Daily Republic: Sunday, April 16, 2023

Inaugural Wildfire Safety Expo

FAIRFIELD — Two days shy of his eighth birthday, Maison Robinson sat on a horse for the first time in his young life.

“Horses are cool,” the young man said.

The Solano County Sheriff’s Posse was one of several agencies participating in the first Wildfire Safety Expo at Solano Community College.

Six Flags Discovery Kingdom welcomes 6 cheetah cubs

VALLEJO — Six Flags Discovery Kingdom is now home to five female cheetah cubs and one male cheetah cub.

Imani, Dakari, Makena, Duma and Shuri, the female cheetah cubs, are between 8 and 10 months old. Kalahari, the male cheetah cub, is 3 months old.

Six Flags Discovery Kingdom welcomed the cubs as part of a collaboration with the Zoological Association of America’s Animal Management Program in partnership with the Metro Richmond Zoo in Virginia.

“We are excited to have Imani, Dakari, Makena, Duma, Shuri and little Kalahari join us as the newest members of the family of animals we care for at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom,” said Animal Care Director, Eric Calvo, in a press release. “Expert caregivers will be providing them with around-the-clock care for the next few months both backstage and at their new exhibit, Cheetah Creek, where guests will have the unique opportunity

Newsom pulls back funding increase for foster care advocate program

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SACRAMENTO — Jaheim Smith “aged out” of foster care just last week, a transition that can be distressing for young people who have spent

most of their lives in the child welfare system and for the first time are living on their own.

But Smith, recently 21, is confident in his new life. He is renting an apartment in Sacramento and works

as a behavioral consultant for children with autism, teaching them skills that help them thrive in school. He works shifts at McDonald’s to make ends meet.

Smith attributes his newfound indepen -

dence in part to the Court Appointed Special Advocates program. When he was 11, it paired him with a dedicated mentor who helped him over the years

credits his newfound independence in part to a court-appointed mentor who helped him since age 11.

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One of the six cheetah cubs now living at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo.

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Marc Domingo, of Medic Ambulance, hones his skills on stopping a bleed while Clayton Leary encourages him during the Wildfire Safety Expo at Solano Community College in rural Fairfield, Saturday. Sarai

10, and her brother, Maison Robinson, who turns 8 on Monday, enjoy the horses from the Solano County Sheriff’s Posse at the Wildfire Safety Expo.

There’s a new leader in the clubhouse: Jupiter, with 92 moons. The Gas Giant (a real nickname!) took the solar system lead last year, when an additional 12 moons were added to its list. That moved Jupiter past Saturn for the allimportant spot as the solar system’s mostrotated planet. We haven’t seen this heavy a rotation since all the songs from “Saturday Night Fever” were popular at the same time!

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Saturn still has 83 moons, consigned to the runner-up spot in the moon race behind Jupiter’s 92.

The International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center added the moons to its list. (By the way, the International Astronomical Union is one of America’s strongest unions. Their strike in 1948 resulted in Pluto being added to the solar system, a move that was disallowed only when Ronald Reagan was elected president and a backlash against unions led to the deregulation of planetary designation. Pluto, lacking an effective lobbying group, lost out.) The “new” moons were discovered in 2021 and 2022 by telescopes in Chile and Hawaii and range in size from a little over a halfmile to 2 miles wide.

Astronomers say it’s possible that the more distant planets (Uranus and Neptune) could have more moons than we’ve seen, but it’s hard to tell because of the distance.

Astronomers also say Uranus is the best planet name, then burst out laughing like 13-year-old boys in a science class.

Mercury and Venus, closer to the sun than us, have no moons. Mars

Earth has one. That ties Earth on the list of items with the most moons with the Who (drummer Keith Moon), the Houston Oilers of 1984-1993 (Warren Moon), the Los Angeles Dodgers of 1959-1965 (Wally Moon) and the San Francisco Giants of 1975-1987 (Greg “Moon Man” Minton). That’s not bad. I mean you could do worse than to tie with the Who and with the Giants (although Minton’s era was probably the darkest in team history). For Jupiter, this is a major milestone. Until now, Jupiter was mostly known as the biggest planet in the solar system (kind of like being the largest member of the Jackson 5 or the heaviest man ever to be president) and for being in the opening lyrics to “Ages of Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In,” by the Fifth Dimension. (“When the moon is in the seventh house and Jupiter aligns with Mars ...” which is apparently gibberish. According to my source (Wikipedia), the moon is in the seventh house twice every day and Jupiter aligns with Mars twice a year. So it’s not that unusual. However, we all agree that we should let the sunshine in.) But back to the basic point. Jupiter is now No. 1 in our solar system for moons, leading all other planets, a famous rock band and at least three sports franchises. Saturn is now second and must be content with being the only planet that is also a car model I drove. And Uranus is still the dream planet name for all 13-year-old boys and well ... me, too. Congratulations, Jupiter.

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“I was super isolated,” said Cooke, who relocated from Stoke-onTrent – a city in central England – to London in 2018, when she was 22. “I moved here knowing absolutely no one.”

She had high hopes of going to restaurants, bars and the theater, but she didn’t want to do those activities alone.

“I was craving community and people; people who wanted to hang out and have fun,” said Cooke, now 26.

She began to understand why London is sometimes considered a particularly lonely place to live. Finding friends was hard.

She grew so desperate for company, she said, she eventually found herself Googling: “How to make friends in London.”

The search proved mostly futile, though she did check out some friend dating app spinoffs, like “Bumble BFF.” There, she found a few other women who lived in London and were also lonely. She was seeking women friends, specifically, because “we really need to look out for each other,” she said.

Cooke spontaneously decided to create a Facebook group called “The London Lonely Girls Club,” and invited the people she connected with on the apps to join. She then asked everyone to meet for brunch.

“It was so vulnerable,” she said, adding that she asked a friend from out of town to come in for the brunch, in case no one else showed up. “Saying that you’re lonely and you don’t have people around, admitting to that was really scary.”

Cooke was pleasantly surprised when five women showed up and they all got along well. The success of the first meetup proved to Cooke that she was not alone in her loneliness, and that she could help others in the same situation.

She decided to start planning meetups every few weeks, and word slowly spread about the Facebook group. Now, five years later, the London Lonely Girls Club has more than 35,000 members. Cooke,

with the help of some volunteers, plans between four to seven events per month for women and nonbinary people to congregate and connect. Members range from age 18 to 70, and the average age is around 28.

The group has attracted a wide range of peopleincluding those who have lived in London all their lives, as well as people from other cities and countries.

“It was very clear that people were looking for what we provided,” said Cooke, who works in marketing.

Amie Innes is originally from Edinburgh and joined the group when she moved to London about a year ago for a job in the fashion industry. She had heard about the London Lonely Girls Club through a friend.

Although she considers herself a “people person,” Innes, 27, said, “London is such a big city. It’s really hard to make friends.”

She started attending events and even volunteered to help host some

with Cooke.

“I’ve met so many amazing friends from the group,” Innes said

The London Lonely Girls Club organizes various types of gatherings, including park picnics, art lessons, jewelry workshops, dinners and puppy yoga. For some events, attendees are charged a small fee of about $3 to cover deposits and other charges associated with securing a venue.

“We want to be as inclusive as we can be,” said Cooke, adding that the group also has a community forum for members to chat and plan their own meetups based on common interests.

Cooke said she lost count of how many women have made enduring friendships through her group. She’s seen members go on vacations together and also become roommates.

“It’s beautiful and it’s rewarding, and it’s the reason I’ve carried on,” she said. “We can’t stop now. As long as there is a need, we will be here.”

Similar groups exist in the United States – where loneliness is also prevalent and was stoked by the pandemic.

For instance, Marissa Meizz started the “No More Lonely Friends,” Facebook group in 2021, and more than 3,000 people have since joined.

Meizz, 25, who lives in New York City, created the group after a hurtful TikTok video went viral, in which a man said he overheard a group of friends rescheduling a birthday party so a woman named Marissa would be out of town and unable to attend.

Meizz discovered that the video was referring to her.

No More Lonely Friends has hosted more than 50 events – which are often held in parks and other public spaces – across the country. At least 100 people have attended each one.

“It just keeps spreading through word of mouth,” said Meizz, who also writes a regular newsletter, and updates her social media accounts with information about upcoming events. “Everyone knows it’s such a welcoming, safe place to be.”

Megan Marzella heard about No More Lonely Friends online, and in October of 2021, she decided to attend a meetup in Philadelphia, where she met Meizz.

“She’s one of my best friends now,” said Marzella, 29, who makes an effort to go to every event that she can. “I keep going back for the atmosphere and the welcoming space.”

Like Cooke, Meizz plans to keep the meetups going indefinitely.

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She was lonely. So she started a club to make friends, and 35,000 people joined.

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Meizz at a No More Lonely Friends meetup in San Francisco in July 2021.

Rush Ranch hosting 33rd annual open house

FAIRFIELD — The Solano Land Trust is hosting the 33rd annual open house at Rush Ranch on April 29.

The event, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., is a celebration of “three decades of fun, education, and community on a scenic working ranch,” the Land Trust said.

The activities include wagon rides with Access Adventure; an astronomy table; educational booth; Rush Ranch Outfitters; Solano County Sheriff’s posse; wildlife wildwalks; tasty food; arts and crafts activities in the Nature Center; Patwin program; and the AmeriCorps booth.

Rush Ranch is located at 3521 Grizzly Island Road.

Do-it-yourself air filter workshop set April 23

FAIRFIELD — Sustainable Solano will offer a free workshop on April 23, where participants will learn how to build an in-home air filter.

The event is from 12:30 to 2 p.m. at the Fairfield Civic Center Library, 1150 Kentucky St. The first 10 Fairfield households to sign up will receive the materials for the filter.

Nick Spada, a scientist at the Air Quality Research Center of UC Davis will be at the workshop to instruct on how the filters can be constructed and to answer questions about air pollution and related issues.

To register, go to www.eventbrite.com/e/ air-quality-diy-home-air-filter-workshop-tickets558919401977

Supes to set priorities for next fiscal year

FAIRFIELD — The Solano County supervisors on Tuesday will set their priorities for the 2023-24 fiscal year that starts July 1.

The session will include the board member responses to questions from a firm hired by the county to facilitate the planning meeting. Options to meeting those goals also will be discussed.

The meeting is set from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the board chamber on the first floor of government center, 675 Texas St., in Fairfield.

PG&E offers webinar on wildfire prevention

FAIRFIELD — PG&E will host a free webinar to residents in Solano, Yolo and Nevada counties on the latest updates on wildfire prevention work and local safety resources.

“PG&E experts will provide a brief presentation, during which participants will have the opportunity to ask questions,” the utility said in a statement. Regional Vice President Joe Wilson will head the presentation.

The webinar is Thursday, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Access is available at https://bit.ly/3T4yJN4 or by calling 800-857-5089. The Conference ID is 1357876.

Youth Ag Day melded into first-day County Fair activities

VALLEJO — There was no Youth Ag Day this spring, but the Solano County Fair Board was not ready to muck it entirely.

“We are kind of folding Youth Ag Day into Family Day on the first day of the fair,” General Manager Steve Hales said.

He said the traditional spring Ag Day, which brought hundreds of thirdgraders to the fairgrounds to see, smell, touch and learn about the county’s diverse agricultural profile, was sidelined due to the Covid-19 pandemic for a couple of years.

Issues with transportation costs for the schools, not a new problem to be sure, was a big reason the event was not held this year, Hales said.

So the Fair Board decided to weave the Ag Day activities into the first-day activities of the summertime fair.

Details of what that will look like will be released soon.

Still looming over the fair’s future is the Solano360 redevelopment plan for the fairgrounds.

Supervisors Erin Hannigan said the county is negotiating a “term sheet” with the master development group, Industrial Realty Group LLC, on such issues as financing, development phases and the role of the fair. The redevelopment includes as many as 500 residential units.

“So once we have the terms nailed down, we will work on the master lease,”

Hannigan said. The 74th annual Solano County Fair will run June 15-18 at the fairgrounds in Vallejo.

The theme this year is “Celebrate Solano,” a four-day gala that shows why Solano is a “very special place that we all call home.”

“Come for the carnival rides, fair food and entertainment, and see the special talents of your neighbors celebrated. It’s time to kick up our heels and Celebrate Solano,” fair organizers state on the website.

“Livestock will be on hand, celebrating the hard work Solano’s youth have invested in raising their animals. Equally

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Elizabeth Wilson shows her turkey during the Junior Livestock Auction at the Solano County Fair in Vallejo, June 18, 2022.

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OLE Health names new medical director for county

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Contract for demolition of Bank of America building on Fairfield City Council agenda

FAIRFIELD — The 1100 block of Texas Street, between Taylor and Great Jones streets to Empire Street, could be reduced to rubble if the City Council votes to give Unlimited Environmental a contract to do the demolition work

It includes the removal and disposal of hazardous materials (lead and asbestos), three building structures, a bank vault, landscaping, asphalt, concrete and underground utilities, as well as rough site grading.

The city acquired a former Bank of America branch building and property at 1120 Texas St. last year. The property comprises approximately 1.25 acres of land, includ-

ing the former bank branch building and a second tenant-occupied building.

The city owns the entire 1100 block of Texas Street and wants to redevelop the block into mixed-use development.

If the council gives its approval, the work could begin in May and be completed by late August.

Construction hours and days will be restricted to ease traffic congestion and prevent conflicts with downtown city events such as the Fourth of July parade and Tomato and Vine Festival.

The city will assign an inspector to oversee the work and be available to respond to questions from the public.

Nine bids were received and opened March 14. The price range was from

$445,000 to $914,000. The engineer’s estimate was $425,000.

Staff has analyzed the large bid range and determined the main bid item outlier is the removal of lead- and asbestos-containing materials where the bid price ranges from $87,000 to $380,000.

The large variance pricing is suspected to be based on the bidder’s depth of review of the environmental documents and their interpreted quantities of hazardous materials for removal.

The apparent low bid was submitted by Unlimited Environmental Inc. for $445,000. Staff has reviewed the bid and determined it was the lowest responsive bid that meets all bid requirements.

The bid did not des-

ignate subcontractors, which contributed to the low bid price resulting from no subcontractor markups and project management falling under one contractor.

The construction authorization for the project is $511,750, which includes a 15% contingency.

If the council opts not to award the contract, a delay would negatively impact the project construction schedule.

The meeting begins at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the council chamber, 1000 Webster St. A closed session begins at 5 p.m.

NAPA — OLE Health has appointed Dr. Marikit Parker as medical director for Solano County, effective April 9. OLE Health has two sites in Solano County, serving more than 10,000 patients annually. As medical direc tor, Parker will oversee the team of 10 medical providers at OLE Health’s locations on Chadbourne Road and B. Gale Wilson Boulevard, both in Fairfield. Parker will continue to provide direct patient care.

“We are thrilled to be promoting Dr. Parker to Medical Director for Solano County,” said Alicia Hardy, OLE Health CEO, in a press release. “She’s been an incredible asset to OLE Health’s medical team in Fairfield, and I know she’ll be a tremendous leader as we continue to deepen our presence in Solano County.”

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Parker began her career at OLE health in 2020 as a family physician serving patients at the B. Gale Wilson Boulevard site. She earned her medical degree from Silliman University Medical School in 2009 and completed her bachelor’s degree in medical technology at Silliman University. Prior to coming to OLE Health, she worked also as a family physician at Northbay Center for Primary Care. She specializes in care for all ages, including preventive care, chronic disease management and women’s health. She speaks English as well as some Bisaya and Tagalog. “I am looking forward to stepping into this new role and leading the incredible team of providers at our Solano County sites,” Parker said in the press release. For more information on OLE Health, visit olehealth.org

Suisun council asked to approve new police department command vehicle

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SUISUN CITY — New city councilman Marvin Osum will be administered the oath of office at Tuesday’s council meeting. He will get to work immediately as the council is asked to approve minutes from meetings and payroll warrants.

It will be followed by general business where the discussion centers on the purchase of a new command vehicle, costing about $500,000. The funds will come from Assembly Bill 179, which funnels $1.5 million for the city. It was sponsored by former Mayor Lori Wlson.

The old one is no longer in use because of rain and other damage. It was retired in 2020.

On Dec. 20, 2022, the City Council unanimously approved an amendment to Suisun City Police Department Military Equipment Policy adding an incident command vehicle to the list of approved equipment. At the time, Suisun City anticipated receiving state funding to purchase an incident command

vehicle through AB 179.

The city received the funding on March 30. City staff is requesting approval to accept this funding and make an amendment to the annual appropriation for fiscal year 2022-23 to reflect the amount forwarded by the state of California.

The police department

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wants to move forward with the purchase of a command vehicle that would fit the needs of the police department and the city as a whole with regard to an emergency operations center.

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important are the exhibits showcasing Solano’s artists, crafters, garden enthusiasts, and more.”

As always, the centerpiece of the fair is the youth livestock. During the pandemic, the ag show was the only live event on the grounds.

The fair returned to an in-person event last summer after its Covid hiatus and award-win-

ning virtual experience. That virtual element has now become a regular part of the fair platform. Planning for the fair is under the leadership of Robin Hauck, a 38-year fair industry executive and member of the Nevada County Fair’s Hall of Fame, who took over in January as the interim executive director following the retirement of Mike Ioakimedes at the end of 2022. The fairgrounds are at 900 Fairgrounds Drive in Vallejo.

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Farber Specialty Vehicles recently provided an updated proposal for the vehicle build, which includes the desired equipment and a three-year,

Beverly Sievers

Frances B. Sievers left this world on April 5, 2023 and joined her husband Warren, son Harold, and sisters Va Dell, Idell and Shirley in heaven. Frances is survived by son C. Douglas; sister Ellamae; grandchildren Kim Stokes and Kaitlyn Sievers-Rivas; and great grandchildren Carter, Conrad, Barrett, Remington Stokes and Emilia Rivas. Visitation will be Thursday, April 20, 2023 from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. and funeral service will be Friday, April 21, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. at Milton Carpenter Funeral Home, 569 N. First Street, Dixon, CA. Following the burial at Silveyville Cemetery, there will be a gathering to remember her time with us at Ruhstaller Farm at 6686 Sievers Road, Dixon, CA.

In lieu of flowers,

Oran DeRemer

Oran DeRemer passed away peacefully in his sleep on March 26, 2023, with his family by his side. He was born in Williamsport, PA to Oran and Mamie DeRemer on July 4, 1935. He met the love of his life, Naomi in Williamsport. They were married April 25, 1959. He served three years in the United States Marine Corps, before joining the Air Force. He was assigned to Michigan, England, Charleston, and Travis Air Force Base in California. He was sent to Vietnam for a year before returning to Travis Air Force Base until he retired in 1975. He enjoyed bowling and playing darts at Hickeys and Harrys Sportsman with his friends.

Oran is preceded in death by his parents Oran and Mamie DeRemer, father and mother-in-law, Oscar and Glady Manny, sisters, Emily, Helen, Esther, Marget, Betty, brothers, Charles, Edward, John, daughters, Linda and Bonnie.

Oran is survived by his loving wife Naomi; two sons, Ray (Roxanne), and Jack; granddaughters Diane Soucy (Steven), Kimberly (Shawn), Elexis, Emily Denney, grandson, Jeremy; great grandchildren, Matthew, Katelyn, Chelsea Soucy, Jasarae, Winter Marcel, Mateo DeRemer, Dominic, Raleigh, McCartney, Jordyn DeRemer, Carleton Smith, Darven Dickenson; sister-inlaw, Nancy DeRemer; brother-in-law, Richard, Manny (Christine); son-in-law, Delbert Bush; and several nieces and nephews.

A visitation will be held on Monday April 17, 2023, from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at Bryan-Braker Funeral Home in Fairfield, CA. A

Our beloved husband, father, Bumpa Hanson Yoshio Shishido passed away peacefully in his home on March 24, 2023 at the age of 75.

He was born in Upper Pa’ia, Hawai’i on December 7, 1947. He spent his childhood moving between Hawai’i, Japan, Texas, and California. He had a lifelong passion for the Raiders, the Angels and fishing. He loved to talk about his teams or his last big catch! Hanson proudly served as a Sergeant in the US Army in Vietnam from 1969 to 1971. Hanson and Sherry first met and bonded over their broken hearts at Cardiac Rehab and continued to share their mutual love through their marriage.

He leaves behind his mother, Betty Shishido, wife, Sherry Ramirez and daughters Shannon (Stover), Tracee (Eberhart), and Michele (Garcia) and grandchildren Jonah, Sarina, Micah, Taylor Elijah, Dru, and Brooklyn, in addition to sisters Marilyn (Ammons), Gayle (Prior) and brother Kelvin Shishido. He was preceded in death by his father Mickey Shishido and brother Michael Shishido

The celebration of life will be held on Sunday, April 23, 2023 at Fairfield Hilton Garden Inn from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. All friends and family are welcome; wear your Angels, Raiders or favorite fishing shirt, but please come comfortable.

Gweneth Lord McRoy

Nov. 20, 1939 - April 9, 2023

Gweneth went to be with the Lord April 09, 2023 surrounded by family.

She is from Northampton, England; born to Stanley & Nellie Lord and later came her sister Josephine.

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It was in that very town she loved where she met the love of her life, Ray, who was in the military. They married and moved to the states where they had 3 boys and much later a daughter.

She owned a flower shop in Fairfield, which she was so proud of. She loved designing flowers, gardening, shopping and hanging out with her many friends and family. She also loved her many Scottie dogs she had over the years and later, her goldendoodle Georgie. She is survived by her

daughter, Jennie;

sons: Scott, Mark, Sean and James (Gwen); grandchildren: Emil Jr and Megan; great grandchild, Ethan (she was known as Nanny to Aaron, Noah and many others) as well as loving family and friends from all over including England.

Family and friends are invited to attend Gweneth’s memorial service on Friday, April 28 2023 at 2:00pm at Fairfield Funeral Home, 1750 Pennsylvania Ave, Fairfield, CA 707425-1041.

Arrangements are under direction of Fairfield Funeral Home.

Donations may be made on her behalf to Guide Dogs for the Blind.

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Fences surround the building that used to house Bank of america on Texas street in Fairfield, Friday.

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Suisun City manager shares highlights in March 2023

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SUISUN CITY — City manager Greg Folsom recently shared some updates from the city.

Suisiun City has a new council member and website. Marlon Osum will be sworn in at Tuesday’s City Council meeting.

Residents are encouraged to download the MyCivic app for Suisun City, which offers users the opportunity to report graffiti, pot holes and more.

Folsom noted the city is also updating its Facebook page on a regular basis.

In development news:

The Meridian West Subdivision should break ground soon. It’s a 71-unit, single-family housing development in Old Town.

Tractor Supply is nearly ready to begin construction. It will include the construction of a 22,135foot retail center, with parking, landscaping and utility improvements. The proposed project site is next-door to the Heritage Shopping Center, north of Highway 12 and west of Snow Drive.

Folsom also shared that

In brief

Senate committees pass pair of wildfire safety bills

State Senate passes bill to let nonprofits help operate parks

the city’s police department had 1,848 incidents in March. There were 23 felony arrests and 64 misdemeanors. Of the 172 traffic stops, 54 citations were issued. The fire department had 270 calls, including seven fires and one explosion. There were 189 rescue and emergency calls.

Folsom said the city’s maintenance division completed several projects during the month, including trimming 60 trees in Peterson Ranch and handling three illegal dumps in March.

The employees also performed the bi-annual traffic signal and control cabinet preventive maintenance at all 11 intersections. This included cleaning the camera lenses, adjusting the cameras, checking and tightening all nuts and bolts, cleaning the cabinet and replacing the air filters.

The city’s Recreation, Parks and Marina department received a $19,000 grant that will fund Camp Chaos this summer. It serves youth with intellectual or developmental disabilities.

Free CPR course coming in May

VACAVILLE — Pulse Check 101 is launching a free city-wide safety training program in May.

In partnership with Councilman Jason Roberts and the city of Vacaville, this mobile safety training company will help visitors learn CPR.

The event will take place from noon to 4 p.m. May 28 at the Three Oaks Community Center, 1100 Alamo Drive.

For more information, call 650-270-1957.

Cultures celebrated at annual Diversity Festival

BENICIA — The second annual Diversity Festival in Benicia is set for April 22.

The event, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., will feature live music and dance performances by more than 10 local cultural groups at the Marina Pavilion, 402 E. Second St. The free festival is hosted by the Benicia Performing Arts Foundation.

Plant, seed swap planned April 22 at library

FAIRFIELD — The Fairfield Cordelia Library is hosting a plant and seed swap on April 22.

Bring cuttings, seeds, potted plants or surplus harvest to swap with other gardeners. All types of plants welcome, but label if possible.

The event runs from 10 to 11:30 a.m.

The library is located at 5050 Business Center Drive. Bliss Urban Center helping with shoe drive

FAIRFIELD — Bliss Urban Arts Center is teaming up with Voices of Vacaville for a shoe drive for their Homeless Outreach Program.

Bring new or gently worn shoes to 3777 Vaca Valley Parkway, Unit A1, between 4:30 to 8 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays.

All shoes are accepted, no skates or ski boots.

FAIRFIELD — Legislation that would give Native American tribes a bigger role in conducting controlled burns, and a bill that would help develop statewide wildfire mitigation plans this week cleared committee reviews.

“We all know the seriousness of the wildfire threat in California,” state Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, said in a statement. He authored both bills. “We must do everything in our power to prevent and prepare for them. That includes having the best tools in our toolbox to attack the problem. These proposals will help our communities become safer and more resilient. I thank committee members for their support. ”

Senate Bill 310 would streamline the procedure

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FAIRFIELD — The state Senate this week approved legislation authored by Sen. Bill Dodd that would continue to allow nonprofits to help operate and maintain park facilities.

“Hundreds of volunteers and nonprofit groups devote their time and effort into making California parks the truly remarkable places they are,” Dodd, D-Napa, said in a statement. “My proposal would allow these

for tribes to be approved for control burns. It would allow the Secretary of Natural Resources to reach agreements with tribes “to waive state permitting and regulatory

vital partnership to continue, ensuring our parks are sustainable and the best they can be for generations to come.”

The law that currently authorizes park operations by nonprofits sunsets on Jan. 1, 2025.

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“Among other things, the agreements allow qualified nonprofit organizations to operate or co-manage a park unit, taking on functional and financial responsi-

requirements related to cultural burning within the tribe’s ancestral territories.”

“Native Americans have been conducting controlled burns with great

bilities for the park unit with the department. These partnerships have been vital to over a dozen state parks across the state, preventing closures during the recession in 2011, and making critical capital investments in preserving and enhancing parks,” the statement said.

Senate Bill 668 passed the Senate unanimously on Thursday, and now goes to the Assembly.

success for thousands of years,” Dodd said. “My bill will help tribes participate in this time-tested form of wildfire prevention on tribal lands. It

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County zoning administrator meets Thursday

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FAIRFIELD — A minor use permit application will be considered Thursday by the Solano County zoning administrator for a new 3,881-square-foot garage for personal vehicles and

workshop on Skyhawk Lane in rural Vacaville.

The property is zoned Rural Residential with a 5-acre minimum.

Allan Calder, the county planning manager, sits as the zoning administrator. The meeting

is set for 2 p.m. in the Department of Resource Management Office, Suite 5500, on the fifth floor of the county government center, 675 Texas St., in Fairfield. Access is also available by calling 1-323457-3408. The Conference

ID is 293118721#.

A lot line adjustment, transferring two 8,145-square-foot portions of land between adjacent properties located near Stonefield Lane, northwest of Fairfield, is also on the agenda.

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For more information, call 707-654-3495. 50,000-mile warranty on the chassis, and a two-year warranty on all workmanship by Farber.

The vehicle would also have upgraded technology options such as wireless internet, SMART Board equipment, multiple monitors, dispatch consoles and a separated area to be used similarly to an Emergency Operations Center during incidents necessitating staff deployment and planning during an emergency.

It would be assigned to the police department but used as a city asset in any major incident involving natural disaster, chemical spill, railway incident or in a major fire incident to

support Suisun City Fire Department in emergency operations, staff planning and staff breaks in a similar manner as the command vehicle deployed by the Solano County Office of Emergency Services that was deployed to support fire operations June 3, 2020, during the fire in the downtown area.

The timeline for the completion of this build is approximately 11 months from the date the purchase order is issued.

Pictures and more specific information can be found on the agenda at www.suisun.com

The meeting gets underway at 6:30 p.m. at 701 Civic Center Blvd. A closed session begins at 5 p.m.

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Vallejo cops arrest April 4 shooting suspect

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VALLEJO — Authorities announced on Friday an arrest in the April 4 shooting of a pregnant woman in Vallejo.

Neighboring lawenforcement agencies observed suspect Anthony Pratt traveling in Vallejo at approximately 7:11 p.m. Thursday. Vallejo Police Department patrol officers responded to Pratt’s location and he was safely taken into custody. Pratt was booked into Solano County Jail for attempted murder. The arrest stems from an incident on April 4, at approximately 2:19 a.m., when Vallejo Police responded to a report of a shooting in the 100 block of Rounds Street.

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is an important piece of the puzzle for keep California safe.”

SB 436 would create the Wildfire Mitigation Planning Act.

“Among other things, the bill requires the state

Vaca-Con returns Saturday

Upon arrival, officers found a pregnant adult woman suffering from at least one gunshot wound. The woman was trans ported to a local hospital, received medical attention and delivered the child. The newborn was not injured during the shoot ing, and the woman and her baby are recovering.

Vallejo Police subse quently identified Pratt as a suspect in the shooting.

The Vallejo PD Detec tive Division took over the investigation and obtained an arrest warrant for Pratt, which led to his apprehension on Thursday.

Anyone with information on this case is asked to contact Officer William Carpenter at 707-651-7146 or william. carpenter@cityofvallejo.net

Office of Emergency Services to develop a wildfire risk mitigation planning framework for state agencies, electric utilities and other organizations to collaboratively plan and implement wildfire risk mitigation actions. It would also forecast future wildfire risk and help target improvements to maximize the effectiveness,” the statement said.

VACAVILLE — The city of Vacaville Parks and Recreation Department is hosting the return of Vaca-Con, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, at the Ulatis Cultural Center, 1000 Ulatis Drive.

This family friendly event is perfect for lovers of science fiction, anime, comics, pop culture and more.

The event includes panels, vendors, artists and cosplayers.

Attendees are encouraged to arrive early to meet and greet celebrities like anime YouTube creator MVPerry, wrestling star Brian Kendrick, WWE hall-of-famer Rikishi, and the voice of Boo from Disney’s “Monsters, Inc.,” Mary Gibbs.

Tickets can be purchased online at www. cityofvacaville.gov/vaca-con and community centers. Tickets will cost more the day of the event. Children 10 and younger are free. www.cityofvacaville.gov/vaca-con for more information.

Aaron Rosenblatt/Daily Republic file (2020) a stormtrooper keeps attendees in line during Vaca-Con 2020 at the Ulatis Community Center, March 7, 2020.

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US dollar’s death greatly exaggerated

Is it fair that the U.S. dollar is the primary currency used by the world for most business and trade activities? This question has arisen many times but is bubbling to the top of discussions again. Headlines like the ones below lead some to believe that the U.S. dollar’s death may be coming soon.

n China, Brazil Strike

Deal to Ditch Dollar for Trade – Barron’s, March 2023

n China Completes

First Yuan-Settled LNG Trade –Reuters, March 2023

nThe U.S. Dollar Loses its Crown – Financial Times, February 2023

Such controversy has happened before, yet the dollar remains the best standard. Articles from the past predicted the dollar’s demise.

n The Disappearing Dollar – Economist, December 2004

n Why the Dollar’s Reign is Near an End – Wall Street Journal, March 2011

n Dollar Seen Losing

Global Reserve Status

– CNBC, September 2013

I would not be concerned about the Chinese yuan, bitcoin or some other currency replacing the dollar as the world’s reserve currency anytime soon. Four critical reasons are the basis for this opinion.

When explorers began sailing around the globe in the 1400s, demand for a common currency multiplied to facilitate global trade. Since then, international trade networks have flourished, and the need for one currency that all trade parties accept has become commonplace.

One currency accepted by trade partners alleviates the need for barter. Barter only works if both parties have something of value the other party wants. Using multiple currencies is awkward and expensive, not to mention adding risk to the transport and exchange process.

A reserve currency eliminates barter by allowing a seller to accept currency in exchange for goods, hold the currency easily and safely, and then use it at their convenience to purchase goods from another party.

Since 1250 the reserve currency has evolved from the Florentine florin, Venetian ducat, Portuguese real, Spanish real, Dutch guilder, French livre, pound sterling, U.S. dollar.

Until the 1900s, the British pound sterling held sway as the world’s reserve currency. The UK was the largest exporter of goods and services and had the most advanced banking system, insurance offerings and commodities markets. Their military strength dominated as well.

The financial burden from World Wars I and II forced the UK to abandon the gold

standard and nearly bankrupted them. The Allies realized that sustainable post-war economic growth, rebuilding and peace required a more stable currency. In 1944, at a conference of world leaders in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, the dollar was crowned the world’s reserve currency.

Foreign nations accumulate and spend dollars through trade. They keep extra dollars to manage their economies and limit financial shocks. These dollars, known as excess reserves, are invested primarily in U.S.-denominated investments ranging from bank deposits to U.S. Treasury securities and a wide range of other financial securities. As the global economy expanded and more trade occurred, additional dollars were required. As a result, foreign dollar reserves grew and were loaned back to the U.S. economy. Lending by other nations to the U.S. resulted in cheaper and easier funding for the U.S. government and its corporations and citizens.

To ease the pressure of the huge debt, the Fed has kept interest rates lower than they would be otherwise. Such easy monetary policy, including QE and negative real interest rates, can promote speculative behavior over productive investment. This situation can pose a threat to economic growth, making debt more burdensome to service and requiring even easier monetary policies.

The circle of debt and growth has its limits and led to disruption and bankruptcy for the British and French before the dollar was the reserve. The situation for the dollar today may be undesirable but there is currently no worthy replacement.

If peace and prosperity are to continue, the world needs a strong reserve currency. The dollar has filled that role since 1944. The past 85 years of relative peace and prosperity have witnessed shifts in the economic landscape and military power. The dollar has endured. Though the U.S. economy and its dollar have suffered many criticisms, the other options are not viable.

There is an old and corny saying that the U.S. dollar is the cleanest shirt in the dirty laundry. In times of turbulence, where does the world place its financial bet? Talk of the dollar’s death will likely be proven false.

Mark Sievers, president of Epsilon Financial Group, is a certified financial planner with a master’s in business administration from the University of California, Berkeley. Contact him by email at mark@wealth matters.com.

This California electric car company makes $180k vehicles

Their competition? Ferrari and Tesla

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It’s taken almost six years, but a factory set up in a former tire manufacturing plant in Hanford, California, has started production of its first electric vehicles for delivery to customers.

Faraday Future, founded in 2014 with a goal to compete in the high-end luxury electric vehicle market against the likes of Ferrari and Maybach, unveiled the first production body of its flagship FF 91 Futurist crossover in a ceremony last week at its FF ieFactory on Idaho Avenue, south of Hanford, California.

Company executives rolled the car body –without motors, batteries, wheels, seats and other interior systems and features – out of the paint shop on a large cart to applause from assembled employees inside the factory on March 29.

We have built many ‘production intention’ vehicles here in the last year,” Faraday Future CEO Xuefeng “XF” Chen told workers, referring to versions of the vehicle produced for testing the car, its powerplant and technology systems. “But this is the first productionbuilt (vehicle) to come off the line process here in Hanford.”

“I cannot wait to see this vehicle on the road being driven by my first customer very soon,” Chen added.

Faraday Future has been taking pre-orders with $1,500 deposits for the FF 91 Futurist since the vehicle concept was unveiled at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January 2017.

The start of production “is a huge, pivotal moment for us as it represents a final stepping stone toward upscaled production and delivery of vehicles to our users, who have waited patiently for this moment,” said Chen, who became the company’s CEO in November. The company expects the first vehicles to be delivered to buyers by the end of April.

Company founder Yueting “YT” Jia told employees that the start of production “marks FF’s most solid step as a disruptor of the traditional luxury automotive civilization … epitomized by Ferrari and Maybach.”

FF 91 model designed to compete with Ferrari, Tesla The FF 91 (as in “nineone,” not “ninety-one”) Futurist is a fully electric vehicle built with autonomous self-driving and self-parking t echnology, with an EPA-certified range of 381 miles on a battery charge. Three motors provide 1,050 horsepower and, global production vice president Mattias Aydt said, propel the car from zero to 60 mph in 2.27 seconds.

Company representatives did not respond to queries from The Fresno Bee about number of employees at the Hanford plant, production goals, vehicle pricing and other details. But in a 2022 report to Faraday Future investors and shareholders, the company indicated that the price for each of the 300 invitation-only, limited-edition, ultra-high-end Alliance model of the FF 91 Futurist was expected to be $250,000. Target pricing for

other versions were starting from $180,000 for the FF 91 Futurist and from $120,000 for the “basic” FF 91 – potentially more direct rivals in price to established electric vehicle maker Tesla’s Model S luxury sedan. Tesla recently cut the price of its Model S sedan and Model X SUV.

The factory production capacity at Hanford was disclosed to investors as about 10,000 vehicles per year. But Jia acknowledged “the fact that our production capacity falls far behind the market demand.”

Phil Bethell, Faraday Future’s vice president of vehicle line engineering, said that the company’s teams have constantly refined and enhanced the technology and systems in the FF 91, while keeping the streamlined exterior relatively unchanged from its original design. “I can promise you on the inside it’s a completely new vehicle,” Bethell said.

The process has included putting pre-production specimens of the car through their paces in test labs and on-road performance testing, he added.

“The vehicles coming out of Hanford will truly embody the soul of FF,” Bethell said. “It’s all electric, it’s autonomousready, it’s seamlessly connected, and it has all our latest advancements in performance, intelligence and user experience.”

Faraday Future has history of financial distress and first vehicle caught fire

What is now the Faraday Future ieFactory – the “i” stands for intelligence, the “e” for electric – began its life in 1962 as the Armstrong Rubber Company and later became Pirelli Armstrong Tire Co. When the tire plant closed in early

2001, about 850 workers lost their jobs.

Faraday Future signed its lease for the 1.1 million-square-foot factory in August 2017. At that time, the company said it anticipated eventually hiring up to 1,300 workers to run the factory in three shifts around the clock, with the start of production for the FF 91 planned for 2018.

But that production date slipped repeatedly – first to 2019, then 2020, then 2021 and 2022 – as the company struggled to secure the financing it needed to get manufacturing off the ground.

Early on, there was a dispute with a Chinese company that had pledged to invest $2 billion in the start-up enterprise. Later, in 2019, the company’s founder, Chinese businessman Yueting “YT” Jia, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in California because of personal debts in China. While the company repeatedly issued public statements that Jia’s bankruptcy would not affect Faraday Future’s business operations, the legal process appeared to complicate the company’s efforts to line up more of the financing needed to accelerate the outfitting of the Hanford factory and the start of production.

A restructuring plan for Jia’s debts in 2020 “removes the biggest hurdle in FF’s equity financing efforts,” the company reported.

There were other potential complications as well. The first pre-production prototype of the FF 91 caught fire in September 2018 shortly after it was shown to Faraday Future employees and their families in a company event at the Hanford factory.

And in 2021, the company failed to file

one of its quarterly financial reports to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in time, prompting NASDAQ to notify Faraday Financial that it was out of compliance with the exchange’s rules and could be subject to being deslisted from the exchange.

Changes in leadership also kept progress in flux. Jia stepped down as CEO as he went through his bankruptcy process, replaced by Carsten Breitfeld, a former executive with BMW. Breitfeld was fired as CEO in November 2022 and resigned from the company’s board, and Chen – who spent 20 years in the auto industry with Ford, Mazda, and Jaguar Land Rover – was appointed to take over the company’s leadership.

Jia, the company’s founder and former CEO, remains with Faraday Future as its chief product and user ecosystem officer.

Faraday Future remains on the NASDAQ exchange under the stock symbol FFIE, but its share price Thursday of 29 cents per share is close to its alltime low of 25 cents in early December 2022. The company’s shares had traded for as much as $18.45 per share in early 2021.

The start of production “shows that FF has entered a new phase under the governance and operation of the new board and management,” Jia said last week. “We believe FF will quickly restore its due value (in) the marketplace.”

In a July 2021 statement, the company reported that all 300 of its invitation-only reservations for its ultrahigh-end FF 91 Futurist Alliance edition had been booked with deposits of $5,000 each.

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Sriracha shortage is upon us; how long will it last?

LOS ANGELES — As the weather in Southern California heats up this summer, residents may need to come up with backup options for bringing heat to their favorite dishes.

Huy Fong Foods Inc., producer of Sriracha hot sauce, said last summer’s drought in Mexico continues to hamper its ability to churn out the iconic greencapped bottles of its popular spicy condiment.

“Unfortunately, we are still experiencing a shortage of raw material,” the Irwindale, California, company said in a statement, referring to the chiles from Mexico that have ended up in short supply because of the bad weather conditions.

Huy Fong Foods typically uses about 50,000 tons of chiles a year in producing its three condiments, which also include a chile-garlic sauce and a sambal oelek.

WeWork venture defaults on loan for San Francisco office tower

Though some production resumed last fall, the company still has a “limited supply that continues to affect our production,” the statement said. And it’s not clear when chiles may become more readily available – Huy Fong Foods offered “no estimations of when supply will increase.”

The company does not know which outlets have its products in stock but said it is “working on trying to avoid future shortages.”

As customers again feel the squeeze from what Huy Fong Foods called an “unprecedented inventory shortage,” they may have to look elsewhere for their sauce needs.

On Amazon, a single 9-ounce bottle of Sriracha cost $9.50 on Tuesday. Under the three-pack option, the site notes: “We don’t know when or if this item will be back in stock.”

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A venture started by WeWork and Rhone Group defaulted on a loan for a San Francisco office tower.

The $240 million loan was for a building at 600 California St. that is owned by funds managed by a venture formed by WeWork and Rhone in 2019 to buy and oversee real estate. The property, which includes a WeWork coworking space as an anchor tenant, is located in San Francisco’s Financial District.

Spokespeople for Rhone and WeWork Capital Advisors declined to comment.

Office property defaults are starting to pile up as landlords including Pacific Investment’s Columbia Property Trust grapple with the pressure from rising rates and seek to kick-start negotiations with lenders. Markets such as San Francisco have been under particular strain as technology companies slash jobs and pull back on their office space.

WeWork, the co-working company cofounded by Adam Neumann, reached a deal for a major restructuring last month to help reduce its debt and secure more capital commitments. Under its new chief executive, Sandeep Math-

David “Dee” Delgado/Bloomberg file (2019) Signage is seen at the entrance of the WeWork Cos Inc. 85 Broad Street offices in Manhattan, May 22, 2019.

rani, the company has been cutting expenses as it continues to try to turn a profit.

The defaults on office properties are ratcheting up pain for lenders, with billionaire investor Warren Buffett warning Wednesday that there will be problems for banks in the commercial real estate sector. The biggest U.S. banks start reporting first-quarter earnings this week.

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‘Boston Strong, forever’

Thousands gather in resilience, memory of 2013 bombings

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BOSTON — A little more than an hour after daybreak, a bagpiper led a procession of family members who marched with Mayor Michelle Wu and Gov. Maura Healey toward the Boston Marathon finish line on Boylston Street.

Ten years ago, terrorist brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev bombed the 117th running of the marathon, killing three spectators and injuring hundreds more. Two police officers died in the aftermath of the bombings.

Families of those killed as well as Wu and Healey gathered for a solemn ceremony early Saturday morning, remembering their losses but also acknowledging the strength and resilience that followed the unfathomable tragedy.

Wu said she couldn’t help but think about being a mother to her 5- and 8-year-old sons throughout One Boston Day, which has become an annual holiday in the city, when

many people across the region conduct community service projects in honor of the victims.

“There’s nothing like a mother’s love,” the mayor said, “and to know what many of these moms and families have gone through, it takes unthinkable grace, strength and love to be able to, 10 years later, to still be doing good in the community.”

Wu’s comments came after a powerful remem-

brance ceremony held in the area of Boylston Street finish line Saturday afternoon.

A public address announcer walked the crowd through the events of April 15, 2013, and the days that followed.

A brass quintet from the Boston Pops and members of Boston City Singers Tour Choir played “Amazing Grace” and “America the Beautiful” at either end of

Trump’s indictment sparks $15.4M fundraising bonanza

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Donald Trump has raised $15.4 million in the days since his unprecedented indictment by a Manhattan prosecutor, his campaign said, thanks to a surge of support from small-dollar donors.

Almost 98% of the donations since the indictment on March 30 came from

donors who gave less than $200, and 24% came from first-time contributors to Trump, who has raised money continuously since first becoming a candidate in 2015. His average donation over the period was less than $50.

The surge follows a disappointing start to Trump’s fundraising. He raised a total of $18.8 million in

a ringing of the bells ceremony at 2:48 p.m., when the first bomb went off 10 years ago.

A new finish line and a One Boston Day marker also were unveiled during the half-hour ceremony. U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., spoke with families before and after about their losses but mostly about the future.

“That’s why every one of the survivors is here: To carry forward that message that we did not stop in that moment of pain, we did not stop in that moment of loss,” she said. “We turned every one of those losses … into something that moves us forward and makes us better.”

VP Harris surprises crowd at reproductive rights rally in LA

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LOS ANGELES —

Vice President Kamala Harris urged a group of demonstrators gathered in downtown Los Angeles to “stand up and fight” for its ideals following recent court rulings over reproductive rights that have divided the country.

“When you attack the rights of women in America, you are attacking America,” Harris said at a rally outside City Hall.

Harris’ surprise appearance at the event was greeted with shrieks and applause from the crowd. The vice president, who was introduced by Mayor Karen

Bass, talked about her recent trips overseas and warned that democracy was at stake at this “critical moment” in U.S. history.

“I fundamentally believe that you can gauge the strength of a democracy based on the strength of women in that democracy,” Harris said. Saturday’s rally, which drew a few hundred people, was hastily put together following U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s recent decision to order a hold on the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion pill mifepristone after more than two decades.

the first quarter, including $4 million that came the day after a grand jury voted to indict the former president on March 30. That was less than the $20.4 million he raised in the fourth quarter of 2022, which included $9.5 million after he announced his third run for the White House on Nov. 15.

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Family members walk in procession with Mayor Michelle Wu and Gov. Maura Healey along Boylston Street near the marathon finish line following a solemn ceremony in memory of the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing on its 10th anniversary in Boston, Saturday.

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The American Chemical Society (ACS), a nonprofit organization chartered by the U.S. Congress, announced in March that scientists have used a single-atom-thick nanomaterial to construct a device capable of detecting the viruses that cause Covid-19 and the flu much more quickly than conventional tests for either infection.

“When both of these viruses are circulating together as they did earlier this winter, it would be immensely useful to have a sensor that can simultaneously detect whether you have Covid, flu, none of the above or both,” Deji Akinwande, Ph.D., one of the scientists responsible for developing the sensor, said in a press release.

The sensor was constructed using graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice pattern.

“These ultra-thin nanomaterials gener -

can improve the ability to detect very small quantities of basically anything that needs to be sensed, whether it’s bacteria or viruses, in gas or in blood,” Akinwande explained.

The researchers believe the sensor may one day be useful for detecting other infections as well. According to Akinwande, the sensor returned test results within 10 seconds of adding a sample. Comparatively, conventional Covid-19 tests take minutes or even hours to provide results.

Through funding acquired from the National Science Foundation, the researchers are currently developing a sensor to test for Covid-19 variants, including omicron and delta, as well. The test could be adapted to include even more variants, the researchers told ACS.

The researchers presented their findings at the ACS Spring 2023 meeting, which sentations from a wide range of scientific topics

A huge snowbank fell on her husband

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The sensor returned test results within 10 seconds of adding a sample, according to Deji Akinwande, one of the scientists responsible for developing the sensor.

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Is

tinnitus making you miserable?

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Tinnitus is a frequently reported symptom for audiology patients. It’s commonly referred to as ringing in the ears, but it can be different sounds like buzzing, roaring, clicking, hissing or humming.

Tinnitus is the sensation or perception of sounds that other people can’t hear, and it doesn’t have an external source. It lasts longer than five minutes and occurs more than once per week.

According to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, about 10%, or about 25 million, U.S. adults, have experienced tinnitus lasting at least five minutes in the past year.

Tinnitus causes

Usually, tinnitus is caused by an underlying condition. This could be age-related hearing loss, an ear injury, ear infection, ear canal blockage, medications or a problem with the circulatory system. Most of the time, tinnitus will improve when the underlying condition is addressed or with treatments that reduce the perception of the noise.

For some people, tinnitus can be exceedingly bothersome and may even cause negative effects on their quality of life. Some say it makes their lives miserable. It can disrupt their sleep and cause communication issues, anxiety, irritability, concentration difficulties or depression. In extreme cases, some people with tinnitus have had suicidal thoughts or actions.

Treating tinnitus

Most people with tinnitus aren’t severely affected; yet, discussing it with your health care team is important. They can focus on improving quality of life thanks to advancements in treatments and management strategies.

Unfortunately, tinnitus can’t be cured for some people. In these situations, management strategies can make symptoms less noticeable. Researchers and clinicians continually seek new and practical strategies to help patients manage their symptoms.

Not all strategies are appropriate for all patients, so patients and audiologists work together to create an individualized intervention plan, which could include:

n Hearing aids

n Earwax removal

n Treating a circulatory condition

n Masking devices or white noise machines

n Relaxation therapies

n Medication adjustments

n Diet and lifestyle adjustments

In addition, intensive behavioral therapies can help decrease a person’s perception of tinnitus. These can help people learn coping techniques to make tinnitus symptoms less bothersome and help with other problems linked to tinnitus, such as anxiety and depression.

Talk with your primary care provider or an audiologist if tinnitus interferes with your daily life or if you’re experiencing dizziness or hearing loss.

Melissa Cassem still cannot make sense of what happened to her family at their home in the Sierra Nevada during a recent heavy snowfall.

In late March, the Cassems were snowed in after a historic winter storm dropped 10 to 15 feet of snow in Alta, California, about 60 miles northeast of Sacramento. The family had moved to Placer County from the San Francisco Bay Area a year before. It was Melissa and husband Jason’s dream home. They uprooted their lives and moved with their 9-year-old son, Geoffrey, and 11-year-old daughter, Juliana.

On March 29, a day after Melissa’s 43rd birthday, a snowstorm made the roads to their home impassable and they did not have electricity.

The family home was running on a generator, and 43-year-old Jason Cassem noticed that the lights flickered. He wanted to make sure the power didn’t go off while their children were getting ready for bed.

He stepped outside their front door to a nearby enclosure to top off the generator with gasoline, Melissa Cassem said. It was the last time she saw him alive.

It was pitch black outside in the rural mountain neighborhood, but she could still hear the running generator.

“I figured, he must have filled it with gas, but something’s not right,” she said.

She went outside and saw that a snowbank fell off their roof and onto Jason and the small enclosure where the generator was housed. She didn’t think twice and grabbed a snow shovel. She climbed to the top of the mound to try and dig him out.

“He didn’t answer when I started scooping,” she said. “Then all of a sudden it just caved in and I dropped down.”

Cassem estimates that she fell 15 feet from the top of the snow mound to the ground next to the generator enclosure, and there

she found her unconscious husband, she said. They were trapped with the strong gasoline vapors in the snow pocket, and she tried to perform CPR on her husband. She started to feel lightheaded and tried to scramble out of the hole, but it was too high.

That’s when she screamed for help, Cassem said.

Armed with the flashlight on their mother’s phone, the two children ran in the dark to the sound of screams. Even though they didn’t have a cellphone signal, Juliana knew to use the SOS feature on the phone to make an emergency call. She connected to a Placer County emergency dispatcher who instructed the children to dig through the snow with pots and pans.

call from an emergency dispatcher that night, his wife was 8½ months pregnant. Despite his pregnant wife at home, he raced to the Cassems’ home.

pray that they find it. This is all hard enough.”

Melissa met Jason in high school, but they didn’t date until they were around 25, she said. He rode a motorcycle to their first date and for years saved a napkin from their first lunch in his wallet as a memento.

‘He didn’t answer when I started scooping. Then all of a sudden it just caved in and I dropped down.’

The roads were covered in several feet of snow, and firefighters were at least 90 minutes away, Cassem said.

Desperately, Juliana tried to lower her legs into the hole to get her mother out.

“She was convinced she could pull me out, but I already knew I wasn’t even gonna let her try because she would fall in there with me,” Cassem said.

Around the same time in Missouri, Cassem’s sister, Sara Marcantonio, received a frantic six-second video call from Melissa’s phone but she couldn’t make out who it was.

“Someone in the dark was screaming, ‘Help! Jason’s not breathing,’” Marcantonio said. “And then the call dropped.”

Back at the snowed-in house, Geoffrey grabbed blankets and dropped them into the hole, because he thought his parents would be cold, Marcantonio said.

The snow continued to fall.

The Cassems’ house is near the home of Jake Platt, an engineer with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. When Platt got the

On a few occasions, Melissa Cassem had chatted with Platt on Facebook about the road conditions in the area. On that night, he found his way to her home and pulled her out of the hole.

— Melissa Cassem

Though he had a tough exterior, he was a sentimental romantic, Cassem said. He couldn’t say no to his children when they went shopping, and he taught them to play the piano, guitar and drums, Marcantonio said.

“I’ve never actually met him in person, and then he showed up,” Cassem said. “I don’t know how, but I had to jump just to catch him to try to get pulled out. He pulled me straight out.”

Platt was upset that he could not make it down to Jason, but he maintained his composure to praise Geoffrey and Juliana for their quick thinking, Cassem said.

“For her to still be here is amazing,” Marcantonio said of her sister. “I mean, it’s just a miracle.”

Around 10 to 15 feet of snow was on the ground in Alta by the next day, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The Cassem family believes Jason died from carbon monoxide poisoning. His death is under investigation by the Placer County Sheriff’s Department, but they declined to comment.

Melissa Cassem plans to sell the family home, because they do not have life insurance and spent their life savings on their move. Friends are trying to raise funds through a GoFundMe campaign.

She’s worried that she’ll never see her husband’s wedding ring again, because it was lost at the medical examiner’s office.

“I’m still calling all around trying to figure out where it is,” Cassem said. “I’m just continuing to

Jason always rearranged his schedule as a heating, ventilation and air conditioning specialist so he could be with his children, and though it was difficult living at their home in Alta, Melissa said he tried to make it work for them.

In her career as a behavioral specialist, Cassem has advocated for children who experienced traumatic episodes.

Now she and her children will need to process their own trauma.

Neighbors and friends are staying at the Alta home while Cassem and her children stay with Marcantonio. She cannot stand the sight of snow, and the smell of gasoline or flickering lights triggers panic attacks.

Throughout their relationship, Jason was Melissa’s balance, she said. When she would come home from work stressed out and pace around their home, he would take her in his arms and play their favorite song, “Shining Star” by the Manhattans.

He was always prepared for what life had to throw at them, and tried to make his family feel safe, even on the night of the accident.

“He was just trying to make sure that the kids didn’t get scared that night,” Cassem said. “He was just looking out for us and protecting us. That’s what he always did.”

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Japan’s Kishida resumes election speech schedule

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TOKYO — Japanese

Prime Minister Fumio

Kishida returned to the campaign trail after being targeted by an explosive device at an event he attended in central Japan, weeks before he hosts the Group of Seven world leaders for a summit.

A 24-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion he threw an explosive in Kishida’s direction just as he was about to give a speech to a crowd in the western prefecture of

Wakayama, Kyodo News said, citing sources close to the investigation. Kishida was evacuated unharmed, and later resumed his schedule of speeches ahead of a series of byelections. One police officer was slightly injured.

The event has chilling echoes of the fatal shooting of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during a stump speech before last year’s upper house elections. Five by-elections are set to be held next weekend, including in the constituency left vacant by Abe’s death.

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The incident also calls into question security arrangements for the G-7 summit to be held in May in Kishida’s home town of Hiroshima, as well as related ministerial meetings all over the country.

The premier was touring a fishing port in support of a candidate from his Liberal Democratic Party and was about to address a gathering when the blast occurred. Video shown by broadcaster TBS on its website showed a young man with

a backpack being tackled and held down by a group of people, followed by the sound of an explosion and screams, while smoke spread across the area.

“We are now holding elections, which are the most important thing for our country,” Kishida said in a speech broadcast by NHK following the incident. “With your help, I want to push through with this important election to the end.”

Support for the premier has been buoyed in recent weeks by his visit

to Ukraine, as well as progress toward reconciliation in a long-running feud with South Korea. That’s renewed speculation that he might call a general election in the coming months if the byelections and summit both go smoothly. Showing fortitude in the face of the latest incident could bolster Kishida and his party in the by-elections, an analyst said.

“Continuing with his campaign speeches will be well received by voters,” said Shigenobu Tamura, a

political analyst who previously worked for Kishida’s main ruling Liberal Democratic Party. “They will appreciate him continuing with his duties regardless of what might happen to him.”

Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno told reporters that police were looking into the motive and background of the suspected perpetrator. He added that he had instructed them to be thorough in protecting VIPs ahead of the summit.

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ravaged by the LNU Lightning Complex Fire, which burned 42,000 acres and resulted in the destruction of 309 homes and 854 structures in Solano County.

Rose Loveall was there. She owns Morningsun Herb Farm on Pleasants Valley Road.

“It became apparent our community needed to be informed and work together,” she said. “As a community we were not prepared. There was no system in place to help each other. We were super lucky we didn’t lose a large part of Vacaville.”

Loveall helped launch the Pleasants Valley Fire Council in response. It cosponsored the expo with Green Valley Fire Safe Council, which launched in 2019 to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires through public education, fuel reduction strategies, and mobilizing residents to create defensible zones and harden their homes.

The council has held educational events. Rochelle Sherlock, council chair, said people attended workshops. The council wanted a broader audience and came up with the idea for a family-friendly event to

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to watch them play and interact with each other and their caregivers.”

Each of the cheetah cubs will play an important role at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom as ambassadors for their counterparts in the wild for the millions of guests that visit the park annually. The park is partnering with the Cheetah Conservation Fund to bring awareness to the efforts to help animals in the wild, particularly cheetahs, which are listed as vulnerable on the International Union for Conservation of Nature red list of threatened species.

New in 2023, Cheetah Creek joins the Rainforest Trail, a new walk-through

encounter featuring freeflying butterflies, colorful fish and exotic animals. The park’s Shark Experience has also been reimagined with a new state-of-the-art audio and visual upgrades and interactive educational opportunities.

“We are excited to continue the park’s 37-year legacy of providing educational and thrilling wildlife adventures for our guests,” said General Manager Kirk Smith in a press release. “Cheetah Creek, the Rainforest Trail, new Shark Experience, and other recent animal additions demonstrate our commitment to delivering the most unique and innovative experiences for our guests. From worldclass rollercoasters to breathtaking animal presentations, we have it all.”

with everything from homework to acquiring a driver’s license. The program recruits and trains volunteers assigned by judges to advocate for individual foster youth in a complex child welfare system struggling to provide enough much-needed social service workers.

But as the state grapples with a $22.5 billion projected budget deficit, CASA is facing a significant reduction in new funding that was meant to expand the program’s reach. Gov. Gavin Newsom in his latest budget plan has proposed trimming a $60 million commitment down to $20 million.

While Newsom administration officials say the move is among many “difficult reductions” necessary to fill the looming budget gap, foster youth advocates are urging the governor and lawmakers to restore that funding, calling the program a “life saving” service. They say that the program will save the state costs in the long run, as research shows that children in the foster system are more likely to become homeless or enter prison.

“I dealt with a lot of abuse. I was a very angry, disruptive kid, and she helped me see that it could be better for you if you just let people in to help you,” Smith said of his CASA mentor. “She helped me see a better side of the world.”

Sharon Holgerson, 65, of Woodland was Smith’s assigned advocate, and said she plans to remain in his life now that he’s

raise awareness.

“There are so many things for kids,” she said, naming just a few. “We felt we needed something to attract people.”

Mission accomplished.

Richard Rodriguez came from Vallejo with his 14- and 6-year-old.

“I work for Cal Fire,” he said. “I wanted them to see what dad does.”

His son, Crocklan Rodriquez, 6, left with a plastic fire helmet and plenty of memories, including using a fire extinguisher.

Danielle Posmark traveled from Hercules so her older son, who wants to be a firefighter, could experience what his

older, calling them “good friends.”

Holgerson remembers being stunned by how little he knew about the real world as a child. She taught him what a post office was and showed him how to get important documents such as a birth certificate and Social Security card – “things you need as an adult,” as Smith put it.

“He really has not had anyone to navigate life with. He’s been in placement after placement. But he’s always been very motivated. I knew that he would be a success story. He just needed to get in the right direction,” Holgerson said. “He needed someone to get him through.”

CASA, a national program created in the 1970s, operates 44 programs across California, with more than 11,000 volunteers dedicated to helping children in the foster system with an array of needs, acting as a liaison between them and the courts and other government agencies.

Last year, the CASA program was granted an additional $60 million in state funding to be spent over the next three years under a plan that advocates hoped would amplify fund raising, training and recruiting for volunteers for all foster youth in need.

California is home to more than 78,000 foster youth, more than anywhere in the nation. CASA estimates that volunteers reach only 16% of those children.

But Newsom’s budget proposal in January reduced the funding increase to the program

future may hold.

“He likes just about everything,” she said of her 14-year-old son, who was taking in all the sights and sounds. Posmark estimated the family, including another son, 7, and daughter, 4, had spent about two hours at the expo. Her favorite part was learning about fire extinguishers for home use.

Loveall also answered questions on what outdoor plants offer some protection against fire. Succulents are good close to home because they wilt in a fire. Some native plants are also good; sage will burn, but it returns. Milkweed wilts. It will not

by two-thirds. The decision was “not a proposal that would be put forward, like many others, were it not for the necessity of closing the shortfall,” said H.D. Palmer, spokesper-

throw sparks.

The Vacaville High School Medical Science program offered a variety of training, include CPR, how to do a splint and stopping a bleed.

Clayton Leary is part of the program. He said he hopes to be a firefighterparamedic in Solano County in the future. He cheered on Medic Ambulance’s Marc Domingo as Domingo took a turn at stopping a bleeding wound on part of a mannequin. For information, visit https://gvfsc.org or https://pleasantsvalley agricultureassociation. com/fire-safe-council

restoring the funding, which could impact the finalized budget in June as they negotiate with the governor.

More than 24% of 21-year-olds who had recently left the foster care system experienced homelessness, according to a study by the Homelessness Policy Research Institute at USC. State data also show that those in foster care are disproportionately represented in California prisons.

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California’s CASA programs fundraise about $58 million each year, primarily from private donations, to recruit and train volunteers. They also receive $2.7 million in state grants each year, which “doesn’t go very far,” said Sharon Lawrence, chief executive for the California CASA Association.

Lawrence said she’s “very grateful” to Newsom for additional funding but that CASA programs had made plans for the original, greater amount and it’s too late to pivot and do without it.

“These people have chosen to be in a child’s life, whereas everybody else in the system is paid to be there,” Lawrence said of CASA volunteers.

“We want every child who needs it to have that.”

Adjustments to Newsom’s $297 billion state spending plan will come in May, but Lawrence said she has received no signal that the CASA funding will be restored. However, some state lawmakers are in favor of

“These advocates can play a pivotal role in the outcomes of foster children and can change the trajectory of whether these young people enter our justice system or become homeless – or whether they go on to living healthy, thriving lives,” said Assembly Budget Chair Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, who supports maintaining the $60 million.

The issue was a rare moment of agreement among Republicans and Democrats during a legislative budget committee hearing in February, when lawmakers including Assemblymembers Tom Lackey, R-Palmdale, and Reggie Jones-Sawyer, D-Los Angeles, urged against the cuts.

Lackey pointed to recent cases of severe abuse of foster care children as proof of the need for the advocates secured by the program.

“What’s more valuable than a child at risk? And yet we’re going to cut here?” Lackey said. “Someone needs to speak out for these young people because they can’t. This is very hurtful to me. I just hope that we will reconsider.”

‘These people have chosen to be in a child’s life, whereas everybody else in the system is paid to be there. We want every child who needs it to have that.’

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Sharon Lawrence, chief executive for the California CASA Association

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Cal Fire firefighters give insight into their work during the first Wildfire Safety Expo at Solano Community College in rural Fairfield, Saturday.

Battles erupt in Sudan as militia fights army to control nation

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Clashes erupted across Sudan between the army and a rival paramilitary force as the two sides’ long-simmering dispute exploded into a full-blown battle for control of the North African nation.

Fighting between the Rapid Support Forces group and the military engulfed the airport, presidential palace and other parts of the capital, Khartoum, on Saturday, with reports of airstrikes, at least three people dead and many more wounded. Violence also flared in the western territory of Darfur, stoking fears of a return to all-out civil war.

“We urge all actors to stop the violence immediately and avoid further escalations or troop mobilizations and continue talks to resolve outstanding issues,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement. The United Nations expressed

similar concerns.

The conflict between the military under Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the RSF militia throws into chaos plans for a powersharing government that would lead Sudan to democratic elections after a 2021 coup. A deal was seen as way to restore billions of dollars of frozen aid and reestablish Western influence in a country coveted by Russia and China for its strategic Red Sea coastline and mineral resources.

The confrontation, which has produced the worst violence in Khartoum’s modern history, had long been foreseen. A looming political deal that would restore power to civilians also looked set to fold the RSF – which has its own command structure, wealth and commercial interests – into the regular military.

Scorched earth

Although it lacks the

military’s tanks and air power, the RSF – led by one-time camel trader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo – is a seasoned fighting force notorious for its scorched-earth tactics that may field as many as 70,000 fighters, according to the International Crisis Group. That raises the prospect of an extended conflict that could also draw in Sudan’s neighbors.

The RSF has its origins

Macron enacts pension law after clearing constitutional test

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PARIS — Emmanuel

Macron enacted his controversial pension reform on Saturday after clearing a constitutional hurdle, allowing the French president to try to move past the episode that’s sparked months of protests and dented his popularity.

The move was made possible after France’s Constitutional Council, made up chiefly of former politicians and senior civil servants, approved the core elements of the bill on Friday. The legislation, which will increase

the minimum retirement age by two years to 64, will take effect in September.

While the green light from the court is a source of relief for Macron, he still faces deep opposition to the pension reform. Labor unions have remained unusually united through the protests, with opinion polls showing a majority of French people oppose raising the retirement age and support the strikes that started in January.

Even before the ruling, Macron tried to show he’s ready to move on to other issues. He invited unions, “without preconditions,”

to meet at the Elysee on Tuesday for discussions. However, in a statement on Friday evening, leaders of the major labor movements said they wouldn’t accept any meetings before May 1, which is Labor Day in most of Europe and when they have planned their next major protest.

In the early hours on Saturday, the law was enacted by being written into France’s Official Journal. Macron has previously said he intends for it to be applied in September, a timeline confirmed by Labor Minister Olivier Dussopt Friday evening.

in the Janjaweed militias that terrorized Darfur during the conflict earlier this century. Dagalo is thought to harbor his own presidential ambitions and has forged close ties with Russia in recent years.

“This fight has been

building within the security ranks for months, even years,” said Cameron Hudson, a senior associate at the CSIS Africa Program. “There’s a lot of pent up frustration and resentment. None of that suggests that this will be over quickly.”

Each side blamed the other for the violence.

Speaking to Al-Jazeera

TV on Saturday, Dagalo accused Burhan of acting on behalf of those in the country who were still in favor of Islamist dictator Omar al-Bashir, who was ousted in 2019 amid a popular revolt.

“We will catch Burhan and bring him to justice,” he said. “We will end this in the coming days.”

‘No dialogue’

The military chief,

meanwhile, declared in a statement there would be “no negotiations and no dialogue before the dissolving of Hemedti’s rebellious militia,” using a common nickname for the RSF leader.

The Sudanese Professionals Association, a coalition of labor unions that leads demonstrations against military rule, called on its members to form peace committees and protect local neighborhoods. Airlines canceled flights out of Khartoum and began to avoid Sudanese airspace, as amateur videos on social media showed travelers ducking for cover at the airport. Both sides claimed to control the facility at different points on Saturday.

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This week SCT’s ‘Priscilla, Queen of the Desert’ debuts after 3 years

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11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Friday, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m.

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‘Priscilla Queen of the

Desert: The Musical’ Solano College Theatre, 4000 Suisun Valley Road. https://app.arts-people.com/ index.php?ticketing=sct01.

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Jazzy Champagne Brunch Marina Lounge, 700 Main St., Suite 106. www.marina loungesuisun.com.

7 p.m. Wednesday

Cultural Exchange

Wednesdayz Marina Lounge, 700 Main St., Suite 106. www.marina loungesuisun.com.

7 p.m. Thursday

Karaoke Marina Lounge, 700 Main St., Suite 106. www. marinaloungesuisun.com.

8 p.m. Friday

Soulful Fridays

Marina Lounge, 700 Main St., Suite 106. www.marina loungesuisun.com.

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3 p.m. Sunday

Direct from Las Vegas! Sinatra impressionist

Gary Anthony Vacaville Performing Arts Theatre, 1010 Ulatis Drive. https://vpat.net.

5 p.m. Thursday Town Square Thursdays: Rhythm Method

11 Town Square Place. vacavilleoperahouse.com.

5 and 8 p.m. Friday

Rob Schneider, I Have Issues Tour

Vacaville Performing Arts Theatre, 1010 Ulatis Drive. https://vpat.net.

8 p.m. Saturday

Petty Theft: Tribute to Tom Petty Journey Downtown Theatre, 300 Main St. https://events. journeydowntown venue.com.

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6 p.m. Sunday Poker Night

The Rellik, 726 First St.  www.therelliktavern.com.

7 p.m. Tuesday Open Mic Night

The Rellik, 726 First St.  www.therelliktavern.com.

7 p.m. Wednesday

Karaoke The Rellik, 726 First St.  www.therelliktavern.com.

5:30 p.m. Thursday

Jeff Tamelier & Darby Gould The Rellik, 726 First St.  www.therelliktavern.com.

9 p.m. Thursday

DJ Jerry Ross The Rellik, 726 First St.  www.therelliktavern.com.

8:30 p.m. Friday Salvage Title The Rellik, 726 First St.  www.therelliktavern.com.

4:30 p.m. Saturday

Glenn Snyder

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8:30 p.m. Saturday

Strange Brew The Rellik, 726 First St.  www.therelliktavern.com.

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6:30 p.m. Wednesday Kid Andersen and the Greaseland Allstars Empress Theatre, 330 Virginia St. www. empresstheatre.org.

8 p.m. Saturday Lydia Pense and Cold Blood Empress Theatre, 330 Virginia St. www. empresstheatre.org.

1 p.m. Saturday

3 Day Weekend Vino Godfather Winery, 1005 Walnut Ave. www. vinogodfather.com.

THEATER Review

Solano College Theatre presents ‘Priscilla, Queen of the Desert’

2 p.m. Sunday; 7:30 p.m. April 21-22, 28-29; 11 a.m. April 21 4000 Suisun Valley Road, Fairfield http://blogs.solano.edu/ theater/index.php/tickets

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Over the years I have admired, appreciated and been blessed by Solano College Theatre. Under the stewardship of current Theater Professor and Artistic Director Christine Mani I earned a new level of respect for them as they navigated several challenges, like when their new theater home was being built a few years ago.

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No one would have blamed them for sitting out for a season, but instead they MacGyvered a space in the campus cafeteria, dubbed it “Studio G” after Solano College theatrical legend George Maguire and the show(s) went on. They did some wonderful work there including “Spring Awakening,” “Cabaret” and “Picasso at the Lapin Agile.”

During the pandemic they reinvented themselves as an online company and continued to create and perform. When the

world shut down in March 2020, the production on the on-deck circle was “Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” and after three long years, they have persisted and finally brought it to the stage.

The musical is based on the 1994 surprise hit Australian film “The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert,” and the story is basically about two drag queens and a transgender woman and their adventures

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VACAVILLE — Two artists who discovered a passion for painting after retirement are featured at the Vacaville Art League Pop Up Show, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and noon to 3 p.m. April 23.

Randy Pauley and Lauren Nordeen will showcase their creations.

Pauley, a Vacaville resident, was born in Fairfield. He joined the United States Navy at 17, serving four years.

“It was a good way for a kid to grow up and leave home,” he said, adding that he had been frying hamburgers.

He retired in 2019, spent most of his career as a stationery engineer working in San Francisco. His wife is Kellie.

Just shy of his 60th birthday, he picked up a paint brush. “I was nearing retirement and I needed to do something,” Pauley said. “I started with watercolors. They were cheap to buy and if they weren’t good, I would throw them away.”

Tucker releasing ‘Don’t You Blow It’ on April 28

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VACAVILLE — Local musician Sargent Tucker will release “Don’t You Blow It” on April 28. Tucker describes it as an uplifting and melodic track.

“Don’t You Blow It” changes the narrative, by Tucker asking his woman not to blow it.

He subtlety defends good men while emanating positive vibes, said press materials. His impetus was to change the narrative among men and women, Courtesy photo Sargent Tucker. See Tucker, Page B3

Pauley found true art happiness using acrylics. “I don’t have the patience for oils,” he said. “They take so long to dry.”

His late father began painting in his 80s. One piece of advice shared from father to son was, “paint in the living room.” Pauley heeded.

He tries to paint four or five times a week, a few hours at a time.

“It depends on how excited I am

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Rowland Center offers speaker series, collectibles event

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VACAVILLE — Nick Sanza, a “tunnel rat” during his service in Vietnam, will be the keynote speaker at the next “Faces of Freedom” event at the Rowland Freedom Center. This will be the third in the speaker series held at the museum, on the grounds of the Nut Tree Airport.

It is set to begin at 10 a.m. and run through noon on April 22.

The following Saturday, April 29, the center will play host to the “Military Collectibles, GI Joe, Toy and Science

Fiction Show.”

Guests will include C. Andrew Nelson, who portrayed Darth Vader in some of the “Star Wars” films, Allan Fernandez, an elephant trainer who worked in the Star Wars franchise, and Herbert Jefferson Jr., who was the original Lt. Boomer in “Battlestar Galactica.” R2-D2 also is expected to be there.

The cost is $6 for those 13 or older. Anyone with a military identification will pay $4. Those 12 or younger will be admitted free.

The center is at 300 County Airport Road, C4.

Courtesy photo

An acrylic painting by Randy Pauling.

Courtesy photo

A painting by Lauren Nordeen. See Artists, Page

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about the painting,” Pauley said, noting he turns on music while he creates.

Classical and tunes from the 1970s are preferred.

Pauley’s son, Aaron Pauley, is the frontman for the band Of Mice and Men.

He joined the Vacaville Art League after stopping into the gallery and meeting gallery manager Barb Musial. Pauley has submitted work for almost every show since.

“It’s a blessing to me,” he said. Some of Pauley’s 500-plus paintings have been donated to the gallery for fundraising.

Painting has given him a different view on what he sees.

“I see a cloud and think how I would paint it,” he said. “I see things deeper.” So deep, he now finds himself looking at the shadow of the nose of someone he is talking to.

He also does commissions and is generous with his art. A contractor’s crew who did recent work on his home each left with a painting. He donates them for silent auctions.

“It was never really about selling them,” he said. But he has sold some.

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and misadventures traveling to perform a drag show in the remote Australian desert.

“Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” premiered on Broadway in March 2011 and won the Tony Award for Best Costume Design.

SCT’s main cast included Trey Reeves as Anthony “Tick” Belrose aka Mitzi Mitosis, Angel Robbson as Bernadette Basinger, Antoine Hunter as Adam Whitely aka Felicia Jollygoodfellow, Sam Schneider as Bob, Erin Jones as Marion, Solomon Brown as Benji and Michaiah Toney, Layla Morales, Zakiya Ruff as the Divas. Several other talented young people rounded out the ensemble and what came across on opening night was the exuberance they all felt pouring themselves into their respective roles.

I have to quibble with the description in the program of Christian Alvarez as a mere “costume designer.” A more accurate description would have been “Constructor of Extravagant Eye Confections” or something. Among

Pauley’s son, Samuel Pauley, lives in Fairfield and has two children, a girl, 12, and son, 9. Nordeen, an Armijo High grad, has spent most of her life in the area.

She took art classes in high school. One of her teachers was the late Mary Pedri.

When her children left home, Nordeen was bored. When her daughter asked what she did prior to having children, she remembered the art classes and enrolled at Solano Community College, earning her associate’s degree. Her work found its way to the Vacaville Art League Gallery. Nordeen also volunteered there.

“I enjoyed it. I got to talk to others who love art,” she said. “I keep going back there.”

Painting is a calling. “I just have to do it,” she said. Nordeen has an art studio in her back yard.

She tries to paint a few times a week. “I get an urge,” she said. “I don’t know where it comes from.” She always acts on it.

Nordeen describes her art as “sort of all over.”

She’s not a big fan of landscapes and would like to learn how to develop them.

She also enjoys travel, history, art history, gardening and her dogs.

the numerous pieces that blew the opening night audience’s minds were a winged wasp/butterfly-type outfit, luxurious sparkling, glittery gowns and brightly colored headgear of all sorts and sizes. My favorite costumes were so otherworldly I truly am at a loss to describe them except the pants didn’t taper off, they went all the way to the ground like onesies with feet in them. I could totally see David Bowie wearing something like that in his heyday. There were plenty of oohs, aahs and laughs as each outfit was revealed.

The title of the show refers to the massive “budget Barbie campervan” that the trio used to travel to their show, and it was one of the coolest sets I have seen.

“Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” is what is known as a jukebox musical, which means a majority of the songs are wellknown pop tunes rather than original music. There is a real advantage to that because audiences already have a connection to them, which is why so many commercials utilize them instead of making new jingles. The show featured pop and disco songs from the ’60, ’70s and ’80s. They included The Weather Girls’ “It’s Raining Men,” Tina Turn-

Gallery 621 featuring ‘Oil and Water’

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BENICIA — Gallery

621 is home to “Oil and Water,” featuring work by Craig Moline and Kathleen Gadway.

The artist reception is 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday.

Gadway aims to create a sense of place with her oil paintings, done in her Berkeley studio.

“Every day I look west across the rooftops and telephone poles to the San Francisco Bay, Mount Tamalpais, the Berkeley

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from saying such things like: “you have a good woman, don’t mess that up, or you’ve stepped-up in class with this one, hey, you better act right and not blow it, she’s a keeper.”

“The kind of man who provides for his woman, and smothers her with love. A man who’s willing to give his life to protect his woman, and family. It’s easy to forget that there are many good men in the world, so don’t

er’s “What’s Love Got To Do With It?” Peaches and Herb’s “Shake Your Groove Thing,” The Village People’s “Go West,” Pat Benatar’s “We Belong” and Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” among others.

Now, I thought I had a vague memory of watching the original movie on video back in the mid1990s, but it turned out I was thinking of “To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar.” In my defense, that movie was also about drag queens on a road trip.

Now, I am a reviewer (not a critic) and I consider myself a fan first. “Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” is the 36th Solano College Theatre production I have reviewed since my first in 2008, “The Comedy of Errors.” With all the drama they went through to finally get the production to the stage, I really wanted to love it. I did like it as it was entertaining and definitely fun, but on the whole it seemed a bit … uneven.

The main issue I had was in the story itself. I have seen jukebox musicals that have threadbare plots that are there just to go from one song to the next (like “Always Patsy Cline”) and “Priscilla” is not that – there is a story. It’s just that some of the complex con-

Marina and Mount Livermore on Angel Island and paint what I see,” she said in press materials. “These landmarks play hide and seek with the clouds and the fog giving me a constantly changing view.

“I look at and through the windows thinking about making the illusion of a place and space, inside, outside and framing it on a two dimensional picture plane. I love my studio view and hope to convey the beauty I see in this urban place.”

She has been paint-

you blow it,” he said in press materials.

Tucker, born in New Orleans, traces his musical roots to the San Francisco Bay Area.

Music is his true love, but not his only love. He graduated with honors from UC Davis to keep a promise to his mother.

Tucker does not use his craft to demean women or denigrate people. He sticks to his own narrative, a breath of fresh air in an industry that sometimes glorifies negative behavior, said his biography.

“He doesn’t compose music for style points or

flicts like the relationship issues between Tick and his son and worse, the homophobia the traveling trio encounter are dealt with in a sitcom manner where it all gets wrapped up in a bow.

That said, I loved that in the program itself there is a section titled “Powerful Theatre” that recognizes that challenging content can disturb as well as enlighten. It included contact information for theatergoers

ing since childhood and earned an MFA from California College of the Arts.

Moline has lived in Benicia more than 25 years.

“I’m most proud of my watercolor skills and preliminary sketches, altering or adding subject matter to obtain correct content and composition,” he said in press materials.

“This keeps me in touch with the basic skills of artistry. When I see something I like – landscapes, cityscapes, old cars, farm equipment,

to follow the latest trends.

ST prides himself in being a gentleman who writes meaningful, inspirational, heartfelt lyrics about love, fun, and togetherness,” it reads.

Tucker was recently chosen by the UC Davis Chancellor’s Office Entertainment Department to be featured in the March 2023 issue of UCD Magazine.

He was also nominated as a finalist for Male Vocalist of the Year in the 2022 SoulTracks Readers’ Choice Awards.

Prior to both these accomplishments, Tuck-

seeking resources for help. The friend who accompanied me was in fact triggered by the homophobic actions in the show.

Also, the ending of the show kind of (forgive the pun) dragged.

All that said, I always encourage people to attend a show themselves and make up their own minds as it is subjective. My view was definitely in the minority on opening night.

animals, architecture and people — I photograph it and sketch it out.

“I love the outdoors, ocean scenes, forest, lakes and mountains. Watercolor medium offers so many opportunities to create, design and use special effects. This is my way to communicate the beauty within all things.”

Gallery 621, upstairs at 920 First St., is open noon to 6 p.m. Thursday through Sunday. For more information, visit www. gallery621.com.

er’s “I Need Your Love” collaboration featuring Drizabone charted at No. 1 in the UK.

His composition

“I Am Happy” is the theme song for the I Am Happy Project.

Tucker was the featured performer at Hollywood’s Global Happiness Day. Honorees included Will Smith, Ellen DeGeneres, Goldie Hawn and Robbie Williams.

For more information, visit https:// sargenttucker.com.

Bottom line, the show has laughs, eye-popping costumes and sets plus heart, and I am glad that their three-yearlong ride in the Covid desert has ended.

Fairfield freelance humor columnist and accidental local historian Tony Wade writes two weekly columns: “The Last Laugh” on Mondays and “Back in the Day” on Fridays.

CALMATTERS COMMENTARY

How will Newsom, legislators deal with growing revenue shortfalls?

When Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed a 2023-24 budget in January, he acknowledged that the revenue estimates made six months earlier were way too optimistic and that the state had evolved from a nearly $100 billion surplus to a $22.5 billion deficit.

Never mind. Nine months into the current fiscal year, it’s evident that revenue, principally from personal income taxes, will fall well short of that downward revision. The deficit could hit $30 billion as he and legislative leaders begin to focus on a final version for adoption in June.

Through February, the administration reported, revenues were running nearly $5 billion below expectations and they fell short by nearly $1 billion more in March.

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The numbers bolster contentions by the Legislature’s budget analyst, Gabe Petek, that the state’s fiscal situation was unhealthier than Newsom was admitting. In his initial response to the January budget, Petek said, “Our estimates suggest that there is a good chance that revenues will be lower than the administration’s projections for the budget window, particularly in 2022-23 and 2023-24.”

The next stop for the annual budget process will come in May, when Newsom must unveil revised revenue estimates and appropriations. The worsening revenue data set the stage for what could be contentious negotiations with a June 15 constitutional deadline for passing a budget.

The essential problem is that when Newsom was forecasting an immense surplus and bragging that “no other state in American history has ever experienced a surplus as large as this,” he and the Legislature spent much of it on rebates to taxpayers and expansions of programs, especially those benefiting the poor.

Although Newsom insisted at the time that much of that spending was one-time in nature and therefore wouldn’t make unsustainable long-term commitments, it nevertheless raised expectations of permanency. Thus, when Newsom offered a new budget in January, he clawed back many of those allocations, particularly those that hadn’t yet been spent, sparking complaints from would-be recipients.

As revenues continue to fall short, expectations will have to shrink further, the competition for money among budget stakeholders will become more intense and the pressure on Newsom and legislators will increase.

They may be tempted to do something that Newsom says he doesn’t want to do and that Petek says would be foolhardy: tap into the state’s “rainy day” reserves to relieve stakeholder pressure.

The reserves are meant to be used during a severe economic downturn, but California’s fiscal problem is occurring during a relatively prosperous post-pandemic recovery. The shortfall in revenues is occurring because of the state’s narrowly based revenue system, one that is largely dependent on earnings of high-income taxpayers, particular in the shaky technology sector.

The stock market has reacted negatively to the Federal Reserve System’s interest rate increases, which are meant to combat inflation. Declines in the market manifest themselves in lower taxable earnings by investors who are such a large factor in the revenue stream. The system is so narrowly based that lower incomes for just a handful of wealthy Californians can have a big effect on revenues. Dipping into reserves to cover the revenue shortfall would weaken their ability to cushion a recession if and when that occurs, which is why Petek strongly discourages Newsom and legislators from succumbing to stakeholder pressure by using them.

A deficit north of $30 billion, which is a real possibility, is no joke and coming after such huge – and probably irresponsible surplus estimates – poses a serious political dilemma for politicians who would much prefer to be showering money on their constituents as they did last year.

CALmatters is a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s state Capitol works and why it matters. For more columns by Dan Walters, go to Commentary.

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What went wrong in the Afghan pullout?

This month marks two years since President Joe Biden ordered the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan, bringing America’s two-decade war there to an end. One might hope that Washington would be engaged in a searching debate about what went wrong in that conflict. So far, alas, it’s not clear that hindsight is making America much wiser.

See, most recently, the Biden administration’s “after action review” of the U.S. withdrawal. That document is not an objective assessment of a searing episode. It is an exercise in blame-shifting and rationalization.

The report blames former president Donald Trump, correctly, for signing a flawed peace deal that was merely a fig leaf for U.S. withdrawal. It blames the intelligence community, correctly, for failing to foresee the speed of the Afghan military’s collapse. It blames the Afghan government, correctly, for failing to take measures that might have delayed defeat. The report does not, however, acknowledge any mistakes on the part of current senior American leaders or the president himself.

There’s no acknowledgment that a rapid U.S. pullout, executed just as the fighting season was starting, disastrously destabilized the battlefield. There’s no analysis of the breakdowns of interagency coordination that turned an unavoidably difficult withdrawal into an epic mess. There’s no discussion of the terrible consequences the pullout had for the Afghan people, including those who had worked with the U.S.. Biden’s national security spokesman even denied – in a statement that surely would have been labeled a “lie” had it come from the Trump administration – that there was any chaos at all in Kabul in August 2021.

A humiliating withdrawal, the report argues, was really a triumph of visionary statecraft. It’s an oddly defensive stance to take – not least

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As an immigrant student and eldest sibling, navigating the higher education system felt like stumbling alone in the dark with nobody to guide me. Facing the numerous hurdles in an inexplicably murky transfer process was no easy feat.

Thankfully, with hard work and some luck, I made it through. Last year, my dreams came true when I graduated from UC Davis with a bachelor’s degree in psychology.

Yet, the transfer path for so many of my friends and peers is defeating, with only 2.5% of us transferring within two years and 23% within four.

I experienced firsthand how current transfer processes fail to center students. After high school, I began taking classes at Mission College and De Anza Community College in order to save money. I graduated from Mission with an associate degree for transfer, or ADT, in psychology and another in liberal arts with an emphasis in natural sciences and mathematics.

When I began researching transfer requirements to schools within the University of California and California State University systems, I quickly discovered that it’s confusing and difficult to understand what courses count for different schools, especially when attending multiple community colleges. It’s hard

because the administration actually has a decent story to tell. Even those, like me, who criticized the withdrawal must admit that aspects of Biden’s decision look better now. (My view was that it made sense for the U.S. to stay if it could do so with a force of a few thousand troops, reinforced by allies; it did not make sense if the cost would have been significantly higher.)

The world has gotten ugly, quickly, since August 2021. The Taiwan Strait has become a great-power flash point. A full-blown war rages in Ukraine. The U.S. government can do more than one thing at a time. But Washington would probably find it harder to manage an intense proxy struggle with Russia, or the threat of conflict with China, if it were also fighting an escalating civil war in Afghanistan.

To be clear, the geopolitical effects of the withdrawal were mixed. It is plausible, although unprovable, that the impression of U.S. weakness in Afghanistan made Russian President Vladimir Putin think he could push harder in Ukraine. Some allied officials did worry, in public and in private, about what a botched withdrawal signaled regarding U.S. commitment and competence.

Yet the U.S. has mostly repaired that damage with its performance in Ukraine, precisely because that performance has featured vital qualities – careful alliance management, remarkably accurate intelligence, the deft use and coordination of multiple aspects of American power – that seemed lacking in the Afghanistan endgame.

Which brings us to a second point in Biden’s favor: His team has learned at least one key lesson from Afghanistan.

In 2021, a relatively new national security team failed to seriously prepare for the worst-case scenario – the possibility that the Afghan government would fall before U.S. forces had even reached the exit.

Biden’s administration hasn’t made that mistake twice.

Once it became clear, in late 2021, that Putin was getting ready for war, the administration systematically prepared for the worst-case scenario of a full-blown invasion. It pushed relevant agencies to make plans for a rapid response.

When the invasion came, Biden was thus able to impose harsh sanctions, bolster Ukraine’s military effort, and otherwise get off to a fast start in addressing a historic security crisis. The fact that Biden did so poorly in handling Afghanistan is one reason he has done so well in handling Ukraine.

So why can’t the administration be a bit more candid? The problem is more political than analytical.

Biden took a beating in the polls when Kabul fell. Now, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives is investigating the withdrawal. Don’t be shocked if that inquiry becomes intensely adversarial and politicized. With November 2024 on the horizon, Biden certainly won’t give his political rivals any additional ammunition to use against him.

Fortunately, there will be other opportunities to review the past with an eye to the future. The congressionally chartered, nonpartisan Afghanistan War Commission is charged with studying the entire 20-year history of the conflict. Its report will probably be sober and serious – but it probably won’t be delivered for another few years. It’s a shame we’ll have to wait so long for a more penetrating, and less politicized, reckoning with the lessons of America’s longest war.

Hal Brands is the Henry Kissinger Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies and co-author, most recently, of “Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China” and a member of the State Department’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board.

to find accurate transfer information. And while individual colleges have requirements specific to major, general education and number of units, information about each is found in different places.

Ultimately, mapping out the transfer credit process – as a student – was overwhelming, unclear and stressful.

Despite meeting with advisors in person, many students end up taking longer to earn a degree and transfer because even their advisors are unclear or confused about the requirements they needed. As I was exploring which four-year university I wanted to attend, I found myself having to complete separate major requirements for each school I was applying to, on top of the different general education requirements for UC and CSU schools. This packed my schedule and needlessly increased costs.

Even with all the additional work, time and money – when it came time to apply and get admitted to universities – I didn’t meet the requirements for every school.

A more streamlined process with a clear set of courses that shared the same numerals across campuses would have helped me avoid taking extra classes or applying to universities that couldn’t accept me. And the students who received incorrect advice wouldn’t have had to take additional semesters to complete unnecessary courses. We all could have applied to every school we were interested in, instead

of being limited because of a convoluted transfer maze.

The stressors of my transfer experience motivated me to become involved in transfer student advocacy after I was accepted to UC Davis. Through the Office of the Transfer Student Representative, I learned about other students’ difficulties and discovered that many of their experiences were worse than mine.

As new higher education leaders are named and others continue to work on this issue, it is important they understand the challenges faced by transfer students and work to improve transfer. That could begin by fully implementing Assembly Bill 928, the Student Transfer Achievement Reform Act of 2021.

This law, authored by Assemblyman Marc Berman, creates a streamlined transfer pathway that supports students from the moment we enroll at college and helping provide the curriculum, resources and tools needed to succeed.

Transfer students know firsthand why change is needed and why a clearer pathway will help millions of young people entering California’s higher education system. There are many forms of pressure placed on college students, and getting students to where they want to be – or where they deserve to be – shouldn’t be one of them.

Momina Nadeem is a former transfer student who graduated from Mission College and UC Davis.

State’s higher education system has enough barriers; transferring shouldn’t be one of them

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Our drug addict son is refusing help – what can I do?

Dear Annie: My husband and I divorced after 34 years of marriage. Our adopted son was 15 at the time of the divorce. We had adopted him as an infant at birth and raised him as our own. When he was 6, he was diagnosed with ADHD. We never put him on Ritalin because we were aware of drug use by his mother. He never graduated high school. He is now in his early 30s and is a drug addict

who has been homeless for 11 years.

When he was in his early 20s, he was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, bipolar disorder and drug-induced schizophrenia. He smokes fentanyl and does meth and heroin.

He’s been in rehab, but he will not go anymore. Our relationship has deteriorated due to his choices to do drugs. He refuses to stop

Horoscopes

by Holiday Mathis

Today’s birthday

Welcome to your year of stellar communication. You’re so effective in relationships because of it, and business becomes easier for you as well. Ask for the moon and you just might get it! More highlights: a dream vacation, the healing of an age-old problem, and support and funding for a project. Sagittarius and Cancer adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 1, 19, 22, 30 and 16

ARIES (March 21-April 19). You’ll pose the magic question of “why” again. Ask it once and take the first answer that comes. If it doesn’t satisfy, ask again tomorrow. This isn’t a day to pontificate your purpose. Assume you have one and trust that it will reveal itself in time.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). The pressure to conform sends you in the opposite direction – an individualistic rebellion. The pressure to pretend puts you in a mood to tell the truth. The pressure to tell the truth has you wondering if you should soften things with vagueness.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You’ll do what you said you’ll do because this is the honorable way. If the idea turns out to be a bad one, you’ll make modifications and do what it takes to make good on your word in a different way.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). Negative feelings help you figure out where you can grow next. Whenever you have a negative feeling about yourself, it’s an opportunity to find self-acceptance. Celebrate the ways in which you are different from others. These differences are among the biggest blessings of your life.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Loyalty is earned. You know this because you’ve given it and because you’ve earned it from others. You’re right to suspect those who ask for loyalty but have done nothing to earn it. Tonight is a culinary delight.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Wherever you can simplify, do it now so you won’t have to do it later. There’s a move coming, and it won’t be so hard to make if you can get a handle on what’s relevant or irrelevant about your current position.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). The change you want will come about when several people work together. If there’s one thing to be unwavering about, it’s kindness. You’ll never be sorry if you err on the side of helping others feel good about the interaction.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). It’s easy to get support for old ideas. People are likely to say and do the things that others have said and done before them. New ideas need the support of the bold. Who is willing to extend their understanding into the future?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). It is not necessary to know everything about the situation to contribute to the discussion. Never underestimate the impact of your point of view on a conversation. Even if you have no opinion, your openness is contagious.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Financial matters, social activities and intellectual endeavors will be the main interests of the day. The problems aren’t big in scope, but they require your toplevel thinking. Try to get help with mundane activities so you can focus where you’re really needed.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You’ll be affected by a twosome. It’s remarkable how someone else’s relationship can change the energy in a room. If they are getting along, there’s joy in the air, and if they aren’t, there’s tension. The way to emotional independence is distance.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Unfamiliar social territory, a new environment or a problem you’ve never dealt with before could have you feeling uncharacteristically inhibited. Someone will go out of their way to make you feel at ease. Note how they do this because you’ll be in their position later.

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Lawrence is in pre-production of the fourth installment of the “Bad Boys” film series. Born in the sign of the warrior, Lawrence had a dream of becoming a boxing champ but reconsidered after a particularly brutal fight. Comedy takes a warrior spirit as well, indicated by the lingo. If the set is good, the comedian “kills” or “slays” it.

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using street drugs and will not take prescription drugs due to side effects.

This is breaking my heart. He doesn’t think he needs help and refuses help to change.

He verbally abuses me like my ex-husband did. My ex has not seen him in years. He has become irrational. I was in Al-Anon for over five years. He wants to live in my house, and I always tell him no. No drugs in my house. He says I “threw him to the streets.” He plays

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the victim. Please advise me on how not to be manipulated by him. — Hurting in California

Dear Hurting in CA: I am so sorry that you are going through this. Your son is a very sick adult and needs treatment.

But he is an adult, and the best thing you can do for him is what you have been doing. Keep attending Al-Anon and getting support from other parents, spouses, children and others who are all experiencing the pain of loving someone with a drug addiction. Not letting him

back in the house is the kindest thing you can do for him. While he is still using, he can’t be under your roof. That would just be enabling his behavior. Tell him how much you love him, and encourage him to attend rehab and get the much-needed help that he and you deserve. Best of luck to you and your family.

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Understanding dementia

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Memory changes can start as we get older. For some of us, it is simple things like forgetting why we went into a room or misplacing an item, which is normal. But for others, cognitive changes can lead to dementia.

According to the World Health Organization, dementia currently affects 55 million people worldwide. Kaiser Permanente Vallejo geriatrics specialist Michael Mason, M.D., offers his perspectives on this syndrome.

Q: What is dementia and who is at risk?

Dementia is a syndrome that involves an irreversible change and decline in our brain function that affects our ability to function in life. It most commonly affects people as we grow older, increasing in prevalence from ages 60 to 80 and beyond. Difficulty with memory can be a normal part of aging or, if it starts to affect how someone functions, that can be concerning and a reason for evaluation and testing.

As we age, everyone’s risk increases statistically. It is higher for those with uncontrolled diabetes and hypertension. In addition, things like significant head trauma, poor diets,

and those with limited mental, physical and social connections are also at increased risk.

Q: Have treatments improved?

There are several treatment options available including two classes of pills that can help with specific types of dementia such as Alzheimer’s, but they are not curative.

The good news is we are getting better at early diagnosis and remain hopeful about many proposed treatments currently being researched.

Q: Is dementia preventable?

We are not sure at this point, but we know that the best advice is to control risk factors like diabetes and hypertension, eat a healthy Mediterranean diet and avoid processed and packaged foods, and work on being mentally, physically and socially active.

Q: What do families and caregivers need to know?

When someone is diagnosed with a dementia syndrome, it can be frightening and frustrating for patients and families. We recommend trying to be understanding and patient with the person with memory loss and not feel the need to always correct them. Seek help and support from your medical

team as well as organizations such as the Alzheimer’s Association.

Recently, I consulted with a patient in their mid-70s who complained of difficulty remembering things. The patient lives alone and is able to cook, clean and drive, but does not get out much since the pandemic and had forgotten to pay some bills. Testing revealed Mild Cognitive Impairment, not dementia or Alzheimer’s. We recommended more mental, physical and social activity. We also recommended the patient work on lowering blood pressure and following a healthy Mediterranean diet while avoiding sleep medications and antihistamines that can adversely affect memory.

Q: What do you want people to know about dementia?

It can be scary as we age to confront things like difficulty with memory. If you or someone you love starts to show signs, let a medical professional evaluate the concern. Many times, memory loss is not dementia. But if the diagnosis is dementia, we can evaluate treatments and help provide the longterm care and support that is needed for patients and families.

Michael Mason, M.D., is a specialist in geriatric medicine at Kaiser Permanente in Napa Solano, a partner of Solano Public Health.

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As we age, everyone’s risk for developing dementia increases statistically.

Special day in NorCal as hoop series begins

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SACRAMENTO — The Battle of Northern California commenced with thunderous applause late Saturday afternoon when the Kings played host to the Golden State Warriors in Game 1 of their best-of-seven series at Golden 1 Center. Sacramento had waited 17 years to bring decibel levels back to where they were when the team was winning. A sellout crowd

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of more than 18,000 people packed the city’s dazzling downtown arena with thousands more crowding the DoCo corridor to see the Kings try to win the historic series.

Game 1 finished after the Daily Republic’s early Sunday night deadline. More on the series will be available in Monday’s print edition of the newspaper.

“It’s going to be jumping,” Kings point guard De’Aaron Fox said prior to tipoff. “I think Kings fans have been

Rodriguez baseball rallies late to edge out visiting Napa

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FAIRFIELD — The Rodriguez High School baseball team rallied for three runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to beat visiting Napa 4-3 Saturday in a tight, non-league game.

Napa had a 3-0 lead until the fifth when Rodriguez scored one before tacking on the final three in the seventh. The Mustangs improved to 10-7 overall and return to Monticello Empire League play with a 4 p.m. home game Monday against Armijo.

Jace Parkinson went 2-for-3 with two RBIs against Napa. Aaron Armstrong and Jaheem Mosley-Wallace each had a hit and drove in a run.

Sidon Johnson, Evan Broschard and Landon Stadelhofer all saw action on the mound. The four pitchers scattered six hits against the Grizzlies.

On Friday, Rodriguez lost a non-league game 6-2 to San Ramon Valley.

Rodriguez scored two runs in the fifth inning but was held scoreless the rest

of the game. The Mustangs fell to 9-7 overall.

Michael Boals, Noah Ramirez, Nathan Schikore and Parkinson accounted for the Mustangs’ four hits. Kyle Sandner and Aaron Strong drove in runs.

Sandner, Connor Broschard, Carson Thompson and Grant Genter all took the mound for Rodriguez. The four combined in allowing nine hits, four earned runs, three walks to go with six strikeouts.

Fairfield edged out at home by Dixon

FAIRFIELD — The Fairfield High School baseball team was edged out at home Saturday by visiting Dixon 4-2 in a non-league game.

The teams were tied 2-2 through three innings before Dixon scored its final two runs in the top of the fourth. Fairfield fell to 8-11 overall. The Falcons resume the Monticello Empire League schedule Monday at 4 p.m. with a home game against Will C. Wood.

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Giants beaten in second straight walk-off fashion

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DETROIT — Over breakfast burritos in a suburb about 30 minutes from Comerica Park, two California kids caught up and envisioned the matchup that awaited them Saturday. I want you in there, Tigers righthander Michael Lorenzen told Giants rookie Blake Sabol, because I’m gonna punch you out. OK, Sabol responded, trade you a strikeout for a home run.

“He knows me, I know him,” Sabol said. “We’re competitive.”

Competitive, sure.

But fortune tellers?

Apparently.

That is precisely how Sabol’s two at-bats played out against the shaggyhaired kid who played travel ball with his older brother, slept over at their Orange County house and carpooled to games throughout the elder kids’ preteen and teenage years. Six years separate Sabol, playing in his 12th major-league game, and Lorenzen, on his third team in nine seasons, but they each got the best of

ready for this and I think the basketball world has been ready to see Sacramento back in the playoffs, so I think this is going to be a great day.”

Kings center Domantas Sabonis said he was eager to see Sacramento’s response to the team’s first playoff game since 2006.

“I’m excited,” Sabonis said. “I don’t even know what to expect, but I know it’s going to be special.” Kings guard Malik Monk had this to say about Sacramento fans: “They’re

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crazy. I love it, though. They’re crazy and they’re here for us.”

The skirmishes in this regional battle began even before the series did with fighting among fans on social media and mostly friendly fire between Sacramento and San Francisco Bay Area radio hosts. First-year Kings coach Mike Brown joined the fray Friday when told how much the Warriors were complimenting him after he helped them win three championships in

six seasons as Steve Kerr’s lead assistant.

“It’s a setup,” Brown quipped. “They want to kick my ass. Trust me. I’ve been around them enough. It’s a setup. Don’t fall for it and I’m not falling for it neither. Screw you guys until this is over.”

And so it begins, an epic battle between two teams that have never clashed in the playoffs because they’ve never been good at the same time.

The Kings reached the Western Conference

finals and made eight consecutive postseason appearances under former coach Rick Adelman before plunging into the darkness of a 16-year playoff drought. The Warriors endured a 12-year playoff drought with one postseason appearance in 17 years before Stephen Curry led them to the first of seven consecutive playoff appearances in 2013.

When the Kings were good, the Warriors were bad. When the Kings were

Baseball race is tight; Rodriguez softball has a busy week ahead

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FAIRFIELD — Spring break brought a brief pause to the Monticello Empire League schedule, but the season heats up again next week as teams make their final push for the championship banner and the postseason in May.

Baseball coaches expected parity before the season started and it hasn’t disappointed. Rodriguez, Vanden and Vacaville all share the MEL lead at 6-3 with Armijo one game back at 5-4. Will C. Wood follows at 3-6 and Fairfield is 1-8.

All six teams are capable of beating each other. Fairfield beat Rodriguez 5-4 on March 30 for its

first league win since 2018. Chaos could ensue. The 2022 season ended with a first-place tie between Vanden and Rodriguez. Vanden has a three-game series next week against Vacaville and closes out the league season with three against Rodriguez. The Mustangs plays Armijo next week. Vacaville finishes its season against Will C. Wood. Armijo closes with Fairfield. The Vikings, Bulldogs and Mustangs all have strong stables of pitching. Armijo has a solid one-two punch in starters Luis Urias and Brayan Orrantia. Devon Hancock has had some big starts for Wood and Amari Bryant has been solid of late for Fairfield.

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Vacaville has been explosive thus far with hot hitters like Makayla Freshour and an ace in Xochitl Atayde. The Bulldogs are off to a 5-0 start in MEL. The standings on MaxPreps. com have Rodriguez at 3-0, Vanden 3-2, Wood 2-2, Armijo 1-3 and Fairfield 0-7.

The wet weather has stacked up makeup games for Rodriguez. The Lady Mustangs have yet to play Vacaville in what should be some key matchups between the two. The next few weeks will determine if anyone can slow the Lady Bulldogs. Rodriguez has games this week against Vanden at home Monday,

each other Saturday.

Yet, their memorable matchup was overshadowed by the Giants’ second straight walk-off loss to the Tigers, who got a single up the middle from Miguel Cabrera against Taylor Rogers in the 11th inning to end the game, 7-6, despite San Francisco once holding leads of 4-0 and 6-1.

Sabol made a costly defensive miscue in left field, too, which allowed two runs to score and extended Detroit’s threerun eighth inning that tied the game.

John Brebbia, who relieved Anthony DeSclafani with two outs in the seventh, allowed the first two batters of the eighth to reach base, and Javier Baez lofted a fly ball to Sabol in left field. The deep fly turned Sabol around, carried beyond his outstretched glove and landed on the warning track. Sabol landed on the track, too, face-planting into the dirt. By the time he recovered, it was too late for Brandon Crawford’s relay throw to

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Nimmo plays hero with clutch double as Mets shake off A’s at the Coliseum

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OAKLAND— Brandon Nimmo played the hero on Saturday against the Oakland A’s, beating one of his former Mets teammates in a 3-2 win.

There appeared to be a hangover effect of sorts for the Mets after a long, eventful game Friday night. The Mets took the series opener 17-6 but it didn’t feel like much of a win with the way the pitching staff was taxed and the elbow injury to Stephen Nogosek.

Much of the second game of the series felt like a slog, but once the Mets (9-6) got to the Oakland bullpen they were able to get what they needed for the victory.

With two out and one on and the game tied 2-2 in the seventh inning, Nimmo took the first pitch he saw from former Mets’ right-

hander Trevor May and pulled it down the line for an RBI double. Tim Locastro came home for the go-ahead run.

Carlos Carrasco allowed only two earned runs, with both coming in the second inning, before settling down through the next three. The two runs were

almost enough. The Mets had only managed one –a solo shot by Pete Alonso off right-hander Shintaro Fujinami (0-3) in the fourth inning – until the seventh inning when former A’s outfielder Mark Canha homered to tie the game at 2-2.

Alonso’s seven home runs tie him for the MLB

lead with Boston’s Rafael Devers and put him at the top of the National League leaderboard. The rest of the Mets combined have seven.

Carrasco was much better this time out than the last two times, limiting Oakland to two runs on four hits, walking two and striking out three over five innings. Since his last start against the Miami Marlins, the right-hander had been working to throw more strikes and limit walks and he did exactly that. It was a much more encouraging start than the first two. He didn’t factor into the decision after Canha’s home run in the seventh. Fujinami faced one more batter before being removed in favor of May, walking Daniel Vogelbach. Locastro pinch-ran for the DH and stole second, putting him in position to score easily on Nimmo’s two-out double.

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Brayden Bruno pitches during the baseball game against Armijo at Vanden High School in Fairfield, April 7.

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Brandon Nimmo of the New York Mets races into second base with an RBI double against the Oakland Athletics in the seventh inning at RingCentral Coliseum in Oakland, Saturday.

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CALENDAR

Sunday’s TV sports

Baseball

MLB

• San Francisco at Detroit, NBCSBA, 10:10 a.m.

• N.Y. Mets at Oakland, NBCSCA, 1:07 p.m.

• Texas at Houston, ESPN, 4:10 p.m.

Basketball

NBA Playoffs

• Memphis vs. L.A. Lakers, 7, 10, 12:30 p.m.

• Teams TBA, TNT, 2:30 p.m.

• Phoenix vs. L.A. Clippers, TNT, 5 p.m.

• Teams TBA, TNT, 7:30 p.m.

Bowling

• PBA, World Series of Bowling, U.S. vs. The World, FS1, 9 a.m.

Football

XFL

• DC vs. Dallas, ESPN, 9 a.m.

• St. Louis vs. Seattle, ESPN, Noon.

USFL

• Houston vs. Michigan, 3, 9 a.m.

• New Orleans vs. Pittsburgh, FS1, 3:30 p.m.

Golf • PGA, RBC Heritage, GOLF, 10 a.m.

• PGA, RBC Heritage,

Local

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Amari Bryant went 2-2 at the plate for the Falcons against the Rams. Devin Knox had the second RBI. Josh Tucker, Zack O’Reilly, Pat O’Reilly and Christian Rambeau all had hits.

Trustin Mitchell, Bryant and Jordan Dix combined to allow five hits and nine walks but also strike out nine batters.

Vanden scores early, but falls at home

FAIRFIELD — The Vanden High School baseball team scored seven runs in the first inning but couldn’t hold off visiting Pinole Valley in a 15-7 loss Saturday.

Pinole Valley tied the game with a seven-run second inning and kept Vanden off the scoreboard the rest of the way. Vanden improved to 10-5 overall and will resume the Monticello Empire League schedule Monday with a 4 p.m. game at Vacaville.

Austin Hammerschmidt, Alex Maushart, JoJo Torres, Myles Adams, Gabe Ponce and James Brousseau all had hits for the Vikings. Maushart drove in two runs. Torres and Brousseau also had an RBI apiece.

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and DJ Andersen all got time on the mound. The four combined for 11 strikeouts.

Clayton Valley rallies to beat Vaca

VACAVILLE — The Clayton Valley Charter baseball team rallied for three runs in the bottom of the sixth inning Friday to knock off visiting Vacaville 4-2 in a tightly contested, nonleague game.

The Bulldogs scored two runs in the first two inning and held a 2-1 lead until the sixth. Vacaville fell to 9-8 overall.

Ethan Thompson hit a solo home run for Vacaville. Cy Dempsay, Drew Lammon and Bennie Dyer all had two hits. Dyer also drove in a run.

Finn Chapman pitched 5 1/3 innings, allowing two hits, one earned run and four walks to go with seven strikeouts. Eli Blurton got the final two outs.

Vacaville was scheduled to play Sonoma Valley at home Saturday afternoon. The Bulldogs resume their Monticello Empire League scheduled next week.

Buckingham cruises to big win

Maushart, Josiah Miguel, Chris Marley and Roy Hernandez combined on the mound for the Vikings. They allowed six hits, two earned runs, 11 walks to go with 12 strikeouts. Vanden also did itself in with six errors.

On Friday, Vanden picked a non-league victory on the road, beating Laguna Creek 5-4 in Elk Grove. The Vikings had a fourrun fourth inning and added one more run in the fifth. Laguna Creek scored two runs in the bottom of the seventh to close the gap, but the Vikings prevailed. Vanden improved to 10-4 overall.

Miguel went 3-for-3 at the plate with two RBIs. Dalen Shipp had a single and a double. Cody Buckley singled twice and drove in a run. Bryce Alcantara also doubled.

Torres, Brayden Bruno, Trevor Morse

VACAVILLE — The Buckingham Charter baseball team scored multiple runs in its four innings at the plate as the Knights rolled to a 14-4 win over visiting Sacramento Country Day Saturday morning at home.

Buckingham scored three runs in the first inning, two in the second, five in the third and four in the fourth, closing out the game in five innings. The Knights improved to 3-6 overall and 2-2 in the Sacramento Metro Athletic League.

Diego Delgado and Jasper Prescott had two hits apiece and an RBI. Zack Petit had two hits and drove in three runs.

Buckingham will be back in action Tuesday in Roseville with a 4 p.m. game at Valley Christian.

Rio Vista roughed up at home by Sutter

RIO VISTA — The Rio Vista High School baseball team dropped a non-league game at home Wednesday to Sutter in

five innings, 18-1. Jameson Bloesch had an RBI double for the Rams to score Ryan Rubier with the only run in the bottom of the fourth inning.

The Rams fell to 2-5 overall. Rio Vista was scheduled to play Vacaville Christian Friday afternoon.

Softball Vaca goes distance to defeat Dixon

VACAVILLE — The Vacaville High School softball team went all the way to Tracy for the Nor-Cal Classic on Saturday to play neighboring Dixon.

The Bulldogs scored seven runs in the bottom of the seventh inning and rolled to a 9-2 win over the Rams. Vacaville improved its overall record to 13-1.

Makayla Freshour led the hit parade by going 4-for-4 with two doubles and an RBI. Jordan Munn, Aubrie Gibson and Laila Dean all had two hits and drove in runs. Munn doubled and had two RBIs. Gibson also delivered a triple.

Vacaville ace Xochitl Atayde pitched the complete game. She allowed six hits, two earned runs and struck out 10 batters.

Vacaville returns to the Monticello Empire League schedule Tuesday with a 4 p.m. game at Armijo.

On Thursday, Vacaville notched a 5-2 win over Ripon Thursday at the Nor-Cal Classic in Tracy.

Paige Witte was 3-for-3 at the plate for the Bulldogs. Munn had two hits and drove in a run.

Taylor Everhart and Laila Dean both drove in runs.

Natalie Stonebraker pitched three hitless inning, allowed one earned run, walked one and struck out two. Xochitl Atayde threw a three-hitter over four innings, allowed one earned run, walked one and struck out nine.

Buckingham scores early, often in win

VACAVILLE — The Buckingham Charter softball team jumped out to an early lead over the Faith Christian Lions and took home a 21-1 victory Thursday in Vacaville.

The Lady Knights were led in the circle by Atlas Ebert who pitched a complete game, going five innings and allowing only two hits and no earned runs while striking out five. Buckingham scored 10 runs in the fourth inning and totaled 17 hits for the game.

Giana Jones, Jordan Walberg, Justice Wright, Dior Lee and Annalyn Steh racked up multiple hits. Ava Santamaria scored four runs. Marianne Cabanlig and Wright added doubles, while Arianna Martinez and Walberg ripped triples.

Buckingham is 1-0 in the Sacramento Metropolitan Athletic League and 2-2 overall.

The Lady Knights are next scheduled to play in Sacramento Tuesday in a 4 p.m. game at Leroy Greene Academy.

College

Solano baseball scores big but loses

ROCKVILLE —

The Solano Community College baseball team scored 10 runs on 13 hits Friday, but visiting Los Medanos still came away with a 21-10 victory. Five Solano pitchers rendered 21 hits, 15 earned runs and 12 walks. The Falcons defense also struggled by making seven errors. Solano fell to 13-19 overall and 7-8 in the Bay Valley Conference.

It was the second time in the three game series this week that Solano scored double-digit runs and lost. Los Medanos won the first game 19-13, took the second 16-9 and closed with the 21-10 triumph.

Dylan Snider led the Falcons offense with a double, home run and two RBI. James Larson had two hits and drove in two runs. Miles Meadows doubled twice. Kevin Parker also doubled. Solano starts a new series at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at Laney in Oakland. The two teams will play at Solano Thursday and back at Laney Friday.

Solano softball held scoreless in 6-0 loss

ROCKVILLE — The Solano Community See Local, Page B8

MEL

From Page B6

Will C. Wood at home Tuesday, at Vacaville Wednesday and home for Vacaville Thursday.

The Rest League tournaments and finals are lining up the next few weeks. It starts with a splash next week as the MEL Swimming and Diving Finals are scheduled for Thursday through Saturday at the Rodriguez pool.

The final MEL golf tournament of the season is Thursday, April 27, site to be determined. Rodriguez is currently unbeaten with a two-match lead over Vacaville, followed by Vanden, Will C. Wood, Armijo and Fairfield.

MEL tennis is April 27-28, site to be determined. Rodriguez is unbeaten at 12-0 heading into its final three regular

Local

From Page B7

College softball team was held to just four hits in a 6-0 loss Saturday to host San Jose City.

Naiya Watts went

2-for-3 for the Falcons.

Mia Valenzuela and Kristy Regalado also had hits. Solano fell to 11-17 overall.

The Falcons were scheduled to play Fresno at San Jose City on Saturday afternoon.

On Thursday, Solano rolled to a doubleheader sweep at Mendocino Thursday to improve to 6-0 in the Bay Valley Conference.

Solano won the first game 9-3 and followed it up with a 9-2 win. The Falcons are now 11-16 overall.

NorCal

From Page B7

bad, the Warriors were phenomenal, winning four championships in a span of eight years.

“From a fan perspective, it’s great that everything’s local,” said Kings forward Harrison Barnes, who won a championship with the Warriors in 2015. “It’s great for Northern California to have this moment.”

The Kings are huge underdogs in the series. They insist they will not be intimidated despite Golden State’s championship pedigree and stable of future Hall of Famers.

season matches. MEL track and field trials are Wednesday, May 3 with the finals Friday, May 5 at Armijo’s Brownlee Field.

The MEL Badminton finals are May 4-5 at a site to be determined.

Jericho watch Jericho Johnson, Armijo’s four-star defensive lineman, continues to get attention on the national level. Johnson announced on Twitter last week that he has been invited to play in the prestigious AllAmerican Bowl.

“Blessed and honored to be invited . . .” he wrote on the social media platform.

The All-American Bowl is a showcase of many of the very best prospects in the nation. The game will be played Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024 at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. Johnson also visited the University of Georgia while on spring break and even made a visit to Georgia Tech.

In the opener, Naiya Watts was 3-for-4 with a double and three RBI.

Alyssa Sellers and Kristy Regalado each doubled and had two hits. Alexis Certeza was 2-for-3 with two RBI.

Alexis Wright pitched seven innings, allowing five hits, three earned runs, no walks while striking out seven. Wright also helped her own cause with a double at the plate.

In the second game, Watts had two hits and drove in four runs.

Mia Valenzuela was 2-for-3 with an RBI. Regalado also doubled.

Watts threw four innings in the circle, allowing five hits and one earned run to go with one strikeout. Wright closed out the final three innings, allowing one hit and no earned runs.

Asked to describe the team’s mood, Brown said: “Confident.”

“Guys have a belief in their approach and there’s also an appropriate fear,” Brown said. “Anything that you do, you’ve got to have an appropriate fear for whatever you’re stepping into, especially for the first time, but that doesn’t take away from the confidence and belief we have in each other because we’ve had it all year.”

The Kings have already exceeded expectations this season. The stakes are higher for the Warriors given the uncertain futures of general manager Boy Myers and forward Draymond Green.

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Giants

From Page B6

catch the second runner at the plate.

“Definitely a play I think I could’ve made, for sure,” Sabol said. “Right off the bat, I tried to beat it to the wall. I should’ve dropped to my right. If I dropped my right step back, I think I make that play. We’re gonna work on it tomorrow. I’ve already told (outfield coach) Antoan (Richardson) that I want to get some more reps out there.”

The four runs allowed by Brebbia and Rogers were the 40th, 41st, 42nd and 43rd runs (four unearned) surrendered by the Giants’ bullpen in 54 innings this season, a 6.46 ERA, fourthworst in MLB.

While Lorenzen and Sabol’s older brother, Stefan, traveled the country on select teams, Blake accompanied them and found his own role: batboy. It wasn’t long before he began starring on his own travel teams, eventually heading to USC and then onto the pros, but the age gap meant Sabol and Lorenzen had never faced each other – besides the whiffle ball games at the Sabol family home and, more recently, the offseason training sessions they take part in together.

It took Sabol only two pitches to make good on his half of the friendly trash talk. He took a big swing on a high slider and sent a line-drive into the right field seats, a two-run shot that put the Giants up 4-0 in the second inning.

His next time up,

Lorenzen returned the favor. He stayed away from the slider and got Sabol swinging on three pitches, blowing a 95 mph fastball past him for strike three.

While Sabol homered and the Giants chased Lorenzen after six runs in four innings, it’s not clear who will have bragging rights when the longtime friends meet up this winter at the Chapman Baseball Compound in Irvine. A team win probably counts more than any individual home run or strikeout.

“Just before I stepped the box, I gave him a nod and smiled and he smiled back,” Sabol said afterward. “After that, it was just competing. He’s on the other team, so not my friend during the game.”

The training sessions, going back three years, have also included Albert Pujols, Noah Syndergaard, David Peterson and Giants

reliever Scott Alexander.

“I was definitely the lowest profile guy they were training with,” Sabol said. “I didn’t even know who he was,” said Alexander, who only came to learn of Sabol’s presence when he met him in spring training.

Nevertheless, Sabol credits Lorenzen with taking him under his wing and helping him acclimate to the big leagues.

The two have shared car rides, breakfast burritos (a gluten-free one for Lorenzen), agents and offseason training regimens.

“It showed me big leaguers are just people, too,” Sabol said.

Sabol’s homer was one of two hit by the Giants in Saturday’s loss, adding to their franchise-record total through 14 games. Sabol’s was their 24th of the year, and J.D. Davis added their 25th with another two-run shot the following inning – his

second consecutive game going yard. Davis also drove in LaMonte Wade Jr. with a line drive single in the first inning; with three more RBIs Davis increased his team-leading total to 13, tied for fifth in the National League.

The power surge backed up another strong outing from DeSclafani, who by all accounts has returned to – if not surpassed – his 2021 form. Through three starts, DeSclafani’s ERA sits at 1.42, after going 6 innings and limiting the Tigers to three runs (two earned). Giants starting pitchers have posted a 3.11 ERA, the third-best mark in the majors, but have taken more no decisions (eight) and losses (five) than wins (one). The series continues Sunday with a 10:10 a.m. PDT game. Logan Webb will be on the mound for the Giants after signing his recent contract extention.

By Amie Walker

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Minneapolis becomes first major US city to allow all five Muslim daily prayer calls

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Minneapolis on Thursday became the first major American city to permit unfettered broadcast of the Muslim call to prayer, allowing the adhan to be heard over speakers five times a day, year-round.

The Minneapolis City Council voted unanimously to amend the city’s noise ordinance, which had prevented some morning and evening calls at certain times of the year because they occurred at times of the day when tighter noise restrictions are in place.

“The Constitution doesn’t sleep at night,” said Jaylani Hussein, executive director of the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), after the vote. He said Minneapolis’ action should show the world that a “nation founded on freedom of religion makes good on its promise.”

Thursday’s vote, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, marked the capstone of a years-long effort to allow more calls to be broadcast in Minneapolis, whose burgeoning population of East African immigrants has led to mosques dotting the landscape.

Three council members – Aisha Chughtai, Jeremiah Ellison and Jamal Osman – identify as Muslim. “In a body of 13, that’s a real caucus,” Ellison said before the 12-0 vote (Council Member Andrew

Johnson was absent).

Not only was the council vote unanimous, the decision drew no organized community opposition. Mayor Jacob Frey is expected to sign the measure within a week.

“Minneapolis has become a city for all religions,” said Imam Mohammed Dukuly of Masjid An-Nur mosque in Minneapolis, who was among several Muslim leaders who witnessed the vote in the council chambers.

He said the message of the adhan –“Allahu akbar,” or “God is great” – carries a message beyond the specific beliefs of Islam.

Three years ago, city officials worked with the Dar Al-Hijrah mosque in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood to allow

the adhan to be broadcast outdoors five times daily during Ramadan. Prayers are said when light appears at dawn, at noon, at mid- to late afternoon, at sunset and when the night sky appears. In Minnesota, dawn arrives as early as before 5:30 a.m. in summer, while sunset at the solstice happens after 9 p.m.

The city allowed year-round broadcasts last year, but only between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. The city’s restriction had typically excluded early morning prayer and sometimes night prayer.

Ellison, Chughtai and Osman remarked that previous efforts to extend the adhan carried the feeling of asking permission, as opposed to exercising a right enjoyed by other religions.

During a recent public hearing at City Hall, Christian and Jewish leaders had expressed support for extending the hours for the adhan.

Council Member Lisa Goodman, who on Thursday was observing the final day of Passover, noted that the Jewish call to prayer – which is generally spoken rather than broadcast – doesn’t face legal restrictions. Observers noted that church bells regularly toll for Christians.

But extending the call to prayer is more than an abstract legal issue for Muslims, Osman said.

FBI director subpoenaed by House Republicans over document about Catholics

The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee has subpoenaed records from FBI Director Christopher A. Wray tied to efforts to convince “mainline Catholic parishes” to help investigate radical extremism within their churches.

The subpoena, the committee said, stems from a document from the Richmond field office entitled “Interest of Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists in Radical-Traditionalist Catholic Ideology Almost Certainly Presents New Mitigation Opportunities.”

“This information is outrageous and only reinforces the committee’s need for all FBI material responsive to our request,” Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan wrote to Wray on Monday.

Within the document, Jordan said, the FBI expressed an interest in leveraging “existing sources” and developing new sources with the “placement and access” to report on suspicious activity. Those included developing sources within “the local diocesan leadership,” Jordan said.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS VELAWORKS LOCATEDAT100ColomaWay,Vallejo, CA94589Solano.Mailingaddress100 ColomaWay,Vallejo,CA94589.IS(ARE) HEREBYREGISTEREDBYTHEFOLLOWINGOWNER(S)WalterVelasco100 ColomaWayVallejo,94589.THISBUSINESSISCONDUCTEDBY: anIndividual Theregistrantcommencedtotransact businessunderthefictitiousbusiness nameornameslistedaboveon 1 0/01/2022. Ideclarethatallinformationinthisstatementistrueandcorrect(Aregistrantwho declaresastrueinformationwhichheor sheknowstobefalseisguiltyofacrime.) /s/WalterH.Velasco INACCORDANCEWITHSUBDIVISION (a)OFSECTION17920AFICTITIOUS NAMESTATEMENTGENERALLYEXPIRESATTHEENDOFFIVEYEARS FROMTHEDATEONWHICHITWAS FILEDINTHEOFFICEOFTHECOUNTY CLERK,EXCEPTASPROVIDEDIN SUBDIVISION(b)OFSECTION17920, WHEREITEXPIRES40DAYSAFTER ANYCHANGEINTHEFACTSSET FORTHINTHESTATEMENTPURSUANTTOSECTION17913OTHERTHAN ACHANGEINTHERESIDENCEADDRESSOFAREGISTEREDOWNER. ANEWFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENTMUSTBEFILEDBEFORE THEEXPIRATIONMarch20,2028. THEFILINGOFTHISSTATEMENT DOESNOTOFITSELFAUTHORIZE THEUSEINTHISSTATEOFAFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAMEINVIOLATION OFTHERIGHTSOFANOTHERUNDER FEDERAL,STATEORCOMMONLAW (SEESECTION14411ETSEQ.,BUSINESSANDPROFESSIONSCODE). FiledintheOfficeoftheCountyClerkof SolanoCounty,StateofCaliforniaon: March21,2023 NewASSIGNEDFILENO.2023000505 CHARLESLOMELI,SolanoCountyClerk DR#00062199 Published:March26April2,9,16,2023

AS SOSANS FAMILY DAYCARE LOCATEDAT814BluejayDr,SuisunCity CA94585Solano.Mailingaddress814 BluejayDr,SuisunCityCA94585.IS (ARE)HEREBYREGISTEREDBYTHE FOLLOWINGOWNER(S)SosanGhafoori814BluejayDrSuisunCity,94585. THISBUSINESSISCONDUCTEDBY: anIndividual Theregistrantcommencedtotransact businessunderthefictitiousbusiness nameorn ameslistedaboveon 11/22/2018. Ideclarethatallinformationinthisstatementistrueandcorrect(Aregistrantwho declaresastrueinformationwhichheor sheknowstobefalseisguiltyofacrime.) /s/SosanGhafoori INACCORDANCEWITHSUBDIVISION (a)OFSECTION17920AFICTITIOUS NAMESTATEMENTGENERALLYEXPIRESATTHEENDOFFIVEYEARS FROMTHEDATEONWHICHITWAS FILEDINTHEOFFICEOFTHECOUNTY CLERK,EXCEPTASPROVIDEDIN SUBDIVISION(b)OFSECTION17920, WHEREIT EXPIRES40DAYSAFTER ANYCHANGEINTHEFACTSSET FORTHINTHESTATEMENTPURSUANTTOSECTION17913OTHERTHAN ACHANGEINTHERESIDENCEADDRESSOFAREGISTEREDOWNER. ANEWFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENTMUSTBEFILEDBEFORE THEEXPIRATIONMARCH16,2028. THEFILINGOFTHISSTATEMENT DOESNOTOFITSELFAUTHORIZE THEUSEINTHISSTATEOFAFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAMEINVIOLATION OFTHERIGHTSOFANOTHERUNDER FEDERAL,STATEORCOMMONLAW (SEESECTION14411ETSEQ.,BUSINESS ANDPROFESSIONSCODE). FiledintheOfficeoftheCountyClerkof SolanoCounty,StateofCaliforniaon: March17,2023 NewASSIGNEDFILENO.2023000486 CHARLESLOMELI,SolanoCountyClerk DR#00062541 Published:April9,16,23,30,2023

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS CONSCIOUS CALLINGS LOCATEDAT5067OakbrookCir,Fairfield,CA94534Solano.Mailingaddress 5067OakbrookCir,Fairfield,CA94534. IS(ARE)HEREBYREGISTEREDBY THEFOLLOWINGOWNER(S)Joan Rubano5067OakbrookCirFairfield, 94534.THISBUSINESSISCONDUCTEDBY: anIndividual

Theregistrantcommencedtotransact businessunderthefictitiousbusiness name ornameslistedaboveon 03/27/2023. Ideclarethatallinformationinthisstatementistrueandcorrect(Aregistrantwho declaresastrueinformationwhichheor sheknowstobefalseisguiltyofacrime.) /s/JoanRubanosoleproprietor(owner) INACCORDANCEWITHSUBDIVISION (a)OFSECTION17920AFICTITIOUS NAMESTATEMENTGENERALLYEXPIRESATTHEENDOFFIVEYEARS FROMTHEDATEONWHICHITWAS FILEDINTHEOFFICEOFTHECOUNTY CLERK,EXCEPTASPROVIDEDIN SUBDIVISION(b)OFSECTION17920, WHEREITEXPIRES40DAYSAFTER ANYCHANGEINTHEFACTSSET FORTHINTHESTATEMENTPURSUANTTOSECTION17913OTHERTHAN ACHANGEINTHERESIDENCEADDRESSOFAREGISTEREDOWNER. ANEWFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENTMUSTBEFILEDBEFORE THEEXPIRATIONMarch27,2028. THEFILINGOFTHISSTATEMENT DOESNOTOFITSELFAUTHORIZE THEUSEINTHISSTATEOFAFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAMEINVIOLATION OFTHERIGHTSOFANOTHERUNDER FEDERAL,STATEORCOMMONLAW (SEESECTION 14411ETSEQ.,BUSINESSANDPROFESSIONSCODE). FiledintheOfficeoftheCountyClerkof SolanoCounty,StateofCaliforniaon: March28,2023 NewASSIGNEDFILENO.2023000546 CHARLESLOMELI,SolanoCountyClerk DR#00062370 Published:April2,9,16,23,2023

ON THE M ARKET FOR THIS WEEKEND April 15th & 16th

Classifieds: 707-427-6936

PROPERTY NOTICE OF SEIZURE AND NOTICE OF INTENDED FORFEITURE NOTICEISHEREBYGIVENthatpropertywasseized,pursuanttoHealthandSafety Codesection11470,inthefollowingcases,andtheDistrictAttorneyofSolanoCounty hasinitiatedproceedingstoforfeitthisproperty,pursuanttoHealthandSafetyCodesection11488.4.Thecasenumberandpropertydescriptionforeachcaseissetforthbelow.

Ifyouwishtocontesttheforfeitureofthisproperty,youh aveuntilthirty(30)daysfromthe dateofthelastpublicationofthisNoticetofileaclaimopposingforfeiturewiththeCourt, unlessyouhavereceivedactualnotice.Youmayobtaina“ClaimOpposingForfeiture” form(MC-200)fromtheOfficeoftheClerk,CivilDivision.Theclaimmuststatethenature andextentofanyinterestyouholdintheproperty,mustbeverified,andmustbefiled withtheClerkoftheSuperiorCourt,CivilDivision,580TexasStreet,Fairfield,CA 94533. Youmustserveacourt-endorsedcopyofyourclaimontheDistrictAttorneyofSolano County,675TexasStreet,Suite4500,Fairfield,withinthirty(30)daysofthefilingofyour claim.Ifnoclaimisproperlyfiledand/orservedontheDistrictAttorneywithinthetime permittedbylaw,thepropertywillbeorderedforfeitedtotheState,tobedisposedofaccordingtolaw,withoutfurthernoticeorhearing.

Ifyourclaimisproperlyfiledandserved,theDistrictAttorneywilldecidewhethertofilea PetitionforForfeiturewiththeSuperiorCourttocontestsaidclaim.Inthecasewherea Petitionisfiledandacontestedhearingisheld,youwillhavethefollowingrightswhichincludebutarenotlimitedto:youhavetherighttousethesubpoenapowersofthecourt andorderwitnessestoattend,youhavearighttotestifyonyourownbehalf,submitevidenceshowingthelegitimacyoftheseizedassets,andarighttocrossexaminethepetitioner’switnesses.Thisisacivilaction,youhavetheadditionalrighttorepresentyourselforhireyourownattorney,andthereisnorighttoappointedcounselinthiscase.

AF22-4020. OnJanuary5,2022,officersoftheFairfieldPoliceDepartmentseized $3,001.91U.S.Currencyat1240DanaDrive,Fairfield,CAinconnectionwithcontrolled substanceviolation(s)ofHSC§§11351,11352,11378,and/or11359.Theseizedpropertyhasanestimatedorappraisedvalueof$3,001.91.

AF22-4021 .OnFebruary10,2022,officersoftheVacavillePoliceDepartmentseized $6,822.00U.S.Currencyat1450AlamoDrive,Vacaville,CAinconnectionwithcontrolledsubstanceviolation(s)ofHSC§§11378and/or11379.Theseizedpropertyhasan estimatedorappraisedvalueof$6,822.00.

AF22-4023.OnMarch4,2022,officersoftheFairfieldPoliceDepartmentseized$750.00

U.S.CurrencyattheintersectionofE.PacificAveandSantaBarbaraWay,Fairfield,CA inconnectionwithcontrolledsubstanceviolation(s)ofHSC§§11351and/or11378.The seizedpropertyhasanestimatedorappraisedvalueof$750.00.

AF22-4025. OnMarch15,2022,deputiesoftheSolanoCountySheriff’sOfficeseized $47,754.78U.S.Currencyand$26.00U.S.Currencyat2436HansonDrive,Fairfield,CA inconnectionwithcontrolledsubstanceviolation(s)ofHSC§11351.Theseizedproperty hasatotalestimatedorappraisedvalue of$47,780.78.

AF22-4026

.OnMarch18,2022,officersoftheFairfieldPoliceDepartmentseized $28,600.00U.S.Currencyat411DickeyCourt,SuisunCity,CAand$2,019.00U.S.CurrencyattheintersectionofAndersonSt.andLawlerCenterDr.,SuisunCity,CAinconnectionwithcontrolledsubstanceviolation(s)ofHSC§§11351.5and/or11359.The seizedpropertyhasatotalestimatedorappraisedvalueof$30,619.00.

AF22-4028. OnMarch25,2022,officersoftheFai rfieldPoliceDepartmentseized $2,149.00U.S.Currencyand$549.00U.S.Currencyat4969ParamountCt.,Fairfield, CAinconnectionwithcontrolledsubstanceviolation(s)ofHSC§§11358and/or11359. Theseizedpropertyhasatotalestimatedorappraisedvalueof$2,698.00.

AF22-4029. OnJuly30,2022,officersoftheVacavillePoliceDepartmentseized $20,295.00U.S.Currencyat520FirSt.,Vacaville,CAinconnectionwithcontrolledsubstanceviolation(s)of HSC§11351.Theseizedpropertyhasanestimatedorappraised valueof$20,295.00.

AF22-4030. OnApril1,2022,officersoftheVacavillePoliceDepartmentseized $3,500.00U.S.Currencyat179ProvidencePl.,Vacaville,CAand$891.81U.S.CurrencyattheintersectionofFairviewDr.andKearneyWay,Vacaville,CAinconnection withcontrolledsubstanceviolation(s)ofHSC§§11351and/or11352.Theseizedpropertyhasatotalestimatedorappraisedvalueof$4,391.81.

AF22-4032. OnApril14,2022,officersoftheFairfieldPoliceDepartmentseized $7,277.00U.S.Currencyat2642OrchidSt.,Fairfield,CAinconnectionwithcontrolled substanceviolation(s)ofHSC§§11351and/or11351.5.Theseizedpropertyhasanestimatedorappraisedvalueof$7,277.00.

AF22-4033. OnApril30,2022,officersoftheFairfieldPoliceDepartmentseized $5,967.00U.S.CurrencyonI-5atMeyersRd.,Willows,CAinconnectionwithcontrolled su bstanceviolation(s)ofHSC§§11351and/or11359.Theseizedpropertyhasanestimatedorappraisedvalueof$5,967.00.

AF22-4034. OnMay3,2022,officersoftheVacavillePoliceDepartmentseized$820.00

U.S.Currencyat1050OrangeDr.,Vacaville,CAinconnectionwithcontrolledsubstance violation(s)ofHSC§§11351and/or11352.Theseizedpropertyhasanestimatedorappraisedvalueof$820.00.

AF22-4036 .OnMay24,2022,officersoftheFairfieldPoliceDepartmentseized $5,412.00U.S.Currencyat1970GrandeCir.,Fairfield,CAinconnectionwithcontrolled substanceviolation(s)ofHSC§11351.Theseizedpropertyhasanestimatedorappraisedvalueof$5,412.00.

AF22-4037 .OnJune14,2022,officersoftheVacavillePoliceDepartmentseized

$13,765.00U.S.Currencyat163StirlingDr.,Vacaville,CAinconnectionwithcontrolled substanceviolation(s)ofHSC§§11351and/or11378.Theseizedpropertyhasanestimatedorappraisedvalueof$13,765.00.

AF22-4039. OnJuly13,2022,officersoftheCaliforniaHighwayPatrolseized$1,877.00

U.S.CurrencyonWBI-80atMidwayRd.,Dixon,CAinconnectionwithcontrolledsubstanceviolation(s)ofHSC§§11352and/or11379.Theseizedpropertyhasanestimatedorappraisedvalueof$1,877.00.

AF22-4041 .OnJuly28,2022,officersoftheVacavillePoliceDepartmentseized $3,398.00U.S.Currencyand$353.00U.S.Currencyat482Edwin Dr.,Vacaville,CAin connectionwithcontrolledsubstanceviolation(s)ofHSC§11351.Theseizedproperty hasatotalestimatedorappraisedvalueof$3,751.00.

AF22-4043 .OnJune29,2022,deputiesoftheSolanoCountySheriff’sOfficeseized $10,000.00U.S.Currency,$3,600.00U.S.Currency,and$1,070.00U.S.Currencyat349 CordeliaRd.,Fairfield,CAinconnectionwithcontrolledsubstanceviolation(s)ofHSC§ 11359.Theseizedpropertyhasatotalestimated orappraisedvalueof$14,670.00.

AF22-4044. OnOctober26,2022,officersoftheCaliforniaHighwayPatrolseized $2,500.00U.S.CurrencyattheintersectionofSnowberryWayandSnowberryLane, Fairfield,CAinconnectionwithcontrolledsubstanceviolation(s)ofHSC§§11379and/or 11378.Theseizedpropertyhasanestimatedorappraisedvalueof$2,500.00.

AF22-4045.OnNovember10,2022,officersoftheVacavillePoliceDepartmentseized $1,920.00U.S.Currencyand$149.00U.S.Currencyat2000ClaybankRd.,Fairfield,CA inconnectionwithcontrolledsubstanceviolation(s)ofHSC§§11351and/or11378.The seizedpropertyhasatotalestimatedorappraisedvalueof$2,069.00.

Date:3/27/2023\s\__ MatthewK.OlsenDep.DistrictAttorney

DR#00062330

Published:April2,9,16,2023

PUBLIC NOTICES

NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS BELT LLC LOCATEDAT3845RollingwoodDrive, Fairfield,CA,94534Solano.Mailingaddress3845RollingwoodDrive,Fairfield, CA,94534.IS(ARE)HEREBYREGISTEREDBYTHEFOLLOWINGOWNER(S)BeltLLCCA.THISBUSINESSIS CONDUCTEDBY: aLimitedLiabilityCompany Theregistrantcommencedtotransact businessunderthefictitiousbusiness nameornameslistedabo veon 03/02/2023. Ideclarethatallinformationinthisstatementistrueandcorrect(Aregistrantwho declaresastrueinformationwhichheor sheknowstobefalseisguiltyofacrime.) /s/DavidHarringtonAssistanttoCEO INACCORDANCEWITHSUBDIVISION (a)OFSECTION17920AFICTITIOUS NAMESTATEMENTGENERALLYEXPIRESATTHEENDOFFIVEYEARS FROMTHEDATEONWHICHITWAS FILEDINTHEOFFICEOFTHECOUNTY CLERK,EXCEPTASPROVIDEDIN SUBDIVISION(b)OFSECTION17920, WHEREITEXPIRES40DAYSAFTER ANYCHANGEINTHEFACTSSET FORTHINTHESTATEMENTPURSUANTTOSECTION17913OTHERTHAN ACHANGEINTHERESIDENCEADDRESSOFAREGISTEREDOWNER. ANEWFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENTMUSTBEFILEDBEFORE THEEXPIRATIONMarch27,2028. THEFILINGOFTHISSTATEMENT DOESNOTOFITSELFAUTHORIZE THEUSEINTHISSTATEOFAFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAMEINVIOLATION OFTHERIGHTSOFANOTHERUNDER FEDERAL,STATEORCOMMONLAW (SEESECTION14411ETSEQ.,BUSINESSANDPROFESSIONSCODE). FiledintheOfficeoftheCountyClerkof SolanoCounty,StateofCaliforniaon: March28,2023 NewASSIGNEDFILENO.2023000547 CHARLESLOMELI,SolanoCountyClerk DR#00062373 Published:April2,9,16,23,2023

CLEANING CO LOCATEDAT3366TennesseeStreet Apt#13,VallejoCA94591Solano.Mailing address3366TennesseeStreetApt#13, VallejoCA94591.IS(ARE)HEREBYREGISTEREDBYTHEFOLLOWINGOWNER(S)BrazjaéWilright3366Tennessee StreetApt#13Vallejo,94591.THISBUSINESSISCONDUCTEDBY: anIndividual Theregistrantcommencedtotransact business underthefictitiousbusiness nameornameslistedaboveonN/A. Ideclarethatallinformationinthisstatementistrueandcorrect(Aregistrantwho declaresastrueinformationwhichheor sheknowstobefalseisguiltyofacrime.) /s/BrazjaéWilwright INACCORDANCEWITHSUBDIVISION (a)OFSECTION17920AFICTITIOUS NAMESTATEMENTGENERALLYEXPIRESATTHEENDOFFIVEYEARS FROMTHEDATEONWHICHITWAS FILEDINTHEOFFICEOFTHECOUNTY CLERK,EXCEPTASPROVIDEDIN SUBDIVISION(b)OFSECTION17920, WHEREITEXPIRES40DAYSAFTER ANYCHANGEINTHEFACTSSET FORTHINTHESTATEMENTPURSUANTTOSECTION17913OTHERTHAN ACHANGEINTHERESIDENCEADDRESSOFAREGISTEREDOWNER. ANEWFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENTMUSTBEFILEDBEFORE THEEXPIRATIONApril3,2028. THEFILINGOFTHISSTATEMENT DOESNOTOFITSELFAUTHORIZE THEUSEINTHISSTATEOFAFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAMEINVIOLATION OFTHERIGHTSOFANOTHERUNDER FEDERAL,STATEORCOMMONLAW (SEE SECTION14411ETSEQ.,BUSINESSANDPROFESSIONSCODE). FiledintheOfficeoftheCountyClerkof SolanoCounty,StateofCaliforniaon: April4,2023 NewASSIGNEDFILENO.2023000592 CHARLESLOMELI,SolanoCountyClerk DR#00062539 Published:April9,16,23,30,2023

1.TheNameandbusinessaddressofthetransferoris: MARTINEZRANCHESINC. 8542HalleyRd. Winters,CA95694

Theaddressusedbythetransferorwithinthreeyearsproceding thisdateasfarastheyareknowntothetransfereeareasfollow: 8542HalleyRd. Winters,CA95694

2.ThesalewillbebyOnlineAuction.Thenameandaddressofthe auctioneerare: PUTMANAUCTIONEERS,INC. 958StewartRd. YubaCity,CA95991(530)701-8596 CABondNo.7238559

TheAuctionwillbeheldonTues.April25,2023at10:00AM

3.TheLocationandgeneraldescriptionofthepropertytobe transferredareasfollows:8542HalleyRd.Winters,CA95694 GeneralFarmandAGEquipment,TruckingEquipment,ShopandTooling Tolearnmorevisitwww.Auction-is-Action.com

4Thetermsoftheauctionareasfollows: WithoutReserve. JohnPutman,President PutmanAuctioneers,Inc. DR#00062695 Published:April16,2023

The Classifieds have everything you need for real recreation! Find boats, motors, trailers, water skis and accessories, motor homes and travel trailers, campers and toppers, motorcycles, jet skis and much more!

DAILY REPUBLIC CLASSIFIED 427-6936

Legal and Public Notices

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: HERBERT WINSTON CASE NUMBER: PR23-00008

Toallheirs,beneficiaries,creditors,contingentcreditors,andpersonswhomay otherwisebeinterestedinthewillorestate,orboth,of: Herbert Winston APetitionforProbatehasbeenfiledby: Pamela Bertani Winston intheSuperiorCourtofCalifornia,County of:Solano

ThePetitionforProbaterequeststhat: Pamela Bertani Winston beappointedaspersonalrepr esentative toadministertheestateofthedecedent. ThepetitionrequestsauthoritytoadministertheestateundertheIndependentAdministrationofEstatesAct.(Thisauthority willallowthepersonalrepresentativeto takemanyactionswithoutobtainingcourt approval.Beforetakingcertainveryimportantactions,however,thepersonal representativewillberequiredtogivenoticetointerestedpersonsunlessthey havewaivednoticeorconsentedtothe proposedaction.)Theindependentadministrationauthoritywillbegrantedunless aninterestedpersonfilesanobjectionto thepetitionandshowsgoodcausewhy thecourtshouldnotgranttheauthority.

TOALLINTERESTEDPERSONS:

Petitioner: Emily McRhoads filedapetitionwiththiscourtforadecree changingnamesasfollows:

PresentName: a. Jaxon James Evans

Proposed Name: a. Jaxon James McRhoads

THECOURTORDERSthatallpersonsinterestedinthismattershallappearbefore thiscourtatthehearingindicatedbelowto showcause,ifany,whythepetitionfor changeofnameshouldnotbegranted.

Anypersonobjectingtothename changesdescribedabovemustfileawrittenobjectionthatincludesthereasonsfor theobjectionatleasttwocourtdaysbeforethematterisscheduledtobeheard andmustappearatthehearingtoshow causewhythepetitionshouldnotbegranted.Ifnowrittenobjectionistimelyfiled, thecourtmaygrantthepetitionwithouta hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING

Date: May 10, 2023; Time: 9:00 am; Dept: 3; Room: 2 The address of the court is: SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SOLANO Old Solano Courthouse 580 Texas Street Fairfield, CA 94533

AcopyofthisOrdertoShowCauseshall bepublishedatleastonceeachweekfor foursuccessiveweekspriortothedate setforhearingonthepetitioninthefollowingnewspaperofgeneralcirculation,printedinthiscounty:DailyRepublic

Pleasefileproofofnewspaperpublication atleast5businessdaysbeforehearing (newspaperdoesnotfilew/court)zoom ok.zoominvitewillbeemailed1-2days beforehearing

Date:3/9/23

/s/StephenGizzi JudgeoftheSuperiorCourt

FILED:MAR182023

DR#00062358

Published:April2,9,16,23,2023

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows:

DATE: April 28, 2023; TIME: 8:30 am; DEPT. 4

SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, County of Solano 600 Union Avenue Fairfield, CA 94533 Probate Division

If you object tothegrantingofthepetition,youshouldappearatthehearingand stateyourobjectionsorfilewrittenobjectionswiththecourtbeforethehearing. Yourappearancemaybeinpersonorby yourattorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, youmustfileyourclaimwiththecourtand mailacopytothepersonalrepresentative appointedbythecourtwithinthe later of either(1)four months fromthedateof firstissuanceofletterstoageneralpersonalrepresentative,asdefinedinsection58(b)oftheCaliforniaProbateCode, or(2) 60 days fromthedateofmailingor personaldeliverytoyouofanoticeunder section9052oftheCaliforniaProbate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may wantto consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court.Ifyouareapersoninterestedinthe estate,youmayfilewiththecourtaRequestforSpecialNotice(formDE-154)of thefilingofaninventoryandappraisalof estateassetsorofanypetitionoraccount asprovidedinProbateCodesection 1250.ARequestforSpecialNoticeformis availablefromthecourtclerk.

AttorneyforPetitioner: BruceN.Furukawa;BrentF.Basilico FurukawaCastles,LLP 800AirportBlvd.,Suite504, Burlingame,CA94010 415-510-2222 DR#00062592 Published:April12,16,19,2023

Legal and Public Notices

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: DENISE MACK CASE NUMBER: PR23-00056

Toallheirs,beneficiaries,creditors,contingentcreditors,andpersonswhomay otherwisebeinterestedinthewillorestate,orboth,of: Denise Mack APetitionforProbatehasbeenfiledby: Nina Smith intheSuperiorCourtofCalifornia,County of:Solano

ThePetitionforProbaterequeststhat: Nina Smith beappointedaspersonalrepresentative toadministertheestateo fthedecedent. ThepetitionrequestsauthoritytoadministertheestateundertheIndependentAdministrationofEstatesAct.(Thisauthority willallowthepersonalrepresentativeto takemanyactionswithoutobtainingcourt approval.Beforetakingcertainveryimportantactions,however,thepersonal representativewillberequiredtogivenoticetointerestedpersonsunlessthey havewaivednoticeorconsentedtothe proposedaction.)Theindependentadministrationauthoritywillbegrantedunless aninterestedpersonfilesanobjectionto thepetitionandshowsgoodcausewhy thecourtshouldnotgranttheauthority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows:

DATE: MAY 30, 2023;

County of Solano Old Solano Courthouse 580 Texas Street Fairfield, CA, 94533

If you object tothegrantingofthepetition,youshouldappearatthehearingand stateyourobjectionsorfilewrittenobjectionswiththecourtbeforethehearing. Yourappearancemaybeinpersonorby yourattorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, youmustfileyourclaimwiththecourtand mailacopytothepersonalrepresentative appointedbythecourtwithinthe later of either(1)four months fromthedateof firstissuanceofletterstoageneralpersonalrepresentative,asdefinedinsection58(b)oftheCaliforniaProbateCode, or(2) 60 days fromthedateofmailingor personaldeliverytoyouofanoticeunder section9052oftheCaliforniaProbate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may wantto consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court.Ifyouareapersoninterestedinthe estate,youmayfilewiththecourtaRequestforSpecialNotice(formDE-154)of thefilingofaninventoryandappraisalof estateassetsorofanypetitionoraccount asprovidedinProbateCodesection 1250.ARequestforSpecialNoticeformis availablefromthecourtclerk.

AttorneyforPetitioner: SeanP.Culligan CulliganLawFirm 9201stStreet,Suite104 Benicia,CA94510 (707)492-5566 DR#00062579

Published:April12,16,19,2023

NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO):

WINSTONB.SKINNER,asanindividualandCo-TrusteeofWINSTONB.SKINNERand ILENEN.SKINNERREVOCABLELIVINGTRUST,DATED12/29/1992,ILENEN.SKINNERakaNAOMII.SKINNER,asanIndividualandCo-TrusteeofWINSTONB.SKINNERandILENEN.SKINNERREVOCABLELIVINGTRUST,DATED12/29/1992;DOES 1through10,inclusive;andallpersonsunknown,claiminganylegalorequitableright, title,estate,lien,orinterestinthepropertydescribedinthecomplaintadverseto Plaintiff'stitle,oranyclouduponPlaintiff'stitlethereto

YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDADO EL DEMANDANTE) NINAL.CULVER,anindividual

NOTICE! Youhavebeensued.Thecourtmaydecideagainstyouwithoutyourbeing heardunlessyourespondwithin30days.Readtheinformationbelow. Youhave30CALENDARDAYSafterthissummonsandlegalpapersareservedonyou tofileawrittenresponseatthiscourtandhaveacopyservedontheplaintiff.Aletteror phonecallwillnotprotectyou.Yourwrittenresponsemustbeinproperlegalformifyou wantthecourttohearyourcase.Theremaybeacourtformthatyoucanuseforyourresponse.YoucanfindthesecourtformsandmoreinformationattheCaliforniaCourts OnlineSelf-HelpCenter(www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp),yourcountylawlibrary,orthe courthousenearestyou.Ifyoucannotpaythefilingfee,askthecourtclerkforafee waiverform.Ifyoudonotfileyourresponseontime,youmaylosethecasebydefault, andyourwages,money,andpropertymaybetakenwithoutfurtherwarningfromthe court. Thereareotherlegalrequirements.Youmaywanttocallanattorneyrightaway.Ifyou donotknowanattorney,youmaywanttocallanattorneyreferralservice.Ifyoucannot affordanattorney,youmaybeeligibleforfreelegalservicesfromanonprofitlegalservicesprogram.YoucanlocatethesenonprofitgroupsattheCaliforniaLegalServices Website(www.lawhelpcalifornia.org),theCaliforniaCourtsOnlineSelf-HelpCenter (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp) ,orbycontactingyourlocalcourtorcountybarassociation. NOTE: Thecourthasastatutorylienforwaivedfeesandcostsofanysettlement orarbitrationawardof$10,000ormoreinacivilcase.Thecourt'slienmustbepaidbeforethecourtwilldismissthecase. AVISO! Lohandemandado.Sinorespondedentrode30dias,lacortepuededecidiren sucontrasinescucharsuversion.Lealainformacionacontinuacion. Tiene30DIASCALENDARIOdespuesdequelaentreguenestac itactionypapeleslegalesparapresentarunarespuestaporescritoenestacorteyhacerqueseentregue unacopiaaldemandante.Unacartaounallamadatelefonicanoloprotegen.Su respuestaporescritotienequeestarenformatolegalcorrectosideseaqueprocesensu casoenlacorte.Esposiblequeyahaunformularioqueustedpuedausarparasu respuesta.PuedeencontrarestosformulariosdelacorteymasinformacionenelCentro deAyudadelasCortesdeCalifornia(www.sucorte.ca.gov),enlabibliotecadeleyesde sucondadooenlacortequelequedemascerca.Sinopuedepagarlacuotade presentacion,pidaalsecretariodelacortequeledeunformulariodeexenciondepago decuotas.Sinopresentasurespuestaatiempo,puedeperderelcasoporincumplimientoylacortelepodraquitarsusueldo,dineroybienessinmasadvertencia. Hayotrosrequisitoslegales.Esrecomendablequellameaunabogadoinmediatamente. Sinoconoceaunabo gado,puedellamaraunservicioderemisionaabogados.Sino puedepagaraunabogadoesposiblequecumplaconlosrequisitosparaobtenerservicioslegalesgratuitosdeunprogramadeservicioslegalessinfinesdelucro.PuedeencontrarestosgrupossinfinesdelucroenelsitiowebdeCaliforniaLegalServices, (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org),enelCentrodeAyudadelasCortesdeCalifornia, (www.sucorte.ca.gov)oponiendoseencontactoconlacorteoelcolegiodea bogados locales.AVISO:porley,lacortetienederechoareclamarlascuotasyloscostosextentosporimponerungravamensobrecualquierrecuperacionde$10,000omasdevalor recibidamedianteunacuerdoounaconcesiondearbirageenuncasodederechocivil. Tienequepagarelgravamendelacorteantesdequelacortepuedadesecharelcaso. Thenameandaddressofthecourtis:

(Elnombreydirecciondelacortees):

SuperiorCourtofCalifornia,CountyofKern 1215TruxtunAvenue,Bakersfield,CA93301 Thename,address,andtelephonenumberofplaintiff'sattorney,orplaintiffwithoutan attorney,is: (Elnombre,ladireccionyelnumerodetelefonodelabogadodeldemandante,odeldemandantequenotieneabogado,es):

GeorgeM.Halimi, 1999AvenueoftheStars,Suite1100 LosAngeles,CA90067 (310)553-5562

Date(Fecha):11/29/2022 /s/Clerk,byEdithCarrillo

Deputy(Adjunto) DR#00062238

Published:March26April2,9,16,2023

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