Daily Republic: Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Supes shift pandemic business loan funds; support park, tourism projects

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FAIRFIELD — Nearly $7 million in park and tourism projects – including a parking lot at Mankas Corner – were given the go-ahead Tuesday by the Solano County Board of Supervisors.

The board also shifted $4 million earmarked for a pan demic-related business revolving loan program to a different Amer ican Rescue Plan Act category to sidestep some program difficul ties, including time constraints and federal guidelines that offi cials said left some lenders a bit nervous.

The board unanimously approved the move from the Negative Economic Impacts cat egory to Revenue Recovery category, which puts control of

the funds into the hands of the county. Eligibility and other requirements for the loans are still in effect, but the move also means pay ments on the loans will stay within the program.

The supervisors voted 4-1, with Supervisor Monica Brown dissenting, to support five park and tourism projects totaling $6.9 million.

With the allocations, the county has $12.6 million of the nearly $87 million in pandemic Amer ican Rescue Plan Act funds unallocated.

Brown supported the $262,912 in pandemic relief funding for Lake Solano camp ground, walking path, fire safety and other improvements because

of the time deadlines involved. The funds will be used as a match to more than $1.4 million in other federal dollars already secured for the project, includ ing $867,648 in earlier pandemic relief funding through the CARES Act.

Brown wanted the other proj ects to be considered against about $45 million in funding requests still to come before the board.

However, Supervisors Erin Hannigan and Mitch Mashburn said the park projects benefit thou sands of annual visitors to Lake Solano and Sandy Beach, where one of the projects will be located.

In addition to the campground

Solano County response to LNU fire recovery gets national award

FAIRFIELD — Solano County has been recognized by the National Association of Counties for its post-LNU Lightning Complex Fire outreach efforts.

The 2022 Achievment Award was presented for “innovative, effective county government programs that strengthen services for residents,” a program that has become a model for use by other counties.

“When I look at the services Solano County provides, this is just a shining example of how we change lives,” said Supervisor Jim Spering, whose staff put together the applica tion for the award. “When they went out and said, ‘We’re with the gov ernment and we want to help you,’ they meant it.”

The Department of Resource Management and the Office of Emergency Services were spe cifically recognized during the Tuesday ceremony before the Board of Supervisors, but clearly there was plenty of back-slapping to go around.

“We saw a complete shift of duties on very short notice,” Terry Schmidtbauer, director of

3 Solano employee contracts gain approval; wave of others expected

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FAIRFIELD — Solano County supervisors on Tuesday ratified three employee contracts and expect to approve 18 more in the coming weeks.

Most of the 23 contracts expired Oct. 21, and as noted by the supervisors, it always seems to come down to the final weeks – if not days – for final movement on the terms to be reached.

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Russia’s ongoing attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure have been so method ical and destructive that Ukrainian and Western officials say they are being directed by electricity special ists who know exactly which targets will inflict maximum pain on Ukraine’s grid.

The two-week-old bombing campaign, an effort to plunge Ukraini ans into darkness ahead of their country’s bitter winter, has focused less on well-protected power generation plants and more on the network nodes that are key to keeping Ukraine’s elec tricity grid functioning and providing criti cal services.

Already, more than a third of Ukraine’s hard-to-replace trans mission hubs have been

damaged or destroyed, officials said.

Russia’s shift in tactics is alarming Ukrainian and Western officials as temperatures start to drop in Ukraine. They warn that the attacks could inflict suffering on civilians, create a new wave of refugees and further erode Ukraine’s war-shattered economy.

Many Ukrainian cities are heated from central

ized plants that require both electricity and gas to function, meaning the

attacks could be particu larly devastating.

Western officials have condemned the attacks on infrastructure as a war crime, saying they are intended to sow terror in the civilian pop ulation. The campaign has been relentless and highly strategic – unlike the Russian military’s ground tactics, which often seem ill-conceived, Ukrainian officials said.

“All the drones they’re using, missiles, everything is targeting energy infrastructure,”

“So 22 (bar gaining units) have essentially ratified or agreed to the terms of our agree ments,” board Chairman John Vasquez said.

Most of those con tracts are just going before the employees for consideration, with votes expected over the next 10 days, the board was told. Only one bargaining unit, that rep resenting physicians and dentists, is not near a final resolution.

Details on the ratified contracts were not imme diately available.

One big issue still facing the county is the number of vacan cies, an issue raised by some of the employee unions, and one that remains unresolved.

Supervisor Erin Hannigan said while the contracts do not solve the issue of vacancies in the county, having the agreements done is a big step forward. She said the county can focus on filling the empty jobs. In other action, the board:

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wear my favorite costume every day

If you could be any thing for Halloween, what would you be?

This is a story I’ve told before, but it’s a pretty good Hal loween story, so I’m telling it again.

When I was 10, my mother said if I wanted to go trick-or-treating on Halloween, I had to take my brothers. And I also had to make our costumes.

Sharon Randall

Joe was 6, Denton was 5. We lived by a cow pasture with only four neighbors. Or three, if you didn’t count the spooky house. Why was it spooky? It was always dark, even in daylight, and I never saw a soul going in or out. It gave me the willies.

With only three houses, we’d be lucky to get a gumball. But it might be a chance for my broth ers and me to have a Halloween we’d never forget. So I rum maged around the house and found everything I needed for

three costumes.

For myself, I folded a tinfoil crown to make me a princess.

For Joe, I threw a sheet over his head to make him a ghost. Joe was blind, so I didn’t need to cut eye holes.

He said, “This is nice, Sister! I look good!”

Denton was easy. We called him “Monkey Boy.” If you saw him, you’d see why. I gave him a banana to complete the look.

Then I loaded the boys in a rusty wagon and we took off. Our first stop was at the home of a very nice lady whose house always smelled like mothballs.

If Joe got excited, he’d flick his hands, one against the other. I could tell he was flicking them under the sheet. “I hope she’s got candy,” he said, flick, flick, “I don’t want no sorry apple!”

When she opened the door, we shouted, “Trick-or-Treat!”

She put a box of fudge in our

bucket, patted Joe’s head and said, “What a cute little ghost!”

Joe crowed like a rooster, “I ain’t a ghost! I’m a mattress!”

The next two houses were dark. But at the spooky house, someone had left a light on.

Sometimes you can be scared spitless and still take a chance. This was one of those times. I said a quick prayer, parked the boys by the steps and knocked on the door. No answer. Joe yelled through the sheet, “Knock louder!” So I did. Then the door creaked open and an old man stared at me.

“Trick or treat,” I whispered. “Wait,” he said. He was gone so long I thought he was dead. But he came back and said, “Who’s in the wagon?”

“They’re my brothers, sir.”

“One of them is blind?” “Yes, sir. That’s Joe in the sheet.The one with the banana is Monkey, I mean, Denton.”

He nodded. “I’ve seen Joe pushing a tricycle in the yard.”

He called out, “Hello, boys,” and they replied, “Hello, Sir.”

Then the old man gave me three surprises: A bar of fancy soap. A dollar bill. And a smile.

Back home, Joe said the fudge smelled like mothballs. Monkey Boy ate it all and threw up. I took a bath with the soap. It smelled like roses. And the next day I bought us a whole dollar’s worth of our favorite candies.

I want to tell that story to my grandchildren. I’ll see some of them for Halloween, and the others soon, I hope. I wish you could see their costumes.

Randy is 12. He and his friends will do “group” cos tumes as life guards and runners and such.

Wiley, 9, will be a soldier in uniform with a hard hat.

Elle, 7, will be Dorothy from “The Wizard of Oz.” Henry, 11, will be “The Pred ator” from the movie.

Charlotte is a day older than Henry. She’ll be Blaze the Cat.

Archer, 5, will ride a dinosaur.

Beatrix, 3, will be Elsa from the movie “Frozen.”

Jonah, who’s also 3, wanted to be a stinky shoe. But his mom couldn’t find a stinky shoe costume. So he will be a lion.

Leilani, at 18 months, could don wings as a fairy, but in any costume, she will be adorable. Me? Maybe I’ll wear a tinfoil crown. Or carry a banana. Or throw a sheet over my head like a queen-size mattress.

But I’ll still be my usual self, in my favorite every day costume. I call it “The Happy Nana.”

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.

9Solano students earn SNHU dean’s list designation

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Nine students from Solano County earned summer 2022 dean’s list honors at Southern New Hampshire Univer sity in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Those who made the grade were Nicole Cabiles of Benicia; Tomiko Barnes and Eric Ginder of Fair field; Karrinna Polk of Travis Air Force Base; Jason Brackett and Shenea Dees of Vacav ille; and Zyoli McDonald, Joshua Cantu and Cristian Garcia of Vallejo.

The summer terms run from May to August. Their accomplishments were announced in a press release.

earning 12 credits over each 16-week term or paired eight-week terms grouped in fall, winter/ spring, and summer.

Solano pair earn dean’s list honors

Jennifer Giron of Benicia and Adriana Kumta of Fairfield made the spring dean’s list for Seton Hall Univer sity in South Orange, New Jersey.

with no grades lower than “C,” qualify for the dean’s list. Students must be enrolled for a minimum of 12 credits.

Fairfield’s Smith earns bachelor’s from UA Sahni Smith of Fair field received a bachelor of science in human envi ronmental sciences from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.

Smith’s accomplish ment was announced in a press release from the university.

The school awarded more than 1,400 degrees during its summer commencement ceremo nies Aug. 6.

16 students from Solano County were named to the summer 2022 president’s list. The summer terms run from May to August.

Those recognized for their academic achieve ments include Kayla Freeman of Fairfield and Rebecca Barnette of Travis Air Force Base; Dulce Ponti, Sirena Batts, Jason McNie, Loc Huynh, Landon Johnston Borboa and Sayed Ayub of Vacav ille; Danielle Rocha and Matthew Salts of Dixon; and Lucia Cantor, Lani James, Amanda Folks, Angela Rogers, Haley Dunn and Jasmine Salm eron of Vallejo.

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uate students who have earned a minimum gradepoint average of 3.7 and above for the report ing term are named to the president’s list. Fulltime status is achieved by earning 12 credits over each 16-week term or paired eight-week terms grouped in fall, winter/ spring, and summer.

Biola welcomes new students from Solano

Biola University in La Mirada welcomed several students from Solano County to the Biola community as they started their journey as an

Eagle this fall.

The local students include Dylan Diaz of Dixon, majoring in business administra tion; Hailey Wurzbach of Fairfield; Tiffany Hender son of Fairfield, majoring in biological science; Hannah Cornwell of Vacaville, majoring in liberal studies elemen tary education.

Biola University recog nized the new students in a press release.

Do you have some good news to share? Send it to Susan Hiland at shiland@ dailyrepublic.net. Be sure to include Good News in the subject line.

Rebuilding Together announces disaster kit, food giveaway

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VALLEJO — Rebuild ing Together Solano County will give away free Disaster Safe At Home kits and food boxes to vet erans, active military and other military families on Veterans Day.

A drawing for grocery gift cards and raised garden boxes also will occur at the event that’s scheduled from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Nov. 11 in the parking lot behind Vallejo City Hall, 555 Santa Clara St.

The kit includes first aid supplies, a hand crank radio, LED flashlight, cell phone charger, a fire extinguisher, plug-in night lights, emergency blanket, glow sticks, emergency whistle, hand sanitizer, hand soap, face masks, a set of trash bags and a disaster backpack with emergency information.

Each kit is valued at $175. There’s a limit of

one kit per household.

Those who claim kits must show a driver’s license with a Solano County address, and mil itary identification, VA card or a DD-214 dis charge document.

Disaster Safe At Home and Food Programs are made possible from dona tions by Wells Fargo and Home Depot as well as additional donors that include Bank of the West, Costco Vallejo, CSAA, First Bank, Food

Coast Guard Auxiliary offers Suisun boating safety classes

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SUISUN CITY — The U.S. Coast Guard Auxil iary, North Solano Flotilla, will host a full-day boating safety class Nov. 5 at the Solano Yacht Club in Suisun City.

Effective Jan. 1, Cal ifornia requires all boat operators, 50 or younger, to take a certified boating class and carry a Califor

nia Boater Card to operate a motorboat. The regu lation has only required those 40 or younger to receive certification.

The course covers an introduction to boating, boating law, safety equip ment, safe boating, navigation, boating prob lems, trailering, storing and protecting your boat, hunting and fishing, water skiing and river boating.

The cost is $55. The

class runs from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. A closed book test will follow. Lunch will be served.

Advance registra tion is required. Call Margie Balch, class coordinator, at 925768-1608 to register.

The club is located at 703 Civic Center Blvd.

For more information about the auxiliary, visit www.cgaux.org.

Final Heritage Trust river boat trip of season set in Vallejo

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VALLEJO — The River Dolphin will take its final run of the season up the Napa River on Nov. 5.

The Mare Island Her itage Trust boat trip will include historian Allan Gandy to provide insight to the journey.

“We are delighted that both our historian . . . and our musicians have agreed to join us,” Myrna Hayes, president of the Mare Island Heritage Trust, said in a statement. She serves as the primary guide.

The two and half hour boat trips depart from the Vallejo Marina, con tinue north on the Napa River under both the Mare Island Causeway, a lift bridge and the Napa River Bridge into the wide open stretches of the Napa River adjacent to tens of thousands of acres of restored “living river” marshes and wetlands beginning to team with migratory shorebirds and waterfowl, Hayes said in the statement.

The trip includes other natural wonders and an

infusion of local history.

Reservations may be made at www.dolphin charters.com or by calling

510-527-9622 or 1-800472-9942. For more information, call Hayes at 707-249-9633.

Bank of Contra Costa and Solano Counties, M & M Sanitation LLC, Medic Ambulance, Min uteman Press, Phillips 66, The Nimitz Group, Valero Benicia Refinery, Vallejo Community Presbyterian Church and other commu nity supporters.

Learn more about and how to help Rebuilding Together Solano County at www.RebuildingTogether SolanoCounty.org.

State ag boss visits Food Bank warehouse in Fairfield

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FAIRFIELD — Cal ifornia Department of Food and Agriculture Secretary Karen Ross on Monday toured the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano in Fairfield.

Ross met with Joel Sjostrom, the food bank’s president and CEO, who invited Ross to Fair field to get a closer look at the Food Bank’s new warehouse facility –the largest expansion in their history. The warehouse features a new, 104,000-squarefoot building.

Sjoestrom con ducted the tour along with Operations Direc tor Hisham Hamdy and Steve Brazeel, founder of SunTerra Produce,

a longtime donor to the Food Bank.

Work was just com pleted work on an 8,600-square-foot cold box that boasts 704 pallet positions, enough to enable the Food Bank to triple its produce, dairy and protein inventory.

The site serves half a million clients a month between the two coun ties as well as 16 other counties across Northern California.

The nonprofit agency got its start in 1975 when 15 local food pantries and agencies incorpo rated into what is now known as the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano.

The Food Bank receives perishable and

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T. J. McGovern, left, and other Home Depot volunteers in conjunction with Rebuilding Together Solano County, make repairs to the home of a local veteran, April 12, 2019.

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Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano Operations Director Hisham Hamdy, left, talks distribution with California Department of Food and Agriculture Secretary Karen Ross during a tour of the Food Bank warehouse in Fairfield, Monday

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Work continues on I-80 exit at Red Top Road

FAIRFIELD — Motorists are advised to expect traffic delays Wednesday as crews continue work on the Interstate 80/Interstate 680/Highway 12 Inter change Project near Fairfield.

Crews are constructing a concrete island at east bound Highway 12 at Red Top Road. The work will require the closure of the right-hand turn to ensure the safety of workers, the California Department of Transportation reports.

The closure began at 5 a.m. Tuesday and will remain in place until 3 p.m. Wednesday, Cal trans reports.

Eastbound drivers who wish to exit at Red Top Road will have to continue on eastbound Interstate 80, exit Green Valley Road and merge onto west bound I-80 toward the Red Top Road exit.

Panduro plans pair of meet-and-greet events

FAIRFIELD — Doriss Panduro, running to retain her District 5 seat on the City Council, has scheduled a pair of meet-and-greet events for this week and next.

Panduro will host sessions from 5 to 6 p.m. Wednesday at Dover Neighborhood Park, 800 E. Travis Blvd.; and from 4 to 5 p.m. Nov. 5 at Veterans Memorial Park, 2050 Fairfield Ave. She participated in a meet-and-greet Tuesday at Tabor Neighborhood Park.

The other District 5 candidates are Scott Mulvey and Jeremy Ferrell.

A full map of District 5 can be viewed at https:// www.fairfield.ca.gov/government/city-clerk/ redistricting-2021.

Mare Island trust to host Halloween event

VALLEJO — Mare Island Heritage Trust and Vallejo-based Astro Botanicals on Saturday will host a “Dead End” Haunt and All Hallow’s sanc tuary gathering at the Mare Island Shoreline Heritage Preserve.

Astro Botanicals will arrange “a truly magical experience” with their “elegant, inflatable space plants shaped like classical ornamental flowers art sculptures,” event organizers have announced. “Thousands of Preserve users have experienced the thrill of literally crawling inside and lying within a giant inflatable flower lighted with ever chang ing colors.”

Ghost stories of Mare Island will be told by Myrna Hayes, co-founder of the Heritage Trust.

The event runs from 6 to 9 p.m. in front of the pre serve gate, located at the end of Azur Drive.

For information about the Mare Island Preserve “Dead End” Haunt and All Hallow’s Sanctuary, call Hayes at 707-249-9633 and visit the Mare Island Shoreline Heritage Preserve Facebook page. For more about Astro Botanicals, visit https://astro botanicals.com.

Serenity Saddles schedules open house

DIXON — Serenity Saddles Therapeutic Riding Program has scheduled its third annual open house from 5 to 8:30 p.m. Friday.

Members of the community are invited to come to the J Bar 4 Ranch at 7776 Nunes Road, where there will be activities such as pumpkin painting, games, refreshments and conversation. Vis itors are invited to take a look around and while they are there, meet with Serenity Saddles board members and volunteers, and see some therapy horses.

Pony rides will be available $5. The open house is billed as a child-friendly event.

For more information, send an email to serenity saddles298@gmail.com.

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VACAVILLE — Peggy Lauritzen will present “Apprentices, Indentured Servants and Redemp tioners: White Servitude in America” at the next meeting of the Solano County Genealogi cal Society.

The virtual presenta tion begins 11 a.m. Nov. 5.

Do you have ancestors you can trace to the Amer ican colonies, but whose origins stubbornly remain “fuzzy”? Perhaps they came as indentured ser vants, redemptioners or

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nonperishable food from manufacturers, wholesal ers, retailers, brokers, food drives, farmers and individuals. Regular dona tions of fresh, local and seasonal fruits and veg etables are provided by the produce industry in partnership with the Cal ifornia Association of Food Banks.

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apprentices. Indentured servitude was an impor tant source of labor in the British colonies and during the early years of the United States. Some estimate that half of all early European immi grants may have come to America bound to some form of contrac tual servitude.

This presentation will discuss the voluntary and involuntary ways in which some Europeans secured their passage, describe the different forms of servitude and indenture ship in early America,

tributes food into the community by operating its own free food programs each week within Solano and Contra Costa coun ties and by partnering with 260 local nonprofit agencies to support their hunger-fighting efforts.

The work volunteers put in annually is equiv alent to 50 full-time employees. Those volun teers are described on the Food Bank’s website as “the heart of our organiza tion and we couldn’t do it without them.”

and describe what some of these immigrants’ lives were like.

Lauritzen has been an accred ited genealogist for 25 years. A frequent lecturer at family history seminars, she has taught continuing education classes at com munity colleges and Ohio State University. She is a featured columnist in Reminisce magazine, has written several Legacy QuickGuides, has filmed as an instructor for Ances

try Academy and has recorded a number of pre sentations on a variety of topics for Legacy Family Tree Webinars.

Guests are welcome to attend this free event. If interested, send an email the society at scgs@ scgsca.org no later than 4 p.m. Nov. 4 and request an invitation. More information on society activities can be found on the society’s webpage at scgsca.org and on its Facebook page.

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Courtesy photo a therapy horse in a season “costume” will be featured at the serenity saddles third annual open house at the J Bar 4 Ranch in Dixon, Friday.

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California Highway Patrol officers investigate the scene after a vehicle crashed into an electrical pole along Rockville Road near Willotta Drive in rural Fairfield, Tuesday. One person was taken to a nearby hospital with injuries authorities said were not considered life-threatening.

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Fairfield-Suisun school trustees to hear updates on financial matters

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FAIRFIELD — Trustees in the Fair field-Suisun School District will hear pre sentations Thursday that center on finances: one on child nutrition pro grams, and one on deferred maintenance and future projects.

The first presentation is an annual update on Child Nutrition Services.

The district’s nutri tional programs include a Seamless Summer Feeding Program, Com munity Eligibility Provision School Nutri tion Programs and an At-Risk After School Supper Program.

The Fairfield-Suisun district in 2018-19 served 551,949 breakfasts, according to a staff report. That number increased to 647,234 for 2021-22.

Lunches also saw an increase from 1.839 million in 2018-19 to 2.121 million in 2021-22.

The district served 1.779 million reim bursable meals in 2020-21 and received $5.966 million, accord ing to the staff report. The district served 2.831 million reim bursable meals in 2021-22 and received $12.025 million. The ending fund balance for the 2021-22 school year was $6.3 million.

The next presentation is on maintenance proj ects completed and those planned for the future.

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nance is 1.25% of the General Fund budget, according to the staff report, or $3.2 million for the 2021-22 year.

The budget includes $3.8 million in deferred maintenance during the current school year.

Additional funds for maintenance proj ects can come from Elementary and Second ary School Emergency Relief Fund III for floor ing replacement and HVAC replacement; Schools Healthy Air, Plumbing and Efficiency programs as designated by Assembly Bill 841 for HVAC repairs; and Child Nutrition Program funds for cafeteria table replacements.

The district is looking at several projects for the coming years, includ ing roofing, flooring, HVAC, lighting, paint ing and more.

District official in the staff report note the dis trict has faced hurdles to moving on with other projects, including funding, unfilled custo dial positions and some surprises like asbes tos found in the Armijo High School gym, a main water line break, HVAC failures, the dis trict office elevator failure and break-ins and incidents of vandalism that have cost the dis trict money that could have been used for the future projects.

The school board meeting begins at 6 p.m. at 2490 Hilborn Road in Fairfield.

Candidates come to Jelly Belly to meet potential voters

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FAIRFIELD — Can didates for three offices headline a meet-and-greet scheduled Wednesday in Fairfield that’s open to prospective voters.

U.S. Senate candi date Mark Meuser, 4th Congressional District candidate Mark Brock

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of Vacaville and 8th Congressional District candidate Rudy Recile of Vacaville are the main attractions.

All are Republicans.

The new 4th Congres sional District includes portions of Solano County.

Brock faces Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena. The new 8th Congressio nal District also includes portions of Solano County.

Recile faces Rep. John Garamendi-D-Wal nut Grove. Meuser faces

incumbent U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, a Democrat.

Various candidates for city council, school board, county supervi sor, state Senate and state Assembly are also sched uled to attend.

The session starts at 6 p.m. at Jelly Belly Candy Company, One Jelly Belly Lane.

Ag group appoints new leadership

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VACAVILLE — Alexis Koefoed, owner of Soul Food Farm, and Lisa Murray, owner and direc tor of Ag & Art Magazine and Ag & Art Film Festi val, have been appointed president and vice presi dent, respectively, of the Pleasants Valley Agricul ture Association.

They replace Elizabeth Fry and Dan Schwartz.

“PVAA’s immediate goals are to resurrect monthly meetings (that took a slight hiatus in the the second half of 2022), launch a PVAA newslet ter, and host more PVAA social events. With these efforts, we hope to con tinue building a network of farmers and farm supporters, as well as

establish a resilient mem bership for the Pleasants Valley Agriculture Asso ciation,” Koefoed said in a statement.

The association was formed in 2018 by area farmers “who have a collective interest in agriculture tourism, pre serving agricultural land, and cross-promot ing with local businesses in Solano County, the

Mount Calvary plans Harvest Fest, preps for turkey giveaway

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FAIRFIELD — Mount Calvary Baptist Church invites the com munity Monday to Harvest Fest 22.

The event is billed as a community event for the entire family. It will feature carnival food, a costume contest, game truck and lots of candy for children on Halloween.

Times are 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the church’s

campus in Fairfield at 1735 Enterprise Drive, Building 3.

The harvest festival is the latest in a series of community outreach efforts from the church. Those efforts include a food pantry that’s open to the community from 1 to 3 p.m. each Thursday at the Fairfield campus, and the food pantry turkey giveaway that’s sched uled from 1 to 3 p.m. Nov. 17 in anticipation of Thanksgiving.

A community Thanks giving meal is scheduled at noon Nov. 12 at the Fairfield campus. Those who arrive will receive a free, hot Thanksgiving meal with all the trim mings – to go. Meals will be available while supplies last.

Masks are required for all food pantry visits. No signups are required for the turkey give away. Turkeys will be available Nov. 17 while supplies last.

statement said.

The next association meeting is set for 6:30 p.m. Nov. 17 on Zoom. Future virtual meetings will be held the third Thursday of each month. In-person meetings are scheduled to resume next spring.

For more infor mation, visit http:// VacavilleFarmers.com.

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White House blasts Griner’s appeal hearing as a ‘sham’

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President Joe Biden said U.S. efforts to secure the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner are ongoing but have not swayed the Kremlin, hours after a Russian court rejected her appeal of a nine-year drug smuggling sentence.

“We are in con stant contact with Russian authorities to get Brittney and others out, and so far we’re not meeting with much pos itive response,” Biden told reporters Tuesday at the White House. “But we’re not stopping.”

Earlier in the day, the White House called the court’s decision a “sham” and again demanded her release. The ruling means Griner will leave a pre-trial detention facility near Moscow and be sent to serve her term in a penal colony else where in Russia.

“We are aware of the news out of Russia that Brittney Griner will con tinue to be wrongfully detained under intol erable circumstances after having to undergo another sham judi cial proceeding today,” White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said in a state ment. “President Biden has been very clear that Brittney should be released immediately.”

State Department

spokesman Ned Price said the U.S. charge d’affairs in Moscow, Elizabeth Rood, sought permission to speak with Griner, who appeared for the hearing Tuesday via video link.

“Our charge was not able, ultimately, to speak to Brittney Griner,” Price said. “The Russian authorities would not permit that.”

The U.S. has accused Russia of drag ging its feet on a prisoner exchange. In August, Biden offered to exchange Griner and another detained Amer ican, Paul Whelan, for Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer known as the “merchant of death,” and a second Russian also held in a U.S. prison, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

Sullivan on Tuesday said Biden is “willing to go to extraordinary lengths and make tough decisions to bring Amer icans home.”

Griner, a Phoenix Mercury basketball star who played in Russia during the offseason, was arrested at a Moscow airport in February after customs officials said they found vape cartridges contain ing cannabis oil in her luggage. She pleaded guilty to drug possession and smuggling.

Georgia crosses 1 million voters, shattering midterm turnout records

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Turnout in Geor gia’s election surged past 1 million voters Tuesday, continuing a daily trend of recordbreaking participation in a midterm election with two weeks remaining before Election Day.

Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said voters are flocking to in-person early voting locations, which are open six days a week for three weeks across Georgia. Fifteen counties also offered Sunday voting.

“This isn’t a victory lap yet. We’re about halfway through the second quarter, but we

need to encourage every one to go out to vote and not discourage them,” Raffensperger said Tuesday at a press con ference at the Capitol. “We need to let them know their vote will be counted and counted accurately, not that their vote will be stolen.”

By the time polls close at 7 p.m. on Nov. 8, overall turnout is expected to easily surpass the 3.9 million Georgia voters who par ticipated in the last midterm election four years ago but likely fall short of the 5 million ballots cast in the 2020 presiden tial election.

Biden faces winter Covid surge as funds, public interest dry up

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is urging a vaccina tion push as he braces for a winter wave of Covid-19 cases that could again drive up hospital izations and deaths, but this time without a blank check to fight the surge.

Congressional Repub licans have blocked more funding for vaccines and treatments, forcing the government to scrounge what money it can for those and to lean on the private sector for care. That’s raised questions about whether stocks of tests, vaccines and Pfizer Inc.’s Paxlovid treatment pills will last.

Biden, hampered by an increasingly shoe string budget, is enlisting U.S. businesses to elevate booster uptake as vaccine coverage dwindles, other treatments grow obsolete and low supplies run out.

The president was joined at the White House Tuesday by executives from CVS Health Corp., Rite Aid Corp. and Wal greens Boots Alliance Inc. Biden, who received his own booster, asked employers to host on-site clinics for flu and coro navirus vaccines, email workers urging them to get shots, and offer paid time off for employees with side effects.

“As a country we have a choice to make,” said Biden, urging people to get updated boost ers. “Can we repeat what happened in the past winters – more infections, more hospitalizations, more loved ones getting sick, even dying from the virus? Or can we have a much better winter, if we use all, all the tools we

have available to us now?”

In addition to a lack of funding, the administra tion also faces widespread public apathy, with masking and distancing almost entirely abandoned across the country. Biden himself declared last month the pandemic was “over,” and virtually never wears a mask, even among crowds of his sup porters. The U.S. has also largely abandoned Covidspecific press briefings.

Hospitalizations have now begun to rise in some European coun tries and areas of the U.S., as new versions of the virus, such as the XBB variant, become better able to evade immunity from vaccines or previous infections.

Biden again on Tuesday urged Congress to “step up with much needed Covid funding.”

“Help us stay ahead of the virus,” he said.

“My message to Con gress is that we must pass more Covid funding,”

said Lawrence Gostin, director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University. “Covid isn’t over and, we are going to see many more American deaths unless Congress acts and the public under stands the importance of vaccinations.”

Roughly 20 million people have so far gotten an updated booster, with numbers picking up since the shots were authorized early last month.

Still, the administration wants higher vaccina tion numbers and expects a spike in cases driven by cooler weather and holiday gatherings, an offi cial familiar with their plans said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

A winter wave could also bring testing short ages. Biden’s team is working to build stock piles and is in touch with retailers, warning them to not be caught flatfooted. It’s too soon to

say whether pharmacies and others have bought enough tests for winter, the official said.

Aside from vaccines, the U.S. has relied on Pax lovid to minimize severe cases. Supplies remain strong, but it’s not clear that will last all winter, the official said. It’s also unclear whether the U.S. would be able to buy any more – which may force the drug’s transition to the commercial market, likely reducing use.

“It is going to cost money to get a shot or to get Paxlovid or other treatments. That will mean the U.S. will fall even further behind our peers,” Gostin said.

The U.S. needs to develop vaccines and treatments that are more resilient to variants, and that won’t happen without new funding, the official said.

“Our vaccine cam paign funds are very, very limited and that has

Heart attack deaths jumped sharply among young adults in second year of pandemic

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As the number of Covid-19 infection surged during the pan demic, deaths from heart attacks rose sharply as well, with adults ages 25-44 experiencing the most significant increases, according to new research from scientists at CedarsSinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

“The dramatic rise in heart attacks during the pandemic has reversed what was a prior decade long steady improvement in cardiac deaths,” said Dr. Yee Hui Yeo, first author of the study and a Cedars-Sinai physicianscientist. “We are still

learning the many ways by which Covid-19 affects the body, regardless of age, gender, ethnic ity or race.”

Scientists around the nation and world continue to release findings that show SARS-CoV-2 infec tions increase risk of other serious conditions such as stroke, nerve damage and some autoim mune diseases.

While other infec tions such as the flu are known to lead to a slightly increased risk of heart attacks, the CedarsSinai researchers said, they could find nothing that compared with the jump in deaths linked to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Among their findings published in the peerreviewed “Journal of Medical Virology:” U.S. deaths attributed to heart attacks, or acute myocardial infarctions as they are medically known, shot up 14% to 164,096 in the first year of the pan demic, April 1, 2020, to Mar 31, 2021.

By the second year of the pandemic, the dramatic increases in heart attacks blew apart the models used to predict how many people would lose their lives to these events.

Fatal heart attacks among

adults ages 25-44 soared 29.9% over what was predicted. Deaths from heart attack climbed by 19.6% for adults ages 45-64 and by 13.7% for ages 65 and older.

These excessively higher rates of heart attack-related death have persisted throughout the pandemic, the CedarsSinai researchers found, including the possibil ity that Covid-19 could trigger or accelerate cor onary artery disease.

The scientists said more research has to be done to pinpoint risks.

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Yuri Gripas/Abaca Press/TNS President Joe Biden receives his updated Covid-19 vaccine and delivers remarks in the South Court Auditorium at the White House in Washington, D.C., Tuesday.

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Cavill confirms he’s returning as Superman

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After years of spec ulation, Henry Cavill is indeed returning to the DC Extended Universe as the Man of Steel.

“Hey everyone – I wanted to wait until the weekend was over before posting this because I wanted to give you all a chance to watch ‘Black Adam,’” the British actor, 39, said Monday in an Instagram video, referencing the Dwayne Johnson comic-book flick that just premiered.

“But now that plenty of you have, it’s offi cial: I’m back.”

Spoiler alert: Super man’s familiar face shows up unannounced in the end credits of Dwayne Johnson’s record-breaking super hero turn, which brought in $67 million in ticket sales this past weekend. That’s the biggest opening weekend

Johnson has seen for a movie in which he’s the leading man.

Henry Cavill makes a dramatic entrance in the middle of the movie’s end credits as Superman, descending after Viola Davis’ Amanda Waller drops in on Johnson’s Black Adam by drone. In good-cop/bad-cop style, the confrontation unfolds: Waller issues a not-so-veiled threat to Black Adam about what might happen were he to leave his home country of Kahndaq. Superman, however, just wants to talk.

“The image you see on this post and what you saw on ‘Black Adam’ are just a very small taste of what’s to come,” Cavill said in his video.

“So there’s a lot to be thankful for, and I’ll get to that in time. But I wanted to thank you guys most of all.

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Zits Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman

Pearls Before Swine Stephan Pastis

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Crime logs

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SUNDAY, OCT. 23 12:24 a.m. — Drunken driver, EASTBOUND INTERSTATE 80 1:25 a.m. — Battery, 1300 block of CLAY STREET 2:42 a.m. — Commercial burglary, 2400 block of WATERMAN BOULEVARD 2:42 a.m. — Shots fired, 800 block of FIFTH STREET 6:34 a.m. — Reckless driver, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE 8:34 a.m. — Grand theft, 1500 block of GARFIELD STREET 8:50 a.m. — Fight with a weapon, 1200 block of OLIVER ROAD 11:05 a.m. — Grand theft, 600 block of EAST TRAVIS BOULEVARD 12:06 p.m. — Grand theft, 2300 block of WHITTIER PLACE 1:09 p.m. — Battery, 2100 block of ALLSTON PLACE 1:38 p.m. — Reckless driver, EAST BELL AVENUE 2:08 p.m. — Forgery, 3000 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 2:25 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 400 block of SAN MATEO STREET 3:09 p.m. — Grand theft, 1200 block of CIVIC CENTER DRIVE 3:09 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 2000 block of CADENASSO DRIVE 3:17 p.m. — Battery, 3300 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 4:20 p.m. — Reckless driver, 2900 block of GULF DRIVE 4:35 p.m. — Vandalism, 4900 block of VANDEN ROAD 5:28 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 1600 block of VICKSBURG DRIVE 5:32 p.m. — Robbery, PLUM TREE WAY 5:50 p.m. — Shots fired, 1800 block of UNION AVENUE 6:04 p.m. — Vehicle theft, JELLY BELLY LANE

6:38 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 4900 block of VANDEN ROAD 7:22 p.m. Battery, 1200 block of DANA DRIVE 7:45 p.m. Vehicle theft, 1600 block of UNION AVENUE 7:59 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, UNION AVENUE 8:06 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, EAST TABOR AVENUE 8:39 p.m. — Trespassing, ONE LAKE DRIVE

MONDAY, OCT. 24 12:03 a.m. — Reckless driver, CLAY BANK ROAD 12:32 a.m. — Shots fired, 2900 block of GULF DRIVE 3:53 a.m. — Battery, 200 block of EAST PACIFIC AVENUE 4:11 a.m. — Indecent exposure, 1700 block of WEST TEXAS STREET 5:12 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 1900 block of PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE 8:11 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 2700 block of PEPPERTREE DRIVE 8:15 a.m. — Battery, 1600 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 8:38 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 2200 block of SANTA FE COURT 9:46 a.m. — Commercial burglary, 300 block of WATT DRIVE

9:50 a.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 1400 block of WEST TEXAS STREET 10:46 a.m. — Residential burglary, 1300 block of SONATA DRIVE 11:16 a.m. — Battery, 1600 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 11:40 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 700 block of EMERALD BAY DRIVE 11:55 a.m. — Forgery, 900 block of NIGHTINGALE DRIVE 11:59 a.m. — Grand theft, 2300 block of NORTH WATNEY WAY 12:14 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 800 block of EAST TABOR AVENUE

12:58 p.m. — Battery, 200 block of EAST TRAVIS BOULEVARD 1:07 p.m. — Embezzlement, 900 block of TEXAS STREET 1:24 p.m. — Indecent exposure, 1900 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 4:34 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 700 block of EAST TABOR AVENUE 4:37 p.m. — Residential burglary, 2100 block of SANTA ANA DRIVE 4:58 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 1000 block of OLIVER ROAD 5:03 p.m. — Reckless driver, BUSINESS CENTER DRIVE 5:16 p.m. — Battery, 1300 block of PHOENIX DRIVE 5:23 p.m. — Reckless driver, CROWLEY LANE 6:33 p.m. — Indecent exposure, WEST TEXAS STREET 8:31 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 700 block of EAST TABOR AVENUE 9:56 p.m. — Reckless driver, KENTUCKY STREET 9:56 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 1900 block of GRANDE CIRCLE 10:49 p.m. — Assault with a deadly weapon, 1600 block of CHAMBERLAIN DRIVE 11:44 p.m. — Indecent exposure, 1700 block of WEST TEXAS STREET

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SUNDAY, OCT. 23 8:38 a.m. — Grand theft, 300 block of CIVIC CENTER BOULEVARD 9:10 a.m. — Vandalism, 200 block of RAILROAD AVENUE 12:52 p.m. — Vandalism, LOTZ WAY / CIVIC CENTER BOULEVARD 4:06 p.m. — Reckless driver, ANDERSON DRIVE / LAWLER CENTER DRIVE 6:03 p.m. — Hit-and-run no injury, PETERSEN ROAD 6:07 p.m. — Hit-and-run no injury, HIGHWAY 12 / SUNSET AVENUE 7:09 p.m. — Vandalism, KELLOGG STREET / MAPLE STREET

MONDAY, OCT. 24 2:21 p.m. — Grand theft, 1700 block of CARSWELL LANE 3:22 p.m. — Grand theft, 100 block of SUNSET AVENUE 4:50 p.m. — Assault, 600 block of WHISPERING BAY LANE

safety programs.

Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko said in an interview. “They have some kind of road map for the militaries, where to shell. If they missed one day, then the next day they shell it again and again.”

The attacks are also proving enormously dif ficult to defend against, and officials said there was little they could do to harden the system against the strikes, which Russia has con ducted with barrages of long-range missiles and attack drones.

“The goal of this is to create the most possible obstacles to reconnect quickly,” Galushchenko said. “Every day, shelling to infrastruc ture makes us closer to bigger problems.”

Another goal is to broadly hobble Ukraine’s ability to support its troops on the front lines.

Ukraine’s backers in Europe and Asia have promised to provide more powerful air defense systems and to rush equipment and other assistance to help rebuild critical infrastructure. But many of the air defense systems are com plicated to use, require extensive training and have been slow to arrive.

Previously, when power plants or trans mission lines came under attack, Ukrainian energy officials were able to reroute electricity around the problem, using their country’s thick web of Soviet and post-Soviet energy infrastructure to bypass problems. But that resilience is eroding quickly, officials said.

And repairs to the damaged infrastructure are pointless so long as Russia can attack the same targets again and again. Most of the substa tions and transformers need to sit aboveground and many need to be clear of obstructions around them, making them easy targets.

because they often must be custom-built, a process that can take months, experts said.

Kudrytskyi and others said they saw the spec tral presence of their Russian energy coun terparts in the decisions behind what is being hit, as though people just like them were planning the strategy. Russia and Ukraine’s grids are tech nically similar, since they were part of the same country until 1991, and Soviet-era infrastructure maps can still provide a road map to destruction.

“They are obviously targeting those substa tions and power plants which are most crucial for some regions, par ticular regions or for the power system in general as a whole,” Kudrytskyi said. They know “where to strike to inflict as much damage as possi ble. Because their target is terror. Their inten tion is to disconnect as many people from the grid as possible to create this panic.”

For now, Kudrytskyi said, 90% of Ukrai nians have had their power restored within a day of an attack. “The problem,” he said, “is that the safety buffer of the system is getting lower. At the current rate of destruction, there is no such stock that could be sufficient to last for months or years.”

Authorities have begun asking residents to stop using power-hungry appliances, and they have imposed planned black outs of several hours at a time in Kyiv and cities around the country.

Many local govern ments have switched away from electric trolley-buses to dieselpowered ones, one of several measures they are taking to conserve electricity. The scheduled blackouts help ease the burden on the grid and give energy companies precious hours to scram ble repair teams and reroute electricity flows across the undamaged parts of their transmis sion network.

new calculus among Ukrainians.

For those in the east and center of the country, many of whom had only recently returned to their homes after spend ing months abroad or in the country’s west, it raised the possibility that they might need to flee again. Even for those who intend to stay, con versations have begun over what needs to be done to prepare for a winter potentially without heat and electricity for extended periods.

“When you have to stay without electric ity, you have this feeling that you are in constant danger,” said Pavlenko, who added that her own apartment in Kyiv had been without power for four hours that afternoon. “You are not able to live as you lived before. It’s terrorizing in all regions.”

One recent news report advised residen tial buildings to place emergency packages in elevators, in case inhabitants found them selves stuck between floors during a power outage. In one apartment building, the contents included a flashlight, water, cookies, as well as two adult diapers and a light sedative.

At the bottom of the list of contents on the package, a request was written: “Please, do not use the contents if you don’t need to, and replace what you use.”

Ukraine’s power gen eration capacity plunged in the early weeks of the war after Russia cap tured its Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, the largest atomic power stations in Europe. But with much of the coun try’s industry idled by the conflict, power demands are also far lower than during peacetime.

clearly see this plan.”

Another objective –after Russia has run into battlefield challenges on the front lines and is retreating from the south ern city of Kherson and other areas – is to undermine the Ukrainian military from the rear.

“This is a completely different way how Russia is now targeting infra structure,” said Artur Lorkowski, the director of the Vienna-based Energy Community Secretariat, an international organi zation affiliated with the European Union that has been coordinating efforts to direct spare parts and infrastructure assistance to Kyiv. “This is some thing that makes me scared about the future.”

Lorkowski said target ing the energy network could lead to civilian suffering that outstrips the already grievous toll of the war, which on Monday entered its ninth month.

“I would like to be wrong, but if the intensity of the shelling is kept by the Russians, you could expect a really, really tough winter,” Lorkowski said in a phone interview from the Polish-Ukrai nian border, where he was returning after a visit to Kyiv focused on aid efforts. “They’re trying to push the people to a crisis situation through limited or no access to elec tricity and heat during wintertime.”

The attacks on energy infrastructure have led to calls for allies to step in to help, both with air defenses and with spare parts for the power system.

$303,000 appropriation transfer in federal Ameri can Rescue Plan Act Coro navirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund revenue to fund three board approved ARPA projects for Water and Wastewater Infrastruc ture.

n Approved a $93,750 appropriation transfer to recognize unanticipated revenue from the Office of Traffic Safety to support the Solano Car Seat Con nection Program through June 30, 2023.

n Approved the annual application for $317,133 for participation in the 2023-24 Boating Safety and Enforcement Finan cial Aid Program, and cer tified that 100% of the amount received by the county from personal property taxes on vessels shall be spent on boating

n Adopted a resolution approving participation in the 2022-23 California Department of Parks and Recreation grant cycle; and approved a $39,643 appropriation transfer in unanticipated revenue from the Boating Safety and Enforcement Equip ment grant and related appropriations to pur chase capital asset boating safety and law enforce ment equipment.

n Approved participa tion in the 2022-23 Califor nia State Parks and Recreation, Division of Boating and Waterways, Surrendered and Aban doned Vessels Exchange Grant Program through Sept. 30, 2024, and approved a $100,000 appropriation transfer in unanticipated grant revenue and related appropriations to assist in the abatement of surren dered and abandoned vessels in county water ways.

“The rules of the game are unfair,” said Volodymyr Kudrytskyi, the chief executive of Ukrenergo, the coun try’s main grid operator. “It is much quicker and easier to launch a missile and destroy the equip ment or the object than to renovate it.”

Replacing specialized transformers and other substation infrastruc ture is especially difficult

“My personal assess ment is that they can hardly create a total blackout in the country,” said Olena Pavlenko, the president of DiXi Group, a Kyiv-based energy con sultancy. “There will still be a possibility to have electricity supply in all regions. But they will create a situation where we have longer inter ruptions of electricity supplies in the cities.”

The attacks have started to create a

the OES manager said.

In other action, the board:

Ukraine is still able to generate enough elec tricity for its needs – and until just two weeks ago, was actually exporting its surplus to European neighbors. But its ability to move electricity from power plants, many of which are in Ukraine’s north and west, to the places where it is needed, near the front lines in the south and east, is rapidly diminishing.

“The main target of the Russians’ attack is to create a situation the Ukrainian system can’t work jointly,” said Oleksandr Kharchenko, the managing director of the Kyiv-based think tank Energy Industry Research Center. “They want to split it into several parts. We can

ity Employment Aware ness Month in Solano County.

The Biden admin istration said it was trying. “We are working with the Ukrainians and regional and allied part ners to see what can be done to shore up some alternative sources of energy for them as winter approach,” National Security Council spokes man John Kirby said. He added that the United States was working hard to make sure Ukrainians can “improve their air defense capabilities.”

Poland recently pre sented the European Commission with a list of Ukraine’s most urgent infrastructure needs.

The list, drawn up with Kyiv, outlines the need for items such as mobile cranes, vehicles for transporting rein forced concrete poles, miles of power cable and more than a dozen types of transformers, as well as submersible pumps, surge limiters and chain saws, among other things.

via the internet within 180 days.

Resource Man agement, said.

The result was he was working with people he had never worked with prior to the fire response.

Supervisor John Vasquez noted that in addi tion to the fire response, the county was respond ing to Covid-19 at the same time.

But the work is not done.

“It’s been two years now, and the work still continues,” Don Ryan,

Funds

project, the board approved $252,720 for replacing aging transform ers at Lake Solano, and $3.7 million in improve ments to the Lake Solano waterfront area and access, including a path directly from the Nature Center.

Chris Drake, the parks manager for the county,

n Recognized John Mendenhall, deputy public defender, upon his retire ment with more than 24 years with Solano County.

n Recognized Lynda R. Smith, office assistant in the Department of Health and Social Services, Behav ioral Health Divi sion, upon her retirement with 23 years with Solano County.

n Recognized Jenny McCoy as the Employee of the Month for Novem ber.

n Recognized October 2022 as National Disabil

said what was once a fishing haven has become a non-motorized boating hotspot so the waterfront needed improvements. He said attendance since the park has reopened has matched and even exceeded pre-pan demic levels.

Hannigan suggested Drake seek out other partners to help with the waterfront project and specifically men tioned the Solano County Water Agency as a pos sible source because its

n Reappointed Super visor Monica Brown as the primary county rep resentative and Supervi sor Erin Hannigan as the alternate to the Napa/ Solano Area Agency on Aging Oversight Board for the term of Nov. 6 through Nov. 6, 2026.

n Approved $500 from the 2nd District general fund account to benefit the Filipino Community of Solano County ($250) and the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum ($250).

n Authorized the Trea surer-Tax CollectorCounty Clerk to hold a sale of tax-defaulted prop erty at a public auction

programs criss-cross the work the county is looking to do.

The final park project is $1.3 million for improvements at Sandy Beach including path upgrades, a fish cleaning station and a kiosk out of which personal flotation devices can be loaned to park users.

Supervisor Jim Spering called the $1.5 million Mankas Corner parking lot a “project that will help Solano County” econom

n Approved a $198,401 agreement with Guide post Solutions LLC of Walnut Creek for design services for the Security Camera Replacements at the Main Jail Project, 500 Union Ave., Fairfield.

n Approved a $114,993 contract amendment with Volunteers of America Northern California and Northern Nevada Inc. for the expansion of housing support services to proba tion adult clients who are at risk of or currently experiencing homeless ness. The total contract is now $553,635. The funds come from the 2022-23 California Emergency Solutions and Housing grant.

ically, and others noted the safety improvement.

Details on that possi ble public-private project still need to be worked out, and there were con cerns the county must avoid making a gift of public funds to private business interests.

The board also will look to the Solano Trans portation Authority for other possible funding sources that might be available.

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definitely made it harder to get people vacci nated and to run a real campaign,” Biden’s Covid-19 response coordi nator, Ashish Jha, said last week during a George town panel discussion hosted by Gostin.

Monoclonal and preexposure treatments are proving less effective at countering new variants and may soon be rendered ineffective, Jha said. “Our medicine cabinet – which should be getting bigger as we go further along in this disease – is actually getting smaller.”

The administration has been preparing broadly for the potential turn over of senior figures after the Nov. 8 midterm elections, but the Covid-19 team is poised to remain largely intact.

Anthony Fauci, the famed immunologist, is retiring, including from his role as Biden’s chief medical adviser.

Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and Centers for Disease Control and Pre vention Director Rochelle Walensky, meanwhile, have indicated they plan to remain in their roles, saying that – between Covid-19 and other priori ties – ample work remains.

Biden on Tuesday urged employers to adopt generous and flexible vac cination and sick-leave plans, even as the admin istration contends the worst of the virus is over.

Biden heralded a program Walgreens is expected to launch that would allow Americans living in areas designated by the government as “socially vulnerable” to have online Paxlovid pre scriptions delivered for free by Uber Inc. and DoorDash Inc. drivers.

St. Louis school gunman left note describing lonely life, ‘perfect storm’ for mass shooting

ST. LOUIS — The gunman who killed a student and teacher at a south St. Louis high school before police killed him Monday had about 600 rounds of ammuni tion inside the school and left behind handwritten notes about being a loner with no social life, which he called the perfect storm for a mass shooting, authorities said Tuesday.

St. Louis Interim Police Chief Michael Sack read a passage to reporters Tuesday from a notebook belong ing to 19-year-old Orlando Harris.

Harris left the note book in the car he drove to the school, Central Visual and Performing Arts High School.

“I don’t have any friends, I don’t have any family,” it read. “I’ve

never had a girlfriend. I’ve never had a social life. I’ve been an isolated loner my entire life. This

was the perfect storm for a mass shooter.”

Harris, a former student, broke into the

high school on Monday morning armed with an AR-15 rifle. Police con fronted him inside the school and shot and killed him, 14 minutes after police received the first call for an “active shooter.”

The school is at Arsenal Street and South Kingshighway near Tower Grove Park. The teacher who died was 61-year-old Jean Kuczka, who taught health and physical education.

Kuczka, a mother of five, lived in the Dittmer area of Jefferson County. The student who died was sophomore Alexan dria Bell, 16.

Four other stu dents were shot and injured – two in the leg, one in the arm, and one in the hands and jaw. Two more students suffered abrasions, and a girl frac tured her ankle.

Sack said the note gives a glimpse into the gunman’s mind.

“He feels isolated, he feels alone,” Sack said. “Quite possibly angry and resentful of others who have, it appeared to him, to have healthy relationships, so a desire to lash out.”

Sack urged people to speak up if they notice someone who appears to be suffering from a mental illness or distress and talks about buying firearms or causing harm.

Harris, 19, graduated from the school last year. One survivor heard the shooter say he was “tired of everybody” in the school. Harris lived in the 7000 block of Penn sylvania Avenue in south St. Louis. Police looking for a motive searched his home and his car on Monday afternoon.

Texas high-school student detained after 911 call asking how many years he’d get for a killing

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FORT WORTH, Texas — An Eaton High School student was detained Tuesday after he called 911 and said he wanted to find out how many years he would get for killing someone because he felt like slaying others, according to a police call log.

The student made the call from off campus, according to Northwest ISD school officials. The school is in Fort Worth is part of the North

west district.

Several Fort Worth police officers went to the school, at 1350 Eagle Blvd., on Tuesday morning, and they located the student off campus.

He did not harm anyone and he was taken to a hospital for a mental evaluation, police said.

“We commend the swift response of local law enforcement and also our schools for their quick action to protect students and staff,” Northwest school officials said in a

message to parents about the incident. “Please be aware that because of federal privacy laws, we cannot identify the student involved.

“This student will be held accountable with an appropriate disciplinary response in accordance with our Student Code of Conduct,” the dis trict’s message read. “Thank you for your understanding as we responded to this situa tion. Safety and security are a shared responsi bility, and we value the

partnership with local law enforcement and our community in keeping our schools safe.”

The incident began at about 10:20 a.m. Tuesday.

A police log report indicated that the boy made the 911 call and asked the questions about killing. He was calling from near the high school.

The student made threats, but did not mention specific individ uals or schools, district officials said.

Fort Worth police and three schools in the

Northwest school dis trict took precautions in response to the threats.

Officers went to Schluter Elementary School, Adams Middle School and Eaton High School.

Schluter and Adams entered into a secure hold – meaning visi tors are not permitted into a school while stu dents remain in their classes – for about 15 minutes. Eaton inves tigated the situation and assisted police.

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A photo of Alexzandria Bell, 15, rests at the scene of a growing floral memorial to the victims of Monday’s school shooting at Central Visual & Performing Arts High School, Tuesday. Bell and teacher Jean Kuczka were killed, along with gunman Orlando Harris, in Monday’s shooting.

Sunak vows to earn Britain’s trust in first speech as PM

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LONDON — In his first speech as British prime minister, Rishi Sunak warned his country that tough economic times –and tough decisions – were ahead, acknowledged that “mistakes were made” by his predecessors and said he would work hard to earn the people’s trust.

He promised to govern with “integrity, professionalism and accountability at every level,” qualities he sug gested were lacking when he resigned from former prime minister Boris Johnson’s government and led a revolt against his former boss.

“Trust is earned and I will earn yours,” he said,

but did not offer a list of policies or solutions.

His brief speech, minutes after he was asked to form a new gov ernment by King Charles III, was tightly focused; there was no celebration, no victory lap.

The 42-year-old Sunak, the youngest prime min ister here in 200 years, stressed the word “hard” in his remarks. “I fully appreciate how hard things are,” he said.

At the door of 10 Downing Street, he waved to photographers for the traditional photo op. He did not smile. A photographer shouted, “Be happy!” But he did not beam or give a thumbs up, as Johnson would have. He struck a pose of

being all business.

Sunak promised Britons “to put your needs above politics,” adding, “together we can achieve incredible things.”

He spent the day build ing his Cabinet – and the appointments provided the first bit of insight into what direction he wants to take Britain. Among the first key posi tions confirmed: Jeremy Hunt, Prime Minister Liz Truss’s second finance minister, will stay on, presumably to build on the economic poli cies he announced when gutting Truss’s supplyside agenda.

Hunt will be the one White man in what are known as “great offices of state.” The other top jobs

went to Suella Braverman, who returns as home sec retary after stepping down last week in a spat with Truss, and James Clev erly, who is staying on as foreign secretary.

Cleverly will continue to support Ukraine in its war with Russia. Braverman is a hardliner on immigration. She wants Britain to slash the number of newcomers and to send those arrive here illegally to Rwanda to press their asylum claims.

The day also marked the end of Truss’s tenure as Britain’s shortest-serv ing prime minister, after just 49 days in office. Her attempt to cut taxes for high earners and corpo rations without a plan to pay for it caused markets

to reel. She backpedaled, but she could not save her premiership.

Truss hosted a final cabinet meeting Tuesday morning and then made brief, defiant farewell remarks outside, saying she still believed in a high-wage, high-growth economy. “From my time as prime minister, I am more convinced than ever that we need to be bold and confront the challenges we face. As the Roman philosopher Seneca wrote, ‘it is not that things are difficult that we do not dare, it’s because we do not dare, that it is difficult.’ “ She stumbled somewhat over Seneca’s name.

“It means lower taxes so people can keep more

of the money they earn. And it means deliver ing growth that will lead to more job security, higher wages and more opportunities for our chil dren and grandchildren,” Truss said.

Truss, who will now join former prime min isters Theresa May and Johnson as a lawmaker on the backbenches in Parliament, said Britain would continue to support Ukraine. She wished “every success” to her replacement. She closed with: “We continue to battle through a storm but I believe in Britain, I believe in the British people and I know that brighter days lie ahead.”

Klay Thompson still trying to be patient with time

Rodriguez girls claim Division III golf title

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FAIRFIELD — Nikki Chindavong and Darla DelaTorre both shot par Tuesday as the Rodriguez High School girls golf team won the Sac-Joa quin Section Division III Tournament title at Micke Grove Golf Course in Lodi.

Chindavong and Dela Torre set a blistering pace as the Mustangs fin

ished with a team total of 398. They both recorded birdies on the course.

Jody Castillo also broke 80 with a 79. Coco Trotter carded an 82 and Noelle Concepcion had a 93 to complete the top five.

“I thought they did just awesome, of course,” Rodriguez head coach Tracy Lopez said. “This has been their goal all season to advance as a team. We’ve had a couple

of struggles along the way, nothing really bad, and they held it together. I’m super proud of them.”

The Mustangs won every Monticello Empire League match this season, and also both league tour naments. They often shot under 200 in many of the nine-hole events, and today broke 400 as all the teams played 18 holes under a shotgun start.

Rodriguez bested last

year’s performance of a runner-up finish to Chris tian Brothers, which took place locally at Para dise Valley Golf Course. This time they were able to finish on top by three strokes over Vista del Lago of Folsom.

The first-place finish qualifies the Mustangs for The Section Masters Tour nament next Monday at The Reserve at Spanos Park. It will begin with

a 9 a.m. shotgun start on Halloween morning.

Erica Villegas of Vacaville also advanced among local teams. She matched Chindavong and DelaTorre with an evenpar round of 72.

Three teams and four individuals will advance from the Masters tournament to the Northern California tour nament Nov. 7 at Berkeley Country Club. Last year,

Rodriguez was the first city school to qualify a boys or girls team to the NorCal event.

Vanden finished with a team score of 512.

Fatum Soumahoro led the way with an 85. Diana Borchert (104), Zoe Zanassi (105), Kara Chung (109) and Maggie Taylor (109) rounded out the Vikings’ top five.

Giants among favorites to ink Aaron Judge in offseason

by JameS O’cOnnell NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Show him the money!

After a historic regular season, Aaron Judge has placed himself in prime posi tion to become one of, if not the highest-paid player in baseball – in terms of average annual value. However, there will be multiple suitors for the Yankees’ slug gers services beginning with his hometown San Francisco Giants.

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FAIRFIELD — Vacaville High School graduate Jake Levengood was named Oregon State’s Lineman of the Week after the Beavers rolled to a 42-9 win Saturday night over Colorado in Corvallis.

The junior center helped anchor an offensive line that amassed 472 yards of total offense with 270 of those yards coming with the rush. Oregon State also scored five touchdowns and allowed only one sack. The Beavers became bowl eligible and improved to 6-2 overall.

Oregon State has a big game Saturday at Washington.

Here is how other former local athletes performed last week:

Senior linebacker Armon Bailey (Vanden) again delivered for Sacramento State with five solo

tackles, four assists, one tackle for loss and two pass break ups as the Hornets defeated No. 7 Montana State 31-24 in overtime

Saturday before a national televi sion audience.

Sacramento State is ranked No. 2 nationally in the FCS and improved to 7-0 for the first time in school history. The Hornets will try to keep it going Saturday night with Idaho on the schedule for homecoming.

Sophomore linebacker Zion Booker (St. Patrick-St. Vincent) had a solo tackle, an intercep tion he returned for 63 yards and two pass breakups for Pacific in a 21-7 loss to George Fox. The Boxers and the Fairfield native will play this week at Lewis & Clark and try to improve on their 3-3 record.

Sophomore defensive lineman Emmitt Espino (Armijo) had an assisted tackle for Minot State, but

the Beavers lost at Upper Iowa 33-20. Minot State is 0-8 and will try to get that first win of the season this weekend at the University of Minnesota, Duluth.

Junior defensive back Luis Vicino Jr. (Vanden) had one tackle and sophomore defensive lineman Jordan Santos (Vacaville) had one assist as Western Oregon beat Eastern New Mexico 47-6.

The Wolves improved to 4-4 and will play this week at Midwestern State in Texas.

In the same game, junior receiver Asa Wondeh (Will C. Wood) made three catches for 68 yards for Eastern New Mexico.

The Greyhounds fell to 2-6 with the loss to Western Oregon. Eastern New Mexico will play this weekend at UT Permian Basin.

Senior defensive lineman

Rams wanted McCaffrey as well, but 49ers beat them to the punch

by JeRRy mcDOnalD BAY AREA NEWS GROUP

About four minutes into his weekly tele conference with local writers, Los Angeles Rams coach Sean McVay was asked about the 49ers’ acquisition of running back Chris tian McCaffrey.

“Oh (expletive), they get another great player,” McVay said Monday before picking up steam with his answer.

The Rams, defending Super Bowl champions, are coming off a bye week when they host the San Francisco 49ers at SoFi Stadium. Last time out, they beat the Carolina

McCaffrey was on the trading block and the Rams liked what they saw, just as the 49ers did when they beat Caro lina 37-15 on Oct. 9. With running back Cam Akers in limbo with McVay and awaiting a possible trade, the Rams needed a running back even more than the 49ers.

The 49ers got there first, and general manager John Lynch didn’t hide the fact that the concern about seeing McCaffrey go to the Rams was almost as moti vating as bringing him to the South Bay to help the Niners.

The Giants are the favorite to land Judge should he leave New York sitting at 2-1, according to Sportsbet ting.ag. The Mets (3-1), Dodgers (4-1), Astros (6-1) and Red Sox (8-1) are behind the Giants.

Most of the bettors’ action indicate a move to San Francisco may very much be in play for No. 99.

“Of the action we have, nearly 85 percent of the handle has been on San Francisco,” Adam Burns, sportsbook manager at SportsBet ting.ag, told the Daily News. “The Giants actually started with

9-1 odds so our risk has moved them to the favorite position. I’m sure with Judge growing up in California and as a Giants fan has certainly factored into the bets.”

Despite the Yankees not appearing on the list, counting them out would be foolish. If the Bombers were listed, they would be heavy favorites, accord ing to Burns.

“We initially opened the Judge free agency odds about a month ago [Sept. 22] so we’ve taken a decent amount of action on them,” Burns told The News. “That said, I think we, as well as most bettors, are confident he’ll re-sign with the Yankees so the handle may be a bit down because they aren’t an option. The Yanks would be odds-on favorites, prob ably around -300, if they were on the list.”

It remains to be seen just how much Judge will receive this winter. It will certainly be more than the seven-year, $213.5 million contract extension he was offered by the Bombers.

Mustang, Bulldog reach final of MEL singles tournament

Daily Republic Staff DRNEWS@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET

FAIRFIELD — Bella

Connerley of Rodri guez and Victoria Silva of Vacaville reached the singles final Tuesday after a full day of tennis competition in the Monticello Empire League Championships at Fairfield High.

The singles final will be contested Wednes day, along with the start of the doubles tournament. The top two finishers earn a trip to the upcoming Division III tournament Nov. 3 at the Johnson Ranch Racquet Club in Roseville.

Connerley defeated Neveah Kilpatrick of Armijo, topped Hailey Lam of Vanden in the quarterfinals and then beat Jeanelle Dela Cruz of Vanden in the semifinals to reach the final. Silva opened with a win over Prin cess Silva of Armijo before beating team mate Alexis Gormley in the quarterfinals and Camille Arca of Vanden

in the semifinals.

Connerley and Silva were the top seeded players in the tourna ment and it held to form.

Arca was seeded third and Ana Krantz of Fair field was seeded fourth.

DelaCruz and Arca both finished 2-1 in the tournament. Lam, Lily Holman of Vacaville, Brooklyn Purcell of Vacaville and Gormley of Vacaville were all 1-1 Kilpatrick, Lily Kim of Armijo, Althea Yabut of Vanden, Krantz, Gianna Anselmo of Rodriguez, Hannah Pierleoni of Rodriguez, Dakota Kelly of Fairfield and Princess Silva of Armijo finished 0-1.

Pairings for the section team tourna ments will be announced later this week.

“We had four girls competing today in the MEL singles champi onships,” Vanden head coach Stan Lewis said. “I was extremely proud of Camille and Jeanelle, who although they fell in the semifinals, played great tennis today.”

Panthers 24-10. It was McCaffrey’s final game with the Panthers as

he gained 69 yards on 13 carries and caught seven passes for 87 more.

Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG file

Head coach Sean McVay of the Los Angeles Rams celebrates a touchdown against the San Francisco 49ers during the first half of the NFC championship football game at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, January 30.

ALUMNI

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Oregon State offensive lineman Jake Levengood (70) looks on after the Beavers beat the Montana State Bobcats

68-28 in a college football game at Providence Park in Portland, Sept. 17.

CALENDAR

Wednesday’s TV sports Basketball

• NBA, Brooklyn vs. Milwaukee, ESPN, 4:30 p.m.

• L.A. Lakers vs. Denver, ESPN, 7:05 p.m.

Golf

• College, East Lake Cup, GOLF, Noon.

• Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship, ESPN2, 12 a.m. (Thursday)

Hockey

• NHL, N.Y. Rangers vs. N.Y. Islanders, TNT, 4:30 p.m.

• NHL, Tampa Bay vs. Anaheim, TNT, 7 p.m.

Thursday’s TV sports Basketball

• NBA, Miami at Golden State, NBCSBA (Fairfield and Suisun City), 7 p.m.

• NBA, Memphis at Sacramento, NBCSCA (Vacaville and Rio Vista), 7 p.m.

Football

• College, Virginia Tech vs. North Carolina State, ESPN, 4:30 p.m.

• College, Louisiana vs. Southern Mississippi, ESPN2, 4:30 p.m.

• NFL, Baltimore vs. Tampa Bay, Amazon Prime Video (Live Streaming), 5:15 p.m.

Golf

• DP World, Portugal Masters, GOLF, 5 a.m.

• PGA, Butterfield Bermuda Championship, GOLF, 10:30 a.m.

• Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship, ESPN2, 12 a.m. (Friday)

Twenty years ago, Christie punched Fox in preseason

By Jason a nderson THE SACRAMENTO BEE

Happy Doug Christie Day, Sacramento.

Twenty years ago today, during a heated exchange in a preseason game against the Los Angeles Lakers, Kings guard Doug Christie chin checked Lakers forward Rick Fox with a stiff uppercut to the jaw.

One of the most memorable moments in a bitter Kings-Lak ers rivalry occurred Oct. 25, 2002, less than five months after Los Angeles defeated Sac ramento in a hotly contested and controver sial seven-game series to win the Western Confer encefinals. The Lakers would go on to sweep the New Jersey Nets in the NBA Finals to win their third consecutive cham pionship with Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant.

“There was a lot of venom from the fact that there was a lot of talking going back and forth at that particular time,” Christie, who is now an assistant coach with the Kings, once told Tom Haberstroh of NBC Sports. “And you know, they had won, and I think when you’re com peting against someone, you have an idea where you are in the pantheon of that. You know what I mean? And I think they felt us. And I think they might have felt we were a better team than they were.”

Sacramento posted the best record in the league that season, going 61-21 under coach Rick Adelman to claim the No. 1 seed. The Kings were a global phenomenon with Adelman orchestrating a beautiful brand of bas ketball featuring Mike

Bibby, Bobby Jackson, Peja Stojakovic, Chris Webber, Vlade Divac and Christie. Ultimately, Sacramento came up short, and emotions were still running high when the Kings visited the Lakers in a preseason game a few months later.

Just over two minutes had elapsed in the first quarter when Fox was called for an offensive foul after hitting Christie with an elbow. Christie sprang to his feet to con front Fox, who reacted with an open-handed straight-arm to Christie’s face. Christieresponded with a swift left upper cut, connecting cleanly with Fox’s jaw.

Both players were ejected, but the fracas continued in the tunnel with players from both teams and Christie’s wife, Jackie,.

“When we got to the preseason, you know, they had the (Sacra mento) Queens things, and Rick would always do little stuff, and one of them is he would catch the ball at the pinch post, which is the elbow junction, and he would, as you were coming up – now it’s illegal – he would pivot into you and hit my thigh,” Christie said. “And, for me, that’s big because I’m moving around a lot. So, it was just little stuff, and in that particular time, I sold an offensive foul. He hit me and I fell down. So, then, he threw the ball at me and I caught it, so it didn’t really hit me and I caught it. So, as I got up, I hit him in the face with the ball all in one motion, and that’s when he kind of mushed me. As soon as he touched me, I just went ‘Bang.’ That was it.”

Fairfield High seeking a new wrestling coach

daily r ePuBliC staff DRNEWS@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET

FAIRFIELD — Fair field High School is looking for a new head coach to take over the wrestling programs for the upcoming 2022-23 season.

There are a few returning wrestlers and the school hopes to grow the program. Wrestling

for both boys and girls is offered at the high school level. The school said it is willing to work with candidates to complete the necessary coaching certificates.

Contact Fairfield athletic director Eddie Wilson at eddiew@fsusd. org for questions or to show an interest in becoming the new coach.

FOOTBALL NFL

Chicago 33, New England 14 Week 8

Thursday’s Game Baltimore at Tampa Bay, 5:15 p.m. Sunday’s Games SAN FRANCISCO at L.A. Rams, 1:25 p.m. Denver vs. Jacksonville (London), 6:30 a.m. Carolina at Atlanta, 10 a.m. Chicago at Dallas, 10 a.m. Miami at Detroit, 10 a.m. Arizona at Minnesota, 10 a.m. Las Vegas at New Orleans, 10 a.m. New

Pittsburgh

1:05

1:25

5:15

BASEBALL

World Series

Monday’s Games Ottawa 4, Dallas 2 Washington 6, New Jersey 3 Edmonton 6, Pittsburgh 3 Winnipeg 4, St. Louis 0 Vegas 3, Toronto 1 Carolina 3, Vancouver 2 Tuesday’s Games Vegas at SAN JOSE, (N) Arizona 6, Columbus 3 Boston 3, Dallas 1 Minnesota 3, Montreal 1 New Jersey 6, Detroit 2 Colorado 3, N.Y. Rangers 2, SO Chicago 4, Florida 2 Pittsburgh at Calgary, (N) Buffalo at Seattle, (N) Tampa Bay at L.A. Kings, (N)

Wednesday’s Games N.Y. Rangers at N.Y. Islanders, 4:30 p.m. Edmonton at St. Louis, 5 p.m. Tampa Bay at Anaheim, 7 p.m.

HOCKEY

Thursday’s Games Toronto at SAN JOSE, 7:30 p.m. Detroit at Boston, 4 p.m. Florida at Philadelphia, 4 p.m. Minnesota at Ottawa, 4 p.m. Montreal at Buffalo, 4 p.m. St. Louis at Nashville, 5 p.m. Edmonton at Chicago, 5:30 p.m. Washington at Dallas, 5:30 p.m. Vancouver at Seattle, 7 p.m. Winnipeg at L.A. Kings, 7:30 p.m.

6 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Denver, 7 p.m. Miami at Portland, 7 p.m. Thursday’s Games Miami at GOLDEN STATE, 7 p.m. Memphis at SACRAMENTO, 7 p.m. Dallas at Brooklyn, 4:30 p.m. L.A. Clippers at Oklahoma City, 5 p.m.

Klay Thompson still learning to be patient in his continued comeback

By M adeline K enney BAY AREA NEWS GROUP

TEMPE, Ariz. — Klay Thompson was consumed by intrusive thoughts last January when he was making his return to the court after back-toback injuries.

What if he couldn’t return to his All-Star level? What if he makes a mistake? What if he can’t help the Warriors get back to the top of the league?

But Thompson has learned to give himself grace and be patient with where he’s at.

Thompson said he feels great a week into the season, though he’s not where he needs to be as far as his conditioning. That’s why he remains under a minute restriction as the team’s training staff gradually increases his workload back to his usual 30 to 35 minutes.

Thompson hasn’t played more than 27 minutes in a game entering Tuesday’s matchup against the Phoenix Suns. He admit ted that the limitations might have impeded his ability to get into rhythm on both ends of the court, but he has faith in the plan

developed by the team’s director of sports medi cine and performance Dr. Rick Celebrini.

Still, there are mental roadblocks that Thomp son is fighting to get over every time he steps into the gym. Some of those hurdles were ones he thought he cleared back in January when he returned to the floor after missing nearly 1,000 days with two major leg injuries.

“I’m such a perfec tionist, I want to be great right now,” Thompson said after shootaround Tuesday at Arizona State

University. “But I gotta realize, man, it’s a long season and I’d rather peak playoff time versus early November, January.”

Thompson is trying to keep things in perspective.

“I’m also a very pride ful person,” Thompson admitted. “I kind of forget that what I’ve been through is real and I’m not 25 anymore. I can’t just step on the court and fly around. I got to do the little things to get ready to play. And that’s alright.

“I’ve accepted it, and I’m going to continue to get better each week.

And although I want to have the big shooting nights, like record-setting nights, but I know those come with hard work and being patient because that stuff’s organic.”

Thompson played in his first season opener since the 2018-19 season last week and dropped 18 points. He had a solid second game but his offense was shoddy in Sunday’s win over the Sacramento Kings when he shot 3-for-10 from the floor for only eight points. He’s not sweating the upand-down performances, especially this early in the season. Instead, he’s just sticking to the process to get back to where he wants to be.

“I’m not going to worry about making shots or sta tistics,” Thompson said.

“I’m just going to go out there, play hard and be an impactful two-way player. I know the shoot ing nights will come as long as I just stay the court and stay patient and trust our training staff to let me go when I need to because I was in the same formula last year and it led to a championship.”

Sharks defenseman Nutivaara remains out indefinitely with lower body injury

By Curtis PashelK a BAY AREA NEWS GROUP

SAN JOSE — The San Jose Sharks won’t be getting Markus Nutivaara back anytime soon.

Nutivaara, who was hurt early in training camp and has yet to play this season, did not skate while the Sharks were on their week-long road trip and coach David Quinn said he didn’t have a timeline for when the defenseman might be able to return.

Quinn said Nutivaara has been getting treat ment and working out.

“We’re doing every thing we can and he’s doing everything he can to get back out there,” Quinn said of Nutivaara, 28, who signed a one-year, $1.5 million contract with

the Sharks in July. “We’ll just continue to monitor him and see how he feels.”

Nutivaara has battled injuries for much of the last two seasons and was hurt after he played in the Sharks’

first preseason game on Sept. 25 at home against the Los Angeles Kings.

At that time, Nutivaara was thought to be dayto-day with a lower-body injury. But he did not play for the remainder of the

preseason, as his injury was related to the one he has last season when he missed 81 games and all of the Florida Panthers’ tworound playoff run.

Nutivaara, the season before, had an upper-body injury and played just 30 of 56 games.

Nutivaara began camp as Erik Karlsson’s defense partner but that role has mostly been filled by Jaycob Megna since the start of the season, although Scott Harrington has also played two games this season.

Megna, from all appearances, was expected tobe in that role Tuesday night when the Sharks play the Vegas Golden Knights to begin a six-game homestand in the early going.

Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group/TNS Klay Thompson of the Warriors sits on the sidelines next to Stephen Curry and Draymond Green late in the game against the Kings at the Chase Center in San Francisco, Sunday.

Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group/TNS file

Markus Nutivaara of the Sharks waits for a face-off during a preseason game against the Kings in the first period at the SAP Center in San Jose, Sept. 25.

CALMATTERS COMMENTARY

New tests underscore California’s educational catastrophe

California has an overabun dance of crises that could be fairly described as existential.

We have critical shortages of water, electrical power and housing, our homeless ness and poverty are the worst in the nation and out-of-control wildfires consume thousands of homes each year.

There is another crisis that threatens California’s future, not as in-your-face evident as the others but potentially just as devastating – shamefully low levels of learning by the state’s nearly 6 million public school students.

Before Covid-19 hit and authorities closed schools to limit spread of the deadly disease, California’s students were largely failing to meet the state’s own standards of skills necessary for productive adult lives, as well as faring poorly in nationwide testing. That was particularly true for the 60% of those children classified as poor or “English learner.”

On Monday, both federal and state govern ments released results from the latest tests, indicating the pandemic’s makeshift efforts to teach homebound students reduced learning even more and widened the already yawning “achievement gap.”

Gov. Gavin Newsom and Tony Thurmond, the state superintendent of schools, tried to put positive spins on the test results, saying in essence the declines could have been worse, but sugarcoating them doesn’t alter the fact California has a serious educational crisis that threatens to undermine its social and eco nomic future.

The National Assessment of Educational Progress results on fourth- and eighth-grade reading and math came out first and once again California was among the lowest achieving states, 12th from the bottom and below national averages in all categories.

Newsom cherry-picked the data to claim “California’s students experienced less learning loss than those in most other states during the pandemic” but conceded the “results are not a celebration but a call to action – students are struggling academically and we need to keep getting them the resources they need to thrive.”

Newsom neglected to mention students in the two red states he often singles out for scorn, Florida and Texas, scored much higher in the NAEP tests. Florida was sixth highest overall and Texas was well above national averages.

State-by-state data also indicated – not for the first time – that there is no direct corre lation between academic achievement and school spending.

New York, the nation’s highest-spending state on education, came out lower than Cal ifornia, while several states on the low end of the spending list are leaders in achievement. Wyoming, No. 2 to New York in spending, is No. 1 in academics while neighboring Utah, the lowest spending state, is No. 5 in achievement.

California’s education establishment, and most of its politicians, tend to confine the debate over academic achievement to money, but clearly there are other factors at play.

Later Monday, Thurmond’s Depart ment of Education released results from last spring’s “Smarter Balance” tests. Initially, Thurmond planned to delay release until later in the year, but when results of individ ual school districts showed declines in results, Thurmond faced media pressure to issue them earlier.

Statewide, the percentage of students meeting or exceeding state standards declined by 4 percentage points (from 51% to 47%) for English language arts and 4 percentage points (from 40% to 33%) for mathematics from the last pre-pandemic tests in 2018-19.

As with California’s other crises, academic achievement is trending in the wrong direction, and just throwing more money at it probably won’t make it better. We need to learn from other states and from California school districts that, against the odds, are succeeding.

Failure to reform will have calamitous out comes for the children and for the entire state.

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.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Don’t forget April special election hanky-panky

Discerning voters will recall the hanky-panky that got our current Assembly member for the 11th Dis trict ensconced so easily.

Her predecessor, Jim Frazier, wooed and then cajoled her into accepting his endorsement. It’s not often an Assembly member would abruptly surrender his sinecure a year in advance, but Frazier did and draped his mantle on his handpicked successor forthwith. How much time his protege had to build her politi cal apparatus before he dropped his departure bomb we’ll never know, but, as the sole candidate, she steam rolled the special election April 5. (An expensive and unnecessary balloting fiasco. Thanks, Jim.)

After that cakewalk, a followup election June 7 also favored her, although an alternative candidate, who scrambled to compete, did sur prisingly well.

Now, with the election only a couple of weeks away, a candidate’s party affiliation, attributes, values, etc. notwithstanding, discriminating voters need to resent being manipu lated and vote accordingly.

Bill Ferguson Vacaville

Vote Yes on S for the children

Measure S, a bond measure to upgrade and repair Fairfield-Suisun School District schools without increasing taxes, will be on the ballot in November. Measure S will help us continue to fund all necessary repairs outlined in the district’s Facilities Master Plan. The district has pri oritized pressing health and safety concerns with all of the updates it has completed thus far, but there are still more urgent repairs needed.

I served on the Citizens’ Oversight Committee for our previous bond measure, Measure J. I know well the work that is put into maintain ing transparency and verifying the legitimacy of the bond funds spent. All funds spent from previous bonds have been vetted and approved to ensure they are addressing upgrades outlined in the project list and Facili ties Master Plan.

Our communities understand the importance of funding for our schools and the importance of ensuring proper use of all funds. To learn more about the campaign and why you should vote Yes on S, visit www.Yes 4FairfieldSuisunSchools.org.

Jana Modena, Fairfield-Suisun School District Citizens’ Oversight Committee chair Fairfield

Never underestimate the power of youth

Jack Flynn may only be a “teen ager” as referenced by Craig Wilson’s letter to the editor, but never judge a book by its cover. Jack is one very knowledgeable young adult who is politically savvy.

He began his civic involve ment when he was 12. He’s been a member of California’s Democratic Youth Caucus, part of the Demo cratic Central Committee, as well as an executive board member for the local Democratic Club. Most recently, Jack served as the student trustee for the Solano Community College gov erning board.

Jack’s decision to run for the Fairfield-Suisun School District’s governing board stems from his

genuine desire to do what’s best for the approximately 21,500 students who attend the district’s schools. And what better qualification for a school board member than being “FSUSD made.” Don’t let age fool you. Jack is prepared for the responsibilities of being a governing board member. He began attending school board meet ings while in high school, as well as its various subcommittee meetings.

Representation matters. Not only when speaking about diversity but also about age. Student voices are crucial and should be a driving force in the future of the Fairfield-Suisun School District. Our community has a chance to elect a governing board member who actually cares about the district’s students and is well-equipped to move the FairfieldSuisun School District into a socially and culturally responsive future as a premier district should be.

Pam Williamson Fairfield

Take note as Fairfield mayoral rumors abound

The news is flying around town that our long-serving mayor has no intention of serving out his term. Why? He’s told multiple people on multiple occasions. If this isn’t news, I don’t know what is.

I served on the City Council with Harry Price back in the days when he ran again to keep former council member John Mraz from being mayor. Then he was running to keep council member Chuck Timm from taking over. This time, he’s a Timm ally and determined that council member Catherine Moy won’t be the face of Fairfield.

Are these rumors credible? I think so. Here’s an excerpt from an email I recently received: “We found out that Harry Price is running for mayor in order to step down so Doriss can be appointed mayor. This came from Price himself to several folks. We heard it straight from Price at a Jelly Belly function.”

Doriss is Doriss Panduro, elected to a district council seat in 2020. Earlier, people told me that Council woman Pam Bertani was chosen to be appointed, then that it would be Timm if he loses his bid for Solano County supervisor.

If this is Mayor Price’s inten tion, he should withdraw from the race now. The voters should select the mayor, not Price and a handful of council members he’s been plot ting with. And how can it be called anything else? If more than three of them were part of the discussion, this could be a flagrant violation of the Brown Act.

I’m not endorsing anyone in the mayor’s race, but I think this stinks.

Marilyn Farley Fairfield

For the future, vote for Flynn

Jack Flynn, candidate for Fair field-Suisun School District school board, Area 5, was born and bred in the premier Fairfield-Suisun School District.

From Elementary school at Nelda Mundy and junior high school at Green Valley, to completing sec ondary school at Early College High School, Mr. Flynn was educated by the premier teachers in a premier district who have prepared him for college and career. His classes in U.S. government, U.S. history and suc cessful competition on the speech and debate team have also prepared him for public service.

Remarkably, Mr. Craig Wilson, in

his infinite wisdom, has concluded that Jack Flynn is not ready for public service. This is befuddling, because if he is not ready, then Superinten dent Kris Corey cannot possibly tout the Fairfield-Suisun School District as a premier district. Fairfield-Suisun School District is either premier or it is not. Amazingly, Mr. Wilson’s argu ment against electing Mr. Flynn is to indict the district for its inability to educate and prepare our students to be productive members of society. I suppose he would know; he serves on the governing board.

Beyond critiquing the district for its dereliction of duty by not prop erly preparing Jack Flynn to serve his community, Mr. Wilson went on to attack essential workers, such as Mr. Flynn, on whom our community depended during Covid lockdown.

Finally, to suggest that one ought to live independently to be quali fied for the position of school board member is obtuse at best and elitist at worst.

Craig Wilson is out of touch with the very constituency he serves revealing in his own words, “. . . the joke [is] on us.” For the future of the Fairfield-Suisun School District, vote for Jack Flynn, school board Area 5.

Ana Petero Fairfield

I’m backing Jack over incumbent

As a governing board member in Dixon School District, I wish I could take care of the issues myself, but that’s not my job. I can prepare for the agenda items, receive input from stakeholders and apply good judg ment to make important decisions. I believe Jack Flynn can satisfy these requirements, which is why I’ve endorsed him for the Fairfield-Suisun School District’s Trustee Area 5 gov erning board position.

When Jack met me on a summer afternoon at Armijo wearing a tie, he was sharp in his intellect, wit and questions; he came prepared to speak to me, much like he does at FairfieldSuisun School District governing board meetings. And he’s backed that up with a well-structured, heavily endorsed professional campaign.

Jack’s opponent was president of the board during the 2020-21 school year, and his weakest moments came during the discussion about reopening schools on Feb. 11, 2021 (beginning at 2 hours, 8 minutes on the “FSUSD Broadcasting” YouTube channel).

When Jack’s opponent restricted public comment to only 10 minutes, voices were purposefully omitted from the public record and from the ears of the key decision-makers.

When it was time for board members to express their opin ions, two members who were not physically present for the meeting hypocritically wanted employees and students to physically return to school without a vaccine or collectively bar gained safety measures.

When it was time to vote, Jack’s opponent failed to correctly iden tify which motion or amendment was being voted on. Robert’s Rules of Order had to be researched and a recess had to be called in order to correctly vote on the important agenda item.

Do we want to re-elect a person who stifles democratic ideals, allows hypocritical voices equal weight and fails to prepare for important deci sions? I would prefer Jack Flynn, who is endorsed by many elected officials, has experience in the district and will show up prepared for every meeting.

DJ Bowen III Dixon

Dan Walters

We’re homeless, running out of options and agencies don’t help

Dear Annie: My boy friend and I have been homeless for three years, ever since I lost my lifelong home to a reverse mortgage on the coldest day of the year. We have been homeless with little money and are very poor, bounc ing around from place to place with no security or stability.

Annie Lane Dear Annie

For the past six months, we have been living in a metal storage shed that we own and that is situated in my cousin’s yard. We chose this because we have no place else to go. The big house is up for sale and is condemned as well and has no running water. Living this way is illegal, demoralizing and dehumanizing, but, again, we have no choice right now.

We have gone everywhere for help, and no one has helped us. We have tried everything. We now have to get out as soon as possible, but we have nowhere to go. We don’t know what we are going to do, but winter is coming. We are in the middle of a housing crisis, and it has been hell.

The housing agencies that are supposed to help are nothing but a joke. They have done nothing for me in over seven years – I did try to save my home because I knew I could end up homeless – but no one helped me then either.

We worked our tails off and saved money this summer, as much as we could, but there is nothing to rent around here, and this is where our work is, and we don’t have a vehicle, so we bike and walk everywhere. We need help desperately before we’re evicted into the street. — Homeless Dear Homeless: You have to go back to those housing agen cies and other government bureaus that are set up to house the homeless. I feel for you and your boyfriend, but something just isn’t adding up. Federal, state and city laws to help house the homeless don’t appear to be working in your case. If that doesn’t work, perhaps you could seek legal help.

As for the reverse mortgage, I’m not sure how you lost your house. If you signed a reverse mortgage and the company failed to make payments on the house, you need to consult legal aid to reclaim your house.

Dear Annie: I lost my husband and soul mate very suddenly four years ago. To say I was inconsolable is an under statement, so I really do know how “Grieving Wife” feels.

A dear friend recommended a book to me, and I found it very helpful, so I want to pass it on to Grieving Wife. It is called “How To Survive The Loss of a Love”

Horoscopes by Holiday Mathis

ARIES (March 21-April 19).

You strive to give more than you get, but it backfires. Not only is giving its own reward, but people want to heap unexpected and additional gen erosities on you. Even when you give anonymously, you still come out ahead.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20).

You have a choice about who to hang out with, sit next to and generally spend time with. Compassionate, curious and open-minded people will not steer you wrong. The more astute your associates are, the better off you’ll be.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21).

Trust yourself. Your instincts are solid. If you wait until you’re sure, the moment will move on and leave you behind. Instead, act quickly when the impulse to do so is upon you.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). You have fantastic ideas, but you also realize that you can only go so far with them. To make it all the way to your goal, you’ll need to inspire others to come up with solutions, too.

That’s true leadership.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). The time you spend with a cynic causes a little of their think ing style to rub off on you – not entirely wrong, but unhelpful all the same. Offset the influ ence putting time in with an optimist, a realist and someone

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Whatever the task, you approach with the intention of excellence. People feel it, and your star quality gets recognized. A manager or mentor smooths your way, helping you with logistics and the financial end, too. Gemini and Libra adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 7, 5, 39, 12 and 9.

in a state of neutrality.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).

You’re climbing to a higher destination. It feels like you’ve still got a long way to go, but where you currently stand has vistas and views, too. Enjoy them. Think of all you’ve seen because you made the simple choice to embark.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).

You can tell when you’re in a peak state of mind and mood, but do you know how you got there? Figure this out and your productivity will soar. Keep track of what you do and how it makes you feel.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).

Every endeavor has an arc –a beginning, middle and end. Early stages are the best times to plan the ending. If you wait until it just happens, you’ll

by Peter McWilliams, Harold H. Bloomfield and Melba Col grove. It is a very easy book to read, and it is unlike any other book I have seen on the subject. I think “Grieving Wife” could greatly benefit from this book. — Sympathetic Reader

Dear Sympathetic Reader: I am so sorry for your loss, which is truly heartbreaking. Thank you for using your pain to share with others tools that have helped you – in your case, a superb book recommendation.

Dear Annie: One year ago, I lost my husband, my prince, and I still feel aching grief at times. Shortly after his passing, I began to write in a journal, and it has helped tremendously. Through my writing, I can talk to him and say everything I’m feeling. I share with him my life as it is now. I have reread it several times, from beginning to the present, and I can see there is light at the end of the tunnel. My favorite picture of him is my bookmark.

I want to say, remember, dear one, your grief means you have loved. — It’s a Sisterhood

Dear Sisterhood: I am so sorry for your loss. Thank you for sharing your wonderful tips to help cope with the loss of a loved one.

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

miss the opportunity to build toward it. The end is what people remember.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21). You are smart, moti vated, unique and inspired. Believe it. When the world sees that you value yourself and your contributions to others, they will follow suit and value you highly, too.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19). Blame keeps people stuck. You take responsibil ity for your part in how things are. Someone will follow your lead, perhaps not meeting you halfway exactly, but if they meet you at all, you’ll be able to solve it together.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18). Mental knots need time to unravel. The benefits of daydreaming may seem vague, but giving yourself the time and space to let your mind wander will have a restorative effect. Imagination opens the door to later breakthroughs.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Everything may look right, but if it doesn’t also feel right, listen to the instinct. Use it to decide whether to get closer or distance yourself. It may defy reason, as you’re react ing to vibes below your consciousness.

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Bridge

DO NOT BE BLIND TO THE AVAILABLE CLUES

Adrienne E. Gusoff, an author, humorist and greeting card designer, said, “I have often depended on the blindness of strangers.”

At the bridge table, even when playing against strangers, do not be blind to the clues that are available to aid your declarer play or defense.

On today’s deal, South is in four hearts. West leads the club king. He continues with the club jack; East

by Phillip Alder

overtakes with the ace and returns a low spade. How should declarer continue?

If you are thinking that North’s three-heart game-invitational response is a slight upgrade, his hand has only seven losers: one spade, two hearts, two diamonds and one club. That is the number for a game-forcing raise! However, with only 9 high-card points, three hearts is sufficient.

South has lost two club tricks. He seems certain to concede a diamond. So, if he loses a spade trick as well, he will fall to defeat. Therefore, the immediate reaction is to try the spade queen. Against competent defenders, though, there is no chance that East has the spade king. If East holds the king, he won’t overtake with the club ace at trick two. He will play low, waiting for his partner to switch to a spade.

Given that West has the spade king, declarer’s only chance rests in an elimination. He plays the spade five and wins with dummy’s ace, draws trumps and cashes his two top diamonds before casting adrift with a spade.

If his luck is in, West will be endplayed. South will ruff his black-suit return in the dummy and discard his diamond loser.

Don’t be blind to the valid conclusions from your opponents’ plays.

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Difficulty level: GOLD

solution:

DO NOT BE BLIND TO THE AVAILABLE CLUES

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

Adrienne E. Gusoff, an author, humorist and greeting card designer, said, “I have often depended on the blindness of strangers.”

At the bridge table, even when playing against strangers, do not be blind to the clues that are available to aid your declarer play or defense.

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Adidas cuts ties with Kanye West

Adidas AG will absorb a hit to earnings of up to $247 million to end its partnership with Ye following a rash of offen sive behavior from the rapper and designer that turned a once-thriving shoe brand into a light ning rod for criticism.

The German sports company said it’s cutting ties with Ye, formerly Kanye West, with immediate effect, con firming an earlier story by Bloomberg News. By way of comparison, the blow to earnings this year would be equivalent to about a sixth of last year’s net income from continuing operations.

“Ye’s recent com ments and actions have been unacceptable, hateful and dangerous, and they violate the com pany’s values of diversity and inclusion, mutual respect and fairness,” the company said in a statement.

Adidas will termi nate the partnership with Ye, end production of Yeezy branded products and stop all payments to Ye and his compa nies, it said.

Adidas joins Gap Inc. and Kering SA’s Balen ciaga fashion label in severing links with Ye. The rapper has made controversial statements, including antisemitic social media posts in recent weeks, and has moved to cut ties with his corporate partners. Ye didn’t respond to a request for comment.

Adidas shares, already weighed down by the controversy, fell as much as 5.8% in Frankfurt trading, reach ing the lowest since 2016.

The Adidas deci sion follows weeks of deliberations inside the company, which over the past decade has built the Yeezy line – together with Ye – into a brand that’s accounted for as much as 8% of Adidas’s total sales, according to several estimates from Wall Street analysts.

The German company said it’s the “sole owner of all design rights to existing products, as well as previous and new colorways,” under the partnership. It plans to offer more details as part of third-quarter earn ings on Nov. 9.

Adidas earlier this month had called the partnership “one of the most successful collabo

rations in our industry’s history” and said it would continue co-man aging Yeezy products during its review.

That success, however, came with plenty of acrimony between the partners.

Ye has accused Adidas of copying his ideas and mismanaging the brand, and taunted out going Chief Executive Officer Kasper Rorsted on social media. Mean while, Adidas has said it repeatedly tried and failed to resolve issues with Ye privately.

The rapper said in September he wanted to negotiate with Adidas to get a 20% royalty on all the shoes he’s designed with the company in perpetuity.

Ye caused more controversy after that by wearing a shirt at the Paris fashion week that said “White Lives Matter.” He later got locked out of his Twitter and Instagram accounts after making repeated antisemitic remarks – remarks that have created a growing backlash from consum ers and celebrities, with some calling for people to boycott Adidas prod ucts until the partnership is canceled.

The Ye controversy is one of many head aches for Adidas, which is searching for a new CEO to take over in 2023. The company has lowered its earnings forecast several times this year amid falling demand for its shoes and apparel in China and growing signs of eco nomic trouble in Europe and North America.

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MST’s ‘Rocky Horror Show’ a celebratory raunchfest

Tony Wade DAILY REPUBLIC CORRESPONDENT

As a public service, I think giving a few tips to theater goers who have never seen Missouri Street Theatre’s production of “The Rocky Horror Show” could be helpful.

After you have taken your seat, several “phantoms” (who act as the ensemble in the show) prowl around the theater and ask if you have seen the show before. They include Charlotte Borlek, Carlie Buchanon, Macey Cook and Crystal Kearns.

If you haven’t seen it, then the phantom will shout “We have a virgin here!” and all the other phantoms, plus experi enced audience members, will whoop it up. The phantom will then conspicuously place a sticker on you saying, “virgin.”

Rocky veterans, like Yours Truly, are given one that brands them a “whore.”

By the way, I really wanted to title this review “A Whore’s View of MST’s Rocky Horror Show,” but I can only push the limits of a family news paper so far.

Here are my five tips:

1. Musical: This is the musical called “The Rocky Horror Show,” not the movie called “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” A cult follow ing grew and continues to live on around the 1975 movie. It includes audience partic ipation and shadow casts of actors costumed as the people onscreen who mimic charac ters’ movements and lip-sync their dialogue. That ain’t what MST does. They perform extremely well-done theater live without a net.

2. Shouting OK: Theater eti quette usually calls for patrons not to talk during performances, much less shout anything out. That’s out the window at Rocky Horror. Part of the fun is the audience participation. For example, whenever the full name of the two protago nists. Brad Majors (played by F. James Raasch) and Janet Weiss (played by Melody Payne) are spoken, the audience yells out offensive terms for, respec tively, “a stupid, irritating or contemptible person” and “a woman who has many casual sexual partners.”

3. What is happening?: If, upon viewing the show for the first time, the plot is kind of hard to follow, it’s not you. It’s freakin’ weird. It’s an incredibly twisted retelling of the Franken stein tale drenched in humor, unreserved raunchiness and fueled by irresistible rock ‘n’ roll songs.

4. It ain’t for everyone: If you are on the fence about seeing the show and fear you will be offended by its hyper raunchi ness, you absolutely will be.

Since they began the show semi-annually in 2014, direc tor Dae Spering has gotten

THEATER Review

‘Missouri Street Theatre’s “The Rocky Horror Show’

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in on the fun by playing the role of Magenta. It has gotten to the point now that I don’t feel Halloween season is upon us until I hear Spering sing the opener, “Science Fiction/ Double Feature.”

Each year MST’s Rocky shows have a different theme and among the ones used in the past were high school reunion, Christmas and my favorite, 2015’s circus one. They try to keep it under wraps and the big curtain reveal of the show’s set and theme has now become a definite thing. Now, as much as it pains me to do so, I will not spoil it here because, well, the idea is to experience it live, not in a review.

The one thing I will say is the eye-popping set (designed by Mike Meszaros) managed to totally accentuate the costumes (designed by Vanessa Kearns) and was a veritable playground for talented light designer Annie Morris. It is excruciatingly hard for me to restrain myself from revealing some of the cool sur prises, but I will say that but for the fact that the talented live band’s drummer didn’t have a hydraulic drum kit that spun him upside down like Tommy Lee, I would swear I was at a Mötley Crüe concert.

The cast was superb and Mark Silver’s attention to vocal nuance is something I have admired in roles he has tackled in the past and espe cially in his role as the Narrator.

F. James Raasch is a true stalwart favorite and has por trayed Brad Major numerous times. He nailed tunes like “Dammit, Janet!” and “Over at the Frankenstein Place” with talented co-star Melody Payne.

Jeffrie Givens was an inspired casting choice as Riff Raff. Her powerful, distinct and soulful voice introduced a dif ferent element to the character and to the show. She and the other cast crushed the signature show’s signature song/dance, “Time Warp.” Alex Alvarez, who was in MST’s production of “Hair” a few years ago, was mar velously magnetic as “sweet transvestite” Frank N. Furter. He imbued the cross dressing mad scientist character with the comic charisma it demands.

Alvarez shone on tunes like “I Can Make You a Man,” “I’m Going Home” and others.

Christina Rae Cross was

perfect as Columbia and not just because her love interest in the show was biker Eddie, who happened to be played by her actual husband Michael Cross , but because, just like in past shows, she immersed herself into the character.

Philip Graves went from the meaty role of failed Reagan shooter John Hinkley in MST’s last show “Assassins” to a beef caky one in Rocky that requires much less of a costume (a gold speedo and some glitter.) He was great vocally on “The Sword of Damocles.”

The aforementioned Michael Cross did double duty as biker Eddie, who gets cut up like hamburger by Frank N. Furter, and also playing the part of Dr. Scott. Vocally he was in fine form in both roles – on tunes like, respectively, “Hot Patoo tie” and “Eddie’s Teddy.”

Stephen Harris is not a member of the “Rocky Horror Show” cast. He is MST’s house manager and one of the bar tenders there. But I feel it is wholly appropriate to give him a shout-out for all of the welltimed and funny shout-outs he does (and has been doing for years) as an audience member, which adds to the enjoyment of the show.

One that cracked the audi ence up that was topical and funny was when Brad Majors, talking about the castle they sought refuge from the rain in, says, “It’s probably a hunting ground for rich weirdos,” to which Harris blurted out, “It’s Mar-a-Lago!”

If I don’t mention every single person who contributes their talents to make a produc tion successful, it isn’t meant as a slight. It just recognizes that a review is a not a show’s program. I still hope all local theater companies would make their programs available on their websites so I can happily share a link to them.

The bottom line about MST’s “Rocky Horror Show” is, whether you are a veteran or a rookie, this show is an enter taining, well-done feast for the eyes and ears.

I haven’t forgotten I said I had five tips for newbies. Here is the last one:

5. Take it off: Remember to remove the “virgin” or “whore” sticker when you leave the theater so if you stop to gas up your car on the way home, you won’t have to endure awkward glances or laughter from a con venience store clerk.

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

Crossword by Phillip Alder

Bridge

low spade and dummy’s jack takes the trick?

This deal occurred in the casual room at Bridge Base Online. There, each deal is scored as if in a duplicate, but there are no masterpoint awards.

In a team event, making or breaking the contract is the object of the exercise. In a duplicate, your score is compared with every other pair holding your cards. You get one point for each pair you beat, irrespective of whether it is by 10 points or 1,000.

North’s response was preemptive and denied a four-card major. With a maximum pass, he would have bid two diamonds, an inverted minor-suit raise. At almost every table, South just jumped to five diamonds. At one table, though, South strangely shot out three no-trump despite his void. A low club lead would have been instantly lethal, but West (a robot) chose the spade two.

THINK ABOUT THE OTHER PAIRS

You are declaring in a contract. What difference does it make if you are playing in a team event or a match pointed pair event?

Today’s rather extreme example will highlight the difference. How should South play in three no-trump – yes, three no-trump! – after West leads a

South could now have claimed nine tricks (two spades and seven diamonds), but he could see that anyone in five diamonds would be plus 620. Plus 600 in three no-trump would be a zero. He had to try for an overtrick. So, at trick two, he led the heart queen from the board. East (a robot) took the trick and . . . wait for it . . . returned a heart! Plus 660 gave North-South a tied top with one other equally lucky pair.

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Bridge

THINK ABOUT THE OTHER PAIRS

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

You are declaring in a contract. What difference does it make if you are playing in a team event or a matchpointed pair event?

Today’s rather extreme example will

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Why the Dodgers didn’t make the World Series

By Jack H arris LOS ANGELES TIMES

Dave Roberts walked out to the mound once, then again, in the seventh inning, two lonely treks with his team’s season on the brink.

The first time, the Dodgers still had a lead. They were still nine outs away from a season-sav ing win in Game 4 of the National League Divi sion Series. They still had all their October goals within reach.

By the manager’s second visit, however, the score was tied, the San Diego Padres were threat ening, and the Dodgers were suddenly hanging by a thread.

That the winningest team in franchise history found itself in such a predicament was a com bination of many failings: Bad luck and mistimed mistakes; absent offense and questionable pitch ing plans; and bad execution most of all, with the Dodgers picking the worst possible time to play some of their worst base

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ball of the season.

Entering the playoffs, they had been the best team in the majors – on the mound, at the plate, in high leverage situations, everywhere.

But after a week of stranded runners and booted grounders and frustratingly few answers against a division rival they’d dominated all year, the Dodgers’ found them selves on the verge of elimination.

After a remarkable 111-win regular season, their World Series dreams

were about to be dashed in an autumn blink.

“October baseball,” first baseman Freddie Freeman said, “can be very brutal sometimes.”

More than a week later, the shock hasn’t worn off. Not for Roberts. Not for the front office. Not for just about anyone associated with a team that’s captured only one championship – in a pandemic-altered, neu tral-site 2020 World Series – out of 10 consecu tive postseason trips.

“If you’re asking me if

imizing and utilizing versatile offensive weapons.”

Dominance of the Rams

I think the best team wins the World Series every year, I would say no,” president of baseball oper ations Andrew Friedman said at an end-of-sea son news conference last week. “I think the hottest team wins the World Series every year.”

The fact that the topseeded Dodgers couldn’t be both will sting all offseason.

Perhaps it was just bad luck, the vagaries of base ball dealing the club an unwinnable hand.

Or maybe there was something bigger amiss, leaving evalu ators both inside the organization and around the rest of the indus try wondering whether subtle endemic weak nesses keep contributing to the team’s all-too-com mon playoff failures.

As winter sets in, it’s a question the Dodgers are reluctantly trying to answer, too, search ing to determine why their well-oiled organiza tional machine once again sprung a postseason leak.

“There’s a lot of work

for the Green Bay Packers, he was fond of saying about Bears quarter back Jay Cutler “We know Jay will throw us the ball.”

and a lot of good things to take from this year,” Roberts said during a phone interview this weekend. “But how it ended, that’s where my mind is at. It’s been tough.”

Plastic sheets lined the walls of the clubhouse. Bottles of Budweiser and Korbel champagne sprayed through the air.

Thirty-two days before they quietly filed out of the visiting locker room at Petco Park, the Dodgers excitedly doused the one at Chase Field in Arizona, celebrating a runaway National League West division champion ship that cemented their decade-long run of regu lar-season dominance.

They had locked up the division with 21 games to go.

They were on their way to becoming the seventh team in MLB history to eclipse 110 wins and the first since the 2001 Seattle Mariners to score the most and yield the fewest runs in the same season.

And they were doing it with a famil

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iar blueprint – pairing an explosive lineup with a crafty pitching staff, and a star-studded core with waves of depth that Fried man and his staff had so meticulously assembled over the years.

“We feel really good about not just the talent in this room, but the way it’s come together,” a smiling, beer-soaked Friedman said the night they clinched the division.

“It’s something that you hope for in the offseason, but you never really know until you see it play out.”

In hindsight, however, cracks were growing in the foundation.

While their rotation was headlined by Julio Urías, Clayton Kershaw and Tyler Anderson, the fissure created by Walker Buehler’s Tommy John surgery was never com pletely filled.

The team balked at the asking price for frontline rotation help at the trade deadline – “I don’t regret not doing a bad deal for us,” Friedman said – and planned instead to lean on existing talent.

The fact that the Rams have dealt draft capital in acquir ing big-name players in recent years – Matthew Stafford, Jalen Ramsey, Von Miller and Odell Beckham Jr. among them – has tened the 49ers’ pursuit.

It’s an open secret that the 49ers were interested in trading for Staf ford to replace Jimmy Garoppolo, only to have the Rams sneak in and make the trade with Jared Goff and a slew of draft picks.

“It’s a small business but it’s one that’s got a bunch of very com petitive people,” McVay said. “Sometimes some of the moves are made because No. 1, it benefits your team, but then it’s also trying not to strengthen others. I think that’s a sound approach. I don’t think we were the first people to do.”

As for McCaffrey on Sunday, McVay can expect a much heavier workload against the Rams than the 21 snaps he got with almost no practice time in a 44-23 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs.

“I’ve always had respect for his game and the versatility,” McVay said. “I think that’s your first incli nation and you know what a great job Kyle and his staff do of max

The 49ers have won the last seven regular-season games against the Rams. McVay doesn’t have a regular-season win against Shanahan. The Rams won the most important one last Jan. 30, advancing to the Super Bowl with a 20-17 triumph.

Even in that game, the 49ers had a 17-7 lead entering the fourth quarter and came within a dropped interception by Jaquaski Tartt of moving on to play the Cincinnati Bengals in Super Bowl LVI.

Humbled by the Chiefs

This could be a good thing, especially where the defense is con cerned. Giving up 529 yards and 44 points is something the 49ers’ defense didn’t think was possible.

The Rams haven’t played to any where near the level of the Chiefs, and 49ers such as edge rusher Nick Bosa (groin), safety Jimmie Ward (broken hand), Charvarius Ward (groin) and safety Talanoa Hufanga (concussion protocol) should get in full weeks of practice.

Stafford will throw a pick

When Charles Woodson played

The same goes for Stafford against the 49ers. In three regu lar-season games plus the NFC title game, Stafford has thrown six interceptions along with six touch down passes. In last year’s 49ers win at Levi’s, Jimmie Ward had a 27-yard pick-six. In this year’s win, Hufanga ran one back 52 yards for a score.

Stafford is 1-3 against the 49ers.

Getting Deebo untracked

McCaffrey will be much more involved against the Rams after sitting out much of the red zone and hurry-up offense against the Chiefs due to lack of practice time. In theory, that sets up the dream sce nario with McCaffrey and Samuel being on the field at the same time.

Kupp runneth over

In the first meeting this season, the 49ers focused much of their defensive attention on Cooper Kupp, giving him mostly short receptions and making sure he didn’t get loose in the seam or over the top. Kupp caught 14 passes but for only 122 yards with a long gain of 18.

Mondo Calderon (Fair field) had a big game for Minnesota-Morris in a 47-0 win over Martin Luther. Calderon had two solo tackles, four assists, one sack and a fumble recovery. The Cougars are 5-3 with a matchup this weekend at the Uni versity of Northwestern (Minnesota).

Junior defensive back Jason Troutt (Rodri guez) saw action for the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in a 41-33 loss to Catholic University. Troutt had one solo tackle and an assist. The Mari ners are 5-2 with a game against Springfield next on the schedule.

Senior defensive back Zach McLellan (Will C. Wood) competed for Adams State in a 45-31 win against Colorado-Mesa. The Grizzlies are 2-6 and play this week at South Dakota Mines.

Men’s tennis

Junior Marcus McDan iel (Vacaville Kimme Charter) went 1-1 for Georgia Tech at the recent ITA Southeast Region als. He defeated Stetson’s Juan Jose Rodriguez 7-6(5), 3-6, 6-1 before losing to South Florida’s Davide Tortora 7-5, 7-5.

Women’s volleyball

Junior setter Camille Rivers (Vacaville) had three service points, one kill, 14 assists and six digs for Holy Names in a 3-0 win over Domini can. Rivers also had four service points, 24 assists and six digs in a 3-1 win over the Academy of Arts. Holy Names is 12-12 on the season.

Junior setter Kayla Somonton (Vacaville, Solano) contributed three service points, 19 assists and 16 digs for Simpson in a 3-0 loss to Westcliff. Simpson is 5-17 overall.

Senior defensive spe cialist Angel Gamboa (Will C. Wood) had two service points and a dig in a 3-1 win over Cal State Monterey Bay and four service points in a 3-1 win over San Fran cisco State. The Seawolves are now 16-6.

Junior middle blocker Coco Ikpe (Vanden) had a pair of big hitting games for UC Riverside. Ikpe had four service points, 10 kills, two blocks and two digs in a 3-2 loss to Long Beach State. She added five service points, 13 kills, one block and three digs in a 3-2 loss to Cal State Full terton. UC Riverside has a record of 4-15.

Senior middle blocker Lindsey McLaughlin (Rodriguez, Solano) con tributed three service points, five kills and two blocks in Cal Poly Hum boldt’s 3-0 loss to San Francisco State and five service points, 15 kills, one block and two digs in a 3-2 loss to Cal State Monterey Bay. The Lum berjacks are 2-15.

Junior middle blocker Megan Stanek (Vacaville Christian) delivered three service points, one kill and one block for Linfield in a 3-0 loss to Pacific and four service points, six kills and a block in a 3-1 loss to George Fox. Linfield now has a record of 8-11.

Sophomore outside hitter Taylor Whyte (Vanden) had two service points, one kill and two digs for Chico in a 3-0 loss to Pacific. The Wildcats fell to 3-18.

Freshman middle hitter Lauren Whyte (Vanden) notched one service point for Cal State Dominguez Hills in a 3-1 loss to Cal Poly Pomoma. Dominguez Hills is now 4-17.

Freshman outside hitter Mylie Moli (Bethel, Solano) helped Univer sity of Maine, Fort Kent to a 3-2 win over Southern Maine and improved to 18-4 overall. Moli had five service points, nine kills, 14 digs and one block in the victory.

Women’s soccer

Sophomore forward Sumer Baron (DaVinci Academy) had a shot on goal and played in 61 minutes of action for Chico State’s women’s soccer team in a 1-0 win over Cal State Domin guez Hills and played 21 minutes in a 0-0 draw with Cal State Monterey Bay. Sophomore mid fielder Kylie Rolling (Will C. Wood) had a shot on goal and played 22 minutes in the game against Dominguez Hills. The Wildcats are 8-3-5.

Senior forward Karla Cardinal (Vacav ille, Solano) and senior defender Brooke Molina (Will C. Wood, Solano) saw extensive action for Bush nell in a pair of 3-0 losses to Southern Oregon and Oregon Tech. Cardi nal played 78 minutes and Molina 90 in the Southern Oregon game. Cardinal got 42 minutes and Molina had 82 in the loss to Oregon Tech. The Beacons are now 0-16.

Graduate student and defender Abby Wolf (Armijo) played the full 90 minutes for the Uni versity of the Pacific in a 1-1 tie with the Univer sity of San Francisco and a 3-0 loss to Pepperdine. The Tigers have a record of 5-2-10. Yes, 10 ties.

Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times/TNS the Los Angeles Dodgers’ dugout watches during the ninth inning in Game Four of the National League Division series against the san Diego padres at petco park, oct. 15.