Daily Republic: Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Solano Votes

FAIRFIELD —

Rohnert Park Councilwoman Jackie Elward has announced her campaign for the 3rd District state Senate seat.

“I’m running for state Senate because our region needs a champion for the people in the state Senate, someone who is ready to be a voice for everyone in our district,” Elward said in a statement.

“As a city councilwoman and former mayor of Rohnert Park, I have found ways to bring the community together around affordable housing, solutions to help the unhoused, and investments in transportation, sustainable agriculture, and our clean energy

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future. This is the kind of experience we need in Sacramento,” she added.

The seat is currently held by Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, who terms out in 2024.

Elward was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She was the first Black woman to be elected in Rohnert Park. She and her husband, John, a fellow labor organizer, live in Rohnert Park with their three children.

Elward is the third Democrat to announce. The others are Rozzana Verder-Aliga, a Vallejo councilwoman, and former West Sacramento Mayor Christopher Cabaldon.

The primary is set for March. The general election is in November 2024.

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FAIRFIELD — Lopes Road in Fairfield remains closed and it is unknown when it might reopen.

“Right now the emphasis is making sure (Benicia’s) ... water supply is restored,” said Mike Hether, assistant Public Works director for Fairfield. “Our role is to make sure they can do their work.”

That work is putting in two more 12-inch water lines to bring water supplies to the city back to full capacity. The residents and businesses have been under a mandated 20% conservation order.

The city’s main 36-inch water line, constructed in the 1960s, was damaged when Lopes Road failed on March 21. The failure

McCarthy voice cautious optimism on debt deal after talks

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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and congressional leaders said they were optimistic a bipartisan deal to raise the debt ceiling could be possible within days even as House Speaker Kevin McCarthy warned the two sides remained far apart after a meeting Tuesday at the White House.

The meeting yielded agreement on a new system for staff-level negotiations, and lawmakers from both parties said they hoped to avert an unprecedented U.S. default during the hourlong Oval Office meeting.

“There was an overwhelming consensus, I think, among the congressional leaders that

defaulting on the debt is simply not an option,” Biden said in remarks following the meeting. But the president cautioned, “There’s still work to do.”

Biden also announced he had scrapped plans to visit Australia and Papua New Guinea following his travel Wednesday to Japan, so that the president can return to Washington in hopes of closing a deal. Biden said he plans to “speak regularly” with congressional leaders while in Hiroshima for the Group of Seven leaders summit, and meet with the group again upon his return.

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FAIRFIELD — Following a few kudos to councilman Scott Tonnesen for his work with the downtown business district Landscape and Lighting Maintenance District, the council unanimously, gave its blessing to a five-year assessment levy schedule for the district.

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was caused by water from the hillside seeping under the pavement and moving it several feet toward Interstate 680.

Benicia, under a 40% conservation order, was forced to pull water from Lake Herman until the first two 12-inch lines were installed.

Valero is still getting its water from the lake, the city reported.

When the Benicia work is completed, possibly by the end of the week, Hether said the city will have geo-tech specialists come in to assess the hillside and determine what the city needs to do to stabilize the area and begin repairing Lopes Road.

Hether said there is no timeline for when that work will be done.

Benicia is also trying to decide whether to repair the existing and

17 assessable parcels in the district. It will continue to contribute 11.04% of the landscaping budget and 11.59% of the lighting budget for general benefits conferred upon the general public.

On May 2, property owners voiced their concerns regarding the significant increase in assessments.

After public comment and staff discussion, the

aged main line, or to put in a new one – a project that will cost millions to complete, city officials have reported.

The problems with Lopes Road, closed between Gold Hill and Marshview roads, also created problems for I-680, and the state Department of Transportation continues to work on those issues.

Meanwhile, the county continues to work to get Cantelow Road, between Steiger Hills and Pleasants Valley roads, open sometime in June.

That is a critical deadline, Matt Tuggle, the county engineering manager, said in a phone interview, because of the looming fire season and the need to have the

council directed staff to return with a plan to “phase in” the new assessment district levies over a five-year period.

A portion of the proposed district budget includes dedicated funding for the repair and replacement of future capital and streetscape improvements on Texas Street, which are currently planned for completion by fiscal

year 2025-26.

Since funding for the repair and replacement reserves for these improvements is not immediately required, the collection of assessments for these improvements can be delayed. Additionally, funding for certain nonessential services, like regular power washing of sidewalks and tree lighting, is also delayed.

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Aaron Rosenblatt/Daily Republic Construction equipment is set up along Lopes Road overlooking Interstate 680 in Fairfield, Tuesday.

The evolution of the American school board

As a former educator, I have long been fascinated by the roles and responsibilities of American school boards. School boards have been around longer than America itself.

According to Stanford’s Michael Kirst, local school boards are one of America’s earliest democratic institutions. Boards were first established by the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1647 to develop and oversee public schools in the colony. School boards are often more accessible to citizens than most state or federal agencies and agents. As a result, citizens generally have more direct influence over policies and practices that affect their public schools than they do in other political arenas. According to Kirst, the characteristics of a typical school board member have changed little over the past 50 years. Most are upper-middle class; about 45% are business professionals; about 25% are homemakers, and about 30%

have a variety of backgrounds (including education). The ratio of male to female board members generally varies according to geography and state politics (southern and conservative states tend to elect more males).

Currently, there are about 82,423 school board members from 13,194 school districts across America. The average number of board members varies from 3 (in some small rural districts) to 13 (in New York City).

Unlike most corporate executive boards that comprise people with business experience, school boards are particularly unique in that members are not required to have experience or expertise in the field of education. Fortunately, the American School Boards’ Association and its state affiliates provide a variety of training programs and resources to orient new board members to the various roles and responsibilities of their

positions. In addition district superintendents work closely with their boards offering advice and support.

Most school boards have a similar range of responsibilities: approving the annual district budget; setting school district policies; hiring and evaluating the superintendent, approving collective bargaining agreements in districts that are unionized, and overseeing the effective implementation of district policies and goals. However, school boards do not exercise operational control over their districts; the superintendent and local school administrators do.

Board members often contend with citizens who don’t understand clearly the distinction between the policy making role of the school board (as a body) and the management roles of school administrators. Individual board members have no authority to make policy or management decisions on behalf of a school district. Finally, contemporary school boards are increasingly confronted with the localization of

national political agendas (e.g., controversies over critical race theory, gender equity/identity issues, banning textbooks, religion in the schools, voucher systems, etc.).

Educational historian Frederick Wirt notes that “Service on the board was once an extremely low-profile, low-conflict position,” and traditionally apolitical. According to Evie Blad (Education Week) this is no longer the case. As educational issues play a more prominent role in political debates, outside groups now see schools as levers for political change. In fact five state legislatures have recently joined in a new push to make school board elections partisan (eight states already have such laws on the books).

Blad explains that this dynamic has raised furious debates. “Supporters of such efforts say party labels would give voters one more piece of useful information about candidates and improve voter participation in board elections” (e.g., according to Wirt, rarely do more than 10 to 15% of eli-

gible voters turn out for school board elections).

Jeff Henig (Columbia University) disagrees. Local educational issues “should transcend traditional party politics.” Increasingly partisan political disputes would distract from meeting the unique needs and interests of local school-communities.

Notwithstanding the emerging debate over partisan affiliations, perhaps the most challenging issue facing American school boards in recent years has been growing federal intrusions into the local control of schools. The bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act (2001) exemplified this trend. Without question the responsibilities of school board members have never been more challenging nor more vital to the educational welfare of America’s children than they are today.

Stephen Davis is a career educator who writes a column that publishes every other Wednesday in the Daily Republic. Reach him by email at stephendavis71@gmail.com.

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Guadalupe Anagulo of Fairfield was recently awarded a $30,000 scholarship to the University of Dallas by The Sumners Foundation of Irving, Texas.

Scholarships are awarded by the foundation based on civic engagement, aca demic excellence, a capacity for leadership and a desire to further our democracy.

Guadalupe is one of 42 students nationally to receive a Sumners scholarship in 2023.

Sumners Scholar alumni include such notables as U.S. District Judge Fred Biery, Senior Deputy Attorney General of Oklahoma Dara Derryberry, chairman of Matador Resources Joe Foran, Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court Nathan Hecht, President of the University of Texas at Arlington Jennifer Cowley, and past chancellor of the New Mexico Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church Charles L. Moore.

Kairos earns civics honorable mention

Kairos Public Schools received an honorable mention for the California Civic Learning Award, making it one of 18 schools in the state to

receive this prestigious recognition.

The California Civic Learning Award is given to schools that demonstrate excellence in civic education and engagement, and Kairos was recognized for “its commitment to preparing its students to be informed, engaged, and responsible citizens,” the school said in a statement.

“We are thrilled to receive this recognition from the California Department of Education,” Jared Austin, co-founder and executive director of Kairos, said in the statement. “At Kairos, we are dedicated to ensuring that our students have the knowledge, skills, and civic dispositions to be active and engaged members of their communities. This award is a testament to the hard work and dedication of our teachers, staff, and students.”

For more information about Kairos, visit www. kairospublicschools.org.

Local students named to dean’s list

James Yi, of Fairfield, and Abraham Estigoy, of Vallejo, were named to the winter 2023 dean’s list at Palmer College of Chiropractic’s West Campus in San Jose.

Former Benicia woman learns of EM residency

Negin Orfanian Azimzadeh Khosravi, formerly of Benicia, has learned she will be serving her Emergency Medicine residency at Akron General Medical Center. She learned about her placement as part of National Residency Match Day, which was held March 17. She is one of 141 students at Northeast Ohio Medical University College of Medicine to be placed.

She is a fourth-year medicine student at the Northeast Ohio medical college. A commencement celebration took place May 6.

The residency match is a culmination of four years of hard work and dedication to train to become a physician and transformative leader in the field of medicine.

Vacaville grad makes honor roll

Stephanie Ingraham of Vacaville has earned a place on the Spokane Community

College honor roll for the 2023 winter quarter. To qualify, students must have a grade-point average of 3.0 or higher. Do you have some good news to share? Send it to Susan Hiland at shiland@ dailyrepublic.net. Be sure to include Good News in the subject line.

April was busy month in Suisun City; state of city address is May 30

SUISUN CITY — A lighthouse shining brighter, a new City Council member and a new Starbucks are some of the highlights in City Manager Greg Folsom’s April report.

The Public Works division teamed up with the city’s Fire Department to repair and replace the light at the top of the lighthouse.

The City Council dais is full with the swearing in of Marvin L. Osum, who replaces Councilman Mike Hudson, who resigned in February.

He joins Mayor Alma Hernandez, Vice Mayor Princess Washington and council members Amit Pal and Jenalee Dawson, all of whom come from diverse backgrounds.

The new Starbucks is on Walters Road, near Highway 12. It is expected to open in the fall.

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Folsom also provided some code enforcement updates, including an update about a home on Erin Drive that caught fire in September, 2022. Rodents and ash migrated from the property to the surrounding area. The inaction on the property resulted in a code enforcement case in which, over several months, the city has attempted to contact the owner. A recent inspection showed the weeds have been cleared, and windows and the garage are covered. Neighbors stated that the rodent issue has decreased.

In January, Code Enforcement inspected the property on the east side of Sunset Avenue and found a homeless encampment that held discarded junk, two tents and a small fire. It’s now a clear lot.

Police not releasing details on homicide

VALLEJO — The city Police Department has directed the Solano County Sheriff-Coroner’s Office not to release the identity of the man who was shot and killed on Saturday.

It was the sixth homicide in the city this year.

Officers responded at 8:53 p.m. to a report of a shooting. A man with at least one gunshot wound, the police said, was located and taken to a nearby hospital where he died.

The incident took place on the 200 block of Maine Street.

The Police Department did not respond to a request for additional details.

Salvation Army camp on tap June 25-29

SUISUN CITY -- Registration is open for the Salvation Army’s Del Oro camp.

It’s geared for ages 7 to 12. The camp is June 25-29 in the Sierra foothills of Nevada City.

Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis at the Kroc Center, 586 E. Wigeon Way, in Suisun. It must be done in person.

Parents or guardians will need identification and an email to register.

Get more details at https://gokroc.org/ kroc-suisun-city/camp.

SBDC, MCE hosting energy-use workshop

FAIRFIELD — Marin Clean Energy will start a new program to help small businesses with their energy efficiency.

An online workshop, through the Solano-Napa Small Business Development Center, is scheduled for noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesday.

Additionally, a survey is available to help determine business energy needs.

To register for the workshop, go to https://cloud. info.mcecleanenergy.org/414.

Find the survey, in English, at https:// mcecleanenergy.formstack.com/forms/com_ equity_survey_eng. The Spanish version is at https://mcecleanenergy.formstack.com/forms/ com_equity_survey_esp.

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FAIRFIELD — A record number of passengers are expected to fly to their destinations on the Memorial Day weekend, but 87.6% of the estimated 42.3 million travelers nationwide will be on the highways.

Of that total, 5.4 million are Californians.

The AAA Northern California holiday forecast shows a 7% increase over total travelers from 2020, 39.6 million, but still 1% shy of the 2019 pre-pandemic total of 42.8 million.

It also indicates Americans are not deterred by inflation, rising gas prices or airfare costs, the travel agency reported.

The air travel expectations is an 8% increase over 2022, and a 5.4% increase over the 2019 record.

“Air travel could hit an all-time high this year,” Brian Ng, senior vice president of Membership

and Travel Marketing for AAA Northern California, said in a statement. “By planning ahead and using travel resources, travelers can make their Memorial Day trips less stressful.”

The number of air travelers represents about 8% of all travelers. Another 4.4% will be on buses, trains or boats, AAA Northern California reported.

nia recommends.

n Before hitting the road, ensure your vehicle is in top shape with a pretrip inspection. More than 480,000 travelers nationwide are expected to call AAA for roadside assistance over the holiday weekend.

n Plan your trip to avoid peak hours of 3 p.m.

and 6 p.m.

n Reserve an airport parking spot ahead of time.

n Download the AAA Mobile App to find the lowest gas prices on your travel route and more information. Learn more at: https:// travel.aaa.com.

Deadline for Girls Robotics camps is May 22

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FAIRFIELD – This is the last week to register for the Summer Girls in Robotics Leadership camps.

The Solano County Office of Education is offering free five-day Girls In Robotics Leadership camps, which are held in partnership with UC Davis Computing-Science, Technology, Engineering and Math for middle school and high school students in Solano.

“Empowering girls to learn coding and lead-

ership skills is not just about preparing them for the future, but also about making STEM career fields more inclusive and innovative. By breaking down barriers and fostering their potential, we encourage their creativity, problem-solving, and knowledge. We hope to empower girls to expand their opportunities and shape their own futures,” Superintendent of Schools Lisette Estrella-Henderson said in a statement.

The camps provide an opportunity for students to learn leadership and

STEM concepts through a fun and exciting roboticsbased curriculum.

“The camps will teach teamwork, communication, and leadership skills. Middle school students will learn about robotics, engineering, computer programming, 3-D printing, and Ch/C/C++ programming code,” the statement said. They will also interact with women working in STEM careers.

The camps engage a cre-

ative process with short videos using Linkbots that students program.”

At the end of the week, students will showcase their video projects and coding skills.

The high school camps include the Arduino-based curriculum.

Applications must be submitted online by May 22 at https://www. solanocoe.net/girlcamp. For more information,

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Vehicles drive along Interstate 80 near Lagoon Valley Park in Vacaville, Monday.

Fairfield launches centralized mobile apps webpage

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FAIRFIELD — The city has launched a new centralized mobile apps webpage to make it easier for residents and visitors to access city services on the go.

The new webpage combines a range of mobile apps in one convenient location, making finding and downloading the right app for any specific need simple.

With the new webpage, users can access various features, including realtime bus arrival and schedule information, purchase tickets to FAST

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Coast Guard teaching local youngsters about water safety

FAIRFIELD — Certified U.S. Coast Guard instructors have been out in area schools teaching water safety to elementary-aged students.

“We are in the process of teaching 1,602 students how to be safe when they are in, on and around the water. We will be visiting day care centers during the summer months,” said Margie Balch, Public Education officer for the Coast Guard Auxiliary, Flotilla North Solano.

The Auxiliary is sponsoring the Water Safety for Kids program.

“At the conclusion of each assembly, the students are given an activity

book and a bookmark that reviews many of the concepts that were presented during the assembly. The children were taught ‘jingles’ to help them remember what to do (and) not to do in order to be safe in when participating in water activities. In addition to the activity books and bookmarks, they are given an illustrated copy of these jingles,” Balch said.

At least two assemblies were held at each school, divided into K-2 students and students in third through fifth grades.

The daycare visits are expected to reach several hundred more children.

“(The students’) homework assignment is to use these materials to teach

Clean Up Day on Saturday for Vaca’s District 2

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VACAVILLE — The city of Vacaville will be hosting a Clean Up Day on Saturday with Councilman Greg Ritchie. The event will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at several locations including 100 Sequoia Drive, Nut Tree Court, Cooper School Park and Arbor Oaks Drive.

This event is made possible by the Measure M Council District 2 Benefit Program; residents in District 2 may utilize debris bins at the four locations.

Acceptable items include large or small amounts of waste, con-

struction and demolition materials and recyclables. Do not dispose of hazardous or toxic materials including treated wood, automotive parts, explosives, light bulbs, tree stumps, tires, power tools, mattresses, or dirt/ rock/concrete.

Residents may drop off hazardous waste at the Recology Vacaville Solano Recycling Facility, 855 ½ Davis St. in Vacaville. Mattresses can be dropped off at the Recology Auburn Transfer Station, 12305 Shale Ridge Road, in Auburn. For more information on how to dispose responsibly, visit Recology at www.recology.com.

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their family members and friends what they learned in the assemblies. It is our hope that these children will remember the various ways to be safe in the water and will teach their friends, siblings and family members. By doing this, drowning accidents can be avoided,” Balch added.

The education effort comes in connection with National Safe Boating Week, which launches Saturday and runs through May 26.

More importantly, Balch said, the children are learning safety tips just as the weather is heating up and they will be heading into the water.

Among the concepts being taught includes the

importance of wearing properly fitted life jackets. State law requires all children 12 or younger to wear personal floating devices when in, on or around the water.

Other topics include the “buddy system” of swimming with others, and what to do if someone in the water appears to be in trouble. Boating emergencies and the “importance of keeping our waterways clean” also was discussed.

Students also receive a copy of “Aqua Smart,” a publication by the state Department of Boating and Waterways that “contains grade-level activities that pertain to concepts that were presented in the assembly.”

Opening Day on the Strait is Saturday

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BENICIA — The Opening Day on the Strait festival at the Benicia Yacht Club is set for Saturday.

It will run from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.

The festival opens with vendor booths and kids activities, with an official welcome from Yacht Club Vice Commodore Brian West at 11:30 a.m. That includes a flagraising ceremony and national anthem.

Interim City Manager Mario Guiliani is the

guest speaker. The club restaurant opens at noon, closes at 2 p.m., and reopens for dinner at 5 p.m.

The Blessing of the Fleet, including a decorated boat parade, is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Uncommon Wealth provides the music on the back deck starting at 2 p.m.

The Fabulous Cruisetones take over the entertainment in the Norton Lounge at 7 p.m.

The Fire Department handled 249 calls in April, 11 for fires and 172 for rescue and emergency medical services. There were nine false alarms or calls.

The Police Department made 15 felony arrests and 49 misdemeanor arrests. There were 190 traffic stops

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contact SCOE’s director of Innovative Programs and Student Success, Lilibeth Pinpin, at lpinpin@solanocoe.net or 707-399-4439.

Camp dates and schedules are:

Middle school:

n June 20-23, 8:30 a.m.

buses, book tee times for golf courses and submit service requests. It offers a range of apps covering various topics, safety and crime prevention tips, nearby fitness activities and links to class registration, making it a valuable resource for anyone looking to explore.

Each app contains a brief description, making it easier for users to determine their needs. Downloads are free and available for iOS and Android devices. Visit www.fairfield. ca.gov/mobile and download an app today.

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The State of the City address is at 6 p.m. May 30 at the Joseph Nelson Community Center, 611 Village Drive.

The event will begin with an “open house” during which attendees can meet with representatives of various city departments, as well as representatives from many partner agencies. There will be appetizers and beverages provided, as well as free child care.

to 3:30 p.m. at Solano Community College, Vacaville campus

n June 26-30, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Solano Community College, Fairfield campus

n July 10-14, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Solano Community College, Vallejo campus High school:

n July 10 -14, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Solano Community College, Vallejo campus

Jack G. Stahl

Jack G. Stahl passed away at home on May 8, 2023 at the age of 84. As a young man he was a horse trainer for “Harness Racing” and would travel all over during the racing season. He married his love Janet at 22 years old and settled down in Concord where he helped raise his two children Stacy and Jack Jr. He moved to Green Valley (Fairfield) in August 1987. Jack traveled the states working with his wife and small dog skeeter presenting sewing seminars for many years. Leaving the sewing business behind, he began working at Mini-U-Storage in Fairfield making many good friends till he retired in 2015. Jack was the table tennis champion in 2001 and would go to the senior center to play through out the years. He loved sports very much and would enjoy going to high school games to support the kids. He sold his house in Green Valley and moved to a nice retirement community Diamond Grove in Vacaville in 2020. Jack and Janet would have celebrated their 63rd wedding anniversary in September. Jack was the light in the room, he never met anyone he couldn’t have a great conversation with. He always looked on the brighter side of things, his outlook on life was beautiful. He will be greatly missed by all that loved him. Jack is survived by his wife Janet, son Jack Jr., sister Kathleen and husband Bob Snyder, brother Jerry and wife Jane, granddaughter Anastasia and husband Nathan Hagler along with great-grandchildren Johnathan and Kali. He was preceded in death by daughter Stacy and grandson Jimmy Jack Coon. A private service will be held. A memorial service will be later held by invitation only.

Jack’s tip of the day; “Smile and say hi.”

Dr. Theardis (Ted) Nelson Ed.D

Theardis (Ted) Nelson was born to the union of James Nelson and Josie Lee (Sumpter) Nelson on January 6, 1943. Ted was the youngest sibling in a loving family of four children. At the age of eighteen months, Ted came to California with his parents from Doddridge, Arkansas, specifically from a small community named Kiblah. Ted spent his formative years of schooling in Richmond, CA at Stege Elementary school. His secondary school experience was in Berkeley, CA and started when he entered Burbank Junior High School and graduated from Berkeley High School in 1960.

Upon graduation from high school Ted attended a California Community College in southern California. When he returned home, he met and married Frances Gholson Nelson, and three children were born from this union.

Ted’s community college experience encouraged him to pursue and earn a Bachelor ’s Degree in Sociology, a Master’s Degree in Counseling, and a Doctorate Degree in Organization Leadership. Ted was a dedicated educator and worked as a School District Administrator, High School Principal, Assistant Principal, and Adjunct Social Science Instructor at several Community Colleges. He was passionate about helping young people succeed and was always willing to lend a helping hand to those in need.

Ted was a devoted Christian and served in various roles at his church, including Coordi-

nator of “One Church, One School,” Volunteer Coordinator for “Parent’s on Campus Program,” President of the “Male Chorus,” and Coordinator of “Ministry to Men.” He also tutored youth at his church and was a past member of the Solano County Civil Grand Jur y.

Ted loved music; he played the piano beautifully and possessed a warm tenor voice. Additionally, he had a passion for learning new languages and dedicated time every day to practice Spanish.

Ted is survived by his loving wife Frances, two sons and one daughter they are: Theardis (Nicole) Nelson II, Savoy, IL; Tige (Nicole) Nelson, Spring, TX; and Tiffany (Garry Jr.) Norris, Fairfield. Ted has six grandchildren that love him dearly, and they affectionately called him Papa. They are: Tajae Nelson, Tevena Nelson, Tauren Nelson, Tiana Nelson, Ari Norris, and Garry Norris III. Ted also leaves behind one br other Roosevelt (Reatha) Nelson, who lives in New Orleans, LA; two very close nieces Francelle Capers, Richmond, CA; Jacque Yazid-Hereford (Forrest) Sacramento, CA, and a close nephew, Robert Wayne (Michelle Gaines), Richmond, CA.

Ted’s, parents James and Josie Nelson, and three sisters, Bertha Owens, Annie Mae Gaines, and Velma Leaks all preceded him in death.

Ted’s celebration of life will be held on Tuesday, May 23, 2023, at St Stephen CME Church. The Quiet Viewing will begin at 10:00 a.m., followed by a Eulogy Service at 11:00 a.m. The interment will be private for family only.

Ted will be remembered as a kind and loving man who touched the lives of many people throughout his life. He will be greatly missed, but his legacy of service and dedication will live on.

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Certified U.s. Coast Guard instructors have visited area schools teaching water safety to elementary-aged students.

Fairfield-Suisun school board will do a self-evaluation at next meeting

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FAIRFIELD — The Fairfield school board will be doing a self-evaluation at the next board meeting.

The assessment will cover things like Board performance in relation to vision-setting, curriculum, personnel, finance, policy development, collective bargaining, community relations and advocacy.

Last year at the June meeting they set several goals for themselves, including Goal 1: Keeping the work of the Governing Board focused on student achievement; Goal 2: Participate in professional development and commit the time and energy necessary to be an informed and effective leader; and Goal

Sacramento Valley cemetery announces Memorial Day plans

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3: Improve communication as professional colleagues within the boundaries of the Brown Act.

The evaluation may also address objectives related to board meeting operations, relationships among board members, relationship with the superintendent, under standing of board and superintendent roles and responsibilities, communication skills, or other governance or board skills.

The Governing Board will discuss these goals and suggested goals for the 2023/2024 school year.

The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. Thursday at 2490 Hilborn Road, Fairfield or online at https:// go.boarddocs.com/ca/ fsusd/board.nsf/public.

Vacaville Museum Guild to host Sonoma excursion

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VACAVILLE — The Vacaville Museum Guild will go on its long-awaited first excursion of the year, scheduled for June 21.

It has charted a bus for 48 people to Sonoma, where they will be touring Gen. Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo’s home and the Sonoma Mission. It is a great way to learn about history. There are also some fantastic restaurants in the nearby area. Lunch is on your own. The bus will leave Alamo Plaza, at Merchant St. and Alamo Drive,

Vacaville, at 8:30 a.m., and return there at 4 p.m. Reservations are $45 for museum and guild members, and $50 for nonmembers at the Vacaville Museum, 213 Buck Ave., Vacaville. Open hours for purchasing in person are 1 to 4:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, or by ringing the doorbell or calling the museum at 707447-4513, during the office hours of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. A service fee will be charged for credit card sales and all sales are final.

Deadline to sign up is June 3.

Flags are placed in front of tombstones following a Memorial Day Ceremony at sacramento Valley national Cemetery in Dixon,

M. Salmi, commander of the 60th Air Mobility Wing at Travis Air Force Base, on May 27 will be the keynote speaker at the Memorial Day commemoration at the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery.

The event honors

“the legacy of those who paid the ultimate sacrifice in service to our nation,”

William T. Pickard III, the cemetery director, said in a statement.

The Band of the Golden West, the cemetery Honor Guard and Dixon Mayor Steve Bird also are scheduled to participate. The ceremony is set to begin at 9 a.m. Flags will be placed on the gravesites of all veterans buried at the cemetery, and will remain in place until June 3. The public is welcome and is encouraged to bring their own water. The cemetery is located at 5810 Midway Road near Dixon.

Vietnam chopper pilot to speak in Vacaville

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VACAVILLE — Grover

Wright, a Cobra helicopter commander during the Vietnam War, will be the keynote speaker at the Vacaville veterans’ annual Memorial Day ceremony on May 29 at the Vacaville Elmira Cemetery. Joining the ceremony

will be area Gold Star mothers and families; Benita Wilson, a U.S. Air Force veteran; Vacaville firefighters; members of the Air Force Sergeants Association; members of the Service Veterans of Northern California Volunteer Honor Guard; and members of the local Boy Scouts troop. The ceremony is sched-

uled to begin at 11 a.m.

Wright is the former Utilities Operations manager for Vacaville, and was a nighttime instructor at Solano Community College for 23 years. He is also a former member of the Travis Unified School District board of trustees.

The 2023 Memorial Day Observance is sponsored by the American

Legion Post 165 & Auxiliary, AMVETS Post 1776, Disabled American Veterans Chapter 84, Marine Corps League Detachment 1486, and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7244 & Auxiliary. The cemetery is at 522 Elmira Road. Seating is limited so organizers encourage people to bring their own chairs.

Registration opens for Camp Chaos

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SUSIUN CITY — Registration is now open for Camp Chaos, a summer camp for youths with special needs. One-on-one support is offered.

Dates are Aug. 1-3.

Children 3 to 9 attend from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m; ages 10 or older will go from 1 to 3 p.m.

Organizers plan water

play, arts and crafts, music and movement activities. The camp is at the Joseph Nelson Community Center, 611 Village Drive, in Suisun City. The city’s Recreation, Parks and Marina department was awarded $19,000 by the North Bay Regional Center to purchase supplies and materials for the camp. Register at suisun. recdesk.com.

MC2 Roland Ardon/Courtesy photo Machinist’s Mate Fireman apprentice simione Duru, a native of Vallejo, cleans an arcade machine in the ship’s classroom aboard Uss Boxer (lHD 4). Boxer is a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship homeported in san Diego.

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Sacto teen ID’d as Vacaville

homicide victim

2nd suspect arrested

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VACAVILLE — A

16-year-old Sacramento

resident was the victim of the May 11 homicide, Vacaville Police announced Tuesday. They arrested a second suspect on Monday in the shooting on Meadows Drive that left Mateo Godinez-Vallejo dead.

Around 6:30 p.m. Thursday, officers responded to multiple reports of the sound of gunfire heard in the 100 block of Meadows Drive. Officers arrived on scene and found a 16-year old male juvenile with a gunshot wound. Officers provided medical aid until Godinez-Vallejo was transported to a local hospital, where he died.

During the investigation, detectives learned an altercation took place prior to the shooting, involving both the Godinez-Vallejo and a 17-year-old male juvenile, who is a Vacaville resident. At some point after the altercation, both Godinez-Vallejo and the 17-year-old were shot. The 17-year-old arrived at a local hospital for treatment of his gunshot wound during the early stages of this investigation. He was arrested on May 12 and was booked into Solano County juvenile hall on murder and unlawful discharge of a firearm.

Detectives also learned that another 16-year-old male juvenile was involved in this shooting. He was arrested around noon Monday. The Vacaville resident, 16, faces attempted murder and unlawful discharge of firearm. He, too, was booked into Solano County juvenile hall.

Friends of Fairfield Police K9s hosts 5K event

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FAIRFIELD — Friends of Fairfield Police K9s is hosting a family- and wellbehaved-dog-friendly 5K Run/Walk in August.

The event will begin at 8 a.m. Aug. 26 at Solano Community College in Fairfield.

The registration deadline is July 1, for run/ walkers and vendors.

On the day of the event, registration for preregistered runners/walkers begins at 8 a.m. and the run/walk begins at 10 a.m. and concludes at noon. Coffee and pastries will be available for purchase in the morning and food trucks will be on-site.

Festivities begin at noon and feature a K9 demonstration, a kids obstacle course hosted by the Fairfield Fire Department, and speeches by dignitaries.

Those who do not register to participate in the run/walk are welcome to come out and enjoy the festivities. Registered vendors will be considered and contacted if approved for event participation.

To register for the run or interested in being a vendor, go to https://friends offpdk9s.square.site.

Almost 40% of land burned by wildfires can be traced to carbon emissions

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LOS ANGELES —

Almost 40% of forest area burned by wildfire in the western United States and southwestern Canada in the last 40 years can be attributed to carbon emissions associated with the world’s 88 largest fossil fuel producers and cement manufacturers, according to new research that seeks to hold oil and gas companies accountable for their role in climate change.

In findings published Tuesday in the journal Environmental Research Letters, the authors concluded that the emissions generated in the extraction of fossil fuels, as well as the burning of those fuels, have increased the amount of land burned by wildfire by raising global temperatures and amplifying dry conditions across the West. This growing dryness, or aridification, has caused the atmosphere to become “thirstier” for water, draining moisture from trees and brush and causing them to become more vulnerable to fire, the researchers say.

The study is the latest in a growing body of research known as extreme event attribution, or attribution science, which seeks to determine how much global warming has contributed to events such as heat waves, droughts and wildfires.

“We hope that people who are in communities that have been affected by wildfires will see this work and think about whether they want to hold these companies accountable,” said study author Kristina Dahl, principal climate scientist with the Union of

Concerned Scientists.

To quantify the impact of the fossil fuel industry on wildfires, Dahl and her colleagues built on previous research that has shown that carbon emissions traced to the top 88 fossil fuel producers and cement manufacturers – including Exxon Mobil, BP, Chevron and Shell – have contributed significantly to the average temperature by which the Earth has warmed. (Cement production is responsible for 8% of human-generated carbon dioxide – significantly less than the burning of fossil fuels.)

The researchers found that changes in global mean temperature are positively linked with changes in the Western North American vapor pressure deficit,

a measure of how effectively the air can dry out plants and vegetation that ultimately become fuel for wildfires, Dahl said.

“I actually laughed because I’ve never had such a strong correlation in my data before,” she said.

The researchers were then able to estimate that emissions from the major carbon producers contributed to 48% of the increase in the vapor pressure deficit observed over the last 120 years. Previous research has shown that this rise is strongly associated with an increase in burned forest lands in the western U.S. and southwestern Canada.

From there, the researchers found that the emissions were responsible for 37% of the 53 million acres of forest area – or 19.8 million

acres – burned by wildfire since 1986.

The results don’t account for the effects of non-climate factors, including fire suppression, the prohibition of Indigenous burning and increases in humansparked fires associated with more people moving into wilderness areas, which have played a role in driving the size and severity of individual fires, but have not affected the relationship between climate and burned area, the study notes.

Asked to comment on the findings, a spokesman for the Western States Petroleum Assn. said that “demonization” of the fossil fuel industry would not bring solutions.

“We all want the same thing: affordable, reliable and ever-cleaner energy

and fuels,” Kevin Slagle wrote in an email. “A press release from a wellfunded activist group with a long history of attacking energy industries is unhelpful to the serious and realistic climate and energy policy discussions needed to get us there.”

Up until relatively recently, the public posture of the climate science community was that no individual extreme event could be attributed to global warming, said Noah Diffenbaugh, climate scientist at Stanford University’s Doerr School of Sustainability, who was not involved in the study. That changed in the early 2000s, and extreme event attribution has since become a robust sub-field of climate

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Willie Nelson fans are about to find out what was really on his mind while writing the hits that made him an icon.

Nelson, who turned 90 this year, is offering a behind-the-scenes look at lyrics from 160 of his favorite songs in a new book – “Energy Follows Thought: The Stories Behind My Songs,” set to release Oct. 31.

Nelson penned the book alongside David Ritz, who also co-wrote his 2015 memoir, “It’s a Long Story: My Life,” and harmonica player Mickey Raphael, who’s toured with Nelson since 1973.

The book will include songs dating back to the 1950s and cover backstories of his earliest

efforts – some of which earned him a measly $50 – and his biggest hits. The book will also highlight some of his lesser-known songs, as well as his concept albums, of which he’s released five, including “Red Headed Stranger” and “Phases and Stages.”

Nelson will also be sharing stories about his beloved guitar Trigger, a Martin N-20 nylon-string acoustic that’s been with him since 1969. He’ll be diving into his family, as well as the Family – his recording and touring group since 1973.

“Energy Follows Thought” will hit shelves days before the outlaw country musician is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on Nov. 3.

Pickles Brian Crane

Zits Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman

Pearls Before Swine Stephan Pastis

Candorville Darrin Bell

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At least 4 killed, bodies set ablaze, during US convoy attack in Nigeria

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At least four people were killed Tuesday after a U.S. convoy was attacked in Nigeria.

The attackers “murdered two police operatives and two staff of the U.S. consulate and set their bodies and their vehicles ablaze,” Anambra Police Command told CNN. Police spokesman Ikenga Tochukwu told AFP that the gunmen also abducted two additional police operatives and a driver. None of the casualties were American, according to the National Security Council.

“A U.S. convoy of vehicles was attacked. What I can tell you is that no U.S. citizens were involved and therefore there were no U.S. citizens hurt,” NSC spokesperson John Kirby said during a White House briefing. “We are aware of some casualties, perhaps even some killed, but I don’t want to get too far ahead of where we are right now.”

Nigerian law enforcement confirmed no Americans were involved.

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NC enacts new abortion restrictions as House overrides governor’s veto

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“Mission Nigeria personnel are working with Nigerian security services to investigate,” a State Department spokesperson said, according to Voice of America. The security of our personnel is always paramount, and we take extensive precautions when organizing trips to the field.”

The Nigerian government has blamed recent violence in the region on the Indigenous People of Biafra, an alleged separatist terrorist group. The group’s leader Nnamdi Kanu faces treason charges after he was detained abroad and extradited.

The attack came hours after dozens were killed in unrelated clashes between herders and farmers in central Nigeria and a day after the State Department imposed visa restrictions on specific individuals who interfered in recent Nigerian elections. “We remain committed to supporting Nigerian aspirations to strengthen democracy and rule of law,” Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said.

DeSantis to send troops, soldiers to Texas border

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday he will send state law enforcement officers to the southern border in Texas, a tactical maneuver that will test how far the state will go to help enforce immigration law as the Republican governor prepares to launch a presidential campaign.

The governor’s office said hundreds of state troopers, police and national guard soldiers, plus boats and planes, are ready to head to the border as early as Wednesday. The state’s response is being done under the Emergency Management Assistance Compact, a partnership among all states to provide mutual aid.

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science, he said.

Although the sub-field does not exist to provide data for legal actions, it in some ways arose from questions of law, he said. Some of its earliest examination in scholarly literature was in law review articles about the need to quantify the contribution of historical global warming to individual events for the purposes of assigning liability, he said.

Since then, attribution research has served as a foundation for liability

New abortion restrictions will go into effect in North Carolina after the General Assembly overrode Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of its bill Tuesday night.

A final vote in the House just before 8:45 p.m. Eastern time completed the override effort, which began earlier in the day in the Senate. The bill will repeal current law that bans most abortions after 20 weeks, and will instead put in place a 12-week ban that includes exceptions up to 20 weeks for rape and incest, up to 24 weeks for “life-limiting” fetal anomalies, and no limit if a physician determines that the life of the mother is in danger due to a medical emergency.

Abortion rights groups have warned the new regulations will have negative ramifications for women and their doctors. Supporters of the bill have said it represents a reasonable set of new restrictions that are favored by a majority of North Carolinians, although nonpartisan polling has shown more voters in the state support abortion rights than oppose them.

Debate in the House began shortly after 7 p.m. and lasted around an hour and a half, before lawmakers voted along party lines to complete the override of Cooper’s veto. Abortion rights supporters erupted into sustained chants of “shame, shame, shame” as soon as the vote occurred, and House Speaker Tim Moore confirmed that the veto had been defeated.

“For the last two weeks, Republican sponsors of this abortion ban have strenuously argued that it is much less restrictive than we warned, so we will now do everything

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lawsuits filed against fossil fuel companies.

Last month, in what was seen as a major victory for plaintiffs, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear appeals from oil and gas companies that were seeking to have lawsuits over climate change filed by state and local governments moved to federal courts. The decision cleared a path for dozens of similar lawsuits to be heard in state courts, where communities that are suing are believed to have better chances of winning sizable damages.

“What this study shows is that using existing peerreviewed methods, it is

possible to rigorously trace the contributions from the source of emissions to the impacts,” Diffenbaugh said.

Another scientist who was not involved with the study said the authors’ methodology appeared sound.

Rong Fu, the director of the UCLA Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, has also studied the link between global warming and increasingly destructive wildfires. If anything, study authors might have underestimated the impacts of the companies’ emissions because they included aerosol

in our power to make sure that’s true,” Cooper said in a statement.

The Democratic governor accused a handful of Republican lawmakers who have been supportive of abortion rights of breaking their promises.

“North Carolinians now understand that Republicans are unified in their assault on women’s reproductive freedom and we are energized to fight back on this and other critical issues facing our state,” he said.

Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, a GOP candidate for governor in 2024, praised the bill for promoting a “culture of life” while providing new funding for child care, foster care and parental leave.

“I am glad to see Republicans in the N.C. House and Senate stand strong and override the Governor’s veto,” Robinson said in a statement.

“While North Carolina Democrats have continued to lie about the ‘Care for Women, Children, and

emissions in their calculations, Fu said.

Aerosols – small particles in the air that can come from the burning of fossil fuels – tend to cool surface temperatures, she said. But these emissions have shorter lifetimes, and they tend to decrease as technology improves, she said. As that happens, we are likely to see a stronger warming, she said.

“This paper really takes to the next level that linking of these increases in wildfires to the main emitters in the world,” Fu said.

When considering the connection between fossil fuels and extreme events, Dahl said it was impor-

Families Act,” Republicans have taken a stand to create a culture of life in North Carolina.”

In the Senate, Democrats and Republicans took turns speaking about the bill and trying to ask each other questions.

Democratic Sen. Natasha Marcus of Mecklenburg County criticized Republicans for fasttracking the bill after it was introduced earlier this month, and said the speed at which it was passed out of the General Assembly without having any amendments be considered showed that the 12-week bill isn’t the “mainstream” and “popular and reasonable” proposal GOP leaders have described.

“I remember when I believed that the Republican Party stood for small government and personal freedom,” Marcus said. “We can debate exactly when that changed, but it’s clear that if you do this to North Carolina’s women and girls, if you make SB

tant to recognize that the impacts of climate-driven disasters have not been borne equally. As wildfires in the western U.S. have grown in size and intensity, and wrought unprecedented levels of damage on communities, the public has been left to cover much of the cost through higher taxes and utility bill surcharges, she said.

“But at the same time, we know the fossil fuel industry has known for decades what the impact of their products would be on our climate, and that emissions associated with those companies have significantly altered our

20 the law here, you can’t claim to stand on those principles anymore.”

Sen. Michael Lee, a Wilmington Republican, pushed back against Democrats who claimed the bill was extreme, and criticized Cooper for repeatedly claiming last week that Lee’s support for the bill conflicted with his stance while campaigning last year. Ahead of last year’s election, Lee wrote an op-ed expressing support for a ban after the first trimester, with exceptions.

“Right now, even though this bill does exactly what I put in my op-ed, the governor and people in this chamber are saying that I am somehow doing something inconsistent with what I said during the election cycle,” Lee said.

Republicans control supermajorities in both chambers, but only by the exact number of votes they needed to successfully override a veto from the Democratic governor. GOP leaders maintained throughout the process that they had the votes to defeat Cooper’s veto, while Democrats were hopeful that the bill could be defeated if even a single Republican broke ranks with the rest of their party.

The successful override, the second of a veto by Cooper in nearly five years, is a victory for Republicans, who vowed after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade last year to enact stronger restrictions on abortions. The law will also further limit abortion access in a state where abortion providers have seen an influx of out-of-state patients in light of surrounding states in the South enacting stricter laws.

climate,” she said. “We really wanted to put a spotlight on the fossil fuel industry’s role in driving the West’s worsening wildfires so they can be held accountable for their share of the costs.”

“I think a lot of us in California are used to thinking about corporate accountability for wildfires as just being limited to Pacific Gas & Electric Co. and the immediate utility failures that have sparked some of the state’s largest and deadliest wildfires,” she added. “But the reality is there’s this much bigger set of corporate actors who have not been held accountable at all.”

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Demonstrators rally outside the North Carolina Legislative Building, May 3, after Republican lawmakers announced their plan to limit abortion rights across the state.

Crime logs

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SATURDAY, MAY 13

Midnight — Reckless driver, PEABODY ROAD

2:44 a.m. — Reckless driver, BARTON DRIVE

2:50 a.m. — Reckless driver, 2600 block of BARBOUR DRIVE

7:25 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, BARCELONA CIRCLE

8:31 a.m. — Vehicle theft, HAMILTON DRIVE

9:17 a.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 1000 block of QUAIL

DRIVE

10:57 a.m. — Vandalism, 2000

block of CADENASSO DRIVE

11:38 a.m. — Reckless driver, EASTBOUND INTERSTATE 80

12:09 p.m. — Drunk and

disorderly, 1900 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

Holmes loses final bid to delay imprisonment

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Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes on Tuesday afternoon lost her final bid to stay out of prison while she appeals her fraud conviction and sentence.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in a one-page ruling denied Holmes’ attempt to overturn her trial judge’s decision on her incarceration date.

her some extra time, but the Ninth Circuit, which is hearing her appeal, said in its ruling Tuesday denying her motion to stay free on appeal that Holmes had failed to show that her appeal of her conviction and sentence raises a substantial question of law or fact. It remains unclear when she must begin serving her sentence of more than 11 years.

her second child.

TEXAS STREET

5:40 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 2500

block of SUNRISE DRIVE

5:49 p.m. — Robbery, 500 block of EAST TRAVIS BOULEVARD

5:58 p.m. — Drunk and disorderly, 1900 block of NORTH

TEXAS STREET

7:20 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 1300

block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD

7:38 p.m. — Reckless driver, STRATFORD LANE

8:12 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 500

block of ACACIA STREET

8:48 p.m. — Reckless driver, HEATH DRIVE

8:49 p.m. — Battery, 1800 block of BEACON FALLS WAY

9:13 p.m. — Shots fired, STARLING WAY

9:36 p.m. — Drunk driver, WESTBOUND HIGHWAY 12

9:41 p.m. — Trespassing, 2900

block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

10:13 p.m. — Reckless driver, HEATH DRIVE

11:40 p.m. — Assault with a deadly weapon, VILLA COURT

BECK AVENUE 8:15 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 1400 block of WOOLNER AVENUE

8:49 a.m. — Vandalism, 1300 block of CLEVELAND STREET 9:05 a.m. — Trespassing, 2200 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

a.m. — Trespassing, 5000 block of BUSINESS CENTER DRIVE

a.m. — Drunk and disorderly, 100 block of LOPES ROAD 11:24 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 1600 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

12:01 p.m. — Robbery, 1400 block of WEST TEXAS STREET

12:09 p.m. — Trespassing, 4300 block of CENTRAL PLACE

12:16 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 1800 block of BLOSSOM AVENUE

12:21 p.m. — Battery, 800 block of WASHINGTON STREET

12:44 p.m. — Indecent exposure, 100 block of HAWTHORN DRIVE

12:44 p.m. — Indecent exposure, 2700 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

1:36 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 800 block of EAST TABOR AVENUE

3:07 p.m. — Trespassing, 4600 block of CENTRAL WAY

3:53 p.m. — Fight with a weapon, 1800 block of MINNESOTA STREET

3:59 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 1700 block of ENTERPRISE DRIVE

4:05 p.m. — Reckless driver, PEABODY ROAD

4:33 p.m. — Drunk and disorderly, 500 block of ALASKA AVENUE

4:36 p.m. — Sexual assault, 3500 block of AUGUSTA COURT

5:00 p.m. — Drunk and disorderly, 1300 block of GATEWAY BOULEVARD

5:31 p.m. — Trespassing, 3300 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

5:46 p.m. — Trespassing, 2000 block of PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE

Late last month, two days before she was to surrender herself for imprisonment, Holmes asked the appeals court to reverse U.S. District Court Judge Edward Davila’s order that she surrender herself for imprisonment April 27, arguing that Davila made “numerous, inexplicable errors” when he denied her attempt in district court to delay her incarceration.

That request bought

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road available for emergency-service vehicles and possible evacuations.

“We are getting close to our fire season and we want all our (emergencyservice) routes available,” Tuggle said.

There is a second trouble spot that closed a single lane on Cantelow, and there are a number of other roads with less serious shoulder and pavement issues that are being repaired, as well as some damage to bridges and culverts, he said.

The good news is Mix Canyon and Gates Canyon roads are open. Both roads were closed during the January storms. Two more sections of Gates Canyon would fail later, with the later storms delaying repair work.

The cost to repair the

Holmes was convicted by a jury in U.S. District Court in San Jose in January 2022 after a four-month trial of defrauding investors in her now-defunct Palo Alto, California, blood-testing startup out of more than $144 million. In November, Davila sentenced her to prison but allowed a pregnant Holmes to defer incarceration until April 27 in a decision legal experts said was likely to allow her to give birth to

However, Holmes in December, shortly after notifying the court she would appeal her conviction and sentence, asked Davila to let her remain free until the appeal is finished, which could take a year or more. Davila in April shot down that attempt at deferred imprisonment, but Holmes in asking the Ninth Circuit to overturn Davila’s decision succeeded in delaying her incarceration under the appeals court’s rules.

Davila will order a new surrender date. He has recommended that Holmes serve her time at a minimum-security prison camp 100 miles from Houston, a city where Holmes spent years of her childhood, but the U.S. Bureau of Prisons has the final say on the location of her incarceration. Under federal law, Holmes must

serve at least 9.5 years of her sentence. A Stanford University dropout who founded Theranos in 2003, Holmes has been free on bail since she was charged by federal authorities with fraud in 2018. Jurors in her trial heard she made false statements about her company and its purported ability to conduct a full range of tests using just a few drops of blood from a finger-stick. The trial generated worldwide media coverage, with evidence revealing Theranos’ technology fell far short of Holmes’ claims, and that she engaged in substantial deceptions about its capabilities and uses, and about her company’s financial state.

The jury convicted Holmes on four counts of defrauding investors, but not on the charges related to blood-testing patients.

10:05 a.m. — Reckless driver,

DRIVE 10:13 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 1900 block of GRANDE CIRCLE

10:27 a.m. — Trespassing, 1700 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

11:26 a.m. — Trespassing, 5000 block of BUSINESS CENTER DRIVE

11:37 a.m. — Trespassing, 100 block of MIDWAY ROAD

12:05 p.m. — Trespassing, 1600 block of GATEWAY BOULEVARD

12:16 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 1200 block of SPRIG COURT

1:10 p.m. — Shots fired, 2200

block of CARVER PLACE

1:44 p.m. — Brandishing a weapon, 1300 block of CROWLEY LANE

1:47 p.m. — Drunk and disorderly, JACKSON STREET

2:18 p.m. — Residential burglary, 5000 block of RASMUSSEN WAY

2:27 p.m. — Grand theft, 300

block of BECK AVENUE

2:34 p.m. — Fight with a weapon, 5100 block of JULIA BERGER

CIRCLE

6:28 p.m. — Drunk driver, 4900

block of BRITTANY DRIVE

6:50 p.m. — Reckless driver, 1500 block of EISENHOWER STREET

7:39 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 1900 block of NORTH

TEXAS STREET

8:55 p.m. — Robbery, 200 block of TEXAS STREET

8:55 p.m. — Residential burglary, 200 block of EAST ALASKA

AVENUE

9:04 p.m. — Battery, 2300 block of PEACH TREE DRIVE

9:22

7:35 p.m. — Trespassing, 1900 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

8:06 p.m. — Reckless driver, MANUEL CAMPOS PARKWAY

8:15 p.m. — Grand theft, 1400 block of OLIVER ROAD

8:26 p.m. — Robbery, 200 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD

9:30 p.m. — Shots fired, 100 block of TABOR AVENUE

9:57 p.m. — Robbery, 100 block of EAST TABOR AVENUE 11:36 p.m. — Battery, 2100 block of CADENASSO DRIVE

SuiSun City

SATURDAY, MAY 13

6:17 p.m. — Vandalism, 700 block of VILLAGE DRIVE 7:27 p.m. — Reckless driver, EMPEROR DRIVE / LONGSPUR DRIVE

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For the first fiscal year, 2023-24, assessments will not top 30% of the proposed maximum assessments.

The council voted not to levy annual assessments against the lots and parcels of property within the district by more than 30% of the assessment levied in the prior year for each subsequent year, beginning in fiscal year 2024-25 through 2027-28.

On May 2, the council voted to not take action on proposed assessments for

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budget director Shalanda Young will represent Democrats in staff-level negotiations, while Rep. Garret Graves and aides to the speaker will join from the Republican side. McCarthy has agitated for narrower talks in recent days, and Ricchetti and Young have been key players in Biden’s negotiations with Capitol Hill on key legislative victories earlier in his first term.

“We’ve got a lot of work to do,” McCarthy told reporters. “It is possible to get a deal by the end of the week. It’s not that difficult to get to an agreement.”

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, for his part, said he was more optimistic than he had been after a meeting with the president and congressional leaders last week, while House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries praised an “open, honest, and cordial discussion.”

“The bottom line is that we all came to agreement that we were going

winter storm damages, Tuggle said, will likely be around $5 million.

“I think that is where it will settle out,” Tuggle added.

The county is working

the Rancho Solano LLMD, after being told the homeowner’s association may be handling it.

Three Rancho Solano residents spoke during public comments on that decision, saying there had been no such discussion.

“The homeowner’s association has no official position on the matter,” David Baker said. Fact sheets were distributed to homeowners after the May 2 city council decision, he added.

“The council did not have the pertinent information at the meeting,” Victoria Cook said. “The vote was ill advised. Look at it and fix it.”

Last month, the

to continue discussions,” Schumer said.

The gathering at the White House came amid signs negotiators were struggling to find common ground, with entrenched disagreements on the size and scope of concessions to raise the federal spending limit.

Failure to reach a deal will likely push the U.S. over its debt ceiling as soon as next month, triggering a default that could rock global financial markets, raise borrowing costs for the government, companies and consumers and imperil an economic expansion that’s already begun to show signs of weakening. Wall Street showed fresh anxiety Tuesday about Washington’s ability to raise the debt limit and prevent a historic default with both stocks and bonds falling. Yields rose across the US curve, with the rate on 30-year notes climbing to around 3.9% — the highest since the turmoil affecting regional banks that erupted in early March.

“We’re having a wonderful time. Things are going well,” Biden

with the Federal Emergency Management Agency on reimbursement contracts. FEMA has divided the storm periods into two, one from January into February

council approved three resolutions on landscaping and lighting maintenance districts.

One was to initiate proceedings to form new districts in Waterman Highlands, Rancho Solano, Peppertree, Rolling Hills, Kolob Estates, Paradise Valley, the Downtown Business District and North Cordelia.

The second was to provide preliminary approval of the engineer’s reports for the proposed districts. The third declared the city’s intention to form such districts.

A city report said current districts did not generate enough revenue

quipped at the beginning of the meeting.

The gathering was a key litmus test for talks amid dire warnings from Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen – who has said the U.S. could default as soon as June 1 – that “time is running out” for a negotiated resolution.

Biden, who departs for Japan on Wednesday, will now return to the U.S. on Sunday following the conclusion of the G7 meetings. McCarthy and other Republicans had called on Biden to scrap or cut short the travel plans.

“The nature of the presidency is addressing many of the critical matters all at once,” Biden said. But, he added, he was curtailing the trip “in order to be back for the final negotiation with the congressional leaders.”

McCarthy earlier Tuesday held a closeddoor meeting with fellow House Republicans, urging them to stick together on their demands, according to a person familiar with their discussion. He has said he hopes to have a deal in hand by the weekend, in an acknowledgement

and the other from February into March. Hether said the city also is in communication with FEMA, which he described as a slow and deliberate process.

to support the level of landscaping and lighting services being provided. Forming a new district affords the opportunity to levy increased assessments. The current districts are projected to have a budget deficit within one to three years. Ballots have been mailed to affected property owners. They are due June 6, the date of the next city council meeting. For more information, visit www. fairfield.ca.gov/government/ city-departments/publicworks/landscaping-light ing-maintenancedistricts-llmd-s.

of the difficult legislative path any agreement could face considering the razor-thin GOP majority in the House.

Before the White House meeting, the House speaker publicly dug in on demands for sharp spending cuts and other priorities such as expanding work requirements for federal aid to the poor.

Republicans are seeking to add new work requirements for Medicaid for “able-bodied” adults without children as well as apply existing work requirements to older individuals who receive food stamps.

Biden has rejected work requirements on Medicaid but otherwise avoided a definitive response.

“He will not accept proposals that take away people’s health care, health coverage,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Tuesday. “So that is incredibly important to the president, he’s been very consistent about that as he’s been having conversations with Republicans.”

Construction crew members work along Lopes Road overlooking

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Vanden, Vaca standouts top all-MEL team in softball

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FAIRFIELD — Senior Kaliyah Gipson of Vanden High School was named the Player of the Year and junior Xochitl Atayde of Vacaville was the Pitcher of the Year during all-Monticello Empire League voting by head coaches Monday night.

Gibson had a .587 batting average during the league season with a triple, four doubles and 14 RBIs. Atayde finished a perfect 7-0 in MEL play with a 1.61 ERA and 79 strikeouts.

Champion Vacaville had four all-league selections, including Coach of the Year Destinee Santistevan. Junior outfielder Ashlynn Wilson, sophomore catcher Hayden Kyne and senior first baseman Makayla Freshour joined Atayde on the team.

Wilson had an average of .486 and also had two home runs and eight RBIs. Kyne hit .486 and had a home run and seven RBIs. Freshour hit .483 with three home runs and drove

Armijo grad named first-team, all-Big Sky for a second time

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FAIRFIELD — Four area athletes were named all-conference last week for their universities, while others have begun or are getting ready for postseason competition.

Senior third baseman Lewa Day (Armijo) was named first-team, all-Big Sky Conference for the second straight season in softball. Day hit .328 this season and hit 10 of the Hornets’ 19 home runs this season.

Day is Sac State’s alltime leader in home runs with 46, and has another year of eligibility ahead to build on it. Day is also just 20 RBIs short of being the Hornets’ all-time leader in that department as well.

Junior pitcher Dariana Orme earned second-team, all-Big 12 Conference honors as the ace of the Baylor University softball team. Orme lead the conference in innings pitched (148.0) and is third in

strikeouts (126). Not only has Orme tossed six shutouts, she also as a perfect game and a no-hitter to her credit this season. The Bears received an at-large berth and will compete in the Salt Lake City Regional next weekend against Utah, Ole Miss and Southern Illinois.

Senior outfielder Brook Mitchell (Vacaville) was a second-team, all-Patriot League selection for the Army softball team. Mitchell enjoyed the best season of her career, batting a career-high .298, scoring a teamhigh 36 runs and posting a team-best .406 on-base percentage.

The Black Knights finished second to Boston last weekend in the conference tournament.

Sophomore righthander Tanner Fonoti (Rodriguez) was named second-team, all-California Collegiate Athletic Association for the Sonoma State baseball team. He finished

6-3 with a 2.43 ERA, threw five complete games, three shutouts, worked 55 innings and had 37 strikeouts.

Fonoti made six starts the final month and a half of the season, recording four wins and five complete games to lead all conference pitchers.

Other area athletes that shined at four-year colleges:

Baseball

Right-handed senior pitcher Aaron Rund picked up his fourth win of the season in a 7-0 victory by Campbell over Gardiner-Webb. Rund worked 3 1/3 innings on the mound, allowed no hits, no runs and one walk to go with two strikeouts.

Sophomore Hunter Dorraugh (Vacaville) homered and had a sacrifice fly for San Jose State in a 12-3 win over the University of San Francisco.

Freshman Griffin Harrison (Vacaville) delivered a triple in an

8-3 win by Sacramento State over California Baptist.

Freshman shortstop Jack Metcho (Rodriguez) had a pair of hits and an RBI as Pacific lost to BYU 11-8. In the third game of the series, Metcho had a hit and drove in three runs in an 11-5 win over the Cougars.

Softball

Graduate student and outfielder Megan Massa had three hits and drove in a run as Concordia Irvine went 3-1 at the NCAA West Regional in Irvine. The Eagles earned a berth in the Division II, best-of-3 Super Regional against Cal State San Marcos.

Sophomore outfielder Tai Wilson (Vanden) wrapped up the season with Seattle after the Redhawks were eliminated from the Western Athletic Conference tournament with a 3-2 record.

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in 23 RBIs.

Joining Gipson for Vanden were senior third baseman Daniella Ontiveros, senior left fielder Aniya Lawson, junior first baseman Maalia Cherry and junior second baseball Kiah Silva. Ontiveros hit .485, homered and drove in 15 runs. Lawson hit .487 with a home run and eight RBIS. Silva hit .500 with seven RBIs. Rodriguez had two representatives in senior second baseman Jaedyn White and junior shortstop/pitcher Brooklyn Denina. White is credited with a.659 batting average with nine RBIs. Denina hit .511 with a home run and 24 RBIs. Denina was also 3-0 on the mound with a 2.83 ERA and 33 strikeouts.

Sophomore shortstop/ pitcher Charlotte Spears is representing Armijo after hitting.500 with four RBI. Senior catcher Nikki O’Reilly of Fairfield posted a .432 batting average with a home run and 10 RBI. Wood third baseman Danica Walker hit .366 with eight RBIs. The honorable

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Rodriguez boys tennis wins title in section doubles, second in singles

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FAIRFIELD — The Rodriguez High School boys tennis team had an outstanding showing at the Sac-Joaquin Section individual tournament Monday and Tuesday at Johnson Ranch in Roseville.

The Mustangs reached the finals in singles and in doubles for the second straight year. This time, it was the doubles team that came away with a title, a first in Rodriguez history.

No. 4 Danton Hsueh and Bradon Wei won by default over top-ranked Rohan Vinil and Alex Micsa of Mira Loma 6-0, 6-0. The duo followed up by beating Daniel Zhang and Pranav Sundar, the No. 3 led, 6-2, 4-6, 10-4 in the finals.

Evan Wadsworth beat No. 3 Subedei Enkhtu-

vshin of Vista del Lago 6-3, 6-2 in the semifinals. Top-ranked Min Htun of Mira Loma then defeated Wadsworth, the No. 2 seed, 6-2, 6-2. It was the same finalists as last year.

Softball

Vanden hangs on to beat CBS in D-3 FAIRFIELD — The Vanden High School softball team scored four runs in the fifth inning and held on down the stretch to notch an 8-7 win over visiting Christian Brothers Tuesday in the Sac-Joaquin Section Division III playoff opener. Vanden scored twice in the first and third innings. Christian Brothers scored once in the third inning and put up

Giants’ struggling Sean Manaea welcomes move to bullpen

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SAN FRANCISCO —

The left-hander lost his starter’s role, at least temporarily, because of struggles that left him with a 7.96 ERA and extremely high rates of home runs and walks.

“I’ve only got myself to blame,” Manaea said.

“At the end of the day, it’s going to be a blessing in disguise. I’ll go in there

with the right mind-set and work on things I need to and get my stuff to a consistent shape and obviously try to get guys out in an efficient manner. Whatever that is and whenever those opportunities arise, I’ve just got to take them and run with it.”

The second game of the Giants’ home series against the Philadelphia Phillies was Tuesday night. Manaea, who signed a two-year, $25 million

contract in December, has begun the process of addressing the problems including improving his mental approach, which might be more of an issue than anything mechanical.

“It’s dealing with confidence stuff and how I view myself and how I view my stuff going out there,” Manaea said. “Those are the biggest things, and I’d say we’re in a good spot right now.

“I mean, you get

punched in the face enough, it’s a ‘How much more can you take?’ kind of deal. It’s definitely the worst stretch of my career. I thought last year was bad, but this is definitely worse.”

Manaea went 50-41 with a 3.86 ERA in six years with the Oakland Athletics and had career highs in starts, innings and strikeouts in 2021. Traded to the

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Armijo High School graduate Lewa Day, a senior third baseman on the Sacramento State softball team, was recently named first-team all-Big Sky for the second straight season.

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Wife is struggling with bipolar disorder, taking it out on me

Dear Annie: My wife and I have been together for over 13 years. She is a great person who has issues with bipolar disorder. I’ve gotten used to it, and with things being off from time to time, but I’m not sure how to handle this last situation.

I knew my work jeans were really getting worn, but even though they had holes worn in the legs, they were still usable and covered everything that is not supposed to be seen in public. But my wife took it upon herself to start buying me new jeans – in fact, three new pairs of jeans. I appreciate what she is doing for me, but this evening we had a blowup.

I was at home, and if I’m home, I take her to work and go pick her up when she gets off. When it was getting close to the time for me to pick her up, I took a quick shower and planned to put on my old jeans. All I could find in the laundry

ARIES (March 21-April 19).

Your reward for doing a stellar job? Now you’re expected to do it faster, cheaper and in greater quantities. This hardly seems fair or logical, but you’ll be rewarded when you go forward anyway.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20).

When you get tired, should you push through or ease up? The latter idea is what you most need; it will be productive to let the pressure off and rest a while. New insights will come to you when you’re refreshed.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21).

The new you is waiting in the future, thinking, “Where are you? When will you get here?”

A friend or coach will provide the right push to speed along your transformation. It’s not always going to be comfortable, but it will be worth it.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). Everyone doesn’t have to get with your program for you to feel good about what you’re doing. You readily accept that you’re not in control of everything and you enjoy seeing the various approaches people take when they feel free to explore.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Your life is not a solo act. Even when you are doing things alone, you’re never really alone. You are always collaborating with the universe. In today’s collaboration, do less and let the universe lead.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).

You’re easy to open up to. You sometimes learn more about people than you wanted to know. Don’t be deterred by

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were the three new pairs of jeans. I found out later that she had thrown out all my old work jeans.

When I picked her up, I asked what she had done with my work pants, and she immediately got hostile and started yelling and telling me that I didn’t have anything that was worth wearing in my old work pants and I should have more respect for myself than to wear them.

She said I should not wear clothes with holes in them, and she refused to calm down and kept trying to keep the argument going. I had to just get in my truck and leave the house for a while, and then she called me and said she thought I needed to come back home. When I got there, she started yelling all over again. I told her she had no reason to be so loud.

Now, I don’t know if her bipolar disorder has something to do with her thinking that if you are worried about someone

Today’s birthday

Your creative spirit spills over into everything you do: projects, relationships, career and home. You keep seeing how things could be more functional, fun, beautiful and efficient. As you share and apply your insight, life gets interesting. More highlights: a plot twist that puts money in your pocket; a reunion that turns future-perfect. Scorpio and Sagittarius adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 10, 4, 12, 21 and 1.

the complexities of the human experience. Some of the best things in life are messy and, nonetheless, worth figuring out.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). It’s a struggle to be cheerful when there’s so much about a situation that needs work. But you’ll search for, and find, the silver lining. Optimism will give you the energy to finish a job.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Take inventory. Know what you have and what you need. The accounting will prevent you from missing opportunities, buying too much, or making other mistakes related to a lack of awareness.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21). With your relentless worth ethic, you’re destined for greatness. And when complacency creeps in, you’ll soar even higher as you think

you should yell at them. I’m running out of ways to deal with the situation and her changing moods. Can you give me any advice? I do love my wife dearly and don’t want to let this ruin our relationship. —

Trying to Understand

Dear Trying to Understand: First off, it’s not about the pants. It’s about your wife’s behavior currently, and it sounds like throwing away your favorite pants was your tipping point. The best thing to do is speak with your wife and ask her if she is OK. How is her treatment program working with her diagnosis? Is she taking her medications and going to therapy?

You might also consider seeing a therapist who specializes in bipolar disorder to help you better understand the disease. I admire how much you love your wife and are really trying to help her. Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@ creators.com.

of ways to get the job done smarter, faster and with less effort.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19). Unanticipated obstacles fall in the path. It’s beyond your control, but you can control your commitment to managing what comes no matter what. You’ll overcome huddles with a simple command from you to you: jump!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18). Success may be the ultimate revenge, and you’ll certainly get there, but in the meantime, you’d like justice. What would that look like? There are many forms it could take, some of which would be healing for all.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Today you live like this is your party. You pick the menus and music. The invite list is yours too. You’ll make the fun, feel-good choices. You’ll be delighted by who shows up to celebrate.

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rarely gets an injury worse than a sprained finger, it is easier to be intrepid. Even so, some people’s nerves fail them completely.

Nowadays, an opener’s reverse is treated as forcing for one round. For the auction’s continuation, a popular method is for responder to employ the fourth suit or two no-trump, whichever is the cheaper, as an artificial, bust rebid. Here, North rebid his own suit, promising game-going values and at least a good five-card suit.

Against three no-trump, West leads the spade queen, of course. How should South continue?

Declarer has seven top tricks: two spades, four diamonds and one club. Assuming the normal 3-2 club split, two more tricks can be established there. However, South doesn’t have the time to play on clubs. Before he can take nine tricks, the defenders will have collected two spades, one heart and two clubs.

DO NOT LOSE YOUR ICY NERVE

Jean Paul Richter was only partly right when he said, “A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.” Really, though, it is impossible to predict in advance how one will react when faced with life-threatening danger. At the bridge table, where one

Instead, South must have the courage to go after the heart suit, where the only sensible play for two tricks is to lead low to dummy’s 10. South must hope that West has the jack. If West does, declarer’s eighth and ninth tricks are established immediately, while he still has stoppers in all of the other suits. Take the best chance for your contract.

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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: GOLD

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How state budget process became a quagmire

Drafting state budgets in California was once a fairly straightforward exercise in fiscal politics.

The governor’s budget gnomes could fairly accurately predict how much tax revenue would be generated over the forthcoming fiscal year, particularly since most of it would come from taxes on retail sales, a stable base.

An initial budget was issued in January and it would be revised in May after the April 15 deadline for personal income taxes provided more specificity. Legislative leaders of both parties huddled, sometimes with the governor, and a final budget emerged.

Time to get graphic about gun violence

This column is graphic. In the wake of a mass shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville in March that saw six people killed, including three children, the governor of Tennessee has signed new gun legislation into law. The new law doesn’t protect Tennesseans but instead, shields gun dealers and manufacturers from being sued.

In America, Republican politicians ensure that guns have a greater right to life than you do.

We have 120 guns for every 100 people in this country and over 100,000 Americans are shot every year. More than 17,000 children are injured with firearms annually. We suffer more than 40,000 gun deaths a year, which makes for a gun death rate 25 times higher than other high-income countries who have the same levels of mental illness as we do.

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Yes, there were some conflicts. Budgets took twothirds votes of both legislative houses so the final product needed bipartisan support. Republicans, usually in the minority, would sometimes withhold votes until their demands were met.

Over time, however, the budget process became a political quagmire, in part because the ideological divisions in the Capitol became more pronounced. As Democrats drifted to the left and Republicans to the right, what once was collegial sparring became holy war. But that was not the only factor.

As California’s array of services expanded, so did the number of budget stakeholders seeking larger pieces of the pie or protecting what they had. The field of play became immensely larger after voters passed Proposition 13, the iconic property tax limit, in 1978 and the state became the basic financier of schools and a big factor in local government budgets.

The pie itself changed. The importance of sales taxes in the revenue stream gave way to dominance by personal income taxes, which are inherently less predictable, particularly since most are paid by relatively few taxpayers in upper income tiers.

As Gov. Gavin Newsom’s latest budget proposal, unveiled last week, notes, “California’s progressive tax system, where nearly half of all personal income tax in the state is paid by the top 1% of earners, has contributed to extreme budget volatility over the years.”

That volatility is the chief reason for the budget’s projection of a $31.5 billion deficit just 12 months after Newsom declared that the state had a $97 billion surplus and bragged that “No other state in American history has ever experienced a surplus as large as this.”

Not only have revenues become structurally less predictable, but they also have become subject to changes in national and global economies.

The revised budget’s deficit is projected even without a recession, but were there an even modest downturn – which many economists expect, due to the Federal Reserve System’s sharp hikes in interest rates to battle inflation – the state would take a big hit.

“Based on a moderate recession scenario in fiscal year 2023-24, revenues could decrease by $40 billion in 2023-24 alone, largely driven by losses in personal income tax,” the budget declares. “Revenue declines relative to the May Revision forecast could reach an additional $100 billion through 2026-27.”

Revenue declines of those magnitudes would quickly consume the state’s seemingly hefty “rainy day” reserves.

Budgets no longer require two-thirds legislative votes and Democrats have overwhelming legislative majorities, but that, ironically, is another complicating factor.

Periodic revenue surges, such as last year’s $97 billion paper surplus, whet appetites of Democrats’ allies, such as unions and social welfare and medical care advocates, for additional spending and generate resistance when times get tough.

Newsom’s budget would put the brakes on spending, including clawing back some appropriations from last year. Advocacy groups are leaning on friendly legislators to do whatever is necessary to keep the money flowing, including tax increases and/or tapping into the reserves.

One-party control of the Capitol may change the specifics of fiscal politics, but doesn’t make them any simpler.

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

While we’re shaken by horrific mass shootings, they’re a drop in the bucket next to domestic violence killings, suicides, gang shootings, robberies, road rage, accidents and other ways we kill with guns. Still, after mass shootings the public demands action and our weak-kneed (Republican) politicians give us platitudes while defending the gun lobby.

What could change the status quo?

We’ve heard graphic accounts of shootings. We know that some children in the Uvalde shooting had to be identified via DNA because they were obliterated by .223 rounds. Decapitated by bullets. One Uvalde doctor said he saw things that no prayer will ever relieve. In the recent Allen Premium Outlet shootings, a witness described seeing a girl with no face.

But maybe these shocking descriptions aren’t enough. Maybe Americans need to actually see the results themselves. Perhaps we need to see a child’s brains on the sidewalk outside that outlet mall. Republican politicians, eager to offer thoughts and prayers and diverting attention to mental health, should have to see what their partnership with the gun lobby has wrought.

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There’s precedent of the power of images and videos to move people. In 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was lynched based on the lies of a white woman (who died last month.) Till was kidnapped, brutally beaten, had an eye gouged out before being shot in the head and his body thrown into the Tallahatchie River. His mother, Mamie Till, insisted her son have an open casket so the world could see the monstrous result of white supremacist hate.

The video of blacks being beaten and brutalized with billy clubs, fists, dogs and fire hoses during the Civil Rights Movement shocked the conscience of the nation. Those images struck a nerve the way no description of the horrors of racism could.

Seeing the way high-velocity rifle rounds break bones, rip flesh and liquefy organs might horrify some spineless gun violence-enabling politician into remembering they’re a human being working for other humans who just want to be safe.

Grisly photos and videos from the Allen Premium Outlet massa-

cre ended up on Twitter to the shock and dismay of many who inadvertently came across the content. When I wrote of politicians and the public seeing what these weapons do, I’m not talking about the random publishing of victims. That’s insensitive to the victims and their families and loved ones. I’m talking about what Mamie Till did. Perhaps there will be those who want the world to see what we’re living with on a near daily basis in the United States.

But what if the public and politicians are unmoved by the horrific images? Obviously the wholesale slaughter of children isn’t enough to provoke us to action. Will it take a mass shooting at a state house or Congress? Will it take a mass shooting at a fancy private school filled with the children of politicians? Let’s hope not.

Is there a limit in our tolerance of American carnage? Peace.

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

There’s fresh hope on tough cancer to cure

Lisa Jarvis BLOOMBERG OPINION

Results from a small study of a pancreatic vaccine are promising enough to merit cautious optimism. Researchers are figuring out how to train immune cells to see and destroy cancers – even devastating ones like pancreatic cancer.

Any progress against pancreatic cancer should be lauded. But the vaccine still has a lot to prove before reaching the market. And even if it gets there, it can only (for now) help a small slice of pancreatic cancer patients.

No matter its long-term success, though, the study is important for its lessons about how to target pancreatic cancer – and what it says about the potential to use the immune system to battle more types of tumors.

In the study, led by oncologists at Memorial Sloan Kettering who teamed up with BioNTech in Germany, 16 people with pancreatic cancer were given the vaccine alongside chemotherapy. The vaccine prompted an immune response in half of the patients. After 18 months, none of them showed signs of disease recurrence.

That such a small study has generated so much excitement reflects this cancer’s notoriety. While early detection, lifestyle interventions and better treatments have helped people with other cancers live longer, the five-year survival rate for someone diagnosed with pancreatic cancer is just 12%. By 2030, pancreatic cancer is projected to be the second-leading cause of cancer deaths in the U.S., surpassed only by lung cancer.

Because pancreatic cancer tends to be so swift, one big lesson from this study is simply that it’s possible to create a vaccine quickly enough to make a difference. Much like Moderna and Merck’s cancer vaccine, which recently generated excitement for its potential to prevent melanoma from returning, these shots are tailored to a patient’s own tumor.

Memorial Sloan Kettering researchers sent samples to BioNTech in Germany, where the tumor was analyzed to determine which muta-

tions might elicit a helpful immune response. The recipe for up to 20 of those proteins were encoded in a personalized mRNA vaccine that was mailed back to the oncologists.

Technology – inexpensive and rapid genome sequencing, AI, and mRNA – made it possible for patients to get their first doses in about nine weeks after their surgery.

The trial’s other big lesson is that an mRNA vaccine can elicit an immune response even in people with a cancer with few mutations. Until now, the conventional wisdom with cancer vaccines is that they will work best, and perhaps only work, in tumors with lots of mutations (like melanoma). That’s because the vaccine trains the immune cells to spot what’s different about cancer cells – mutated proteins – so they will mobilize to destroy them.

Yet this vaccine created a robust immune response even though pancreatic cancers have few mutations, says Vinod P. Balachandran, the pancreatic cancer surgeon at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center who led the study. That finding could signal broader applicability of personalized cancer vaccines.

There is an important caveat, though: Because a biopsy doesn’t give researchers enough material to analyze, this bespoke vaccine can be created only for patients who are able to undergo surgery to remove their tumors. That’s at most about 20% of the pancreatic cancer population. That’s also the population that has the best chances of responding to a vaccine.

Decades ago, researchers were trying to use therapeutic cancer vaccines in people with advanced disease. At that stage, not only is the cancer a problem, but patients, in particular pancreatic cancer patients, have a host of other health issues that dampen the immune response. Trying to rev up those T-cells in that scenario with a vaccine alone is like trying to roll a boulder uphill, says Anirban Maitra, a pancreatic cancer specialist at MD Anderson in Houston. After surgery, the immune system is going up against a much more man-

ageable enemy.

The Memorial Sloan Kettering researchers demonstrated how well that could work. After vaccination, one patient developed a suspicious lesion in the liver that harbored a mutation found in the pancreatic tumor, suggesting the disease had spread. Tests and images showed vaccine-trained immune cells crowding to the site. Later, the lesion disappeared. “That’s exactly what the vaccine is supposed to do,” Maitra says.

While this vaccine (and others in development) wind through clinical trials, the field should be throwing everything into figuring out how to ensure more patients can benefit from it. That will mean diagnosing pancreatic cancer earlier. Some 80% of pancreatic cancers are discovered after tumors have already spread to other organs, a point where most patients can’t undergo surgery and their chances of surviving the disease are vanishingly small.

But here, too, there’s good news. In another promising study last week, researchers used artificial intelligence to analyze the medical records of millions of patients from Denmark and the U.S., including nearly 28,000 who developed pancreatic cancer. By looking across decades of data, the group identified a cluster of symptoms that could be early signs of cancer nearly a year before it was diagnosed in real life. Ideally, this information could be used by doctors to identify and monitor patients at risk of developing the disease, allowing many to undergo surgery and treatment before tumors have spread.

The caveats to these studies are many. But there is finally real hope that the bleak survival statistics for pancreatic cancer could meaningfully change.

Lisa Jarvis is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering biotech, health care and the pharmaceutical industry. Previously, she was executive editor of Chemical & Engineering News. This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.

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Martha Stewart’s swimsuit cover broke the internet

Did it break barriers?

“Crafting, gardening, cooking, modeling, restaurant owner ... What can’t Martha do? Unstoppable,” one fan wrote on Instagram.

“An icon,” another said.

Fellow celebrities also shared their admiration, from actress Jennifer Garner –“You are amazing!” – to Ellen Pompeo of “Grey’s Anatomy” fame. “Congratulations Queen,” Pompeo wrote. “You continue to school us all in what it means ... and what it takes to be extraordinary.”

But there were also calls for high-profile women like Stewart to “age honestly.”

“Audiences and readers are well aware that the women featured will already have had access to all the advantages of privileged lifestyles, as well as top photographers and stylists,” said Deborah Jermyn, author and academic specializing in feminism and media at the University of Roehampton in England.

“At the very least, these kinds of moments prompt renewed discussion and awareness of beauty standards, ageism and our enduring cultural investment in youth,” she said Tuesday. “But of course this spills over into invaluable publicity for brands.”

Shani Orgad, professor of media and communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science, agreed that it’s “about time”

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bility, stereotyping, demeaning and caricaturing older women as dowdy and irrelevant,” Orgad told The Washington Post. “But this kind of visibility is also extremely uneven; we rarely see older women across lines of race, class, disability, and beauty standards.”

Stewart told the “Today” show on Monday that she had eliminated bread and pasta from her diet and went to Pilates classes every other day in preparation for her January photo shoot. It took place in the Dominican Republic, where she tried on nine different bathing suits and was snapped by photographer Ruven Afanador.

“To be on the cover at my age was a challenge, but I think I met the challenge,” she said, adding, “It was kinda fun.”

“To me, it’s a testament to good living, and I think that all of us should think about good living. ... The whole aging thing is so boring.”

Stewart became a prominent presence in the 1980s for her home-hospitality tips, party planning and cookbooks. She soon built a media empire, hosting television shows and podcasts. She spent time in prison in 2004 for obstructing a federal securities investigation – a five-month sentence in a minimum-security facility that she served while teaching yoga and crocheting. In recent years, she

It has all won her new fans of a much younger generation.

“Never in her life has she let her circumstances dictate her outcome,” MJ Day, Sports Illustrated swimsuit editor in chief, said in a statement about the shoot. “She’s changed with the times – always one step ahead, it seems – to build a wide-reaching business empire.”

The magazine, which for years drew buzz for covers with some of the skimpiest bikinis and most buxom of models, has taken a different approach of late.

In 2019, Muslim model Halima Aden made history as the magazine’s first model to be photographed wearing a hijab and burkini, while Leyna Bloom became the first transgender cover model in its 2021 swimsuit issue. Last year’s issue featured Katrina Scott as the first visibly pregnant swimsuit model.

The Martha Stewart issue goes on sale Thursday. Its other celebrity models include actress Megan Fox and musician Kim Petras.

Stewart hailed the good genes she inherited from her mother and encouraged other women to be “fearless,” citing her modeling career and appearances in television commercials in her youth for building her confidence.

“Don’t be afraid of anything,” she said.

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South’s. Many would double and then bid four spades, hoping to convey the message of a hand worth a little more than an immediate four spades. (However, usually a takeout double promises two four-card or longer suits – two places to play.) Here, though, it didn’t matter, North deciding he had enough to take a shot at the slam.

At first glimpse, the slam seems to depend on a successful diamond finesse. However, experts, as has been pointed out before, hate to rely on finesses. They hunt assiduously for an alternative line that will work even if the key finesse is losing.

Here, South spotted one. As long as West’s clubs were headed by the A-Q-J, the contract was guaranteed. Declarer won the trump lead in hand, cashed three rounds of hearts ending in the dummy and called for the club 10.

THE FAIR ADVANTAGE EVEN FOR BRUNETTES

The Bard once wrote: “Men that hazard all, Do it in hope of fair advantages.” Bridge experts strive to find fair advantages, but they prefer to do it without hazarding all. How should South play to make six spades after West opens three clubs as dealer and leads his singleton trump?

It isn’t clear how to bid a hand like

When East played low, declarer discarded the diamond five. West won the trick but had no winning defense. Leading the club ace would establish dummy’s king, on which South would discard his diamond queen. Instead, if West shifted to a diamond, it would be into South’s ace-queen tenace.

Lastly, if East had produced a club higher than the 10, declarer would have been forced to fall back on the diamond finesse.

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Martha Stewart demonstrates how to make the Meyer Lemon Drop cocktail at The Bedford by Martha Stewart in Las Vegas, April 21.

Todd (Skylar Astin) must step in and impersonate a lawyer while his mother uses her investigative skills in “So Help Me Todd.”

Writers Guild clears path for Tony Awards to proceed – with alterations

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Amid Hollywood’s ongoing writers’ strike, the Tony Awards are going to go a bit differently this year.

The Writers Guild of America announced Monday that it would not picket Broadway’s annual prizes, scheduled for June 11, thereby allowing the event to proceed –albeit in altered form.

“Tony Awards Productions (a joint venture of the Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing) has communicated with us that they are altering this year’s show to conform with specific requests from the WGA, and therefore the WGA will not be picketing the show,” the WGA said in a statement.

The guild did not specify the nature of the changes. The New York Times reportedthat the ceremony would include the presentation of awards and live performances of numbers from Broadway shows, but not any material scripted by screenwriters. A representative for the Tony Awards did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The plan comes after the Tony Awards Management Committee and broadcast partner CBS on Friday canceled the June 11 live telecast over fears that the event would be doomed by the threat of a picket line, which members of the creative community would be unlikely to cross. CBS is part of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, the group against which the WGA is striking.

“Responsibility for having to make changes to the format of the 2023 Tony Awards rests squarely on the shoulders of Paramount/CBS and their allies,” the union said in its statement Monday. “They continue to refuse to negotiate a fair contract for the writers represented by the WGA. As they have stood by us, we stand with our fellow workers on Broadway who are

impacted by our strike.”

The 76th Tony Awards is the first major awards show to be affected by the writers’ strike. Although the Broadway fete is less a ratings boon than a prestigious event for CBS – last year’s event drew 3.9 million viewers, the ceremony’s second-lowest viewership recorded – the show is important to Broadway producers, who rely on the exposure on the national network to market their productions. The televised ceremony doubles as a widely seen advertisement for what’s currently playing; oftentimes, productions struggling to fill its seats will stay open in hopes that a win, or even exposure via a notable musical number, will boost ticket sales.

Past irregular versions of the Tonys have not gone over well with viewers. The very delayed 2021 ceremony, which was split up into an awards show and concert across CBS and Paramount, garnered only 2.77 million viewers on CBS. The 2023 awards show is the first to celebrate the first full season after the COVID-19 pandemic closed Broadway for 18 months, from which numerous Broadway productions are still struggling to regain their footing.

This Tony year’s nominations are led by the stage adaptation of “Some Like It Hot” with 13 nods, followed by the new musicals “& Juliet,” “Shucked” and “New York, New York,” each with nine nominations, and the critically lauded “Kimberly Akimbo” with eight. Additionally, J. Harrison Ghee and Alex Newell made history as the first nonbinaryidentifying actors to be nominated for Tonys.

Among the Hollywood names who received nominations were Jessica Chastain, Ben Platt, Jodie Comer, Josh Groban, Samuel L. Jackson, Corey Hawkins, Yahya AbdulMateen II, Sara Bareilles, Wendell Pierce and Sean Hayes.

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Zits Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman

Pearls Before Swine Stephan Pastis

Candorville Darrin Bell

Baby Blues Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott

Baldo Hector Cantú and Carlos Castellanos

CALENDAR

Wednesday’s TV sports

Baseball

MLB

• Arizona vs. Oakland, NBCSCA, 12:37 p.m.

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

Basketball

NBA Playoffs

• East Finals, Miami vs. Boston, TNT, 5:30 p.m.

Soccer

MLS

• Philadelphia Union vs. DC United, FS1, 4:30 p.m.

Thursday’s TV sports

Basketball

NBA Playoffs

• West Finals, Denver vs.L.A. Lakers, ESPN, 6 p.m.

Boxing

• Haney vs. Lomachenko, ESPN2, 5 p.m.

Golf • PGA Championship, Matty and the Caddie coverage, ESPN, 8 a.m.

• PGA Championship, ESPN, 10 a.m.

Hockey

• East Final, Dallas vs. Vegas, TNT, 5 p.m.

Soccer EPL

Newcastle vs. Brighton & Hove Albion, USA, 11:30 a.m.

Steve Kerr downplays talks with Warriors

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SAN FRANCISCO — Whether Bob Myers will be resigned to navigate the waning years of a dynasty is the most pressing offseason matter following the Warriors’ early playoff exit. Head coach Steve Kerr’s future is also up for discussion as he comes into the final year of his contract for the 2023-24 season.

That final contract year is when two sides typically start discussing extensions. But Kerr said on Tuesday that those talks are on the backburner while the organization sorts through team president Myers’ potential exit and Draymond Green’s future with the team.

Kerr signed an exten-

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San Diego Padres after that season, he posted a career-high 4.96 ERA in 30 appearances including 28 starts in 2022.

This year, with the Giants seemingly deep with starters, Manaea’s first appearance was out of the bullpen piggybacking Anthony DeSclafani, and the lefty’s next appearance was a solid six-inning start in which he struck out eight and yielded one run on three hits and a walk.

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defining moments, that starts now.”

SANTA CLARA — Christian McCaffrey’s first impression with the 49ers is still reverberating.

Look at fantasy football rankings for this coming season and his name is at the top, at least among all running backs, if not all players overall. Look at the 49ers’ offseason program and he’s engraining himself as a leader, just seven months after arriving in a bittersweet trade from Carolina.

“In hindsight, I firmly believe it’s the best thing that ever happened to me,” McCaffrey said last week at the annual Dwight Clark Legacy Series event, which benefits the 49ers’ Golden Heart Fund for 49ers alumni.

McCaffrey’s father, Ed, was part of the 49ers’ last Super Bowl-winning team in 1994. The younger

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six in the fourth inning.

McCaffrey should have a major role in this season’s quest for another Lombardi Trophy, but he’s not making it all about himself.

“It takes everybody,” McCaffrey said ahead of his seventh NFL season out of Stanford. “This is the biggest team game in the world that gets so

rallied for a 7-1 win over visiting Rio Vista Tuesday in the quarterfinals of the Sac-Joaquin Section Division VII playoffs.

much individual attention.

“You’ve got guys named the G.O.A.T., and this and that. It’s true and it’s great. But no one is anybody without their teammates in this game. That’s what makes it so special. That’s why people watch. That’s why we love to play it.

“All those game-

times in the fourth.

Rodriguez got its only run across in the top of the seventh inning.

The 49ers are a month into their offseason program, a voluntary workload that attracted McCaffrey from Day 1. Next week ushers in organized team activities. Those practices lead into their mandatory minicamp June 13-15, then training camp in late July. The regular season opens Sept. 10 at the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Coach Kyle Shanahan is not devising wicked plans ahead of McCaffrey’s first full season with the 49ers, however.

“It makes it easier, it calms your mind a little bit. You don’t have to make as much stuff up,” Shanahan said last Wednesday, before McCaffrey followed him on stage at the Dwight Clark Legacy event. “Everyone is, ‘Oh you got him now.”

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sion at the end of the 2018 championship season and is going into his ninth season as Warriors head coach.

“Our organization has a lot to sort through this summer,” he said at an end-of-season press conference on Tuesday. “My contract situation is not, nor should it be, at the top of the list. Right now Bob’s contract situation is number one because that influences a lot of the player decisions that have to be made, contracts, draft, free agency.

“We will get to my stuff whenever that happens, and I’m in no rush for that.”

Myers will take time to decide if he wants to return to his post and take the contract extension.

Manaea entered the season with newfound velocity after he worked in the offseason at Driveline, the high-tech biomechanics lab. Asked whether he was depending too heavily on high-90s heaters, Manaea said, “Maybe. You see 97 on the board, so it’s like ‘let’s just keep doing that.’ “ Manager Gabe Kapler said for now, he plans to use Manaea in long relief or possibly against a pocket of lefties – “slightly smaller bursts” – to give him a chance to rediscover his groove.

(45.86). The 4x100 relay time was the ninth best in school history.

The Vikings improved to 12-8 overall. Vanden will head to Modesto Thursday to take on No. 1 Central Catholic in a 4 p.m. quarterfinal. Mia Zabat was 3-for-4 with a double, triple and two RBIs for the Lady Vikings. Aniya Lawson and Ayanna Frank had two hits apiece. Lawson had a double and an RBI, while Frank also drove in a run. Kiah Silva added a double and two RBIs.

Isabella Cueva gutted out 6 2/3 innings in the circle and struck out five batters.

Atayde delivers gem for Vacaville

VACAVILLE — Xochitl

Atayde, the Monticello Empire League Pitcher of the Year, lived up to her billing Tuesday by throwing a complete-game two-hitter with 10 strikeouts as the Bulldogs opened the Sac-Joaquin Section Division II playoffs with an 8-0 win over visiting Atwater. The section’s top seed needed only a two-run first inning and a six-run fifth to put the game away. Vacaville improved to 27-1 overall and will face No. 9 Cordoba at home Thursday in a 4 p.m. quarterfinal matchup. Hayden Kyne went 2-for-4 with a home run and two RBI. Makayla Freshour, Ashlyn Wilson and Paige Witte all had two hits. Freshour drove in a run.

Annalyn Steh, Lily Anderson and Makayla Tonn had two hits apiece for the Lady Knights and each drove in a run. No. 3 Buckingham improved to 11-4 overall and moved into a Thursday semifinal game at No. 2 Big Valley Christian .

Buckingham scored a run in the first inning. Rio Vista had a run in the top of the seventh inning. The Lady Knights broke open the game with a six-run bottom of the sixth inning.

Rio Vista finishes the season 10-6. No statistics were available for the Rams.

Rodriguez falls in D-2 playoff opener

FAIRFIELD — The Rodriguez High School softball team was held to five hits and just one earned run in an 8-1 loss Tuesday at Elk Grove in the opening round of the Sac-Joaquin Section Division II playoffs.

Madison Carda went the distance for the No. 7 Thundering Herd in the win over No. 10 Rodriguez. Elk Grove (16-12) will play at No. 2 Whitney in Rocklin on Thursday in a quarterfinal game. The season ends for Rodriguez with an 11-10 overall record.

Vacaville Christian falls to Riverbank

VACAVILLE — The Vacaville Christian High School softball team’s playoff run ended after just five innings as the Lady Falcons ran up against a powerhouse at Riverbank.

The Lady Bruins rolled to a 15-0 victory in the Sac-Joaquin Section Division VI playoffs. Riverbank scored at least three runs in all four innings at the plate. Denise Vargas and Jessica Vigil hit home runs. Janeiya Lopez threw a six-hitter with 11 strikeouts.

Riverbank advances to the semifinals for a matchup against Le Grand on Thursday.

Vacaville Christian’s season ends with a 9-4 record. No individual statistics were made available for the Lady Falcons.

Will C. Wood ousted from D-3 playoffs

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VACAVILLE — The Vacaville Christian High School baseball team was held in check Monday as host Argonaut secured a 5-1 win in the opening game of the Sac-Joaquin Section Division VI semifinal series.

Hunter Lynch of Argonaut threw a threehitter over six innings, allowed no earned runs, walked one and struck out 12 batters. Neal King gave up a hit but was able to strike out the side in the seventh against the Falcons.

Vacaville Christian scored its lone run in the fourth inning. No individual statistics were made available for the Falcons.

The teams meet again Wednesday at 6 p.m. at Vacaville Christian in the second game of the best-of-3 series. A decisive third game would be Thursday at 4 p.m. back in Jackson, if necessary.

Boys Golf Vanden’s Co shoots

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Jaedyn White had a pair of hits. Brooklyn Denina, Za’raya Garcia and Noe Landry also had hits. Landry had an RBI. Sofia Vallejos-Coleman pitched the first three innings for the Lady Mustangs. Denina worked the next three innings in the circle.

The Will C. Wood High School softball team had its season come to a close Tuesday after a 13-2 loss in six innings to Ponderosa in Shingles Springs during a Sac-Joaquin Section Division III playoff game.

Ana Niles was the big star for Ponderosa. She hit a home run, drove in two runs and threw a sevenhitter with nine strikeouts for the Lady Bruins.

FAIRFIELD — Aiden Co of Vanden High School was the lone area representative at Monday’s Sac-Joaquin Section Boys Golf Masters Tournament in Stockton at The Reserve at Spanos Park. Co shot a round of 86. He qualified for Masters after shooting a 78 at the Division III tournament in Copperopolis last week.

Knights’ Griffin records 16 Ks in win

VACAVILLE — Haley

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Track and Field Sophomore Daysha Ford (Rodriguez) had a big weekend at the Big Sky Track and Field Championships in Greeley, Colorado. Ford finished just .02 seconds off her season-best in the 400 meters and finished third overall (54.59). Ford was also eighth in the 200 (24.90) and joined the 4x100 relay team to a third-place finish mention selections include sophomore third baseman Lucy Herston (Armijo), junior shortstop Kailee Cox (Fairfield), sophomore first baseman/pitcher

Talia Falekaono (Fairfield), senior pitcher Sofia Vallejos-Coleman (Rodri-

Freshman Aspin Oliver (Vacaville) was an impressive sixth in the 400 hurdles (1:02.41) Saturday at the Big West Track and Field Championships in Fullerton. Oliver was also 10th in the 100 hurdles (14.46).

Sophomore Maya Holman (Vacaville) took sixth in the javelin (138-0) at the Big West meet and also was 17th in the high jump (4-11 1/2).

Junior Quinton Alexander (Vanden) finished sixth in the men’s 800 meters (1:50.58) at the Big West meet.

guez), junior first baseman Hailey Permenter (Rodriguez), freshman shortstop Laila Dean (Vacaville), junior second baseman Jordan Munn (Vacaville), senior third baseman Aubrie Gibson (Vacaville), junior shortstop Mia Zabat (Vanden), shortstop Carly Sampson (Wood) and pitcher Maddie Farham (Wood).

Griffin fired a three-hitter, struck out 16 and also had a hit with two RBIs at the plate as the Buckingham Charter softball team

Taylor Fitzerald had two doubles and drove in two runs for Elk Grove. Emma Stang added three hits. The Thundering Herd scored three times in the second inning, once in third and four more

No. 9 Ponderosa improved to 20-4-1 overall and will host No. 7 Manteca in a quarterfinal game Thursday.

Wood finished its season 6-11 overall. No individual statistics were made available on the Lady Wildcats.

Chris Maggard of Turlock Christian had the best individual round with a 67. Andre Zhang of Davis and Eli Weidman of Bret Harte each posted 69s. All three golfers advance to the Northern California tournament next week. Lodi (362), Granite Bay (374) and Rocklin (374) all advanced.

McCaffrey: Joining 49ers ‘best thing that ever happened to

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San Francisco 49ers’ Christian McCaffrey (23) scores a first quarter touchdown in the NFC wild-card playoff game at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Jan. 14.