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RIO VISTA — The Rio Vista High faculty, donning black robes, on Friday led the 92 white-robed Class of 2023 graduates down into Rams Country one last time.
For some, the football stadium is where their favorite memories were created, whether they were athletes or team supporters in the stands.
Andy Freyre, 17, spent four years at Rio Vista High. He wore a graduation sash that signified that he was a student-athlete who met high standards in both arenas.
As a midfielder on the Rio Vista soccer team, he helped lead the Rams to the second round of the playoffs his senior year, and will next look to the labor trades for life after school.
“I want to be an electrician,” Freyre said.
Victoria Turk, retiring after 14 years as the Rio Vista High principal, said each student has his or her own story.
“This class were freshmen when we went out,” Turk said about the Covid-19 pandemic shutdown.
“They are all very excited; they have a lot of plans,” she said.
Genia Miguel called the 110th Rio Vista High commencement the end of a long journey for her daughter, and only child, Tessa.
“It’s had its ups and downs, but we made it,” said Miguel, her last phrase echoed by several of the speakers.
“(Covid) took a really hard toll, but the kids got back to school and made it through,” said Miguel, adding her daughter will be studying nursing with the goal of becoming a doctor some day.
The graduating class included two exchange students, Austrian
Lea William, and Alberto Rizzo, from Italy.
Each remarked that the uncertainty of starting the year as a stranger to a new school, to a new town, to a new country, is similar to the unknowns the graduates face moving forward.
Victor Reyes, the valedictorian, called that unknown “endless possibilities.”
He talked about how the teachers were the driving force that pushed the students in their academic pursuits, but it was friends and family who gave them the strength to see it through. He also said it is not enough to succeed on a personal level, but also to help lift others up.
Genesis Zepeda, the salutatorian, said that is is applause-worthy to have reached graduation, but now “the bubble has popped.”
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FAIRFIELD — The Vanden High School Class of 2023 are all on the way to next stage of their lives. On Saturday, the graduating class took to the George A. Gammon field in a sea of green and gold for one final high school milestone.
The band played the students in with traditional Pomp and Circumstance, followed by the Vanden High School JROTC presenting colors.
The principal greeted parents and students with a hardy thanks to all the staff, parents and families that helped make the day possible for the graduates.
“You began your freshman year with enthusiasm,” said Principal Kristin Shields. “The next year flashed by and then it was a lot of confusion.”
But by the senior year they were ready to make up for the strangeness of the previous three years.
“You were all creative and driven to squeeze in all the things you could,” she said.
The 138 members of the graduating senior class took their senior year and made it their own with win after win in everything from sports to academics and even cheer.
“You had more dances, more senior cut days, more of everything,” Shields said. “It was my honor to be your principal through all of it.”
The Senior Class President, Natalyce Zehms, noted that they all made
the best they could out of the time they were given.
The five valedictorians Jay Crisostomo,
President Joe Biden signed legislation averting a U.S. debt default, sidestepping a catastrophic blow to the economy with a bipartisan victory that defied Washington expectations.
The measure brokered with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy limits federal spending for two years and suspends the debt ceiling through the 2024 election. It cleared the House and Senate by wide margins, cementing Biden’s reputation as a pragmatic dealmaker as he prepares to intensify his reelection run.
Biden signed the bill behind closed doors without a ceremony. A White House statement Saturday announcing the signing thanked congressional leaders, including McCarthy and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, “for their partnership.”
The president touted the accord Friday
evening in his first Oval Office address as a prime example of his ability to work across the aisle, even with the nation deeply divided.
“The only way American democracy can function is through compromise and consensus, and that’s what I worked to do as your president,” he said, adding that in times when “the American economy and the world economy is at risk of collapsing, there is no other way.”
The Senate passed the legislation late Thursday, a day after the House approved it. Lawmakers faced a Monday deadline to avoid triggering a first-ever U.S. payments default.
The possibility of a recession caused by a default posed one of the biggest threats to Biden’s chances of winning a second term. The 80-yearold president, who has faced questions about his age and fitness for office,
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MARE ISLAND — Eden Padron came out for the first time to the Pista Sa Nayon event on Saturday. She and her family were looking forward to celebrating the Filipino Independence Day with some art and good food.
“Pista sa Nayon” is a Filipino phrase translated to mean “town festival.” It was a huge town festival at Mare Island on Saturday, celebrating the Spanish surrender and the Declaration of Independence by Emilio Aguinaldo on June 12, 1898, which has become the Philippine Independence Day.
And Mare Island is where history was made when the U.S. Naval ships
left in 1898 to fight in the Battle of Manila Bay on May 1, 1898.
This led to end of the conflict with Spain. For the last 37 years, the event has been held at the Vallejo waterfront to celebrate the Filipino culture across the water, but this year it moved to Mare Island.
For organizer Jen Morjica the day was about celebrating Independence, much like the American tradition of marking independence on the Fourth of July.
“It is more than that, I think; this is a tradition and the elders know that they are handing this knowledge and hard work to another
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Emily Raines and her boyfriend, Daniel Shifflett, were still in vacation mode on their flight home from Fort Lauderdale to Baltimore, when they heard an urgent voice on the plane’s loudspeaker system.
A passenger was having a medical emergency, a flight attendant on Southwest Flight 553 said, and any medical professionals onboard were asked to come to the front of the aircraft immediately.
“We just kind of looked at each other,” said Shifflett, 28.
Raines and Shifflett –both of whom are licensed nurses – sprung out of their seats.
“I could hear the panic in the flight attendant’s voice,” recalled Raines, 31, who was seated near the back of the plane. Right away, she said, she knew “this is going to be serious.”
A flight attendant led the couple – who met in 2018 when they were both working as nurses at Sheppard Pratt, a psychiatric hospital in Towson, Md. – to a man slumped over in his seat.
The man’s face was blueish-purple, Shifflett said, and he didn’t have a pulse. They were about halfway through the nearly three-hour flight when the man fell unconscious.
“A flight attendant was trying to do compressions, but the guy was on his chair,” said Shifflett, who worked as a nurse for five years before transitioning to a career in finance in 2021. “You need to be on a flat surface. Otherwise, the compressions aren’t going to do anything.”
Right away, the couple carried the man – whose full name they did not disclose to protect his privacy – to the ground and began doing chest compressions.
The space they had to work in was tight.
“It was difficult to do, because we were in the middle of a plane aisle, which is very thin,” Shifflett said.
Initially, “when I gave him a rescue breath, I could see that his chest wasn’t rising,” Raines said, explaining that his airway was blocked.
Fortunately, there was some medical equipment on board – including an oropharyngeal airway, a device used to open a patient’s airway. Surrounding passengers helped sift through and organize the equipment to support the rescue effort.
“There were a few people that were definitely trying to help,” Shifflett said.
In addition to an oro-
Kindergarten in 2027 will be dramatically different than it was for me.
Technology will be different. Students won’t take naps on towels brought from home nor eating graham crackers. The academic standards will surely be higher than in Mrs. Sherman’s class at South Bay Elementary School.
But the biggest difference?
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pharyngeal airway, Raines used an other medical device called bag valve mask, which provides positive pressure ventilation to a patient who is not breathing properly. Shifflett continued doing chest compressions.
“It was very overwhelming,” said Raines, who is an acute care nurse at Greater Baltimore Medical Center (GBMC) and has been a nurse for 10 years.
Shifflett felt overwhelmed, too, but “I was very confident that we would be able to give the best care possible in that situation,” he said.
After about 15 minutes, Raines said, “we were able to get his heartbeat back,” just as the plane was about to make an emergency landing in Raleigh, N.C.
“He was awake when we got there,” Raines added.
Seeing his eyes open “was amazing,” Raines said. The man – who she described as middle-aged –was immediately taken to a nearby hospital by emergency personnel.
“Not a lot of times when you give CPR or have situations like this do patients truly make it,” she said. “It doesn’t happen often.”
Her boyfriend agreed.
“Thank goodness this worked,” Shifflett remembered thinking as the man regained consciousness.
The couple - who were on their way home from a four-day cruise in the Bahamas – said they had tried changing their flight twice that day, but it was too expensive to switch. They were hoping to catch an earlier flight, as they had gotten off the cruise ship around 9 a.m., and their flight wasn’t until 4:20 p.m. In hindsight, though, they said they’re relieved they remained on
their original flight.
“I’m not sure what would have happened,” Raines said.
Since the flight on May 1, Raines and Shifflett have stayed in touch with the man and his family. His wife sent a thank you message with an update one week after the emergency.
“We are still not completely sure what happened,” the wife wrote in a text message, explaining that “he didn’t have a heart attack” and that it was probably “due to low oxygen levels.”
“I cannot possibly thank you enough for saving [his] life,” she added. “There are no words.”
“He’s at home now and he’s doing well,” Raines said, adding that the man’s wife contacted them a few days ago, telling the couple to expect a box of homemade cookies in the mail shortly.
Neither Raines nor Shifflett had previously dealt with an in-flight emergency. The first thing they did when they got home was call their families to fill them in.
They also told their colleagues what happened.
“We are so proud of Emily and her quick response during this emergency, and we are glad to hear the gentleman is now doing well,” said Angie Feurer, the chief nursing officer at GBMC HealthCare.
The couple said the ordeal made them even more appreciative of their medical backgrounds - and each other.
“It’s not every day that these things happen,” Raines said. “I’m really glad we were able to be there to help.”
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Brad Stanhope Like I was sayin’No Susans. No Karens. No Donnas or Todds or Carls.
The names that crowded my childhood classroom lists – and likely crowded yours – are no longer in use. There aren’t any 5-year-olds named Cindy or Glenn.
The list of the most popular baby names in 2022, published by the Social Security Administration, provided plenty of fodder for those of us who like to make fun of modern names: Asher is the 19th-most popular boys name? Maverick is 40th? Luna is 10th and Mila 19th among girls?
We scoff because we know no one with those names. And it’s true, because the names of our childhood – the Donalds and Rogers and Pamelas and Brendas – have disappeared. Almost literally, because the SSA also publishes the most popular names by decade.
In the 1960s – the decade in which Michael Jordan, Tom Cruise, Barak Obama, Jennifer Lopez and I were born – the top girls name was Lisa.
By 2022, Lisa had fallen to No. 933 on the list of the top 1,000 girls names. That was better than the aforementioned Susan, Karen and Donna – all top-10 names in the 1960s that didn’t even make the top 1,000 in 2022. Other top 100 girls names of the 1960s that fell entirely out of the top 1,000 by 2022 are Pamela, Lori, Brenda, Diane, Carol, Cindy, Janet, Carolyn, Connie, Judy, Beverly
Boys names similarly dropped, but not to the dramatic extent (I only count Todd, Carl and Glenn in the top 100 of the 1960s that weren’t in the top 1,000 in 2022). Still, these names were top-100 in the 1960s and ranked below No. 500 in 2022: Donald, Gary, Keith, Larry, Dennis, Roger, Wayne and Harold.
What does it mean, other than that times changes and various things influence naming patterns? Karen is now shorthand for a complaining baby boomer; Donald was the name of a notso-beloved president; Roger sounds like a 60-year-old guy.
Here’s the takeaway: Modern names are pretty cool (my granddaughters’ names ranked eighth, 137th and 235th in 2022, so I like them) and reflect modern tastes. In six decades, we’ll have a bunch of senior citizens named Maverick and Grayson and Kai and Aria, Nova (including my great-niece!) and Willow. Alas, I won’t be here to marvel at that fact.
But here’s a tip if you’re expecting a child or will have a child in the next decade. If you want to be “different,” don’t name your child Liam or Olivia (the top names in 2022).
Go back to the old-school favorite that will come back over time. Consider naming your child Nancy (26th in the 1960s, 997th in 2022), Linda (seventh in the 1960s, 807th in 2022), Larry (35th in the 1960s, 889th in 2022) or even Bradley (72nd in the 1960s, 349th in 2022).
If you want a classic name for your child, try Wayne or Brenda. If you pick Luna or Asher, your child will be just another in a series of kids with that name.
Reach Brad Stanhope at brad stanhope@outlook.com.
SUISUN CITY — City
Council members will be asked on Tuesday to approve a resolution naming the Suisun Senior Center, 318 Merganser Drive, as surplus property, so it can be sold.
Senior programs have relocated to the Joseph Nelson Center on Village Drive. The Merganser Drive location is next to a senior apartment complex.
The property consists of approximately 0.32 acres with a developed with a 4,800-square-foot building, as well as landscaping and improved parking.
The 37-year-old building got an extensive facelift in 2013 thanks to a Community Development Block Grant. It was closed for six months and programs were moved to the Nelson Center during the work. Proceeds would go into the city’s general fund, which will also be examined at Tuesday’s meeting as a preliminary 2023-24 budget is presented.
It predicts general fund
resources of $22,422,758, which includes the beginning balance of $1,582,738.
Total general fund expenditures are forecasted are $24,474,728.
That would leave a deficit of $ 2,051,970 which will be covered out of the current $5,157.644 reserves, which will dip the reserve fund under the 20 percent rate.
Measure S is estimated to bring in $3,710,756, with expenditures totaling
$3,671,981.
A staff report stated the proposed budget is mostly status quo other than some significant personnel related changes.
Personnel expenses are expected to be up significantly due to labor negotiations, salary adjustments and reclassifications, and increases in CalPERS and related incentives costs.
In May, the council
approved the temporary premium pay to be converted to regular pay for all city employees. Public safety personnel received $6 per hour, Dispatch personnel received $4 per hour, and Miscellaneous personnel received $2 per hour as premium pay.
Originally, the premium pay expense of $700,000 per year was funded through the American Rescue Plan Act fund and it was not eligible for retirement benefits. Now, that the premium pay has become part of the regular pay, it will be retirement eligible, and the CalPERS cost has increased by approximately $250,000.
The proposal may be voted on at the June 20 city council meeting.
The council will meet in closed session at 4 p.m. Tuesday in conference with labor and real property negotiator.
The general meeting will follow. Both are at 701 Civic Center Blvd.
Find both agendas for that at www.suisun.com.
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FAIRFIELD — The Solano County Legislative Committee will receive state and federal updates – including one about the recent debt ceiling agreement – when
it meets on Monday.
The committee, comprised of Supervisors Monica Brown and Erin Hannigan, also will consider making recommendations to the full board regarding five state bills.
The list includes consideration for the board to drop its opposition to one bill that would “eliminate time limits for the commencement of actions for the recovery of damages suffered as a result of childhood sexual assault. The bill would
specify that its provisions apply to any action arising on or after Jan. 1.
The committee meets at 1:30 p.m. in Conference Room 6003 on the sixth floor of the government center, 675 Texas St., in Fairfield.
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TRAVIS AIR FORCE
BASE — Travis Air Force Base will be conducting a two-day readiness exercise Monday and Tuesday.
Exercises fine-tune and advance Airmen’s readiness and ability to execute and sustain rapid global mobility around the world, said a press release from the base.
The local populous and surrounding communities will hear an increase in voice notifications and alarms. Additionally, patrons may experience increased gate entry
times during periods throughout the day. All base exercise notifications heard over the installation’s Giant Voice system will be prefaced with an “Exercise Exercise Exercise” reminder. Sirens and alarms heard from the base are used to simulate a realistic environment in which base personnel can properly train and respond in the event of a realworld incident.
For additional information, contact the 60th Air Mobility Wing Public Affairs office by email at 60AMWPA@ us.af.mil or by phone at (707) 424-2010.
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FAIRFIELD — ARPA is back before the Solano County Board of Supervisors when it meets on Tuesday.
The board will consider using $383,026 of American Rescue Plan Act revenue replacement funds for a Farm Business Microgrant Support Program.
The item is a follow-up from March 7 when the funds were set aside to support farm businesses.
“Based on board member direction, staff
have been working with the Solano County Farm Bureau, Workforce Development Board of Solano County, and the Solano Napa Small Business Development Center to develop a small grant program for farm businesses,” the staff report to the board states. The supervisors also will receive an update on ARPA-funded projects. The board meets at 9 a.m. in the first-floor chamber in the government center, 675 Texas St., in Fairfield. The
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VALLEJO — The Vallejo City Unified School District trustees on Thursday agreed to sell the Beverly Hills Elementary School site to the county for development of an early childhood education and wellness center.
The sale price is $2.8 million, the school district announced.
The county Board of Supervisors is scheduled to take up final approval on June 27. Funding is available, but the county has source options it is considering. The board will consider $2 million of it in the upcoming budget hearings, while the First 5 Commission is seeking funds for the remaining $800,000 so it does not have to use its reserves.
The commission will also pay for renovations of the property, which is located at 1450 Coronel Ave. in Vallejo.
“The VCUSD Board of Education is very appreciative of this important partnership and embraces the efforts to provide an expanded early childhood education programming and other community wrap-around services at this cherished site,” district Superintendent William Spalding said in a statement.
“It shows what can be
done when committed advocates for children collaborate, focus, and drive towards a substantive outcome and won’t give up! I am very proud of this effort and of all who contributed. Generations will benefit. A community will benefit,” Spalding added.
The district also agreed to a rent-free lease the rent-free lease for portions of the Franklin Middle School, 501 Starr Ave., to the Greater Vallejo Recreation District.
The lease for the Franklin gymnasium, classroom portables 79 and 80 and
the adjacent athletic fields went into effect Thursday.
“The (GVRD) will use the vacated school to host community recreational programs and make necessary improvements to the property if grant funds are received. Currently, the Vallejo Police Activities League uses the field space to provide quality, healthy activities for the youth of Vallejo while fostering a sense of community between police officers and the young people of Vallejo. The PAL will continue to operate their programs in collab-
FAIRFIELD — The state Senate has approved and sent to the Assembly three more bills authored by Sen. Bill Dodd, including two related to Native Americans.
The first of those requires tribal remains and other artifacts held in University of California collections to be returned, and the second will allow tribes to conduct cultural burns for wildfire prevention.
of to-go cocktails from both types of businesses. Finally, the bill increases oversight of alcohol delivery by Alcohol Beverage Control to prevent underage drinking.
oration with GVRD,” the school district announced.
“The Franklin Middle School location will serve Vallejo youth with a new set of eyes,” district Assistant Superintendent of Operations Mitch Romao said in the statement. “GVRD will have a whole new vision for the Franklin facilities. We want to thank the PAL for their partnership and service to our students.”
The Beverly Hills and Franklin locations were closed in the summer of 2020 due to declining enrollment.
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FAIRFIELD — Legislation that would allow cities and counties to license “Amsterdam-style cannabis cafes” has passed out of the state Assembly.
“Lots of people want to enjoy legal cannabis in the company of others,” Assemblyman Matt Haney, D-San Francisco, said in a statement.
He is the author of Assembly Bill 374. It cleared the Assembly on a 64-9 vote. Assemblywoman Lori Wilson, D-Suisun City, voted in favor of the bill. It now heads to the Senate.
“And many people want to do that while sipping coffee, eating a
FAIRFIELD — The Solano County Airport Land Use Commission on Thursday will
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meeting is divided into a morning session that also includes a presentation on the California State Association of Counties AT HOME plan to address homelessness.
The agenda includes a TRUTH Act report on the county’s contact with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement regarding jail inmates, and a proclamation recognizing
scone, or listening to music. There’s absolutely no good reason from an economic, health, or safety standpoint that the state should make that illegal. If an authorized cannabis retail store wants to also sell a cup of coffee and a sandwich, we should allow cities to make that possible and stop holding back these small businesses,” Haney said.
The picture was painted of places that can offer coffee, food and live music, while also selling and smoking pot products. The statement said the bill will allow cannabis businesses to diversify and “bring much-needed tourist dollars into empty downtowns.”
consider if the Vacaville updated Development Code, Housing Element and General Plan are consistent with the Travis Air Force Base and Nut Tree Airport land use compatibility plans. Also to be reviewed is
June 19 as Juneteenth in Solano County. Juneteenth is a celebration of the last slaves, in Texas, to be notified about the abolition of slavery at the end of the Civil War.
The afternoon session, starting at 2 p.m., includes the continuation of a public hearing regarding the appeal of a Planning Commission approved New Cingular Wireless plan to collocate 15 antennas and other associated equipment on an existing 111-foot lattice tower and a 296 square-foot lease area
“Restoring dignity to generations of indigenous Californians by ensuring campuses return these remains and other possessions is absolutely critical,” Dodd, D-Napa, said in a statement. “At the same time, we must enhance the ability of tribes to participate in wildfire prevention by using this time-tested technique.”
The third bill expands Dodd’s previous legislation by removing the meal requirement for to-go alcohol orders. It also extends the carryout cocktail provision to bars and allows delivery
“The flexibility to sell to-go cocktails was a lifeline to restaurants and bars during the pandemic,” Dodd said in a separate statement. “To keep up the momentum during the recovery, we must expand this successful provision in ways that will make sense and be beneficial to all. This bill boosts small businesses and our local economy, helping to keep doors open and people employed.”
“Sen. Dodd has stepped up once again for California’s restaurant community at a time of when food costs, a labor shortage, mounting debt and supply chain delays are forcing restaurants to reduce operating hours, limit menu offerings or close altogether,” said Matt Sutton, senior vice president of government affairs and public policy for the California Restaurant Association. “For his efforts we are incredibly grateful.”
“To be clear, we’re not saying that coffee shops should be allowed to sell cannabis,” Haney said. “We’re saying that cannabis shops should be allowed to sell coffee. It shouldn’t be illegal for an existing cannabis business to move away from only selling marijuana and instead have the opportunity to grow, thrive and create jobs by offering coffee or live jazz.”
There are more than 700 cannabis cafes that operate across the Netherlands, and more than $1 billion is spent in those cafes every year, the statement said.
“California’s small cannabis businesses are struggling,” Haney said.
the Suisun City Building Code update.
The commission meets at 7 p.m. in the Board of Supervisors chamber on the first floor of the county government center, 675 Texas St., in Fairfield.
within an existing facility on Gates Canyon Road, about 1,000 feet south of Mount Vaca peak.
The board also is scheduled to meet in a closed session between the two public sessions, during which the supervisors will be updated on labor negotiations and the likely exposure to litigatation.
“Issues like oversaturation, high taxes and the thriving black market are
Dorothy Mary Johnson (nee Smith) was born on Saturday, September 23, 1933, to Edward W. Smith and Elsie M. Smith in the small hamlet of Tring, Hertfordshire, England, about 30 miles north of London. Dorothy was approaching her 90th trip around the sun before passing on April 18, 2023, in El Dorado Hills, CA. Dorothy was the only sister to older brothers Edward “Ted” Smith and Robert “Bob” Smith. She met her husband, Herman (Johnny) Johnson Jr. of Pawleys Island, SC at a picnic. He was a member of the United States Air Force and the two were married on June 21, 1958, in England. From this union, 4 children were born; Tracey (Cynthia), Lisa (John), Adam, and Stephen (Monica). Dorothy’s career was focused on child education. Dorothy had a gift for working with children and flourished in her various teaching positions. Dorothy was a Teaching Assistant at Fairview Elementary School for over 30 years, in addition to positions at The Child Haven and My School (which is now the Fairfield Montessori School).
Ronald Albert Cupid of Fairfield, CA. passed away on Sunday, May 21, 2023, at the age of 74. He had fought a long battle with cancer. Ronald was born on June 1, 1948 in New York City to Albert and Gloria Cupid. He served in the Air Force, and transferred to California. His hobbies included golfing, music, playing the alto saxophone, and being an active member with Grace Episcopal Church, and Grace Episcopal Mens’ group (GEM). He volunteered with community non-profit organizations. Ronald’s career with Exxon Refinery, now Valero, in Benicia, CA. began in 1973 and spanned for 30 years. He is survived by his wife of 50 years Alma Cupid, whom he met and married during his time in the Air Force. They have three daughters: Dysha Cupid, Veronica Cupid, Rhonda Cupid, and a step son Christopher Gadberry. Ronald also has two grandchildren: Hannah and Patrice Cupid. Ronald has a sister Deborah Cupid of Fairfield, CA.
hurting cannabis businesses who follow the rules and pay taxes.”
Dorothy also worked for the Daily Republic as a graphic layout artist assistant for a short time.
Dorothy never obtained a driver’s license or learned how to drive a car; cycling or walking were her primary modes of transportation. Fairfield locals more than likely have seen her walking across the Travis Blvd. overpass with groceries from Raley’s or walking downtown and offer her a ride home. She loved cats and never turned one away that came to her home.
Dorothy was “Nana” to grandchildren Jay, Drew, LaShea, Courtney, Naia, Hayden, Samantha, Dillon and great grandson Jaxson.
Dorothy was well known in the neighborhood and town as “Mom”, “Dot”, “Ms. Johnson”, “Ms. Dorothy”, “Mrs. J.”, or “Moms” and will be missed by a great many people for her kindness, wit, and caring personality.
Dorothy is survived by all of her children, grandchildren and great-grandson; as well as brother-in-law, Harr y, (Gladys); and a host of nieces, nephews, family and friends in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Dorothy was preceded in death by her parents, brothers, husband, and friends, specifically Dorothy’s closest friend Maureen Collins, who passed away in 1996. Dorothy never stopped mourning Auntie Mo’s passing.
Family and friends will gather to spread her ashes into the sea off the coast of Sausalito, CA.
He is preceded in death by his mother, father, and grandmother. Ronald will be remembered for his dedication to Grace Episcopal Church and many community organizations. He along with Grace Episcopal Church participated in the coat drive for school children at Fair view Elementar y. Ronald volunteered with Nami (National Alliance on Mental Illness), by donating holiday gift bags, and participating in the NAMI/Walks your way, and with the Walk to end Alzheimer’s Team Grace. Ronald selflessly strived to bring awareness and unity with his volunteerism, up until the end of his fight with cancer
Ronald has a great smile that was warm and inviting, he was compassionate and relentless. He was witty, organized, had a strong work ethic, and was an excellent communicator. He was loved and will be truly missed.
The visitation will be held Friday, June 9, 2023 from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. at Br yan Braker chapel, 1850 W Texas St. in Fairfield, CA. His funeral will be Monday, June 12, 2023 at 11:00 a.m. at Grace Episcopal Church, 1405 Kentucky St. in Fairfield, CA., with a burial at 12:00 p.m. at Suisun-Fairfield Cemetery, 1707 Union Ave. in Fairfield, CA. Arrangements entrusted to Bryan-Braker Funeral Home, Fairfield. You may sign the guestbook at www.bryanbraker.com
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FAIRFIELD – Former Solano County AssessorRecorder Marc Tonnesen has joined the real estate appraising and consulting firm Garland & Salmon.
"I am excited to be associating with Steve Salmon, MAI and looking forward to getting back to my real estate appraisal roots," Tonnesen said in a statement. Tonnesen was a real estate officer for California and a private sector real estate appraiser prior to joining the Assessor's Office in 1987. He became acting assessor-recorder in January 2006, and then
elected to the post that June when he was formerly appointed to the position to fill out the final six months of the term vacated by Skip Thomson. He retired at the end of 2022, replaced by Glenn Zook, who ran unopposed in June 2022.
Tonnesen, in his new role, will help with business development and take on appraisal assignments as needed, including appraisals of single- and multi-family residential, commercial office, retail and industrial properties, as well as urban development land, agricultural land, habitat mitigation land, rural land and recreational land.
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FAIRFIELD — An Oakland-based architecture firm has been recognized for its residential communities and residences, including One56 at One Lake in Fairfield.
“These homes, arranged in six-pack clusters, achieve maximum efficiency in the site layout with four of the six homes in each cluster providing homeowners with lake views,” KTGY Designs noted in a statement acknowledging the awards from the Building Industry Association of the Bay Area.
The Fairfield work was recognized as Best Architectural Design for a detached home under 2,400 square feet.
“The floor plans are carefully laid out so that each home enjoys views of the lake and/ or the surrounding hills while carefully avoiding views from one home to another. Designed with a very contemporary aesthetic, incorporating shed roofs, accents of real wood siding, corten steel panels and stone veneers, these homes stand out in the
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Amazon.com Inc. has been talking with wireless carriers about offering low-cost or possibly free nationwide mobile phone service to Prime subscribers, according to people familiar with the situation.
The company is negotiating with Verizon Communications Inc., T-Mobile U.S. Inc. and Dish Network Corp. to get the lowest possible wholesale prices. That would let it offer Prime members wireless plans for $10 a month or possibly for free and bolster loyalty among its biggest spending customers, the people said, who requested anonymity to discuss a private matter.
The talks have been going on for six to eight weeks and have also included AT&T Inc. at times, but the plan may take several more months to launch and could be scrapped, one person said.
Dish shares jumped 14% Friday in New York since a deal with the retail giant could help the struggling satellite-TV company as it transitions to become a national wireless carrier. Meanwhile, T-Mobile fell 8.4%, AT&T dropped 5% and Verizon slid 3.5.%. The big three national carriers could see their own subscribers
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For the wireless industry, an Amazon deal could be seen as a welcome boost to wholesale revenue and a way to attract more traffic to newly expanded 5G networks. But Amazon’s entry could be detrimental if Prime wireless becomes popular and starts to chip away at the big carriers’ customer base.
neighborhood. The shed roofs vary on each home and give each cluster a playful and dynamic look. The accent materials – wood, corten steel and stone – give the homes a warm, contemporary and rich feel,” KTGY stated.
The builder is DeNova Homes.
“Award-winning designs are a result of collaboration and inspired thinking. We are proud to partner with some of the best in the industry to create solutions that elevate the role of built spaces in people’s lives,”
KTGY principal Jill Williams said.
The firm also was recognized for Best Architectural Design for a detached home, 2,401 to 3,000 square feet, in San Carlos; Community of the Year Attached in South San Francisco; and Best Architectural Design of an Affordable Multifamily Community in Fremont,;
It was a finalist in three other categories.
KTGY was founded in 1991 as a full-service architecture, branding, interiors and planning firm specializing in residential, retail, hospitality, and mixed-use environments.
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FAIRFIELD — The Solano-Napa Small Business Development Center is offering fast-paced training and grant for businesses in Solano County.
"The Solano Success Accelerator is a special program funded by the American Rescue Plan Act with the goal of helping our businesses recover and thrive in Solano County," the SBDC said in a statement.
About 100 businesses will be accepted.
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cants will participate in an intensive curriculum PLUS weekly business advising to overcome any challenges you may encounter. Businesses that complete the program will also receive $4,000 in capital to be used for business recovery and growth," the statement said.
Solano Success includes six online sessions over six weeks, while working one-on-one with a business adviser: For more information or to apply, go to www. solanonapasbdc.org/ solano-success/.
flee to a cheaper option at Amazon. Deutsche Telekom AG, which holds a majority stake in T-Mobile, fell 5.7% in Germany.
“We are always exploring adding even more benefits for Prime members, but don’t have plans to add wireless at this time,” Amazon spokesperson Maggie Sivon said in a statement. Verizon and Dish declined to comment.
Amazon’s U.S. Prime subscribers pay $139 a year for privileges like speedy free delivery, video streaming and access to 100 million songs. Analysts say Prime membership has stagnated in the country
since Amazon boosted the annual price from $119, a sign that a subscription is less attractive to consumers struggling with a stubbornly high inflation rate. About 167 million Amazon shoppers had Prime memberships as of March, unchanged from a year earlier, according to Consumer Intelligence Research Partners.
Amazon is competing with Walmart Inc., whose $98-a-year Walmart+ membership is emerging as a lower-cost alternative offering many of the same perks as Prime and free grocery delivery on orders of at least $35. Amazon in February increased its free grocery delivery threshold to
A deeply below-market price from one of the world’s largest retailers could easily undercut the pricing power of the big three national carriers, making it tempting for subscribers to go to Amazon. Unlimited plans start at $60 a month at Verizon and T-Mobile, with AT&T starting at $65.
With Prime wireless, Amazon would become a new national brand, reselling mobile service from one of the big three carriers. The retailer could choose to offer wireless to its Prime members at an attractive price, prompting customers to cancel their current mobile service. Or, Amazon could go wider and offer Prime wireless to anyone who wants to switch service and become a
Amazon is negotiating with Verizon Communications Inc., T-Mobile U.S. Inc. and Dish Network Corp. to get the lowest possible wholesale prices on mobile phone service. That would let it offer Prime members wireless plans for $10 a month or possibly for free. See Amazon, Page A7
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FAIRFIELD — Residents have another chance to sound off on the formation of nine landscaping and lighting maintenance districts at Tuesday’s city council meeting.
Among them, retired dentist Ray Klein owns property in downtown and opposes the proposed levy.
“It is important to understand the history of the city in terms of the downtown,” he wrote in an email to the newspaper.
He purchased property on Jackson Street in 1977. He then discovered the city had proposed a Block Assessment district to provide parking at the urging of downtown businesses. This was done without the participation of downtown residents, Klein wrote.
“We hastily formed the Downtown Homeowners Association, and I was elected president. We hired a lawyer, and the city retracted the plan. We will not hesitate to do this again.”
The next attempt was the Central Business District Redevelopment Plan, Klein wrote. The city hired consultants to aid
the CBD Redevelopment committee. Klein wrote he served on the committee to develop the plan, which included trees and bluestone sidewalks, lighted pergolas with piped in music, and traffic calming structures to encourage pedestrian use.
The pergolas were placed but never lit. The blue-stone sidewalks were deemed too expensive, so bricks were ordered as a replacement. They shifted and warped the tree grates, Klein wrote.
Subsequent tree programs had the city provide trees if the homeowners provided volunteer labor to plant them.
“City trees uplifted sections of the sidewalk by my house and presented a trip hazard,” Klein wrote. Rather than replace the uplifted section the city filled in the gap, which still presented a hazard to walking and wheeled objects like shopping carts, bicycles and wheelchairs.
“In summary, the city maintenance was characterized by incompetent planning and shoddy work,” Klein wrote. “There is no statement of what improvements will be made by this assessment district. The boundaries of the proposed district are
arbitrary and unfair.”
Klein wrote that he doesn’t trust the city to plan realistically and wants to see the calculations employed in the assessments.
On April 18, the council initiated formation proceedings and preliminarily approved the Engineer’s Reports.
On May 16, the council adopted a resolution approving a five-year assessment levy schedule for the downtown business district. Ballots were also mailed out to those in the proposed districts. If the proposed districts and assessment rates are approved, all landscaping and lighting maintenance services in each respective community would be funded by assessments levied against the parcels beginning July 1. If any of the proposed districts and assessment rates are not approved, all landscaping and lighting maintenance services in each respective community could continue to be funded by assessments levied under the existing LLMDs if services are reduced to a level that can be supported by available assessment revenue from year to year, after applicable loan pay-
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Following the close of the public hearing, the council meeting will be continued to 6 p.m. Wednesday. At 9 a.m. Wednesday, in the city council chamber, the city clerk and/or the assessment engineer will tabulate the assessment ballots submitted and not withdrawn prior to the conclusion of the public hearing. The tabulation will occur in public view so as to permit all interested people to meaningfully monitor the accuracy of the tabulation process.
For each of the proposed districts, a majority protest will exist if assessment ballots submitted in opposition to the assessment exceed the ballots submitted in favor of the assessment.
The ballots will be weighted by the amount of the proposed assessment to be imposed upon the identified parcel for which each assessment ballot was submitted.
The meeting gets under way at 6 p.m. at 1000 Webster St. For more details, visit https:// fairfield.novusagenda. com/agendapublic/MeetingView.aspx?MeetingI D=320&MinutesMeetin gID=-1&doctype=Agenda.
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A wild wolverine was spotted multiple times in California last month, only the second specimen to be verified by experts in the past century, according to the state Department of Fish and Wildlife.
Over a two-week period in May, the wolverine was reported twice in Inyo National Forest and once in
Yosemite National Park. Photos and video of the animal were analyzed by U.S. Forest Service experts, who confirmed it was the same creature due to its body proportions, coloration and movement.
“Wolverines can travel great distances, making it likely that the recent sightings are all of the same animal,” Department of Fish and Wildlife Senior
Environmental Scientist Daniel Gammons said in a statement.
“Because only two wolverines have been confirmed in California during the last 100 years, these latest detections are exciting.”
A wolverine has not been spotted in the California wilderness since 2018. Given wolverines typically live 12 to 13 years, the 2023 sightings are believed to be a different animal.
Three people were killed and six others injured in San Jose and a neighboring city when a man randomly stabbed and struck victims with a pair of stolen cars, authorities reported.
Kevin Parkourana, 31, of San Jose was arrested Thursday evening for the string of half-a-dozen attacks that continued over the course of about an hour-and-a-half, police from San Jose and the adjacent city of Milpitas announced Friday.
Parkourana was booked on suspicion of murder, attempted murder and carjacking, San Jose Police Chief Anthony Mata said at a news conference. Mata called the attacks “random acts of violence.”
On Thursday in San Jose, Parkourana allegedly stabbed a victim and stole a minivan near the
south end of the city. The suspect left the stolen van and stole an SUV after stabbing the motorist, police said. Driving the SUV, the suspect then struck a pedestrian.
At about 4 p.m., the suspect allegedly used the stolen SUV to run into another vehicle, before stabbing the driver.
A short time later, Parkourana intentionally hit three people near an intersection, with two dying at the scene, police said. Then the suspect allegedly hit another person who was riding on a scooter. Finally, the suspect allegedly stabbed and killing a victim in the parking lot of a big box store. As police searched with dogs, Parkourana emerged from a parked car less than a quarter mile from the big box store, surrendering without incident, police said.
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The U.S. labor market sent conflicting signals in May as payrolls surged along with joblessness, giving Federal Reserve officials more reason to pause interestrate hikes.
Nonfarm payrolls increased 339,000 last month after an upwardly revised 294,000 advance in April, a Bureau of Labor Statistics report showed Friday. The unemployment rate rose to 3.7%, while wage growth slowed. Here are some of the top-line figures in the report:
The advance was broad-based, reflecting gains in professional and business services, government and health care. Markets reacted to the advance in payrolls, with Treasury yields jumping after the report. Traders upped their bets of the Fed hiking rates by the end of July. Bets on a June hike also rose, though investors still leaned toward expecting a pause.
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ers will also be looking at the surge in the unemployment rate, which was the biggest one-month increase since April 2020. There were 440,000 more people out of a job in May, also the largest monthly rise since the onset of the pandemic.
Even though labor demand has remained resilient, it’s unclear how long that will last. With a credit crunch threatening to halt the expansion and more companies planning to let workers go, hiring and pay gains may slow substantially in the coming months.
The mixed nature of the report may validate Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s approach to pausing interest-rate hikes to assess the impact of five-percentage points of hiking so far. Other officials have also voiced support for holding rates steady at this month’s meeting, while leaving the door open to resume tightening in July, as price pressures remain robust and the threat of a U.S. debt default has been avoided.
Prime member. Anytime Amazon enters a new market, it sends shivers through the industry because the Seattle-based retail giant has shown it’s willing to absorb billions of dollars in shipping and movie production costs to fuel Prime membership growth. Wireless service could be just one more item that Amazon’s willing to take a hit on if it gives the company a leg up versus Walmart.
Can’t say no
The carriers aren’t really in a position to say no to Amazon. Having poured billions of dollars into super-fast, high capacity 5G wireless networks, the mobile operators have little to show for the effort and are eager to find new
Dish has the most to gain from a deal with Amazon. The company is attempting to transform itself into a cloud-based wireless carrier capable of competing with Verizon and AT&T. But it’s carrying a load of distressed debt and is seeking new avenues of funding to be able to launch its Boost Infinite wireless service.
Dish is already working with Amazon, whose AWS division is providing cloud computing to run the core network for its wireless service and is expected to start selling Boost Infinite wireless service on Amazon as soon as next month.
Amazon has already made several forays into wireless. In 2014, Amazon introduced the Fire Phone in an attempt to compete with devices from Apple Inc. and Samsung Elec-
tronics Co., but it was killed a year later. The company also plans to start testing a satellite-internet service called Project Kuiper next year.
By taking the approach of a reseller, otherwise known as a mobile virtual network operator or MVNO, Amazon would avoid the huge costs of having to build out its own mobile network.
MVNOs have had a colorful track record. Brands including ESPN Mobile and Virgin Mobile both failed. Alphabet Inc. has the Google Fi service that runs on T-Mobile’s network and has about 2 million customers.
Wireless is already starting to sometimes be bundled as a perk in broader service packages. Cable companies like Charter Communications Inc., which resells service from Verizon, have said they see a time soon when the cable bill includes wireless service.
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Annie Lane is off this week. The following column was originally published in 2019.
Dear Annie: My youngest is set to move out of the family home in the next month or two. We don't mind her living at home, but she needs to move out for her own peace of mind, so she can have her own space and start to live independently. She's 22. In the past – and still – she has often asked for money so that she can make important payments (for example, college tuition, car insurance). But more often than not, she uses the money I give her to buy frivolous, inthe-moment wants. She has two
Annie Lane Dear Anniejobs, so I know she'll be able to afford rent – if she keeps up the hard work and doesn't fall into laziness. She has a habit of getting a new job, getting really excited about it for a few weeks to a few months and then seemingly getting bored. Then the new job fizzles out and she moves on.
I want her to make this move and live on her own successfully and truly independently.
I think she needs it. I think it'll help her grow. But I'm foreseeing her asking me for rent money – I'm in a tough financial spot at the moment – and I won't be able to say no. She's my kid. I want her to know I'm always on her side, that I've got her back no matter
You’re a creative powerhouse, which you show by taking charge of environments, creating your preferred vibes, and the tones, moods and temperatures that will attract what you want like crazy. There will be group bonding, building new systems and resources flowing to where they are most needed. More highlights: nailing a goal, a lucrative side hustle and travel to unforgettable entertainment. Aries and Pisces adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 18, 15, 38, 12 and 9.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). Assess the balance in your relationships. What would it take to make things fair? Before you decide, think long-term and short-term. Envision best- and worst-case scenarios. The important thing is to be imaginative instead of reactive.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Don't let assertiveness put you at odds with the style of those around you. A soft approach can also be a driving force for change. Others will get on board because they trust you and feel good interacting with you.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). No one is you! You're willing to take risks and make discoveries the way only you can do. It all makes you feel more alive. It's not necessary to you for your endeavors to be groundbreaking; your take is what makes it brilliant and new.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). It's normal to feel torn between your own desires and the needs of those around you. Finding a balance can be challenging but worth it, especially since you really can't afford to ignore any side of the equation here. It's only going to work if it works for everyone.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Though awareness requires some amount of sensitivity, take heart. You will eventually learn to notice dynamics without identifying too strongly with them. It will save you from bearing the brunt of too vivid an experience.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Your comfort zone isn't always a good benchmark of appropriate self-care. For instance, if you're not used to being assertive, standing up for yourself can feel like arrogance.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Your contributions are essential to others. You get a sense of belonging from giving more than taking. Your intuition is heightened today, allowing you to sense what others need.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You'll have interactions that are cut and dried, and interactions that are nuanced, contradictory and complex. Neither is better than the other. You need both because one keeps you grounded and the other keeps you interested.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Certainty is overrated. What's underrated is the confidence to question yourself. Challenging your assumptions is the way to blast through the obstacles that once held you back. A fire sign (Aries, Leo or Sagittarius) helps you with this.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). No one is alone. You know you are connected to and matter to others, and it's something you don't take for granted. Not everyone feels this way. Spread the word and help others get the sense of belonging they crave.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Learn from many; avoid getting too much information from one source. Each teacher will have a different strength. Because you bravely follow your curiosity, you'll make new friends, discover novel hobbies and find fresh ways to make money.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Leisure isn't just granted and bestowed upon you as a gift from the time gods. It happens because you use the rest of your time well. Otherwise, it's not really leisure; it's avoidance.
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what. She's had a rough life. How do I balance this nurturing impulse with letting her learn some big lessons on her own? – Distressed About Departing Dependent Dear Distressed: Good parenting means sometimes being the bad guy. You can offer her support in ways that aren't monetary, such as talking through her goals and helping her to figure out what career path she might be interested in. But if she asks for cash, tell her no, and stick to it – not just for your own financial health but for hers. Baby birds don't learn to fly until they're kicked out of the nest, and young adults don't truly learn responsibility until their livelihoods depend on it. Rest assured that ultimately, she will look back and know that you were always
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Dear Annie: I read your column almost every day and have often wondered why you never mention Families Anonymous when responding to a family member or friend of someone is has an addiction issue. This organization helped me enormously when I was trying to cope with my daughter's addiction. I'd been to Al-Anon and, while I think it's a fine organization, there is a slightly different attitude among participants of Families Anonymous. I hope you'll check it out and try recommending it in your column. Thanks for all the good you do. – Elizabeth in Roanoke, Virginia
Dear Elizabeth in Roanoke: I've heard many wonderful things about Families Anonymous, and I'm happy to
recommend it here. Readers can learn more about the program and find out how to attend free meetings at https:// www.familiesanonymous.org. Thank you for writing.
Dear Annie: This is in response to "Tired of the Night Prowls," whose cats kept her or him awake by fighting all night. My wife had a similar problem. We solved it by coating the cats using a stick of butter. The cats spent the whole night cleaning themselves, which left no time for fighting each other. – Brennan
Dear Brennan: Thank you for the chuckle. I can't say I endorse this advice; in fact, I have to caution against it, as cats are lactose intolerant. But you win big points for creativity.
While physicians mostly applauded a government-appointed panel’s recommendation that women get routine mammography screening for breast cancer starting at age 40, down from 50, not everyone approves.
Some doctors and researchers who are invested in a more individualized approach to finding troublesome tumors are skeptical, raising questions about the data and the reasoning behind the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force’s about-face from its 2016 guidelines.
“The evidence isn’t compelling to start everyone at 40,” said Jeffrey Tice, a professor of medicine at the University of California-San Francisco.
Tice is part of the WISDOM study research team, which aims, in the words of breast cancer surgeon and team leader Laura Esserman, “to test smarter, not test more.” She launched the ongoing study in 2016 with the goal of tailoring screening to a woman’s risk and putting an end to the debate over when to get mammograms.
Advocates of a personalized approach stress the costs of universal screening at 40 — not in dollars, but rather in false-positive results, unnecessary biopsies, overtreatment, and anxiety.
The guidelines come from the federal Department of Health and Human Services’ U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, an independent panel of 16 volunteer medical experts who are charged with helping guide doctors, health insurers, and policymakers. In 2009 and again in 2016, the group put forward the current advisory, which raised the age to start routine mammography from 40 to 50 and urged women from 50 to 74 to get mammograms every two years. Women from 40 to 49 who “place a higher value on the potential benefit than the potential harms” might also seek screening, the task force said.
Now the task force has issued a draft of an update to its guidelines, recommending the screening for all women beginning at age 40.
“This new recommendation will help save lives and prevent more women from dying due to breast
cancer,” said Carol Mangione, a professor of medicine and public health at UCLA, who chaired the panel.
But the evidence isn’t clear-cut.
Karla Kerlikowske, a professor at UCSF who has been researching mammography since the 1990s, said she didn’t see a difference in the data that would warrant the change. The only way she could explain the new guidelines, she said, was a change in the panel.
“It’s different task force members,” she said. “They interpreted the benefits and harms differently.”
Mangione, however, cited two data points as crucial drivers of the new recommendations: rising breast cancer incidence in younger women and models showing the number of lives screening might save, especially among Black women.
There is no direct evidence that screening women in their 40s will save lives, she said. The number of women who died of breast cancer declined steadily from 1992 to 2020, due in part to earlier detection and better treatment.
But the predictive models the task force built, based on various assumptions rather than actual data, found that expanding mammography to women in their 40s might avert an additional 1.3 deaths per 1,000 in that cohort, Mangione said. Most critically, she said, a new model including only Black women showed 1.8 per 1,000 could be saved.
A 2% annual increase in the number of 40- to 49-year-olds diagnosed with breast cancer in the U.S. from 2016 through 2019 alerted the task force to a concerning trend, she said.
Mangione called that a “really sizable jump.” But Kerlikowske called it “pretty small,” and Tice called it “very modest” – conflicting perceptions that underscore just how much art is involved in the science of preventive health guidelines.
Task force members are appointed by HHS’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and serve fouryear terms. The new draft guidelines are open for public comment until June 5. After incorporating feedback, the task force plans to publish its final recommendation in JAMA, the Journal
of the American Medical Association.
Nearly 300,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in the U.S. this year, and it will kill more than 43,000, according to National Cancer Institute projections. Expanding screening to include younger women is seen by many as an obvious way to detect cancer earlier and save lives.
But critics of the new guidelines argue there are real trade-offs.
“Why not start at birth?” Steven Woloshin, a professor at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, asked rhetorically. “Why not every day?”
“If there were no downsides, that might be reasonable,” he said. “The problem is false positives, which are very scary. The other problem is overdiagnosis.” Some breast tumors are harmless, and the treatment can be worse than the disease, he said.
Tice agreed that overtreatment is an underappreciated problem.
“These cancers would never cause symptoms,” he said, referring to certain kinds of tumors. “Some just regress, shrink, and go away, are just so slow-growing that a woman dies of something else before it causes problems.”
Screening tends to find slow-growing cancers that are less likely to cause symptoms, he said. Conversely, women sometimes discover fast-growing lethal cancers soon after they’ve had clean mammograms.
“Our strong feeling is that one size does not fit all, and that it needs to be personalized,” Tice said.
WISDOM, which stands for “Women Informed to Screen Depending On Measures of risk,” assesses participants’ risk at 40 by reviewing family history and sequencing nine genes. The idea is to start regular mammography immediately for highrisk women while waiting for those at lower risk.
Black women are more likely to get screening mammograms than white women. Yet they are 40% more likely to die of breast cancer and are more likely to be diagnosed with deadly cancers at younger ages.
The task force expects Black women to benefit most from earlier screening, Mangione said.
1:10 p.m. — Forgery, 2100 block of WEST TEXAS STREET
1:57 p.m. — Vandalism, 600 block of SILVER LAKE DRIVE
2:19 p.m. — Fight with a weapon, 300 block of HONEYSUCKLE DRIVE
4:37 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 1600 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET
4:40 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 1100 block of MISSOURI STREET
4:47 p.m. — Battery, TYLER STREET
5:28 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, MANUEL CAMPOS PARKWAY
— Vandalism, SUISUN VALLEY ROAD
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10:29 p.m. — Assault with a deadly weapon, 1900 block of GRANDE CIRCLE
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9:00 a.m. — Forgery, 700 block of BROADWAY STREET
9:17 a.m. — Trespassing, 2900 block of AUTO MALL PARKWAY
11:40 a.m. — Reckless driver, PEABODY ROAD
11:44 a.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 1300 block of HOLIDAY LANE
12:50 p.m. — Vandalism, 2200 block of FAIRFIELD AVENUE
5:31 p.m. — Reckless driver, WESTBOUND HIGHWAY 12
5:36 p.m. — Reckless driver, PEABODY ROAD
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5:54 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 1000 block of OLIVER ROAD
7:48 p.m. — Shots fired, 2500 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET
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If you swam off the coast of Santa Barbara or San Diego recently, chances are you had company. You just may not have noticed.
A new study from California State, Long Beach found that juvenile white sharks are more common at some California beaches than previously thought.
While the news may conjure up images of Steven Spielberg’s film “Jaws,” scientists say it should instead be a reminder of how rare shark bites are.
“It’s not just about sharks, it’s about people,” Christopher Lowe, professor of marine biology at Cal State, Long Beach and director of the school’s Shark Lab, said in a statement. “This study may change people’s perception of the risk sharks pose to people that share the ocean with them.”
During the two-year study, researchers used drones to study more than two dozen beaches up and down the California coastline.
Juvenile white sharks, between the ages of 1 and 5, would congregate at
generation. It will continue being important and we want to make them feel proud,” she said.
She began planning for the event back in February and pulled in all the area high school Filipino clubs to help with the organizing and planning.
“They really threw themselves into this,” Morjica said.
Each week they would gather for a fun time learning on Thursdays about culture and more.
This year the event hosted 37 vendors, 17 food trucks and 10 nonprofits, who filled the waterfront area behind Mare Island Brewing Company’s Coal Sheds, which also helped host the event.
New this year was a cultural pavilion where the club students gave visitors a chance to check out traditional dancing, Filipino authors sold books, and tattoo artists showed
off the traditional types of tattoos. They also had a next-generation stage for youths to enjoy music and dancing.
“One of the biggest changes was the ferry gave free rides from the Vallejo side to event,” Morjica said. “I expected at least 5,000 people and I think we got that and more.”
graduation excitement and hopes for the future.
Dignitaries from around Solano County also came out to celebrate the day, including Vallejo Mayor Robert McConnell, who hoped everyone enjoyed the untold jewel of a city that Vallejo is.
Vallejo Vice Mayor Rozzana Verder-Aliga was happy that the tradition will continue of a huge
celebration with a new generation of organizers.
“It might have a different look but the essence is still the same,” she said. “It is just going to continue to get bigger and better.” Also included in the day were several bands along with Zumba dancers.
The challenges are ahead, but in a bigger world than Rio Vista.
Roxana Segoviano, 17, thought that world would be one in which she would be a veterinarian. Instead, she is off to San Joaquin Delta Community College to become a nurse’s assistant and ultimately find a career as an ultrasound technician.
“It never gets old,” Turk said of her students’
And while the stands were filled with parents and other loved ones cheering on the graduates, one voice was there for Turk.
“I don’t know a single student out there,” said Delinda Bowers, who met Turk when the principal was a teacher at Isleton Elementary School. She also worked for Turk at Rio Vista High, and came out to bid her a good farewell into retirement.
“That’s what friends do,” Bowers said.
neutralized it by negotiating a bipartisan agreement that passed through a bitterly divided Congress.
more political peril than Biden, negotiating with the threat that far-right Republicans who tried to block his speakership in January could try to unseat him if they did not like the deal’s terms.
won spending curbs in any budget agreement and the debt-limit deal also left untouched Biden’s legislative achievements.
two spots in southern Santa Barbara County and central San Diego County.
At those locations, sharks and people were found swimming together 97% of the time, according to findings released Friday.
“The juvenile white sharks were often observed within 50 yards of where the waves break, putting surfers and standup paddle boarders in the closest proximity to sharks at the aggregation sites,” Patrick Rex, a lab technician at the Shark Lab, said in a statement. “Most of the time water users didn’t even know the sharks were there, but we could easily see them from the air.”
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Rex called the findings surprising.
“People think, ‘If I see a shark ... I’m going to get bitten or I’m in danger.’” Rex said. “And what we’ve seen is that that’s not necessarily the case.”
The fish “tend to mind their own business,” Rex said.
“And they come up within like 10 feet of people, and that’s happening daily,” he said.
Yields on Treasury bills maturing in early June — when Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has said her department risks running out of cash — tumbled Friday with rates on some issues dropping below 5%. The cost of insuring U.S. sovereign debt against default via derivatives has tumbled.
At one point this month, it exceeded levels on the bonds of many emerging markets with credit ratings well below that of the world’s biggest economy
The debt-limit and budget bill was the product of weeks of negotiations between Biden, McCarthy and their deputies. The president personally appealed to lawmakers to vote for the deal, and large majorities of Democrats in the House and Senate supported it.
Still, the final product left dozens of lawmakers on the left opposing the agreement due to the inclusion of new work requirements for people on federal benefits, easing of energy-project permitting and spending curbs. Other members who voted for it did so reluctantly. That dynamic could pose a challenge for a president with low approval ratings and a less-thanenthusiastic base.
McCarthy perhaps faced even
the years spent in high school, which were anything but ordinary.
“Our junior year we were stuck behind screens and couldn’t do what we wanted,” said Folquet. “But senior year we made so many fond memories.”
The five Salutatorians – Oscar Dombroski, Bethany Masum, Ashley McMahon, Sherane Negre and Marius Thomas – all spoke about the experience of high school.
It was a roller coaster of a time with memories that will last a lifetime for the students, parents and teachers of the class of 2023.
Seventy-one House Republicans ended up voting against the measure arguing it fell short of their demands for spending cuts. But 149 supported it, and McCarthy avoided an imminent vote to terminate his speakership.
The debt-limit bill would suspend the debt ceiling until Jan. 1, 2025 in exchange for caps on federal spending on defense and domestic programs into 2025. That could force government programs to recede, should inflation remain at 5%.
Both Biden and McCarthy claimed victory with the agreement.
The president faced ridicule from some in his party during the 2020 campaign when he predicted Republicans would have an “epiphany” and begin working with Democrats again in the post-Donald Trump era.
While the country has remained historically polarized, the debtlimit deal is the latest in a line of bipartisan deals — including an infrastructure law and subsidies for domestic chip manufacturing — that Biden could use to argue he was right.
The White House has argued House Republicans would have
For McCarthy, the bill showed he could marshal the support of his unruly conference behind a bipartisan agreement amid doubts sparked by his messy election to the speakership earlier this year, which required 15 ballots. The deal garnered the support of roughly two-thirds of House Republicans, though Democratic votes were needed to pass it.
The California Republican also forced a reluctant Biden to negotiate over raising the debt ceiling, something the president said he would not do.
It also marked a turning point toward lowering government spending after a series of record-setting COVID emergency measures and Biden’s landmark tax, health and climate law and infrastructure package.
Spending limits could have a major effect on certain people, including young college graduates who must resume student-loan payments and low-income Americans on food assistance who face new restrictions on their benefits or service cuts. Morgan Stanley economists estimate the overall package will have a “negligible impact” on the economy, however, likely lowering growth next year by a couple tenths of a percentage point.
Those with type 2 diabetes who are planning out their exercise schedule should consider getting in a workout after lunch, according to a new study from Boston researchers.
Type 2 diabetes patients who were physically active in the afternoon saw greater improvements in blood sugar levels than those who were most active at other times of day, the researchers from the Brigham and Joslin Diabetes Center recently found.
“In this study, we show that adults with type 2 diabetes had the greatest improvement in glucose control when they were most active in the afternoon,” said Jingyi Qian, from the Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders at the Brigham.
“We’ve known that physical activity is beneficial, but what our study adds is a new understanding that timing of activity may be important too,” Qian added.
More than 37 million Americans have diabetes,
and 90% to 95% of that population are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Doctors recommend that patients with diabetes participate in regular physical activity as a method to manage their blood glucose levels. Elevated blood glucose levels can put people with type 2 diabetes at risk of heart disease, vision impairment, and kidney disease.
This new study from investigators at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Joslin Diabetes Center uses data from the Look AHEAD (Action for Health in Diabetes) study.
The research team looked at whether physical
activity at certain times of day was associated with greater improvement in blood glucose control.
Their findings suggest that patients with type 2 diabetes who were physically active in the afternoon had the largest improvements after one year in the trial.
During the study, participants wore a waist accelerometry recording device to measure physical activity. When the Brigham and Joslin team reviewed the data from year 1, they determined that those who engaged in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity in the afternoon had the great-
M.D.
est reduction in blood glucose levels.
In future studies, the team may test their findings experimentally to investigate why the time of day for exercise may influence blood glucose control. From this, the team may be able to provide specific physical activity recommendations for patients.
“Timing does seem to matter,” said Roeland Middelbeek, assistant investigator at Joslin Diabetes Center. “Going forward, we may have more data and experimental evidence for patients to give more personalized recommendations.”
Dear Rusty: I retired at age 58. My husband and I worked 40 years of employment each. I had a 401K only…no other benefits. We saved, we invested through our financial advisor and have done okay watching our investments grow (except for the last 3 years). Neither my husband nor I have taken Social Security; we were both waiting until age 70 to get full benefits. Do you think this is still wise? I’m concerned there will not be any funds in 5 years when we both turn 70. — Concerned Senior Dear Concerned
Senior: Your question relates to Social Security solvency, no doubt inspired by the recent spate of media discussion on this topic. Most articles I’ve read promote a “doomsday” scenario and, in fairness, Social Security’s financial issues are serious. The latest report from the Trustees of Social Security warned Congress that the reserves now held in Social Security’s Trust Fund (which enable full benefits to be paid) will be depleted as early as 2033. What you may not know is that this is not new news – the Trustees have sounded the same warning for decades to multiple Congresses which have neglected to enact corrective measures. And, unfortunately,
they are likely to continue to drag their feet for a while because the reform needed is not politically palatable and the impact is still a few years away.
Nevertheless, although Social Security’s looming financial issues are serious, they are not fatal.
Congress already knows how to fix Social Security’s financial issues – they just currently lack the bipartisan spirit and political will needed to do so. The clock, however, is ticking and Congress will be forced to act soon, which we are confident will happen before the Trust Funds run dry.
What motivates most politicians is getting reelected and allowing an across the board cut to all Social Security recipients (which would happen if the Trust Fund reserves were depleted) would be political suicide. Therefore, I’m confident that reform will occur in time, and I don’t suggest changing your Social Security claiming strategy over worries about Social Security’s solvency.
Let me further allay your fears by explaining what would hypothetically happen in the worst case scenario (if Congress doesn’t act and Trust Funds are depleted). If that were to occur, when the reserves are depleted in about 2033 everyone would face an across the board benefit cut. Social
Security can’t go bankrupt because there would still be about 175 million workers contributing to the program but, since Social Security (by law) can only pay benefits from revenue received, everyone’s benefit would be reduced by about 23% (according to the Trustees). Every beneficiary would still get benefits, but only to the extent available from income received. Which brings me to your specific question – whether it is still wise to wait until age 70 to claim (or to claim your benefits now).
Ask yourself this question: which would result in a larger monthly payment, a 23% cut to your age 70 SS payment amount, or a 23% cut to your current benefit amount? The answer, of course, is that your monthly payment would be more if you stay with your current strategy and wait until age 70 to claim (a plan which I assume you developed considering your current financial needs as well as your life expectancy, both of which are very important to that decision).
Again, I do not believe the worst case scenario will happen. Congress already knows how to restore Social Security to full solvency, and
they will almost certainly act in time to avoid an across the board cut to everyone’s benefit. The Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC) has proposed legislation which would restore the Social Security program to full solvency for generations without raising payroll taxes, a summary of which you are welcome to review here: www.amac. us/social-security. AMAC has provided this proposal to various members of Congress for consideration.
Russell “Rusty” Gloor is the national Social Security adviser at the Association of Mature American Citizens Foundation, the nonprofit arm of the Association of Mature American Citizens. His book “What’s So Hard About Social Security?” may be ordered on either Amazon or Apple eBooks. For more about the Association of Mature American Citizens, visit https:// amac.us/. This column is intended for information purposes only and does not represent legal or financial guidance. To submit a question, visit amacfoundation.org/ programs/social-security advisory or email ssadvisor@ amacfoundation.org.
After an injury or a cut, your blood clots – and this is a good thing – to stop the bleeding. But sometimes a blood clot or clots form within your veins and they don’t always dissolve naturally.
The problem is if the clot reduces or obstructs blood flow. And sometimes, clots travel via the bloodstream to precarious areas, such as your lungs, heart or brain where they can cause lifethreatening harm.
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In these cases, you may need immediate medical attention to remove them.
You may have heard of deep vein thrombosis, or DVT. It occurs when a blood clot or clots form in a deep vein of the body. Symptoms can include swollen feet, ankles or legs, usually confined to one side; cramps in the calf; severe pain in the foot or ankle; and an area of skin that feels warmer than the skin around it.
But it’s also possible to have DVT with no symptoms at all.
It is not always clear what causes blood clots. In some cases, a recent surgery, injury or pregnancy may be a factor. People with cancer, kidney or liver disease tend to be prone to blood clots, but it’s not clear that the diseases cause them.
Since it’s more prevalent in those over 50 years of age, it’s good to know other risk factors:
n Has someone in your family experienced Deep Vein Thrombosis?
n Are you overweight?
n Have you had a catheter in a vein?
n Have you undergone surgery?
n Are you getting hormone therapy?
n Do you smoke?
n Are you immobile for long periods of time?
When a blood clot travels to the lungs, it’s called a pulmonary embolism. Warning signs includes shortness of breath that comes on
suddenly; chest pain or discomfort that gets worse when taking a deep breath; feeling faint or lightheaded; coughing up blood; a racing heart. If you have any of these symptoms, you should visit your nearest Emergency Department. Even an otherwise healthy person of any age could have life-threatening blood clots.
More and more hospitals are starting to develop teams to address pulmonary embolisms.
At NorthBay Health Medical Center, a Pulmonary Embolism Response Team (PERT) has been mobilized and includes interventional cardiologists, a pulmonologist and clinical experts. Sometimes a clotbusting medication is enough. Sometime blood thinners are used. But in some cases, a mechanical thrombectomy, is required. In these case, physicians insert a catheter into the femoral vein to remove the blood clots in major arteries of the lungs.
Thanks to advances in today’s medicine, most patients only stay a day in the hospital after the procedure. But without quick action, a patient can die from cardiovascular collapse or end up in the Intensive Care Unit for a very long time.
Here are some tips to prevent blood clots:
n Avoid sitting for long periods of time, especially if traveling an airplane or in a car.
n Move as soon as you safely can after a surgery.
n Drink plenty of fluids
n Wear compression stockings, if your doctor prescribes them.
n Raise your legs 6 inches above your heart from time to time.
It’s worth these small sacrifices to offset the risk of developing potentially life-threatening blood clots.
The authors are interventional cardiologists at NorthBay Health Heart & Vascular.
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But they’re really counterfeits designed to look just like the real thing. What’s worse, half of those pills contain a deadly dose of fentanyl, a drug 100x stronger than
counterfeit designed to look just like a morphine and 50x more potent than heroine.
I Suisun City
7 p.m. Wednesday
Cultural Exchange
Wednesdayz
Marina Lounge, 700 Main St., Suite 106. www.marina loungesuisun.com.
7 p.m. Thursday
Karaoke
Marina Lounge, 700 Main St., Suite 106. www.marina loungesuisun.com.
7 p.m. Friday Salsa Fridays
Marina Lounge, 700 Main St., Suite 106. www.marina loungesuisun.com.
I Vacaville
7 p.m. Friday
The Band High Noon
Journey Downtown Theatre, 300 Main St. https://events. journeydowntownvenue. com.
7:30 p.m. Saturday
Ramana Vieira and Ensemble celebrating a CD release party Journey Downtown Theatre, 300 Main St. https://events. journeydowntownvenue. com.
8 p.m. Saturday
Gerry Ramos Music Studio’s Summer 2023
Piano & Vocal Recital Vacaville Performing Arts Theatre, 1010 Ulatis Drive. https://vpat.net.
I Benicia
2:30 p.m. Sunday Bray
The Rellik, 726 First St. www.therelliktavern.com.
6:30 p.m. Sunday
Poker Night
The Rellik, 726 First St. www.therelliktavern.com.
7 p.m. Tuesday Open Mic Night
The Rellik, 726 First St. www.therelliktavern.com.
7 p.m. Wednesday Karaoke
The Rellik, 726 First St. www.therelliktavern.com.
9 p.m. Thursday
DJ Jerry Ross
The Rellik, 726 First St. www.therelliktavern.com.
5 p.m. Friday Tam Funk Railroad
The Rellik, 726 First St. www.therelliktavern.com.
8:30 p.m. Friday
Sixteen Scandals
The Rellik, 726 First St. www.therelliktavern.com.
5 p.m. Saturday Lark and LeBlanc and Neon Velvet
The Rellik, 726 First St. www.therelliktavern.com.
I Vallejo
5:30 p.m. Wednesday Allen “Ace” Vegas
Empress Lounge, 330 Virginia St. https://empresstheatre.org.
1 p.m. Saturday
Papa Joe and the New Deal
Vino Godfather Winery, 1005 Walnut Ave. www.vinogodfather.com.
VACAVILLE — It will be a “Swell” time Friday night at Journey Downtown.
The Band High Noon, fresh from a BottleRock gig, is having record release party for their new album, “Swell.”
The movie “Stepbrothers” played a role in the band coming together, said Ryan Neergaard, referring to a scene, where after some battles, the two main characters become friends.
There were no battles in The Band High Noon, but friendship flourished right away, he added.
The band began performing live, without a name. Questions followed gigs, and the band quickly settled on their moniker. “We always meet at high noon, Neergaard said. That tradition continues today.
Guitarist Ian Devereux White and Neergaard were the founding members. They were joined by Vacaville’s Brandon Cherry and bassist Nik Blankenship.
Cherry, a Vacaville High School graduate, played music in high school and went on
to become a a member of Give Them Hell in about 2006.
“We are genuine friends, there’s a lot of mojo behind the band,” Neergaard said.
“Swell” was recorded in Sacramento. The band did a lot of preproduction work then hired an engineer who was “totally on board with the sound they were going for,” Cherry said.
Among the tunes is “Preacher Man,” Neergaard wrote for his late father. The family was often relocated because of his father’s work in the ministry and has called five different places in the Golden State “home.”
Each member contributes. A song may begin with a few riffs from the guitar of Ian Devereux White and others join in with their contributions.
“Swell” features six songs. Cherry is the mastermind behind the album’s title, saying it reflects the band’s journey together.
The band was a trio until Blankenship joined, after being highly recommended. He fit in right away and brings and lets his presence be known through his bass. Along the lines of when Red Hot Chili Peppers, bassist Flea, whose sound is recognized from the first
note, Neergaard said.
The Band High Noon earned its BottleRock gig after being noticed by the BottleRock team after a performance at Napa Valley 2 Ukraine, a 2022 benefit show that featured Grammy-Winning Fantastic Negrito and The Stone Foxes to raise awareness and money for Ukraine.
The musicians bring varying professions to the band.
Cherry is a real estate agent; Devereux White is a vintner.
Neergaard is Director of Business Development and co-Founder of Fly With Wine; Blankenship is a music teacher.
The Band High Noon features a strong 90s component to its music, reminiscent of bands such as Alice in Chains of Stone Temple Pilots.
Learn more at www.thebandhighnoon.com.
‘Swell’ release party
n 7 p.m. Friday
n Journey Downtown, 308 Main St. Vacaville
Daily Republic Staff DRNEWS@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET
VALLEJO — Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, has a new reimagined Shark Experience.
Enhancements include a new entry experience that represents a journey to the ocean f loor, all-new lighting and sound, new displays and opportunities for special aquarist presentations.
“We are excited to continue the park’s 37-year legacy of providing educational and thrilling wildlife adventures for our guests,” said General Manager Kirk Smith, in a press release. “The New Shark Experience is the latest example of our commitment to delivering the most unique and innovative experiences for our guests.
From world-class rollercoasters to breathtaking animal experiences, we have it all.”
“Sharks are one of the most misunderstood animals on earth,” said Aquatic Animal Care Specialist Erin Paiva, said in the release. “Through education and this incredible revitalized facility, we can show our guests how fascinating these creatures of the deep are and hope that they leave with a
greater appreciation and desire to help conservation efforts.”
Shark Experience highlights include:
n 300,000-gallon aquarium.
n Walkthrough crystal-clear underwater tunnel.
n Floor-to-ceiling viewing windows.
n Tropical inspired entryway
n Enhanced light-
n https://jdt.onstagevacaville.org
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FAIRFIELD — The Fairfield-Suisun City Visual Arts ssociation will host the 25th annual Art on the Vine art, music and wine festival at BackRoad Vines Winery, 2221 Julian Lane. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and June 11.
More than 50 artists are expected.
Admission and parking is free.
On Saturday, guests can enjoy music from the Lab Rabs from 10 a.m. to noon and the Yuppie Liberation Front from 2 to 5 p.m.
ing and sound.
n Interactive shark dive and aquarist presentations.
n Several different shark species, other fish, and stingrays from around the world. For additional information on Shark Experience, visit sixflags.com/discovery kingdom/attractions/ shark-experience.
The Live Music Center’s Jazz Band performs 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. June 11, followed by Matt Applin & The Midnite Band, from 2 to 5 p.m. A bocce ball tournament is also planned.
Food will be available from Lunch in a Box and sweets from Baby O’s Donuts.
For additional information call Dennis Ariza at (707) 688-8889.
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As if she couldn’t be more legendary, Dolly Parton has broken three more Guinness World Records.
On Wednesday, the international record keeper held a ceremony in Nashville, Tennessee, to recognize the 77-yearold’s latest achievements as a woman in the country music genre.
NAPA — Valley Players will kick-off its Summer Staged Reading Series with new plays.
The goal is to engage audiences with thoughtprovoking narratives, vibrant characters, and powerful storytelling.
The first weekend of staged readings is Friday and Saturday at CrossWalk Community Church, 2590 First St.
At 7 p.m. Friday, the staged readings are:
“Broken” by Steve Apostolina, tells the story of a convicted teen murderer who is paroled after 33 years, She yearns for redemption, while a man, haunted by his family’s murder, seeks justice.
“Trending” by Janet J. Lawler: A seasoned TV anchorwoman faces a threat to her career when it is discovered that her social media numbers are not up to par.
“In the Cards by Michael Waterson: Set during the Great War with American suffragists struggling to be heard, a newly divorced woman, invites three friends over for an afternoon card game and finds her old relationships irrevocably changed.
“Love and Pepperoni” by Megan Gooden: An exploration of relationships and the versatility of pizza.
The featured plays at 2 p.m. Saturday are:
“The Gentle LifeChanging Magic of Burning it All Down to the Ground” by Heather
Beasley: After the sale of her hoarder mother’s house, a game developer and her mother embark on a journey of decluttering, sparking joy, and uncovering memories.
A Socially Distanced Farce in One Act” by Jenna Jane: Set in April 2020, this farce finds a crucial Zoom meeting testing coworkers’ ability to navigate family drama on-camera, bridge generational gaps, and master the art of muting at the right moments.
The actors hail from Napa and Solano Counties: Antonia Allegra, Ginna Beharry, Rhonda Bowen, Carlene Coury, Janet Duhé, Lizeth Flores, Bridget Folan, Lauren Haugen, Nancy Heine, Linda Howard, Craig Rekdahl, Bryan
Pro, Sonya Keller, Judith Meyers, Mellene Miller, Bruce Miroglio, Barbara Nemko, Marty Nemko, Cata Parkhurst, Patte Quinn, Dawn Sorokin, and Paige Whitney.
Reservations are requested, but not required and can be made online at valley-players.com/events.
There is a $10 suggested donation that can be made at the door.
Look for more plays in the Summer Staged Reading Series on July 7-8 and Aug. 4-5.
For more information, visit valley-players.com or contact Valley Players at valley.players.napa@ gmail.com or by calling (707)246-9662.
“I am humbled every time I receive a new Guinness World Record title,” the “Jolene” singer said, according to a statement Guinness released Wednesday. “I share these three new honors with my fans, who have allowed me to enjoy such a long career.”
The “9 to 5” singer graciously accepted her latest recognition and her humility was yet again on display. In 2021, the Tennessean philanthropist famously turned down a proposal in her home state for a statue to be made in her honor. And in 2022, she declined (but eventually accepted) her induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Parton has now broken her own record for the longest span of No. 1 hits on the U.S. top country album chart (female), Guinness announced Wednesday. Her most recent Billboard charttopper, “A Holly Dolly Christmas,” spent 43 years and 156 days at No. 1. The album is now third behind Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard and pushes Parton’s placement ahead of Reba McEntire and Shania Twain.
The “I Will Always Love You” singer-songwriter also broke the record for most studio albums released by a female country singer. The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter has released 65 albums between her 1967 album “Hello, Dolly” and her 2022 album “Run, Rose, Run.”
Her third recognition breaks the record for most top 10 entries on Billboard’s U.S. top country albums chart (female) Parton’s first appearance in the top 10 was with Porter Wagoner on “ Just Between You and Me” in 1968 when the song peaked at No. 8. Parton’s 2022 album “Diamonds & Rhinestones: The Greatest Hits Collection” was her 48th top 10 entry on Billboard’s country albums chart.
“Celebrating the longevity and success of Dolly Parton’s remarkable career with three more Guinness World Records titles was incredible,” adjudicator Michael E mpric said in an announcement released by Guinness.
The additions bring her world record count up to 10. Some previous records including the following:
n Most decades with a top 20 hit on the U.S. hot country songs chart
n Most No. 1 hits on the U.S. hot country songs chart by a female artist
n Most decades on the U.S. hot country songs chart (female)
n Most hits on the U.S. hot country songs chart by a female artist
Since December, I have been teaching through the book of Job.
The first 37 chapters are Job complaining of his dire circumstances and his “good friends” coming to advise him all of his suffering is due to sin in his life. They offered no consolation to a man who had lived a pretty righteous, God-fearing life.
In chapter 38 God speaks and he has quite a bit to say. Something caught my eye right at the beginning as he addresses Job.
He says in chapter 38, and repeats it again in chapter 40; “Now prepare yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me.”
As I read this I thought, there are a lot of people today who would very much resent God telling a man to be a man. I wondered how many today might accuse God of being a bully.
How would Caitlyn Jenner answer God if he confronted her/him with the same statement?
Did God actually make mistakes when he created some male and some female? God created everything we see and everything we are, and I am dazzled by the complexities of things like eyeballs, lungs, hearts, brains, and yes, even nose hairs. I have yet to hear a single scientific evolutionist explain how these things evolved from ooze from a puddle.
Yet when they cling to their impossible beliefs, essentially, they are stating they know more than God. They believe science over the Bible. In verse 8 of chapter 40, God asks Job; “Would you indeed annul my judgment? Would you condemn Me that you may be justified?”
For these men today are saying they are right, and God is wrong, they are leading many astray and where they are leading does not have a happy ending.
What will they say when God asks them the same things he asks Job, when they come before him on that day of judgment promised to all mankind.
Personally, I’d like to skip that day of judg ment and just go directly to heaven and live happily ever after for eternity.
I would like to see many more go with me, but there is one catch. Jesus said in John 3:3; “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.”
How can that happen?
Romans 10:9; “If you confess with your mouth ‘Jesus is Lord’ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” When you confess you are a sinner (broken God’s law) and accept that Jesus went to the cross to pay for your sins, and ask him to forgive you, he will come and dwell in your heart, and you will be born again.
When he comes to live in you, you will get the benefit of understanding his word, and you will even be able to know what sex you are.
It’s a good deal. Do it today.
The Rev. Noel Reese is the pastor at Calvary Chapel Rio Vista. He can be reached at www.calvarychapel riovista.com.
Five years ago, while running for governor, Gavin Newsom pledged to transform California’s medical care to a single-payer system similar to those in Canada and western Europe. Newsom backed single-payer legislation, which had passed the state Senate, saying there was “no reason to wait around.”
“I’m tired of politicians saying they support single-payer but that it’s too soon, too expensive or someone else’s problem,” Newsom said.
His position helped solidify support for Newsom among the proposal’s progressive advocates as he dueled with a fellow Democrat, Antonio Villaraigosa.
The bill stalled in the Assembly, and after winning the election, Newsom began edging away from the single-payer concept, citing difficult barriers.
One is persuading the federal government to give California the $200-plus billion it spends on Californians’ health care – about half the state’s total medical expenditures.
Newsom segued into pursuing universal health care, meaning all of the nearly 40 million Californians would have some sort of coverage, and came close last year.
At the time, “About 3 million Californians reported being uninsured in spring 2022,” a report from the Public Policy Institute of California notes, citing census data. “Nearly seven in 10 (68%) are Latino, about 38% are noncitizens and 80% have low or moderate incomes (below 400% of the federal poverty line).”
Some of the gap was closed in the 2022-23 budget, drawing on what seemed to be a nearly $100 billion budget surplus, by extending Medi-Cal coverage to undocumented immigrants otherwise ineligible for federally subsidized insurance.
“Beginning no later than January 1, 2024, Medi-Cal will be available to all income-eligible Californians,” the final 2022-23 budget declared.
The expansion of Medi-Cal – California’s version of the federal Medicaid program – was made easier during the COVID-19 pandemic when federal authorities relaxed eligibility requirements. This year, enrollment topped 15 million, or nearly 40% of the state’s population.
Under his “California Blueprint,” universal health care is still Newsom’s professed goal. However, at the moment, coverage appears to be shrinking, and with the state facing chronic budget deficits, reaching it before Newsom’s governorship ends would be difficult, if not impossible.
The federal government’s “continuous enrollment” pandemic policy is expiring and hundreds of thousands of Californians who benefited from it will once again have to prove their eligibility.
Newsom’s revised 2023-24 budget, unveiled last month, projects that Medi-Cal enrollment will decline by more than a million people, still more than a third of the state’s population but moving away from the universal coverage Newsom has sought as a single-payer substitute.
Single-payer advocates are, unsurprisingly, annoyed by Newsom’s failure to deliver on his 2018 promise. They gave him some heat when he appeared at last month’s state Democratic Party convention.
Covering all Californians would be expensive. Medi-Cal coverage costs federal and state governments about $10,000 per enrollee. No one knows precisely how many Californians still lack coverage today but 2 million is as good a number as any, and including that many more in Medi-Cal could potentially cost another $20 billion a year.
Meanwhile, single-payer advocates haven’t given up. Last week, the state Senate passed Senate Bill 770, aimed at implementing a plan for single-payer coverage developed by the Healthy California for All Commission, which Newsom created in 2019.
The bill would direct state agencies to begin talks with federal officials about participating in a California single-payer system.
“It’s time we made real progress toward eliminating the inequities and injustices of our fractured healthcare system,” a co-author of the bill, state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, said.
As Newsom finally learned, it’s much easier said than done.
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.
Much of the debate over warehouse construction in the Inland Empire – where the boom has been explosive in recent years – revolves around a single word: jobs.
Are the jobs worth it? Warehouses are, after all, both a job creator and an inconvenience. They take up large amounts of land that could be used for other purposes, from housing to open space. They are serviced by trucks, sometimes 24 hours a day. And with those trucks come traffic, air pollution and noise. They are not especially good neighbors.
But that’s true of a lot of economic activity. People don’t necessarily love to live near schools or hospitals, but they accept them as necessary parts of any community. What makes warehouses worth it, at least some of the time, is the jobs that they produce.
So, how great is the economic benefit in terms of jobs that warehouses bring to Riverside and San Bernardino counties, where the number of these buildings has been geometrically expanding?
It is both significant and significantly worrisome.
Matt Englhard is a developer and leader of the National Association of Office Parks, known as NAIOP. He’s been building projects in Southern California, including the Inland Empire, for decades. He sees warehouses as a crucial link in the region’s economy, both in terms of their importance to international trade and for the local jobs they create.
“Warehousing is one of the better entry jobs in the region,” he said in a recent interview. Yes, many of those warehouse jobs begin at or near minimum wage, but those are appealing to many young people seeking their first employment.
Moreover, entry-level jobs offer paths for promotion. Warehouse workers can become forklift drivers, electricians, truck drivers or warehouse supervisors – all with significant income potential. There’s nothing novel or wrong about starting at a low wage and moving up.
With warehouses moving adjacent to some of the Inland Empire’s wealthier neighborhoods, residents have complained that minimum-wage employment will hardly allow those workers to live nearby. That means they come from far away, creating traffic and air pollution. Englhard concedes that some of those homes will be out of reach to new workers.
The city of Fairfield wants to impose a Maintenance Assessment District in the downtown for tree and lighting Maintenance. There have been numerous meetings to establish this assessment district.
I have received no notifications I just received a ballot for a proposed levy of $978. Previous beautification attempts were characterized by incompetent planning and shoddy work.
West Texas Street is the heart of Fairfield it is where all our parades and festivals are held. These activities bring in sales tax revenue and entrance fees that should be utilized for maintenance. West Texas Street is a community asset and the cost of Lighting and Maintenance should be carried by all residents.
The city provided a restricted boundary. On Empire Street properties on the South side of the street are included in the proposed assessment district but hosed on the North side are exempt. I suppose that the trees are not visible on the north side and that the light does not bleed over. The boundaries of the proposed district are arbitrary and unfair.
The city provided an elaborate
But that’s hardly new. After all, he asked, “how many 18 to 30 year-olds are buying $700,000 homes?”
The new jobs created by warehouses, said Engl hard and Jonathan Sharldow, another NAIOP leader, help explain why the Inland Empire has demonstrated economic resiliency in recent years.
Jim NewtonThey pointed to a 2019 study by the Metropolitan Policy Program of the Brookings Institute that concluded, among other things, that the “Inland Empire’s logistics and manufacturing industries are crucial drivers of economic growth and prosperity.”
That economic foundation, the authors concluded, helped the region withstand the recession in the early 2000s and produce “unexpectedly swift jobs recovery.”
But that same report also lamented the uneven nature of that recovery, with only very wealthy residents showing economic gains. By 2016, some 41% of Inland Empire families were classified as “struggling.” The region’s poverty rate rose from 13% in 2005 to 16% in 2016.
That’s despite the explosive growth of warehouses. In 1980, there were 234 warehouses across the Inland Empire. Since then, the number has roughly doubled every 10 years. Today, there are more than 4,000, and they take up roughly 1 billion square feet of land.
The logistics industry, anchored by warehouses, employs more than 200,000 people in the Inland Empire.
Those jobs have helped some young people find work and have supplied opportunities for others to promote. But they have not dented poverty rates, nor have they helped reduce inequality.
“The argument we hear all the time is ‘these jobs are better than no jobs,’” said Susan Phillips, a professor of environmental analysis at Pitzer College and director of the Robert Redford Conservancy. But that, she said, is a false choice that suggests warehouses are the region’s only option.
And these jobs, most of them close to minimum wage, come at a cost: the lost opportunity to develop other parts of the economy, which might be more prosperous or resilient.
“One of the problems with warehouses is that they take up a lot of
formula that the used to calculate each parcel’s fee. Every sixth grader know that if you provide an answer without showing the work the answer is invalid. This should be provided to every property owner in the district.
My total property taxes are $1,227.63.
That’s a 79% increase. Normal property taxes increments are limited by Prop 13 to 1% but the city will raise these assessments by 3% yearly. They want to tie that raise to the Consumer Price Index if the CPI goes negative, they will not adjust the assessment down.
I don’t trust the city to plan realistically. The city didn’t advise property owners it was forming the district. The city did not divulge its calculations for the assessments. They act without citizen involvement. They hide their assessment calculations. I will vote no on this and I hope you will, too.
Raymond Klein FairfieldWow! Another special election. Another 100-plus grand out the window. Let’s hope the shekels shot on this goat rope will produce a worthwhile and trendy Solano County school board member that the voters
land,” Phillips said. “They crowd out the room for anything else to grow.” There is yet another problem to consider. Many types of work are subject to stress these days. Generative artificial intelligence is threatening writers and lawyers and all manner of other workers, and automation is transforming others. Warehouse employment is particularly vulnerable to both trends.
Automation already has become so sophisticated that manufacturers already dream of “dark warehouses,” which are facilities powered by robots and AI and don’t need lights (robots are happy to work in the dark).
Those warehouses won’t replace current ones tomorrow – the investment costs are significant – but they may not be far away.
“We need to be prepared,” said Johannes Moenius, a professor at the University of Redlands and director of the Institute for Spatial Economic Analysis. “Within the next 10 years, the warehouse sector will undergo tremendous changes.”
He’s not exaggerating. One study by the institute concluded that some 75% of warehouse jobs are “susceptible to automation.”
That suggests that the warehouse boom may keep pace with automation for a time – new warehouses going up fast enough to compensate for jobs being automated – but then begin to decline. And once that decline begins, it will be fast and steep.
As Moenius noted, the bigger the employment base, the larger the drop. When 300,000 jobs drop by 75%, that could mean the loss of more than 200,000 workers in a very short period.
There will be, Moenius emphasized – and apologies for his glumness – “substantial unemployment.”
So which is it? Are warehouses the lifeblood of the Inland Empire, supplying it with badly needed employment to help it power through a recession and COVID? Or are they providing wages that barely keep pace with poverty and that may soon go away altogether?
The answer is both – and that should be cause for concern.
Jim Newton is a veteran journalist, best-selling author and teacher.
in Vacaville’s Ward #4 will finally embrace. Evidently a concerned cabal that reside there were piqued that their pick was passed over and orchestrated a first amendment petition to oust the incumbent and vote in their bestie on September 12.
Of course, special elections, although fashionable, can be quite a handful to whomp up. Hurdles abound to justify the price tag. (Uber is happy to help harvest ballots and cemetery workers are willing to poll the pallid but this costs money.) Not leaving anything to chance, rumor has it that the Solano County guys are putting together a preparations committee. This august body will spend countless hours of additional tax money furrowing their brows and scratching their chins in an effort to seek out any perceived flaws in the voting venue and nip them in the bud.
“Oversight is the bane of hindsight.” intoned Dewey Kneed II., the proposed chairman of the committee. “We need to guarantee the good people of Ward Four their long overdue justice and that they feel fully compensated this September 12, a day they’ll celebrate for years.”
No doubt, the other wards in Vacaville are happy for them and will circle the date on their calendars.
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DENVER — Bam Adebayo said he plans to stay aggressive. Jimmy Butler vowed to become more aggressive.
That was the mindset expressed Saturday by the Miami Heat’s leading men heading into Sunday’s 5 p.m., PDT, Game 2 of the NBA Finals against the Denver Nuggets, with the Heat down 1-0 in the bestof-seven series.
While Adebayo closed
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Thursday’s 104-93 Game 1 loss with 26 points, he did it on 25 shots. Butler, by contrast, was limited to a playoff-low 13 points, shooting 6 of 14. “I just think I’ve got to do a better job of getting the ball, demanding the ball, being more aggres-
sive,” Butler said. “That’s just that, and that will change come Game 2. Yes, they do have some really good defenders, but I have seen really good defenders before.”
Like Adebayo, Butler did not get to the foul line in Game 2, a game the Heat shot only two free throws, an NBA playoff all-time low.
But Butler said he is not going to bypass open teammates to instead play in traffic.
“I’m going to continue
to play the right way,” he said. “I’m going to pass the ball to my shooters the way I have been playing the entire playoffs, the entire year.
“But yeah, I think I’ve got to be more aggressive putting pressure on the rim. I think that makes everybody’s job a lot easier. They definitely follow suit whenever I’m aggressive on both sides of the ball. So I have to be the one to come out and kick that off the right way, which I will, and we’ll see
where we end up.”
For his part, Adebayo said this is no time to back off, particularly with Nuggets center Nikola Jokic playing in drop mode on defense, allowing for open mid-range attempts.
“I feel like all those shots were in my wheelhouse, and I’ve been shooting them all season,” Adebayo said.
It also feels as if the Nuggets are willing to allow it to happen again.
“Well, we didn’t go in saying we’re going to
make Bam Adebayo beat us,” Denver coach Michael Malone said. “We came in with full respect for Bam Adebayo.
“But if you’re going to score 26 points on 25 shots, that’s something we’re willing to live with.”
But Adebayo said it doesn’t mean he has to be the one in the pick-and-roll game winding up with the shots, with a Game 2 goal of helping create attack lanes for Butler. “I think it’s the nature
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SANTA CLARA — If the Warriors or Sharks had their leading scorer in each of the past six seasons leave the team, it would be a pretty big deal.
But when that exact thing happened to the 49ers this offseason with kicker Robbie Gould’s exit, more attention was paid to when the team drafted his replacement.
Kickers get no respect – even when you really need them.
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ties and faults, he made big-time field goals in bigtime moments.
But how do you test for mental toughness in a workout environment?
Bad snappers.
Schneider chalks it up to good luck for him and terrible luck for Moody, but the draft prospect’s long snapper for his oneon-one pre-draft workout with the Niners was, according to the coach, “atrocious.”
Armijo High School senior Cierra Kinsey signs a national letter-of-intent to run track and field at UC Davis Saturday
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FAIRFIELD — Ever since running with the boys in kindergarten, Armijo High School senior Cierra Kinsey knew she was fast.
The track and field standout signed a national letter-of-intent Saturday afternoon with UC Davis in the Armijo cafeteria before family, friends, coaches and teammates.
Kinsey will made the short trek up Interstate 80 to become an Aggie in athletics and in the classroom, eventually working toward medical school and a what she hopes is a future as a heart surgeon.
But the speed? Very noticeable throughout the Royals ‘season, it took
her all the way to the SacJoaquin Section Masters Championship (at UC Davis, no less), a season to remember and an athletic scholarship.
But she says it began in kindergarten.
“The first time I was playing tag with my friends and I was running with the boys,” she said. “They couldn’t catch me. That’s when I was known as the fastest kid in my class.”
Kinsey started competing in fifth grade but didn’t start working with coaches until middle school. Despite two years lost to the Covid pandemic and other challenges, she made the most of her final two seasons and excelled.
She finished sixth in the girls’ 400 meters (58.10 seconds) at Masters
recently, took second in the Division III finals (56.76, the fourth fastest time in the section this year) and won the Monticello Empire League title (57.58). Kinsey did not run in the 200 finals at Masters, but took fourth at Division II (25.27) and won the MEL title (25.60).
With teammates Anistecia Kinsey (her sister), A’jah Parks and Sanai Wilson, Cierra Kinsey helped the Armijo 4x100 relay team to seventh at Masters (49.04). That group was second in Division III (48.75).
“I think I did well this season,” Cierra Kinsey said. “I just wish I had gone to state. I guess I wasn’t used to that pace.”
UC Davis is a dream come true as her dad
John also graduated from there. The top-notch education will help her pursue her dreams and also take away the burden of having to drive everywhere.
“I like the way everybody bikes everywhere,” she said. “I like being athletic and I hate driving. It also feels good to not have to worry about financial stuff for the next four years and focus on track and school.”
Her mom, Anisa Kinsey, says athletics have given her the chance to go far..
“It’s overwhelming really, incredible,” Anisa Kinsey said. “It’s been a long journey. To know that she gets to pursue what she wants to do is amazing.”
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The 2022-23 high school sports season was full of excitement, big hits and thrilling wins.
Here are some things that caught of the eye of this sports editor in his first year with the Daily Republic. Some of the best athletes, teams and moments are highlighted.
Athletes of the Year
Girls: Alyssa Jackson, Vanden. Jackson is the three-time Monticello Empire League Player of the Year. She was selected first-team on max preps.com's All-SacJoaquin Section squad as a senior. The San Diego State recruit averaged 20.4 points per game, 5.9 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 3.9 steals. Those numbers could easily be
higher if not for all the lopsided victories the Lady Vikings collected en route to a section title.
Boys: Leroy Bryant, Rodriguez. The Mustangs' star could beat opponents on the football field so many ways. Bryant was a standout wide receiver at Rodriguez, a lockdown cornerback and a threat from anywhere on the field with the special teams. Bryant caught 58 passes for 837 yards and six touchdowns, and added a rushing score. On defense, he had 10 solo tackles, three interceptions, a pass deflection, a forced fumble and a fumble recovery. He is headed to the University of Washington.
Most Inspiring
Athlete: Leilani Tiemann, Armijo. Tiemann completed a great season with the Armijo junior varsity girls basketball
team. Tiemann is a sophomore with the Royals who was born with Down Syndrome. Tiemann was encouraged by physical education instructor Melissa Wilson to go out for the team and welcomed by head coach Mike Sapapo and her teammates. Tiemann had tremendous support of her teammates, members of both the boys and girls basketball programs, the student body, and oppo-
nents alike.
Heart of Fairfield
High: Jimmy Green, Fairfield. The heart-and-soul of the Falcons defense, Green had 63 tackles and of those 62 were solo, earning him a spot on the Daily Republic's AllRegion team. He had a quarterback sack and a memorable 60-yard fumble return for touchdown against Armijo that helped rally the Falcons back into the game. Green also had a solid wrestling season and earned a Good Character Youth Award from the FairfieldSuisun Rotary Club and NorthBay Health.
3 to watch in 2023-24 Jericho Johnson, Armijo: The 6-foot-5, 305-pound lineman is the immovable object with See Beat, Page B12
Kyle Shanahan knows how important they are, though. Gould’s reliability within 50 yards and ability to nail kicks in even the most adverse conditions were a significant part of the Niners coach’s offensive plan since both arrived here in 2017.
So the 49ers selected Michigan kicker Jake Moody in the third round –a ludicrously early pick to folks in the “analytics community” – to be the next Gould, a steady and reliable force.
And perhaps a bit more, too.
“[He’s] Everything we thought he was,” Niners special teams coordinator Brian Schneider said Wednesday of Moody. “Just really consistent, really even-keeled, and exactly what we hoped he’d be.”
It was Schneider who was tasked with finding Gould’s replacement this offseason, and that meant, above all else, finding someone who would not get rattled by big moments. For all of Gould’s quali-
“Great guy, love him to death, but he’s terrible at snapping,” Moody said of the Michigan tight end and emergency snapper who will remain nameless.
“I absolutely loved it,” Schneider said.
Like golf, kicking is as much a mental game as a physical one. A slight deviation in a leg swing can create a spiral of mechanics and confidence.
Only four kickers before Moody had been selected in the third round or earlier in this century. The last kicker selected on Day 2 of the draft – Roberto Aguayo, the No. 59 overall pick in 2016 – flamed out after one season with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Aguayo might have been the most accurate kicker in the history of college football but the pressure of the NFL was too much for him, and Tampa Bay didn’t find out until he was on the roster, missing easy kicks in preseason games.
That’s the cautionary tale every NFL team carries with them
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FAIRFIELD — The Fairfield Expos extended their winnings streak to seven games after sweeping a doubleheader against the Diablo Valley Oaks Friday night at Laurel Creek.
Fairfield won the first game 6-1 and took the second 6-0. The Expos improved to 18-3 overall. Another doubleheader is set for Sunday at 1 p.m. against Vallejo Post 550.
Connor Broschard pitched a strong four innings in the first game with solid relief work from Jackson Kolakoski and Matty Hague. Broschard allowed four hits, one earned run and one walk to go with three strikeouts. Kolakoski struck out two in two innings and gave up just one hit and
no earned runs. Hague worked a solid inning with two strikeouts.
Bryce Alcantara, Cy Dempsey, Blake Bozzini and Matty Hague had hits for the Expos. Bozzini delivered a triple and drove in two runs. Ryan Kariolich, Drew Carrington and Jace Parkinson also had RBIs.
Grant Genter pitched a gem in game two before giving way to Carrington in the final frame. Genter worked six innings, allowed one hit, no earned runs, one walk and struck out six batters. Carrington struck out two batters. Fairfield only had two hits – from Hague and Carrington – and were able to take advantage of four Diablo Valley errors and four walks. Isaiah Pazmino made two diving catches in the outfield.
• NCAA Regionals, Teams TBA, ESPN2, 9 a.m.
• NCAA Regionals, Teams TBA, ESPN, 9 a.m.
• NCAA Regionals, Teams TBA, ESPN2, Noon.
• NCAA Regionals, Teams TBA, ESPN2, 6 p.m.
MLB
• Oakland vs. Miami, NBCSCA, 10:40 a.m.
• Baltimore vs. San Francisco, NBCSBA, 1:05 p.m.
• N.Y. Yankees vs. L.A. Dodgers, ESPN, 4:10 p.m.
Basketball NBA • Finals, Denver vs. Miami, 7, 10, 5 p.m.
Football USFL
• New Orleans vs. Michigan, 2, 40, 1 p.m.
Golf
• DP World, Porsche European Open, GOLF, 4 a.m.
• PGA, The Memorial, GOLF, 9:30 a.m.
• PGA, The Memorial, 5, 13, 11:30 a.m.
• Champions, Principal Charity Classic, GOLF, 11:30 a.m.
• LPGA, Mizuho Americas Open, GOLF, 2 p.m.
Lacrosse
• PLL, Chaos vs. Archers, 7,10, 10 a.m.
Motorsports
• F-1, Spain Grand Prix, ESPN, 5:55 a.m.
• NASCAR Cup Series, Enjoy Illinois 300, FS1, 12:30 p.m.
Tennis • French Open, 3, 9 a.m.
Soccer CONCACAF
• Los Angeles vs. Club Leon, FS1, 6 p.m.
Softball College
• World Series, Stanford vs. Washington, 7, 10, Noon.
• World Series, Oklahoma St. vs. Tennessee, ESPN, 4 p.m.
Shaq has changed what it means to be a retired superstar athlete
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LOS ANGELES — Shaq is everywhere.
Laughing it up with Charles Barkley on TNT. Serving as the post-crisis face of Papa John’s pizza. Fist pumping for Carnival Cruise Line. Hawking Epson printers, air fryers, Icy Hot, car insurance, cereal and Shaqtoberfest.
“I’ve always been a businessman who is athletic,” he said during a 2013 interview on CNBC.
Even his alter ego DJ Diesel will rev up the crowd with electronic dance music prior to the June 11 Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Sonoma Raceway. He will drop the beat on the pre-race stage to headline race festivities for the 34th annual NASCAR Cup Series race.
There have been greats. There have been savvy athletes-turnedbusinesspeople. And of course, there have always been big personalities.
But none have melded it together into a multimillion-dollar, airwave-dominating, viral moment-making empire quite like Shaquille O’Neal.
The legendary NBA big man is now known to an even wider audience from the plethora of products he endorses, his basketball commentary on TNT and his extensive business portfolio, including such unrelated firms as the Majority ad agency, Ring doorbells and his own fastfood chain, Big Chicken.
“I think his brand is stronger now than it has ever been,” said Natasha Brison, an associate professor at Texas A&M who specializes in athlete branding. “He’s literally reshaped what it means to be a retired athlete.”
O’Neal’s sweeping interests make him ubiquitous in the business world and on your television screen.
He’s a big believer in franchising, and over the years has owned 40 24-Hour Fitness gyms, 155 Five Guys restaurants, at least one Krispy Kreme doughnut shop, 17 Auntie Anne’s pretzel stands and nine Papa John’s pizza places. His Big Chicken chain will soon have 18 locations across the country and on two Carnival Cruise ships and offers its own franchise opportunities.
He’s appeared in commercials for Icy Hot, the General insurance, Buick, Frosted Flakes, Novex Biotech, Reebok, Google,
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Pepsi, Ring, Gold Bond, JCPenney, PointsBet sports betting and Tonka.
He’s worked with live events companies such as Thirteenth Floor Entertainment Group and Medium Rare to produce Shaqtoberfest Halloween carnival at the Queen Mary in Long Beach and the Shaq’s Fun House Super Bowl festival.
He’s partnered with Zales, Macy’s and AriZona Beverages to put out his own Shaq-branded lines of products, including Soda Shaq, a giant can emblazoned with O’Neal’s grinning head.
He’s a board member at Papa John’s, a founding partner of Majority, which focuses on diversity in advertising, and a shareholder in Genius Brands International, a children’s media company with which he’ll have an animated show titled “Shaq’s Garage.”
He’s a strategic advisor for Forest Road Acquisition Corp. II, a special
purpose acquisition company that looks for companies to merge with and then take public.
He’s a brand ambassador and strategic consultant for mobile sports betting app WynnBet, a deal that forced him to sell his minority stake in the Sacramento Kings last year to conform with conflict-ofinterest rules.
He’s the second-largest independent stakeholder in Authentic Brands Group, a brand management firm that owns the likenessess of celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley and O’Neal himself and also buys distressed apparel and athletic brands and tries to turn them around.
The company owns Reebok – one of O’Neal’s earliest endorsement partners acquired in a deal he pushed for — and earlier this year, Authentic Brands said it would acquire surf brand Boardriders, which includes Quiksilver, Roxy and Billabong. O’Neal’s business holdings are indeed so extensive that his team has hosted a “Shaq Summit” for several years to get representatives from all of his brands and partnerships together in one room and plan out their campaigns.
It’s a far cry from his early career, when he relied mostly on lucrative endorsement deals with the likes of Reebok, Taco Bell and Pepsi.
MIAMI HERALD
MIAMI — Luis Arraez had a rare rough day at the plate on Friday. For the first time in a little over a week and just the eighth time this season, he failed to collect a hit in a game he started.
He more than made up for it on Saturday.
Arraez set a career high with five hits, including three doubles (which tied a career high), and five RBIs to lead an overall dominant performance by the Miami Marlins’ offense in a 12-1 win over the Oakland Athletics to clinch a threegame series at loanDepot park. Miami (31-28) also won the series opener 4-0 on Friday. The finale is at 10:40 a.m. Sunday, PDT.
Prior to Saturday, Arraez had never recorded more than four hits in a game, which he last did on April 11 when he hit for the first cycle in Marlins
history against the Philadelphia Phillies.
He led off the first inning with a single, added an RBI single in the second as part of a four-run inning, hit a bases-clearing double in the third that put the Marlins up 7-0, added a ground-rule RBI double to start a two-run fifth and hit another double in the seventh inning.
The Marlins had Garrett Hampson pinch-hit for Arraez in the eighth inning.
Arraez is just the 18th player in Marlins history to have a five-hit game and the first since Starlin Castro on Aug. 19, 2018, at the Washington Nationals. He is only the second player in Marlins history to have a five-hit game at loanDepot park, joining Martin Prado (Sept. 4, 2015, against the New York Mets).
Joey Wendle had a season-high three hits and three runs), Jonathan Davis added a two-run double.
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Petitioner: Shirley Vazquez Ayala fileda petitionwiththiscourtforadecreechangingnamesasfollows:
PresentName: a. Shirley Vazquez Ayala
ProposedName: a. Shirley (no middle name) Vazquez Ayala
THECOURTORDERSthatallpersonsinterestedinthismattershallappearbefore thiscourtatthehearingindicatedbelowto showcause,ifany,whythepetitionfor changeofnameshouldnotbegranted.
Anypersonobjectingtothename changesdescribedabovemustfileawrittenobjectionthatincludesthereasonsfor theobjectionatleasttwocourtdaysbeforethematterisscheduledtobeheard andmustappearatthehearingtoshow causewhythepetitionshouldnotbegranted.Ifnowrittenobjectionistimelyfiled, thecourtmaygrantthepetitionwithouta hearing.
LOCATEDAT120PhoenixCircle,Vallejo, CA94589Solano.Mailingaddress120 PhoenixCircleVallejo,CA94589.IS (ARE)HEREBYREGISTEREDBYTHE FOLLOWINGOWNER(S)#1Renee Sykes120PhoenixCircleVallejo,94589 #2PamelaSterling5005TehachapiWay Antioch,94531.THISBUSINESSIS CONDUCTEDBY: anUnincorporatedAssociationotherthan aPartnership Theregistrantcommencedtotransact businessunderthefictitiousbusiness nameornameslistedaboveon 01/27/2018. Ideclarethatallinformationinthisstatementistrueandcorrect(Aregistrantwho declaresastrueinformationwhichheor sheknowstobefalseisguiltyofacrime.)
/s/RenéeSykes-Secretary INACCORDANCEWITHSUBDIVISION (a)OFSECTION17920AFICTITIOUS NAMESTATEMENTGENERALLYEXPIRESATTHEENDOFFIVEYEARS FROMTHEDATEONWHICHITWAS FILEDINTHEOFFICEOFTHECOUNTY CLERK,EXCEPTASPROVIDEDIN SUBDIVISION(b)OFSECTION17920, WHEREITEXPIRES40DAYSAFTER ANYCHANGEINTHEFACTSSET FORTHINTHESTATEMENTPURSUANTTOSECTION17913OTHERTHAN ACHANGEINTHERESIDENCEADDRESSOFAREGISTEREDOWNER. ANEWFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENTMUSTBEFILEDBEFORE THEEXPIRATIONMay302028. THEFILINGOFTHISSTATEMENT DOESNOTOFITSELFAUTHORIZE THEUSEINTHISSTATEOFAFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAMEINVIOLATION OFTHERIGHTSOFANOTHERUNDER FEDERAL,STATEORCOMMONLAW (SEESECTION14411ETSEQ.,BUSINESSANDPROFESSIONSCODE). FiledintheOfficeoftheCountyClerkof SolanoCounty,StateofCaliforniaon: MAY312023 NewASSIGNEDFILENO.2023000890 CHARLESLOMELI,SolanoCountyClerk DR#00063776 Published:June4,11,18,25,2023
TOALLINTERESTEDPERSONS:
Petitioner: Maurice Moore filedapetition withthiscourtforadecreechanging namesasfollows:
PresentName: a. Maurice Thomas ProposedName: a. Maurice Moore THECOURTORDERSthatallpersonsinterestedinthismattershallappearbefore thiscourtatthehearingindicatedbelowto showcause,ifany,whythepetitionfor changeofnameshouldnotbegranted. Anypersonobjectingtothename changesdescribedabovemustfileawrittenobjectionthatincludesthereasonsfor theobjectionatleasttwocourtdaysbeforethematterisscheduledtobeheard andmustappearatthehearingtoshow causewhythepetitionshouldnotbegranted.Ifnowrittenobjectionistimelyfiled, thecourtmaygrantthepetitionwithouta hearing.
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME PETITION OF: SARA MEDINA CASE NUMBER: CU23-01554
TOALLINTERESTEDPERSONS:
Petitioner: Sara Medina filedapetition withthiscourtforadecreechanging namesasfollows: PresentName: a. Gracen Mathew Collier
ProposedName: a. Grayson Mathew Collier THECOURTORDERSthatallpersonsinterestedinthismattershallappearbefore thiscourtatthehearingindicatedbelowto showcause,ifany,whythepetitionfor changeofnameshouldnotbegranted. Anypersonobjectingtothename changesdescribedabovemustfileawrittenobjectionthatincludesthereasonsfor theobjectionatleasttwocourtdaysbeforethematterisscheduledtobeheard andmustappearatthehearingtoshow causewhythepetitionshouldnotbegranted.Ifnowrittenobjectionistimelyfiled, thecourtmaygrantthepetitionwithouta hearing.
NOTICE OF HEARING
Date: July 28, 2023; Time: 9:30am; Dept: 22; Rm: 3 The address of the court is: SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF Old Solano Courthouse 580 Texas Street Fairfield, CA 94533
changeofnameshouldnotbegranted. Anypersonobjectingtothenamechanges describedabovemustfileawrittenobjectionthatincludesthereasonsfortheobjectionatleasttwocourtdaysbeforethematterisscheduledtobeheardandmustappearatthehearingtoshowcausewhythe petitionshouldnotbegranted.Ifnowrittenobjectionistimelyfiled,thecourtmay grantthepetitionwithoutahearing.
bepublishedatleastonceeachweekfor foursuccessiveweekspriortothedate setforhearingonthepetitioninthefollowingnewspaperofgeneralcirculation,printedinthiscounty:DailyRepublic Pleasefileproofofnewspaperpublication atleast5businessdaysbeforehearing (newspaperdoesnotfilew/court)zoom ok.zoominvitewillbeemailed1-2days beforehearing Date:MAY162023 /s/C.Carringer JudgeoftheSuperiorCourt FILED:MAY172023 DR#00063577 Published:May28June4,11,18,2023
AcopyofthisOrdertoShowCauseshall bepublishedatleastonceeachweekfor foursuccessiveweekspriortothedate setforhearingonthepetitioninthefollowingnewspaperofgeneralcirculation,printedinthiscounty:DailyRepublic Pleasefileproofofnewspaperpublication atleast5businessdaysbefore hearing (newspaperdoesnotfilew/court)zoom ok.zoominvitewillbeemailed1-2days beforehearing Date:5/30/2023 /s/AlesiaJones JudgeoftheSuperiorCourt FILED:MAY312023 DR#00063782 Published:June4,11,18,25,2023
NOTICE OF HEARING
CITYOFSUISUNCITY NOTICEOFADOPTIONOFORDINANCE
NOTICEISHEREBYGIVENthatundertheprovisionsofGovernmentCodeSection 36933,OrdinanceNo.800wasadoptedbytheCityCounciloftheCityofSuisunCityata regularmeetingheldonTuesday,May23,2023.ThefollowingisthefulltextofsaidOrdinance.
ORDINANCENO.800
ANORDINANCEOFTHECITYCOUNCILOFTHECITYOFSUISUNCITYLEVYING SPECIALTAXWITHINCITYOFSUISUNCITYCOMMUNITYFACILITIESDISTRICT NO.2(MUNICIPALSERVICES),INCL UDINGCERTAINANNEXATIONTERRITORY
CITYOFSUISUNCITY
CommunityFacilitiesDistrictNo.2 (MunicipalServices)
AnnexationNo.16(MarinaVillageApartments)
WHEREAS,theCityofSuisunCity(the“City”)hasconductedproceedingspursuantto theMello-RoosCommunityFacilitiesAct,Chapter2.5ofPart1ofDivision2ofTitle5 commencingwithSection53311,oftheCaliforniaGovernmentCode(the“Act”)toestablish“CityofSuisunCityCommunityFacilitiesDistrictNo.2(MunicipalServices)”(the “CFD”)forthepurposeoffinancingcertainmunicipalservices(the“Services)asprovided intheAct;and
WHEREAS,therateandmethodofapportionmentofspecialtaxfortheCFD(the“OriginalRateandMethod”)issetforthinExhibitAtoCityCouncilResolution2005-89,which wasadoptedonNovember15,2005(the“ResolutionofFormation”);and WHEREAS,theCityhasconductedproceedingstoannexterritoryintotheCFDand,in connectiontherewith,approvedsupplementstotheOriginalRateandMethod(assupplemented,the“RateandMethod”);
NOW,THEREFORE,BEITORDAINEDBYTHECITYCOUNCILOFTHECITYOF SUISUNCITYasfollows:
SECTIONONE:BythepassageofthisOrdinance,pursuanttotheAct,theCouncil herebyauthorizesandleviestheSpecialTaxwithint heCFD,includingallterritoryannexedintotheCFDpriortothedatehereof,attherateandinaccordancewithmethod setforthintheRateandMethod,whichrateandmethodarebythisreferenceincorporatedherein.TheSpecialTaxhaspreviouslybeenleviedintheoriginalterritoryofthe CFDbeginninginfiscalyear2006-07pursuanttoOrdinanceNo.684,passedandadoptedbytheCityCouncilonDecember6,2005,andtheSpecialTaxisherebyleviedcommencinginfisc alyear2022-23intheterritoryannexedtotheCFDsubsequenttoformationoftheCFD,andineachfiscalyearthereaftertopayfortheServicesfortheCFDand allcostsofadministeringtheCFD. TheCityCouncilherebyratifiesthelevyofspecialtaxeswithintheCFDpursuanttothe Act,attherateandinaccordancewiththeRateandMethod,infiscalyears2006-07 through2022-23.
SECTIONTWO:TheCityManagerordesignee,oranemployeeorconsultantoftheCity isherebyauthorizedanddirectedeachfiscalyeartodeterminethespecificSpecialTax tobeleviedforthenextensuingfiscalyearforeachparcelofrealpropertywithinthe CFD,includingallterritoryannexedtotheCFDpriortothedatehereof,inthemanner andasprovidedintheRateandMethod.
SECTIONTHREE:ExemptionsfromthelevyoftheSpecialTaxshallbeasprovidedin theResolutionofFormation,theRateandMethodandtheapplicableprovisionsofthe Act.Inno eventshalltheSpecialTaxbeleviedonanyparcelwithintheCFDinexcessof themaximumSpecialTaxspecifiedintheRateandMethod.
SECTIONFOUR:AllofthecollectionsoftheSpecialTaxshallbeusedasprovidedinthe ActandintheResolutionofFormation,including,butnotlimitedto,thepaymentofcosts oftheServices,thepaymentofthecostsoftheCityinadministeringtheCFD,andthe costsofcollectingandadministeringtheSpecialTax.
SECTIONFIVE:TheSpecial Taxshallbecollectedinthesamemannerasordinaryad valoremtaxesarecollectedandshallhavethesamelienpriority,andbesubjecttothe samepenaltiesandthesameprocedureandsaleincasesofdelinquencyasprovidedfor advaloremtaxes;provided,however,thattheCouncilmayprovideforotherappropriate methodsofcollectionbyresolution(s)oftheCouncil.TheCityManageroftheCity(orthe CityManager’sdesignee)isherebyauthorizedanddirectedtoprovideallnecessaryinformationtotheauditor/taxcollectoroftheCountyofSolanoinordertoeffectproper billingandcollectionoftheSpecialTax,sothattheSpecialTaxshallbeincludedonthe securedpropertytaxrolloftheCountyofSolanoforfiscalyear2022-23andforeachfiscalyearthereafter,assetforthabove,untilnolongerrequiredtopayfortheServicesor untilotherwiseterminatedbytheCity.
SECTIONSIX:IfforanyreasonanyportionofthisOrdinanc eisfoundtobeinvalid,orif theSpecialTaxisfoundinapplicabletoanyparticularparcelwithintheCFD,includingall territoryannexedtotheCFDpriortothedatehereof,byacourtofcompetentjurisdiction thebalanceofthisOrdinanceandtheapplicationoftheSpecialTaxtotheremainingparcelswithintheCFD,includingallterritoryannexedtotheCFDpriortothedatehereof shallnotbeaffected.
SECTIONSEVEN:TheMayorshallsignthisOrdinanceandtheCityClerkshallcause thesametobepublishedimmediatelyafteritspassageatleastonceinanewspaperof generalcirculationcirculatedintheCity.
SECTIONEIGHT:ThisCouncilaffirmstheprovisionsofOrdinanceNo.684excepttothe extentanytermsofsuchOrdinanceareinconsistentwiththeprovisionsofthisOrdinance inwhichcasethetermsofthisOrdinanceshallgovern.
SECTIONNINE:ThisOrdinanceshallbecomeeffective(30)daysfollowingitspassage andadoptionandshallbepublishedoncewithinfifteen(15)daysuponpassageandadoptioninanewspaperofgeneralcirculationintheCityofSuisunCity,CountyofSolano Ayes:Councilmembers:Dawson/Osum/Pal/Washington/MayorHernandez
Noes:Councilmembers:None
Absent:Councilmembers:None
DonnaPock,DeputyCityClerk
Dated:June1,2023
DR#00063831 Publisehd:June4,2023
CITYOFSUISUNCITY NOTICEOFADOPTIONOFORDINANCE
NOTICEISHEREBYGIVENthatundertheprovisionsofGovernmentCodeSection 36933,OrdinanceNo.799wasadoptedbytheCityCounciloftheCityofSuisunCityata regularmeetingheldonTuesday,May23,2023.ThefollowingisthefulltextofsaidOrdinance.
ORDINANCENO.799
ANORDINANCEOFTHECITYCOUNCILOFTHECITYOFSUISUNCITYLEVYING SPECIALTAXWITHINCITYOFSUISUNCITYCOMMUNITYFACILITIESDISTRICT NO.2(MUNICIPALSERVICES),INCL UDINGCERTAINANNEXATIONTERRITORY CITYOFSUISUNCITY CommunityFacilitiesDistrictNo.2 (MunicipalServices) AnnexationNo.15(LawlerMixed-Use
WHEREAS,theCityofSuisunCity(the“City”)hasconductedproceedingspursuantto theMello-RoosCommunityFacilitiesAct,Chapter2.5ofPart1ofDivision2ofTitle5 commencingwithSection53311,oftheCaliforniaGovernmentCode(the“Act”)toestablish“CityofSuisunCityCommunityFacilitiesDistrictNo.2(MunicipalServices)”(the “CFD”)forthepurposeoffinancingcertainmunicipalservices(the“Services)asprovided intheAct;and WHEREAS,therateandmethodofapportionmentofspecialtaxfortheCFD(the“OriginalRateandMethod”)issetforthinExhibitAtoCityCouncilResolution2005-89,which wasadoptedonNovember15,2005(the“ResolutionofFormation”);and WHEREAS,theCityhasconductedproceedingstoannexterritoryintotheCFDand,in connectiontherewith,approvedsupplementstotheOriginalRateandMethod(assupplemented,the“RateandMethod”); NOW,THEREFORE,BEITORDAINEDBYTHECITYCOUNCILOFTHECITYOF SUISUNCITYasfollows:
SECTIONONE:BythepassageofthisOrdinance,pursuanttotheAct,theCouncil herebyauthorizesandleviestheSpecialTaxwithint heCFD,includingallterritoryannexedintotheCFDpriortothedatehereof,attherateandinaccordancewithmethod setforthintheRateandMethod,whichrateandmethodarebythisreferenceincorporatedherein.TheSpecialTaxhaspreviouslybeenleviedintheoriginalterritoryofthe CFDbeginninginfiscalyear2006-07pursuanttoOrdinanceNo.684,passedandadoptedbytheCityCouncilonDecember6,2005,andtheSpecialTaxisherebyleviedcommencinginfisc alyear2022-23intheterritoryannexedtotheCFDsubsequenttoformationoftheCFD,andineachfiscalyearthereaftertopayfortheServicesfortheCFDand allcostsofadministeringtheCFD. TheCityCouncilherebyratifiesthelevyofspecialtaxeswithintheCFDpursuanttothe Act,attherateandinaccordancewiththeRateandMethod,infiscalyears2006-07 through2022-23.
SECTIONTWO:TheCityManagerordesignee,oranemployeeorconsultantoftheCity isherebyauthorizedanddirectedeachfiscalyeartodeterminethespecificSpecialTax tobeleviedforthenextensuingfiscalyearforeachparcelofrealpropertywithinthe CFD,includingallterritoryannexedtotheCFDpriortothedatehereof,inthemanner andasprovidedintheRateandMethod.
SECTIONTHREE:ExemptionsfromthelevyoftheSpecialTaxshallbeasprovidedin theResolutionofFormation,theRateandMethodandtheapplicableprovisionsofthe Act.Inno eventshalltheSpecialTaxbeleviedonanyparcelwithintheCFDinexcessof themaximumSpecialTaxspecifiedintheRateandMethod.
SECTIONFOUR:AllofthecollectionsoftheSpecialTaxshallbeusedasprovidedinthe ActandintheResolutionofFormation,including,butnotlimitedto,thepaymentofcosts oftheServices,thepaymentofthecostsoftheCityinadministeringtheCFD,andthe costsofcollectingandadministeringtheSpecialTax.
SECTIONFIVE:TheSpecial Taxshallbecollectedinthesamemannerasordinaryad valoremtaxesarecollectedandshallhavethesamelienpriority,andbesubjecttothe samepenaltiesandthesameprocedureandsaleincasesofdelinquencyasprovidedfor advaloremtaxes;provided,however,thattheCouncilmayprovideforotherappropriate methodsofcollectionbyresolution(s)oftheCouncil.TheCityManageroftheCity(orthe CityManager’sdesignee)isherebyauthorizedanddirectedtoprovideallnecessaryinformationtotheauditor/taxcollectoroftheCountyofSolanoinordertoeffectproper billingandcollectionoftheSpecialTax,sothattheSpecialTaxshallbeincludedonthe securedpropertytaxrolloftheCountyofSolanoforfiscalyear2022-23andforeachfiscalyearthereafter,assetforthabove,untilnolongerrequiredtopayfortheServicesor untilotherwiseterminatedbytheCity.
SECTIONSIX:IfforanyreasonanyportionofthisOrdinanc eisfoundtobeinvalid,orif theSpecialTaxisfoundinapplicabletoanyparticularparcelwithintheCFD,includingall territoryannexedtotheCFDpriortothedatehereof,byacourtofcompetentjurisdiction thebalanceofthisOrdinanceandtheapplicationoftheSpecialTaxtotheremainingparcelswithintheCFD,includingallterritoryannexedtotheCFDpriortothedatehereof shallnotbeaffected.
SECTIONSEVEN:TheMayorshallsignthisOrdinanceandtheCityClerkshallcause thesametobepublishedimmediatelyafteritspassageatleastonceinanewspaperof generalcirculationcirculatedintheCity.
SECTIONEIGHT:ThisCouncilaffirmstheprovisionsofOrdinanceNo.684excepttothe extentanytermsofsuchOrdinanceareinconsistentwiththeprovisionsofthisOrdinance inwhichcasethetermsofthisOrdinanceshallgovern.
SECTIONNINE:ThisOrdinanceshallbecomeeffective(30)daysfollowingitspassage andadoptionandshallbepublishedoncewithinfifteen(15)daysuponpassageandadoptioninanewspaperofgeneralcirculationintheCityofSuisunCity,CountyofSolano Ayes:Councilmembers:Dawson/Osum/Pal/Washington/MayorHernandez Noes:Councilmembers:None
Absent:Councilmembers:None
DonnaPock,DeputyCityClerk
Dated:June1,2023 DR#00063830 Published:June4,2023
Date: July 5, 2023; Time: 8:30am; Dept: 12; Rm: I The address of the court is: SUPER IOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SOLANO 580 Texas Street Fairfield 94533 Old Solano Courthouse AcopyofthisOrdertoShowCauseshall bepublishedatleastonceeachweekfor foursuccessiveweekspriortothedateset forhearingonthepetitioninthefollowing newspaperofgeneralcirculation,printedin thiscounty:DailyRepublic. Pleasefileproofofnewspaperpublication atleast5businessdaysbeforehearing (newspaperdoesnotfilew/court)zoom ok. zoominvitewillbeemailed1-2days beforehearing Date:4/19/2023 /s/C.Carringer JudgeoftheSuperiorCourt FILED:APR202023 DR#00063579 Published:May28June4,11,18,2023
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: LAURA ERMITANO CASE NUMBER: PR23-00126 Toallheirs,beneficiaries,creditors,contingentcreditors,andpersonswhomay otherwisebeinterestedinthewillorestate,orboth,of: Laura Ermitano APetitionforProbatehasbeenfiledby:
Kris Sproat intheSuperiorCourtofCalifornia,County of: Solano
ThePetitionforProbaterequeststhat: Kris Sproat beappointedaspersonalrepresentative toadministerth eestateofthedecedent. ThepetitionrequestsauthoritytoadministertheestateundertheIndependentAdministrationofEstatesAct.(Thisauthority willallowthepersonalrepresentativeto takemanyactionswithoutobtainingcourt approval.Beforetakingcertainveryimportantactions,however,thepersonal representativewillberequiredtogivenoticetointerestedpersonsunlessthey havewaivednoticeorconsentedtothe proposedaction.)Theindepe ndentadministrationauthoritywillbegrantedunless aninterestedpersonfilesanobjectionto thepetitionandshowsgoodcausewhy thecourtshouldnotgranttheauthority.
A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows:
DATE: JUNE 27, 2023; TIME: 9:00am; DEPT.: 22
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SOLANO Old Solano Courthouse 580 Texas Street Fairfield, CA 94533
If you object tothegrantingofthepetition,youshouldappearatthehearingand stateyourobjectionsorfilewrittenobjectionswiththecourtbeforethehearing. Yourappearancemaybeinpersonorby yourattorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, youmustfileyourclaimwiththecourtand mailacopytothepersonalrepresentative appointedbythecourtwithinthe later of either(1)four months fromthedateof firstissuanceofletterstoageneralpersonalrepresentative,asdefinedinsection58(b)oftheCaliforniaProbateCode, or(2) 60 days fromthedateofmailingor personaldeliverytoyouofanoticeunder section9052oftheCaliforniaProbate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may wantto consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court.Ifyouareapersoninterestedinthe estate,youmayfilewiththecourtaRequestforSpecialNotice(formDE-154)of thefilingofaninventoryandappraisalof estateassetsorofanypetitionoraccount asprovidedinProbateCodesection 1250.ARequestforSpecialNoticeformis availablefromthecourtclerk.
AttorneyforPetitioner: RubySteinbrecher(SBN251241) P.O.Box2790 Sebastopol,California95473 510-435-6356 DR#00063657 Published:May31June4,7,2023
NOTICEOFPUBLICHEARING
NoticeisherebygivenpursuanttoGovernmentCodeSection7910thatthedocumentationusedindeterminingtheCityofFairfield’sappropriationslimitunderArticleXIIIBof theCaliforniaConstitutionforfiscalyear2023/24isavailableforpublicinspectionduring normalbusinesshoursintheFinanceDepartmentlocatedat1000WebsterStreet,Fairfield,CA94533.Inaddition,thepublichearingwillalsoincludetheCityofFairfieldbudget forfiscalyear2023/24and2024/25,theCityofFairfieldHousingAuthoritybudgetforfiscalyear2023/24and2024/25,andtheCityofFairfieldCapitalImprovementProgramfor fiscalyears2023/24through2027/28.Thepublichearingwilloccuratthefollowingdate
timeandplace:
Date:June20,2023
Time:6:00p.m.orassoonthereafterasthemattercanbeheard
Place:CityCouncilChamber 1000WebsterStreet Fairfield,California94533
ThepublicmayjointhemeetingviaZoomat: https://fairfieldca.zoom.us/j/89060213840?pwd=UUd0WlpEMStLemcxbld4dzVMK3Z5dz0 9orbyphoneat(669)900-6833WebinarID:89060213840Passcode:7074287400
Allinterestedpersonsareinvitedtothepublichearingandexpressopinionsonthemattersoutlinedabove.IfyouchallengeanyactiontakenbytheCityCouncilregardingsuch matters,youmaybelimitedtoraisingonlythoseissuesyouorsomeoneelseraisedat thepublichearingorinwrittencorrespondence,deliveredtotheOfficeoftheCityClerkat 1000WebsterStreet,Fairfield,Californiapriortothepublichearing.
Dated:May22,2022
By:KarenL.Rees,CityClerk
DR#00063785
Published:June4,9,2023
TOALLINTERESTEDPERSONS:
Petitioner:JosephDarnellPickingpack filedapetitionwiththiscourtforadecree changingnamesasfollows:
PresentName: a. Joseph Darnell Pickingpack
ProposedName: a. Joseph Darnell Donaldson
THECOURTORDERSthatallpersonsinterestedinthismattershallappearbefore thiscourtatthehearingindicatedbelow to showcause,ifany,whythepetitionfor changeofnameshouldnotbegranted. Anypersonobjectingtothename changesdescribedabovemustfileawrittenobjectionthatincludesthereasonsfor theobjectionatleasttwocourtdaysbeforethematterisscheduledtobeheard andmustappearatthehearingtoshow causewhythepetitionshouldnotbegranted.Ifnowrittenobjectionistimelyfiled, thecourtmaygrantthepetitionwithouta hearing.
NOTICE OF HEARING
Date: July 21, 2023; Time: 9:00am; Dept: 4; Room: 305
The address of the court is: Solano County Superior Court 600 Union Ave. Fairfield, CA 94533
AcopyofthisOrdertoShowCauseshall bepublishedatleastonceeachweekfor foursuccessiveweekspriortothedate setforhearingonthepetitioninthefollowingnewspaperofgeneralcirculation,printedinthiscounty:DailyRepublic Pleasefileproofofnewspaperpublication atleast5businessdaysbeforehearing (newspaperdoesnotfilew/court)zoom ok.zoominvitewillbeemailed1-2days beforehearing
Date:APR202023 /s/E.BradleyNelson JudgeoftheSuperiorCourt FILED:MAY052023
DR#00063208
Published:May12,19,26June4,2023
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME PETITION OF: AARON MICHAEL CALDWELL CASE NUMBER: CU23-01337
TOALLINTERESTEDPERSONS:
Petitioner: Aaron Michael Caldwell filedapetitionwiththiscourtforadecree changingnamesasfollows:
Present Name: a. Aaron Michael Caldwell Proposed Name: a. Aaron Michael Viratos THECOURTORDERSthatallpersonsinterestedinthismattershallappearbefore thiscourtatthehearingindicatedbelowto showcause,ifany,whythepetit ionfor changeofnameshouldnotbegranted. Anypersonobjectingtothenamechanges describedabovemustfileawrittenobjectionthatincludesthereasonsfortheobjectionatleasttwocourtdaysbeforethematterisscheduledtobeheardandmustappearatthehearingtoshowcausewhythe petitionshouldnotbegranted.Ifnowrittenobjectionistimelyfiled,thecourtmay grantthepetitionwithoutahearing.
305 The address of the court is: SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SOLANO Hall of Justice 600 Union Ave. Fairfield, CA 94533
AcopyofthisOrdertoShowCauseshall bepublishedatleastonceeachweekfor foursuccessiveweekspriortothedateset forhearingonthepetitioninthefollowing newspaperofgeneralcirculation,printedin thiscounty:DailyRepublic. Pleasefileproofofnewspaperpublication atleast5businessdaysb eforehearing (newspaperdoesnotfilew/court)zoom ok.zoominvitewillbeemailed1-2days beforehearing Date:May162023
/s/ChristineA.Carringer JudgeoftheSuperiorCourt
FILED:MAY172023
DR#00063530
Published:May28June4,11,18,2023
PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE PLANNING COMMISSION
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE PLANNING COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF FAIRFIELD willholdapublichearingonthefollowingitem: VALLEY STRONG CREDIT UNION FREESTANDING FREEWAY-ORIENTED SIGN SIGN REVIEW - (SN2023-0096). PublichearingontherequestbyYESCOSIGNSLLC applicant,onbehalfofpropertyownerValleyStrongCreditUnion,forthedevelopmentof afreestandingfreeway-orientedsignonavacantparcel(APN:0167-110-250)adjacentto andnorthoftheValleyStrongCreditUnionBranch/OfficeBuildingat3655NelsonRoad TheprojectisexemptfromCEQAreviewbasedonCEQAGuidelinesSection15332,InfillExemption.(Planner:AprilWooden,(831)915-2189,wooden.pearwood@gmail.com)
NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN THAT saidpublichearingwillbeheldon JUNE 14, 2023 beginningat 6:00 p.m. intheCouncilChambers,1000WebsterStreet, orthepublicmayjointhemeetingviaZoomat https://fairfieldca.zoom.us/j/87687427555?pwd=cjFUemtROWFWelN5Q3VpcW8vcHZNQT09orbyPhoneat(408)638-0968WebinarID:87687427555Passcode:7074287440 atwhichtimeandplaceanyandallpersonsinterestedinsaidmattersmayappearand beheard.Ifyouchallengeanyoftheabove-citeditemsincourt,youmaybelimitedto raisingonlythoseissuesyouorsomeoneelseraisedatthepublichearingdescribedin thisnoticeorinwrittencorrespondencedeliveredtotheCommunityDevelopmentDepartmentat,orpriorto,thepublichearing.Anypartyaggrievedoraffectedbyadecisionor determinationbythePlanningCommissionintheadministrationoftheCity’sDevelopmentRegulationsmayfileanappealwithin14business daysofthedecisionordeterminationusingtheappealformavailableattheCommunityDevelopmentDepartment.Tofile anappeal,completetheformandsubmititwiththeappropriatefeetoCommunityDevelopmentDepartment,1000WebsterStreet,2ndFloor,Fairfield,CA94533,nolaterthan 14businessdaysfromthedateofthishearing.Postmarkswillbeaccepted.Foradditionalinformation,pleasegetintouchwiththeCommunityDevelopmentDepartment,City Hall, 2ndFloor,orbyphoneat(707)428-7440.
TheCityofFairfielddoesnotdiscriminateagainstanyindividualwithadisability.City publicationswillbemadeavailableuponrequestintheappropriateformattopersonswith adisability.Ifyouneedaccommodationtoattendorparticipateinthismeetingduetoa disability,pleasecontactCindyGarcia,AdministrativeAssistant,at(707)428-7452,cgarcia@fairfield.ca.gov,inadvanceofthemeeting.
DR#00068388
Published:June4,2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS LANZA FAMILY WINERY ROSETTA WINE COMPANY YIN RANCH WINERY CYPRESS HILL WINERY, LLC LOCATEDAT4756SuisunValleyRoad Fairfield.Mailingaddress4756Suisun ValleyRoadFairfield.IS(ARE)HEREBY REGISTEREDBYTHEFOLLOWING OWNER(S)LanzaVineyards,IncCA. THISBUSINESSISCONDUCTEDBY: aCorporation Theregistrantcommencedtotransact businessunder thefictitiousbusiness nameornameslistedaboveonN/A. Ideclarethatallinformationinthisstatementistrueandcorrect(Aregistrantwho declaresastrueinformationwhichheor sheknowstobefalseisguiltyofacrime.) /s/RonaldLanza INACCORDANCEWITHSUBDIVISION (a)OFSECTION17920AFICTITIOUS NAMESTATEMENTGENERALLYEXPIRESATTHEENDOFFIVEYEARS FROMTHEDATEONWHICHITWAS FILEDINTHEOFFICEOFTHECOUNTY CLERK,EXCEPTASPROVIDEDIN SUBDIVISION(b)OFSECTION17920, WHEREITEXPIRES40DAYSAFTER ANYCHANGEINTHEFACTSSET FORTHINTHESTATEMENTPURSUANTTOSECTION17913OTHERTHAN ACHANGEINTHERESIDENCEADDRESSOFAREGISTEREDOWNER. ANEWFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENTMUSTBEFILEDBEFORE THEEXPIRATIONMay22,2028. THEFILINGOFTHISSTATEMENT DOESNOTOFITSELFAUTHORIZE THEUSEINTHISSTATEOFAFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAMEINVIOLATION OFTHERIGHTSOFANOTHERUNDER FEDERAL,STATEORCOMMONLAW (SEESECTION14411ETSEQ.,BUSINESSANDPROFESSIONSCODE). FiledintheOfficeoftheCountyClerkof SolanoCounty,StateofCaliforniaon: MAY232023
NewASSIGNEDFILENO.2023000854 CHARLESLOMELI,SolanoCountyClerk DR#00063558
Published:May28June4,11,18,2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS CHINA PALACE LOCATEDAT715JacksonSt,Fairfield, CA,94533Solano.Mailingaddress715 JacksonSt,Fairfield,CA,94533.IS(ARE) HEREBYREGISTEREDBYTHEFOLLOWINGOWNER(S)#1HuuDuyLuong 1062PacificAveSanFrancisco,94133#2 KueiHuiNung1062PacificAveSan Francisco,94133.THISBUSINESSIS
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4: Sue Viens, 35.
5: Nadine Kauer, 39. Chip-ins Kim Weaver, No. 14.
Nine Arounders
Congratulations to Kim Wink for chip in on #9 and Ann Rollin for chip in on #5. First flight: 13-15 handicap
1: Genny Lopez, 51/36.
2: Debbie Baker, 53/40. Second Flight: 18-19 handicap
1: Sandy Austin, 55/37.
2: Lynne Powell , 57/38.
3: Kim Wink, 58/40. Third Fllight, 20/22 handicap
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when they’re looking to draft a kicker.
So the Niners coach leaned into the adversity of the terrible snaps. He wanted to break Moody in that workout. What’s this kid made of?
“He was frustrated, like anyone would be in a job interview where some things are out of his control,” Schneider said. “[But] I’m just looking at him, and he’s still stone-faced – really cool disposition.”
And when Schneider, sensing a make-or-break moment, called for a scramble drill kick and the snap bounced twice on the way back, what did Moody do?
“Smoked it,” Schneider said. “Just like I’ve seen on tape, so consistent with his approach and finish and trust.”
“Thankfully, he got it up at the last second,” Moody, a man of few words around the facility, said of his holder. “I didn’t kick his hand off, and I made it.”
“After that I told [Shanahan and GM John Lynch], I don’t care where you take him, this is the guy,” Schneider said. “I felt that strongly about him. That’s not my job to figure out where we should draft him. I just know I really like the talent, I really love the kid. I love everything about him, so to me, it was like I think this is the best and they have to
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figure that out.” Shanahan and Lynch decided the third round was the spot — they couldn’t risk waiting a day to take him.
Another reminder: Kickers lead their teams in scoring every year.
They’re like a romantic partner – they might be temperamental, a bit of a head case, and you might complain about them to your friends, but when you don’t have a good one, you’d do just about anything to change that.
The Niners lost a good one this winter. The last thing Shanahan wants to worry about is special teams. So if he had to pay a premium to land the best kicker in the draft, so be it.
Remember: Shanahan paid Gould well over market value after the kicker’s ridiculous
holdout in 2019. But no one thought about the kicker’s salary when Gould hit that game-winning 45-yard field goal amid snow, a swirling wind, sub-zero temperatures, and frozen grass at Lambeau Field in the 2021 playoffs.
Ultimately, we won’t know if Shanahan and Lynch are geniuses or reactionaries until there are fans in the stands, but if the early returns are to be believed, and they are proven correct that Moody is the real deal, no one will care where the kicker was drafted.
The Niners’ offense might look a bit different in the process, too.
I’ve long wondered how Shanahan would call plays if he had a kicker he could trust to make a 60-yard field goal.
With Gould, it was really 40 yards and in, expanding later in his career with apprecia-
But Moody has a much bigger leg and should be just as accurate. Back to golf: Moody’s 3-wood off the tee is Gould’s driver.
There have been countless times throughout Shanahan’s tenure where he’s set up a drive for a field goal with conservative play-calling in adverse situations.
Holding penalty inside an opponent’s territory? Here come the four Rs –three runs and Robbie.
But with Moody, the Niners’ scoring range could expand all the way to the 50-yard line (and perhaps a bit beyond, wind permitting).
Does Shanahan look to go for a first down on a third-and-long now?
Does the offense open up a bit now that he has a kicker who can steal points, as opposed to merely securing them?
Overlook kickers all you want, but the permutations of this move to Moody could be massive.
And of course, that could swing in either direction.
But so far, Moody is practicing, and acting, like the kind of kicker who should be around for a long time.
The kind of kicker who, perhaps a few years from now, might end up getting some respect.
speed and savvy. He was a force on the inside of the Royals’ defensive front as a junior, finishing the season with 36 tackles and nine sacks. Johnson is one of the nation's top recruits and already has numerous Division I scholarship offers on the table, which include powerhouses like Alabama, Georgia, Michigan, USC, Miami and more.
Anaya Thrower, Vanden: The junior was named the MVP of the MEL. She knocked down 177 kills with 93 blocks. Thrower has already committed to play collegiately on scholarship at the University of Oregon. What kind of force will she be on the front line this fall? Duck!
Brayden Chavez, Vanden: It'll be fun to see what he can do on the football field as a star possession receiver, but a big year could be ahead on the track as well. Chavez shined bright among elite company in the 400 meters recently and finished sixth overall at the CIF State Track and Field Championships in Clovis. The junior clocked a time of 48.04 seconds. A medal could be in his future.
Coach of the Year
Micheal Holloway, Vanden: Coach Holloway led his Vikings to an overall 25-11 record but that doesn't tell the whole story. Vanden shared the Monticello Empire League title with Vacaville and made it to the Sac-Joaquin Section Division III championship, losing to a mighty Sac High squad 66-61. But the season was not over as the Vikings won three NorCal games before losing to eventual Division II champion San Joaquin Memorial 66-61 in an exciting title game at Solano Community College. Holloway juggled his talented lineup through injuries and other setbacks to a deep postseason run.
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of how Denver is playing it,” he said. “They don’t want him getting downhill and being in open space. I feel like the biggest thing when we’re in pick-and-roll is for me to get him open. That’s the point of the pick-androll, to get my guy open and let him have space.”
Spoelstra said the Heat went to school on the disparity during the two-day Finals break.
“Obviously, we want to get J.B. and Bam involved as much as possible,” he said. “They are our two best players. We have to do it in different ways so it’s not just a steady diet of whatever that may be.
“And there were certain aspects of what we did the other night that were very good, and there are other areas offensively where we definitely need to improve and be more intentional.”
And more aggressive, with Spoelstra acknowledging the tape did not lie when it came to the Heat getting only two free-throw attempts, both taken by forward
Willie Nickson, Armijo: Nickson orchestrated an incredible final drive for Armijo in an 18-12 win over Fairfield. Nickson and the Royals took the ball over at their own 6-yard line with 48 seconds to play. Five plays into the drive, the sophomore quarterback hit his senior receiver Kaiba Washington with a 42-yard sideline completion. After a timeout with only two seconds remaining, Nickson rolled left, found no receiver open and decided to race 18 yards to the goal line, bullying his way into the end zone for the winning touchdown.
Team of the Year
Rodriguez girls golf: Nikki Chindavong and Darla DelaTorre both shot par as Rodriguez won the Sac-Joaquin Section Division III Tournament title at Micke Grove Golf Course in Lodi. Chindavong and DelaTorre set a blistering pace as the Mustangs finished with a team total of 398. The Mustangs won every Monticello Empire League match this season, and also both league tournaments. Rodriguez bested last year’s performance of a runner-up finish. The Mustangs finished third at the Section Masters Tournament, ninth at NorCals and Chindavong finished 11th in the state.
School of the Year
(not named Vacaville)
Rodriguez: The Mustangs scored 127.5 points in the MEL School of the Year voting for second place behind the Bulldogs. The Mustangs won outright titles in girls golf, boys swimming and diving, girls swimming and diving, and boys tennis. Rodriguez also shared the MEL title with Vacaville in badminton.
“I thought the freethrow disparity was appropriate,” Spoelstra said. “Maybe we could have got two, four, six more based on a call here or a call there. But overall our attack numbers were lower, and that usually translates into lower freethrow attempts.
“Obviously we want to have a little more balance with our attacks and paint opportunities, against a team that does a good job taking it away.”
Mostly, Butler said it is an imbalance that is fixable.
I don’t think too much has to be said, I really don’t. Down 0-3 up 3-0, you’ve got to get to four. It’s never over. Nobody is ever counted out. You’ve got to get to four. Once you get to four, it’s over with,” he said.
“So down 0-1, we know we are going to get to four. We are in there laughing, in there smiling, knowing that we could play better. We will play better. We have to be better if we want to win. Not too much is said. It’s all about what we’re going to do.”