Daily Republic: Friday, October 28, 2022

Covid case rate heads downward

New death takes Solano County total to 441

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FAIRFIELD — Solano County on Thursday reported 256 new corona virus cases since its last report Oct. 20.

The 10-day average is 36.3, down from 38.6 a week earlier, the county reported.

There was one addi tional Covid-related death reported, taking the pandemic total in Solano County to 441. Details about the individual were not immediately available.

There were 11 resi dents in area hospitals

with a positive coronavi rus test, down from 13 on Oct. 20. It was not imme diately known how many individuals were in inten sive care units.

Fairfield added 40 new cases to take its total to 30,083. Vallejo added 97 cases for a new count of 33,614. Vacaville was at 27,743 with 66 new cases, the county reported.

Suisun City (7,776) added 21 cases; Dixon (5,277) added five; Benicia (4,544) added 21; and there were three new cases apiece in Rio Vista (1,550) and the

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The U.S. economy grew at a solid pace in the third quarter, marking the first advance this year as consum ers proved resilient in the face of widespread inflation and the Federal Reserve’s rapid interestrate hikes.

Gross domestic product rose at a 2.6% annualized rate in the July to Septem ber period after falling for the first two quar ters, the Commerce Department’s prelimi nary estimate showed Thursday. Personal con

sumption, the biggest part of the economy, climbed at a 1.4% pace, better than forecast but still a slowdown from the prior quarter.

The median projection in a Bloomberg survey of economists called for a 2.4% rise in GDP and a 1% advance in personal consumption.

The details of the report showed a strong increase in business investment, bolstered by equipment and intellec tual property products. Consumer spending was driven by an increase in

LOS ANGELES — With Thanksgiving fast approaching, turkey farmers from California to Pennsylvania are watching in horror as a viru lent new strain of avian influenza wipes out their flocks, killing birds practically overnight and forcing hundreds of thousands more to be eutha nized to prevent further infection.

The rampant spread of the virus has already eliminated more than 6 million turkeys nation wide, about 14% of the nation’s total turkey production, according to the U.S. Agricul ture Department. It is leaving farmers short of their usual offerings and pushing up prices for

FAIRFIELD — Officials from the Cal ifornia Highway Patrol, transportation agencies, as well as a host of other local officials looked into the future Wednes day, eyeing the proposed high-tech weigh station on westbound Interstate 80 from the vista of the expanded Solano I-80 eastbound truck scales facility in rural Cordelia.

The legislative tour was an opportu nity to reintroduce the project to local officials, and to convince others that funding the $242.9 million I-80 West bound Cordelia Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Facility has value.

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I have a number of items that used to belong to Fairfield historian Tim Farmer and I recently discov ered a book among them titled “The Flora and Fauna of Solano County.” It was written by Wilmere Jordan Neitzel and illustrated by Dorothy Pogge Allen.

The 160-page book was published in 1965 and was the result of four years of meticulous research. The University of California and the State Department of Fish and Game helped with editing.

Wilmere Neitzel was an elementary school teacher in Sacramento, Fairfield and worked alongside other instructors whose names are familiar to longtime locals as they were honored with name sake Fairfield schools like Cleo Gordon, Amy Blanc and E. Ruth Sheldon.

Neitzel’s uncle, Frank M. Jordan, was Califor nia secretary of state for 60 years and her grand father, Frank C. Jordan, had held the same job. She married Percy Neitzel, whose family had been in the Solano County area since the 1850s.

The book was obviously a labor of love and the watercolor illustrations are wonderfully detailed and striking. It covers native wild flowers, trees, insects, fish, amphibi ans and reptiles, birds and mammals.

One thing that jumped out at me when it came to the descriptions and stories about local plants was how many of them mentioned witches and witchcraft. There were so many that it gave me a hankerin’ to reread

some Harry Potter books.

When it came to the animals, there are many I of course am familiar with like opossum, mountain lions, striped skunks and raccoons. Others I was not aware of were the ringtailed cat, long-tailed weasel and the California legless lizard.

Neitzel includes a lot of interesting details, like this one about the House Mouse (Mus mus culus): “Another peculiar thing about the mouse is that he is very subject to asthmatic and bron chial disorders. As of a result of this, he makes a wheezing kind of breath ing which has made many observers call him ‘the singing mouse.’ ”

And here I thought those three mice in the movie “Babe” singing “Blue Moon” was just for comedic effect.

One thing she stum bled across was a Suisun Shrew, which is found nowhere in the world except on Grizzly Island. She calls the little mammal the “star” of the book.

Some of the other more interesting entries among the dozens that are high lighted include:

Hound’s-Tongue (Cynoglossum grande)

Found throughout Solano County with bright blue flowers, early legends were that if you walked on this plant, dogs would not bark at you.

Heliotrope (Heliotropium curassavicum)

Found along the shore line of the bay and into the salt laden soil, it usually has white flowers, sometimes lavender. Its leaves contain a mucilag inous juice that Native Americans and Spanish Californians dried, reduced to a powder and used as a cure for wounds on humans and animals. The dry powder was dusted or blown into the wound.

Wild Peony (Paeonia brownii)

Not too common, but found in Putah Canyon and the Green Valley Falls area. Early Spanish Cal ifornians considered the root to be an excellent remedy for dyspepsia and Native Americans used it for relief of colds and sore throat.

Yarrow Milfoil (Archillea millefolium)

Found all around the county. Said to be useful in curing toothache, healing cuts and bruises and stop ping bleeding. It also makes a fine ale-like brew and serves admirably as a substitute for snuff. There was also a superstitious belief that it had no equal as a love charm.

Scarlet Monkey Flower (Mimulus cardinalis)

Neitzel described this plant in the book, but the only thing I wanted to say is I think Scarlet Monkey Flower is a great name for a rock band.

Redbud Judas-Tree (Cercis occidentalis)

This was named after the tree that Judas Iscar iot hung himself from after betraying Jesus

Christ. After that, the flowers turned from pure white to crimson. Some believe it to be inhabited by witches.

St. John’s Wort (Hypercum concinnum)

It was supposed to protect the early Cali fornians from lightning and witches and indicate the future.

Common Elder (Sambacus mexicana)

Native Americans believed anyone anointed with the green juice of its inner bark could recog nize witches. It was often planted near dwellings to keep away evil spirits.

Roadrunner (Accelleratii incredibus) and Wile E. Coyote (Carnivorous vulgaris)

Just kidding. I stuck this in here to make sure you are still paying attention.

Bleeding Heart (Dicentra Formosa)

Jeez, I thought it was bad now, but evidently back in 1965 even flowers were politicized.

Brown Day Moth (Pseudohazis eglanterina)

They have a 1- to 2-inch wing span and their color varies from purplishpink to yellow and orange with conspicuous black markings. It is not to be confused with the Green Day Moth (Punkbandi cus dookieum).

Striped Mullet (Mugil cephalus)

This was a valuable food fish for Native Amer icans. I successfully resisted the temptation to make a comment about 1980s heavy metal and muscle shirts.

Little California Bat (Myotis californicus)

Ancient people

believed that bats were once birds, but that they prayed so hard to become human that they did undergo a change in part. Their bodies remained like that of birds, but their faces grew to look like the faces of men. This filled them with shame so that is why they only fly at night. Other lore holds that the human soul often takes the form of a bat until it has become pure enough to transition to the form of a bird and thus fly to heaven.

Ancient people also evidently ate hallucino genic plants.

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

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Courtesy photos These images are taken from “The Flora and Fauna of Solano County” written by Wilmere Neitzel and illustrated by Dorothy Pogge Allen.

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FAIRFIELD — A 16-year-old student with a Glock-style pistol was arrested Tuesday after noon at Armijo High School.

Police suspect the student brought the gun onto the campus because of an apparent dispute with another student. Police did not disclose the nature of that issue, but a police spokes woman said it was not gang related.

Officer James Lewis, assigned to Armijo High as a school resource officer, “learned of an ongoing issue between two male students . . . in which one student threatened to physically harm the other,” the police said in a statement released Wednesday. The other student is also 16, the police spokeswoman said.

The investigation began shortly before 3 p.m.

“A school administra tor escorted the student who made the threat ening remarks to the main office and, based upon information that he was in possession of

a firearm, a search of his backpack was con ducted,” the police said.

Jennifer Brantley, the police public information officer, said Lewis could feel the gun from outside the backpack.

A cross-body bag was found inside the back pack, and inside that bag a loaded Polymer 80 Glock-style pistol with an extended magazine was located, the police statement said.

The student was taken into custody and booked into the Solano County Juvenile Hall Detention Facility on suspicion of several weapons-related allega tions, the police reported.

It was not imme diately clear how or where the student obtained the gun.

Vaca Boys & Girls Club teens donate to Play for All Park

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VACAVILLE —

Teens from the Vacaville Neighborhood Boys & Girls Club will present a check for more than $1,500 to the Play for All Park on Saturday, funds they raised during a Run for Autism held in April.

“The teens did all the work,” Teen Program Coordinator John Gilmore said in a statement released Wednesday by the club.

“They decided to take this on and they made it happen. We’ve already started planning the run for next year, on Sunday, April 2, 2023. We invite everyone in the com munity to come out and run with us. We have a 1k for the kids, and a full 5k for the older kids

and adults, but really the point is to raise aware ness and understanding of autism. This year the members of the club have raised more than $4,000 in support of Play for All Park through the kids’ fundraising efforts,” Gilmore said in the statement.

The 150 members attend Vacaville and Will C. Wood high schools, and Vacaville Peña and Jepson middle schools.

A ribbon-cutting and dedication cere mony for the park runs from 10:30 a.m. to noon Saturday. The all-inclu sive park is located at 815 Elmira Road, just east of Leisure Town Road.

“Service learning is a big part of our Teen Program. We focus on

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FAIRFIELD — Navy

Rear Admiral Leonard C. “Butch” Dollaga could not imagine his life running the course it has taken.

“Growing up in Vallejo, I would walk the water front as a little kid looking across the Mare Island Strait to the submarines stationed at Mare Island,” Dollaga said.

“I never thought I’d be good enough to join that ‘Silent Service’ of U.S. submarines,” he said. “Fast forward to not only joining, but being a lieu tenant on the USS Los Angeles being overhauled in Mare Island from 1993 to 1995, I recognized, first hand, the capability of phenomenal men and women of the shipyard to repair that national defense asset. I couldn’t have been more proud of my hometown.”

Dollaga went on to command Subma rine Group 7.

Mare Island, in its final 25 years of oper ation before closing in 1996, was the leading submarine port for the West Coast.

Each year an Eternal Patrol event is held to honor the 575 crewmen on seven Mare Island-built submarines who were lost during World War II. Twenty-eight subs were built at Mare Island.

Dollaga, who gradu ated from Hogan High School in Vallejo, on Wednesday took a tour of the Mare Island shipyard,

and visited some Junior ROTC students at Vanden High School.

“The more you inter face with your people, the more you train them, the more effective they will be. Just trust those people,” Dollaga, chief of Legislative Affairs for the Navy, told the nearly two dozen cadets of the Vanden Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Train ing program.

“I was the kid who was bullied. I was told I was never going to make it. Hey, don’t listen to any thing. I’m telling you, you can make it. The people I served with convinced me,” the admiral said. “I want to let the students know they can own their own success.”

Dollaga was accompa nied on his tour of Mare Island by Rep. John Gar amendi, D-Walnut Grove.

“The admiral is highly familiar with Mare Island, having grown up in Vallejo and witnessing the maintenance work Mare Island has completed for

the U.S. Navy in the past. We spoke with officials at the shipyard and gained a firsthand perspective of the incredible capacity Mare Island has to offer for years to come,” Gara mendi said in a statement.

“I know how impor

tant Mare Island can be for military readiness and the local economy,” Garamendi said in the statement. “That’s why I’ve worked to invest in Mare Island to support our military and create new good-paying jobs throughout Solano County, Contra Costa County, and beyond.”

Garamendi is running for the new 8th Con gressional District seat, which includes portions of Solano County. His opponent is Rudy Recile, R-Vacaville. Election Day is Nov. 8.

Dollaga is a 1990 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy.

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Aaron Rosenblatt/Daily Republic U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Leonard ‘Butch’ Dollaga speaks to members of the JROTC at Vanden High School in Fairfield, Wednesday. “I was the kid who was bullied,” Dollaga said.

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This Fairfield Police Department photo shows a weapon recovered from an arrest at Armijo High School, Tuesday.

Land-use to food online forum on calendar Nov. 3

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FAIRFIELD — Catherine Brinkley, an associate professor in Human Ecology, Com munity and Regional Development at the University of Califor nia, Davis, will be the keynote speaker at a Planning, Zoning and Local Food online event from 4 to 6 p.m. Nov. 3.

The event is hosted by Solano Local Food System Alliance.

Solano Land Trust and county-level and city-level planners will also join the panel to address how planning and zoning can affect rural and urban land use and support the local and regional food systems, organizers said in a state ment. The panel will be ready to discuss ques tions, such as whether there are restrictions on what can be built

on agricultural land, or what needs to happen to increase food production in urban areas.

Registration is required and may be made at www. eventbrite.com/e/ruralurban-land-use-plan ning-zoning-the-localfood-system-tickets428822990107.

Anyone with ques tions may submit them in advance at https://forms. gle/46vuohWxvvUHT nE49.

The Solano Local Food System Alliance includes a number of members with the mission to create “an environmentally sustainable, econom ically viable, socially just and equitable local food system in Solano County.” The group is supported by a grant from Solano County Public Health in part nership with the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation.

Touro medical colleges rank high in national report

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VALLEJO — Touro University California has been ranked second among colleges in the state for osteo pathic medicine.

U.S. News & World Report’s Best Colleges for 2022 ranks Touro’s division 12th nation ally, Touro reported in a press release.

“The U.S. News rank ings evaluates more than 160 medical schools nationally,” the press release stated.

The college of Osteo

pathic Medicine also ranked second in Cal ifornia in graduates practicing in rural areas and 55th nationally in this same category, Touro reported.

Touro’s Phy sician Assistant program ranked third in California and 26th nationally among 1,170 schools evaluated.

The Physician Assis tant program “is the only joint program in the nation, meaning all . . . graduates also simultaneously earn a master’s in public health,” Touro stated.

DUI checkpoint set Friday for Travis at North Texas

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FAIRFIELD — A DUI checkpoint will be placed Friday at Travis Boulevard and North Texas Street.

“DUI checkpoints like this one are placed in locations based on collision statistics and frequency of DUI arrests, affording the greatest opportunity for achiev ing drunk and drugged driving deterrence. Loca tions are chosen with safety considerations for the officers and the public,” the Fairfield Police Department said in a statement.

Fairfield police inves tigated 52 DUI-related collisions in 2022, accord ing to the statement. Those collisions resulted in two deaths and left 69 people injured.

Traffic Unit offi cers will look for signs of alcohol and/or drug impairment, the state ment said. Officers will check drivers for proper licensing, delaying

motorists only momen tarily. When possible, specially trained officers will be available “to eval uate those suspected of drug-impaired driving,” which, according to the statement, accounts for a growing number of impaired driving crashes.

Some prescription medications and mari juana, especially when combined with alcohol or other drugs, can also leave a driver impaired, according to the statement.

Drivers caught driving while impaired can expect a DUI arrest to include jail time, fines, fees, DUI classes, license suspensions and other expenses that can exceed $10,000 – “not to mention the embar rassment when friends and family find out,” the statement said.

Funding for this program was provided by a grant from the Cal ifornia Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

nity, and the power they have to make a differ ence,” Anna Eaton, chief executive officer of the club, said in the statement.

USDA grants $23M for schools to buy direct from local farmers

Program includes purchases from Solano, Yolo sources

WINTERS — Federal and state officials announced Wednesday they have signed a coop erative agreement with California for more than $23 million to purchase products and foods from local farmers – to include producers in Solano and Yolo counties – to provide quality, nutritious school meals.

The Local Food for Schools Cooperative Agreement Program gives the California Department of Education the ability to purchase and distrib ute local and regional foods and beverages for schools in the state to serve children through the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Pro grams. The products will be healthy and unique to each school’s geographic location, officials said. The big-picture goal is to improve child nutrition and build upon relation ships between schools and local farmers.

U.S. Department of Agriculture Under Sec retary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs Jenny Lester Moffitt made the announce

ment at a gathering Wednesday at Waggoner Elementary School. Winters is her hometown and she attended Wag goner Elementary.

“As someone who was born and raised here in Winters, and as we talk about this new program that we have at USDA – bring ing local food to schools, enhancing the ability of schools who are doing it already and enabling even more schools to do it – I couldn’t think of a more perfect commu nity than to do it here in my hometown in Winters, which is an incredible shining example,” Lester Moffitt said.

The money is intended to supplement efforts to allow schools to pur chase food grown by local and regional farmers and ranchers for their breakfast and lunch meal programs.

In addition to cre ating new partnerships and relationships between schools and local farmers, Lester Moffitt said there is a goal to focus on creating an opportunity for small, underserved farmers to provide in their communities.

“One of our priorities –and we have many in this project – is that we’re not leaving behind, partic ularly, our underserved farmers and ranchers. We have a big focus on being able to procure from small, underserved farmers and ranchers so that more farmers and ranchers have the oppor tunity to sell to the kids in their community, many of their own kids in the com munity as well,” Lester Moffitt said.

California Department of Food and Agriculture Undersecretary Chris tine Birdsong said there is a high priority and

importance in cre ating opportunities for local farmers to provide food for schools.

“These funds are going to make a real dif ference toward providing all of our California stu dents equitable access to nutritious fruits and vege tables,” Birdsong said.

Birdsong said the agreement is a solid boost to the CDFA’s continuing efforts to build resilient local food systems that not only improve the local economy but work to establish connections between schools and local farmers and ranchers.

California Department of Education Food and Nutrition Services Direc tor Kim Frinzell said more than 829 million school meals were served across the state last year. Frinzell said California continues to make historic invest ments not only into food and agriculture but also in the educational land scape by providing funds that go into the creation of kitchens at schools and providing training for nutrition staff to learn

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FAIRFIELD — More than 1,700 women in Solano County were found to have breast cancer between 2015 and 2019.

Public health records show 257 of those 1,745 women died of the disease.

“The American Cancer Society states that one in eight U.S. women will develop breast cancer in her life time. However, catching cancer early can allow for a higher likelihood of successful treatment. Screenings can help with those efforts,” the Sutter Medical Foundation said

in a statement.

Sutter is offering free mammogram screenings Saturday to any unin sured woman 40 or older at the Diagnostic Imaging Department, 2700 Low Court in Fairfield.

Appointments are required and space is limited, so appointments will be honored on a firstcome, first-served basis.

To make an appoint ment, call 916-878-3490.

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FAIRFIELD — The Tri-City NAACP will be selecting its president, vice president and other executive board officers when it meets Nov. 5.

The secretary, trea surer and two at-large members also will be picked. Each position is for two-year terms. The meeting, starting at 1:30 p.m., will occur at 1735 Enterprise Drive in Fairfield or may be accessed on Zoom.

The Tri-City NAACP was started in 1976 and

represents the Fairfield, Suisun City and Vacaville area. Anyone with ques tions about the election or the organization may contact current President Johnicon George at pres ident@tri-citynaacp.org.

leadership and commu nity service, which really engages this age group. They see the impact they can have on their commu

The club is also raising money to build a new headquarters and club house on Brown Street.

“We’re on track to com plete our fundraising by

the end of the year and break ground in 2023. We expect to host our first program there in the summer of 2024,” Eaton said in the statement.

To support the club and its activities, go to www. vnbgc.com or follow the club on Facebook.

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Two children describe a planter box garden program to Carrie Green, president of the Winters school District board of trustees, during a U.s. Department of agriculture and

California Department of Food and agriculture program announcement at Waggoner Elementary school in Winters, Wednesday.

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Audubon advises taking steps against spread of avian flu

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FAIRFIELD — Audubon California is advising bird lovers to remove feeders and to empty bird baths as a precaution to spread ing avian flu.

“We know this comes at a time when droughtstressed birds need birdbaths and fountains more than ever.

It is disappoint ing to many of us, but as this virus spreads, it’s important to keep birds healthy,” Gaylon Parsons, interim execu tive director of Audubon California, said in a state ment released Thursday.

“Unfortunately, that’s impossible for many species in the wild. With 90% of California’s wetlands already lost, wildlife refuges serve as oases for migrating birds along the Pacific Flyway. As drought causes remaining wet lands to shrink, birds crowd together in large numbers. That’s a recipe for an epidemic, not just of avian flu, but other dis eases, as well,” Parsons said in the statement.

“Two years ago, a botu lism outbreak killed tens of thousands of water fowl as they crowded into shrinking pools at Lower Klamath Wild life Refuge. Audubon is tracking this situa tion, and we hope that we can advise people to put feeders back soon.”

There have been cases of avian flu reported in 19 counties in the state, and cases in backyard flocks in Butte, Calaveras, Contra Costa, El Dorado, Fresno, Sacramento and Tuolumne counties. The most recent discovery was Sept. 29 in Calav

eras County.

Ed King, the Solano County agriculture com missioner, said the state has not informed the county of any additional cases of the flu in wild birds, and there are no reports of any domestic poultry being infected.

The last report was in August when the state Fish and Wildlife Service reported the disease had been detected in two American white pelicans and one mute swan in Solano County.

“The influenza strain spreads rapidly . . . and is often fatal to birds, especially domestic flocks, but not exclusively. The disease has also appeared in a wide range of wild birds including redtailed hawks, Canada geese, American crows, wood ducks and other species,” the statement said. “So far, 24 coun ties have logged cases, including San Francisco, Alameda, Stanislaus, Sacramento and Yolo in Northern California, and Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego and others in Southern California.”

The chicken and egg industry in Solano County repre sented a gross value of $581,000 in 2021, the annual Crop and Live stock Report states.

If anyone notices any signs of avian flu in domestic poultry, isolate the affected birds and call a vet erinarian and/or the California Department of Food and Agricul ture Sick Bird Hotline at 1-866-922-BIRD (2473)

For more infor mation, go to https:// www.cdfa.ca.gov/ahfss/ animal_health/avian_ influenza.html.

Biden urges oil companies to cut prices after Shell’s profit doubled

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President Joe Biden criticized record energy company profits after Shell Plc announced it earned $9.5 billion in the third quarter, raised its dividend and expanded share buybacks.

“That’s more than twice of what they made in the third quarter of last year, and they raised their dividends as well, so the profits are going back in their shareholders instead of going to the pump and lowering the prices,” Biden said at an event in Syracuse, New York.

Biden has repeatedly demanded that oil com panies forgo buybacks and dividend increases, calling on them to reduce prices at gasoline pumps for American motor ists instead of returning profits to shareholders.

Energy companies, he said, need to “bring down the cost of a gallon of gas that reflects the cost they’re paying for a barrel of oil.”

A gallon of gasoline

cost $3.76 on average in the U.S. on Wednes day, according to the motor club AAA. Shell’s shares rose more than 5% on Thursday, to 2,425 pence in London.

Energy analysts and officials say there is gen erally a lag between shifts in the prices of crude oil and gasoline, in part because it takes time for costs to filter through the supply chain.

High oil prices are proving a bonanza for multinational energy com panies. Exxon Mobil Corp.

is expected tomorrow to disclose the secondhighest quarterly profit in the company’s 152year history.

Democrats, who face headwinds in midterm congressional elections on Nov. 8 in part because of inflation and high gasoline prices, have castigated oil company profits.

“$9.5 billion is a crapload of money,” Con necticut Senator Chris Murphy said in a tweet. “We don’t have to put up with this. But if you elect Republicans in two weeks,

they will do the bidding of these guys.”

But Democratic pro posals to impose so-called windfall profit taxes on energy companies have repeatedly failed, even when the party con trolled both chambers of Congress.

Shell said Thursday it will buy back another $4 billion of shares over the next three months, bringing total repur chases for the year to $18.5 billion. It plans to increase its dividend by 15% for the fourth quarter, subject to board approval.

Shell reported a record profit in the second quarter of $11.47 billion, when oil prices exceeded $100 a barrel. Bench mark Brent crude closed at about $97 on Thurs day, up $1.27.

Some of Shell’s peer companies also reported outstanding financial results Thursday. TotalE nergies SE disclosed a record profit, and Repsol SA said it will pay a higher dividend than pre viously announced.

2.1 million earthquake early warnings issued this week

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Many San Francisco Bay Area residents were given several seconds’ warning before shaking arrived from a magnitude 5.1 earthquake that struck under the mountains east of San Jose this week.

The activation of the U.S. Geological Survey’s ShakeAlert system is the second time in six weeks that Bay Area residents got a warning before they felt shaking. Tuesday’s magnitude 5.1 earthquake was the most powerful to hit the Bay Area since the destructive Napa earth quake of 2014, which was magnitude 6.0.

More than 2.1 million earthquake alerts were issued to users Tuesday, said Robert de Groot, part

Police nab ‘person of interest’ in robbery, sexual assault case

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FAIRFIELD — The Police Department turned to the community Thurs day to identify a man described as a “person of interest” in an armed robbery and sexual assault that occurred at about 7 a.m. Thursday on the 1800 block of West Texas Street.

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how to prepare fresh produce into meals the students would eat.

“All students have access to a breakfast and a lunch, each and every school day, but we all know it’s not just about a meal. It needs to be a deli cious, nourishing, quality meal,” Frinzell said.

Rep. Mike Thomp son, D-St. Helena, Rep. John Garamendi, D-Walnut Grove, and Assemblywoman Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, D-Winters, were all in attendance and in support of the effort.

“With this coopera tive agreement can you imagine what this is going to look like? Can you imagine that our children will have the best and the finest food that we’ve always wanted them to have? We’re not just opening up a can,” Aguiar-

“The suspect is con sidered armed and dangerous,” the police said in a statement.

The police did not release any information about the victim, nor how the attack occurred. It was not clear if the victim was known to the attacker or if the public should have a higher level of aware ness for any particular

Curry said.

“It’s good food, and kids are going to learn about good quality food. They’ll have the nutri tional value that comes from it and they will learn about the impor tance of agriculture,” Thompson said.

Garamendi said the act of bringing locally grown food into schools not only provides nutritional

circumstances.

Police announced later in the day that the person of interest had been apprehended. His name, age and city of residence were not released.

The case remains under investigation. Anyone with information about the case is asked to call the Police Depart ment at 707-428-7600.

value but also creates a stronger, more viable community by putting money back into the local economy.

Both Garamendi and Aguiar-Curry agreed they’d like to see pacts like the Local Food for Schools Cooperative Agreement be transformed into meal programs for the older adult and disadvantaged communities as well.

of the ShakeAlert oper ations team.

According to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office, most were users of Android smartphones, which has the early-warn ing alert baked into its operating system. Nearly 100,000 users of the free MyShakeapp–developedby the University of California, Berkeley and available on iOS and Android systems –also got the warning. In addition, more

than 420,000 alerts were issued during a magni tude 4.4 earthquake on Sept. 13, which struck beneath Santa Rosa.

“Both earthquakes have demonstrated that we can get out a massive number of alerts in a short period of time,” de Groot said.

Of the 2.1 million devices that got an early warning Tuesday, it was not immediately clear how many received alerts

before the shaking started in their location, compared with devices that were activated as the shaking began or even after it had ended. Getting that answer will require more analysis. Still, based on social media postings, many people said they got several seconds’ notice before they felt the quake, includ ing people in San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley.

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The logo of British multinational oil and gas company Shell is seen at an oil and gas station in Berlin, May 26.

My husband of 40 years makes me feel unloved; what can I do?

Dear Annie: I have created an uncaring, selfish husband. On our 40th wedding anniver sary, my husband didn’t say happy anniversary or even get me a card. We agreed not to get each other gifts, but I did get him a card and wish him a happy anni versary. His response to me was, “Yeah.”

When he had said he hadn’t gotten me a card, I said that was OK but that I really was hoping he would take the time to let me know how he feels about me. I have suggested marriage coun seling, but his reply is that it will just lead to divorce. I do love him and want our mar riage to work, but I am feeling that I am the only one in this marriage who is trying. I have tried talking to him, but he ends up saying I only look for the bad in him. Then all commu nication breaks down. He is a good father, grandpa, provider and hard worker. I just feel so unloved. What can I do? —

Feeling Unloved

Dear Feeling Unloved: It is

wonderful that he’s a good father, grandfather and provider for your family, but it sounds like he is totally neglect ing the one role that is most important for your happiness: the role of husband.

Marriage takes work, as you well know after 40 years, and it won’t sustain itself if one of you gives up. Gently and calmly explain your expectations to your husband – whether that’s an anniversary card, a weekly date night or couples therapy. Hope fully, he will be willing to put in the effort required to make this marriage succeed. If he is not willing, then you are probably better off without him.

One more thing: You did not “create” an uncaring, selfish husband. We are all responsible for our own actions.

Dear Annie: I’m wondering why, in your response to “Hurt in the South,” whose waitress friend has started giving her the cold shoulder for no apparent reason, you didn’t consider that maybe the reason she has cut

Horoscopes

ARIES (March 21-April 19).

Day holds golden potential, par ticularly in the morning hours. Even if you don’t mean to create beauty, you will. Because you can’t resist making things and once you get involved, your taste and preferences make the rest inevitable.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20).

You can save yourself hun dreds, if not thousands, of wasted hours by doing your research before setting your aim. Start with someone who already has what you’re after. Are they happy with it? Ask for tips.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21).

Remember when you couldn’t get motivated? But you made it easy for yourself, pushed for one tiny step, then a little more and more... now you’re well on your way. You can use your experience to help someone else.

CANCER (June 22-July 22).

Kindness is your rule. It doesn’t always work out that way but as you set the intention repeat edly, you work toward a state of being in which the kind thing to do is your automatic default.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You may notice yourself seeking validation from someone. You don’t need this, especially since it gives that person the chance to invalidate you as well. If anyone is going to give you points for good behavior,

by Holiday Mathis

Today’s birthday

Ending up where you started can be wonderful or terrible.

It’s wonderful if you traveled far and wide, like Dorothy down the yellow brick road to Oz. It’s terrible if you never left.

This year, you’ll leave, explore, make friends, have adventures, face danger, produce magic, see the sights and love with your whole heart. Gemini and Taurus adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 2, 38, 8, 19 and 42.

let it be you.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).

Long ago you got in the way of your own success. This time around, you’ll do it differently. It’s not an identical situation, but it’s alike enough to give you the satisfaction of directly applying what you learned to good effect.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).

For some, it’s not having love, but getting love that drives them. You enjoy the chase too, and there is much excitement to be had in this regard. But you will wisely cherish your catch.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).

Your attitude is upbeat and con fident. Because you care more about helping others than you do about forwarding your own

this woman off is not because of something she did or said but maybe because of some thing to do with the husband. It might be a difficult thing for her to inquire about, but it might alleviate her hurt and confu sion if she learned the change in her behavior wasn’t about her. Also, if her husband acted inappropriately, she might want to know about it. — Food For Thought

Dear Food For Thought: An interesting and certainly valid possibility, indeed. While I sure hope there’s been no funny business on the husband’s part to make either woman uncomfortable, as the couple has frequented the restaurant together and “Hurt” is at such a loss as to why her friend has changed her tune, confronting him might be a great place to start to look for clarity.

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

interests, you’ll forge bonds of trust and land easily in sit uations of mutual admiration and promotion.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21). In the thick of a learn ing process, it’s totally normal to get worse at it before you get better. But if the trend contin ues, get some space between you and the project. Perspec tive is needed.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19). “Location, location, location . . . ” is not just the mantra for business success, it’s a consideration for all. The crucial step to getting what you want will be showing up at the location where what you want is happening.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18). You wonder if someone thinks of you. They do, although less than you hope or fear. If thoughts had any mass at all, if they could be seen like clouds or weighed like pennies, you’d find this math both intriguing and liberating.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Having to learn a thing can be humbling, certainly a worse feeling than simply learning what’s being taught. But the mandatory lesson lands with more emphasis and staying power. The hard way cuts to the quick.

Write Holiday Mathis at HolidayMathis.com.

SOMETIMES, BAD LUCK DOES NOT HURT YOU

Frank Wedekind, who was a German playwright, said, “Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.” That applies to this deal, except that a fool would not see how he benefits from his bad luck, a losing finesse. How should South play in six spades after West leads the heart jack?

by Phillip Alder

In the auction, there was a lot of guesswork, which is often the case with such distributional hands. It is rarely possible to uncover the information that you need, so you guess. In this case, North reasonably bid five clubs, despite only 6 high-card points. It would have been a different story if South had overcalled one spade instead of his actual takeout double. Then South, with no room to investigate a grand slam, bid what he thought he could make.

Obviously, South ruffs the heart ace and draws trumps in three rounds – but what next?

It looks as though declarer should cash the two top clubs. If the queen drops, he is home with an overtrick. If she doesn’t, he will need to find East with a diamond royal singleton or doubleton. However, there is a much better line. At trick five, declarer should lead the club 10 and put on dummy’s jack (unless West covers with the queen, when South must duck – no fooling).

If East wins with the queen, declarer has four club winners for his three diamond losers. If the club finesse wins, South can try the double diamond finesse, which will surely succeed given East’s opening bid. To take the second diamond finesse, declarer overtakes the club king with dummy’s ace.

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SOMETIMES, BAD LUCK DOES NOT HURT YOU

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

Frank Wedekind, who was a German playwright, said, “Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.”

applies to this deal, except that

Annie Lane Dear Annie

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Kenan Thompson to host People’s Choice Awards

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Live from Southern California, it’s the Peo ple’s Choice Awards.

“Saturday Night Live” star Kenan Thompson will host the 2022 edition of the music, movie and TV awards show that this year counts Taylor Swift, Harry Styles and Bad Bunny among its nominees, organizers announced Wednesday.

It’s the second con secutive year that Thompson will host the ceremony, which takes place Dec. 6 at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica. Thompson is also a final ist in the comedy TV Star category for his work on “SNL.”

“I’m beyond excited to host the People’s Choice

Awards again this year and celebrate the incred ible talent and fans that this show unites,” Thomp son said Wednesday. Bad Bunny and Styles will go head to head in a male artist of 2022 cat egory that also includes Kendrick Lamar, Drake, The Weekend, Jack Harlow, Charlie Puth and Luke Combs as nominees. Swift is nominated for female artist of 2022 along with Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Lizzo, Camila Cabello, Doja Cat, Megan Thee Stallion and Nicki Minaj. The ceremony will air live on NBC and the E! Network, with the winners selected by fan voting that’s now open on Twitter and on the www. votepca.com website.

Zits Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman

Pearls Before Swine Stephan Pastis

Dilbert Scott Adams

Baby Blues Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott

Baldo Hector Cantú

Crime

TUESDAY, OCT. 25

12:10 a.m.

— Drunken driver, 1400 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD

2 a.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 1300 block of WILSON STREET

2:51 a.m. — Shots fired, AUTUMN MEADOW DRIVE

3:32 a.m. — Arson, 200 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD

7:04 a.m. — Vandalism, 2400 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

10:02 a.m. — Grand theft, 5000 block of BUSINESS CENTER DRIVE

10:20 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 2000 block of CADENASSO DRIVE

11:07 a.m. — Residential burglary, 3300 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

12:20 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 3300 block of CHERRY HILLS COURT

12:26 p.m. — Forgery, 2200 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

12:43 p.m.

Vehicle theft, 1300 block of WEST TEXAS STREET

12:53 p.m. — Grand theft, 4900 block of FULTON DRIVE

1:06 p.m. — Trespassing, 3300 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

1:18 p.m. — Forgery, 2900 block of MARKELEY LANE

2:02 p.m. — Forgery, 500 block of PRINCETON WAY

2:02 p.m. — Forgery, 2800 block of CASCADE LANE

2:35 p.m. — Grand theft, 4900 block of FULTON DRIVE

2:37 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, PEACH TREE DRIVE

2:59 p.m. — Forgery, 1400 block of PHOENIX DRIVE

3:06 p.m. — Trespassing, 2900 block of VISTA GRANDE

3:13 p.m. — Residential burglary, 1600 block of HEMLOCK STREET 3:21 p.m. — Reckless driver, PACIFIC AVENUE

4:17 p.m. — Reckless driver, WALTERS ROAD

4:24 p.m. — Battery, 2300 block of HUNTINGTON DRIVE 4:57 p.m. — Reckless driver, DOVER AVENUE

5:18 p.m. — Shots fired, 3100 block of POTRERO WAY 6:27 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 700 block of EAST TABOR AVENUE 6:46 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 200 block of LARKSPUR LANE 6:56 p.m. — Reckless driver, ASBURY LANE 9:32 p.m. — Drunken driver,

1300 block of CROWLEY LANE 11:54 p.m. — Trespassing, 1900 block of WEST TEXAS STREET

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 26 12:07 a.m. — Drunken driver, 1400 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD 3:18 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 4000 block of SHAKER RUN CIRCLE 5:26 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 800 block of EAST TABOR AVENUE 6:50 a.m. — Grand theft, 2500 block of HILBORN ROAD 7:27 a.m. — Battery, 500 block of DAKOTA STREET 8:06 a.m. — Grand theft, 1400 block of WEST TEXAS STREET 8:06 a.m. — Battery, 3300 block of CHERRY HILLS COURT 8:43 a.m. — Forgery, 3700 block of LYON ROAD 9:14 a.m. — Forgery, 300 block of DICKSON HILL ROAD 10:22 a.m. — Battery, 1900 block of DOVER AVENUE 11:01 a.m. — Vandalism, 2400 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 11:14 a.m. — Commercial burglary, 2300 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 1:08 p.m. — Battery, 1300 block of GATEWAY BOULEVARD 2:54 p.m. — Residential burglary, 1600 block of HEMLOCK STREET 3:34 p.m.

Hit-and-run with injury, 5100 block of BUSINESS CENTER DRIVE 3:41 p.m. — Battery, 1500 block of GARFIELD STREET 4:36 p.m.

Forgery, 1700 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 5:27 p.m.

Vehicle theft, 200 block of RED TOP ROAD 5:42 p.m.

Trespassing, 1200 block of TABOR AVENUE 6:09 p.m.

Vehicle theft, 200 block of LARKSPUR LANE 7:24 p.m.

Hit-and-run property damage, 1300 block of OLIVER ROAD 8:12 p.m.

Hit-and-run property damage, 1400 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 11:34 p.m.

Vehicle theft, 1400 block of WEST TEXAS STREET

SuiSun City

TUESDAY, OCT. 25 7:31 a.m.

Assault, 400 block of KINGS WAY 7:37 a.m.

Grand theft, 600 block of FRIEDA DRIVE WEDNESDAY, OCT. 26 2:37 p.m.

Fraud, ALEXANDER WAY

Scales

The $29.3 million design phase of the westbound truck scales project is fully funded and will be completed in June 2024, the Solano Transportation Author ity said in a statement.

The Solano agency is seeking $123.6 million in state Trade Corridor Enhancement Program funds and $90 million in local match funds to com plete the project.

Tour attendees were shown inspection bays, the control room and state-of-the-art technol ogies that provide the CHP with “safe, efficient and thorough inspec tion capabilities,” the STA statement said.

The self-guided tour of the eastbound facil ity offered “a preview of the major upgrades the proposed westbound facility will feature,” the statement said.

“The planned westbound facil ity will generate an estimated $1 billion in state and local eco nomic impacts, create 5,700 jobs and $35 million in tax revenue,” the Solano Transporta tion Authority reported.

Turkeys

those that remain, forcing consumers already wal loped by inflation to pay an additional 20% or more per pound for Thanksgiving turkeys compared with prices last year, according to several estimates.

“It’s devastating,” said Heidi Diestel, whose family has operated the Diestel Family Turkey Ranch in Sonora for four generations. The ranch lost more than 150,000 turkeys in August after avian influenza infected one of its flocks.

“The additional inspec tion capacity will also improve safety on the corridor while reducing road damage from over weight vehicles.”

Daryl Halls, the exec utive director of Solano Transportation Authority, said in a phone interview that the statistic that sticks out for him is that the current westbound scales can handle about 500 trucks each day. The new facility will be able to handle 1,000 per hour.

The safety and effi ciency components of the eastbound facility, built

mitting all available product to supermarkets or other customers.

“I get a lot of calls from politicians and others who want to donate birds to charity,” Mattos said. “I tell them, ‘I can get you chickens. I can’t get you turkeys.’ ”

The Centers for Disease Control and Pre vention says the virus poses a negligible health threat to humans. Only one confirmed human infection has been reported thus far, and that was someone who was working closely with stricken fowl.

in 2012, were highlighted in the look forward to replace a westbound facility that was built more than 60 years ago.

Less traffic conges tion caused by trucks coming off and back onto the interstate around the redesigned westbound facility is also touted as a benefit to the general public. Traffic is expected to increase 33% by 2035.

The facility will include electric charg ing capacity as the freight industry is moved in that direction, too.

“These improvements

will accommodate a pro jected 33% increase in traffic by 2035 along this already congested stretch of I-80. The reduction in greenhouse gas emis sions from truck idling and installation of elec tric vehicle infrastructure will improve air quality for local residents while supporting California’s climate goals,” the Solano agency said.

Halls said the plan is to start construction in late 2024 and have the facility completed in 2027.

About 60 people attended the event.

outlays on services. The biggest contributor to GDP was the volatile net exports category.

A key gauge of under lying demand that strips out the trade and inventories compo nents – inflation-adjusted final sales to domestic pur chasers – rose 0.5% in the third quarter.

While the quarterly expansion may help alle viate concerns that the U.S. is already in a reces sion, the economy’s main engine – consumer spend ing – remains under pressure from the highest

inflation in a generation. A strong labor market and savings amassed over the course of the pandemic have so far provided Americans the where withal to keep spending.

It’s unclear how long households can hold up as the Fed’s efforts to tame inflation pose head winds to growth. In the near-term, it’s driven up mortgage rates to the highest in two decades, causing a rapid deteriora tion of the housing market. And in the coming year, many economists expect the central bank’s actions to ultimately push the economy into recession.

U.S. stock futures reversed losses following the report, while shortterm Treasury yields fell.

Although they still have several other healthy flocks of turkeys on separate farms, Diestel said certain turkey vari eties they have been accustomed to selling, such as their “petite” brand that are only six to 10 pounds, were pretty much wiped out.

“It was really a sad time to see that many birds pass to something that was that aggressive and that uncontrollable,” Diestel said. “It definitely did impact our availabil ity and supply, and we won’t have everything for everyone like we nor mally do, we just won’t.”

But for birds, this year’s avian flu outbreak is on track to surpass the outbreak in 2015, when 50.5 million birds died in what was then the nation’s worst animalhealth event.

The USDA says 44.6 million birds – includ ing more than 6 million turkeys – have died from the virus or been “depop ulated” due to exposure so far this year.

away from poultry and domestic birds.

unincorporated area of the county (225).

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

with medical providers if medical treatment is not needed. He has also said availability of vaccines and changes to personal behav ior have slowed the disease throughout the Bay Area.

The vaccination rates did not change, with the county reporting 72% of residents 5 or older having been fully vaccinated and 81% having received at least one shot. There were 243 more booster shots administered since Oct. 20, taking the total to 182,236.

Diestel’s story is far from unique in Cali fornia or the nation as farmers and wildlife spe cialists confront what is shaping up as the dead liest avian flu outbreak in the nation’s history. In California alone, seven turkey farms have been hit, resulting in some 485,000 birds killed by the virus or subsequently killed to stem the spread.

The virus largely orig inates with wild birds, which can infect all kinds of poultry via their droppings when they fly over farms. But turkeys seem uniquely vulnerable, according to California State Veter inarian Annette Jones. As hundreds of millions of wild birds migrate southward across North America in the fall, broil ers and laying hens can be stowed indoors in barns out of harm’s way. Many turkeys are pasture raised, without indoor accommodations for all those big birds; it could also be that the virus has mutated in such a way that turkeys are a better host, Jones said.

Bill Mattos, presi dent of the California Poultry Federation, said there has already been a run on turkeys, with California sellers com

Spring was especially rough for laying hens, and then a slowing of infec tion during the summer caused many farmers and agricultural experts to think the danger had passed. But it picked back up again in Sep tember and October with especially devastating effects for the country’s 2,500 turkey farms – just in time for the holidays.

“I was hoping we wouldn’t be having this conversation, but we’ve seen a resurgence in the fall,” said Court ney Schmidt, a protein sector analyst for Wells Fargo. “The bottom line is you’re going to be paying more for your Thanksgiv ing turkey.”

The big question for turkey farmers, Schmidt said, is what happens if the virus sticks around. As with the coronavirus, it is uncertain when or how the virus will play itself out – if it ever does.

“Experts are expect ing this to evolve into something we have to deal with year-round, with it surviving in the warmer months in wild birds,” Schmidt said. “We are watching closely.”

Rosemary Sifford, the chief veterinarian for the Agriculture Depart ment, said in a statement that the agency believes the virus “will continue to infect wild birds and will bring an elevated risk to domestic birds, espe cially during migration seasons.” She said it is critical for bird owners to “maintain vigilance” in keeping wild birds

While both the 2015 virus and the 2022 virus were Eurasian lineage strains of highly pathogenic avian influ enza, the reason for the dramatic uptick this fall is because this is a differ ent subtype of the virus. Most avian flu viruses, including the one in 2015, were killed with the dry, hot temperatures in the summer.

This year’s subtype of the virus has been much more persistent in wild birds, so they are carry ing it back with them as they migrate – something that happens in North America in the spring and in the fall. More than 85% of the cases this year can be traced to wild bird introductions, com pared to about 30% of the cases in 2015, accord ing to the USDA. This subtype is also adaptable to many species of birds and is living in waterfowl longer than the virus has in the past.

While wild birds may carry it without becoming sick, infected domesticated chickens and turkeys may exhibit tremors, trouble breath ing and extreme diarrhea followed by a swift death. The USDA has scram bled to educate poultry businesses about best practices and how to identify signs of illness, which experts say has a 90 to 100% mortality rate in turkeys and chickens within 48 hours.

The virus kills so quickly that multiple dead or dying birds can be the first sign a flock is infected. Farmers take samples that are typ ically first sent to a state lab and then on to the USDA’s National Veterinary Services Lab oratories in Ames, Iowa, for confirmation. A pos itive case triggers a public announcement, and the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspec tion Service shows up to

kill the affected flocks to prevent spread. This is necessary because of how extremely infectious the virus is.

The agency says its goal is to kill infected flocks within 24 to 48 hours of diagno sis, often using carbon dioxide or a water-based foam, the consistency of firefighting foam, that flows up and over, suffo cating birds in seven to 15 minutes.

In May, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack approved $400 million to directly support the response efforts and to pay affected poultry farms. Additionally, some poultry farmers have avian flu disease insur ance. But the ordeal, including costly cleanup, can mean catastrophic losses, which often are not entirely covered by USDA payouts, according to Beth Breeding, spokes woman for the National Turkey Federation.

Wells Fargo analyst Schmidt said going into this fall, U.S. turkey pro duction was already down quite a bit, with thirdquarter production down 11% from a year ago. She said higher feed and fuel costs, labor shortages and other head winds have caused some contraction in the industry, which will further impact price.

Exports are down 21% this year and imports are up, she said, which may improve availability a bit heading into the holidays. That may be cold comfort for the farmers who are on the front lines watching the virus do its worst.

“I just think there’s a lot of compassion that should be had for the farmers across the country that are dealing with it,” said Diestel, the California turkey farmer. “If you’re the farmer standing there looking at a perfectly healthy flock of birds and you think of a 99% mortality rate in the flock, it’s devastating.”

Aaron Rosenblatt/Daily Republic California Highway Patrol Sgt. Sean Fitzgerald, right, conducts a tour of the Interstate 80 eastbound truck scales facility in Fairfield during a legislative tour, Wednesday.

Maddie McGarvey/The Washington Post Turkeys at a third-generation turkey farm in New Carlisle, Ohio.

Big rock slams into Mars, gouges crater, reveals subsurface features

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Mars has a lot of craters. Now it has two new ones – gouged by rocks that slammed into the planet late last year.

Mars will be fine. This is not a natural disaster. Nor an omen that Earth is newly imperiled by aster oids. The solar system is full of debris. Mars has a feeble atmosphere, and when a meteoroid comes flying in from space, it’s unlikely to burn up before smacking into the surface.

But what has scientists buzzing is that the cra ter-making impacts were documented by two NASA spacecraft, an orbiter and a lander. This was a nifty demonstration of combin ing scientific resources, one providing an eye on the impact events while the other provided an ear.

The result is an unusual trove of data about the Martian interior, a topic of great interest to plane tary scientists who want to

Miami Beach orders immediate evacuation of condo tower

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MIAMI — The city of Miami Beach is ordering residents of a 164-unit condo tower to evacuate the build ing after engineers found significant damage to a critical structural beam in the parking garage.

Miami Beach spokes person Melissa Berthier said Thursday afternoon that the city planned to post an unsafe struc ture notice and order residents of the Port Royale Condominium at 6969 Collins Ave., to vacate immediately.

Shortly before 5 p.m. Eastern time, the condo board sent residents a mandatory notice to vacate the prem ises by 7 p.m.

In a letter Thurs day to Miami Beach building official Ana Sal gueiro, engineers from Hialeah-based Inspection Engineers Inc. said they told the condo board that everyone in the building should “evacuate immediately.”

The damaged concrete beam “might support the entire building struc ture,” the engineers noted, though they said that con clusion was based on visual observations and that they do not have original calculations or designs.

The city’s evacua tion order came just hours after city inspec tors issued a violation notice at the building but refrained from ordering an evacuation. Berthier said the engineering firm had informed the city of its concerns via phone but had not yet filed a formal report. The city ordered a report to be filed within 24 hours.

The condo board had sent an email to unit owners and renters Wednesday evening, informing them that the engineers were “recom mending vacating the premises” but not order ing anyone to leave.

In a Wednesday letter to the Port Royale Condo minium board, Inspection Engineers Inc. said it had observed “continuous deterioration” of a “main beam” that supports the building’s structure in the third-level mezzanine of the parking garage. The firm recommended shoring – a method of reinforcing areas that need repair – to ensure the safety of the 14-story beachfront condo built in 1971.

understand why this rocky world that was proba bly warmer and wetter 4 billion years ago became a frigid desert with no obvious sign of life.

And this was also an event for the record books: the biggest crater-forming impact on one of the rocky inner planets of the solar system ever documented in real time, according to Philippe Lognonné, lead author of one of the newly published papers.

The larger of the new craters is about 150 yards across and about 21 yards deep, and was formed so violently that it hurled rocks nearly 25 miles from the impact, according to Liliya Posiolova, a senior scientist at Malin Space Science Systems, which operates two cameras on NASA’s Mars Reconnais sance Orbiter.

The orbiter often sees the results of small impacts, leaving a feature at most a few yards in diameter. But what the

scientists on Posiolova’s team saw in February was by far the biggest crater detected by the orbiter. In fact, it was so big, it almost escaped notice.

“It’s a huge, huge feature. You’re trained to see small features. With your eye, you’re

looking for smudges,” Posiolova said.

The crater was spotted Feb. 11, but the scien tists knew they had other images of the Martian surface obtained on a daily basis, and they went back in time looking for when the crater first appeared.

Posiolova recalled that another spacecraft on Mars, NASA’s InSight lander, which has been parked on the surface for four years to monitor seismic activity, had detected a major jolt on Christmas Eve. Suddenly everything lined up. The

crater’s first appearance in images taken from the orbiter coincided with the seismic signal regis tered by the instrument of the surface.

The seismic data could then be analyzed in the context of the distance to the impact. That has helped refine existing models of the interior of Mars, Lognonné said.

The larger of the two craters was proba bly caused by an object between five and 12 yards in diameter, Posiolova said. Such an object would probably burn up in Earth’s atmosphere were it to hit our planet, she said.

The origin of the meteoroids is unknown, but they probably came from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, she said.

“These impacts are very large. but we can continue to sleep well on Earth,” Lognonné said.

“Our atmosphere is pro tecting us.”

Ipgp-Cnes-N.sarter photos

An artist’s impression of

meteoroid striking the surface of Mars.

Houston

Mixed results as Section playoffs open in volleyball

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FAIRFIELD —

The varsity volleyball seasons of Rodriguez nd Vanden high schools came to a close Tuesday night with losses in the first round of the Sac-Joaquin Section playoffs.

Rodriguez lost to El Capitan in Merced, 25-15, 25-9, 25-14, in a Division II match. Vanden fell to Lincoln in a tough five sets in Divi sion III, 25-13, 23-25, 25-22, 20-25, 15-7.

Rivalry week in football closes MEL regular season schedule

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FAIRFIELD — Rivalry week has arrived as some area high school football teams will close out their seasons Friday night, while others will wait with anticipation Sunday’s announce ments of the Sac-Joaquin Section playoff brackets.

Vanden will be at Rodriguez, Armijo plays at Fairfield and Will C. Wood will be at Vacaville in the final Monticello Empire League matchups. Vacaville Christian will be home for Highlands in its Sierra Delta League finale, while Rio Vista hosts San Juan.

Vanden at Rodriguez

The Vikings hold a 10-5 edge in the series. The Mustangs’ last win dates back to a 14-7 victory in 2010. Most of the meetings have been lopsided in favor of Vanden, except for the most explosive of all the recent meetings, a 54-49 win for Vanden in 2011.

Vanden enters with a 3-1 record in the MEL and an overall mark of 8-1. The wins have been deci sive over Fairfield (42-0), Will C. Wood (49-21) and Armijo (42-6).

The Vikings were kept from per fection in a 28-13 loss to Vacaville, but that happened last year and the team rebounded to win a state championship.

Rodriguez is 6-3 overall and

also 3-1 in the MEL. The Mustangs can build up their playoff resume with a win over Vanden. Defense has been the name of the game for the Mustangs the past three weeks with shutout victories over Will C. Wood (28-0), Armijo (18-0) and Fairfield (33-0). Rodriguez lost its matchup with Vacaville 41-12.

Armijo at Fairfield

Fairfield owns the series lead at 33-21-2, but Armijo has been in command of late. The Royals have won the past five matchups, all by sizable margins. Fairfield’s last win in the series came in 2015 with a 37-34 victory.

49ers’ McCaffrey wants to win ‘for these guys, for the Bay Area’

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SANTA CLARA —

Christian McCaffrey’s 49ers career is off to an 0-1 start, and he is not happy about that, nor is he at peace with being traded a week ago from the Carolina Panthers.

McCaffrey, an exStanford star, shares the great expectations that widely came with his return to the Bay Area, to a 49ers franchise he wants to deliver back into Super Bowl contention.

“I want to win. I want to win for these guys. And I want to win for the whole Bay Area,” McCaf

frey said Thursday at his locker. “Because, like you said, they gave up a lot to get me and I know

that. So, it’s not extra pressure, but there’s def initely a sense of urgency on my plate, that I want

to win. I got traded, so, yeah, I’ve got a chip on my shoulder.”

McCaffrey’s five-plus seasons as the face of the Panthers came to a halt last Thursday, when the 49ers acquired him for four draft picks – second-, third-, and fourth-round spots in 2023, and a fifthrounder in 2024.

“I understand this is a business, but anytime somebody gets rid of you or something happens, you take it personally,” McCaffrey added. “I’m so happy to be here. But, yeah, absolutely. It’s part of the league. It happens

Rio Vista also was beaten in Division V at Bear Creek, 25-6, 25-11, 25-10.

Two Vacaville schools were able to advance. Vacaville High won its opening match Tuesday, 25-3, 25-7, 25-15, over Grant of

Sacramento. The Bull dogs had a second round match Thursday night at home against Vista del Lago of Folsom. Results were not available at press time.

Vacaville Christian defeated Le Grand in Division V, 25-17, 25-23, 25-21. The Falcons also played Thursday night, going up against No. 3 Big Valley Christian in Modesto. Results of the match were not avail able at press time.

For Rodriguez in its opening match, Khaycee Cadenas had four service aces and 12 assists. Olivia Apelado had three aces and thee kills. Arden Billingsley also had two aces and 10 assists.

“We came into the playoffs with high

Skip Barber Racing School returning to Sonoma Raceway

Daily r epublic Staff DRNEWS@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET

FAIRFIELD — The Skip Barber Racing School returns to Sonoma Raceway starting in Novem ber with more than 30 dates offered during the 2022-23 season.

A full complement of racing and driving schools will be offered at Sonoma. The racing school programs will feature the One-Day Racing School, ThreeDay Racing School and the Two-Day Advanced Race Licensing School and will be available in both the Mygale Formula 4 openwheel cars and the Mustang GT fleet.

In addition to the racing schools, the Hagerty Driving Academy, powered by Skip Barber Racing School, will give drivers of all experience levels the chance to hone their driving skills to make them safer, more secure drivers on the highway.

“We are pleased to welcome a worldclass instruction-based driving program partner like Skip Barber Racing School to our facil

ity,” said Jill Gregory, executive vice president and general manager at Sonoma Raceway, in a press release. “These programs will round out the great on-track expe riences we already offer and provide even more variety in programming to our clients and fans.”

Sonoma Raceway will continue to offer a curated group and corporate driving expe riences and continue to service the karting com munity with instruction programs and sanc tioned events.

“We are so glad to partner with Sonoma Raceway to bring the Skip Barber legend ary curriculum to even more passionate racers and drivers,” said Dan DeMonte, chief mar keting officer at Skip Barber, in the release. “Sonoma Raceway is one of the premier road courses in North America, and our programs there will provide an exhilarat ing experience for all participants.”

Information on all of the programs offered at Sonoma Raceway may be found at sonomaraceway.com.

Rodriguez boys water polo headed to Division II playoffs

Daily r epublic Staff

DRNEWS@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET

FAIRFIELD — The Rodriguez High School boys water polo team has earned a berth in the SacJoaquin Section Division II playoffs.

Rodriguez, seeded No. 14, will play Wednes day at No. 3 Woodcreek in Roseville. The winner advances to a match Nov. 4 against the winner of No. 6 Buhach Colony of Atwater and No. 11 Sierra of Manteca.

The Mustangs defeated Casa Robles 16-9 on Wednesday at the Golden Empire League tour nament in Rio Linda.

Sophomore Ryan Gabbart scored seven goals, junior Andrew Johnson had four, freshman Jack Green added three and freshman Jack Lucio had two.

Rodriguez had lost at Casa Roble 14-8 earlier in the season.

Junior goalie Jace Par kinson held Casa Robles‘ best scorer to four goals. Johnson scored on a

5-meter penalty shot at the 4:15 minute mark and the Mustangs never trailed from there. Rodri guez led 6-1 after the first period. The Mustangs ran a trap defense to stop what previously had been a powerful Rams’ offense. Sam Anderson led the defensive attack.

Freshman Carl Estes won all four faceoff sprints.

Rodriguez has four freshman starting on varsity this season.

Prep Tennis Mustang, Bulldogs win league titles

FAIRFIELD — Vacav ille High School’s Nia Macay and Gabriella Perry won the Monticello Empire League doubles championship Wednes day during final league tournament action at Fairfield High.

Macay and Perry defeated the Vanden duo of Sasha Smith and Delaney Ramsell 6-3, 6-1.

Both teams will advance to the Sac-Joaquin Section Tournament next Thurs day at Johnson Ranch in Roseville.

Bella Connerley of Rodriguez, meanwhile, completed the MEL singles title with a 6-0, 6-2 win over Vacaville’s Victoria Silva. Conner ley and Silva advance to the section tourna ment as well.

The section team tournament also opens Monday. No. 5 Vacaville will host No. 12 Atwater

and No. 14 Rodriguez will travel to Mountain House in Division II. Vanden earned the top seed in Division III and will host No. 8 Antelope.

College Solano volleyball rolls against Yuba

ROCKVILLE — The Solano Commu nity College women’s

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Rodriguez High School football players stand for the National Anthem during the game at Benicia, Sept. 23.

The Mustangs close out the Monticello Empire League season Friday night by hosting Vanden.

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Christian McCaffrey of the 49ers warmed up on the field before Sunday’s game against the Chiefs at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Sunday.

Friday’s TV sports

Baseball

• MLB, World Series, Philadelphia at Houston, 2, 40, 5 p.m.

Basketball

• NBA, Indiana vs. Washington, ESPN, 4:30 p.m.

• NBA, New Orleans at Phoenix, ESPN, 7:05 p.m.

Football

• College, East Carolina vs. BYU, ESPN2, 5 p.m.

Golf

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

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

• Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship, ESPN2, 10 p.m.

Motor Sports

• NASCAR, Dead on Tools 250, Xfinity qualifying, USA, 1 p.m.

Saturday’s TV sports

Baseball

• MLB, World Series, Philadelphia vs. Houston, 2, 40, 5 p.m.

Basketball

• NBA, Miami vs. Sacramento, NBCSCA (Vacaville and Rio Vista), 3 p.m.

• NBA, Golden State vs. Charlotte, NBCSBA (Fairfield and Suisun City), 4 p.m.

Football

• College, Ohio State vs. Penn State, 2, 40, 9 a.m.

• College, Notre Dame vs. Syracuse, 7, 10, 9 a.m.

• College, TCU vs. West Virginia, ESPN, 9 a.m.

• College, South Florida vs. Houston, ESPN2, 9 a.m.

• College, Georgetown vs. Lafayette, NBCSBA, 9:30 a.m.

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

• College, Florida vs. Georgia, 5, 13, 12:30 p.m.

• College, Illinois vs. Nebraska, 7, 10, 12:30 p.m.

• College, Cincinnati vs. Central Florida, ESPN, 12:30 p.m.

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

• College, Kentucky vs. Tennessee, ESPN, 4 p.m.

• College, Michigan State vs. Michigan, 7, 10, 4:30 p.m.

• College, Baylor vs. Texas Tech, ESPN2, 4:30 p.m.

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

Golf

• DP World, Portugal Masters, GOLF, 5:30 a.m.

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

Hockey

• NHL, Tampa Bay vs. San Jose, NBCSCA, 1:30 p.m.

• NASCAR, Xfinity 500 qualifying, USA, 9:30 a.m.

• NASCAR, Dead on Tools 250, Xfinity RAce, 3, 12:30 p.m.

• EPL, Leicester City vs. Manchester City, USA, 4:30 a.m.

• EPL, Brighton & Hove Albion vs. Chelsea, USA, 7 a.m.

• EPL, Fulham vs. Everton, 3, 9:30 a.m.

EPL, Liverpool vs. Leeds, USA, 11:45 a.m.

NWSL, Championship, Kansas City vs. Portland, 5, 13, 5 p.m.

Scoreboard

FOOTBALL

BASEBALL

World Series

Houston, 5:03

Houston, 5:03 p.m.

Monday’s Game Game 3 Houston at Philadelphia, 5:03 p.m.

Tuesday’s Game Game 4 Houston at Philadelphia, 5:03 p.m.

Wednesday’s Game Game 5 Houston at Philadelphia, 5:03 p.m., if necessary.

Friday, Nov, 4 Game 6 Philadelphia at Houston, 5:03 p.m., if necessary.

Saturday, Nov, 5 Game 7 Philadelphia at Houston, 5:03 p.m., if necessary.

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7 4 3 0 8

Western Conference Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Dallas 8 5 2 1 11 25 15 Colorado 7 4 2 1 9 25 21 Chicago 7 4 3 0 8 25 23 Minnesota 7 3 3 1 7 26 30 Nashville 8 3 4 1 7 22 26 Winnipeg 6 3 3 0 6 16 17 St. Louis 6 3 3 0 6 14 18 Arizona 6 2 4 0 4 19 29 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Vegas 8 6 2 0 12 26 16 Calgary 6 5 1 0 10 22 17 Edmonton 8 5 3 0 10 31 26 Seattle 8 3 3 2 8 26 28 Los Angeles 8 4 4 0 8 28 33 SAN JOSE 9 2 7 0 4 17 27 Anaheim 7 1 5 1 3 16 32 Vancouver 7 0 5 2 2 18 30

NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for over time loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs.

Wednesday’s Games N.Y. Islanders 3, N.Y. Rangers 0 Edmonton 3, St. Louis 1 Tampa Bay 4, Anaheim 2 Thursday’s Games Toronto at SAN JOSE, 7:30 p.m. Boston 5, Detroit 1 Philadelphia 4, Florida 3 Minnesota 4, Ottawa 2 Montreal 3, Buffalo 2 Nashville 6, St. Louis 2 Edmonton 6, Chicago 5 Dallas 2, Washington 0 Vancouver at Seattle, (N) Winnipeg at L.A. Kings, (N) Friday’s Games Anaheim at Vegas, 3 p.m. Boston at Columbus, 4 p.m. Colorado at New Jersey, 4 p.m. N.Y. Islanders at Carolina, 4 p.m. Pittsburgh at Vancouver, 7 p.m. Winnipeg at Arizona, 7:30 p.m. Saturday’s Games Tampa Bay at SAN JOSE, 1:30 p.m. N.Y. Rangers at Dallas, 11 a.m. Ottawa at Florida, 1 p.m. Toronto at L.A. Kings, 4 p.m. Montreal at St. Louis, 4 p.m. Carolina at Philadelphia, 4 p.m. Chicago at Buffalo, 4 p.m. Minnesota at Detroit, 4 p.m. Colorado at N.Y. Islanders, 4:30 p.m. Washington at Nashville, 5 p.m. Pittsburgh at Seattle, 7 p.m. Edmonton at Calgary, 7 p.m.

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Bay 8 4 4 0 8 24 25 Montreal 8 4 4 0 8 20 23

p.m. Chicago at San Antonio, 5:30 p.m. Utah at Denver, 6 p.m. New Orleans at Phoenix, 7 p.m. Houston at Portland, 7 p.m. Saturday’s Games Miami at SACRAMENTO, 3 p.m. GOLDEN STATE at Charlotte, 4 p.m. Indiana at Brooklyn, 4:30 p.m. Philadelphia at Chicago, 5 p.m. Atlanta at Milwaukee, 5 p.m. Oklahoma City at Dallas, 6 p.m. Memphis at Utah, 6 p.m.

Iguodala mum on date of return

By M adeline K enney BAY AREA NEWS GROUP

SAN FRANCISCO —

Fans excited to see the return of Andre Iguo dala to the basketball court will have to wait a while longer.

How much longer?

Well, that still remains up in the air.

Speaking to reporters Tuesday for the first time since he decided to come out of retirement and sign a one-year deal with the Warriors, Iguodala said he still has hurdles to overcome before he can scrimmage with the team at practices before he would be cleared to play.

Astros players are big fans of manager Dusty Baker

By M att young HOUSTON CHRONICLE

HOUSTON — When the Yankees made a critical defensive error while clinging to a one-run lead in the final game of last weekend's American League Championship Series, the entire Astros dugout perked up with several players joining their teammates on the top step.

It all goes back to one of Dusty Baker's favorite sayings: "Even if it's not a big break, you've got to pretend it's a big break."

That nugget – one of Baker's many Dusty-isms – turned out to be right on the money as the Astros turned that break, large or just exaggerated, into the play that eventually ended the Yankees season and earned the Astros another trip to the World Series, which begins Friday night against the Phillies.

Listen to the Astros' 73-year-old manager speak too often and you'll hear a lot of the same stories. They're pretty incredible tales from sharing a joint with Jimi Hendrix to helping invent the high five. As the stories start flowing, so do some of the baseball lifer's mantras.

One of those Dusty-isms sounds like it was uttered an ancient philosopher: "He who relaxes the most, concentrates the most and is the most determined is the one who usually wins."

Astros rookie Jeremy Peña has lived that out this month, proving to be unflap pable while delivering some of his team's biggest hits through seven playoff games.

"Dusty's a cool dude. He's always cool under any scenario and it kind of rubs off on you," Peña said. "He tells you to just go out there, play hard for me and let every thing take care of itself."

So far, everything has done just that as Baker captained a 106-win team, which helped put him in in the 2,000-win club, making him just the 12th manager to reach that mark. However, he's also the only man on that list without a World Series championship. In his 12th postsea son, Baker is trying to snap that dry spell.

That's a couple 12s that Baker can't help but notice.

"Twelve's been my lucky number since I was a little kid," said Baker, who wears No. 12 on the back of his Astros jersey and had that number in all four of his stops as a player.

For a man who's been in professional baseball for 55 years, Baker is beloved in his own clubhouse for not living up to the stereotype of the grizzled veteran. He's not above getting caught doing a little dance behind the batting cage during pregame when Minute Maid Park plays fellow California native Too Short's 2006 hit "Blow the Whistle." He creates bonds with his players through meals, often bringing personalized food orders to the clubhouse for his players. He went to Kenny & Ziggy's New York Delicatessen during Yom Kippur so third baseman Alex Bregman could break his fast in style. Last year, Baker stopped at his favorite Mexican food spot in Oakland to bring José Urquidy, who's from Mazatlán, Mexico, a bowl of pozole "so he'll be strong."

That kind of attention to detail leads to what everyone saw as team owner Jim Crane raised the American League Championship trophy in Yankee Stadium and the unmistakable bellowing voice of Héctor Neris rose above the applause and shouts.

Dusty! Dusty! Dusty!

“I don’t think we’re too far from scrimmaging,” he said Tuesday after shootaround.

Iguodala spent most of the summer retired before agreeing to return to the Warriors for a final season – his 19th in the NBA – just before train ing camp opened up last

month. Part of the reason he decided to come back for one last run, he said, was because he felt he could still play at a high level and contribute to a title-contending team.

The main concern for Iguodala is his health. Various injuries kept him off the court for

51 regular-season games and nearly all of the playoffs. But Iguodala met with team’s direc tor of sports medicine and performance Dr. Rick Celebrini, who mapped out a plan that would help the 38-year-old stay healthy and available this season.

Heather Khalifa/Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS Astros manager Dusty Baker watches his team work out at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Thursday, in advance of Game 1.

Rise and fall of careerist Kevin de León

Politicians can be Demo crats, Republicans or indepen dents. They can be liberal or conservative, smart or dull, honest or corrupt, effective or bumbling.

However, a very telling characteristic is whether they have a sense of personal iden tity independent of their political careers or their careers are their identity.

To the former, politics is civic duty, but doesn’t define them as human beings. Even if they lose office, they simply continue living their lives, with former Presi dents Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush as exem plary examples.

Those whose sense of self is intertwined with their political careers are a differ ent breed. Quite often, they come from humble back grounds and find opportunity in politics. But they demand constant validation, constantly fear losing their defining positions and often go extraordinary lengths to keep them. Think Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson.

This brings us to Kevin de León, an arche typal up-from-poverty political striver who first revealed his need for validation by adding the “de” to his surname to give it a classier ambiance.

De León won a state Assembly seat in 2006, tried and failed to become speaker of that house, moved to the state Senate in 2010 and in 2014 became the Senate’s pres ident pro tem. However, his neediness continued. The lavish “inauguration” cere mony he threw after winning the office was an obvious cry for attention and he openly resented the media criticism of it.

Facing loss of his Senate seat in 2018 due to term limits, de León challenged one of the state’s most prominent politicians, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein.

Their duel played out on several levels –Latino vs. white, progressive vs. moderate, young vs. elderly, man vs. woman – but it was also a clash between someone who has always seen politics as an issue-oriented civic duty against a career-is-everything, uber-ambitious challenger.

Despite losing her party’s endorsement, Feinstein clobbered de León, but he quickly segued into a seat on the Los Angeles City Council and ran for mayor this year, finishing out of the running.

De León’s political career now may be over. Leaked recordings of a political strat egy meeting of four Latino political figures revealed racist discussions about how to reduce Black political power in the mostly Latino city. It touched off a firestorm of denunciations from major political figures, including President Joe Biden, and demands that the participants resign.

Council president Nury Martinez com plied, as did Los Angeles County Federation of Labor President Ron Herrera, but de León and Councilman Gil Cedillo have refused. Cedillo lost his seat in the June primary and will be gone in a few weeks anyway, but de León insists he will remain on the council.

“My duty is to represent my constituents,” he told a television interviewer Sunday. “They are the ones who elected me. If they are the ones who say that I need to leave, then I will respect that decision by them.”

De León asked the new council president, Paul Krekorian, if he could take a leave of absence while retaining his seat.

Krekorian’s reply was blunt: “You cannot return to the council without causing more harm and disruption. There is no path forward that includes your continued par ticipation in this council . . . Every day you remain interferes with the council’s ability to function, delays the city’s healing process, hurts your constituents, and reduces your chance of redeeming yourself and your legacy.”

De León began his political career in the 1990s as a proponent of immigrants’ rights after voters passed Proposition 187, which would have barred public services for undoc umented immigrants. Somewhere along the line, however, he morphed into careerist self-absorption.

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

Vote no on Measure Q –it is means more taxes

As a longtime Vacaville resident, taxpayer, schools supporter and school bond oversight committee volunteer, I urge Vacaville voters to reject the pro posed $229.6 million Measure Q school bond proposed by Vacaville School District. Vacaville schools are asking tax-paying voters to fund a total school bond obligations of $819 million with the passage of Measure Q. Even by the school district’s own estimates, the bond’s actual cost will be more than $439.6 million.

Measure Q will take a projected 25 to 30 years for homeowners to pay off with interest rates currently rising to the highest bond interest rates since the 1980s. Should Measure Q pass, the Vacaville School District general obligation bond per student obliga tion to each homeowner ultimately will cost $64,000. Along with each new home built in Vacaville, the property owner will also bear a general school bond obligation of $16,000 that is col lected in the form of the construction bond building permit process that is included in the sales price of each home built.

Vacaville has some of the highest building permit assessment taxes of the surrounding areas.

The Vacaville School District board has not even provided specific project list costs, as required by the Califor nia general obligation bond process law for the proposed Measure Q bond.

Instead, they are furnish the tax-pay ing voters with only a bare-bones “wish list” of projects they want us to pay for; none with specific cost projections.

Our current property taxes bills, during this recession, reflect 21 deduc tions of which 15 are school general obligation bond cost items. Taxpayers are already heavily indebted and shell ing out “their fair share” for school bond financial support. This is not the time for a Measure Q.

Vote no on Q.

R.L. Choisser, member, Central Solano Citizen Taxpayer Group, and former measure, Vacaville School District Measure A Bond Oversight Committee Vacaville

Influence peddling evident in disclosures

Financial disclosures reveal the attempt to influence the Fairfield City Council and the Board of Supervisor races by Anthony Russo, the developer of the Middle Green Valley housing development.

He has a big stake in the outcome of this election. Between March 22 and Aug. 11 of this year, Anthony, his wife Debra, his mother-in-law and his busi ness interests donated $37,000 to Councilman Chuck Timm in his run for Board of Supervisors.

The last $3,000 came Aug. 11, just days before the City Council voted Aug. 16 to approve using city water

for Anthony’s Middle Green Valley project. All council members, except Catherine Moy, voted to treat water for the Middle Green Valley project. In early October, the Russo family and its interests donated $5,000 to Mayor Harry Price and $5,000 to Council woman Doriss Panduro.

But it’s even more insidious than that. The campaign treasurer for both Timm and Price is a woman whose email address is [name]@blprop erties2.com. BLProperties stands for Billy and Louise Yarbrough, Debra’s parents. In the 2020 elections, Vice Mayor Rick Vacarro received $5,000 from Russo’s mother-in-law and Councilman Scott Tonnesen received $4,000 from Russo family members and business interests.

Councilwoman Pam Bertani doesn’t have any contributions from the Russo interests but Russo’s pal, Supervi sor Jim Spering, gave her $2,125.75 in nonmonetary contributions per an October 2019 report.

And in August 2022, Panduro filed a new campaign form revealing she is now employed by Citizens Finan cial as a mortgage loan assistant, working for none other than fellow council member Tonnesen, the branch manager. It’s called cultivating and nurturing a novice.

If you are concerned about traffic, school overcrowding, sprawl into our farmlands, continue voting for these folks. If you don’t like the idea, look for other candidates who are more inter ested in serving the public interest.

Marilyn Farley Fairfield

How did we lose good manners, respect?

Foy McNaughton

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of “my bad?”

t seems like eons ago but there was a time when the words “sir” or “ma’am” were delivered and expected before and after you spoke to an adult. These were words out of the mouths of civilian chil dren of all ages, not just mili tary personnel. Today you will be lucky if you get an “excuse me” from a person who just did a step dance on your foot while trying to cut ahead of you in the buffet line.

As a child of the era of good manners, I reflect on whether we were taught by our parents or if it was more of a cultural influence. Regard less of the means in which we learned, somehow or some way we need to inject a heavy dose of good manners and respect into today’s genera tion of youth.

Maybe I’m being too critical of the younger generation. Maybe it’s just the environment we live in these days. Poor manners and bad attitudes are not exclusive to youth. Adults these days are too busy or uptight to speak to anyone who walks by. The slight est mistake on the road could result in a tongue-lashing rage of profanity. I do recognize this era has its own cul tural code of ethics and language. But is it too much to ask to get an “excuse me” every now and then instead

I recently came across a young person who appeared to be in a desperate situation. He was panhandling in front of a fast-food restaurant. I offered to purchase him something to eat out of the restaurant when I came out. His response was, “No! But can I get a dollar?” I was kind of taken back by his brass and rude response. I would’ve expected at least a “No, thank you.”

Almost anything that came after that would’ve been received better. He may have been trying to get money for bus fair to get somewhere. However, his inappropriate and ungrateful response lost me immediately.

Growing up as a youth, it was auto matic that we respected all adults without fail. It didn’t matter if that individual was a strung-out drunk who could barely walk. You still yielded a measure of respect to that person.

These days I see sober grown men and women being disrespected by chil dren in elementary school. I recall a fifth-grader cursing out a store manager after being asked to leave his store. The profanity that came out of this kid’s mouth was worse than an old Redd Foxx album. If we could go back to when a dirty mouth was washed out with soap, some of these youths would

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be spitting out bubbles for weeks. Remember that old saying, “respect is earned, not given?” Maybe it should more accurately say, “respect is given and returned.” Maybe we as adults and role models can do a better job of guiding the misguided youth in our environment. We should set an example by allowing women and chil dren to pass ahead of us as a courtesy. Maybe we should give up our seat for an expecting mother to be or open the door for a senior citizen or someone who is weighed down by packages.

I know most of you may be saying, it all starts at home. Right? Unfortu nately, not all homes are equipped with responsible parental figures these days.

I know it may be asking too much from this youth generation that has a distorted perception of appropri ate conduct in public. As an optimist, I trust the positive will eventually outweigh the negative and we can inspire a well-mannered and respect ful generation of youth by modeling good behavior.

Deon D. Price is an author and youth life skills coach who lives in Fairfield. He can be reached at this youthgeneration@gmail.com or www.deondprice.com.

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Here are 10 awesome new horror movies to watch for Halloween 2022

Jim H arrington BAY AREA NEWS GROUP

never understood why some people wait until October to binge horror movies.

us, it’s a yearlong pursuit and we’re just as likely to be found watching an all-time classic like “Final Destina tion 2” or “Bride of Chucky” on Valentine’s Day as we are on Halloween.

And, yes, we realize that probably says a lot more about us than it does about the moreseasonal viewers.

Still, the Halloween season does present the opportunity to put our expertise and passion for horror to good use and recom mend some of our favorite fright flicks from 2022, a year in which it seemed a new scary movie came out every 10 minutes.

The offerings range from gory to goofy, from truly scary to (comparatively) mild, so pick your flavor and get ready for a ghoulish good time.

All of these movies are avail able to stream/rent/buy online.

‘Torn Hearts’

It’s said that making it in the music business in Nashville can be murder. That old adage is taken quite literally in director Brea Grant’s unusual musichorror hybrid film, which stars Katey Sagal (Peggy Bundy on “Married… with Children”) as Harper Dutch, a reclusive country great who welcomes two rising stars into her home for a very memorable (and bloody) stay. The result is an intense ride, one that is almost as scary as Garth Brooks’ rock album. (OK, maybe not quite that scary.)

Where to watch: Epix, Amazon, more

‘Firestarter’

The original 1984 film –starring Drew Barrymore as a young girl being hunted by a secret government agency due to her extreme pyroki nesis powers – was never considered one of the better Stephen King adaptations. (Although, honestly, we’d watch it again and again for the amazing overacting job from George C. Scott alone.) The fact that the 2022 remake fails to clear a relatively low bar shouldn’t stop you from enjoy ing this fun thriller, which somehow managed to enlist A-lister Zac Efron in a pro duction that rarely rises above B-movie status.

Where to watch: Prime Video, AMC+, more

‘Hatching’

Tinja bottles up her emotions as she works hard – and often in vain – to earn the approval of her demanding and overly image-conscious mother. Those feelings of despair and resent ment eventually erupt like a geyser – only not in the way that one might expect. “Hatching” is a disturbing story of a 12-yearold girl (convincingly played by Siiri Solalinna) who discovers an egg that produces a birdlike pet/protector that exacts revenge on all who dare cross them. The Finish film, which

premiered at the 2022 Sun dance Film Festival, is stylishly creepy and wholly unsettling, coming across like an updated version of a lost Brothers Grimm story.

Where to watch: Hulu

‘Orphan: First Kill’

Isabelle Fuhrman was nothing short of amazing in 2009’s excellent horror-thriller “Orphan” as she convincingly played a 9-year-old psycho path with a mysterious past and a major secret. Thirteen years later, Furman – now 25 – delivers arguably an even more impressive performance as she returns to the role of Ester in this new chapter in the “Orphan” saga. But we’re not talking about a sequel, but rather a prequel – meaning that Ester would be even younger than she was in the first film. Seriously, this movie prob ably has no business being as good as it is, yet here we are with a must-see flick for horror junkies and gore hounds this Halloween season. Julia Stiles stars as Ester’s adop tive mom and has wicked fun with the role.

Where to watch: Para mount+, Prime Video, more

‘The Cursed’

It’s a bit slow at times, and requires some patience, but the payoff will definitely be worth it in what is this year’s best full-length werewolf film. The climax to the movie – which premiered at the 2021 Sun dance Film Festival before being released theatrically in the U.S. this year – is quite sat isfying. But “Cursed” is really about the atmosphere and See Horror, Page B5

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afford. But how does he determine that?

By counting his losers. Assuming he has more trumps than the board, he looks at his hand and takes the board’s high cards into account. If he sees too many losers, he should often delay touching trumps, especially if missing the ace. But if his loser count is not too high, he should pull trumps as quickly as possible.

Let’s look at the first deal on my handout. The auction was aggressive but reasonable. North’s three-diamond cue-bid showed at least a limit raise in hearts. South’s point-count was low, but his excellent controls justified the slam-try. North conveyed that he held good major-suit cards with his jump to five hearts.

When the dummy came down, South saw that if he could ruff two diamonds on the board, he would be home. So, he could afford to draw trumps only if they were 2-2.

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mood that director Sean Ellis steadily builds in this story about the bloody events happen ing to townspeople in rural France. It feels like there’s a chill in the air, as if somebody forgot to close a window on a win ter’s night, throughout the movie. And expect that chill to stay with you even after “The Cursed” ends.

Where to watch: Hulu

‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’

There have been nine offerings in this bounti ful and bloody franchise, ranging in quality from 1974’s groundbreaking Tobe Hooper-directed original – easily one of the Top 5 horror movies of all time – to 1995’s sobad-it’s-good “Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation” that, believe it or not, marked the screen debut of both Renee Zellweger and Matthew McCo naughey. Thankfully, this latest outing tilts toward the former and deserves to be ranked among the finest films in the series. It’s intense, brutal and relentless, offering up the kind of Leatherface (played by the hulking Mark Burnham) who could haunt your dreams.

Where to watch: Netflix

‘Bring It On: Cheer or Die’

A group of cheer leaders plan to camp out – sans cellphones, of course – in an old abandoned school on Halloween weekend. Really, what could pos sibly go wrong? Well, for starters, death by pom-pom is a distinct possibility. Overall, this is a comparatively tame “starter” horror flick, without much in the way of gore or intense scenes. What it lacks in blood, however, it makes up for in camp and clever ness. Without a doubt, this is our favorite of the roughly 786,412 install ments of the “Bring It On” cheerleader series.

Where to watch: Syfy ‘Prey’

We were kind of hoping that produc ers would’ve continued along the path that began with 2004’s “Alien vs. Predator” and offer up another movie villain team-up, espe cially since there was a

rumor – sure, one that we started – about how the next installment would serve up “Chucky vs. Predator.” What we got, however, served as more than just a nice conso lation prize. “Prey” is a delightful horror-action movie, featuring solid fight scenes and special effects and topnotch acting from Amber Midt hunder in the lead role of Comanche warrior Naru. It may just be the finest “Predator” outing since the original model with Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1987. And, yes, we do realize that’s not saying a whole lot.

Where to watch: Hulu

‘Fall’

If you’re afraid of heights then this might be turn out to be the scariest movie you’ve, well, ever seen. Narcissistic social media junkie Hunter (Virginia Gardner) and her reluctant friend Becky (Grace Caro line Currey) make the very ill-advised decision to climb to the top of a 2,000-foot-tall radio tower in the name of record ing a video that will get plenty of likes/views. Then, of course, things go very wrong, very quickly and they get stuck up there. And not even their social media followers can save them. Direc tor Scott Mann creates a survival film that is so tense you might feel like occasionally pausing it just to catch your breath. Plus, rarely has a vulture seemed more terrifying than in “Fall.”

Where to watch: Google Play, Amazon, more

‘Jeepers Creepers: Reborn’

The first “Jeepers Creepers” (2001) stands among the best horror films of the millennium. This latest installment –the fourth overall in the franchise – is a B-movie with terrible acting, laughable special effects and a script that may well have come out a Cracker Jack box. It’s also pure joy for fans of “so-bad-it’s-good” horror movies. Plus, it also fea tures one of our all-time favorite bogeymen – the supernatural Creeper –who comes to life every 23 years, for 23 days, to dine on human body parts. There’s also an appearance by the great Dee Wallace as well as the worst (almost) mar riage proposal in film history. Zero stars! Check it out!

Where to watch: Google Play, Amazon, more

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SUISUNCITY DEPARTMENTOFPUBLICWORKS NOTICETOCONTRACTORS

SealedproposalswillbereceivedbytheCityClerkoftheCityofSuisunCity,701Civic CenterBlvd,SuisunCity,CA,94585until2:00P.M.onWednesday,November9,2022, forworkinaccordancewiththeprojectplansandspecificationstowhichspecialreferenceismade,asfollows:

StateRoute12LandscapeImprovements

ThisworkislocatedonHighway12,fromCivicCenterBoulevardtoWaltersRoad,in SuisunCity.

Theworktobeperformed,ingeneral,consistsofsupplyingalllabor,materials,tools, equipment,implementsandmethodsofprocesstocompletethefollowingwork,whichincludesbutisnotlimitedto:Landscaping,irrigationinstallation,fenceremoval/replacementandinstallation,horizontaldirectionalboringforashortirrigationconduit,anddeweedingcentermedianisland.

Timeisoftheessenceonthisproject.Contractorshalldiligentlybeginconstructionwork uponreceivingtheNoticetoProceedfromtheCity.Whilethecontractorwillbeprovided 80workingdaystocompletetheproject,includingthecorrectivepunchlistitems,the Contractorshalldiligentlyprosecutetheworktocompletionasthefundingsourceonthis projectmandatesacompletiondatebyJune30,2023.

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ORDER

OF

ROSE BARTZ, A MINOR

NUMBER FCS058813

TOALLINTERESTEDPERSONS: Petitioner: Audrey R Medina on behalf of Aukele Rose Bartz, a minor filedapetitionwiththiscourtforadecree changingnamesasfollows: Present Name: a. Aukele Rose Bartz Proposed Name: a. Aukele Rose Gadberry Jr.

THECOURTORDERSthatallpersonsinterestedinthismattershallappearbefore thiscourtatthehearingindicatedbelowto showcause,ifany,whythepetitionfor changeofnameshouldnotbegranted. Anypersonobjectingtothename changesdescribedabovemustfileawrittenobjectionthatincludesthereasonsfor theobjectionatleasttwocourtdaysbeforethematterisscheduledtobeheard andmustappearatthehearingtoshow causewhythepetitionshouldnotbegranted.Ifnowrittenobjectionistimelyfiled, thecourtmaygrantthepetitionwithouta hearing.

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work.

TheContractorshallcomplywithallSenateBill854(SB854).InformationontherequirementsofSB854canbefoundbyclickingonthefoll owinglink: https://www.dir.ca.gov/public-works/publicworks.html.

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If you object tothegrantingofthepetition,youshouldappearatthehearingand stateyourobjectionsorfilewrittenobjectionswiththecourtbeforethehearing. Yourappearancemaybeinpersonorby yourattorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent , youmustfileyourclaimwiththecourtand mailacopytothepersonalrepresentative ap-pointedbythecourtwithinthe laterof either(1) four months fromthedateof firstissuanceofletterstoageneral personalrepresentative,asdefinedinsection58(b)oftheCaliforniaProbateCode, or(2) 60 days fromthedateofmailingor personaldeliverytoyouofanoticeunder section9052oftheCaliforniaProbate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court.Ifyouareapersoninterestedinthe estate,youmayfilewiththecourtaRequestforSpecialNotice(formDE-154)of thefilingofaninventoryandappraisalof estateassetsorofanypetitionoraccount asprovidedinProbateCodesection 1250.ARequestforSpecialNoticeformis availablefromthecourtclerk.

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to coaches. It happens to players. It’s just more wood in the fire.”

The 49ers (3-4) need McCaffrey to fire up an offense averaging just 20.7 points per game heading into Sunday’s NFC West tilt with the host Los Angeles Rams (3-3).

“Oh, there’s some play fulness to him, but you can tell his passion for foot ball and how he wants to be great every single day, which I really appreci ate that,” tight end George Kittle said.

Make no mistake, McCaffrey is happy to be back in the Bay Area and surrounded by “a hell of a locker room, with a lot of great players and a lot of great coaches.”

Carolina went 11-5 and made a one-game cameo in the playoffs his rookie year as the No. 8 pick in 2017. He then saw the Panthers lose 47 of 71 games before his exit; injuries limited him to 10 games combined in their five-win seasons of 2020 and ’21.

One week into his 49ers’ tenure, he hasn’t had time to revisit his

Stanford haunts – one of which, The Oasis in Menlo Park, shuttered in 2018, to his dismay. He’s essentially lived at team headquarters to get schooled up in Kyle Shanahan’s offense by assistant coaches Bobby Turner and Anthony Lynn, as well as quarter back Jimmy Garoppolo.

“He sees the field very similar to a quarterback,” Garoppolo said. “He just has a good feel for space, as all our backs do, all those guys do good on choice (routes). . . . When you can feel that zone and space, it’s always nice.”

Indeed, Garoppolo and the 49ers figure to heavily tap into McCaffrey’s dualthreat ability as a rusher

and a receiver, perhaps even more so on the latter Sunday if wide receiv ers Deebo Samuel and Jauan Jennings don’t play because of hamstring inju ries that have kept them from practicing this week.

Asked if he agreed with Garoppolo’s assessment of having quarterbacklike vision, McCaffrey responded: “That’s a good compliment. I try to. You’ve got to think like them and be at the right spot at the right time. . . . It’s instinctual, it’s experience, and it’s understanding the con cepts of a play.”

He should have a keen understanding of what awaits at SoFi Stadium.

McCaffrey

played his Panthers’ finale there two weeks ago. He had 69 rushing yards (13 carries) and 89 receiv ing yards (seven catches) in Carolina’s 24-10 defeat.

The 49ers often talk how physicality is the sig nature of their rivalry with the Rams, and McCaf frey is on board with that, having traded barbs two weeks ago with safety Taylor Rapp.

“You’re going to take some hits, but you’ve got to give them as well. That’s what makes foot ball so fun,” McCaffrey said. “I have a lot of respect for him and the defense in general. I’m sure it will be physical again on Sunday.”

It will come on syn thetic-grass surface like every other game he’s played this season, except for last Sunday’s debut with the 49ers, when his 22-carry workload included eight carries (34 yards) and two recep tions (24 yards).

The topic of grassvs.-fake turf has been a hot topic around the league and with the 49ers. Cornerback Emmanuel Moseley sustained a sea son-ending knee injury on Carolina’s artificial surface Oct. 9 and under went surgery.

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volleyball team won its 43rd straight Bay Valley Conference match Wednesday, defeating host Yuba in three quick sets in Marysville, 25-17, 25-8, 25-13.

Sammy Brown led the way with 13 kills, 16 digs, two blocks and four aces to go with 17-for-18 serving. Dani Rydjord put up 10 kills, 17 assists and three aces. Layla Morales added 16 assists and served 10-for-11 with two aces.

Kelsey Wall chipped in seven kills in the win and Hannah Del Rio added six. Lili Ayala had two blocks. Crystal Carroll picked up nine digs, served 14-for-15 and knocked down two aces.

“The team played really well on both offense and defense, consistent in each set,” Solano head coach Darla Williams said in an email. “As a

team we had 10 aces, and 40 kills hitting over .309%. Our serve-receive passing was over 2.4 on a 3.0 scale. We had great passing on our opponents’ serve. I am very happy with our play. We need to keep challenging our selves for playoffs.”

The Falcons are now 8-0 this season in the BVC and 20-7 overall. Solano has a home match at 6 p.m. Friday against Marin.

Solano soccer shuts out Marin

ROCKVILLE — Dakota Marin scored two unassisted goals Tuesday as the Solano Commu nity College women’s soccer team overpowered host Marin 5-0.

Fatima Guzman, Amber Morales and KateLynn Jimenez also scored for the Falcons. Solano improved its overall record to 3-9-1.

Guzman got the scoring started with a goal that was assisted by Morales three minutes

into the match. Marin scored her first goal at the 15 minute mark of the first half. Jimenez scored 30 minutes later off an assist from Abigail Arteaga.

Morales started the second half scoring with an unassisted goal at the 60-minute mark. Marin scored her final goal with 15 minutes to play.

Goalkeeper Jessica Biasotti had the shutout and made five saves.

Solano will be back in action at 2 p.m. Friday at home against Yuba.

Middle School Grange shuts out Public Safety

FAIRFIELD — The Grange Middle School flag football team shut out the Public Safety Academy on Wednesday 20-0.

King Lynch ran for a touchdown and Malachi Wroten caught a touch down pass. Bubba Hayes threw for one touch down and ran for another.

Angelo Pineda intercepted a pass to make it six on the season for him.

Grange is 5-0 and all five wins have been by shutout. Grange will play Sheldon in the Middle School City Championship at 4 p.m. Wednesday.

Statistics for the Public Safety Academy were not made available.

Crystal earns win over Garcia Academy

FAIRFIELD — The Crystal Middle School flag football team earned a 26-12 win Wednes day over the Matt Garcia Academy.

Mark Burton-Frank lin threw two touchdown passes for Crystal. One scoring strike went to Macen Glenn and the other went to Jariah Johnson. Javier Sosa and Josiah Billups also rushed for one touchdown apiece.

The Cougars improved their record to 4-1.

Statistics for the Matt Garcia Academy were not made available.

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Armijo is 3-6 overall and 0-4 in the MEL. The Royals hope for a strong finish for its seniors after losses to Vacaville (44-6), Rodriguez (18-0), Will C. Wood (38-6) and Vanden (42-6) in its league games. Armijo is cur rently riding a five-game losing streak.

Fairfield enters 0-9 overall and, like Armijo, 0-4 in the MEL. Scoring a touchdown would offer the Falcons a reason to celebrate. Fair field has gone scoreless in league with losses to Vanden (42-0), Vacaville (38-0), Rodriguez (33-0) and Will C. Wood (42-0). The team has been shut out six times and scored a total of 33 points this season.

Will C. Wood at Vacaville

Vacaville has been in command of the series with a 28-4 record. The Bulldogs have won the past six meetings, most by commanding margins. The last victory for Will C. Wood came in 2015 by a 49-25 score.

Vacaville corrected itself after playing some early heavyweights and enters Friday’s game 6-3 overall and 4-0 in the MEL. The Bulldogs can clinch an outright title, which would be their sixth straight. Napa was the last winner of the MEL in 2016 and now that school has a new mascot and a new section within which to participate.

Vacaville has stormed through the MEL with wins over Armijo (44-6), Fairfield (38-0), Vanden (28-13) and Rodriguez (41-12). The offense has grown steadily under quarterback Alex Barkley, who had to replace Brody Fortu nati earlier in the season

due to injury. Will C. Wood has been hit and miss and finds itself 5-4 overall and 2-2 in the MEL. The Wildcats have wins over Fairfield (42-0) and Armijo (38-6) and losses to Rodriguez (28-0) and Vanden (49-12). Quar terback Mason Sayre suffered an injury last week in the loss to Rodriguez.

Highlands at Vacaville Christian

The Sierra Delta League games lack the rivalry fervor of the MEL contests, but Vacaville Christian will be happy to get back on the field. The Falcons were down to 12 healthy players last week and choose to forfeit the game at Esparto. The Falcons hope to have enough players back this week to close the season with a home game.

Vacaville Christian is 2-7 overall and 2-2 in the SDL. The Falcons have had big wins over Golden Sierra (43-7) and San Juan (54-14) to go with a big loss to Rio Vista (66-18).

Highlands is 5-4 overall and also 2-2 in the SDL. The Scots also have big wins over Golden Sierra (35-7) and San Juan (42-6) and big losses to Rio Vista (50-0) and Esparto (63-21).

San Juan at Rio Vista

Rio Vista could pad its playoff resume with a win over San Juan. The Rams are 5-4 overall but 3-1 in the SDL. Rio Vista has wins over Highlands (50-0), Vacaville Chris tian (66-18) and Golden Sierra (61-14) and a tight loss to league-leading Esparto (48-42).

San Juan comes in 2-7 overall and 0-4 in SDL games with losses to Golden Sierra (15-6), Esparto (5512), Highlands (42-60) and Vacaville Chris tian (54-14).

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energy and knowing we had our work cut out for us,” Rodriguez head coach Christopher Co said in an email. “We are a young team with two seniors, one fresh man, three sophomores and one junior as our starting lineup. Our girls hustled and put up a good fight, but El Capitan was highly skilled and was able to close us out.”

For Vanden, a number of players had strong

statistical games. Sumer lyn Spencer had 10 kills and 16 digs. Jada Cuffie knocked down eight kills and had 12 blocks. Fran King also had 19 assists, six aces and 13 service points. Breanna Davis added 10 assists.

“Unfortunately, it was a rough night for us,” Vanden head coach Cindy Scolavino said in a text message. “We did take it all the way to the fifth set and played extremely hard. Tonight we just did not come out on top. I’m very proud of these girls. They fought for every last point and never gave up.”

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49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo hands off the ball to Christian McCaffrey in the second quarter at Levi’s stadium in santa Clara, sunday.