Daily Republic: Friday, May 26, 2023

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Friends, family keep memory of Pinson going 7 years after Vallejo kidnapping

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VALLEJO — Seven

years ago, Pearl Pinson, 15, was walking on the pedestrian bridge on her way to school. She was kidnapped and has not been seen, or heard from, since.

The suspected kidnapper was killed the follow ing day during a shoot-out with police. He took Pearl’s location to the grave with him.

Choking back tears at the foot over the overcrossing, Rose Pinson Rodriguez, surrounded by her father and brother, recalled the past seven years and made another a plea for an answer.

“I hope one day I can find my sister,” she said. “I also live with the reality I may never see my sister again.”

Longtime Pinson family friend Troy Kinslow offered a prayer and shared a story of hope. In 1996, his cousin, Priscilla Lewis, then 21, was killed. The case went cold.

Two years ago, a DNA match linked current inmate Danny Lamont Hamilton to the slaying. “We have had tragedy,” he said. “I’m here for support.”

Kinslow is now attending Hamilton’s court proceedings.

“I won’t let them give up,” he said of the Pinson family. “We never gave up on my cousin.”

Vickie Francom may be the one of the most familiar faces working to get an answer for the Pinson family. Her son, Tyler Francom, dated Pearl. Life has moved on

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Vacaville Fiesta Days opens with music, food, fun

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VACAVILLE —

Vacaville Fiesta Days has become a tradition for so many across the 66 years it has been celebrating Vacaville’s Hispanic and Mexican history.

On Thursday, Lilly Crocker, 7, came with her family, Rachel Rodriguez and Jerrod Crocker, all of Vacaville, for a family tradition. “I think the favorite

part of Fiesta Days is the food and watching the people,” Rodriguez said.

“And watching the kids having fun.”

“I’m glad this year it won’t be as hot as in years past,” Jerrod Crocker said. “But my favorite is also the food.”

The carnival opened Thursday with opening band Mullet, along with Journey’s Edge at the CreekWalk, although fans

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2nd Lt. Joe Ables, center, celebrates after dueling with other airmen using inflatable pugil sticks during the 80th anniversary of Travis Air Force Base celebration, Thursday.

milky, translucent graywhite clouds.

TRAVIS AFB — Col. Derek Salmi, 60th Air Mobility Wing commander at Travis Air Force Base figures when the United States was deciding on where to put military bases, Travis was a very logical choice.

Clear skies and good flying conditions are key, he said Tuesday as the base marked its 80th anniversary.

“And, what makes good flying?” he asked rhetorically. “A breeze.”

Breezy it was for dignitaries, Air Force personnel – retired and active –and others gathered outside the Delta

FAIRFIELD — Andrea Solis Olguin found her dream at Solano Community College.

“It is the first place I felt where I belonged,” said Olguin, who delivered the Student Commencement speech at the 2023 Solano Community College graduation on Thursday.

It was the first in-person graduation since 2019, and it was greeted with a cool breeze, and a soft blue sky dotted with

The graduates, with faculty counted among the side-by-side columns, walked in to “Pomp & Circumstance,” searching the stands for the faces of loved ones. When the connections were made, exultation rose above the lit field lights of Doc Hollister Stadium.

For one graduate, the tears flowed. There was an empty space next to her father, a place her

Aaron Rosenblatt/Daily Republic photos Dignitaries unveil the logo marking the 80th anniversary of Travis Air Force Base, Thursday.

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and adults come out opening night of the 66th annual Vacaville Fiesta Days, Thursday.

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Alicia Burton celebrates after receiving her diploma during the Solano College graduation ceremony at Solano College in Fairfield, Thursday.

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Solano’s Jeff Trager remembers Tina Turner

In 2015, Vallejo-based local live concert promoter Jeff Trager presented a sold-out show at Fairfield’s Downtown Theatre called “Divas of Soul.” It featured regional artists who paid tribute to great performers like Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Diana Ross, Anita Baker and others. Capitola-based vocalist Pam Hawkins electrified the local crowd with her tribute to Tina Turner. While Hawkins poured her all into the performance and it was well-received, there is, or now sadly was, only one Tina Turner.

Trager shared three stories about the actual Anna Mae Bullock aka Tina Turner. The show that led to a career

The now long-gone Both/ And Jazz Club used to be at 350 Divisadero in San Francisco and was one of the neighborhood’s liveliest jazz joints. It opened in 1965 and was a small spot, but featured huge musical acts, including Wes Montgomery, Big Mama Thornton, The Steve Miller Blues Band and Miles Davis, among others.

Around that time, Trager was working as a bellboy at the Jack Tar Hotel and was on his fifth year at the two-year City College of San Francisco with no clear plan on what he wanted to do with his life. His job put him in direct contact with powerful people however, one of them being California State Senator and later San Francisco Mayor George Moscone.

Trager took Moscone to see Ike and Tina Turner at the Both/ And Club and the husband-andwife rock-and-soul revue blew their socks off.

Afterward, Moscone said he was going to get Trager a job in the music business through his connections. A week later the bellboy/perennial college student was meeting with Herb

Alpert and Jerry Moss, the namesakes of A&M Records, and the rest is now 50-plus years of record and concert promoting history.

Crossover hit

Ike & Tina Turner’s 1969 album, “Outta Season,” featured a controversial front and back cover: the couple posing in whiteface while eating watermelon. Trager, who was working for a record distributor out of San Francisco, was a little nervous about taking it to Black stations but explained the reasoning behind the cover.

“It was very topical. White stations would not play Ike and Tina records. I listened to the album and the first song on it was a cover of a hit song written by Otis Redding, ‘I’ve Been Loving You Too Long.’ I took it to San Francisco station KFRC, who were very powerful, and they said it was ‘too Black’ and that they would never play it,” Trager said. “I said I don’t understand what they were talking about. I was in there the week before with James Brown and Al Green records. I wasn’t brought up like that.”

Fueled by his innate sense of what was a hit record and refusal to accept being told no, Trager hatched a strategy to force KFRC to capitulate. He went to Oakland’s KDIA 1310 AM, “Lucky 13” and got the program director to put “I’ve Been Loving You Too Long” in heavy rotation, meaning it was played once every two hours.

He also took boxes of 45 RPM singles of the song to record chains and independent mom-and-pop record stores. KFRC would call those outlets to see what was selling in order to keep their finger on the pulse of what was hot.

Ike and Tina’s record was hot and KFRC finally had to play it. Even then, they only did so at night. Still, it reached 68 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and

23 on the Billboard R&B chart, which was not too shabby for a record that had already been a massive hit by the writer just a few years before.

For Trager, it was lifechanging. Ike and Tina Turner’s label, Blue Thumb Records, which also featured artists like Gerry Rafferty, The Pointer Sisters and The Crusaders, was founded by Bob Krasnow, who later co-founded the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Krasnow was blown away by Trager’s tenacity and offered him a job. He wanted him so badly, to sweeten the deal and entice Trager to move to Los Angeles, he even gave him a percentage of the company.

It was also huge for Tina Turner. At a show at San Francisco’s Fillmore West that

featured Ike and Tina, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles and King Curtis, Turner expressed her gratitude to Trager.

“In her dressing room Tina took my hand and said, ‘I want to thank you for what you did because a couple of years ago we were playing in bowling alleys.’ ”

Private dancer

In the early 1980s, Trager was working for Polydor Records and heard from the president of the company that no one would sign Tina. He called a friend of his named John S. Carter, known professionally as just Carter, who was the head of A&R (artists and repertoire) at Capitol Records. He had loved Tina since he’d

first heard “I’ve Been Loving You Too Long.” Carter, who also worked with artists like Bob Seger, Sammy Hagar and Bob Welch, had a couple of songs that he thought were right for Tina. Trager made the connection and Carter signed Turner to Capitol Records in 1983.

Trager didn’t know until Tina Turner’s landmark album “Private Dancer” was released in 1984 that the songs Carter had for Turner were “What’s Love Got to Do With It?” and the title song written by Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits, which Carter produced.

“Private Dancer” is still the best-selling album of Turner’s career. Trager got a nice check from Carter after the album sold its first two million copies and something more personal from the artist herself.

“What I got from Tina was Christmas cards every year for like 10 years. Even after she retired,” Trager said.

Reflecting on Tina Turner’s death on May 23 and the legacy she leaves, Trager was effusive in his praise.

“She is one of the greatest female entertainers of all time. She broke the mold. I have so much respect for her and even more so because she walked away from the chaos of a bad situation with Ike and recreated herself. She worked her a-- off, appreciated everything she earned, was humbled by it and was nice to people. Tina Turner was one of a kind.” Fairfield freelance humor columnist and accidental local historian Tony Wade writes two weekly columns: “ The Last Laugh” on Mondays and “Back in the Day” on Fridays. Wade is also the author of The History Press books “Growing Up In Fairfield, California,” “Lost Restaurants of Fairfield, California,” the upcoming book “Armijo High School: Fairfield, California” and hosts the Channel 26 government access TV show “Local Legends.”

The CDC wants people to stop eating raw cookie dough; but it’s so tasty

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Raw cookie dough seems to be an irresistible temptation for many people. Whether they pick a piece from the mixing bowl, lick the spoon used to scoop it, or even bite straight into a store-bought roll - they can’t help but ignore health authorities’ warnings to not eat it.

A salmonella outbreak linked to raw cookie dough has sickened at least 18 people in six states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Two people were hospitalized.

Nine of them reported eating raw cookie dough from Papa Murphy’s Take ‘N’ Bake Pizza, which has franchises across the

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country. Amid an investigation by the Food and Drug Administration, the pizza chain said it has stopped selling its takeand-bake Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough and S’mores Bars, and health authorities say customers who bought those products should discard them.

The CDC regularly warns people to stop eating raw dough, but acknowledges it’s a tough sell.

“When making cookies, brownies, cakes, or bread, you might be tempted to taste a bite before it’s fully baked,” the CDC says. “But you can get sick after eating or tasting raw (unbaked) dough or batter.”

Emily Nejad, owner of Bon Vivant Cakes, a cake-

and cookie-decorating school in Chicago, understands the appeal.

“The appeal of eating raw cookie dough is all about the texture,” she said. “People love texture and variety, and cookie dough is the perfect mix of something that’s soft and kind of creamy and sort of chewy.”

She wonders, though, whether it also has something to do with nostalgia.

“It takes me right back to fifth-grade sleepovers where you’re staying up, you’re drinking soda, you’re watching teen movies and you are going to town on cookie dough and packages of marshmallows,” she said.

Nejad said she prefers crunchy cookies out of the

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oven, but does sample a small amount of her raw cookie dough.

“If you’re a chef, if you’re preparing food for people, that’s just part of it,” she said.

For cookie dough fans, Nejad said there are ways to mitigate the risk of contracting food-borne illnesses, such as making cookie dough using heattreated flour and no eggs. The Washington Post has a recipe for one.

Why raw cookie dough can be unsafe

A poll conducted in 2010 by the Harvard School of Public Health found that 20 percent of Americans said they “often” ate products that may contain

raw eggs, such as raw cookie dough, hollandaise sauce, Caesar salad dressing or mayonnaise, while 50 percent said they did so occasionally.

The potential problem with raw cookie dough is its two primary ingredients.

Raw flour can be contaminated with Escherichia coli (E. coli) and salmonella, and unpasteurized eggs have been a carrier of salmonella, too. Both bacteria are killed in the cooking process, but contaminated food that is not cooked or is undercooked has been known to make people sick, according to the CDC.

Lindsay Malone, a dietitian, said these two bacteria are in the top-five for causing food-borne illnesses in the United States.

Salmonella, specifically, can “infect the intestinal lining and cause infectious colitis, which, in turn, presents clinically in the form of diarrhea,” said Christine Lee, a gastroenterologist at the Cleveland Clinic.

Lee said the amount of food matters – those who consume a larger amount of contaminated food are at a greater risk of infection. But it is best to avoid eating raw cookie dough, she said.

Experts said those with compromised immune systems are at the highest risk for serious foodborne illness, which the CDC estimates affects 1 in 6 people each year in the United States

Federal bill proposes protection for 1M public acres

FAIRFIELD — U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla reintroduced legislation that would “restore and expand protections for over 1 million acres of California’s

Heritage Protection Act, which is led by Rep. Salud Carbajal, D-Santa Barbara.

n The San Gabriel Mountains Foothills and Rivers Protection Act, which is led by Rep. Judy Chu, D-Claremont.

Representatives:

n The Northwest California Wilderness, Recreation, and Working Forests Act, which is led by Rep. Jared Huffman, D-San Rafael.

n The Central Coast

to nature, which will help rebalance this historic disparity,” Padilla added.

The bill also advances the nation’s and California’s goals of conserving 30% of lands and waters by 2030.

Vaca Public Works lead, treatment plant earn honors

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Works Field Utilities

Lead Jason Maher was named the Redwood Empire Section’s Collection Person of the Year, and the city’s Easterly Wastewater Treatment Plant was honored as the 2022 Redwood Empire Section Medium-Sized Plant of the Year.

The honor was presented at the recent annual conference of the California Water Environment Association Redwood Empire Section.

“In addition, Environmental Compliance Inspector Will Edwards was one of only four individuals statewide to be honored with the Pres-

ident’s Award for his service as the State Pretreatment, Pollution Prevention, and Stormwater Committee Chair,” a statement released by the city said.

The plant award recognizes accomplishments in compliance, innovative practices, cost effectiveness and superior plant performance. Mediumsized plants handle 5 million to 20 million gallons per day.

The individual collections honor is for an individual for innovation and excellence in collection systems maintenance. The President’s Award recognizes the work done on behalf of the association. The conference was held at the end of April in San Diego.

Senate advances 2

Dodd-authored bills

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FAIRFIELD — The state Senate on Thursday approved a bill that Sen. Bill Dodd says will increase “accountability and oversight in the resolution of sexual harassment and violence cases on California State Universitycampuses.

“As a grandparent and CSU graduate, I am committed to making sure students will feel safe and respected on our campuses,” Dodd, D-Napa, said in a statement. “We must hold administrators accountable and bring necessary transparency to make sure cases

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FAIRFIELD — Vallejo police Officer Jeffrey Azuar served his last watch on April 12, 2000.

“The call was about a warrant and he went out to do the check, and he was on his own, and he entered the house,” recalls Gene Hubert, an analyst with the department and Azuar’s friend.

Azuar was headed down into the basement when he was fatally shot, becoming the 17th law enforcement officer in Solano County to die in the line of duty.

Hubert also was friends and fellow motorcycle enthusiast with James Capoot, another Vallejo police officer, who was killed Nov. 17, 2011, while pursuing a bank robber.

Hubert attended the 34th Peace Officers Memorial Service on Wednesday in Fairfield, along with Azuar’s cousins, David Billalon, of Fairfield, and Carolyn Matthies, of Sacramento.

It was the first time the brother and sister had attended the memo-

rial ceremony, and Matthies admits she became pretty emotional.

“He was a good guy, and he took care of his family,” she said.

The three of them remembered Azuar’s most favorite task was showing off his two police dogs – Rondo and AJ, the second of whom was with the officer the day he was killed, but left in the car. The first dog also had been killed while serving.

Hundreds of law enforcement officials from across the county, and a scattering of elected officials and members of

League of Women Voters’ annual meeting is June 1

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FAIRFIELD — The annual meeting of the League of Women Voters Solano County is scheduled for June 1 in the Solano Community Health Hub inside the Solano Town Center.

The gathering will focus on “upcoming plans to continue its work championing democracy in Solano County as well

as sharing information about its current work including a special presentation on Democracy Matters,” a civics education program.

Democracy Matters is the group’s civics education program, which recently won the Making Democracy Work Award at the California League convention in San Francisco.

the public came out to pay their respects to the 20 men who have given their lives in the line of duty. Their names are engraved on 13 plaques at the Union Avenue memorial.

Flower arrangements on easels flanked the row of names, as the American flag, settled at half staff by a four-member honor guard of officers, fluttered in the light breeze.

Doves released later in the ceremony sailed over the brightly colored flower garden and past the flags.

Another honors team would post themselves

in front of the plaques, marching in cadence to their spots, and as the ceremony neared its end, a final seven-officer rifle team fired off three volleys in salute to the fallen. That would be followed by “Taps,” and soon after, a single bagpiper played “Amazing Grace.” A lone California Highway Patrol helicopter conducted a fly-over.

Family members and friends were then given roses to place at the appropriate plaques.

Vacaville police Chief Ian Schmutzler was the keynote speaker.

And while he spoke of the importance of remembering the sacrifices of those men – saying they expected to go home after their shifts were up, but had jobs to do – he emphasized that their legacy will be best served by providing those serving now with the best equipment, training, emotional wellness and other tools they need to meet the ever-changing and more violent challenges of the job.

The names of the

aren’t swept under the rug. This bill ensures we put the culture and processes in place to make that happen.”

Senate Bill 808 was introduced in response to numerous cases of sexual harassment and violence occurring in the California State University system in recent years. “Under provisions of the bill, campus investigations would be subject to additional oversight. Also, the outcome of any settlements would be posted on college websites and reported to the Legislature. Sen. Dodd plans to

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Carolyn Matthies places flowers on the monument for her slain cousin, Vallejo police Officer Jeffrey Azuar, during

the 34th Peace Officers Memorial Service in downtown Fairfield, Wednesday.

Fairfield police Officer Ryan Moran salutes during the 34th Peace Officers Memorial Service in downtown Fairfield, Wednesday.

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Vacaville warns of spoofing calls

VACAVILLE — The city of Vacaville has been getting calls from residents who have received phone calls that appear to be coming from the city, but in which the caller began requesting personal information.

The city believes they could be fraudulent.

Marijuana tax revenue drops for 7th straight quarter

FAIRFIELD — The state collected $216.2 million in marijuana tax revenue during the first three months of the year.

“This includes California’s cannabis excise tax, which generated $104.3 million, and $111.9 million in sales tax revenue from cannabis businesses,” the state

Department of Tax and Fee Administration reported.

It does not include another $24.9 million in excise tax that retailers previously reported and paid to distributors in 2022. Nor does it include the local taxes collected by cities and counties. The first-quarter numbers bring the total revenue since recreational cannabis taxes began to be collected in January

2018 to $4.9 billion: $2.4 billion in cannabis excise tax and $1.9 billion in sales tax. It also includes $501.3 million in cultivation tax, which was eliminated on July 1, 2022, the state agency reported.

It marks the seventh straight quarter with declining tax revenue for the state, which collected $248.5 million in the final three months of 2022. That figure is

still higher than the first quarter of 2023 even if the additional excise tax had been collected.

California voters approved Proposition 64, the Control, Regulate, and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act, in the November 2016 general election.

The highest quarter for taxes came in the second quarter of 2021 at $361.86 million.

Astronomy Night at Rush Ranch set Friday

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SUISUN CITY — The Solano Land Trust will be hosting an Astronomy Night at 8 p.m. Friday at Rush Ranch Open Space, 3521 Grizzly Island Road, Suisun City.

Local astronomy enthusiast Jon Pannier will be presenting and sharing what to look for in the skies in the coming months, and get an update on all the news.

There will be indoor gatherings this year, something that hasn’t happen in a while. The presentation will include an update on Hubble and the James Webb telescopes during the indoor part of the event. The outdoor viewing will begin at dark. Telescopes will be on hand. Personal

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honored were then read by former Benicia police Capt. Steve Mortensen.

The honored are John Howard, a Rio Vista watchman, who died June 20, 1892; Frank Toal, a night watchman in Vallejo, who died Sept. 2, 1896; Jarvis Emigh, a Rio Vista town marshal, who died. Aug. 29, 1914; Dan McKinnon, a Dixon constable, who died Nov. 22, 1918; and James Power, with the Solano County Traffic Bureau, who died March 25, 1925.

Also on the memorial wall are Anson Burdick, a Suisun constable, who died Sept. 1, 1925; Hale Humphrey, a Solano County sheriff’s deputy, who died March 15, 1963; Charles Sorenson, a CHP officer, who died March 15, 1963; Williams Easson Jr., Vallejo police officer, who died April 7, 1966; and Calvin Thacker, Vallejo police officer, who died April 7, 1966.

Others listed are Steven Armenta, a narcotics special agent with the state Department of Justice, who died Dec. 5, 1973; Gary Hughes, CHP officer, who died May 23,

scopes are welcome, but you should be familiar with their set up and arrive before dark.

Children are welcome, but must be supervised at all times. Warm clothing and mosquito repellant

are highly encouraged. To protect night vision, flashlights must be covered with red cellophane, available at the ranch, and late-comers are asked to dim their headlights.

Clouds or inclement

weather will force cancellation of the outdoor part of the event. Admission and parking are free, but donations are gratefully accepted.

Rush Ranch is located approximately two miles south of Highway 12 in Suisun City, on Grizzly Island Road. Registration is required. For more information, email di@solanolandtrust.org or call 707-420-1041.

Solano Land Trust protects land to ensure a healthy environment, keep ranching and farming families on their properties, and inspire a love of the land.

For more information about Solano Land Trust, its upcoming events and to make a donation, visit solanolandtrust.org.

Aug. 25, 1985.

The final five are George Butler, CHP officer, who died Dec. 8, 1986; Azuar; John Sandlin, Solano County sheriff’s reserve deputy, who died April 23, 2004; Capoot; and Kirk Griess, CHP officer, who died Aug. 10, 2018.

“It never gets old to honor those who have died,” Vacaville Mayor, and former police chief, John Carli said in an interview.

“Spoofing” is when a caller deliberately falsifies information transmitted to a caller ID display to disguise their identity. Scammers often use neighbor spoofing, so it appears that an incoming call is coming from a local number or spoof a

number from a company or a government agency that the recipient may already know and trust.

If someone answers, the spoofers use scripts to attempt to scam the victim.

The police remind residents not to give out their Social Security or credit-card number or other personally identifiable information over the phone. Hang up and dial the number of the trusted entity.

If you are not expecting a call or have concerns that it might be a spam phone call, hang up and call 707449-5100 to inquire.

Wednesday Club’s annual Sensational Settings Fundraiser returns

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SUISUN CITY — The Wednesday Club will host the sixth annual Sensational Settings Fundraiser in June. The event will begin at 5 p.m. June 16 and 5:30 p.m. June 17 at 225 Sacramento St., Suisun City.

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“The special Democracy Matters presentation at the Solano League annual meeting will showcase the (league’s) partnership with the Solano Youth Coalition formed to educate and engage Solano youth in local government using hallmark league hands-on civics learning activities,” a statement released by the league said.

Alice Fried, Rebecca Floyd and Johanna

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build on the reforms proposed in the bill based on any recommendations from the pending State Auditor report, expected this spring,” the statement said.

The Senate also passed legislation Dodd says will allow convenience stores and other retailers to sell canned cocktails made from distilled spirits.

“Not only will this help mom-and-pop businesses by creating another revenue stream for them, but it gives consumers more choice,” Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, said in a statement. “It’s a win-win

Sensational Settings is an “over-the-top tablesetting competition” where each table has a different theme.

Friday is “Preview Night,” where you can view and vote for the table you like the best, and enjoy wine and appetizers while mingling with

Nowak-Palmer and a panel of SYC students will be speakers at the event. The annual meeting location is located at 1451 Gateway Blvd. in Fairfield. The entrance is located at the northeast corner of the mall near H&M. Meeting access is also available through Zoom at https://tinyurl.com/ yshakf3s. Click on the Annual Meeting information. The link is also posted at www.facebook. com/lwvsolanocounty. For more information, send an email to ramilmuth@gmail.com or call 707-694-5475.

for California, especially in light of an anticipated economic downturn.”

Senate Bill 277 would allow stores that normally are limited to selling beer and wine to offer canned cocktails up to 16-ounces, made with up to 10% percent alcohol. Currently, only retailers with more expensive Alcohol Beverage Control licenses can sell ready-todrink cocktails.

“SB 277 helps correct the disparity by allowing prepared cocktails to be sold under the same license used for beer and wine, helping thousands of local businesses,” the statement said. The bills next go to the Assembly for consideration.

1976; Albert Patch, a California corrections officer, who died Aug. 17, 1980; Arthur Koch, Fairfield

police officer, who died July 29, 1984; and Jose Cisneros, Solano County sheriff’s deputy, who died

Catherine Bohrman

Catherine (Cathy) was born in Encino, CA to the late newscaster and long time KPIX anchor Stanford Mervyn Bohrman and the late screenwriter and actress Del Coleman Bohrman. Her sister, the late Caren Bohrman was a literary agent and founder of The Bohrman Agency.

Catherine graduated from Sonoma State University with a Master’s in Family Therapy. She later earned a second degree in Divinity from Pacific school of Religion. Catherine led a life of service from her early days as a family therapist, to her brief time as a minister, to her most recent position as a care advocate, where she helped many people obtain the proper treatment they needed.

Catherine strummed beautiful guitar. She had a sensitive ear for music and for wounded souls. Fittingly one of her very favorite songs to sing and play was called Ease Your Pain by Hoyt Axton. Catherine had many creative talents, her masterful weaving of stories was another gift.

Her writings somehow had a clever way of encompassing both the past and the future.

To offset her busy schedule she loved retreating to the outdoors and connecting with nature. She and her long time partner Mary would take annual camping trips to places like the Gualala river on the Sonoma County coast and other locations in Northern California. She could often be found sitting with a book , wading her feet in the water of a river, saying “This is my favorite thing to do... nothing.”

She also had a deep appreciation for animals from an early age and was preceded by two cats, a swimming cat named Smokey and an acrobatic cat named Harley- who always made her laugh and showed her unconditional love daily She was well cared for over the past two years by the staff at the Fairfield Post Acute Rehab center. She will also be loving remembered by her dear friends Shoshana Proctor, Linda Davis, Jeanie Morrow, Diane Pizza and others. She is survived by her brother and his wife David and Catherine Bohrman, her partner Mary E. Price, her niece Amber Warrington, her nephew Harrison Bohrman, several cousins and their extended family.

Daily Republic file (2009) star-gazer Bob Madsen, 9, right, looks up at the stars while waiting for David allain to adjust his telescope toward the rings of saturn, during a saturday evening star-gazing event at Rush Ranch, May 28, 2009.

Aaron Rosenblatt/Daily Republic solano County sheriff’s Deputy aaron neisingh, front, of the solano County sheriff’s office Honor Guard, leads a 3-Volley salute during the 34th Peace officers Memorial service in downtown Fairfield, Wednesday.

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Original Nautilus crewman speaks at Rowland

VACAVILLE — U.S. Navy veteran Tom Brames will be the guest speaker at the next “Faces of Freedom” speaker series event at the Rowland Freedom Center.

The free event is set for 10 a.m. June 17.

Barnes was an original crew member on the USS Nautilus, the first nuclear submarine for the Navy.

“He will be speaking of his time on the submarine and how the submarine worked,” center General Manager Paul Mirich said in a statement.

The center is at 300 County Airport Road, Suite C-4.

Registration

still open for virtual town hall

FAIRFIELD — The status of the Solano Groundwater Subbasin, the sustainability plan and associated work toward projects and management actions will be discussed at a virtual town hall meeting on June 1.

The “State of the Subbasin” meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m.

To register, go to https://us02web.zoom.us/ webinar/register/WN_cSrq7rHNTQeRPycPxP8s_A#/ registration.

Simultaneous Spanish translation will be provided. For more information, send an email to Guadalupe Garcia at guadalupe@aginnovations.org.

Fairfield police conduct DUI check

FAIRFIELD — On May 19, the Fairfield Police Traffic Unit conducted a DUI/Driver’s License Checkpoint near the intersection of Green Valley and Business Center Drive.

Oath Keepers chief gets 18 years for Jan. 6 plot to attack US Capitol

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WASHINGTON — The leader of the right-wing Oath Keepers group was ordered to serve 18 years in prison for his role in the 2021 attack on the US Capitol and conspiring to use force to keep Donald Trump in power after he lost the 2020 presidential election.

Stewart Rhodes, 58, was sentenced Thursday in Washington by US District Judge Amit Mehta, who ruled the actions of the group leader amounted to terrorism. Rhodes is one of 10 defendants convicted at trial of seditious conspiracy – four more pleaded guilty to that crime – for their actions on Jan. 6, 2021. Among them were other Oath Keepers and leaders of the far-right Proud Boys who have yet to be sentenced.

Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images/TNS file (2022) stewart Rhodes, founder of the oath Keepers, is seen on a screen during a House select Committee hearing to Investigate the January 6th attack on the U.s. Capitol, in the Cannon House office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., June 9, 2022.

to stop a presidential election for the first time.”

Trump workers moved Mar-a-Lago boxes before prosecutors arrived

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Former President Donald Trump’s workers at Mar-a-Lago reportedly moved boxes of classified documents just a day before federal prosecutors came to collect papers pursuant to a subpoena.

The two Trump employees, including longtime valet Walt Nauta, brought boxes of documents to a basement storage room on June 2, just hours before Justice Department officials came to the Florida resort to execute the subpoena, The Washington Post reported Thursday.

The paper also said special counsel Jack Smith has evidence that Trump kept classified materials in open view in his office at Mar-a-Lago and sometimes showed the documents to visitors.

The new report did not say what Trump’s goal might have been in moving documents into the storage room as officials prepared to retrieve classified documents.

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tors to see boxes in the store room but not look inside them.

Whatever the reasons, moving documents after receiving a subpoena would amount to evidence of obstruction of justice.

Showing classified documents to unauthorized third parties as Trump is suspected of doing could violate the Espionage Act and laws covering handling of classified information.

The report also says that Trump workers carried out a so-called “dress rehearsal” for moving classified documents from one place to another at Mar-a-Lago even before the former president was hit in May 2022 with a subpoena to return all of them. Nauta and the other Mar-a-Lago worker have already been questioned by prosecutors, but are apparently not cooperating witnesses for the prosecution.

Other reports say that at least one Trump insider who worked at Mar-a-Lago has flipped

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The prison term imposed by Mehta was the longest handed down so far in the government’s prosecution of more than 1,000 people over the storming of the Capitol, which disrupted the certification of the election of Joe Biden as president. The riot involved assaults on 140 police officers and caused more than $2 million in property damage.

“Seditious conspiracy is among the most serious crimes an individual American can commit,” Mehta said. The attack on the Capitol was “one of the blackest days in the history of our country,” and the motive for Rhodes and others was “you didn’t like the new guy,” the judge said.

Mehta said Rhodes represents an ongoing threat to democracy. The country can’t have a group of citizens “prepared to take arms to foment revolution” because they didn’t like the outcome of the election, he said. “We all now hold our collective breaths every time an election is approaching. Will we have another January 6 again? That remains to be seen.”

Rhodes “clearly had no regrets” about what happened, Mehta said. “He didn’t have any regret of his own people going in” to the Capitol to stop the vote, the judge said. The Oath Keepers leader was responsible for the actions of his co-conspirators because of his position in the group, as well as his words and actions, Mehta said. Federal prosecutors, in court filings, had asked for a 25-year sentence,

arguing the evidence at trial showed Rhodes “used his powers of persuasion and his platform as leader of the Oath Keepers to radicalize” others. “Mr. Rhodes led the conspiracy,” government lawyer Kathryn Rakoczy told the judge at the sentencing hearing. “You can tell by how he acted and talked that he believed he was in charge.” While in custody, Rhodes has continued to advocate for political violence, Rakoczy said. She said a tougher sentence was justified because of the “threat of harm and the historical significance of trying

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Defense lawyers argued for a much lighter sentence, citing Rhodes’ military service and his organization’s involvement in disaster relief efforts. They said Rhodes’ rhetoric didn’t break any laws and was “protected political speech.”

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case that Rhodes and four other defendants coordinated to try to stop Biden from becoming president. Some of the defendants traveled together, stored firearms in a hotel outside of Washington and breached the Capitol building in an organized line, the evidence showed. The government cast Rhodes as the leader of the plot with his talk of civil war after what he viewed to be a fraudulent presidential election and calls for members to use force if Trump didn’t act to stay in power.

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ACRONYMS YOU NEED TO KNOW PG&E: Pacific Gas and Electric Company CPUC: California Public Utilities Commission WHY AM I RECEIVING THIS NOTICE? On May 15, 2023, PG&E filed its Energy Resource Recovery Account (ERRA) Forecast application with the CPUC requesting approval to change rates for the following: • Recovery of $1.8 billion in costs related to fuel needed to produce electricity as well as buying energy from third parties to serve bundled customer loads that are included in ERRA • Setting certain charges for bundled and departing load customers for the recovery of costs of PG&E’s

portfolio that are included in the Power Charge Indifference Adjustment (PCIA), Ongoing Competition Transition Charge (CTC), Cost Allocation Mechanism (CAM) and Public Purpose Program (PPP) rate Certain costs included in this application are associated with renewable resources to further the state’s energy policy goals.

In addition, as part of this application, PG&E customers will also receive the California Climate Credit. The credit will be applied twice a year in April 2024 and October 2024 for residential and small business electric customers and once a year in April 2024 for residential gas customers.

WHY IS PG&E REQUESTING THIS RATE CHANGE?

The ERRA Forecast proceeding is the regulatory process to forecast fuel and purchased power costs, which can be recovered in customer rates. While this may result in a change in rates, PG&E recovers these costs with no markup for return or profit. If the CPUC approves this application, PG&E will recover its costs in electric rates effective January 1, 2024.

PG&E will update its rate proposal later in the year to reflect updated market conditions. Market prices may be higher or lower than at the time the application was filed, which may result in higher or lower rates and bill impacts than those initially presented.

In addition, at the end of the year PG&E will compare actual costs to the revenues forecasted in this application and will apply any differences towards next year’s application.

HOW COULD THIS AFFECT MY MONTHLY ELECTRIC RATES?

Many customers receive bundled electric service from PG&E, meaning they receive electric generation, transmission and distribution services.

The bill for a typical residential customer using 500 kWh per month would decrease from $181.10 to $178.16 or -1.6%.

Direct Access and Community Choice Aggregation customers receive electric transmission and distribution services and select Commission-ordered services from PG&E. On average, rates for services provided by PG&E to these customers would decrease by 5.0% if this application is approved. DA providers and CCAs set their own generation rates. Check with your DA provider or CCA to learn how this would impact your overall bill.

Another category of nonbundled customers is other Departing Load. These customers do not receive electric generation, transmission or distribution services from PG&E. However, these customers are required to pay certain charges by law or CPUC decision. On average, existing Departing Load customers would see a rate increase of 0.5%. Detailed rate information will be sent directly to customers in a bill insert. Actual impacts will vary depending on usage and are subject to CPUC regulatory approval.

HOW DOES THE REST OF THIS PROCESS WORK?

This application will be assigned to a CPUC Administrative Law Judge who will consider proposals and evidence presented during the formal hearing process. The Administrative Law Judge will issue a proposed decision that may adopt PG&E’s application, modify it or deny it. Any CPUC Commissioner may sponsor an alternate decision with a different outcome. The proposed decision, and any alternate decisions, will be discussed and voted upon by the CPUC Commissioners at a public CPUC Voting Meeting.

Parties to the proceeding may review PG&E’s application, including the Public Advocates Office. The Public Advocates Office is an independent consumer advocate within the CPUC that represents customers to obtain the lowest possible rate for service consistent with reliable and safe service levels. For more information about the Public Advocates Office, please call 1-415-703-1584 email PublicAdvocatesOffice@cpuc.ca.gov or visit PublicAdvocates.cpuc.ca.gov

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Please visit apps.cpuc.ca.gov/c/A2305012 to submit a comment about this proceeding on the CPUC Docket Card. Here you can also view documents and other public comments related to this proceeding. Your participation by providing your thoughts on PG&E’s request can help the CPUC make an informed decision.

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CALMATTERS COMMENTARY

Feinstein’s health has Newsom in a political trap of his own making

Whither Dianne Feinstein?

Feinstein, a fixture of California politics for more than a half-century and a U.S. senator for three decades, recently returned to the Capitol after a weeks-long battle with shingles, a very debilitating disease.

One might have thought that her return, after much carping from those on the Democratic Party’s left wing about her absence, would quiet those who wanted her to resign.

However, the critics didn’t miss a beat. They could no longer complain that she was AWOL and thus inhibiting the party’s ability to advance an agenda in the closely divided Senate. But they continued the drumbeat, citing the obvious fact that age (she’s 89) and the lingering effects of shingles have worsened the decline of her cognitive abilities.

Feinstein’s impairment has virtually no effect on the Senate’s operations. As long as she is alive and can an answer the roll call, President Joe Biden and Majority Leader Chuck Schumer can do whatever they would be able to do with any other Democrat occupying one of California’s Senate seats.

The continuing demands for her resignation – which she steadfastly insists will not happen – aren’t really about her cognition, but rather her somewhat centrist position on the ideological scale.

Feinstein has already said she won’t seek another Senate term next year and her successor will be another Democrat, but what kind of Democrat is somewhat uncertain. Three major contenders, all members of Congress, are already campaigning and none has emerged as the clear frontrunner.

The progressive left would prefer Rep. Barbara Lee of Oakland or, perhaps, Rep. Katie Porter of Orange County. Progressives don’t want Rep. Adam Schiff of Los Angeles, who’s had centrist leanings in the past but is now trying, with little apparent success, to rebrand himself as a progressive.

Lee seems to be trailing Porter and Schiff and if it’s a three-way battle, the two women could split the progressive vote and thus give Schiff a better chance of winning. So the progressives want a Feinstein resignation that would, they hope, result in Lee being appointed to the seat by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

That hope hinges on something that Newsom – rather foolishly – said two years ago after appointing Alex Padilla to California’s other Senate seat, replacing Kamala Harris once she became vice president.

Newsom took heat from Black political figures for not naming a Black woman to replace Harris, who identified as Black and South Asian. He attempted to cool off the criticism by naming a Black woman, San Diego Assemblywoman Shirley Weber, as Padilla’s successor as secretary of state. However, as the critics persisted, Newsom pledged on a national television to appoint a Black woman to succeed Feinstein if she resigned.

That pledge – essentially a throwaway line to get off the political hook – could now bite back if, in fact, Feinstein were to resign. Newsom would be pressed to put Lee in the Senate, thus giving her a huge advantage to win a full term next year. He would also be hammered for interfering in the election.

Newsom surely hopes that Feinstein, even impaired, serves out her term. But were she to resign, as those on the left demand, he would face some difficult options. He could appoint Lee, bypass Lee and appoint another Black woman, such as San Francisco Mayor London Breed, who would run for a full term. Or, he could name someone else as a caretaker who would not seek a whole term.

Each option is fraught, given that the campaign to succeed Feinstein is already underway. Newsom is potentially caught in a no-win political trap of his own making. CalMatters is a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s state Capitol works and why it matters. For more stories by Dan Walters, go to Commentary.

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When it comes to influence and social intelligence, there has been no greater damage to the mental health and cognitive development of youths over the past 10 years than social media. Since the powerful emergence and popularity of Facebook, YouTube, Snapchat, Twitter, Instagram and the latest TikTok, we have witnessed a significant deterioration of the overall mental and physical health of youths under the age of 24.

Social media has become an integral part of young people’s lives today. It has made communication, information sharing and building communities instant and readily available at their fingertips. However, with all its benefits, social media also harbors negative effects that can harm young people psychologically, socially, and even physically.

First of all, social media has negatively affected young people’s mental health. It has caused an immense amount of pressure and stress to perform well and look perfect to followers. The constant need for likes and comments has resulted in young people’s self-esteem being tied to their online persona rather than their true selves.

Additionally, cyberbullying has become more prevalent, leading to anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts among young people. A study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health found that young people

THIS YOUTH GENERATION COMMENTARY

Greg Becker had no friends on Capitol Hill last week. The failed chief executive of the former Silicon Valley Bank took a bipartisan battering from the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. And rightly so.

Becker and Signature Bank Chairman Scott Shay, who was also before the committee, should pay for leading their banks into disaster. The fear is that authorities don’t have the powers or the will to impose financial penalties. Where are the clawbacks? It’s a familiar refrain that has failed to become reality.

No one doubts that bad management caused these banks to collapse in March and be rescued by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. There were supervisory failings, without doubt, although I’m deeply skeptical that these were due to San Francisco regulators being obsessed with climate change or diversity and inclusion as several Republican senators claimed.

Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) even offered Becker the chance to deflect some blame in this direction. But Becker responded that more than 95% of his discussions with supervisors related to fundamental banking risks, and he didn’t recall a single direct conversation about climate risks, he said.

Still, the committee judged Becker as somewhere between “bone deep, down to the marrow, stupid,” in the words of Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), and avariciously irresponsible. Senators as disparate as Ohio Republican J.D. Vance and Massachusetts Democrat Elizabeth Warren were outraged at the pay Becker received, the fact he had sold stock just weeks before SVB failed and the way that cash bonuses that were paid out on the very day it collapsed.

Vance joked he’d be willing to screw up a bank for far less money, while Warren demanded both Becker and Shay say whether they intended to hand back any of their awards to the FDIC. Becker said he promised to cooperate with FDIC’s investigations. Shay gave a flat “no.” Becker got $38 million in the past

who spend more time on social media reported more symptoms of anxiety, depression and self-harm. Although this type of social bullying has always been present among school-aged youth, the presence of social media has magnified the problem. As a middle-schooler in the early ’80s you would receive a long list of hatful comments about you in the form of an anonymous group generated legal-sized letter from your schoolmates. It would include a long list of things that was wrong with you or what your peers hated about you. It would be neatly folded and delivered to you at the end of the day.

After the disappointment and embarrassment that you would feel from reading it, you would just destroy the letter and move on. It was over. With today’s version of social bullying through social media, those hurtful comments are shared to everyone forever. Much more damaging.

Social media has also affected the way young people communicate with each other. Online communication is shallow, unlike face-to-face communication, where one can observe facial expressions, tone and body language, making it easier to establish meaningful connections. Social media has also led to the loss of empathy and courtesy.

Young people are not only prone to using abusive language, but they’re also insensitive to other people’s

feelings and opinions, resulting in online arguments and conflicts that can damage their relationships. This has resulted in the decline in young people’s oral and written communication skills.

With the rise of social media, young people spend more time on screens, leading to sedentary lifestyles and less physical activity. This inactivity can lead to multiple chronic diseases such as obesity, heart disease and diabetes. Additionally, social media may influence young people’s eating habits, with advertisements promoting junk food instead of healthy options.

Social media has had a significantly negative effect on young people’s mental, physical and social health. To combat this, youths should be advised to limit their use of social media, such as setting time limits to avoid excessive usage. Parents, educators and youth workers should also inform young people on the negative impact of social media and encourage them to engage in alternative activities such as sports, hobbies or socializing with friends and family in person.

Being mindful of its limitations and conscious of the potential hazards can prove to be vital to minimizing the negative impact social media and can help improve the quality of life for today’s youth generation.

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

four years, nearly $12 million of that in cash, according to SVB’s annual proxy statements. That might not be Goldman Sachs or JPMorgan chief-executive money, but it’s a lot. The Federal Reserve review of SVB’s collapse judged its executive bonuses as encouraging excessive risk-taking to maximize shortterm gains, while not taking account of long-term performance or supervisory issues.

The FDIC does have powers to recoup pay as restitution to its deposit insurance fund, which lost almost $20 billion on SVB and Signature. But the FDIC can demand money only from the past two years, and its chairman Martin Gruenberg told the same committee in another hearing last week it had to find actual misconduct.

Senators are not happy. They are still waiting on substantial clawback rules after two decades. The blowups of Enron and WorldCom led to the first such provisions in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. After the 2008 financial crisis, the Dodd-Frank Act demanded stronger clawback rules and the Securities and Exchange Commission finally completed one last year, although it has yet to go into effect. U.S. and European banks paid billions in fines after 2008, but no executive was forced to return any pay, not even the chief executives of Lehman Brothers or Bear Stearns.

Mostly, companies have been instructed to write their own policies, and these usually require misconduct or actions that result in accounting restatements. They only apply to relatively recent pay and have rarely been effective – although recent years have seen notable exceptions.

Goldman Sachs sought $174 million of clawbacks from current and former executives after it paid a $3 billion settlement in 2020 for its role in the 1MDB Malaysian corruption scandal. Not everyone paid up: Former executive Gary Cohn eventually handed $10 million to charity instead. In 2021, McDonald’s successfully sued its former chief executive Steve Easterbrook for $105 million in cash pay and equity awards after he

was fired for sexual relationships with subordinates.

These remain exceptions. Now more bipartisan initiatives are underway after President Joe Biden in March called on Congress to bolster executive accountability through financial penalties. The leaders of the House Financial Services Committee wrote a joint letter to the FDIC, SEC and Federal Reserve demanding full use of existing authorities and the completion of stronger clawback rules envisaged in Dodd-Frank.

Sen. Warren along with Republican Sen. Josh Hawley (Missouri) and two others have introduced a bipartisan bill, the Failed Bank Executives Clawback Act, which proposes expanding the FDIC’s powers to recover executive pay from the five years before a bank collapsed.

Many people would see the natural justice in such policies. Warren Buffett, the famed investor, recently complained that bank executives faced too few consequences when things go wrong. But that doesn’t make such laws simple. Money that has long been paid has often been spent, including on taxes. There also has to be some way of judging the differences between willful mismanagement, negligence and sheer bad luck – and how each should be punished.

A far better solution would be to make executive pay, especially bonuses, inaccessible for longer periods after an award is granted: Share options should vest later and perhaps shares owned held in trust. Maybe company chiefs shouldn’t be allowed to sell any stock, or exercise options for up to a year after they leave office, as suggested in a 2021 Harvard Business Review article. It is far easier to hold back pay that has not been fully handed over than to chase someone for it after.

Paul J. Davies is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering banking and finance. Previously, he was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times. This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.

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Tom Johnston is dropping off the Doobie Brothers’ ongoing 50th anniversary tour while he addresses a problem with his back.

The stellar guitarist and lead vocalist, who formed the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band in San Jose, California, in 1970, “will be undergoing surgery following severe back pain and will be unable to join the band on the upcoming leg” of the trek, according to a news release. Johnston has reportedly been advised by his physician that he should not be performing.

Although Johnston will be greatly missed by fans during this time away, the band does plan to continue its 50th anniversary tour, beginning Thursday

at the Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Florida, with Pat Simmons, Michael McDonald, John McFee and other musicians.

“I hope for a speedy recovery and can’t wait to get back on the road and continue doing what I love. I would like to thank Pat, Michael, John, and the entire Doobie Brothers band for covering for me while I recover from back surgery … I’m sure they will bring it every night as they always do,” Johnston said in a news release.

The Doobie Brothers’ best-known songs include “Listen to the Music,” “Jesus is Just Alright,” “China Grove,” “Black Water,” “Takin’ It to the Streets,” “What A Fool Believes,” “Long Train Runnin’ ” and “The Doctor.”

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block of PEABODY ROAD

2:59 p.m. — Battery, HARRY PRICE DRIVE

4:21 p.m. — Reckless driver, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE

4:28 p.m. — Forgery, 1700 block of RIVER OAKS CIRCLE

Breeze Event Center. First up, a tug-of-war competition featuring different units at Travis. It wrapped up a series of events that centered on building physical and mental strength.

AIC Matthew Bradfield was one of the participants. His team made a comeback to pull off a hard-fought win. “I had a good time,” he said. “We made a comeback.”

Awards were handed out based on point totals. The other events were dodgeball, kickball, a 5K run and an “Amazing Race”-style event.

There were also cash

awards for ideas on how to make the base an even greater place to call home. The winnings will be given to projects such as establishing lactation pods on the base and appliances for the main gate so those on duty can bring healthy food.

Money was also given to add pickleball courts to the tennis courts.

Salmi reflected on life in 1943, sharing that gas was 19 cents per gallon, a new home cost $3,700 and a family of four could eat out for $2.50. Those prices had increased, he added.

Refueling was only about 20 years old. The first air-to-air refueling took place in 1923.

It was scrapped later that year after the death of a pilot on the refueler aircraft. Six years later

mother, who recently died of breast cancer, should have been standing. Yet, she smiled and waved with dream intact.

Olguin, who was a documented dreamer, said she had lost faith in the American Dream when she was about 15.

the U.S. jumped back into the air refueling game and broke records.

Eight decades of work has made Travis what it is today, Salmi said, noting one of his favorite pictures was the base in its infancy, with a grove of trees, the runway and a few buildings.

Among the many Travis accomplishments in 2022 were delivering 70 million pounds of fuel around the world and transporting 300 patients to life-saving care.

All is done with the support of the community, Salmi said.

Suisun City Mayor Alma Hernandez said Travis supports the communities in many ways. Supporting each other is a win-win that enables both to thrive.

The celebration was planned to kick off the Memorial Day holiday, which remembers those who lost their life defending the country, Lt. Emily Worthy and Master Sgt. Sarah Galati helped organize the event. Both volunteered to help and began planning a few months ago. Both said they had an incredible amount of support from Team Travis. A variety of food trucks, games and music were on hand for the day, giving time for all to partake in the celebration.

“I want people to come out and have an amazing time,” Galati said. “And learn about the base.” A C-5, C-17 and KC-10 flew over during at the end of the recognition ceremony.

remembers her own graduation experiences and what she described as the “right of passage” and “the overwhelming feeling of joy and accomplishment.”

She said it was heightened by the fact the graduation ceremony was once again an in-person affair.

a.m. — Forgery, 1900 block of BRISTOL LANE

a.m. — Grand theft, 2700 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 12:18 p.m. — Reckless driver, AIR BASE PARKWAY 1:08 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, AIR BASE PARKWAY

1:18 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 300 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD

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5:11 p.m. — Sexual assault, 1300 block of HOLIDAY LANE

6:25 p.m. — Vandalism, 3700 block of POPPY HILLS COURT Fairfield police log: May 24, 2023

12:23 a.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, UNION AVENUE

5:16 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 5200 block of QUINN LANE

8 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 500 block of MADISON STREET

9:23 a.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, EMPIRE STREET

9:25 a.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 600 block of JACKSON STREET

9:56 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 1900 block of GRANDE CIRCLE

11:13 a.m. — Battery, 1600 block of WEST TEXAS STREET

11:38 a.m. — Indecent exposure, 1900 block of WEST TEXAS STREET

12:14 p.m. — Shots fired, 3100 block of POTRERO WAY

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2:48 p.m. — Forgery, 1000 block of SCOTT STREET

2:57 p.m. — Fight with a weapon, EAST TABOR AVENUE

3:06 p.m. — Grand theft, 5000 block of PEABODY ROAD

3:19 p.m. — Grand theft, 1300 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD

4:02 p.m. — Trespassing, 800 block of EAST TABOR AVENUE

4:39 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 1300 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD

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MONDAY, MAY 22

3:43 p.m. — Fraud, 1400 block of PELICAN WAY TUESDAY, MAY 23

5:27 a.m. — Assault with a deadly weapon, 700 block of CIVIC CENTER BOULEVARD

10:14 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 300 block of RAILROAD AVENUE

10:52 a.m. — Fraud, 600 block of BARNACLE WAY

a.m. — Indecent exposure, 1700 block of FILLMORE STREET 1:06 a.m. — Trespassing, 2100 block of CADENASSO DRIVE

a.m. — Vehicle theft, 4300

of CENTRAL PLACE 7:24 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 2200 block of CORDELIA ROAD 8:55 a.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 1300 block of OLIVER ROAD

a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 2400 block of CORDELIA ROAD

11:07 a.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 1000 block of OLIVER ROAD

12:28 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 1400 block of WEST TEXAS STREET

2:11 p.m. — Battery, 1600 block of GATEWAY BOULEVARD

2:58 p.m. — Grand theft, 4900

12:05 p.m. — Fraud, 300 block of WALTERS ROAD

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That is when her parents told her they could not afford to send her to college, and when she “felt lost and hopeless.” So she left the states, only to return and find her way to the Solano College campus.

She told her fellow graduates, sitting in white folding chairs on the green football field, to find a purpose in life, but always to be guided by their own values.

“Seek relationships and you will find support; seek constructive conversations and you will find solutions,” Olguin said.

She also told them that she was only at the halfway mark of her journey to becoming an engineer, and despite the lack of uniformity and consistency in the world, there is a path to success.

Deandre Geddis thought the path for him tracked from Vallejo High School to Las Vegas, Nevada, and a career in real estate. But the Covid-19 pandemic hit, and his path diverted.

“I was bored, and so I said I might as well get my degree,” said Geddis, who now owns an associate’s degree in Liberal Studies with a goal of finishing his bachelor’s in child development at San Francisco State University.

Despite already starting classes

for him as he now works in retail and plans to return to school.

On the 25th of every month, Vickie Francom wears a white T-shirt with Pearl’s picture and the saying “Bring Home Pearl Pinson.”

“I look for her everywhere I go,” Francom said. “I would know her.” She made the banner that hung on the crosswalk and maintains constant contact with Pinson Rodriguez. “Rose and I are like family,” Francom said. Francom also carries a file of stories and photos of Pearl and a petition to name the overcrossing

at San Francisco State, and working at Green Valley Middle School, he came back to be part of the graduation ceremony. “The experience was good,” he said of his time at Solano. “Everyone was very helpful and motivating.”

He believes he is the first person in his family to graduate from college at any level.

The pandemic also changed Alicia Burton’s course in life. The mother of three was working for the Postal Service, and has now earned three associate’s degrees in Social Work, Human Services and Liberal Studies.

“Next stop, Sac State,” the Suisun City resident said, where she will study Social Work with the goal of opening her own youth services agency in Solano County.

“I love to help people. I want to give back to the community and to the youth,” Burton said.

Lisa Neely, vice president of Student Services at Solano College,

Pearl Pinson Walkway. Two of Pearl’s friends, one making the trip from San Diego, attended.

Ashley Molina hopes to become a certified nursing assistant. “I think of her daily,” she said of her longtime friend.

Melina Caprio still lives in Vallejo and works in Fairfield. Caprio is focusing on early childhood education. “I miss her smart mouth. She always had a comeback or a joke. She made you feel good about yourself.”

Pinson Rodriguez has led the fight to get answers about her sister for the past seven years. She is now the mother of an almost-3-year-old son, a son whose father was shot and killed in Vallejo in October 2020. No arrests have been made in that case. Last year, their

“I have decided to retire to spend more time with the grandkids,” she said. “But I will come back to help next year.”

That excitement was certainly felt by the 25 high school students, who, through the Early College Program at Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District, were handed their college diplomas weeks before they would get their high school credentials.

Another 25 graduates walked away with bachelor’s degrees in Bio-Manufacturing.

David Williams, vice president of Academic Affairs, also noted that the youngest graduate was 16 and the oldest was 70. The average age was 25.

And while graduates from the Fairfield zip code of 94533 outnumbered all the rest, there were graduates from Arizona, Nevada, Texas, Ohio, Wyoming and two from Africa.

The degrees and certificates handed out Thursday came from 100 different departments.

Professor Joshua Scott, the Academic Senate president, said in his speech that the faculty was humbled by the trust families bestowed on them to teach their children, and buoyed by what the graduates did with that trust.

“You have persevered through what no other generation has done,” Scott said about the Covid-19 pandemic adding to the stresses of school and work and home life –and by the uncertainty and chaos of an embattled country.

“Today I feel optimism about the future,” Scott said.

may have had a hard time telling them apart.

Mullet’s lead singer, Dana Caydor, said the lead singer of the Journey’s Edge is out sick in the hospital with strep throat, so she’s filling in.

“I sing with the band. I am just covering for him tonight,” she said.

Mullet focuses on ’80s style of music.

Karen Juilfs is the general chair of Vacaville Fiesta Days and has been keeping it going for 30 years. She said she is really excited for her final year and hopes everyone has a great time.

There are 27 vendors this year and some new things for the children to do.

“We have Derby Car Races with 100 people signed up,” Juilfs said.

Everything has not all been rosy though, in March she wasn’t sure if they would even have Fiesta Days this year because financially they were not in a good place.

The organization created a GoFundMe drive hoping that they would get some support from the community. Juilfs said she was overwhelmed by the responses, as the community stepped up and

mother died, not knowing her daughter’s fate.

“It’s always been hard for me,” said William Pinson, Pearl’s younger brother, who is now 21. He was just shy of his 15th birthday when Pearl was kidnapped. He, too,

helped out with whatever they could give.

“And we raised enough money to go forward,” Juilfs said. “We came out of Covid and it was a tough two years for us. I am so appreciative of all the support we have gotten.”

They managed to get more than $3,000 with the help of the community.

The children’s fun continues with Dilly Dally the Clown. The event also features a revamped Kids Zone with new activities, including a place to create Spin-a-Hat, which is something like tie-dye shirts, only it’s art on a hat.

Jessica Grech has been helping out with the fourday event since she was in high school more than 15 years ago. She, along with Ralph Berumen, are

seeks answers. Anyone with information is encouraged to call the Solano County Sheriff’s Office at 707-784-7000. Follow the fight to bring Pearl home at https:// www.facebook.com/ groups/609286249234813.

among the last original members of the Vacaville Fiesta Days organizers. Grech remembers taking her husband to their first Fiesta Days.

“The ‘Whiskerino’ jail and beard-growing contest is my favorite part of the event,” she said. “It gets people up who normally wouldn’t get involved in something. I got my husband to do it and he still talks about it to this day.”

“This is a tradition for me. I came here with my girlfriends in high school. I came with my husband, and I will continue to come each year because I like seeing the new faces and the old ones.”

For a full look at the events go to www.vacaville fiestadays.org.

Pinson Rodriguez, center, is hugged by her

William Pinson, left, while their father James Pinson stands on the right.

Aaron Rosenblatt/Daily Republic Alyssa Goldstein, center, waves to friends and family during the Solano College graduation ceremony at Solano Community College in Fairfield, Thursday.

Yellowstone euthanizes baby bison after man interferes with it

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Yellowstone National Park staff had to euthanize a newborn bison calf after a park visitor tried to help the struggling animal near a riverbank but caused the herd to reject it, officials said.

After being abandoned, the calf had to be put down because it posed a danger by approaching cars and people on the roadways, the National Park Service said in a statement Tuesday.

“Approaching wild animals can drastically affect their well-being and, in this case, their survival,” the Park Service said.

According to the Park Service, the calf became separated from its mother when the herd crossed the Lamar River near the confluence of Soda Butte Creek.

A park visitor “intentionally disturbed the calf” by pushing it from the river and onto the roadway, the Park Service said. The incident happened Saturday evening and is under investigation, officials said.

Visitors later observed the calf walk up to and follow cars and people, which can be hazardous both for animals and humans.

“Interference by people can cause wildlife to reject their offspring,” the Park Service said. “In this case, park rangers tried repeatedly to reunite the calf with the herd. These efforts failed.”

On Facebook, the Park Service said that the calf had to be euthanized rather than sent to a sanctuary because it is illegal to remove bison from the park unless they are being sent to a meat processing or scientific research facility. There is

Chief

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Defense attorneys argued that there was no evidence or testimony showing a plan to storm the Capitol or disrupt the electoral count and that prosecutors cherrypicked inflammatory statements. On the stand, Rhodes claimed that he was uninvolved in stockpiling weapons in Virginia and called some of the members “stupid” for entering the Capitol.

“The government wants you to sentence Rhodes out of fear,” one of his lawyers, Phillip Linder, told the judge. “They want to make

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on Trump and is working with prosecutors but it’s not known who that is or how senior a figure they might be.

After the June 3 visit by prosecutors, federal

Supreme Court limits EPA protection for wetlands

Rules for property rights over clean water

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday limited federal protection for millions of acres of wetlands, ruling for property rights over clean water.

a quarantine facility for sick bison to be tested for brucellosis, an infectious disease, or to be used to start conservation herds elsewhere if they test negative for the disease.

“However, the use of quarantine for a newborn calf that’s abandoned and unable to care for itself is not a good candidate for quarantine,” the Park Service wrote. “Situations like this one are challenging, but they also offer a space for all of us to engage in deeper conversations about the meaning of wild places.”

According to park regulations, visitors must remain at least 25 yards away from all wildlife, including bison, elk and deer, and at least 100 yards away from bears and wolves. Violators can be fined and risk being injured or killed by the wildlife, the Park Service said.

Officials are seeking help in identifying the man who moved the calf, described as being in his 40s or 50s, wearing a blue shirt and black pants, and asked anyone who may have information to contact the park tip line at 307-344-2132 or email YELL_Tip@nps.gov.

A similar incident happened at Yellowstone in 2016, when two tourists put a baby bison in their car’s trunk because they thought it looked cold and drove it to a ranger station. The calf was deserted by its herd and had to be euthanized.

Yellowstone is the only place in the United States where bison have lived continuously since prehistoric times, according to the National Park Service. Their population ranges from 2,300 to 5,500, depending on their breeding schedules.

Rhodes the face of J6. Rhodes did not cause the events of J6. If you want to put a face on J6, you put it on Trump, right wing media, politicians. Rhodes was just one of the participants. He didn’t create it.”

‘Political

Prisoner’

Before he was sentenced, Rhodes told the judge he considered himself a “political prisoner” who was prosecuted even though he never set foot inside the Capitol on Jan. 6 and was just exercising his free-speech rights. He also said the Oath Keepers were not a violent group.

“I believe this country is incredibly divided” and

officials believed Trump had not returned all of the classified documents as required by the subpoena.

A federal judge granted a search warrant and FBI agents found more than 100 additional documents in the storage room and elsewhere at Mar-a-Lago.

The report comes as the grand jury hearing evidence in the documents

In a 5-4 decision, the justices said the Clean Water Act does not forbid discharges of pollutants into marshy areas or dry creek beds because water does not flow directly from them into a river, lake or bay. The decision will allow the development of those areas without federal review.

The court ruled for a couple who were blocked from building a home on a soggy vacant lot next to scenic Priest Lake in Idaho.

“We hold that the CWA extends to only those ‘wetlands with a continuous surface connection to bodies that are waters of the United States in their own right,’ so that they are ‘indistinguishable’ from those waters,” said Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. for the conservative majority.

That definition leaves out many wetlands, and its effect could be greatest in the West and other areas where streams are dry for part of the year.

Justices Brett M. Kavanaugh, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented and said Congress intended to protect more wetlands from development, including marshy areas that are near rivers or streams but are not directly connected to them.

The decision in Sackett vs. EPA is a victory for landowners and developers and a defeat for environmentalists.

Sam Sankar, vice president of programs at Earthjustice, denounced the decision. It “undoes a half-century of progress generated by the Clean Water Act. Almost 90 million acres of formerly protected wetlands now face an existential threat from polluters and developers, “ he said. “This decision is the culmination of industry’s decades-long push to get conservative courts to do what Congress refused to do.”

West Virginia Atty.

Gen. Patrick Morrisey welcomed the ruling. “We now have a clearer definition for Waters of the United States, and we’re

the prosecution of the Jan. 6 cases “is making it even worse,” Rhodes said. “I would consider every J6er a political prisoner. It is going to make people feel that this government is even more illegitimate than it was before.”

Rhodes added that however long he spends behind bars, his goal will be “to expose the criminality of this regime.”

“We don’t think he is a threat to society and certainly he has a right to free speech,” Ed Tarpley, one of Rhodes’ attorneys, said to reporters outside of the courthouse. The defense team said they plan to appeal.

Rhodes was convicted in November, after the

case has not met in three weeks, its longest break since Smith took over the probe last year.

Several published reports say Smith is in the final stages of the documents case and is expected to decide whether to charge Trump within a matter of a few weeks at the longest. Trump’s lawyers sent

pleased the Supreme Court ruled in a way that state lands and waters are less subject to the whims of unelected bureaucrats,” he said. “Today is a big day for farmers, homebuilders, contractors, property owners and those who care about economic activity not being subject to overreach by the federal government.”

All nine justices agreed the Idaho couple’s vacant lot was not a protected wetland, but they disagreed on how to define that term.

Alito, joined by four conservatives, adopted a view espoused by the late Justice Antonin Scalia that the federal law protected only connected bodies of waters, not adjacent wetlands.

But Kavanaugh and the court’s three liberals said that Congress and the court had taken the view for decades that wetlands that were adjacent to rivers or bays were protected.

Thursday’s decision effectively overturns a moderate position set by Justice Anthony M. Kennedy in 2006. He said the law should protect marshy areas or dry creek beds that can sometimes send water flowing into a river or bay. He rejected Scalia’s view that the EPA could protect only continuously flowing bodies of water.

But with the addition of Justices Neil M. Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett, the court has adopted Scalia’s view and cast aside Kennedy’s view.

Thursday’s ruling limiting the EPA does not prevent states like California from protecting wetlands. But developers, home builders and farmers

first of two seditious conspiracy trials against fellow Oath Keepers. Six were found guilty of the charge – which means they plotted to stop the transfer of presidential power with a use of force intended to oppose the authority of the US government. The rare seditious conspiracy charge was the most serious crime alleged by the government in its expansion investiga tion into the Capitol riot. Earlier this month, former Proud Boys chairman Henry “Enrique” Tarrio and three other members were also convicted on the charge. A jury also found Rhodes guilty of obstruction of an official

an angry letter demanding a meeting with Attorney General Merrick Garland to try to derail the probe, a sign that they believe a decision is near.

Smith is separately investigating Trump’s effort to overturn his loss in the 2020 election, which culminated in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

have argued that they should not be prevented from using land that includes marsh areas.

The Clean Water Act was adopted in 1972 to prevent pollution from being discharged into the “navigable waters” of the United States, but ever since, there has been disagreement over the extent of federal authority.

Because water flows downhill, environmental regulators said they needed broad authority to prevent discharges into small streams or wetlands that drain into waterways. The prohibited pollutants included gravel and sand, which cannot be dumped into wetlands without a permit from the Army Corps of Engineers or the EPA.

But property rights advocates argued the EPA had exceeded its authority. They said overzealous federal agents were preventing property owners from making use of their land.

The ruling marked the second victory in the high court for the Idaho couple, Michael and Chantell Sackett.

In 2004 they bought a lot that sat about 300 feet from the lake. Near the back of the property were wetlands that drained into the lake, and part of their lot was marshy. The couple had done excavation work in the past, and they dumped gravel and sand in a soggy part of the lot as a first step toward building a home.

Their real estate broker had warned them that the lot contained wetlands, and in 2007, an official from the EPA told them they needed a permit before they could develop the lot

proceeding and tampering with documents. The case is US v. Rhodes, 22-cr-00015, US District Court, District of Columbia (Washington).

to build a home.

The Pacific Legal Foundation took up their case and won a unanimous Supreme Court ruling in 2012 that allowed them to challenge the wetlands designation in court before undertaking the costly process of obtaining a permit.

In their second challenge, a federal judge in Idaho and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled against the couple, and held their soggy lot was a protected wetland.

Appealing to the Supreme Court, attorney Damien Schiff said “the Sacketts’ property contains no stream, river, lake, or similar water body,” and their “ordeal is emblematic of all that has gone wrong with implementation of the Clean Water Act.”

In defense of the EPA, Justice Department lawyers said “wetlands such as swamps, bogs, marshes and fens ... play a critical role in regulating water quality. They provide flood control and trap and filter sediment and other pollutants that would otherwise be carried into downstream waters.”

Hellen Jack/National Park Service

The National Park service said this unidentified visitor at Yellowstone National Park tried to help a baby bison reunite with its herd, May 20, leading to the young bison being euthanized.

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Kendall-Frost Mission Bay Marsh Reserve in San Diego.

Vacaville softball ready to play for section title B3 Friday,

Bullpen delivers as Giants blank Brewers

evan WeBeck

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MILWAUKEE — The Giants said they planned to quickly flush their stinker of a series finale in Minnesota, and they kept their word Thursday, earning a 5-0 win in their first of four games against the Brewers.

Winning for the eighth time in their past 10 games, it should come as no surprise that the bullpen played a major part. Wait, you say, that

bullpen, the one that was third-worst in the majors over the first month of the season and had blown 12 leads this season? The Giants looked to them to take down a full game for the second time this week and, continuing a string of strong performance, did it immaculately.

Even the best bullpen games can resemble a puzzle missing some of its pieces, but the Giants (25-25) put together a stained glass masterpiece to even their record back

to .500. Manager Gabe Kapler mixed and matched six arms, who combined to blank the Brewers for nine innings – San Francisco’s fourth shutout of the season.

Scott Alexander opened with a 1-2-3 first, and Giants pitchers retired the first 11 batters they faced, surrendering only four hits the rest of the way. With 13 strikeouts, their pitching staff recorded double-digit strikeouts for the 20th time this season.

Michael Conforto con-

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tinued his hot hitting with a mammoth home run that nearly hit the SUV on display on the concourse in right-center field – his team-leading 11th of the season and his seventh since May 10, a span of 14 games, averaging one every other day – and reached base in all of his other three at-bats, even adding his second steal of the season.

LaMonte Wade Jr. also swiped a bag, after delivering the Giants the first run of the game

On The Fast Track: Rodriguez star Gianni Miles is ready to race state’s best sprinters in 100 meters

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FAIRFIELD — Rodriguez High School senior

Gianni Miles even considers his achievements on the track the last few weeks “kind of crazy.”

Miles will be running Friday night in the preliminaries of the 100 meters at the CIF State Track and Field Championships in Clovis after weeks of steady improvement. What makes the results “crazy” is the fact that two years ago he hadn’t even given track a second thought. Miles was a basketball player. A very good one at that. He was a

first-team all-Monticello Empire League selection that helped the Mustangs made a playoff run.

In no time, he became a two-sport star.

“I’ve only been running for two years,” he said. “I had a really close friend that was running track in high school that encouraged me to go out.”

Miles will be running in the third of four heats beginning at 7:30 p.m. Friday night at Buchanan High School. The time of 10.54 seconds that he ran last week to second place at the Sac-Joaquin Section Masters is the 10th fastest seeded time among all competitors. A continued dip in his time could earn

a spot in the blocks for the finals Saturday night.

“He’s doing a phenomenal job,” Rodriguez track coach Curtis Reed said. “Everything is starting to click. He’s gone from 10.8 to 10.71 to 10.61 to 10.54. The more competition, the better he does. The speed has always been there. He’s been more focused on the technical stuff and it has been a tremendous difference. I think he can make the finals.”

Southern Section champion Rodrick Pleasant, a senior at Serra, has the top 100-meter time going in at 10.14. Pleasant is a football standout at cornerback and com-

with an RBI single in the fifth. The Giants’ pair of rookies padded the lead in the eighth after Conforto’s home run, with Casey Schmitt doubling home two runs and Patrick Bailey trading places with him.

The bullpen was the biggest source of the Giants’ troubles as they sank as many as six games under .500. Suddenly, it appears to be among the majors’ best.

Over this 10-game stretch, Giants relievers (including Alexander’s

“start” Thursday) have posted the best ERA of any group in the majors (0.92) and, after fanning 13 more Brewers batters, also lead the majors in strikeouts (64) taken down the second-most innings of any group in the majors (49) while posting the best ERA (0.92). Alexander turned in his sixth consecutive scoreless appearance, matching Camilo Doval for the highest usage over the past 10 games.

McCaffrey could propel any of 49ers

three QBs

Jerry McDonalD

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SANTA CLARA —

Organized team activities are mostly manufactured drama and the 49ers are no different.

Will Brock Purdy be ready for Week 1?

Can Trey Lance show enough to challenge Purdy until he’s ready?

Is Sam Darnold a darkhorse candidate to start Sept. 10 in Pittsburgh?

One thing was clear as the media got its first look Tuesday on Day 2 of OTAs – none of those quarterbacks are going anywhere near the 49ers’ desired destination without Christian McCaffrey.

Jennings worked with trainers on the sidelines.

Yet there was McCaffrey, looking spry and explosive, whether taking handoffs in the non-contact drills or running pass routes. He was decisive, explosive and decidedly the most eye-popping skill position player on the field.

And no one was a close second. He was that good. Having seen players such as Darren McFadden with the Raiders dominate in nonpadded workouts before, it’s a major reach to attach too much significance to OTAs.

mitted to the University of Oregon. The talent in the field is deep.

“I really want to go out there and compete and try to win the race,” Miles said. “If I don’t come out on top, I’ll be happy to be able to compete with the greatest sprinters in the state.”

Miles finished second to only Ian Dossman of Franklin-Elk Grove (10.47) last week at Davis High. Miles’ previous best was the 10.61 that he posted one day earlier, during the preliminary round.

“The middle of the race was the best part for me,”

Vanden’s Chavez takes aim at becoming a 400-meter finalist after stellar season

M att Miller

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FAIRFIELD —

Whether running with a football under his arm and tacklers in pursuit, or sprinting alone on the track, Vanden High School junior Brayden Chavez has been a step ahead of the competition this season.

Chavez had a stellar season as the Vikings’ top possession receiver. And the season of success continued on the track where he evolved into one of the fastest 400-meter runners in the state.

Chavez will be competing in the second of three preliminary races in the 400 at 7:05 p.m. Friday

four other runners in the state come in with a faster time than the 47.80 he clocked Saturday.

“I think he can finish in the top six,” Vanden head track coach Larry Hogue said. “He’s had the mindset all season of wanting to get back to state. He’s done a great job all season.”

Chavez was able to win comfortably Saturday over Pitman senior Joey Stout (48.27) and Whitney senior John Dailey (48.52). The faster field at state could push him to an even faster time.

“I feel like I competed well,” Chavez said. “It was my PR (personal

Lots of players sat out, which is typical of voluntary OTAs. Nick Bosa, Deebo Samuel, Trent Williams and Javon Hargrave weren’t there. Fred Warner and Dre Greenlaw contributed with encouragement from the sideline. Cornerback Charvarius Ward and wide receiver Jauan

Yet it’s clear that if the 49ers want to make it to the Super Bowl and win regardless of who emerges as the quarterback, McCaffrey will supply the jet stream.

The 49ers limited media contact to their there quarterbacks Tuesday, not that McCaffrey would have had a lot to say other than the usual.

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Can Ranadivé bring Coyotes to Sacramento?

chris BiDerM an THE SACRAMENTO BEE

SACRAMENTO —

The Arizona Coyotes are a team in crisis – and there’s speculation Sacramento could be an eventual option for the embattled National Hockey League club.

The Coyotes earlier this month had a public referendum on a proposed new arena in the Tempe, Arizona area voted down, which has led to talk the team might relocate in the coming years. And with Sacramento Kings owner Vivek Ranadivé recently showing interest in purchasing the Ottawa Senators, dots have been connected to a scenario in which the Coyotes could call California’s capital city home.

However, there have been no concrete ties to the Coyotes and Ranadivé or the city of Sacramento beyond

speculation. The team is under contract to play in Mullett Arena on the Arizona State campus, which seats roughly 5,000, through the 2023-24 season. The future beyond that is unknown.

The Coyotes previously played at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona, about 17 miles northwest of downtown Phoenix, but the team operated at an annual loss of $20 million to $30 million, according to GoPHNX.com.

There is still hope of a new arena deal in the team’s current market. Salt Lake City, Houston and Sacramento have been mentioned as potential options for relocation. There has also been speculation Mat Ishbia, who completed a purchase of the Phoenix Suns this spring, could acquire the team and

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Ian Dossman of Franklin-Elk Grove, second from left, wins the 100 meter race in the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Masters track finals at Davis High School on Saturday. Gianni Miles of Rodriguez, far right, finishes second.

Aaron Rosenblatt/Daily Republic file Vanden’s Brayden Chavez (10) excelled on the football field and in track and field this year. He will be running in the 400 meters at the state meet in Clovis.

See Miles, Page B10

CALENDAR

Friday’s TV sports

Baseball

MLB

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

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

Golf

• Senior PGA Championship, GOLF, 10 a.m.

• PGA, Charles Schwab Challenge, GOLF, 1 p.m.

• LPGA, Bank of Hope Match Play, GOLF, 4 p.m.

Motorsports

• F-1, Monaco Grand Prix, Practice, ESPN2, 4:25 a.m.

• F-1, Monaco Grand Prix, Practice, ESPN2, 7:55 a.m.

• NASCAR Trucks, North Carolina 200, FS1, 10:30 a.m.

• NASCAR Xfinity, Alsco 300, Qualifying, ESPN2, 1 p.m.

• ARCA Racing, Charlotte, FS1, 3 p.m.

• NASCAR Trucks, North Carolina 200, FS1, 5:30 p.m.

softball College

• Super Regionals, Stanford vs. Duke, ESPN2, 9 a.m.

• Super Regionals, Oklahoma State vs. Oregon, ESPN2, 3 p.m.

• Super Regionals, Florida State vs. Georgia, ESPN2, 5 p.m.

• Super Regionals, Louisiana vs. Washington, ESPN2, 7 p.m.

Saturday’s TV sports

Baseball

MLB

• Houston vs. Oakland, NBCSCA, 1:07 p.m.

• Philadelphia vs. Atlanta, FS1, 1:10 p.m.

• San Francisco vs. Milwaukee, NBCSBA, 1:10 p.m.

Basketball NBA playoffs

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

Football

UsFL

• Pittsburgh vs. Philadelphia, FS1, 6 p.m.

Golf

• PGA, Charles Schwab Challenge, GOLF, 10 a.m.

• Senior PGA Championship, 3, 10:30 a.m.

• PGA, Charles Schwab Challenge, 5, 13, Noon.

• LPGA, Bank of Hope Match Play, 2:30 p.m.

Hockey NHL playoffs

• West Finals, Dallas vs. Vegas, 7, 10, 5 p.m., if necessary.

Lacrosse College

• Men’s Semifinal, ESPN2,

Vacaville softball ready to take on Whitney for D-2 section title

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VACAVILLE — The Vacaville High School softball team hasn't lost since its season opener and has no intention of doing so now.

Vacaville takes on Whitney at 1 p.m. for the Sac-Joaquin Section Division II title at Sacramento State.

The Bulldogs have four Division I titles (1988, 2003, 2005, 2014) and one in Division II (2019) in their rich history.

Destinee Santistevan's team has been an unstoppable force. The Bulldogs have a team batting average of .384 with 24 home runs, and also a standout pitcher in ace Xochitl Atayde.

The Monticello Empire League Pitcher of the Year has a 17-1 overall average with a 1.25 ERA, and 213 strikeouts to only 17 walks. Outfielder Ashlyn Wilson, catcher Hayden Kyne and first baseman Makayla Freshour were all firstteam, all-MEL selections. Shortstop Laila Dean, second baseman Jordan Munn and third baseman Aubrie Gibson were named honorable mention.

Vacaville went 15-0 during the MEL season and has won 29 straight games to carry a 29-1 record into the title game. The Bulldogs are the top seed in Division II and ranked 22nd in California by MaxPreps.com.

Fourteen times this season the

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team has scored more than 10 runs in a game. All three playoff games have been won by shutout (Atwater 8-0, Cordova 2-0 and St. Francis 11-0). Whitney, the No. 2 seed, promises to be a tough challenge. The Wildcats have a .314 team batting average with 21 home runs. Whitney also has an ace in Hannah Duncan, who is 7-0 with a 1.70 ERA and 167 strikeouts. The last title for Whitney came in 2019 in Division II.

"I've told the girls the games are going to get harder and harder," said Santistevan, the MEL Coach of the Year. "We had actually been in a slump. We had been grinding away at the end of the season."

Top finishers announced for 'FSUSD Runs This!' event

FAIRFIELD — Fairfield-Suisun

Unified School District hosted the “FSUSD Runs This!” community fun run on Saturday, May 13.

The free event allowed individuals of all ages and abilities to participate in a 1 Mile or 5K run or walk, emphasizing the importance of physical activity, community connections, and more fit youth.

The event was held at Crescent Elementary School and 366 participants turn out from the local community and schools. Partic-

ipants had the option of an untimed mile run or walk on campus ,or a timed 5K (3.1 miles) encompassing the school grounds and city paths. The 5K race incorporated

Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) chip timing to ensure accurate results.

The winners were as follows:

Mile – Top Finishers:

1st Place, Griffin Doty, 6th grade, Green Valley

2nd Place, Xandiron Hazard, 5th grade, ,Nelda Mundy

3rd Place, Hannah Doty, 8th grade, Green Valley

5K – Top Finishers:

1st Place, Jeffrey Hazard, 8th grade, B Gale Wilson (17 minutes, 15 seconds)

2nd Place, Favian Villa, 10th grade, Public Safety Academy (19:21).

3rd Place, Vince Sturgis, teacher, Crystal middle school (20:11).

1st Place (girls), Tatiana Sanchez, 5th grade, Sullivan Language Academy (22:27).

2nd Place, Hannah Doty, 8th grade, Green Valley (24:39).

3rd Place (girls), Myisha Johnson, 9th grade, Fairfield High (26:35).

“We were thrilled at the number of community members who joined us for ‘FSUSD Runs This!’” stated Superintendent Kris Corey in a press release. “This event exemplifies our belief that physical activity can bring people together, foster unity, and build community.”

Manfred: Vegas relocation vote for A’s could come in just weeks

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MILWAUKEE — A vote to approve the Oakland Athletics’ possible move to Las Vegas by Major League Baseball owners could be just weeks away, commissioner Rob Manfred said Thursday.

“It’s possible that a relocation vote could happen as early as June,” Manfred said at Milwaukee’s American Family Field before the Brewers’ game against the Giants. “It’s really now a question of getting a finalized financing package that would allow them to build on that site. It’s very difficult to have a timeline for Oakland until there’s actually a deal to be considered.”

The Charles Schwab Challenge winner earns a unique prize

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The winner of the Charles Schwab Challenge receives a $1.566 million check, a big trophy and 500 points toward their season’s FedEx Cup total.

Ordinary stuff for a PGA tournament winner.

But what’s unusual is the special prize given to the winner annually at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth: A classic car that’s been specially restored to commemorate the tournament and its sponsor. This year’s winner will receive a 1973 Schwab Bronco.

This tradition began when Charles Schwab became the primary tournament sponsor in 2019. The company leaders wanted to add the company’s imprint and flair to the historic tournament.

“We wanted to give them [tournament winners] something memorable that money can’t buy,” said Mason Reed.

Reed, the Managing Director of Acquisition and Corporate Marketing for Charles Schwab, said the decision was in part due to company research that indicated that collecting classic cars was a popular hobby

of golf fans.

This year’s car will be the fourth since the new tradition was established.

The first car was a 1973 Schwab Challenger awarded to Kevin Na, the second a 1946 Schwab Power Wagon awarded to Jason Kokrak and the third was a 1979 Schwab Firebird awarded to last year’s winner Sam Burns.

The cars have been popular among the winners.

Kokrak told Golfweek the 1946 Power Wagon in his Christmas cards the following year and said he drives the car regularly.

The 1973 Schwab Bronco was restored by Classic Ford Broncos which operates out of Columbus, Ohio.

Why was the Bronco selected?

“We’re originally a West Coast company with current headquarters in Westlake, Texas, and so on some level it felt like it was the right mix of our original roots and our current headquarters,” said Reed.

The 1973 model was selected because that was the year Charles Schwab was founded. The car’s exterior is painted Schwab blue and has the Bronco logo.

The owners will meet from June 13-15 in New York, and while there remain steps to be taken, Manfred said he was “optimistic” about the A’s finalizing a public-financing deal with Nevada lawmakers that would pave the way for the move. On Wednesday, Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo announced a tentative agreement with the club, however it must still be approved by state legislators, whose session ends June 5 and won’t reconvene until 2025.

Getting MLB owners to vote on relocation in three weeks marks a significant change in timeline in the A’s potential path out of Oakland. A month ago, A’s team president David Kaval told LVSportsBiz. com he hoped to apply to MLB as early as August, but that was at least two

stadium plans ago. The A’s need approval from 75 percent of the league, or 23 yes votes. The A’s have come to agreements on multiple potential sites for a new stadium in the past month, first on a 49-acre parcel north of the Raiders’ new home and, this week, one on the strip, on the Tropicana Las Vegas property. Per Casey Pratt of ABC7, team officials toured a third site even after announcing the binding agreement with Bally’s Corporation, the owner of the Tropicana.

Manfred said the A’s were “pretty settled” on the Tropicana site, but the relocation vote was still contingent on the approval of the public financing and the A’s completing the required steps in MLB’s internal relocation process, which includes studies on fan interest, possible corporate sponsorships and more, which the commissioner said A’s owner John Fisher“(has)

Celtics dominate Heat in Game 5 blowout win

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BOSTON — The Celtics still have plenty of work to do, and their next test will be their toughest yet on the road. But a season on the edge of disaster has been boosted by some hope –and now, Boston fans can seriously start dreaming of making history.

The 3-pointers continued to fall as the Celtics dominated the Heat 110-97 in Game 5 on Thursday at TD Garden. Boston is still one loss away from elimination, but they’re now down 3-2 in the East

Finals after winning the last two games. No NBA team has ever come back from a 3-0 series deficit like the Celtics were, but Boston’s season is still alive and heading back to Miami. Game 6 is at 8:30 p.m. Saturday.

It was all Celtics right from tipoff, using an 11-1 run to create separation. The 3-pointers – which dried up from Games 1-3 –have continued to go down in droves for the Celtics. They made eight of their first 13 attempts to build up an impressive lead.

not even started.”

Under the latest collective bargaining agreement, if the A’s don’t have “a binding deal” for a ballpark in place by January 15, 2024, they will no longer be eligible for revenue-sharing funds. They are receiving $20 million this season.

The other MLB owners would eventually get a vote in the A’s relocation; the last team to move, the Montreal Expos received the approval of all but one owner, the Orioles’ Peter Angelos, who would become neighbors with the now-Washington Nationals.

Manfred said he was in Milwaukee “as part of an ongoing process to meet with players” and that he met with representatives from the Giants and Brewers (though in the words of one San Francisco player who has spoken with him in the past but didn’t participate Wednesday, “nothing productive ever comes of it”).

Ostensibly, however, Manfred’s presence regarded the nearly half-a-billion dollars in maintenance costs the league said this week is required of American Family Field, which has been home to the Brewers since it opened in 2001. While addressing the resistance to pouring more public money into the 22-year-old facility, the commissioner struck a notably different tone than with the A’s.

Manfred said “there is not a scenario in my mind at the current moment” that the Brewers could leave Milwaukee while calling the situation here “the antithesis of what has happened in Oakland, and I’m going to do everything in my power to make sure it stays that way.”

Of the Coliseum, which was built in 1966 and has been the A’s home since 1968, Manfred said, “unfortunately, it’s a facility that was never as good as this one when it started. They made some unfortunate decisions not to maintain the ballpark in the way that it needed to be maintained. It resulted in a decline in the attendance, which had an impact on the quality of product the team could afford to put on the field.”

As for the A’s future in the East Bay?

“Well,” Manfred said, “I think you’d have to ask the mayor of Oakland (Sheng Thao) … You know, I don’t have a crystal ball as to where anything’s going. There’s not a definitive deal done in Las Vegas.”

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Major League Baseball commissioner rob Manfred speaks during a news conference at Globe Life Field in Arlington, texas, Dec. 2, 2021.

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Snubbed by my former pastor after revealing bisexuality

Dear Annie: I’m potentially facing an aggressive and lethal type of cancer (esophageal), for which I’m being biopsied next week. I’ve known about this for just a few weeks. My former pastor and his wife were my friends, though there’s been a noticeable distance in the last year. They helped me through my ex-hubby’s death, as I’d been caregiving for him for years and sharing a home. Then they helped my close friend while she was dying of cancer.

Despite the year of much less contact, I still felt bonded to them and reached out to the pastor to help me with my illness and possible death. I wrote this plea for help on Facebook Messenger, and you can see when a person views a message. He saw it. He chose not to respond, which stunned and hurt me. I just wanted someone who knew me to be there for spiritual guidance in this most challenging time.

I racked my brain for why he and his wife have been distant when we had been tight. The wife was friends with me on Facebook, and I thought about what posts I made that they might take offense to. Then it hit me like a ton of bricks! The timeline of single-word responses from her to none at all was directly aligned with my coming out of

the closet as a bisexual woman after hiding it until I was 56. While I see why a conservative pastor might have an issue with my sexuality, my heart can’t understand how they could’ve liked me a lot before this announcement and then dropped me like a hot rock after, particularly in a situation like this. I confronted the pastor about this revelation, and he didn’t refute it. I’m angry that our congenial relationship has dissolved because I’m finally true to myself. I don’t have time left to harbor resentment, but it’s challenging! I don’t want to be a hater, and I suppose that will keep me from acting like they are. I’m wondering if I should write them a letter to recount the blessings they bestowed on me when we were friends and let them know how painful it was to then be snubbed by them at my time of need, or just let it go. Now that I know they are so narrow-minded, I know I’m not missing anything by their absence. — Flummoxed by the Leader of the Flock

Dear Flummoxed: I deeply admire your resilience, positive attitude and ability to see what’s most important in this situation: your personal peace. Your Facebook message already fell upon deaf ears, and especially now that you know why, I vote you just let it go. Focus on yourself and

Horoscopes by Holiday Mathis

ARIES (March 21-April 19).

You’re in the process of picking up a skill that will improve your professional picture and personal life at the same time. Keep at it even when it seems like you’re not quite catching on. You’ll soon hit your groove.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20).

If everyone was paying attention to the same thing, you wouldn’t have so many versions of the story to contend with. But there’s a gift for you in these varied points of view. Listen to as many versions of the story as possible.

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empowered to make the change you wish for. Your domestic realm gets makeover energy. You’ll develop your talent through

your health. Lean on those in your circle who know, love and accept all of you. You said it best yourself; while it’s no doubt disappointing to learn why your former friends have turned their backs on you, you can feel confident knowing you’re not losing out from their lack of presence in your life.

Dear Annie: You gave a nice answer to “Undecided,” the woman who did not know what to study in college. I’m a professional astronomer, which is also a tough field to work in as a professional. After teaching college for 18 years, I would add a little bit to your answer if it comes up again.

Yes, follow your passion. If you do, your life won’t be “work”; it will be fun, stimulating and fulfilling. But it’s always good to have a backup plan in case things don’t work for one reason or another. That’s why universities offer minors and double majors. I strongly encourage students to follow their passions but also to have something else in hand just in case things don’t work out. Keep up the good work! — Astronomy Prof

Dear Astronomy Prof: Lovely advice! I heard from many readers encouraging “Undecided” to follow her dreams, but you’re right that it is wise to be ready for any outcome. Hope for the best; prepare for the worst.

of adulthood, whereas actual adulting encompasses mostly unglamorous tasks – and enacting restraint from acting on irresponsible or immature impulses.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21). Though people certainly have joyful interactions with you, you cannot make people happy without their consent. All the other emotions are the same way. You’ll do your best knowing you are not solely responsible for the feelings of others.

Crossword by Phillip Alder

Bridge

the two have to work together. If one fails to pedal correctly, their tandem bicycle crashes.

Defending against five spades, West led the club two: three, jack, queen. Declarer tried the spade queen, but West won with the ace and switched to the heart queen. Gratefully, declarer won with the ace, drew the last trump and claimed, conceding a trick to East’s diamond ace. How do you assess the blame for the defenders’ failure to defeat the contract?

GEMINI (May 21-June 21).

People will be fascinated by your many interests, but only if you are strategic in the way you bring them up. Were you to present them all at once, people would be overwhelmed and unsure where to start with you. Focus on one theme.

CANCER (June 22-July 22).

Those who seek to control you are acting out of fear. They’re afraid the universe is not on their side. They’re insecure about their abilities and position. Align yourself with kindred spirits who, like you, live and let live.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22).

You know what you’ve accomplished, but they don’t. You’ll have much more satisfying interactions when everyone involved understands who you are. You’ll figure out a cool and indirect way to reveal

your story.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).

As social creatures, it can be second nature to pay lip service to the values we believe we should have without examining our own unique take. Fulfillment may be attained in the pursuit of values independent of your social affiliations.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).

Adventure starts with a need. Your resources may seem limited, but if they weren’t you wouldn’t be inspired to go on a discovery mission. Put the word out about what you’re doing, and you’ll attract those with a shared interest.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).

Children pretending to be grown up tend to focus on the more glamorous aspects

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19). Your level of success is something only you can determine because a universal definition doesn’t exist. As long as you get to make the rules about this, why not slant them in your favor? You perform better when you feel successful.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18). Some people seem to constantly be having the hardest day of their lives, and others wouldn’t complain if they had the trials of Job. You’ll use your excellent sense about people to give proper credence to their statements.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). This is a day to go slow and take a wait-and-see approach. Jumping to conclusions will create mix-ups and mistakes. The first answer that pops to mind is likely to be incorrect.

TWO COOKS STIR

THE POT

Homer claimed, “Light is the task when many share the toil.” However, he was unaware of Alder’s Law of Cliches: “For every statement, there is an equal and opposite restatement.” In this case, we have the antithetical “Too many cooks spoil the broth.” In a bridge deal, there are two defenders. Occasionally one must plan the defense on his own, but more often

The bidding was tricky. West was right to show his second suit over two spades. This made it easy for East, who knew about the double fit, to go to the five-level. To defeat five hearts, the defenders must organize a diamond ruff, which is difficult to do. North understandably sacrificed in five spades.

The culprit was East. The club-two lead must be a singleton. So East’s priority, as his play is irrelevant in the club suit, is to make a suit-preference signal. At trick one, East should play the club four, telling West that he, East, holds a diamond honor, not a top heart.

West will switch to a diamond at trick three to get his ruff, and the defenders finish with a plus score. Then, as Elbert Hubbard wrote, “Two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.”

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Sudoku by Wayne Gould

2023

5/26/23

projects. More highlights: Relationships honor you in your most preferred ways. You’ll often sense what people need to hear and will express it beautifully. Leo and Aquarius adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 10, 3, 40, 18 and 30. TWO COOKS STIR THE POT Homer claimed, “Light is the task when many share the toil.” However, he was unaware of Alder’s Law of Cliches: “For every statement, there is an equal and opposite restatement.” In this case, we have the antithetical “Too many cooks spoil the broth.” In a bridge deal, there are two Bridge Here’s how to work it: WORD SLEUTH ANSWER

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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Dear Annie

she sang it, trying to warn everybody about what was coming before flipping wigs all over again.

Turner, who died Wednesday at age 83, lived a life that defied expectation. She made it through a hardscrabble childhood in rural Tennessee to become a dynamo of ’60s R&B in a duo with Ike, whose horrific abuse she survived to reinvent herself as one of the biggest solo acts of the ’80s; she toured the world until she was almost 70, then retired in 2009 without going back on it like virtually every other pop star in history.

Her story is one of resilience, no doubt – “Basically, the message is determination,” she told the L.A. Times in 1996 –yet she wasn’t defined by what she’d endured; instead, she found new ways to thrive.

As she put it night after night in that borrowed song

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Here’s

Crossword

about rolling on the river: “I never lost one minute of sleeping worrying about the way that things might have been.”

Born Anna Mae Bullock and raised in tiny Nutbush, Tennessee, Turner made her name – the one Ike gave her without asking – as the electrifying star attraction of her and her husband’s revue. Her first single as lead vocalist, 1960’s

“A Fool in Love,” is staggeringly raw: She growls, howls and grunts over a rollicking groove that bounces and thumps like a hand-me-down coach rattling toward the next gig. The voice is powerful but haunted by the knowledge that behind Turner looms her tormentor. Listen to the couple’s

“It’s Gonna Work Out Fine,” a No. 2 R&B and top 20 pop hit

in 1961, in which she refers to Ike as “thriller,” only to have him correct her: “The killer, honey.”

The vision was Ike’s but the emotional energy derived from Tina – one reason producer Phil Spector (who abused his wife Ronnie Spector much the way Ike did Tina) sought to cut Ike out of the recording of “River Deep – Mountain High,” the quasi-operatic 1966 single that showed a more melodic side of her singing and helped endear Turner to a generation of white British rockers including the Rolling Stones, who promptly took Ike and Tina on the road.

The cross-pollination proved a win-win: Mick Jagger learned

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Word Sleuth

P.G. WODEHOUSE, AUTHOR WITHOUT EQUAL

One of my regrets is that I never met P.G. Wodehouse (pronounced “Woodhouse”). You will either absolutely love his style or quickly put the book down and move on. I wish I could have discussed two types of techniques and tricks with him.

Occasionally he would bring bridge into his delightful stories. My favorite Wodehouse character is Psmith (the ‘p’

think his favorite bridge deal would involve deception, so he would have enjoyed being South on today’s deal. To test yourself, cover the East-West cards and plan your play in three no-trump against a low club lead.

Let Psmith describe the play: “I couldn’t win nine tricks without playing on diamonds, but that involved losing the lead twice. If I won the first trick with the knave (jack) of clubs, surely even Comrade Bickersdyke, who happened to be West, would see the futility in continuing that suit. And if he switched to spades, I would be knee-deep in the bouillon.

“This hand required subterfuge. I called for dummy’s knave of clubs but then played the king from my hand. When I led a diamond, Comrade Bickersdyke was sure I had ace-king doubleton of clubs. He continued with a low club, allowing me to win a third club trick with the nine. Comrade Bickersdyke spluttered; I smiled sweetly at him. “I led another diamond and claimed 10 tricks.”

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Sudoku by Wayne Gould

Bridge

5/27/23

P.G. WODEHOUSE, AUTHOR WITHOUT EQUAL

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

One of my regrets is that I never met P.G. Wodehouse (pronounced “Woodhouse”). You will either absolutely love his style or quickly put the book down and move on. I wish I could have discussed two types of techniques and tricks with him.

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Yesterday’s solution:

Tina Turner, a rock star for the ages, shouldn’t be defined just by what she endured

Gie Knaeps/DAPR via ZUMA Press file (1985) Tina Turner performs in Belgium in 1985. Turner died Wednesday at age 83.

to dance, more or less, by observing the fullbody physicality of Turner’s movement, while Tina got access to a trove of rock tunes –the Stones’ “Honky Tonk Women” and the Beatles’ “Come Together” among them – that she’d go on happily to make her own. In 1973, she wrote a great one herself: “Nutbush City Limits,” a stomping and funky soulrock jam about her rural upbringing.

Turner left Ike three years later but not without the name she’d turned into a brand. “I felt I had earned it,” she told Spin magazine in 1990. “That name Tina opened doors. That name went my on driver’s license and passport. That was my heritage from all the money that was taken away from me.”

The beginning of her solo career was bumpy; she made records with unclear ideas about where she wanted to fit into the world. But to see Tina Turner in person was still to be wowed by her live-wire intensity. Watch Rod Stewart, another of her admirers, bring her out by surprise to do “Hot Legs” on “Saturday Night Live” in 1981. He’s wearing a shiny pink suit, yet she’s the one you can’t keep your eyes off.

Teamed with a new manager, Roger Davies, Turner found her lane at age 45 with 1984’s “Private Dancer,” which set her gritty vocals against gleaming electropop arrangements. That’s not to say the songs were fluff: In the title track, written by Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits, a sex worker describes the numbing monotony of her job; “What’s Love Got to Do with It,” a Grammy winner for both record and song of the year, wonders, “Who needs a heart when a heart can be broken?”

Yet the fortitude in Turner’s singing – the sense that here was a woman who’d chosen to look at hard things because she knew was capable of it – made a commercial smash of the album, which sold 5 million copies in the U.S. alone and established Turner’s lion’s-mane hairdo as one of the iconic looks of the 1980s.

If you haven’t seen it in a while, revisit the music video for “What’s Love Got to Do With It”;

the extreme close-ups feel almost radical in how unflinching they are, as though she’s daring us to hold her gaze.

That comfort onscreen led to a star acting turn in 1985’s “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome,” and the hit records continued for the rest of the ‘80s. “I’m just using my female attraction on a typical male,” she sang, hilariously, over a thwacking Phil Collins drum beat in “Typical Male”; “The Best” followed a few years later, its inspirational message already destined for countless sports-highlight reels (though, as usual, Turner cut the song’s optimism with a cold splash of reality: “Tear us apart/ Baby, I would rather be dead”).

She spent the final decades of her career as a top-grossing live act, thrilling audiences with the routines she’d long since perfected and scooping up lifetime-achievement awards including a Kennedy Center Honor and an induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Her dramatic life story became fodder for, among other things, a biopic starring Angela Bassett, a Broadway stage musical and an HBO documentary for which she was interviewed in Switzerland, where she moved in 1995.

Who might we say has carried on Turner’s musical legacy? Certainly Beyoncé, who’s further explored the indelible ties between singing and dancing and who posted a note to Turner on her website in which she said she was “so grateful for your inspiration and all the ways you have paved the way.”

Among the other celebrity testimonials that surfaced Wednesday was one from former President Barack Obama, who said Turner was “unapologetically herself – speaking and singing her truth through joy and pain; triumph and tragedy.”

You could hear that commitment to the truth in the work of Amy Winehouse; you could hear the conversation between rock and soul in Janet Jackson’s music from the late ’80s. But it’s easy to wonder whether Turner’s precise type of pop stardom may have died with her. These days rawness and finesse seem to exist at opposite ends of a

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McCaffrey’s focus on football is so intense Lance invoked the most fanatical of all 49ers when it comes to preparation of body, mind and soul.

“Some people call him like a little Bosa, just the way he’s so meticulous with his routine and how he takes care of his body,” Lance said.

The 49ers were a good team when McCaffrey arrived via trade Oct. 20 from the Carolina Panthers. He was an additional piece added to a good-but-not-great offense that had Deebo Samuel, George Kittle and Jimmy Garoppolo.

Hard to believe there were critics who thought the 49ers gave up too much with second, third-, fourthand fifth-round picks to get him. As good as McCaffrey was – he rushed for 746 yards and caught 52 passes for 464 yards in 11 games – they’ll need even more from him in 2023.

McCaffrey is the centerpiece of the 49ers’ offense, a rarity for a running back in a quarterback-driven league. He’s their Steph Curry, capable of the longdistance strike and also making everyone around him better.

Tennessee relies on Derrick Henry as a runner from scrimmage when healthy. But no player in the league can duplicate what McCaffrey does as a scrimmage runner combined with receiving skills, whether it’s out of the backfield or split wide.

David Shaw, his coach at Stanford, insisted in all seriousness last season in a conversation that if the 49ers had him return punts, McCaffrey would be the best in the NFL – and it would happen immediately.

That’s the kind of reaction that comes from coaching a player who uses every practice rep as another opportunity to dominate.

After McCaffrey excelled in a no-pads prac-

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best) and fastest time by almost a full second. But I still think I have room for improvement. I really haven’t had that extra push all season.”

Los Angeles Section champion Dijon Stanley of Granada Hills has the fastest time in the 400 coming in at 46.17. Stanley is also a football standout and running back commit to the University of Utah. He rushed for 2,756 yards and 33 touchdowns and was the Los Angeles Times Player

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Miles said. “My start out of the blocks wasn’t as good as usual but it was good enough that I was able to make up ground. I couldn’t even tell you what it is. I just think when I run a race with people that are faster than me my competitive nature and focus kicks in.”

Last year he reached the Division III meet on raw

tice Tuesday as if he had three steps on everyone whether it be run or pass, Darnold, a teammate in Carolina, offered a shrug.

It’s well documented that McCaffrey was almost raised from the womb to be a football player by his father Ed McCaffrey and mother Lisa. Darnold heard all about it, saw it first-hand and is seeing it again.

So seeing McCaffrey treat an OTA practice as if it were the lead-up to the Super Bowl came as no great surprise.

“I’m used to it,” Darnold said. “It really stems from meeting his dad, his mom, growing up and being raised that way. I think guys respond to that really well and it kind of pushes the guys around him.”

Coach Kyle Shanahan was reluctant to throw bouquets McCaffrey’s way given the solid attendance at OTAs, but he’s a firm believer that practice is important. He and McCaffrey are kindred spirits in that regard, and the 49ers will only benefit from one of their stars setting a torrid pace even if it’s late May.

“I think it’s really hard to practice football compared to other sports,” Shanahan said. “We have a lot of rules that don’t allow you to practice football, so it’s very good if guys can prepare to practice so they have a chance to get better.”

From the moment he arrived, McCaffrey had his teammates wide-eyed with his desire to get better and enhance the 49ers’ offense.

“He sets the standard,” Lance said. “He’s quickly grown into a great leader in our locker room and I think a lot of guys had a feeling that would happen pretty quickly just based on who he is – just how he is, how he carries himself.”

McCaffrey is coming off his first healthy season since 2019. If he can hold up reasonably well, gaining 1,000 yards rushing and 1,000 yards receiving is a likely result and any one of the three QBs could end up going along for the ride to the Super Bowl.

of the Year.

Chavez caught 35 passes for 565 yards on the football field as the Vikings reached the Northern California championship. His track focus has been on getting that return trip to state. As a sophomore, he finished second to last during the preliminary rounds.

“All season, my goal has been to get back there,” he said. “I’ve wanted to get back and compete on that second day. The 400 has been my race since I was in the sixth grade. I feel confident running it have love running the curves. It takes a lot of strength and endurance.”

talent before the season came to a close. This year he has been able to take it to another level, so much so that he has not only earned a date with the fastest runners in California, he has earned a scholarship to run the next four years at William Jessup University in Rocklin.

It is “crazy.”

“I knew I’ve always been fast,” Miles said. “I just didn’t know I was this fast.”

Philly’s global brand, Mitchell & Ness, nearly went bankrupt

M att Breen THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER PHILADELPHIA —

The second and third floors of the old building near 13th and Walnut Streets held the world’s largest collection of backdated periodicals, making it an ideal place to pass some time. Bookcases lined the floor and the stacks of old magazines nearly touched the ceilings. Sports Illustrated, Life, Look, The Sporting News, Time, and even Playboy. David Bagelman’s collection had them all.

For Peter Capolino, the stacks provided the perfect hiding spot 40 years ago when the creditors arrived downstairs at his nearly bankrupt sporting goods store. Capolino took over Mitchell & Ness from his father in 1975. By 1983, it was drowning in debt.

He let go of all but two employees, downsized to a storefront below Bagelman’s Reedmor Books, and tried to steady the ship. Capolino did not want Mitchell & Ness to close as the company – now an iconic sports brand worth nearly $250 million – had a history in Philadelphia and gave his father, Sisto, a place to live when he was an orphan after immigrating from Italy.

So when the bankers came looking for their money, Capolino went upstairs.

“I would go up and breeze through those magazines,” said Capolino, 78. “They would just tell the creditors ‘He’s not here. We’ll have him call you back.’”

How it started Mitchell & Ness

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sold in February 2022 for $215 million as the company is the king of throwback sports apparel. It sells jerseys of every player from Babe Ruth to LeBron James and is licensed by every major sports league. But it didn’t always sell throwbacks.

The company formed in 1904 when Pete Mitchell and Charles Ness joined together to open a store in Center City that specialized in tennis and golf equipment. Mitchell strung tennis rackets while Ness made golf clubs.

That same year, Sisto Capolino was born in a coastal Italian fishing village named Formia between Rome and Naples. In 1917, Capolino left on a boat with his parents to flee from a cholera epidemic that was ravaging the country. His mother died on the ship and his father died shortly after arriving in Philadelphia.

Capolino didn’t speak much English, but Mitchell and Ness hired him to sweep their shop. He was soon living in an apartment upstairs and managing the store after earning his high

have it play at the Suns downtown arena, the Footprint Center. Ranadivé’s Kings, of course, are coming off one of their most successful seasons in two decades after reaching the playoffs and hosting their first-ever postseason games at Golden 1 Center in downtown

Sacramento.

school diploma at night. In 1952, Capolino purchased the store.

The company sold everything from vaulting poles and skis to hockey sticks and table tennis paddles. Mitchell & Ness outfitted the Phillies, Athletics and even the schools in the Inter-Ac League. It was the first Philadelphia store to sell Adidas, and Phil Knight – who founded Nike – used to call the shop when he was selling for another shoe company.

Mitchell & Ness never handled the 76ers or Warriors, but it supplied everything for the Eagles –from their helmets to their shoes – from 1933 to 1963.

“I helped put on the face masks before the 1960 championship game,” said Capolino, who was 15 years old when the Eagles topped Vince Lombardi’s Packers at Franklin Field.

Birth of throwbacks

Capolino – who went to Susquehanna University after graduating from Yeadon High School in Delaware County – took over the company in 1975 when his father had cancer. No longer outfit-

The arena first opened in 2016 and has been discussed as a possible option for a hockey team, though the arena was built for basketball and doesn’t have a big enough lower bowl to seamlessly hold a regulation hockey rink without obstructed views.

The New York Islanders tried something similar with Barclay’s Center in Brooklyn when they signed a 25-year lease to play in the basket-

ting the pros, Mitchell & Ness struggled to find its footing in a changing industry. That’s why the creditors were downstairs and the stacks seemed to be closing in.

“I got us into high-volume, low-profit margin business,” Capolino said. “I went to college and studied philosophy and sociology because I never expected to work for my father. Here I am, I have no idea what I’m doing. I’m buying all this stuff, borrowing all this money at the prime rate, selling stuff at an almost lower profit margin than the interest he was paying to the bank. It all caught up to me.”

Capolino didn’t know what the future of Mitchell & Ness looked like, but he knew he had to keep the business churning. And then a man walked into the store in 1984 with two old baseball jerseys. He asked Capolino if he could repair them.

The tops – one from the Pittsburgh Pirates and another from the St. Louis Browns – were made of wool and Capolino knew of a mill on North Broad Street that had thousands of yards of extra fabric. Yes, he could do it. The customer told him to be careful with the jerseys as they were worth a lot of money.

“I said, ‘Really?’” Capolino said.

That’s when an idea –the one that could save the business that provided his father with a life in Philadelphia – was born. Capolino asked the customer if he could make six replicas of his jerseys. He would give one to him for free and sell five. The guy did not mind.

ball-specific arena in 2012, but they eventually sold to a new owner who built a $1.3 billion hockey arena, which opened in 2021 near the race track at Belmont Park.

There is a belief the Sacramento region could support an NHL franchise given the Kings’ success and the growing popularity of the Sacramento Republic FC soccer team, but there are no indications that will happen any time soon.

Shae Hammond/The Mercury News//TNS san Francisco 49ers' Christian McCaffery (23) runs with the ball during a practice session at the practice facility at Levi's stadium in santa Clara, tuesday.

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peter Capolino, founder of Mitchell & Ness, talks about a Mickey Mantle replica jersey at his home in philadelphia.