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33rd Get the Rush event offered a taste of the offerings of the Suisun Marsh

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SUISUN CITY —

The 33rd Get the Rush event on Saturday offered visitors a little bit of everything that is available at Rush Ranch.

Fernanda Asudillo of Fairfield was loving the horses from the Solano County Sheriff’s Posse, which came down especially for the day.

Usually, she is working and not able to make it to the Get the Rush events.

“This year I was off and was able to come,” she said. “It is wonderful.”

Rush Ranch stretches across 2,070 acres of marsh and rolling grassland. It was purchased in 1988 by Solano

Land Trust.

One of the first public opportunities for visitors was for third graders in the area who came for a half day educational class on the Native Americans in the area by the Rush Ranch Educational Council, an all-volunteer nonprofit organization that promoted education and public outreach programs for the ranch.

“The council was active from 1994 to 2020 when Covid hit,” said volunteer Chet Rogaski.

“About 40 to 70 kids would come out one day a week for a visit.”

They were able to share the history of the local tribes with

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Students learn about military opportunities at Travis AFB

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TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE —

Travis Air Force Base is rolling out a new program which introduces youths to the various possibilities offered by the military.

About 400 Solano students from Vanden High School, Fairfield High School, Buckingham Collegiate Charter Academy and Rodriguez High School came out Friday for a morning of lectures and a chance to get up close and personal with a variety of airplanes.

Kionie Leatutufu, 16, from the Fairfield High School ROTC

program, was overwhelmed the sheer size of the C-5M Super Galaxy, which is a transport aircraft.

“I’m thinking about joining the military,” he said. “It is amazing being here and seeing this with my own eyes.”

It was Kionie’s first time at the base and being in such a large plane.

“I love the ROTC program because it is like a big family. I love our team,” he said.

The opportunities interested him.

“I’m not sure what I want to do but doing a job like this would be

amazing,” he said.

Trust Travis Static is a new Aviation Inspiration and Mentorship, or AIM, program. The event took place in tandem with Air Force Global Strike Command’s Project Tuskegee initiative.

Both Wing AIM and Project Tuskegee programs are designed to increase awareness of aviation opportunities within the Air Force, according to the press release.

Aaron Bassut, wing AIM director, said the program is geared toward reaching out to schools in Solano County that they don’t

Biden’s 2024 message: GOP will cut your Medicare and Social Security

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President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats plan to use Republican proposals to slash Social Security and Medicare as a key wedge issue in the 2024 election campaign, showcasing the partisan divide in Washington over crucial programs that are facing long-term financial collapse.

The president is already warning that the benefits millions of Americans rely on from the twin programs are at risk as House Republicans refuse to back a straightforward increase in the federal debt limit. Biden will keep talking about protecting the programs even after the

debt-ceiling issue is sorted, a White House official said on condition of anonymity.

The thinking: The message can win over seniors, working-class voters, independents and suburban women by casting Democrats as the party determined to protect federal programs that are hugely popular. Some 70% of Americans are against cuts to the entitlements, including 64% of GOP voters, a YouGov/ Economist poll shows.

The prominence of the issue was already apparent in Biden’s first campaign ad, released after his formal announcement on Tuesday that he’s seeking reelection. The spot features a pledge to ensure

that seniors can “live with dignity.”

“Social Security and Medicare is the number one winning argument against Republicans in polling,” said Celinda Lake, president of Lake Research Partners and one of Biden’s pollsters on the 2020 presidential campaign.

While some Repub-

licans insist Biden is falsely hyping the risk –there were GOP cries of “liar” when he made the argument in his State of the Union address – the party’s proposals continue to include restricting federal benefits.

“From Donald Trump all the way down, 2024 Republicans have a long history of support-

ing and threatening cuts to Social Security and Medicare,” said Jaime Harrison, chair of the Democratic National Committee. “While President Joe Biden has put forward a real plan to secure Medicare for another generation, MAGA Republicans are doubling down on calls to cut these critical programs.”

The broader issue is that Social Security, which pays retirement and disability benefits, and Medicare, which offers health insurance for pensioners, are facing insolvency in coming years and there’s little hope of a bipartisan fix. The payroll taxes that fund them are already

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Vanden student Even Wood talks to Capt. Kai Stridiron in front of a B-1 Lancer, during the Trust Travis Static event, Friday. The event was “designed to increase awareness of aviation opportunities within the Air Force.”

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Fernanda Asudillo, of Fairfield, pets the Solano County Sheriff’s Posse horses at the 33rd Annual Get the Rush event, Saturday.

The surprising miracle hack (get it?) behind how cough syrup works

Igot a bad cough about two months ago.

It wasn’t Covid-19 and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) virus (although maybe it was). But after a week, a dry cough persisted – making it impossible to sleep lying down. I had to sit up all night, which is far from preferable. I saw my doctor and she prescribed two inhalers and suggested cough drops and cough syrup.

I followed her instructions: Slowly, the cough got better. A little better, but not much better. Was the inhaler working? Seemed like it.

Then Mrs. Brad and I went

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The School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of California, Davis, will open a new emergency room and intensive care unit on May 3, doubling in size to accommodate rapid growth in admissions since early 2020.

“Our ER’s caseload has increased tremendously since the pandemic,” said Dr. Mark Stetter, dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine. “This new space and expanded care teams will better allow us to meet our patients’ needs, as well as the profession’s need for more specialists. We’ll be able to see that all animals are treated in a timely and compassionate manner.”

Stetter said the caseload for the UC Davis Veterinary Medical Center has doubled since immediately before the pandemic and is up tenfold since 2013.

Faculty and students treated an average of more than 900 animals a month in 2022, reaching highs of more than 1,200 patients

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on vacation, thinking the cough was behind me. It flared up again. I had a bad cough on vacation! It had been more than three weeks and I kept coughing. I had to buy more cough drops. More cough syrup (which is expensive). Even more cough drops.

Eventually, I checked online for various ways to combat a persistent dry cough. Maybe my doctor missed something. Maybe there was a trick. The medical websites said to drink plenty of water (I did). They said to use cough drops or other hard candies (I did).

Cough syrup? Most posts honed in on the same idea: Cough syrup doesn’t make your lungs or your throat better. It’s

in some months. The new facilities are part of a $500 million modernization project for the Veterinary Medical Center, and construction crews are continuing to work on an animal dentistry and oral surgery center inside the hospital, a free-standing advanced surgery center and an imaging center for all species.

An anonymous donor gave $2.1 million to help fund the expansion of the ER and ICU, UC Davis officials said in a news release, a gift that allowed the first expansion in the physical ER/ICU space since the building opened in 1970.

The growth will allow the new facility to optimize patient care and increase training opportunities for both visiting veterinarians and residents. The school plans to increase the number of ER/ICU residents to 8 from seven over this next year.

The faculty, staff and students have carefully coordinated the move to

a trick. It fools your brain into stopping the cough reflex, so it’s not that special. Cough syrup is kind of a scam.

That’s what they said, but here’s what I thought: SERIOUSLY? COUGH SYRUP FIXES MY BRAIN? THAT ’S AMAZING!

Apparently, cough-syrup skeptics want readers to know that cough syrup doesn’t fix your lungs. So what? It fixes our brains!

Coughing apparently happens because we have a cough reflex!

One post said there is very little evidence that cough syrup works better than a placebo. Another said, “Cough suppressants work in the brain stem to stop the cough reflex. Basically, they trick your brain into thinking that it doesn’t need to

ensure they will be able to continue offering services as they transfer equipment and supplies to the new space.

UCD already has completed a number of projects as part of its $500 million overhaul, including an exotics examination room, a feline treatment and housing suite, a cardiology service suite and exam rooms, a translational cardiology clinical research center, and equine stalls for the large animal clinic.

The work will continue well into this decade with construction on a small animal hospital, an equine isolation unit, an equine surgery and critical care center, an equine performance and rehabilitation center and more.

UCD’s veterinary medicine school ranked No. 1 in the nation in new rankings of professional and graduate schools released this week by US News & World Report magazine. The publication evaluates veterinary medicine every four years, and it’s

cough, but the icky stuff in your lungs that’s causing the cough remains the same.”

First of all, the use of the word “icky” made me question whether a scientist wrote it. But secondly, if syrup stops me from coughing, isn’t that good?

Do the cough syrup deniers think I want to keep coughing?

The question isn’t whether I should use a medication that works in the brain stem to stop the cough reflex. Of course I should! The real question is why this technology hasn’t gone further.

If we can stop the cough reflex, could we also have something that stops the sneeze reflex? What about the laugh-atinappropriate-time reflex? What about the worrying-about-dumbstuff-while-trying-to-go-to-sleep

the third consecutive time that UC Davis has come out on top in that field.

The school, now celebrating its 75th anniversary, has been ranked as the first or second best in the world by QS World University Rankings since the subject was added to that evaluation in 2015.

Stetter said the veterinary school will celebrate the new construction and its accomplishments with events that include an alumni reunion this weekend, a gala in April 2024 and other events.

“I look forward to the expansion of our first-class veterinary instruction, research, and clinical care, as we continue to position UC Davis at the top of veterinary education,” Stetter said.

reflex? What about The Reflex reflex, where you automatically start dancing to the 1990 song by Duran Duran?

A persistent cough is no joke and cough syrup only slows, doesn’t stop your coughing. I acknowledge that the principal benefit of many cough syrups is they make you sleepy, giving you much-needed rest.

But I learned something, which is still important to me as I continue to recover from my coughing: Cough syrup magically tells my brain stem to quit making me cough.

For my money, that’s better than anything it could do to help my lungs, even as I inexplicably dance to The Reflex.

Reach Brad Stanhope at bradstanhope@outlook.com.

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Fairfield woman joins ranks of those turning 100

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FAIRFIELD — Gwendolyn Carter has had a few decades to overcome her venturous youth.

The Kingston, Jamaica, native turned 100 Friday with three generations of family, including some travelling from overseas.

On a recent afternoon, surrounded by her son, Junior Godfrey, daughter Maxine Godfrey and grandson Mike Ranglin, Carter shared some of her memories. Her family joined in to recall even more.

A home health nurse, there to check the centenarian’s blood pressure, even joined in the conversation, briefly.

Carter was one of four girls. The other three have passed away, two of them in their 90’s. Their father died in a train accident in Jamaica. Carter’s mom was 83 when she died.

Saying red was her favorite color, Carter did not reveal if that was the shade of her mother’s face after Carter and her sister stole a car, went on a joyride and crashed it. Her mother learned what had happened when the car’s owner showed up to collect money for the damage.

It was worth it, Carter said, even though she knew the punishment would be physical.

“We didn’t care about the beatings,” she said. Her mother would use a board, scrub board, basically anything she could get her hand on, Carter said. She would corner the children before administering the punishment.

“You can’t yell,” Carter said. “There was no one

around to help you.”

Carter is also known to share stories of going to school in a horse and buggy.

In her youth, Carter briefly moved to Montego Bay to live with family. Then, she returned to Kingston.

She made her way to New York working in housekeeping at the Regency Hotel until she retired in 1994. One year later, she came to Fairfield to live with her son Junior Godfrey in his Fairfield home.

Carter has slowed down, a little. She doesn’t cook but must give approval to Junior Godfrey’s culinary creations. It was chicken curry on the afternoon of the chat with family.

She joyfully shared her recipe for curry goat, without giving away the measurements. Only fresh black pepper, salt (not too much), garlic, onion, green onions, thyme, allspice and of course, curry .

“You got to rub it up the goat (meat),” she said.

“A little vinegar, not too much pepper.”

The dish, which is cooked on the stove top, is prepared a few days in advance to take get the best flavors.

The conversation shifted to Carter as a grandmother. “She used to spoil me,” Ranglin said. “Anything I wanted, she would get it for me.” That included his first car, a 1985 Renault Alliance.

When asked the secret to longevity, Carter chuckled and said, “eat right.” No fast food. No cheese. She survived a bout with cancer. Prior to that, she had not been sick or hospitalized, Maxine Godrey said.

Carter did smoke and owned a few bars in her lifetime and would drink some white rum.

“She has a strong will and she likes to be in control,” Maxine Godfrey, said of her mother.

The World Economic Forum website notes there are nearly 500,000 people in the world who have celebrated their 100th birthday. The U.S. has the highest absolute number of cente-

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Gwendolyn Carter dances at her 100th birthday party at the Paradise Valley Clubhouse in Fairfield, Friday.

Gwendolyn Carter greets guests at her 100th birthday party at the Paradise Valley Clubhouse in Fairfield, Friday.

A cake is prepared for Gwendolyn Carter’s 100th birthday party at the Paradise Valley Clubhouse in Fairfield, Friday.

Police Motorcycle competition helps honor fallen police officers

FAIRFIELD — For seven years the Fairfield Police Department has been holding a com petitive fundraiser, the Fairfield Police Motorcy cle Competition.

“When we started deciding what to do with this, we decided to honor traffic officers injured or killed in the line of duty,” said Fairfield Police Officer Cade Beckwith who also helped organize the event again this year.

They put everything on hold in 2019 for the competition due to Covid and finally things are returning to normal and they started it up again returning to the Solano Town Center Mall parking lot for the competition.

The competition is the brain child of Officer Jimmie Williams, who wanted to do something to remember fallen Officer James Capoot, the Vallejo police officer who died in the line of duty in 2011.

“We started putting the badge numbers in the pattern of the cones,” Beckwith said.

Several officers come down days earlier and work on figure out how to make the numbers work for a pattern to follow

when they are competing.

This year they honored fallen officer Elk Grove Police Department Tyler Lenehan. Lenehan was killed when his police motorcycle was struck head-on by a drunk driver on State Highway 99, near 12th Avenue in Sacramento.

Officer Lenehan was a U.S. Air Force veteran and had served with the Elk Grove Police Department for six years. He had previously served with the Citrus Heights Police Department for four years and the Galt Police Department for two years.

More than 80 law enforcement officers take part in the day’s activi-

ties, hailing from CHP, West Sacramento, Vacaville PD, Roseville PD, San Jose PD, Napa PD, Concord PD, Stockton PD, San Francisco PD, Tracy PD, Danville PD, Folsom PD, Oakland PD, the Carson City NV Sheriffs Dept., and, of course, Fairfield PD.

Riders competed in two different groups – BMWs and Harleys – and trophies were awarded to those who placed 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in the various exercises.

“It is broken down by bike types and skills,” said Beckwith

Various vendors were also on hand as well.

One cone pattern depicts the number “281”,

which was Officer Lenehan’s badge number, and the other is “M24”, which was his call sign. Proceeds from the competition will benefit the End of Watch Fund.

The End of Watch Fund (EOW) is dedicated to assisting families of fallen officers, and law enforcement according to Monique Trudeau one of the volunteers for the nonprofit group out of Elk Grove.

“We help the families anyway we can,” she said. “One of the things we do is bring a snack pack to funerals of officers.”

They provide funds for the children of the officers as well as support on an as needed bases.

“We also have various fundraiser throughout the year like a chili cook off, a whiffle ball tournament, a crab feed and a Field of Flags,” she said. “The Field of Flags is where people sponsor a fallen officer by purchasing a flag and with place it in the field at Highway 99 and Grant Line Road in Elk Grove.” They have over 500 volunteers but things fluctuate and they always are welcoming new volunteers.

To volunteer go to www. endofwatchfund.com.

GI Joe still brings out the kid in all of us

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VACACVILLE — The Militaria & GI Joe Toy Show at the Nut Tree Airport brought little kids and kids at heart out for the Saturday event.

Organizers Art Vicario of Cordelia is fully in touch with his inner child. He has been a member of the Northern California GI Joe Club for years and love doing these toy shows from Northern California all the way to the San Diego ComicCon event.

There were 30 vendors along with a replica of R2-D2 scooting around and several actors who were in the “Star Wars” movies came to sign autographs.

“This is all about the fun and making a little money. But really about the fun,” he said.

He has a fascination for tanks which began with DC comic book series Haunted Tank.

“That is what got me started with the whole GI Joe and tanks thing,” he said.

He feels that doing this is better than sitting at home watching tv.

“This is a Toy Woodstock,” he said.

The vendors had plenty of fun items to purchase from old toys to very new and flashes ones from modern pop culture icons.

Kirk Serumgard came with his sons Kirk, 12, and Kieran, 7, from Fresno.

“I saw the flyers on the event and Kirk is

really into GI Joe,” said father Kirk.

They had never been to the event before or the Rowland Freedom Center where the venue was hosted.

“There is so much history here with the Doolittle Raiders,” Serumgard said. “It is amazing.”

His love of GI Joe started in childhood when he traveled with his father around the world. In Europe they had Action Hero dolls which is what he remembers growing up.

“They came out about the same time,” he said.

His eldest son found some great GI Joe cloths to go with his single character and both children seem to be following in

dad’s footsteps for interest in GI Joe.

“I have four or five dolls,” said Kieran.

His older brother only has one doll and they don’t share much but a love of toys. The family continued there leisurely search for the next fun toy.

Michele Nichole Butler

Michele was an 18 year resident of Vacaville and lived her last 13 years in Fairfield. She was a 2010 graduate of Will C. Wood High School. Michele loved traveling with her family to Ireland, Scotland and Greece as well as several U.S. states. Michele had a love of Irish and Christian music as well as video games. She loved all things lavender. Michele passed peacefully at her home.

Michele is survived by her mother, Deborah; her father, John; her sister Ashley; her brother-in-law, James; nephews Johnathan and Andrew; and, Al and Patti Brown, maternal grandparents. Services will be held @ New Life Church 5900 Cherry Glen Rd., Vacaville, CA on May 20, 2023 at 10:30 a.m. followed by a celebration of her life.

Song Chun Choe

Song Chun Choe a.k.a. June, 68, passed away on Friday, April 14, 2023 in North Bay Medical Center. Song was born on November 12, 1954, in Seoul, South Korea. Song has been a successful business owner over 20 years and is well known in the community of Solano County and the world for arkway Lounge. She has brought a lot eated everyone like family. She will be her only son, Charles (Karina) Wilson of Suisun City; three brothers: Lim Ho, Jae Ho, Jung Choe and sister th by her parents Myung Yong and Young

Randy Shahan

Randy Delene Shahan, 46, passed away unexpectedly on Thursday, March 16, 2023. Randy was born in Vallejo, CA on January 22, 1977, and grew up in Fairfield, CA. He was a loving husband, father, and grandfather and the Vice President of IBEW Local 180, Electricians of Napa and Solano Counties. Randy was a hard worker that lived to provide for his family. He was an avid hunter and a life-long San Francisco 49ers and Giants fan. He was a lover of animals including his dogs, iguana, and many pets throughout his life. Randy had a unique sense of humor and could light up a room with his presence. The world will never be the same without him. He is survived and will forever be missed by Stacey (wife), Brandi, Shyna, and Joseph (children), Ryan (son-in-law), Ryanne (granddaughter), Kevin and Roxanne (parents), Michael (brother) Catherine, Heather (sister), and nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, grandparents, cousins, and many other extended family and caring friends. Services will be held on Saturday, May 6, at 11:00 a.m. at Thrive Church (190 Bella Vista Road, Va caville, CA 95687). A celebration of life will immediately follow the service at IBEW Local Union 180 (720-B Technology Way, Napa, CA 94558).

Elizabeth Rodriguez

Elizabeth Rodriguez, died April 16, 2023 in Fairfield, CA. She was born in Clayton, NC in 1929.

She w as preceded in d ea th by he r husband, Angelo, her parents Ira Paul and Lillie Lassiter, brothers, Paul Morris and Joseph Dale Lassiter and sisters, Emma Jean Williams and Carol Snively.

She grew up in Sanford, NC; Galt, Broderick, Sacramento and Richmond, CA and t old many st ories of her adventurous child hood. For instance, she liked to tell of how her family lived in the shell of an abandoned bus while building their first home in California from adobe bricks they made themselves, and of her first job working as a file clerk at the newly formed Oakland Kaiser Hospital at age 14 during WWII.

She graduated from Richmond High School in 1947 and held degrees in Psycholog y, Zoology and English from UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University.

She was a loyal and devoted daughter, wife, mother, grandmother, aunt, educator, and friend. She was a wise counsel, gentle and self-assured. She loved California and thought Fairfield was paradise. She was a reader, a swimmer, a world traveler and much more. She was a tireless advocate for her students as an English instructor at many colleges including Sacramento State, UC Davis, Los Medanos and Solano Community College

In l at er years, her gr eat pleasure w as exercising daily at the Kroc and birthday luncheons with her Alpha Chi Ome ga Pi siste rs

She is survived by her son, Steven (Britt Trimble), he r daughters; Cynthia (Roy Marubayashi), Laura (Jeff Kranz) and Linda Rodriguez, her grandsons; Stanley (Suge Lee), Angelo, Mitchell (Reet) Marubayashi and Louis Rodriguez, her granddaughter, Elizabeth Marubayashi, her great granddaughters, Rosa and Laura Marubayashi, and by Nicholas and Jay Kranz.

There will be a memorial service at Fairfield Funeral Home, 1750 Pennsylvania Ave. on May 5, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. All are welcome.

Medina Bulatao Martinez

Medina Bulatao Martinez was called home to Heaven on April 4, 2023; she was 72. Medina was born to Tomas ) Bulatao on June 1, 1950, in angasinan, Philippines. She was the third child, the eldest daughter of 6 children, including Alfonso (✝), Salvador, Victor, Victoria, and Carmen. Medina graduated from Luzon College in Dagupan City, Philippines, with a Bachelor of Science in Commerce. After graduation, she would work at FACOMA, where she would meet the love of her life, David. After David enlisted in the United States Navy, the two were married on March 31, 1977. Together they would embark on their greatest adventure across the seas and worldwide while raising a family. Medina devoted her life to her family. She was a proud military spouse, a dedicated mother of three, and the foundation of her family Medina valued education and knowledge. She believed it was something that could never be taken away from you. She continued to learn about the world around her by reading. She loved to read the newspaper. She was a long-time subscriber to the local newspaper, The Daily Republic, for almost 30 years. She would read every section from beginning to end. Her favorite gameshow was Jeopardy! Medina also valued seeking

Carla Jan Nelson

Carla Nelson, beloved mother, grandmother, teacher, artist, writer, traveler, and collector of nick knacks, died suddenly last Saturday at the age of 63 (even though for some reason her driver’s license said she was 70). She is survived by her husband of 46 years, two sons, and six grandkids, and one very naughty standard poodle. She leaves behind a legacy of art, old books, and the world’s best apple pie that no one ever can seem to replicate Carla grew up an air force brat, dragged from place to place by her father, Colonel Roper and her mom, Betty, from Okinawa to New Mexico, finally meeting her soul mate in Vallejo, CA in 1970. Shortly thereafter she said goodbye to him forever as her parents moved the family to Utah, but not even the Colonel could get in the way of true love, and Carla eventually married John Nelson in the summer of ‘76 on Mare Island.

Carla spent her time on this world working various jobs that didn’t involve having to know technology, from ice cream shop clerk, to modeling in department stores, working the line at the Times Herald, dental office assistant, teach-

happiness. You could often find her at her “playground” or Cache Creek, where she would meet up with her friends and family, who are lovingly known as her “classmates,” to enjoy food, collect free giveaways, and try her luck on the machines!

Also known as Mom; Atsi Med; Auntie Medy; Grandma Medy; and Lola, Medina was an incredible woman. She would do anything for her family; she was always happy to see you and always smiling. Her outlook on life was inspiring. Each day she tried to live her best life, however she wanted. Even when she faced challenges in her health, she did so with great optimism, a smile on her face, and laughter to go around. She will be greatly missed.

Medina is survived by her loving husband of 46 years, David; her children, Maribel (Marvin) Deyro, Melody (Chad) French; and Davis Mark Martinez; and her four grandchildren, Kiralynn, Analise, Cadence, and Maddox. She is preceded in death by her parents, Tomas and Mercedes Bulatao, brother Alfonso Bulatao, and grandson, Xavier Deyro.

Visitation and viewing will be at Skyview Memorial Lawn, 200 Rollingwood Dr, Vallejo, CA 94591, on May 3. 2023, from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. and May 4, 2023, from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Memorial mass will be held on Friday, May 5, 2023, at 10:00 a.m., at Holy Spirit Catholic Church, 1070 N Texas St, Fairfield, CA 94533. Internment following the memorial mass at Sacramento Valley National Cemetery, 5810 Midway Rd, Dixon, CA 95620, at 12 p.m. A Celebration of Life to immediately follow.

ing art, and newspaper columnist. Her full-time profession, however, was being a mom, and that was something she truly thrived at From teaching her sons (and herself, first) to throw a football, to painstaking hours on science projects, bake sales, Halloween costumes, and birthday cakes, Carla could be found at pretty much any point in her life doing something for her family. She passes on a love of life, a passion for ukulele playing, and a sixth sense of finding good, cheap wine.

Later in life, Carla battled health problems like a lion tamer, cracking her whip at diabetes and cancer with a tenacity rarely seen. In the end it was her heart that gave out; we assume this was because she gave so much of it to others over the years there wasn’t enough left for herself. Her last words weren’t recorded, but for the sake of posterity, this is what she probably would have said: “Goodbye all, please dress me in something purple and don’t sell my dog.”

In lieu of flowers, Carla would prefer you to toss some wildflower seeds somewhere on the roadside.

Also, we have one standard poodle for sale (kidding).

Cremation and arrangements entrusted to the direction and care of Twin Chapels Mortuar y, Vallejo (707) 552-6696. www.TwinChapelsMortuar y.com

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The Fairfield Police Motorcycle Competition honored fallen officer Elk Grove Police Department Tyler lenehan with a course created with his call sign and badge number at the solano Town Center, saturday.

over 80 police officers come out for the Fairfield Police Motorcycle Competition at the solano Town Center.

Susan Hiland/Daily Republic attendees check out the GI Joes at the Militaria & GI Joe Toy show at the Rowland Freedom Center on saturday.

World Environment Day a chance to clean up waterways

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SOLANO COUNTY — Solano and Yolo County residents are invited to celebrate World Environment Day at Lake Solano.

The event allows visitors a chance to learn about the Lake Berryessa and Putah Creek watersheds. They will also remove trash along waterways that serve as drinking and irrigation water for Solano County, plant wildflower plugs, create take-home seed packets and participate in other group and family-friendly activities including kayak tours of Lake Solano.

A free lunch will be served to all participants.

Registration is required and can be completed at cleanupsolano.org under the World Environment Day tab. Participants should wear sturdy shoes, work gloves, and sun protection.

The event will begin at 9 a.m. June 3 at Lake Solano County Park, approximately 4 miles west of Winters on Pleasants Valley Road, just south of Highway 128.

Volunteers that choose to assist with trash cleanup activities will clean up

Police seek approval of updated training program to help recruit more officers

at Lake Berryessa and Lake Solano.

Parking fees will be waived with a pass provided to event registrants in advance.

Registration check-in begins at 9 a.m. Sandwiches will be provided after trash cleanups and group photos conclude. Pre-registration for the event and the opportunity to receive a free World Environment Day event T-shirt closes at 5 p.m. May 30.

World Environment Day builds global awareness of the environment, draws political attention to environmental issues and supports individual and community projects.

Lake Solano is part of a constructed watershed delivering high-quality drinking water from Lake Berryessa, the seventh largest reservoir in California, to nearly 500,000 Solano County residents. This water is also the primary source of irrigation water for growers in the region. Also filling and leaving Lake Solano is Putah Creek, a vital ecological link between the neighboring mountain range and the Yolo Bypass, according to a press release.

SUISUN CITY — The city council will be asked to approve an amendment the job classification of police officer trainee and authoring the program’s compensation and benefits at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Since February, the Police Department has experienced four vacancies in the police officer classification, and two more are expected by June. Officers are leaving to other agencies offering higher pay and significant hiring incentives, according to a staff report.

The departures, and difficulty recruiting to fill department vacancies, have prompted an interest in using the Police Officer Trainee program as a tool to assist with the recruitment of Police Officers.

In March, 2019, the council authorized the establishment of the police-officer trainee program to assist with the recruitment of Police Officers. The program was authorized to provide a non-benefited wage to attend and graduate from the police academy.

The department hired one person under this program in January of 2020. The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic hindered this person’s ability to complete the police academy.

The resolution will authorize an update to the 5739325 class specification, and authorize the benefit package available to persons hired in this classification, beyond which other temporary part-time employees currently receive.

Benefits include paid sick leave as required by the Healthy Workplace Healthy Family Act, medical coverage per the Affordable Care Act if eligible after the initial waiting period and monitored qualification for CalPERS retirement benefits with enrollment

required if employed full-time longer than six months or reaches 1,000 hours in a fiscal year.

Compensation for this classification is outlined in the published Citywide Salary Schedule, starting at $28.63 to $30.06 per hour. Incumbents hired in this classification will receive an hourly wage for their time in the training academy.

Additionally, the city of Suisun City will provide police officer trainees with their necessary uniforms and equipment. While academy tuition fees are typically paid by participants upon enrollment in a POST certified training academy, the cost of tuition and fees may be available for any trainees offered employment prior to enrollment in the academy.

Current city of Suisun City employees interested in a career in law enforcement as sworn police officers may take leave from their current permanent full-time positions to train in the Police Officer Trainee classification, and will be allowed to maintain their CalPERS contributions, as well as medical

benefits if enrolled in the city’s group health plan at the time of appointment.

The police officer trainee is the non-sworn, trainee-level class in the police officer series, in which incumbents are expected to learn law enforcement techniques and practices while completing the mandated peace officer academy to obtain Basic POST certification. Incumbents are hired in temporary, limited-term positions under an at-will employment status with continued employment contingent upon maintaining enrollment in a POST approved academy. The police academy has an expected duration of approximately six months.

The program is funded by vacant police officer positions. There is no financial impact on the current year’s budget.

The item is on the consent calendar, which can be approved in one motion.

The council meets at 710 Civic Center Blvd. The complete agenda can be found at www.suisun.com.

SolTrans seeks public feedback on service realignment proposals

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FAIRFIELD — The Solano County Transit Board of Directors recently opened public comment for the service realignment proposals.

The proposed changes affect local service and the SolanoExpress Lines blue, green, red, yellow and Route 82. SolTrans invites the public to comment on the proposed route and service changes during the public comment period ending on May 18.

Information about the proposed changes can be found by clicking Request for Public Comment: Service Realignment Proposals at https://soltrans. org. Paper surveys are available at the Vallejo Transit Center Ticket office at 311 Sacramento St. SolTrans Staff has been monitoring and analyzing SolTrans Local and SolanoExpress services since the implementation of computer-aided dispatch and automatic vehicle location technology in the summer of 2021. Staff can now analyze data for unproductive routes, trips and stops within the service area to support service changes.

After an extensive

Service Realignment outreach campaign that gauged riders’ use of SolTrans and their needs while using the supporting data, staff is proposing to realign service to provide more reliable service schedules riders can depend on.

Recommended service changes will be brought to the SolTrans Board at the May 8 meeting. Once approved, the service changes will go into effect in early August.

Information about the changes may also be obtained, or comments submitted, by emailing info@soltransride.com, calling customer service at 707-648-4666, or by completing the comment form at the bottom of each page of the website.

Susan Hiland/Daily Republic file Jeorgia Jacobsen and grandfather Mike Dorrough of Vacaville collect trash along l a ke s o lano for World Environment Cleanup Day.

Aaron Rosenblatt/ Daily Republic file a bus enters the solTrans Bus Terminal in Vallejo, Dec. 23, 2022.

Aaron Rosenblatt/Daily Republic file Fairfield Police officers respond to a the scene of a stand-off, March 20, 2023.

Landscaping and lighting maintenance districts on Fairfield’s agenda Tuesday

FAIRFIELD — Landscaping and lighting maintenance districts come before the city council Tuesday night.

The adoption of the resolutions will grant preliminary approval of the fiscal year 2023-24 engineer’s reports, declare intention to order the levy and collection of assessments, and set the date and provide notice for a public hearing for seven landscaping and lighting maintenance districts.

The preliminary approval of the engineer’s reports is the first step in the process of levying the annual assessments. Final approval of the assessments requires a public hearing, which will be scheduled for the June 20 council meeting.

Southbrook: The total proposed revenue for this district is $680,711, which includes assessments of $676,376, a General Fund contribution of $4,035, and interest of $300. The special projects for this district include landscape renovation and repair.

Woodlake: The total proposed revenue for this district is $381,081, which includes assessments of $344,446, a General Fund contribution of $26,635, and interest of $10,000. The special projects for this district include landscape renovation and repair.

Gold Ridge: The total

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Michael Rodriguez loves teaching 7th grade at Oakland Unified’s United for Success Academy, but to help pay the bills, he’s got a side gig making branded T-shirts and hoodies for restaurants and other small businesses around his neighborhood.

“At night and on the weekends, I’ll be grading tests while I pump out 20 hoodies,” said Rodriguez, 51, who’s paid $78,000 to teach. “That’s the kind of stuff we have to do while also being expected to give the highest quality of education that we can.”

But a new proposal in Sacramento aims to put a lot more cash in the pockets of teachers such as Rodriguez: Assembly Bill 938 would boost school teacher and staff pay a whopping 50% by 2030. Jeff Freitas, president of the California Federation of Teachers, the bill’s sponsor, acknowledged it’s “a big and bold idea.”

“We make no mistake about that,” Freitas told the Assembly Education Committee this week. “But it’s exactly what is necessary at this time to tackle the problem.”

The bill this week

proposed revenue for this district is $490,658, which includes assessments of $464,596, a General Fund contribution of $18,062, and interest of $8,000. The special projects for this district include landscape renovation and repair.

Creekside at Cordelia: The total proposed revenue for this district is $64,440, which includes assessments of $58,037, a General Fund contribution of $5,903, and interest of $500. The special projects for this district include landscape renovation and repair.

Chadbourne-BeckCordelia: The total proposed revenue for this district is $326,969, which includes assessments of $317,969, and interest of $9,000. The special projects for this district include landscape renovation and repair.

Gold Ridge Park: The total proposed revenue for this district is $169,997, which includes assessments of $140,975, a

passed out of commit tee – chaired by the bill’s author, Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi, a Tor rance Democrat – with bipartisan support and no opposition. But that doesn’t mean it’s not raising questions, espe cially as California, after several years of record budget surpluses, is again facing deficits.

The state’s average public K-12 teacher salary of $87,275 is now third-highest in the U.S., behind New York’s $92,222 and Massachu setts’ $88,903. Both those states boasted better 8th grade math and reading scores in 2022 than Cali fornia, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

So did Florida, where average public schoolteacher pay is $51,230. Texas, where average pay is $58,887, also had better 8th grade math scores than California last year, though reading scores were lower.

California’s average public school teacher salary also outpaces average private schoolteacher pay, which ZipRecruiter. com reports to be $34,198 statewide, $36,829 in San Jose, $36,572 in Oakland and

can be approved by a simple motion.

Later in the meeting, the council will tackle the same topic, involving different areas – Gateway, Waterman Highlands, Rancho Solano, Peppertree, Rolling Hills, Paradise Valley, Downtown Business District and North Cordelia.

Board of Supervisors hears updates on County and State issues at

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FAIRFIELD — A morning session Tuesday of the Solano County Board of Supervisors includes a series of recognitions and updates.

They will also consider taking positions on items discussed at the April 24, Legislative Committee meeting which were AB 50, AB 400, AB 504, AB 595, AB 702, AB 817, AB 1672 and SB 706.

General Fund contribution of $26,022, and interest of $3,000. The special projects for this district include landscape renovation and repair.

Corporate Commons:

The total proposed revenue for this district is $128,192, which includes assessments of $127,192, and interest of $1,000. The special projects for this district include landscape renovation and repair.

The total proposed FY 2023-2024 revenue for all seven districts is $2,242,048, which includes assessments of $2,129,591, General Fund (Fund 101) contributions of $80,657, and interest of $31,800.

The city’s General Fund contributions cover a portion of the costs for street lighting, arterial landscaping, and irrigation, which has been determined to be a general public benefit rather than a special benefit to the district property owners.

The item is on the consent calendar, which

On April 18, the council initiated proceedings to form the Proposed Districts to replace the existing districts. Ballots have mailed to residents in those areas.

A public hearing is planned at the June 6 meeting. Ballots will be tabulated on June 7.

Ballots are weighted based on the proportional financial obligation each property owner would be responsible for under the Proposed District. If a majority of the weighted ballots do not oppose the proposed assessments, the council may approve the formation of the Proposed Districts. However, if the opposite is true and the majority of weighted ballots do oppose the proposed assessments, the council must abandon the formation process.

The council meets at 6 p.m. at 1000 Webster St. The complete agenda can be found at https:// fairfield.novusagenda. com/agendapublic/Meet ingView.aspx?Me etingID=319&Min utesMeetingID=1&doctype=Agenda.

They will include Correctional Officers and Correctional Employees Appreciation Week in Solano County on May 7-13; May 12, 2023 will be recognized as Child Care Provider Appreciation Day in Solano County and May will be acknowledged as Wildfire Awareness Month and May 6, 2023 as Community Wildfire Preparedness Day in Solano County.

The board will also take a look at the annual report on the goals and accomplishments of a variety of advisory boards.

The board will also hear an update for a couple of subjects, one from the County’s Federal Legislative Advocates on the status of legislative issues of interest to the County. The other will be an update from the County’s State Legislative Advocates.

The board first meets at 9 a.m. in the first-floor chamber of the government center, 675 Texas St., in Fairfield.

The agenda for the meeting is available at https://www.solanocounty. com/depts/bos/meetings/ videos.asp.

$38,718 in San Francisco. Teacher salaries are negotiated by individual districts and vary widely by region and the employee’s years of experience.

Averages ranged from $51,592 on the low end up to $102,937, according to the California Department

of Education. Critics concede California’s higher cost of living plays a part in its higher teacher salaries but say they’d like to see a bill that ties teacher pay to improved student performance.

“California’s academic

excellence for the amount of money we pay into the system is absolutely Lance Christensen, who lost an election challenge last fall to state Superintendent of Tony and is vice president of education policy at the nonprofit California Policy Center, a group critical of public-sector union “Raising salary sounds great, but there’s no performance requirement tied to these things.” said that “the teacher wage Califorproblem, it’s a national problem,” citing statistics that teachers earn 23.5% less pay than similarly educated peers in other fields such as business and engineering. “That is the number one reason we have not only a California teacher shortage but a national teacher shortage.”

The bill’s proposed pay increases wouldn’t be limited to teachers in particularly hard-to-fill

roles such as special education. In fact, it wouldn’t be limited to teachers at all – all school staff except for administrators, which would include bus drivers, cafeteria workers and custodians, would benefit, Muratsuchi said.

The assemblyman cited the recent strike by bus drivers, cafeteria workers, teacher aides and other employees at Los Angeles Unified School District that halted student education for days as demonstrating the need for raising non-teacher pay as well. It ended with a deal giving the district’s Service Employees International Union workers, paid an average of $25,000 a year, a 30% raise.

The proposed 50% raises by 2030 would average more than 7% annually over the next seven years, roughly twice as much as a typical 3.5% annual increase. That would boost average California teacher See Pay, Page A11

Aaron Rosenblatt/Daily Republic file Water flows in the pond at the Fairfield Civic Center.

Robinson Kuntz/Daily Republic file (2020) a house burns in the lightning Complex Fire in rural Vacaville, aug. 19, 2020. The solano Board of supervisors are slated to declare May Wildfire awareness Month.

Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG striking los angeles Unified school District employees and their supporters, including teachers, rally outside l aUsD headquarters in los angeles, March 21, 2023.

Amazon profits jumped to $3.2B as it shed workers at the start of 2023

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After rounds of layoffs, the pressure on Amazon may be easing up, the company said Thursday, citing positive impacts from lower energy and laborcosts as well as a more stable pattern of customer demand.

Amazon saw a continuing slowdown in its cloud computing unit and still felt the impact of inflation on consumer spending, but it reported stronger-thanexpected revenue and profits, bringing its stock up in after-hours trading.

“There’s a lot to like about how our teams are delivering for customers, particularly amidst an uncertain economy,” CEO

Andy Jassy said in a statement Thursday. Amaz on reported pre-tax profits of $3.2 billion, or $0.31 earnings per diluted share, for the first three months of 2023, according to financial data released Thursday. That’s a shift from the same time period last year, when Amazon lost $3.8 billion.

Part of that difference comes from the company’s investment in Rivian, an electric vehicle startup that has seen its own valuation fluctuate over the last year as it struggled with production delays. In the first quarter of 2022, Amazon lost a pre-tax valuation of $7.6 billion from its investment in Rivian. This year, it lost only $500 million

from its investment. Between the first quarter of 2022 and 2023, Amazon has also embarked on a series of cost-cutting measures, from shutting down projects to slowing expansion of its physical footprint to laying off thousands of workers.

Amazon has announced 27,000 layoffs since November. On Wednesday, the company began notifying workers who were laid off in the most recent round of cuts.

“We spent the last six to nine months going through every business and we made some decisions to move resources and to eliminate some areas,” Chief Financial Officer Brian Olsavsky said Thurs-

Ripple effects from debt-limit debate

The debate about the debt limit is now in full swing. The question is how much more spending Congress will authorize the Treasury Department to finance by borrowing. The deadline according to latest comments is sometime in June.

Although technically, the government has already run out of money, the Treasury is using “extraordinary measures” to fill the gaps pending the decision of Congress.

The debt limit is not in the Constitution nor in any of its 27 Amendments. It is just a statute, a law, enacted as part of legislation allowing the government to issue bonds to finance U.S. participation in the World War I in 1917. It has been in place, causing headaches and prompting evasive action, ever since.

Raising the debt ceiling is not unusual.

Since 1917 Congress has raised the limit 100 times, 78 times just since the end of World War II. Democrat administrations have raised the limit 30 times and Republican 48 times in that period. For many years the increase was not a controversy. Only in recent decades has it become a point of political leverage with delays until the last moment.

The implications for not raising the debt limits have many facets and generally serious adverse consequences. Consider

these results, which could have an adverse consequence either immediately or very soon. The effects within the U.S. could be profound. Failure to pay government employees and Social Security recipients will immediately place them in a tight financial bind. In turn, they will face problems with all their bills and creditors.

Banks will be less willing to lend, doubting the borrower’s ability to service the loan. Uncertainty will cause interest rates to rise. Consumer spending will decline. Together these forces could easily push the economy into a recession. The external problems would be equally concerning. Defaulting on the debt issued by the U.S. Treasury would lead to immediate consequences. Rating organizations would downgrade the U.S. bonds, which would cause the future interest rate for borrowing to increase, putting more pressure on the Treasury.

The currency exchange rate for the U.S. dollar versus other currencies would shift, probably making the dollar less valuable by comparison. Thus, buying imports would be more expensive and raise the costs for U.S. consumers and businesses.

China and other countries are vying to substitute their curren-

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cies as the international standard for exchange. A weakened dollar would be more vulnerable. China would view this as an opportunity to extend their influence. Other countries would have less reason to deal as favorably with the U.S. At a time when issues of influence and control are evolving rapidly, the reduction of economic influence would diminish the ability of the U.S. to deal with the multitude of international problems we face.

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day. Amazon is trying to make those decisions in a customer-friendly way and in a way that “maintains our long-term growth options,” he added.

O lsavsky stopped short of ruling out additional layoffs.

“Just like any other business, we’ll continue to look at the market conditions, make sure our resources are appropriate for what we see as near and medium term opportunities and proceed

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The issues raised and debated as part of the process to increase the debt all have merit. But they may or may not be directly related. Politicians who are rightly worried about the nation’s unsustainable borrowing path should take a hard stance against new borrowing and oppose legislation that would add to the debt, rather than threatening not to pay the bills on borrowing that has already been incurred.

The most likely result is that Congress will raise the debt limit at the last moment, after using the process to score political points. But is this method in the best interest of the country? A matter this serious should not deteriorate into a contest to see who blinks first. Separate the issues and deal with them. Do not take risks which would have immediate and disastrous effects on everyone in the U.S.

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adaptively,” he said.

Amazon reported operating income of $4.8 billion for the first quarter of 2023, compared to $3.7 billion in the same time period last year. That figure includes $500 million in charges related to severance costs.

In a statement, Jassy pointed to Amazon’s progress in cloud computing, advertising and its Stores division, which includes its online and physical stores, marketplace for third-party sellers and the Prime subscription.

Jassy said Amazon was focused on lowering costs and speeding up deliveries from its network of warehouses that help get goods to customers’ doorsteps, adding that he expected Amazon would see

its fastest delivery speeds ever this year. One way to do so, Olsavsky said, is to shift toward a more regional network, focusing on keeping items close to customers so the merchandise won’t have to travel as far before it reaches a customer’s doorstep.

“We’ve been working on a number of initiatives … to get our network back to some of the metrics we saw prepandemic,” Olsavsky said.

“Foremost would be cost and secondary would be speed.”

To make the regional network work, Olsavsky said Amazon is evaluating how to ensure it has the “least amount of inventory” while having the “highest service levels.” That includes taking stock of staffing of warehouses. Amazon, he said, wants to make sure “we don’t have people standing around waiting on work.”

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Hit-and-run property damage, 2000 block of CADENASSO DRIVE

11:59 a.m. — Vandalism, VILLA COURT 12:14 p.m. — Forgery, 4800 block of AUTO PLAZA COURT

2:11 p.m. — Vehicle theft, DEL LUZ COURT

3:24 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, PEABODY ROAD

3:42 p.m. — Indecent exposure, 400 block of SAN JOSE STREET

5:37 p.m. — Battery, 2200 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 6:53 p.m. — Battery, 1700 block of YORK STREET

p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 2700 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

p.m. — Residential burglary, 5000 block of BROOKDALE CIRCLE

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7:49 p.m. — Drunk and disorderly, 1300 block of PHOENIX DRIVE

7:55 p.m. — Drunken driver, WOOLNER AVENUE

8:50 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 1900 block of KIDDER AVENUE

9:18 p.m. — Trespassing, 2200 block of GATEWAY COURT

11:39 p.m. — Shots fired, 3000 block of MUSE WAY FRIDAY, APRIL 28

2:31 a.m. — Battery, 1900 block of GRANDE

APRIL 27 2:42 a.m. — Robbery, 100 block of SUNSET AVENUE

a.m. — Prowler, 2 HARBOR CENTER

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This inaugural event took months of planning and coordinating with various schools and organizations. Bassut said he was glad to see it finished.

“We are doing different events later in the year,” he said. “This is not the end point today, part of a new program started last July.”

Bassut noted that joining the military isn’t just about being a soldiers – they have plenty of opportunities, including band.

Nathaniel Clayton, president of the Lee A. Archer Jr. Chapter of Tuskegee Airmen Inc., spoke about the history of the Tuskegee Airmen to the students along with opportunities they are offering them.

“They faced a lot of discrimination just like in civilian life,” Clayton said. “But the Tuskegee Airmen didn’t want it to be that way and things changed.”

The airmen did more than fly – they also protested, they defied the odds against them and were successful in helping to make changes happen.

“We are supporting youth today,” Clayton said. “To help them follow their dreams.”

Students also heard from Brig. Gen. Jeffrey R. Alexander, director of

U.S. evacuation convoy reaches Sudanese port city, State Department says

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An evacuation convoy organized by the U.S. government and carrying American citizens and other foreign nationals reached the Sudanese port city of Port Sudan on Saturday, the State Department said.

The caravan included more than a dozen local buses and evacuated 300 U.S. citizens from the capital, Khartoum, under the protection of armed drones, according to a U.S. official who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The official was not authorized to discuss the situation on the record.

The State Department said Saturday that it was assisting U.S. citizens and others who are eligible with “onward travel to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.”

“This builds on the work the U.S. government has done this week to facilitate the departure of our diplomats by military assisted departure, and hundreds of other American citizens by land convoys, flights on partner air craft, and sea,”

State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said in a statement.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin also approved a request for assistance from the State Department “to support the safe departure of U.S. citizens and their immediate family members via overland,” deputy Pentagon press secretary Sabrina Singh said on Saturday.

The Pentagon “deployed U.S. intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance assets to support air and land evacuation routes,” she said in a statement.

“Our focus has been and remains to help as many U.S. citizens depart as safely as possible.”

Conflict in Sudan, Africa’s third-most populous nation, erupted earlier this month between the Sudanese army, which is loyal to Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), whose leader is Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, also known as Hemedti.

the children.

Before European settlement, Patwin Native Americans summered on the property for thousands of years. The Suisunes, a sub tribe of the Patwins, likely hunted tule elk, grizzly bears and waterfowl, fished in the Suisun slough, and gathered plants for food and medicine according to the website information.

It is estimated that there were about 2,300 Patwins living in the area of Solano County in 1800, but the population soon plummeted to zero due to disease, forced moves to Spanish Missions and battles with Europeans. By 1823, there were no observed Native Americans left in the area, only abandoned and destroyed village sites.

Over the years Rush Ranch has offered many different ways to learn about the land, history, science and biology in the area.

One of the latest offer-

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insufficient to pay benefits, forcing drawdowns of their so-called trust funds. By 2030, Medicare won’t be able to make good on all benefits, while Social Security hits that mark in 2033, the Congressional Budget Office estimates.

But both parties see fiscal issues as key to painting their opponents as irresponsible. Republicans have cast their push to reduce government spending in return for raising the debt limit as a sensible move to arrest a federal debt burden heading for unprecedented levels.

It’s been an intractable partisan stalemate for decades, with no major Social Security reform having been enacted now for 40 years. Efforts to find some consensus approach during the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations foundered.

“Most people get the idea that people are living longer, and there are fewer workers per retiree and both programs are

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He spoke to the importance of socializing with all people no matter their race or nationality.

“I wouldn’t have had the doors opened to me without that,” he said.

Alexander said that learning and meeting challenges in life with the help of others is not a weakness but a strength to building better character and overcoming roadblocks in life.

“Really, in the end it is all about hope,” he said. “You are our future and we need hope to move forward. It’s time to focus on the future and put the past behind us.”

After a hardy lunch, the

ings is in collaboration with Solano County Office of Education who have set up station on the ranch where kids can scan a billboard and get information on various animals in the area.

“It is called Explore Quest,” said Jennifer Leonard, Assistant Superintendent of Community Engagement. “It plays a video for them.”

They figure this will be a different and innovative way to engage kids in science.

“This is a way to expand their learning in science,” she said. “Hopefully it leads to an interest in science and a career path.”

Visitors got to learn more about Access Adventure (horses and wagon rides) which provide rides for everyone including those with disabilities.

They were entertained this year by a great many dancers and musicians including Dance Instruction by Sean Burgess; Sam’s Music Group & Mrs. Mandi’s Music Student Band; After Hours; Di & Anela Holokahi; Square Dancing with

projected to run out of money,” said Whit Ayres, a longtime Republican pollster. “Sticking your head in the sand about that reality facing us is not the hallmark of leadership.”

Speaker Kevin McCarthy this week mustered fellow Republicans to pass a House bill that included a measure tying benefits from Medicaid – which provides health coverage to lower-income households – and food assistance to strict working-hour requirements. That’s in part aimed at increasing workforce participation, which they argue would expand the funding base for Social Security and Medicare. But Democrats uniformly oppose the overall bill.

Ayres, founder and president of North Star Opinion Research, said the planned Democratic messaging will “scare some seniors.”

Biden last year took full advantage of the opening provided when Florida Senator Rick Scott – head of the GOP’s campaign for his chamber – proposed sunsetting government programs every five years. On the midterm election campaign trail, Biden

Solano students left and students from various university College Reserve Officer Training Corps came in to view the static displays and also hear more about the military.

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Twin City Steppers, Vaca Valley Ramblers, Trilogy Grand Squares and Folklorico Juvenil Danzantes Unidos de Vacaville.

They also had plenty of shopping opportunities with vendors from Marsh Hikes (led by SLT docents); Access Adventure (horses and wagon rides); Samuel’s Ranch Sustainable (sheep); Blacksmith Shop; Thanie’s Bakery; Morning Glory Farm; Araceli Farms; Clay’s Bees; Brazelton Ranch; Rush Ranch Outfitters Shop; Tom Muehleisen photography; Laura Ann Designs jewelry’ CA Native Plant Society; Patwin Table; SLT Craft Table; Solano County Sheriff’s Posse; Solano Public Health; Park RX/Solano Moves; iMaintain; Pena Adobe Association; AmeriCorps; Solano Library; Solano Economic Development Corp.; Sustainable Solano; Jon Pannier –Astronomy Table; Solano Mobility; Our Water Our World; CA Watchable Wildlife; Solano County Animal Evacuation; Crescent Moon Center; Solano County

repeatedly invoked that plan as a threat to Social Security and Medicare.

Scott was criticized by fellow Republicans, and later claimed his plan was never intended to be applied to programs for seniors. He revised it to specifically note exemptions for Medicare and Social Security.

But the GOP keeps offering grist for the mill. The Republican Study Committee, whose members consist of about three-quarters of House Republicans, is preparing a proposal that would include new restrictions on Social Security and Medicare benefits –despite previous promises to leave cuts off the table.

That group has supported raising the eligibility age for both programs to make up for longer life expectancies. It also wants wealthier Americans to pay higher Medicare premiums and receive smaller Social Security checks.

Republicans are even attacking each other for moves they argue undermine the programs.

Former President Donald Trump, now running for his party’s

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Office of Education; Jerah Frye Native Habitat Restoration; BrightView Landscape Services, Inc.; and Solano County Office of Education.

Brazelton Ranch out of Vacaville brought Pomegranate Jelly and Peach Preserves from their farm for the first time.

They have been around since 1915 when his third great grandfather started the ranch. They offer a roadside stand for the public to purchase their jams, jellies and other goodies.

“We have worked with the Solano Land Trust to create an easement conservatorship with our property line so it can not be developed and will remain a ranch,” said owner William Brazelton.

“My great grandmother is still around,” he said. “She loves to sit at the stand and talk with people.” Solano Land Trust is working to conserve the local land so it is not destroyed by developers. For more information on all that is offered at Rush Ranch go to https:// solanolandtrust.org.

nomination in 2024, has been bashing his chief rival, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, for votes DeSantis cast as a House lawmaker. In Iowa recently, Trump called DeSantis a “disciple” of former Speaker Paul Ryan, whose budget proposals sought to cut both programs. DeSantis also made non-binding votes as a lawmaker in 2015 to raise the retirement age and tweak Medicare.

But Trump’s own administration made budget proposals that included cuts to the Social Security Disability Insurance program. Democrats also are preparing to highlight the votes of other 2024 GOP hopefuls, including former Vice President Mike Pence, Senator Tim Scott and Governor Kristi Noem’s support of Ryan’s budget in 2011. That budget plan, which never passed into law, wanted to turn Medicare into a voucher program.

Mentions of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid – which offers health care for lower-income households – are now mainstays in Biden’s speeches.

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Students from local high schools board a KC-10 Extender aircraft during the Trust Travis Static event, Friday.

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Nathaniel Clayton, president of the Lee Archer Jr. chapter of the Tuskegee Airmen, speaks to local high school students during the Trust Travis Static event, Friday.

Video calls can spark joy

That’s true for parrots, too, study finds

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Eleanor wanted to call a friend, so she scanned her contacts and touched a picture of Rosie, whom she had met last summer.

Instead of speaking on the call, the pair communicated in different ways: singing, dancing and preening.

Eleanor and Rosie were par ticipants in a new study to judge how pet parrots would respond to video calling other parrots. Researchers said that the 18 monitored birds loved seeing their feathered friends over a screen and that it provided them with a sense of community pets typically lack.

Companionship has been shown to increase people’s hap piness, and this study found it adds joy to parrots’ lives, too.

“Part of the fun thing for me, and surprising thing, was how these parrots sort of bonded together,” researcher Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas told The Washington Post. “They did want to video call each other; they did have preferences. All of this stuff just really speaks to how cognitively complex these parrots are, which . . . we don’t necessarily think of when we think of parrots.”

The study’s researchers had previously explored technology’s value to animals. Hirskyj-Douglas invented DogPhone, a ball that dogs can shake to call their owners. Another researcher, Rébecca Kleinberger, created Joy Branch, which allows zoo animals to play music in their pens. Jennifer Cunha has developed tablet games for parrots.

The trio wanted to explore how they could enrich birds’ lives through communication. Pet parrots are vulnerable to

avian ganglioneuritis, a deadly disease contagious among birds, which can make it dangerous for pets to interact with their species, researchers said.

“A lot of them only live around humans and are very closely bonded with their humans, but that can also cause problems,” said Kleinberger, a music and computer science professor at Northeastern University.

For the video-calling study, researchers selected volunteers to take care of the parrots through Parrot Kindergarten, a Florida learning program that Cunha runs. The first hurdle was to ensure that the parrots recognized other parrots through a screen. Analysts worried that

the parrots would act aggressively, but most remained calm when the video calls began.

At first, the parrots were confused – looking behind the tablet and trying to follow the other parrot through the screen. But after a few days, they appeared to recognize that the opposite parrot was in a different room, researchers said.

Caregivers trained their parrots to ring a bell to request a video call. When they chimed it, their owner delivered a tablet or smartphone and displayed pictures of the other parrots through Facebook Messenger. The parrots then used their beaks to tap the picture of a bird, and their owners started a call

with the selected parrot.

A few parrots walked off, flew away or gawked, prompting the call to end. But others seemed to enjoy their newfound social life. Parrots developed friends they frequently chose to call – and the ones who frequently dialed other parrots in turn received the most calls.

Once connected, they often mimicked each other and bonded through preening, eating, dancing, singing and showing off their toys. When one tried to hang upside down, the other did, too. Sometimes, they napped together. Some parrots saw their own species for the first time in decades.

The parrots completed

212 calls, which lasted no more than five minutes, over the initial two-week testing period.

“There’ve been papers that speculate about the animal internet,” said Hirskyj-Douglas, who eaches animal and computer interactions at the University of Glasgow. “But this is the first study that’s really looked at how animals can use the internet together.”

After their initial assessment, researchers halted routine calls to see whether the parrots would choose to continue making them. They thought the parrots would revert to their lifestyles from before the experiment. Instead, the birds often rang their bells to see their friends.

“It was almost a race of who called first,” Cunha said.

The parrots learned from each other – some foraged and flew for the first time. After concluding their calls, some would immediately ring their bell again. The parrots completed 147 requested calls over about two months in the second phase, and researchers collected more than 1,000 hours of video interactions.

The study ended in September, and the results were published last week by the Association for Computing Machinery. Many parrots have continued to call each other, researchers said.

“This is really sort of the start of something much bigger,” Hirskyj-Douglas said. “How can we support various different animals online? There’s lots of animals in society for various different reasons that lack socialization, whether they could possibly be in situations, such as shelters, et cetera, where they could benefit from things like this.”

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Researcher Jennifer Cunha’s 11-year-old parrot, Ellie, enjoys a video call from her Florida home.

Missed the northern lights in California? They’ll likely be back – here are details

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Missed seeing the northern lights last weekend?

There should be at least a couple more sighting opportunities in the next few years, according to space weather experts.

Last Sunday’s unusual northern lights were because of what’s known as a severe geomagnetic storm – the largest in the last seven years –according to UCLA space physics Professor Vassilis Angelopoulos.

For any enthusiasts hoping to catch a glimpse of the next one, there should be one or two similarly sized storms every year in the next few years, and up to several per a year that could cause northern lights visible in Northern California, Angelopoulos said.

Intense auroras are most likely to occur at lower latitudes near the equinox around March, April, September and October, around 11 p.m. local time, Angelopoulos said.

During those months, Angelopoulos suggested following the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s space weather forecasts to see the geomagnetic K-index,

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pay to $130,000 in 2030, $22,000 more than the $108,000 it would reach with the average salary increases given now.

But Freitas said it’s needed because stories like Rodriguez’s are hardly unique.

“In every corner of the state, I hear the same desperate story from our members, teachers

a measure of the strength of the storms, hit 7.

Interested watchers should try to get as far away from city lights as possible to a dark area for the best views of the northern lights. Clouds could block the lights, but on a clear night, viewers will be in for a sight to remember.

“It takes some patience, but after a few tries, you will not be disappointed,” Angelopoulos said.

The NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center is typically able to issue forecasts two days in advance, though sometimes the center is only able to give about 30 minutes advance notice, said Lt. Bryan Brasher with the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center. Northern lights occur because of a type of space weather known as coronal mass ejections, said Mark Miesch, a space scientist with the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center. Coronal mass ejections are expulsions of millions of tons of plasma, a fourth state of matter formed by superheating gas from the sun’s outer atmosphere (the corona), that then travels to 1 million mph to 2 million

who live in their cars or commute over two hours each way to their schools because they can’t afford to live in that community,” Freitas told the committee.

Jenny Jordan, executive director of TeachStart, an organization that helps substitutes gain teaching credentials to become fulltime educators, said half the program’s participants called finances the biggest barrier to them becoming a teacher. It’s particularly bad in the Bay Area, where teachers must compete with higher-paying tech-

mph to reach the Earth.

“When that big ball of plasma hits the Earth, the Earth has a magnetic bubble around it, the magnetosphere, and that squeezes the magnetic bubble all around us,” Miesch said. “That squeezing of the magnetic field around the Earth sends particles streaming in towards the north and south pole.”

Some of those particles, mostly electrons, then cause the northern lights that are visible to the human eye, Miesch said.

“The more you squeeze that magnetic bubble, the more the disruption, the lower (in latitude) it can extend,” Miesch said, explaining how the northern lights can sometimes be visible in places like California.

The sun has its own magnetic field, which is generated and gradually disappears as part of an 11-year cycle, Angelopoulos said.

The number of geomagnetic storms becomes more frequent as the cycle approaches its maximum, Miesch said – boding well for more northern lights sightings at lower latitudes in the next few years.

nology jobs.

“I see teachers who drive Uber and the weekends just to make ends meet,” Rodri guez said, “and teachers sharing an apartment with four other people just to make rent.”

The bill would set payraise targets for the state to fund and districts to reach over seven years. . But it doesn’t appropriate the funds automatically or punish districts if the goals aren’t met.

This week Time Bandits kick off Summer Music Series

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FAIRFIELD — The city kicks off its Summer Music Series on May 12 with the Time Bandits performing on the county greens, 600 Texas St.

It continues every other Friday,

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Noon Sunday 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.marina loungesuisun.com.

8 p.m. Friday Cinco De Mayo Marina Lounge, 700 Main St., Suite 106. www.marina loungesuisun.com.

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3 p.m. Sunday

‘The Wonder of Elvis starring Donny Edwards’ Vacaville Performing Arts Theatre, 1010 Ulatis Drive. https://vpat.net.

5 p.m. Thursday Town Square Thursdays: Val Starr 11 Town Square Place. www.facebook.com/ vacavilleoperahouse.

10 a.m. and 7 p.m. Friday; 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday Vacaville Ballet Company: ‘Wizard of Oz’ Vacaville Performing Arts Theatre, 1010 Ulatis Drive. https://vpat.net.

7 p.m. Friday The Viva Santana Journey Downtown Theatre, 300 Main St. https://events. journeydowntown venue.com.

11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday Kentucky Derby Day Journey Downtown Theatre, 300 Main St. https://events. journeydowntown venue.com.

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2:30 p.m. Sunday

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

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.

8:30 p.m. Saturday Sympathy for the Devil

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

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Vallejo

4 p.m. Sunday Vallejo Choral Society

– Bach: St. Matthew Passion Empress Theatre, 330 Virginia St. www. empresstheatre.org.

1 p.m. Saturday Pete Escovedo Retirement Tour:

Featuring Juan and Peter Michael Escovedo Vino Godfather Winery, 1005 Walnut Ave. www. vinogodfather.com.

6 to 9 p.m., through Sept. 8 at different locations in the city.

The lineup is:

n May 26: Los Cochinos, Dover Park, 800 E. Travis Blvd.

n June 9: Hey Jude, county greens.

n June 23: Papa Joe and the New Deal, Ridgeview Park,

4948 Silver Creek Road.

n July 14: DW Edwards & Lighting Up the Soul, county greens.

n July 28; Rendishun, Woodcreek Park, 1470 Astoria Drive.

n Aug. 11: Project 4: county greens.

n Aug. 25: LJ Bryant &

Friends, Laureal Creek Park, 2986 Gulf Drive.

n Sept. 8: Rosalin Pugh, county greens.

Admission is free. Vendors, and food are offered.

For more details, visit https:// www.fairfield.ca.gov/our-city/ fairfield-summer-music-series.

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VALLEJO — Argh.

The Northern California Pirate Festival will not happen in 2023.

Organizers announced it on Facebook. The Marina Green has been home to the festival for almost 15 years, on Father’s Day weekend.

“The venue has worked ‘well enough’ for the festival, but over the years several issues have come up and we feel the site is no longer tenable,” the post read.

“The park is hard to secure and requires far more security than any event should have to pay for. The Mare Island channel has gotten shallower and is very difficult to have any kind of a “ship presence.”

The post cited other issues, including

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VACAVILLE — A quartet of local musicians will release its first EP on Wednesday. No Time For Tomorrow, a crew of friends, some going back to middle school, have titled their debut “Memories.”

The band includes Jacob Preston, Nic Shallock, David Cloutier and Keaton Stout. Preston and Stout met in middle school jazz band at Golden West. Shallock and Cloutier were discovered when all four were in the music program at Vanden High School.

finding a new venue.

“We still DID have hopes to get it all together and hold the festival this year ... but have still not had any luck with finding a new location that would provide everything it needs to succeed,” the post read.

It went on to share that on March 17, Ray Amsbury, the driving force behind the event, died unexpectedly.

“Many years ago, we were sitting around lamenting that we had no pirate festival anywhere near us ... and it was Ray who exclaimed, “Why don’t WE make one?” the post said.

The post called Amsbury the kindest pirate, with a Santa-like twinkle in his eye, the warmest smile and one who always made time to talk to everyone that ever walked into his booth.

“Already, we had been having trouble finding a new site in time to get the festival all together for this year, and this was the last straw,” the post said.

“We are taking time to recover from this terrible loss, and soon we are going to resume our hunt for a new venue for the festival. Please believe that we understand this is a disappointment to all our wonderful friends who were looking forward to the festival returning this year. But it is our sincere hope that during this time we will find a new and better site and the festival will return even stronger than before.”

In a February Facebook post organizers said the event would be returning this year.

Learn more at www.facebook.com/ norcalpiratefest.

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Andrew Elder dresses up as Commodore Rusty Blood during the Northern California Pirate Festival in Vallejo, June 15, 2019.

Courtesy photo No Time For Tomorrow includes Jacob Preston, Nic Shallock, David Cloutier and Keaton Stout. See First, Page B3

Brainwash film festival welcomes entries

OAKLAND — The Brainwash Drive-In, Bike-In, Walk-In movie festival is calling for entries.

The movies shown at the festival are a mix of original humor, experimental art movies, innovative animation and short live-action stories and features.

The event got underway in 1995 and has been featured in national publications.

The movies are screened at a parking lot in Oakland where festival goers experience a traditional drive-in with FM sound as well as two big amps.

For more details, visit http://www.brainwashm. com/2023-call-for-entries.

Kim Kardashian catching shade from LuPone

When it comes to Kim Kardashian’s transition to acting, Sharon Stone and Patti LuPone definitely give a damn.

On Sunday’s episode of “Watch What Happens Live,” LuPone was asked whether she cared about various pop culture news items during a segment called “Do! They! Give a Damn!?”

The theater legend was blase about Taylor Swift’s split from Joe Alwyn and didn’t bat an eye upon hearing that Barbra Streisand’s memoir is more than 1,000 pages. But when host Andy Cohen asked LuPone, who starred as cabaret singer Kathy Pizazz in Season 11 of “American Horror Story,” if she gave a damn that Kim K. would be acting in Season 12 of “AHS,” LuPone sang a different tune.

“Yes. I. Do,” LuPone growled through clenched teeth.

“You don’t like it, do you?” Cohen said, egging on the Tony winner.

“No. I. Don’t,” LuPone said just as emphatically.

According to LuPone, the reality television megastar and second eldest of the Kardashian clan is taking a role away from a seasoned actor.

— Staff, wire reports

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By 2020, the four began playing together as a band, and performed at talent shows and school rallies.

Covid-19 put a damper on their live shows. “We did our best to continue writing and rehearsing during my senior year,” Stout shared in an email. Shallock graduated in 2020. Preston and Stout in 2021 and Cloutier this spring.

“Releasing this foursong EP has been a goal of ours for a very long time,” Stout wrote in the email.

“This project has been a long time in the making, with some writing taking place before I even graduated. The recording process has extended over the last year, as we did the bulk of the instrumental last summer when I moved back to Solano County from college.”

Stout attends Azusa Pacific University studying commercial music.

The mixing and mastering was done with an audio engineer friend, Hunter Sumner (known as Summi professionally) from Vacaville.

It was recorded in a few different places. Guitars and electronic instruments were done in a bedroom studio. Drums were recorded at Valley Church in Vacaville.

The vocals were done mostly in a studio space in Los Angeles.

“Memories can be found on major streaming services such as Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music. Learn more about the band at @notime4tomorrow on Instagram,” Stout wrote.

The songs are largely a collaborative effort.

“I’ll usually bring an idea to the guys and we’ll work out a musical arrangement,” Stout wrote. “I write most of the lyrics, and the content has been taken from experiences I’ve had finishing high school, moving away

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of our fair,” she said, in a press release.

There will be a sensory wheel, books, soothing lights, sound and more.

The fair has Wait Cards in both Spanish and English. These cards

The first song on the EP was co-written with Vacaville’s Steven Frazier. He is featured on the track with an electric guitar solo.

Stout, 19, has been a musician for most of his life. He is the band’s lead singer, and plays the trumpet, guitar and keys.

“Growing up in a musical family has been wonderful because it has given me the support to pursue what I love to do,” he wrote in the email.

“Many times, pursuing a career in the music industry can be seen as challenging, but my family has always encouraged me to pursue my passion, and see what God has for my life. I have come from a family of jazz, classical, and contemporary musicians and I love being able to incorporate all of those styles into the music I make!”

Cloutier, 18, started playing drums in middle school. He hopes to attend UC Davis in the fall and major in biochemical engineering.

Shallock, 21, is a computer science major at Sacramento State as well as a stock supervisor at the North Face outlet in Vacaville. He has played the piano since he was about 6 and grew to love making music. He plays piano and bass.

Preston, 19, is a student at San Jose State University majoring in chemical engineering. He has been a musician since he was very young, and is the lead guitarist in the band. When he is not studying or with his family, he is playing music or jamming out to classic rock.

The band will publish gigs on its Instagram. “We will have official dates out on our social media soon, as we are still figuring out the performance schedule,” Stout wrote.

“The summers are a great time for us because we are all home and off from school! We are also very open to taking on new performance opportunities in the area.”

assist when waiting in line. There is also a visual schedule, which is a tool to help plan you fair visit with picture, this too is in Spanish and English. The cards are available online to print in advance at https://dixonmayfair.com/ sensory-station.

For information about volunteering at the sensory station, send an email to office@dixonmayfair.com.

Tony Wade

DAILY REPUBLIC CORRESPONDENT

Benicia Theatre Group’s current production, “Boeing Boeing,” guided by longtime successful director Clinton Vidal, is the 20th of their shows that I have reviewed going back to my first, the melodrama “Little Nell” in 2006. I always enjoy going to their spacious yet cozy upstairs playhouse in a historic hall that was built when Woodrow Wilson was president.

I so appreciate how the Benicia Theatre Group makes me feel special as a reviewer even though I’m just some guy from Fairfield. They are always so friendly and welcoming and have a reserved table and a packet with information for me. I like climbing their pleasantly musty staircase and love the trappings of the olden days there, like the swinging Old West saloon-type doors that lead to the restrooms.

The troupe has faced some serious challenges in the past 10 years or so. A treasurer embezzled thousands of dollars from them, tragically their longtime president/director Dan Clark died in 2019 and then, of course, the pandemic hit. The enduring principle that “the show must go on” has sustained them through the obstacles, and they have continued to add to the company’s 50-year-plus legacy.

“Boeing Boeing” was

MOVIE Review

Benicia Theatre Group presents ‘Boeing Boeing’

8 p.m. May 5-6; May 12-13

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written by French playwright Marc Camoletti and the English-language version was first staged in London in 1962. In 1965, it was adapted into a motion picture starring Tony Curtis and Jerry Lewis. It is basically about a playboy named Bernard Lawrence who is an American architect living in Paris. He juggles three fiancées who are stewardesses (it’s set in the 1960s) who are assigned to international routes on nonintersecting flight schedules. He successfully manages to meet them individually without them knowing about the others by sticking to a tried-and-true flight schedule.

Within seconds of learning the plot, you know exactly what’s going to happen. The thing is, usually hilarity ensues. Only in this case it kinda didn’t. There were definitely funny parts to the story, and all of the performers brought the goods to their respective roles, but the story itself just fell short.

While it is not even in the same galaxy as tough as the aforementioned serious challenges that BTG faced, a hurdle for this show was that a cast member dropped out very close to when they were to open. Patrick Kenney stepped in and during the opening night performance he was still “on book,” meaning that he used a small script on stage to aid him. I have enjoyed Kenney’s performances in past shows there, including “Having a Wonderful Time Wish You Were Her” and “Born Yesterday,” and he deserves special kudos for stepping into a tricky situation and delivering.

Melaney Baker, another familiar face from past shows, was brilliant as Berthe, the sassy, overworked and exasperated housekeeper. Her timing, delivery and facial expressions were absolutely flawless.

I enjoyed Joshua Roberts’ performance back in February at Bay Area Stage’s production of “The Games Afoot” and his frenzied portrayal of Bernard’s old friend Robert in this show was on point.

Natasha Harris was another familiar face and as Gretchen she was forceful, farcical and funny. Kelsey Bye as Gabriella and Helen Nolan as Gloria were two newbies to the company and they both brought verve, spunk and comedic delivery to their roles.

The performances of the cast were the best

thing about the show. I know it’s a farce and the plot is not meant to be dissected or work on deeper levels than just eliciting belly laughs, but that was the rub. Huge plot holes can be obliterated by laughter and simultaneously mute that part of the brain that wants to say, “Waitaminute, how come …?”

Like everyone, I go to a play to be entertained and I want to love every show. When I don’t love it, I take no pleasure in reporting that. In fact, I kind of dread it because I know that so many people have labored hard to make the magic of theater take place for the audience.

That said, again, I’m just some guy from Fairfield. I always suggest folks support live local theater and make up their own minds. What might not make one person laugh that hard may be hilarious to someone else.

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. Wade is also the author of The History Press books “Growing Up In Fairfield, California,” “Lost Restaurants of Fairfield, California,” the upcoming book “Armijo High School: Fairfield, California” and hosts the Channel 26 government access TV show “Local Legends.”

Vacaville looking for consultant to develop arts and culture master plan

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VACAVILLE — The city of Vacaville is seeking proposals from qualified consultants with experience in cultural planning to develop the city’s first Arts and Culture Master Plan. The goal is to create a common vision for the role that arts and culture should play in the city.

The city wishes to identify the foundational pieces of that vision that will guide policy and programming to enhance the quality of life for Vacaville residents, businesses and visitors, said a press release.

A community-wide, multilingual public-participation process will be an essential component to creating the Arts and Culture Master Plan, the release said.

The selected consultant team will reference the city’s Parks and Recreation Master Plan, Downtown Specific Plan, and draft Art in Public Places Policy to expand public art throughout the city of Vacaville. Project tasks will

include but are not limited to organizing and implementing a community engagement campaign; marketing the recently updated asset inventory; mapping, collecting and analyzing accumulated data and historically relevant information; identifying trends and opportunities; and producing the final report with proposed procedural, policy and project recommendations.

Proposals, including

qualifications, must be submitted in accordance with the requirements described within the official Request for Proposals by 2 p.m. May 18.

Interested applicants can visit cityofvacaville.gov/rfp for additional information.

For additional information, contact Recreation Manager Melody Ocampo at 707-449-5657 or melody.ocampo@cityof vacaville.com.

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The cast of Benicia Theatre’s production of “Boeing, Boeing.”

CALMATTERS COMMENTARY

How proposed changes to state’s ballot measures could affect results

When Major League Baseball opened its 2023 season this month, players and managers had to contend with a raft of new rules, including time limits on pitchers and batters and limits on bunching infielders on one side of the diamond. Whether the new rules speed up the games, as intended, is still uncertain, but it is certain that they will affect outcomes to some unknown extent. Changing the rules of any game changes outcomes, and what’s true in sports is also true of politics.

The most obvious example of how changing rules affects outcomes is redistricting – the redrawing of legislative and congressional districts after each decennial census. Republicans hold a majority in Congress largely because GOP-controlled state legislatures redrew congressional districts to give the party more opportunities to win seats. For decades, Democrats have done the same thing when they had the chance.

This year’s session of the California Legislature includes three major efforts to change rules governing ballot measures, all of which could affect outcomes.

One of them, Senate Bill 858 – and a companion measure, Senate Constitutional Amendment 3 – is the latest of many attempts to remove the attorney general’s authority to write the official titles for statewide ballot measures. Introduced by Sen. Roger Niello, a Republican from the Sacramento suburbs, the two measures would give the task to the Legislature’s budget analyst, who already provides the fiscal analysis of proposed measures.

It’s a change that should be made because recent attorneys general, all Democrats, have blatantly skewed official titles, with positive slants for liberal measures such as tax increases and negative ones for proposals of conservative groups. Judges have occasionally intervened in extreme cases, but generally defer to the attorney general.

Not surprisingly, those on the left want to maintain the status quo so Niello’s twobill package is likely to join other proposed reforms in the legislative trash pile.

The other two efforts to change the rules governing ballot measures come from Democrats and thus are more likely to be enacted.

One, by Sen. Scott Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat, would undo two genuine ballot measure reforms that the Legislature passed and former Gov. Jerry Brown signed less than a decade ago. They require local tax and bond ballot measures to clearly state their financial impacts in the 75-word summaries that appear on the ballot and prohibit authorities from using summaries to extol the proposals’ virtues.

Local government officials hate the reforms because giving voters unvarnished facts might make them less likely to pass such measures. Wiener’s Senate Bill 532 would shift the financial data to the voters’ pamphlet, thus freeing officials to once again use ballot summaries for propaganda.

Wiener claims the bill would “improve ballot measure transparency” but it would have exactly the opposite effect, burying the facts and thus making it easier to pass tax and bond proposals – which, of course, is the intended result.

Finally, there’s Assembly Bill 421, carried by Assemblyman Isaac Bryan, D-Culver City, at the behest of unions and other liberal organizations.

As the Legislature turned to the left in recent years and enacted many new business regulations, those impacted by the new laws have increasingly turned to the ballot to thwart them. AB 421 is clearly aimed at making it much more difficult – or even impossible – for business groups to overturn laws via ballot measures, either referenda or initiatives, by imposing very tight new rules on qualifying them for the ballot.

AB 421 is likely to win legislative approval, but its ultimate fate is in doubt. Both Gov. Gavin Newsom and his predecessor vetoed similar proposals in the past.

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

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Cartoon uses lie as humor

The first thing I read every day is the funnies. And this is the first time I have ever seen a comic that was so incorrect, so hateful and so divisive, that I felt compelled to write.

In the Sunday, April 23 paper, the cartoon Candorville stated that “cops could take your cash, your bank account, your business, your house, etc.” under the asset forfeiture law.”

Asset forfeiture laws allow the government to seize (and sometimes keep) your property when there is evidence that the property was either used in the commission of a crime or obtained by way of criminal activity.

Many asset forfeitures take place in cases involving drug crimes, and cases involving organized crimes.

Before the government can legally forfeit property in these cases, you typically have to be convicted of a crime related to the property, and the government has to comply with certain procedural rules.

The cartoon then goes on to have one of the characters ask how he could become a cop, as he too wanted to take people’s stuff as well as if the cops got to keep all the loot they took.

I am tired of the police being demonized and criminals being portrayed as victims. I also find such

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cartoons hateful to law enforcement and divisive to the community. That it is based on a lie makes it even more shameful.

It’s just a cartoon, some people would say. But this cartoon makes a social statement and in this case, I didn’t find it funny at all.

Cathy Ritch Fairfield

FSUSD superintendent needs to resign

As a taxpaying citizen living in Fairfield, I deeply care about the quality of our schools in our community. Our schools educate our future and it is crucial that they produce college- and career-ready students who are prepared to succeed. Our local students in Fairfield-Suisun have so much potential to do great things and make a positive impact on those around them. That is why I am very disappointed that the current superintendent of Fairfield-Suisun schools is not focused on improving the educational services that are key to their success but instead focusing on frivolous, petty attacks on individuals that try to make positive change.

In the past two years, Superintendent Corey supported dedicating

significant district time, resources and dollars to censuring two separate board members because they held her accountable and asked tough questions on the state of our schools. She also used her position and her Friday letters to spew hate toward multiple members of the community. While this is happening, FSUSD schools are in a dismal state due to Kris Corey’s lack of leadership.

The California Department of Education, through its online dashboard, ranks FSUSD schools as very high for chronic absentism, high for suspensions, 29 points below standard for English Language Arts, and 68 points below standard in math. Superintendent Corey has done nothing to address any of these pressing issues and instead focuses on harassing, bullying and attacking teachers, staff, members of the governing board and even FSUSD students! She does this by politicizing the district to go after anyone who has any idea that is different from hers.

The board members and community must hold Superintendent Kris Corey accountable for her increasingly erratic and troubling behavior. Something must be done to stop the madness.

Laura Hernandez Fairfield

Gavin Newsom’s failure to address homelessness would haunt a 2024 bid

New Hampshire’s Republican governor, Chris Sununu, said he believes that President Biden will not be on the ballot in 2024. “I don’t think Biden’s going to be the nominee,” Sununu told me Wednesday, the day after Biden officially announced his reelection bid. “I don’t think it’s going to happen for a variety of reasons. He’s going to get out.”

Hugh Hewitt

Or at least Sununu thinks it’s a 50-50 proposition, saying there’s a “25% chance it’s a health reason and he bows out,” and a 25% chance that Biden eventually drops out under a challenge from Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom, who seems to be itching to get into the race, despite public declarations to the contrary.

The challenge could very well be launched in New Hampshire, Sununu said, where state Democrats intend to defy the national party and still hold their traditional first-in-thenation primary.

Sununu said: “Gavin just says, ‘The heck with you, I’m coming to New Hampshire, because Biden’s not going to be here. I’m going to get on the ground. I’m going to be a viable candidate on day one. I’m going to charge, and 75% of America doesn’t want Biden to run again. Most Democrats don’t want Biden to run again.’

So the door is just too big and too wide open.”

Assume Sununu is right, and Newsom jumps into the 2024 race, and even lands the nomination. How would he fare in the general election? It is hard to see how he would present a better case than any other Democrat, because on the four domestic issue-drivers of this coming election – the open border, skyrocketing crime, the decline in public education and soaring homelessness –Newsom has failed to deliver anything remotely resembling a solution to his state’s woes.

It is arguable that Newsom can duck responsibility for the first three on that list, blaming failure at the local and federal levels. But on the

fourth, homelessness, he owns the bad-and-gettingworse news out of California. Because he took the lead. Yet failed to lead.

“Since 2020, California’s overall homeless population has increased about 6%, compared to just 0.4% in the rest of the country,” reports the Public Policy Institute of California. Homelessness refers to anyone without a fixed, physical address, who might live in an emergency shelter or transitory housing, or is “unsheltered,” living in places not meant for habitation – on sidewalks, in cars or parks. The PPIC report, based on federal data, found that more than 115,000 people in California in 2022 were unsheltered – that accounts for half of all the unsheltered people in the entire country. Los Angeles, city and county, is the epicenter of the state’s tragedy. U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter has been presiding over longrunning litigation attempting to force all parties in the proceeding toward something resembling progress. It isn’t working. The scale of Los Angeles’s disaster is hard to fathom. The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority’s 2022 count found nearly 42,000 unsheltered people in the city, up 1.7% from 2020. Los Angeles County had more than 69,000 homeless people, an increase of 4.1% in two years.

Carter, who served in the Marine Corps, is a tough, no-nonsense judge. Ever since a federal lawsuit was filed in 2020 by a group of residents and business owners trying to force Los Angeles city and county to address the homelessness crisis, Carter had been trying to wrestle myriad alphabet agencies and billions of budget dollars into something like a serious plan of action. Two years ago, after Carter tried to take control of the entire mess of bureaucratic meltdowns and vast waste of money amid an ocean of suffering, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the effort as exceeding Carter’s authority. So

the litigation continued, and the city and county proposed a settlement last week. Newsom and his team were not in the courtroom and have stayed far away from settlement talks, even to mediate. This, despite the Golden State’s leader announcing in March that “we are using every tool in our toolbox” to tackle homelessness.

Carter rejected the proposed deal for many reasons, beginning with the defendants’ refusal to provide the court with authority to monitor their attempts to address the disaster. “You give me absolutely no oversight and no enforcement,” Carter said. And he was just warming up, ticking off the ways the offer fell short. “We keep doing the kind of bare minimum along the way,” Carter said, adding dryly, “And then we have a press conference.”

Newsom, too, likes holding news conferences about addressing the homeless crisis. That’s less heavy lifting than trying to help the litigation along toward a workable settlement or even trying to force the city and county to settle. The governor isn’t a party to the suit, but he does have vast emergency powers, which are also in that proverbial toolbox, dusty and unused.

Newsom could easily call Carter and ask to help make a deal among the city, the county, the plaintiffs and other involved parties. Newsom could, in short, help Carter lead Los Angeles to the start of the beginning of a solution and not stay on the sidelines.

If Newsom jumps into the Democratic primaries, he will be hammered with questions like this: How can you have the temerity to offer yourself as a solution for this country when you failed abjectly to address an unprecedented and avoidable disaster in your own state?

Everyone in California would look forward to his answer.

Hugh Hewitt is a nationally syndicated radio host on the Salem Radio Network. He is also a professor at Chapman University School of Law, where he has taught constitutional law since 1996.

Dan Walters

Relationship of different religions work if rooted in love

Dear Annie: I love my boyfriend, but I am Catholic and he is Jewish. We have been dating for four years. My biological clock is ticking, as I am turning 29 next month. My boyfriend is not very religious, but I am a devout Catholic. I go to Mass every Sunday and observe all the religious Holy Days of Obligation.

My boyfriend said he will not convert to Catholicism but is OK with having the kids be raised Catholic. Do you think the marriage will work?

I am torn, but at this point, I cannot start over and date someone new. Please help. — Feeling Torn Dear Torn: Love conquers all – and that certainly includes different religions. It sounds like your boyfriend is being very reasonable with you, especially saying the kids will be raised Catholic. Marriages of different religions work all the time, and there are plenty of divorces in marriages of the same religion. The most important pillars of a relationship

Horoscopes

by Holiday Mathis

Today’s birthday

An exploratory year spools out before you, rewarding your curious experiments with bright solutions, fun anecdotes and much-deserved social distinction. More highlights: A savvy investment and funds applied to a life-changing cause. Your spiritual practice will deepen. You’ll feel your life force entwining with the energies of others in a divine weave. Libra and Scorpio adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 10, 4, 14, 28 and 16.

ARIES (March 21-April 19). Even though you’re often proactively choosing your route, you don’t mind it at all when life gives you the next thing to do. This time, it’s so obvious, it’s wrapped and bowed like a gift.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You’ll be inclined toward selfless action; even so, it benefits everyone if you figure out what’s in it for you. Otherwise, it will be difficult to stay motivated. Set yourself up to feel good and comfortable as you work.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Conflict is not always negative, and confrontation isn’t always something to avoid. You won’t take on every clash that comes up, but neither will you hide from what could be an opportunity for better understanding.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). You’re inclined to accommodate others – lovely, unless you’re among the greedy. You can be generous and still stay on alert to keep from selling yourself short. Remember: You need you more than you need them.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Do the unpleasant thing first and the general work you were procrastinating becomes suddenly appealing enough to get into. It’s little tricks like this that add up to eventually make you a super achiever.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). True or false can be impossible to determine. Instead, make your best guess about what might be helpful, then decide to believe it. Hold to hope. What you change today will open up something three months down the road.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). No need for a coach or program now because you have everything inside you. You’ll get in touch with these resources in a moment of silence. Solitude has healing properties beyond what anything involving other people can offer.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You’re usually inclined to make a plan first, but if you don’t have one yet, don’t let that stop you from acting. Your instincts are solid. Some of the best things to happen to you will come from a spontaneous impulse.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Most people will not be able to keep up with your energy level now. They may look like they understand you, but this could be an act. Slow down and give the other person a chance to follow you.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).

You’ll field unexpected opportunities. It won’t be necessary to decide now. Keep thinking of your options. Tonight, you’ll apply your talents to turning an ordinary event into something remarkable.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Change may not hurt you physically, but your mind may recoil anyway, as though doing things differently will cause you pain. Luckily, wanting a result enough emboldens you with the quiet focus needed to calm your thoughts.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). The best influences won’t be too similar to you. You’ll learn more from those with diverse backgrounds and expertise.

Friendship is at its most exciting when it presents an opportunity to do something beyond your normal scope.

CELEBRITY PROFILES: Taurean humor is sharp and dry. Case in point: Johnny Galecki, who plays Dr. Leonard Hofstadter, beloved brainiac of “The Big Bang Theory.” Those whose Christmas tradition includes the 1989 Griswold family classic film “Christmas Vacation” also know Galecki as young Rusty Griswold. Galecki recently produced the drama “Catching Babies” about the lives of OB/GYNs.

Write Holiday Mathis at HolidayMathis.com.

are honest and open communication, along with a mutual respect for your partner’s differences and similarities.

You didn’t say, but I wonder if the real reason you are feeling torn might be that you are still waiting for a proposal after four years. Regardless, you should see yourself as very young at 29, which you are. You have a whole lifetime of happiness ahead of you, whether it is with your boyfriend or someone else. Good luck!

Dear Annie: I would also like to weigh in on the conversation about dumping cats. We

live out in the country and have had numerous cats dropped out here. Despite people soothing their conscience by telling themselves that the cat can “fend for itself,” the truth is that they can’t. This is something that must be learned from the parent; it is not a natural instinct. If the mother cat didn’t teach them to hunt, kill, seek shelter and avoid predators, they will not survive in the wild.

I have fixed abandoned cats at my own expense, given them shelter and fed them, as I will not let an animal starve. I think I speak for most country dwellers when I say we are all tired

of you dumping your poor unwanted animals out here to die, or for us to take care of. Lots of communities do have spay and neuter programs, and there are rescues out there as well. I hope people will explore all possibilities instead of abandoning their defenseless pets. — Country Dweller

Dear Country Dweller: Thank you for your letter. I hope it encourages others to spay and neuter their cats. Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@ creators.com.

2023 National Stroke Awareness Month: 40 SECONDS

Phoebe Wong FOR THE DAILY REPUBLIC

In 40 seconds, we can take a walk, scroll through our phones, take a quick munch on a small snack and much more. But 40 seconds is not just any random unit of time. Every 40 seconds, someone in the United States has a stroke.

National Stroke Awareness Month is observed annually every May to raise awareness about the risk factors and symptoms of a stroke. Every year in the United States, more than 795,000 Americans have a stroke, making stroke the second most common cause of death worldwide. The leading risk factors for having a stroke in America are high blood pressure or cholesterol; smoking; obesity; and/or diabetes. In fact, Solano County had four times more hospitalizations for stroke than the neighboring counties of Yolo, Napa and Marin in 2021.

Data from the California Department of Public Health indicate that certain racial and ethnic minority groups are disproportionately affected by stroke. Black/African American persons are nearly two times more likely than White persons to have a stroke. Solano Public Health is committed to addressing these

health disparities with a communitybased approach. One element of this approach is educating the community about the risks and signs of stroke with culturally appropriate patient materials in multiple languages.

There are two main types of stroke: ischemic stroke and hemorrhagic stroke, both of which involve poor flow of blood to the brain. An ischemic stroke occurs when a blood clot blocks the blood flow in an artery within the brain. A hemorrhagic stroke occurs when a blood vessel bursts within the brain, resulting in brain cells dying. If left untreated, a stroke can lead to many health complications such as paralysis, numbness, difficulty thinking, disabilities and even death.

Four of five strokes (80%) are preventable through lifestyle changes and knowing the signs of having a stroke. It is critical to recognize and diagnose a stroke within three hours of when symptoms first appear. Anyone, including children, can have a stroke at any time; however, those more likely to have a stroke include: individuals over the age of 55, women of all ages, people who are Black, Hispanic, American Indian and Native Alaskan, and individuals with unhealthy habits. The FAST acronym is an easy way to remember the common signs of stroke:

F = Face drooping. Ask the person to smile. Does one side droop?

A = Arm weakness. Ask the person to raise both arms. Does one arm drift downward?

S = Speech difficulty. Ask the person to repeat a simple sentence. Are the words slurred?

T = Time to call 9-1-1. If any of the above symptoms are present, call 9-1-1 immediately.

Life after a stroke may be challenging, and getting emergency care, receiving rehabilitation services to relearn skills, and making lifestyle changes can help reduce the effects of a stroke. It is important to maintain a healthy diet, be physically active and reduce unhealthy habits such as smoking and drinking to decrease the risk of having a stroke.

FAST is a quick easy way to recognize and respond to someone experiencing a stroke and it takes less than 40 seconds to use the tool. For more information, please visit https:// www.cdc.gov/stroke for steps you can take to prevent a stroke.

Phoebe Wong is a California Pathways into Public Health student intern from Solano Public Health, Emergency Services, Preparedness, Immunization & Communicable Disease (EPIC) Bureau.

Annie Lane

Dear Annie

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One side of the face drooping is one of the signs of someone is having a stroke.

Vanden HIgh School’s Kayden Omoso, right, throws the ball to first base after forcing out Rodriguez’s Jace Parkinson

at second base during the baseball game at Rodriguez in Fairfield, Friday.

Vanden holds off Rodriguez 5-4, denies Mustangs’ hope for title

FAIRFIELD — A “muchneeded win” for Ryan Adams and his Vanden High School baseball team meant disappointment for James Maldonado and Rodriguez Friday afternoon.

Visiting Vanden held off Rodriguez 5-4 Friday in the Monticello Empire League finale. Both teams are headed to the Sac-Joaquin Section playoffs beginning May 9, but the game result means the Mustangs will not earn a piece of the MEL banner.

Vacaville won its league finale over rival Will C. Wood 10-0 Friday and took the title outright by one game over Rodriguez. The Mustangs move to 15-8 overall and close the

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MEL season 11-4. Vanden and Armijo are earned playoff berths.

“That wasn’t the way we planned it,” Maldonado said. “They flat-out beat us. They were better than us from the first inning through the seventh inning. We just didn’t play well enough to win it.”

Vanden had a 5-0 lead heading into the bottom of the fifth inning. That’s when Rodriguez scored four in the bottom half of the inning to close the gap.

But the Mustangs could get no more as Brayden Bruno worked in relief on the mound for the Vikings. Bruno retired six straight batters, striking out a batter in the seventh and getting two others to pop up to catcher Cody Buckley.

“It’s a credit to our guys to come

NorCal series set for decisive Game 7 in Sacramento

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SAN FRANCISCO —

The Warriors cut the deficit to five with under four minutes to go in the third quarter, only to see the Sacramento Kings respond with back-toback 3-pointers. Steph Curry then scored six points in just over a minute in the fourth quarter, right before the Kings responded with a 9-3 run.

The Kings’ overall postseason résumé is not nearly as decorated as their Northern California neighbors, but they looked like the more poised and experienced team Friday in a 118-99 win over the Warriors in Game 6 of their first-round series at Chase Center.

Friday with 26 points. “From start to finish, I feel like this is probably the best game that we’ve played this year.”

That’s cause for concern for the Warriors, who do not have much time to adjust before entering Golden 1 Center’s hostile environment.

The Kings look like they’ve rediscovered their footing after three straight losses.

out and play like they did,” said Adams, whose team had lost five straight league games. “They know how tough it is to win in our league. The knew what was at stake. It’s rewarding for our guys to get that feeling back, that sense of winning.”

Alex Maushart delivered a triple in the first inning for Vanden and Buckley followed with an RBI single. The Vikings scored three times in the third on sacrifice flies from Aidan Robles and Austin Hammerschmidt, along with an RBI single by Jovan Ochoa. The final run came in the fifth when Dalen Shipp drew a bases-loaded walk.

Kyle Sander had an RBI double for Rodriguez in the bottom of the fifth. Kaden Wilde collected an RBI

Rodriguez wins tennis title, while Vacaville prevails in golf, baseball

M att Miller

MMILLER@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET

FAIRFIELD — The Rodriguez High School boys tennis team dominated the competition Thursday and Friday during the Monticello Empire League singles and doubles finals at Fairfield.

Evan Wadsworth, the league’s most valuable player and a senior at Early College, defeated teammate Josh Williams 6-0, 6-0 for the singles championship. It was Wadsworth’s third title in a row. Williams, a freshman at Early College, earned the runner-up finish.

Many Early College High School athletes compete with Rodriguez.

Danton Hsueh, an Early College sophomore, and Brandon Wei a Rodriguez sophomore, won the doubles title 6-3,

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6-3 over Rodriguez junior

Theo Keyser and Rodriguez senior Justin Wei. It was the second title in a row for Brandon Wei.

The third Rodriguez doubles team of senior Patrick Reilly and junior

Drake Bennet lost to the No. 4 seed from Vacaville in Justin Thomas and Trenton Hill in three sets, 6-2, 5-7, 7-10.

“I was told it is the first time that six players from the same school

will represent our league for individual sections at Johnson Ranch in Roseville next week,” Rodriguez head coach Sebastian Remy said in an email.

The Sac-Joaquin Section team tournament begins May 4. The section individual tournament is May 15-16 in Roseville with those six Mustangs headed to competition.

Boys Golf

The Vacaville boys golf team won its 12th consecutive MEL banner Thursday. The Bulldogs won the final league tournament of the season by 20 strokes at Paradise Valley.

Vacaville shot a team score of 447 for 18 holes and the top five

Golden State fell behind in the second quarter and never fully recovered, setting up a do-or-die Game 7 against a younger – and possibly hungrier – Kings team Sunday in Sacramento.

“I feel like we were in control basically the entire game tonight,” said Kings guard De’Aaron Fox, who has a fractured index finger but looked good

“We expect it’s going to be electric, similar to the Game 1 type atmosphere from both sides,” said Kevin Huerter, who had a series-high 12 points. “I think both fanbases will represent well. It’s a huge game obviously. Win or go home.”

Here are some reasons why the Warriors might be in trouble, as they look to avoid losing their first Western Conference playoff series in nine years.

Padres outlast Giants 16-11 in Mexico City

k evin aCee THE SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE

MEXICO CITY — Fernando Tatis Jr. had hardly finished posing for a Polaroid with teammates in the Padres’ dugout while wearing a sombrero after his home run in the fifth inning when he bounded back on the field, celebrating as Manny Machado rounded the bases.

Same as Tatis had just done. Same as the Padres and Giants would do nine other times Saturday.

Machado’s second home run, a two-run shot in the seventh inning, delivered the deciding runs even as the Padres piled on afterward en route to a 16-11 victory.

The first regular-season MLB game ever played in Mexico was held in what is considered Latin America’s finest ballpark. Estadio Alfredo Harp Helu, built in 2019, was financed and named after a man who owns a chunk of the Padres. It had every one of its seats (and more) filled on a beautiful afternoon that turned into evening in this nation’s capital.

And los Padres de San Diego y los Gigantes de San Francisco put on quite the show for the 19,611 enthusiastic attendees, along with the cheerleaders and mariachis.

And the altitude.

There were at one point between the third and fourth innings six home runs (three by each team) hit in a span of 23 batters. After nine batters came and went without hitting a ball over the wall, Tatis and Machado did so. A 15-batter drought ensued, then came three homers in a span of seven batters.

The 11 home runs – by an MLB-record 10 different players – were just the tip of the madness. Both teams went back-to-back twice. The Padres did it in successive innings. There were five lead changes. The Padres scored in the first five innings. The Giants scored six runs in the fourth. Never did more than two consecutive half-innings pass without a run.

Giants starter Sean Manaea was gone before

Urias throws no-hitter as Armijo clinches playoff berth

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FAIRFIELD — The Armijo High School baseball team needed a strong outing on the mound Friday to clinch a playoff berth, and got a gem as Luis Urias threw a nohitter in a 1-0 win over visiting Fairfield.

Fairfield had only one base runner, who got aboard on an error in the first inning. That runner was quickly erased on a double play.

Armijo improved to 10-10 overall and 8-7 in the Monticello Empire League.

The Royals walked the game off in the bottom of the seventh inning for the win. Brayan Orrantia walked. Ben Parks followed with a sacrifice bunt that he was able to reach first on when Orrantia beat the throw to second.

Pinch-hitter Gabe Navarette then singled to plate the game-winner. Rashaun Priest added two hits for Armijo.

Amari Bryant and Zack O'Reilly pitched well for Fairfield. The two combined on a five-hitter. Bryant had six strikeouts.

Fairfield fell to 8-17 overall and finished the MEL season 1-14. Both teams have nonleague games next week. Armijo will be home Friday to take on Napa. Fairfield has three games next week beginning with a 7 p.m. game on Monday at Vacaville Christian. The Sac-Joaquin

Section playoffs begin Tuesday, May 9.

Vacaville wins big, secures MEL title

VACAVILLE — Finn Chapman threw a four-hitter over five innings and the Vacaville High School baseball team rolled over rival Will C. Wood on Friday 10-0 to win the Monticello Empire League championship. Chapman walked four but struck out 10. Vacav-

ille improved 16-9 overall and 12-3. The Bulldogs were tied atop the league with Rodriguez entering Friday, but the Mustangs were edged out at home by Vanden 5-4.

Drew Lammon was 3-for-3 with two doubles and three RBIs for Vacaville. Luke Johnson also had three hits and three RBIs. Tyler Chalk and Brenden Murphy had two hits apiece. Wood fell to 6-13 overall and 6-9 in the MEL. No

individual statistics were made available for the Wildcats. Vacaville has three nonleague games ahead. The Bulldogs were scheduled to play River City Saturday afternoon.

VCS rips Highlands, still unbeaten in SDL

VACAVILLE — The Vacaville Christian High School baseball

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The 2023 MEL champion Rodriguez High School boys tennis team.

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Sunday’s TV sports

• Florida State vs. Notre Dame, ESPN2, Noon. MLB • San Francisco vs. San Diego, NBCSBA, 1:05 p.m. • Cincinnati vs. Oakland, NBCSCA, 1:07 p.m. • Philadelphia vs. Houston, ESPN, 4:10 p.m.

49ers add a cornerback on Day 3

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SANTA CLARA — After a trio of third-round selections, the 49ers awoke Saturday morning to try uncovering more Day 3 gems.

This year’s draft class will join a group that began forming Friday with the selections of safety Ji’Ayir Brown (No. 87), kicker Jake Moody (No. 99) and tight end Cam Latu (No. 101).

The 49ers, with no fourth-round picks, rejoined the draft mix Saturday by selecting Darrell Luter Jr.,

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Football XFL • DC vs. Seattle, ESPN, Noon.

USFL

• Philadelphia vs. Pittsburgh, 3, 9 a.m.

• Michigan vs. New Jersey, 2, 40, 1 p.m.

Golf • PGA, Mexico Open, GOLF, 10 a.m.

• Champions, Insperity Invitational, GOLF, Noon.

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• LPGA, JM Eagle LA Championship, GOLF, 3 p.m.

Hockey NHL Playoffs

• Florida vs. Boston, TNT,

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team clinched at least a share of the Sierra Delta League title with a 13-1 win over visiting Highlands Thursday.

Vacaville Christian is now 12-3 overall and remains unbeaten in the SDL at 8-0.

Steve Dingman pitched three innings for the Falcons and Aiden Stevens worked two. The two pitchers combined on a one-hitter with 13 strikeouts.

Thomas Lane was 2-for-3 at the plate with a triple and two RBIs. Nicko Meadows and Grayson Frische each had a hit and two RBIs.

Vacaville Christian will host a 7 p.m. nonleague game against Fairfield Monday. The Falcons open the final week of league play with a 4 p.m. game Tuesday at San Juan.

Local scores

2nd: Cheri Lincoln, 68/43

Niners

Week 4 Scramble

1st: Pat Alvestad, Colleen Berumen, Linda Perry, ChrisRobertson, 35.

2nd: Kay Bone, Barb Ray, Willa Sheppard, Kay Williams, 36.

3rd: Barbara James, Ilene Pliler, Barbara Rigdon, 37.

4th: Berna LaPointe, Phyllis McFadden, Nancy Reublin, Sue

Simmons.

5th: Judy Moses, Marge Tye, Diana Viera, 39.

6: Shirley Helmich, Barb Jacobson, Nadine Kauer, Genny Lopez, 39.

Bocce

Fairfield Bocce Federation

Rio Vista no-hits, overpowers foe 33-0

RIO VISTA — Ethan Perkins threw a no-hitter with 14 strikeouts and was backed by more than enough offense as Rio Vista High School baseball team overpowered visiting San Juan 33-0 Thursday.

The Rams had an 18-run first inning and also a 10-run fourth inning. Rio Vista improved to 6-6 overall and 6-2 in the Sierra Delta League. Perkins had two hits of his own and drove in three runs. Joey Bowers had four hits and three RBIs.

John Brimmer delivered a single, double and four RBI. Emmett Medders

a cornerback from South Alabama.

Luter adds depth to a relatively young cornerback corps, with the starting spots ticketed for Charvarius Ward, Deommodore Lenoir and new nickel back Isaiah Oliver.

Lenoir was a fifth-round pick himself in 2021, when fellow cornerback Ambry Thomas also was in that draft class. The 49ers took two more cornerbacks last year, in Sam Womack (fifth round) and Tariq Castro-Fields (sixth round); CastroFields got waived before the season.

A native of Hattiesburg, Miss.,

also had two hits and three RBIs.

Rio Vista is back in action for the final week of SDL play with a 4 p.m. game at home Tuesday against Golden Sierra.

Softball Denina, Rodriguez defeat Benicia

FAIRFIELD — Brooklyn Denina pitched a complete game and the Rodriguez High School softball team picked up a 6-1, non-league win Friday at Benicia

Denina struck out one, walked two, scattered seven hits and allowed no earned runs. The Lady Mustangs are 7-7 overall.

Hailey Permenter went 3-for-4 at the plate with three RBIs. Denina and Eliza Goodwin had hits and drove in runs. Katelyn Kilgore, Jaedyn White, Julie McClain and Ann Marie Jasso added singles.

Rodriguez will jump back into the MEL schedule with a game Monday at Will C. Wood.

On Thursday, Sofia Coleman threw a complete-game shutout as Rodriguez earned a 10-0 win over visiting Armijo.

Coleman threw a three-hitter and recorded 10 strikeouts in the sixinning game. Rodriguez improved 5-4 in the Monticello Empire League.

Permenter was 3-for-4 with a double and three RBIs. Goodwin had a single and a double. Denina also had a double and two RBI. Rodriguez finished with 13 hits as a team.

Nine Arounders

63/45

4th: Kitty Lockwood, 64/47

Third Flight: handicaps 22-25

1st: Kim Weaver, 62/39

Luter played two years at nearby Pearl River Community College, then three years at South Alabama, where he earned All-Sun Belt honors as a two-year starter. He had four interceptions in 2021, and he had one last season to go with a career-high 42 tackles.

The rest of Saturday's picks included defensive lineman Robert Beal Jr. (No. 173), linebacker Dee Winters (No. 216), tight end Brayden Willis (No.247), wide receiver Ronnie Bull (No. 253) and linebacker Jalen Graham (No. 255).

Cueva helps power Vanden shutout win

VACAVILLE —

Isabella Cueva fired a complete-game six-hitter and also had two hits at the plate as the Vanden High School softball team defeated host Will C. Wood 6-0 Thursday.

Cueva pitched all seven innings and did not allow an earned run, walking one and striking out two. She went 2-for-3 with a double and an RBI with the bat. Vanden improved to 9-6 overall and 8-2 in the Monticello Empire League.

Kaliyah Gipson had two hits and two RBI. Maalia Cherry was 2-for-4 with a double and an RBI. Aniya Lawson also had two hits.

Wood fell to 4-6 overall and 4-5 in the MEL.

Vacaville overpowers Fairfield on the road

FAIRFIELD —The Vacaville High School softball team scored 12 of its 15 runs in the first two innings and rolled to 15-1 win at Fairfield in five innings Thursday.

Laila Dean was 3-for-3 with a double, triple and three RBIs for the Bulldogs. Jordan Munn was 2-for-3 with three RBIs. Vacaville improved to 19-1 overall and 10-0 in the Monticello Empire League.

Allana Thompson, Angelique Perez and Natalya Stonebraker all pitched for Vacaville and held Fairfield to four hits and no earned runs.

Fairfield felt 6-13 overland 1-10 in the MEL. Individual statistics for the Falcons were not made available.

College

Solano baseball beats Mendocino

ROCKVILLE — Joshua Petrill pitched eight strong innings and Ryan Mitchell had three hits as the Solano Community College baseball team closed out the regular season Friday with an 8-4 win at home over Mendocino.

Petrill allowed 10 hits, four earned runs and struck out two batters. Jackson Dinsdale finished the ninth. Solano is 17-21 overall and went 11-10 in the Bay Valley Conference.

Mitchell finished 3-for-4 with a double and three RBIs. Jaxson Bates had a single and a double. Miles Meadows also doubled.

Julian Guerra drove in two runs and Alex Gaela knocked in one.

On Thursday, Solano enjoyed a good, old-fashion rout as the Falcons banged around 28 hits in a 25-8 win at Mendocino.

Solano had 15 runs through the first three innings and later had a seven-run sixth inning.

Kevin Parker and Bates both hit home runs for Falcons. Meadows, Joseph Guttman, Gaela, Conner Ross and Bates all had doubles. Meadows, Guttman and Vega had four hits apiece.

Dylan Trammell pitched six innings. He allowed five hits, one earned run, three walks and struck out four. Cash McCrory and Nick Kambulu worked in relief. The Falcons made seven errors on defense.

Church of England: There’s nothing wrong with being single

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LONDON — Single people should be celebrated and not seen as “lesser” than coupled people, the Church of England says in a new 200page report titled “Love Matters.” After all, it notes, Jesus was single, too.

The report, published Wednesday by a church Commission on Families and Households, urges people to honor singleness and single-person households – and to be open to reimagining a society that allows everyone to thrive, including the unpartnered.

“The Commission believes strongly that single people must be valued at the heart of our society,” the report says. “Jesus’ own singleness should ensure that the Church of England celebrates singleness and does not regard it as lesser than living in a couple relationship.” The commission was formed by the archbishops of Canterbury and York.

The report notes that

a “growing number of people” in society are not in a relationship or living with relatives – and that singleness “can be a deliberate choice.”

An individual may not be in a relationship for myriad reasons, the report says. “Sometimes the right partner has not been found, and sometimes separation, divorce or death has resulted in the loss of a partner,” it says.

Church leaders appear to be looking through a more modern lens when it comes to traditional religious teachings, relationships and family constructions.

The Church of England has long taught that marriage is a gift from God – with a goal to procreate and raise children in the Christian faith. As recently as 2019, guidance from the church noted that sex outside marriage is “regarded as falling short of God’s purposes for human beings” and that “for Christians, marriage – that is the life-

long union between a man and a woman, contracted with the making of vows –remains the proper context for sexual activity.”

Wednesday’s report notes that “singleness does not necessarily imply celibacy, although this is the choice some single people in faith communities make.”

The number of people living alone in the United Kingdom is on the rise,

data shows. According to the Office for National Statistics, Britain witnessed an 8.3 percent increase in people living alone over the decade to 2021. Oneperson households ranged from nearly 26 percent of the total in London to 36 percent in Scotland, the office said. In the United States, 29 percent of households consist of just one person, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.

Almost 38 million people live alone in the United States, the bureau concluded last year, up from 37 million one-person households in 2021.

Those who live alone are more likely to feel less financially secure than couples do and to report higher levels of anxiety, according to the British government.

The Church of England report also explores the cost-of-living crisis rocking Britain and touches on global issues including Russia’s war in Ukraine and the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic.

Same-sex marriage advocates argue more work remains to be done. The Church of England sparked anger in January when it announced after years of debate and consultations that it would not allow same-sex couples to marry in its churches.

The church said its teaching that marriage is between “one man and one woman for life” would not change but that same-

sex couples are welcome to have their civil partnerships blessed.

In 2018, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle tied the knot at St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle. But not long before then, such a wedding - including the service, officiant and place - would have been impossible. Their union would have been opposed by the church because Markle was divorced and her former husband still alive. “This is a historic moment for a bedrock British institution,” The Washington Post reported at the time.

In February, the church said it was exploring whether to use genderneutral language instead of referring to God solely with masculine pronouns, such as “He” or “Our Father.” Any change would be major after centuries of prayer and teachings and would need approval from the Church of England’s General Synod.

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Rotation Adjustment

The Kings threw a smaller lineup at the Warriors, allowing them to spread the floor and create more open looks and better opportunities to drive for Fox and Malik Monk.

Alex Len, Sacramento’s 7-foot-1 center, barely played after he averaged over 10 minutes in the first five games. The smaller Trey Lyles, in turn, played close to 27 minutes, about nine more minutes than any other game this series.

Sacramento hit a serieshigh 17 3-pointers on 45 attempts.

The smaller look worked well and showcased two of the Kings’ better assets, speed, and outside shooting – and exposed a Golden State weakness, as Kevon Looney and Draymond Green were limited in their ability to bottle up the inside.

“We felt that Looney’s been kicking our behind, so it’s not like going to Trey or going to somebody else from time to time would hurt us on the glass,” Kings coach Mike Brown said, “because he’s already been doing work.”

“They made some nice adjustments to get Fox and Monk, to get them in space to try and drive,” Curry said. “It was a different look. They have that ability with their personnel. They can push those buttons.”

Giants

From Page B6 getting an out in the third inning. Padres starter Joe Musgrove was pulled after he retired only the sixth batter he faced in the fourth inning.

Both teams used five relievers.

The Padres scored in each of the first two innings

Hustle Plays

Domantas Sabonis

only had seven points in 23 minutes before he fouled out midway through the fourth quarter. But he had nine offensive rebounds in that time, and the Kings had 18 as a team.

That led to 18-second chance points for Sacramento on 7 of (gasp!) 21 attempts. The Warriors, by comparison, had just eight second-chance points on 4 of 12 attempts.

The Warriors can correct their effort for the decisive Game 7, but they’ll have to do it on the road, where they won just 11 of 41 games this regular season.

“We had 18 offensive rebounds. You’re going to have a great chance to win, even if you’re not shooting the ball well,” Fox said. You’re going to have a great chance to win if you’re getting 18 extra

to take a 3-0 lead. But it wasn’t until Brandon Crawford rounded the bases twice in a span of two pitches in the second inning that the game got nutty. None of the game’s first 21 batters came close to taking advantage of the air at 7,349 feet above sea level, which is Denver times almost 1 1/2. Then Crawford sent a slider from Musgrove to right

shots, not to mention 10 steals there and (19) turnovers.”

Curry and Klay Thompson combined for 51 points and eight turnovers.

The Running Game

Let’s be honest – the Kings are the quicker team in this series, and it showed on both the offensive and defensive ends.

The Warriors’ 19 turnovers and 37.6 field goal shooting percentage led to 18 fast break points for the Kings (the Warriors had nine).

“That was a big emphasis. Starting strong, starting early, and running on them,” said Monk, who had 28 points off the bench.

Monk added that the one-day break between games worked to their advantage, and to the Warriors’ detriment. “We knew we can run them

field, where it barely cleared the wall.

Crawford’s hardly hard-hit fly ball was called a home run, but Padres manager Bob Melvin was on the field in protest while Crawford was still between second and third. A replay review showed the ball had sliced foul of the pole.

But Estadio Alfredo Harp Helu had been uncorked.

a little bit and we took advantage of that tonight.”

There’s also a one-day turnaround before Game 7.

“I felt it a little bit more on them,” Monk said of the short break between games 5 and 6. “They were a little tired. We’re a little younger than they are, so we looked to take advantage of that and we’re going to try to do the same thing Sunday.”

While Monk had an excellent game, and Lyles was one of five Kings players who scored in double-digits, the Warriors didn’t get much offense outside of Curry and Thompson, with Andrew Wiggins and Jordan Poole going a combined 7-for-24 for 20 points. Draymond Green attempted just two shots in 25 minutes and was a minus-13. Thompson was minus-28. Are the Kings the favorites in Game 7? Let’s put it this way, they feel like they’re playing with house money.

“Not having any pressure, man,” Monk said. “It’s no pressure for us because didn’t nobody think we would be here.

“Just closing the game here, going back to Sac just give us a little bit more confidence to show what we can do now. We held them to 100 points, and that’s hard to do with this team, especially since they’re the defending champs. “So it just gives us a lot more confidence.”

Crawford stepped back in the box long enough to send a curveball over the wall in left-center field, a projected 455 feet from home plate.

Lamont Wade Jr. followed by hitting a fullcount fastball over the wall in right-center. That cut the Padres’ lead to 3-2.

Nelson Cruz homered leading off the next inning.

MEL

From Page B6

Bulldogs all broke 100.

Ben Wilhite was the leader with an 81 and was followed by Isaac Johns (86), Quinn Strachan (87), Isaac Martinez (95) and Diego Becerra (98).

Rodriguez shot a 467.

Dylan Castillo had the tournament’s best individual round with a 7-over 79.

Kyle Vidal shot an 84 and Arvin Brar had a 99.

Vanden was one stroke behind Rodriguez at 468. Aiden Co and Rohan Kamath each had rounds of 80. Jordan Rio shot 99.

Heath Bradford had an 85 and Myles Bradford followed with a 93 as Will C. Wood finished with a 522.

Armijo shot 571 and Fairfield had a 706.

Vacaville, Rodriguez and the top individual golfers will compete at the Sac-Joaquin Section Division III tournament Monday, May 8 at The Golf Club in Copper Valley in the Copperopolis.

Baseball

The league season wrapped up on local diamonds Friday with Vacaville winning its 15th league title in its 47-year history in the league.

Vacaville defeated Will C. Wood 10-0 Friday to finish the league season 12-3. Rodriguez lost its league finale to Vanden 5-4, putting the Mustangs one game back at 11-4.

Armijo closed with a 1-0 win over Fairfield on

Vanden

From Page B6

when he was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded.

Nathan Schikore had an RBI infield single and Landon Troutt also singled and drove in a run.

Maushart pitched in the fifth for Vanden before

a Luis Urias’ no-hitter to earn a playoff spot at 8-7 in the MEL. Vanden grabbed the fourth and final spot with its win to make its record 7-8.

Will C. Wood completed its season 6-9 and Fairfield went 1-14.

Softball

The MEL softball race is far from over with two more weeks of competition before the playoffs. Vacaville is off to a 10-0 start. MaxPreps. com has the Bulldogs as the No. 16 ranked team in California and the top squad out of the Sac-Joaquin Section. The Bulldogs have an impressive .442 batting average in the league, with 10 home runs. They also had stalwart pitching, led by Xochitl Atayde.

Vanden is 8-2 in the MEL and will try Tuesday at home to be the first team this season to beat Vacaville since the Bulldogs’ season opener March 3. Rodriguez (4-4) and Wood (4-5) are vying for playoff sports with Armijo (1-7) and Fairfield (1-10) following suit.

Track and Field

The league meet begins Wednesday with trials at the Armijo High School track. Finals will be scheduled for Friday.

Badminton

The league badminton finals will be held Thursday and Friday at Vacaville High School.

giving way to JoJo Torres and Bruno. Rodriguez countered with Connor Broschard, Caron Thompson, Landon Stadelhofer and Sandner.

“We were very hungry,” Maushart said. “We wanted to take away MEL from them and we didn’t wanted to end the league season with a loss. I’m glad our bats woke up.”

Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group/TNS the Kings’ De’Aaron Fox drives on Draymond Green of the Warriors during the third quarter of Game 6 of the NBA playoff series at Chase Center in san Francisco, Friday.

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