referring, emphasized her indepen dence. She said she is OK if she must stand alone on an issue.

And while Moy said being a woman is not reason enough to vote for her, she noted there has only been one female mayor in the nearly 120-year history of Fair field, and like it or not, women have a different, more nurturing perspec tive than men.

But don’t mistake those womanly qualities for not being tough, she said. In fact, Moy said it was time to stop coddling the homeless and crimi

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Like other candidates, she thinks the homeless situation has been treated with too much permis siveness, but emphasized the only solution is to get services to that popula tion, and that will take a coalition she said she can build through her past experiences.

Nora Dizon said she is tired of a city that caters to the developers, allow ing housing projects to be developed without the kinds of support ser vices needed for the residents. She said she won’t be fooled, and she will say no. Quality of life has to factor into those decisions, the District 1 candidate said. She said she will bring a different voice to the council.

Dizon said she applauds the regional work being done about homelessness, but said a key response has to be resources toward pre venting homelessness in the first place.

George Kennedy, also a District 1 candi date, outlined decades of his involvement in city matters, but empha

nals in the city. She said she would bring a fresh agenda to the mayor’s post. Moy also discussed her history of working professionally with the homeless problem, expe rience she said helps her stand out on the topic.

Banks said Fairfield needs to be considered as part of a greater tricity region that includes Suisun City and Vacav ille, and emphasized the need to bring more resources to the city’s youth and in areas where those resources are missing. He also talked about developing pop-up businesses within exist ing businesses as a way to diversify the clientele, and to save money. He also wants to create more activities that attract res idents to the mall, where

sized above all else, that he probably knows the city’s budget better than anyone who currently sits on the council because of his work with the Budget Advisory Committee.

He noted that among the recommendations the committee made was for the city to engage in a regional approach to homelessness, a recom mendation that came a year or more before the highly touted 2x2 regional group was started. His approach toward home lessness would be to bring more social workers in a countywide team to do what they do best – and to which the homeless pop ulation react better – and redirect the police back to policing.

Kennedy also noted his work in bringing the Pickleball courts to Allan Witt Community Park.

When asked what the biggest threat is to local business, he pointed north to Sacramento and east to Washington, D.C., where he said laws against crime have been weakened and apathy for local residents resides.

The election is Nov. 8.

his shop is, the downtown and other shopping areas.

He noted a recent trip to Jelly Belly, which he said was mundane, but the next day there was a car show at the candy company, and the energy level was higher.

Price also talked about the importance of working with the youth, noting his work with scouting, the Youth Com mission and the schools.

When asked about what he would do to solve the homeless situation, he started his answer talking about the new regional approach under way, but shifted to how critical public safety and crime are to Fairfield and the region.

The election is Nov. 8.

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From left, District 3 City Council candidate David Verza, District 5 candidate Doriss Panduro and District 1 candidate Nora Dizon participate in a candidates forum at City Hall hosted by the Fairfield-Suisun Chamber of Commerce Political Action Committee, Tuesday.

Supes recognize October as SIDS Awareness Month

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FAIRFIELD — An esti mated 3,400 children die each year from sudden and unexpected infant deaths, with Sudden Infant Death Syndrome accounting for 1,250 of those cases in 2019.

“SIDS is recognized as the fourth leading cause of infant mortal ity in the United States by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,” a resolution adopted Tuesday by the Solano County Board of supervi sors states.

The resolution recog nized October as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Awareness Month in Solano County.

The rate of SIDS has declined by 50% since 1990, the reso lution states, aided by “interventions such as always placing the baby on its back to sleep on a firm mattress, room-shar ing without bed-sharing, keeping soft toys and blan kets out of baby’s sleep area, keeping baby warm but not hot, and never smoking around a baby.”

Full-term infants and infants born at optimum birth weight of more than 5.8 pounds have lower risks of SIDS as well.

In other action, the board:

n Accepted the Solano County Single Audit Report for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2021.

n Approved an exten sion to Dec. 31 of the exclusive negotiating rights agreement with Industrial Realty Group LLC for development of the Solano County Fair grounds in Vallejo as part of the Solano360 project, and the option to extend through March 31.

n Approved a $6,500 contribution from the 4th District General Fund account to benefit the Play 4 All Park Vacaville ($1,000), Winters Histori cal Society ($500), Dixon Rotary Foundation ($500), American Legion Auxil iary Girls State ($500), Sudie M. Smith Scholar ship ($500), Solano Marine Corps Detachment No. 1486 ($1,000), Winters Elder Day Council ($500), Serenity Saddles ($500), 100 Club of Solano and Yolo ($500) and SPCA of Solano ($1,000).

n Approved a $400,000 contract with Play 4 All Park Inc. through June 30 to complete Phase I of the Vacaville Play 4 All Park and support play for fami lies of all abilities.

n Approved a $210,068

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the authority to issue numerous waivers in order to ensure continued public health and safety.

Mental health profes sionals were not fully prepared to make the quick transition from pro viding care in-person to videoconferencing due to the lack of telehealth coursework or train ing provided in their degree programs.

AB 1759, which the governor signed Sunday, requires both applicants for licensure and current licensees to complete three hours of course work or training in the provision of mental health services via telehealth, including law and ethics related to telehealth, as a one-time requirement. This requirement could be satisfied if it has been included as coursework in the applicant’s qualifying graduate degree program, or it could be taken as con tinuing education.

contract with Innovative Health Solutions to provide nutrition educa tion services through Sept. 30, 2023, and approved a $40,044 appro priations transfer to rec ognize unanticipated revenue from the Califor nia Department of Public Health CalFresh Healthy Living Program.

n Approved the Notice of Completion for the Asphalt Rubber Cape Seal 2021 Project for Bridge port Avenue, Creed Road, Fry Road, Lopes Road, Peabody Road, Pitt School Road, Richie Road, Walters Road, Weber Road and on the public roads within the Home Acres and Starr subdivi sions. The contractor was VSS International of West Sacramento. The cost was $2.56 million.

Solano board sends letter seeking CPUC funds for railroad crossings

FAIRFIELD — The Vanden Road/Jepson Parkway rail overcross ing project is the highest priority in Solano County because it directly sup ports vehicular traffic accessing Travis Air Force Base.

The county also noted the importance of the Parkway Boulevard Overcrossing project in a letter the Board of Super visors is sending to the California Public Utili ties Commission seeking funding for design and construction of the two rail overcrossings.

“The (Vanden Road/ Jepson Parkway rail overcrossing project) rep resents a final phase in a long series of projects that will complete the Jepson Parkway corridor between the cities of Fair

field and Vacaville,” the staff report to the board states. “Since annexa tion into . . . Fairfield in 2012, the Jepson Parkway corridor has seen major investment into transitoriented development along Vanden Road, including the recent completion of the Fair field-Vacaville Hannigan Train Station. A new over crossing at Vanden Road from Canon Road would remove the existing atgrade rail crossing on Canon Road, which has been experiencing signifi cant accident rates.”

Fairfield and the Solano Transportation Authority have been working on the over crossing utilizing impact fees, “but additional grant funds would be neces sary to fully offset the significant cost involved in this project,” the report states.

Similar language was used to support the need for funding for the Dixon project.

“Due to changes in requirements for the over crossing design over time, the total cost of the project has escalated to an estimated $34.5 million.

Currently, there is a $24.7 million shortfall for the project after con sideration of the funding provided by the city and local and regional impact fees, to date,” the staff report states.

The project would include the closure of the existing crossing at Pitt School Road near Porter Road as required.

In other action, the board:

n Approved adding the Health Services Clinic manager and Health Ser vices Clinic senior manager positions with a monthly salary range of

$8,582 to $11,310; added the Health Services Program manager and Health Services Program senior manager positions with a monthly salary range of $8,582 to $11,310; reclassified four Health Services manager to Health Services clinic managers, and three Health Services manag ers to Health Services Program managers; and reclassified one Health Services senior manager to Health Services Clinic senior manager and three Health Services senior managers to Health Ser vices Program senior managers.

n Added Organization Development and Training specialist with a monthly salary range of $6,990 to $8,496; and added Emer gency Medical Services administrator with a monthly salary range of $8,631 to $10,491.

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Shanahan downplays whatever QB said

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SANTA CLARA — Kyle Shanahan’s lips moved and his words were heard loud and clear Thursday: He has no com munication issues with Jimmy Garoppolo.

Now, does that mean Garoppolo was or wasn’t frustrated about Shanah an’s play calls in Sunday’s loss at Denver? A closeup video of Garoppolo after his fourth-quarter interception led to wild

speculation. A viral tweet read Garoppolo’s lips as saying: “All of your plays suck man.”

“First of all, the clip to me is a joke. I can’t believe we’re talking about it,” Shanahan said before practice. “Pretty sure that’s not what he said. But we were extremely frustrated the whole game.”

Garoppolo told The Athletic’s Matt Barrows that he hasn’t seen the clip nor is he sure what he muttered after that inter

ception which sealed an 11-10 defeat.

“I know the clip you’re talking about,” Shana han added. “I’ve got it on my notes before this press conference. But I’m not a very good lip reader and I probably won’t watch it.”

The crux of this issue is whether Garoppolo, in his reboot as the 49ers’ starting quarterback, is eschewing Shanahan’s play calls. A week ago, Garoppolo opined for the “freedom” to play in a less structured way.

What kind of give and take does Shanahan have with him?

“Like it is with one of my friends,” Shanahan responded. “Jimmy and I are around each other every day, so there is not any awkwardness from us or anything kept from each other.”

“There’s frustration with our whole team.”

The 49ers (1-2) host the Los Angeles Rams (2-1) on Monday night.

Shanahan’s offense ranks 24th in yards

per game, and their 15.7 scoring average is tied for the fourth-worst in the NFL.

Mr. September

Punter Mitch Wish nowsky is the NFL’s Special Teams Player of the Month for September, for the second straight season. How so, when his 44.3-yard net average only ranks 11th and his 46.8-yard gross average is 16th? A few reasons to state his case:

n Of Wishnowsky’s 14 punts, six have pinned opponents inside their 10-yard line, including 3-of-7 on Sunday in Denver (and excluding his career-long 74-yard punt into the end zone in the first quarter). Eight of his punts were downed inside the 20.

n Opponents have returned only three of his punts, with a 3.0-yard average that ranks as sec ond-lowest in the league.

Kerr, Green return to Japan a year after Olympics

By M adeline K enney BAY AREA NEWS GROUP

TOKYO — Last time Steve Kerr and Dray mond Green were in Japan, their sole focus was basketball – and not necessarily by choice.

This time around, however, that won’t be the case.

Green and Kerr returned to Tokyo this week for a pair of pre season games between the Warriors and Wizards. Their arrival comes a year and some change after they helped the U.S. men’s basket ball team win gold at the 2020 Summer Olympics that were postponed due to the pandemic.

Is Vacaville the champion again, or someone else for a change?

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FAIRFIELD — Sean Murphy’s Vanden High School football team is off to a 5-0 start this season, has won 12 straight games since last October and is coming off a state championship in 2021.

But don’t expect Murphy to declare his team the front runner for the 2022 Monticello Empire League championship.

“Until someone beats Vacaville, they are the

team to beat,” Murphy said. “The championship will go through Vacav ille until someone knocks them off. They are the king of the hill.”

Since the inception of the new Mon ticello Empire League in 2018 with Vanden and Fairfield high schools joining the fold, the stand ings have been easy to predict. With the excep tion of the 2020 spring season when Fairfield didn’t field a team, the final MEL standings have

been the same since 2018:

Vacaville 5-0, Vanden 4-1, Will C. Wood 3-2, Rodriguez 2-3, Armijo 1-4 and Fairfield 0-5.

Will the pattern hold again?

Time will tell, but four key questions will be answered in the next five weeks.

n Can Vanden finally get over on Vacaville?

n Do the Bulldogs again rise to the top after a tough nonleague sched ule?

n Can Will C. Wood,

Rodriguez or Armijo play their way into playoff con tention and contend for the title.

n And, can Fairfield pop up and pull off a sur prise?

Stay tuned.

The MEL season opens Friday with Vanden at Armijo, Will C. Wood at Fairfield and Rodriguez at Vacaville.

Here’s a quick look at all six teams (statis tics are those currently posted on MaxPreps.com

Can Vacaville Christian contend after a dreadful 0-5 preseason?

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FAIRFIELD — Don’t ever con sider Vacaville Christian High School head football coach Manny Tarango a pessimist. His team is off to an 0-5 start, yet he feels the Falcons will be right in the hunt for a Sierra Delta Foothill League championship.

“We played some stout teams in our first five and learned a lot about ourselves,” Tarango said. “Our current situation doesn’t dictate who we are. Our kids are focused on the process.”

The league is back at full strength, Tarango said, after the small schools dealt with injuries and the lingering effects of Covid.

Vacaville Christian opens at

home Friday against San Juan, while Rio Vista squares off against visiting Golden Sierra. That leaves a matchup of Esparto and Highlands.

Here’s a quick look at Vacaville Christian, Rio Vista and the rest of their SDL opponents.

Vacaville Christian

The Falcons struggled in the nonleague season, finishing 0-5 and managing only 48 points. The losses for VCS came to Sparks, Nev. (12-7), Linden (44-0), Woodland Christian (48-13), St. Patrick-St. Vincent (62-28) and Stone Ridge Christian (45-0).

Senior quarterback Hunter Jackson has thrown for 496 yards and two touchdowns and run

for 229 and another two scores. Tarango said Jackson could miss some games with an ankle injury. That means his brother, fresh man Brendan Jackson, will take on the quarterback role and veer the Falcons from the running team they have been early to a more spread out passing attack.

Senior Kai Nunley is the Falcons’ top rusher with 212 yards and a TD. Senior receiver Dom inique Ruff is the top target with 12 catches for 229 yards and two touchdowns.

Freshman Kobe Powell has been a tackling machine for Vacav ille Christian with a team-high 54. Nunley is next in line with 39. The Falcons have allowed 211 points.

“It’s great to be here for a second

straight summer but this summer, things are open and we’re able to go out and eat and travel around the city – things we weren’t able to do last year because of Covid,” Kerr said Thurs day before practice. “It’s really great to be back here in a more comfort able setting.”

Last year, Kerr and Green were confined to their hotel rooms for 19 days as part of the Summer Olym pics’ Covid-19 protocols unable to interact much with the locals.

“We literally weren’t allowed to leave,” Kerr said Thursday before practice. “I may or may not have snuck out a

Prep girls flag football inches closer to reality

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A few minutes before the CIF South ern Section council meeting in Long Beach on Thursday, presi dent-elect Paula Rodas crossed both her fingers and smiled.

Since last Novem ber, Rodas, formerly the principal of Lawn dale High, has been working with repre sentatives from the Los Angeles Rams and Chargers on a proposal to establish girls’ flag football as a CIF South ern Section-approved sport. The night before the Southern Section would vote to pass the proposal, Rodas was so nervous she could hardly sleep, she said.

“I grew up in the

wave of Title IX being a thing, but there was still lots of things – we were told, kids my age, ‘You can’t do that because you’re a girl,’” Rodas said. “Doors were closed for us.”

Southern Section rep resentatives voted to pass the proposal, Rodas smiling at the council’s podium and claps erupt ing across the room. The section’s approval means the proposal will be put on the state agenda to be read at a meeting Oct. 7.

“This is history in the making, this is access, this is hope,” said Johna than Franklin, the Rams’ director of social justice and football develop ment, who was present

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Warriors head coach Steve Kerr plans to enjoy this visit to Japan after pretty much being locked down during the Olympics last summer.

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Vanden High School’s Simeon Wydermyer, back, attempts a tackle against Foothill of Pleasanton, Sept. 9. The

Vikings are hoping to open the Monticello Empire League schedule Friday night at Armijo with a win.

CALENDAR

Friday’s TV sports

Baseball

• MLB, Oakland vs. Seattle, NBCSCA, 6:30 p.m.

• MLB, Arizona vs. San Francisco, NBCSBA, 7 p.m.

Basketball

• FIBA, Women’s World Cup, Final, ESPN2, 11 p.m.

Football

• College, Tulane vs. Houston, ESPN, 4 p.m.

• High School, Buford vs. Collins Hill, ESPN2, 4 p.m.

• College, Washington vs. UCLA, ESPN, 7:30 p.m.

• CFL, Ottawa vs. BC, ESPN2, 7:30 p.m.

Golf

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

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

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

Motor Sports

• F1, Singapore Grand Prix, Practice, ESPN2, 2:55 a.m.

• NASCAR, Sparks 300, Xfinity Qualifying, USA, 2:30 p.m.

Saturday’s TV sports

Baseball

• MLB, Arizona vs. San Francisco, NBCSBA, 1 p.m.

• MLB, Oakland vs. Seattle, NBCSCA, 1 p.m.

• MLB, N.Y. Mets vs. Atlanta, 2, 40, 4 p.m.

Football

• College, Michigan vs. Iowa, 2, 40, 9 a.m.

• College, Navy vs. Air Force, 5, 13, 9 a.m.

• College, Oklahoma vs. TCU, 7, 10, 9 a.m.

• College, Kentucky vs. Ole Miss, ESPN, 9 a.m.

• College, Purdue vs. Minnesota, ESPN2, 9 a.m.

• College, Oklahoma State vs. Baylor, 2, 40, 12:30 p.m.

• College, Alabama vs. Arkansas, 5, 13, 12:30 p.m.

• College, Wake Forest vs. Florida State, 7, 10, 12:30 p.m.

• College, Northwestern vs. Penn State, ESPN, 12:30 p.m.

• College, Iowa State vs. Kansas, ESPN2, 12:30 p.m.

• College, LSU vs. Auburn, ESPN, 4 p.m.

• College, North Carolina State vs. Clemson, 7, 10, ESPN2, 4:30 p.m.

• College, Arizona State vs. USC, ESPN, 7:30 p.m.

Golf

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

• LPGA, Volunteers of America Classic, Round Three, GOLF, 10 a.m.

• PGA, Sanderson Farms Championship, Round Three, GOLF, 1 p.m.

Horse Racing

• Breeder’s Cup Series, The Miss Grillo, 3, 1 p.m.

Motor Sports

• F1, Singapore Grand Prix, Practice, ESPN2, 2:55 a.m.

• IMSA, Petit Le Mans, 3, 9 a.m.

• NASCAR, Sparks 300, Xfinity Race, USA, 1 p.m.

• IMSA, Petit Le Mans, USA, 4 p.m.

Soccer

• EPL, Tottenham vs. Arsenal, USA, 4:30 p.m.

• EPL, Chelsea vs. Crystal Palace, USA, 7 a.m.

• EPL, Wolverhampton vs. West Ham, USA, 9:30 a.m.

• MLS, Minnesota vs. San Jose, NBCSCA, 7 p.m.

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couple of times for a walk but we couldn’t go to restaurants, we couldn’t go to a bar, it was shut down.”

The only time they were able to get out of their rooms was for prac tices and games.

“Last time we were here, the entire city was locked down,” Green recalled. “So just to have the opportunity to go to some different restau rants, do some shopping, get out and walk around, there’s some beautiful parks. I kind of enjoy nature so really excited about the opportunity that we’ll have some time to really explore the city and not just come [and] play two games and leave.”

Starting the preseason more than 5,000 miles from home isn’t an ideal schedule. The 10-hour plane ride and 16-hour time difference can

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and worked with Rodas on the proposal.

Once read at that meeting, Southern Section Commissioner Rob Wigod told The Times, it will be voted on at a subsequent state council meeting in Feb ruary. If approved then, Wigod said, the sport will officially be imple mented next fall.

disrupt sleep schedules and take a toll on the players before the grind of an 82-game regular season.

Still, Kerr views this as a golden opportunity to help build team chem istry, especially among the younger players.

“It’s an awesome experience,” Kerr said. “Japanese people are amazing, the sense of hospitality that you feel everywhere you go is just incredible. I think the fact it’s so early in camp is good for us. I’m looking at this as an extension to training camp and these are more practices than anything for us the next couple of days so it’s a good time to bond and come together as a team.”

The Warriors play their first preseason game Friday and another Sunday before return ing home. They won’t play another preseason game for eight days after getting back to San Fran cisco, giving them ample time to readjust.

The motion passed Thursday with a vote of 61-26, with two members abstaining.

According to National Federation of State High School Assns. surveys, the number of girls par ticipating in high school flag football nation wide has increased from 11,209 in 2018-19 to 15,716 in 2021-22. Addi tionally, 15 colleges across the country offer girls’ flag football as a sport.

BASEBALL American League

East Division W L Pct GB y-N.Y. Yankees 96 59 619 x-Toronto 87 69 558 9½ Tampa Bay 85 71 545 11½ Baltimore 80 76 513 16½ Boston 75 81 481 21½

Central Division W L Pct GB y-Cleveland 88 68 564 Chicago White Sox 77 79 494 11 Minnesota 76 80 487 12 Detroit 63 92 406 24½ Kansas City 63 93 404 25 West Division W L Pct GB y-Houston 102 54 654 Seattle 84 70 545 17 L.A. Angels 69 86 445 32½ Texas 66 88 429 35 OAKLAND 56 99 361 45½

National League

East Division W L Pct GB x-N.Y. Mets 98 58 628 x-Atlanta 97 59 622 1 Philadelphia 83 72 535 14½ Miami 65 91 417 33 Washington 54 101 348 43½

Central Division W L Pct GB y-St. Louis 90 66 577 Milwaukee 83 73 532 7 Chicago Cubs 70 86 449 20

LOCAL REPORT

Cincinnati 60 96 .385 30 Pittsburgh 59 97 .378 31 West Division W L Pct GB y-L.A. Dodgers 107 48 690 San Diego 86 69 555 21 SAN FRANCISCO 77 78 497 30 Arizona 72 84 .462 35½ Colorado 65 90 .419 42 y=won

playoff spot Wednesday’s Games L.A. Angels 4, OAKLAND 1 SAN FRANCISCO 6, Colorado 3 Pittsburgh 4, Cincinnati 3 Cleveland 2, Tampa Bay 1 Detroit 2, Kansas City 1 Washington 3, Atlanta 2 N.Y. Yankees 8, Toronto 3 Boston 3, Baltimore 1 N.Y. Mets 5, Miami 4 Chicago Cubs 4, Philadelphia 2 Minnesota 8, Chicago White Sox 4 Milwaukee 5, St. Louis 1 Arizona 5, Houston 2 L.A. Dodgers 1, San Diego 0 Seattle 3, Texas 1 Thursday’s Games OAKLAND at L.A. Angels, (N) Colorado at SAN FRANCISCO, (N) Detroit 10, Kansas City 3 Chicago White Sox 4, Minnesota 3 Boston 5, Baltimore 3 Chicago Cubs 2, Philadelphia 0 Cleveland 2, Tampa Bay 1 Miami 4, Milwaukee 2 L.A. Dodgers at San DIego, (N) Texas at Seattle, (N) Friday’s Games

OAKLAND at Seattle, 6:40 p.m.

Arizona at SAN FRANCISCO, 7:15 p.m. Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs, 11:20 a.m. Philadelphia at Washington, 4:05 p.m. Baltimore at N.Y. Yankees, 4:05 p.m. Boston at Toronto, 4:07 p.m. Kansas City at Cleveland, 4:10 p.m. Minnesota at Detroit, 4:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at Atlanta, 4:20 p.m. Tampa Bay at Houston, 5:10 p.m. Miami at Milwaukee, 5:10 p.m. Pittsburgh at St. Louis, 5:15 p.m. Texas at L.A. Angels, 6:38 p.m. Chicago White Sox at San DIego, 6:40 p.m. Colorado at L.A. Dodgers, 7:10 p.m. Saturday’s Games OAKLAND at Seattle, 1:10 p.m. Arizona at SAN FRANCISCO, 1:05 p.m. Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs, 11:20 a.m. Philadelphia at Washington, 10:05, first game Philadelphia at Wash., 4:05 p.m., second game Baltimore at N.Y. Yankees, 10:05 a.m. Boston at Toronto, 12:07 p.m. Kansas City at Cleveland, 3:10 p.m. Minnesota at Detroit, 3:10 p.m. Miami at Milwaukee, 4:10 p.m. N.Y. Mets at Atlanta, 4:20 p.m. Tampa Bay at Houston, 4:20 p.m. Pittsburgh at St. Louis, 4:15 p.m. Chicago White Sox at San DIego, 5:40 p.m. Texas at L.A. Angels, 6:07 p.m. Colorado at L.A. Dodgers, 6:10 p.m.

FOOTBALL

NFL

American Conference East W L T Pct. PF PA Miami 3 1 0 .750 98 91 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 Cincinnati 2 2 0 .500 91 70 Pittsburgh 1 2 0 .333 54 66 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

Washington 1 2

Minnesota 2 1 0 .667

Green Bay 2 1 0 667

Chicago 2 1 0 .667 52

Detroit 1

Bay 2 1

Carolina 1 2

New Orleans 1 2 0

667

.333 62

51

Atlanta 1 2 0 .333 80

West W L T Pct.

PA L.A. Rams 2 1 0 667 61 70

SAN FRAN 1 2 0 333 47 37 Seattle 1 2 0 .333 47 70 Arizona 1 2 0 .333 62 87

Week 4

Thursday’s Game Cincinnati 27, Miami 15 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.

Vanden’s varsity girls volleyball team earns victory over Armijo

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FAIRFIELD — The Vanden High School girls varsity volleyball team had standout efforts throughout the lineup in a 25-11, 25-14, 25-6 win over Armijo Thursday night.

Sumerlyn Spencer filled up the stat sheet with 13-for-13 serving, one ace, seven kills, two blocks and eight digs. Jada Cuffie had eight service points, two aces, five kills, one block and one dig. Breanna Davis added 14 service points, six aces, six digs and five assists.

Fran King also con tributed three digs and 10 assists for the Vikings. Makenzie Lovell had seven digs.

Vanden improved to 7-2 in Monticello Empire League matches.

“Patience was high,” Vanden head coach Cindy Scolavino said in an email. “They worked well and were able to put up a solid offense and defense.”

The Vikings’ junior varsity team earned a 25-14, 26-24 victory. Miracle Lebon had 10 kills. Lydia Keele was 11-for-11 serving with three aces, three kills and two digs. Piper Olson also had three aces, three digs and seven assists.

The JV “B” squad notched a 25-23, 25-9 win. Heaven Butcher was 8-for-8 serving with three aces and two kills. Miyaka Otomo had one ace and three kills.

Rodriguez girls rolls past Will C. Wood

FAIRFIELD — The Rodriguez High School girls volleyball program picked up wins Tuesday over Will C. Wood.

The Mustangs varsity squad earned a 25-14, 25-14, 25-13 victory. Arden Billingsley had 17 assists, four service aces, three kills and one solo block. Emma Bar rington contributed six kills and four aces. Lauren Ballard also knocked down five kills.

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“Players were in good spirits and still working on timing but did well overall,” Rodriguez head coach Christopher Co said in an email.

The Rodriguez junior varsity team won 25-18, 25-12. Kendal Crommie led with five kills, one ace and one dig. Manizha Ahmady contributed two aces, one kill, one solo block and one dig. Sohni Peaker also had 12 assists and one kill.

Golf Rodriguez girls fire solid team score

FAIRFIELD — Three Rodriguez High School girls golfers shot in the 30s Thursday at Rancho Solano Golf Course and the Mustangs fired an impressive team round of 192.

Fairfield had to forfeit the match for not having enough players.

Darla DelaTorre led the Mustangs with a 33. Nikki Chindavong shot a 36 and Jody Castillo had a 38. Coco Trotter (42) and Kayla Lee (43) rounded out the top five.

Vanden girls win by forfeit again

VACAVILLE — The Vanden High School girls golf team shot a 234 Thursday at Cypress Lakes Golf Course and won by forfeit.

Will C. Wood could not field a complete team.

Maggie Taylor had the low round for the Vikings with a 43. She was followed by Fatum Soumahoro (47), Diana Borchert (48), Zoe Zanassi (48) and Kara Chung (48). Vanden is 8-4 in Monticello Empire League matches.

Tennis

Vacaville girls net quick victory

VACAVILLE — The

Vacaville High School girls tennis team contin ued its unbeaten season Thursday going strong with a 9-0 win over visit ing Fairfield.

Victoria Silva, Alexis Gormley, Paulina Sweeney, Katie Thomas, Ella Aguirre and Lola Lafon all won singles matches for the Bulldogs. Anna Krantz of Fair field did push Silva to a 10-4 third set tiebreaker in No. 1 singles before losing.

Vacaville’s doubles teams of Ruby Bra zelton-Megan Kunkel, Callie Headrick-Brynlie Headrick and Gabrielle Elizalde-Avery Courtney also rolled to victories. Fairfield’s No. 1 doubles team of Laila Moore and Maria Abueg did fight a tough first set against Bra zelton and Kunkel before falling 7-5.

Vacaville is 8-0 in Mon ticello Empire League matches and 11-0 overall.

Vanden girls dominate match

FAIRFIELD — The Vanden High School girls tennis team cruised to a 9-0 win Thursday over Armijo.

Sasha Smith, Delaney Ramsell, Camille Arca, Jeanelle DelaCruz, Danali Hardwick and Althea Yabut all won singles matches for the Vikings in straight sets.

Kaylanie PayneKalyse Payne, Kaitlyn King-Kailey Payne and Miley Dial-Yuba Grossen all teamed up for solid doubles victories for Vanden.

The Vikings are now 6-2 in Monticello Empire League matches. Vanden has a nonleague match at 4 p.m. Friday at River City.

College Solano women’s volleyball nets win

FAIRFIELD — The Solano Community College women’s volley ball team opened Bay

Valley Conference action Wednesday with a 25-16, 25-20, 26-24 win against Mendocino. The Falcons are 12-6 overall and return to the home floor Friday for a 6 p.m. match against Yuba.

Sammy Brown led the Solano offense with 22 kills, 20 digs and 17-for-17 serving. Rachel Lin led the defense with 22 digs and 10-for-10 serving. Crystal Carroll chipped in 20 digs.

Jailynn Bermu dez had a great day behind the service line with 11 serves. Dani Rydjord added five kills, 10 digs and 34 assists. Hannah Del Rio chipped in five kills.

“They were a good defensive team,” Solano head coach Darla Wil liams said in an email. “We both fought tooth and nail to survive the third set.”

Middle School Grange flag football cruises to big win

FAIRFIELD — The Grange Middle School flag football team earned a 32-0 win Wednesday over B. Gale Wilson.

Bubba Hayes threw two touchdown passes for Grange. King Lynch had a receiving touchdown, a running touchdown and an interception. Angelo Pineda also had three interceptions, including one he turned into a “pick six” for a score.

Grange is 1-0 and will play at Green Valley next Wednesday.

Crystal flags down win over Green Valley

FAIRFIELD — Crystal beat Green Valley 12-8 Wednesday in middle school flag football.

Green Valley athletic director Sarj Singh said his school had some early game jitters and made some mental mistakes, but “both teams played well.”

n No punt nor kickoff has been returned for a touchdown in the NFL through three weeks.

Kittle’s Streak

Tight end George Kittle has scored a touchdown in each of the 49ers’ last four home games against the Rams.

Since 2017, no one has produced more against the Rams than Kit tle’s 49 catches for 706 yards and five touchdowns. Of his 12 career

100-yard games, four are against the Rams, who limited him to 10 yards (five catches) in the 2021 regu lar-season finale and 27 yards (two catches) in the ensuing NFC Cham pionship Game.

Kittle, after missing the first two games this season with a groin injury, debuted Sunday in Denver with 28 yards (four catches, five targets). He played 51 of 56 snaps.

Extra Points

n The 49ers’ defense is forcing opponents to go 3-and-out (no first downs) a league-best 44.1-percent of the time (15-of-34 drives).

n A win Monday night – the 49ers

are 1-point favorites – would give the 51 all-time wins on “Monday Night Football,” tying them with the Pitts burg Steelers for the most in that spotlight; the Dallas Cowboys are third with 49 wins. The 49ers are 4-3 at Levi’s Stadium on “MNF” and 10-4 in their last 14 games on Monday nights.

n The 49ers held their Crucial Catch Fashion Show on Wednesday night, pairing players with cancer warriors. Right tackle Mike McGlinchey co-hosted the event, and among the players involved were Arik Armstead, George Kittle, Daniel Brunskill, Fred Warner, Oren Burks, Emmanuel Moseley, and others.

State puts lipstick on porcine IT project

The state government’s chronic inabil ity to employ high technology in a timely and cost-effective manner is nowhere more evident than in a project called “Financial Information System for California.”

That awkward title was devised so it could be called by the catchy title of “FI$Cal,” but by whatever moniker, the effort to create a single program for managing state finances has been nothing but trouble, con suming nearly two decades of political and bureaucratic time and costing taxpayers at least $1 billion.

The state auditor’s office, tasked by law with monitor ing FI$Cal’s progress, or lack thereof, has issued a string of reports detailing its missed deadlines, incom plete features and ever-rising costs. At one point, the auditor even blew the whistle on an effort to have the project declared complete, even though it was far from being totally operational.

Earlier this year, the auditor once again catalogued FI$Cal’s shortcomings, including its obvious inability to meet a June deadline for completion, noting that the most impor tant final step – making it useable by the state controller’s office to produce annual com prehensive financial statements – “has fallen behind schedule.” The report warned that if the state cannot “publish accurate and timely financial statements,” it risks having its credit rating lowered and not qualifying for federal funds.

“These financial reporting delays may ultimately prove costly for the state,” the auditor warned.

The Legislature has been frustrated by the project’s sorry record and as the June dead line approached, both legislative houses voted for more oversight. They passed a bill requir ing detailed annual reports on the number and length of unplanned outages and changes to make FI$Cal function well enough to comply with federal requirements.

The measure’s author, Assemblyman Rudy Salas, a Bakersfield Democrat, told his fellow legislators in a statement, “As FI$Cal enters its 18th year at a cost of approxi mately $1 billion, it is clear that stronger oversight and transparency needs to be estab lished,” adding, “This bill will help establish better oversight and functionality with a high-risk state project, and help get FI$Cal back on track.”

Eight days after passing Salas’ bill June 23, the Legislature did something else about FI$Cal, although few lawmakers were prob ably aware of what they were doing, since it was buried in one of the many budget “trailer bills” that are passed with little scrutiny.

The trailer bill simply declared that “the system’s project objectives . . . are deter mined to be complete as of July 1, 2022. Therefore, no further reporting pursuant to Section 11546 on system development, imple mentation, enhancement, maintenance and operations, security, or related workload is required.”

In other words, the trailer bill put into law what project managers had once tried to do on their own – declare FI$Cal to be complete even though it’s clearly not. The legislation also removed the state auditor as an indepen dent overseer of the entire project, relegating it to a much-narrower role, and in essence gave the project’s managers another 10 years to make it fully useable.

Gov. Gavin Newsom completed the fictional exercise of declaring the obviously incomplete FI$Cal to be finished last week by vetoing Salas’ bill.

“While I appreciate the intent to improve functionality of the Fl$Cal system, this bill is unnecessary,” Newsom said in his veto message. “This issue was resolved in the final 2022-23 budget agreement contained in Assembly Bill 156, which expanded legislative reporting requirements while also facilitat ing the transition of several departments into the Fl$Cal system. For these reasons, I cannot sign this bill.”

It’s reminiscent of the old saying about putting lipstick on a pig.

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.

Our take on the November ballot

Election time is right around the corner.

We’ve had many requests for our opinions on the ballot measures. Voter Guides contain the texts, but most folks don’t have the time to read them and just go with the analyses and argu ments. There’s usually a lot left out of those couple of hundred words. Let’s get down to the essentials.

Proposition 26 enables Indian casinos and race tracks – but no other gaming establishments – to conduct gambling on all sports except high schools and California colleges. Note that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) long ago banned its athletes and staffers from gambling on NCAA sports. Its policy states:

“Sports wagering has the potential to undermine the integrity of sports con tests. . . .” Gambling interests have tried to push contest results one way or the other for a long, long time. It opens the door to online gambling, which means surrendering lots of per sonal information to online vendors. These problems beg a no vote.

Proposition 27 allows gam bling in all sports in all gambling

establishments, including Indian casinos, just spread ing the problems over a wider range. Vote no The other statewide propo sitions are mostly a collection of special interests that have no real benefit for most of us.

There’s a state tax “on the rich” to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that adds more rebates for electric vehicles and charging stations, but does nothing to produce more electricity. If you like rolling blackouts, this will bring more of them.

As for the local measures, we’ve given you our concerns on the Solano County sales tax (Measure E) and the two school district bonds (Q and S). Measure E will not deliver the fire protection its ads suggest, and there are other, better solutions. Neither school bond measure contains the detailed project list required by state code; both are blank checks for the districts to spend on whatever they want. Both also contain millions of dollars for maintenance that should have been budgeted on a yearly basis, not caught up with bonds. And some of the likely purchases – computers, for example – will be trash long before the

bonds are repaid. Vote no on this trio. Most of the other measures on the local ballots are city taxes. They’re general taxes so there’s no guarantee the money will go where the campaign ads say. You can be sure, though, some will go to beef up their pension funds that have been badly under funded for a long time.

A word on special taxes. These require a two-thirds vote to pass, but are the only way to assure the revenue will go to specific purposes like streets or fire protection. Govern ments don’t use them for two reasons: the higher vote requirement and the need to explain why such things haven’t been budgeted or paid for in the past. Instead, their ads talk about a need, mixed with other things people might like. In an honest world, it’d be called fraud.

We’ve studied the measures and these are our opinions. Most of them will cost taxpayer dollars. The ques tion is, are we getting our money’s worth? We urge voters to study and understand those that directly affect them.

Vote smart!

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

Fed underplays pain of fighting inflation

The U.S. Federal Reserve has made its infla tion-fighting inten tions abundantly clear.

Now comes the difficult part: sticking to that commitment as tighter monetary policy restrains the economy and puts millions out of work.

Will the Fed stay the course? I sure hope so, but it will be a long, hard road, which raises doubts.

Over the past month, Fed offi cials have consistently demonstrated their resolve to push inflation back down to the central bank’s 2% target.

Chairman Jerome Powell called the commitment “unconditional,” the pol icy-making Federal Open Market Committee voted unanimously for a 75-basis-point interest-rate increase, and the FOMC’s projections show the federal funds rate reaching a target range of 4.25% to 4.50% by the end of this year and remaining elevated through 2023.

That said, it’s easy to be unified when you’re catching up after being far behind the curve, when the labor market is still strong and when the public views inflation-fighting as a pri ority. That will all change as the Fed’s inflation-fighting efforts start to take effect, increasing unemployment and likely tipping the economy into reces sion. Yet, judging from their own projections, Fed officials still haven’t been fully forthcoming about these consequences.

The FOMC’s median September

forecast: After a sharp slow down this year (most of which has already happened), growth picks up over the next three years, with output growing just 0.6 percentage point less than its potential over that period. The resulting increase in the unemployment rate is very modest – to 4.4% in 2023 and 2024, up from 3.7% currently and only slightly above the Fed’s 4.0% estimate of the longterm rate consistent with 2% inflation. Yet this somehow proves sufficient to bring inflation down sharply to 2.3% by 2024.

Albeit more plausible than the “immaculate disinflation” fantasies of March and June, this outlook is still unduly rosy.

For one, the unemployment rate will have to go higher: Larry Summers has argued it might have to be 2 percentage points higher than its long-term equilibrium level just to reduce underlying inflation by 1 per centage point per year. Second, the current relationship between job openings and unemployment, known as the Beveridge curve, suggests the equilibrium level is actually about 5%. This implies a much higher unem ployment rate would be needed to significantly reduce inflation.

Third, the Fed’s projections have no prece dent: Never has the unemployment rate increased by 0.5% or more without a recession (as the economist Claudia Sahm famously noted), and never in post-war history has it risen

by just 0.9 percentage point (after 0.5, the next stop is 2 percentage points).

Another worrisome sign: FOMC members appear to disagree about how long the central bank will stick with its inflation fight. All but one expect the federal funds rate to end 2023 somewhere between 4.25% and 5%, but the range widens to 2.5% to 4.75% at the end of 2024. And this isn’t related to expectations that inflation will be vanquished by 2024. No more than a few forecast it will have fallen to 2% by then.

So far, people seem to believe Pow ell’s pledge that the Fed will “keep at it” until the job is done. Longerterm inflation expectations appear well-anchored close to 2%. Prices in the Treasury market, for example, imply an annual inflation rate of 2.4% between five and 10 years in the future. Surveys also suggest consum ers’ expectations of long-term inflation have fallen back within their pre-pan demic ranges.

But what will happen when people realize the job will be harder, and the pain greater, than the Fed has indi cated? Support for its policies will probably decline, and it will lose cred ibility – something crucial to retain to get inflation under control.

Bill Dudley is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist and senior adviser to Bloomberg Economics. A senior research scholar Princeton Uni versity, he served as president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and as vice chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee.

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I really miss my neighbor who moved to a city four hours away

Dear Annie: My neighbor, who has become one of my very best friends, just moved to a city four hours away. I’m dev astated. We used to meet up nearly every night for a cocktail on the porch or a walk around the neighbor hood. We both promised to keep in close touch, but I have barely heard from her at all in the month that she has been gone. I feel like I have been tossed aside, that she was only friends with me out of con venience. I’m not sure what to do. — Left Alone

Annie Lane Dear Annie

what you need to get out of your rut.

Dear Left Alone: That’s lovely that you live in such a neighborly community! Do you have other neighbors you get along with? Perhaps you could get to know them better by bringing over baked goods or organizing a block party.

In terms of your relationship with your neighbor who moved away, try to give her some grace. Moving is stressful. Once she is settled in her new place, why don’t you give her a call and make plans to visit her? A new walking route could be just

Dear Annie: I’m writing regarding “Three’s Company,” who feels uncomfort able around her future brother- and sister-inlaw and their girlfriend who now lives with them and their children. You were correct to say that only the people involved know what really goes on in a rela tionship. I am sure you will hear from others, but polyamory can mean long-term, committed relationships. Just because they don’t look like what the con cerned sister-in-law believes they should look like doesn’t make them wrong and it doesn’t mean they are doomed. If the couple was already dealing with infidelity beforehand, as was mentioned in the letter, then monogamy was not working for them. Maybe consensual nonmonogamy will work for them if they are being open about what they need.

Many poly people actively spend time learning to better communicate with their part ners. I have been in a loving polyamorous relationship

Horoscopes

ARIES (March 21-April 19).

Your attractive qualities shine. The people you’re interested in are likely to be excited about your curiosity. Use this good luck by noticing what’s missing in your social life and asking yourself, “Who do I want to know?”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20).

Remember when that bit of life you expected would change everything just didn’t? You can’t always tell what’s going to matter or how you’re going to feel. All the worry and doubt might be for nothing. Just do the thing, then see.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21).

Cheerleaders are nice to have, but if you don’t have them, make sure you at least have competition. Nothing motivates you as much as a formidable opponent. When it comes to success, rivals are more essen tial than fans.

CANCER (June 22-July 22).

The graceful balance you achieve between feeding your interests and serving the inter ests of others will contribute to your happiness. For the incon venient giving you do today you will receive a dose of joy.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22).

You’ll witness impressive feats and get curious about how they do it. If you ask, they’ll tell. But if you hang back and observe a while first, you’ll see that the best questions aren’t so obvious.

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Today’s birthday

It’s no coincidence your relationships sparkle with humor and tenderness: It’s what you built and cultivate. You’ve come to understand the power of your focused intention, which is more valuable than gold. You’ll attract, with great specificity, what makes you feel most vital and makes people around you thrive, too. Sagittarius and Aquarius adore you.

Your lucky numbers are: 10, 1, 24, 28 and 13.

You’ll ask what matters and learn a lot more.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).

You’ll respond best to work that’s quantifiable and people who are clear in their inten tions. Your mind wants to categorize things today. If a thing defies categoriza tion, it may default to your mental trash can.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).

Things like hunger and desire are the enemy of intelligent strategy. It’s easier to see which is the smart option when you don’t need or want any thing. How can you approach the game from a more neutral place?

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).

In music, the end of the song is

for 24 years. My partners care for me and support each other when I have been seri ously ill. Even the nuns in the nursing home I was in for a while said they had never heard of it before but that I had the best support system they had ever seen.

Three’s Company should consider supporting her sis ter-in-law, and maybe she will learn that love may look dif ferent for the thruple, but that doesn’t make it wrong. Also, the children may now have another trusted adult to turn to when they need help with homework or are frus trated with their parents. Love is beautiful in many forms. — Pleased to Be Poly

Dear Pleased: Thank you for sharing your insights. You’re right that there is an abun dance of love out there, and it looks different for every one. There are certainly details about the thruple’s situation that we don’t know. I hope their dynamic is as loving and sup portive as the one you have with your partners.

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

not the point of the song. Like wise, the paycheck, trophy or prize is not the entire reason for your effort. If you’re not enjoy ing the process, you’ll go find work that is more fulfilling.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21). Some seem to have more of the good stuff. Whether it’s actually true is irrele vant. Envy can teach you what you want. You’ll extend your imagination to the fantasy and extract the motivation to work harder and smarter.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19). You’ve tried to move past some obstacles lately, and though it may have felt awkward, there’s a kind of music created by all the chal lenge and disruption. It’s the rocks that make the brook sing.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18). Strong feelings can be a gift, but immediately acting on them is often a mistake. Take the time to cool down and assess your position first so you can choose your next move from a place of calm.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You may not completely know what you offer the world yet, but it is valuable and may have mass appeal. Anyone who leads you to believe you are an acquired taste is seeding doubt to gain power. Don’t be fooled.

Write Holiday Mathis at HolidayMathis.com.

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ONE IS MORE LIKELY THAN THE OTHER

Carolyn Heilbrun, who wrote many mystery novels under the nom de plume Amanda Cross, pointed out that “the married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.”

One of the arts of declarer play is recognizing the risk – or risks – to your

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contract. If Line A works except against Layout B, and Line C works against B but not against Layout D, usually you adopt the line that is mathematically superior.

In today’s deal, for example, South is in four hearts, and West starts the defense with his two top diamonds. What are A, B, C and D?

Over two hearts, South might have rebid two spades because a 4-4 spade fit would probably play a trick better than a 5-3 heart fit.

Line A is to ruff the diamond king, draw trumps in three rounds, knock out the spade ace and claim. Here (Layout B, trumps 4-1), though, careful defense defeats the contract. If declarer draws all of the trumps, he will have none left, so when he sees the 4-1 break, he must switch to spades. However, East holds up his ace for one round, takes the second and gives West a spade ruff. Eventually, the defenders score a club trick to defeat the contract.

In Line C, declarer discards his inevitable club loser at trick two, which works perfectly here but loses when the defenders now cash the spade ace and get a spade ruff at trick four. Then declarer will find that hearts were 3-2 all along.

However, hearts 4-1 and spades 4-2 is more likely than hearts 3-2 and spades 6-1 (Layout D).

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Bridge

9/30/22

ONE IS MORE LIKELY THAN THE OTHER

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

Carolyn Heilbrun, who wrote many mystery novels under the nom de plume Amanda Cross, pointed out that “the married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to

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Amy Schneider and Genevieve Davis wed earlier this year during a “small private cer emony” in Alameda County, California, the “Jeopardy!” champion announced Tuesday on social media.

Schneider – who boasts the second-longest winning streak in “Jeop ardy!” history – was “delighted” to share the happy news, along with a few photos from the wedding. In the pic tures, both beaming brides can be seen wearing white dresses and flower crowns.

“A year ago today, I was in LA, waiting to fulfill a dream,” Schnei der tweeted. “The year since has been full of good days, but by far the best one was May 9th, when Genevieve and I got married. Without her, none of the other good days would have hap pened. I’m so lucky to share my life with her!”

On Instagram, the trailblazing trivia master from Oakland added that she and Davis will “still be having a traditional wedding & reception next summer” but haven’t had time “to get very far in plan ning it” because of their busy schedules.

“We couldn’t wait that long to proclaim our love and commitment to each other,” she wrote. “Thank you, everyone for your support!”

Schneider and Davis got engaged in February and shared their pro

posal storieswith the Los Angeles Times in March. Hot off her record-break ing “Jeopardy!” run at the time, Schneider was focusing on writing a book and “being a celeb rity or whatever,” while Davis was employed as a nanny and pursu ing a career in social work. The couple met in July 2020 and began dating in February 2021.

“We both felt – from pretty early in our rela tionship – that this is where it was headed, but I was so surprised by [the proposal],” Schnei der told the L.A. Times.

“I’d known for a while that it was going to happen, so it’s kind of just a formality, in a sense. But being actually engaged was such a good feeling, and I was sur prised by that.”

The engagement hap pened less than a month after Schneider’s impres sive “Jeopardy!” stint came to an end on TV. Over the course of 41 consecutive games, Schneider became the first woman and the first transgender person to win more than $1 million on the longrunning quiz show.

“The previous trans contestants that have been on – that meant a lot to me to see them and be able to envi sion myself where they were,” Schneider told the L.A. Times in January.

“I hope [my success] makes it seem possible.

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David Crotty/Getty Images/TNS file Genevieve Davis, left, and Amy Schneider attend The Dinah’s 31st Anniversary at Margaritaville Resort Palm Springs in Palm Springs, Sept. 23.

Wednesday on social media that she was diagnosed with breast cancer in June.

On her website, the veteran broadcast journalist and podcast host shared an essay detailing her treatment so far and urging readers to get their annual mammograms.

“Every two minutes, a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States,” Couric, 65, wrote on Instagram.

“On June 21st, I became one of them. As we approach #BreastCancerAwareness Month, I wanted to share my personal story with you all and encourage you to get screened and understand that you may fall into a category of women who needs more than a mammogram.”

In recent months, Couric said, she has undergone a lumpectomy and radiation therapy – the treatment rec ommended for her Stage 1A cancer diagnosis. She com pleted her final round of radiation on Tuesday.

“I was warned that I may be fatigued and my skin may turn a little pink,” the former “Today” anchor wrote in her essay. “My left breast does look like I’ve been sunbathing topless, but other than that, I’ve felt fine.”

Initially, the “Next Ques tion” podcast host had intended to record her routine mammo gram and breast ultrasound for her audience – similarly to how she aired her colonos copy on NBC’s “Today” show in 2000 and influenced others to get the exam, she explained. But when her doctor returned with the results, she asked Couric’s film crew to cut the cameras.

Her physician had dis covered a mass that – after a biopsy – was confirmed to be a tumor. Couric received her diagnosis via phone during

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“I felt sick and the room started to spin,” she said.

“I walked to a corner and spoke quietly, my mouth unable to keep up with the questions swirling in my head. What does this mean? Will I need a mastec tomy? Will I need chemo? What will the next weeks, months, even years look like?”

Couric, who has no history of breast cancer in her family, soon found out that “85% of the 264,000 American women who are diagnosed every year in this country have no family history.”

The former talk-show host also recalled breaking the news to her daughters, who “began to cry” as Couric “tried to be . . . reassuring.” Their father, attor ney Jay Monahan, died of colon cancer in 1998.

“They’d already lost one parent,” Couric wrote. “The idea of losing another was unfathomable.”

In the following weeks, Couric had her tumor removed and learned her Oncotype, “which measures the likelihood of your cancer returning,” and was “considered low enough to forgo chemotherapy.” She started radiation in Septem ber and listened to music by artists including Stevie Wonder and Taylor Swift during her sessions. (“Maybe I’ll put my radiation playlist on Spotify,” she joked.)

“Throughout the process, I kept thinking about two things: how lucky I was to have access to such incredible care, since so many people don’t, and how lucky I was to be the beneficiary of such amazing technology,” Couric said.

“It made me feel grate ful and guilty – and angry that there’s a de facto caste system when it comes to health care in America.”

Before signing off, Couric

aka Breast Cancer Awareness Month – from diagnostic tools and prevention strategies to treatment plans and personal experiences.

“Why am I telling you all this? Well, since I’m the ‘Screen Queen’ of colon cancer, it seemed odd to not use this as another teachable moment that could save someone’s life,” Couric said.

“Please get your annual mammogram. I was six months late this time. I shudder to think what might have happened if I had put it off longer.”

Couric’s health update comes a day after “Chicago Med” star Marlyne Barrett shared her own cancer diagnosis in an interview with People magazine. The 44-year-old actor – whose TV character battled breast cancer onscreen – said she was stunned to discover she had uterine and ovarian cancer in real life, despite having no family history of either.

“The initial experience was a shock, a shock to my woman hood,” she told People.

“I didn’t believe them, but when they showed me the CT scan, I went, ‘Oh my word.’ The first questions were, ‘Am I going to live?’ I just fell into my husband’s arms. It still takes my breath away when I think about it.”

Determined to fight for the sake of her husband and young children, Barrett has committed to “aggressive chemotherapy” and an eventual hysterectomy. While undergoing treatment, she has continued to work on “Chicago Med,” where some of her colleagues have shaved their heads in solidarity.

“We as human beings are so scared to face the mortality of life, or to even pronounce the word cancer,” she said. “But we have so much more strength inside of us than we think.”

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Bridge

SHE HAD WINNERS IN HER HAND

If you list the 100 greatest-ever bridge players, few will be women. You may draw your own conclusions for the reasons or read books on the subject.

The person who had collected the most World Bridge Federation masterpoints for women was Dorothy Hayden-Truscott, who lived in New York City and died in 2006. She won

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four world championships as a player and one as a nonplaying captain. She is also one of only two women to have represented the United States in the Bermuda Bowl. (Helen Sobel was the other.)

Dorothy’s favorite deal occurred while she was winning the 1967 Women’s Board-a-Match Teams Championship. The six-heart contract suffers from certain drawbacks. In the cold light of day, despite having 12 points, North should have bid only four hearts at her second turn.

Dorothy won the diamond-jack lead with her ace, played a trump to dummy’s queen and led a spade to her jack. West won with the ace and naively exited with her last heart.

Having three club losers, dummy’s two spade winners were useless. Abandoning them, declarer cashed all of her red-suit winners. With one to go, East, dummy and West each held one club and three spades. Each defender thought that she retained sole control of spades.

On the final trump, dummy’s club king was thrown. Still under the influence of an idee fixe, East discarded her club ace, so declarer’s 9-8-4 of clubs won the last three tricks!

East should have realized that if South had started with two spades, West would have discarded one of hers.

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Armijo

The Royals went 3-2 in the preseason, one of those out comes being changed from a loss to a forfeit victory after El Camino used an ineligi ble player. Armijo beat Florin (54-6) and Sierra (34-19) and lost to Dixon (28-26) and Natomas (41-6).

Sophomore quarterback Willie Nickson has helped ignite the Armijo offense at times to 148 total points. Nickson has thrown for 625 yards and eight touchdowns, while also rushing for 219 yards and four touch downs. Sophomore running back Markel Hazzard has rushed for 357 yards and four touchdown. Senior receiver Kaiba Washington has been Nickson’s top target with eight catches for 162 yards and three touchdowns.

The defensive side is led by the immovable force that is junior Jericho Johnson. Sought after by some Pac-12 schools, Johnson has collected seven sacks and 29 tackles. He has had assists from junior Jason Hubbard (20 tackles), junior Kendrick Salcido (45 tackles)

Fairfield

The Falcons went 0-5 in the preseason with losses to Benicia (47-8), Vallejo (41-19), Davis (38-0), Alhambra (20-0) and Dixon (47-6). Fairfield is riding a 12-game losing streak and has managed only 33 offen sive points.

But new head coach Alex Hubbard has liked the attitude of his team recently. Senior quarterback Isaiah Nolan has thrown for 333 yards and two touchdowns. Sophomore Trevon Moten is the top running back with 284 yards. Junior receiver Josh Tucker has caught six passes for 172 yards and a touchdown.

The Fairfield defense has allowed 193 points. The top tacklers are senior Jimmy Green (15), Moten (14) and junior Isaac Banks (12).

Rodriguez

The Mustangs are 3-2 and may be peaking at the right time after a solid 50-21 win last Friday at Benicia. Rodriguez has wins over Bear Creek (36-7) and Napa (53-0) to go with the victory over Benicia. Losses have come to American Canyon (20-12) and West Park (25-6).

Sophomore quarterback Dylan Burke has stepped up after a shoulder injury to senior starter Kenen Jones. Both quarterbacks have thrown for over 450 yards combined and have 13 touchdowns (Burke 9, Jones 4) between them. Junior Bentley Williams and senior Daymanie Nelson have each run for 193 yards with a touchdown apiece. Senior Leroy Bryant, one of the MEL’s top talents who has already committed to the University of Washington, has 32 catches for 412 yards and three touchdowns, while junior Jeremiah Hill as caught 22 passes for 256 yards and four touchdowns.

The Rodriguez defense has held opponents to 73 points with senior Gabriel Batres (34 tackles), senior Malik Dawson (32) and junior Trevor Crommie (35) among the leaders.

Vacaville

The Bulldogs finished the nonleague season 2-3 but are still owners of the past five MEL titles. Vacaville picked up wins over Davis (49-21) and Cardi nal Newman (14-7) but lost to Oak Ridge (62-0), Granite Bay (35-13) and El Cerrito (14-9). Are they vulnerable? History says no, but . . .

Vacaville lost its starting

junior quarterback Brody For tunati to a hip injury. Senior Alex Barkley has thrown for 163 yards a touchdown in his place. Junior Cristian Diosdado is the top rusher with 73 carries for 321 yards and two touch downs. The top receivers are junior Jemeir Buckner with 10 catches for 134 yards and two touchdowns and senior Brady Mott with eight catches for 197 yards a score.

The Bulldogs defense has allowed 139 points this season, but been stout on occasion. Mott, senior Jon Navarro, senior Eric Gladney and senior Liam Flaherty have all accounted for more than 40 tackles apiece.

Vanden

The Vikings haven’t buried opponents but have found ways to win all of their games. Vanden beat Yuba City (2620), Douglas (32-10), Burbank (42-8), Foothill of Pleasanton (23-14) and Rancho Cotate (3029). Like Vacaville, they have played some strong foes.

Senior quarterback Tre Dimes has thrown for 786 yards and five touchdowns in his third year at the helm, guiding the Vikings to 153 points. Senior Elijah Fisherman has carried the biggest share of the running attack with 339 yards and three touchdowns. Junior Brayden

Chavez is Dimes’ top receiver with 20 catches for 410 yards and two touchdowns.

Vanden’s defense has held opponents to 81 points. Senior Devin Martin is the emo tional leader and the tackle leader with 41. Senior Abraham Sanders has 35 tackles and senior Kyren Jackson-davis, 32.

Will C. Wood

The Wildcats are 3-2 with wins over Pioneer (14-7), Napa (55-14) and Dixon (19-6). The losses have been tough and were to Casa Roble (50-0) and Liberty (48-7). Wood has scored 95 points and allowed 125.

Senior quarterback Mason Sayre had thrown for 506 yards and five touchdowns. Senior Manny Delatorre has accounted for the bulk of the rushing with 634 yards and six touch downs. Senior Zaire Fortune has caught 17 passes for 197 yards.

Senior Darrius Hickenbottom has 13 catches for 155 yards and three touchdowns.

Senior Jarren Ford is the heart of the Wildcats defense and has 45 tackles. Hickenbot tom has had a hand in 32 stops and senior Jacob Emerson has 34 tackles.

“I definitely think our league is becoming more competitive,” Murphy said, “and that’s good for everyone.”

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Rio Vista

The Rams have had some very highs, and very lows in the preseason and finished 2-3. Rio Vista

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earned wins over Millen nium (57-0) and Lower Lake (70-0) and the losses were big to Orestimba (55-0), Winters (61-8) and Clear Lake (33-0). They have scored 135 points, given up 149 and currently are riding a two-game losing streak.

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back Matthew Bodle has thrown for 280 yards and two touchdowns. Junior Isaiah Turner (27-264, 3 TDs), senior Tony Bel lante (44-248, 4 TD) and sophomore Angel Mendoza (39-299, 1 TD) have shared the rushing duties. Junior Marco Car rillo is the top receiver

with seven catches for 185 yards and two touchdowns.

The defense has also been balanced with Bel lante (26 tackles), senior Michael Lorton (24) and sophomore Cesar Val entin (23) leading the charge for the Rams in the early going.

Golden Sierra

The Grizzlies started the season 2-1 with wins over Bret Harte (21-7) and Western Sierra (76-6) after an opening loss to Woodland Chris tian (45-0). They enter league play on a two-game winning streak while scoring only 97 points and giving up just 58.

Junior quarter back Jordan Harper has thrown for 381 yards and two touchdowns. Soph omore Gavin Miller is the leading rusher with 234 yards. The defense is led by senior Koa Larson (17 tackles) and senior Landon Hazlet (13).

Esparto

The Spartans went 2-3 during the preseason, winning their last two games against Hamilton City (35-0) and Winters (24-12). The early losses came to Natomas (4021), Woodland Christian (by forfeit) and Fremont Oak (35-22). Esparto has allowed 102 points and given up 87.

Senior quarterback Nicolas Hernandez has thrown for 178 yards. The Spartans have two top rushers in senior Guillermo Avina (44-531, 4 TDs) and senior Silas Umbay (39-431, 5 TDs). Umbay is the leading tackler(30).

Highlands

The Scots have

had a 3-2 preseason, beating Western Sierra (63-0), Lindhurst (54-0) and Florin (37-0). The losses have come to Galt (45-8) and Johnson (56-28). Highlands has scored 190 points and allowed 101.

Freshman quarter back Walter Lewis has thrown for 679 yards and 12 touchdowns and rushed for 301 yards and three touchdowns. The top rusher is senior Mekhi Salahuddin, who has gained 352 yards and four touchdowns. Lewis’ top target has been Michael Agustus with 13 catches for 213 yards and six touchdowns. The top tackler is James Baca with 22.

San Juan

The Spartans have notched wins over Millen nium (28-6) and Western Sierra (43-6) and have lost to Encina Prep (12-8), Mira Loma (24-20) and Mesa Verde (53-0). San Juan has scored 135 points and allowed 149.

Senior quarterback Joshua Young has been the team’s top passer with 155 yards. Senior Drew Hason has run for 278 yards and two touch downs. Senior John Diddle is the top tackler with 12.

“I think when you look at everybody on paper, to be honest it’s us and Esparto,” Tarango said. “But it’s really open for everybody.”

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