Daily Republic: Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Main break leaves some Fairfield residents without

much of day

pipe issue when the second failure occurred.

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SUISUN CITY —

Mike Hudson on Tuesday said he was submitting his resignation from the City Council. His next meeting will be his last – and he will attend it virtually from his new home in Elk Ridge, Utah.

“It’s been my pleasure to serve the citizens of Suisun City. They honored me with that responsibility,” Hudson said in a phone interview.

He said he has made the move to Utah to be closer to family.

“I have a large extended family here,” said Hudson, noting specifically the birth of his third great-grandchild on Saturday.

His departure is not

exactly a surprise. He said he let some people know about his plans as early as August. He served three terms on the council before losing a re-election bid in 2018. He was then re-elected in 2020. Hudson called the work on the council “a super hard job,” but believes there are a number of talented residents he hopes the council will consider for his replacement.

Hudson also hopes the city will start the recruitment, interview and selection process over again from scratch, rather than selecting one of the finalists from the last round to fill a vacancy. He said that would be a “fresh start” for everyone.

The most recent

Full service restoration was not expected until some time after 6 or 7 p.m.

The cause of the problem was a break in a cast iron, 16-inch pipe.

A city spokesman said crews were working on one

“It is older infrastructure, but it hasn’t reached its lifespan, yet,” said Bill Way, city communications manager. The repair work caused service disruption in the areas of 2401 to 2680 Mankas Blvd.; 2033 to 2118 Barbour Drive; Lighthouse Drive; Lighthouse Court; Clipper Ship Drive; Clipper Ship Court; Skipper Court; Ramsay Way; Hastings Way; Vista Buena; Vista Palomar, Vista Cerro; Vista Hermosa; Vista Linda; and Vista Serena, the city reported.

3 killed, 5 wounded in Michigan State shooting were all students

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EAST LANSING, Mich. — All eight victims of a mass shooting Monday that left three dead and five critically wounded on Michigan State University’s campus were students, police said early Tuesday morning as they continue to search for answers about the 43-year-old gunman’s motive.

MSU police identified two of the three victims as Brian Fraser, a sophomore from Grosse Pointe, and Alexandria Verner, a junior from Clawson.

The third victim, Arielle Anderson, was identified by her family. She was a graduate of Grosse Pointe North High School.

Chris Rozman, interim deputy chief of the MSU police department, said early Tuesday morning that two students were fatally shot at Berkey Hall

while the third victim was at the campus student union building.

The five wounded remain in critical condition at Sparrow Hospital. Four needed surgical intervention and one did not, said Sparrow’s Chief Medical Officer Denny Martin.

The suspected gunman’s name is Anthony McRae. Criminal records show McRae, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, had a previous misdemeanor firearms conviction in November 2019 after being convicted of possessing a loaded firearm in a vehicle. He was released from probation supervision in May 2021, court records show.

Rozman said police are still trying to determine a motive.

“That’s what we’re

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FAIRFIELD — Solano County has six preconstruction developments, representing 287 affordable homes, that would benefit from a proposed 2024 regional ballot measure that would create a $10 billion to $20 billion regional housing bond.

If the measure were to be placed on the ballot, based on a $10 billion target and 2022 assessed

values, Solano County would receive about $250 million from the bond, Kate Hartley, director of the Bay Area Housing Finance Authority, said Monday in a phone interview.

“Things will change as we get closer to 2024 with assessed value and interest rate calculations,” Hartley said.

She said community outreach will started in the first quarter of 2024.

A PENGUIN LOVE STORY

At 43, she’s the world’s oldest African penguin; her mate is 13

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Being the oldest African penguin in the world has its privileges.

When ET, who lives at Virginia’s Metro Richmond Zoo, turned 43 last month, she took a dip in her private pool and ate a slice of birthday cake (OK, an entire cake) made with capelin fish and decorative ice.

“We wanted to make it the happiest birthday ever,” said Jessica Gring, one of ET’s keepers. “She’s a pretty special penguin with some incredible genes and a strong quality of life.”

Living such a long penguin life also has its drawbacks. African penguins are monogamous, and typically have one partner for life. ET is on her third, having outlived two of her mates, Melvin and Seldona.

But she wasn’t single for long. In 2012, she bonded with Einstein, a penguin three decades her junior. Last year, penguin keepers noticed that the other young penguins weren’t being nice to ET, so they moved her and Einstein, now 13, to their own private enclosure.

“As she got older, some of the younger penguins were picking on her a little bit, so we made a retirement home for her to enjoy with Einstein,” said Jim Andelin, director of the Metro Richmond Zoo. “She can still see the penguin colony through the fence, but she gets along much better on the other side of the mesh wire.”

Zoo workers said female African penguins choose their mates, and May-December romances are not unheard of.

“She and Einstein get along fantastically, even though she’s older than he is,” said Gring.

“ET has developed a deep bond with him,” Andelin said of Einstein.

Gring added that the affection goes both ways.

“She and Einstein are very bonded to one

another and enjoy spending a lot of quality time together,” she said.

ET came to the Virginia zoo in 1995 at the youthful age of 15, said Andelin. She was hatched at the Detroit Zoo on Jan. 28, 1980, then was sent to the Columbus Zoo, where she was named in 1982, the same year the movie “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” was released to great fanfare.

“We brought in 10 penguins [including ET] from the Columbus Zoo when we opened in 1995, and we’ve since hatched 299 penguins here,” said Andelin, noting that most of the hatchlings went to other zoos.

“None of them have had the life span of ET,” he

said. “She’s a little slower now, but she’s still enjoying a happy life.”

According to worldwide zoo database records, ET has been the longest living African penguin in captivity in North America since 2018, when the previous record holder, a penguin named Opal, died at age 41 at an Omaha zoo, Andelin said.

“Our records show she’s the oldest,” he said.

African penguins typically live for 15 to 20 years in the wild, he added, but those in zoos can live much longer.

ET leads a quiet and comfortable life with Einstein at the Metro Richmond Zoo, Andelin said, noting that she is in good

Nominations open to recognize those who help students with disabilities

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DRNEWS@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET FAIRFIELD — Nominations are being accepted for the 17th annual Community Advisory Committee Recognition Awards for those who go above and beyond in the service of students

with disabilities. The CAC Awards are presented to educators, youth and community members for outstanding service who go above and beyond in service of students with disabilities. Award recipients are from each school district within the Solano County

Special Education Local Plan Area: Benicia, Dixon, Fairfield-Suisun, Travis and Vacaville, as well as the Solano County Office of Education. The deadline is March 15. Nominations may be submitted at www.solano countyselpa.net.

It is the Daily Republic’s policy to correct errors in reporting. If you notice an error, please call the Daily Republic at 425-4646 during business hours weekdays and ask to speak to the editor in charge of the section where the error occurred. Corrections will be printed here.

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ABOVE: ET, right, and her mate Einstein have their own enclosure at the Metro Richmond Zoo in Richmond, Va. ET, age 43, is believed to be the world’s oldest African penguin. Her mate is 13.

LEFT: Jessica Gring, one of ET’s keepers, holds the 43-year-old penguin at the Metro Richmond Zoo.

health except she has lost some of her eyesight and now receives medication for arthritis.

ET hatched about a dozen eggs during her time at the Virginia zoo, but she laid her last egg in 2016, said Gring, adding that one of her daughters lived until age 37.

“All of our penguins have their own individual personalities, and ET is no exception,” Gring said. “She loves to play with bubbles and mirrors,

and she stays pretty active. She actually spends more time swimming than Einstein does.”

Keepers have installed a step inside her pool to make it easier for her to get into the water and have some fun, she said.

“She’s still a little feisty when we pick her up to do her vet checkups,” Gring added. “ET has a lot of fight in her, which is a good thing to see in a penguin her age.”

She and Andelin said

there is much to admire about the world’s oldest African penguin, especially when many penguin species are under threat in the wild due to climate change, loss of habitat, oil spills, and commercial fishing.

African penguins have been listed as endangered since 2010 and have decreased in population by 95 percent over the last 100 years, Andelin said.

“We’re down to only about 40,000 of them in the wild,” he said, noting that there are about 900 African penguins living in U.S. zoos. “Fortunately, with our breeding program here, we’ve had some good luck with them.”

ET’s golden years revolve around swimming, napping and eating, said Gring. She will also sidle up to the fence now and then to take in the latest drama going on with the rest of the colony, which now numbers 42.

“We feed her as much as she wants to eat – anywhere from four to 10 herring, trout and capelin on an average day,” she said. “And when she wants some serious quiet time, she can go to her nest box [a small pet carrier] in her enclosure.”

Plans are underway to build a larger penguin exhibit at the zoo, she said, and everyone hopes that ET will be around to enjoy it.

“We’re having fun with her while we have her,” Gring said. “We don’t want to think about when she’s gone, so we’ve already started planning her 44th birthday party.”

FAIRFIELD — The National Association of Counties announced Monday the formation of a new Commission on Mental Health and Wellbeing.

The commission, with 14 county representatives, was unveiled at NACo’s Legislative Conference. Solano County Supervisors Erin Hannigan and Wanda Williams are attending the conference in Washington, D.C.

The commission will be tasked with the development of “policy and programmatic recommendations at the federal, state and local levels to address systemic issues contributing to the ever-growing mental health crisis.”

“America’s county leaders demand a rethinking – a reimagination – of how we advance the mental health and well-being of our families and neighbors, especially those without adequate access to care and treatment,” NACo President Denise Winfrey said in the announcement. “This commission will drive collaboration and innovation across all sectors, from our intergovernmental partners to the private sector, from think tanks to practitioners.”

The commission scope of responsibilities includes:

n Stimulate a national sense of urgency through an intergovernmental partnership framework connecting the local, state and federal levels.

n Elevate national awareness around the challenges and the innovations associated with mental health through the county lens.

n Pursue federal policy action, including full implementation of the Mental Health Parity standard, reforms to the institutions for mental disease prohibition, repealing the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy for pretrial detainees, and building the mental health workforce and continuum of care for the future.

n Lead a cohesive, intergovernmental strategy to enhanced the mental health and wellbeing of all Americans, with a special focus on the most vulnerable populations.

“From small rural counties to large metro regions, mental health is a critical issue in every community across our nation. It’s also an intersectional issue – if you care about homelessness, if you care about public safety, if you care about the well-being of families and the future of our children – you must invest in mental health,” Commission co-chairman

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Federal bill could mean more work for Mare Island shipyard

MARE ISLAND — Leg-

islation was introduced Monday that, if signed into law, would provide federal loans and loan guarantees for repairs and retrofits on U.S.-flagged civilian vessels. It could mean more work, and more money, for the Mare Island Dry Dock.

The bill had been introduced before, and Rep. John Garamendi, D-Walnut Grove, has now reintroduced the Federal Ship Financing Improvement Act. “As Vallejo’s congressman, I am securing new federal resources to

support the revitalization of Mare Island and expansion of the shipyard. My bill would unlock billions in new federal financing for repair work and vessel retrofits on civilian vessels at commercial shipyards, like Mare Island Dry Dock. As we continue working to build out Mare Island’s repair work for the Coast Guard and potentially other military contracts, we need every federal tool in the toolbox. That’s exactly what my bill does,” Garamendi said in a statement released by his office.

The U.S. Maritime Administration’s Federal Ship Financing program currently provides low-

interest federal loans and loan guarantees for new vessel construction in domestic commercial shipyards. This legislation extends that resource to vessel repairs and retrofits.

The legislation awaits a hearing in the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on which Garamendi is a senior Democratic member.

Garamendi, in March, announced a $13 million project by a Mare Island Dry Dock company to double its workforce in an effort to win U.S. Coast Guard and other military contracts.

President Joe Biden

in December signed a provision in the Water Resources Development Act of 2022 that directs the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to complete a feasibility study on deepening the Mare Island Strait Channel to support the redevelopment of Mare Island and the shipyard. Garamendi and U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisconsin, helped move a law forward in 2019 that requires all shipyard improvement projects funded by the Maritime Administration’s Small Shipyard Grant Program use construction materials produced or manufactured in the United States.

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Rep. John Garamendi, center, speaks during a press conference on Mare Island in Vallejo where he announced new job opportunities through ship repairs for the Navy, March 23, 2022.

Benicia looks within own ranks for interim city manager

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BENICIA — Mario Giuliani has been named interim city manager, effective March 1.

“Council was pleased to unanimously appoint Mario Giuliani as interim city manager,” Mayor Steve Young said in a statement released Tuesday.

“His experience, knowledge and dedication to the city and the community will serve us well in a city that has high expectations and high levels of community involvement. Council is confident that Mario will carry on with the excellent leadership provided by Erik Upson, our departing city manager,” Young added.

Upson announced his retirement in January.

“City Council took time to make a thoughtful decision on who would fill this position in the interim. Mario has been a strong leader in the city for over a decade, dedicating his life’s work to serving the residents of Benicia. He, along with a strong leadership team and dedicated staff, will do an excellent job of serving the community and carrying out council’s direction for the city,” Upson said in the statement.

Giuliani’s interim role includes the City Council goal setting, budget development and adoption and a new Strategic Plan.

He is a 30-year resident of Benicia and graduate

Soroptimists seek applicants for Chance to Rise Award

FAIRFIELD — Soroptimist International of Central Solano County is accepting applications for the 2023-2024 Chance to Rise Award.

Chance to Rise is an awards program for women who have or are continuing to overcome substantial life challenges, have developed a plan to forge a path for a successful future through further education and/ or vocational training, and for whom a financial award would help ensure likely success.

Applicants must reside in the FairfieldSuisun City area.

This awards program, now in its third year, is the result of a gift to the club from Soroptimist

Health

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Dow Constantine, county executive for King County in Washington, said in the statement. “From the unique perspective of counties, providing core services to every family and community in this nation, the commission will share what’s working and collaborate with those who are striving to develop a robust and nationwide response to this crisis.”

For more information about NACo’s Commis-

of Benicia High School. He has served as the city’s deputy city manager for nearly three and a half years and has led the city’s Economic Development Divi sion for the past 13 years. Giuliani began working for the city in 1994 in the Parks and Community Services Department and City Attorney’s Office.

“I am deeply honored to have been appointed to serve as the interim city manager. It is not lost on me how rare it is for a person to have the opportunity to help lead a city in which one was raised and spent so much of one’s life,” Giuliani said in

the statement. Giuliani also worked in the Recreation Department of Walnut Creek and the Greater Vallejo Recreation District. He holds degrees in political science and law from the University of California, Davis and has a professional certificate in labor management relations.

He was elected to the Benicia School District board of trustees in 2001, though he no longer serves, and is a current member and past president of the Benicia Rotary Club and a member and coach of Benicia Little League.

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VALLEJO — Touro University California is restarting its free online “Get Cooking” classes.

The first class, starting Feb. 26, is inspired by the Mediterranean diet.

“The Mediterranean diet is backed by evidence-based medical research demonstrating benefits in reducing risks of cardiovascular disease, cancer and other chronic diseases, as well as improving overall health. And, the great news is you don’t have to be Mediterranean to enjoy. Recipes are flexible and easily adapted to your favorite tastes and flavors,” the university said in a statement.

followed by breakout sessions where everyone chops, preps and cooks their chosen recipes together,” Stevenson said in the announcement.

“We end the session with the delicious part: eating our creations together while sharing thoughts, tips and pictures of the food we just made. The student facilitators will also share valuable information such as comparison of nutrient benefits and costs of the recipes made relative to typical ‘store bought’ or restaurant versions,” Stevenson added. “They will get to see how cooking at home not only is fun, healthier but usually saves money, too.”

The topic itinerary and recipe list includes:

member Sally Silvia and her husband Jim Hudak. They expressed interest in focusing the program’s efforts on women who have experienced social, financial, personal, medical or other difficulties in their lives, only to find their futures derailed or stuck as they strive to move forward.

The club hopes to identify women who have found themselves in such difficult circumstances, have addressed their challenges, and who have created a vision for themselves that will lead to a productive and successful future.

To apply, women are asked to complete an application, which includes answering a series of questions about

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sion on Mental Health and Wellbeing, go to www. naco.org/resources/ signature-projects/ naco-commission-mentalhealth-and-wellbeing.

The other co-chairwoman of the commission is Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger, the lone representative from California.

The commission members are Dr. April Aycock, director of the Office of Mental Health in Monroe County, New York; Mary Ann Borgeson, commissioner for Douglas County, Nebraska; Therese Brown, commissioner for Allen County, Indiana;

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VALLEJO — Applications for the Rebuilding Together Solano County homerehabilitationprogram are being accepted.

The program serves low-income military homeowners – active or veterans – seniors 65 or older, and residents who are disabled. The household must have incomes between $60,800 for a single qualified occupant, up to $100,700 with six or more occupants.

Other qualifications are:

n Own and live in a single-family residence located within Solano County. Home to be stick-built.

n The following items must be paid current:

Dr. Kathleen Burke, from the Will County Health Department in Illinois; David Crowley, county executive for Milwaukee County, Wisconsin; Bryan Davis, commissioner for Scioto County, Ohio; Orange County (Florida) Mayor Jerry Demings; Adrian Garcia, commissioner for Harris County, Texas; Judge Clay Jenkins, Dallas County, Texas; Judge Steven Leifman, Miami-Dade County, Florida; Gina Nikkel, executive director of the Association of Oregon Counties; and Helen Stone, commissioner for Chatham County, Georgia.

mortgage, property taxes and homeowner’s insurance.

n Potential homeowners cannot own other property or units unless located on the property of the primary residence.

The deadline to apply, with all support documents, is March 31. Material may be sent to RTSC, P.O. Box 5996, Vallejo, CA 94591, or by email with scanned application and supporting documentation to ehoffman.rtsc@gmail.com.

For more information or for an application, send an email to the same email address.

Grace Jones, a biochemist researcher on nutrition and metabolic disease, along with Dr. Traci Stevenson, a certified culinary medicine specialist and family physician, are coordinating the courses led by Touro’s health professional students. The classes will take place from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Feb. 26, March 5 and April 2. Each session has a different dietary focus with handson lessons.

“The classes are a really fun way to learn not only how to make healthy food choices, but more importantly, how quick and easy it can be to prepare and cook them. The two-hour interactive Zoom session begins with useful information on nutritional topics

Feb. 26: Legumes, Good Shopping, Habits, and Delectable Dinners

n Recipes: Chicken Fajita Bowl or White Bean Shakshuka

March 5: Carbohydrates, Fruits, Nuts, Snacking, Desserts, Sweeteners and Rethink Your Drink

n Recipes: Popcorn or Fudgy Black Bean Brownies with Quinoa Lettuce Wraps with Spicy Peanut Sauce and Crunchy Broccoli Bites with Buffalo Sauce or Oven Fried Chicken Tenders and Creole Roasted Chickpeas

April 2: Fats and Cholesterol

n Recipes: Ratatouille, Kitchen Sink Salad or Cheeseburger Pasta

Learn more and register at tu.edu/getcooking.

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Rebuilding Together to give away Safe At Home Kits

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FAIRFIELD — Free

Disaster Safe At Home Kits will be distributed in the coming weeks to active military, veterans and other military family members at the Benicia and the Fairfield-Suisun veterans buildings.

Rebuilding Together

Solano County is con-

ducting the events in sponsorship with Wells Fargo and Home Depot.

The kits include a first aid kit, hand crank radio, LED flashlight, cellphone charger, a fire extinguisher, plug-in night lights, emergency blanket, glow sticks, emergency whistle, hand sanitizer, hand soap, face masks, a set of trash bags and

Trustees to hear update on Matt Garcia Career and College Academy

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FAIRFIELD — Trustees of the Fairfield-Suisun School District will hear a presentation Thursday on the future of the Matt Garcia Career and College Academy.

The board at its previous meeting heard a presentation on the school which, according to some trustees, seems to have some issues that need to be addressed.

The idea of shutting it down was discussed but before anything was decided, the board asked for more research

to be done.

Central office staff since the Jan. 19 meeting has met with Matt Garcia Career and College Academy parents and families, school staff and Matt Garcia’s family, Raymond and Teresa Courtemanche.

The current building that houses the school was built in 1965 and later remodeled in 2001. The school has 117 students enrolled with eight classrooms and eight portable buildings. The school serves sixth through 12th grades.

disaster backpack with emergency information.

The giveaway in Fairfield-Suisun City will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. March 3 at 427 Main St. in Suisun City; the giveaway in Benicia will occur from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. March 18 at 1150 First St.

Rebuilding Together Solano County will also

have a drawing for grocery gift cards, garden hoses and raised garden boxes, the group said in a statement.

Those who qualify for the kit must bring a driver’s license showing a Solano County address, Military ID, VA card or DD-214 discharge document. Among the other sup-

porters of the program are Bank of America, Bank of the West, Costco Vallejo, CSAA, First Bank, Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano, M&M Sanitation LLC, Medic Ambulance, Minuteman Press, Phillips 66, The Nimitz Group, Valero Benicia Refinery and Vallejo Community Presbyterian Church.

Rebuilding Together Solano County is a local nonprofit organization “dedicated to allowing low-income veteran, senior and disabled residents the ability to remain in their homes – safely and with dignity. Our mission is to provide safe and healthy homes, revitalize communities and rebuild lives.”

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In any given year, the program may grant mul-

tiple awards, ranging in amounts of $2,000 to $5,000. The application packet may be found at https:// sicentralsolano.com/ awards-and-scholarships.

A staff report for the their particular circumstances and goals for the future, providing names of individual references, and offering detailed information about their financial circumstances.

See Update, Page A9 SUBSCRIBE. CALL 707-427-6989.

For more information, send an email to Mary.Beutner@sicentral solano.com.

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A layoff plus a new baby are putting my family on edge

Dear Annie: My husband had worked at the same company for the last nine years. A few weeks ago, they called him into an office at 4 p.m. and asked him to shut the door and have a seat. They informed him that they were letting him go.

I gave birth to our third child the following day. Now there are five of us in a cramped apartment taking care of a newborn, and he has no job. He’s hanging in there, but I am obviously preoccupied with the baby. We have some financial runway, but at some point, that will run out.

I don’t have the capacity to help my husband as much as I’d like, but I know that he needs my support. Also, we need his income.

What should I do? —

Worried Wife

Dear Worried: First, congratulations on the birth of your new baby! While jobs can come and go, a child is forever, and that is something to truly be celebrated. I am sorry that you and your husband are going through this. Remem-

ARIES (March 21-April 19).

There’s only so much that Present-You can do. It may feel a little scary to leave a problem for Future-You, but that’s only because you are underestimating the strength and capability of that person.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20).

You’re good at a job, but that’s not quite enough to satisfy you. You crave the wide-lens view and will reach an understanding of how you fit into the global picture as well as the smallscale graph.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21).

You, like most living beings, want to feel you live in a safe place. Perception is key. You control your channels of information. Why unnecessarily open yourself to a barrage of alarm by tending to constant bad news?

CANCER (June 22-July 22).

There’s comfort in a dramatic plot in which characters move toward defined goals. Real life features evolutions toward nothing apparent for no detectable reason. Much art will be made in an attempt to get comfortable with that.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22).

You can find common ground with many different people, but there are some you won’t be able to relate to no matter how many things you have in common. It’s neither good nor bad, just true. Move on to the next.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).

Promote yourself. Whether you do it directly, indirectly, cre-

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ber, if he got a job in the first place and kept a job for nine years, then his track record is pretty good. The odds of him finding a job fairly quickly are good. Be grateful that you have financial runway, and keep faith that he will find a job soon. You also have him home at a time when juggling a new baby and two other children is going to be a lot of work. Rejection is just redirection. He will find something better. Dear Annie: This is not a question but a request to get the word out to other people.

I’m deaf in one ear and have severe hearing impairment in the other ear. I have had the most difficult time since Covid-19 because of the widespread use of face masks. They make it harder for a deaf or hearing-impaired person to fully understand anyone. Most people with deafness and hearing impairment either learn sign language or read lips or both.

Face masks cover up lips, so for people who don’t know sign language and don’t have an

Today’s birthday

You will be understood and respected at new levels – a position you earn with years of honing your vision and communication of it. People will be more curious than ever about you and your work. You can monetize your popularity. More highlights: a weekslong adventure, a renovation and the business of socializing. Cancer and Pisces adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 14, 5, 7, 9 and 19.

atively, traditionally, casually or with glitter, do it. You’re so lucky when you put yourself out there.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).

Taking on a very small project is favored because this is the moment when you will really benefit from cycling through the beginning, middle and end of a project all in one day. Try and leave the unending work for another time.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).

You may find that people don’t pay as close attention to you as they should. Perhaps they take for granted your offerings because they seem so accessible. Is there a way to make your gifts scarcer and harder to get to?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21). The thing causing the most friction is a thought process, but that’s the hardest

interpreter, the struggle is real. The clear masks were a great idea, but they fog up when breathing. When asked to write down what they are saying, people don’t want to do it or they huff and puff about it. Also, hearing aids and cochlear implants help, but they do not give full hearing back or bionic hearing. I’m asking for patience, empathy and understanding for people who struggle with deafness and hearing impairment. — Can’t Hear Well Dear Can’t Hear Well: Your hearing might be impaired, but your perceptive and kind message came through loud and clear. Thank you for sharing this important information. Covid-19 has been challenging for everyone, but this must have added an entirely new level of stress and frustration to the hearingimpaired community. Patience and empathy are two virtues that we could all work on to make the world a better place. Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@ creators.com.

thing to change. Start with something easy, like a countertop or a drawer. You’ll find mental illumination as you bring order to your world.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19). A strong and perhaps intimidating presence will figure into the action. Don’t lower your own profile or back down in any way. Go the opposite direction, freeing the full force of your personality.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18). The legendary New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra said, “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” You’ll somehow manage the impossible today, advancing several trajectories at once.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Not following your own directives can be frustrating, but to get in your feelings about it will only compound the problem. Steer away from shame, guilt or frustration by separating the facts from your interpretation of them.

CELEBRITY PROFILES:

Matt Groening exemplifies the creative spirit of Aquarius. The creator of “The Simpsons,” “Futurama,” “Disenchantment” and more was born when the sun was in intellectual Aquarius and the moon was in Leo, the sign of entertainment. Mercury and Venus were in Pisces, indicating that Groening’s artistic method is so intuitive that the process is mysterious, even to him.

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Crossword by Phillip Alder

Bridge

Hands with well-placed short suits usually generate more tricks than the point-count suggests. Today’s North-South hands fit exceptionally well because the diamond void is opposite only low diamonds. However, although they bid beautifully to an excellent grand slam, South still had to exhibit good declarer-play technique to end with a plus score. What did he do after West led the diamond king?

North made a limit raise, showing at least four trumps and about 11 points. Now South produced a void-showing jump beyond four spades. North, realizing that all of his cards were working, jumped to six spades. Getting the message, South went on to seven.

DO NOT AVOID

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Once you have uncovered a good trump fit, which do you prefer: a singleton opposite the ace or a singleton opposite a king-queen holding? Right – the former, because there are no losers. We say that those hands fit well.

It would have been easy to assume that the hearts were breaking evenly, but South saw that he had 13 tricks whatever the heart break (assuming the trumps weren’t 4-0). At trick two, South led a spade to the dummy. When both opponents followed, declarer ruffed a diamond with the spade queen, led another trump to dummy and ruffed the last diamond with the spade ace. Back to dummy with a club to the king, declarer drew the final trump and claimed 13 tricks: four spades, four hearts, two clubs and three diamond ruffs in hand.

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Amy Poehler and Tina Fey are hitting the road.

Starting in spring, the Tina Fey & Amy Poehler: Restless Leg Tour will celebrate their 30 years of friendship with an evening of jokes, iconic stories and conversational entertainment,” the duo said in a statement to Variety

Beginning in Washington, D.C., on April 28 at DAR Constitution Hall, the tour will land at the Chicago Theatre in Chicago on May 20, Boston’s MGM Music Hall on June 9 and Atlantic City’s Hard Rock Live at Etess Arena on June 10.

It’s the first live comedy tour for the longtime friends who became famous on “Saturday Night Live.”

“If this tour goes

right, we can finally end this friendship,” Fey and Poehler said in their announcement.

The two met while performing improv comedy in Chicago during the 1990s. In 2004, they became the first female duo to host the “Weekend Update” segment on “SNL.” Fey, 52, and Poehler, 51, have had successful careers in film and television. Each headlined her own comedy series: the Emmy-winning “30 Rock” for Fey and the Golden Globe-winning “Parks and Recreation” for Poehler. Tickets for the Restless Leg Tour will be available presale with the code RESTLESS starting at 7 a.m. Wednesday on ticketmaster.com. The general sale starts at 7 a.m. Friday.

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3:26 a.m. — Reckless driver, 700 block of LAGUNA

Feinstein will retire at end of her current term

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WASHINGTON — Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California’s longest-serving senator, will not run for reelection next year, marking the end to one of the state’s most storied political careers.

Feinstein said Tuesday she plans to remain in office through the end of her term.

3100 block of ORCHARD VIEW DRIVE

6:58 p.m. — Reckless driver, 2400 block of WATERMAN BOULEVARD

7:28 p.m. — Trespassing, 2900 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD

7:37 p.m. — Fight with a weapon, 2200 block of FAIRFIELD AVENUE

7:55 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, PARK LANE

8:07 p.m. — Battery, 100 block of PITTMAN ROAD

“I am announcing today I will not run for reelection in 2024, but intend to accomplish as much for California as I can through the end of next year when my term ends,” Feinstein said in her announcement.

Feinstein’s retirement comes as little surprise given her age – at 89 she is the oldest senator – and the lack of fundraising she has done in preparation for another costly campaign.

What’s more, the race to fill her coveted Senate seat has already begun.

Vandalism, 100 block of EAST TABOR AVENUE

5:31 p.m. — Grand theft, 200 block of RED TOP ROAD

6:18 p.m. — Battery, 5000 block of BICKFORD CIRCLE

6:25 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, WATERMAN

BOULEVARD

6:31 p.m. — Trespassing, 900 block of MISSOURI STREET

6:49 p.m. — Reckless driver, BECK AVENUE

9 p.m. — Residential burglary, 2300 block of SANTA CLARA

p.m. — Assault with a deadly weapon, 2400 block of FLATLEY CIRCLE 10:20 p.m. — Hit-and-run

damage, 1300 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD

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2:10 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 700 block of EAST TRAVIS

2:42 a.m. — Battery, 2400 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

3:15 a.m. — Hit-and-run

11:04 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 2200 block of FAIRFIELD AVENUE

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9:19 a.m. — Vandalism, 3300 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

9:23 a.m. — Grand theft, 400 block of CHELSEA WAY

10:46 a.m. — Grand theft, 2800 block of MONTCLAIR WAY

12:09 p.m. — Embezzlement, 100 block of GROBRIC COURT

2:38 p.m. — Battery, 1900 block of WOOLNER AVENUE

4:30 p.m. — Fight with a weapon, EXECUTIVE COURT

4:38 p.m. — Commercial burglary, 800 block of EAST TRAVIS BOULEVARD

5:13 p.m. — Battery, 1500 block of GATEWAY BOULEVARD

5:37 p.m. — Trespassing, 700 block of TEXAS STREET

6:21 p.m. — Battery, 1400 block of PHOENIX DRIVE

8:11 p.m. — Robbery, 2200 block of PEACH TREE DRIVE

11:26 p.m. — Trespassing, 2300 block of FAIRFIELD AVENUE

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8:11 a.m. — Vehicle theft, MARINA BOULEVARD / HIGHWAY

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10:33 a.m. — Fraud, 400 block of HONKER LANE

3:06 p.m. — Fraud, 100 block of RAILROAD AVENUE

4 p.m. — Hit-and-run no injury, HIGHWAY 12 / SUNSET AVENUE

5:22 p.m. — Reckless driver, MARINA BOULEVARD / HIGHWAY

12 5:54 p.m. — Reckless driver, HIGHWAY 12 / SUNSET AVENUE

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a.m. — Vehicle theft, 900 block of JAVAN WAY

a.m. — Shooting into an inhabited dwelling, 500 block of SOLANO STREET

p.m. — Trespassing, ANDERSON DRIVE

p.m. — Shots fired, EMPEROR DRIVE / BARROWS DRIVE

3:29 a.m. — Hit-and-run

Democratic Reps. Katie Porter of Irvine and Adam B. Schiff of Burbank didn’t even wait for Feinstein to make it official before launching rival Senate campaigns in recent weeks. Another Democrat, Rep. Barbara Lee of Oakland, is expected to jump into the contest as well.

Feinstein told the Los Angeles Times in December she did not expect to make a final decision on reelection until the spring. But pressure mounted as the race to replace her moved forward anyway.

The White House was alerted to Feinstein’s plan earlier Tuesday, according to a Feinstein aide.

Feinstein will leave behind a Senate legacy that includes key roles in enacting the nation’s

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Until then, proponents are doing their due diligence to get the ballot measure ready.

Under current law, approval from twothirds of the voters in the nine-county finance authority’s boundary would be needed, though there are constitutional efforts to bring that threshold to 55% for affordable housing bonds.

If Solano County voters rejected the ballot measure, but it passed by enough votes in the other counties, Solano property owners would be assessed a tax based on every $100,000 of property value.

“The Bay Area faces a critical lack of affordable homes, and existing local, state and federal resources are oversub-

only assault weapons ban, releasing documentation of the CIA’s use of torture despite strong pushback from the intelligence community, and blazing a trail for female senators. In November, she became the longestserving female senator in U.S. history.

She indicated Tuesday that she hopes to build on that legacy before leaving Washington.

“I campaigned in 2018 on several priorities for California and the nation: preventing and combating wildfires, mitigating the effects of record-setting drought, responding to the homelessness crisis and ensuring all Americans have access to affordable, high-quality healthcare,” she said in her statement.

Feinstein had long swatted back speculation that she would step down before the end of her term.

Gov. Gavin Newsom fueled such talk in 2021 when he said in an interview that he would

scribed. We need new solutions to ensure every planned housing development gets built and that homes that are currently affordable remain affordable for generations to come,” Justine Marcus, senior state and local policy director for Enterprise Community Partners, said in a statement. “A regional bond will create a dedicated stream of funding that will help support more equitable housing development across the region.”

The Bay Area Housing Finance Authority recently issued research concluding there are 395 affordable housing developments in various stages of predevelopment across the nine-county Bay Area. Those developments represent an estimated 32,944 affordable homes. The funding gap is estimated at $7.6 billion, the finance authority reported.

name a Black woman to the job if Feinstein were to step down.

In recent years, Feinstein faced mounting criticism that she was not up for the demanding job of a senator.

She faced scrutiny at times over confused comments she made to reporters, and for her handling of the confirmation hearings of former President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominees Brett M. Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, when she was the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee.

At the end of Barrett’s hearing, Feinstein praised the committee chairman, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., for his handling of the process, rankling Democrats who were trying not to lend legitimacy to the rushed confirmation just days before the 2020 presidential election.

Under pressure from progressives, Feinstein agreed to step down as the

“The good news is that the sheer size of the predevelopment pipeline gives Bay Area cities, towns and counties a good running start toward meeting the affordable housing production challenge laid down by the state,” Hartley said in the statement. “But to avoid squandering this head start, it’s essential that we unlock the money needed to move these projects from planned to occupied.”

The two agencies reported 45% of Bay Area renters spend more than 30% of their income on housing, with 25% of renters spending more than 50%.

The Association of Bay Area Governments determined in its Regional Housing Needs Allocation Plan that the nine counties in the Bay Area need a combined 180,000 affordable homes by 2031.

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top Democrat on the committee, missing the chance to become the first woman to lead that panel after her party took control of the Senate in 2021. The post went to Sen. Richard J. Durbin of Illinois.

Feinstein balked at suggestions that her age prevented her from doing the job effectively.

A centrist whose bipartisanship increasingly appeared to be from a bygone era and often frustrated progressives, Feinstein is almost certain to be replaced by someone more liberal.

Californians have soured on her performance in recent years. Only 30% of the state’s voters approved of her job performance as of early last year, according to a poll conducted by the University of California, Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies and co-sponsored by the Los Angeles Times. It marked the lowest job performance rating of her Senate career.

share of that is about 1,800 affordable housing units.

“Unlocking the affordable homes currently in predevelopment and ready to be built would meet nearly 20% of this goal, and a regional bond would create a pathway toward achieving that,” the agencies reported. Enterprise Community Partners is a national nonprofit that supports community development organizations, spending $54 billion and creating 873,000 homes across the country since 1982.

The Bay Area Housing Finance Authority was established by the state Legislature in 2019 with the mandate to create regional solutions that meet the Bay Area’s affordable housing needs. It works with the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and the Association of Bay Area Governments.

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of FREMONT COURT

p.m. — Shots fired, 1300

p.m. — Trespassing, 1500

of GATEWAY BOULEVARD

trying to understand –is why this incident occurred,” said Rozman. MSU police released photos of the suspect Monday evening, and shortly after, someone called police to report they had seen the man in Lansing, Rozman said. Police confronted the man, and he shot himself. Police recovered one weapon from his body, but would not confirm if search warrants on his residence turned up anything.

At an emotional news conference Tuesday morning where many wiped away tears, MSU Interim President Teresa Woodruff said the Spartan community is grieving.

“Together, we will come back more resilient than

ever,” Woodruff said, “and more ready to face what is needed in this society, which is the courage of all of us to ensure this never happens again.”

U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin said it was terrible to see a student wearing a sweatshirt with the words “Oxford strong” in a crowd of students fleeing the shooter Monday evening. The shooting comes just 14 months after another at Oxford High School in November 2021 left four students dead and six students and a teacher injured.

“As a representative of Oxford, Michigan, I cannot believe I am here again doing this 15 months later. I am filled with rage that we have to have another press conference about our children being killed in their schools,” Slotkin said. “We have children in Michigan who are living through their second school shooting in a year and a half. If

this is not a wake-up call to do something, I don’t know what is.”

MSU’s campus, typically bustling with more than 50,000 students headed to class or into downtown East Lansing, was silent Tuesday morning.

Very few students were outside and police tape cordoned off Berkey Hall and the Union. A central entrance on to campus right near the Union at Abbott and Grand River, meanwhile, remained blocked off.

East Lansing’s Hannah Community Center will be open for students who need resources or counseling, said East Lansing Mayor Ron Bacon. MSU also has resources for students, Woodruff said, and those will remain until students no longer need it.

Campus is operating on an essentials-only status Tuesday and Wednesday and classes will remain canceled until Monday.

appointment, Amit Pal, was tapped Jan. 24 to fill the vacancy created when Alma Hernandez was elected to the mayor’s post in November.

Elk Ridge is a small community of 4,687 located about 20 miles south of Provo. The largest industry is health care assistance, with about 14.1% of the working population employed in the field. That is followed by education, retail and manufacturing.

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Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) speaks to reporters after departing the Senate Chamber to vote at the U.S. Capitol, Tuesday. Feinstein, California’s longest-serving senator, announced she will not run for reelection.

Solano fire safe councils release Wildfire Expo details

ROCKVILLE — Children will be able to handle hoses in a Wildland Fire Progressive Hose Lay Demonstration at the April 15 Wildfire Safety Expo at Solano Community College.

The agenda details of the event, scheduled from

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meeting Thursday indicates the plumbing and flooring need upgrades along with several other needs that include a new roof, a new HVAC system in about 10 years, a new intrusion system along with a new communications system.

A possible plan for expansion will also be discussed, with a proposed project budget of $29 million.

The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. at the central office, 2490 Hilborn Road in Fairfield.

10 a.m. to 3 p.m., were released Tuesday by the Green Valley and Pleasants Valley fire safe councils.

Among the other activities identified were fire extinguisher demonstrations, hands-only CPR lessons, interactive programs with Red Cross, disaster preparedness information, food trucks and music. There also will

be an inflatable fire house for the kids, and Smokey Bear is set to make an appearance.

Vendor and sponsorship opportunities are still available. Contact Rochelle Sherlock at rochelle@ potentiatellc.com or 707718-5637 to learn more.

The college is located at 4000 Suisun Valley Road in rural Fairfield.

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Haley launches 2024 GOP presidential bid

Nikki Haley, a former South Carolina governor and Donald Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations, announced she was challenging the former president for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination, claiming the mantle of younger leadership.

Haley, 51, is the first after Trump to jump into the race, hoping to carve out a lane as a fresh face in a party that has suffered losses in recent elections. But that lane is likely to be crowded.

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2023,” the city announced. The Ulatis Community Center is located at 1000 Ulatis Drive. For more information, visit www.cityofvacaville.gov/ expo, call 707-469-4020 or send an email to recweb@ cityofvacaville.com.

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Mustangs net playoff soccer upset of Tracy in a shootout

FAIRFIELD — The

No. 11-seed Rodriguez

High School girls soccer team pulled off a stunning upset at No. 6 Tracy that went to a shootout Monday night in the first round of the Sac-Joaquin Section Division III playoffs.

In other playoff games, Dixon earned an opening win. Vacaville and Vanden faced elimination.

Rodriguez and Tracy were scoreless after regulation time, finished tied 1-1 after overtime before the Mustangs outscored the Bulldogs 4-3 on penalty kicks. Rodriguez improved to 9-2-2 overall and will play Wednesday at No. 3 Del Oro in Loomis in the quarterfinals.

Tracy scored on a penalty kick in the first overtime. With two minutes remaining in the second overtime, Kaitlyn Snyder chipped a shot past the Tracy goalie to tie the game.

Goalkeeper Payton King made two saves for Rodriguez during penalty kicks. Snyder, Ella Bellandres, Morgan Witt and Giselle Rodriguez converted their penalty kick opportunities in the tiebreaker.

“It was a blessing to be a part of that game,” Rodriguez head coach Jeffrey Herman said in an email. “Disney movie stuff.”

Dixon enjoyed a 9-2 win Monday in Division IV over Venture Academy of Stockton. No individual statistics were made available from that game. The No. 5 Rams improved to 16-4-1 and advanced to a quarterfinal match Wednesday night at No. 4 Liberty Ranch in Galt.

Vanden allowed three first-half goals Monday in its Division III match at Vista del Lago in Folsom and lost 3-0. Vanden finished 7-6-2 on the season.

Vacaville fell at home Monday 1-0 to Granite Bay. The Bulldogs closed out their season 11-4-5.

3 girls hoops teams win play-in games

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FAIRFIELD —

Mia Marquez knocked down six 3-pointers for a game-high 26 points as the Rodriguez High School girls basketball team edged out visiting Granite Bay 45-44 on Monday night in a SacJoaquin Section Division II play-in game.

Rodriguez, Vacaville and Dixon were all winners Monday night in play-in basketball games.

Marquez dominated the scoring as Roniya Vaughn was next in line for the Mustangs with eight points and Samantha Morris added seven. Rodriguez improved to 11-17 overall.

The teams had identical quarter scoring in all but the third period when the Mustangs had a 12-11 advantage. It proved to be the advantage they needed as Rodriguez and Granite Bay each scored nine

Tiger Woods makes it clear: He’s returning to Riviera for a victory

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LOS ANGELES — It can’t be fond memories of the place, because they are few. Tiger Woods will play the Genesis Invitational at the Riviera Country Club this week, injecting an already star-stacked field with that incomparable Tiger factor.

The gallery will swell. The television audience will skyrocket. Tiger could stumble. Tiger could dazzle.

A spectacle is guaranteed.

It began with Woods addressing the media Tuesday and making it clear that despite five back surgeries, an arduous recovery from a near-fatal car accident and recent issues with planter fasciitis, he is here to win.

“I know some players are ambassadors of the game, but I can’t wrap my mind around that as a competitor,” he said. “If I’m playing in the

event I’m going to try and beat you. I’m there to get a W, OK? So I don’t understand that making the cut’s a great thing. If I entered the event, it’s always to get a W.”

Woods will play his first competitive rounds since missing the cut at the Open Championship at St Andrews in July and his first non-major since 2020. Last year he played only in three majors, finishing 47th at the Masters, missing the cut at the Open and withdrawing from the PGA Championship after the third round. Why here? Why now? Woods has always left Riviera disappointed, from his first pro event as a 17-yearold amateur in 1992 when he didn’t make the cut to 13 starts at the event without a victory. He’s played no other course as many times without a win.

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points in the final quarter.

Rodriguez advanced into a first-round game against top-ranked Christian Brothers that was scheduled to be played Tuesday night in Sacramento. For Vacaville, Brynlie Headrick scored 26 points as the Bulldogs defeated host Lodi 56-49, also in Division II. Kelsey Collins added 13 points for the Bulldogs.

Vacaville improved to 15-10 overall. The Bulldogs were scheduled to face No. 2 seed Vista del Lago on Tuesday night in Folsom.

In Division IV, Dixon beat visiting Highlands 58-36 to improve 15-12 on the season. The Rams were scheduled to play at No. 2 Calaveras on Tuesday night.

Other scheduled games Tuesday had Casa Roble at Vanden in Division III, El Dorado at Will C. Wood in Division III and Rio Vista at Millennium in Division V.

Invitational, which benefits his TGR Foundation. But his name will always be linked to the tournament for another reason, his harrowing, horrific car crash in the early morning of Feb. 23, 2021, on the Palos Verdes peninsula. The accident occurred the day after the tournament, which Woods attended as host but did not play.

Woods’ rehabilitation was lengthy and arduous. He nearly lost his right leg, and problems lingered into last fall when plantar fasciitis in his right heel forced him to pull out of the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas before it began.

“As far as the recovery, it’s more of my ankle, whether I can recover day to day,” he said. “My leg is better. . . . It’s been an interesting balance, a little dance. It’s gotten so much better the last couple months.

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Wood graduate ready to play for Great Britain’s baseball team in WBC

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FAIRFIELD — Will C. Wood High School graduate Alex Crosby will be playing in the upcoming World Baseball Classic as a member of Team Great Britain.

“It’s going to be a super exciting experience,” Crosby said in a telephone interview from his home in Las Vegas. “I’m happy to be a part of it. It’s been a dream of mine growing up.”

Crosby helped the UK qualify for its first WBC appearance in history with a walk-off sacrifice fly in the championship

game of the qualifying tournament. Great Britain will open pool play March 11 against the United States in a game that is scheduled to be televised nationally “in the States” at 7 p.m. on Fox and played at Chase Field in Phoenix.

“That’s going to be a great challenge and we’re looking forward to it,” Crosby said. “We have a lot of young prospects so there is a good foundation for the future.”

The 29-year-old Crosby is a first baseman and third baseman who played

at Will C. Wood, Solano College and Sonoma State. He has spent many years playing independent baseball since college, the last two with the South Maryland Blue Crabs where he has helped the team qualify for the playoffs each season.

Crosby qualified to play for Great Britain by a family connection. His mother Sandra Crosby was born in England. He was spotted on an Instagram post by a team recruiter. The two soon connected and Crosby was able to share his story.

“The power of social media,” Crosby said. Crosby played for the first time with Great Britain in 2019 when the team tried but failed to qualify for the Olympics. The qualifying tournament for the WBC came in September in Germany. Here are others who made significant contributions to their four-year colleges last week.

All athletes could not be listed as winter and spring sports now converge together for the next few weeks with a significant number of area athletes involved.

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Vaca’s Schnell is Player of the Year in MEL boys basketball

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FAIRFIELD — Vacav-

ille High School’s Nathan Schnell earned Player of the Year honors in the Monticello Empire League in recent voting by boys basketball coaches.

Schnell was joined on the first team by Gavin Hamill (Vacaville), Tyler Thompson (Vanden), Sterling McClanahan (Vanden), Gianni Miles (Rodriguez), Johnnie

Jones (Fairfield), Trevor Morris (Armijo) and Isiah Dixon (Will C. Wood).

The honorable mention selections were Nicko Ignacio (Fairfield), Amari Bryant (Fairfield), Joseph Gould (Rodriguez), Jerel Victory (Rodriguez), Cameron Brewer (Rodriguez), Ian Gutierrez (Rodriguez), Zach Schemieh (Rodriguez), Larry Lewis (Vacaville), Jake Knight (Vacaville), Edric Dennis (Vanden), Jayden Hamilton-Holland (Wood)

and Nigel Rogers (Wood).

Wrestling

5 Armijo athletes advance to Masters

FAIRFIELD — Armijo High School’s wrestling team had three boys and two girls advance to Friday’s Sac-Joaquin Section Masters tournaments at the Stockton Arena after strong performances Saturday.

Kendrick Salcedo finished in second place at 285 pounds at the Division II tournament at Laguna Creek High School in Elk Grove. Manny Khangab (115) was fourth and Justice Grimmit (184) came in eighth.

Grace Mercado finished third at 189 pounds in the northern regional girls tournament at Natomas on Saturday. Karissa McDaniels (101) was fourth. Mia Cruz (106) went 2-2 in the tournament.

Vacaville secure team title in Div. II

VACAVILLE — The Vacaville High School wrestling team dominated the field and won the Sac-Joaquin Section Division II championship Saturday at Laguna Creek in Elk Grove. Vacaville have five champions. All 14 wrestlers qualified for Section Masters tournament, which begins Friday at the

Stockton Arena. Vacaville scored 342 team points and was well ahead of second-place Pitman of Turlock (227.5). Winning weight class championships for the Bulldogs were Casey Roberts (128 pounds), Quasi Marini (140), Arjun Nagra (154), Thomas Sandoval (182), and Brady Wight (195). Finishing in second place were Eli Almarinez (108), Wyatt

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Tiger Woods talks about his return during a press conference at Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, Tuesday.

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Covid effects on state will linger for years

Gov. Gavin Newsom says California’s Covid-19 state of emergency will end Feb. 28, just four days shy of three years since he issued the first of countless orders he said were necessary to cope with the pandemic.

“Throughout the pandemic, we’ve been guided by the science and data – moving quickly and strategically to save lives,” Newsom said in October announcing the February end date. “The state of emergency was an effective and necessary tool that we utilized to protect our state, and we wouldn’t have gotten to this point without it.”

The efficacy of Newsom’s pandemic orders will be debated for years, particularly the shutdowns of schools and businesses and the billions of dollars in no-bid contracts his administration issued.

What cannot be debated, however, is that their impacts on millions of Californians will linger for years, decades or perhaps even generations.

Nearly 3 million Californians lost their jobs due to the shutdown orders. While the state has, on paper, recovered all of the jobs it lost, countless small businesses that shut their doors have not reopened.

With work-at-home the growing norm, restaurants and other businesses dependent on concentrated employment were clobbered. The downtowns of the state’s larger cities – including the state capital, Sacramento – were hollowed out and have not, in the main, recovered.

California’s stark divide between haves and have-nots grew wider. Upper-income Californians could do their jobs from home but lower-income service workers simply lost their jobs. Some qualified for unemployment insurance, but a managerial meltdown at the state Employment Development Department delayed, sometimes for months, benefits for legitimate claimants while EDD handed out billions of dollars to fraudsters.

School shutdowns, and the fitful efforts to continue instruction via the internet, had a devastating effect on students, especially those from poor families which lacked technology and whose parents could not work from home.

The “achievement gap” that has long plagued California’s public school system widened even further, recent research has found.

Several new studies add even more evidence the steps taken by the state to combat Covid-19 will have long-term negative impacts.

An analysis by The Associated Press, Stanford University’s Big Local News project and Stanford education professor Thomas Dee determined 234,000 students in 21 states vanished from public school enrollment rolls during the pandemic. More than half of them were in California.

Overall, in those states, enrollment dropped by about 700,000 students, but most of the decline could be explained by enrollments in private schools, movements to other states or shifts to at-home instruction. Of the remaining 234,000 absences for which there was no explanation, researchers said, 152,000 were in California.

The Public Policy Institute of California crunched the numbers and discovered that not only did Covid-19 kill about 100,000 Californians but that the state’s life expectancy, which had been tied for the nation’s highest with Hawaii at 80.9 years, has dropped by two years –the first such decline since World War II.

The Public Policy Institute of California found that the higher death rate has disproportionately affected non-white Californians, particularly Latino and Black residents.

“Between 2019 and 2021, the death rate (deaths per 1,000 residents) increased 51% among Latinos, 31% among Blacks, 26% among AsianAmericans, and 17% among whites,” the Public Policy Institute of California reported.

Finally, a new study by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research found that Newsom’s stay-at-home orders, affecting businesses, child care centers and school, created financial hardships that led to psychological distress and a sharp increase in turmoil and conflict, including domestic violence.

Some Covid-19 victims are experiencing long Covid, with lasting debilitative effects. California suffers from lingering effects as well. CalMatters is a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s state Capitol works and why it matters. For more columns by Dan Walters, go to Commentary.

Before last Sunday’s Super Bowl, actress Sheryl Lee Ralph sang a powerful rendition of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” a hymn dubbed the “Black national anthem.”

Due to the performance, mega MAGA-enthusiasts lost their collective minds decrying “wokeness” at the Super Bowl. How dare an event that brings a diverse audience together try to inspire us with a song of inclusion?

I have to concede, it’s often cringeworthy when corporate America tries to pander to various groups. And when the establishment tries to co-opt the streets, the streets flee. The NFL has been trying to walk the line between stifling protest and encouraging dissent. In 2017, when Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones dropped to a knee along with his players, it marked the death-knell of the kneeling protest.

But Ralph did the song justice. If we had consistent Black history taught to our kids, they and you might know that “Lift Every Voice and Sing” was written in 1900 by James Weldon Johnson as a poem and later set to music by his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson. In 1919, the NAACP dubbed it the “Negro national anthem.”

As an interesting side note, “The

Crunch-time is when events border on disaster and decisions need to be made.

Well, crunch-time is here.

In fact, it’s been with us since Donald Trump was elected president. We’ve witnessed fruitless attempts to malign him – even after Joe Biden became president – as progressives try to keep Trump from running again. This has resulted in widespread loss of trust in the federal government and the media.

The Biden presidency has been a disaster from Day One. Start with the dozens of executive orders that dismantled many of Trump’s successful moves – most obviously, killing the Keystone XL pipeline project that would have continued America’s energy independence and brought prosperity to hundreds of thousands in Canada and our central states, and restrictions on drilling here at home. The result was instant inflation as fuel prices rose and everything that depends on transportation with them.

Star-Spangled Banner” officially became the national anthem of the United States in 1931.

But for those upset that such a “woke” song was broadcast on such a massive stage, I’m going to let you in on a little secret. “Lift Every Voice and Sing” isn’t really the Black national anthem.

Second, I would be surprised if even most African-Americans are familiar with the song. They may have known of the song but never heard it.

I have more spoilers. Bill Clinton was said to be the first Black president. (Nope, that was Barack Obama.) Attorney Benjamin Crump is often called Black America’s attorney general. (He isn’t. Merrick Garland is.) The music group The Time has a song called “Donald Trump (Black Version)” and many rappers have rapped about being the Black Trump in songs I’m sure they all regret. Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes is said to be the best Black quarterback playing. (He is. And he’s simply the best quarterback playing.)

Also, neither Captain Kangaroo, Cap’n Crunch, or Daryl Dragon, the Captain from “Captain and Tennille” were actual captains.

I’m being facetious but it’s maddening that supposedly serious-

minded people are upset with the song. Last year, comedian Bill Maher expressed outrage on his HBO show about the song. He, like many, had never heard of the song and was incensed at it being called the “Black national anthem.” To which I’d say, perhaps if Bill and others knew more about American history, they wouldn’t be suckers for manufactured outrage. The faux outrage is enough to make one want to scream.

Just because a song is known colloquially as “the Black national anthem” doesn’t mean anyone wants to replace “The Star-Spangled Banner” with it. It doesn’t mean it’s a separatist anthem. This past Sunday’s performance was produced by a corporate entity who’d mishandled protests over police brutality, trying to make up for it in this ham-handed way. I don’t question Sheryl Lee Ralph’s motives at all.

And if a song of hope and purpose performed at the Super Bowl upsets bigots, disturbs the easily unsettled and rattles the foundations of your safe spaces, that just makes me want to lift my voice and sing even louder. Peace.

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

Immediately after that, we witnessed the humiliating and heart-wrenching evacuation from Afghanistan. Biden left thousands of Afghans who had worked with our military forces to the “mercy” of the Taliban, and tens of billions of dollars of military equipment that made the Taliban the fourth largest military in the world. This showed Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping that Biden was weak and incompetent, and triggered their subsequent moves in Ukraine and Taiwan, respectively.

China’s spy balloon is just more piece of evidence of their disdain for us. Our government’s assertion that the balloon did no harm to our national interests is ridiculous. It collected communications – military as well as your Facebook conversations – that are not possible with satellites, and sent them via satcom back to China. Our allies in both regions have been rethinking their assumptions

that America would honor its mutual defense commitments. All are reinforcing regional alliances. We may find ourselves wondering who we can count on when the next confrontation comes.

Here at home, we worry about high fuel and food prices, failing public school systems and things that we’ve long taken for granted –and well we should as they affect our daily lives. But we must not lose sight of what’s happening outside our boundaries.

My fear is that Russia or China will push the nuclear button –maybe both together. And I have little confidence in the present commander-in-chief and Pentagon leadership. We are closer to World War III than at any time since the Cuban Missile Crisis.

So I say once again: it’s crunch-time.

Dan Walters

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As Donna Kelce sported a black-and-red denim jacket and light-up high-top shoes during an interview before the Super Bowl on Sunday, Monica Blakely cried at her Maryland home.

Fewer than two weeks ago, Blakely had messaged Kelce on social media, offering to create a jacket that would represent her fandom for her sons, playing on opposing teams in Sunday’s game. Jason is a center for the Philadelphia Eagles, and his younger brother, Travis, is a tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs.

To Blakely’s surprise, Kelce responded within minutes. Four days later, Blakely sent a jacket and shoes containing an even mix of Chiefs and Eagles colors to Kelce, who flaunted the outfit all week in Glendale, Ariz., and on State Farm Stadium’s field.

“To see my stuff on these networks, it’s overwhelming. It’s amazing. It’s incredible,” Blakely, 36, told The Washington Post. “I can’t find the words to truly describe the feeling because there’s just so many feelings mixed together.”

After having her daughter, Ezra, in January 2013, Blakely was looking for work with a flexible schedule. As a child, Blakely had loved arts and crafts projects, so she started a clothing and home decor business in December 2013 called Passion for Ezra.

Blakely quickly incorporated her lifelong passion for the National Football League into her designs. From those early days, then in the basement of her parents’ Olney, Md., home, Blakely designed wreaths featuring NFL teams’ colors and logos. Blakely, a Washington Commanders fan, arranged her schedule around NFL games and its draft. Over the next nineplus years, her business grew by word-of-mouth recommendations, and Blakely opened offices in Olney and Columbia, Md.

After watching the Chiefs and Eagles qualify for the Super Bowl on Jan. 29, Blakely read about Kelce’s experience raising her NFL-bound sons. Blakely, who said she’d do anything to help Ezra achieve her goal of becoming an actress, related to Kelce’s affection for her children.

“She’s the ultimate mom goal,” Blakely said. “She’s doing everything a mom who absolutely loves her kids would do. When I saw that passion behind it and that dedication to her kids, I was like, ‘I got to make this for her.’”

From her Columbia home on Jan. 31, Blakely said she messaged Kelce on five social media platforms with an offer: “I’d love to make you something. I think I have an idea of what would be perfect.”

Blakely didn’t expect a response, but when Kelce

agreed minutes later, Blakely went to work. She wanted the jacket to be symmetrical to reflect Kelce’s equal love for her sons. She cut one red and one black denim jacket in half and sewed them together.

She sketched and painted logos for both teams and the sons’ numbers – 62 for Jason and 87 for Travis. On the back of the jacket, Blakely sewed the letters “KELCE” across the top, with the colors split in the middle of the “L.” The “EAGLES” and “CHIEFS” names on the sleeves face each other to represent the teams’ Super Bowl showdown.

Blakely also made two pairs of shoes for Kelce, who wore the high-top sneakers on Sunday. The left shoe is gray and black, and features an Eagles logo on the tongue and “62” on the toe box. The right shoe is red and gold, with a Chiefs logo on the tongue and “87” on the toe box.

Kelce told Blakely she didn’t like glitter, but Blakely found another way for the footwear to shine. She inserted lights into the outsoles that flash on each step. The left shoe displays green lights; the right showcases red lights. All told, Blakely said she worked on the outfit for about 30 hours.

Blakely said she sent the

Monica Blakely/The Washington Post photos Monica Blakely designed a denim jacket, above, and high-top shoes for Donna Kelce to wear during the Super Bowl, Sunday.

items to Kelce’s agent on Feb. 4. She worried Kelce wouldn’t like or wear them, but within a day, Kelce received the package and expressed her appreciation, Blakely said. Kelce showcased the jacket on ESPN on Tuesday and discussed it in interviews last week with GQ and Today.

A photo of Kelce wearing the attire before Sunday’s game went viral on Twitter, and she donned it while giving on-field interviews before the game.

Blakely was so grateful to Kelce that she and her husband, Taylor, matched their Super Bowl alliances with Kelce’s. Blakely supported the Chiefs; Taylor rooted for the Eagles.

Over the years, Blakely has felt fulfilled by her customers’ reactions to their new clothes and by opportunities to donate masks at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. But Kelce’s outfit gathering international attention gave Blakely even more validation. Blakely hopes the publicity will lead to more opportunities to design clothes for NFL players and their families, which she said is her dream job.

“It’s 10 years of hard work,” Blakely said. “. . . I started in my parents’ basement, and now I have stuff in the Super Bowl.”

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unpopular because of his union with England and his connection with the aforementioned massacre.

Whatever the actual reason, a Scotsman would have his eye firmly planted on the critical card in today’s seven-heart contract.

After North made a limit raise, South bid what he thought he could make.

One declarer ruffed the club-king lead, drew three rounds of trumps and cashed the diamond king. East’s discard was a blow as powerful as any struck at Glencoe on that fateful day. With only one trump remaining in the dummy, South had an unavoidable diamond loser. Eventually he took the spade finesse, but it lost, and he was down one.

THE CURSE OF SCOTLAND

The diamond nine is known as the Curse of Scotland. A British “Bridge Magazine” editor gave six possible explanations – all unlikely to be the right one! They ranged from the order for the Massacre of Glencoe in 1692 being written on the back of the card to the nine lozenges that formed the arms of the Earl of Stair, who was especially

The successful declarer saw that he needed only four diamond tricks, not five. So, after drawing trumps, he led a low diamond toward the dummy, planning to finesse the Curse. However, when West split his honors, declarer calmly played dummy’s three.

Winning the spade switch in hand, South finessed the Curse, cashed the diamond king and spade ace, ruffed a club in hand and cashed the diamond ace-queen, discarding the club seven and spade jack from the dummy. A spade ruff in the dummy gave declarer 12 tricks: two spades, five hearts, four diamonds and the spade ruff.

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U2 will launch residency in Las Vegas this fall

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U2 is heading to Sin City for a residency inaugurating the Las Vegas skyline’s latest architectural feat: the MSG Sphere at the Venetian Resort.

The Irish band, which hasn’t played live since December 2019, announced over the weekend that the “U2: UV Achtung Baby” residency will debut in the fall. Exact dates have not yet been announced, but fans were told to register through Ticketmaster for ticket information and forthcoming details.

What we do know is that the quartet will be down one original band member when the band returns to the stage.

Bono, the Edge and Adam Clayton will be joined by drummer Bram van den Berg, who will be sitting at the kit instead of founding member Larry Mullen Jr. as the latter takes “time out to undergo and recuperate from surgery in 2023,” the band said in a statement.

“It’s going to take all we’ve got to approach the Sphere without our bandmate in the drum seat, but Larry has joined us in welcoming Bram van den Berg who is a force in his own right,” Bono, the Edge and Clayton said.

The band didn’t provide details about Mullen’s health concerns but the Washington Post reported in November that the 61-year-old had issues with his neck and elbows that needed surgery.

“The Sphere show has been in the works for a long time. We don’t want to let people down, least of all our audience … the truth is we miss them as much as they appear to miss us … our audience was always the fifth member of the band,” the group said in a statement on its website. “Bottom line, U2 hasn’t played live since December 2019 and we need to get back on

stage and see the faces of our fans again.”

The Rock and Roll Hall of Famers announced the MSG Sphere series of shows during a commercial that aired Sunday during the Super Bowl. The spot featured an imposing sphere looming over fans across the globe.

The new concerts will focus on the band’s critically acclaimed 1991 LP, “Achtung Baby,” which was nominated for an album of the year Grammy Award in 1993 and won the prize for rock performance by a duo or group with vocals that same year. Oscar winner Davis Guggenheim (“An Inconvenient Truth”) also chronicled the making of the album that revived U2’s early career slump for the 2011 documentary “From the Sky Down.”

U2 praised the Sphere’s “unique stage,” which Madison Square Garden Co. officials announced in 2018. The 17,500-seat arena is set to open in the fall and is designed “with sound quality as a priority” and boasts the first 16K screen “that wraps up, around, and behind the audience,” according to press statement.

The Dublin-found band has reportedly performed only twice without all four of its members since getting together in 1976. Mullen missed a show after breaking his foot in a motorcycle accident in 1978 and Clayton missed a performance in Australia because of health concerns in 1993, according to Bono’s new memoir, “Surrender.”

In January, U2 announced the March 17 release of its latest album, “Songs of Surrender.” The collection includes 40 songs from the band’s decadeslong catalog that have been reimagined for 2023 and that were rerecorded over the last two years.

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TV sports

Basketball College Men

• Alabama at Tennessee, ESPN2, 4 p.m.

NBA

• Brooklyn at Miami, ESPN, 4:30 p.m.

• New Orleans at L.A. Lakers, ESPN, 7 p.m.

Hockey NHL

• Chicago at Toronto, TNT, 4 p.m.

• Colorado at Minnesota, TNT, 6:30 p.m.

soccer Champions League

• Dortmund vs. Chelsea, 5, 13, Noon.

Thursday’s TV sports

Basketball College Men

• Houston at SMU, ESPN2, 4 p.m.

• Iowa at Ohio State, ESPN2, 6 p.m.

• San Diego at Saint Mary’s, NBCSBA, 6 p.m.

• Stanford at UCLA, ESPN2, 8 p.m.

• Pacific at San Francisco, NBCSBA, 8 p.m.

College Women

• Louisville at Notre Dame, ESPN, 4 p.m.

NBA

• Milwaukee at Chicago, TNT, 4:30 p.m.

• L.A. Clippers at Phoenix, TNT, 7 p.m.

Golf • PGA, The Genesis Invitational, GOLF, 1 p.m.

• DP World, Thailand Classic, GOLF, 9:30 p.m.

Hockey NHL

• New Jersey at St. Louis, ESPN, 6 p.m.

• San Jose at Vegas, NBCSCA, 7 p.m.

Local

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Sandoval (115), Landon Borchers (122), Isaac Padilla (134), Ayden Ducharme (147), Carson Howell (160), Caleb Borchers (170) and Jai Guerra (220).

Pablo Lopez (heavyweight) finished in fourth place.

Wood boys, girls ready for Masters

VACAVILLE — Three

Will C. Wood High School wrestlers on the boys side and five on the girls side turned in strong performances Saturday to qualify for Friday’s start of the Sac-Joaquin Section Masters tournaments at Stockton Arena.

Vaea Salt took second place at 195 pounds for the Wildcats at the Division II boys tournament at Laguna Creek High School in Elk Grove. Tim Ahn (106) and Andres Maldonato (126) each finished sixth and advanced as well.

The girls finished in sixth place overall at the northern region tournament in Natomas. It was the highest placement in program history.

Levi Crabtree (118) finished second for the Lady Wildcats. Sophia Villoria (101) and Josie Mays (132) were both fifth. Madison Devalle (121) and Djesire Emerson (189) each finished sixth.

College Woods powers SCC women over Merritt

ROCKVILLE — Jaslyn Woods scored 20 points and had five rebounds,

Woods

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I wouldn’t put myself out here if I didn’t think I could beat these guys.”

Once they got over the shock of Woods tweeting that he’d play this week, his fellow golfers expressed delight at the prospect of seeing him with a club in his hands.

“I was surprised, I actually didn’t know when to expect to see Tiger,” said Justin Rose, who watched Woods, 47, play with his son, Charlie, in the PNC Championship in December. “He looked impressive there. In terms of the important part of can you

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BASKETBALL

Raiders officially release QB Derek Carr

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eight assists and five steals as the Solano Community College women’s basketball team earned an 80-68 win at Merritt Monday night in Oakland.

Dominique Eaglin added 14 rebounds and 11 rebounds. Julia Wright and Ale Ibarra had 10 points apiece.

The Falcons improved to 17-9 overall and 10-2 in the Bay Valley Conference.

Solano closes out the regular season this week with games Wednesday at Contra Costa and Friday at Los Medanos. The Falcons will learn of their playoff opponent next weekend after brackets are set.

Solano softball sweeps twinbill

ROCKVILLE — The Solano Community College softball team picked up its first two wins of the season Tuesday with a doubleheader sweep at home against Ohlone.

Solano won the first game 5-4 and followed it up with a 10-1 victory in in just five innings in the nightcap. The Falcons improved to 2-5 overall.

Alyssa Sellers went 2-for-3 at the plate with a double and an RBI.

Kaylee Hawkins also had two hits and drove in a run. Alexis Wright pitched eight innings and allowed two earned runs and struck out five.

Isa Alegra went 3-for-3 in the second game.

Bianca Belo-Diaz was 2-for-4 with an RBI from the leadoff spot. Nayzeth Gonzales and Naiya Watts combined on a five-hitter with five strikeouts. Solano has a home doubleheader Friday beginning at noon against Redwoods.

hit a golf ball, can you get a ball in the hole, all of that seemed really in order.

“But we know that’s definitely not the thing he struggles with, right? It’s obviously the physical side of putting together four rounds of golf and a really good sign to see him in the field and feeling willing and able to get out here.”

The Genesis will feature 23 of the top 25 players in the Official World Golf Ranking as well as the top 30 in the FedExCup standings. Woods, who is tied with Sam Snead for the most career PGA Tour victories at 82, will play with Justin Thomas and Rory McIlroy the opening two rounds.

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Men’s basketball

Senior guard Jordan Adams (Vacaville, Solano) had his highest point total of the season when he went for 21 points, five rebounds and one assist on Senior Night in an 88-87 win over Ottawa University of Surprise, Arizona.

Women’s basketball

Sophomore forward

Joia Armstrong (Vanden) had 19 points, six rebounds, two assists, one blocked shot and one steal for Stanislaus State in an 82-71 loss to Cal State San Marcos. Armstrong also had 10 points, nine rebounds, two blocked shots and one steal in a 74-55 loss to Cal State Los Angeles.

Senior guard Myli

tiating a contract with other teams.

From the Raiders’ perspective, cutting Carr means getting out from under the three-year, $121 million contract extension they agreed to last year. The Raiders will be docked a $5,625,000 dead cap hit but will save $29.25 million in 2023.

They are now projected to have approximately $50 million in cap

Martinez helped Chico State to an 81-62 win over Cal State Los Angeles with 19 points, five rebounds and two assists.

Softball

Graduate student and outfielder Megan Massa (Rodriguez) collected 12 hits from her leadoff spot as Concordia Irvine went 5-3 during the week in games against Montana State, Billings, Northwest Nazarene, Colorado Christian and San Francisco State. Massa also scored five runs and had an RBI.

Senior outfielder Brooke Mitchell (Vacaville) had four hits and scored two runs for Army as the Black Knights went 2-2 in games against Buffalo and Jacksonville State.

Junior pitcher Dariana Orme (Vanden) picked up a win for Baylor as the Bears beat Southern Utah 12-2. Orme pitched three innings and allowed just one earned run to

space when free agency opens next month.

The Raiders had hoped to trade Carr before the deadline to get an asset in return – and they had the framework of a deal in place last week with the Saints – but he wouldn’t waive his no-trade clause after meeting with the Saints.

go with one walk and one strikeout.

Sophomore outfielder Tai Wilson (Vanden) collected six hits, scored four runs and drove in three RBIs for Seattle University. The Redhawks went 3-2 in games against University of the Pacific, UC Davis, Rutgers, Santa Clara and Sacramento State.

Senior third baseman Lewa Day (Armijo) picked up five hits, scored two runs and had four RBIs for Sacramento State. The Hornets went 2-2 in games against Utah Valley, UOP, Rutgers and Seattle.

Men’s tennis

Junior Marcus McDaniel (Kimme Charter) had three wins in singles and three in doubles for Georgia Tech. The Yellow Jackets lost to South Carolina (4-3) and Georgia (5-2) but beat Citadel (7-0). McDaniel is playing No. 2 in singles and is part of the No. 1 doubles team.

Women’s gymnastics

Cal stayed unbeaten after tying Oregon State at a meet in Corvallis at 197.375 points. Senior Neveah DeSouza (Fairfield, DreamXtreme Gymnastics Center) was third in the all-around (39.500), third on the uneven bars (9.900) and third in the vault (9.850). Maddie Williams (Vacaville, DreamXtreme) tied for third on the uneven bars (9.900).

San Jose State earned a win over Air Force. Junior Jaudai Lopez (Buckingham, Dream Xtreme) tied for first in the vault (9.850).

Freshman Amelia Moneymaker (Del Oro, Dream Xtreme) helped UC Davis win the Causeway Classic of Gymnastics over Sacramento State. Moneymaker tied for first in the floor exercise (9.925) and tied for second on the uneven bars (9.850).