Daily Republic: Wednesday, March 8, 2023

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Vanden boys lose NorCal finals in overtime B1

Vallejo homeless project, NorthBay, ag get last of pandemic

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FAIRFIELD —

NorthBay Health will get $4.5 million of the $14.2 million it had requested in pandemic relief funding, dollars to help close a nearly $100 million deficit due to providing Covid-19 care.

Supervisors OK updated Capital

Facilities Improvement Plan

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FAIRFIELD — The county Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved an updated five-year, $288.33 million Capital Facilities Improvement Plan through 2026-27 – with $25.93 million in projects completed since July 1; $7.27 million in projects expected to be completed by June 30; and $99.89 million in projects carried over into 2023-24.

Among the highlighted projects completed this fiscal year is the $8.82 million Animal Care administration replacement project at 2510 Clay Bank Road in Fairfield. It took several years and was completed through a number of phases, it was reported.

The county also competed the $1.47 million Juvenile Detention

Facility Security System upgrade, and the jewel of the project list, the 36-bed, $14.525 million mental health residence and treatment facility.

Expected to be completed by June 30 are the $3.8 million Security Camera Replacement project at the main jail, located at 500 Union Ave. in Fairfield, and a $1.4 million card access project at various county locations.

The project that runs through the entire plan is the massive $54 million Energy Conservation and Resiliency project, which also includes three separate projects that were melded into the original package.

Seven of the individual pieces have been completed: solar installation at the William J. Carroll Government Center, the Juvenile Detention Facility and the Fair-

field Civic Center Library; LED street lighting at various sites; and at the Health and Social Services campus, a new roof and new heating and air units.

The county also is working toward recharging capabilities that will be be needed as the work fleet is transitioned to electric vehicles.

“In order to do that, we have to figure out how we are going to charge them,” General Services Director Megan Grieve said.

Also in the planning stages is providing transitional housing for juvenile inmates as they transfer back into the community. The primary focus of that are those inmates who are coming back to the county from state facilities. They typically have committed far more serious and often violent crimes

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The funding decision by the Solano County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday was part of a compromise that included $1.5 million toward a new navigation center in Vallejo – the project needed $2 million to fill a construction gap –and $383,000 that will go toward grants for small farmers and ranchers affected by the pandemic.

The details of the ag program still must be worked out.

The board also voted to give up to $1.5 million more to NorthBay Health from funds that have been allocated, but that are not

spent and come back to the county.

“I’m absolutely speechless,” said Sheniece Smith, chief administrative officer and chief counsel for NorthBay Health. “I just want you to know it makes a difference.”

Smith was one of several people who gave the board a standing ovation after the 5-0 vote, ending the supervisors’ tormented effort to distribute the final $6.38 million in

See Dollars, Page A8

Council listening tour morphs into formal meeting dates, but informal agendas

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FAIRFIELD — The City Council is taking its show on the road.

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Another atmospheric river system has set its sights on California, raising considerable concern about flooding and structural damage as warm rain is expected to fall atop the state’s near-record snowpack this week, forecasters say.

“It now appears increasingly likely that a potentially significant and very likely warm atmospheric river event will probably affect some portion of Northern or Central California sometime between about late Thursday and Saturday,” UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain said during a briefing Monday. Last week, the odds of such a system developing were about 20%. By Monday, the chances had increased to “7 or 8 out of 10, if not higher, for a warm atmospheric river event of some magnitude,” Swain said. At least one more storm could

follow this month. The forecast comes as California is mired in remarkably deep snowpack amid one of its wettest winters on record. A series of nine atmospheric river storms hammered the state in early January, causing levee breaches, widespread flooding and nearly two dozen deaths.

In recent weeks, strong winter storms dropped piles of fresh powder across the Sierra

Nevada and other areas, including the mountains of Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties, where some residents remain trapped behind feet of snow.

Officials said the bounty made a dent in the state’s extreme drought conditions and offered some hope for strained water supplies after three bone-dry years. But heavy snowpack can also become a hazard if it meets with warm rain

that melts it too quickly. “We’re going to see rain on top of snow, and for elevations of say 2,000 feet to about 4,000 feet, a lot of that snow is going to melt,” said Carlos Molina, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Hanford, Calif. “We’re going to basically lose a lot of the snow that fell from the previous storms. We’re looking at potential for flooding.” Indeed, the highest likelihood of flood-related impacts are in lowerelevation areas with unusually deep snowpack, Swain said. Small rivers and streams in those areas will see significant potential for runoff issues, as will some urban areas – particularly in places where storm drains are already clogged by snow. There may also be problems at elevations above 5,000 or 6,000 feet, he said. Though snowpack

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What started as an informal “listening tour” of Mayor Catherine Moy and Vice Mayor Pam Bertani visiting each of the city’s six council districts – with the representative of that district joining in – will now be a series of noticed meetings so all seven council members can attend without violating the state’s open meeting law.

Still, the concept behind the “Heart to Heart Listening Tour” remains the same, one of letting the residents speak their minds on any issue they wish.

No action by the council is expected at any of the gatherings.

Councilman Doug Carr cautioned about letting the meetings become too formal, or they will lose the flexibility of letting the residents dictate the agenda.

But Councilwoman K. Patrice Williams would like the top two or three

issues facing the city to be agendized and then also open the sessions up to any other topic. The mayor and vice mayor will work with the district representative to set what kind of gathering is desired.

While the idea did create some controversy due to the lack of communication with the council members, Moy and Bertani said it was never intended to exclude anyone. However, Moy said she was conscious of the fact they were never meant to be noticed meetings, so council majorities showing up would be a Ralph M. Brown Act violation.

In the end, Councilman Rick Vaccaro said these meetings will allow the council members to stretch beyond their districts, noting that while they represent a specific district, they also represent the city as a whole.

The dates, times and locations still need to be determined, though the first meeting is set for Councilwoman Doriss Panduro’s District 5.

You can’t fix stupid – or can you?

It is often said that you can’t fix stupid. The fact is, maybe you can and maybe you can’t.

According to neuroscientist Bobby Azarian, “there are a lot of stupid people in the world and their stupidity presents a constant danger to others.” Retired educator and writer Len Holman worries that “We have become a nation of thoughtless rushers, intent on doing before thinking, and hoping what we do magically works out. If it doesn’t, we rush to do something else, something also not well thought-out, and then hope for more magic.”

The core problem is that stupid people are typically ignorant of their own ignorance. Take for example, when a politician with no medical training tries to provide medical advice (e.g., treating Covid by injecting oneself with bleach) . . . flat out stupid. Or when a recently credentialed high school history teacher spends an entire hour

In brief

Docent training, volunteer recruitment events set Saturday

FAIRFIELD — The Solano Land Trust is offering docent training during the day, and holding an evening volunteer event Saturday.

“Docents are at the heart of what Solano Land Trust does. They lead interpretive hikes on open space properties, inspire children through fun and educational field trips, and communicate the importance of conserving open agricultural land,” the Land Trust said in a statement.

A recruiting event “to train fresh, new and enthusiastic volunteers to become Solano Land Trust docents” is set for 10 a.m. Saturday at the Rush Ranch nature center.

“Training will cover content for Rush Ranch field trips and review Solano Land Trust’s guidelines, protocol and expectations for leading guided tours on all its properties,” the Land Trust stated.

To register, go to https:// solanolandtrust.org/event/ docent-training-refresher.

A volunteer recruitment and appreciation event is set for 5 p.m. the same day at Journey Downtown, 300 Main St., in Vacaville.

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teaching the principles of Hegel’s Dialectic to a classroom of bored-stiff freshmen . . . a bonehead move. Or consider a successful attorney, late for a meeting, who barrels down the freeway and then suddenly cuts across four lanes of heavy traffic in order to catch the turnoff . . . dumb as a bag of hammers.

But exactly what does it mean to be stupid? To begin, stupidity is an indelible human trait. We’re all stupid from time to time. Stupidity is as inevitable as burping up a spicy meatball sandwich. Stupidity has absolutely no regard for one’s level of education or status in life. Some of the most successful and accomplished people I’ve ever known have committed acts of stupidity that make The Three Stooges look like Rhodes Scholars. In a nutshell, stupidity is not simply a lack of intelligence or knowledge, but rather a failure to

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use one’s cognitive abilities effectively.

Psychologist Philip Chard maintains stupidity “is less about the absence of head smarts and more about a paucity of common sense.” To quote Forrest Gump, “Stupid is as stupid does.”

Finally, we generally attribute stupidity to someone who engages in impulsive or risky behavior, absentmindedly makes unforced errors, or expresses (or acts upon) beliefs untethered from facts or evidence. Stupid behaviors also emerge from a lack of self-awareness or an inflated sense of personal intellect or competence.

The typical workplace provides fertile ground for stupid behaviors. Stanford professor James March paints a bleak picture of how complex organizations cultivate stupidity:

n Many things are happening at once.

n Practices and technologies are changing and poorly understood.

n Preferences, identities, rules and perceptions are constantly changing.

n Problems, solutions, opportunities, ideas, situations, people and outcomes are mixed together in ways that make their interpretation uncertain.

n Decisions at one time and place appear to have only a loose tie to decisions at other times.

n Solutions seem to have only a modest connection to problems.

n Decision makers wander in and out of decision arenas and seem to say one thing while doing another.

What can be done to make us less stupid? Marsha Lovett from the Missouri Department of Education offers a starting place. “We need to develop an awareness of what we are doing, where we are going and how are we going there; we need to know what to do when we do not know what to do. Such self-regulation, or metacognitive skills, are one of the ultimate goals of all learning.”

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Leadership author Nicole Lipkin adds that metacognitive thinking enables us to respond thoughtfully to situations rather than with knee-jerk reactions. In essence, it’s about deepening one’s self-awareness around any default mode of thinking and about creating awareness around the full spectrum of one’s thought processes.

Charles Fadel, from the Center for Curriculum Redesign, sums up the issue nicely. By becoming more aware of our own thinking through forthright retrospective and prospective reflection, we also improve our ability to effectively apply and transfer our knowledge, skills and character attributes to current and future contexts. Can’t fix stupid? I’m not so sure about that.

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

“Join Solano Land Trust staff and fellow current and future volunteers for a festive gathering at Journey Downtown . . . Ten dollars covers pizza and a chance to win raffle prizes. Wine and spirits will be available for purchase,” the Land Trust stated.

Prop. 19 calculation gives bigger tax break to home, farm transfers

FAIRFIELD — An additional 2.26% in tax savings were approved for those who transfer their home or family farm to their children or grandchildren.

The state Board of Equalization took the action Monday, adjusting the $1 million exclusion for Proposition 19 intergenerational transfers occurring from Feb. 16 through Feb. 15, 2025.

The adjusted value was a little more than $1.022 million, the BOE reported.

Proposition 19 allows for a principal residence or a family farm to be transferred between a parent and a child, or between a grandparent and a grandchild if the grandchild’s parents are deceased. The transfer comes without a property tax increase up to a certain value if the property continues to be the principal residence or the

“The excludable amount is capped equal to the principal residence or family farm’s taxable value at the time of transfer, plus $1.022 million. As part of the requirements, the transferee must apply for the homeowners’ or disabled veterans’ exemption within one year of the purchase or transfer of the family home or farm.

For the latest information on Proposition 19, visit https://boe.ca.gov/.

Vaca Opera House hosts Wedding Open

VACAVILLE — People are invited to come for a day of sampling food and talking to entertainers, florists and other wedding vendors who can help with the complete startto-finish planning of that special event.

All will be on hand at the Wedding Open House from 5 to 8 p.m. March 30 at the Opera House, 560 E. Main St. in Vacaville.

Register in order to enter the drawing for prizes from vendors.

For more information and to register, call 707-446-4441.

Easter bunnies, egg hunts return soon to Vacaville

VACAVILLE — Easter is on its way, and Vacaville will see several Easter egg hunts and events for the

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The first event will be an Underwater Egg Hunt from 1 to 4 p.m. April 1 at the Walter Graham Aquatic Center, 1100 Alamo Drive.

This event is for children 12 or younger.

Children can be preregistered for a smaller fee than at the door the day of the event.

A Bunny Breakfast, with the Easter Bunny and friends, will occur from 8:30 to 10 a.m. April 8 at the McBride Senior Center, 91 Town Square Place. This event is for children 2 or older, with preregistration required at 707-449-5100.

Also on April 8, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., will be the Bunnies and Bonnets

Easter Egg Hunt at Andrews Park, 614 E. Monte Vista Ave.

Children need to bring their own baskets to search for eggs with Miss Bunny Bonnet.

Wilson to hold open house Friday

FAIRFIELD — An open house for the new district office for Assemblywoman Lori Wilson will held Friday.

The event is scheduled for 2 to 6 p.m. at One

Harbor Center, Suite 270.

“We are thrilled to open our new district office and be able to provide even better services to the residents of our community,” Wilson, the former mayor of Suisun City, said in a statement. “The office represents our commitment to providing high-quality, accessible services that help improve the lives of everyone in the district.”

Wilson, a Democrat, represents the 11th Assembly District, which includes all of Solano County. For more information, go to https://a11. asmdc.org/.

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Tri-City NAACP leader is Solano Woman of the Year

FAIRFIELD — Nikila

Gibson, a Solano County Black business advocate and president of the TriCity NAACP, has been named Solano County Woman of the Year.

State Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, bestowed the honor on Gibson for being “a champion of social equity and racial justice, while promoting holistic child development and environmental sustainability.”

“Clearly, Black entrepreneurship is essential to Solano County, and Nikila has been instrumental in making it happen,” Dodd said Monday in his announcement. “At the same time, she’s advanced social equity, child-centered programs and sustainable business practices that will protect our region for generations

to come. It’s a remarkable achievement and I am happy to recognize Nikila for her leadership and success.”

Gibson stated, “In order to create a more equitable and just world for all, we must recognize that environmental justice, social equity and justice, and child-centered advocacy are all interrelated and must be addressed together in a holistic manner.

“As a passionate advocate for this cause, I have actively engaged in speaking publicly, building coalitions, empowering the community through awareness, and engaging with policymakers to promote meaningful change. I would like to express my gratitude to Sen. Dodd for his recognition of this essential work.”

Gibson is a lifelong Fairfield resident and a self-described serial

entrepreneur.

She launched her first business, a child-development advocacy group promoting “whole-child” learning, about a decade ago. She opened Lave Wash, a sustainable laundry delivery service featuring toxin-free and non-polluting products, in 2017.

“At the same time, she’s served as a Black business advocate and consultant, helping people build and strategize new businesses. After serving as economic development director of the Tri-City NAACP, she was named the organization’s president in January. Nikila speaks frequently on racial and social equity and environmental justice issues, including a need for access to healthy foods and more green spaces for communities of color,” the Didd statement said. She also has been

involved with the Solano Resource Conservation District, Solano County Black Chamber of Commerce and Fairfield-Suisun Chamber of Commerce. She helped organize the second annual Vacaville Black History celebration, Suisun City’s first Juneteenth celebration and was an environmental justice panelist at the California/Hawaii NAACP 35th annual state convention.

Gibson and her husband have four daughters.

Dodd represents the 3rd Senate District, which includes all of Solano County as well as all or parts of Napa, Yolo, Sonoma, Sacramento and Contra Costa counties.

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Nikila Gibson, a Solano County Black business advocate and president of the Tri-City NAACP, has been named Solano County Woman of the Year.

Progress continues in groundwater cleanup from downtown dry cleaner contamination

FAIRFIELD — The state Regional Water Quality Control Board on Wednesday will receive an update on a 2017 mitigation case involving what were three downtown cleaners.

The businesses at the time were One Hour Cleaner, which was located at 710 Madison St., Fairfield Cleaners, 625 Jackson St., which is now home to the Republican Party headquarters, and Gillespie Cleaners at 622-630 Jackson St., the state reported.

One other business that was not responsible for any contamination, but was affected, is Fairfield Safe & Lock, which is still doing business at 811 Missouri St.

“Since our last update significant progress has been made toward implementing the Remedial Action Plan,” the March 2 Executive Officer’s Report states.

The report states that the Tetrachloroethene – or PCE – plume that was discharged into the groundwater has been reduced by more than 90% since the mitigation plan was approved in September 2017.

“However, the maximum PCE concentration within the plume remains about the same and PCE still exceeds the drinking water standard of 5 micrograms per liter,” the report states.

The cleaners involved had operational histories that dated from the 1930s to the 1990s, so when the contamination began cannot be determined for certain. The Regional Water Quality Control Board got involved in 2011, with the responsible parties reaching an agreement in 2017 that included “a joint trust to pay for remediation and regulatory oversight.”

In brief

Fairfield Garden Club talks native California plants

FAIRFIELD — California native plants are not only beautiful, they are naturally drought tolerant, help support local ecosystems and provide habitat for birds, butterflies and pollinators.

They also will be the subject at the next Fairfield Garden Club meeting with Master Gardener Maureen Clark discussing drought-tolerant and native California plants.

The meeting will begin at 1:30 p.m. March 15 at the Fairfield Adult Recreation Center, 1200 Civic Center Drive.

For more information, call Mary Colridge

Solano Park and Rec panel to discuss Fish and Wildlife fund

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FAIRFIELD —

The Solano County Parks and Recrea tion commissioners on Thursday will discuss the Fish and Wildlife Propagation Fund process.

The commission uses the fund to award scholarships to local agencies or nonprofits for educational purposes.

Commissioners meets at 10 a.m. in Rooms 1600-1620 on the first floor of the government center, 675 Texas St., in Fairfield.

Attendance, revenue, project and activity updates also are on the agenda, which is available at https://www. s olanocounty.com/ depts/rm/countypark/ parksnrec/agendas_n_ minutes.asp.

Kurt DaSilva

Kurt A. DaSilva, 45, of Fairfield, CA died on January 26, 2023 while incarcerated. He was born on August 31, 1977 to his parents Doreen & Larr y. He was the middle child with two siblings, Mike & Shannon. He was survived by his son Jason, and stepdaughter Ashley, along with a niece and nephews. Services will be held on March 11, 2023 at 2:00 p.m. at the Vete rans Hall on Main Street in Suisun. Sermon by Pastor Mike, Eulog y by Rachael Brockman.

Sharon Goff

Sharon Goff, 71, passed away on Sunday, February 19, 2023 in her Vacaville home.

Sharon was born February 23,1951 in Fairfield, CA to Lou and Ann Ferrari. She is survived by her children Kimberly Humphrey and Lisa Humphrey and her five grandchildren: Eric James Ehler, Mercedes Guillen, Anthony Guillen, Angelica Guillen and Mason Gale. She is preceded in death by her father Lou Ferrari and her mother Ann Ferrari.

Sharon especially will be remembered for her passion of football; she l oved her 49’ers, w alking her dog and doing dia mond art. She loved family gatherings and especially celebrating the holidays together

developed in September 2017.

The PCE concentration level in 2018 was 2,200 micrograms per liter. Testing in 2022 showed

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Solano Community Foundation scholarships available

VACAVILLE — A number of academic scholarships are now available through the Solano Community Foundation.

Four Harry & Eleanor D. Nelson scholarships, each worth $20,000 over four years, and five $2,500 Aulden Briggs Achievement scholarships will be awarded to Vacaville, Will C. Wood and Buckingham Charter students. Vacaville High students also can apply for the $20,000 Grace Powell Vacaville High School scholarship, which is awarded over four years.

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The deadline to submit applications is April 14. Go to www.grantinterface. com/Home/Logon?urlkey =solanocfscholarship.

Vacaville High students also can apply for the new James W. Caughy and Florence L. Caughy Verbeek Vacaville High School Memorial Service Award. To check eligibility, go to https://bit.ly/scf-caughyverbeek-scholarships. To apply, go to https://bit.ly/ scf-scholarships.

Finally, the 2023 Dr. Ethan R. Sellers Memorial Scholarship Fund is available. To check eligibility, go to https://bit.ly/ scf-sellers-scholarships. To apply, go to https://bit. ly/scf-scholarships.

Adolph Spencer Almquist

Adolph “Gus” Almquist, 97, retired US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, on February 19, 2023, heroically and peacefully “slipped the surly bonds of Earth,” navigating his proverbial final flight from Fairfield, California, hands steady on the controls and blue eyes fixed on an uncharted horizon, surrounded by adoring family.

Gus was born in autumn of 1925 to parents Gustaf Almquist and Augusta Ingeborg, both Swedish immigrants. A wild and independent “Yooper” from Upper Peninsula Michigan, the youngest child was raised on a large farm with brothers Clarence, Len, and Kip, and sister Evelyn. The family raised cows, chickens, and pigs, and collected wood from a forested section of the farm. Gus recounted a moment of awe at 10 years old, looking out at the cedars under fresh snowfall, thinking, “I’ll remember this all my life.

When Gus was age two, in 1927, Charles Lindbergh piloted the Spirit of St. Louis across the Atlantic, winning the Ortieg Prize to become the first man to fly solo non-stop from New York to Paris, instantly receiving worldwide adulation with steady and inspiring news coverage throughout Gus’s formative years. He developed a deep passion for the aviator that defined the dreams of Gus’s youth and foreshadowed his destiny.

During the depression, his older siblings moved to Brooklyn, where brother Len, equally inspired by Lindbergh, learned to fly. In 1938, a twelve-year-old Gus finished the first eight grades in a oneroom schoolhouse, skipping two grades. The farm was sold, and the family moved to Brooklyn, arriving on a Friday evening. The next morning, Len took Gus up for his first airplane flight! In 1941, Len joined the Canadian Royal Air Force and in 1942 Gus began flying lessons, soloing at age 17 on December 17, just four days after news that Len’s plane was missing during a WWII night mission off the coast of Holland. For Gus, flight was an escape from gravity— the exhilarating feeling of freedom born of intense concentration.

After earning a bachelor ’s degree in civil engineering through the GI Bill, Gus began his Air Force career as a Flight Instructor, applying an unconventional teaching style of encouragement that instilled leadership capabilities in his trainees. Then followed a combat tour in the Korean War (narrowly surviving his last flight mission under fire) and a prestigious assignment serving in the Strategic Air Command during the Cold War, flying B-47 Stratojets that carried two nuclear bombs intended for specific Russian targets in the event of a war. Ironically, in later years, visiting Russia remained on his bucket list.

Although that joy of flying never left, his diverse career and aptitude for computer technology led to fulfillment serving on the ground. He quickly rose to Branch Chief at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) supporting the highly classified Satellite Reconnaissance System out of Arlington Virginia during the Kennedy administration, including handling incoming satellite imagery during the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion. His last assignment was as Division Chief with the Pacific Air Force Command in Hawaii during the

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Vietnam War, where he was promoted to Lt. Colonel.

After retiring from the Air Force in 1969, he leveraged his DIA connections for MacDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company, working with the proposed Manned Orbiting Laboratory. Later, drawing on his computer expertise, Gus automated the Alameda County’s library system and, in a final career, engaged his engineering mind at Contra Costa Public Works Department, creating innovative solutions for flooding and representing the agency at public hearings, always appreciating democracy in action.

In 1950, Gus met Dorothy “Dottie” Sikes on a blind date in San Antonio, Texas. Transferred two hundred miles away, he courted her weekly by airplane and they enchanted each other into 67 years of devoted marriage. They parented four free-spirited daughters, creating permanent close-knit family bonds forged, in part, by frequent relocations to bases throughout the United States, including Hawaii. After Dorothy was paralyzed by a stroke in 1957, changing their world overnight, Gus was devoted to tender and steadfast caregiving for the remainder of her remarkable life. These two, each showing extraordinary character in response to challenge, modeled enduring and resilient love something their daughters will carry forward always.

Blessed with an inquisitive intellect, Gus enjoyed countless hours reading and sharing ideas—relevant to each person’s interests —about current events, health, politics, science, music, philosophy, photography, and biographies of world leaders. His life experience was the foundation of captivating stories told with expressive delivery!

In 1951, Gus fell in love with photography and the Rolleiflex camera. He recognized the contemplation required to take meaningful photographs and printed lively portraits and bucolic landscapes to give as gifts. In recent years, always in step with current technolog y, Gus favored his iPhone 11 for photography and, over his 96th year, inventively engineered a hand-held device that comfortably steadied his hand.

Until his last breath, Gus sustained a life filled with connections to loved ones near and far, sharing impassioned discourse, asking about their lives. Dynamic, purposeful, and quietly caring, he never stopped learning, inspiring others, and being surprised by life’s wonders. His compass never failed.

Gus and the family are grateful for advancements in health care that sustained excellent quality of life into his late ninth decade, and the phenomenal Fairfield doctors who cared for him. We greatly appreciate the compassionate Sutter Health Hospice and Medical Aid in Dying care teams that guided his last weeks, and California’s End of Life Option Act sanctioning his decision to die with dignity Gus is survived by his four daughters Marty (Larry), Suzun (Richard), Ellie (Randy), and Karen (Wendy); three grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; nephews Bill, Len, and Dean; niece Sheryl, and many lifelong friends. He is preceded in death by his wife Dorothy, his parents and siblings, and nephew Len Almquist.

Gus will be interred during a private family ceremony at Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland, California.

To honor Gus’s memory, keep reaching out in love — to everyone.

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ABOVE: The 622-630 Jackson Street building in Downtown Fairfield, Monday. BELOW: Safe and Lock in Downtown Fairfield, Monday.

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Fishing groups call for 2023 salmon season to be closed

Todd R. H ansen THANSEN@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET

FAIRFIELD — Three influential fishing organizations have called for the 2023 salmon season to be closed.

The Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations, the Golden Gate Fisherman’s Association and the Northern California Guides and Sportsmen’s Association also have requested that Gov. Gavin Newsom, the state Legislature and related state agencies seek federal and state disaster assistance for those ocean and inland commercial operators that would be affected by the closure.

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife on March 1 held its preseason briefing and “reported some of the worst fisheries numbers in the history of the state,” the

fishing associations said in a statement.

The state reports the “2023 projection for Sacramento River fall Chinook, the most predominant stock harvested in California’s fisheries, is estimated at 169,767 adults, one of the lowest forecasts since 2008 when the current assessment method began.”

The Sacramento forecast in 2009 was 122,200.

“Salmon numbers are episodic over time and life cycles, which is generally a three-year period from birth as eggs hatching to returning adults from the ocean. For example, in 2022 ocean commercial catch was considerably greater than preseason expectations. The data also indicate in years following wetter hydro-

logic years that abundance is higher. For example, the 2010 above average rainfall year resulted in higher stock forecasts of California adult Chinook in 2012 and 2013. Conversely drier years regularly result in lower

abundance three years later.

Three years ago, in 2020, conditions were particularly severe with drought,” the state agency reported.

“Unfortunately we have gotten to a point that we have been warning was coming; another collapse of our iconic salmon fisheries,” said George Bradshaw, president of the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations.

“The harvest models, escapement goals and model inaccuracies show there is no warranted opportunity to harvest Chinook salmon in the state of California in 2023. Our organization is asking federal and state managers to take the required steps to ensure the survival of the resource and close the fishery,” Bradshaw added. “We demand

we work toward future sustainable solutions so we can once again have robust salmon runs and thriving fisheries. Our coastal communities and generational fisherman deeply rely on the proper management. Therefore this requires our federal and state leaders lead the effort to secure disaster assistance until we all get through these foreseeable hard times.”

Salmon fishing is a popular activity in Solano County, and brings in outside revenue to area bait-and-tackle and other related businesses.

However, the groups calling for the season to be closed said the years-long drought and “poor water management decisions by federal and state managers, occasional failure to meet hatchery egg mitigation goals, inaccurate See Salmon, Page A9

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Aaron Rosenblatt/Daily Republic file Ralph Coil casts his reel while fishing along the Suisun City Boat launch, Friday, Sept. 28, 2018.

Columns&Games

Starting a new chapter

Dear Annie: I just finished reading your response to the “Mother of Little Valentine.” I am writing this with tears in my eyes.

How truly beautiful and gentle your response was to Valentine’s Mother. I hope it brought her some comfort.

So thank you for your beautiful words of comfort. — Words of Comfort

Dear Comfort: Thank you for your letter.

Dear Annie: I have a suggestion for the grandparent who has a grandchild who doesn’t want to hug. When I was a new stepmother, my stepdaughters did not want to hug me. I thought that was perfectly understandable.

What I did was read them a lot of stories and look at picture books together. They gradually got comfortable with me and enjoyed the stories. I could then give them a hug just naturally.

After a while, I was getting hugs. — It Just

Took Some Time

Dear Took the Time:

ARIES (March 21-April 19).

Because you’re so daring, you’ll feel most like yourself when you’re on the verge of the unknown. Of all the different varieties of risk, social risk will take the most courage.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20).

Adding a small, consistent habit to your life is favored now. Stolen moments add up. With a short period of daily practice, you could learn something remarkable, like a language or a musical instrument.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Are people working just to make you happy, or is it that your needs just happen to line up with precisely what they most want to deliver? Either way, it’s a win for you. You’re especially lucky in your dealings with other air signs.

CANCER (June 22-July 22).

For better or worse, first impressions are extremely difficult to erase. It’s one more reason to put time and thought into your presentation. You never know when someone new will be in the mix. Let the fresh power of a first impression work for you.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22).

You’ve done what you set out to do and yet you still want to sail on to find out what else is out there. You’ve a belief that things can always get better, and it will lead you to interesting places today.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).

Sometimes the answers are out there waiting to be discovered, but not this time. This time, the answer is inside you,

Daily Cryptoquotes

Reading stories and spending quality time with children is a great way to get them to hug you naturally. Thank you for sharing this suggestion.

Dear Annie: I was a dedicated and loyal husband for 23 years. I lost my wife to cancer, and it was devastating, to say the least. I’ve been alone now for a few years and have been struggling extremely hard, as I know what I want and am just not sure how to get there without creating a whole new world of heartache.

I realized early in life that I’m attracted to both males and females. I experimented a few times in my teen years but have always been more toward the female side. I’m in my early 50s and have quite a number of friends and family pushing me to date, and they have gone so far as trying to set me up. My heart wants to pursue a male companion, but I’m both scared and ashamed at the same time, not to mention I have absolutely no clue as to how to go about it. I feel

Today’s birthday

You have many winning qualities, and moral courage shines among them. This year highlights your style. You’ll change up environments and update your skills. Your relationships thrive as you radiate a calm, cool energy. Aries and Taurus adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 3, 4, 24, 18 and 27.

just waiting to be invented by you, and furthermore, you’re the only one who gets to say what it means.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).

Entertainment is a worthy expense as the fun and inspiration you gain will contribute to you living your best life. Tell people what you want and hope for. You’ll be a beacon for others. Let people into your world and share your thought process.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Someone steered you wrong, but you’ll take back the wheel and get on track. A burst of energy has you handling a list of random tasks. It will feel wonderful to get small things accomplished en masse.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21). Perhaps you’re responsible for your own fun, but you also take responsibility for the fun of another. You’re so excellent at lifting the energy and injecting levity wher-

like I should just sit out the rest of my time here and not break anyone’s heart other than my own. It just seems like it would be easier that way. We all deserve a perfect love story, and I already had mine for 23 years, but I think the shock and fallout of my desire is not worth losing family or friends. — Hopelessly Lost

Dear Hopeless: I am very sorry for the loss of your beloved wife. You should always listen to your heart. While I have no doubt that the people trying to set you up have your best intentions in mind, and are just trying to help you with grief, you might just not be ready. Please be patient with yourself as you go back out into the dating world.

It is your life, so if you want to pursue a male companion, then do so. Healing from grief takes time. If any of your friends or family shun you for your sexual preferences, you should recognize that it is their problem, not yours.

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ever possible.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19). It is possible to assign meaning to things without even realizing you’re doing it or knowing where the associations are coming from. You’ll understand yourself a little better as you delve into an analysis of the meanings you assign.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18). You want the best for loved ones, but you do not assume to know what that is. You do get the sense that you might know what it’s not. When things don’t feel right to you, you’ll speak up. You’ll help the people around you make healthy choices.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You’ll get a stronger feeling of connection to the world around you as well as a more profound sense of purpose. The outdoors and green spaces will be a panacea. You’ll be revived by the vitality of sunshine.

CELEBRITY PROFILES: Among his many projects, James Van Der Beek plays Boris in the Disney animated series “Vampirina.” Van Der Beek started acting at age 13 when he sustained a football injury that prevented him from playing out the season. Pisces are known for their versatility and empathy, which Van Der Beek displays in his roles on screen and off as a husband, father and advocate for charities like the ALS Association and Global Green.

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Bridge

by Phillip Alder

In bridge, many contracts require starting quickly down the right road, a step in the wrong direction being fatal. How would you map out the play of today’s three-no-trump contract after West has led the spade queen?

After winning the first trick with the spade king, South saw that if he attacked diamonds immediately, he couldn’t make his game. Even if they broke 2-1, he would be restricted to eight tricks: two spades, two hearts and four diamonds. Realizing he had to take strides in a different direction, South led a low club from hand.

If West had ducked, declarer would have won with dummy’s king and, with his ninth trick in, switched to diamonds. He would have led low from the dummy and covered East’s card. Therefore, West won with the ace and played a second spade honor.

WATCH FOR BUMPS IN THE CONTRACT’S ROAD

Bob Hope was well known, along with Dorothy Lamour and Bing Crosby, for the “Road to” movies. This was one of his wisecracks: “To give you an idea how fast we traveled: We left Spokane with two rabbits, and when we got to Topeka, we still had only two.”

This left South with only one street to safety: He led the club jack, simultaneously picking up West’s queen and East’s 10. Now declarer had nine tricks: two spades, two hearts, one diamond and four clubs.

Nicely done, but East missed a chance to draw declarer down the drag to death. On the first round of clubs, he should have dropped the 10, not the two. Then South would have had the option of playing for East to have started with the Q-10 doubleton.

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Sudoku by Wayne Gould

Difficulty level: GOLD

Yesterday’s solution:

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

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‘Boy Meets World’ actor Ben Savage announces Calif. congressional bid

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Former “Boy Meets World” actor Ben Savage is running for a U.S. House seat in a Los Angeles district represented by Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D), who is seeking California’s open Senate seat.

Savage, who had filed as a Democrat in January, formally announced his bid Monday in an Instagram post, declaring himself a union member, longtime resident of the district, and “unhindered by political divisions and special interests.” He emphasized his newness to politics in the post. Savage previously ran for a West Hollywood city council seat in 2022 and lost with more than 6 percent of the

vote, according to election records.

“I’m running for Congress because it’s time to restore faith in government by offering reasonable, innovative and compassionate solutions to our country’s most pressing issues,” he said. Savage is one of several candidates who will be seeking to fill the heavily Democratic seat, as Schiff has joined other Democratic lawmakers, including Reps. Barbara Lee and Katie Porter, vying to replace retiring Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.).

Born in Chicago, Savage, 42, began his acting career as a child, along with his brother, Fred, who starred in the sitcom “The Wonder Years.”

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Crime logs

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SATURDAY, MARCH 4

8:15 a.m. — Grand theft, ANZA

COURT 8:31 a.m. — Trespassing, 1000 block of OLIVER ROAD

9:50 a.m. — Drunk and disorderly, 800 block of EAST

TRAVIS BOULEVARD

11:07 a.m. — Indecent exposure, 4300 block of CENTRAL PLACE

11:22 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 3000 block of AUTO MALL

COURT

1:13 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 2600

block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

2:48 p.m. — Battery, 800 block of TEXAS STREET

3:46 p.m. — Trespassing, 2500

block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

3:56 p.m. — Brandishing a

weapon, 4700 block of BUSINESS CENTER DRIVE

4:06 p.m. — Vandalism, 5000

block of BUSINESS CENTER

DRIVE

4:21 p.m. — Trespassing, 1900

block of WEST TEXAS STREET

5:14 p.m. — Hit-and-run

property damage, NEITZEL ROAD

7:14 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 1400 block of EMPIRE STREET

7:32 p.m. — Vandalism, 1200

block of MEADOWLARK DRIVE

10:35 p.m. — Reckless driver, 900 block of OHIO STREET

10:38 p.m. — Battery, 900 block of OHIO STREET

11:33 p.m. — Reckless driver, PEABODY ROAD

SUNDAY, MARCH 5

5:54 a.m. — Commercial

burglary, 1700 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

7:01 a.m. — Fight with a

weapon, 1600 block of TRAVION

COURT

10:03 a.m. — Reckless driver, EASTBOUND INTERSTATE 80

11:41 a.m. — Forgery, 1400

block of WEST TEXAS STREET

12:05 p.m. — Hit-and-run

property damage, 1300 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD

12:19 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 900 block of OHIO STREET

12:40 p.m. — Trespassing, 2100

block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

1:01 p.m. — Vandalism, 1300

block of GATEWAY BOULEVARD

1:25 p.m. — Vandalism, 2400

block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

2:18 p.m. — Reckless driver, 2800 block of MANKAS CORNER ROAD

2:59 p.m. — Grand theft, 2000

block of CADENASSO DRIVE

5:16 p.m. — Grand theft, 5100

block of BUSINESS CENTER DRIVE

5:24 p.m. — Drunken driver, PEABODY ROAD

7:40 p.m. — Shots fired, 1700

block of VERMONT STREET

9:28 p.m. — Shots fired, 200

block of EAST ATLANTIC AVENUE

9:36 p.m. — Grand theft, 600

block of PARKER ROAD

MONDAY, MARCH 6

1:16 a.m. — Commercial

burglary, 1600 block of SUNSET AVENUE

6:01 a.m. Vehicle theft, 1200

block of B. GALE WILSON

BOULEVARD

6:12 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 800

block of THIRD STREET

6:54 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 1000 block of OLIVER ROAD

7 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 4700

block of BUSINESS CENTER DRIVE

7:34 a.m. — Vandalism, TRAVIS BOULEVARD

8:04 a.m. — Battery, 5000 block of BUSINESS CENTER DRIVE

9:20 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 1000 block of OLIVER ROAD

9:25 a.m. — Forgery, 1300 block of CROWLEY LANE

9:28 a.m. — Vandalism, 700 block of EMPIRE STREET

9:36 a.m. — Commercial burglary, 4900 block of PEABODY ROAD

9:45 a.m. — Vandalism, 700 block of EMPIRE STREET

10:11 a.m. Forgery, 300 block of EAST TABOR AVENUE

12:08 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 700 block of MAGNOLIA COURT

1:14 p.m. — Vandalism, 1600 block of WEST TEXAS STREET

1:52 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 2200 block of CORMORANT DRIVE

1:58 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 1400 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

2:14 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, MANUEL CAMPOS PARKWAY

2:27 p.m. — Residential burglary, 4200 block of BRUDENELL DRIVE

2:38 p.m. — Forgery, 400 block of OAKWOOD CIRCLE

3:34 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, WESTBOUND AIR BASE PARKWAY

3:49 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 1500 block of KENTUCKY STREET

4:04 p.m. — Trespassing, 400 block of CHELSEA WAY

4:10 p.m. — Hit-and-run with injury, TRAVIS BOULEVARD

4:15 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 300 block of PITTMAN ROAD

5:29 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, WESTBOUND HIGHWAY

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6:53 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 600 block of BRITTANY COURT

7:28 p.m. — Embezzlement, 2700 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

7:33 p.m. — Vandalism, 1300 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD

7:55 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 800 block of EASTRIDGE DRIVE

9 :05 p.m. — Drunken driver, MANUEL CAMPOS

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FAIRFIELD — A woman whose burned remains were found in rural Fresno County has been identified as missing Fairfield resident Anu Anand Hobson, police announced Tuesday evening in a press release.

Hobson’s burned remains were found Friday. Detectives recovered DNA from the remains that were tested to confirm they are those of Hobson, police report. Confirmation

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FAIRFIELD — Solano County Supervisor Wanda Williams is creating a tradition of her own two months into her first year on the Board of Supervisors.

For the third time, Williams presented a proclamation from her office linked to recognition coming from the board on a broader issue.

In this case, the board adopted a resolution recognizing March as Women’s History Month – a celebration of the suffrage movement that ended with passage of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote on June 14, 1919.

Williams then turned the spotlight on the 112-year history of the Wednesday Club of Suisun City, which was part of that fight.

Mary Howard, copresident of the club, noted that after passage

came Tuesday afternoon. Hobson’s husband, Gregory Grant Hobson, 61, of Fairfield, is jailed on suspicion of murder in connection with Anu Hobson’s death. He faces arraignment Thursday afternoon in Solano County Superior Court. Anu Hobson was last seen Feb. 13 and reported missing Feb. 15. Gregory Hobson was arrested Feb. 16. The death of Anu Anand Hobson

of the 19th Amendment, the 106 members of the club then worked to register women to vote, and have since dedicated their time and money toward community causes as well as scholarships for music, nursing and general academics.

“Our story is about women who thought they could make a difference,” Howard said.

Seven other members of the now 96-member club also attended the meeting, each wearing white in homage to the suffrage movement.

In other action, the board:

n Recognized William (Jay) Owens, groundskeeper in the Department of General Services, upon his retirement after 15 years with Solano County.

n Reappointed Dr. Lewis Broschard and Gerald R. Huber, director of the Department of Health and Social Services, as commission-

said before the discussion started.

is the city’s first suspected homicide of 2023. Police report the investigation into her death continues.

ers to the Partnership HealthPlan of California Commission through Dec. 31, 2026.

n Proclaimed the end of the local Covid-19 emergency, but will continue to allow residents to call in to the Board of Supervisors meetings, understanding that the meeting will not be halted if there is a technical issue that prevents those communications. The vote was 3-2 with Board Chairman John Vasquez and Supervisor Mitch Mashburn dissenting. Vasquez wanted the meeting matter to come back because he had some questions. However, he did not clarify his concerns.

n Affirmed the prior $194,926 grant proposal by the District Attorney’s Office to the California Department of Insurance for the investigation and

prosecution of automobile insurance fraud, and authorized the district attorney to accept the award for the period ending June 30. It also approved an appropriation transfer recognizing $92,066 in unanticipatedgrant revenue above the amount budgeted for the grant in fiscal year 2022-23.

n Affirmed the prior $268,926 grant proposal by the Solano County District Attorney’s Office to the California Department of Insurance for the investigation and prosecution of workers’ compensation insurance fraud, and authorized the district attorney to accept the award for the period ending June 30. It also approved an appropriation transfer of $99,706 in grant revenue above the amount budgeted for fiscal year 2022-23.

federal American Rescue Plan Act funds.

The county was allocated $86.95 million in American Rescue Plan Act dollars.

There were five proposals offered during the late-morning discussion, so it appeared that the stalemate that ended in open frustration a week ago would continue for at least another week.

“And so we begin,” Supervisor Erin Hannigan

It was Hannigan who offered a path the other four members could navigate, including money for the navigation center, which Board Chairman John Vasquez and Supervisor Mitch Mashburn opposed a week ago.

Vasquez had actually proposed giving all the remaining dollars to NorthBay, a suggestion that followed a lengthy history of county hospitals and their work in the county, including what amounts to a 63-year history of NorthBay. Mashburn wanted

$4 million to go to NorthBay, $1.38 million to go to agriculture and $1.05 million to the city of Vallejo to use for the 47-bed Homekey project, the 125-bed navigation center or a combination of both.

Supervisor Wanda Williams first proposed $2 million for the navigation center, $1.05 million to the HomeKey project and $3 million to NorthBay, but later adjusted her motion to be $1 million to the navigation center, $3.38 million to NorthBay and $1 million to agriculture.

“Let’s not take away

the opportunity to house the unhoused,” Williams argued. Homelessness was one of the top priorities when the county started deliberating how to distribute the American Rescue Plan Act funds.

Vallejo brought four representatives to remind the board of that fact, including Vice Mayor Rozzana Verder-Aliga, Councilwoman Mina Loera-Diaz and City Manager Mike Malone. The other person was Natalie Peterson, the assistant to the city manager.

with $745,000 funded.

and, in some cases, can be kept in the county juvenile facility until age 25.

“Our goal is to not have them come back into custody,” Dean Farrah, superintendent of the Juvenile Detention Facility, told the board.

The board action does

in such areas is probably too deep and too cold to be melted by the incoming storm, it can become heavier as it absorbs more water. That could cause roof collapses and other structural issues.

“If you can go out and try and remove some snow from structures that might be vulnerable, do it,” Swain said. The state has already seen a spate of roof collapses from mounting snow, including a grocery store providing critical supplies in snowbound Crestline.

Scott Rowe, a meteorologist with the weather service in Sacramento, said the incoming lowpressure system is originating in the north

not commit the county to any specific project in the plan that has not already been approved. The plan serves as a planning document with the goal of extending the life and value of the facilities, as well as planning for needs in the future. It also targets new technologies and efficiencies to help save the county money.

Of the total $288.33 million plan, the county has $99.66 million

but is expected to link with “very warm” subtropical moisture coming from Hawaii. Such storms are sometimes referred to as a Pineapple Express and are known to drop heavy moisture in California.

“We’re essentially transitioning from one storm track to another, where the moisture origins are coming from a warmer, juicier location,” Rowe said.

Though there is growing certainty that such a system will arrive, its precise timing, location and impacts will become clearer as the week goes on, forecasters said.

“Buckle up, it’s going to be quite the weather ride,” the weather service wrote in its forecast for the Central Coast and San Francisco Bay Area. As much as 6 inches of rainfall are possible in the coastal ranges from

in projects funded, and $191.66 million in projects that are unfunded. Broken down by the years in the plan, the amounts are:

n Fiscal Year 2022-23: $52.915 million in projects fully funded.

n Fiscal Year 2023-24: $81.373 million in projects, with $40.46 million funded.

n Fiscal Year 2024-25: $73.185 million in projects, with $2.55 million funded.

n Fiscal Year 2025-26: $42.592 million in projects,

Thursday morning into Saturday afternoon, and up to 2 inches are possible in other parts of the region, the agency said.

The weather service in Sacramento similarly warned of several inches of rain and higher snow levels. It also said there is as much as a 40% probability that small rivers and streams will rise, along with the risk of potential roadway flooding, particularly on Friday.

In the central part of the state, areas above 8,000 feet – including Yosemite National Park –could see up to 6 feet of snow, while areas from about 5,000 to 8,000 feet could see up to 4 inches of rain. The Central Valley floor could see 1½ inches of rain, and flooding along the Merced River is possible.

Though the brunt of the storm is currently

n Fiscal Year 2026-27: $38.265 million in projects, with $0 funded. The Department of General Services oversees 57 buildings and support facilities, equaling more than 2 million square feet, plus 133 acres of grounds. Those totals do not include regional parks, the Solano County Fairgrounds, the Nut Tree Airport, nor the corporation yards.

expected to hit Northern and Central California, Southern California may feel impacts as well, including potential river and small-stream flooding in portions of Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties, said David Gombert, a meteorologist with the weather service in Oxnard.

Also of concern is the chance for more rain and snow in the San Bernardino County mountains, where crews on Monday were still struggling to clear roads and help trapped people.

Increasing chances of precipitation there are expected to begin early Friday morning and last through most of the day Saturday, said Elizabeth Schenk of the National Weather Service’s San Diego office, which covers the San Bernardino area.

Salmon

From Page A5

season modeling, and the inability of fisheries managers to meet their own mandated escapement goals” have all contributed to the poor numbers.

“Inland recreational salmon anglers and salmon fishing guides are the last user group to access the resource every year when salmon return to their natal, spawning grounds and hatcheries,” said James Stone, executive director of Northern California Guides and Sportsmen’s Association.

“We have seen historic

low runs in the Sacramento Valley since 2015, with 75% of the last eight years falling short of the required conservation objective of 122,000 spawning adult fall run salmon. Current salmon management policy and poor water management, without proper hatchery mitigation, has got us to this point of full collapse. Our small rural communities throughout

the Delta and upper Sacramento river systems that rely on salmon for food, recreation, sport and industry have been drastically affected. We need to enact immediate conservation measures and close the fishery in all sectors ocean and inland, coupled with a complete overhaul of our salmon management models and policies that have led to this scenario.”

Cleanup

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at 2,400 micrograms per liter, the report states.

“No one is getting water that is contaminated by the plume,” Laurent Meillier, senior engineering supervisor for the Regional Regional Water Quality Control Board out of San Francisco, said in a phone interview Monday.

Additional ISCO injections have been proposed and are under review by the state agency.

“Groundwater monitoring will continue to evaluate ongoing remediation effectiveness,” the report states. The mitigation plan also addressed possible vapor intrusion, which Meillier said has not been an issue with the incident.

The response included modifications to the ventilation system, “which will be maintained until soil vapor concentrations around the buildings are below applicable screening levels,” the state report states.

Indoor air sampling also continues.

“We will continue to work cooperatively with Former One Hour Cleaner, Fairfield Cleaner, and Gillespie Cleaner to ensure that groundwater is cleaned up to meet drinking water standards and abate the source of the vapor intrusion threat,” the report states. The mitigation is expected to be completed by 2025 at a cost of $4.5 million, which is funded through an insurance settlement.

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Warriors suffer ugly loss on road to Thunder

M adeline K enney BAY AREA NEWS GROUP OKLAHOMA CITY —

Even with Stephen Curry playing at his best, the Warriors still can’t seem to correct their road woes.

Golden State suffered yet another ugly road loss Tuesday night, with the Oklahoma City Thunder beating the defending champs 137-128.

Vanden boys fall in overtime in Northern California Div. 2 final

ROCKVILLE — The Vanden High boys basketball team delivered theatrics for the second straight game in their 2023 playoff run.

Unlike Saturday’s victorious tilt, however, Tuesday night’s game ended in heartbreak as the No. 5 Vikings came up short, falling 67-61 in the CIF Division II Northern California Finals against Fresno’s No. 6-ranked San Joaquin Memorial in an overtime thriller held at Solano Community College.

Foul trouble stymied the Vikings throughout the night, including in the bonus four-minute period, where six of Memorial’s eight points came from the stripe. Four of those six scores from the line came from Memorial’s Mike Davis Jr., pushing

him to his game-leading 25 points.

“[Davis] is a monster,” Vanden coach Micheal Holloway said. “He made all his free throws, especially when it counted. They made clutch shots and made clutch plays.”

When the ball was at the other end of the floor in overtime, Vanden struggled to find its rhythm, scoring just two points in the extra period. A hesitation fake on a lane drive was stifled. Memorial stuffed another drive to the basket. An inbound pass with just under 45 seconds to go led to a Panthers steal.

“We just didn’t make enough plays and they did,” Holloway said.

Vanden made the plays it needed at the end of the first half to turn a game that looked discouraging into a battle. Trailing 31-17 with 2:38 to go in the second, the Vikings rattled

off a 12-4 run to close out the frame and enter halftime trailing 35-29.

Vanden held Memorial to eight points in the third quarter. As the two teams traded buckets, the score alternated between a tie and a small Vanden lead throughout the final three minutes of the third.

The back and forth continued into the fourth quarter when, for the second time in four days, Sterling McClanahan was a clutch shooter for the Vikings. Days after drilling the buzzer-beater on a putback to push the Vikings past Whitney and into Tuesday’s game, McClanahan notched a pair of free throws to knot the game at 59-59 with 9.7 seconds left in regulation. Memorial’s would-be game-winning 3-pointer clanked off the rim as time expired

49ers skip franchise tag, vaulting key personnel into free agency

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SANTA CLARA —

Four years ago, Robbie Gould’s exit strategy was blocked when the 49ers used their franchise tag on the veteran kicker.

Tuesday, Gould avoided a repeat scenario and is heading for free agency.

The 49ers did not place the franchise tag on any free agent ahead of Tuesday’s 1 p.m. deadline, a team source confirmed.

Gould, 40, made news over the weekend as reports surfaced that he planned to enter free agency with the intent of kicking for another fran-

chise next season.

Among those slated to join Gould in free agency are a slew of starters from last season’s NFC runner-up squad.

Those include quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo, right tackle Mike McGlinchey, defensive back Jimmie Ward, linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair, safety Tashaun Gipson Sr., center Jake Brendel, guard Daniel Brunskill, cornerback Emmanuel Moseley, and defensive linemen Samson Ebukam, Charles Omenihu and Hassan Ridgeway. Garoppolo, 31, could not be franchise tagged because of a clause he asked for in taking a pay

cut before last season. He missed the final eight games with a foot fracture. Unrestricted free agents are eligible Monday to commence talks with other teams. Contracts and trades cannot become official until Wednesday at 1 p.m., although the 49ers can re-sign their own free agents before then.

Gould is the only player to draw the 49ers’ franchise tag since general manager John Lynch and coach Kyle Shanahan arrived in 2017. Tagged players in previous regimes: Steve Young (1993), Terrell Owens (1999), Julian Peterson (2004-05), Aubrayo

Franklin (2010) and Dashon Goldson (2012). Gould arrived as part of the 49ers’ initial free agency class in 2017. His 21 playoff field goals with the 49ers are the most in their franchise history. He made 161 of 184 field-goal attempts and 221-of-230 point-after kicks the past six seasons. He’s never missed a postseason kick, and he made all four field goal tries in the 49ers’ divisional win over the Dallas Cowboys two months ago. Gould had 47-of-95 kickoffs result in touchbacks (4-of-12 in the playoffs). The franchisetag cost for a kicker this year is $5.4 million.

The Warriors turned the ball over 21 times and allowed the Thunder to shoot 53.2% from the field and 45.9% from 3-point range, which spoiled a 40-point game by Curry.

The Warriors managed to cut the Thunder’s 15-point lead in the fourth down to six in the game’s final two minutes, but that would be the closest they would get.

The Warriors successfully overturned a call with 1:12 left in the fourth, preventing the Thunder from getting to the free throw line, only to have coach Steve Kerr

crumple to the ground when a referee whistled Donte DiVincenzo for a loose ball foul.

After Luguentz Dort knocked down a pair a free throws, and just like that a two-possession game turned into a three.

Moments later, Curry appeared to get a break when Aaron Wiggins was whistled for a foul on the Warriors’ 3-point attempt. But the Thunder successfully overturned that.

After a Jonathan Kuminga 3-point attempt rimmed out, the Warriors sluggishly walked toward the bench as they watched the game clock wind down Tuesday night. They knew this one was over.

Curry, playing in his second game after missing a month of action with a leg injury, scored 40 points and knocked down 10 of his 16 3-point attempts. Klay Thompson would add 23 points and Kuminga had 21, but it still wasn’t enough.

Giants get first look at Team USA in tuneup

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In the middle of the long and sometimes monotonous spring for the Giants, Wednesday will bring a little extra excitement.

Under the lights. On television. Against Team USA and its loaded roster in the lead-up to the World Baseball Classic.

“It’s just exciting,” Giants manager Gabe Kapler said on Tuesday.

“I think international baseball is really important for our sport, our sport’s expansion. For everybody in the industry, it’s a good thing, the World Baseball Classic is a good thing. To get a glimpse of Team USA is gonna be fun.”

The World Baseball Classic starts Wednesday, with games in the Far East in Pools A and B. All of the teams in

Pool C – Canada, Colombia, Great Britain, Mexico and Team USA –will play two exhibition games this week against MLB teams throughout Arizona.

Team USA is facing the Giants at Scottsdale Stadium on Wednesday at 6:05 p.m. PT, with the game airing on NBC Sports Bay Area locally and MLB Network nationally, before playing the Angels on Thursday. Pool C begins on Saturday at Chase Fieldwith Colombia against Mexico at 11:30 a.m. PT and the U.S. facing Great Britain at 6 p.m. PT.

Team USA is using the Giants’ minor league facility for a workout day Tuesday, the first time that the star-studded roster – Paul Goldschmidt, Trea Turner, Tim Anderson and Nolan Arenado in the infield,

Fairfield baseball jumps on Rio Vista for 12-0 win at home

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FAIRFIELD — Christian Rambeau had four strong innings of two-hit pitching as the Fairfield High School baseball team overpowered visiting Rio Vista 12-0 Tuesday in five innings. Rambeau struck out six batters. Cadeom Lain worked a scoreless inning with a strikeout. Fairfield improved to 2-2 overall. Devin Knox went

3-for-3 at the plate with two RBIs. Zack O'Reilly was 2-for-2. Joey Mason had a double and drove in three runs. Jordan Dix also doubled. Fairfield collected 13 total hits.

The Falcons scored in all four of their times at bat. They had one run in the first inning, three in the second, seven in the third and one in the fourth. No individual statistics were made available for Rio Vista.

Fairfield plays

Wednesday afternoon at Vallejo. Rio Vista (0-2) will host Amador on Wednesday.

Vacaville Christian rolls by Buckingham

VACAVILLE — The Vacaville Christian High School baseball team rolled to a 21-0 win Monday over visiting Buckingham Charter.

Luke Giaramia and Dallas West combined on a one-hitter for the Falcons

with six strikeouts. Vacaville Christian improved to 3-0 on the season and Buckingham is 0-2.

Nicko Meadows was 4-for-5 with an RBI for Vacaville Christian. West and Steve Dingman had three hits apiece and each drove in four RBIs. Rafa Rios and Thomas Lane delivered triples, while Teagan Gonzales and James Frische had doubles.

Diego Delgado had the lone single for the Knights.

Vacaville Christian is next scheduled to host Armijo at 7 p.m. Thursday. Buckingham returns to action Tuesday at Woodland Christian.

Softball

Rodriguez tripped up on road by Granada

FAIRFIELD — The Rodriguez High School softball team was held in check Tuesday afternoon

on the road by Granada in a 6-0 loss.

Hailey Permenter was 3-for-3 for the Lady Mustangs to lead the offense. Kayla Lee, Katelyn Kilgore and Jaedyn White also had hits.

Rodriguez now has a record of 1-1. The Lady Mustangs will be back in action Tuesday at Benicia. Rodriguz opened the season with an 8-7 win over American Canyon last week.

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Tyler Thompson, left, and Sterling McClanahan embrace each other following Vanden’s 67-61 overtime loss to San Joaquin Memorial in the Northern California Division II championship at Solano College in Fairfield, Tuesday.

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State’s record winter storms could spawn disastrous floods

The winter of 2022-23 will go into the meteorological record books for one of the heaviest – if not, the heaviest – precipitation ever experienced in California.

California has been buffeted for more than two months by a seemingly nonstop series of storms rolling in from the Pacific, soaking virtually every corner of the state. Their most unusual aspect has been the huge snowfall in Southern California mountains, where hundreds of people remain trapped in resort communities.

Overall, California’s snowpack is approaching 200% its average for this point of the season.

“This snowpack actually rivals 1982-83, which is the largest snowpack on record,” Sean de Guzman, who manages snowpack measurement for the state Department of Water Resources, said Friday after his crew conducted a survey near Echo Summit (7,377 feet elevation) in El Dorado County.

The record will likely be broken because meteorologists are forecasting storms for weeks to come.

While the wet and snowy winter has provided welcome relief from several years of drought, there’s a potential downside: major flooding if warm tropical storms drop huge amounts of water and suddenly melt the snowpack. Such juxtapositions of meteorological conditions can overwhelm the carrying capacity of the rivers and the dams that are supposed to control river flows.

“I hope I’m wrong, but I’m afraid people celebrating the great snows in the Sierra Nevada are seriously underestimating the risk of spring flooding in California, including reservoir operators and state and federal water managers,” Peter Gleick, one of the state’s foremost experts on water, tweeted on Saturday.

Not only could it happen this year, but it could happen in the San Joaquin Valley this week, the National Weather Service warned in a bulletin issued early Monday morning, citing a warm storm that will hit the region beginning Thursday.

“An abundance of subtropical moisture will move inland over Central California along the southern periphery of this storm system Thursday night through Friday night,” the NWS said, adding that “heavy rainfall and the mild air mass will result in rapid snow melt in areas that have received several feet of snow in the past few weeks.

“The combination of heavy rainfall and rapid snow melt will cause water levels to rise on area rivers and streams Thursday night through Saturday. Persons living near rivers and streams should closely monitor water levels and be ready to move to higher ground if the threat of flooding becomes imminent.”

Northern California is not likely to feel the impacts of this week’s subtropical storm, although it will see additional rain and snow. Whether the immense snowpack evolves from friend to foe depends not only on the pattern of precipitation in the next few months, but on the ability of dams and reservoirs to absorb its runoff and the integrity of river levees.

Sacramento, the state capital that lies at the juncture of two major rivers, the Sacramento and the American, is especially threatened if the “killer flood” scenario becomes reality.

An immense bypass channel protects the city from the Sacramento River – as long as its levees are not breached – but the American River is problematic. Its major control facility, Folsom Dam/Folsom Lake, is generally regarded as too small to handle a major surge of melting snow.

The American’s levees are being strengthened, but the work is not complete. Folsom Dam’s outflow capacity has been expanded by a new spillway. The new works will likely be tested when the massive American River watershed releases its huge snowpack as winter turns to spring and then summer. Maybe Sacramentans should cross their fingers.

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Years ago, my brother Tony showed me a video of Pat Boone singing Little Richard’s “Tutti Frutti.” It’s super cringe. I watched it silently, my face frozen ready to laugh but silenced by a feeling of horror. I think of that auditory abomination whenever I hear right wing politicians use the word “woke.”

Florida Gov. Ron DeSanctimonious is the leader of the “stop woke” movement. World class fibber and Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Santos . . . I mean Sanders, gave the State of the Union rebuttal last month saying President Joe Biden had handed his presidency over to a “woke mob.” GOP presidential longshot Nikki Haley told CPAC that wokeness is a virus more dangerous than any pandemic (I wonder how that lands for the friends and family of the 1.1 million Americans killed by our current pandemic.)

Perhaps it sounds so cringey to me because it’s obvious they’re using a buzzword as a catchall for everything they hate. Or maybe it’s the hamfisted way the right pushes their talking points. I guess the results of the midterms showed “critical race theory” wasn’t working so they’ve latched onto “woke” as their shiny new talking point. They learned a new word.

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creeped out by the right’s misuse of woke. Rolling Stone has a new article by Kara Voght about young Republicans begging party elders to stop saying woke. Some young Republican leaders are concerned their older leaders don’t know what they’re talking about. They also worry it’s turning off the young voters the GOP needs to survive.

Their use of the word is like an older person dropping a slur at the Thanksgiving table or your liquoredup uncle dying to show you he can still cut a rug at the family reunion. You want to stop these out-of-touch Republicans from embarrassing themselves thinking they’re dropping knowledge by parroting the term they read straight off the talking points memo faxed over by RNC headquarters.

Maybe that’s why when I hear DeSantis’ rants against wokeness and Black history all I hear is Karen calling the culture cops for the crime of educating while Black. If it’s woke to want Black history and the history of other marginalized people that make up the fabric of American history to be taught in schools, then more people should be woke. Another woke idea is wanting educators to educate instead of having politicians deciding what children should learn.

Imagine that.

Has American society gone too far

with cancel culture and the stifling of debate by the fringe left? Yes. We’ve created a society where context and nuance have been banished. But it’s not just the left. The right has shown a preference for safe spaces unsullied by Blacks, Black history, the LGBTQ community, immigrants and women seeking to control their own bodies. Life is shades of gray and we shouldn’t let anyone or anything curb our free speech.

But you can’t use a word to cloak your hate and discrimination. Being anti-woke doesn’t give bigotry a pass.

The right will continue to use wokeness as a boogeyman. You can’t stop them. You can’t wake them. Just like I can’t erase the memory of Pat Boone snapping his fingers, bobbing his head and destroying Little Richard’s classic tune.

So perhaps the people who believe that Black lives matter, that LGBTQ people deserve dignity and respect, that immigrants and immigration aren’t evil, that history matters and that women shouldn’t be infantilized will stop saying they’re woke and come up with a different word. Just like some people who used to be bigots, sexists, xenophobes and homophobes just call themselves MAGA. Peace.

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

South Korea takes brave step toward reconciliation with Japan

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Politics offers few profiles in courage – which is why John F. Kennedy could write a whole book on some notable exceptions. On Monday, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol moved to add a new chapter by taking a brave step toward resolving a long-festering, historical dispute with Japan.

During World War II, in the last phase of a brutal colonial regime that began in 1910, Japanese forces conscripted nearly 750,000 Korean men as forced laborers and 200,000 women as “comfort women” (i.e., sex slaves) to serve Japanese soldiers. Though Japan and South Korea resumed diplomatic ties in 1965, the relationship has been a tense one – a cold peace more akin to the Israeli-Egyptian relationship after Camp David than the close German-French cooperation since 1945. Anti-Japanese sentiment remains a strong force in South Korean politics, and Japan has been reluctant to disown its wartime past as fully as Germany has.

The last major attempt at resolving historical disputes occurred under Yoon’s fellow conservative, President Park Geun-hye, who concluded a 2015 agreement with Japan to compensate comfort women. But progressive President Moon Jae-in scuttled that agreement as soon as he took office in 2017.

Then, in 2018, the Korean Supreme Court ordered two major Japanese companies – Nippon Steel and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries – to pay compensation to wartime laborers.

The companies refused, arguing that Japan had already given $500 million in aid and loans to South Korea in 1965 to resolve all wartime claims.

In retaliation, the Japanese government imposed restrictions on exports of high-tech materials to South Korea and removed the country from its list of preferred trade partners.

Over the past year, the two countries have tried to walk back from the brink as their leaders met three times on the sidelines of larger international gatherings. This week, a major step forward occurred when Yoon announced that he was dropping

demands that the Japanese government compensate Korean laborers. Instead, South Korean companies would establish a fund to compensate the plaintiffs who were awarded damages by the Korean Supreme Court. Seoul’s hope is that Japanese companies will voluntarily contribute, although so far there is no indication that they will. The South Korean and Japanese business federations did announce, however, that they would jointly underwrite a scholarship fund for students from both countries.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (who, as foreign minister, negotiated the 2015 comfort women agreement) welcomed Yoon’s initiative “as a means for restoring Japan-South Korea relations to a healthy state.” In a carefully choreographed diplomatic dance, Kishida’s government confirmed a 1998 declaration in which a previous Japanese prime minister expressed “deep remorse and heartfelt apology” for Japan’s colonial rule of Korea. Tokyo is signaling that it will likely lift export controls on South Korea and restore trade ties to the highest level. Next on the agenda might be the first state visit between Japanese and Korean leaders since 2011.

President Joe Biden, whose administration has been quietly pushing for a closer trilateral relationship, hailed what he called a breakthrough “in cooperation and partnership between two of the United States’ closest allies.”

Taking steps to resolve historical disputes would seem like a no-brainer from the standpoint of South Korean security; Seoul will benefit from closer ties with Japan’s military and intelligence services, especially now that Japan is launching a historic defense buildup. But the move carries considerable political risk for Yoon. It leaves him open to one of the most stinging charges in South Korean politics: that he is soft on Korea’s historic enemy.

Yoon is confronting anti-Japanese sentiment head-on, stating, in his recent declaration commemorating the March 1, 1919, uprising against Japanese rule, that “Japan has transformed from a militaristic aggressor of the past into a partner that shares the same universal values with us.”

But South Korea’s progressive

opposition wasted no time in blasting the attempt at reconciliation. “The Yoon Suk Yeol government is oblivious of the March 1 Independence Movement spirit and is damaging it,” declared the leader of South Korea’s Democratic Party, Lee Jae-myung. On Tuesday, opposition lawmakers joined with two forced labor victims in a rally protesting “Yoon Suk Yeol’s Humiliating Diplomacy.” “I won’t accept [South Korean money] even if I starve to death,” one victim vowed.

Such distrust has scuttled previous efforts to improve relations between the two countries, but there is now greater reason for optimism. Today’s international environment is so menacing – with the Russians invading Ukraine, North Korea expanding its nuclear program and China threatening its neighbors – that the two major democracies recognize a greater imperative for cooperation.

Both Yoon and Kishida, moreover, are in the early stages of their terms: Kishida took office in 2021, Yoon in 2022. Barring unexpected developments, they should have several years to build closer ties. South Korea’s constitution limits presidents to a single five-year term, insulating Yoon from the vicissitudes of public opinion and allowing him to pursue this controversial but important opening to Tokyo.

On his desk, Yoon has a replica of President Harry S. Truman’s “The Buck Stops Here!” plaque, which Biden gave Yoon last year, and the famously stubborn president tells officials he will take responsibility for any fallout from improving ties with Japan.

If he succeeds, Yoon will establish himself as a profile in courage in Korean politics and write a hopeful new chapter in the fraught relations between South Korea and Japan.

Sue Mi Terry is director of the Asia program and the Hyundai MotorKorea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy at the Wilson Center. Max Boot is a Post columnist and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Max Boot is a Washington Post columnist, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of “The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam.”

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The best Oscar predictions that you will read anywhere; honest

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The members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences don’t always get it right, but this year’s batch of Oscar nominees is particularly well chosen.

A much-maligned body of voting members did a better job recognizing diverse talent, but whether coveted Oscar statutes end up in the hands of the most deserving candidates remains the biggest question. Here are my thoughts on who ought to win and my best predictions on who will actually take home the awards.

Directing

Who deserves to win: By far, the most talked-about movie of 2022 is Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s “Everything Everywhere All At Once” (EEAAO). The directors, known collectively as “Daniels,” created a poignant, riotous, profoundly unique masterpiece blessed with a cast led by Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Stephanie Hsu and Jamie Lee Curtis. Disorienting, moving and visually stunning, the Daniels undoubtedly deserve this award.

Who will win: The Academy sure loves to pat itself on the back, so “The Fabelmans,” a movie about filmmaking by a household name like Steven Spielberg, appears to be a shooin. With its winning chances bolstered by performances from A-list celebrities Paul Dano and Michelle Williams, this Oscar is all but assured to go to Spielberg.

Actor in a supporting role

Who deserves to win: All five men nominated in this category gave award-winning performances, particularly Brian Tyree Henry for “Causeway” and Brendan Gleeson and Barry Keoghan for “The Banshees of Inisherin.” But this award belongs to Quan for his role in EEAAO. Playing a kind-hearted but taken-forgranted husband, Quan gives an emotionally wrought and action-packed performance, with his impressive martial arts background on full display.

Who will win: This category seems wide open and you wonder if the Academy will smile at “The Fabelmans” actor Judd Hirsch. He was last nominated 42 years ago for his role in “Ordinary People,” the longest span between nominations in Oscar history. Hollywood loves giving unofficial career achievement awards to distinguished actors in the twilight of their careers and Hirsch certainly qualifies. And let’s face it, the Academy skews older, white and male.

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Actress in a supporting role

Who deserves to win: For her masterful break-out role in EEAAO, this award belongs to Stephanie Hsu. In the film, she plays the dual roles of Joy Wang and Jobu Tupaki. The former is the young daughter of Chinese immigrants whose overworked mother (Yeoh) is unaccepting of her lesbian identity, and the latter is a mega-powerful villain who threatens to destroy the multiverse (both the present and all other existing realities). In this role, Hsu gives a courageous performance while sometimes covered in rhinestones, clad in avant-garde costumes or even, at one point, voicing a rock (yes, a literal rock). Give her the Oscar, for goodness sake!

Who will win: I couldn’t believe it when I found out that Jamie Lee Curtis had never won an Oscar, but for her performance in EEAAO as a disgruntled, schlumpy IRS agent, she appears certain to win. A Hollywood darling and the daughter of actor Tony Curtis and actress Janet Leigh, Curtis gives a revelatory performance in the Daniels’ film, flaunting her acting chops – at once, investigating Yeoh’s character for tax fraud while, in another scene, lovingly stroking her face with hotdog fingers (yes, fingers made of hotdogs). Having recently won a Screen Actors Guild Award for this role, Curtis seems poised to take home this Oscar.

Actor in a leading role

Who deserves to win: I’ll be happy with any of the five possible outcomes, but I’m personally rooting for first-time Oscar nominee Paul Mescal for his performance in Charlotte Wells’ coming-of-age drama “Aftersun.” The 27-year-old Irish actor who made his film debut just two years ago in “The Lost Daughter” gives a devastating, knock-your-socksoff performance as a financially and emotionally struggling divorced dad on vacation in Turkey with his 11-yearold daughter.

Who will win: I wouldn’t be surprised if the Academy honors 31-year-old Austin Butler for his exceptional performance playing the titular

role in Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis,” but I think the Oscar will go to Fraser for his heart-wrenching performance in “The Whale.” Fraser is a national treasure, and a much-deserved standing ovation that would follow his win would be amazing to see.

Actress in a leading role

Who deserves to win: You guessed it –my vote is absolutely for kick-ass martial arts star and actress extraordinaire Michelle Yeoh. Like her co-star Quan, Yeoh, she had also previously struggled to find work at points in her career and felt that the industry had ignored her. The mountain of praise heaped on Yeoh for her performance in EEAAO – simultaneously hilarious, heartbreaking and silly – is much deserved.

Who will win: Given the onslaught of glowing reviews, it’s sure seems that Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett will receive another Academy Award for her critically acclaimed turn as a renowned orchestra conductor accused of sexual assault in Todd Field’s psychological drama “Tár.” Blanchett absolutely deserves the award, but I just can’t root for her –I hated “Tár” so much that I walked out of the theater. For me, Blanchett’s character was so insufferable that I realized I didn’t care what happened to her.

Best picture

What deserves to win: Last year was full of many wonderful movies, and I find myself torn about which film should win best picture. On the one hand, Ruben Östlund’s “Triangle of Sadness” was a bitter and brutal portrayal of class warfare. On the other hand, “The Banshees of Inisherin” evoked laughter and tears, a beautiful, painful portrayal of friendships and rivalries. But the best picture should go to EEAAO. That would be a meaningful sign that daring, challenging, groundbreaking movies are rewarded – not shunned – by the Academy. What will win: Much to my chagrin, I fear that the Academy will award Todd Field’s Tár with the title of Best Picture. I expected to love Tár given how much I enjoyed Field’s movie “In the Bedroom” and how much I love his 2006 film “Little Children.” But no, Tar had no redeeming qualities that I could discern. Then again, I thought “La La Land” was sure to win best picture in 2017 and was delighted when “Moonlight” claimed the title instead. It’s the Oscars – leave room for pleasant surprises!

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does the fishing, eats part of the catch. Then he takes the rest and feeds pieces to his mate.

At the bridge table, experts use their eyesight more efficiently than less-capable players. In particular, they don’t miss a card, saying every one played to themselves. On today’s deal, from a team match held in Schipol Airport, Amsterdam, one declarer spotted the winning line. Both tables reached four spades by South. At the first table, West led the heart king, making life easy for declarer. He won with the ace, drew trumps and played a heart toward dummy’s jack. He lost one heart and two diamonds.

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Which creature has the best eyesight? A difficult – if not impossible – question to answer. However, one candidate is Pel’s fishing owl. Despite hunting only at night, it can still see fish swimming in rivers and lakes. It dives down and catches the fish in its talons. The male, who

At the second table, West found the more testing lead of his singleton club jack. The declarer, Bauke Muller, won with dummy’s ace, drew trumps and cashed the heart ace, hoping to drop a singleton honor in the East hand. However, when that didn’t work, Muller exited with the diamond jack. East won with the king and was endplayed. He cashed the diamond ace and tried to exit with the club king, but Muller didn’t ruff. Instead, he discarded one of his heart losers. The second heart loser disappeared on East’s next minor-suit lead.

Muller was on the Dutch team that won the 1993 Bermuda Bowl.

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Ukrainian group protests Oscar nominations for ‘Top Gun’ citing film’s alleged ties to a Russian oligarch

LOS ANGELES — A global Ukrainian group is protesting the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ nomination of “Top Gun: Maverick” for multiple Oscars, including best picture, citing its concerns over the film’s alleged ties to a Russian oligarch sanctioned by Ukraine.

While acknowledging the academy’s “long‐standing support of Ukraine,” the Ukrainian World Congress, a nongovernmental organization, sent a letter to Academy President Janet Yang and AMPAS’ board of governors on Monday, asking them to explicitly reject films funded by “Russian oligarchs or other enablers of Russia’s genocidal war on Ukraine” and to “review eligibility” of “Top Gun: Maverick,” starring Tom Cruise, for participation in this year’s Academy Awards.

The Toronto-based group, established in 1967 and representing Ukrainian communities around the world, also asked the academy to condemn “Russia’s war against Ukraine and any attempts to influence Hollywood and American society” during the Oscars ceremony to be held on Sunday.

Representatives for the academy were not immediately available for comment.

The letter comes two months after the L.A. Times reported on a breach of contract suit filed by Bradley Fischer, former president of New Republic Pictures. That lawsuit alleged that Monaco-based Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev played a major role in funding “Top Gun: Maverick,” the “Mission: Impossible” sequels and a slate of other major Paramount films through his role as a “silent partner” in New Republic.

In 2020, Los Angeles-based New Republic signed a $200-millionplus deal with Paramount Pictures to fund up to a quarter of the budgets on 10 movies in exchange for a share in any profits or losses from the movies.

Rybolovlev and his representatives were not immediately available

for comment.

“The Ukrainian World Congress (UWC) expresses its serious concerns over Russia’s influence on the Hollywood film industry. Specifically, as it relates to the nomination of ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ for six prizes at the 95th Academy Awards, including Best Picture,” according to the letter signed by Paul Grod, the organization’s president.

“Rybolovlev’s funding of ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ was not publicly disclosed and there is good reason to believe that his involvement may have led to censorship on behalf of the Kremlin,” the letter goes on to say. “Unlike the original film, ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ makes no direct or indirect reference to Russia. This is hardly a coincidence.”

In an interview with the L.A. Times, Grod called on the academy to investigate Russian influence in Hollywood.

“Think about how the Russians have attempted to influence public policy and elections,” Grod said. “I think it is quite logical to see they will try to do the same thing in Hollywood. That is why we are upset by this revelation.”

Fischer’s lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court last December, alleges that Rybolovlev’s money has been pivotal to New Republic’s activities. According to the suit, Rybolovlev, who was not a defendant in the suit, moved his assets out of the venture after Russia invaded Ukraine and Western governments began imposing sanctions on wealthy Russians.

Last October, Rybolovlev was included among a list of sanctioned Russian businessmen and their families and allies issued by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Rybolovlev, however, has not been named among the more than one dozen Russian oligarchs and their families sanctioned by the United States.

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Wednesday’s TV sports

Baseball WBC

• Exhibition, United States vs. San Francisco Giants, NBCSBA, 6 p.m

• South Korea vs. Australia, FS1, 7 p.m.

Basketball College Men

• Atlantic 10 Tournament, Saint Bonaventure vs.Davidson, USA, 8:30 a.m.

• ACC Tournament, Wake Forest vs. Syracuse, ESPN, 9 a.m.

• Atlantic 10 Tournament, George Mason vs. Richmond, USA, 11 a.m.

• ACC Tournament, Georgia Tech vs.Pittsburgh, ESPN, 11:30 a.m.

• Big East Tournament, Butler vs. St. John’s, FS1, Noon.

• Southland Tournament, Teams TBD, ESPN2, 2 p.m.

• Atlantic 10 Tournament, Saint Joseph’s vs. George Washington, USA, 2 p.m.

• Big East Tournament, DePaul vs. Seton Hall, FS1, 2:30 p.m.

• ACC Tournament, TBD vs. North Carolina, ESPN2, 4 p.m.

• Big 12 Tournament, Texas Tech vs. West Virginia, ESPNU, 4 p.m.

• Atlantic 10 Tournament, TBD vs. Duquesne, USA, 4:30 p.m.

• Big East Tournament, Georgetown vs. Villanova, FS1, 5 p.m.

• ACC Tournament, TBD vs. N.C. State, ESPN2, 6:30 p.m.

• Big12 Tournament, Oklahoma vs. Oklahoma State, ESPNU, 6:30 p.m.

• Big Sky Tournament, Teams TBD, ESPN2, 8:30 p.m. NBA

• Dallas at New Orleans, ESPN, 4:30 p.m.

• Toronto at L.A. Clippers, ESPN, 7 p.m.

Hockey

NHL

• Chicago at Detroit, TNT, 4:30 p.m.

• Anaheim at Vancouver, TNT, 7 p.m.

Soccer

UEFA Champions

• Bayern Munich vs. Paris Saint Germain

Thursday’s TV sports

Baseball

WBC

• Japan vs. China, FS1, 2 p.m.

• Panama vs. Cuba, FS1, 8:30 p.m.

Basketball College Men

• Atlantic 10 Tournament, TBD vs. Virginia Commonwealth, USA, 8:30 a.m.

• Big East Tournament, TBD vs. Marquette, FS1, 9 a.m.

• Atlanta 10 Tournament, TBD vs. Saint Louis, USA, 11 a.m.

• Big East Tournament, Providence vs. Connecticut, FS1, 11:30 a.m.

• Atlantic 10 Tournament, TBD vs. Dayton, USA, 2 p.m.

• Big East Tournament, TBD vs. Xavier, FS1, 4 p.m.

• Atlantic 10 Tournament, TBD vs. Fordham, USA, 4:30 p.m.

• Big East Tournament, TBD vs. Creighton, FS1, 6:30 p.m.

• Pac 12 Tournament, TBD vs. USA, ESPN, 8:30 p.m.

Mike Trout and Mookie Betts in the outfield and one of J.T. Realmuto or Will Smith behind the plate – was able to get together.

“They put together a really good roster,” said Brandon Crawford, who was on the Team USA roster in 2017, the most recent tournament.

“It’ll be fun to see all of those guys on the same team and just to compete against them.”

There are no Giants on Team USA this year, but Crawford was a key part of the team that won the Americans’ first WBC title six years ago, batting .385 with 10 hits (three doubles and a triple) and six RBI in eight games.

In Crawford’s eyes, the exhibition games don’t matter for Team USA on the field – he laughed as he recalled he didn’t have any hits in the two 2017 exhibition games – as much as they do as a chance for the players to jell.

“You don’t get a whole lot of time together before the tournament starts,” Crawford said. “I think that makes every day that you have together important, whether it’s a practice or an exhibition game. You just get such limited reps with each other that you’re trying to still get to know each other while the tournament’s going on.”

While Wednesday’s exhibition might have a

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Fairfield edged out by Pittsburg

FAIRFIELD — The Fairfield High School softball team was on the short end of an 11-10 loss Monday afternoon in Pittsburg. Fairfield scored three runs in the top of the seventh inning to take a 10-9 lead. Pittsburg rallied for two in the bottom half of the inning for the win. The Falcons fell to 2-1.

little extra energy in the crowd for the Giants’ side, it’ll feel docile for Team USAcompared to what the WBC games bring.

“It’s almost like a playoff atmosphere, where if you lose a couple of games, you’re out,” Crawford said. That’s part of what made it fun, but you have to be sharp right away, right out of the games.”

Kapler said the Giants will have a “good team out there” to compete against the stars of Team USA. Joc Pederson said he will be in the lineup, even though he’ll be playing for Team Israel in the WBC (he’s not flying to Miami for Israel’s Pool D games until the end of this week).

Starters Anthony DeSclafani and Sean Manaea are both expected to pitch. Each player said that they’re approach-

4-for-5 at the plate for Fairfield, doubled and drove in a run. Talia Falekaono and Evangelina Degros-Perreira had three hits apiece. Falekaono had a double. Degros-Perreira doubled and drove in a run.

Fairfield is scheduled to host John Sweat of Crockett in a game at 3:30 p.m. Thursday.

Tennis Vanden boys earn win against Armijo

ing the game like a spring start, but the lineup they will face is much different from a typical spring training batting order.

“I’m probably going to have to be really tuned in and dialed in, and probably more fine-tuned than other lineups,” DeSclafani said. “Everyone’s pretty damn good, so it’s going to be fun.”

Manaea added, “It’s amazing. Obviously, I’ve played against probably most of them, but as a full squad, it’ll be a lot of fun.”

But it’s still an exhibition game and part of the Giants’ long ramp-up to Opening Day in the Bronx at the end of the month, so Kapler isn’t going to keep the starters into the later innings.

“We have our most important job at hand, which is to build our players up and have them

as three singles matches and all three in doubles were victories by default.

James Remeticado, C.J. Hongo and Romelo Felix of Vanden won their singles matches in straight sets, giving up only one game to Armijo. Vanden is now 1-2 in the Monticello Empire League and will host Will C. Wood on Friday.

College

Solano baseball can't slow Laney

• San Jose at St. Louis, NBCSCA, 5 p.m.

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Fairfield Bocce

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in regulation.

McClanahan and Tyler Thompson led the Vikings with 13 points apiece.

Justiz Wilson added 11.

The game included multiple brief delays to reset one of the gym’s two shot clocks. Referees twice lobbed a basketball at the clock to get it to turn back on. When this tactic failed in overtime, the teams chose to rely on merely one counter. The loss marked

the Vikings’ first trip to the NorCal finals since 2017. Vanden last won a Northern California title in 1990 when the Vikings defeated Tamalpais 64-58 in Division IV. Vanden finished the year with a 25-11 record, while Memorial elevated to 25-9. Holloway said he was extremely proud of his team and the season it had.

“We done battled sickness, injuries, everything you can battle, and still go on to play two top 25 teams in the country,” Holloway said. Memorial advances to the state finals Saturday.

Amya Mendoza went

FAIRFIELD — The Vanden High School tennis team picked up a 9-0 win Tuesday at Armijo

ROCKVILLE —

The Solano Community College baseball team took

be healthy and not put anybody at risk,” Kapler said. “We’re gonna get our players the work that they need and then we’ll have a wave of backup players like we always do that we expect can do the job for us and provide a good competitive at-bat versus Team USA pitchers and throw good quality strikes against their hitters.”

And while the Giants have two big league players in the tournament – Pederson for Israel and closer Camilo Doval for the Dominican Republic – most of the American-born Giants will be rooting for Team USA after Wednesday’s exhibition.

“I’m American, I played for them,” Crawford said. “It’s a tough competition, but I’ll be rooting for them.”

a 9-1 loss Tuesday afternoon at Laney in Oakland. Laney scored four runs in the fourth inning and five in the sixth for the win. Solano scored its only run in the first inning as Alex Gaela picked up the RBI. The Falcons fell to 6-11 overall.

Gaela, Robert Searcy, Dylan Snider, Trey Trias and Caleb Morant had hits. Snider delivered a triple and Trias had a double.

Dylan Kosar and Nick Kambulu retired the last four outs without allowing a hit or run. Solano is scheduled to play at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Mendocino.

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Mike Trout of the Los Angeles Angels will help man the outfielder for Team USA as they tuneup for the World Baseball Classic against the San Francisco Giants Wednesday.