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FAIRFIELD — The City Council on Tuesday supported the need for the city Fire Depart ment to cover emergency service calls for the Cordelia Fire Protec tion District due to staffing issues. The council approved

the department, through the Solano Local Agency Formation Commission, to enter into a contract for service with the Cordelia district.

Fire Chief Matt Luchenbach called the contract a “really excit ing opportunity” to bring “entrepruenral money” into the city. He said a consultant described

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FAIRFIELD — Dejon Daniel Hughes spoke again Monday about his wish to see his son, Daniel Hughes, memorialized with a renaming or addi tion of the name of his son to the sign on the Vanden High School stadium.

This time it was different because he was speaking to a committee created for the sole purpose of making that decision.

Daniel Hughes died after being shot in April 2021. His family has wished to create a legacy for him by having his name included at the stadium where he had such great times with friends and family.

First Middle Green Valley subdivision maps get nod

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FAIRFIELD — The first tentative maps for the Middle Green Valley Specific Plan are in the books – more than 15 years after project dis cussions started.

The Board of Super visors, in an afternoon session Tuesday, voted 4-1 to approve the appli cation that includes two tentative subdivision maps – one small lot map that creates lots for 322 of the 390 homes allowed in the development.

Supervisor Monica Brown, who raised issues of water use and indem nification to protect the county and future fire service, cast the lone dis senting vote.

The large lot map divides 410.9 acres into 27 separate parcels “to sell or transfer to developers for future

subdivision and is not intended to include improvement plans or development. Access easements are included as necessary to ensure every parcel created has access and is not landlocked,” the staff report states.

Planning for the spe cific plan started as early as 2004 by some accounts, and was in the county’s voterapproved General Plan update of 2008.

The project was first introduced in 2009, approved in 2010, reapproved in 2017 and amended in 2021. The lifecycle included court battles as well.

“This is the only project that spans all 16 years I’ve been on the board,” said Supervisor Jim Spering, quipping it could be put on his

Supervisors have $23 million of ARPA funds left

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a fiscal analysis of the Cordelia situation as a “postmortem.”

The fee per call would be $475. Based on current call volume, the contract would generated about $213,000 through June 30, about $800,000 annually and into the future, more than $1 million.

“The (Cordelia

department) is facing a public health and safety emergency. In the spirit of collaboration and maintaining conti nuity of service for our neighbors within the CFPD, the Fire Depart ment is seeking City Council approval to apply through LAFCO

FAIRFIELD — Solano County supervisors, after Tuesday’s allocation of $303,000 toward three water and wastewater infrastructure projects, has committed about $63.29 million of the $86.95 million in federal American Rescue Plan Act pandemic funds the county has received.

The board also has about $69.14 million in funding requests for the

$23.66 million remaining.

we have approx imately $45 million in projects that will not be funded,” Assistant County Administrator Ian Goldberg told the board.

The latest allocations included $200,000 for a sewer connection from Sandy Beach Park’s rec reational vehicle dump station to Rio Vista’s municipal sewer system. It could save the county

Employees: Safety, health

by short staffing

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Mark Manalastas packs potatoes at the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano in Fairfield, April 26.

Rental car gives me a good going home story

What do you do when it seems there’s nothing you can do? I recently spent 10 days visiting family in the small Southern town where I grew up.

We celebrated my sister’s birthday, told stories and ate a fright ening lot of fried food. It was hard to say goodbye, to leave my sister in a nursing home, and my blind brother all alone in his apartment. But saying goodbye is often the price we pay for getting to say hello – for finally being together after too much time apart.

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I wanted to go home to be with my husband and children and grand children and to sleep in my own bed. I was exhausted, not from work, but from the adrenaline that had kept me going nonstop for 10 days.

The cottage at the lake where I stayed had a per fectly good bed. But I never sleep well away from home, especially if I have a lot to think about. Do we ever not have a lot to think about?

lake and the mountains and the ducks and the mosquitoes and a construction crew that kept hammering away nearby.

I wish you could’ve seen it all.

Then I drove around the lake and turned north to go 90 miles to the airport in Charlotte. I could’ve taken I-85, but chose instead a more scenic route.

Halfway to the airport, I was thinking about my brother and sister, wishing I could do some thing to make their lives easier, and wondering when, if ever, I would see them again.

car’s dashboard. It was yellow, not red, which I took as a good sign. What did it mean? Did the car need to be serviced? Or was the engine about to blow up?

I pulled over to check the owner’s manual, but didn’t find an answer. I tried phoning my husband for advice, but found this part of the “scenic route” had no cellphone service.

Finally, I did what I learned to do as a child when I didn’t know what to do: I prayed.

“Please just get me home and let me sleep in my own bed.”

that lasted all the way to the airport; while I was being patted down by security and running a mile to the gate; and even when the pilot said the fog was so thick in Monterey we might have to divert to San Jose.

When we landed in Mon terey, where the fog had lifted and my husband was waiting to take me home, I said another quick prayer: “Thank you.”

I tried to focus on the laughs we had shared. But I still had to keep wiping my eyes as I packed up to fly home to the place my mother, rest her soul, always called “California of All Places.”

As much as I hated to leave,

When it was time to get on the road, I loaded all my stuff in the “economy compact” rental car that I had stood in line forever to rent. (I asked the rental agent why it took so long, and he said, “We’re shorthanded ’cause we can’t get nobody to work.”)

Before leaving my home town, I said goodbye to the

It was a question I couldn’t answer. Somehow it reminded me of the words in a card that a friend sent me years ago after my first husband died: “Then, when you think you will never smile again, life comes back.”

Those words are like magic. They always make me smile. I was still smiling when suddenly a warning light lit up on the

It wasn’t my best prayer, but it came straight from my soul.

Taking a deep breath, I pulled back on the road. Then – and I am not making this up – the warning light went off. And it did not come back on.

Let me be clear. I believe all prayers are answered, but not always in the way we hope for.

Seeing that light go off, and stay off, put a smile on my face

Public schools face many controversies

Life has lots of warning lights. We all get our share. Some of us get more than others. But things don’t always go from bad to worse. Once in a while, when all seems lost, we get to go home and sleep in our own bed and wake up with a smile.

My brother and sister are going to love that story.

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

Event marks completion of I-80 bridge project

t’s October and across the nation public schools are in full swing.

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As I’ve written in past columns, this is typically a time of excitement and optimism for millions of students, teachers, parents and administrators.

Stephen Davis Eye on education

Yet, in 2022 fierce controversies over public education continue to rile schools and communities in every state. There are so many it’s hard to know which ones are most important in terms of their influence on educational institutions and practices.

For example, in recent years major flareups have erupted over charter schooling, voucher plans, critical race theory, LGBTQ rights, standard ized tests, school safety, Common Core Standards, teaching evolution, book bans, Covid-19 mandates, corporal punishment and school prayer. The list goes on and on. Such conflicts have become increasingly contentious, and in some cases danger ous, as some people with hardened points of view have resorted to violence and/or threats of vio lence against school board members, teachers and administrators.

While conflicts often emerge from serious ide ological differences, some can be pretty unusual.

For example, I recall the time a group of Wiccans (e.g., “good” witches) took issue with an elementary school reading list that included the fairytale Hansel and Gretel. Their outrage over

the book’s disre spectful depiction of witches was vig orously expressed at local school board meetings and with various media outlets. Their main argu ment was that by keeping the book on the reading list, the school board engaged in religious intolerance and discrim ination. I also recall the time a high school English literature teacher had stu dents critique an article that contained refer ences to explicit sexual behaviors. Commu nity outrage was red hot.

There was extreme pres sure (that took months to cool) to fire the teacher, the superintendent, the principal – and to recall the board.

But controversies and conflicts are nothing new to public schools.

Fierce debates and even riots (some deadly) in the 1840s that ravaged parts of Philadelphia erupted over Catholic opposition to Protestantinfluenced domination of an increasingly secular common school curric ulum. During this era, equally contentious political conflicts ani mated New England residents over the issue of taxing all adult citi zens, even those without school-age children, to support the operation of public schools.

However, what really caught my attention was a recent slate of reports about school districts under immense political pressure to ban certain books. According to Ali

Wong (USA Today), “over the last year or so books were banned at least 2,500 times by 138 school districts across 32 states (affecting more than 2 million students).” In addition, 24 states are con sidering legislation to restrict classroom discus sions about race, sexual orientation and gender identity. Although large majorities of Ameri cans oppose book bans, the movement has been gaining steam at the grassroots level.

It turns out book banning in public schools is not a current phenom enon. From the earliest days of public schooling in America, competing inter est groups have battled each other and schools over the inclusion and/ or exclusion of instruc tional materials (including books). Initially the idea of “banning” books in schools conjured up unset tling images of Nazi and Soviet book burnings and purges of “subversive” books during the 1930s and 1940s. However, the issue cannot be reduced to arguments about the First Amendment rights of schoolchildren. There are strong and legiti mate concerns about the suitability of certain controversial ideas and instructional content for children at different grade levels and ages.

This is precisely why many states and dis tricts apply rigorous selection procedures for textbooks and other reading materials.

Nevertheless, Rebecca Recco (EdSurge) main tains that in today’s hyperpartisan political

and turbulent social envi ronments “now is the time to teach students how to deal with controversial subjects and how to cope with a plurality of ideas and identities.” Argu ably, the most important purpose of public schools is to thoughtfully prepare students to enter into adulthood equipped with the knowledge, disposi tions and skills to succeed in a highly diverse and complex society (loaded with controversies).

Stephen Davis is a career educator who writes a column that publishes every other Wednesday in the Daily Republic. Reach him by email at stephen davis71@gmail.com.

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VALLEJO — Dina El-Tawansy, a District 4 director for Caltrans, will be one of the speak ers at an event Thursday that marks the comple tion of the $40 million I-80 Six Bridges Project.

The event will begin at 10 a.m. at the Hunter Hill Safety Rest Area along westbound Interstate 80 east of Vallejo, the state Department of Trans portation announced. Vallejo Mayor Robert McConnell and Daryl Halls, director of the Solano Transporta

tion Authority, also are scheduled to speak.

The bridge project, which raised six overpasses across I-80 to federal standards, is being touted as one of three critical inter state projects.

The others is the massive I-80/I-680/ Highway-12 Interchange ProjectandtheI-80Express Lanes Project.

The bridge project was completed three months ahead of sched ule. About $38 million of the total cost came from the Senate Bill 1 Road Repair and Accountabil ity Act of 2017.

Employees: Safety, health, emotional well-being compromised by short staffing

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FAIRFIELD — Jenni fer La Riveiere, a librarian at the John F. Kennedy Library in Vallejo, told the Solano County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday she was grabbed by the arm by a man who offered her money if she would let him touch her breasts.

It was one of three assaults La Riveiere said has occurred at the library, and she blames understaffing.

Not only is the actual library staff missing employees, but she said shortages in the Sher iff’s Office has meant the library has gone without the security it is sup posed to have at night. She also said there were no mental health special ists available.

“Short staffing puts us in unsafe situations,” La Riveiere said.

La Riveiere is a member of Service Employees International Union 1021, which along with members of the International Federation of Professional and Tech nical Engineers Local 21,

have appeared at the past three board meetings to urge the board to address the staffing issue.

They want the county to offer competitive wages and benefits to attract and retain employees.

La Riveiere was one of five speakers to address the issue. One addi tional speaker told the board how longevity pay at 15 years also would improve the staffing issue.

“This is not sustain able; this is not healthy,” Kristina Bradley, an animal control officer, told the board about the added physical and emo tional stress caused by not having a full staff.

Elizabeth Harri son, addressing the longevity pay issue, said understaffing is “crip pling” the county’s ability to provide critical public services.

The comments came a day after the two unions announced their plan to conduct a “strike school” Thursday.

Zac Goldstein, a com munications specialist for SEIU 1021, said the strike

County administrator: Solano working toward fair contracts with employees

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FAIRFIELD — The Solano County Board of Supervisors has been accused in recent weeks of not appreciating the value of its employees, and not working hard enough to reach fair contracts.

Pay, health care costs and a high level of vacan cies are just a handful of the issues the Inter

national Federation of Professional and Tech nical Engineers Local 21 and Service Employees International Union Local 1021 have raised.

Now those two unions have planned what they are calling a “strike school” to decide what actions and strategies to take moving forward, but also to educate members about their rights and what a possible strike

could look like.

The contracts expire Oct. 21.

“We are hoping there won’t be a need for a strike and we will be able to reach agreements over the next couple of weeks,” County Administrator Bill Emlen said Monday in a phone interview.

However, Emlen said he was cautious about what he can say because he does not want to negoti

ate through the press.

“We are trying to address all the issues,” Emlen said.

In some cases, such as vacancies and even equity bumps for certain employee classes, those efforts are being addressed within the

Supervisors raise awareness to fight domestic violence

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FAIRFIELD — Solano County supervisors on Tuesday unanimously voted to recognize October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month in the county.

It was the 36th year for Domestic Violence Awareness Month to be observed.

“Domestic violence is a pattern of abusive and threatening behav iors perpetrated by an intimate partner or family member against another. Eighty percent of all domestic violence victims are women, and those between the ages of 18 and 34 endure the highest rates of domestic violence,” the resolution adopted by the board states.

It states that 24 people per minutes are “victims of rape, physical vio lence or stalking by an intimate partner in the United States – more than 12 million women and men over the course of a year.”

“One in three female homicide victims are murdered by their current or former partner every year. An estimated 3.3 million children are exposed to violence by family members; these chil dren suffer deep and lasting emotional effects and are more likely to continue the cycle of

abuse from one gener ation to the next; and the Covid-19 pandemic has presented unique challenges for domes tic violence survivors, including intensified insolation and additional barriers to accessing support and resources,” the resolution states.

Awareness of the problem, the staff report to the board states, is key to reducing the problem.

“The Solano Family Justice Center, as part of the Office of Family Violence Prevention, is a program designed to reduce barriers for victims seeking services, recognizes the efforts of all professionals working with domestic violence victims and sur vivors. These agencies are working to ease the physical and emotional pain inflicted on victims of domestic violence and are collaborating to raise awareness to put an end to this abusive behavior,” the staff report states.

The action was part of the board consent calendar.

In other action, the board:

n Recognized Michael Yueh, with the Depart ment of Human Resources, as Employee of the Month for October.

n Approved a $500 contribution from the 2nd District general fund account to benefit Solano

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Members of the Service Employees International Union Local 1021 and the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers Local 21 took part in a “Staff Up Solano” demonstration at the government center in Fairfield, Sept. 27.

Daniel Clark Jr.

July 21, 1938 — Sept. 23, 2022

Daniel was born in Little Rock, Arkan sas, to Lueberta and Daniel Clark, both now deceased.

He received his education in the Little Rock area and after high school gradu ation joined the United States Air Force.

His service in the Air Force led him to Northern California. After retiring from the Air Force as a Tech Sergeant, he and his family resided in Solano County and surrounding areas until he passed.

His work history didn’t end with retire ment from the Air Force, as he went on to become a successful and respected Auto Consultant. The ‘Lincoln’ was his vehicle of preference; he leased and sold more than his share during his career in the Napa-Solano vicinities.

He throughly enjoyed working on cars and was a ‘fixture’ in the Auto Hobby Shop on Travis Air Force Base. He was also an avid bowler, even playing in the Pro-Am league with the likes of Jesse Fortson and Sigurd Jett.

When Daniel transitioned from his home in Rio Vista to Heaven on Sept. 23, 2022, he left to cherish his memo ries, his wife, Joyce; children, Donna, Debra (Paul) and Dawn (Marlon); one loving bonus son, Kevin (and his fiancé Effie); grandchildren, Kendall, and Morgan (Vern); great-grandchil dren, Sarabi, and Jovi; and a host of other extended family and friends.

Private inurnment service will be held at 12:45 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022, at the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery.

William ‘Bill’ L. Jacobson

Friends are invited to services set for Oct. 6, 2022, for Fairfield resident William ‘Bill’ L. Jacobson who passed away on Sept. 8, 2022, in Fairfield, California.

Bill was a California native and was the husband of the late Brent Jacobson.

Friends are invited to attend a 10:15 a.m. service with Honors at the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery, 5810 Midway Road, Dixon, California. Please arrive before 10:15 start time.

In lieu of flowers, please make memorial donations to your favorite charity in Bill’s name.

Funeral arrangements under the care of Bryan-Baker Funeral Home, 707-425-4697.

Anna Koon Luke Kim

Jan. 2, 1930 ± Sept. 12, 2022

Anna Kim, 65year resident of Fairfield, California, was called home to be with the Lord and passed away peacefully in her sleep just after mid night on Monday, Sept. 12, 2022. She was 92 years old.

Anna was born during the Great Depression, on Jan. 2, 1930, in Honolulu, Hawaii, to parents Henry and Jessie Wong. She was 11 years old during the attack on Pearl Harbor, and continued to grow up on the island of Hawaii, working hard in the pineapple fields, her uncle’s store and spear fishing octopus for money to buy school books.

She graduated from McKinley High School in 1948, and shortly thereaf ter on June 18, 1949, Anna married David Kim, her husband of almost 60 years. Anna and David immigrated to Fairfield, California, in June 1957.

Anna worked as the library clerk for Armijo High School for 26 years and was active in many groups and organizations. Anna and David were active members of the Hui Hauoli Club of Solano County from its inception and con sidered club members as extended ‘Ohana’ (family) for their lifetimes. Anna was also the President of the Epsilon Sigma Phi Soror ity Fairfield Chapter in 1972, and a member of the Joy Luck Club, Chinese Cul tural Club and Yin Sit Sha.

Anna loved watch ing sports and trav eling the world, but nothing brought her more joy than being around her family and friends.

Anna is sur vived by her sons, Henry Kim (Robin) of Suisun City, Jeff (Debra) Kim of Fairfield; daughter, Jadeen Kim of Fairfield; she was also a beloved grand mother to her seven grand children, Kathleen (Ben) Cordingley of Escondido, Brian (Brooke) Kim of San Diego, Carly Kim, Jaymie Kim and Robert Kim of Suisun City, Benny Santos of Fairfield, and Jayson (India) Santos of Mesa, Arizona; nine great-grand children, Madison (Tom) Kamman, Alexis Robert son, Gabriel Robertson of South Dakota, Dennis, David and Tyler Batye of Suisun City, Violet and August Kim of San Diego and Holland Santos of Mesa, Arizona; and multiple nieces and nephews.

Anna was preceded in death by the passing of her husband, David Kim; sister, Lydia Iams; and her son, Garrett Kim.

The family would like to thank the Comfort Care staff at NorthBay Medical Center and Dave Reeder and Vincent Miller from Twin Chapels Mortuary for their great care of our mother.

Private cremation per formed by Twin Chapels Mortuary. Celebration of life will be held Oct. 23, 2022, in Fairfield, California.

UC Davis Natural Reserves accepts 482 acres from Napa Land Trust

LAKE BERRYESSA — Nearly 500 acres of Cal ifornia Coast Range oak woodlands and chaparral communities will be incor porated into the Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve.

The transfer of 482 acres is from the Land Trust of Napa County, which purchased the property in 2020, to the University of Cal ifornia, Davis Natural Reserves, the organiza tions announced Monday in a statement.

“Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve is a premier destination for outdoor enthusiasts. Annually, more than 65,000 visitors enjoy hiking the reserve’s trail system, with its eagle-eye views of Lake Berryessa and spectacular displays of wildflowers.

The addition of these properties complements existing uses by provid ing a protected area of the reserve dedicated to research and instruction,” the statement said.

The land trust and See Acres, Page A5

Winds music programs.

n Recognized October as National Cybersecu rity Awareness Month.

n Recognized Oct. 23-29 as National Child hood Lead Poisoning Prevention Week in Solano County.

n Approved an addi tion to the Teamsters Union, Local 856, AFLCIO, contract to include 2.5% longevity pay to correctional supervisors with 15 years of service. The increase is effective Oct. 30.

n Approved a $472,000 contract with Jeweld Legacy Group LLC to support the devel opment of Solano Public Health’s Strategic Plan and enhance the capacity of local communitybased organizations to collaborate in recovery efforts and response to future public health

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negotiating room and outside of it through Human Resources, Emlen said.

He also said the county has 19 differ ent employee groups with whom to work out contracts.

Another factor, Emlen said, is the uncertainty of the economy and the potential impacts infla tion and maybe even another recession will have on the employees as well as the county’s financial condition.

“As far a valuing employees, I don’t know what that means as far as negotiations are con cerned,” Emlen said.

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emergencies through June 30, 2023, and approved an appropria tion transfer for $472,000 to recognize unantici pated Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity Enhancing Detection Expansion grant revenue.

n Approved an $852,458 contract with California Health Medical Reserve Corps to provide Covid-19 support throughout Solano County through June 30, 2023.

n Authorized Terry Schmidtbauer, director of Resource Manage ment, to solicit, award and execute up to $425,000 in supporting consultant services con tracts for various upcom ing construction projects included in the Public Works Capital Improve ment Plan.

n Introduced an ordi nance to amend the coun ty’s code to reflect changes in the 2022 Cali fornia Building Codes.

He said the goal is to come up with fair contracts for all the employee groups.

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school has been orga nized so members can discuss how they want to move forward “and figure out how to advance a fair contract.”

The members will gather at 5:30 p.m. at the Joseph A. Nelson Commu nity Center in Suisun City to build on those activi ties and to discuss other kinds of actions they can possibly take.

The contracts expire Oct. 21. Goldstein said no strike vote has been taken,

but there will be discus sions about the workers’ constitutional and other rights as well as informa tion about what a strike could look like if it gets to that point.

Contract issues include pay and benefits, such as a “priority demand” related to health cover

age, but also the need for the county to address a high vacancy rate among employee positions.

The groups said in a statement that members “pay more than double the average employee contribution across all Bay Area counties and Yolo County.”

Kat Kerlin/UC Davis a mountain view of stebbins Cold Canyon natural Reserve in april

Agree or not agree with grand jury, city has its own homeless agenda

FAIRFIELD — The City Council on Tuesday approved the amended changes to its responses to the Solano County civil grand jury report on Solano Shelter Inc., but in the end, it does not change the city’s homeless response program.

Moreover, the council rejected funding a foren sic audit, which the grand jury had recommended the county fund. not the city, but had been raised by council members as well. The county also rejected the audit, calling it unreasonable.

City Manager David Gassaway estimated the cost of such an audit to be at least $50,000 and possible twice that or even more.

The vote on the city response was 6-1 with Councilwoman Catherine Moy dissent ing. She attended the meeting virtually.

Moy, who is running for mayor, again became the target of claims that

she plays loose and easy with her comments, an allegation she has strongly denied, claiming she gives great thought to what she says.

John Eckstrom, the chief executive officer of Shelter Inc., just as strongly disagrees.

“I’m tired of the innu endo that you keep tossing around, not only in the council room, but on social media,” Eckstrom said to Moy.

“Stop; with the alterna tive facts,” he said.

Eckstrom was respond ing to Moy’s statement that the city needs to more thoroughly investi gate the deaths related to Project Roomkey in Fair field and Vallejo.

While she left the impression those deaths came under Shelter Sola no’s watch, she left open the possibility that was not the case. Eckstrom made it clear his company took over the operation after those deaths and after the severe damage to hotels hosting the project had taken place.

Some of Moy’s col

acres1,100 acres, adding to an important site for research into the area’s natural values.”

leagues have called for a censure vote because of her statement that at least some of the them are corrupt. She has not iden tified who she directed those comments about, but no censure vote has been scheduled to date.

This is the second time the council took up the report, “Shelter Solano Inc.: A Review of its First Three Years Operating an Emergency Shelter in Solano County,” which is critical of the response of local governments to homelessness and sug gests a lack of oversight and accountability “opens the door to the potential for a homeless industrial complex that benefits the nonprofits without accom plishing the task at hand.”

The grand jury pointed a finger directly at the shelter organization, though much of the crit icism has more to do with the confusion over the similar names of the shelter and its parent company, Shelter Inc.

The council’s official response, now, is a mix of agreement and partial

disagreement and the outright rejection of the forensic audit.

Before, the staff-sug gested response was to concur with the report, center largely around the grand jury’s confu sion about the similarity in names of the shelter and its parent company, Shelter Inc., and which was getting which con tracts and what funding.

Eckstrom said at the time that he was “befud dled” how the city could be confused, and therefore agree with the grand jury, when it has been paying the two entities for the past three years.

He told the council the grand jury was pro vided all the contracts and audits, each spelling out where the funding goes and for what it is used.

There were 14 find ings, with corresponding recommendations, in the report. The city addressed eight of those findings.

The city did receive an extension on its response deadline. It has been Oct. 3. It is now Oct. 10.

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UC Davis have pre served roughly 7,600 acres, including the Quail Ridge and McLaugh lin natural reserves.

“We’re pleased to assist in adding this beautiful property to the Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve,”

Doug Parker, chief exec utive officer of the land trust, said in the state ment. “With this latest acquisition, the Stebbins reserve will include over

Shane Waddle, asso ciate director of the UC Davis Natural Reserves, said “these lands are rep resentative of a large area of California and provide a model ecosystem for researchers to study impacts of climate change, drought and wildfires affecting the entire state.”

The property abuts Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve and Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument, “embedded

in a larger landscape of protected lands, including the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Putah Creek Wildlife Area, the local nonprofit Tuleyome and the Bureau of Reclama tion at Lake Berryessa,” the statement said.

“The acquisition dove tails nicely with larger area goals for community engagement, enhanced recreational oppor tunities, education and interpretation that the reserve is coordinating with partner agencies and organizations,” Paul

Havemann, Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve manager, said in the statement.

The conservation effort is part of the state’s 30x30 initiative, which looks to protect 30% of lands and coastal waters by 2030.

“This property protects extensive oak woodlands and chaparral communi ties, which dominate the California Coast Ranges, and provides habitat cor ridors for wildlife,” the statement said.

The Napa Open Space District assisted in the land transfer.

Vacaville Christian School to launch news radio show

VACAVILLE — Students at Vacaville Christian School’s Radio Conservatory and KVCB 100.9 FM will launch Nice News, a positive national radio newscast at 10 a.m. and noon Friday.

The newscast will cover topics such as science, environmental issues, the arts, lifestyle, sports and pop culture.

The middle school and high school reporters will also have fun with national days such as National Noodle and National Pretzel Day, the school reports. Other lighter side stories will be reported.

“Our newscasts will deal with positive solu

tions regarding serious issues while also dealing with stories such as The National Hammer Museum in Min nesota,” said Gary Dreibelbis, radio broad casting instructor. “We will be a breath of fresh air for your news day.”

Vacaville Christian School students will receive daily stories from The Nice News Service and edit them for the 10-minute newscasts, which will air Monday through Friday. KVCB 100.9 FM can be heard throughout Vacaville and north Fairfield. KVCB will soon be streaming for worldwide coverage.

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

Fairfield agrees to Seeno contract changes

Todd R. H ansen

FAIRFIELD — The City Council on Tuesday agreed to a host of requested changes to the development agree ment with Albert D. Seeno Corporation and related entities.

“The development agreement addressed a range of issues pertain ing to various Seeno construction projects in Cordelia, south of Interstate 80. In 2015, the development agree ment was readopted as a Restated and Amended Development Agree ment,” the staff report to the council states.

The fiscal impact of the changes is unknown because not all fees Seeno will be paying have been set, but the

staff said delaying approval could also delay setting the development fees citywide.

“Adopting the amend ments, however, help ensure that the city can update its development impact fees throughout the city without delay and ensures that Seeno projects will pay for transportation impacts in northeast Fairfield,” the staff report states.

There were some con cerns raised, including by District 1 council candi date Nora Dizon, that the new deal favors the devel oper and the residents will suffer – particularly with regard to the prom ised widening of Red Top Road from two lanes to four lanes.

However, Planning Manager David Feinstein,

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ment released Tuesday.

the interim Community Development director, said the new agreement actually sets Dec. 31, 2023, as a date certain for the Red Top work to be done or the city can terminate the development agree ment.

The developer fees Seeno will pay, while still discounted for some of the concessions the developer has made, such as build ing a new fire station, will be higher than under the previous agreement.

The amendment leaves most language in the 2015 changes intact, but includes among the changes a five-year exten sion for the development agreement including the vesting guarantees. Other changes are:

n An obligation to com plete Zone II pump station and Red Top Road

improvements by Dec. 31, 2023.

n A commitment by Seeno to not challenge in court any amendments to the city’s impact fees.

n An updated schedule of impact fees to be paid by Seeno for various developments.

In other action, the council:

n Renewed the Micro soft Enterprise agreement through Crayon Software Experts LLC, resellers of the state Department of Technology Microsoft Agreement, for $1.8 million.

The funds come from Fund 522.

n Suspended competi tive bidding and approved a $197,170 purchase of a replacement a CCTV sewer inspection van from CUES Inc. The funds come from the Vehicle Replace

ment Fund ($113,500) and the Sewer Maintenance Fund ($83,670).

n Suspended competi tive bidding and approved a $221,594 contract for a replacement water tender. The funds come from the Public Works Vehicle Replacement Fund.

n Suspended competi tive bidding and approved a $25,385 contract amend ment with Pinnacle Petro leum Inc. for the delivery

of renewable diesel and 87 octane gasoline at the city Corporation Yard.

n Approved the plans and specifications and awarded a $147,565 con tract to Kerex Engineering for the Waterman Boule vard Sidewalk Project and Rancho Solano Median Extensions Project. The funds will come from the Smith Ranch Maintenance District Fund.

VALLEJO — Coast Guard personnel from Station Vallejo responded Friday as part of the rescue effort of four people and their two dogs about a mile off of Point San Pablo.

The Coast Guard responded to the 9:10 p.m. call about a boat that was taking on water in San Pablo Bay near Richmond.

“Sector San Francisco watchstanders directed the launch of a Coast Guard Air Station San Francisco MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew and a Coast Guard Station Vallejo 29-foot Response Boat-Small crew around 9:15 p.m.,” the Coast Guard reported in a state

“The boat crew arrived on scene around 9:55 p.m. and reported they were unable to reach the boat because of the shallow water concerns,” the Coast Guard reported.

“The helicopter crew arrived on scene around 10 p.m. and deployed their rescue swimmer after locating the boat. The aircrew performed mul tiple hoists during two separate trips to rescue all four passengers and two dogs from the boat.”

The aircrew then trans ferred all passengers to awaiting emergency medical services person nel at the San Rafael Airport. There were no medical concerns, the Coast Guard reported.

WALK-IN BATH

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I’m dumfounded by daughterin-law’s extreme reactions

Dear Annie: I am a mom of three adult children. The cir cumstances that I am sharing are regard ing my son and his new relationship. He is 27 and in love for the first time in his life. (Yay!) It has been won derful to witness his newfound happiness.

her to move closer to our home. She was pre viously living about five hours away by car. We have also assisted with planning their upcom ing wedding.

Annie Lane Dear Annie

His now fiancee and I have really bonded and – I had thought – built a fun relation ship. She has four children from previous relationships, ranging in age from 10 to 17.

About six weeks ago, she started to write me emails regarding statements that I or other family members had made that she thought were insults. They were com ments simply made in jest and were certainly not meant to be hurtful. She sent me a very extensive email outlining multi ple conversations over a period of three months. This email was so difficult for me to read that it took me over three hours to get through it!

I responded by letting her know that I was sorry she felt this way and expressed my deepest apologies. My husband and I have gone out of our way to offer hospitality to her and her children, including hosting them over the holidays for 10 days. We also took over child care for her youngest while they went on two separate trips, and we provided the means for

A few weeks ago, she stormed out of my birth day party because my niece hugged my son!

They had not seen each other for nearly two years and were simply excited to see each other. She texted my son and demanded that he leave imme diately as well. She later sent me a text that said to leave her entirely and completely alone.

In the weeks since, it came out that my son had confided in my daughter that they actu ally are already married! They had a courthouse wedding four months ago on the first trip that they took together. They had met online only four months before that, and they still lived separately until only a month ago.

Over the last four months, they have had an engagement event and have worked hard to hide the fact that they are actu ally already married.

I am no longer certain I want to pursue a relationship with her. I feel so taken advan tage of and hurt and bewildered by her behavior. But this may also mean losing the relation ships I have built with her children, and possibly even losing my son.

Any insights you can share

Horoscopes by Holiday Mathis

ARIES (March 21-April 19). People will pay you based on the pricing you establish, so be mindful and deliberate. You can take cues from what others are doing, but don’t copy them completely. Your offering is unique, so price accordingly.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Self-discovery is the theme and it’s a fine day for a checkin. Tune in to different aspects of your life and relation ships. Simple questions will give you insight. What are you looking forward to? What are you dreading?

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You are about to turn the page on a new chapter. Tie up what ever loose ends you can, but if you can’t quite manage to get them into a bow, don’t stress; the story weaves on . . .

CANCER (June 22-July 22). Kudos to you for making the effort to learn something new. By now it’s a lifestyle and you’ve many skills to show for it. Each of your talents brings with it a circle of people who need or share that talent, so your network grows.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). By doing it alone, you would be stealing others’ chances to help you, an interaction that has value far beyond complet ing the task at hand. Through helping people learn about themselves, you gain skill, con

Today’s birthday

The solar return gifts you with the power to transform a part of your life. You decide where to focus it. Your compassion and warmth will melt away the obstacles blocking your path. More highlights: You’ll teach what you don’t know and quickly become an expert; generosity marks your financial sector; a certificate will be your freedom. Cancer and Taurus adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 3, 9, 1, 6 and 10.

fidence and strong bonds.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). It will be important to reach a certain state of relaxation. Believe it or not, it matters less what actually gets done and more the manner in which it’s approached and the feeling and mood the work creates.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Recommendations abound and will both annoy and comfort you. Knowing what’s good saves you from having to go find it yourself. But the list of gems is so long no one could possibly consume it in one lifetime. How you’ll try!

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).

Smiles, sunshine, hugs, hot

on how I might navigate the land mines ahead would be greatly appreciated. — Bewil dered and Heartbroken

Dear Bewildered and Heart broken: “Land mines” is the right term. It seems like every thing you do offends her.

One positive point about her expressing her unhappiness with your comments is that it’s good she is able to be honest with you and tell you how she feels. It seems that she is a very sensitive person who forces you to think about what you are going to say around her. Or she might be a narcissist who tends to make everything about her. She also might have borderline personality disorder, judging from the extreme change in behavior.

It must have been difficult for them to get married without telling you, or anyone for that matter, but ultimately that is their business and what they wanted to do. If you want a relationship with your son and step-grandchildren, you might have to forgive them for not including you.

Now that your son is married to her and she is part of your life, you have to find the best way to navigate her. One good book to read is “Stop Walking on Eggshells” by Paul T. Mason and Randi Kreger.

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

showers, cold ice cream . . . the key to today’s happiness will be simple creature comforts, perhaps a bit corny but as effec tive as any highbrow effort if not more!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21). You don’t have to work in traditionally named artistic mediums for what you’re doing to be considered an art. Love is an art. Walking is an art. The response of like minds will guide your process.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19). Self-respect makes it easy for you to respect others. You’ll model the concept as you act as a liaison between people who might otherwise have trouble relating to one another. You’ll control the tone by staying cool.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18). You put care into the little things, so people trust you with the big things. From the way you dress to how you put together projects, attention to detail makes the difference. Choose your words carefully. Semantics matter.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You appreciate agreeable people but you’re more likely to trust those who disagree. It takes nerve to disagree with someone as strong as you. Though it may not change your mind, you’ll respectfully hear their argument.

THE UNKNOWN BECOMES KNOWN

As we saw yesterday, normally, when you are the declarer, you try to keep your cards hidden from the defenders. You don’t want them to be able to read your hand. However, once in a while there are times when you want a defender to be aware that you hold a particular card.

On today’s deal, South was the late Bobby Slavenburg, a Dutchman who

by Phillip Alder

won the World Open Pairs title in 1966 with Hans Kreijns. He was a highly imaginative player.

It isn’t clear why Slavenburg opened one club rather than one diamond. (He was out of range for one no-trump.)

Over West’s takeout double, North made a preemptive three-club raise. South’s bid of three no-trump, though debatable, was predictable.

West led the spade king. When the dummy came down, Slavenburg immediately noticed the potential blockage in the club suit. It would run only if the queen were a singleton: an a priori probability of just over 12%. Slavenburg wondered if he could improve his odds, making the contract against a 2-2 club split: a 40% chance.

When West continued with the spade queen at trick two, Slavenburg dropped the jack. No longer having to worry that South held jack-fourth in spades, West greedily cashed his other two spade tricks. Slavenburg immediately discarded a club. When the clubs did divide 2-2, Slavenburg made his contract.

That was a nice play, but when South followed to the third spade, West should have scented a stratagem. If South wanted spades continued, it had to be better for the defense to lead another suit. If West had switched to a red suit at trick four, the contract would have been defeated.

Sudoku by Wayne Gould

box. Solution, tips

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

computer

BECOMES KNOWN

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(707) 427-1386

Depeche Mode announces new album, tour

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LOS ANGELES — Depeche Mode will return next year with a new album, “Memento Mori,” and an accom panying tour of North America and Europe. The announcement comes only a few months after the group’s cofounder and keyboardist Andy Fletcher died at 60 in May.

The album will be Depeche Mode’s 15th studio release (their first as a duo) and first since 2017′s “Spirit.”

The British New Wave band’s surviving members, Martin Gore and Dave Gahan, pro claimed their revival at a news conference in Berlin on Tuesday, with Gore saying of the

album, “We started work on this project early in the pandemic, and its themes were directly inspired by that time.”

Gore touched on how Fletcher’s passing influ enced the decision to put out new music.

“After Fletch’s passing, we decided to continue as we’re sure this is what he would have wanted, and that has really given the project an extra level of meaning,” he said.

“I’m sure that his absence in the studio in some way changes what we did, and that will happen when we perform on stage as well,” Gahan said to the Associated Press. “We have no inten tion of replacing Fletch on stage. He did his own thing there.”

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Crime logs

FairField

FRIDAY, SEPT. 30

6:20 a.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 100 block of LOPES

ROAD 7:58 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 2000 block of SAN GABRIEL STREET

9:04 a.m. — Robbery, 1200 block of TABOR AVENUE

11:32 a.m. — Battery, 300 block of HOPKINS DRIVE

12:15 p.m. — Battery, 1100 block of ALASKA AVENUE

1:10 p.m. — Commercial burglary, 700 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

2:24 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 1600 block of PARK LANE

2:38 p.m. — Trespassing, 3300 block of CHERRY HILLS COURT 3:53 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, PEABODY ROAD 5:31 p.m. — Drunken driver, 1100 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 5:46 p.m. — Reckless driver, AIR BASE PARKWAY 6:26 p.m. — Reckless driver, EASTBOUND INTERSTATE 80 6:34 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 5000 block of BUSINESS CENTER DRIVE

6:44 p.m. — Reckless driver, EASTBOUND INTERSTATE 80 8:02 p.m. — Trespassing, 100 block of EAST TRAVIS

BOULEVARD

SATURDAY, OCT. 1

6:49 a.m. — Hit-and-run with injury, PEABODY ROAD 9:25 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 100 block of DEL REY COURT 12:49 p.m. — Fight with a weapon, 1500 block of KENTUCKY STREET

1:32 p.m. — Battery, 2200 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 2:06 p.m. — Grand theft, 1100 block of KENTUCKY STREET 2:25 p.m. — Drunken driver, 300 block of EAST TABOR AVENUE 2:59 p.m. — Battery, 1300 block of WEST TEXAS STREET 5:31 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 1000 block of HORIZON DRIVE 6:02 p.m. — Reckless driver, 600 block of VINTAGE VALLEY DRIVE 8:38 p.m. — Grand theft, 1300 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD 9:06 p.m. — Trespassing, 1100 block of WASHINGTON STREET 9:33 p.m. — Drunk and disorderly, 1900 block of GRANDE CIRCLE 10:12 p.m. — Reckless driver, 1400 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD

SUNDAY, OCT. 2 1:28 a.m. — Shots fired, 5000 block of LYNBROOK DRIVE 10:25 a.m. — Battery, 1900 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 10:47 a.m. — Assault with a deadly weapon, 1700 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 12:07 p.m. — Reckless driver, 700 block of BRIDLE RIDGE DRIVE 1:58 p.m. — Arson, WEST TEXAS STREET 2:24 p.m. — Trespassing, 3000 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD 4:51 p.m. — Trespassing, 1400 block of HOLIDAY LANE 6:25 p.m. — Residential burglary, 500 block of ALASKA AVENUE

7:39 p.m. — Hit-and-run with injury, 1900 block of WEST TEXAS STREET

8:22 p.m. — Shots fired, 300 block of JACKSON STREET

MONDAY, OCT. 3

12:52 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 300 block of MANZANITA AVENUE 6:12 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 1500 block of MONROE STREET 7:38 a.m. — Commercial burglary, 2200 block of HUNTINGTON DRIVE 9:09 a.m. — Trespassing, 900 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD 9:20 a.m. — Trespassing, TRAVIS BOULEVARD 10:40 a.m. — Vandalism, 2300 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 10:55 a.m. — Trespassing, 500 block of CITRINE CIRCLE 1:25 p.m. — Trespassing, 1900 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

1:32 p.m. — Trespassing, 1500 block of WEST TEXAS STREET 3:27 p.m. — Trespassing, 1300 block of EMPIRE STREET 4:11 p.m. — Battery, 1700 block of ARTHUR COURT 4:21 p.m. — Grand theft, 1000 block of MATTHEW COURT 5:16 p.m. — Battery, 2600 block of DERONDE DRIVE 5:30 p.m. — Trespassing, 1700 block of EAST TABOR AVENUE 5:30 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, LOPES ROAD 5:45 p.m. — Trespassing, 2500 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 5:54 p.m. — Battery, 2000 block of TILDEN COURT 5:59 p.m. — Residential burglary, 100 block of DEL PASO COURT 6:32 p.m. — Trespassing, 1200 block of B. GALE WILSON BOULEVARD 9 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 600 block of GREAT JONES STREET 11:14 p.m. — Robbery, SAN MARCO STREET

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FRIDAY, SEPT. 30 11:24 a.m. — Shots fired, BRIDGEWATER CIRCLE / PARKSIDE DRIVE 2:10 p.m. — Fraud, 100 block of SUMMERTIME LANE

SATURDAY, OCT. 1 10:42 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 300 block of CANVASBACK DRIVE

SUNDAY, OCT. 2 9:07 a.m. — Trespassing, NEWPORT WAY 7:43 p.m. — Reckless driver, WALTERS ROAD / PINTAIL DRIVE MONDAY, OCT. 3 4:31 a.m. — Assault, 200 block of SUNSET AVENUE 8:33 a.m. — Hit-and-run no injury, HIGHWAY 12 / GRIZZLY ISLAND ROAD 9:27 a.m. — Grand theft, 300 block of WALTERS ROAD 10:23 a.m. — Fraud, 700 block of CIVIC CENTER BOULEVARD 10:35 a.m. — Fraud, 200 block of RAILROAD AVENUE 10:59 a.m. — Fraud, 1300 block of WORLEY ROAD 12:13 p.m. — Robbery, 100 block of SUNSET AVENUE

50 calls per month under a ‘fee per call’ model while maintaining service levels in its own jurisdiction,” the staff report states.

Voices

The committee came together for the first time Monday with six members: Cathy Dailey, a teacher; Diane Johnson, assistant principal at Vanden High; Jackie Tretten, a retired teacher from the Travis School District; Troy Taylor, a parent; Kevin Ratterman, a teacher Vanden High School; and Allyson Rude Azevedo, acting as chair woman and director of Human Resources for the Travis School District.

Richard Salvatto of the Solano County Special Education Local Plan Area and Andrew Ownby, assistant duperintendent of the Special Education Local Plan Area facili tated the session.

The stadium is offi cially named the George A. Gammon Field after the founder of the Travis School District.

Gammon’s spoke out publicly about their feel ings on the legacy of their father’s work and how the proposed change affects them and the community.

Douglas Gammon, the son of George Gammon, drove up from Southern California for the two and half hour meeting and planned to drive back home the next day. He also spoke for his sister Kathy, who couldn’t make

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tombstone because it probably drove him to the grave.

He applauded the six family landowners for their patience, flexibility and persistence in seeing the project to this point.

The next steps are to record the maps and design reviews, said Charity Wagner, who represents the landown ers.

She noted there are 48 pages of mitigation measures to meet.

The project has been touted for its innovative design and supporters have called it the kind of project that will give Solano County positive attention and help recruit business and indus try. It also has been called urban sprawl by its detractors, and has come under some crit icism for not having to provide for affordable housing like other devel opment projects.

it to the meeting.

“This is a part of our history, the history of the school district,” he said.

“We want to uphold the legacy of our dad.”

His sister, Barbara Brock, brought a large picture of their dad along with his coach ing jacket and displayed them along with pictures of Daniel Hughes.

“We mean no disre spect to the family, but we don’t think you (the committee) should con sider this,” Brock said.

“My father was the founder of Travis Unified School District.”

Douglas Gammon said he hoped that instead of renaming the stadium, the Hughes family would choose to do some thing unique and just for Hughes alone.

In a letter to Super intendent Pam Conklin, who was not in atten dance at the meeting, Brock outlined the con tributions of her father to the district.

Upon his return from his active duty in combat, George Gammon accepted a position as a physical education teacher and administra tive assistant principal at Franklin Junior High School of the Vallejo City School District. He was offered and accepted the Travis Elementary School principal posi tion in 1952 and moved to Fairfield to be close to the Travis Air Force

No one spoke in oppo sition to the project at the meeting. There have been rumblings about legal action taken against Fair field for agreeing to treat Solano Irrigation District water and conveying it to the project if in fact SID is chosen as the supplier. Vallejo also is a possible water provider.

The Green Valley Landowners Association and the Green Valley Agricultural Conser vancy support the project. The Solano County Orderly Growth Commit tee opposes the project.

Wastewater treatment service, if the project is approved by the super visors, will be provided through the Fairfield Suisun Sewer District.

The 1,905-acre prop erty is located in Lower Green Valley near the intersection of Green Valley and Mason roads.

Base campus.

Gammon saw the increasing number of stu dents of military families and realized they needed more schools. This new projection also involved the federal government’s plan to build an additional 400 homes on the base. With these circumstances and given that her father was a man of great vision, the dream of forming the Travis School District was born, according to the letter.

“My dad believed in this dream with all his heart,” Brock said.

“Many hurdles had to be crossed and there were constant setbacks with all of the restrictions, requirements and red tape of the city, county, state, military and federal government, etc.,” Brock said in the letter.

Gammon had the support and coopera tion from Travis Air Force Base Judge John A. “Jack” De Ronde, a captain at the time in the U.S. Air Force, who served as an attorney in the Judge Advocate Gen eral’s Office, she said.

“Judge De Ronde part nered with my dad and played a key role in the process of lobbying for the approval of the cre ation of TUSD. In honor of Judge De Ronde’s sig nificant efforts, TUSD named the main street after him, the one that fronts the TUSD edu cational institution and

consistent with the (spe cific plan),” the staff report states.

“For example, court yard homes will be zero lot line homes clustered around court yards. Bungalows are smaller single-family homes. Farmsteads are envisioned to be larger single-family detached homes that provide a transition to the larger agricultural uses and reinforce the rural char acter of the area,” the report states.

“Specific to the project, the Elkhorn neigh borhood will include 76 smaller lot courtyard homes, 89 bungalows and 35 farmstead homes,” the report states. “The Night ingale neighborhood will have 70 bungalow homes and 42 farmstead homes.

offices,” she said in the letter.

As a result, the dream became a reality when the people voted in favor of the unification in 1962, according to Brock. He was then hired as the first superintendent and became known as the “founder” and “father” of the newly formed Travis School District.

“Students continue to reap the benefits of his work,” Brock said.

About 30 people spoke, with many hoping to see the stadium get an additional name and not having people think it is a “renaming” of the stadium.

If the committee rec ommends the concept to be forwarded to the school board for consider ation, it would be known as George A. Gammon Field at Daniel Hughes Memorial Stadium.

Since Hughes died, the family has created a Daniel Hughes Foun dation that has given out six $1,000 scholar ships to students. He was an organ donor and his organs have helped save the lives of several people.

The committee made its decision Monday night but will present the result at the next school board meeting at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 11 at the Travis Edu cation Center, 2775 De Ronde Drive, Fairfield.

13,000 square feet in the subdivision, with some parcels in the farm stead areas being as large as 49,000 square feet. In addition, four large parcels will be created along the Green Valley corridor and six parcels in the Three Creeks neighborhood will be created includ ing two parcels greater than 5 acres, as well as a four-unit subdivision on an unnamed court off of Mason Road,” the staff report states.

to enter a short-term and long-term contract for service with the CFPD,” the staff report to the council states.

The report states the city is already covering some calls for Cordelia when staffing dictates.

“The short-term arrangement would be limited to 911/emer gency calls for service, to include Fairfield fire apparatus response and chief officer coverage. The short-term agreement will not include preven tion, administration or any other auxiliary functions of the Fire Department. In the short-term, the Fire Department is willing and equipped to accommo date the CFPD’s roughly

The idea is for the short-term agreement to extend out no longer than June 30. If no long-term agreement is reached by then, the staff report states the shortterm contract should be re-evaluated.

In the meantime, Cordelia has contracted with a consultant to work with Solano LAFCO and the Fire Department to develop a service plan and financial arrangement for the long term.

Luchenbach said the Middle Green Valley Spe cific Plan buildout is factored into the poten tial impact on the city department, which to start with would be slightly more than two more calls per day.

“This project really protects the charac ter of the valley while allowing compati ble development,” said Michael Fortney, a former resident of Green Valley who now lives in Vacaville.

It is designated as a “Specific Project Area” in the county General Plan. The property con tains multiple zoning districts that allow for residential, agriculture, open lands and agri tourism. It allows for 390 single-family homes, and 100 accessory dwell ing units are permitted.

“The small lot map layout . . . provides for a variety of home types on varying lot sizes

infrastructure as part of the Solano360 project: $800,000 for permitting costs and $4.2 million for construction.

A unique feature of this neighborhood is that the street system is designed around several village greens that will provide a focal point, open space and areas for walking/gathering in the neighborhood.”

No specific designs are proposed at this time, and will be subject to approval by the county and the Middle Green Valley Conservancy Design Review Committee.

“The lot sizes gen erally range from 4,000 square feet to

as direct health ser vices support.

The remaining 1,356.9 acres will mostly be placed in agricul ture and open space easements, though some could be subdivided for residential and other uses as well, the county staff reported.

The supervisors reversed a condition placed on the project by the Planning Commis sion, which required an accredited land trust to hold the conservation easement. Instead, the county will be the ease ment holder.

County Counsel Ber nadette Curry said the overriding language is state law, which allows for the county to hold the easement.

about $34,000 a year in tank maintenance costs alone.

Another $75,000 will fund an engineering anal ysis of Vallejo’s potable water line to include fire suppression upgrades to the Sandy Beach Community Associa tion in unincorporated Vallejo – protecting about 45 houses.

Finally, $28,000 was allocated to help rebuild a failed levee pump for the Collinsville Levee District. The pump is used to clear out flood waters, protecting about 15 homes and 233 acres.

The three projects bring the total number of water, wastewater and stormwater infra structure projects to 11.

The previous eight, total ing $7.29 million, were approved in April. The largest of those was a combined $5 million for fairgrounds drainage

The breakdown of allocations by cate gory are $15.95 million toward negative eco nomic impacts caused by the Covid-19 pandemic; $13.32 million toward disproportionately impacted communities; $11.79 million toward infrastructure; $10 million to lost county revenue; $6.07 million toward public health; and $4 million toward admin istration costs related to American Rescue Plan Act reporting and other oversight.

But those are just broad categories.

Megan Richards, a deputy director within the county administra tion, told the board those funds have gone to helping with 236 units of low-income housing; chil dren and youth needs; emergency food and dis tribution capacity needs; workforce and busi ness assistance; as well

Still left to be con sidered by the board are requests related to parks and tourism ($5.02 million); addi tional nonprofit support ($10 million); afford able housing ($4 million); public health and hospital support ($14.19 million); child care providers ($888,000); and $2.36 million on top of the $2.16 million in premium pay to pan demic workers.

There is also $32.38 million to be considered for homeless needs.

Board Chairman John Vasquez suggested the remaining pandemic funds be shifted to the county general fund to be used for related projects, but without the deadline and other restrictions the federal program requires.

With those dollars it was suggested by Super visor Mitch Mashburn that a portion be used to conduct infrastruc ture studies the county must completed; a new

microphone system, Supervisor Jim Spering said, is needed for the events center; and Supervisor Erin Hanni gan suggested Wi-Fi and other technology upgrades for the con ference rooms in the government center.

“We are clearly in the internet, Wi-Fi world . . . and it’s almost like we are in the horse and buggy (world),” Hanni gan said about the county. “The world has change and Solano County has been very, very slow to change.”

Supervisor Monica Brown wanted the staff to come back with updates on how certain funds have been used, noting particularly dollars meant to help transition ing foster youth.

Goldberg said all the workgroups that have come before the board with projects will be back to update the board with what has been com pleted or the status of those projects.

Council moves forward with $2M more toward Heart of Fairfield infrastructure

FAIRFIELD — The Downtown Striping and Intersection Improve ment Project is complete, but the City Council on Tuesday approved two professional service con tracts and amended a third for the West Texas Complete Streets Project, part of the Heart of Fair field program.

The total cost for the three contracts is nearly $2.14 million.

The striping project cost about $304,334, which was 12% under budget. The contractor was W. Bradley Electric Inc., the city reported.

The council approved

a $1.55 million profes sional services agreement with GHD Engineers to prepare final plans, specifications engi neer’s estimate, bid phase services and design assis tance during construction for the West Texas Com plete Streets Project. The Sacramento firm also was involved in the concept planning and prepared the grant application.

The council also approved a $107,746 amendment to GHD’s first contract, for a total of $809,960.

The council then approved a $323,269 professional services agreement with Coastland Civil Engineering Inc. for

project management ser vices on the West Texas Utility Relocation and Complete Streets Proj ects. Like GHD, Coastland has been involved with the project from the inception.

The funding sources are: $1.81 million from the Capital Streets Fund; $161,629 from the Capital Water Fund; and $161,629 from the Capital Sewer Fund, the city reported.

In other action, the council:

n Recognized October as Breast Cancer Aware ness Month in Fairfield. Police Chief Deanna Cantrell, who has twice been diagnosed with the disease, made the

presentation.

n Recognized October as Cyber Security Month.

n Recognized Oct. 1-9 as Water Professionals Appreciation Week.

n Recognized Oct. 9-15 as National Fire Preven tion Week.

n Accepted the Allan Witt Community Park Tennis Courts Resurfac ing Maintenance Project as complete. The cost was about $419,545, 14 cents below budget. The con tractor was First Serve Production. The funds came from the Parks and Recreation Park Facilities Fund.

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Judge belts 62nd homer, breaks AL record

By K ristie aCK ert NEW YORK

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ARLINGTON, Texas —

Just three pitches in, after six days and five games, Aaron Judge stood alone in American League history Tuesday night.

The Yankees slugger mashed the third pitch of the second game of a doubleheader at Globe Life Field for his record-

breaking 62nd home run of the season. Judge sur passed Roger Maris and his 61-year-old Ameri can League single-season home run record almost a week after he tied it.

Judge, who had gone 1-for-4 in the after noon game, hammered an 88 mph slider off Rangers right-hander Jesus Tinoco. It trav eled 391 feet into the

left-field bleachers.

The slugger, who led off the game, was greeted by his teammates who poured out of the dugout when he reached home.

He fist-bumped Giancarlo Stanton and hugged his way back into the dugout.

Before heading down, he took off his batting helmet and pointed over to his family, who have followed him for most

of this journey since he hit No. 59 in Milwaukee on Sept. 18.

The 62 home runs are the most ever by a Yankee and are 11 behind Barry Bonds’ record of 73 in 2001. Many, like Roger Maris Jr., con sider that mark and those of Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa tainted. They did it before drug testing in baseball and there is

a strong suspicion that they used performance enhancing drugs to reach these numbers.

Judge, who grew up in Linden watching Bonds, considers the MLB record to be 73.

Judge went into Tuesday night’s game leading the majors in home runs by 15 and leading the league by 22.

It was his 28th

plate appear ance since hitting No. 61 on Sept. 28 in the seventh inning of the Yankees’ win in Toronto. That ended a seven-game, 34-plate appearance homerless streak for Judge.

He had started each of the Yanks’ last 55 games trying to get this record before the season comes to a close on Wednesday..

Strong field set for rural Fairfield pro tennis event

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ROCKVILLE — Pro fessional tennis returns soon to Solano Com munity College with the ATP Challenger Series Taube-Haase Pro Tennis Championship, Sunday through Oct. 16.

Vacaville’s Gonsolin back with Dodgers, playoffs role unclear

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FAIRFIELD — The National League West Division champion Los Angeles Dodgers have won a remark able 110 games before Tuesday with the playoffs ahead.

What role Vacaville High School graduate Tony Gonsolin may fill for the postseason at this point is unclear. Gonso lin pitched for the first time Monday night since going on the disabled list with a strained forearm Aug. 23. He had a strong first inning but strug gled a bit in the second. He ended up going two innings, allowed one run on three hits and threw 40 pitches.

Prior to Mon

day’s return, Gonsolin had pitched 128.1 innings with an impressive 16-1 record and 2.10 ERA. He was a National League all-star and played a pivotal role for the team.

Manager Dave Roberts told the Los Angeles Times on Monday night that Gonso lin will have a simulated start Sunday and if that goes well he could see the former Bulldog pitch ing four innings in a National League Division Series start.

Professional baseball

Another former Solano County athlete is also headed to the MLB playoffs . . . sort of. Kris Negron, the former Vanden High star and

MLB player, is now the first base coach of the Seattle Mariners. The Mariners earned an American League wild card and a playoff berth for the first time in 21 years with an 87-71 record with two games to play.

Seattle opens playoff action Friday or Saturday.

Right-handed pitcher Jesse Scholtens (Rodri guez) completed his season with TripleA El Paso. Scholtens finished 4-4 with a 4.10 ERA. He had one save and made 15 starts with 92 strikeouts in 83.1 innings. The Chihua huas went 85-65 to win the Pacific Coast League East Division.

Catcher Carter Bins (Rodriguez) had

291 at bats for Triple-A Indianapolis. Bins had a .196 batting average with four runs scored, 57 hits, 11 home runs, 36 RBIs and four stolen bases. The Indians finished fourth with a 74-75 record in the International League West Division.

Professional football Linebacker Mykal Walker (Vacav ille) helped lead the Atlanta Falcons to a 23-20 win over the Cleve land Browns. Walker had eight solo tackles and three assists as the Falcons improved to 2-1. Atlanta plays Sunday at Tampa Bay.

Cornerback Jason Verrett (Rodriguez) is

Plenty of stellar performances in 49ers’ rout of Rams Monday night

SANTA CLARA — It’s become an annual rite of passage for the 49ers defense: an intercep tion retuned for a touchdown in a victory over the Los Angeles Rams.

Talanoa Hufanga did Monday night’s honors to seal a 24-9 win. When he returned his perfectly timed theft 52 yards with 6 ½ minutes to go, it invoked a sense of déjà vu.

“Man, down that left sideline, just every time,” linebacker Fred Warner acknowledged.

You see, Warner also had a picksix down the left sideline against the Rams in a 2019 home win. In 2020, Javon Kinlaw taking his interception back 27 yards down the right side to cap a win in L.A, but, last year, Jimmie Ward went

left sideline on his own 27-yard, pick-six to spark a 31-10 home win.

As for Hufanga’s, Warner con tinued: “Man, did we need that.

In that series, I had a feeling that one was bound to happen. Who? Of course, Huf of all people to get that. He deserves that. He’s been playing out of his mind.”

Added Nick Bosa: “We knew it would take a big play like that, and no better time for Huf to make that play. We try to reiterate that over and over again, because that’s how you win games.”

The 49ers (2-2) now have the same record as all NFC West coun terparts. Here are some things that jumped out to me about this win, aside from the pick-six trend:

Magnificent seven (or six)

The 49ers deployed more blitzes than usual and sacked Matthew Stafford seven times, matching the Buffalo Bills’ total in the NFL’s season-opening game against the

It’s unknown how many future stars will come out of the ATP Challenger and USTA Pro Circuit event, but the tournament has a strong list of past par ticipants in its short four-year history who are now thriving on the ATP Tour. The tournament’s 2022 pro motional poster features 22 former challenger players who have played in Fairfield and are cur

rently ranked in the top 100 in the world.

This will be an ATP Challenger 80 Men’s Pro Championship event, meaning that there will be $53,120 at stake along with tour points. The field features 32 singles players playing on the hard courts at Solano and 16 doubles teams. A qualifying tournament begins Sunday before the main draw is set.

“We have an extremely strong draw this year, including 15 players in the top 250,” tournament coor dinator Phil Cello said.

“With 22 former Solano Challenger players cur rently ranked in the ATP top 100 the word

Warriors being ‘really cautious’ with Thompson

By shayna ruBin BAY AREA NEWS GROUP

SAN FRANCISCO —

The Warriors play the Lakers in their third pre season game on Sunday. Chances are, Klay Thompson won’t play.

Thompson practiced during Tuesday’s light practice but most likely will not participate in the team scrimmage on Thursday. If he doesn’t, there’s a good chance Thompson will sit out for Sunday’s game, head coach Steve Kerr said.

The Warriors train ing staff is taking a “really cautious and conservative” approach to integrating Thomp son back into action a year after his long recovery from back-toback ACL and Achilles tears, Kerr said.

Thompson did not play in either of the

preseason games in Japan and revealed that he hadn’t been playing pick-up during the offseason because of a “mental block.” Thompson tore his Achilles during a game of pick-up during the 2020 offseason as he was recovering from his ACL tear sustained during the 2019 NBA Finals.

After missing 2 1/2 years, Thompson made his big return to the court last January in time for their playoff run. Thompson had his first somewhat normal offseason since 2019, but the training staff is still proceeding with caution with him. The Japan games forced the team to have a truncated, intense first few days of practice

David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG/TNS Dodgers starting pitcher Tony Gonsolin throws to the plate during Monday’s game against the Colorado at Dodger

Stadium. Gonsolin threw 40 pitches over two innings in his first start since he strained his right forearm in August.

Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group/TNS 49ers’ receiver Deebo Samuel runs for a touchdown as he breaks the tackle of the Rams’ Jalen Ramsey in the second quarter at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Monday.

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Denis Kudla, pictured at the 2019 Fairfield Challenger, returns this year for competition beginning next week.

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Sharks net victory to spoil hopes of German opponent

By Curtis Pashelka BAY AREA NEWS GROUP

The raucous crowd at Mercedes-Benz Arena was buzzing after Eis bären Berlin took a one-goal lead over the San Jose Sharks midway through the second period of Tuesday’s exhi bition game.

Maybe, just maybe, their hometown team could upset an NHL franchise.

Then Tomas Hertl scored off a nifty feed from Timo Meier late in the second period to tie the game, and 40 seconds later, Steven Lorentz tipped a shot from Erik Karlsson past goalie Juho Markkanen to give the Sharks the lead.

Luke Kunin scored a shorthanded goal in the third period to put the game away, as the Sharks did what they needed to do Tuesday to earn a 3-1 win over Eis bären to conclude the exhibition portion of their schedule.

San Jose travels to the Czech Republic on Wednesday and will play

the Nashville Predators on Friday and Saturday at O2 Arena in Prague to open the regular season.

Starting Sharks goalie James Reimer didn’t allow a goal before he was replaced by Kaapo Kahkonen with 8:35 left in the second period. Kahkonen, though, allowed a goal on the first shot he saw, as a wrist shot by Giovanni Fiore past Karlsson’s legs beat him low glove side with 7:50 to go in the second.

The goal fired up everybody in attendance at the 17,000-seat arena. But it also seemed to help the Sharks find another gear.

On their first goal, Meier took a pass from Hertl below the Berlin goal line, waited momen tarily, and found Hertl with a return pass.

Hertl, entering the first year of an eight-year, $65.1 million contract, then beat Markkanen at the 17:06 mark of the second period.

The Sharks had six newcomers in the lineup.

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Vanden volleyball tops Rodriguez

FAIRFIELD — The Vanden High School girls volleyball team earned a 29-27, 25-8, 25-12 win Tuesday over Rodriguez.

Jada Cuffie had a big night with 11 kills, six blocks and 11 assists. Vanden improved to 8-2 in Monticello Empire League matches and 11-6 overall.

Breanna Davis and Fran King had 12 service points apiece. Maken zie Lovell added 11. Maui Asuncion picked up 13 digs and Sumerlyn Spencer had 12. King also finished with 13 assists and Anaya Thrower recorded six blocks.

Vanden won the junior varsity match 25-15, 25-17. Sophia Montana was 13-for-15 serving with five aces, two kills, two blocks and three

digs. Piper Olson fin ished 8-for-10 serving with four aces, two kills, one block, three digs and seven assists. Olivia Parks also had three kills. The Vanden JV squad is 8-2 in MEL matches.

Vanden also received a victory in the JV “B” match, 25-18, 25-20, 17-15. Dara Parks had four service points and two aces. Jadyn Voonwin den was 13-for-13 serving with six aces, two kills, one block and one dig. Saraya Henderson had one kill, 11 digs and two assists.Golf

Vanden’s girls pick up 2 MEL victories

VACAVILLE — Vanden High School’s girls golf team picked up two Monticello Empire League victories in two days.

The Vikings earned

a 240-246 win Tuesday over Vacaville at Cypress Lakes Golf Course. Fatum Soumahoro led Vanden with a round of 42 and was followed by Diana Borchert (45), Maggie Taylor (50), Zoe Zanassi (50) and Kara Chung (53).

Vacaville’s top golfer was the low medalist for the day. Erica Villegas shot a solid 35. Brooke Williams (44), Rossy Gon zales-Reyes (50), Raquel McGrath (53) and Grace Kramer (64) completed the Bulldogs’ top five.

Vanden posted a a team round of 241 for a win Monday over Fairfield at Rancho Solano. Souma horo led the Vikings with a 43 and was followed by Taylor (47), Zanassi (48), Borchert (51) and Chung (52). Fairfield did not post a team score.

The Vikings improved to 10-4 in Monticello Empire League matches.

Tennis Vacaville girls roll to victory over Rodriguez

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

The Bulldogs notched five singles wins in straight sets from Nia Macay, Gabri ella Perry, Victoria Silva, Lily Holman and Alex Gormley. Brianna Jahner of Rodriguez held off Vacaville’s Brooklyn Purcell 7-5, 6-4.

Vacaville swept the doubles matches with the teams of Paulina Swee ney-Paige Witte, Ayanna Gentry-Reese Hsiaoand and Ava SheppardElla Aguirre.

A’s offense has been historically anemic this season

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OAKLAND — As the Oakland A’s wrap up the season with their final game Wednesday, 2022 may go down as the worst offensive season in franchise history.

Through Monday, the

Stellar preseason debut for Kings rookie Keegan Murray

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LOS ANGELES —

Keegan Murray didn’t start in his preseason debut, but that didn’t stop him from showing why he was considered one of the most NBA-ready rookies in the 2022 draft.

Murray scored a game-high 16 points and tied for the team lead with six rebounds in a 105-75 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers in the preseason opener for both teams Monday night at Crypto.com Arena.

Murray, who came out of Iowa as the No. 4 pick in the draft, made 7 of 11 from the field and 2 of 4 from 3-point range. He scored nine points in the third quarter to help the Kings open up a big lead after trailing by 10 in the first half.

Murray was asked what it was like matching up with Lakers star LeBron James, an 18-time All-Star and four-time MVP.

“It’s a surreal expe rience,” Murray said. “I remember before I checked in, they were like, ‘You’re going to guard LeBron,’ and I was up to

the challenge. You don’t get to hear that every day, so it was a cool experience for me and I’m excited to compete with him in

the future.”

Kings, host to the Portland Trail Blazers on Sunday at Golden 1 Center.

A’s were batting .216 as a team, seven points lower than the next-worst year, when they hit .223 in

1908. The A’s are also tied with the 1908 team for the worst on-base per centage in franchise

history, at .281. The Oakland batting average would rank fourth-worst ever.

Do Californians want state to become Sweden?

Gov. Gavin Newsom closed the books last week on the Legislature’s 2022 session by signing hundreds of bills.

Taken as a whole, the state budget passed in June and the flood of measures passed in August are a significant step to the left. They move California closer to the Western European model of providing an extensive array of social, educational and medical benefits, one that progressive activists want Cal ifornia to emulate and lead the nation.

While Newsom has been unable to create the singlepayer health care system he pledged during his 2018 cam paign for governor, the budget came very close to univer sal medical coverage through expansion of the Medi-Cal system to all undocumented immigrants.

The $308 billion budget also moved toward universal pre-kindergarten care for children, another Newsom goal, extended food assis tance to older undocumented immigrants, expanded welfare benefits, helped low-income Californians pay overdue utility bills and, most spectacularly, authorized cash payments, dubbed as tax refunds, to almost everyone who files an income tax return.

Newsom hailed the budget, saying, “Building a better future for all, we’ll continue to model what progressive and responsible governance can look like, the California way.”

The budget, however, was only the begin ning of the state’s shift toward the Western European model.

The last month of the legislative session produced a raft of bills sponsored by unions and other progressive groups, most spectac ularly the landmark creation of a “Fast Food Council” within state government to set wages and working conditions for fast food workers.

The legislation was a high-priority goal for unions and somewhat modeled after the industry-wide “works councils” common in European countries.

Critics said it would undermine the fran chise system by assuming restaurant owners are not independent business people but rather components of the larger companies such as McDonald’s or Burger King. The fast food industry immediately launched a referendum petition drive aimed at asking voters to over turn the new law.

Unions scored another major victory when Newsom signed a bill that changes voting pro cedures for farm labor organizational elections. The United Farm Workers Union had long sought the legislation which, it’s believed, will make it easier for the UFW to win representa tional elections.

The final month of the session also produced sharp increases in the benefits for disabled workers and those taking time off for family obligations, another long-sought union goal.

Of course, California still has much more to do if the “California way” Newsom cites is to continue its transformation into a Europeanstyle social democracy. It would, for example, have to eliminate out-of-pocket costs for higher education and perhaps create some form of guaranteed income. Newsom already has an adviser working on the latter.

However, the more extensive the benefits become, the more expensive they become for the state budget. At some point, the state would no longer be able to depend on just taxing highincome Californians, who now provide the majority of its revenue. California would have to increase taxes on the middle class, as Euro pean governments do through both income taxes and very high taxes on retail sales.

A hint of that fact is found in the legislation that increases disability and family leave pay ments. Those payments come from the state’s Disability Insurance Fund, which depends on payroll taxes paid by employees themselves. The bill not only eliminates the wage ceiling for those taxes but state officials say the tax rate also will increase as the new benefits kick in.

Hitting the middle class with new taxes would be the ultimate test of whether Califor nians want their state to become Sweden.

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.

30-year-old lesson still holds true

Longtime readers know this story so please indulge me for the newer ones.

In the summer of 1992, then-Daily Republic Man aging Editor Bill Buchanan invited me to lunch at El Tapatio on Rockville Road (now El Pitayo) to discuss me writing a column on the Opinion page. He’d been impressed with my letters to the editor but what really piqued his interest was a back and forth I’d had with another reader.

Kelvin Wade

Lou Sturmer was a 6-foot 2-inch, 300-pound curmudgeon who described himself as a racist. We’d gone back and forth in letters to the editor about politics, crime, affirma tive action and more. He was a Ross Perot-supporting conservative lib ertarian. We eventually met at the Fairfield library to talk over our dif ferences. I wrote a letter to the editor documenting the experience and that’s when Bill Buchanan proposed the two of us writing a point-counter point column together.

We agreed but months passed with no word from the paper.

Sturmer grew tired of waiting and started writing for a neighbor ing newspaper. He asked me to come with him but I declined. That’s when Bill called me about writing my own

Jack Flynn for school board

As a Fairfield resident for over 25 five, parent and educational reform advocate, I strongly urge voters to elect Jack Flynn to the Fairfield-Suisun School District gov erning board in Trustee Area 5. I have known Jack since he was 12 years old and have always been amazed at his genuine passion for making a differ ence in our local community.

Jack is an experienced, smart and thoughtful person who has a proven track record of collaborating with all educational partners to deliver results for our students. He has the capacity to bring together people who would otherwise disagree and build consen sus on some of the most critical issues facing the Fairfield-Suisun School District. I have personally seen how Jack can work with students, teach ers, parents and staff members to find common-sense solutions for complex problems facing our district. Jack realizes the important issues affecting our district and has laid out a detailed, fully costed plan to build a better, fairer and more transparent district.

Jack supports robust career technical education, making key investments in reducing class sizes, and enhancing art and music pro grams. As a trustee, Jack will focus less on administration and more in the classroom. As a taxpayer, I trust Jack to manage and oversee the dis trict’s finances so the school district invests in what is actually helping our kids. Jack understands the impor tance of ensuring the school district provides a high quality public edu cation to students so our students are prepared for the challenges of an ever-changing world.

Jack has been endorsed by local elected officials, classroom teach ers, labor and many district parents. Jack knows the solemn role a trustee has in bringing these groups together to achieve real, meaningful change in the school district. I most enthusi astically endorse Jack Flynn for the Fairfield-Suisun School District gov erning board.

Brigette Hunley Fairfield

Banks for mayor: Time for a change

One hand washes the other, folks. Our “leadership” has been pretty much behind the curve over the past 20-plus years. Same old candidates, same result. Law and order must prevail; that is not the case in Fair field. And to be fair, that is true in just about every city, everywhere.

I’ve pushed for years, suggesting we be the model for more effec tive traffic patrols and safety, but nothing ever changes. In fact, it has gotten worse.

How about those “illegal” Independence Day celebra tions throughout the city? Otherwise good parents and citizens, unleash ing everything from sparklers to artillery-level fireworks.

Amazing!

Fun Fourth of July! Fact: Driving

column in the Daily Republic.

When I think about today’s hyperpartisanship, I often think back to Lou Sturmer.

On the surface, looking at the middle-aged bald white guy and the heavyset Raiders shirt-sporting twentysome thing Black kid, what would we possibly have in common?

Well, upon meeting the first time we realized we’d seen each other before many times at computer shows at the Solano County fairgrounds. We both built computers as a hobby.

When we thought we’d be writing together, we met at the library a couple of times to hash out future column ideas. After delving deep into controversial issues, we found a lot that we agreed on. It was surpris ing to both of us. I recall Lou saying once, “Hey, we’re writing a pointcounterpoint column. We can’t agree on everything!” What’s more is we learned about each other’s back grounds so even if we still disagreed, we knew where each other was coming from.

And even after we went our sep arate ways, we still exchanged Christmas cards for years afterward, until Mr. Sturmer died.

I’ve kept that formative experience with Lou close at hand ever since. This past month marks 30 years since

I began The Other Side column. Six presidents ago. When I started, gas was $1.12 a gallon, milk was $2.29 a gallon and there were only 10 web sites on the internet. Pop stars Ariana Grande, Justin Bieber and Billie Eilish didn’t exist and Prince Charles and Lady Diana were still married.

Fairfield just had the first Tomato Festival, Kmart was open for busi ness and Gary Falati was mayor of Fairfield.

What I’ve been most surprised by over the years is the response I’ve gotten from people who disagree with me but still read my column. That says something. I’ve had people who are 180 degrees from me politically, who’ve written critical messages to me in the past, find themselves com miserating with me when I’ve written about something that’s touched them: suicide, the loss of a pet, crazy holiday memories and more. It reminds me of the message of my meeting with Lou Sturmer: that we’re not as dif ferent as we think. We can find common ground in the most unex pected places.

Thank you to my faithful readers. Thank you for 30 years and here’s to many more! Peace.

Kelvin Wade, a writer and former Fairfield resident, lives in Sacra mento. Reach him at kelvinjwade@ outlook.com.

I-80 through the city limits has a light show for the ages. I mean, it really brings the whole “bombs bursting in air” thing to life.

If you drive, know the laws and obey them, you’re awesome! If you’re paying attention and shaking your head at every other person “not-soawesome,” welcome to my world. Because driving too fast on residen tial streets, and racing through school zones is scary enough. But high-speed red light running? Yeah, that is much more thrilling! Is all this OK? Is there some “rule” that says we have to keep ineffective, myopic decision makers? Did we really need another McDon ald’s? Uh . . . nope, and nope

Are you still thinking of going with the tired and worn “status quo?” Why?

A new perspective with a fresh approach might be a better way to go. Out with the old, bring in some body new and willing to push those buttons that need pushing. We need an enthusiastic, informed and stead fast mayor. We deserve a present and forward thinking City Council. Please join me in the pursuit of change, a clean, safe and lawful city that we can be proud of. I’m voting for Chauncey Banks. I’d like to see what this gen tleman can do.

CD Brooks Fairfield

My reasons for changing mayoral nod

I have decided to change the rec ommendation contained in my opinion piece Monday. This change printed on the online edition Monday, but probably few people saw it.

In the original, I chose to endorse Catherine Moy for mayor of Fairfield. But upon new information received Saturday and a “sober second thought,” I’ve decided to endorse Mayor Harry Price.

Both candidates have strong and weak points. It’s a difficult decision, but we must make a decision. I am supporting Mayor Price.

Vote yes on S for fiscal responsibility

I was chairman of the original Measure C Independent Citizens’ Oversight Committee and am vice chairman for the Measure J Indepen dent Citizens’ Oversight Committee for the Fairfield-Suisun School Dis trict’s voter-approved bond measures. I will be voting yes on S on Nov. 8 to provide more funding for facilities needs in our local schools because I have seen firsthand that these funds have been and are consistently spent as promised and for the benefit of local students.

Our independent oversight com mittees created the financial reports that allow us to carefully review the use of funds. Our auditors have con sistently reported that funds have been spent properly. Furthermore, the district has proven repeatedly that it can bring projects in on time and most of the time below budget.

Because of this strong track record of fiscal stewardship and responsible spending, I support Measure S and the extension of our current tax rate to fund crucial repairs in our schools.

If you want to see what difference the bonds make, visit Fairview Ele mentary, E. Ruth Sheldon Academy or the current project at Cleo Gordon Elementary. These are just examples of what can be done.

Measure S requires the district to continue strict fiscal accountabil ity protections such as a citizen’s oversight committee and mandatory performance and financial annual audits. These reports are available to everyone on the district’s website: www.fsusd.org/Page/16403.

Measure S is a responsible pro posal that simply extends what we are currently paying to support our schools and does not increase our taxes. We have so much more work to be done to continue to bring our school facilities up to date. I urge everyone to help protect the quality of Fairfield-Suisun schools by voting yes on S.

Perry W. Polk Fairfield

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Lynn, coal miner’s daughter who transformed country music, dies

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Loretta Lynn, the fire brand singer and songwriter who transformed coal into diamonds by exploring her dirt-poor childhood in eastern Appalachia in her career-defin ing 1970 hit “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” died on Tuesday.

She was 90.

In a statement, her family said that she died from natural causes at her home in Hurri cane Mills, Tennessee.

Lynn was arguably the single most important female figure in postwar country music. “Coal Miner’s Daughter” lent its title to her bestselling 1976 autobi ography and the subsequent hit feature film for which Sissy Spacek won the lead actress Academy Award in 1980 for her gritty portrayal of Lynn as a woman who charmingly but forcefully countered centu ries of patriarchal attitudes through her music.

“Loretta forever changed the notion of what a country ‘girl singer’ should or could be,” wrote the late music jour nalist Chet Flippo. “She wrote about hitherto forbidden topics: Birth control! Female power! Self-determination! And she attracted a lifelong audience of women listeners who had never been directly addressed before by country music –either the music industry or the radio industry.”

Lynn quickly became a trailblazer and controversial figure in country music when she emerged in the early 1960s writing and singing songs that charted a different path than the one outlined in “Stand by Your Man, “ the signature song of that era’s other major female figure, Tammy Wynette.

Lynn’s songs advanced a new world order of domes tic life in rural America, one where submissiveness would no longer be tolerated. “Don’t Come Home A-Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on Your Mind)” was the title of her first No. 1 hit in 1966, just the start of a string of songs that brought to the traditional-minded world of rural communities the changes women were demanding in other strata of society with the rise of feminism.

“The Pill” in 1975 touted the benefits of birth control to a segment of society that had long been accustomed to women giving birth on virtu ally an annual basis as long as they were physically able. Lynn wrote from experience: By the time she was 18 she’d already had four children with her husband, Oliver Lynn, whom she usually referred to by his nickname “Doo.” “The Pill” was banned at numerous country radio stations and brought her criticism from the male-domi nated music industry.

“I’m glad I had six kids because I couldn’t imagine my life without ‘em,” she wrote in

“Coal Miner’s Daughter.” “But I think a woman needs control over her own life, and the pill is what helps her do it.”

She countered the Bible Belt commandment of “till death do us part” in “Rated X,” a 1972 No. 1 hit that had the nerve to discuss divorce openly, rec ognizing the double standard of a stigma historically applied more often to women than men.

She also projected the persona of a no-holds-barred woman who could take care of herself and was in no need of waiting to be rescued by a man in tough-as-nails hits such as “Fist City” and “You Ain’t Woman Enough,” which served up warnings to other women who might be thinking of setting their sights on her man.

The template Lynn created stood in stark contrast to the long-suffering role women were often relegated to in earlier generations as typi fied in Kitty Wells’ “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels.” And it influenced the work of successive gen erations of singers including Emmylou Harris, Reba McEn tire, Patty Loveless, Shania Twain and Martina McBride on through the latest class of assertive female singers and songwriters including Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert and Taylor Swift.

Lynn’s 2004 collaboration with rock music iconoclast Jack White, “Van Lear Rose,” brought her some of the best reviews of her long career and introduced her to a younger audience. White and his part ners in the rock band the White Stripes recorded “Rated X” on their 2001 album “White Blood Cells” and subsequently struck up a friendship with the song’s originator.

On her 2005 “Van Lear Rose” tour, Lynn played clubs more accustomed to hard rock

than traditional country. The album earned her two Grammy Awards, including country album of the year.

She was the first female country artist to achieve a gold album, signifying sales of 500,000 copies of her 1963 debut album, “Loretta Lynn Sings,” and in 1973 she became the first country artist to appear on the cover of Newsweek magazine. She was awarded by Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama in 2013.

When she was in conten tion for the entertainer of the year award from the Country Music Association in 1972, she was advised that if she won, she should not touch Charley Pride, the Black country singer who was to present the award, to preserve her image among country’s largely white, South ern audience. She ignored the warning when she did win and hugged Pride.

Loretta Webb was born April 14, 1932, in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, which was called “Butcher Holler” by locals. For years she would not reveal her date of birth, which was later confirmed by Ken tucky public records.

“When I was born, Frank lin Delano Roosevelt was the president for several years. That’s the closest I’m gonna come to telling my age in this book, so don’t go looking for it,” she wrote in “Coal Miner’s Daughter.”

She was the second of eight children of Melvin and Clara Webb, and as she grew up was often called on to help care for her younger siblings. “I’d sit on the porch swing and rock them babies and sing at the top of my voice,” she wrote in her autobiography.

Her father worked road See Lynn, Page B5

DECEPTIVE DEFENSE DECEIVES DECLARER

Mark Twain once wrote, “Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.” However, when playing bridge for money, honesty is often an expensive policy.

If you are defending and apparently have no chance to defeat the contract, try to bamboozle the declarer into thinking the cards lie differently.

by Phillip Alder

Perhaps you will drop an honor when you still hold at least one lower card in the suit.

On today’s deal, North’s four-diamond response was a splinter bid, showing a high-card raise to four spades with at most one diamond; South control-bid his heart ace; North employed Roman Key Card Blackwood; South showed (zero or) three key cards; and North, who knew an ace or the spade king was missing, settled for six spades.

West led the club eight: king, four, nine. Declarer, seeing that the only danger was a 3-0 trump split, called for dummy’s spade four. After East followed with the three, South played his two. When he won the trick, he tied a world record. This safety play guaranteed only one loser in the suit, necessary as East had all three trumps.

Now go back to trick one. Suppose under the club king, East smoothly drops the queen. What will declarer make of that? Obviously, he will think it is a singleton. Then the trump safety play loses its appeal. If declarer ducks a trump, West may win with a singleton honor and give his partner a club ruff to defeat the slam. Probably, South will continue with a spade to the ace and lose two trump tricks to East.

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DECEPTIVE DEFENSE DECEIVES DECLARER

Mark Twain once wrote, “Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.” However, when playing bridge for money, honesty is often an expensive policy.

Bridge

Hulton Archive/Getty Images/TNS file (1960s) American country music singer and guitarist Loretta Lynn performs on stage at the Grand Ole Opry, 1960s.

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construction under the Works Progress Admin istration launched by Roosevelt to create jobs during the Depres sion. As the economy improved in the late ‘30s, he got a job in the coal mines, setting the stage for her future autobio graphical song.

Despite the poverty the family endured, Lynn recalled a happy child hood. “We were poor, but we had love,” she sang in her iconic hit “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” “that’s the one thing that Daddy made sure of.”

The family listened to radio broadcasts from the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, but Lynn later wrote, “I can’t say that I had big dreams of being a star at the Opry. It was another world to me. All I knew was Butcher Holler – didn’t have no dreams that I knew about.”

In fact, she didn’t start singing profession ally until well after she and Oliver Lynn married in 1948.

“I told momma, ‘I’m getting married so I won’t have to rock all them babies,’ ” Lynn told Newsweek. “Then bang, bang, bang, bang, I had four children in four years.”

When work in the coal mines began to dry up after World War II, the young couple relocated to Washington state, where her husband had once lived. He bought her a guitar after hearing her sing along with the radio.

“I was proud to be noticed, to tell you the truth, so I went right to work on it,” she wrote in her book. She always credited her husband with launching her career in music.

“It wasn’t my idea,” she wrote. “He told me I could do it. I’d still be a housewife today if he didn’t bring that guitar home and then encour age me to be a singer.”

She also began writing her own songs so she’d have something to sing besides the Kitty Wells songs and other country hits of the day.

Lynn got her big break from Bakersfield country musician Buck Owens, who was hosting a television show in Washington at the time. She won a talent contest on the show and a Vancouver, Washington, businessman who saw her performance put up money so she could make a record.

She traveled to Los Angeles and recorded her own song, “Honky Tonk Girl,” which quickly vaulted her into the country Top 10 in 1960. That allowed her to move to Nashville, where she soon began performing on the Grand Ole Opry. She raised hackles there for bring ing along her own band that included drums, which ran counter to the Opry’s exclusive reli ance on acoustic stringed instruments such as guitar, fiddle, mandolin, banjo and upright bass.

While working at the Opry she became close friends with Patsy Cline, one of its biggest stars, and began to open shows for Cline when she went on tour. Lynn was devastated when Cline was killed in a 1963 plane crash.

But Lynn’s career soon equaled and then eclipsed Cline’s as she went on to score 16 No. 1 country hits, five of them in collaboration with her longtime duet partner Conway Twitty. Among her chart-topping hits was her 1977 version of “She’s Got You,” the Hank Cochran song that in 1962 had given Cline her biggest hit.

From 1960 through 1981 she put 78 songs on the country singles charts, 53 of them making the Top 10.

Some of her songs that spewed venom at lying, cheating men were indeed drawn directly from her life with Oliver, yet she remained unfail ingly devoted to him throughout his life.

“The more you hurt, the better the song is,” Lynn told the New York Times in 2016. “You put your whole heart into a song when you’re hurting.”

As her husband’s health deteriorated in the 1980s, she put her career on hold to care for him and largely dropped out of public sight until after his death in 1996, with the exception of the “Honky Tonk Angels” country superstar trio album she recorded in 1993 with Dolly Parton and Wynette.

Though she suffered a stroke in 2017, Lynn con tinued recording into her 80s, working with one of her twin daughters, Patsy, as co-producer along with longtime family friend John Carter Cash, the lone child of singers Johnny Cash and June Carter.

“I’m going to keep working till they put me down,” Lynn told The Times in 2016. “But I ain’t figurin’ on going any time soon.”

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Alumni

expected

College football

Senior linebacker Armon Bailey (Vanden) was named the Big Sky Conference Defensive Player of the Week for the second consecutive week. Bailey becomes just the third defensive player in school history to earn the award two times in a season, joining fellow line backers Anthony Daisley (1999) and Cyrus Muli talo (2006).

Bailey is also the third Hornet to earn a Big Sky Football Player of the Week award in consec utive weeks along with running back Charles Roberts (1998) and quar terback Kevin Thomson (2019), who both received the offensive award.

In the team’s 49-21 win at Cal Poly, Bailey led Sacramento State with nine tackles, including six solos – both of which set career bests. He also

Warrior

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which posed somewhat of an unorthodox training camp to throw Thomp son back into.

“Just coming off

had a 10-yard sack, a quarterback hurry and a pass breakup.

Through four games this season, Bailey leads the Hornets with 25 total tackles and 3.5 tacklesfor-loss. He is also the only player on the team to be credited with a forced fumble and a fumble recovery.

Sacramento State, which is ranked fourth in this week’s AFCA FCS Coaches Poll and fifth in the Stats Perform FCS media poll, will play at home Saturday against Northern Colorado.

Junior center Jake Lev engood (Vacaville) helped Oregon State (3-2) gain 417 yards of total offense and allow no sacks. Unfor tunately, the Beavers managed only one touch down and three field goals in a 42-16 loss to Utah.

Sophomore linebacker Zion Booker (St. PatrickSt. Vincent) had three solo tackles and an assist for Pacific (2-1) in a 35-0 victory over Willa mette. The Fairfield native also had two tackles for loss and another assist.

Minot State (0-5) lost to Bemidji 59-14 Saturday but sophomore defensive lineman Emmitt Espino (Armijo) contributed

the two years with the injuries, this is really unique to play a game after 3 1/2 practices so we’re just being cau tious and trying to do the smart thing,” Kerr said in Japan.

After the Lakers visit

two assisted tackles. The Beavers play Sat urday at Minnesota State-Moorhead.

Graduate student and defensive lineman Muhino Kapapa (Armijo), senior defensive back Amir Wallace (De La Salle) and his brother, senior defensive back Zamir Wallace (De La Salle), all expected to see action Saturday for San Diego. Unfortunately, the three Fairfield natives had to sit at home as opponent Stetson of Deland, Florida, didn’t make the trip out to the West Coast because of Hurricane Ian.

Senior defensive lineman Mondo Calde ron (Fairfield) notched two solo tackles and four assists as Minnesota-Mor ris (2-3) earned a 28-8 win over Westminster. The Cougars take on Finlandia University on Saturday.

Junior defensive back Jackson Troutt (Rodri guez) saw action for the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (3-1) in a 41-14 win over Worces ter Polytechnic Institute. Troutt had a pass breakup. The Mariners are home Saturday to take on Norwich on Guide Dog Foundation and America’s VetDogs Day.

on Sunday, the Warriors have two more preseason games at home against the Portland Trailblazers that Tuesday and Denver Nuggets on Oct. 14. They play the Lakers again in the regular season opener on Oct. 18.

Junior wide receiver Asa Wondeh (Will C. Wood) pulled in two pass receptions for 22 yards in Eastern New Mexico State’s 45-17 loss to Central Washington. The Greyhounds (1-4) will play Saturday at Angelo State.

Women’s volleyball

Junior setter Kayla Somonton (Vacaville) had huge assists numbers in a pair of wins for Simpson (4-14). Somon ton had three service points, one kill, 29 assists and three digs in a 3-0 win over Pacific Union. She added five service points, 38 assists, one block and four digs in a 3-2 win over Merced.

Senior middle blocker Lindsey McLaughlin (Rodriguez, Solano) had some strong kill numbers for Cal Poly Humboldt (2-9) in two matches. McLaughlin finished with three service points, eight kills and five digs in a 3-0 loss to Stanislaus and four service points, 12 kills and five digs in a win over Chico State.

Junior setter Camille Rivers (Vacaville) played in two recent matches for Holy Names (7-9). Rivers

Jerome officially signs

The Warriors swapped guards Mac McClung for a more passing oriented Ty Jerome. McClung was waived on Monday and Jerome officially signed to a training camp deal on Tuesday.

had three service points, two kills, 16 assists and six dings in a 3-0 win over Academy of Art and four service points, two kills, 18 assists and eight digs in a 3-1 loss to Fresno Pacific.

Junior middle blocker Megan Stanek (Vacaville Christian) picked up three service points, one kill and three blocks for Lin field (6-7) in a 3-0 loss to Pacific. She also had four service points, one kill and one block in a 3-1 loss to Puget Sound.

Sophomore outside hitter Taylor Whyte played in two matches for Chico State (3-12). Whyte had two service points and five digs in a 3-0 loss to Sonoma State and four service points, one kill and one block in a 3-1 loss to Humboldt.

Junior middle blocker Coco Ikpe (Vanden) played in one of UC River side’s (3-10) matches last week. She contributed two service points, five kills and a block.

Women’s soccer

Graduate student and defender Abby Wolf (Armijo) played a full 90 minutes for the Univer sity of the Pacific (5-1-6)

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defending champs.

“We always want that big night — six sacks,” Nick Bosa said, proudly separating the defensive line’s total. “We try to just focus on effort and doing our job and executing our assignments. Night like that just come with it.”

Bosa had an astounding 12 pressures on Staf ford, plus two sacks that put him in the NFL lead with seven this season, to which he said unself ishly: “When you have a lot of guys around you producing, it’s a lot easier on you.”

in a 3-0 loss to Santa Clara.

Sophomore forward Summer Baron (DaVinci, Vacaville) and sophomore midfielder Kylie Rolling (Will C. Wood) saw action in two matches last week for Chico State (5-2-3). Baron played 28 minutes off the bench and Rolling three in a 0-0 tie with Cal Poly Pomona. Baron received 23 minutes off the bench and Rolling two in a 1-0 loss to Cal State LA.

Senior defender Brooke Molina (Will C. Wood, Solano) played a full 90 minutes for Bushell (0-10) in a 4-2 loss to Warner Pacific and a 2-1 loss to Mutnomah. Karla Cardinal (Vacaville, Solano) played 73 minutes against Warner Pacific and 48 minutes against Mutnomah.

Men’s tennis

Junior Marcus McDan iel (Kimme Charter) and his doubles partner Andres Martin are cur rently representing Georgia Tech men’s tennis at the ITA All-American Championships in Tulsa, Oklahoma. McDaniel was also hoping to qualifying in singles.

modore Lenoir heard the crowd roar and saw Hufanga race untouched to the end zone. “All-Pro Huf, I’m going to start that now,” Lenoir said of the second-year safety.

“He’s just really smart and an incredible blitzer,” Nick Bosa said. “He can do pretty much anything on the field. He trains with Troy Polamalu in the offseason, so that can’t hurt. His mind is his biggest asset.”

Samuels scores again

Tides

Samson Ebukam’s two sacks had a huge impact against his former team. Ebukam’s first helped stall the Rams’ opening drive that ended with a field goal, and his second resulted in a fumble in the closing minutes. Other sacks came from Hassan Ridgeway, Charles Omenihu, and, as the sec ondary’s outlier, Lenoir.

What makes that pres sure extra noteworthy is how the 49ers managed to cover for injuries on the interior. Javon Kinlaw (knee) was a game-time scratch, and fellow defensive tackle Arik Armstead (foot) returned from a one-game absence before leaving in the fourth quarter.

Hufanga’s intellect

Hufanga is not playing “out of his mind,” to politely contradict Warner. Rather, Hufan ga’s intellect is what helped trigger that winclinching pick-six.

Hufanga recognized a tweak to the Rams’ screen, to which he said: “You can smell a rat when it comes to those things.”

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is out: If you want to move up, play the Solano Challenger.”

One example Cello offers is the rise of Casper Ruud of Norway. Ruud is currently No. 2 in the world and played in the finals of the French Open and the U.S. Open this year. Ruud lost in the semifinals of the Fair field Challenger in 2018 to eventual champion Bjorn Frantangelo.

This will be the first tournament at the college since 2019 because of the worldwide Covid-19 pan demic. The tournament

Samuel’s ability to snatch a Garoppolo ball out of thin air – with just enough altitude to clear a Rams cornerback – was one thing. Then it was Samuel’s turn to, as he likes to say, “get in the box” for a touchdown.

Helping clear his path were blocks by Kyle Juszczyk, George Kittle and Brandon Aiyuk, but as for running past Rams star defensive back Jalen Ramsey, Samuel noted: “I don’t know what he was doing out there. I just went right by him.”

The result: a third straight home win over the Rams with a touch down catch. He also had a touchdown run in last November’s home victory, and a scoring grab in the NFC Champion ship Game loss.

Revenge factor

Players can claim all they want about living in the now, but having a Super Bowl berth slip from your grasp is not something easily forget table. Bosa reminded his teammates about that, presumably in his daybefore-the-game address.

“Just watching that film, you feel the emo tions. Bosa was actually talking about it the other day,” Garoppolo said.

benefits Solano Commu nity College and the Chris Cammisa Tennis & Educa tion Foundation.

Daily tickets for the Oct. 10-14 rounds are $10 and $25 for the final weekend, Oct. 15-16. An all access pass for the entire tournament goes for $75. Tickets may be purchased on the tournament website, fair fieldprotennis.com.

Children’s tickets for those 12 and younger are $25 for the full access, $5 for the daily tickets, Oct. 10-14, and $10 for the final weekend.

The top professionals competing include Jordan Thompson, Jason Kubler and Dennis Kudla.