Daily Republic: Wednesday, May 10, 2023

NYC jury finds Trump liable for sexual abuse

Awards Carroll $5 million

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NEW YORK — A jury

Tuesday found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll in his closely watched bombshell civil rape trial in Manhattan.

The jury awarded Carroll $5 million in damages, almost the twice the amount expected.

“I filed this lawsuit against Donald Trump to clear my name and to get my life back,” Carroll said in a statement following the verdict. “Today, the world finally knows the truth. This victory is not just for me but for every woman who has suffered because she was not believed.”

The panel of six men and three women delivered their verdict at around 3 p.m. in Manhattan federal court, less than three hours after getting the case. The jury determined Carroll’s lawyers did not prove by a preponderance of the evidence that Trump raped her.

The verdict comes more than five years after Carroll first levied sexual assault allegations against then-President Trump, who responded at the time by calling her a liar from the White House and proclaiming she was not his “type.” Carroll tes tified Trump raped her in a dressing room in Berg dorf Goodman after a chance encounter.

Supervisors recognize

Peace Officers Memorial events

arrested using forensic evidence collected by Cisneros.

FAIRFIELD — The body of a woman was found in a field off Sievers Road in 1980. She had been shot and dumped there.

Ten years later, she would be identified as Holly Campiglia.

The initial detective on the murder investigation was Jose Cisneros, who on Aug. 25, 1985, was fatally shot when he approached a vehicle that turned out to be stolen.

The person who is suspected of killing Campiglia has recently been

Undersheriff

DIXON — Bucking bulls and horses, bucking carnival rides and bucking the odds at the midway games are all part of the fun and festivities at the Dixon May Fair.

And don’t forget the always popular Truck & Tractor Pull and Demolition Derby on the weekend.

“I hear it is going to be warm and beautiful,” said Patricia Conklin, in her 10th year as the fair director and 40th year in the fair industry. “And then it is going to rain on Monday, the day after the fair.”

The annual springtime fair opens its four-day run on Thursday, and the price is right for opening day.

Tickets for Thrifty Thursday are $5 for anyone 5 or older. Admission is free for those 4 or younger. It is one of two specialty days at the fair. The other is Kids Day on Friday, with free admission for children 12 or younger.

The heartbeat of the fair remains the youth livestock shows and auction.

“I showed here as a kid,” Conklin said. “I showed sheep and cattle,” and she has a few grand champion sheep trophies to prove it.

The various animal judgings are in the mornings on Thursday and Friday in the livestock area, and are open to the public. The auction for market animals starts at 11 a.m. Saturday.

The market card includes 102 pigs, 88 sheep, 39 goats and 16 steers, as well as 100 market birds – poultry and quail – and 33 rabbits. There are also breeding animals that are judged, but are not part of the auction.

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FAIRFIELD — Solano County Supervisor Mitch Mashburn said it is OK to portray farmers and ranchers in a sympathetic image of providers of food, clothing and other goods.

However, he said that is not enough when making what amounts to business decisions.

“We often lose sight that ag is an industry. It is the second-largest economy-driving industry in our county,” Mashburn said. An estimate of

that economic impact is $1.6 billion. Mashburn said what is needed to protect and grow that industry is hard data of what exists and what is needed, especially with technology changing that industry at an accelerated pace.

The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, with Supervisor Erin Hannigan absent, authorized Agriculture Commission Ed King to apply for a Sustainable Agricultural Lands Conservation

A genome project cracks mysteries of evolution – and Balto the superdog

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Researchers have brought scientific truth to the legend of Balto, settling once and for all the question of whether a wolf or dog led a lifesaving run carrying medicine to sick children.

In 1925, with the small Alaskan town of Nome gripped by a raging blizzard and a deadly diphtheria outbreak. Balto led 12 other dogs through the last, blustering 53 miles of the now-famous “serum run.” The feat, memorialized by a statue in New York’s Central Park and books and movies, preserved the sled dog’s place among the world’s most famous animals.

Now, nearly a century later, Balto’s genetic blueprint is entering the annals of science, thanks to a massive new project that seeks to rewrite our understanding of mammalian evolution, unlocking knowledge that may help treat human disease and stave off species extinction.

The research, published in April in 11 papers in the journal Science, also yields valuable insight into the profound question of what makes us unique among species.

The work is the result of an international collaboration of more than 100 scientists called the Zoonomia Project that has been building and analyzing a veritable Noah’s ark of genomes –240 mammals in all.

Scouring the genetic blueprints of so many mammals, “we can better understand human genetics,” said Carolyn M. Hutter, a division director at the National Human Genome Research Institute. “What does our DNA tell us? How does our DNA function? Where are we similar, and what are the things that make us different?”

By pinpointing parts of the mammalian genome – sometimes just single letters of DNA – that have remained the same through tens of millions of years of evolution, scientists may be able to identify the most crucial parts of our shared genetic makeup, those where change can spell disaster.

“This is really an unprecedented view of the evolutionary history of mammalian genomes,” said Maria Chikina, an assistant professor of computational and systems biology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine who was not involved in the research. “We now know which parts of the

genome are important in building a mammal.”

Scientists first sequenced the human genome two decades ago in one of this century’s biggest scientific breakthroughs. Yet they remain stumped about what much of that DNA does in our bodies. Some parts of the genome randomly mutate across generations with no discernible effect. Other regions stay the same, probably because they encode for a vital protein or something else necessary for life.

To better understand ourselves, geneticists have looked to other mammals.

In 2011, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard unraveled 29 mammal genomes to help find the most crucial parts of our shared DNA.

“We can actually pinpoint exactly which positions have a function and which don’t,” said Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, a scientific director at the Broad Institute and one of the Zoonomia consortium’s leads.

But Lindblad-Toh and others soon realized they didn’t have enough mammals to do a thorough analysis. That’s when they began collecting genomes from species ranging from the mighty gray whale to the minuscule bumblebee bat.

Out of all the mammals on their roster, the screaming hairy armadillo has the largest genome, with 5.3 billion chemical base pairs making up its genetic blueprint. The smallest belongs to the common bent-wing bat, at just under 2 billion base pairs. Humans, for comparison, have just over 3 billion base pairs.

With the genomes gathered, the Zoonomia scientists began probing some of biology’s toughest questions.

For instance, paleontologists and molecular biologists “used to fight like hell” over when the age of mammals started, said Nicole Foley, a scientist at Texas A&M and lead author of one of the Zoonomia papers. For a while, fossil collections seemed to suggest mammals split into different species after an asteroid wiped out most dinosaurs 66 million years ago. But measuring how different DNA samples of living mammals are from one another can tell geneticists how long ago populations split apart, with earlier work showing the group began to diversify well before that cosmic collision.

Now, a comprehensive analysis using Zoonomia data shows two events – the breakup of the continents more than 100 million years ago and the dinosaur-killing asteroid afterward – each sparked a round of mammal diversification.

“One of the things that’s always bugged me as someone that works on mammals is that you can walk up to anybody on the street and you can ask them what happened to the dinosaurs,” said Foley, who led a mammal evolution paper. “They know exactly when the dinosaurs went extinct.”

“For the longest time,” she said, “we haven’t known this basic stuff about mammals.”

The vast trove of DNA data may also predict extinctions to come, helping policymakers decide where to dedicate limited conservation money.

Even a single organism’s genome contains traces of its species’ past population size. That information can be used to assess which animals are at risk today, said San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance researcher Aryn Wilder. In one paper, her team trained computer programs on three mammalian genomes, and the results show orcas are more worthy of further study to assess threats to them than the Upper Galilee Mountains blind mole-rat or the Java mouse-deer.

The tool does not negate the need for on-the-ground animal surveys, Wilder said. But field work can be costly, and “genomic information can give us an initial assessment of which ones should be prioritized for those really in-depth assessments.”

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Zoonomia researchers also discovered that sometimes what’s left out of the genome turns out to be just as revealing as what’s in it.

One research team studied more than 10,000 short sections of

genetic code that are found in all other mammals but not in humans – a step toward understanding what makes us distinct from other species.

“Many of the [key] differences are in genes that we know are important in building brains,” said Steven Reilly, one of the authors of the study and an assistant professor of genetics at Yale University. Many of these small changes help separate the human brain from that of our closest genetic match, the chimpanzee.

“It’s little tinkering with these same underlying building blocks” that makes the difference, Reilly said. “I think that’s very cool, but a little bit humbling. You’d think we would have a bunch of shiny new parts.”

Some key deletions take place near genes that have been linked to distinctly human diseases, such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, Reilly said.

The team’s work paves the way for scientists to better understand the impact of deletions by reproducing them in the brains of mice, or in artificial human or chimpanzee brains called organoids.

Massive as the Zoonomia project was, mapping the genomes of 240 species only scratches the surface of the mammalian tree. The one elephant, 43 primates, 53 rodents and more than 100 other creatures sampled represent less than 1% of all living mammals.

“There’s one species we’re missing in there that will annoy me to no end, which is just the raccoon. For some reason, we couldn’t get a raccoon DNA sample,” said Elinor Karlsson, a director at the Broad Institute who also co-led the Zoonomia group. “How is that the one we’re missing?” nnn

While most of the individuals in the Zoonomia studies are anonymous, Balto was chosen in part because of his fame and the fact that his genetic blueprint could be compared with his taxidermied remains, which have been kept for 90 years at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

Balto’s genetic blueprint is especially interesting because he lived before widespread, humanimposed breeding practices that have set strict physical standards for canines on the show circuit.

Sled dogs were bred not to achieve a specific

appearance but to be fast and strong. Scientists discovered that Balto was genetically diverse, with few traces of the kind of inbreeding found in today’s pedigreed dogs. Inbreeding can allow rare mutations, including some that cause health problems to take root in specific breeds.

Balto’s DNA reflected his status as an intermediate canine, neither fully domesticated like today’s pets, nor wild like coyotes and wolves. Domesticated dogs are genetically suited to digest the starch found in many commercial pet foods. Wild dogs are meat eaters with far less ability to digest starch. Balto’s starch-digesting ability fell in between the two groups.

The new paper helps separate sled dog myth from reality.

Born in Nome in 1919, Balto was considered by his owner, Leonhard Seppala, to be a second-string sled dog. Rather than using him for breeding, Seppala had Balto neutered.

However, history records that it was Balto who led the sled on the day it arrived in Nome. More than 150 dogs had helped make the journey from Nenana, but after musher Gunnar Kaasen delivered the diphtheria medicine, he is said to have hugged Balto and declared, “Damn fine dog.”

Now, decades later, the sequencing of Balto’s genome has laid to rest an old rumor that he was actually a wolf.

County receives generally clean report on federal expenditures

FAIRFIELD — Solano County received a generally clean audit on how it expends the nearly $137.9 million in federal funding for the 2021-22 fiscal year.

The outside auditor issued a single audit comprising two reports and covering seven major federal programs. The reports are:

n Independent Auditors’ Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting and on Compliance and Other Matters based on an Audit of Financial Statements. The county received a clean opinion on its financial statements.

However, the auditors identified a material weakness in internal control over financial reporting due to two significant adjustments for fiduciary funds and for Health & Social Services; and a property assessment valuation change that was not properly documented.

n Independent Auditors’ Report on Compli-

ance for Each Major Federal program; Report on Internal Control over Compliance; Report on Schedule of Expenditures of Federal Awards required by the Uniform Guidance; and Supplemental Schedule of Office of California State Department of Aging Grants.

The county received a clean opinion for all major programs except for two. The first is the Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers Program, which did not have documented policies and procedures over subrecipient monitoring and, for the second straight year, did not report the grant as required under the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006.

The second is the Emergency Rental Assistance Program, under which the county, for the second straight year, did not have documented policies and procedures over subrecipient monitoring. Additionally, the county’s program procedures

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Sunday shooting victim in Fairfield identified

FAIRFIELD — The victim of a fatal shooting Sunday in Fairfield has been identified as Carlos Gonzalez, 29, the city Police Department reported on Tuesday.

“We have reason to believe the suspect and victim knew each other and that there is no threat to the public. There are no additional updates beyond that at the moment,” police spokeswoman Jennifer Brantley said in an email.

The shooting was reported about 7:40 a.m. in the 2200 block of Woolner Avenue, the police reported. Gonzalez, of Fairfield, was pronounced dead at the scene. No other details were released at this time.

Energy grid is topic of next EDC online event

FAIRFIELD — A discussion on building the energy grid of the future is the next topic in the Solano EDC Speaker Series.

Chris Rico, the president and chief executive officer of the Economic Development Corp., will be joined by Gary Mullaney, senior energy and water consultant for Kaiser Permanente, Allie Detrio, chief strategist for Reimagine Power Inc., and Alexandra McGee, director of Strategic Initiatives for MCE, on the panel.

The online event is set for noon to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 23. Register at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/ register/WN__FyBDRonRyqWHUKla3hX0w#/ registration.

The speaker series is sponsored by Kaiser.

Fire Safe Council to discuss alert options

FAIRFIELD — The various emergency-alert tools will be discussed at the Monday meeting of the Solano County Fire Safe Council.

The online meeting is set for 5:30 p.m.

Access is available at https://zoom.us/j/9303000 6222?pwd=aVZ2NkhuWHk3MTBvbzlMQk1tQ1h OQT09. The Meeting ID is 930 3000 6222. The passcode is 760928.

For more information, contact Karin Young at karin. young@solanorcd.org or at oes@solanocounty.com.

Benicia students get lesson in local wastewater, water treatment plants

BENICIA — Fourthand fifth-grade students in Benicia are getting out of the classroom to learn about their local wastewa ter and water treatment plants and discover the processes their water goes through to get cleaned.

For the fourth year in a row, the city of Benicia Public Works Department and Solano Resource Con servation District have partnered to provide Benicia students with hands-on education programming about their local water resources.

The Benicia Water Education Program takes place each spring. By the end of May, a total of 432 students across all elementary schools in Benicia will have participated.

In April, Benicia’s fourth-grade students got an in-depth look at the wastewater treatment process in their city. Prior students participated in a hands-on, in-class lesson to learn about where their

wastewater goes after it goes down the drain. For the first time since before the pandemic, Solano RCD educators went into classrooms to facilitate demonstrations and experiments that show students what can and cannot go down the drain and to get students thinking like engineers about how their wastewa-

ter gets cleaned.

A couple weeks after their lessons, students ventured to the Benicia Wastewater Treatment Plant to meet laboratory technicians and wastewater operators and see the treatment steps their wastewater goes through before it’s released into the Carquinez Strait. Students also observed a

Fairfield police need help finding stabbing suspect

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FAIRFIELD — The city Police Department reached out to the public Tuesday to help find a man suspected in the stabbing of a woman a day earlier.

The suspect, police said in a statement, is Timothy Fisher, 33, of Fairfield.

“The suspect is believed to typically frequent both Fairfield and Suisun ... so we ask that community members in those areas keep an eye out for, but please do not approach Fisher,” police spokeswoman Jennifer Brantley said in an email.

The stabbing victim, a 33-year-old Fairfield woman, as of Tuesday evening remained in an area hospital being treated for her injuries, Brantley said.

The stabbing took place about 3:06 p.m. Monday. Fisher and the victim have a relationship, which the police said “might have prompted the incident.”

“Officers responded to the 1600 block of Travion Court regarding reports of a stabbing. Officers found a woman at the scene, suffering from a serious

stab wound to the neck,” the police statement said.

“The culprit ... was last seen walking northbound on Union Avenue, shortly after the attack,” police stated.

Fisher is also wanted in connection to a robbery and has multiple outstanding warrants, the police stated.

Anyone who has seen Fisher, or has information about his possible whereabouts, is asked to call the Investigations Unit at 707-428-7600.

three-dimensional model of the plant to break down the many processes the water goes through to get cleaned, and they observed and journaled about the microorganisms that help clean bacteria out of wastewater.

Benicia fifth-grade students become the experts on drinking water resources in their city in the month of May.

Their day begins at Lake Herman, a secondary drinking water source for the city of Benicia. Students first get in the mindset to make scientific observations during a hike around the lake, using binoculars to take note of the landscape, their watershed and how pollution travels through their city.

Groups reconvene by the shoreline to sample the water for macroinvertebrates, which are then observed, journaled and identified in pairs. Students then share their discoveries, questions and ideas with one another

Fairfield shoveling compost May

The event is for Fairfield residents, and proof of residency is required.

Master Gardeners from the the UC Cooperative Extension Solano

Photos courtesy of Solano Resource Conservation District

Water Treatment Plant Supervisor Robert Blair shows fifthgrade students from Matthew Turner Elementary the tanks where larger sediments get cleaned out of the water at the Benicia Water Treatment Plant.

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Before touring the Benicia Wastewater Treatment Plant, Solano RCD Education Coordinator Stephanie Stock has a fourth-grade student from Robert Semple participate in a model demonstration to review the various steps in the wastewater treatment process.

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Senate passes broadband expansion bill

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FAIRFIELD — Legislation that the author Sen. Bill Dodd said would improve broadband and internet connectivity across the state has passed the Senate.

The bill would allow the state to lease its property to broadband providers for deployment of new infrastructure.

Fairfield police remind drivers to watch for bikes

FAIRFIELD — The city Police Department is encouraging more people to get active and safely ride their bicycles.

“Bicycling is a great means of transportation and recreation, and everyone deserves to ride to their destination safely,” Sgt. Robert Piro said in a statement released in coordination of May being Bicycling Safety Month. “Let’s look out for one

another and share the road, share the responsibility.”

The department suggests these tips for drivers:

n Slow down and follow the speed limit. Be careful traveling through intersections.

n Look carefully for bicyclists and pedestrians before making a turn or opening a car door near streets or bike paths.

n Be patient when traveling behind a bicyclist and give them space when passing. California law

requires drivers to change a lane, when possible, to pass bicyclists.

n Never drive distracted or impaired.

Tips for bicyclists:

n Use lights at night.

n Although not required for riders 18 and older, always wear a properly secured helmet. Helmets significantly reduce the chance of a head injury in the event of a crash.

n Bicyclists must travel in the same direction of

traffic and have the same requirements as any slowmoving vehicle.

n Yield to pedestrians, just as a driver would. Pedestrians have the right-of-way within marked or unmarked crosswalks at intersections.

Funding for this program is provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Jesse Bethel junior’s art going to DC

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VALLEJO — A Jesse Bethel High School junior is the grand prize winner of the Congressional High School Art Competition for District 8. Alizon Minjarez was recognized at a recent ceremony in Suisun City for her work titled, “Belonging.” Her work will be on display in the U.S. Capitol with winners from the other congressional districts.

“Congratulations to Alizon Minjarez for winning this year’s competition. She has a rare gift, and I hope she continues to follow her dreams. The competition was stiff this year, and there were a lot of impressive pieces,” said Rep. John Garamendi, D-Walnut Grove, who also recognized runner-up Emily King, of Pinole Valley High School, in his statement.

Other winners from Solano County are Raven Guilas, also from Jesse Bethel, for her work, “To Let Go;” and Michelle Jimenez Jimenez, of the Public Safety Academy in Fairfield, for her work, “The Route to the Direction of Hope.”

“Every year, I’m always amazed by the incredible talent and quality of art we receive for the Congressio-

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as they participate in a gallery walk to see what other groups caught.

In the afternoon, students go to the nearby Benicia Water Treatment Plant, and on a tour led by treatment plant staff observe a model to summarize the steps of the drinking water treatment process, and participate in a flocculation experiment to see how large particles get cleaned out of the water.

“After the last few years of cancelled tours, virtual tours and Zoom classroom visits, it was great to be able to open our doors and hear the excitement from the students fill our hallways again. Thanks to our wonderful partnership with Solano RCD, we were able to provide the opportunity for students

nal High School Art Competition,” Garamendi added.

“This competition is a team effort. Our panel of independent judges performed the tough task of narrowing down the winners. Teachers, parents, and mentors worked behind the scenes to offer encouragement, advice, and inspiration. And most importantly, these students knew they were artists and photographers

and parents to understand the value of water and the need to protect our watershed and the environment,” Marc Bautista, water quality supervisor for the Benicia Public Works Department, said in a press release.

Following the field trip at the Water Treatment Plant, one fifth-grade

with something important to say. Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year’s Congressional High School Art Competition,” Garamendi stated.

There were 29 submissions from Solano County. A gallery of all the art pieces can be found at https://drive.google.com/ drive/folders/1-5ParSHDE-JBQM 814JmAtjl2FvicSfMn.

student from Matthew Turner Elementary said, “My favorite part was seeing the model to learn how water gets cleaned and then seeing the different steps in real life on the tour. I never really thought about where our tap water comes from before.”

To learn more about the Benicia Water Education

Program and Solano RCD’s other education programs, visit www.solanorcd.org or send an email to education @solanorcd.org.

DODD

“To survive in today’s economy, it is critically important to have fast, reliable broadband,” Dodd, D-Napa, said in a statement.

“The problem is, broadband isn’t yet deployed adequately or equitably in many areas of our state. My proposal ensures the state can

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did not include criteria for when written attestations from an applicant were adequate, and submitted reports did not go through a review process.

None of the findings resulted in any disallowed costs to the county, but $1,731 in the Temporary Assistance for Need Families program did come under question. Management has responded to the findings and submitted a corrective action plan.

In a separate matter, the supervisors accepted the auditor-controller’s master internal control review of the purchasing process for controls in place as of June 29, 2022. There were no issues noted.

In other action, the board:

n Recognized Jennifer A. Merrihew, library assistant, upon her retirement after more than 33 years with

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will provide residents with information about compost uses and other horticultural tips.

A self-serve event, residents need to bring their own containers. Each household is limited to 30 gallons of compost, which comes from Northern Compost of Yolo County, and is listed by the Organic Materials Review Institute for use in organic production. It is approved as an Organic Input Fer-

Helping

effectively partner with internet service providers to lease state properties for deployment of broadband infrastructure,” Dodd added. Senate Bill 387 would give state General Services “more flexibility in setting lease terms, creating incentives for broadband providers to invest in much-needed infrastructure improvements. Also, it would allow the department to execute leases on behalf of other state departments such as Caltrans, Parks and Recreation and Fish and Wildlife, with their consent.”

The Senate approved the bill on Monday. It now heads to the Assembly for consideration.

Solano County.

n Recognized May as Older Americans Month in Solano County.

n Recognized May 21-27 as Emergency Medical Services Week in Solano County.

n Approved a threeyear, $5.076 million Microsoft enterprise agreement and Dell license and subscription pricing for June 1 through May 31, 2026.

n Approved an $83,000 contract amendment with Davis Guest Home, for a total contract of $448,365, to provide intensive residential mental health services through June 30.

n Converted one fulltime equivalent deputy public defender I-IV limited-term, grant-funded position to one full-time deputy public defender I-IV limited-term position.

n Finalized the operational changes to the county Parks and Recreation related to park uses, regulations and other rules. The changes were introduced at the last board meeting.

tilizing Material by the California Department of Food and Agriculture, and is certified with the United States Composting Council’s Seal of Testing Assurance.

The compost is made from recycled green material, food waste and woody material collected from residential organic carts.

The center is located at 3351 Hillridge Drive.

For more information, contact the Fairfield Public Works Department, Solid Waste Division, at 707-428-7528.

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Courtesy photo alizon Minjarez, a Jesse Bethel High school junior, is the grand prize winner of the Congressional High school art Competition for District 8 for her work titled, “Belonging.”

In brief

Suisun City’s State of the City set for May 30

SUISUN CITY — The State of the City, “Suisun City Feeling Good,” is scheduled

6 t0 8 p.m. May 30 at the Joseph A. Nelson Community Center, 611 Village Drive.

Mayor Alma Hernandez and city leadership are slated to speak.

City council members, city departments and community partners will be on hand.

Appetizers and beverages will be provided and there will be free onsite childcare. Admission is free.

STA updates supervisors, mayors on programs

FAIRFIELD — Solano

Transportation Authority officials will update the Solano County Board of Supervisors and the seven mayors on the County Collaboration on Housing and Climate Initiative and Adaption Planning when the City-County Coordinating Council meets Thursday.

A presentation by MCE on clean energy activities in Solano County is also on the agenda.

The 4Cs meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Berryessa Room of the Solano County Water Agency Office, 810 Vaca Valley Parkway, Suite, 203, in Vacaville.

CAP Solano hosting

Native American forum

FAIRFIELD — A conversational workshop on Native Americans of Solano County and their history is scheduled for May 17.

The online event is hosted by CAP Solano and the state Department of Housing and Community Development. It will run from 1 to 3 p.m.

The topic is cultural competency and tribal engagement.

Register at https://fairfieldca.zoom.us/meeting/ register/tZwvdO2rrjgsG9z P0bMfKt3AYscSwvd3K3pi#/ registration. The Zoom link is 882 3430 3618.

Additional workshops will be announced.

Freedom Equine Connection partners with Seen Through Horses Campaign

DIXON — The nonprofit Freedom Equine Connection is participating in the Seen Through Horses Campaign 2023.

Anyone can choose Freedom Equine Connection to fundraise for, or make a one-time donation, by visiting https://www. classy.org/team/490745. It runs through the end of the month.

Freedom Equine Connection uses a ground-based horse and human interaction model to help with the healing, learning and growing process. It offers equine-assisted therapy, equineassisted living and equine assisted-organizational development and team building.

A lifelong horsewoman, Freedom Equine Connection founder Denise Wilson has always instinctively shared her horses with people, perceiving that time spent in the presence of horses is healing, said a press release.

She works with a team of certified, licensed professionals and horses.

Kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard and her family found healing and connection incorporating horses into mental health and trauma services.

She was 11 when she was

abducted while walking to the school bus stop and held captive for almost 20 years.

“We are in a devastating mental health crisis globally, and horses and humans can impact each other to heal and thrive in incredible ways. We are excited to work together with industry leaders, practitioners, and advocates to amplify awareness and

expand resources so all mental health needs can be met,” Lynn Thomas, president of Horses for Mental Health, said in a press release.

“When you bond with a horse, the relationship is indescribable. You can sense the horse understanding the bond. They get it. They feel it. Just being in their presence can make your woes

and worries go away. When I go up to my horse’s side and cradle its head, I am in heaven, it’s immediate therapy,” Jill Rappaport, author of “People We Know, Horses They Love,” said in the press release. For more information, visit https://www.freedomequine connection.org.

Vacaville offers landscape rebate program

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VACAVILLE — The city offers water conservation rebates to qualifying residents.

Vacaville residents are eligible for a rebate of $2 per square foot, for a maximum of 1,000 square feet or $2,000, for replacing their existing turf with water efficient landscaping.

The rebate applies to applications dated May 5 or later. Turf replacement rebates are

subject to available funding. A pre-inspection prior to removal of existing turf is required, and replacement of turf with artificial grass and/or concrete is not eligible.

The City Council District 5 Benefit Program is in partnership with the Solano County Water Agency. For more information, visit cityofvacaville.gov/wel.

Other water efficiency rebate programs through SCWA are:

n Water-Conserving Product Rebates: Up to $50 for pool covers, rain carrels, rain sensors, hot water recirculating and/or laundry-to-landscape system components.

n Smart Irrigation Controller Rebates: 50% of the cost of the controller up to $300 from SCWA for a residential site. Requires pre-inspection.

n Washing Machine Rebates: $100 from SCWA toward the purchase of a high-efficiency

(HE) washing machine. For more information, go to www.scwa2. com/water-efficiency/ rebates-programs.

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Denise and Jim Wilson run the Freedom Equine Connection in Dixon.

THE DR DELIVERS. CALL 707-427-6989.

CHP seeks tips regarding I-80 shooting in Vallejo

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VALLEJO — The California Highway Patrol is asking for the public’s help

in identifying the person or persons believed responsible for shooting at a vehicle on Interstate 80 in Vallejo.

About 4 p.m. Saturday, the CHP’s Golden

Gate Communication Center was notified of a freeway shooting on westbound I-80, west of Tennessee Street. The suspect vehicle, a

gray Volkswagen Jetta, continued westbound on I-80 after the incident, according to the victim. There were no injuries sustained in the shooting.

Detectives assigned to the CHP’s Golden Gate Division assumed the lead on the shooting investigation. Currently, no motive has been deter-

New name for Berkeley Food & Housing Project, whose clients include

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BERKELEY — Berke-

ley Food & Housing Project has officially changed its name to Insight Housing.

The organization played a critical role in the Solano-Napa Habitat for Humanity veteran’s residence in Rio Vista that was dedicated in 2021.

The residence is a six-bedroom, three-bath home providing a permanent place for screened veterans to ensure their compatibility for a group living situation. Many veterans struggle when living in isolation, but instead thrive on the companion-

homeless veterans

ship of housemates, and shared housing is a viable option for veterans on an extremely low income.

Built next to the American Legion building, the home offers a quiet and calm environment, allowing the residents to live healthy and productive lives. This project will also serve as a prototype for potential builds elsewhere in the county.

The name change was publicly announced May 4 at a launch event in Berkeley.

During the unveiling event, CEO Calleene Egan addressed the severity of homelessness in the region and highlighted

Insight Housing’s innovative, regional approach.

“At all of our locations, and within our programs, we strive to create an inclusive and safe environment where everyone feels welcome. Every day, we work to get people into housing because we know that housing solves homelessness,” she said in press materials.

Founded in 1970, the organization has changed its name several times over the years to reflect the changing needs of the community and the growth of the agency. In 2013, the organization opened its first programs outside Alameda County, and as

of 2023 offers support to those experiencing or at risk of homelessness in seven Northern California counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, Solano, Amador, San Joaquin, Sacramento and San Francisco. Their programs reach more than 2,500 clients annually.

Through a strong partnership with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Insight Housing supports more than 1,350 veterans and their families who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness across Northern California. For more information, visit www. insighthousing.org.

PG&E offers incentive program to save energy

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FAIRFIELD — The Power Saver Rewards Program launched this month with PG&E offering bill credits for cutting use when the demand for electricity is highest.

Power Saver Rewards Program event days are

triggered by the state’s grid operator, the California Independent System Operator, calling a flex alert or an energy emergency alert watch through Oct. 31.

“Over the 10 event days in 2022, the average customer bill credit for program participants was $35,” the utility reported.

More than 1.7 million customers are already enrolled in the program.

“Customers who reduce energy use between 4 p.m. and 9 p.m. on event days will receive an automatic credit on their energy statement after the program season ends. Customers receive $2 per kilowatt hour ... One

kWh equals the amount of energy consumed if a 1,000-watt appliance is used for an hour,” the utility stated.

There is no penalty for not reducing energy. For information on eligibility and to register, go to powersaver.pge.com to learn more and sign up.

mined and a suspect has not been located.

Anyone with information can call the CHP Investigation Tipline at 707-917-4491.

Boat trip offers osprey viewing on Saturday

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VALLEJO — A boat trip along the Napa River and Mare Island Strait provides a unique opportunity to view osprey and other natural sights. The trip is scheduled for Saturday through Dolphin Charters and Capt. Ronn Patterson, who is also a marine biologist. Myrna Hayes, president of the Mare Island Heritage Trust and regional river guide, also is part of the 2.5-hour excursion.

“Passengers will have the opportunity to travel along the Mare Island shore to observe osprey incubating eggs and guarding nests and soaring in the sky above aboard Dolphin Charters’ River Dolphin,” Hayes said in a statement.

“In addition to osprey nests, great blue heron nests with as many as four young and great egret nests can also be viewed from the river perspective.”

The Napa-Solano Audubon Society and the Golden Gate Audubon Society along with the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory, the Mare Island Heritage Trust and others formed the Bay Area Osprey Coalition to document osprey and their nesting locations in the San Francisco Bay.

In the 2022 season, there were 17 nests on the Mare Island Strait/Napa River, down from 56 in the prior year, Hayes noted.

The cost is $45 per person. To register, call 510-527-9622 or 800-472-9942 or visit dolphincharters.com.

Caltrans repairing potholes on Highway 12

SOLANO COUNTY — Caltrans resumed emergency pothole repairs Monday on State Route 12 between Summerset Drive and the Rio Vista Bridge.

Each night, work goes from 8 p.m. until 4 a.m., until Saturday morning, May 13.

All work is weather dependent. The work may be extended or rescheduled due to inclement weather.

For worker and public safety, one-way traffic controls will be in effect during the work.

During one-way traffic controls, crews will alternate lane closures in the eastbound and westbound directions on SR-12.

This will allow motorists to continue using SR-12 overnight.

However, motorists should expect delays overnight on SR-12 when crossing the Rio Vista Bridge.

Suisun offers Counselors-in-Training program

SUISUN CITY — This summer, the Recreation, Parks and Marina Department is introducing a new program, “Counselors-in-Training,” for teens aged 14 to 16.

The goal of the program is to develop leadership skills that can be used throughout life and to help others achieve goals.

It will also help to develop the individual’s skills in leading and working with campers in a day camp setting.

Up to eight youths will be enrolled. Preference is usually given to youths who have attended camps in previous summers as campers.

For more information, visit https://suisun.recdesk. com/community/program/detail?programid=1067.

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‘Goodfellas’ star Ray Liotta’s cause of death released

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“Goodfellas” star Ray Liotta’s death last year was caused by heart and respiratory ailments, according to a report.

The Newark-born actor died at age 67 of respiratory insufficiency, pulmonary edema and acute heart failure, TMZ reported Monday, citing documents in the Dominican Republic.

His death was natural, according to local officials, who also said Liotta had the artery condition atherosclerosis.

Liotta’s death in the Dominican Republic last May occurred while he was there shooting the movie “Dangerous Waters.”

The actor starred as the notorious gangster Henry

Hill in Martin Scorsese’s 1990 classic “Goodfellas,” a year after he portrayed Shoeless Joe Jackson in “Field of Dreams.” In recent years, Liotta had prominent roles in 2019’s Oscar-nominated drama “Marriage Story” and in 2021’s “The Sopranos” prequel film “The Many Saints of Newark.” Liotta’s fiance, Jacy Nittolo, shared a sweet tribute in November on the first Thanksgiving since his death.

“Today and everyday I am so thankful for the memories he gave me,” she captioned an Instagram post. “They were the best years of my life.”

The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce honored Liotta in February with a star on its Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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Crime logs

FairField

SATURDAY, MAY 6

2:38 a.m. — Trespassing, 600 block of PARKER ROAD

8:32 a.m. — Commercial burglary, 2500 block of HILBORN ROAD

9:43 a.m. — Robbery, 3300 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

10:40 a.m. — Vehicle theft, MISSOURI STREET

11:27 a.m. — Brandishing a weapon, 1100 block of ALASKA AVENUE

11:35 a.m. — Residential burglary, 900 block of BRANDON WAY

12:55 p.m. — Forgery, 2400 block of HILBORN ROAD

1:05 p.m. — Forgery, 2400 block of WATERMAN BOULEVARD

1:32 p.m. — Trespassing, 1400 block of HOLIDAY LANE

1:49 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 100 block of STEPHEN

STREET

3:38 p.m. — Battery, 2700 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

5:49 p.m. — Battery, 1300 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD

5:53 p.m. — Reckless driver, 2100 block of PENNSYLVANIA

AVENUE

6:35 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 3500

block of CROWNRIDGE COURT

9:40 p.m. — Shooting into a dwelling, 100 block of VILLA CIRCLE

11:20 p.m. — Trespassing, 300 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD

SUNDAY, MAY 7

12:22 a.m. — Reckless driver, WESTBOUND INTERSTATE 80

1:21 a.m. — Forgery, 200 block of EAST ALASKA AVENUE

7:41 a.m. — Assault with a deadly weapon, 2200 block of WOOLNER AVENUE

8:51 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 200 block of HAMILTON DRIVE

10:42 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 1000 block of TANAGER LANE

11:14 a.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 3100 block of PUFFIN CIRCLE

12:54 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 1100 block of UNION AVENUE

1:07 p.m. — Forgery, 1100 block of WILLOW LANE

2:11 p.m. — Sexual assault, 1400 block of HOLIDAY LANE

2:14 p.m. — Vandalism, 1600 block of VICKSBURG DRIVE

2:55 p.m. — Battery, 2000 block of PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE

3:57 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 1300 block of TRAVIS

BOULEVARD

4:29 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 100 block of HAWTHORN DRIVE

4:57 p.m. — Forgery, 800 block of EAST TRAVIS BOULEVARD

4:59 p.m. — Shots fired, 1000 block of FLICKER LANE

5:14 p.m. — Trespassing, 800 block of FIRST STREET

5:46 p.m. — Indecent exposure, 1900 block of WEST TEXAS STREET

7:19 p.m. — Trespassing, 1300 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD

MONDAY, MAY 8

12:17 a.m. — Reckless driver, 2800 block of BARBOUR DRIVE

6:28 a.m. — Brandishing a weapon, 1100 block of HARDING STREET

8:37 a.m. — Reckless driver, HIGHWAY 12

9:08 a.m. — Forgery, 1100 block of GULF DRIVE

9:24 a.m. — Battery, 2800 block of DOVER AVENUE

theme, an antique Caterpillar display will be on hand, too.

Butler Amusements is the carnival vendor and will be bringing a number of old favorites as well as some new rides.

The Fairfield-based firm is bringing 25 rides, including five that were not at Dixon last year: Giant Wheel, Himalaya, Footloose, Scrambler and Airport 8.

Among the returning rides, such names as Freak Out, Rockstar, Zipper, Area 51 and Scrambler are on the list, as well as attractions such

as the Americana Carousel, Tilt A Whirl, Lolli Swing, Train, Monkey Maze Funhouse and Tea Cups are included. There is a variety of entertainment choices, including Eagles and Boston tribute bands, and The Outlaw Mariachi band, which combines the traditional Mexican flair with rock sounds.

Magician Frank Thurston, after missing the fair’s 2022 return from a two-year Covid hiatus, is back on the grounds, as is the pirate show featuring Jack Spareribs. For those fairgoers who need a little break from the noise and chaos, or whatever, the fairgrounds offers a sensory room as well. The regular gates

of NORTH TEXAS STREET

a.m. — Vehicle theft, 700 block of CASTLEWOOD COURT

a.m. — Forgery, 1700 block of SUNSET AVENUE

p.m. — Forgery, 800 block of ANTIQUITY DRIVE 1:04 p.m. — Brandishing a weapon, 400 block of DAHLIA STREET

3:06 p.m. — Assault with a deadly weapon, 1600 block of TRAVION COURT

3:45 p.m. — Drunk driver, 1600 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

4:27 p.m. — Trespassing, 800 block of EAST TRAVIS BOULEVARD

5:06 p.m. — Grand theft, 1900 block of GRANDE CIRCLE

5:22 p.m. — Forgery, 600 block of JACKSON STREET

5:28 p.m. — Vandalism, 1600 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

5:29 p.m. — Sexual assault, 1100 block of ALASKA AVENUE

5:47 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 2100 block of CADENASSO DRIVE

5:48 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 100 block of ALARCON COURT

6:19 p.m. — Forgery, 500 block of ALASKA AVENUE

7:45 p.m. — Fight with a weapon, 1600 block of TRAVION COURT

9:20 p.m. — Drunk driver, 2700 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

9:25 p.m. — Robbery, 1300 block of OLIVER ROAD

9:38 p.m. — Vandalism, 1200 block of TABOR AVENUE

SuiSun City

SATURDAY, MAY 6

9:20 a.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, WALTERS ROAD / PETERSEN ROAD

10:06 a.m. — Fraud, 600 block of FULMAR DRIVE

3:03 p.m. — Burglary, 800 block of HARRIER DRIVE

SUNDAY, MAY 7

3:23 p.m. — Burglary, 1600 block of DULUTH LANE MONDAY, MAY 8 8:41 a.m. — Reckless driver, HIGHWAY 12 / MARINA BOULEVARD

planning grant of up to $500,000 to develop a countywide strategic initiative for agriculture.

Suggested components of a strategic initiative include:

n Creation of a mapbased platform to help stakeholders and decision-makers evaluate and protect agricultural lands.

n A policy refresh targeting updates to the General Plan; encouraging establishment of infrastructure that facilitates growth of the agricultural economy; strengthening land use policies and ordinances; and evaluating how the county’s Williamson Act uniform rules and procedures can protect lands most vulnerable to conversion to other uses.

n Developing an Agricultural Economic Development Program that ensures investment in a secure future for the county’s agricultural economy. Giving local producers more influence is key.

n Facilitating a climate resilient future for local agriculture by supporting regenerative farming and ranching practices that meet the economic, environmental and social needs of the county.

n Starting an outreach and engagement initiative to build support for and catalyze co-stewardship of local agriculture.

The board action followed a presentation of an ad hoc committee report, presented by King as well as representatives of Ag Innovations, which was paid $93,000 to complete an agriculture assessment.

The ad hoc committee, which includes Mashburn and board Chairman John Vasquez, will now help develop the pre-application draft.

The primary focus will be on land use and economic development.

Also on the committee are King; County Administrator Bill Emlen; Terry Schmidtbauer, director of Resource Management; Rich Seithel, executive director of the Local Agency Formation Commission; Misty Kaltreider, Water and Natural Resources manager for the county; Nancy Nelson, a senior analyst in the Administrator’s Office; and Morgan Doran with the UC Cooperative Extension.

The ad hoc committee started its work in November 2021. Ag Innovations was brought on board soon after. Their group also has helped with the development of the groundwater sustainability plan, as well as the Cache Slough Land Evaluation and Assessment and the ongoing Putah Creek Water Management Project.

It would appear Ag Innovations is the frontrunner to be contracted to continue the ag industry work.

Supervisor Wanda Williams wanted to expand the committee for the next step, with a representative

remember those who sacrificed their lives, and the National Police Officer Appreciation Week is one to thank all those who have served.

prices are $15 for anyone 13 or older, with those 65 or older getting in for $10. Admission is also $10 for children 12 or younger and for members

appointed by each board member. Her motion failed to get support.

However, Vasquez acknowledged that once the draft application work is completed, the committee Williams’ envisions may be needed.

Williams, in general, did not think there were enough “voices” in developing the assessment, and was particularly upset that the Agriculture Advisory Committee, which was dissolved last week, was not more fully utilized even though the ad hoc assessment mentions the possible restructuring of the committee for the work.

She also believed that small farmers were not adequately represented, a position with which Pleasants Valley Agriculture Association members agreed.

They said they were ignored entirely, and could have provided valuable insight into the ag industry’s future, especially when it came to small farming operations and direct product sales.

What the committee did do was interview 40 individuals representing 47 ag interests. That included at least 20 farmers, the board was told.

But it also included ag processors, academic advisers and researchers, a farmworker group, land conservation advocates, air and water agency representatives, two resource conservation districts and county staff. Through that group, all commodity groups in the county were represented, the report to the board states.

of the military. Buy grandstand event tickets before the day of the event and the price of admission to the fair is included.

There were three objectives the committee started with: access the current state of agriculture; understand how the industry has changed in recent years; and develop recommendations on how to “ensure the long-term viability and success of Solano agriculture, including potential changes to the General Plan.”

“For ag to be sustainable, you have to protect (it) ... and it has to be profitable,” Vasquez said.

What the county has going for it is its diversity in crops, its diversity in farming industries, its geography and the diversity in land types as well as it location close to transportation routes and markets. It needs more processors, and it needs to protect what it has. Vasquez noted that as Dixon expands east, it puts pressure on Superior Farms and the Campbell Soup facility –likening growth closing in on an airport.

The board was told only a small percentage of goods produced in Solano County go to Solano consumers, and a high percentage of foods consumed locally come from outside the county. That has to change, the board was told, and educating the public will be a big part of that.

Sustainable Solano wants to be a bridge between the ag industry and the public, and the Solano Land Trust offered its experience with SALC grants to help the county to get the planning funds.

in the line of duty on March 15, 1963, hit by a vehicle as it was trying to get away from an armoredcar theft, during which a California Highway Patrol officer was fatally shot.

Supervisor Mitch Mashburn, who worked 32 years in the Sheriff’s Office, said peace officers go out every day to serve their communities, and run toward danger when called upon to do so.

“Twenty times in the history of our county, an officer has given his life, or her life, in the line of duty,” Mashburn said.

He said Peace Officers Memorial Day is one to

The Board of Supervisors recognized May 15 as the 61st annual commemoration of Peace Officers Memorial Day and May 14-20 as National Police Officer Appreciation Week.

Cisneros, Sandlin and Hale are among the 20 names etched into the Solano County Peace Officers Memorial at 530 Union Ave., the site of the annual remembrance scheduled for noon March 24.

The full list is of Solano County officers who have died in the line of duty is John

Howard, June 20, 1892; Frank Toal, Sept. 2, 1896; Jarvis P. Emigh, Aug. 29, 1914; Dan McKinnon, Nov. 22, 1918; James B. Power, March 25, 1925; Anson G. Burdick, Sept. 1, 1927; Charles H. Sorenson, March 15, 1963; Hale Humphrey, March 15, 1963; William L. Easson Jr., April 7, 1966; Calvin C. Thacker, April 7, 1966; Steven L. Armenta, Dec. 5, 1973; Gary L. Hughes, May 23, 1976; Albert W. Patch, Aug. 17, 1980; Arthur W. Koch, July 29, 1984; Jose Cisneros, Aug. 25, 1985; George F. Butler, Dec. 8, 1986; Jeffrey L. Azuar, April 12, 2000; John P. Sandlin, April 23, 2004; James L. Capoot, Nov. 17, 2011; and Kirk A. Griess, Aug. 10, 2018.

President John F. Kennedy designated May 15 as Peace Officers Memorial Day and the week in which it falls as National Police Officer Appreciation Week in 1962.

The staff report to the board states, nationally, there were 226 peace officers who lost their lives in the line of duty in 2022, down from 586 killed in 2021 – a figure that includes Covid-19 deaths.

“It is critical that the public know and understand the duties, responsibilities, hazards, challenges, and sacrifices law enforcement personnel face daily when performing their jobs,” the report states.

Supervisor Erin Hannigan was absent.

Trump didn’t attend or testify at his trial. His lawyers didn’t put on a defense case, relying instead on trying to discredit Carroll’s account by aggressively cross-examining her and her witnesses.

Outside the courthouse, Trump’s lawyer Joe Tacopina said the verdict proved Trump’s “firm belief” that he could not get a fair trial in his home state. Tacopina, who said he would appeal the

verdict, said the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape, in which Trump boasted about being able to “grab women...,” shouldn’t have been allowed in evidence.

“Strange verdict,” Tacopina said. “This was a rape case all along, and the jury rejected that, but made other findings, so we’ll obviously be appealing those other findings ... (Trump) is firm in his belief, as many people are, that he cannot get a fair trial in New York City based on the jury pool. I think one could argue that that’s probably an accurate assessment based on what happened today.

The verdict adds to Trump’s mounting legal woes. He was recently indicted in the Stormy Daniels hush money probe and is facing investigations over election issues in Georgia and classified documents found at his home in Florida.

Trump’s reaction to the verdict was swift.

“I have absolutely no idea who this woman is,” he wrote on Truth Social. “This verdict is a disgrace – a continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time!”

Carroll spent almost three days on the witness stand, where she emotionally testified about

being attacked in a changing room inside Bergdorf Goodman on Fifth Avenue between the fall of 1995 and spring of 1996. Carroll’s current lawsuit was the first filed under the Adult Survivors Act, historic legislation lifting the statute of limitations to bring sex assault claims for one year.

She told the jury Trump recognized her when they passed each other in the store’s revolving doors and asked her to help him pick out a present for an unknown woman.

After milling around the store, Carroll said Trump suggested they visit the sixth-floor lingerie depart-

ment, where he insisted Carroll try on a bodysuit.

Carroll, a daytime TV host who wrote a popular advice column for Elle magazine about love and sex, said she thought the happenstance encounter was a great New York moment that would make a good story. She wanted to make Trump try on the lingerie over his pants.

The 79-year-old said the situation turned dark once they got to the dressing rooms and Trump closed the door, pushing her against a wall and kissing her without consent. She described trying to throw “cold water” on the situa-

tion by nervously laughing. But she said an unrelenting Trump became increasingly violent, molesting her with his hand before pulling down her tights and raping her.

Carroll’s second claim, which accused Trump of defamation, was based on an Oct. 12, 2022, Truth Social post in which Trump said he didn’t know Carroll and that her allegations were “a hoax and a lie.”

Trump alleged Carroll had changed her story from beginning to end in promoting her book in a CNN interview, which Carroll said caused her emotional and professional harm.

Vaca’s Starbound Theatre presents

‘Finding Nemo Jr.’

VACAVILLE — Starbound Theatre presents “Finding Nemo Jr.” at the Vacaville Performing Arts Theater from Thursday through Saturday.

Guests will hear songs such as “Just Keep Swimming,” “Fish Are Friends Not Food,” and “Go With the Flow.”

The show is a musical adaptation of the 2003 Pixar movie “Finding Nemo” with new music by awardwinning songwriting team Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez.

It centers on Marlin, an anxious and over-protective clownfish, who lives in the Great Barrier Reef with his kid Nemo, who longs to explore the world beyond their anemone home.

When Nemo is captured and taken to Sydney, Australia, Marlin faces his fears and sets off on an epic adventure across

the ocean with the help of lovable characters such as optimistic Dory, laidback sea turtle Crush, and the supportive Tank Gang, Marlin and Nemo both overcome challenges on their journey to find each other and themselves.

This production from Starbound Theatre features 40 young performers ages 7-17 who have attended eight weeks of rehearsals in preparation for their performances.

This is the Solano County premiere of “Finding Nemo Jr.” and has been subsidized in part by the city of Vacaville with funds received from the American Rescue Plan Act.

Showtimes are 7 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 2 p.m. Saturday.

The show runs 90 minutes including intermission. Tickets are on sale now at www.vpat.net.

The theater is at 1010 Ulatis Drive.

Feinstein en route back to DC after extended absence

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Sen. Dianne Feinstein is flying back to Wash ington, her spokesman said Tuesday, after her extended absence due to the shingles virus threat ened to derail Senate Democrats’ agenda.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported that Feinstein, who had been convalescing in the Bay Area since mid-February, boarded a charter private plane on Tuesday and could return to the Senate as early as this evening.

Adam Russell, a spokes man for the Democratic senator, confirmed she is in transit back to Washington but declined to comment further.

The senator’s protracted absence caused mounting heartburn for the Democratic majority, which has few votes to spare to confirm President Joe Biden’s Cabinet and judicial nominees, as well as potential legislation to avert a default on the national debt.

While Feinstein has contended with questions about her health and ability to serve for several years, her slow recovery from the shingles virus and related complications led some Democrats, including Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., and Rep. Alexandria OcasioCortez, D-N.Y., to call for her resignation.

Other observers,

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A new look at the science of preventing breast cancer deaths promises to reshape when, and how many, mammograms American women will get – again.

An influential panel intends to recommend that U.S. women begin mammograms to screen for breast cancer at 40 and continue getting them once every two years until age 75. Doing so is expected to reduce the number of breast cancer deaths by 19% compared to following the mammography regimen it previously endorsed.

The new slate of draft recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force marks a major shift from the controversial advice it promulgated in 2009 –and largely reiterated in 2016 – that most women could safely wait until 50 to begin having their breasts scanned for signs of potential malignancies. The panel also said women at average risk could be screened every other year instead of annually.

In calling for fewer mammograms over a woman’s lifetime, the task force cited the frequency with which breast cancers were overdiagnosed, leading to invasivement, as well as the harms that come from needless biopsies and other workups done in response to false-positive test results. It also recognized that mammograms expose women to radiation, which in some cases could wind -

dations touched off a firestorm and were denounced by women’s health advocates, who have long argued that early detection gives the best chance of survival.

tive treatment for breast cancer will be needed as well, the experts warned.

Also driving the changes in the draft recommendations is a growing recognition of the risks faced by women with dense breasts, which make malignancies both more common and harder to detect on mammographic images.

Almost half of all women have dense breasts, and the task force members said they had little research to guide them on whether to recommend additional screening or other kinds of imaging, such as MRI or ultrasound.

an opportunity early to engage in a process of calculating their personal risks.”

In doing so, women find they are subject to a range of breast-cancer screening recommendations.

The American Cancer Society suggests women begin annual mammograms at 45, then consider switching to biannual tests at 55. Women who would prefer to begin annual screening at 40 can do so, and they should continue getting mammograms as long as they expect to live at least 10 more years, the ACS adds.

including ethics experts and progressive activists in the state, decried a lack of transparency from her office on details about her medical condition. Last week, her staff declined to give The Times a report or interview from her doctor.

In a statement last week, Feinstein pushed back against critiques that she was causing a backlog for the Senate Judiciary Committee and maintained she would be returning to Washington without specifying a timeline.

The Senate Judiciary Committee is slated to meet to consider nominations this Thursday.

What prompted the task force to change its mind and advise that screening mammograms begin at 40? The members said they were strongly influenced by the experiences of Black women, who tend to develop aggressive breast cancers earlier than white women do, and to die of them more often. According to one study, Black women are 39% more likely to die of breast cancer than the population of women as a whole.

Screening women of color for breast cancer earlier is just the first of many steps that must be taken to close persistent gaps along ethnic lines.

For Black, Hispanic, Latina, Asian, Native American and Alaska Native women, timely follow-up and effec-

“New and more inclusive science about breast cancer in people younger than 50 has enabled us to expand our prior recommendation and encourage all women to get screened every other year starting at age 40,” said Dr. Carol Mangione, chief of internal medicine at UCLA and the chair of the group that wrote the task force’s proposed recommendation. The new guidelines “will help save lives and prevent more women from dying due to breast cancer,” she added.

Dr. Patricia Ganz, a breast cancer expert at UCLA who has served on many cancer-screening panels, said that there is little new evidence driving the task force’s shift. But she called the group’s focus on addressing racial inequities in breast cancer “very, very important.” And she said the every-other-year mammography schedule is in line with practices in Canada and Europe.

“I do think this is a very good recommendation: It leaves doctors and their patients a lot of flexibility” to decide how aggressive or relaxed their breast cancer screening should be, Ganz said. “The fact that they recommend starting at 40 means these women will have

The American College of Radiology and Society of Breast Imaging recommend annual mammography screening for all women ages 40 and older who are at average risk of breast cancer.

Neither group suggests that 75 should be a hard upper limit for screening mammograms. But the American College of Radiology has recommended that all women have a risk assessment for breast cancer by the age of 25, and discuss with their doctor whether earlier screening with mammography and/or MRI is needed.

Dr. Debra L. Monticciolo, a radiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, was highly critical of the task force’s decision to recommend mammograms every other year considering that Black women and Jewish women die from breast cancer prior to age 50 – or even 40 – more often than white women as a whole. “That’s just going to exacerbate the racial disparities,” she warned.

“Their own evidence shows that the most lives are saved with yearly screening,” said Monticiollo, who led the drafting of the American College of Radiology/Society of

Breast Imaging recommendations. “With annual screening of women 40-to-79, you get a 42% mortality reduction. Limit that to every other year, and it drops the mortality reduction to 30%. These are women’s lives that would be saved. I don’t know what their thinking is here.” The task force noted other consequences of shifting from the least-intensive to the most-intensive screening schedule, however. The number of mammograms a typical woman received tripled, as did the number of false positive readings. The rate of overdiagnosis more than doubled, from 8% of cases to 17%.

Dr. Otis Brawley, a Johns Hopkins oncologist and cancer epidemiologist, said that while it seems counterintuitive that screening less often could save more lives, it’s a possibility that cries out for rigorous testing.

“Even many experts can’t come to grips with how many cancers are caused by mammogram screening and how many deaths are diverted by that screening,” said Brawley. People who carry genes that predispose them to some cancers may be particularly vulnerable to radiation-induced mutations, he said. “But that’s not a trade-off that’s been explored with strong research,” he added.

The task force made clear that its new recommendations were not undergirded with rocksolid confidence. That women should begin getting mammograms at 40 had its most solid research backing. But the task force assigned far lower confidence values to its every-other-year schedule of mammography, and to the idea that breast-cancer detection after 75 may not be life-saving.

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A draft recommendation from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force says breast cancer screening should start at age 40 to benefit groups including Black women and women with dense breasts.

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images/TNS Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., makes her way to the Senate chambers at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Feb. 16.

Jordan Diaz hits 3 home runs for the A’s in loss B10

Can Warriors’ star trio make another run?

Dieter Kurtenbach

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The partnership of Steph Curry, Klay Thompson, and Draymond Green transformed the Warriors’ organization and the league.

But now they’re facing something even more powerful than their NBA rivals: Their own basketball mortality. The Warriors rode those Hall of Famers to

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incredible heights. But one more loss could bring a giant fall.

So do the Warriors’ Big Three – each pulling his own weight – have one more incredible run in them?

Nothing less than that will do now that they’re down 3-1 to the Lakers.

This is a new feeling for the Warriors, who have not lost a Western Conferenceplayoff series

since 2014 and are undefeated in the conference playoffs under coach Steve Kerr.

They know how to beat LA. They just can’t seem to do it.

Aging is ruthless.

And yet, the Warriors’ problems are more complicated than that. There have been stretches in this series where the Dubs’ quality is undeniable. They won Game 2 by 27 points.

But those bursts haven’t been enough.

Golden State finds itself in a deficit that’s a stark summation of the faults it showed all season.

After years of perceived invincibility, this year’s Warriors have shown nothing but fallibility. It’s put them on the brink. It’s also made it exceptionally difficult to imagine this team not going over the edge.

Curry has covered many of those flaws. He’s a basketball immortal, still playing his best ball at age 35. The same

Two area athletes garner all-league honors in college softball, tennis

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FAIRFIELD — Two area athletes earned allleague honors in softball and tennis among major conferences last week.

Sophomore outfielder

Tai Wilson (Vanden) earned all-Western Athletic Conference honors for the Seattle University softball team.

Wilson finished in the top 10 in batting average (.438), runs scored (23) and hits (35) during the conference season. She has been one of the WAC’s best hitters all season, ranking tied for second in hits (67), fifth in batting average (.401), sixth in runs scored (45) and 10th in on-base percentage (.460).

Wilson capped off a great WAC regular season with Hitter-ofthe-Week honors after a sweep of

California Baptist. She was 8-of-11 (.727) in the series with one double, five runs scored and three RBIs.

In tennis, sophomore Zach Lim (Rodriguez) was named second team all-Ivy League in doubles for the University of Pennsylvania.

Lim and his partner Harsh Parikh did not play a dual match together until the middle of March but finished the year 6-4, including 5-1 in Ivy competition.

Here’s a look at other outstanding performances by area athletes:

Track and Field Sophomore Maya Holman (Vacaville) placed fifth with 4,928 points for the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo women’s track and field team at the Big West Multi-Event Championships Saturday at Cal

State Fullerton. Holman moved to No. 9 alltime in the heptathlon at Cal Poly. Holman improved upon her previous best point total by 81 to pass Karen Kraemer (1984) on Cal Poly’s all-time list. As a true freshman at last year’s multi-event meet, Holman secured sixth in the heptathlon with 4,435 points.

The heptathlon includes the long jump, javelin, 100-meter hurdles, high jump, shot put, 800 meters 200 meters.

Sophomore Daniel Hernandez (Vacaville) picked up a pair of runner-up finishes for Chico State at the California Collegiate Athletic Association Championships in Marcus. Hernandez was second in the 3,000meter steeplechase (9:15.32) and also second in the 5,000 meters (14:43.91).

Giants call up slick-fielding infielder Casey Schmitt from the River Cats

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Top third-base prospect Casey Schmitt is getting the call to the majors, he’s just unlikely to play third.

The San Francisco Giants added Schmitt, 24, to the roster Tuesday morning and he’ll be making his bigleague debut against the Nationals.

The Giants played Washington late Tuesday night in San Francisco.

Schmitt can play shortstop and second base along with having elite skills at third, so he’ll probably be an option at shortstop

with Brandon Crawford out another day or two with a calf strain, and with Logan Webb, a ground-

ball pitcher, on the mound against Washington, that’s no minor consideration. It also would allow Thairo

cannot be said of Thompson and Green (both 33 years old.) They have shown the wear and tear of a decade of success.

The Warriors’ subsequent struggles don’t seem coincidental.

But the Dubs and the Big Three are not dead yet.

Perhaps the Warriors can play like they have nothing to lose when everything is on the line.

It’s now or never, after all. Only 13 times in the

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history of the NBA has a team come back from a 3-1 deficit, but the Warriors are one of the teams who has done it.

Then again, that comeback against Oklahoma City was back in 2016, the early days of Steph Curry, Thompson, and Green’s championship window.

To pull themselves back from this season’s 3-1 deficit, Curry needs to remain at the peak of his powers — he was

Rodriguez baseball shuts out Linden in playoff debut

Aaron Strong’s RBI single in the third inning accounted for all the offense Tuesday as the Rodriguez High School baseball team shut out a powerful Linden lineup on the Lions’ home field and earned a 1-0 victory in the first round of the Sac-Joaquin Section Division II playoffs.

Nathan Schikore pitched 4 1/3 innings and was followed by Carson Thompson for 1 2/3 innings. Kyle Sandner closed out the final four outs. Linden came into the game with an unbeaten 23-0 record.

“That was a really good win,” Rodriguez head coach James Maldonado said. “We felt like we had our best practice of the year yesterday and the guys were all in good spirits. It carried over into today.”

Rodriguez has a quarterfinal game at top-ranked Pittman in Turlock at 4 p.m. Pittman opened with a 5-0 win over Ceres.

Maldonado said the defense was crisp for both teams as the game finished in just five minutes under two hours.

Vanden eliminated by Vista del Lago

FAIRFIELD — Visiting Vista del Lago jumped on the host Vanden High School baseball team for all seven of its runs in the first three innings in a 7-1 win that eliminated the Vikings from the SacJoaquin Section Division III playoffs Tuesday.

in a 5-0 loss to Whitney in the first round of the SacJoaquin Section Division I playoffs in Rocklin. Trailing 3-0 in the sixth inning, the Royals had runners on first and third with no outs. They weren’t able to score. The next two batters popped out and hit a hard grounder into a double play.

Armijo finished up the season 10-12 overall. Brayan Orrantia had a double for Armijo. Chase Lewis and Caden Magno singled. Luis Urias pitched six innings, gave up five runs and struck out three. The Royals hurt themselves with three errors.

Urias was voted the MEL Player of the Year in voting by head coaches last weekend. Whitney squared twice in the first inning and added single runs in the second, fifth and sixth. Jace Gilmore pitched the complete game with one walk and three strikeouts.

Vacaville turned away 6-4 by Folsom

VACAVILLE —The baseball season at Vacaville High School came to an abrupt end Tuesday after a 6-4 loss to visiting Folsom in the first round of the Sac-Joaquin Section Division I playoffs.

Head coach Stu Clary said some unbelievable defense plays and key hits carried Folsom to the victory. Vacaville finished its season 18-11 overall after winning the Monticello Empire League championship.

Estrada to move back to second base.

“I think he has exceeded all of our expectations at the shortstop position defensively,” Giants director of player development Kyle Haines said. “We thought originally that he would be solid at shortstop but he actually has been plus at times there in all areas. He is so athletic on defense, and it’s been very fun to watch it firsthand.”

The Giants are unsettled at the shortstop position beyond this year, with Crawford, 36, in the final year of his extension

Vista del Lago had 10 hits and all the runs were earned. JoJo Torres, Brayden Bruno and Trevor Morse all took the mound for Vanden. The Vikings finished the season 12-11 overall.

Dalen Shipp and Jack Tranchina had two hits apiece. Cody Buckley doubled in the Vikings’ lone run in the third inning. Austin Hammerschmidt also singled.

“I thought we were going to be able to pull it out,” Clary said. “In the end, that wasn’t the case. All you can do is tip your cap to them and say good luck the rest of the playoffs.”

Brenden Murphy, Drew Lammon and Luke Johnson had two hits apiece for Vacaville. Lammon also doubled. Cy Dempsay also had a hit.

Armijo

shut out by host Whitney in D-1

FAIRFIELD — The Armijo High School baseball team had some opportunities to score but came up empty Tuesday

MEL Pitcher of the Year Jaiden Olwin suffered his first loss of the season.

Jacob Van Pelt and Peyton Olds also got stints on the mound for Vacaville in the season finale.

Courtesy of Seattle University Athletics file (2022)

Tai Wilson, a Vanden High School graduate, was recently named an all-WAC selection as a sophomore outfielder at Seattle University. She was also the Player of the Week as the Redhawks swept California Baptist.

Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group/TNS Oakland Athletics’ Jordan Diaz (12) reaches for the ball as San Francisco Giants’ Casey Schmitt (97) slides safely into second base in the seventh inning of their preseason game in March at the Coliseum.

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Dear Annie: My 19-year-old daughter –she’ll be 20 in July – is a sophomore at Charleston College. She came home for spring break and informed my husband and me that she had found her soul mate at Charleston, and they plan to marry this summer. He’s 24 and a graduate student teaching English. She wants to go back to school in the fall as husband and wife. How they plan to support themselves we have no idea. Should we try to talk her out if it? We’ve already told her we think it’s a mistake. — Disapproving

Dear Disapproving: Have a candid conversation with your daughter about all of the reasons why you think she is too young for marriage. Explain to her that, if they are truly soul mates, there is no harm in waiting at least until she is out of school.

If she still decides to go through with it, then you should support her with love but not money. Nineteen is old enough

to make your own mistakes. Let her know that she will be receiving no financial support from you or your husband. If she wants to have all the freedom of being an adult, then she also needs to accept all the responsibility.

Dear Annie: I’ve been a mail carrier for the past two years. I know one of my fellow carriers is drinking on the job. I actually saw his truck parked near a neighborhood bar one afternoon.

I don’t want to be a rat. But most of us work pretty hard every day. I don’t know how this guy finds the time to hang out and it bugs me. Should I report him? — Worried Behind the Wheel

Dear Worried: You should definitely report him – not because you’re frustrated by his hanging out at a bar during work time, but for the safety of others. It’s a hazard for the whole community to have a drunk mailman wreaking havoc on the roads. If you don’t report him, it could be only a matter of time before he hurts himself

Horoscopes by Holiday Mathis

ARIES (March 21-April 19).

Relationships knit together with shared experiences, not a shared point of view. Each has a different version of the story, and it will be fun to listen, compare and contrast them all.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20).

You’re in charge of your own agenda. Don’t drive yourself too hard. You’ll be more productive when you make a loose plan and give yourself the flexibility that comes from a long list of options.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21).

The reason you get to be in your current position is because you’ve earned it. So, while you feel lucky, don’t forget the hard work that was essential to your journey. There’s more of that ahead.

CANCER (June 22-July 22).

If you can’t think of what to say, don’t worry. Silence is golden, especially when it’s infused with the simple intention to honor the other person. Timing, intuition and kismet are working in your favor.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You will become more powerful, but not through sources outside yourself. For this reason, it makes no sense to seek power, only to grow it. Let go of unnecessary baggage, plug energy drains and committing to training.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).

Check in with yourself about the dynamics of a relationship. Is there balance? Is anyone on a pedestal? Bring it all back down to earth. Healthy relationships are like art – you have to draw

Today’s birthday

This is the beginning of a meaningful build. Your ability to elicit and apply excellent feedback will net you brilliant results. You’ll make things people need, and they’ll become happy, praiseful customers of yours. You’ll soak up the love and radiate it, too. More highlights: VIP tickets, natural wonders and the resolution you’ve waited for. Sagittarius and Scorpio adore you. Your lucky numbers are:

5, 3, 7, 19 and 32.

the line someplace.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).

You’ll deal in gray areas. Instead of thinking in terms of wrong and right, consider what ideas are helpful or not. Mentally untie yourself from ideas that aren’t useful. What you thought was inevitable is actually just one possibility.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).

Love is knowing specifically what makes a person special. You take the time to know precisely what makes a person unique. To recognize those qualities when it matters is among the greatest gifts you could give.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21). You will feel inspired to toss out a regret. Pretend it’s a smooth, flat stone you can skip across the still waters of reason. Watch it sink and let the ripples circle out to

or somebody else. Take action before it’s too late. Reporting him anonymously ensures you won’t be involved any further once you’ve notified the right people.

Dear Annie: My wife and I are in our early 70s and still very active. We go out a lot and visit relatives often. The problem: my wife has no sense of time. We are routinely one to two hours late every place we go. It drives me crazy and generally leads to an argument on the way there. Is there any hope in convincing her to practice some time management? She’s pretty set in her ways –even more so when I make an issue of it. — Tired of Tardiness

Dear Tired: I assume you’ve already discussed this with her ad nauseam, but it’s time to walk the walk. Next time you have an appointment, tell her the exact time you are leaving the house and that if she is late, she will have to drive separately. Doing this a couple of times should let her know you mean business.

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reassure you that your load is lighter.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19). It’s beautiful how you appreciate other people’s accomplishments. Can you apply the same enthusiasm to self-appreciation? You’ll get where you want to go by being able to encourage yourself when it matters.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18). Battling your fear takes too much energy. Befriend it instead. Thank your fear for keeping you safe, heightening your perception and helping you correct your course when necessary. Once acknowledged, fear typically calms down.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You’re in the mood to be more social. Activities you typically take on solo will be made sweeter with the right company. Doings like reading, entertainment and exercise will take on new dimensions with the added insight of interesting people.

CELEBRITY PROFILES: Rock star humanitarian Paul Hewson is a golden-throated Taurus whose professional name “Bono” loosely translates to “good voice.” The U2 frontman takes personal responsibility for the world at large, a trait associated with Saturn in Capricorn. Mars in Pisces shows a sensitive soul, and his eyes are sensitive, too. That’s why he’s almost never seen without cool sunglasses! Write Holiday Mathis at HolidayMathis.com.

Crossword by Phillip Alder

Bridge

everyone at the table. Only someone with excellent vision, or an inveterate pessimist, would make the contract.

A VISIONARY DECLARER SEES MORE CLEARLY

How do you picture the cards held by the other players? I think I’m lucky, because I have a pictorial memory. I “see” the missing cards in my mind’s eye. However, whatever works for you is fine. Just make sure you spend time counting to calculate who has what.

Today’s deal would trip up almost

Six hearts is excellent but difficult to reach. In the given auction, both North and South bid aggressively. South opened with a strong, artificial and forcing two clubs. North made a “waiting” response of two diamonds. (Yes, I much prefer two no-trump to show a balanced 8 or more.) His second-round raise to three hearts promised some strength. With a total bust, North would have rebid either two no-trump or three clubs, according to choice. This is the so-called double negative. Control-bidding and Blackwood followed. After the club lead, almost everyone would think they had 12 easy tricks: four spades, six hearts and two minor-suit aces. They would win with dummy’s club ace, cash the heart ace-king and play off the spade ace-king. However, here West would ruff and exit with any card, leaving declarer with an unavoidable diamond loser: down one. Then you would hear a lot of grumbling about bad luck. Welshman Tony Haworth foresaw this possibility. After winning trick one with dummy’s club ace, he called for a low club and discarded a flamboyant spade ace! Now the contract was safe.

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Sudoku by Wayne Gould

5/10/23

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

Difficulty level: GOLD

Yesterday’s solution:

We think our 19-year-old daughter is still too young to get married

Word Sleuth

Annie Lane

Dear Annie

What our teachers do – day in, day out

Every year, during the month of May, one week is dedicated to honor teachers and what they do.

During her opening monologue on “Saturday Night Live” recently, Quinta Brunson – star of the show “Abbot Elementary,” and whose mom is a teacher – shared her thoughts about what teachers and parents went through during Covid-19. She said, “teachers get taken for granted. Like I’ve always had a dishwasher, never thought about it, loaded it up, kicked it shut, went to bed ... But then, my husband and I moved into an apartment that didn’t have a dishwasher and after one day, I was like, we got to get … out of here.

“Me not having a dishwasher is how parents [felt] when they [didn’t] have teachers during the pandemic. Suddenly, parents were like, we have to teach these dishes now? We have to feed these dishes now? Why do I have so many dishes? That last dish was a mistake. But seriously, teachers are people, not appliances. So please, remember how important teachers are. Acknowledge the work they do every day, and for the love of God, pay them the money they deserve.”

As a Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District governing board member, I have received lots of feedback from students, and I have witnessed, first-hand, what our amazing teachers do, day in and day out. Students who attend Early College High School, for instance, graduate from high school with not only their high school diplomas, but with AA degrees to boot.

So many of them have credited their teachers, especially Mr. Quinten Voyce, for preparing them for the rigor of university reading, research and writing, as they transfer as juniors, at 18 years old. Mrs. Pam Williamson requires that her senior class projects entail real-world issues, such as city transportation or how to bring new businesses to our mall.

When they present their final projects, she invites elected officials to observe, review, ask questions and take further suggestions from the students. Having observed these presentations, I am in awe of how thoughtful, thorough and insightful students are in their vision for the future of their city.

Mrs. Williamson also conducts an essay writing competition on U.S. Government, earning students hundreds of dollars in scholarships from local nonprofit organizations.

The football coaches at our high schools have coached students to receiving Division I athletic scholarships in order to gain a more affordable college education as they pursue their dreams of becoming NFL players as a few of their predecessors have.

Accompanying Nancy Dunn, FairfieldSuisun Teachers’ Association president, on her “Orange Umbrella Tours,” I have encountered stories of graduates from Fairfield High School’s auto-shop classes returning to take their former teachers to lunch because they make more money than their teachers do, thanking them for teaching them and helping them find their pathway to lucrative careers in mechanics and engineering.

I have also had discussions with many on the efficacy of standardized testing, some for and some against. All in all, K-12 teachers prepare students for both college and career and inspire us to become productive members of society. The teacher who most influenced me was my first-grade teacher who told me how unique I was because I could write a complete, coherent sentence, upside down.

The teacher who changed the trajectory of my life was my “Introduction to Public Speaking” college professor, who introduced me to speech and debate, which led me away from my goal of teaching eighth-grade English to teaching communication studies on the college level and coaching speech and debate teams for 15 years. The added bonus was meeting my husband, who is also in the teaching profession.

I bet if each one of us were to name the top 10 people who have had a positive influence in our lives, I would venture to guess that a teacher will be among them. So, the next time you see a teacher, please thank them for educating our future. Teachers create professions.

Ana Petero is a trustee in the Fairfield-Suisun School District. The views expressed in this column are her own and not those of the school board or its other members.

THE OTHER SIDE

To the mothers no longer with us

With Mother’s Day approaching, in addition to thinking about my own mother who passed away in 2006, I’m thinking of Herminia “Lola” Darden, who passed away recently. She was the mother of two childhood friends of mine, Daniel and James Darden.

Mrs. Darden was one of those old-school neighborhood moms. She knew my mom and other kids’ moms in the neighborhood. This was back when there was a mom network. You couldn’t hope to get away with something because the moms kept each other up to date.

She kept us in snacks when we played hours-long games of Dungeons & Dragons. (Yeah, Daniel and James, I just outed you as D&D geeks like me.) And she was there with something cold to drink after my younger brother Scott, friend Chumly and I destroyed the Darden brothers in street football. Their family dynamic was similar to mine. We both had tough, strict military fathers but we had strong, compassionate, caring mothers who balanced out those rough edges.

COMMENTARY

If you have that old-school family dynamic, supportive mothers are essential. And when I look at the successful men and fathers the Darden brothers have grown up to be I can see Hermie Darden’s impact on them. For some, Mother’s Day is tough because some people don’t have a great relationship with their mother. It happens. Or perhaps you didn’t have a great relationship and your mother has passed. If you look around, there’s often mother figures in your lives that gives you what you need from a mother. Motherhood isn’t about blood. It’s about mentoring, nurturing, caring and commitment. And there are many women who help fill that space. I told James that when both parents have passed on you feel almost like an orphan. He concurred. For me, I learned that there’s never a right time to lose a parent. When my mother passed away I still felt unsure that I hadn’t learned enough, absorbed enough to be in the world without her, even though I’d been an adult a long time. It was hard accepting I couldn’t pick up the phone and

talk with her, share good news with her, be comforted by her and laugh with her since we shared the same nutty sense of humor.

However, it’s also liberating. It’s part of the natural order and it’s like graduating into the next phase of life.

But the truth is we don’t really lose our parents. They’re that voice of reason in our heads. Sometimes we hear their voices, their words come out of our own mouths. There are things that they taught us and lessons we’ve learned that we aren’t even consciously aware of. And we pass on their wisdom, humor and quirks on to our children and grandchildren. Our parents live on through us. And for us guys, mom has our heart.

So here’s to the moms who are no longer here but who’ve done their jobs well. The moms who steered us in the right direction, were there for us at our lowest, who built us up, loved us, shaped us and guided us to be the adults we are today. The best way to honor them is to live good lives of purpose. Thank you, moms. Peace.

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

We know so little about how social media affects children’s brains

Lisa Jarvis BLOOMBERG OPINION

The American Psychological Association has issued its first advisory on social media use in adolescence. What’s most striking in its data-based recommendations is how little we really know about how these apps affect our kids. The relative newness of platforms like Snapchat and TikTok means little research is available about their long-term effects on teen and tween brains. Getting better data will require significant funding –and much more transparency from tech companies.

Perhaps a lack of clear data is one reason that so much of the conversation around social media and kids leans on our personal experiences and attitudes. And so much of the available data is murky: There’s plenty of correlative evidence that platforms like TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram can have a negative effect on kids’ development, but very little causal data.

That doesn’t mean that our assumptions about social media’s deleterious effects on kids aren’t true, or that parents don’t have cause to worry. But it has led to an all-ornothing discourse that often ignores the reality that social media isn’t going away.

The APA report wisely turns our attention to what we do and don’t know about tween and teens’ relationships with social media – and is a call to action for more research into how powerful technology could be reshaping social development. “It’s time to get the science out,” says Mitch Prinstein, the APA’s chief science officer. What little evidence we do have unsurprisingly suggests that social media trades on incentives that aren’t

great for young brains. Many kids’ first exposure to social media occurs “at the worst possible time when it comes to brain development,” says Prinstein, a psychologist and neuroscientist who studies adolescents’ social interactions at the University of North Carolina.

“That ‘like’ button and that artificial intelligence is going to affect young people’s brains in a way that’s very different from adult brains when it comes to the desire to stay online and to say or do almost anything to get followers.” When it comes to social interactions, he compares kids’ brains to a car with a huge gas pedal and weak brakes.

Earlier this year, Prinstein and his UNC colleagues published the results of one of the first studies of how the adolescent brain reacts to social media. The team surveyed a group of middle-schoolers to understand their social media habits, and then stuck them in an MRI machine to watch their brains as they reacted to social rewards or punishments. They found that 12-year-olds who habitually checked social media had distinct neural patterns, with more activity over time in parts of the brain associated with motivation, salience (or where attention is focused) and cognitive control.

The team didn’t weigh in on whether those differences were good or bad, or whether the relationship was causal or correlational. But their work points to the need for more research. It also should reinforce to parents the need to be keenly aware of social media’s hidden influence on still-developing brains.

That research would be a lot more productive if tech companies were open about what they know about kids’ use of their platforms. Companies have hired their own psy-

chologists to test different ways to pull users in, and surely are tracking data on how different demographics respond to social media. That data could help researchers like Prinstein understand social media’s impact on kids’ mental health, and in particular identify specific groups that are particularly susceptible to negative experiences, or conversely might be benefiting from social media.

Tech companies must also do more to adapt the user experience to make it safer for adolescents. That could start, of course, with ensuring that kids’ scrolling isn’t leading them to potentially harmful content. But smaller changes – like an age limit on access to the “like” button and time limits on how long adolescents can scroll – could also help, based on the little we already know.

And of course, kids have ready access to social media because parents allow it. One big reason parents cave to pestering for a phone and access to TikTok or Instagram is because they worry their child will be left out.

On that point, Prinstein said something that I think many parents need to hear: “We have no data to say kids will suffer social consequences by being offline.”

Keep that in mind during the next battle with your kid over when they can finally get a phone or their own Snapchat account. The social media genie might be out of the bottle, but it doesn’t mean parents have lost all control.

Lisa Jarvis is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering biotech, health care and the pharmaceutical industry. This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.

Kelvin Wade

Hollywood was built on the work of unappreciated, undervalued writers

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LOS ANGELES — In 1945, barely two years into Raymond Chandler’s career as a screenwriter, the man whose hard-boiled fiction did much to make film noir into an art form had already wearied of the town and its treatment of writers.

“Hollywood is a showman’s paradise. But showmen make nothing; they exploit what someone else has made,” he wrote in an acerbic essay published in the Atlantic.

In barbed zinger after zinger, the man who gave us private investigator Philip Marlowe described Hollywood as a cauldron of “egos,” “credit stealing” and “self-promotion” where scribes were ruthlessly neglected, marginalized and stripped of respect; toiling at the mercy of producers, some of whom, he wrote, had “the artistic integrity of slot machines and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.”

Nearly 80 years after Chandler excoriated the industry, a new generation of scribes says that not much has changed, and they’ve taken to the picket lines to denounce the pile-up of indignities.

Long unappreciated, writers of the screen big and small complain this time around that they are now not simply undervalued but underpaid too. In the era of Peak TV and the rise of powerful disruptors like Netflix and Amazon, they say profits have ballooned for the studios and their executives who’ve reaped in billions, while they’ve been streamrolled – subjected to worsening working conditions and deprived of a sustainable living.

Chandler might as well have been writing about today when he called Hollywood a place where degradations, such as the “incessant bone-scraping revisions imposed on the Hollywood writer by the process of the rule of decree,” were routine – and where a screenwriter’s billing “will be smaller than that of the most insignificant bit-player.”

Chandler concluded that such humiliations were by design, “a deliberate and successful plan to reduce the professional screenwriter to the status of an assistant picture-maker, superficially deferred to (while he is in the room), essentially ignored, and even in his most brilliant achievements carefully pushed out of the way of any possible accolade which might otherwise fall to the star, the producer, the director.”

In many ways, the new fight is about the old fight, and that has always been about respect.

“These struggles have been going on for over a century,” said USC history professor Steven J. Ross, who pointed out that screenwriters first organized in the 1910s.

During Hollywood’s Golden Age of the 1930s and 1940s, when moviemaking operated under the studio system, the moguls who ruled over the industry exhibited little appreciation for writers or the writing process.

Irving Thalberg, who along

with Louis B. Mayer helped make MGM, once famously remarked: “What’s all this business about being a writer? It’s just putting one word after another.’’

Thalberg took the dim view that writers were much like factory workers. Indeed, Thalberg is largely credited with establishing the assembly-line method of screenwriting.

As novelist-turned-screenwriter P.G. Wodehouse groused in a letter to a friend in 1930, “So far, I have had eight collaborators. The system is that A. gets the original idea, B. comes in to work with him on it, C. makes a scenario, D. does preliminary dialogue, and then they send for me to insert Class and what-not. Then E. and F., scenario writers, alter the plot and off we go again.”

But it was Warner Bros. studio honcho Jack L. Warner who perhaps best summed up the lowly status of writers, calling them: “schmucks with Underwoods.”

(For those unfamiliar with Underwoods, they were once a well-known brand of typewriter. For those unacquainted with a typewriter, it was once a popular machine for writing on paper. And for those not versed in Yiddish, schmuck is a fool.)

All the same, at the dawn of the “Talkies,” the studios were eager for talent to supply dialogue but also prestige. They wooed the most acclaimed Broadway playwrights, authors and journalists of the day to head out west. And they came: Dorothy Parker, George S. Kaufman, Christopher Isherwood, James Agee, Aldous Huxley and Clifford Odets, to name a few. As screenwriters they could make the kind of money that their novels, plays and articles did not.

But they too looked down upon the industry and heaped scorn upon the work.

In 1925, Herman Mankiewicz – who went on to co-write “Citizen Kane” in 1941 –famously sent a telegram to his friend Ben Hecht, a Chicago Daily News reporter, telling him the Brinks truck would practically back up at his front door in Hollywood: “Millions are to be grabbed out here and your only competition is idiots.”

Commenting on the lucre to be had, Parker said, “It isn’t real money. It isn’t. I think it’s made of compressed snow. It just melts in your hands.”

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Parker, the master of acid one-liners, came to Hollywood in the mid-1930s with her husband, Alan Campbell. The pair got a contract with Paramount and together made $1,250 a week, later bumped up to $5,000 – an exorbitant sum during the Great Depression.

Parker helped write “A Star Is Born” in 1937 and many suspect she had a hand in Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life.” But she wrote scads of forgettable films and thought little of the art of the screenplay, once saying, “You don’t need any talent – the last thing you want is talent.”

While these writers earned buckets of money, they got little regard. In scores of letters and other missives, they regularly complained of being snubbed, rewritten and their dignity trampled by actors, producers and directors alike.

Between 1932 to 1954, Nobel laureate William Faulkner worked on some 50 films, including the adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s “To Have and Have Not” and Chandler’s “The Big Sleep.” By most accounts, however, he hated the work, spent much of his time drinking and had an affair with director Howard Hawks’ secretary and script supervisor Meta Carpenter.

Summing up his stretch as a contract screenwriter for MGM, 20th Century Fox and others, Faulkner is reported to have said, “The writer in America isn’t part of the culture of this country. He’s like a fine dog. People like him around, but he’s of no use.”

When F. Scott Fitzgerald was asked to return to Hollywood in 1935, after two earlier failed stints, he wrote to his agent, Harold Ober, “I hate the place like poison with a sincere hatred.”

Two years later, Fitzgerald arrived in sun-splashed Los Angeles with a $1,000-a-week contract (later extended and increased to $1,250) with MGM. He lasted 18 months.

Among the many indignities he suffered, Fitzgerald was dropped from both “Gone With the Wind” and “The Women.” In the case of the latter, the studio found his dialogue did not meet the standard for cattiness.

In 1937, Fitzgerald was brought in to take over the

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also they have to buy expensive presents for their friends.

In bridge, you should occasionally take out insurance. When you can see the winning defense, don’t sit back and hope partner finds the key play. Take charge; grab the bull by the horns; run the show.

West opened with a weak two-bid, showing a good six-card suit and some 6-10 high-card points. East made a preemptive raise to game, but it didn’t shut out South.

West led the heart king. Seeing two losing hearts in the dummy, East thoughtlessly encouraged with the seven. South happily ruffed West’s heart continuation, drew trumps and ran the diamond jack. In desperation, East ducked. Suitably duped, declarer finessed his diamond eight, but after East produced the king, South claimed the rest of the tricks.

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PAY YOUR PREMIUMS

No doubt you have house and car insurance. Maybe you have other policies like life and medical. However, perhaps the strangest insurance is sold in Japan. Golfers pay about $50 a year to insure against hitting a hole in one, because if they do ace a hole, it costs a fortune. Not only must they stand a round of drinks at the 19th hole, but

Knowing West has six hearts, East should realize that there is only one heart trick for the defense. Also, that diamond suit in the dummy is threatening. Rather than discouraging in hearts and hoping partner will switch to a club at trick two, East should overtake with the heart ace and shift to the club queen himself, for one down instead of one over.

Always keep track of your target: the number of tricks needed to defeat the contract.

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script for “Three Comrades,” an adaptation of the popular novel by Erich Maria Remarque.

When he handed his draft to Joseph Mankiewicz, the producer paired him up with cinema veteran Edward E. Paramore Jr. After they worked on the script for five months, Mankiewicz went in and rewrote much of it.

Humiliated, Fitzgerald fired off a furious letter, “To say I’m disillusioned is putting it mildly. For nineteen years, with two years out for sickness, I’ve written best-selling entertainment, and my dialogue is supposedly right up at the top.”

He then pleaded with Mankiewicz to “restore the dialogue to its former quality,” before saying, “Oh, Joe, can’t producers ever be wrong? I’m a good writer – honest.”

Quentin Tarantino was less charitable when Oliver Stone completely rewrote his screenplay for the 1994 film “Natural Born Killers.” Tarantino distanced himself from the project, took only a “story by” credit and publicly said he’d never seen the full version of the film. Stone would go on to blame Tarantino’s condemnations for why the film was largely a critical failure.

In a visual medium such as film or television, the writer is often viewed as an invisible spoke in a very big wheel. As even Fitzgerald acknowledged: “It was an art in which words were subordinate to images, where personality was worn down to the inevitable low gear of collaboration.’’

After all, while most regular consumers of film and TV know who directors Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and perhaps even famed costume designer Edith Head are, how many can name a scriptwriter?

Emma Thompson is better known as an actress than a writer even though she won an Academy Award for screenwriting for her adaptation of “Sense and Sensibility.” She decried the culture in Hollywood that devalues writers, telling the Guardian there is a “merciless gag” in which scriptwriters are “the lowest of the low.”

The plight of the Hollywood writer is now part of the cultural fabric. Even in movies about movies, the lowly status of writers is frequently a featured plot point.

Take the 1950 Billy Wilder classic, “Sunset Boulevard.” The film opens with the dead body of struggling screenwriter Joe Gillis floating face down in a pool. The story of Gillis, who has become ensnared in the fantasy world of forgotten film star Norma Desmond, is told in flashbacks. At one point he says in exasperation: “Audiences don’t know somebody sits down and writes a picture; they think the actors make it up as they go along.”

In the Coen brothers’ 1991 black comedy “Barton Fink,” the title character, another screenwriter beset by a litany of struggles, yells out, “I’m a writer, you monsters! I create! I create for a living! I’m a creator! I am a creator!”

Adding insult to injury, for many the image of the Hollywood writer is not only of someone who does little more than casually toss together some sentences, but is paid extravagant sums to do so.

Certainly, the massive nine-figure deals Ryan Murphy and Shonda Rhimes minted with Netflix have done much to reinforce this conceit. As did the $60-million deal that “Fleabag” creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge struck with Amazon that, three years later, has yet to yield a single new show.

The reality, however, is starkly and vastly different.

Back in 1945 when a movie critic derisively asserted, “how dull a couple of run-of-the-mill $3,000-a-week writers can be.” Chandler took him to task, writing, “I hope this critic will not be startled to learn that 50 per cent of the screenwriters of Hollywood made less than $10,000 last year, and that he could count on his fingers the number that made a steady income anywhere near the figure he so contemptuously mentioned.”

Since 1952, Hollywood writers have gone on strike eight times. Each time has been a clarion call for respect.

“I think Hollywood has a history of undervaluing writers,” said Elizabeth Benjamin, a Writers Guild of America member who has been out picketing. A successful writer and producer on shows such as “Dead to Me” and “The Flight Attendant,” she added, “It’s the attitude that we simply provide a service like a carpenter. But we are the creators of the content that they use to make a fortune.”

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Petitioner: Elesia Summers filedapetitionwiththiscourtforadecree changingnamesasfollows:

PresentName: a. Joshua Boyakins

Proposed Name: a. Joshua Summers THECOURTORDERSthatallpersonsinterestedinthismattershallappearbefore thiscourtatthehearingindicatedbelowto showcause,ifany,whythepetitionfor changeofnameshouldnotbegranted. Anypersonobjectingtothename changesdescribedabovemustfileawrittenobjectionthatincludesthereasonsfor theobjectionatleasttwocourtdaysbeforethematterisscheduledtobeheard andmustappearatthehearingtoshow causewhythepetitionshouldnotbegranted.Ifnowrittenobjectionistimelyfiled, thecourtmaygrantthepetitionwithouta hearing.

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Wednesday’s TV sports

Baseball

MLB

• Oakland vs. N.Y. Yankees, NBCSCA, 9:35 a.m.

• Washington vs. San Francisco, NBCSBA, 12:45 p.m.

Basketball

NBA Playoffs

• N.Y. Knicks vs. Miami, TNT, 4:30 p.m.

• Golden State vs. L.A. Lakers, TNT, 7 p.m.

Golf • PGA WORKS Collegiate Championship, GOLF, 1:30 p.m.

Hockey

NHL PLayoffs

• Florida vs.Toronto, ESPN, 4 p.m.

• Edmonton vs. Vegas, ESPN, 7 p.m.

Soccer Champions League

• AC Milan vs.Inter, 5, 13, noon.

Thursday’s TV sports

Baseball

MLB

• San Francisco vs. Arizona, NBCSBA, 6:40 p.m.

• Texas vs. Oakland, NBCSCA, 6:40 p.m.

Basketball

NBA Playoffs

• Philadelphia vs. Boston, ESPN, 4:30 p.m.

• Phoenix vs. Denver, ESPN, 7 p.m.

Hockey

NHL Playoffs • New Jersey vs. Carolina, TNT, 4 p.m.

• Seattle vs. Dallas, TNT, 6:30 p.m.

Alumni

From Page B1

Acrobatics and Tumbling

Senior Kailey Groves (Vacaville), the Ducks’ 5-foot-6 base, joined the Oregon Acrobatics & Tumbling Team in a second-place finish at the NCATA National Championships in West Liberty, West Virginia, on April 29. Oregon lost in the final to Baylor 278.855-268.555. Earlier in the tournament, the Ducks defeated Frostburg State and Limestone University.

Men’s Golf Freshman Easton

Hether (Rodriguez) of Cal State East Bay was selected to participate in the 2023 NCAA Division II Men’s Golf Championship. Hether finished in a 10th-place tie at the California Collegiate Athletic Association Championships and was also named the CCAA Freshman of the Year. He carded a low score of 67 in three separate rounds during the season. The championships are this week, from Thursday through Saturday, at the Foxtail Golf Club in Rohnert Park.

Softball

Senior third baseman Lewa Day (Armijo) hit two home runs and drove in two runs as the Sacramento State softball team split a pair of games against Saint Mary’s.

Senior outfielder Brook Mitchell (Vacaville) had four hits, a double and two RBIs as the Army softball team bounced back from a loss to Fairfield with a three-game sweep against Colgate. The Black Knights will compete in the Patriot League tournament this week.

Freshman outfielder Mia Santos (Vanden) had five hits, two RBIs and two stolen bases for Chico State. The Wildcats went 3-2 at the California Colle-

Giants

From Page B1 and top shortstop prospect Marco Luciano at Double-A Richmond after back injuries slowed his progression through the organization. Crawford has had several injuries to work through and the team had planned to reduce his workload this season.

A scout who’d seen Schmitt recently said

Diaz hits three homers as A’s lose to Yankees

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NEW YORK — The Yankees welcomed the Athletics to Yankee Stadium with four home runs on Monday night, a showing fit for a team nicknamed the Bronx

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Softball Vanden scores big win against Armijo

The Vanden High School softball team had an eight-run first inning and continued to roll on in a 17-5 win at Armijo on Tuesday.

Isabella Cueva pitched six innings for the Vikings, allowing five hits and two earned runs to go with eight strikeouts. She was also 3-for-4 at the plate with a double and two RBIs as Vanden improved to 11-8 overall and 10-3 in the Monticello Empire League.

Bombers. On Tuesday, however, the team started scoring by moving station to station during a fiverun third inning that propelled the Yankees to a 10-5 win over Oakland. While the Yankees maintained control of the game after the third

four strikeouts. Rodriguez fell to 10-8 overall and 8-5 in the MEL.

Hailey Permenter hit a home run for the Lady Mustangs. Ellie Steiger doubled. Noe Landry had two hits, while Jaedyn White and Eliza Goodwin had one apiece. Both teams close out the regular season on Thursday. Vacaville will be at Will C. Wood and Rodriguez will host Vanden. Playoff pairings in the Sac-Joaquin Section are expected to be announced Friday afternoon.

Vacaville routs

rival Will C. Wood

giate Athletic Association tournament.

Graduate student and outfielder Ashley Miller (Rodriguez) went 2-for-5 with a triple and five RBIs for Simpson in a 12-4 win over Antelope Valley at the Cal Pac Tournament in Arizona. She added one more hit in the final two games but the Redhawks were limited by Embry-Riddle and Park-Gilbert.

Senior utility player Hailey Enriquez (Solano) had four hits, including two doubles and two RBIs, as Dickinson State went 3-2 at the North Star Athletic Association Tournament. The Blue Hawks season came to a close.

Baseball

Junior outfielder Kenny Decelle (Vacaville) collected seven hits with a double and two RBI for Sonoma State. The Seawolves swept a four-game series against San Francisco State.

Sophomore righthander Tanner Fonoti (Rodriguez) picked up his sixth win for Sonoma State during that San Francisco State series. He went seven innings, allowed two hits, no earned runs, two walks and struck out four in a 3-0 victory.

Fonoti has delivered five wins the second half of the season and has lowered his ERA to 2.43.

Sophomore Hunter Dorraugh (Vacaville) had five hits and drove in a pair of runs for San Jose State. The Spartans took two out of three from San Diego State.

Freshman utility man Griffin Harrison (Vacaville) hit a home run for Sacramento State in a 12-2 win over the University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley.

Senior right-hander Aaron Rund (Vacaville) picked up his third win without a loss for Campbell in an 11-7 win over UNC Asheville. Rund threw 5 1/3 innings and allowed four hits, two earned runs and one walk to go with eight strikeouts.

Monday night that he’s impressed with Schmitt’s ability to play second and short and said he’s sold on him as a big-leaguer.

Schmitt was batting .313 at Triple-A Sacramento and riding a seven-game hitting streak during which he was 10 for 28 with a homer, four walks and four strikeouts. A left-hander, Patrick Corbin, is on the mound for Washington, and Schmitt was batting .323 with an .817 OPS against lefties.

Kaliyah Gipson was 4-for-4 with two RBIs. Daisy Pallares had a single, two doubles and drove in two runs. Maalia Cherry singled and homered to go with three RBIs.

Kiah Silva, Mya Evans and Mariah Aguiling all hit doubles for the Vikings. No information was made available on Armijo.

Vacaville holds off Rodriguez, 4-1

VACAVILLE —

Hayden Kyne homered and Xochitl Atayde pitched seven strong innings as the Vacaville High School softball team held off visiting Rodriguez 4-1 Tuesday.

Kyne finished 2-for-4 at the plate. Atayde threw a six-hitter with one earned run allowed and eight strikeouts. Vacaville improved to 25-1 overall and 14-0 in the Monticello Empire League.

Makayla Freshour went 4-for-4 with an RBI for the Bulldogs. Jordan Munn doubled and singled. Aubrie Gibson also had two hits.

Brooklyn Denina pitched two innings and gave up one earned run to go with one strikeout for Rodriguez. Sofia Vallejos-Coleman pitched four full innings with one earned run allowed and

Warriors

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VACAVILLE — The Vacaville High School softball team wrapped up a Monticello Empire League title Monday with a 10-0 win at rival Will C. Wood.

Vacaville scored in all but the first inning of the seven-inning game. The Bulldogs improved to 24-1 overall and 13-0 in the MEL with two games to play.

Makayla Freshour delivered three hits, while Aubrie Gibson, Hayden Kyne, Karlyne Manuel and Ashlyn Wilson all had two apiece. Manuel drove in three runs. Kyne and Natalya Stonebraker had doubles.

Allana Thompson and Xochitl Atayde split time in circle. The two only allowed four hits. Atayde had five of the six strikeouts.

Vacaville was scheduled to host Rodriguez on Tuesday. Wood was to play at Fairfield. No individual statistics were made available for the Wildcats. Will C. Wood is 5-9 overall and 5-8 in the MEL.

Rodriguez cruises to big win at Armijo

FAIRFIELD — Sofia Vallejos-Coleman fired a complete game and was backed by plenty of offense as the Rodriguez High School softball team overpowered host Armijo 24-0 Monday.

Vallejos-Coleman allowed only one hit and

fantastic in Game 4, posting a triple-double.

But just as important is that Thompson and Green are at their best, too.

Yes, Jordan Poole, Andrew Wiggins, Gary Payton, and Kevon Looney play a role, but the Warriors’ dynasty starts and ends with the Big Three. And only Curry is holding up his end of the bargain this postseason.

Thompson – after a scorching Game 2 – scored 24 points, total, in

inning, Jordan Diaz, Oakland’s second baseman, provided plenty of power himself. He began the night with just one career homer, but he crushed three off Yankees pitchers on Tuesday. The blasts totaled 1,183 feet and four RBIs.

two walks to go with 13 strikeouts. Rodriguez improved to 10-7 overall and 8-4 in the Monticello Empire League.

Jaedyn White went 4-for-5 with three doubles and three RBIs for the Lady Mustangs. Hailey Permenter delivered a single, double, triple and three RBIs. Eliza Goodwin and Za’raya Garcia each had three doubles. Garcia drove in four runs and Goodwin pushed across two.

Katelyn Kilgore and Brooklyn Denina each went 3-for-4 with a double and three RBIs. Ellie Steiger hit two doubles and drove in a run. Vallejos-Coleman doubled and drove in a run. Julie McClain had a hit and an RBI. Noe Landry also went 2-for-2. Rodriguez was scheduled to play Tuesday at Vacaville. No information was made available for the Royals. Armijo was scheduled to host Vanden on Tuesday.

Buckingham rolls to Senior Night win

VACAVILLE —

The Buckingham Charter softball team celebrated Senior Night Thursday with a 20-3 victory over the visiting Leroy Greene Academy.

Seniors Anna Butcher and Giana Jones helped spark an offense that produced 18 hits. Butcher reached base with a hit and walk, and scored two runs. Jones went 3-for-3 with a walk, four runs and an RBI.

Jordan Walberg and Lily Anderson also went 3-for-3, with Anderson adding two doubles, three runs and four RBIs, while Walberg had two doubles and two RBIs.

Others with big games included Annalyn Steh (double, triple, two runs, two RBIs), Drew Peters (double, run, RBI), Haley Griffin (double, two runs, RBI), Atlas Ebert (double, two RBIs), Marianne Cabanlig (double, walk), Dior Lee (hit, RBI), Winona Fabi (run, RBI, two walks) and Makayla

Games 3 and 4 here in the Southland. He’s played solid defense, at times, but he hasn’t positively affected the last two games.

If that happens again, the Warriors’ season is likely over.

Green has been a bit better, but not by much.

He’s being asked to do the same things he did in the Warriors’ first-round series against Sacramento — lock down the opposing center and space the floor. Success has been spectacular, but infrequent.

Another game with foul trouble or Lakers center Anthony Davis giving him the business without the benefit of a half-

Tonn (hit, RBI). Griffin threw the first three innings with eight strikeouts, while allowing just one base runner. The win clinched a playoff berth for the Lady Knights and lifted their record to 8-4 overall and 6-0 in the Sacramento Metropolitan Athletic League (SMAL). Buckingham was scheduled to play Valley Christian in Roseville Tuesday.

Badminton

Armijo doubles qualifies for section

FAIRFIELD — The Armijo High School badminton team qualified a doubles team for the Sac-Joaquin Section finals after a strong performance at the recent Monticello Empire League Championships.

Armijo’s doubles teams at the MEL tournament included Kaden Vang-Sharon Vuong and Carisma Carrion-Leslie Silva. Ally Weston and Erin Cruz competed in singles.

Vang and Vuong qualified for Day 2 of the tournament. They went 2-1 on the first day. On Day 2, they won all three matches and took fourth place in MEL. They earned MEL all-league patches and will complete at section Saturday at Bear Creek High School in Stockton.

Carson and Silva were seeded No. 8. They went up against No. 9 and No. 1 before being eliminated. Weston was No. 9 and competed against No. 8 and No. 16 before being eliminated.

Cruz, No. 11, competed against No. 6 and No. 14 before being eliminated.

“To say I’m proud of all our MEL qualifiers is an understatement,” Armijo coach Lesenda Flores said. “They competed incredibly well and put up a great fight. Their dedication, being coachable, hard working and adhering to adversity is what got them to compete with the best of the best that this league had to offer.”

dozen trips to the free-throw line, and Green might be looking for a new employer.

All great things must come to an end, and Green and Thompson’s contracts could expedite that ending.

Green can become a free agent or extend his contract by another season at the end of the year. Next season is Thompson’s final year of his deal.

Contracts in their final year are always tradable in the NBA, making the possibilities for the offseason endless.

There’s only one route for avoiding such chaos: The Big Three needs to win its next three.