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DIXON — Fairs are not quiet places. Live music, the sound of livestock animals and the train that cruises around the fairgrounds contribute to the noise level.

This year, the Dixon May Fair has introduced a quiet room, where anyone can get away from the sounds and relax in front of floating plastic fish, make a fidget toy, read a book under a tree and hear gentle animal sounds.

Fair CEO Pat Conklin got the idea from the

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New Mexico State Fair’s sensory room. That fair’s CEO shared some comments with Conklin, which convinced her to give it a try.

Conklin, and her husband, did most of the construction, including the spinning sensory wheel, where one can touch leather, burlap and fake rabbit hair, to name a few textures.

She hopes to hear some of the same sentiments that were heard at the New Mexico State Fair. Comments such as having such a space

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FAIRFIELD — Beyond the urban lights and din of the city is a valley of vineyards and winemaking – the identity of Solano County’s agri-tourism.

VHS student journeys to Texas for NASA internship

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FAIRFIELD — Quinn

Brown a junior at Vanden High School is looking forward to her summer vacation because she is getting to do something only a few kids get the honor of doing; an internship at NASA.

The 17-year-old is a huge fan of science, astronomy and pretty much anything to do with space.

“My dad found out about the internship,” she said. “He is very invested in my future and is doing a lot of stuff to prep for my college life.”

The program is called Student Enhancement in Earth and Space Science

(SEES) summer internship, which will be at the University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Space Research. “I’ll be there for two weeks,” she said. Students will work

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VACAVILLE — More than 60 civic and business leaders on Wednesday heard about what Vacaville offers visitors now, and what it hopes to offer in the years to come.

Sitting beneath the 10 candle-stylized chandeliers in the second-floor theater room of the 126-yearold Vacaville Opera House – most certainly a tourism destination in its day, perhaps with a stage fare of the then newly composed, now Puccini classics, “Tosca” or “Madama Butterfly” or the lesser known

“Bluebeard’s Castle” by Béla Bartóla – those attending watched the focus point to the downtown, to the outdoors and to agri-tourism.

They also learned that the grip of the Covid-19 pandemic, which put a choke

Fairfield lays claim to Suisun Valley, too, and when it comes to tourism numbers, it enjoys the privilege because the valley falls under Fairfield zip codes.

More importantly, Suisun Valley has become an attraction that draws thousands of tourists to the region, and therefore into the shadows of Fairfield’s hotels and restaurants and its bigger plans.

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FAIRFIELD — A Napa County Superior Court jury on Thursday convicted the man who shot and killed a Fairfield resident nearly three years ago.

Nathan Garza, a Rodriguez High School graduate, was working at Safeway in American Canyon on Aug. 16, 2020,

when he was fatally shot by Christopher “Roly” Young, the Napa County District Attorney’s Office reported.

A jury found Young guilty of first-degree murder, and found true the special cir cumstances of Young “personally and intentionally discharging a firearm, firing a weapon from a vehicle with the intent to inflict death, and

Mayor Catherine Moy said Fairfield’s bigger plans have a lot to do with the valley’s expansion. She said someday it will be bigger and better than Napa Valley.

Of course, Jelly Belly and AnheuserBusch remain staples of Fairfield’s tourism trade, as do a variety of festivals and special events and surrounding outdoor activities.

Olive oil also adds flavors to the valley palate and the tourism collective.

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lying in wait,” the DA’s Office reported.

Young was out on bail for a pending carjack-

ing and robbery case in Alameda County, and on probation for felony assault in the same county.

“This defendant should never have been out of custody and had the opportunity to senselessly murder Nathan. He was on probation for felony assault from Alameda County

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Mike Diaz, Armijo High School basketball legend

Although he has lived in Novato for decades, former Armijo High basketball standout Mike Diaz still calls Fairfield his hometown. Now 88 years old, in his heyday in the 1950s, Diaz was a record-setting state and local legend of the hardwood.

Diaz was born in Westwood, Lassen County, near Lake Almanor. His parents were originally from Mexico, came to the United States around 1915 and moved to Illinois Street in Fairfield in the early 1940s. Mike, his younger brother Eddie and other neighborhood kids, entertained themselves in their free time with pick-up sports.

“I was kind of the leader of the South Texas Street gang and Ed Serpas was the leader of the North Texas Street one. We weren’t really a gang in the way that word is used now. There were no organized sports at all in Fairfield, so we became our own recreation department,” Diaz said.

The referee and ump for those neighborhood contests was George Stuart “Stu” Slocum. Slocum was a couple of years older than the competitors and as an adult would become a long-time bartender at Thompson’s Corner in Cordelia and scorekeeper/statistician/ announcer for local softball leagues who was affectionately called “The Voice of Lee Bell Park.”

Diaz attended Gomer School, Mark G. Woods Elementary, Fairfield Elementary and Armijo High School. While he also excelled in football and baseball, basketball was his first love.

Mike Diaz never played in the Armijo gym on Washington Street (now E. Gary Vaughn Gymnasium) as it was still being built his senior year. Home games were played in the gym the school had when it was on Union Avenue (now the Solano County Courthouse).

“At the old gym, the court was so short that the half court overlapped about 10 feet,” Diaz said. “I don’t remember ever being tired.”

Diaz’s athletic instructor for all the sports he played at Armijo was the same man, legendary coach Ed Hopkins.

“He was much more than just a coach to me. He was a father figure, a mentor and a

teacher. For the team, he was the coach, the manager, the equipment guy--he did it all,” Diaz said. “If we got a hole in our shoes he would be the one to sew it up.”

Diaz was a hoops standout for all four years at Armijo, but his senior year, the 1952-53 season, was special. The Indians were 21-2 overall and 6-0 in the Solano County Athletics League (SCAL). They bookended their dominating season with an opening victory over Dixon, 81 to 51, and closed it out with a complete beatdown of Vacaville, 117 to 60. In the lopsided victory over Vacaville five members of the team scored in double figures and the Diaz brothers by themselves scored as many points as the entire Bulldogs team (Mike 36 points, Eddie 24 points).

The most remarkable game of the season took place against the Benicia Panthers. In it, Diaz scored 64 of Armijo’s 90 points and set a state single-game record. Now, it wasn’t like he was just running and gunning, there was a method to his scoring madness.

Earlier in the season Diaz had set the league single game scoring record at 43 points, but it was broken a few weeks later by Farrell Funston of Dixon by 1 point in a game against Armijo. According to Coach Hopkins, the team had two goals when they played Benicia: to win the game, and when that was secured, to help Diaz retake the record. Even if one didn’t know that was the plan, a cursory glance at the scoring breakdown makes it obvious: Mike Diaz (64), Gary Tonnesen (9), Eddie Diaz (6), Homer Keefer (5), Victor Cruz (3), Ed Serpas (2) and Eddie Reeves (1).

In a newspaper article at the time, Diaz pointed out the debt he owed to his teammates: “No player ever sets scoring marks alone. The guys on the team were feeding the ball to me and I was lucky enough to find the hole with it. As a matter of fact, with them setting the shots up for me, I didn’t dare miss.”

To celebrate and memorialize his achievement, the 1953 La Mezcla yearbook added a special page honoring Diaz as “Armijo’s once in a lifetime basketball player.”

The Armijo basketball squad was invited to the Tournament

of Champions, a prestigious Northern California hoops prep contest held in Berkeley in March of 1953. Armijo gave pre-tournament favorites Lowell High School of San Francisco a scare, but came up short, 51 to 46. In the consolation game against Albany High School, Diaz set a new highscoring record of 29 points, but Armijo lost on a heartbreaking last-second shot.

Diaz credits Coach Hopkins as being the person most responsible for him going to college. Hopkin’s mother lived in Oakland and when visiting her, he would take his star player with him to visit the University of California, Berkeley campus. To Diaz it was light years away from the rural community of Fairfield. Because of his basketball prowess, he accepted a full ride scholarship to the school.

Diaz’s basketball career at Cal was less impressive than at Armijo as he literally rubbed shoulders with players that would go on to dominate the NBA, like Bill Russell. In 1956 Cal played the Kansas Jayhawks, the No. 1 team in the country, and Diaz was fouled by the legendary Wilt Chamberlain.

After graduating from Cal, Diaz taught mathemat-

ics, boys PE, world geography and drivers training at Armijo from 1959 to 1961. He also was a successful coach, guiding the baseball and junior varsity basketball teams. Then in 1961 he went to San Rafael High School, where he would stay until retiring in 1994.

Diaz taught and coached for a number of years and later became the Athletic Director. In 1990 he agreed to coach the girls’ varsity basketball team. In 1991 the team won the Marin County Athletic League, North Coast Sections and the Northern California championships. At the State Championship game, they came close to winning it all, but lost in overtime.

Diaz devised a play for his team to run after a timeout to try to get a quick score. It’s name? “Armijo.”

It is quite remarkable that in 1953, Mike Diaz set the state single-game scoring record with 64 points, the state single-season scoring record with 736 points, as well as the career scoring record with 1,677 points. What is even more remarkable is that those records, as well as his 29.4 points per game as a senior and his 23.6 for his career, remain Armijo High School records after 70 years.

Mike Diaz is a member of

the Marin County Athletic Hall of Fame, the San Rafael Hall of Honor and, on Sept. 3 at the Downtown Theatre in Fairfield, he will be inducted as a member of the 2023 class of the Armijo High School Hall of Fame.

Part of what made Diaz successful as a player and a coach was remaining humble and teachable and trying to pass on what had been passed on to him.

“You influence people a lot as a teacher and a coach by what you do or say,” Diaz said. “What you may think are routine parts of your job can sometimes be things that people will never forget for the rest of their lives. Just like I never forgot what Ed Hopkins did for me.”

Fairfield freelance humor columnist and accidental local historian Tony Wade writes two weekly columns: “The Last Laugh” on Mondays and “Back in the Day” on Fridays. Wade is also the author of The History Press books “Growing Up In Fairfield, California,” “Lost Restaurants of Fairfield, California,” the upcoming book “Armijo High School: Fairfield, California” and hosts the Channel 26 government access TV show “Local Legends.”

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Licensed contractor oversight legislation passes state Senate

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FAIRFIELD — The state Senate on Thursday passed a bill by Sen. Bill Dodd that he said would “boost consumer protection by improving oversight and training of California’s nearly 300,000 licensed contractors.”

“Ensuring contractors work in a safe, competent and professional manner is at the heart of our commitment to California consumers,” Dodd, D-Napa, said in a statement.

“We achieve that through better communication and education, as well as clear pathways for improvement when things go wrong. My proposal advances these principles among the licensed trades to strengthen an industry that is essential as we continue to build out our state,” Dodd added.

The California Contractors State License Board regulates 44 types

of contractors.

“To ensure compliance with performance and safety standards, the board can impose remedial training or payment of restitution to consumers. However, completion of these requirements does not always happen in a timely manner. Senate Bill 630 would streamline this probationary process, ensuring contractors meet licensing obligations with fewer delays.

“Additionally, SB 630 would help CSLB save money currently spent on mailing contractors tens of thousands of educational bulletins and documents by requiring submission of an email address with license applications so that communications can be sent electronically,” the statement said.

The bill now goes to the Assembly for consideration.

Comments being accepted on Islais Creek bridge project

FAIRFIELD — The U.S. Coast Guard is taking public comment on a proposal by the city of San Francisco to convert the existing Islais Creek drawbridge to a fixed bridge.

The drawbridge has not opened to maritime traffic in 16 years.

Interested parties may access public notices for bridge projects in the 11th Coast Guard District at

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FAIRFIELD — Sarah Holliday almost didn’t make her senior prom because her family didn’t have the funds. But she had a savior who stepped in and made sure she got her dress and shoes so she could have a night to remember.

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The public notice may also be obtained by calling the 11th Coast Guard District bridge office at (510) 437-3516; by writing to Commander (dpw), 11th Coast Guard District, Coast Guard Island, Building 50-2, Alameda, CA ,94501-5100; send an email request to D11-SGM-dpw-Bridges@uscg. mil; or fax a request to 510-437-5836.

The deadline to submit comments is June 8.

Local pickleball club looking for a logo

FAIRFIELD — The new Fairfield Pickleball Club is holding a logo contest.

“The contest is open to anyone regardless of their passion for graphic design, art and creativity. We are looking for anyone with a desire that is interested in creating a logo for our club, which will represent our club for years to come,” club Events Director Janet Potter said in an email.

The contest winner will get a $100 gift card; second place gets a $50 gift card; third place gets a $25 gift card.

“To ensure a fair and transparent judging process, we have established specific entry and judging criteria. We are looking for logos that are fun, memorable and have the club name or abbreviation (FPC). Bonus points will be given for catchphrases, slogans, mascots and links to the city of Fairfield or our community,” Potter stated.

To get the rules and for more information, send an email to fairfieldpickleball@gmail.com.

The deadline to submit an entry is June 11.

“I vowed that if I got the chance I would help someone else like that, I was going to do it,” Holliday said.

Holliday works at Vanden High School as a work ability counselor and is finishing college courses to be a student counselor next year.

Angie Edwards is the lead custodian at Vanden High School and when she heard some students weren’t going to go to prom because of the cost, that didn’t sit well with her.

She proposed to the board and principal that this year they create a prom shop for students.

She asked Holliday if she could help her out with it, and the two of them over the past month pulled together a prom shop with everything a teen would need to go to prom. They took over one of the classrooms while the math

teacher is out on maternity leave and turned it into a temporary spot for students to shop.

This is a way for Holliday to pay it forward from all those years ago.

Edwards started with giving away a few outfits at the Winter Prom for students who wouldn’t have gotten to go to the dance.

“I realized then that

there was a real need for these students,” she said.

The clothing, shoes, jewelry, ties and suits are all donated from SAVERS in Vacaville, Goodwill, parents and teachers, with even a bingo group in Vacaville helping out. They have refilled the shop three times with donations from locals.

It has become a community effort to make sure students at Vanden High School get to go to prom dressed to the nines.

“We have everything from jewelry to shoes, even purses,” Edwards said.

All of it is free for the teens.

Students can do a little shopping during a halfhour lunch.

“The plan was for this to be totally confidential,” Edwards said, “but the

Travis school board honors teachers, students

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FAIRFIELD — The Travis school board on Tuesday honored teachers, staff and students with a small awards ceremony.

Principal Kristin Shields introduced the Vanden High School Class of 2023 valedictorians, salutatorians and American Legion Boys State and American Legion Auxiliary Girls State winners.

This year they have five valedictorians: Jay Crisostomo, Aaliyah Folquet, Esther Khait, Emily Mueller and Quy Tran. And they also had five salutatorians: Oscar Dombroski, Bethany Masum, Ashley McMahon, Sherane Negre, Marius Thomas.

The American Legion Auxiliary Girls State

winner was Bonika Gudeta and the American Legion Boys State were Ethan Blunt and William Gan.

More honorees included Jennifer Greenway, assistant principal at Golden

West Middle School, as the Association of California School Administrators’ Administrator of the Year for secondary schools.

Sue Brothers, assistant superintendent of educational services, was honored as the ACSA Curriculum and Instruction Administrator of the Year. Brothers is retiring this year and was given a warm farewell by the teachers and school board members.

The district Teacher of the Year was Mary King, special education and coteacher for Vanden High School. A co-teacher is pulled into the classroom to assist with the specialeducation students instead of the students being pulled from the classrooms.

Nominees for Teacher

of the Year included Katheryn Carter, Jessica Harris, Gena Rickon, Amy Shelton, Paul Schwab and Melissa Yao.

The Classified Employee of the Year was Stephanie Westfahl, occupational therapist for Special Education. The nominees for Classified Employee of the Year included Julie Ayres, Sharon Cowan, Teresa Cushman, Lisa Deforne, Orlando Dela Cruz, Angie Edwards, Nancy Jefferies, Kim Moore, Ashley Peppars-Watts, Nalana Ross, Nina Sellona, Sara Smith, Sandra Vanderlaan, Isabella White, Carlotta Williams and Shelly Young.

The board recognized Travis staff members who

Courtesy photo Bonika Gudeta has been representing students’ voices since 2021. She is graduating this year and Tuesday night was her last meeting.

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Mason Greenwald tries on a dress at the prom shop at Vanden High School in Fairfield, Tuesday.

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Rhys Spencer picks out clothes at the Prom Shop at Vanden High School in Fairfield, Tuesday.

Dodd names Boys & Girls Club as Nonprofit of the Year

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VACAVILLE — The Vacaville Neighborhood Boys & Girls Club has been named by Sen. Bill Dodd as the Nonprofit of the Year for the 3rd Senate District.

“Raising capable young men and women is critical for society, and no organization in our community has done more to help achieve this than the Vacaville Boys & Girls

Club,” state Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, said in a statement. “Their programs and staff are wonderful and I am happy to recognize them for their invaluable contributions to our families.”

David Esparza, the club’s board president, added, “This award is very much appreciated as it recognizes the great work our staff perform every day for our children and our community.”

The Vacaville Neighborhood Boys & Girls Club began in 2003, with a mission of ensuring its members graduate from high school “with an actionable plan.”

“Life skills and enrichment programs taught by staff are instrumental for increasing confidence and inspiring hope for brighter futures. The organization weathered challenges brought by the pandemic and economic

Donald Trump’s ‘disastrous’ CNN town hall elicits strong reactions

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Donald Trump’s combative CNN town hall elicited strong reactions from viewers, celebrities and political insiders, many of whom were disgusted by the former president reasserting false claims the 2020 election was stolen and hurling insults at abuse accuser E. Jean Carroll.

“CNN This Morning” host Kaitlan Collins moderated Wednesday night’s event in New Hampshire, where the audience featured Trump supporters and undecided voters.

The sit-down took place a day after Trump was found liable of sexual abuse and defamation against Carroll, who accused him of raping her in the mid-1990s.

lines – including re sex assault and Jan 6 – and the moderator cannot begin to keep up with the AR-15 pace of lies.”

Journalist Brian Stelter, who left CNN last year, tweeted, “THIS is the 2024 Republican presidential primary. Look away if you choose, but this is what it’s going to be like. Should news outlets sanitize it or stare it in the face?”

Film director Rob Reiner wrote Trump is “a Liar, a Criminal, and is mentally ill.”

downturn with its strong community investments and visionary leadership,” the statement said.

“We are so proud of our rich history of connecting youth to an adult who champions their path to a great future and look forward to continuing to serve the next generation of kids in our newly created Boys & Girls Club,” Anna Dinh Eaton, chief executive officer, said in the statement.

Youths 7 to 14 get their own triathlon

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VACAVILLE — Vacaville will host its inaugural Vaca Tri event, hosted by the Parks and Recreation Department, 1 to 4 p.m. May 21 at the at Three Oaks Community Center. Youth participants,

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Vacaville offering free safety program

VACAVILLE — Pulse Check 101 is partnering with Councilman Jason Roberts and the city of Vacaville, to launch a free, citywide safety program.

The goal is to teach CPR and other preparedness safety skillsets.

Pulse Check 101 provides onsite basic life support, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, automated external defibrillator, first aid, and respirator fit testing.

The event is noon to 4 p.m. May 28 at Three Oaks Community Center, 1100 Alamo Drive.

For information, call 650-270-1957 or visit https:// pulsecheck101.com.

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students made it public.”

They come in singly or in small groups to get opinions on colors and styles. This will be Mason Greenwald’s first prom. The 15-year-old said he is looking forward to it. He has come in several times looking for the perfect outfit.

“I am excited about prom,” he said. “But I haven’t decided if I am 100% sure I am going.”

Greenwald is looking forward to making memories if he decides to go. The excitement is electric as students sort through the clothes. Once

ages 7 to 14, will have their own triathlon. They will compete in a super vised course that combines swimming, biking and running.

The event originates at Three Oaks Park, with the swim portion taking place at the Walter Graham Aquatic Center, the bike

component on nearby trails, and running leg and run a quarter-mile. Register in person at

Davis student wins Congressional art contest

FAIRFIELD — The winner of the Congres sional Art Competition for 4th District is Davis Senior High School junior Katherine Dowling.

“The Congressional Art Competition is one of my favorite events as it show cases the incredible talent of students from through out our district,” Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, said in a statement.

“The submissions we received this year rep resented the breadth of creativity from our students, and I am so impressed with their pieces. Thank you to our judges for their work to evaluate the art, and a big thank you to our student

something is found they can put it aside until the end of day, that way they don’t have to carry the clothing around all day or they can take it with them.

“We open after school by request only,” Edwards said.

She has come in a few times because the parents wanted to come see the “dress” and experience the fun of shopping with

Courtesy photo A detail from “Theater” by Katherine

artists and their teachers,” Thompson added.

Dowling’s winning piece, “Theater,” is composed of acrylic paint on a canvas board, and will be on display at the U.S. Capitol along with the

their child.

A student on campus has quietly been helping with alterations.

Some students have an idea of something specific in mind and the two women try very hard to get whatever it is with a media shoutout.

“Students from Grange Middle School have asked if we could give them dresses for graduation,” Edwards said. “So we have pulled aside some of the shorter dresses for them to choose from.”

Edwards tried setting up a place for students to get makeup done and pictures taken, but the students thought they had to pay for it. That wasn’t the case, it would have been free. She plans to get the word out next year that

winners from the other Congressional districts.

That includes Jesse Bethel High School junior Alizon Minjarez in District 8. Rep. John Garamendi announced his district’s winner on Tuesday.

everything is free. Whatever outfits are left after Saturday’s prom will be packed up. Everything will be saved for a possible prom shop next year.

“I have no idea who the hell [she is],” Trump said Wednesday. “She’s a whack job.”

During the town hall, Trump referenced a “rigged election,” dodged a question about whether he wants Ukraine to win its war against Russia, said he would pardon many who stormed the Capitol in 2021, and called Collins a “nasty person.”

“The predictably disastrous @cnn town hall was indeed disastrous,” tweeted Mark Lukasiewicz, the dean of Hofstra University’s communications school. “Proving again: Live lying works. A friendly MAGA crowd consistently laughs, claps at Trump’s punch

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have achieved 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 years of service with the district, and staff who have, or will be retiring this school year.

The 10-years honorees were Terri Agnitsch, Michelle Bounds, Susan Brothers, Kathleen Crosby, Christina Enos, Barbara Forbes, Katy Green, Carla Gregory, Aron Hale, Kayle Johnson, Lissette Medina, Sabrina Menart, Jennifer Potter, Janelle Preston, Elisabeth Ruvalcaba, Wendy Seres, Mallorie Skog, Hannah Tyndall, Chad Van Heusen, Susan Nader, Jaqueline Miller, Sterling Davis, Nancy Emmons, Kimberly Moore, Lawrence Smith, Jacqueline Ward.

The 15-years honorees were: Rachel Gaylord, Christina Heckman, Jennie Moore, and Jason Ott.

For the 20-years employees that included Timothy Carroll, Sharon Cowan, Nicholette Cunningham, Melanie Green, Jessica Harris, Anthony Lewis Jr., Nadine Patterson, Erica Ruiz-Olivarez, and Sara Smith.

The 25-years honorees were Matthew Carpenter, Lisa Deforme, Orlando Dela Cruz, Shemill Honey-

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“It was disgraceful on every level,” said Joe Scarborough, who cohosts “Morning Joe” on MSNBC. “I wouldn’t say it’s dangerous for democracy because we passed that a long time ago, but it showed the corrosive effects of Trump-ism over eight years. I’ve got to say, the most shocking part was an audience who cheered on a president who tried to overturn American democracy. An audience that mocked and ridiculed a woman who a jury of her peers, Donald Trump’s peers, found had been sexually assaulted.”

In an analysis piece Thursday, CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy praised Collins and acknowledged criticisms of his network after the town hall, writing, “It’s hard to see how America was served by the spectacle of lies that aired on CNN Wednesday evening.”

church, Rowena Kendall, David Kenyon, Harvey King, Danette Maranz, Damon Murrin, Suzette Renucci, Yanira Tepley, Lucilia Vanderlaan.

The 30-years honorees were Kathryn Carter, Anne Castro Deponte, Michelle Dysert, Julie Kane, Paul Kruckewitt, Mary McIntyre, Mark Nowag, Jennifer Pirondini, Kristin Shields and Anthony Smith.

It was with a bit of tears and laughs as the school board bid farewell to student board member Bonika Gudeta, who took her office in 2021 when she was a sophomore. She is graduating this year.

In her final words, Gudeta talked about three women who were wonderful role models.

“Each woman taught me new lessons,” she said.

She wanted her time on the board to be as a voice for the students of the school district.

“This board is a job and an honor in my life,” she said. “I learned how to carry myself,”

She thanked them all for treating her as an equal and valuing the input.

“I hope I did this position justice,” she said.

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Tianna Tuck, youth development coordinator, reads a children’s book at the Vacaville Boys and Girls Club, April 3, 2020.

Aaron Rosenblatt/Daily Republic Mason Greenwald tries on shoes at the prom shop at Vanden High School in Fairfield, Tuesday.

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When to let go of a troubled youth

No matter how much love and support you provide for a youth, there will still be those who will stray down a self-destructive path. How discouraging it is when you hear of a young person that you have cared for or worked with in any capacity get caught up in criminal mischief?

I recently learned of a 22-year-old young man who was a part of our local youth program who is now incarcerated for a violent crime. I’m sure there are hundreds of parents and youth workers who have suffered a similar heartache.

One of the most difficult experiences of my life was when I had to relocate a young family member I was mentoring due to a drug addiction. I packed his clothes, removed him from my home and drove him to a residential rehab program 100 miles away. Fighting my own emotions, I let him know I would be there for him when he was ready to truly make a positive change in his life. “Until then, I’m done. I’ve done all I can for you at this time.”

When you know you have done all you can to inspire, redirect, mentor and motivate a young person who still hasn’t made the necessary change of heart, then you should know when to let go. Some may say you never give up on a child in need, and I agree. However, there is a difference between letting go and giving up.

I have worked with parents who have suffered emotionally with the stress of dealing with their extremely troubled youths. Some have suffered to the point of it negatively affecting their own physical health. My support included community resources and personal-wellness counseling for the parents. At some point, self-preservation and the well-being of your home environment has to be considered.

There is a time when we as parents and youth workers need to face the reality that the youths we are supporting are on such a self-destructive path. Their behavior will eventually affect us and our environment. When the environment or person is out of control, it is wise to separate yourself.

Do the risks outweigh the benefits of working with them? Many adults and organizations believe the latter to be true. Some people go to great lengths to separate themselves from our youths. It is this general fear that puts a limit on our capacity to serve the youths in our community. In some cases, it is with good reason to be cautious when dealing with young people. With the alarming increase in substance abuse and mental health issues, violent behavior among our youths has soared dramatically.

Some youth programs and high schools have become reluctant to host dances, nighttime football games and events on campuses. Some may think it is unfair to the responsible youths out there, and they do exist. I’m sure many youth workers can agree there are far more righteous young folks out there than some people realize.

Some of us have allowed fear to strip us of our authority and distort our relationships with young people. I’ve seen adults allow a little attitude to intimidate them into completely turning their backs on youths. Sure, some of them can be rude and disrespectful. They will make you want to say or do something you think their parents should have done to them a long time ago, but you know you can’t go there.

I understand any type of confrontation with youths these days could be extremely dangerous. I also realize there is a need to proceed with caution in certain situations. Some adults won’t even go to a movie on the weekend due to the number of rowdy teenagers. In most cases it is the few knuckleheads that ruin the environment for everyone else.

Despite the risks, let’s continue to encourage parents and youth workers to hold on strong to their conviction to serve this youth generation until they know when it is time to let go.

Deon D. Price is an author and youth life skills coach who lives in Fairfield. He can be reached at thisyouthgeneration@gmail. com or www.deondprice.com.

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The life expectancy for Black woman born in 1900 was 33.5 years of age. If she were instead born in 1950, her life expectancy would nearly double, to 62.9 years of age. But the woman I have in mind was born in 1923, so we will split the difference, for a life expectancy of about 49 years. In 1988, this woman turned 65 and expected to live another 17 years. A decade later, at 75, another 11.2 years of life were probable, but not promised. How likely was a woman who had already faced two encounters with cancer – endometrial and thyroid – to live to 86 or 87?

And yet, live she did. And on Aug. 10, she will turn 100. As I write, she is probably home in her 14thfloor apartment in Washington, D.C., where she still lives alone, sitting in her chaise watching “Judge Judy” and eating a slice of apple pie.

I have long dreamed of telling the story of my grandma, Florence Elizabeth Carmichael Adams, a Black woman soon to enter her 11th decade on this earth. She was born in Trenton, N.J, and moved as a child to Millville, where she graduated from high school in 1941. Despite being near the top of her class, she was unable to find a job in town. As a Black security guard told her and her mother as they left one building after another unsuccessful interview: “They ain’t hiring if you look like us.”

After some time at home, Grandma got a job at the Quartermaster Depot in South Philadelphia, where her primary responsibility was managing the shipping of clothes for troops fighting in World War II. Once the war ended, she was transferred to Northern Virginia to work in the office of the Army Adjutant General. Construction of the Pentagon had begun in 1941, and yet when Grandma started there in 1946, the building was not quite finished. On her first day, she marveled at the vast size of the place, at the white marble every which way.

While at the Pentagon, Grandma lived in same-sex dormitories for government workers. After one long day, she agreed to accompany friends to the coed game room. And lucky she did: That night, she met David Adams of Atlanta, Ga. They married on March 23, 1947.

With the support of my late grandfather, who died in 1996, Grandma pursued her dream of becoming a primary school teacher. She entered Howard University, excited at the

prospect of being taught by Black teachers. In high school, she’d been one of only five Black students and had had no Black teachers. On her first day at Howard, she walked into the classroom and saw her professor – who was White. (She still chuckles about this.) She spent two years at Howard before transferring to American University, which, unlike Howard at the time, offered a Bachelor of Arts in primary education.

After graduating, Grandma started at Maude E. Aiton Elementary School. Although she wanted to teach second grade, the principal asked her to teach fourth grade because she was tall. And for the next 23 years, that’s what she did.

Nine years ago, I sat with my sister, her boyfriend, my mother, father, auntie and grandmother around the dining room table at my parents’ home. In the middle of the usual Thanksgiving dinner discussion –after life updates from us children, blue-toned political thoughts, and my grandmother asking my father several times whether he was asleep (he never was: only resting his eyes) – my Aunt Alicia said, “You know President Kennedy spoke at Ma’s graduation from American University?” Astonished, I glanced at Grandma. She had sat less than 50 feet from one of the most iconic American presidents? She nodded in confirmation.

On June 10, 1963, President John F. Kennedy spoke on a hot, sultry day

at the AU commencement ceremony. He used this pulpit to call for world peace, despite the civil rights upheaval at home and the disallowance of peace for Black people in America. Grandma listened surrounded by her husband, her mother, and her two daughters, Alicia and Lucile. As the president spoke, the girls played in the grass, wondering how much longer they had to be out there under the sweltering summer sun.

On that day, Grandma couldn’t have known that Alicia would become the first Black female vice president at Kennedy’s living memorial – the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Or that Lucile would navigate her way from laboratory benches to become the first African-American woman to receive a PhD in epidemiology in the country and currently a professor of oncology and senior dean at the Georgetown University Medical Center.

Raising two Black daughters at the beginning of the civil rights movement was no easy feat. For them to rise –each like a rose through cement – took everything from my grandmother and grandfather: every hour, every day, every month, every year.

My grandparents raised their girls in a modest home in Southeast Washington, D.C. Not many dreams born at that time in that neighborhood came to fruition, but the dreams in 5509 B Street were different. That is my grandmother’s legacy.

Classically, a legacy is flowers from planted seeds that you never get to see bloom. But my grandmother’s seeds are blooming in front of her. She gets to experience the beauty of those flowers – a rarity for most, and especially a Black woman born in America 100 years ago. At that Thanksgiving dinner, I asked, “Grandma, how did you do it? How did you raise Auntie and my mom to do what they have done?”

She hesitated. I waited for some definitive response to one of life’s most pressing questions: How can we inspire and support those we love most? All she said was, “We raised them together. Your grandfather and I.”

She made it sound so simple, as natural as breathing, but it was not. It was like finding one’s breath after climbing a mountain. But somehow, Grandma has always made even the hardest things seem simple. Even living to 100.

Title 42’s demise may help solve border issues

One of Joe Biden’s greatest failings as president of the United States has been to facilitate several times more illegal immigrants crossing the southern border than Donald Trump did. Among the consequences: thousands of migrant children pushed into unforgiving labor, border communities absolutely devastated and a recent record of 853 border-crossing migrants themselves dying from their desert treks, drowning, falling off cliffs and other accidents. Hardly least of the tragedies: 70,000 Americans killed by smuggled fentanyl.

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Well, look, some Biden supporters have said, the fewer restrictions the better. That goal is coming about through the lapse of Title 42 that prevented entries for fear of COVID transmission. Will a surge of additional thousands pouring our way fill the supporters with joy because the poor receiving asylum are thereby rescued even if many don’t qualify, and is the harm to Americans something to ignore?

The Democrats among them might want to notice Eric Adams, the Democratic mayor of New York City now being bashed by endless migrant arrivals. He has caught onto what many border communities have been enduring. The supporters might also want to catch up on a Gallup poll showing 42 million Latin Americans want to live here in addition to vast numbers from around the world. There have to

be limits, or goodbye, America. And don’t forget there are perfectly acceptable, legal ways of entry, such as green visas in which immigrants line up jobs or have a family sponsor within America. Actually, out of fairness, there should be more chances for those with no relatives here. Merit should play a bigger role.

Trump initiated Title 42, applying the national health code to immigration rules. Biden decided to live with it but then tried to get rid of it with courts saying no. Now it’s expiring, trouble is at hand and Biden has been trying to accomplish in a matter of days what he should have started two years ago. In moves that in some ways imitate Trump initiatives he rejected, Biden now will allow no appeals for asylum from those who did not make such appeals to countries they passed through, it’s reported. Anyone who crosses the border without permission will be deported.

The value of these and other new restrictions?

Well, a while back, Biden set a 20-year record for the number of crossings, helping to cause a mighty influx of migrant children arriving at the border without their parents. Something like 130,000 were released into the country last year, and as a New York Times story tells us, many have ended up doing backbreaking work, sometimes for well-known companies and breaking century-old laws. We are talking about children who

may be as young as 12 who often send the money back to their parents while also paying their sponsors. The Health and Human Services Department knows what’s going on in this area of its responsibilities and does little, the Times reports.

And please don’t forget the deaths of 70,000 mostly young Americans from fentanyl, a killer drug made in China and smuggled by cartels through Mexico even though some illogically dismiss it as a border issue. Their argument is that something like 80% of what assaults Americans arrives here through legal ports of entry in cars and trucks and less than 20% is carried into the country by illegal immigrants. The answer, they say, is better police work in America and better training of vulnerable Americans.

Excuse me, but that 20% is still killing thousands, more can be done at illegal ports of entry, we already have training and police work in America and it’s not as if we have to choose between that approach and border enforcement.

If our seemingly awakened president sticks to the best of his new ideas, backs off from some overly lenient plans and finally embraces common sense, the multi-targeted threat of Title 42 collapse may ultimately have promoted the good.

Jay Ambrose is an op-ed columnist for Tribune News Service. Readers may email him at speaktojay@aol.com.

My grandma has always made the hardest things seem simple – even living to 100

Deon D. Price

Jason Campbell is a freelance writer in Washington, D.C.

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Florence Elizabeth Carmichael Adams, Jason Campbell’s grandmother, June 2018.

Liberal California is actually a hotbed for right-wing extremist activity, report says

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California may be a Democratic stronghold, but it has also become a hotbed of right-wing, white supremacist and antisemitic activity, according to a new report from the Anti-Defamation League.

The ADL report, which looks at incidents in 2021 and 2022, found significant increases in white supremacist and antisemitic incidents, including collaboration between the two groups. Among the extremist organizations continuing to operate openly in the Golden State are the Proud Boys and the Rise Above Movement, a white supremacist group based in Southern California.

“The state is home to the country’s highest number of extremistrelated murders and plots and has seen numerous incidents of political violence,” the report noted.

That includes six extremist-related murders and a terrorist plot by two men affiliated with the Three Percenters, a militia group.

According to the report, antisemitic incidents rose from 367 to 518 in 2021 and 2022. These included assaults, threats and vandalism of synagogues and other Jewish institutions. The rise follows a national trend, with incidents up 36% to 3,697 in 2022, the ADL said.

Instances of white supremacist propaganda in California grew from 155 to 296, and white supremacist incidents

Supreme Court upholds California animalcruelty law that bans narrow cages for pigs

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increased from five to 15.

The ADL found that California had its highest number of antisemitic incidents since reporting began in 1979. It trails only New York for most in the country.

The report cites numerous incidents of extremist activity in the Sacramento area.

At a March rally against gender-affirming medical care, the NorCal Active Club, a white supremacist fitness and mixed martial arts organization, clashed with counter-protesters in Sacramento.

The White Lives Matter Network protested a June 2022 familyfriendly LGBTQ pride event at the Sacramento Children’s Museum in Rancho Cordova, displaying a banner reading “Groomers are not welcome in California.”

“The rise of QAnon has also been a notable driver of violence in California over the last two years,” according to the report.

QAnon is a far right political movement that believes that the government is controlled by Satan-worshiping pedophiles.

The report cites multiple QAnon-related events, including the attack on Paul Pelosi, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, by suspected assailant David DePape, a QAnon adherent.

As for the Proud Boys, the report cites multiple incidents, including a demonstration and brawl at a UC Davis event in October 2022.

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld part of a California animal-welfare law, ruling that the state’s restrictions on pork sales do not violate the Constitution’s interstate commerce protections.

Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, writing for the court, said the Constitution leaves it to states and their voters to decided on the products that will be sold there. He said these questions should not be decided by federal judges.

“Companies that choose to sell products in various states must normally comply with the laws of those various states,” he said. “While the Constitution addresses many weighty issues, the type of pork chops California merchants may sell is not on that list.”

In 2018, 63% of California voters approved Proposition 12, which prohibited the sale of eggs or meat that originates from the extreme confinement of egg-laying hens, breeding pigs or calves raised for veal.

The law was due to take full effect last year, but pork producers went to court to challenge the provisions affecting their industry.

At issue was the practice of holding breeding pigs in tight metal cages where they cannot turn around or lie down, and sometimes in frustration try to chew the metal bars.

The California law required larger pens or open areas where sows could move freely.

The court has long been skeptical of using the Constitution to strike down state laws. That authority rests in a provision that

says Congress may “regulate commerce ... among the several states.”

In the past the court has used the provision to strike down state laws that protect home-state businesses from competition or otherwise discriminate against the free flow of interstate commerce.

In this case, National Pork Producers vs. Ross, the pork industry noted that 99% of the pork sold in California is produced elsewhere, so the burden of its law would be largely felt by other states.

While some of the largest meat packers, including Hormel Foods and Tyson Foods, said they could comply, the National Pork Producers Council said the law would require farmers in Iowa and North Carolina to change how they raise and confine their breeding pigs.

To comply with the California law, breeding pigs would have to be given larger pens that would allow them to stand and turn around, or they could be confined in an open area with other pigs. The producers said those changes would increase their costs by 9%.

The pork producers

lost before a federal judge in San Diego and at the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which said they had no claim of a constitutional violation. But last year, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the indus-

try’s appeal.

The attorney for the pork producers argued that if California’s law were upheld, it would open the door for other states to seek changes that would affect the national economy.

For example, they said Oregon could require that products sold there from other states must be made by workers who were paid the state’s higher minimum wage, while Texas might require products sold there be made by only lawful U.S. residents. The Biden administration joined the case on the side of the pork producers and stressed a similar argument. California’s Proposition 12 “imposes a substantial burden on interstate commerce,” said Deputy Solicitor Gen. Edwin Kneedler.

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The Supreme Court upheld part of a California animalwelfare law, ruling that the state’s restrictions on pork sales do not violate the Constitution’s interstate commerce protections.

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Ex-Fugees rapper Pras plans to sue 50 Cent, Kyrie Irving, Rolling Stone for defamation

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Former Fugees member Pras is preparing to sue 50 Cent, Kyrie Irving and Rolling Stone over social media posts and a news article that alleged the rapper was an informant for the FBI.

An attorney for Pras, whose real name is Prakazrel Michel, sent notification letters out Wednesday to representatives for 50 Cent, Irving and Rolling Stone. The letters – obtained by the L.A. Times focused on Instagram and Twitter posts, as well as a Rolling Stone article that included the allegedly defamatory comments about the rapper being a “rat,” “government informant” and “FBI informant.”

Florida law requires plaintiffs to notify all parties with a letter that includes the alleged defamatory statements at least five days before filing a lawsuit. Michel’s legal team plans to sue in Miami-Dade County.

Jonathan Noah Schwartz, who is representing Michel, wrote that the statements made by the celebrities and news outlet led the rapper to lose business deals and contributed to less revenue from his music. “It is and was absolutely and demonstrably false for You to publish that Michel was a ‘government informant,’” Schwartz wrote in the letter sent to Rolling Stone.

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Crime logs

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TUESDAY, MAY 9

6:19 a.m. — Vandalism, 700

block of WEBSTER STREET

8:57 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 800 block of KENTUCKY STREET

9:25 a.m. — Forgery, 1800 block of IDAHO STREET

10:03 a.m. — Forgery, 400 block of CROFTERS COURT

10:16 a.m. — Trespassing, VILLA

COURT

10:34 a.m. — Residential

burglary, VILLA COURT

11:06 a.m. — Vandalism, 800 block of FIRST STREET

11:46 a.m. — Vandalism, VILLA

COURT

1:47 p.m. — Reckless driver, PEABODY ROAD

3:15 p.m. — Forgery, 1800 block of VERMONT STREET

4:00 p.m. — Grand theft, 5100 block of BUSINESS CENTER

DRIVE

4:19 p.m. — Battery, 2600

11:47 a.m. Grand theft, 1300 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD

2:19 p.m. Commercial burglary, 2900 block of ROCKVILLE ROAD

2:32 p.m. Indecent exposure, 500 block of BERKELEY WAY

4:32 p.m. Forgery, 2000 block of CLIFFWOOD DRIVE

4:40 p.m. Grand theft, 4400 block of CENTRAL PLACE

4:59 p.m. Indecent exposure, MANUEL CAMPOS PARKWAY

5:36 p.m. Reckless driver, WESTBOUND INTERSTATE 80

5:55 p.m. Reckless driver, 1100 block of SANDERLING DRIVE

8:06 p.m. Vandalism, 1300 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD

8:09 p.m. Trespassing, 2000 block of DAVIS DRIVE

9:00 p.m. Vehicle burglary, 1500 block of TRAVIS

BOULEVARD

9:10 p.m. Shots fired, 2700 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

9:44 p.m. Drunken driving, 1400 block of TRAVIS

BOULEVARD

10:02 p.m. Drunk and disorderly, 800 block of EAST

TABOR AVENUE

10:39 p.m. Hit-and-run with injury, WOOLNER AVENUE

11:48 p.m. Shots fired, 1500 block of DRIFTWOOD CIRCLE

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Shots fired, 500 block of ALASKA AVENUE

6:06 a.m. Shots fired, BELL AVENUE

7:48 a.m. Vehicle burglary, 100 block of RED TOP ROAD

8:26 a.m. Reckless driver, PEABODY ROAD

9:29 a.m. Vehicle theft, 2500 block of AUTO MALL PARKWAY

9:34 a.m. Forgery, 700 block of LAGUNA COURT

0:32 a.m. Vehicle theft, 2700 block of MERCER PLACE

10:57 a.m. Forgery, 1600 block of ENTERPRISE DRIVE

11:10 a.m. Residential burglary, 900 block of BROADWAY STREET

with scientists and engineers to conduct authentic research from data received from NASA’s earth observing satellites as well as designing Mars habitats, Lunar Exploration, and analysis of images from the International Space Station.

This nationally competitive program, funded by NASA, selects students who will increase their knowledge of science, technology, engineering, and math through earth and space education according to a press release on the program.

“I love space every since I was little,” she said. “I have always been good in school with science and wanted to be an aerospace engineer.”

She will get her chance to rub elbows with NASA engineers and get a peek into one of the most exciting programs for space exploration.

SEES is a collaborative effort of The University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Space Research and NASA. Students apply for SEES and are selected competitively. The internships are organized around an aerospace or space science theme drawn from NASA’s diverse engineering and scientific research programs. The program combines the strengths of collaborators to enrich teaching and learning of STEM.

“I am going to be working with the Mars

“Tourism means so much for Fairfield,” Moy added. “The bottom line is it lifts all boats.”

She said as the valley expands its winery footprint with boutique inns and shops, it will attract higher-end restaurants, hotels and other amenities to the city.

But, she added, the city must address other issues, notably crime. But even there, as the downtown and other areas are revitalized, crime will be lessened.

The clinking of wine glasses at the CaymusSuisun Winery Thursday night marked Visit Fairfield’s seventh annual

celebration of National Travel and Tourism Week and the economic impact tourism brings to the city.

“Tourism is an economic engine in Fairfield, Solano County, California and beyond,” Anand Patel, president and chief executive officer of Visit Fairfield, told the gathering of about 100 people.

Travel spending increased 49.4%, from $146.7 million in 2021 to $201.7 million in 2022, and travel tax revenue increased to $15.6 million, up 39% compared to 2021, Visit Fairfield reported.

“Overall, travel spending in Fairfield contributes approximately $161 per resident household in local tax receipts,” the tourism agency reported.

Earnings from travel was up 20.8% to

$65.8 million, while creating an additional 300 jobs in 2022 as well.

“Fairfield welcomed more overnight and day visitors compared to 2021, and spending associated with these travelers was just 2.7% below the pre-pandemic high of $207.3 million in 2019,” Visit Fairfield stated.

“Travel is a strong driver for our local economy. It creates jobs for residents and contributes taxes to ... Fairfield’s general fund,” Patel said. “We are proud to celebrate the power of tourism and the hospitality partners that add so much to our community.”

Visit California reported this week that visitors spent $134.4 billion in California in 2022, generating $11.9 billion in sales and

local tax revenue and creating 1.1 million tourism-connected jobs. That growth has largely been due to leisure travel – with one-third of that being family trips and higher spending levels –with business and other forms of travel lagging a bit. He expects to see a full rebound to pre-pandemic levels by 2025.

Patel said Fairfield enjoys one advantage over other areas when it comes to business travel, and that is it attracts regional in-person conferences. So the area is seeing business tourism rebound from the pandemic.

He agreed with Moy that one of the things Fairfield, the city, needs, is higher-end amenities, and especially fine dining options.

TUESDAY, MAY 9

12:34 p.m. — Assault, 400 block of WHISPERING BAY

enabled a family to attend in a group.

There were stories of families who had paid for their admission, only to have leave when one member of the group became overwhelmed by the stimuli.

Volunteering in the sensory room on opening day was Lauren Libero, an autism program specialist with the California Department of Developmental Services.

The sensory room is a place to take a break from the fair and offers stress relief. She has a doctorate and done a lot of research into the brain.

As guests enter the room, next to the first aid station, the lights are dimmed and chairs lined

up against the wall, for those waiting to utilize the room. Gentle sounds can be heard. There are English and Spanish wait cards with the explanation that waiting can be difficult to understand. The wait card is a handheld visual aid that helps to remind a person (of any age) the reasons for the wait.

The cards say things such as waiting for the train ride, to get food, turn on a ride and even one for the restroom.

Guests to the sensory room can make a virtual schedule, in English or Spanish, showcasing various activities which can be cut and pasted into squares as a guide.

The wait cards and virtual schedule can be printed online at https:// dixonmayfair.com/sen sory-station in advance.

“You can get carried away in here,” Conklin

said. “You don’t want too much stimulus.”

Conklin’s mother contributed the majority of the inclusive children’s books, in English and Spanish.

Two child-size beach chairs sit in front of the bubbling fish. They were left at a previous Dixon May Fair.

The room is freshly painted and includes air conditioning, a love seat, a child’s table with chairs and a huge tree that Conklin spent about seven

hours constructing.

Coloring pages are also offered. “Coloring can be very therapeutic,” she said.

Fair employees were some of the first visitors. A member of the San Joaquin county fair stopped by to take some pictures and get ideas. That fair runs for three days in early June.

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exploration team,” she said. “It will be great to work with people who get stuff like this,” she said.

She thinks it would be wonderful to live on Mars and will be working with coding in Python to help create archetypes of living spaces on Mars for human habitat as well as growing food.

Almost 2,000 applications were received for the coveted 95 on-site internship positions. She has been working remotely with their project scientist prior to the on-site internship, working on completing an Earth and Space Science course, and completing a Python coding course.

During the two weeks the students’ will work at UT/CSR, they will conduct hands-on activities, field investigations, collaborate with NASA-funded scientists and engineers, and work on various NASA missions.

The purpose of NASA’s Earth science program is to develop a scientific understanding of Earth’s system and its response to natural or humaninduced changes, and to improve prediction of climate, weather, and natural hazards.

“Trying to problem solve with an arid environment by seeing if you can create an atmosphere would help gain insight to helping our environment here on Earth,” she said.

She heads off on her journey on July 8.

“It is cool and wild to get to experiment with projects on other planets,” she said.

hold on travel and tourism for two years, is easing its clench and visitor spending is on the rise.

Melyssa Reeves, president and chief executive officer for Visit Vacaville, said visitor spending in the city has jumped from $132 million in 2021 to $197.9 million in 2022, which exceeded the prior record year of $171.7 million in prepandemic 2019.

Ryan Becker, vice president of Communications for Visit California, extended that theme, noting that visitors spent $134.4 billion in California in 2022, generating $11.9 billion in sales and local tax revenue and creating 1.1 million tourism-connected jobs.

That growth has largely been due to leisure travel – with one-third of that being family trips and higher spending levels –with business and other forms of travel lagging a bit. He expects to see a full rebound to pre-pandemic levels by 2025.

“Tourism generates nearly $2 million from the (transient occupancy tax) ... which goes directly into the general fund to support services ... and programming,” Mayor John Carli said.

However, Reeves said that hotel occupancy has not recovered as quickly as other tourism generators.

Carli also noted the investment the city, and business interests, are making to the downtown and other areas – $6 million in the last couple of years to the downtown alone.

“With more to come,” the mayor said. He said residents should soon start seeing the actual construction of those projects in the coming months.

But Carli also said the work has to be more than about attracting people from outside to come in an spend their money. It has to be about making the city a place to live.

He told the gathering that the newest residents “have found something special when they get out of places where they lived – the charm of it.”

Now it’s important to provide reasons for them to spend their money in their new home.

In an interview prior to the event starting, Carli noted specifically the 700 PARC on Main project – a 4.68-acre, mixed-use development, east of the flag poles, that will serve as an extension to the Downtown Specific Plan.

It calls for 81 condominium units and approximately 4,061-squared-feet of mixed-use buildings, laid out to be pedestrian friendly.

He also mentioned the PGA-level, 18-hole public golf course that is part of the Lower Lagoon Valley development, and in his even comments, repeated

the attraction of the many trail system, rock climbing and bouldering opportunities for outdoor enthusiasts.

Reeves, also in an interview, said one of the efforts her organization has taken up in finding ways to get visitors to the Nut Tree and shoppers at the Outlets, to extended their stays and visit the downtown or other attractions.

Wayfinding signage is being used to help in that effort. Public art projects and speciality events are a broader part. She also wants to tap into the money tied to sporting interests.

“We are very big on sports, so developing some additional sports fields or a complex to serve those traveling teams,” Reeves said as a goal.

Carli said a phased plan for that need is in the works.

The presentation also noted a unique way Vacaville can catch tourism dollars – specifically some of the $120 billion people with disabilities spend on travel each year.

Sophia Bravo Antúnez, with Wheel the World, said Vacaville can make physical access easier, and hotels and other attractions can be even more accessible by providing very specific information – from bathroom safety features, to the height of beds, to the kind of carpeting and so much more.

“Planning a trip takes a lot of time. It is very difficult. It can be a night-

mare,” Antúnez said. But the rewards of taking those steps can double.

“If you have a disability and I’m traveling with you, I have a disability,” she said, noting that most disabled travelers have companions, so the revenues automatically double if not more.

She also noted that by 2050, it is estimated that 20% of the U.S. population is going to be 65 or older – another population that often needs access accommodations.

Yolanda Addiego, who owns the one-time 600seat theater, said she loves to hear about the plans and what people think is coming down the road. But she warns, do not forget those who already live in Vacaville, and even more important, don’t forget about those who built it.

“I’d like to see the new people coming in who are in charge of things to know the town first, to know the history,” said Addiego, who along with her late husband, Guido, also built the town square some 20 years ago.

Maybe that is why Fiesta Days has such a special place for her, and while she would like to see it maintain a small town feel, she understands growth is also something the city and its businesses want.

To that end, she said she is happy to see young business entrepreneurs getting involved.

and had pending carjacking and robbery charges there. The criminal justice system needs to protect community members from persons with demonstrated violence,” Deputy District Attorney Diane Knoles said in a statement.

Chief Deputy District Attorney Taryn Hunter added, “The jury reached

the right result for Nathan’s family and for Napa. We thank them for ensuring justice,”Chief Deputy District Attorney Taryn Hunter said in the statement.

Knowles and Hunter prosecuted the case.

Young also was convicted of shooting from a vehicle, being a felon in possession of a firearm, being a felon in possession of ammunition and giving false information to a police officer. The murder took

place in the parking lot of Safeway in American Canyon. Young drove to the store on the morning of Aug. 16, 2020, brandished a handgun and fired multiple shots from the driver’s side of his vehicle, the District Attorney’s Office reported.

The shots hit Garza twice in the back, killing him instantly.

Young then left the parking lot at a high rate of speed and abandoned the Cadillac sedan he was driving on a nearby

street, then hopped neighborhood fences, entering residents’ backyards, in an effort to escape. Napa County sheriff’s deputies caught up with him within an hour and made the arrest, the DA’s statement said.

Young is scheduled to be back in court June 9 for sentencing; he faces a possible state prison term of life without the possibility of parole, the DA’s Office reported.

49ers’ schedule revealed for 2023 season

cam inman BAY AREA NEWS GROUP SANTA CLARA — Here is your handy guide to watching this 49ers’ season: prepare to stay up late, spend your holidays in red-and-gold attire, and expect NFC West drama down to the wire.

Thursday brought forth their regular-season itinerary. Final destination: Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas, where the 49ers hope to win their first Lom-

bardi Trophy in 29 years. Go back 30 years and some novelties mirror this year’s schedule. As was the case in 1993, the 49ers will open in Pittsburgh, and they later will play host on Christmas, this time to the Baltimore Ravens in the 49ers’ fifth scheduled prime-time kickoff of the season.

Here are five quick things to know about the schedule:

Rough finish for Rodriguez baseball in playoff defeat

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FAIRFIELD — A good start for the Rodriguez High School baseball team couldn’t stand up as the Mustangs lost to host Pitman 9-5 Thursday in Turlock in the Sac-Joaquin Section Division II quarterfinals.

Rodriguez jumped out to a 4-0 lead. The Mustangs had a tough fourth inning when some crucial errors helped the Pride tie the game 4-4. Pitman added four for more runs in the fifth for the win.

“We had a great start,” Rodriguez head coach James Maldonado said. “We put up two runs in the first inning and two more in the second. We came out in the fourth and had a tough defensive inning and that was it from there.”

Rodriguez started the fourth by giving up a walk, an error, another walk and then a throwing error on a bunt attempt.

Grant Genter went four innings on the mound for the Mustangs and had two strikeouts. Carson Thompson pitched 1/3 of an inning and Landon Stadelhofer threw 1 2/3 innings.

The Mustangs finished the season 16-11 overall.

Vaca Christian wins D-6 quarterfinal

VACAVILLE — The Vacaville Christian High School baseball team opened the Sac-Joaquin Section Division VI playoffs Wednesday with a dominating 21-0 win in the quarterfinals over visiting Western Sierra in just five innings.

Steve Dingman and Nicko Meadows combined on a one-hitter with 12 strikeouts. Dallas West was 2-for-2 with a double and five RBI.

Vacaville Christian improved to 16-4 overall. The No. 3 seed Falcons will play at No. 2 Argonaut (15-4) in Jackson at 4 p.m. Tuesday in a semifinal showdown. Meadows and Luke Giaramita had two hits apiece and both drove in a run. Aidan Stevens doubled and had three RBIs. Thomas Lane doubled and drove in a run.

Rio Vista ousted by Ripon Christian

RIO VISTA — The

Holiday Plans

The 49ers play on both Thanksgiving and Christmas for the first time in a season, plus they’ll play on New Year’s Eve. Hey, but they’re free on Halloween (because there is no Tuesday Night Football, yet).

On Thanksgiving night (Nov. 23), the 49ers visit the Seattle Seahawks. It’s a chance for the 49ers to pick up from last season’s 3-0 sweep of their divi-

sion rival, but, of course, to avenge an infamous 2014 Thanksgiving home loss to them. That defeat (and the Seahawks’ postgame turkey dinner on the field) triggered a fourgame losing streak for the 49ers in an 8-8 season to snap a three-year playoff run.

On Christmas, the Ravens come to town, 30 years after the NFC West-champion 49ers lost 10-7 to the Houston Oilers

at Candlestick Park, in the penultimate game of the regular season. On New Year’s Eve, the 49ers visit the Washington Commanders in a 10 a.m. PT kickoff, so pace yourselves with those libations.

5 in Prime Time

The NFL adjusted its Thursday night programming so that some teams might have to play two such taxing games. The 49ers drew that card, with

a Sept. 21home opener against the New York Giants before that Thanksgiving night visit to Seattle. Other prime-time kickoffs: Sunday, Oct. 8 at home against the Dallas Cowboys; Monday, Oct. 23 at the Minnesota Vikings; and, the Christmas night visit by the Ravens.

The 49ers are 10-13 in prime-time games in Shanahan’s six seasons,

Rio Vista High School baseball team couldn’t slow down host Ripon Christian in a 16-3 loss Wednesday in the SacJoaquin Section Division VII quarterfinals.

Ripon Christian scored nine runs in the second inning and ended the game after five. Rio Vista was held to two hits.

Ryan Zamarripa and Emmett Medders had the hits. Medders, John Brimmer and Ethan Perkins drove in runs. Medders, Jameson Bloesch and Perkins all pitched for the Rams.

Rio Vista finished its season 8-7 overall. Ripon Christian advances to the semifinals for a game Tuesday at Woodland Christian.

Boys Golf Vanden’s Co makes

Section Masters

FAIRFIELD — Aidan Co of the Vanden High School boys golf team qualified for the SacJoaquin Section Masters tournament this week based on his performance at Monday’s Division III tournament in Copperopolis.

Co shot a 78 at the Golf Club at Copper Valley. He was the fifth individual overall to advance who was not a member of the top two teams. Vista Del Lago was the champion with a team score of 373 and Rio Americano was second at 391.

Landon Abalateo of Rio American turned in the top round with a 4-under-par 68. Reese Sato of Vista Del Lago had a 69. They were the only two golfers to break 70.

The Section Masters will be Monday at The Reserve at Spanos Park in Stockton.

Softball Vacaville completes

MEL season 15-0

VACAVILLE — The Vacaville High School softball team completed an unbeaten Monticello Empire League season with a 5-2 win Thursday at rival Will C. Wood in the regular season finale. Vacaville are 26-1 overall, losing only the season opener to Pleasant Grove. The Bulldogs finish the MEL season 15-0. The

A more aggressive Wiggins might help Golden State force a Game 7

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SAN FRANCISCO —

The Warriors fell to an early series deficit against the Lakers by playing too polite, deferential to sevenfooter Anthony Davis as he patrolled the paint.

To win Game 5 and avoid (for now) their first Western Conference elimination in the Steve Kerr era, the Warriors dared Davis to come to them by inviting him out of the paint and into their actions on offense.

The move sparked Draymond Green to a 20-point game and, notably, helped bring about Andrew Wiggins’ best playoff game of this season yet in the Warriors’ 121-106 Game 5 win on Wednesday night at Chase Center. He scored 25 points going 10-for-18 from the field,

primarily in the paint, with seven rebounds while defending LeBron James.

“Just the way he attacked, the way he got to the rim,” coach Steve Kerr said. “That adds another dimension to our attack. I thought the last couple games in L.A. we just didn’t get to the line a ton. We settled or a lot of stuff. I thought Wiggs did a good job of being really aggressive.”

This is something Steph Curry repeats after every big Wiggins game since Golden State’s last playoff run: An aggressive Wiggins changes everything. Wiggins earned an All-Star nod last year for nailing his job as the superstar defender – the

guy tasked with locking down opposing team’s best offensive wing – and hitting 3-pointers at a career-high clip.

He shined in the playoffs often as a secondary scorer when opponents mugged Steph Curry – his 26-point Game 5 in the Finals a prime example.

Wiggins is averaging 15 points per game so far, but saw while watching film from the previous four games how he could get more involved on offense. The Warriors got off running in the first half, in part, by getting Davis switched onto Curry on a few pick-and-rolls and ball screens – which might have the side-intention of wearing Davis out.

Pulling Davis out of the paint created more opportunity for Wiggins and others such as Gary Payton II and Green to cut under the basket

for layups.

Much like his standout Finals performance, Wiggins took advantage of how the opposing defense keyed in on the Warriors’ shooters. Lakers defenders have been all over Curry and Klay Thompson beyond the arc, so Wiggins used the extra space to attack the rim.

“Wiggs was aggressive as hell tonight,” Green said. “When they’re guarding those guys (Curry and Thompson) the way they have been guarding them, we have to come out with that aggressiveness. I think we did a really good job of it tonight and have to take the show on the road.” Wiggins has helped limit LeBron James’ damage thus far on defense, and they’ll need this kind of offense from him to turn a 3-2 deficit on its head.

Rodriguez boys tennis knocked out of semifinals in Division II tournament

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FAIRFIELD — The Rodriguez High School boys tennis team lost out in a tight 5-4 match to Mountain House Wednesday in the semifinals of the Sac-Joaquin Section Division II team tournament.

Six of nine matches went to three sets. Mountain House will advance to Friday’s section title

match against top-ranked Granite Bay at Johnson Ranch in Roseville.

Rodriguez will now get ready for the section individual tournament Monday and Tuesday in Roseville. The Mustangs will represent the entire Monticello Empire League at the section team tournament with two singles players and two doubles teams. Rodriguez won the MEL with an

unbeaten record and had all the semifinalists in the league tournament.

The Mustangs won in No. 1 and No. 6 singles against Mountain House.

Evan Wadsworth won his No. 1 match 6-3, 4-6, 6-1. Paul Lee earned a victory at No. 6 in a tough 6-4, 6-7 (6-8), 7-5 final.

Rodriguez won two of three matches in doubles.

Ian Huey and Justin Wei blitzed through their No.

1 match 6-4, 6-0. Andrew Perriard and Patrick Reilly were winners at No. 2 by a 4-6, 7-5, 7-5 score. Rodriguez beat Bella Vista 8-1 to open the team tournament.

Also in Division II, Vacaville defeated Rio Americano before falling in the next round to Granite Bay.

In Division IV, Vanden lost its opening match to Nevada Union 8-1.

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Andrew Wiggins of the Warriors rises up over LeBron James of the Lakers for a 3-pointer in the second quarter of Game 5 of the Western Conference semifinal playoff series at the Chase Center in San Francisco, Wednesday.

INSIDE Lakers’ coach says Anthony Davis probable for Friday night. Page B9.

Columns&Games

Boyfriend’s frequent belching could be a sign of acid reflux

Editor’s note: The following column was previously published in 2020.

Dear Annie: I started seeing someone recently. “Matthew” is a perfect gentleman in many respects, but he has one habit that I find very rude and jarring: He burps, frequently, and sometimes without even covering his mouth. We sit down to watch a movie together after dinner, and all I can focus on is his constant gurgles next to me on the couch. The relationship is still relatively new, and I don’t want to hurt his feelings, but this is a serious turnoff. What should I tell him? — Excuse You

Dear Excuse You: Don’t be too quick to judge: It might not be his fault. Frequent belching can be a sign of acid reflux, which might seem like a minor condition now; however, in the long term it can cause serious damage to the esophagus if left untreated. The next time he’s having these attacks of indigestion, suggest that he talk to his doctor about it, thus bringing his attention to the issue while also showing that you care – a win-win.

Dear Annie: Today, I’d like to share some insights concerning bathroom safety. My wife and I are senior citizens, and

ARIES (March 21-April 19). The noise of the world becomes far less interesting to you as you tend to what arises from your inside world. It’s a glad feeling to relax into low-key enjoyments like good food and conversation with friends.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). There are realities that naturally unfold and realities that must be made. If they are important enough, you’ll do the work. Things will change when you change them and progress when you progress them.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21).

Persuading people is hard but giving them information and letting them persuade themselves is easy. You’ll be impressed by how smart your associates are and how quickly things come together when presented in the way that empowers instead of controls others.

CANCER (June 22-July 22).

You don’t have to seek shared experiences; they just happen when you are among others, doing what you like to do. A common bond will emerge organically and extend naturally, especially with fellow water signs.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Behavior is what people do, not who they are. And because many factors that influence behavior are beyond anyone’s control, you won’t define

Daily Cryptoquotes

we sometimes have dizzy spells while in the shower. We used to have a rubber mat on the floor of the shower, but I noticed that the mat became very slippery, which happens over time due to the fats in the bath soap. Seniors should be careful to make sure their bath mat isn’t slippery and should replace it if it is.

We’ve also found that it helps if we wash our faces prior to showering, so that we don’t have to wash our faces in the shower, as this tends to be when the dizzy spells occur (because our eyes are closed). Also, I recommend installing a hand-held showerhead and hose so that the water can be directed wherever you wish.

But I think the most helpful thing for us has been buying a chair that is designed to fit in a tub or shower stall. This allows us to clean ourselves while sitting. They’re about $40 and are very lightweight so that they can be removed from the tub or shower enclosure easily. I hope these suggestions are helpful and avoid hurtful accidents, especially to our seniors. — Al R.

Dear Al: The bathroom can be a dangerous place even for young folks. The CDC reports that 235,000 people visit the

by Holiday Mathis

Today’s birthday

You’ll be chosen for an important role and be gloriously shaped by its challenges. It’s as though you have a divining rod for projects that are inspired, timely and lucrative. More highlights: You’ll be a rescuer; you’ll receive recognition from a long-established group; and you’ll get educated about a different culture and possibly foreign travel.

people by it. You believe people can improve; they’ll show you you’re right.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).

You’ll get tangible proof of how your self-regard shapes the way you relate to others. Prioritize your own well-being and so will they. The love and respect zinging around helps you keep up the energy level you need to be generous.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).

There was a time you preferred the challenge of winning people over. If they sent you mixed signals, you tried harder. Today you gravitate to people who are easy to connect with – a sign of health that will contribute to your thriving.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).

There’s a lot you want to do.

emergency room for accidents they suffered in the bathroom every year. But of course, the danger increases with age, and seniors should take every precaution to make the bathroom a safer place, from installing handrails to using a shower chair, as you suggest.

The AARP has an extensive “Bathroom Checklist” on their website that goes into greater depth.

Dear Annie: I have a different take on our obsession with celebrities, which “Ordinary Real Person” wrote to you about. For me, celebrity culture and reality shows offer a temporary and fun escape into a world filled with glamour and drama. When I return to my ordinary world, I’m grateful that I don’t have to share my children with five ex-husbands, that I don’t have to worry about four homes on four continents, that I don’t have to go under the knife so people will love me, and that I don’t have to be trussed up like a turkey before I leave the house. I’m grateful that celebrities allow me an escape, but I’m also grateful that I’m not one of them! —

Love Being Ordinary

Dear Love Being Ordinary:

And I love this take. Thanks for sharing it.

Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@ creators.com.

Some of it involves a thousand tiny steps and may take years to accomplish. You’ll have a little mindpower to devote to it today. What can you do to get started?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21). There are people you love so completely that they can do no wrong. It doesn’t make you co-dependent or a doormat. You can still have boundaries while simultaneously seeing a person as inherently human and lovable no matter what they do.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19). Financial matters become clear once you separate money from emotions or ideas of worth. The price of a thing has more to do with how much people are willing to pay than the actual value.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18). Maybe you figured out long ago what you should expect from a person, but revisit the idea. Many things have changed, including your needs, their abilities and everyone’s willingness to meet one another in new ways.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You have the patience, analytical ability and mental tenacity to sort out obstacles that would stop other people. However long it takes, you’ll find a solution for what ails you.

Contact Holiday Mathis at HolidayMathis.com.

Word Sleuth

Crossword by Phillip Alder

Bridge

you, not your opponents, you will finish today’s deal with a nice profit.

It isn’t clear what to open with that South hand. The drawback of five (or four) diamonds is that it takes you straight past three no-trump, which might be the only making game. Even so, five diamonds may have the advantage of shutting out the opponents when they can do well in their best fit.

West led a top club. South ruffed, drew trumps and cashed dummy’s two top spades. He had seen that if West held the spade queen, the contract was always safe, and South didn’t want to lose to East’s doubleton queen. However, when the queen didn’t appear, South had to play a third round. Then, though, East won with the queen and switched to the heart queen: down one.

TO DONATE CAN RESULT IN A PROFIT

Abraham Lincoln, in his second inaugural address on March 4, 1865, said something that is applicable to today’s deal: “With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right ... let us strive on to finish the work we are in.”

If you know something about malicious plays that work well for your side and realize that charity can help

South’s line was reasonable, but there was a guaranteed way to keep East off the lead. At trick one, he shouldn’t have ruffed: He should have discarded a spade!

West’s best play now is to cash the heart ace, but suppose he continues with a second high club. South ruffs, draws trumps and plays three rounds of spades, ruffing the last in his hand. He leads a trump to the dummy and cashes the spade jack and nine, discarding his heart losers. Declarer collects an overtrick, not an undertrick.

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5/12/23

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

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Difficulty level: SILVER

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Tom Petty guitarist Mike Campbell opens up about life after the Heartbreakers

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ike Campbell is feeling grateful.“I’ve been blessed to do what I love,” the acclaimed musician says. “And I’m going to keep on doing it – because it’s all that I know how to do, really.”

And that’s a big reason for fans to feel grateful as well, resting assured that this Rock & Roll Hall of Famer – who was enshrined as a founding member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers in 2002 – fully intends to keep making and playing music for years to come.

The vocalist-guitarist’s primary musical focus these days is the Dirty Knobs, the ‘60s-influenced blues-garagerock act that once was a side project but moved to the forefront after Petty died and the Heartbreakers disbanded in 2017.

Fans can check out Mike Campbell and the Dirty Knobs when they play a number of shows in the Golden State this month in support of their sophomore full-length release, 2022’s “External Combustion.” Information and ticket links for all those shows can be found at thedirtyknobs.com.

I recently had the chance to chat with Campbell about his not-so-new band, his legendary former Heartbreaker outfit and his stint with Fleetwood Mac.

Q: Great to talk with you, Mike. I guess I’d like to start off by just asking whether you feel a special connection to the Bay Area? You have had some pretty amazing experiences here over the years.

A: The Bay Area – San Francisco, Oakland, the Fillmore and the old Winterland, back in the day – it’s always been a place I that I have dreamed about. When I was a kid , and they were having all the great late-‘60s groups and the Haight-Ashbury and all that stuff, I was always enamored with (the Bay Area).

Every time I go there, I kind of get a flashback of dreaming about coming to the Bay Area. Of course, playing up there has been a treat – from the early days with Bill Graham with the Heartbreakers and the Fillmore.

Q: Thanks for leading me right into my next question –which indeed has to do with the Bay Area’s famed Fillmore. What was it like going back and listening to the tapes from Petty and the Heartbreakers’ legendary 20-show residency at the venue while putting together the “Live at the Fillmore 1997” set?

A: It was exciting because I remembered, in the back of my mind, those were really magical gigs. So, of all the archive stuff, that was the one thing that I was looking

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think that is some of the best Heartbreakers live stuff you’ll find.

Q: I was at the Fillmore show where the venue had to be suddenly evacuated.

A: The first show – yeah, somebody let off tear gas or something in the crowd. I do remember that. I just remember getting this weird feeling in my eyes – like something was burning. Then the security was saying, “Get off the stage.” So, we all came running off.

The crowd left the room –as I guess you remember – for about 30 minutes or so. Then we came back and did the show. That was freaky. Such a horrible feeling – I couldn’t breathe, I couldn’t see.

Fortunately, nobody got hurt and we finished the show.

That was the only time that ever happened to us.

Q: A lot of people probably think of the Dirty Knobs as a new band, likely because the debut album didn’t come out until 2020 and the group was overshadowed by your Heartbreakers work for years. But it’s not new – it’s been around well over a decade. Still, just to get everybody up to speed, would you be willing to give readers a quick little Dirty Knobs history lesson?

A: The Dirty Knobs started out as me and some friends in the studio, trying out songs and recording them. Then we thought, “Let’s take these to a couple of clubs and try some of these songs live.”

So, it became a workshop for me to try songs out and then go out and play little places and try my hand at fronting the band, which I really like now.

It’s still kind of an organic thing we do mostly for fun.

Here’s

ally, on this tour Steve Ferrone from the Heartbreakers is going to fill in on the drums for us.

Q: Did you have any initial thoughts that this could turn into a career back when you were first putting the band together?

A: There were never any designs that this was going to be anything. As it went on, at some point it did cross my mind, “Well, if the Heartbreakers ever retired this is something that I would like to do.” Unfortunately, the Heartbreakers ended unexpectedly. But then my time opened up and so this is what I am focused on now.

Q: You’re one of the best guitarists in the business. Yet, singing – at least in front of a crowd – is relatively new for you. What was it like for you to first step up to microphone with the Dirty Knobs?

A: It was kind of like walking the gangplank. I thought I was going to fall off the end and drown. (Laughs) It was scary, because I had never really sung before. But I only started singing because I had all these songs – more than Tom could deal with – and I wanted to hear what they might sound like.

Then when we went onstage, surprisingly, it was relatively comfortable. I just had to get used to being at the microphone and connecting with the audience and trying to sing in pitch, you know? But I found I really like it. I’m really comfortable doing it now.

Q: Similar question – what was it like recording that

Word Sleuth

Crossword by Phillip Alder

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coin is incorrectly weighted. You should bet on heads.”

The SLM paused for a moment, then moved on: Normally, five missing cards will split 3-2, but you should allow for 4-1 if you can – it happens about one-quarter of the time. In my first deal, how would you plan the play in three no-trump after West leads the spade six?

When this deal was originally played, South ducked the first trick, won the spade continuation with dummy’s ace and ducked a club. Back came a third spade to South’s king. When declarer led a club and West discarded a heart, South groaned inwardly. After winning with dummy’s king, declarer continued with three rounds of diamonds. However, West won with the queen and cashed two spade tricks: down one.

“How could I go down with 28 points and eight top tricks in aces and kings?” wailed South.

DUCK-DUCK-WIN OR DUCK-WIN-DUCK?

The Senior Life Master immediately posed a question to his students: “Someone flips a coin nine times and it comes down heads all nine times. You are asked to bet on the outcome of the 10th flip. Do you bet on heads or tails?

What are the odds on the 10th flip?

“In principle, it is still 50-50 between heads and tails. However, after nine heads in a row, it is likely that the

He had missed two winning approaches: one preferred and one lucky. When West showed out on the second round of clubs, South should have conceded the trick to East to get three club winners. Alternatively, after winning with the spade ace, at tricks three and four, declarer could have cashed both of dummy’s top clubs. After West’s discard, South would hope for a 3-3 diamond split.

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Sudoku by Wayne Gould

Difficulty level: GOLD

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

bet on the outcome of the 10th flip. Do you bet on heads or tails?

What are the odds on the 10th flip?

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Life

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first Dirty Knobs album (2020’s “Wreckless Abandon”) as the bandleader?

A: It was fun. It wasn’t hard at all –because I do have a lot of experience. In the Heartbreakers, although Tom was the leader of the band, a lot of the times I was kind of the musical director and leader. So, I felt pretty comfortable fronting the band.

The (Dirty Knobs) band is so good and we had great sounds. We didn’t (mess) around. We just did it real quick. And I love to record that way – here’s the song, here are the chords, just play it once or twice until everybody gets the notes right. And if the groove is good, move onto the next song.

Q: Sounds like the way to do it.

A: I wanted to keep it live. The new record that is going to be coming out, it’s built around everyone playing together at once and keeping as much of the live performance as you can.

Q: Wait – Are we talking about a third Dirty Knobs record here? Because the last one is only a year old.

A: Yeah, I’ve got one that is basically finished except for a couple of guest vocalists who are going to come in and add some vocals for me.

In two weeks, we cut like 24 songs. The hard part was narrowing it down. I finally got it down to 10 songs. And the other songs will be on the following record.

But it’s basically done. I’m really happy with it. It picks up where the last record left out and then kind of ventures into some more lyrical territory.

Q: That’s a lot of music to produce in just a few years.

A: Well, I’m a writing fanatic. I was writing this morning before you called. I have a lot of songs – I just love the process – and they start to pile up on me. So, it’s nice to finally get them recorded and get them out.

This record will be out probably at the end of the year. And then we will go out and tour next year behind that.

Q: You apparently love touring as well.

A: I do. I love to play. I love to play in front of people. It’s hard to say if I love the studio more or not. They are

two different things. I just like to play music –whether it’s in the studio or live, it’s very rewarding and I feel like I have a purpose.

Q: You weren’t able to tour the way you wanted to in support of “Wreckless Abandon.”

So, instead of hitting the road, you went back into the studio and recorded “External Combustion.” In what ways can the whole pandemic experience be felt on that record?

A: There’s nothing specifically that refers to the pandemic. But a lot of my songs, I’m noticing, are about desperate people – misfits who are trying to get out of a bad situation into a better place of hope and redemption. So, maybe, subconsciously, some of (pandemic experience) crept in. But I did not address it specifically.

Q: Was it fun touring as a member of Fleetwood Mac during that 2018-19 run?

A: It was. It was tricky at first. I am not used to copying other people’s songs, per se. So, I had to dig in and do a little work to fill the hole there on the guitar. So, that was new for me. But it was a challenge and I learned a lot. Then once we got out on the road, though, we had a blast.

Q: Would you do it again?

A: I don’t think they are going to do it again. I don’t really see it, because Christine (McVie) is gone now and Stevie (Nicks) is really busy. So, I have my doubts that they would crank that up again. I don’t really see that ship leaving the port again. But if they asked me, and my time was open, I would certainly do it because I love the people and their songs are really good.

Q: You have undergone so much in the last six years – Tom’s death and the corresponding loss of your Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band, the Fleetwood Mac tour, the pandemic, the Dirty Knobs albums, etc. Are you exhausted? Or are you energized?

A: I feel totally energized. I’m surprised, Jim, honestly. I’m not a spring chicken, but, physically, I’m in really good shape. I eat well. I’ve got a lot of energy. I’ve got a lot of creative energy. And I’m really grateful to be able to do what I do for a living. I’m pretty jazzed up. I love my life.

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AtitsregularmeetingonMay9,2023,the SolanoCountyBoardofSupervisorsadoptedanordinanceamendingSolanoCounty CodeChapter19relatingtoparks,recreation,andotherpublicproperty.SupervisorsBrown,Mashburn,Williamsand ChairVasquezvotedyes.SupervisorHanniganwasabsent.

Thepertinentamendmentsoftheadopted ordinanceinclude:

•Removing/updatingoutdatedterminology andaddingnewwordinganddefinitions thatprovideincreasedunderstandingand complianceofparkrules.

•Expandingenforcementauthorityofthe parkstafftoallowparkstafftoissuecitationsforallCountyCodeviolationsinthe park.

•Providingoperationalstreamliningbyadjustingcertainservices,suchasthosefor annualpassdistributionanduseandboat trailersatcampgrounds,aswellasaligni ngcampsitecheckouttimeswithindustry standards.

•Updatingcodesectionsregardingfirearmspossessionandfurtherdefinethe term“otherweapons”toalignwithchanges tofederallawsandclarifieswhatconstitutesaweapon.

•Addingnewsubsectionsidentifyingappropriateclassificationsofelectricbicycle useandrestricting“drone”useinthe parks.

TheordinancewilltakeeffectonJune9, 2023.

Dated:May9,2023

BernadetteS.Curry SolanoCountyCounsel

DR#00063258

Published:May12,2023

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME PETITION OF: JOSEPH DARNELL PICKINGPACK CASE NUMBER: CU23-00745

TOALLINTERESTEDPERSONS:

Petitioner:JosephDarnellPickingpack filedapetitionwiththiscourtforadecree changingnamesasfollows:

PresentName: a. Joseph Darnell Pickingpack

ProposedName: a. Joseph Darnell Donaldson THECOURTORDERSthatallpersonsinterestedinthismattershallappearbefore thiscourtatthehearingindicatedbelow to showcause,ifany,whythepetitionfor changeofnameshouldnotbegranted. Anypersonobjectingtothename changesdescribedabovemustfileawrittenobjectionthatincludesthereasonsfor theobjectionatleasttwocourtdaysbeforethematterisscheduledtobeheard andmustappearatthehearingtoshow causewhythepetitionshouldnotbegranted.Ifnowrittenobjectionistimelyfiled, thecourtmaygrantthepetitionwithouta hearing.

LLCCAVacaville,95687.THISBUSINESSISCONDUCTEDBY: aLimitedLiabilityCompany Theregistrantcommencedtotransact businessundertheficti tiousbusiness nameornameslistedaboveon 04/27/2023. Ideclarethatallinformationinthisstatementistrueandcorrect(Aregistrantwho declaresastrueinformationwhichheor sheknowstobefalseisguiltyofacrime.) /s/RoyAsuncion INACCORDANCEWITHSUBDIVISION (a)OFSECTION17920AFICTITIOUS NAMESTATEMENTGENERALLYEXPIRESATTHEENDOFFIVEYEARS FROMTHEDATEONWHICHITWAS FILEDINTHEOFFICEOFTHECOUNTY CLERK,EXCEPTASPROVIDEDIN SUBDIVISION(b)OFSECTION17920, WHEREITEXPIRES40DAYSAFTER ANYCHANGEINTHEFACTSSET FORTHINTHESTATEMENTPURSUANTTOSECTION17913OTHERTHAN ACHANGEINTHERESIDENCEADDRESSOFAREGISTEREDOWNER. ANEWFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENTMUSTBEFILEDBEFORE THEEXPIRATIONMay1,2028. THEFILINGOFTHISSTATEMENT DOESNOTOFITSELFAUTHORIZE THEUSEINTHISSTATEOFAFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAMEINVIOLATION OFTHERIGHTSOFANOTHERUNDER FEDERAL,STATEORCOMMONLAW (SEESECTION14411ETSEQ.,BUSINESSANDPROFESSIONSCODE). FiledintheOfficeoftheCountyClerkof

NOTICEOFPUBLICLIENSALE: ThisnoticeisgiveninaccordancewiththeprovisionsofSection21700etseqoftheBusiness&ProfessionsCodeoftheStateofCalifornia.StorageStarwillsellthefollowing unitsatpublicsalebycompetitivebidding,pursuanttostatelaw. Auctiontobeheldat10:00A.M.onMay19,2023,inpersonat: StorageStarVacaville170BellaVistaRdVacavilleCA.95687

Itemssincludebutarenotlimitedto: CHERREEJACKSON:BAGS,BOXES,BOOKS,CLOTHING,EXERCISEEQUIPMENT LAMPS,PATIOFURNATURE,POWERTOOLS,RUGS,SHELVES,TOOLS,TOTES TRASHMARANDAJAMISON:bags,boxes,chairs,clothes,lamps,television.DONNA BATTELLE:BAGS,BOXES,CLOTHING,MISCELLANEOUS,TOTES,TRASH,COOLER,SKIWALKINGPOLES.JUSTINPRIVATTE:BAGS,MISCELLANEOUS,TOOLS TOTES,TRASH.DAVIDANDRADE:BOXES,CHAIRS,COLLECTIBLES,DRESSER MATTRESS,NIGHTSTAND,PICTURES,SHELVES,TOTES.CYNTHIAARCHER : BOXES,BOOKS,CHAIRS,CLOTHING,COFFEETABLE,DESK,DINNINGTABLE DRESSER,HUTCH,MATTRESS,NIGHTSTAND,SOFA,TRASH.EDWARDVARNI : BAGS,BOXES,CLOTHES,MATTRESS,SPEAKERS,TOTES,TRASH.ERICAJONES: TABLES.SMALLHOMESALON,CYNTHIAARCHER:BOXES,BEDDING,DISHES CYNTHIAARCHER:ENDTABLE,DISHES,LAMPS,MICROWAVE,MATTRESS BOOKS,CHAIRS,BOXES,BAGSMICHELLEBENDER:LAMPS,FILECABINETS SHELVES,SPORTSEQUIPMENT,TABLES.ANTOINETTETREMAYNE:BAGS CLOTHING,TRASH,MISCELLANIOUS.SHAINABRYANT:BAGS,BOXES,CLOTHING,COMPUTER,TRASH,SODAMACHINE.ELYSSABILLECI:BAGS,BOXES BOOKS,CLOTHING,COMPUTER,PICTURES.FERNANDOGALVAN:BAGS,BOXES BOOKS,CLOTHES,COFFEETABLE,TRASH,TABLES,SPEAKERS,LAMPSDINING TABLE.DEBORAHPINON:BAGS,BOXES,DISHES,MATTRESS,CRIB,TOYS. DR#00063021

Published:May5,12,2023

NOTICEOFAUCTIONSALE

NOTICEISHEREBYGIVENthatamobilehome,registeredtoRICHARDANDERSON andCARLANDERSONanddescribedasa1973FLEETWOODmobilehome,Decal NumberAAP3458,SerialNumber7149,Label/InsigniaNumber282473,andstoredon propertywithintheDoverMHP,at2121WaltersRoad,Fairfield,CA94533,Solano County(specificallythosegoodslocated/storedatSpace#38withinthepark),willbesold bypublicauctionattheDoverMHPonJune2,2023,at1:00p.m.,andsuchsucce eding saledaysasmaybenecessary,andtheproceedsofthesalewillbeappliedtothesatisfactionofthelien,includingthereasonablechargesofnotice,advertisement,andsale. Thissaleisconductedonacashorcertifiedfundbasisonly(cash,cashier'scheck,or travelers'checksonly).Personalchecksand/orbusinesschecksarenotacceptable.Paymentisdueandpayableimmediatelyfollowingthesale.Noexceptions.Themobilehome and/orcontentsaresoldas is,whereis,withnoguarantees.

ThissaleisconductedundertheauthorityofCaliforniaCivilCode798.56aandCommercialCode7209-7210. DATED:April26,2023

Published:May12,19,2023

Lakers coach Ham says Davis probable for Game 6

Tribune ConTenT AgenCy

LOS ANGELES — Lakers coach Darvin Ham, meeting virtually with reporters on Thursday, said star big man Anthony Davis isn't exhibiting any signs of a concussion following a blow to the head in the

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: LOIS GRACE BLACK, aka LOIS G. BLACK, aka LOIS BLACK CASE NUMBER: PR23-00103

Toallheirs,beneficiaries,creditors,contingentcreditors,andpersonswhomay otherwisebeinterestedinthewillorestate,orboth,of: Lois Grace Black, aka Lois G. Black, aka Lois Black APetitionforProbatehasbeenfiledby: William C. Hayman intheSuperiorCourtofCalifornia,County of:Solano

ThePetitionforProbaterequeststhat: William C. Hayman beappointedaspersonalrepresentative toadministertheestateofthedecedent. ThepetitionrequestsauthoritytoadministertheestateundertheIndependentAdministrationofEstatesAct.(Thisauthority willallowthepersonalrepresentativeto takemanyactionswithoutobtainingcourt approval.Beforetakingcertainveryimportantactions,however,thepersonal representativewillberequiredtogivenoticeto interestedpersonsunlessthey havewaivednoticeorconsentedtothe proposedaction.)Theindependentadministrationauthoritywillbegrantedunless aninterestedpersonfilesanobjectionto thepetitionandshowsgoodcausewhy thecourtshouldnotgranttheauthority.

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

DATE: June 7, 2023; TIME: 9:00 am; DEPT. 22

SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, County of Solano Old Solano Courthouse 580 Texas Street Fairfield, CA 94533

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

Petitioner:WilliamC.Hayman P.O.Box2683 Rocklin,CA95677 (916)257-6356 DR#00063206 Published:May12,15,19,2023

fourth quarter of Game 5. Davis, Ham said, will be listed as "probable" for the potential series-clinching game with the Golden State Warriors Friday in Los Angeles. "He's doing good. We checked in with him and he's feeling great. Our medical staff gave us a great

update," Ham said. "… He's the centerpiece of what we're trying to do on both sides of the ball and for us just in general for our success rate. So, that was great, great news." Davis left Wednesday's game late after being struck in the side of the head by an elbow from

NOTICEOFTRUSTEE'SSALET.S.No.22-02341-FS-CATitleNo.2243359A.P.N. 0148-352-120YOUAREINDEFAULTUNDERADEEDOFTRUSTDATED11/05/2018 UNLESSYOUTAKEACTIONTOPROTECTYOURPROPERTY,ITMAYBESOLDAT APUBLICSALE.IFYOUNEEDANEXPLANATIONOFTHENATUREOFTHEPROCEEDINGAGAINSTYOU,YOUSHOULDCONTACTALAWYER.Apublicauctionsale tothehighestbidderforcash,(cashier'scheck(s)mustbemadepayabletoNationalDefaultServicingCorporation),drawnona stateornationalbank,acheckdrawnbyastate orfederalcreditunion,oracheckdrawnbyastateorfederalsavingsandloanassociation,saving sassociation,orsavingsbankspecifiedinSection5102oftheFinancial Codeandauthorizedtodobusinessinthisstate;willbeheldbythedulyappointedtrusteeasshownbelow,ofallright,title,andinterestconveyedtoandnowheldbythetrusteeinthehereinafterdescribedpropertyunderandpursuanttoaDeedofTrustd escribed below.Thesalewillbemadeinan"asis"condition,butwithoutcovenantorwarranty,expressedorimplied,regardingtitle,possession,orencumbrances,topaytheremaining principalsumofthenote(s)securedbytheDeedofTrust,withinterestandlatecharges thereon,asprovidedinthenote(s),advances,underthetermsoftheDeedofTrust,int erestthereon,fees,chargesandexpensesoftheTrusteeforthetotalamount(atthe timeoftheinitialpublica tionoftheNoticeofSale)reasonablyestimatedtobesetforth below.Theamountmaybegreateronthedayofsale.Trustor:CharlesCavness,anunmarriedmanandDorisMoore,anunmarriedwoman,asjointtenantsDulyAppointed Trustee:NationalDefaultServicingCorporationRecorded11/26/2018asInstrumentNo 201800079176(orBook,Page)oftheOfficialRecordsofSolanoCounty,California.Date ofSale:06/14/2023at9:00AMPlaceofSale:SantaClaraStreetEntrancetoVallejoCity Hall,555SantaClaraStreet,Vallejo,CA.94590Estimatedamountofunpaidbalance andothercharges:$447,188.08StreetAddressorothercommondesignationofreal property:5296TrophyDr,Fairfield,CA94534A.P.N.:0148-352-120Theundersigned Trusteedisclaimsanyliabilityforanyincorrectnessofthestreetaddressorothercommondesignation,ifany,shownabove.Ifnostreetaddressorothercommondesignation isshown,directionstoth elocationofthepropertymaybeobtainedbysendingawritten requesttothebeneficiarywithin10daysofthedateoffirstpublicationofthisNoticeof Sale.IftheTrusteeisunabletoconveytitleforanyreason,thesuccessfulbidder'ssole andexclusiveremedyshallbethereturnofmoniespaidtotheTrustee,andthesuccessfulbiddershallhavenofurtherrecourse.TherequirementsofCaliforniaCivilCodeSection2923.5(b)/2923.55(c)werefulfilledwhentheNot iceofDefaultwasrecorded.NOTICETOPOTENTIALBIDDERS:Ifyouareconsideringbiddingonthispropertylien,you shouldunderstandthattherearerisksinvolvedinbiddingatatrusteeauction.Youwillbe biddingonalien,notonthepropertyitself.Placingthehighestbidatatrusteeauction doesnotautomaticallyentitleyoutofreeandclearownershipoftheproperty.Youshould alsobeawarethatthelienbeingauctionedoffmaybeajuniorlien.Ifyouarethehighest bidderattheauction,youareormayberesponsibleforpayingoffallliensseniortothelienbeingauctionedoff,beforeyoucanreceivecleartitletotheproperty.Youareencouragedtoinvestigatetheexistence,priority,andsizeofoutstandingliensthatmayexiston thispropertybycontactingthecountyrec order'sofficeoratitleinsurancecompany eitherofwhichmaychargeyouafeeforthisinformation.Ifyouconsulteitheroftheseresources,youshouldbe awarethatthesamelendermayholdmorethanonemortgageor deedoftrustontheproperty.NOTICETOPROPERTYOWNER:Thesaledateshownon thisnoticeofsalemaybepostponedoneormoretimesbythemortgagee,beneficiary trustee,oracourt,pursuanttoSection2924goftheCaliforniaCivilCode.Thelawrequiresthatinformationabouttrusteesalepostponementsbemadeavailabletoyouandto thepublic,asacourtesytothosenotpresentatthesale.Ifyouwishtolearnwhether yoursaledatehasbeenpostponed,and,ifapplicable,therescheduledtimeanddatefor thesaleofthisproperty,youmaycall800-280-2832orvisitthisinternetwebsitewww.ndscorp.com/sales,usingthefilenumberassignedtothiscase22-02341-FS-CA.Informationaboutpostponementsthatareveryshortindurationorthatoccurcloseintimetothe scheduledsalemaynotimmediatelybereflectedinthetelephoneinformationoronthe internetwebsite.Thebestwaytoverifypostponementinformationistoattendthescheduledsale.NOTICETOTENANT*:Youmayhavearighttopurchasethispropertyafter thetrusteeauctionpursuanttoSection2924moftheCaliforniaCivilCode.Ifyouarea "representativeofalleligibletenantbuyers"youmaybeabletopurchasethepropertyif youmatchthelastandhighestbidplacedatthetrusteeauction.Ifyouarean"eligible bidder,"youmaybeabletopurchasethepropertyifyouexceedthe lastandhighestbid placedatthetrusteeauction.Therearethreestepstoexercisingthisrightofpurchase. First,48hoursafterthedateofthetrusteesale,youcancall888-264-4010,orvisitthis internetwebsiteww w.ndscorp.com,usingthefilenumberassignedtothiscase2202341-FS-CAtofindthedateonwhichthetrustee'ssalewasheld,theamountofthelast andhighestbid,andtheaddressofthetrustee.Second,youmustsendawrittennotice ofintenttoplacea bidsothatthetrusteereceivesitnomorethan15daysafterthetrustee'ssale.Third,youmustsubmitabidsothatthetrusteereceivesitnomorethan45 daysafterthetrustee'ssale.Ifyouthinkyoumayqualifyasa"representativeofalleligibletenantbuyers"or"eligiblebidder,"youshouldconsidercontactinganattorneyorappropriaterealestateprofessionalimmediatelyforadviceregardingthispotentialrightto purchase.*PursuanttoSection2924mofth eCaliforniaCivilCode,thepotentialrightsdescribedhereinshallapplyonlytopublicauctionstakingplaceonorafterJanuary1,2021 throughDecember31,2025,unlesslaterextended.Date:05/03/2023NationalDefault ServicingCorporationc/oTiffanyandBosco,P.A.,itsagent,1455FrazeeRoad,Suite 820SanDiego,CA92108TollFreePhone:888-264-4010SalesLine800-280-2832 ; SalesWebsite:www.ndscorp.comConnieHernandez,TrusteeSalesRepresentativeAFN478348205/12/2023,05/19/2023,05/26/2023

DR#00063160

Published:May12,19,26,2023

Kevon Looney. The Lakers lost Game 5 121-106. Ham said Davis was evaluated for a concussion after the play and was cleared.

LeBron James (foot) and Dennis Schroder (Achilles) also looked hampered by injuries during Game 5, but Ham

said both are fine heading into the Lakers' final home game of the series.

For James, it'll be an opportunity to knock out Stephen Curry and the Warriors, a player (and team) with whom he has See Davis, Page B10

T.S.No.22003443-1CAAPN:0173-262-040NOTICEOFTRUSTEE'SSALEYOUARE I NDEFAULTUNDERADEEDOFTRUSTDATED10/24/2020.UNLESSYOUTA KE ACTIONTOPROTECTYOURPROPERTY,ITMAYBESOLDATAPUBLICSALE.IF Y OUNEEDANEXPLANATIONOFTHENATUREOFTHEPROCEEDINGAGAIN ST YOU,YOUSHOULDCONTACTALAWYER.Apublicauctionsaletothehighestbidder forcash,cashier'scheckdrawnonastateornationalbank,checkdrawnbyastateor federalcreditunion,oracheckdrawnbyastateo rfederalsavingsandloanassociation, orsavingsassociation,orsavingsbankspecifiedinSection5102oftheFinancialCode andauthorizedtodobusinessinthisstatewillbeheldbythedulyappointedtrustee as shownbelow,ofallright,title,andinterestconveyedtoandnowheldbythetrusteein the hereinafterdescribedpropertyunderandpursuanttoaDeedofTrustdescribedbelow. Thesalewillbemade,butwithoutcovenantorwarranty,expressedorimplied,rega rding title,possession,orencumbrances,topaytheremainingprincipalsumofthenote(s) securedbytheDeedofTrust,withinterestandlatechargesthereon,asprovidedin the note(s),advances,underthetermsoftheDeedofTrust,interestthereon,fees,charges andexpensesoftheTrusteeforthetotalamount(atthetimeoftheinitialpublicationof theNoticeofSale)reasonablyestimatedtobesetforthbelow.Theamountmaybegreateronthedayofsale.Trustor: JUANRAMONGALLEGOSMENDEZ,AMARRIEDMAN, ASHISSOLEANDSEPARATEPROPERTYANDADALBERTOPEREZTAPIA,AMARRIEDMAN,ASHISSOLEANDSEPARATEPROPERTYDulyAppointedTrustee:ZBS Law,LLPDeedofTrustRecordedon10/28/2020,asInstrumentNo.202000096505of OfficialRecordsofSolanoCounty,California.DateofSale:05/22/2023at09:30 AM PlaceofSale:ATTHESANTACLARASTREETENTRANCETOTHECITYHALL AT 555SANTACLARASTREET,VALLEJO,CA94590Estimatedamountofunpaid balanceandothercharges:$422,074.31Note:BecausetheBeneficiaryreservestherightto bidlessthanthetotaldebtowed,itispossiblethatatthetimeofthesaletheopening bid maybelessthanthetotaldebtowed.StreetAddressorothercommondesignationof r ealproperty:1405KLAMATHDRSUISUNCITY,CA94585Describedasfollows: As m orefullydescribedonsaidDeedofTrust.A.P.N#.:0173-262-040Theundersig ned Trusteedisclaimsanyliabilityforanyinc orrectnessofthestreetaddressorothercommondesignation,ifany,shownabove.Ifnostreetaddressorothercommondesignation isshown,directionstothelocationofthepropertymaybeobtainedbysendingawritten requesttothebeneficiarywithin10daysofthedateoffirstpublicationofthisNoticeof Sale.NOTICETOPOTENTIALBIDDERS:Ifyouareconsideringbiddingonthisproperty lien,youshouldunderstandthattherearerisksinvolvedinbiddingatatrustee auction. Youwillbebiddingonalien,notonthepropertyitself.Placingthehighestbidatatrusteeauctiondoesnotautomaticallyentitleyoutofreeandclearownershipoftheproperty. Youshouldalsobeawarethatthelienbeingauctionedoffmaybeajuniorlien.Ifyou are thehighestbidderattheauction,youareormayberesponsibleforpayingoffallliens seniortothelienbeingauctionedoff,beforeyoucanreceivecleartitletotheproperty. Youareencouragedto investigatetheexistence,priority,andsizeofoutstandingliens thatmayexistonthispropertybycontactingthecountyrecorder'sofficeoratitleinsurancecompany,eitherofwhichmaychargeyouafeeforthisinformation.Ifyouconsult eitheroftheseresources,youshouldbeawarethatthesamelendermayholdmorethan onemortgageordeedoftrustontheproperty.NOTICETOPROPERTYOWNER: The saledateshownonthisnoticeofsalemaybepostponedoneormoretimes bythemortgagee,beneficiary,trustee,oracourt,pursuanttoSection2924goftheCalifornia Civil Code.Thelawrequiresthatinformationabouttrusteesalepostponementsbemadeavailabletoyouandtothepublic,asacourtesytothosenotpresentatthesale.Ifyouwishto learnwhetheryoursaledatehasbeenpostponed,and,ifapplicable,thereschedu led timeanddateforthesaleofthisproperty,youmaycall855-882-1314orvisitthisInternetWebsitehttps:// www.hubzu.comusingthefilenumberassignedtothisc ase 22003443-1CA.Informationaboutpostponementsthatareveryshortindurationorthat occurcloseintimetothescheduledsalemaynotimmediatelybereflectedinthetelephoneinformationorontheInternetWebsite.Thebestwaytoverifypostponement informationistoattendthescheduledsale.NOTICETOTENANT:Youmayhavearightto purchasethispropertyafterthetrusteeauctionpursuanttoSection2924m oftheCaliforniaCivilCode.Ifyouarean“eligibletenantbuyer,”youcanpurchasethepropertyif you matchthelastandhighestbidplacedatthetrusteeauction.Ifyouarean“eligiblebidder,” youmaybeabletopurchasethepropertyifyouexceedthelastandhighestbidplacedat thetrusteeauction.Therearethreestepstoexercisingthisrightofpurchase.First, 48 hoursafterthedateofthetrusteesale,youcancall855-882-1314orvisitthisInternet Websitehttp s://www.hubzu.comusingthefilenumberassignedtothiscase22003443-1 CAtofindthedateonwhichthetrustee’ssalewasheld,theamountofthelast and highestbid,andtheaddressofthetrustee.Second,youmustsendawrittennoticeof intenttoplaceabidsothatthetrusteereceivesitnomorethan15daysafterthetrustee’s sale.Third,youmustsubmitabidsothatthetrusteereceivesitnomorethan45days afterthetrustee’ssale.Ifyouthinkyoumayqualifyasan“eligibletenantbuyer”or“eligiblebidder,”youshouldconsidercontactinganattorneyorappropriaterealestate professionalimmediatelyforadviceregardingthispotentialrighttopurchase.Dat ed: 04/18/2023ZBSLaw,LLP,asTrustee30CorporatePark,Suite450,Irvine,CA92606 ForNon-AutomatedSaleInformation,call:(714)848-7920ForSaleInformation:855-8821314orhttps://www.hubzu.comMichaelBusby,TrusteeSaleOfficerThisofficeisenforcingasecurityinterestofyourcreditor.Totheextentthatyourobligationhasbeen dischargedbyabankruptcycourtorissubjecttoanautomaticstayofabankruptcy,this noticeisforinformationalpurposesonlyanddoesnotconstituteademandforpaymentor anyattempttocollectsuchobligation.EPP37042PubDates04/28,05/05,05/12/2023 DR#00062762 Published:April28May5,12,2023

Friday’s TV sports

Baseball

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

Playoffs

N.Y. Knicks vs. Miami, ESPN, 4:30 p.m. • Golden State vs. L.A. Lakers, ESPN, 7 p.m.

DP World, Soudal Open, GOLF, 4 a.m. • LPGA, Cognizant Founders Cup, GOLF, 7:30 a.m.

• Regions Tradition, GOLF, 10 a.m.

• PGA, AT&T Byron Nelson, GOLF, 1 p.m.

Hockey NHL Playoffs

• Florida vs. Toronto, TNT, 4 p.m.

• Edmonton vs. Vegas, TNT, 7p.m. Motorsports

• NASCAR Trucks, Buckle Up South Carolina 200, qualifying, FS1, Noon.

• NASCAR Xfinity, Shriners Children’s 200, qualifying, FS1, 2 p.m.

• NASCAR Trucks, Buckle Up South Carolina 200, FS1, 4:30 p.m.

Softball College

• SEC Tournament, Teams TBA, ESPN2, 1 p.m.

• SEC Tournament, Teams TBA, ESPN2, 3:30 p.m.

• Pac-12 Tournament, Teams TBA, ESPN, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday’s TV sports

Baseball MLB

• Texas vs. Oakland, FS1, 1:07 p.m.

• Pittsburgh vs. Baltimore, 2, 40, 4:05 p.m.

• San Francisco vs. Arizona, NBCSBA, 5:10 p.m.

Bowling

• PBA, Players Championship, FS1, 9:30 a.m.

Boxing

• Janibek vs. Butler, ESPN, 7 p.m.

Equestrian

• U.S. Championship, 3, 11:30 a.m.

Football USFL

• Michigan vs. Pittsburgh, USA, 9:30 a.m.

• Birmingham vs. Houston, 2, 40, 1 p.m. XFL

• Dallas vs. DC, 7, 10, 5 p.m.

Golf

• DP World, Soudal Open, GOLF, 4:30 a.m.

• PGA, AT&T Byron Nelson, GOLF, 10 a.m.

• Regions Tradition, GOLF, Noon.

• PGA, AT&T Byron Nelson, 5, 13, Noon.

• LPGA, Cognizant Founders Cup, GOLF, 2 p.m.

Hockey NHL Playoffs

• Carolina at New Jersey, ESPN, 1 p.m.

• Seattle vs. Dallas, ESPN, 4 p.m.

Motorsports

• NASCAR Cup Series, Goodyear 400, qualifying, FS1, 7:30 a.m.

• NASCAR Xfinity, Shriners Children’s 200, 2, 40, 10:30 a.m.

• IndyCar, GMR Grand Prix, 3, 12:30 p.m.

• AMA Supercross, Monster Energy Series, USA, 7 p.m.

Soccer EPL

• Leeds vs. Newcastle, USA, 4:30 a.m.

• Chelsea vs. Nottingham, USA, 7 a.m. USL

• Louisville City vs. Miami FC, ESPN2, 4 p.m. Softball College

• AAC Tournament, Teams TBA, ESPN2, 8 a.m.

• ACC Tournament, Teams TBA, ESPN2, 10 a.m.

• Big 12 Tournament, Teams TBA, ESPN2, Noon.

• SEC Tournament, Teams TBA, ESPN2, 2 p.m.

• Big East Championship, Teams TBA, FS1, 4 p.m.

• Pac-12 Tournament, Teams TBA, ESPN2, 7 p.m.

UFC Fight Night

• Charlotte Prelims, ESPN, 8:30 a.m.

• Charlotte Prelims, 7, 10, Noon.

Davis

From Page B9

a full a history of NBA Finals battles.

He's averaging 23.6 points, 8.8 rebounds and 4.8 assists per game this series, the Lakers getting strong offensive play from Davis, and at times, D'Angelo Russell, Austin Reaves, Schroder and Lonnie Walker IV.

James, though, by his standards, has been fairly quiet. The Lakers have actually been outscored by 24 points with James on the court this series.

He hasn't scored 30 points or more for the Lakers in a playoff game since Game 5 of 2020 NBA Finals. He did, though, have his first 20 points and 20 rebounds game ever as a pro in the first round against Memphis.

Asked what the Lakers need from James in Game

49ers

From Page B1

including a 4-2 mark in their 2019 run to the NFC’s No. 1 playoff seed. Last season’s team went 4-1 in prime time.

Slow starters?

Only two of the first eight games are against NFC West opponents for the defending division champs, which could help if they, you know, again start slowly. The 49ers have lost four of their first eight games in each of Kyle Shanahan’s seasons since 2017, except for an 8-0 start in 2019.

The 49ers are 2-2 in season openers at Pittsburgh, the last being a 1993 win. Their last visit was the 2015 road opener in Week 2, a 43-18 loss under then-coach Jim Tomsula.

It’s not how you start but how you finish, right? Last season’s team overcame a 3-4 start, won 10 straight en route to the NFC West title, then posted two playoffs wins before losing a second straight NFC title game. Four of the final seven this season are against

Local

From Page B1

Sac-Joaquin Section will announce playoff pairings Friday afternoon and Vacaville is likely the No. 1 seed in Division II. Ashlyn Wilson went 3-for-5 at the plate for the Bulldogs. Taylor Eberhart had a triple and drove in a run. Aubrie Gibson doubled and drove in a run. Jordan Munn, Allana Thompson and Xochitl Atayde all stepped into the circle for Vacaville, allowing six hits, two earned runs while combining for 12 strikeouts. Will C. Wood is 6-10 overall and 6-9 in the MEL.

Buckingham rolls by Valley Christian

VACAVILLE —

The Buckingham Charter softball team completed a perfect season in the Sacramento Metropolitan Athletic League with a convincing 19-0 victory

49ers quarterback Brock Purdy leaves the field after leading a 41-23 victory over the Seattle Seahawks in the NFC wild-card playoff game, Jan. 14.

division foes, culminating at home against the Rams, on either Saturday, Jan. 6, or Sunday, Jan. 7.

Road-trip outlook

The 49ers have three spurts of back-to-back road games. That does not necessarily mean they must have a stayover between any of them, as they’ve done at The Greenbrier Resort in West Virginia each of the past three seasons between East Coast road games.

If they do opt for the extended road trip, it likely would come in midOctober, when they follow an Oct. 15 visit to the Cleveland Browns with an

Tuesday over secondplace Valley Christian in Roseville.

The offense was highlighted by Arianna Martinez (two hits, two runs, three RBIs), Ava Santamaria (two hits, three runs, two RBIs), Lily Anderson (two hits, triple, three runs, RBI), and Annalyn Steh (two hits, run, three RBI)s.

Giana Jones reached base in all of her plate appearances and added a double. Winning pitcher Haley Griffin threw three perfect innings and struck out six. Steh pitched the last two innings, yielding one hit and striking out four. Elena Garcia contributed with two stellar defensive plays at second base.

The Lady Knights finished 10-4 record (8-0 in the SMAL).

Fairfield falls to Wood at home,

Oct. 23 game at the Minnesota Vikings. However, that latter game is on a Monday night, meaning an extra night on the road (or an extra day to get back to California to prepare between games).

The other back-tobacks: The opener at Pittsburgh is followed by a visit to the Rams; the Thanksgiving affair at Seattle grants them extra time to prepare for the NFC Championship Game rematch in Philadelphia (Dec. 3).

Bye Week Redux

Week 9 – the first weekend of November –delivers the 49ers’ bye for

softball team dropped a 9-4 game Tuesday in the Monticello Empire League to visiting Will C. Wood.

Talia Falekaono had a pair of hits in the loss for the Falcons. Hallee Winschell and Demaris Velasquez each singled and drove in a run. Nikki O’Reilly and Evangelia Degros-Perreira also singled.

Adriana GutierrezDavis pitched six innings. She allowed six hits and one earned run to go with eight strikeouts.

Wood is 6-9 overall and 6-8 in the MEL. No individual statistics were made available for the Lady Wildcats. Fairfield lost a non-league game to visiting Alhambra 16-0 Wednesday. Winschell, Degros-Perreira, O’Reilly and Falekaono had the hits.

9-4

FAIRFIELD — The Fairfield High School

The Falcons are now 7-18 overall and 1-13 in the MEL. Fairfield was scheduled to play at

a second straight season. It allows them time to rest up for a cross-country trip to Jacksonville on Nov.

6, Ham spoke generally.

"I mean, the same thing we need from every other player. Just to come in locked in," Ham said.

"Again, we're going to do our part, right? We're going to give them the information that they need. We're going to go back and show them the different ways that we can be better. The different things we did do well that we need to sustain. But at the end of the day, we have to have the energy, the effort and the urgency – and I'll say it until I'm blue in the face, until I'm a hundred and something years old, hopefully.

"Energy, effort and urgency. That's what this time of year, this point in the series, whoever has that the most consistent team in having those three elements usually will be the successor."

Armijo on Thursday in the regular season finale.

Track and field Strong start on Division III track

FAIRFIELD — Six area athletes qualified for the Section Masters Track and Field Championships after placing in the top six of finals contested on Day 1 of the Division III meet in Lincoln.

Two athletes won championships. Nathan Gernert of Vanden won the boys’ discus (158 feet, 11 inches) and Skye Odom of the Vikings took the girls’ long jump (36-4 3/4).

Joseph Page of Vacaville was third in the boys’ discus (146-0 1/2), the Vacaville girls were fourth in the 4x800 relay final (10:10.40), Sylas Pisarcik finished sixth in the boys’ triple jump (41-6 1/2), while the Vacaville boys were sixth in the 4x800 relay (8:33.20).

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