Daily Republic: Sunday, July 2, 2023

FAIRFIELD — Pickleball has officially come to town.

The 16 courts were full Saturday for opening day, with about 75 players coming out to share their enjoyment with anyone who wanted to hit the courts.

George Kennedy, the regional director of the USA Pickleball Association, claims it is the fastest growing sport in America.

Pickleball is a paddle game which is played between teams – either one-on-one or two-on-two. The paddles are smaller than tennis rackets and bigger than racquetball racquets. The sport combines parts of badminton, table tennis and tennis. The ball is a brightly colored whiffle ball that

sails across the net.

Pickleball was invented in 1965 on Bainbridge Island not far from Seattle, Washington, according to Kennedy.

Dads Joel Pritchard, Bill Bell and Barney McCallum realized their children were bored with the regular summer fun and decided to create a new game. It was so popular even a young Bill

Gates came over to play in their backyard.

“The name ‘pickleball’ comes from the family dog’s name,” Kennedy said. “I guess he would run and fetch the balls for them.”

Anyone can play the game, Kennedy knows 80-year-olds who have played.

“Really, it’s good for anyone,” he said.

Derek Bromstead, president of the Fairfield Pickleball Association, was thrilled to see it finally come together. The pickleball courts were worked into the planned renovation of Allan Witt Park.

“This is healthy fun and that is one of the goals of this game,” he said.

Bromstead also loves seeing people come out to play because everyone is nice and doing something they enjoy.

“It brings the community out,” he said.

Bromstead said he hopes to some day see pickleball in the Olympics.

“We have to have leagues in every country,” he said, “and that is happening, worldwide.”

Kennedy and Bromstead also want to see the game draw visitors

High court strikes down Biden’s plan to forgive millions of student loans

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday rejected President Joe Biden’s plan to forgive millions of student loans, ruling that the nation’s chief executive does not have the legal authority to waive more than $400 billion owed to the government.

The Biden administration had asserted its right to cancel the loans as part of its emergency response to the Covid-19 pandemic and under a 2003 law

called the HEROES Act, passed at the time of the Iraq War. In a 6-3 vote in Biden v. Nebraska, the court’s conservatives said only Congress could authorize such a large-scale cancellation of government-provided loans, and it has not done so.

Writing for the court, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said, “The HEROES Act allows the secretary to ‘waive or modify’ ” provisions of

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In a phone call in late 2020, President Donald Trump tried to pressure Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) to overturn the state’s presidential election results, saying that if enough fraudulent votes could be found it would overcome Trump’s narrow loss in Arizona, according to three people familiar with the call.

Trump also repeatedly asked Vice President Mike Pence to call Ducey and prod him to find the evidence to substantiate Trump’s claims of fraud, according to two of these people. Pence called Ducey several times to discuss the election, they said, though he did not follow Trump’s directions to pressure the governor.

The extent of Trump’s efforts to cajole Ducey into helping him stay in power have not before been reported, even as other efforts by Trump’s lawyer and allies to pressure Arizona officials have been made public. Ducey told reporters in December 2020 that he and Trump had spoken, but he declined to disclose the contents of the call then or in the more than two years since. Although he disagreed with Trump about the outcome of the election, Ducey has sought to avoid a public battle with Trump.

Ducey described the “pressure” he was under after Trump’s loss to a prominent Republican donor over a meal in Arizona earlier this year, according to the donor, who like others interviewed for this story spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations. The account was confirmed by others aware of the call. Ducey told the donor he was surprised

Ducey described the ‘pressure’ he was under after Trump’s loss to a prominent Republican donor over a meal in Arizona earlier this year, according to a donor.

that special counsel Jack Smith’s team had not inquired about his phone calls with Trump and Pence as part of the Justice Department’s investigation into the former president’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election, the donor said.

Ducey did not record the call, people familiar with the matter said.

Now out of public office, the former governor declined through a spokesman to answer specific questions about his interactions with Trump and his administration.

“This is neither new nor is it news to anyone following this issue the last two years,” spokesman Daniel Scarpinato said in a statement. “Governor Ducey defended the results of Arizona’s 2020 election, he certified the election, and he made it clear that the certification provided a trigger for credible complaints backed by evidence to be brought forward. None were ever brought forward. The Governor stands by his action to certify the election and considers the issue to be in the rear view mirror.”

A spokesman for Trump declined to respond to questions about the call with Ducey and instead falsely declared in a statement that “the 2020 Presidential

leads a march from the Supreme Court of the United States to the White House after the nation’s high court stuck down

Biden’s student debt relief program, Friday.

America’s little-known history shows that today is really the Fourth of July (kind of)

If we practiced a facts-based celebration of history, today would be Independence Day.

Yep, we should celebrate the Fourth of July on July 2 (or something like that. I’m starting to get confused), because the Continental Congress actually declared independence from Britain on July 2, 1776.

Yes. July 2, not July 4

The reason for the two-day mistake (which is the working title of a country music song I’m writing) is that the authors of the Declaration of Independence postdated their document like they were writing a postdated check. They voted on the resolution for independence July 2 and “ratified the text” July 4.

The actual reason for the delay is lost to history. One

theory is that the absence of laptops, electric typewriters, manual typewriters, ditto paper or telegrams forced them to wait. Some scholars believe that the lack of affordable cable TV for early Americans made C-SPAN unavailable for most residents, so the Founding Fathers were forced to wait.

The “why” is unclear, but the “what” is obvious: They voted for independence July 2, and they dated the document July 4. And nobody signed the Declaration until Aug. 2, 1776, according to the National Archives. It turns out that the Fourth of July should really be the Second of July (again, I may be slightly confused between the date and the holiday).

I’m not here to overthrow Independence Day. I don’t

These firefighters have

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When it comes to wildfire control, you’ve gotta love goats.

Machines may be cheaper at clearing open spaces by tilling flammable weeds – and all their seeds – into the ground, but they’re also noisy and polluting, damaging soil structure and the beneficial bugs and organisms that dwell underground.

Goats, on the other hand, are relatively quiet – save the occasional bleating and bell tinkling – and can easily access steep hills and canyons that machines would not be able to manage, said Cris Sarabia, conservation director of the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy.

They’re also voracious and highly efficient at eating almost every plant and seed in their path, leaving only a crunchy mulch of stripped stems and piles of natural fertilizer – poop – that enrich the soil, an important consideration when, like Sarabia, you’re in the business of habitat restoration.

Goats are just about the best when it comes to clearing large swaths of weeds on steep terrain, said Michael Choi, co-owner of the Mariposabased herding company Fire Grazers Inc. Sheep are pickier eaters, he said, “and if you tried to put a cow in this canyon, it might start rolling down the hill. Goats are natural mountaineers.”

Plus, these nimble, four-footed firefighters are super adorable and fun to watch. “Some people

say it’s therapeutic,” Choi said. “They take a break every day to come out and just stare at the goats to calm down. They are very restful creatures.”

This day in early June we’re standing on a steep hill in Malaga Canyon, open space owned by the city of Rancho Palos Verdes that’s part of the Palos Verdes Nature Preserve. The city has hired Choi to clear the area of weeds, and he has two herds of about 300 goats each working at either end of the canyon, which is bordered by spacious homes.

The herd nearest us has only been grazing a day, and already it’s denuded half of the eastern canyon, which was thick with invasive wild radish and black mustard plants over 5 feet tall. Choi figures they’ll clear the entire canyon in less than four days.

Choi’s job isn’t relaxing. Before his brood can graze, he and his herders have to roll out soft-wired electric fences powered by batteries to keep the goats from wandering into nearby streets or yards. They have to make sure the goats have ample water, minerals and salts and keep moving those fences as the herd moves to new pastures.

Choi’s huge Anatolian shepherd dogs, Trinity and Buster, guard their herds from predators day and night. But these goats are escape artists who are always trying to find tastier pastures, Choi said, so he has to keep a sharp eye, dispatching his border collie, Bernie, to round up stragglers and adventurers.

Generally, the goats

suggest we go to the parade in Fairfield, the waterfront in Suisun City, set off fireworks and eat hot dogs on July 2 (although the waterfront isn’t the worst idea, right? And your crazy neighbors will set off fireworks today).

We can keep the Fourth of July on July 4, because details behind holidays sometimes change as we get more information, but we don’t need to eliminate the holidays or even change the way or time we commemorate them.

For instance ... People often act as if they’re winning an argument when they say Jesus Christ likely wasn’t born on Christmas Day, as if Dec. 25 is mentioned in the Bible and to admit that the date is just a commemoration would discredit Christianity. The specifics of the date pale in comparison to what it commemorates.

prefer to stick together in large groups, and feel vulnerable when they’re alone.

It might be doable to have a few roaming your property, he said, “but you’d need to commit [to watching them]. You can’t just let them out there and say, ‘Be free,’ because then they get into your neighbor’s yard and it’s a liability issue, which is my nightmare.”

His family-owned business requires a minimum of five acres at a cost of about $1,000 to $1,500 an acre to keep a herd busy. And that’s paying around $4,000 a month to his herders now. As more municipalities and organizations hire goats to help with fire suppression, a debate is heating up in Sacramento over state rule changes that would require goat herders to be paid at an hourly rate, plus overtime, versus the current minimum monthly wage. Choi says that would more than triple what he currently pays, and “would be the end of goat herding in California.” But labor advocates say goat herders, who are expected to manage herds 24/7, should get a bigger share of revenues.

The goats aren’t just clearing the land of weeds, Sarabia said. They’re also preparing certain parts of the preserve for habitat restoration projects later this year. The conservancy used grant money to clear more than 13 acres in Lunada Canyon, where it hopes to gather volunteers this fall to plant deerweed (Lotus scoparius) and other native

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Same thing with Thanksgiving. It’s now widely accepted that the version of the first Thanksgiving that I learned in school – Pilgrims joining happy Native Americans around a table to enjoy turkey and dressing after watching NFL games in Detroit and Dallas – was wrong. The original Thanksgiving is more about a short-lived peace, with a dark cloud of disease and upcoming conflicts that would wipe out civilizations. However, we can still celebrate a holiday of being thankful and gathering with friends and family and watching the Lions and Cowboys (the only part of the first Thanksgiving story that is true).

Same thing with Columbus Day (the real one, Oct. 12), which people historically considered as the day Christopher Columbus went ashore in the Bahamas. We now know that he brought European coloniza-

plants to restore habitat in the canyon for threatened birds and pollinators. These restoration projects are popular and the opportunities fill up quickly, so if you’re interested, visit the conservancy’s calendar for volunteers to find out early about upcoming events. And if you live on the peninsula and want to help restore habitat in your yard, order a few plants native to the peninsula from the conservancy’s native plant nursery.

tion, disease, enslavement and genocide to people who were already living in the Americas and would be surprised to hear the land had just been “discovered.” The pushback against Columbus in recent decades led to the growing commemoration of Indigenous People’s Day on or around Oct. 12, which also happens to be my birthday. Columbus Day? Indigenous People’s Day? Either is fine, as long as it’s celebrated with a birthday cake at my house.

Which somehow brings us back to today and the lesson of that first Independence Day.

The takeaway is that today is July 2, which is our nation’s 247th birthday.

That means both today and Tuesday are the Fourth of July. Kind of.

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A goat chomps brush on a hillside, in Rancho Palos Verdes, June 12, 2023.

Supes support federal bill for full disability, retirement pay for veterans

FAIRFIELD — The Solano County supervisors this week agreed to send a letter in support of a federal bill that would allow a combat-disabled veteran to receive full full disability and retirement pay, regardless of how many years of service.

The current code only allows for the full payment of both benefits to veterans with 20 or more years of service.

The action was part of Tuesday’s legislative review. The board:

n Voted to oppose Assembly Bill 1168, which the supervisors said would complicate contract negotiations with Medic Ambulance as the sole service provider, and hinder efforts to develop a countywide emergency medical dispatch program.

n Voted to oppose SB/ AB 120, which would set a 10% In-Home Support Services collective bargaining penalty for counties that fail to reach an agreement. Solano is among 53 counties that have an agreement, but

the board argued it would complicate negotiations and take away resources from the very pool of funds it wants to protect.

In other action, the supervisors also adopted a resolution recognizing July 16-22 as Probation and Community Supervision Week. Members of the department spoke around the theme “Stronger Together” and shared success stories in the juvenile and adult systems, and talked about the expansion of programs and other opportunities to change the lives of residents who need a second chance – or in some cases – several chances.

“By delivering sustainable community safety, probation has a profound impact on the health and safety of our community by working to reduce recidivism through evidence-based programming and supervision. Probation’s success helps ensure our community is safer for all Solano County residents to live and prosper,” the resolution states.

Buffalo Soldiers group shares history with Peña Adobe visitors

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VACAVILLE — Company G, 9th Calvary Buffalo Soldiers returned to Peña Adobe to help history come alive for visitors Saturday.

They were established in 1992 and since then the members of the group have been traveling, sharing a piece of American history.

nizations, churches and public events.

Buffalo Soldiers were members of the U.S. Army and wore the same uniforms as the rest of the military during the Civil War, though they were initially given leftover uniforms and equipment. The regulation uniform for the 9th and 10th Cavalry regiments was created by an act of Congress in 1866 after the end of the Civil War, according to the display information.

Woman found dead in Fairfield motel Saturday

Trooper Dan Hardman, of Sacramento, joined them in 2021 after visiting a display with his girlfriend. The white tents caught his eye and as someone who loves history, he couldn’t help but want to know more.

“I walked up and asked about it,” he said.

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FAIRFIELD — The Fairfield Police Department responded to a call early Saturday morning of a woman dying in a motel room, according to a press release. At about 1:25 a.m., officers were dispatched to a motel in the 2100 block of North Texas Street, where they found a

25-year-old Fairfield woman dead.

The identity of the victim is being withheld at this time, pending notification of family.

The death is being investigated as suspicious by detectives from the Investigations Bureau, and anyone with information is asked to call Fairfield Police at 707-428-7300.

An Air Force veteran, he had been looking for ways to contribute to the community after leaving the service. Joining the group was a way to give back and learn at the same time.

Interestingly enough, his second great-grandfather, John Willams Lacy, was a member of the Buffalo Soldiers who served in World War I.

“The best part of doing this is being able to share the history because some people have never heard of the Buffalo Soldiers,” Hardman said.

Human remains discovered in area of Grizzly Island Road

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SUISUN CITY — The Solano County Sheriff’s Office is investigating human remains found Wednesday in the area of Grizzly Island Road and Van Sickle Road, in unincorporated Suisun City. Employees of California Waterfowl Association were conducting a vegetation evaluation when they found what appeared to be an exposed bone inside of a jacket sleeve underneath vegetation growth. The employees notified the Solano County Sheriff’s Office.

The initial assessment supported there were fully decomposed human remains just below the surface.

On Thursday, members from the Chico State Human Identification Lab, Solano County Sheriff’s Office Investigations

Bureau and Coroner’s Office began a forensic excavation process. A partial skeletal upper has been uncovered. The age, race and sex of the decedent are unknown. An investigation regarding the circumstances has been initiated. The excavation is ongoing. The public is asked to remain clear

The Buffalo Soldiers are a living-history group that was established in the Sacramento area almost 30 years ago. The group recreates the Black cavalry

units that served in the Old West from 1866 to 1891.

Company G’s goal is to tell the story of the Buffalo Soldiers’ history visiting schools, community orga-

Jim Bob Holtz and wife Maxine are both Air Force veterans and were excited to come out again this year to see the display. daily

of the area during the investigation.

An update will be provided when the search and excavation is completed.

The Solano County Sheriff’s Office is seeking assistance from the public. If anyone has any information about the human remains, contact the Investigations Bureau at 707-784-7050.

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Trooper Bill Pettis, center, of Company G 9th Calvary Buffalo Soldiers, talks with visitors at Peña Adobe, Saturday.

The Company G 9th Cavalry Buffalo Soliders’ booth at Vacaville’s Peña Adobe included displays of awards and medals they received for their services over the years.

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Limited slots open for popular Water Institute for Teachers

FAIRfiELD — The Solano Resource Conservation District is again hosting its popular Water Institute for Teachers starting Aug. 2.

“This four-day professional development experience will enhance teachers’ understanding of Solano County’s water resources and guide them on field trip-based workshops in our county’s open spaces,” the district said in a statement.

However, organizers said there are a limited number of slots open to K-12 teachers from schools in Solano. The program is offered Aug. 2-4, with the final piece on Oct. 14.

“Participants will spend the first day of the training at Rush Ranch Open Space hiking and learning about climate change’s effects on the Suisun Marsh. Brian Brown, California’s Project WET coordinator, will lead teachers

through activities focused on water resources that can be adapted for all ages in the classroom,” the district stated.

“The next day, teachers will take a boat tour of Lake Berryessa and hear from an expert panel on Solano County’s water resources. The third day of the training will focus on walking through more hands-on lessons from Project WET that teachers can implement in their classrooms to give local relevance to their lessons about water. Local agency partners will also discuss the connections between education and open spaces throughout the county. “

Chris Drake, Parks Services manager with Solano County Parks, said, “... teachers experience environmental education as a hands-on experience that connects students to the world around them. Solano Institute takes participants out on Lake Berryessa and shows them where the water comes from.

“Local resource experts explain the conservation challenges the reservoir faces and why water conservation is important to us as Solano County residents. The Solano Institute takes the same hands-on approach to the Suisun Marsh and other regionally important environmental challenges,” Drake said. “In the three years I’ve been part of the Solano Institute, I’ve never known anyone to take this course and not return to their classroom excited, invigorated, and full of fresh energy and great ideas about how to share their experiences and the strategies they learn with their students. I feel like this unique program is definitely something we should all be proud of.”

Participants receive a $300 stipend upon completion of the program, and teachers can claim 21 hours of continuing education credit.

“Teachers will come back together in October

for a workshop day when they will share how they’ve applied the training’s content in their classrooms,” the district said.

The Solano Water Institute for Teachers is funded by the Solano County Orderly Growth Committee; the California Department of Water Resources; and the School Water Education Program, including the cities of Vacaville, Fairfield, Suisun City, Vallejo, Dixon and Benicia.

Interested participants should visit www. solanorcd.org/events to register by July 13. For more information, send an email to Shea Kinser, Education Program manager for the conservation district, at shea.kinser@ solanorcd.org.

For more information on the conservation district programs, go to www. solanorcd.org/projectsand-programs/education/ educator-workshops. html or email education@ solanorcd.org.

Birdell Agnes

Valmore, PhD.

Birdell Agnes Valmore, PhD., was a 40 year physical education teacher, counselor, coach and first female inductee in the Hall of Fame at Vanden High School in Travis Unified School District.

There will be a viewing on Monday, July 10, 2023 from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Vaca Hills Chapel Funeral Home; 524 Elmira Road, Vacaville, CA 95687. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Tuesday, July 11, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. at St. Mary’s Catholic Church; 350 Stinson Ave, Vacaville, CA 95688. Burial will follow at the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery; 5810 Midway Road, Dixon, CA 95620 at 1:15 p.m. Funeral arrangement by Vaca Hills Chapel Funeral Home, (707) 446-3233.

Michael Abara Jr.

Michael Abara Jr., aka “Slim,” was born on May 16, 1970 in Fairfield, CA to proud parents Dorene and Michael Abara Sr

After a short and well fought illness, Michael passed away on June 8, 2023. Michael attended primary and secondary school in Fairfield, CA and graduated from Armijo High School in 1988.

As a youth, he played Little League Baseball and Pop Warner Football. Many knew him as a huge Oakland Raiders and Golden State Warriors fan. Michael was one of the original members of the 707 Raiders Tailgate Crew and represented both his teams to the fullest.

Throughout Michael’s career he was a delivery driver fo r var ious parcel companies in the San Francisco-Bay Area. Michael was a true people person and enjoyed interacting with his customers on a day to day basis by putting a smile on their face Michael was that well-known person at work that got along well with ever yone. His customer service work ethic was exceptional and carried with him through the years.

He is preceded in d eath by his grandparents Antiro and Jo sephine Abara; grandfather Otha Smith Sr.; uncles Bentora Au gustine, Antiro Abara Jr., Kelsey Smith, and Joseph Knight; aunt Corazon Banks; and cousins Andres Abara Jr, Kendall Jones, Santiago Banks, Claude Banks and Darin Banks.

Michael is survived by his children Taylor Abara, Devon Dandy, and Michael Abara III; granddaughter Micayah Abara; parents Dorene and Michael Abara; brother Andre Abara (Nikki); sister Teresa Martin; grandmother Marian Knight; aunts Kita, Tanzetta and Darlene; uncles Andres, Wendell and Cedric; and a host of family and friends, including the Raider Nation. Michael is also survived by and will be fore ver cherished by the love of his life Jacquelyn Brooks.

Services for Michael will begin at 11:00 a.m. on July 7 at the Fairfield Funeral Home. A final 707 tailgate celebration will be held at the Joseph Nelson Community Center in Suisun City, CA. The party

Lolita Castillo Anacta was born in February 1947 and passed away on June 19, 2023.

Richard Henry Wolfskill was born on April 22, 1943 and passed away on June 15, 2023.

Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.neptune-society.com/location/fairfield-ca for the Wolfskill family

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“We have heard about them before, and they have a lot of history,” Jim Bob said.

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FAIRFIELD — The state Water Commission is holding workshops this month on adapting to extreme weather, and specifically preparing for droughts in non-drought years.

“California’s changing hydrology has led to extreme weather patterns that affect the amount of rain and snow the state gets, impacting how we can capture and distribute water. Following three years of severe drought, California recently experienced a winter of extreme wet weather. Being able to endure the next severe drought is dependent upon making smart, preemptive

water management decisions during non-drought years,” the commission said in a statement.

Participants will be asked to share drought impacts, discuss drought response and provide feedback these strategies: Increase Capacity and Information Needed to Manage Drought; Scale Up Groundwater Recharge; Conduct Watershed-level Planning to Reduce Ecosystem Impacts of Drought; and Better Position Communities to Respond to Drought Emergencies.

“Small, rural communities and the environment are often hit the hardest during a drought,” Commissioner Sandi Mat-

sumoto, who also serves as director of the California Water Program at The Nature Conservancy, said in the agency statement. “In many places, water for fish and wildlife species is already severely limited in non-drought years. During periods of drought, water for the environment is even more drastically constrained.”

The online workshops are set for:

n July 19, noon to 3 p.m. Register at https:// us02web.zoom.us/ meeting/register/tZYq du2gqzwrGtGiQsveO AfH6P35DB8yf-Og#/ registration.

n July 25, 2 to 5 p.m.. Register at https:// us02web.zoom.us/

meeting/register/ tZArcOmgqjoqE9aWV Ca60NhqbSCAUN3 nZHOP#/registration.

n July 27, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Register at https://us02web.zoom.us/ meeting/register/tZMvduiupjsvGdZ3y5y UKVRUYn4-YNU0AoD M#/registration.

In addition to attending a workshop, the commission encourages those interested to take a survey at www.surveymonkey. com/r/CWCdrought23. The survey will be open through July 12. For more information, go to cwc.ca.gov/ water-resilience-portfolio.

“I am really impressed by the scholarships they offer,” Maxine added.

The group offers a Northern California Youth Scholarship to help youths attend college and continue their education.

“We will be contributing to it,” she said.

“This is always really popular event day for our visitors,” Cricket Kanouff, president of the Peña Adobe Historical Society, said Saturday. “The goal is to educate; education is just something we can’t stop doing. Most people don’t know that they served in all the wars and once those were done they still helped.”

The Buffalo Soldiers

A visitation will be held on July 5 from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. at Fairfield Funeral Home, 1750 Pennsylvania Ave., Fairfield, CA 94533. A service will be held on July 6 from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m.

were so named by the Indians in part because of the Black men’s dark kinky hair was so similar to the winter buffalo coat and the color of their skin, but most importantly it was a sign of respect, according to the group’s website, The day also brought out the mounted volunteers of the Solano County Sheriff’s Posse and their horses.

The Sheriff’s Posse has been part of the Solano County Sheriff’s Office for more than 70 years. Volunteers use their horses and equipment to help the department with search-and-rescue efforts, emergency services and as public ambassadors.

The Peña Adobe, built by pioneer Juan Felipe Peña in 1842, hosts events during the year on the first Saturday of the month. The park is also home to the Mowers-Goheen Museum. The museum’s displays include items of the area’s early history.

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popular Water Institute for Teachers is open to K-12 teachers from schools in solano County.

Dodd sees 100th bill signed into law

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FAIRFIELD — Gov.

Gavin Newsom late Thursday signed a bill allowing cities to raise their salary caps – marking the 100th piece of legislation authored by Sen. Bill Dodd to be enacted into law.

“In my time in the Legislature, people have called for action on a range of issues – from wildfire safety to consumer protection – and I’ve responded with commonsense laws addressing these pressing issues,” Dodd, D-Napa, said in a statement. He will term out at the end of 2024.

“My priority is always the same: to make life better for Californians. That’s the goal of my latest bill, which will remove barriers to achieving more equitable representation in local government by making it easier for public servants to balance careers and personal obligations,” Dodd said.

A majority of cities in California are under 35,000 in population and presently capped at $300 per month with minimal allowances for

adjustment.

Proponents of the bill said that it makes it particularly difficult for city residents trying to balance other job requirements and raising families, and is particularly difficult on members in the lowest-income population who might be interested in serving on a council. It is the first cap increase since 1984.

The new law applies to all cities in Solano County except Vallejo, which is a charter city.

“Diversity and inclusion make for better policy-making at all levels of government,” Carolyn Coleman, executive director and chief executive officer of the League of California Cities, said in a previous statement about the legislation. “Cal Cities is proud to sponsor this important legislation that lessens barriers for those interested in governing at the local level. This overdue reform is another tool communities can choose to use that can help ensure our city councils are reflective of the residents who live, work and play in their communities.”

Man surrenders after barricading himself in home

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FAIRFIELD — A Fairfield man spent several hours barricaded in a home in the 2900 block of Montclair Way on Thursday evening.

He was also reported as brandishing a weapon.

Anthony Horsley, 43, had been invited to stay at the home briefly by the homeowner. He refused to leave when asked and

Coast Guard ramping up patrols over holiday weekend

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FAIRFIELD — The U.S. Coast Guard announced it will increase its safety patrols during the July 4 holiday weekend.

Operation Dry Water is a nationwide effort to enforce boaters who are operating vessels while impaired.

shorelines and in river patrol areas.

pointed a gun at the homeowner’s adult daughter.

Both women were able to leave the home and quickly called police.

When police responded, they established a perimeter and made announcements requesting that Horsley exit the home, with no response.

Horsley surrendered and was taken into custody by SWAT before being transported and booked into county jail.

City: Drinking water exceeds most industry standards

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“From Saturday through Tuesday, boaters can expect an increased presence from the Coast Guard and Coast Guard Auxiliary, who will be paying particular attention to recreational boating safety this weekend. The auxiliary will be performing dockside safety equipment inspections, while the Coast Guard and its local law enforcement partners will be conducting boating safety boardings,” the Coast Guard said in a statement.

The Coast Guard has stations in Rio Vista and Vallejo. Boating safety laws, including life jacket regulations, will be enforced along the

“Independence Day celebrations should be enjoyed responsibly and safely. As part of Operation Dry Water, we’ll be increasing our patrols throughout California to enforce BUI laws and ensure a secure boating experience for all,” Rear Adm. Andrew Sugimoto, commander Eleventh Coast Guard District, said in the statement. “Wearing a life jacket, filing a float plan, and most importantly, limiting alcohol consumption are simple precautions that can make a significant difference in boating safety. Stay safe and enjoy the Holiday!” California has the fourth-largest number of recreational boats in the country and has the second-highest number of boating-related accidents and deaths, according to the Coast Guard’s 2021 statistics. The 2022 Operation Dry Water campaign involved 630 agencies nationwide,

with 7,865 officers making contact with 126,832 vessels and 350,472 boaters. These engagements resulted in 11,869 citations and 794 BUIs.

“Alcohol use is the lead contributing factor in fatal boating accidents, accounting for the largest percentage reported fatalities,” the Coast Guard reported. The Coast Guard offers the following tips to help you enjoy a safe time on the water:

n Wear a life jacket Make sure that there is at least one properly fitted life jacket for every passenger and that the life jackets are readily accessible if not worn. All children under 13 must always wear a life jacket.

n Don’t drink and boat. Aside from wearing a life jacket, not drinking and boating is one of the easiest ways to prevent accidental deaths on the water. People operating vessels under the influence of alcohol, drugs or impairing medication pose a serious threat to

you and anyone else aboard.

n File a float plan Before you get underway, leave information about your trip with a family member or a friend on shore. Include information that would help rescuers in case of an emergency – how many people are on board, where you are going, how long you will be out, and a description of your boat.

n Inspect your boat and equipment. Make sure your navigation equipment – particularly your navigational lights, if you plan to be out at night – is in good working order. Carry fire extinguishers, a first aid kit, charts of the area and an anchor. Get a free safety inspection from the Coast Guard Auxiliary to make sure you have all the gear and safety equipment required by your state and federal laws.

n Equip your boat with an Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB). An

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STA launching program to help jurors with mobility issues get to court

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Berryessa and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and is treated at the city’s two water treatment plants – Waterman and North Bay Regional.

funded transportation subsidies within Solano County, according to a press release.

of access to transportation or the inability to afford transportation, according to the press release.

FAIRFIELD — The city of Fairfield has released its 2022 Consumer Confidence Report, detailing the quality of tap water as it compares to State Water Resources Control Board and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency standards.

The report includes details about where Fairfield’s water comes from and what it contains. Fairfield’s drinking water is sourced from Lake

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Based on a series of tests, the quality of Fairfield’s drinking water exceeds almost all industry standards.

SUISUN CITY — The Solano Transportation Authority is partnering with the Solano County Superior Court to launch the Equitable Access to Justice Pilot Program, which aims to improve mobility to the court by providing jurors and prospective jurors who do not have access to transportation or cannot afford transportation with fully-

The Pilot Program will launch July 1, and in addition will be providing more funding to support participants in specialty or collaborative courts with transportation to the court or to treatment.

The Equitable Access to Justice Pilot Program will issue fully funded vouchers. Some restrictions apply.

field and Vallejo sites. Court participants who are unfamiliar with accessing public transportation to attend court can request mobility assistance from the Solano Transportation Authority’s Solano Mobility Call Center.

There will also be links online for the Solano Transportation Authority’s mobility website to the court’s website and pamphlets that identify routing to the court’s Fair-

The public can view the 2022 Consumer Confidence Report on the website by visiting www.fairfield. ca.gov/2022waterreport.

To have a report mailed, call 707-437-5387.

event. Street parking is available on the blocks surrounding the event. A free public parking lot is located two short blocks away on the corner of Main and Cernon streets (in front of Maximum Fitness).

The event is currently accepting arts and crafts vendors with a preference for handmade items.

An estimated 20% of prospective jurors are excused from jury service based upon a lack

Just 9 Bay Area cities still allow ‘safe and sane’ fireworks this July Fourth holiday

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As the Fourth of July holiday approaches and California prepares for what could be an intense wildfire season, fire offi cials in the Bay Area are warning of the danger of even “safe and sane” fireworks – and remind ing residents that they are illegal region-wide, except in a handful of cities.

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As the weather gets warmer, the grass and brush that grew rapidly during this year’s recordsetting wet winter will dry out and become more susceptible to burning, increasing fire risk – especially when fireworks are involved, Cal Fire Chief Joe Tyler said Friday.

“The wet winter has been an anomaly, but any belief of a less intense fire year as a result of the precipitation is a mistake,”

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July, along with the use of fireworks, will contribute to the increased risk for wildfires.”

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A $100 billion wealth migration tilts US economy’s center of gravity south

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Drive along the 240mile stretch of the Atlantic coast from Charleston, South Carolina, through the grassy marsh land of southern Georgia and down into northern Florida, and you’ll see one of the most profound economic shifts in the U.S. today.

Welcome to the New New South.

Electric-vehicle factories and battery plants are overtaking pine forests in this region of antebellum architecture and shrimp and grits. More broadly, the entire South from here, north to Kentucky and west to Texas is where businesses are moving to, jobs are being created and homes are being bought. The uplift isn’t happening equally everywhere, or equally for everyone. But the implications for the entire country are enormous.

The numbers tell the story. For the first time, six fast-growing states in the South – Florida, Texas, Georgia, the Carolinas and Tennessee – are contributing more to the national GDP than the Northeast, with its Washington-New York-Boston corridor, in government figures going back to the 1990s. The switch happened during the pandemic and shows no signs of reverting.

A flood of transplants helped steer about $100 billion in new income to the Southeast in 2020 and 2021 alone, while the Northeast bled out about $60 billion, based on an analysis of recently published Internal Revenue Service data.

The Sout heast accounted for more than two-thirds of all job growth across the U.S. since early 2020, almost doubling its pre-pandemic share. And it was home to 10 of the 15 fastest-growing American large cities.

Corporations are also flocking there, with a record number of firms moving south after the pandemic, Census Bureau data show. Dun & Bradstreet was one of them.

The company, founded 182 years ago by abolitionist Lewis Tappan, was until recently headquartered in Short Hills, New Jersey, its location a major plus for a financial-information firm with close ties to Wall Street.

But in 2021, the company decamped for Jacksonville, Florida, on the southern edge of that 240-mile coastal band. Jacksonville lacks the money and star-power of Gable Estates, Fisher Island and other elite South Florida enclaves. Part of downtown is vacant and lifeless. Surrounding Duval County suffers from the state’s highest crime rate. And, despite locals’ fondness for steel-truss bridges, they and the big seaport give Jacksonville an industrial feel not found in Florida’s more glamorous cities.

W hat Jacksonville does have is a powerful lure for companies and people looking to work for them. In Dun & Bradstreet’s case, that included a $100 million package of cash and tax incentives.

Chief Financial Officer Bryan Hipsher said the firm would’ve gladly stayed in the New York area. But the offer in Florida was too good to refuse.

“You feel very wanted, right?’’ Hipsher said in an interview from the new palm-fringed headquarters, minutes from the beach. “You feel very welcomed, clearly.”

The average employee here has an annual salary of $77,000, 25% above the

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said James Gimpel, government professor at the University of Maryland.

It’s not surprising, Gimpel said, that so many top Republican candidates are based in the South, including former President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, as well as Nikki Haley and Tim Scott, both in South Carolina.

The California Breastfeeding Coalition Board of Directors has named Vacaville resident Jasmine Pettis Marquez as its new executive director, effective July 1, according to a press release.

national level, and well outstripping most local salaries. Still, many roles pay roughly 15% below the average at the former New Jersey headquarters.

Jacksonville grew so fast that it surpassed San Jose in population last year. Good schools, including University of Florida an hour and a half away, help provide a high-quality employee base, Hipsher said. Today the firm is still busy hiring – it’s a little less than halfway to its goal of 500 workers.

Not far away, the Jacksonville branch of the Mayo Clinic, the worldfamous medical center based in Rochester, Minnesota, is growing along with the city. A new oncology building is going up and last year, it added 2,400 employees, bringing the total here to 9,000.

The company’s move highlights the forces that have sent 2.2 million people migrating to Florida and across the Southeast in the past two years – roughly the size of Houston.

The term “New South” was coined after the Civil War during a time of economic transition for the formerly slave-owning region. “The South has always been reinventing itself,” said Gavin Wright, an economic historian who studies the southern economy. “Every generation seems to have its ‘New South.’ ”

In recent decades, the warmer weather, lower taxes, looser regulation and cheaper housing lured companies and retirees. But this pandemic-era Sun Belt economic upswing is wider in scope.

“You could throw a dart anywhere at a map of the South and hit somewhere booming,” said Mark Vitner, a retired longtime economist for Wells Fargo who now heads his own economic consultancy, Piedmont Crescent Capital, in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Nashville, where the asset-management firm AllianceBernstein relocated a few years ago, has become the country’s top real estate “supernova” in surveys by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Urban Land Institute. Houston, Atlanta and Charlotte, longtime home of Bank of America Corp., rank among the top 10 moving destinations nationwide by Penske Truck Rental – all ahead of boomtown Austin.

And no one beats Fort Worth, Texas, near Dallas, the country’s fastest-growing big city in the latest Census Bureau data.

“We now have more employees in Texas than New York state. It shouldn’t have been that way,” JPMorgan Chase & Co. CEO Jamie Dimon said to Bloomberg TV on a swing through the South earlier this year.

Back on the South Atlantic coast, signs of the explosive growth are everywhere along the Interstate 26 corridor that

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leads to Charleston, South Carolina, a 150,000-resident city with a rich, 350-year history. On this vital link to the port, sandwiched between sensitive environmental lands, electric-vehicles plants and master-planned communities are replacing the forests managed by timber companies for decades.

On a March Friday evening, a couple dozen empty-nesters sipped chardonnay and bourbon at a newcomers club party in the Charleston suburb town of Mount Pleasant. Almost everyone seemed to be from New Jersey.

Beth Woods, 47, and her husband were eager to escape the Covid-19 shutdowns and shuttered stores up north, so they started making bi-weekly trips from Mount Olive, New Jersey, soon after the pandemic struck. Before long, they decided to make the move permanent.

“You could get your hair done, your nails done, you could basically live your life. And it has lower property taxes here, too,” Woods said.

A few feet away, Rosemary Taibi, 59, concurred. She and her husband slashed their property taxes to $2,000 from $16,000 after moving from Randolph, New Jersey: “It’s a big difference.”

Northeasterners are moving here, but, more surprisingly, so are Californians. Employment in the Charleston metro area grew by 5.9% last year, twice as fast as the U.S. average. A Nevada company, Redwood Materials, is building a $3.5 billion EV-components plant 40 minutes northwest of Charleston, following a Volvo plant that opened five years ago.

Whether the growing conservative tilt on issues including reproductive rights could chip away at the influx of people willing to move to some southern states remains to be seen. There’s no evidence that it has slowed the flow of migration.

For now, more people translate into more congressional seats and more political power on the national scene. Over the past five decades, 12 states in the Southeast including Texas collectively added 33 more congressional seats, roughly the same number that the Northeast and Midwest each lost over the same period.

And Southerners now chair 11 of the 21 most important committees in the U.S. House, according to an analysis by Bloomberg Government.

At the 2022 midterm elections, Republican governors handily defeated nationally known Democratic opponents in Florida, Georgia and Texas, a blow to Democrats hoping that a more diverse mix of people moving south would turn the region purple, if not blue. That may still happen over the long term because shifting politics in states as big as Florida and Texas can take 10 or 20 years,

For now, though, Maurice Washington, who recently stepped down as chairman of the Charleston County Republican Party, likes what he sees. Over coffee and croissants in Charleston’s historic district, he said followers on his party’s social media sites jumped from 4,700 before the pandemic to almost 26,000, and he attributes much of it to all the transplants flooding here.

“They don’t want raise their kids in places like New York and California. You get a lot of that,” Washington said.

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For a century and a half, the South has struggled to overcome its position as America’s economic backwater. Even now, despite pockets of new prosperity, life across much of this region tends to be poorer and shorter than in most other parts of the country. Nowhere arguably does the legacy of slavery and segregation run deeper.

Washington has seen the changes – good and bad – up close.

The transplant-driven gentrification is pushing rents and home prices out of reach for many and hallowing out Charleston’s Black community, said Washington, who is African American. When he first joined the City Council in 1990, Blacks made up 42% of the population. It’s since been halved to 20%, according to Census Bureau data.

Across the Cooper River from downtown Charleston, African Americans of Gullah descent recently hauled a 119-year-old schoolhouse for African Americans to a spot two miles from Boone Hall Plantation, the still-operating plantation where some of their enslaved ancestors once labored. They’re preserving a bit of history lest it get bulldozed for a new highway. It hopefully will open to the public next year after extensive fixes, said John Wright, president of the African American Settlement Community Historic Commission.

“If you live in a

Marquez has been the coalition’s program and convening manager since 2020, overseeing the planning and execution of the annual California Breastfeeding Summit.

In her role as executive director, she is the general manager and chief executive officer of the coalition. She oversees a three-person staff in fulfillment of the coalition’s mission to protect, promote and support breast, chest and human milk feeding in the state of California.

Marquez is an international board-certified lactation consultant, earning her credentials through UC San Diego’s Extended Studies Lactation and Perinatal Education program. She has a Master’s of Public Health from San Jose State University and a bachelor’s degree in health science from California State University, Sacramento.

Having worked for the California WIC Association, WIC program and

as a private practice and clinical lactation consultant, Marquez has seen firsthand the conflicts families face when trying to feed their children.

“As a country, we agree human milk is the optimal, species-specific food for human babies and yet we do a terrible job of supporting families in their lactation efforts,” Marquez said in the press release. “California has some of the strongest lactation policies and practices in the nation, but we still see a huge gap in the number of families whose breastfeeding experiences do not align with their desires. These families don’t need to try harder. We need to work harder to support them. That’s where the California Breastfeeding Coalition comes in.”

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US inflation cools, spending stagnates as economy loses steam

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The Federal Reserve’s preferred measures of U.S. inflation cooled in May and consumer spending stagnated, suggesting the economy’s main engine is starting to lose some momentum.

The personal consumption expenditures price index rose 0.1% in May, Commerce Department figures showed Friday. From a year ago, the measure eased to the slowest pace in more than two years.

Consumer spending, adjusted for prices, was little changed after a downwardly revised 0.2% gain in April. From February through May, household spending has essentially stalled after an early-year surge. Spending on merchandise dropped, while outlays for services increased.

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and energy, the socalled core PCE price index increased 4.6% from May 2022. That’s in line with annual readings back to late 2022 and shows minimal relief from elevated price pressures. Economists consider this to be a better gauge of underlying inflation.

Under the hood of the government report, a key metric flagged by Fed Chair Jerome Powell showed a welcome slowdown. Services inflation excluding housing and energy services increased 0.2% in May from a month earlier, the smallest advance since July of last year, according to Bloomberg calculations. The figure was up 4.5% from a year ago.

Treasuries and U.S. stock futures rallied. Traders still expect the Fed to resume

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Benicia brewery only beermaker to get American Express grant

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BENICIA — Brüehol Benicia Brewing received a small business grant backed by Main Street America and American Express.

The Benicia-based brewery was the only one in the state selected.

“As the only brewery in California chosen, we are honored and excited to have been part of the select businesses from across the country to receive this grant. These funds will be crucial to our local business in exploring the possibility of adding food options, allowing us to serve wine in our establishment and give us the opportunity to create additional jobs within the community,” Natalie Keller, co-owner and chief executive officer of Brüehol Brewery, said in a statement.

The amount of the grant was not disclosed.

“Grant funds enable us to expand our packaged beer selections by offering 16-ounce cans to our customers and give us the ability to hire

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a web specialist so that our website and digital experience is accessible for all,” Keller said.

American Express and Main Street America created the grant program in 2021 “to support U.S. small business owners as they recovered from the Covid-19 pandemic and looked to grow their businesses,” the statement said.

The program provided $1.65 million in grants to 330 small business owners in the first year. Small business grants of $5,000 were awarded to 350 small businesses in the U.S. and territories in the second year, a total of $1.75 million.

Brüehol Brewing was started in 2014 by Mark Keller and three friends. In 2019, the Kellers bought out the three partners, putting their own twist on German beer with a Benicia tradition that goes back to the early 1900s.

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community void of your culture and your history, then you’re no longer a community,” said Fred Lincoln, a board member on the commission.

In Nocatee, Florida, just south of Jacksonville, the

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hiking interest rates at next month’s meeting. While there are some glimmers of progress in the inflation data, the rate remains well above the Fed’s 2% target. In light of that, central bank officials have signaled they’re anticipating having to increase interest rates two more times this year – potentially beginning

inequalities and poverty still so prevalent in the South were hard to spot. The median sale price of a single-family home here has climbed 62% to $773,500 in three years, according to housing marketplace Redfin. Schools are considered tops in the state, and golf carts are so ubiquitous on local streets that a Publix supermarket has parking spaces for them.

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with next month’s meeting.

The weakness in consumer spending contrasts with recent data that have otherwise painted a picture of a resilient economy rather than one on the brink of recession. That’s in large part due to the strength of the labor market.

The report indicates slower household spending in the second quarter, Rubeela Farooqi, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics, said in a note.

“For the Fed, a moderation in consumption will be

entrepreneur, moved from Sonoma County, California, with his family 15 months ago and now works out of The Link, a tech-oriented co-working space in St. Johns County that offers dance classes and yoga for families.

“Just drive around the neighborhoods here. It feels like you’re in Disneyland,” Hertzberg said. “You see teenagers winging around in golf carts, electric scooters.”

welcome news as will a deceleration in inflation,” Farooqi said. “However, these developments are not likely to change the very near-term path of policy, with policymakers committed to the view that rates need to rise further, to a more restrictive stance.” Low unemployment and steady wage growth have allowed many Americans to continue to spend on a range of goods and services despite high prices.

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I want to get help for me while my husband tries to get sober

Dear Annie: My husband has admitted to me he is an alcoholic. We never used to think of it that way until last summer, when he let his drinking get out of hand, and now every weekend he gets drunk. Now, he’s home most of the time, but there have been occasions when he has gone to the bars with his brother and other friends, leaving me at home alone with our kids.

I can’t drink right now because I am breastfeeding our infant, and I have noticed what a big part alcohol plays in his life. I don’t want to force him to get sober; he’ll just push

back and get worse. I have told him on multiple occasions that I support him however he needs me to.

Now, I’ve read something recently about Families Anonymous for the family of an alcoholic. I would be interested in doing that so I can learn ways to support myself and him during his time of sobering up, but I don’t know if that would be seen as me pushing him to get sober. Also, none of the meetings are anywhere near me. And I’d rather do in-person meetings if possible.

Is there a good way for me to go about explaining I’m inter-

Horoscopes

by Holiday Mathis

Today’s birthday

You’ll take on rigors and build yourself into a role that’s long been your aim. You’ve a compelling way of expressing yourself that will captivate the attention and interest of others. Though the money may be good, the kinship of others is what makes your work joyful. More highlights: a funny new friend, philanthropy and a cash-out opportunity. Libra and Sagittarius adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 8, 10, 5, 29 and 1.

ARIES (March 21-April 19). You know what you want to contribute, and you’ll be working out the details and manner in which you’ll deliver it. Style and tone are very important – maybe even more important than content.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Should you do it yourself or ask for help? Be strategic. Keep in mind, people often feel an affinity for those they help. This is especially true if the help was rather easy for them to give.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). In the early stages of a situation, people figure out the lay of the land and their roles. Go thoughtfully here. Once defined, it’s not so easy to change the rules or claim a different position.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). Imitation is the flattery that feels like an insult. What it really means is you’re doing something noteworthy. Someone will mimic you. This is an opportunity to see what you’re giving in a new light.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You may be surprised at the energy focused on you. The eyes of others can feel like scrutiny. It’s better to assume everyone is merely curious. Self-awareness will help you succeed whereas self-consciousness will thwart success.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Your sincere interest in a subject is contagious. Others who are around you will pick up on your enthusiasm and start to care as much as you do. Tonight, avoid tinkering with things that don’t need fixing. They could break!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Relationships have rules you agree to consciously and verbally, rules you agree to unconsciously and rules you don’t even know exist. You’ll now be made more aware of rules that fall into the second and third categories.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Do you dare showcase your unique qualities and expertise? By doing so, you could position yourself as an authority and inspiration. Sharing your story will create a sense of trust and credibility, enhancing your status in a chosen arena.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Even the most supportive familial relationships are not immune to conflict. The intricate web of relationships can sometimes lead to tension and emotional complexities. Expect and allow for diverse perspectives and the unique dynamics between each family member.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). It feels like you are cramming for a test, hoping to retain what you need just long enough to do well when the moment is upon you. Does it help to know that this stress is only temporary?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Who you are is always changing, usually very slowly. But right now, the state of flux is obvious, and things are happening fast. Remind yourself often of what you want and orient yourself to that north star.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Your mission is personal in nature. You want to know the true scope of what you can do so you can work in the scale most befitting of your abilities. You’re not performing for the applause, though the applause will come.

CELEBRITY PROFILES: It’s been announced that “Curb Your Enthusiasm” will likely end with the upcoming 12th season. Larry David is the ultimate crabby comedian born when Mercury was in Cancer as well. If Cancer natives have a hard-shell exterior, it’s only to deflect potential harm to their highly sensitive souls. Humor is the perfect armor. The cocreator of “Seinfeld” and creator of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” was born when the moon was in Capricorn, the sign of moguls. Write Holiday Mathis at HolidayMathis.com.

ested in doing this? Is there something I can read that might help me get through this myself? I know this is going to be hard for him to get sober along with quitting smoking. But we both know he can’t continue living the punk kid life. He’s not a kid anymore, and drinking takes a huge toll on him. — Alcoholic’s Wife

Dear Alcoholic’s Wife:

You might want to check out Al-Anon to see if there are meetings closer to your home. Don’t worry about his reaction. He admits he has a problem, and you will be attending meetings to seek support and advice. He knows he can’t keep living the “punk kid life.”

Dear Annie: Although I

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know you are sincerely offering help to people, please know that Al-Anon is for “friends and family of those whose lives have been affected by alcohol.”

Granted, while the loved ones may have other addictions, Al-Anon’s focus is on alcohol. When people come with other concerns, it dilutes the focus of this program.

I have been a grateful member for 42 years. Although we recognize the pain people may be suffering due to another’s addictions, the focus must remain on the greater good for the entire group, with the focus on alcoholism.

There are many groups offering help – Narcotics Anonymous, Alcoholics Anony-

mous, Overeaters Anonymous, Gamblers Anonymous, etc. Please encourage people to seek help through groups that focus on their concerns. — Al-Anon Supporter Dear Al-Anon Supporter:

Thank you for your letter. I am running it immediately after a letter from a reader whose husband is an alcoholic, and my advice is Al-Anon. It is truly wonderful that there are so many other 12-step programs that offer help and support to those who are suffering, including family members.

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Living near green spaces could add 2.5 years to your life

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Want to live longer? Living near more green spaces could be part of the answer.

A study published Wednesday in the peer-reviewed journal Science Advances suggests that if you have long-term exposure to more greenery where you live, on average you may be adding 2.5 years to your life.

The paper adds to existing knowledge of the health benefits of living around greenery by shedding more light on how nature can affect our bodies. The researchers looked at longterm exposure to surrounding green spaces and how that affected biological aging among a group of more than 900 people in four U.S. cities.

“Our study shows that being near green space caused some biological or molecular changes that can be detected in our blood,” said Lifang Hou, a preventive medicine professor at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and the study’s principal investigator.

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To explore the association between long-term exposure to greenery and aging, the researchers compared agerelated biological changes in the study’s participants over a 20-year period against data on green spaces near where those people live. Using blood DNA, they were able to measure biological age at a molecular level by analyzing small changes in how genes related to the aging process work, Hou said.

If a person’s biological age, which can be sped up or slowed down depending on how they live, is older than their chronological age, they may be at higher risk for developing age-related health conditions such as cancer, cardiovascular disease or Alzheimer’s, she said.

Biological age “really depends on what we do daily,” including what we eat and how physically active we are, Hou said. The study, however, emphasizes that it’s not only about what each person individually does for their own health, but also their neighborhoods and communities, she said.

“We know the benefits of green space in reducing premature mortality,” said David Rojas-Rueda, an epidemiology professor at Colorado State University who has studied the health benefits of vegetation but was not involved in the latest paper.

“This study explains how this could

happen by describing how green spaces can modify how genes are expressed,” he wrote in an email.

“This is one of the first studies that really kind of demonstrates how exposure to nature, living in greener areas, may get under our skin and lead to these kinds of fundamental changes to these biomarkers of aging,” added Peter James, an environmental epidemiologist at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health who studies nature and health but who was not involved in the research.

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To assess green spaces, the researchers used satellite imaging and applied a widely accepted measure of quantifying vegetation, said Kyeezu Kim, the study’s lead author and a postdoctoral researcher at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. Kim added that they also identified major parks near the participants’ homes. While that helped identify the location and quantity of plant life, the approach does not provide details about the type - for example, whether the area is a golf course or a forested nature trailor quality of green space.

“We have this vegetation data, but it tells us very little about what the active ingredients in nature are that influence health,” James said. “It just tells you the quantity of vegetation in a given area around your home.”

Knowing more details about the green spaces studied and what people might be doing in them is critical, said Karen Seto, director of the Hixon

Center for Urban Ecology at the Yale School of the Environment.

“Because we don’t know what type of green space it is, I think for cities, they don’t know is it sufficient just to plant a bunch of street trees?” said Seto, who did not contribute to the new study.

The study also left other unanswered questions, such as why the rate of biological aging did not appear to be the same across race, gender and socioeconomic status. For example, the researchers observed Black people who had more access to green space were only about 1 year younger in biological age compared with the study’s average 2.5 years.

Experts said more studies are needed to pinpoint how people might benefit from greenery and what other social determinants that could be involved. nnn

In the meantime, the research should encourage people to think more about their surroundings when making healthy living decisions, in addition to diet, sleep and exercise, Hou said.

The study should also serve as motivation for policymakers to incorporate nature into people’s daily lives, James said.

“We need to start changing our perspective on green space and really viewing it as an essential piece of infrastructure, just the same as sewer systems and garbage collection,” he said. “This is something that we require as human beings to thrive, to be healthy.”

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Charles Goodman Park in Northern Virginia’s Fairfax County, Jan. 14, 2020.

Linda Davidson/The Washington Post file (2016) Clay Warren with his dog in Bethesda, Md., March 29, 2016.

Crime logs

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THURSDAY, JUNE 29

12:22 a.m. Vehicle theft, 4300 block of CENTRAL PLACE

2:02 a.m. — Arson, 200 block of ALASKA AVENUE

6:44 a.m. Trespassing, 1200 block of HARRY PRICE DRIVE

6:57 a.m. Vandalism, 800 block of EAST TABOR AVENUE

7:02 a.m. Forgery, 2400 block of MANDARIN DRIVE

9:35 a.m. Vehicle theft, EAST TRAVIS BOULEVARD

9:51 a.m. — Reckless driver, EASTBOUND I-80

10:09 a.m. Hit-and-run property damage, 1200 block of OLIVER ROAD

10:31 a.m. Vehicle burglary, 2800 block of DOVER AVENUE

11:30 a.m. Fight with a weapon, 1700 block of WEST TEXAS STREET

11:59 a.m. Trespassing, 1900 block of BUCKINGHAM

DRIVE

2:55 p.m. Vehicle burglary, 900 block of DANIEL STREET

2:57 p.m. Hit-and-run property damage, 5000 block of BUSINESS CENTER DRIVE

3:06 p.m. Reckless driver, 1300 block of GATEWAY BOULEVARD

3:25 p.m. Trespassing, 2900 block of PEABODY ROAD

3:47 p.m. — Reckless driver, EASTBOUND I-80

4:20 p.m. Vehicle burglary, 1700 block of SUNSET AVENUE

4:27 p.m. Forgery, 4000 block of SHAKER RUN CIRCLE

4:27 p.m. Vehicle theft, 1400 block of WILSON STREET

4:59 p.m. Sexual assault, 2100 block of SANTA ANA DRIVE

5:15 p.m. Vehicle burglary, 800 block of EAST TABOR AVENUE

6:12 p.m. Vandalism, 1800 block of DOVER AVENUE

6:37 p.m. Vehicle theft, 1300 block of ESSENCE LANE

7:18 p.m. Drunk and disorderly, 1300 block of JAMES STREET

7:27 p.m. Trespassing, 1900

block of WEST TEXAS STREET

7:51 p.m. Brandishing a weapon, 2900 block of MONTCLAIR WAY

9:31 p.m. Arson, PEACH TREE DRIVE

10:11 p.m. Robbery, 1500 block of PHOENIX DRIVE

10:50 p.m. Arson, HILBORN ROAD

FRIDAY, JUNE 30

1:51 a.m. — Trespassing, 1400 block of HOLIDAY LANE

2:42 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 2000

block of CLAY BANK ROAD

9:55 a.m. — Reckless driver, EASTBOUND INTERSTATE 80

10:15 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 100 block of TABOR AVENUE

10:37 a.m. — Indecent exposure, LINEAR PARK PATHWAY

to Fairfield.

“Maybe people will love the game so much they will move here,” Bromstead said.

The game has some big fans, including Doug Koch. The Roseville resident fell in love with the game so much that he made it his career and became a coach to help people learn to play.

“I teach camps, clinics and private lessons,” he said. “I worked in IT, and spent my weekends playing pickleball. I soon realized I was enjoying it more than my job.”

Koch’s win is seeing people learning to play and realizing that they can do it.

Samantha Martinez,

10:53 a.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 2200 block of GATEWAY COURT

11:12 a.m. — Battery, 1300 block of HOLIDAY LANE

11:23 a.m. — Robbery, 3900 block of PARADISE VALLEY DRIVE

12:16 p.m. — Commercial burglary, 2200 block of CORDELIA ROAD

12:42 p.m. — Battery, 2000 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

1:05 p.m. — Trespassing, 1400 block of HOLIDAY LANE

2:03 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, BECK AVENUE

3:42 p.m. — Vandalism, 1000 block of SECOND STREET

5:04 p.m. — Reckless driver, EASTBOUND INTERSTATE 80

5:35 p.m. — Brandishing a weapon, 2000 block of STARLING WAY

6:59 p.m. — Forgery, 1900 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

7:29 p.m. — Trespassing, 2700 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

8:03 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 1100 block of UNION AVENUE

8:16 p.m. — Reckless driver, MARTIN ROAD

8:50 p.m. — Reckless driver, PEAR TREE LANE

10:48 p.m. — Shots fired, 2000 block of DORLAND DRIVE

11:19 p.m. — Shots fired, 800 block of FIFTH STREET 11:27 p.m. — Battery, 1900 block of WEST TEXAS STREET 11:44 p.m. — Reckless driver, 300 block of WEBSTER STREET

SuiSun City

THURSDAY, JUNE 29

5:42 a.m. Vehicle theft, 100 block of SUNSHINE STREET

2:45 p.m.

election was rigged and stolen.” The spokesman said Trump should be credited for “doing the right thing – working to make sure that all the fraud was investigated and dealt with.”

It is unclear if Ducey has been contacted by Smith’s office since meeting with the donor. Investigators in the special counsel’s office have asked witnesses about Trump’s calls with governors, including the one to Ducey, according to two people familiar with the matter. It is unclear if prosecutors plan to eventually bring charges or how the calls figure into their investigation. Prosecutors have also shown interest in Trump’s efforts to conscript Pence into helping him, according to witnesses and subpoenas previously reviewed by The Washington Post.

Trump phoned the governor’s cellphone on Nov. 30, 2020, as Ducey was in the middle of signing documents certifying President Biden’s win in the state during a live-streamed video ceremony. Trump’s outreach was immediately clear to those watching. They heard “Hail to the Chief” play on the governor’s ringtone. Ducey pulled his phone from out of his suit jacket, muted the incoming call and put his phone aside. On Dec. 2, he told reporters he spoke to the president after the ceremony, but he declined to fully detail the nature of the conversation. Ducey said the president had “an inquisitive mind” but did not ask the governor to withhold his signature certifying the election results.

But four people familiar with the call said Trump spoke specifically about his shortfall of more than 10,000 votes in Arizona and then espoused a range of false claims that would show he overwhelmingly won the election in the state and encouraged Ducey to study them. At the time, Trump’s attorneys and allies spread false claims to explain his loss, including that voters who had died and noncitizens had cast ballots.

After Trump’s call to Ducey, Trump directed Pence, a former governor who had known Ducey for years, to frequently check in with the governor for any progress on uncovering claims of voting improprieties, according to two people with knowledge of the effort.

Pence was expected to report back his findings and was peppered with conspiracy theories from Trump and his team, the person said. Pence did not pressure Ducey, but told him to please call if he found anything because Trump was looking for evidence, according to those familiar with the calls.

A representative for Pence declined to comment.

In each of the calls, Ducey reiterated that officials in the state had searched for alleged widespread illegal activity and followed up on every lead but had not discovered anything that would have changed the outcome of the election results, according to Ducey’s recounting to the donor.

After learning that Ducey was not being supportive of his claims, Trump grew angry and publicly attacked him.

It is unclear if Ducey and Trump had additional conversations. Publicly, the governor said the state’s election systems should be trusted, even as Trump and his allies sought to reverse his loss.

In Arizona, Trump and his attorney, Rudy Giuliani, called then Speaker of the House Rusty Bowers (R) on Nov. 22, 2020. They asked the speaker to convene the legislature to investigate their unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud, which included that votes had been cast en masse by undocumented immigrants and in the names of deceased people. Weeks later, on Dec. 31, 2020 the White House switchboard left a message for the chair of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, Clint Hickman, seeking to connect him with Trump. The supervisor, a Republican, did not return the call.

Trump and his allies made similar appeals to officials in Michigan and Georgia. On Jan. 2, 2021,

Trump called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) and said he wanted to undo his loss there by finding additional votes. The next night, the White House switchboard left Hickman another voice

In each of the calls, Ducey reiterated that officials in the state had searched for alleged widespread illegal activity and followed up on every lead but had not discovered anything that would have changed the outcome of the election results, according to Ducey’s recounting to the donor.

mail seeking to connect him to Trump. Hickman did not call back.

Investigators with Smith’s office interviewed Raffensperger this week, and they interviewed Giuliani last week. “The appearance was entirely voluntary and conducted in a professional manner,” said Giuliani spokesman Ted Goodman.

More than half a dozen past and current officials in Arizona contacted by Trump or his allies after his defeat have either been interviewed by Smith’s team or have received grand jury subpoenas seeking records, according to four people familiar with the interviews. Those interviewed include Bowers, the former Arizona House speaker, and three current members of the governing board of Maricopa County, the largest voting jurisdiction in the state that affirmed that Biden won.

Spokespeople for Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) and Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D), told The Post this week that their offices have not received correspondence from Smith’s team seeking records about the 2020 election. The Arizona Secretary of State’s office received a grand jury subpoena dated Nov. 22, 2022, that sought information about communications with Trump, his campaign and his representatives, according to an official familiar with the document but not authorized to publicly speak about it.

During his time as governor, Ducey navigated a hot-and-cold relation-

ship with Trump. Ducey, who struck a more conventional approach to governing, was slow to embrace Trump during his first bid for the White House. The two men warmed to each other, and amid the pandemic and Trump’s second bid for the White House, Ducey campaigned for him.

But after Ducey certified Arizona’s election results, affirming the wins of Biden and other Democrats, Trump ridiculed him on social media: “Why is he rushing to put a Democrat in office, especially when so many horrible things concerning voter fraud are being revealed at the hearing going on right now . . . What is going on with @ dougducey?”

That same day, allies of the president gathered in Phoenix to air unproven claims of widespread fraud and claim that state lawmakers could reject the will of voters. Giuliani attended the event, along with Republican lawmakers and activists; Trump dialed in.

The president invoked Ducey repeatedly in the days that followed, according to an archive of his tweets. On Dec. 3, Trump asked if “allowing a strong check of ballots” in Arizona would “be easier on him and the great State of Arizona.” On Dec. 5, Trump wrote that Ducey and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) “fight harder against us than do the Radical Left Dems.”

A week later, Trump attacked the men again, asking “Who is a worse governor?” He labeled them “RINO Republicans” and baselessly claimed that “They allowed states that I won easily to be stolen.”

Ducey, long eyed by national Republicans as a formidable candidate for the U.S. Senate, passed on a 2024 bid after his standing with the Trump base cratered after Trump’s attacks. After leaving office in January, he was a fellow at the Sine Institute of Policy & Politics at American University, where he spoke about the policies he enacted while in office. Earlier this month, Ducey announced that he is leading a freeenterprise focused political action committee, Citizens for Free Enterprise.

of El Dorado Hills, has been playing for six years. She picked it up from her brother after she relocated from the Bay Area and was looking for something to do.

“I was a little reluctant,” she said, “but I found it to be so much fun.”

Pickleball has become a career for her, also, as she is the pickleball director of marketing and planning at Spare Time Sports Clubs.

Martinez loves that it is a very social sport that can be done anywhere and that it is so easy to learn.

“During Covid, we couldn’t go to the courts so we set a net up in our garage and played against family members,” Martinez said. “The great thing is that people find success at this sport very early on. It is fun at any level you play at.”

the student aid laws, “but does not allow the secretary to rewrite that statute to the extent of canceling $430 billion of student loan principal.”

The court’s conservatives are highly skeptical of government agencies that claim the power to make major changes in the law or spend large sums of money without the approval of Congress.

Roberts called the cost and scope of Biden’s plan “staggering by any measure.” He cited a University of Pennsylvania study that estimated the “program will cost taxpayers between $469 billion and $519 billion depending on the total number of borrowers” who were covered.

In dissent, Justice Elena Kagan wrote: “In every respect, the court today exceeds its proper, limited role in our nation’s governance ... The result here is that the court substitutes itself for Congress and the executive branch in making national policy about student-loan forgiveness.” She argued that Congress had indeed authorized “waiving” student loans in the face of national emergency, and it was the conservative court that was rewriting the law.

In response, Roberts fired back: “The dissent is correct that this is a case

about one branch of government arrogating to itself power belonging to another. But it is the Executive seizing the power of the Legislature.”

Biden said Friday that he strongly disagreed with the court’s decision. He vowed to keep fighting, announcing that he would reintroduce large-scale student debt relief by invoking a different law.

Advocates of forgiving student loans argue that the Higher Education Act of 1965 gives the U.S. secretary of education broad authority to “compromise, waive or release” students’ federal debts.

Speaking to reporters Friday, Biden declined to offer further details about who would qualify or how much relief borrowers would receive under his new plan, but said he believed it was “the best path that remains to provide for as many borrowers as possible.”

“Today’s decision has closed one path,” he said. “Now we’re going to pursue another.”

The president also announced plans for a 12-month “on ramp” repayment program for borrowers who may not be able to afford payments when they resume this fall. The program would temporarily remove the threat of default or of harming a borrower’s credit, he said.

The heavy burden of student loans had become a major issue for Democrats.

As a candidate in 2020, Biden promised to forgive

up to $10,000 in student loans for many young borrowers, but he did not seek legislation from Congress when it was under Democratic control.

Last year, with the end of pandemic in sight, he joined Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to announce that the government – as part of its Covid-19 response –would forgive $10,000 of most outstanding student loans and up to $20,000 for those who came from lowincome families

About 26 million borrowers applied for relief.

But the policy’s legal status remained in doubt. The 2003 HEROES Act said the Education Department could “waive or modify” any provision of the government-funded student loans for any borrower affected by “a war or other military operation or national emergency.”

Lawmakers said their aim was to extend temporary relief to those who were called up to serve in Iraq and to make sure they were not “in a worse position financially” because of their service.

In March 2020, President Donald Trump declared a national emergency in response to Covid-19, and his administration suspended the required repayments and the accrued interest on outstanding student loans. These suspensions have remained in effect and have cost the government more than $100 billion.

Deciding to go further, Biden said the cost of

higher education had skyrocketed and left many students with crushing debts. The White House said his plan to forgive some or all of millions of loans would “provide more breathing room to America’s working families as they continue to recover from the strains associated with the Covid-19 pandemic.”

But attorneys for Nebraska and five other Republican-led states sued and argued the president was “unlawfully invoking the Covid-19 pandemic to assert power beyond anything Congress could have conceived.”

In defense of the plan, the administration’s lawyers said Congress had indeed authorized the Education Department to “waive or modify” any provision of the student aid programs. They also argued the states had no standing to sue because they were not harmed by the president’s decision to forgive loans.

But a federal appeals court in St. Louis sided with the Republican-led states and blocked the loan cancellation program from taking effect. In December, the Supreme Court refused to lift that order and agreed to hear the administration’s appeal in late February. Led by Roberts, the court’s conservatives said they were highly skeptical of the notion that the 2003 law or the pandemic gave the administration authority to wipe away millions of loans.

New tool can detect vision issues early

It is estimated that more than 30 million people in the United States have diabetes, but only one in five knows it. Many more – some 84 million – have prediabetes, which is the precursor to diabetes. Experts say eight in 10 people don’t know they have it. Left untreated, it often leads to Type 2 diabetes within five years.

cases in Solano County has typically been higher than the state average for years.

Mannie Rose

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Mannie Rezende, a film buff, went to see a movie a few years ago and when it ended, he couldn’t remember where he had parked his car.

So he went home on a bus.

Mannie, 71, loves to read, but as soon as he finishes the L.A. Times or the New Yorker, he starts over again as if it’s his first read-through.

“It’s kind of heartbreaking,” said his wife, Rose, who has watched the man she married gradually lose himself in a thickening fog.

“I feel like he’s just a shell of himself, and I think, ‘Oh, my God, I’m really alone even though he’s still here.’

“He’s disappearing on me.”

Mannie is one of nearly 7 million people in the U.S. who have Alzheimer’s disease. That’s roughly 10% of the 65-andolder population, and the numbers are growing as the population ages.

As of yet, there is no surefire remedy – medicinal or therapeutic – to thwart a disease that makes people strangers to themselves as their loved ones bear cruel witness. But Rose wanted to share that she and Mannie have at least found a measure of support.

I met them on Monday just after 9 a.m. at a West Los Angeles adult day-care center called OPICA (Optimistic People in a Caring Community), a nonprofit founded more than four decades ago. Mannie and others with various forms and stages of dementia are engaged with group discussions, brain stimulation

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exercises, music, dancing, aerobics, art projects and strolls through adjacent Stoner Park.

“We can’t say that it improves their memory, but what we can say is that socialization is critical in terms of their mood and their health,” said Sara Kaye, OPICA’s director of family services.

This is also a way to keep members in their own homes rather than in nursing facilities. And while they’re busy at OPICA, their caregivers get breathers. For Rose, 69, that means focusing on her job as a family therapist. And she’ll have time to attend OPICA’s caregiver support meetings.

“Hi, Mannie,” one of the OPICA staffers called out as he entered the multipurpose room, where coffee and croissants were being served.

Mannie sat next to Kitty, another regular. It was not clear whether he recognized her, or any of the others, but he looked

at ease, as if this was all familiar to him – and comfortable. He didn’t start conversations, but he listened in.

“Thank God, we’re so blessed to be here,” Kitty declared with a smile as bright as the sun. “What a nice day it’s going to be.”

Mannie always takes a copy of The Times to OPICA. He folds it, stuffs it into a back pocket, and pulls it out now and then.

I told him that photographer Genaro Molina and I work for the paper and he nodded. A few hours later, I saw him reading the paper and I repeated the connection, but he seemed to have forgotten who we were.

Mannie has what the OPICA staff refers to as moderate impairment. As Rose put it, he can find his way to the bathroom

in their Sunland home, but he might have trouble locating the laundry room or bedroom.

At OPICA, there’s a range of memory loss among the clientele; some have less cognitive loss, some have more. One man slept through several activities. Another gentleman, wearing a Lakers hat, held the hand of a staff member and stared at their intertwined fingers.

Mannie was an eager participant in the group warmup, waving an orange pom-pom to the beat of a Michael Jackson song. Then it was on to trivia and current events, a walk in the park, a performance by a guitar-strumming singer and art class, where Mannie worked on a watercolor painting.

According to the American Diabetes Association, nearly 30% of the cases in America are those age 65 and older. And when you realize that diabetes is the eighth leading cause of death, it becomes clear that individuals who have diabetes, or pre-diabetes, need to be proactive in taking care of their health.

Education is key. There is much information, support and resources available to help people living with diabetes manage their systems, and delay or prevent extreme health complications.

One exciting new tool can help preserve the eyesight of diabetic patients before they even know they have a problem. A teleretinal camera looks like an extended viewfinder. The patient sits in a darkened room for five minutes, which provides time for their eyes to dilate. The test takes another five minutes and can be performed during a primary care appointment, so patients don’t have to make a separate appointment with an ophthalmologist. If results come back abnormal, patients are referred to an ophthalmologist for further management and follow-up.

It’s a convenient way for diabetic patients to complete their eye exams and get results within 24 to 48 hours.

In 2021, 3.2 million California adults had diabetes and 5.9 million, or 20%, were estimated to have prediabetes. The percentage of diabetes

According to the American Diabetes Association, an annual eye exam is the best way to determine if blood glucose levels are affecting a person’s eye health. Retinal imaging can detect very subtle changes, such as leakage, bleeding and abnormal growth in the blood vessels of the retina, which can cause blindness.

Other issues that can threaten vision include swelling and fluid buildup in the central part of the retina; glaucoma, or increased fluid pressure in the eye; cataracts and dry eye.

People with diabetes are twice as likely to develop dry eye, which causes blurred vision.

In addition to annual checkups, patients should report any change in vision, including:

n Sudden difficulty reading or focusing on things close up;

n Sudden blurriness or double vision;

n Pressure or pain in your eyes;

n Presence of flashing lights, dark spots, or missing pieces in your vision;

n Sudden appearance of floaters (moving spots or lines), especially when these are numerous;

n Appearance of red streaks in your vision; and

n Sudden worsening of night vision.

It’s important not to take vision for granted. For someone with diabetes, it’s even more important to be proactive.

Zahra Daftarian is a nurse practitioner at NorthBay Health Primary Care in Vacaville.

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Mannie Rezende, 71, who has Alzheimer’s, walks with his wife, Rose, 69, in the backyard of their Sunland home.

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Mannie enjoys a light moment with Rose at the care center.

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When Mannie, Rose and I broke away for a few minutes to talk, he told me he was aware of his memory problems. “Espe cially compared to the old days, when I was younger,” he said. “It comes with the territory sometimes.”

You could observe Mannie and not suspect he has Alzheimer’s. He participates. He responds. When he danced, a smile appeared. But when he reaches inside himself, there is less to find than there used to be. Buried in the dust of time is his courtship of a young co-ed by the name of Rose, back when they were UCLA students who shared a passion for social justice and dreamed of a life together.

Mannie later worked in the university’s registrar’s office and mentored students, but the story of his life is less accessible now, and Rose says Mannie uses throwaway lines to keep conversations going.

When he has trouble with memory, Mannie told me, “there are workarounds.” He’s written things down, for example. “Chores. Upcoming events. Things we’re going to do and places where we’re going to go.”

Mannie, who likes sports and watches the Dodgers on TV, rooted for the Red Sox as a child in Connecticut. He remembered the name of the stadium where the team plays – Fenway Park – but did not seem to recall that he had just returned from a trip to see his family in the Hartford area.

Rose thinks about the Dylan Thomas line about not going “gentle into that good night,” but to instead “rage against the dying of the light.” And she thinks: If only that were possible.

“My job now is to help Mannie go kind of gently,” Rose said. “To not remind him he’s forgotten things.”

She and Mannie found OPICA during the pandemic, when the program temporarily went remote. Mannie liked it right away, and even more so when inperson sessions resumed. But Rose wonders how long she’ll be able to manage her job, and Mannie, and the $2,000 monthly cost of OPICA, where the capacity is limited to about 80 regular clients.

That brings up another of the many gargantuan challenges in a society that’s aging rapidly: Not enough of this kind of care is available despite growing need, not everyone can afford it, and in most cases, there is no insurance coverage. Mary Michlovich, OPICA’s director, awards “scholarships” to help some members defray costs, but she notes that in greater Los Angeles, there are only a handful of similar nonprofits.

The state administers dozens of adult day-care

facilities with varying levels of service, some of which accept MediCal coverage, but many counties have no such offerings. Sarah Steenhausen, a deputy director in the California Department of Aging, said the state is exploring ways to increase access and coverage, including for those who are neither wealthy enough to pay for care over long periods of time or poor enough to qualify for subsidies.

Dr. David Reuben, who runs UCLA’s Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care Program, said about 3,800 patients have received 24/7 access to medical care, counseling and other services there, and some are sent to OPICA for daytime activities.

Reuben told me he’s making the argument to congressional representatives and federal officials that Medicare could reduce costs by covering such models of care. Participants in his program, he said, have shorter hospital stays, fewer ER visits

and reduced long-term nursing home stays, among other benefits.

Last month, Rose deliv-

ered a speech at an OPICA luncheon, thanking the staff. In the early days of Mannie’s Alzheimer’s, she said, it was as if they’d hit a sinkhole, then climb out to find steady ground “until suddenly there is another place where the ground gives way.” Mannie then got a bad case of Covid and his mental decline accelerated, leaving him lost and depressed until they found OPICA.

With all that love and support, Mannie looked forward to each day, despite long van rides from Sunland to West L.A. Lifted by a renewed sense of purpose, Rose said, Mannie’s emotional decline reversed and his cognitive decline slowed.

But she didn’t sugarcoat what they’re going through.

“Joy does not erase the grief. They sit side by side,” she said. “I know he will continue to grow

downwards and backwards. It is heartbreaking. And yet it is also a poignant gift, to be allowed to see Mannie grow younger. … He is becoming sweeter, more childlike.”

Mannie loved the music of the ’60s, and Rose drew on that for a fitting end to her speech, quoting Ben E. King’s 1961 hit, “Stand By Me.”

“When the night has come

And the land is dark

And the moon is the only light we’ll see No, I won’t be afraid ... Just as long as you stand Stand by me.”

For information on services for older adults, call the California Department of Aging information hotline at 1-800-510-2020 or visit aging.ca.gov. For information on services for caregivers, visit caregiver california.org.

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Mannie and rose spend time with their dogs Clara, foreground, and teddy.

France surveys damage from riots as teen’s funeral is held

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France is tallying the costs from a fourth night of street violence and looting as the family of the teenaged boy whose killing by police triggered a wave of anger prepared to bury him.

Clashes between police and mostly young people overnight were described by the Interior Ministry as “less intense” after 45,000 officers were deployed in cities across France. Some 1,311 people were arrested, Agence France-Presse reported, citing the ministry, which said 2,560 fires had been lit and hundreds of buildings damaged.

Public buildings like town halls, libraries and police stations were attacked, and stores were looted in cities like Marseille, Lyon and Grenoble, and in areas within and around Paris.

French President Emmanuel Macron had called on parents and social media platforms to help bring an end to violence, which spread to towns outside the capital.

Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin met with representatives of Twitter, Snapchat, TikTok and Meta on Friday, saying in a statement that they should pull “illegal” messages calling for violence and insurrection.

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EPIRB is a safety device that automatically transmits an emergency signal

The funeral of Nahel, 17, is scheduled to take place on Saturday with tensions running high. Anger erupted after the teen was fatally shot at close range in his car Tuesday in Nanterre, a western suburb of Paris. Video posted on social media showed two police officers leaning into the car, with one of them shooting as the driver pulls away. Authorities haven’t released Nahel’s last name.

There were attacks overnight on 266 buildings, just over half the previous evening, as well as dozens of police stations, the Interior Ministry said. Some 1,350 vehicles were burned, also fewer than the night before.

The officer who fired the shot on Nahel has been charged with murder and is being held in pre-trial detention. Pascal Prache,

when it is placed or floating in an upright position. The signal allows the Coast Guard and other agencies to pinpoint your location.

n Carry a portable weatherproof marine band radio. Cellphones

the Nanterre prosecutor, said Thursday the legal conditions for the use of a weapon were “not met.” Laurent-Franck Lienard, a lawyer for the officer, told Europe 1 radio that the policeman believed he “needed” to shoot.

Nahel’s mother, identified only as Mounia, said in an interview with France 5 that she didn’t blame the police force. “I blame one person, the one who took my son’s life,” she said. “He saw an Arab face, a little kid. He wanted to take his life.”

The looting of stores overnight was more widespread such as in Grenoble where the city center was littered with broken glass, empty shoe boxes and broken mannequins, Agence France-Presse reported. Shops were also ransacked in Mar-

may go out of range or lose battery power when needed most. The Coast Guard, other agencies, and other boaters monitor marine band radios, increasing the number of people who can respond if you’re in trouble.

seille, it said. Tobacco stores were targeted in particular because their merchandise can be resold, Philippe Coy, head of the sector’s French lobby told BFM TV, describing considerable damage.

The unrest harks back to 2005 when weeks of riots followed the death of two boys in an electricity substation following a police chase. It’s also thrown a spotlight on French policing practices, as well as long-simmering tensions in the country’s poorer suburbs.

In 2005 the French government declared a state of emergency that lasted close to two months in its effort to quell the violence. Macron has so far avoided taking that step, instead authorities on Friday ordered the cancellation of some events and gatherings, while bus and tram services were suspended from 9 p.m.

Soccer star Kylian Mbappe and some of his team mates from the Paris Saint-Germain football club appealed for calm and condemned the violence. They said in a letter posted on Twitter that while many of them were from poorer neighborhoods and understood the anger, the reaction was destroying the perpetrators’ own towns and hurting their families.

n Take a boating safety course. Approximately 80% of boating deaths occur on boats where the operator had no formal boating safety instruction. The Coast Guard recommends that all boaters take a safety class and a

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include bottle rockets, Roman candles, firecrackers and others that “explode, go into the air, or move on the ground in an uncontrollable manner,” according to Cal Fire.

“Safe and sane” fireworks generally include “the ones that don’t basically go up in the air,” said Erica Ray of the Santa Clara County Fire Department.

It is illegal to have or use even “safe and sane” fireworks in areas where they are not permitted, according to Cal Fire, which has a “zero tolerance” policy for the use, transportation or possession of illegal fireworks.

Violators may face fines of up to $50,000 and a jail sentence of up to one year.

Officials say fireworks can result in fires, property damage and injuries to humans and pets. In the last 10 years, fires started by fireworks have burned 20,000 acres across the state, according to Cal Fire, causing a total of $59.3 million in property loss, with $25.7 million of that total occurring in 2022 alone.

“Please leave fireworks to the professionals,” the Santa Clara County Fire Department said on Twitter, urging people to instead visit a professional fireworks display for the holiday.

In Alameda County, fire officials plan to increase “our staffing and available fire resources” by adding

refresher every five years. The Coast Guard Auxiliary offers low-cost boating safety courses.

n Check the weather Check daily weather reports, or listen to a marine band radio for sudden changes in

five additional fire engines, one water tender, one bulldozer and one battalion chief, said Deputy Chief Ryan Nishimoto.

The city of Newark, where the sale and use of fireworks are allowed, will also receive one extra fire engine and battalion chief, he said.

To stay safe, Cal Fire recommends first checking that fireworks of any kind are allowed where you are, then making sure the fireworks you buy are state fire marshal-approved. You should only use fireworks outdoors and read all directions before use. Light only one firework at a time and always have an adult present.

Never use fireworks near dry grass or other flammable materials – Cal Fire recommends clearing anything potentially flammable before lighting any fireworks. You should also have a bucket of water or hose nearby, ideally gray or reused water.

To prevent injuries, Cal Fire offers these tips:

n Never place any part of your body directly over a fireworks device when lighting the fuse.

n Back up several feet immediately after lighting fireworks.

n Never point or throw fireworks at another person.

n Never experiment with fireworks.

n Never attempt to relight or “fix” fireworks.

n Do not wear loose-fitting clothing while lighting fireworks.

n Never carry fireworks in your pockets.

weather conditions.

n Download the Coast Guard Boating Safety app. You can file a float plan, request assistance, request a vessel safety check, and report pollution and hazards to navigation.

smoke free environment, no open alcohol, no BBQs, no pets permitted in the festival area

Raphael Lafargue/Abaca via Zuma Press/TNS Firefighters extinguish burning cars, during a commemoration march for a teenage driver shot dead by a policeman, in the Parisian suburb of Nanterre, Thursday.

THE POETRY CONNECTION

Importance of teachers

During these summer months, while schools are not in full session, I think it is important we all stop and thank teachers for what they do to nurture and educate students in our community. Their dedication to this cause is clearly a passion as we all know teacher salaries are not commensurate with the workload they must balance and fulfill.

Reflect on that one teacher (or more) who made a huge impact on your life. At the time you were a student, whether it be elementary, middle or high school, you might not have thought it wasn’t anything important, but as you grew and formulated your career path, those lessons and conversations may have led you to where you are today.

Renée Hamlin, a graduate of Armijo High School Class of 2010, told me about her fourth-fifth grade teacher, Mr. Hayek. She started writing because of him. He had his students write stories and then turn them into books. They also completed these books with their own drawings. This is where she actually became interested in writing as it was taught in a positive and encouraging way.

After high school graduation, she attended Solano Community College. She says, “I first turned to poetry in a real way when I took my first creative writing class with Prof Michael Wyly.” He had assigned “Tryst” by Angie Estes, and she said she had never read poetry like it before. She grew more and more curious about poetry. Taking students to new avenues of reading and challenging minds, as Wyly did, helped Renée to find her own path of writing. She then went on to UC Riverside and SF State to complete her MFA. Two of Renée’s favorite poets now are Ada Limón and Aimee Nezhukumatathil.

The love of poetry often includes an appreciation of art. Renée’s favorite artist is Vincent van Gogh. Because of this respect for all humanities, her writing often includes references to art and mythology. In fact, her MFA thesis was a collection of poems about Medusa.

As Renée’s story shows, the influence of teachers made a significant effect on her career choice. Because of this guidance and care, she has now become a teacher herself, literally coming full circle from Fairfield public schools to Solano Community College, going away to complete her MFA, but returning to give back to our community!

I am hosting a poetry event called “The Road to Poetry” where Renée Hamlin will be the featured reader. She will be discussing what inspired

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THINGS TO DO

I Fairfield

5:30 p.m. Sunday

Mustache Harbor Vezer, 5071 Suisun Valley Road. https://shop.vezer. com.

10 a.m. Tuesday Independence Day parade Downtown. https:// visitfairfield.com/event/ independence-day-parade.

5 p.m. Wednesday Chris, Rob, Jeff & Todd 4491 Suisun Valley Road. https://www.facebook.com/ pioneertaproom.

8 p.m. Thursday, 2 and 8 p.m. Friday The 25th annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Downtown Theatre, 1035 Texas St. https://www. downtowntheatre.com.

6 p.m. Friday Jazz Night

Be sure to visit for future events

music, fun, sun, Plenty of for Solano County fireworks

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Celebrate America’s 246th birthday on Tuesday with parades, fireworks and music.

Papa Joe & The News will wrap up the day on the Suisun Waterfront, prior to the fireworks.

“It’s an honor to play in Susiun on Independence Day,” Joe Lucero said.

“Performing on this day is special to me because it feels like one day that we as Americans can put down our differences and celebrate as one nation,” he shared in an email. “There is so much strife and separation in our nation these days and it is nice to be a part of a program that salutes our nation’s independence.”

The band has a steady following in Northern California. Lucero feels the appeal comes from the selection of music the band members offer.

“When Ed Rillera and I started 13 years ago we really just wanted to play stuff we liked,” Lucero said in the email. “As we have progressed, we have stayed with that idea in mind but added the requirement of “good, happy songs.”

Songs to put a smile on one’s face, Lucero said. “No matter what era the songs are from they are predominately positive and happy.

“I think the second thing that makes folks come out to see us is that we have been labeled as your favorite “family band,” Lucero wrote. “We are not all family but there is definitely a family influence rooted in this endeavor.”

His son, Elia Lucero, is the band’s bassist on most days. On Tuesday, he will be on guitar as Vince Rillera (Ed’s son) will step in on bass for this event.

Daughter Selia Lucero and future daughter-inlaw, Abby Rico, are also mainstays in the group.

Rounding out the group is Dave McClure. Joe Lucero met him 30 years ago in college; Lani Parker, who has been working in groups with Ed for decades; and “missing” member Janice Dispo, who is expecting her second child.

“I think our draw comes from the fact that our fans are great people that enjoy being out and dancing, so they are as welcoming as we try to be and they have become part of the ‘family’ as well,” Lucero wrote.

Tuesday’s two-hour show will include audience participation.

“We are all about making our audience a part of the show, so there will be some call and response, there will be a whole lot of energy and dancing for sure,” Lucero wrote.

“There will be an abundance of music that we will touch in the two hours we will play. We pride ourselves on craft-

Mankas Gardens, 2522 Mankas

Corner Road. https://shop. vezer.com/pages/events.

I Suisun City

12 p.m. Sunday Jazzy Champagne Brunch Marina Lounge, 700 Main St., Suite 106. www.marina loungesuisun.com.

2 to 4 p.m. Tuesday Kiss N Tell Suisun City waterfront. www.suisun.com/ events-directory/annual4th-of-july-event.

4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday Don Gato Suisun City waterfront. www.suisun.com/ events-directory/annual4th-of-july-event.

7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday Papa Joe & The New Deal Suisun City waterfront. www.suisun.com/

events-directory/annual4th-of-july-event.

9:15 p.m. Tuesday Fireworks Suisun City waterfront. www.suisun.com/ events-directory/annual4th-of-july-event.

7 p.m. Thursday Karaoke Marina Lounge, 700 Main St., Suite 106. www.marina loungesuisun.com.

6:30 p.m. Friday Film: ‘Sonic the Hedgehog 2’ Heritage Park, 611 Village Drive. www.suisun.com/ events-directory/dinnermovies-in-the-park-sonicthe-hedgehog-2.

7 p.m. Friday LeeRoy and The Jenkins True Symmetry, 315 Marina Center. www.facebook. com/truesymmetry brewing.

8 p.m. Friday Red Carpet Party Marina Lounge, 700 Main St., Suite 106. www.marina loungesuisun.com.

6:30 p.m. Saturday Music on the Waterfront:

Time Bandits Harbor Plaza. www. suisunwaterfront.com/ events.

I Vacaville

6:30 p.m. Tuesday Crossman Connection Andrews Park, 614 E. Monte Vista.

7 p.m. Tuesday Dueling Pianos Makse, 555 Main St. http:// duelingpianovacaville.com.

10 a.m. Wednesday Free movie Journey Downtown Theatre, 308 Main St. https://events. journeydowntownvenue. com.

5 p.m. Thursday Live music

11 Town Square Place. www. backdoorbistro.com/events.

6 p.m. Thursday Singer Songwriter competition Journey Downtown @ The Library, 300 Main St.

6:30 p.m. Friday 23rd Annual CreekWalk series: Hey Jude Andrews Park, 614 E. Monte Vista Ave. www.ci.vacaville.

ca.us/government/ parks-and-recreation/ special-events/creekwalk.

8 p.m. Saturday Cafe’ Y Orquesta De La Isla Journey Downtown Theatre, 308 Main St. https://events. journeydowntownvenue. com.

I Benicia

2 p.m. Sunday Bray The Rellik, 726 First St.  www.therelliktavern.com.

2:30 p.m. Sunday Patrick Winningham Band Lucca Bar and Grill, 439 First St. www.luccabar.com.

4 p.m. Monday Jeff Tamelier and Tony Lindsay Lucca Bar and Grill, 439 First St. www.luccabar.com.

2:30 p.m. Tuesday Randy Markham & The Boys Lucca Bar and Grill, 439 First St. www.luccabar.com.

7 p.m. Tuesday Open mic The Rellik, 726 First St.

www.therelliktavern.com.

7 p.m. Wednesday Karaoke The Rellik, 726 First St.  www.therelliktavern.com.

6:30 p.m. Thursday Uncommonwealth Lucca Bar and Grill, 439 First St. www.luccabar.com.

8:30 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.

6:30 p.m. Friday Howell Devine Lucca Bar and Grill, 439 First St. www.luccabar.com.

8:30 p.m. Friday Sixteen Scandals The Rellik, 726 First St.  www.therelliktavern.com.

1 p.m. Saturday Diablo Wranglers Lucca Bar and Grill, 439 First St. www.luccabar.com.

5 p.m. Saturday Lark & LeBlanc The Rellik, 726 First St.  www.therelliktavern.com.

6:30 p.m. Saturday James Nash & The Nomads Lucca Bar and Grill, 439 First St. www.luccabar.com.

9 p.m. Saturday Neon Velvet The Rellik, 726 First St.  www.therelliktavern.com.

I Vallejo

3 p.m. Sunday Proud to be American! music showcase Bay Area Stage, 515 Broadway St. www. bayareastage.org/tickets. htm.

5:30 p.m. Wednesday Tia Carroll Empress Lounge, 330 Virginia St. https:// empresstheatre.org.

1 p.m. Saturday Papa Joe & the New Deal Vino Godfather Winery, 1005 Walnut Ave. www. vinogodfather.com.

8 p.m Saturday The Boys of Summer Empress Lounge, 330 Virginia St. https:// empresstheatre.org.

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Papa Joe & The News. Courtesy photo

Planning begins for Fairfield Teeyan Bash

Daily Republic Staff

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FAIRFIELD — Sponsorships and vendor booths are available for the Aug. 13 Fairfield Teeyan Bash.

“Put on your lipstick and mascara, pick Punjabi outfit in vibrant colors, traditional ladies come one come all. We’ll all celebrate Teeyan,” organizers said about the event.

Teeyan is the regional name of the festival of Teej, which is celebrated

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her to write, which led her to the journey she is on, then will read her own work. An Open Mic will follow so audience members may share their own work or read a poem of a favorite poet.

“The Road to Poetry” will occur from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. July 29 at the Fairfield Cordelia Library. Email fairfieldpoetlaureate@gmail.com for more details.

Enjoy these poems by Renée Hamlin. And remember to thank the teachers! These and others of Renee’s poems will also be posted at The Coffee Bar, 740 Texas St., during the month of July.

The Banshee is Hired as a Grief Counselor

She welcomes them into her office, offers them a cup of tea. While they cradle the cups in their hands, she crosses the room and presses a button on the radio.

Heavy metal, it throats against the walls, against the windows, rattles between the ribs of their only-human bodies. IT’S OKAY

TO BE ANGRY, she tells them as they sop up spilt tea with napkins (the lucky ones do not wear white). Inevitably some of them make a quick exit. The ones who stay, though, the ones who stay scream with her. Their pain lifts above the music. They drown together. The ones who hurt the hardest scream until they’re cradled, crying,

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ing a show that is much like a DJ set, meaning we string a lot of different music together by using well-crafted medleys that will take you on a musical journey through from the 1960s through today, all while staying true to the music.”

The audience can expect some R&B, soul, funk, island, Latin rock or reggae.

SUISUN CITY

n 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.:

Vendors and rides.

n 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Community acts.

n 2 to 4 p.m.: Kiss ‘N

Tell.

n 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.: Don Gato.

n 7 to 9 p.m.: Papa Joe and the New Deal.

n 9:15-9:30 p.m. Fireworks. All at the Suisun City waterfront. www.suisun. com/events-directory/ annual-4th-of-july-event.

FAIRFIELD

n 10 a.m.:

throughout Punjab, India, and is dedicated to the onset of the monsoon and focuses on daughters and sisters.

The local event, open only to ladies and children, will run from noon to 6 p.m. at Willow Hall, 1000 Kentucky St., in Fairfield.

Anyone interested in being a sponsor or renting a booth, call Gagandeep Kang, 559-709-7470; Gurmeet Khinda, 707712-1601; Kiranpal Deol, 707-816-1841; or Gurpinder Jassar, 707-803-2686.

in her arms, and sometimes she screams for them, but mostly she drinks up the wails that must be released in order for anyone to heal.

The Sphinx is Hired as a Librarian

When she takes the position, she doesn’t entirely expect it to work out. She strides into the great halls anyway, muscles rippling, tail swishing. The chair behind the reference desk has been considerately replaced by a heated slab low enough for her to sit comfortably at eye level. As she muses over how to accentuate her cleverness and play down her unfortunate reputation, students begin to approach. She helps one after another. She quickly learns that poor grades and falling GPAs are more terrifying than she is.

Migration of the Muse

How she sheds: with the twist of her hip. How she burns. How the snakes rattle & writhe. How she takes to the road. How at home she is in solitude. How she rides. How she shakes.

How the stone forms for her. How the stone crumbles for her. How she rises. How the sky welcomes her. How she laughs. How she sighs. How she doesn’t know what ugly is.

How she beams: with teeth & tongue, lips & tusks.

Parade, Downtown Fairfield. www.fairfield. gov/events.

VACAVILLE

n 1 to 3 p.m.: Musical Americana: Band of the Golden West, Vacaville Museum, 213 Buck Ave. https://vacavillemuseum. org/events.

n 6:30 p.m.: Crossman Connection (fireworks follow), Andrews Park, 614 E. Monte Vista Ave. www.visitvacaville.com.

VALLEJO

n 11 a.m. to fireworks: Mad Hatter July 4th Waterfront Celebration, 295 Mare Island Way. www.facebook.com/ madtatterholidayvallejo.

BENICIA

n 6:30 p.m. Monday: Torchlight parade, First Street from D Street to the judging area at Benicia City Park on First and Military streets.

n 9 p.m. Tuesday: Fireworks, First Street Green. No daytime activities on Tuesday. www.benicia mainstreet.org.

Raiders of the Lost Art

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Hollywood’s favorite hunky archaeology professor and globe-trotting antiquities vigilante has returned.

George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, who created and directed the first four Indiana Jones films, have passed the torch for the last installment, “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” to director James Mangold (“Logan,” “Ford v Ferrari”). He serves up a flesh-and-blood cartoon with plenty of thrills and laughs and even a bit of pathos. As Phoebe Waller-Bridge, playing Indiana’s mischievous goddaughter Helena Shaw, says after goading him back into adventurer mode: “Indiana Jones is back in the saddle, going out with a bang!”

Lucas first dreamed up the swashbuckling scientist in the early 1970s, but only after a detour into a galaxy far, far away did he hash out the story. Like Spielberg, his choice to direct, Lucas grew up on a Hollywood diet of Tarzan, Zorro and Buck Rogers. Wouldn’t it be cool, they thought, to introduce the kids of the ’80s to an oldschool action hero? “Star Wars” – obliterating box office stats like the Death Star pulverizing Alderaan – had just proven there was an appetite for, well, popcorn; and Han Solo, I mean Harrison Ford, was even eager to star.

The trio struck gold: “Raiders of the Lost Ark” (1981) was an instant classic, delighting young boys and critics alike. The films that followed have been mixed, but even the weaker ones are fun. “Temple of Doom” (1984) gave us that deliriously manic mine train race; “Last Crusade” (1989) brought us Sean Connery, cast hilariously against type as Indy’s helpless, bookish father; and “Crystal Skull” (2008) featured Cate Blanchett as a high-camp Soviet evildoer. “Dial” falls in the middle of the pack: It doesn’t achieve the goofy perfection of “Raiders” or “Crusade,” but it’s far better than the frenetically grim “Doom” and the mostly mediocre “Skull.”

The movie rests, as usual, on Ford’s shoulders. Can they still carry that weight, 15 years after the last installment? Absolutely – with a bit (OK, a lot) of visual effects magic.

In each of the previous films, we saw Indy’s body before his face: The bulk of his shadow against a wall, that signature hat glimpsed from behind, his back moving

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through a crowded nightclub. Here he’s bound and hooded, being led to his hanging. We feel his outsize presence first. He may be a brilliant archeologist fluent in dozens of languages dead and alive, but he wins battle after battle with feats of brawn, not brains.

Except this time, we don’t see his actual body or face at all. Ford is not the smoldering hunk he was when he first cracked Indy’s whip 42 years ago, yet here he is, lithe and limber and snarky-sexy as ever. For the prologue, we’ve flashed back to Germany at the end of World War II and traveled far into the uncanny valley with the help of Hollywood’s digital dermatologists. The dramatic irony doesn’t distract us for long –the effects are so good we quickly forget the slight mismatch of Ford’s smooth young skin and gruff older voice.

Within minutes we’re off on a chase – and stay on it, because, this being an Indiana Jones movie, it’s essentially one very long action sequence – and we’re too distracted to quibble over the alchemy involved in reverse-aging Ford. The other effects are less satisfying. Or maybe it’s just a bummer that Mangold has to rely so heavily on green-screen mayhem.

Spielberg was famous for concocting practical stunts and effects; the first three films were preposterous, but they felt real. “Dial’s” action sequences are all anime, reducing Indy to a 2D Marvel hero from the 3D marvel we grew up with.

But did we really expect them to dangle an 80-year-old from planes, race him through the streets of Tangier in an out-of-control tuk-tuk and throw him off a speeding train? Of course not. Just go with it, filmgoer. The rest of the Indiana Jones magic is mostly here.

As in the preceding installments, the prologue is one of the film’s most thrilling bits, a deathdefying dash with key bits of plotting dropped in along the way. We meet an old sidekick of Indy’s, professor Basil Shaw (a neurotic Toby Jones); a power-hungry villain (a ghoulish Mads Mikkelsen); and an intriguing MacGuffin, Archimedes’s legendary Antikythera, a sort of ancient astronomical computer.

Indiana Jones may well live forever, but he does age. And when the prologue ends, we find our hero snoozing in front of the TV with a drink –until the kids downstairs wake him up, blasting the

Beatles. It’s 1969: Men have landed on the moon, and a 70-something Professor Jones is retiring.

Except of course he isn’t! In a blink Indy is back on the case, dodging villains and searching the globe for Archimedes’s lost gizmo. The screenwriters (Mangold, David Koepp and Jez and John-Henry Butterworth) don’t spend much energy on his or his ragtag crew’s motivations, but they do throw in another quick flashback to pluck a few heartstrings. Later on, they will discard logic altogether.

But is iron-clad logic really necessary in Indiana Jones? Nah.

Especially when your leading man is Harrison Ford. Though the old whip may not crack like it used to, cut the guy some slack: As he says, everything hurts. He’s been shot repeatedly, tortured with voodoo and forced to drink the blood of Kali. Still, he is Indiana Jones. He’ll rise to the occasion, because that’s what the good guy does. You only have to hear the rising notes of John Williams’s irresistibly peppy theme to know that.

“Dial” isn’t some kind of hagiography. Some details of the films have been, let’s just say, problematic. This last installment acknowledged those mistakes – the casual 1980s racism and sexism, White-savior narratives, clumsy conflations of Inca, Aztec and Mayan cultures – at least grudgingly. When a young woman, sidling up to Indy in a bar, is shocked that he doesn’t remember her, he dryly replies: “Whatever I did, I’m sorry.” We forgive him. It’s hard to hold a grudge against a guy who risks his life over and over to take down child slavers and Nazis.

The Nazis – the only thing Indy hates even more than snakes – are essential to the formula: Lucas and Spielberg crafted a Holocaust revenge fantasy with “Raiders” and “Crusade,” decades before Quentin Tarantino invented the genre with “Inglorious Basterds.” The movies allowed audiences not only to defeat the Third Reich but also to mock it. The return of Indy’s arch foe feels apt, with White supremacists making an all-too-real return in our own day.

Time travel is also a key element in the films. “Raiders” channeled classic Hollywood, not only its goofy lowbrow serials but also masterpieces like Michael Curtiz’s “Casablanca” and “The Adventures of Robin Hood.” “Dial”

borrows much from that same library, but it robs even more from the preceding Indiana Jones films. Like its archaeologist star, the movie is living in the past.

That may be a shortcoming – there aren’t a ton of new ideas here –but it’s also a strength. Fans will delight in the fresh takes on all their favorite chases, puzzles, bugs and snakes. As usual, there’s a fiendish Rube Goldberg device tucked into an undiscovered archaeological site, which the otherwise scrupulous and ethical Dr. Jones summarily trashes. As usual, Indy leads his enemies directly to the treasure, then watches them completely misinterpret its meaning. And as usual, the denouement is preposterous.

And we wouldn’t want it any other way. Indiana Jones isn’t Indiana Jones without Nazi-exploding ghosts and heart-plucking thuggee priests and immortal Grail-guarding knights and glass space aliens. Why not jump one more interdimensional shark?

The screenplay has the deftness with detail that marked the earlier films, tucking character development into quick asides and witty comments, but goes one further by inverting classic jokes to even funnier ends. And it picks up on the franchise’s main thread, the story of a reluctant family man. Indy works out his conflicts along the way to unraveling all his other ancient riddles. His tricky relationships are really the key ingredient – especially his problematic sidekicks, who supply “Indiana Jones” with its particular urgent brand of comedy. He always ends up with exactly the last person he needs at his side, improvising solutions that only unleash other deadly, and usually hilarious, complications. These well-meaning screwups allow Ford to do his special flustered-at-theedge-of-death schtick, which is the beating heart of the franchise.

Waller-Bridge nails this part of her job. Is Helena his ally or his foe? Student or teacher? A klutz or a ninja? She’s plausible in all of these roles and more. Better yet, she’s hilarious with a jab, tossing off most of the movie’s best lines with relish: “That hat is great on you – makes you look two years younger!” Indeed, she’s just as lithe and limber and snarky-sexy as Ford in his prime. If Disney and Lucasfilm want more Indiana Jones films, she may be just the woman to pick up the whip.

Indiana Jones’ 5 is the best kind of throwback

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Harrison Ford in “indiana Jones and the dial of destiny.”

America is a land torn asunder by division, polarization and a laundry list of crises.

Some believe that if only the right candidates or faction were in power, our problems would be solved. However, the plethora of problems that surround us are merely symptoms, not the disease. Treating symptoms may provide some relief, but it does little to cure the ailment.

America’s disease is spiritual, not political. As the Apostle Paul wrote in Ephesians 6:12, “We do not battle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.”

Hate and animosity between people produces nothing but additional problems. As the old saying goes, “If everyone were to pay back an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, before long we will live in a land where everyone is blind and toothless.”

The ancient Church’s solution to problems was prayer, perseverance, faithfulness and love.

Christianity, for the first 300 years of its existence, was an illegal religion in the Roman Empire. The Church did not overcome Roman persecution through revolution, violence or bitterness, but by being a light amid the darkness.

When Romans left their newborn babies in fields to die of exposure, Christians took the babies home and raised them as their own. When Christians were killed for their faith, they prayed to God like Stephen in Acts 7:60: “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.”

And for the past 2,000 years, Christians have prayed for all rulers in their worship services, even the likes of Nero and Caligula. Whether we like our political leaders or not, as Christians we pray for them in public worship services, regardless of who they are or what policies they may pursue.

Due to the faithfulness of believers, Rome eventually

improved. After 300 years, Christianity became a legal reli gion. For the first time, legal church buildings were con structed, gladiatorial bouts were stopped and infanticide ceased to be practiced.

As Dr. Diane Severance has written, “England at the begin ning of the 18th century was in a moral quagmire and a spir itual cesspool.” It is then that a spiritual movement of God swept England, called the Wes leyan Revival, resulting in vast changes, including the abolition of slavery, increased aid for the poor and prison reform.

Free public education, hos pitals and many other great things were birthed from the Christian Church. Indeed, America’s most prestigious universities were founded as Christian schools: Georgetown, Princeton, Yale and so on. America has historically gone through a series of spiritual renewals: the Great Awakening, the Second Great Awaking, the Jesus Movement, and so on. The solution for what ills America will only come from God. Each of us is key.

Please pray with me: Lord God, Creator of all things, pour Your Spirit on our land. Heal us of division, hatred and strife. Lead each of us to a new chapter of repentance, forgive-

ness and renewal, having charity toward all. Amen. Dan Molyneux was pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church, Fairfield, for 16 years. He is now Pastor Emeritus.

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How friction between two major state laws impedes housing construction

When California Gov. Gavin Newsom made an unusual appearance on Fox News, it was inevitable that conservative commentator Sean Hannity would bore in on California’s chronic housing shortage and homelessness crisis. Why, Hannity asked, did California have such problems?

“Because housing costs are too high,” Newsom replied. “Our regulatory thickets are too problematic. Localism has been too impactful, meaning people locally are pushing back against new housing starts and construction.”

Newsom’s synopsis of the issue is quite accurate. The state’s housing shortage stems from the over-regulation of development, largely driven by local opposition. It drives up costs to tenants and would-be homebuyers and pushes some into the streets.

That cause-and-effect relationship was confirmed in a recent in-depth study of homelessness by a UC San Francisco research team.

Having pinpointed the underlying causes of the crisis, one might think that Newsom would energetically attempt to address them.

Last week, as part of a broader budget agreement, the governor persuaded the Legislature to modify the California Environmental Quality Act, which is commonly misused to thwart housing developments, but he didn’t do it for housing. Rather, he wants to streamline CEQA’s effect on public works projects, particularly those involving renewable energy and water supply.

Indirectly, therefore, Newsom told Californians that while he says it should be done, he’s not willing to take on the heavy lifting to lessen CEQA misuse on housing. His posture continues predecessor Jerry Brown’s position of declaring CEQA reform to be “the Lord’s work,” but being unwilling to do it.

By happenstance, the Capitol’s wrangling over CEQA – albeit while ignoring its effect on housing – coincided with the publication of a very lengthy, deeply researched and wellsourced article on how the 53-year-old law thwarts much-needed housing construction.

Christopher Elmendorf, a law professor at UC Davis who specializes in housing issues, and Timothy Duncheon, a San Francisco attorney, focus on “the slow-motion collision” between two overarching “super-statutes,” CEQA and the Housing Accountability Act, or HAA.

They demonstrate through case studies that, while the latter attempts to streamline housing construction, the former is used to slow or even kill housing projects by local interests and labor unions.

They focus on a notoriously torturous case in San Francisco, whose Board of Supervisors used CEQA to block a much-needed apartment project on a vacant downtown parking lot due to special interest pressure, simply by decreeing that they needed more information before giving the development CEQA clearance. But they also cite other cases in which the contradictory priorities of the two laws collide.

Their conflict, Elmendorf and Duncheon say, ties the courts up in knots as judges must, in effect, choose which law is dominant. Sometimes they opt for CEQA and sometimes the HAA, leaving the overall legal atmosphere unclear.

“The ostensible ‘super-ness’ of the two statutes creates a predicament for courts and other actors because CEQA and the HAA could not be more different in their basic institutional and normative principles,” the authors write.

“CEQA’s working premise is that ‘new construction’ is bad for the environment,” they point out. “By contrast, the HAA regards housing construction in urbanized areas as presumptively good for the environment.”

Carefully drafted legislation and/or CEQA implementation guidelines issued by Newsom’s administration could, Elmendorf and Duncheon say, reconcile the two. They could limit CEQA to cases in which there are genuine environmental issues, rather than allowing it to be misused for motives that having nothing to do with the environment, such as forcing developers to use unionized labor.

Their paper lays out the roadmap for the CEQA reform that’s needed to truly address California’s housing crisis. It should be required reading in the Capitol.

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.30

Silver lining to Supreme Court decision

I awoke this morning to breaking news saying the Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action plans. Having lived in America all my life and especially throughout her troubled times of civil rights and knowing full well the doors that have been closed to people due to the amount of melanin in the skin. I am the progeny of an education system that said I had no right to an education or the right to sit in a classroom that was mixed with people of the lighter hue.

For instance, Manual Training High School (MTHS) was one of the first of three segregated high schools set up in Oklahoma after statehood (1907). The school was founded under the guidelines and implementation of State Bill-1 (SB-1), which officially allowed “Jim Crow” as “separate but equal” education for African Americans.

Despite underfunding by state legislators and administrative officials that was provided for traditional “white” high schools, MTHS produced a steady stream of quality graduates who achieved the highest level of positions in higher educa-

tion, law, Federal Diplomatic Service, international business, medicine, religion, State, County, City Public Service, and the U.S Private Sector. Because of dedicated mentors, MTHS administered highly effective academic and vocational skilled programs which ensured that none of its students were left without a career path leading to educational, social, economic, and political endeavors.

I am proud to say that the only affirmative action that I needed or had was that of dedicated Black teachers who were qualified to teach at Harvard but couldn’t because of the color of their skin.

This decision by the Supreme Court should be a boost to historical Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) because private schools are not better but have their prestige based on the value of the so called privileged of our society.

A college does not make you smart, it educates the smart. It’s time to show that HBCU schools can educate people of all colors and ethnicities without racial set aside and promote the idea that you can’t make it without being a victim and beholden to the government or a political party.

Pastor Morris A. Curry, Jr. Vacaville

Need to act to save our world

We are yet again reminded that our world is rapidly warming, this time by the severe heat wave in the south and the wildfires in Canada. The time to act is now to stop the polluting of our atmosphere with carbon dioxide from our continued burning of fossil fuels.

With the passing of last year’s Inflation Reduction Act there are incentives that make clean energy sources cheaper than burning fossil fuels. The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) is tasked with regulating utilities and ensuring that ratepayers have affordable, safe and clean energy.

I ask that the members of the CPUC show bold leadership and rapidly transition all California utilities from burning carbon polluting fossil fuels to producing our electricity from clean sources of energy such as solar, wind and using energy storage. Please, for the sake of our grandchildren and all future generations, make this transition your top priority.

Ron Sadler Fairfield

Kudos to the city of Vacaville for trying

In February of this year, I wrote about the PG&E project to bury 10,000 miles of California power lines in an effort to prevent igniting fires with its equipment. I mentioned that some of those power lines to be buried are located in Vacaville, including a 1-mile section of Vine Street.

PG&E’s plan is to trench down the center of Vine Street to relocate all primary electrical lines underground. I noted that the colossal problem with PG&E’s project is that it will not include burying any cable or telephone lines. The plan is to underground only the primary electrical lines, cut off the top of the utility poles and leave the remaining poles to telephone and cable companies to service, or abandon.

Since February, I have contacted over half of the residents on the 1-mile section of Vine Street and found that none of them have a land line, which results in poles full of unused phone lines hanging along the street today.

I contacted Vacaville’s mayor, members of the City Council, as well as members of the Solano County

Board of Supervisors asking if they could bring PG&E, AT&T and Comcast together on this project. I received absolutely no response after two separate requests to County Supervisors John Vasquez and Mitch Mashburn – something which I will remember during elections.

On the other end of the public-service spectrum, Vacaville Mayor John Carli responded by instructing the director of Public Works, Brian McLean, to reach out to PG&E, AT&T and Comcast to bring them all to the table. A world of thanks to McLean for his extra-mile efforts contacting senior management from several teams at PG&E, AT&T and Comcast. He contacted the CPUC and learned that whenever any utility is going to trench, they must contact the other utilities –although there is no requirement for them to participate in any project.

After several months of working on this, McLean almost had Comcast agreeing to join the underground project, but they ultimately declined, citing costs considerations. AT&T declined to participate as well

because “it was not in their budget.”

Bottom line: The Vine Street underground project is underway, with only power lines being placed in the trench. Power poles will be cut, leaving unused AT&T phone lines and Comcast cable lines dangling in the air for decades.

A world of thanks to Mayor Carli and McLean for making an attempt to beautify our neighborhoods. While the residents of Vine Street will have to live with the abandoned poles and unused lines strung from property to property, perhaps those residing near other underground projects in Solano County might fare better.

If enough customers of AT&T and Comcast express their disappointment in these companies for their unwillingness to clean up the environment, and leave abandoned poles and lines in our neighborhoods, perhaps some executives at AT&T and Comcast will have the moral fortitude to put the funds in their budgets to join in these underground projects – or at least clean up after themselves when their lines are dead.

Danny Wells is a resident of Vacaville and can be reached at danny@ dannywells.com.

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Mets hit 3 homers off Giants’ DeSclafani

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NEW YORK — It took three pitches to spoil a homecoming of sorts for Anthony DeSclafani and send the Giants to a loss Saturday in their second game against the Mets.

DeSclafani surrendered a trio of home runs in the span of four batters in the third inning Saturday, while the Giants’ bats were unable to crack Justin Verlander in a 4-1 loss. San Fran-

cisco hasn’t announced its pitching plans for Sunday, when it will attempt to avoid dropping consecutive series for the first time since the first weekend of June.

The Giants broke through in the seventh and brought the tying run to the plate but wasn’t able to replicate the magic from the night before. The inning even transpired similarly, kickstarted by a throwing error from first baseman Pete Alonso, but Brandon Crawford struck

out to end the threat on a slider from Verlander, his 102nd and final pitch of the game.

The Giants, who were held to two runs on five hits for the first seven innings of Friday night’s win, mustered only one run on five hits Saturday. Their comefrom-behind win Friday stands as their only game in their past six contests in which they scored more than three runs or recorded more than six hits.

DeSclafani, who grew up about 90 minutes away

in northern New Jersey, has never beaten the Mets in nine starts against them. It was in this ballpark last April that he aggravated an ankle injury that eventually ended his season and required surgery.

He won’t be left with much better memories from his outing Saturday. After Patrick Bailey’s heroics Friday, it was the Mets’ rookie catcher who started their scoring Saturday. Francisco Alvarez obliterated the first pitch he

saw from DeSclafani in the bottom of the third. After retiring the first seven Mets batters in order (aided by a 3-6-3 double play that erased a hit batsman), DeSclafani started Alvarez with a sinker on the outer half of the plate, and the power-hitting catcher went with the pitch to drive it well over the wall in rightcenter field, 416 feet away, and sent it screaming at 111.5 mph off the bat.

DeSclafani recovered to strike out No. 9 hitter Luis Guillorme, but more

Vanden grad hopes his electronic timing device serves catchers well

FAIRFIELD — Laid up with a severe back injury after helping his invalid father into the house, Matt Ceriani thought his baseball days might officially be over.

Ceriani, a 1994 Vanden High School graduate, played many years as a catcher and had successfully turned it into a coaching career, mainly working with those hoping to succeed at his favorite position. Then an idea came to mind.

“I was lying there one night, looking out into the

dark, and I could literally see it,” Ceriani said. “I wanted a device that could be used online where kids couldn’t lie about their throwing times. It was a pipe dream, but it was an idea I thought, ‘I can do this.’”

Six years later, Ceriani helped develop the idea with friend and pitching coach Caleb Balbuena. He formed Caught Stealing LLC, a data collection system, and will, as soon as Saturday, launch the PopTime Pro100, billed as the most accurate pop

and data collection device for catchers “ever created.”

Built with aerospace technology – yes, even assistance from a real rocket scientist – the PopTimer Pro100 measures pop times for catchers, exchange times, distances and average velocity. Recording straps are attached to the throwing wrist, the catcher’s glove and the infielder’s glove to which base the catcher is throwing. Times are recorded instantaneously with a phone app and can be logged on a

player’s profile.

“It measures to the fraction of a second,” Ceriani said. “You don’t have to take it to a computer to analyze the data. You can do it right there on the field.” Ceriani showed his product to former Sacramento City College coach Jerry Weinstein, now with the Colorado Rockies organization, and got his support. He has shown it to the Cincinnati Reds, the Arizona Diamondbacks and many other organizations and colleges.

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Kings sign EuroLeague MVP Sasha Vezenkov to three-year, $20M offer

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SACRAMENTO — The wait is over. After a yearlong courtship, the Kings have reached an agreement with Olympiacos star and EuroLeague MVP Sasha Vezenkov.

The Kings are signing Vezenkov to a three-year, $20 million contract, agent Mark Bartelstein of Priority Sports told The Sacramento Bee on Saturday, confirming a report from ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Vezenkov, a 27-year-old forward who led Olympiacos to a Greek League championship and the EuroLeague Finals, later confirmed the news himself via social media.

“To Olympiacos fans. After many hours of thinking in recent days, I have made the decision to explore the NBA world,” Vezenkov wrote in an Instagram post. “Without a doubt, this is the hardest choice I have ever made. Leaving this amazing club after five years, it feels like leaving a piece of my heart behind.

“At Olympiacos, I made my dreams come true, I found a family and the warmest home I could imagine. I gave everything I had in

every moment I wore this jersey. In our darkest hours we stayed together, we rose up and we should be proud of what we achieved. Because we fought ... until the end. Words are not enough to thank you.

I will carry your support and your love as I start this new chapter.”

The Kings acquired the draft rights to Vezenkov last summer in a trade with the Cleveland Cavaliers, but the two sides couldn’t agree to a deal prior to the 2022-23 season. The organization has sent a number of representatives overseas to watch Vezenkov, including chief operating officer Matina Kolokotronis, general manager Monte McNair, vice president of player personnel Phil Jabour, head coach Mike Brown and assistant coach Jay Triano.

Vezenkov, a two-time Greek League MVP, averaged 17.6 points, 6.9 rebounds and 1.9 assists for Olympiacos this season. After watching Vezenkov in a playoff win over Fenerbahce, Brown told Greek media he believes the 6-foot-9, 225pound forward would fit “really good” with a Kings team that produced the highest offensive rating in NBA history last season.

“I tell you what, the way he shoots the ball, we like to get up a lot of 3s,” Brown said. “We space the floor, in my opinion, really, really well. We

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trouble awaited at the top of the lineup.

Brandon Nimmo and Francisco Lindor went back-to-back in their second trips to the plate against DeSclafani. He wouldn’t get a chance to face them a third time, as he was lifted for Sean Manaea after three innings.

DeSclafani reached two strikes on both hitters but was unable to put them away. He had gotten one strike on Nimmo with a front-door slider that broke over the inside corner.

White Sox blunders help A’s rally for another win

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OAKLAND — The Chicago White Sox had a two-run lead with two outs in the eighth inning against the team with the worst record in baseball.

They left the eighth tied after the Oakland Athletics scored twice in unconventional fashion.

One run came in when Joe Kelly was called for a balk. The other crossed home on an infield hit by Tony Kemp to tie the score.

That set up the most brutal loss of the season for the Sox and gave the A’s a two-game winning streak.

Tyler Wade scored from second on a fielding error by second baseman Elvis Andrus to give the A’s a 7-6 victory in 10 innings in front of 9,235 on Saturday at Oakland Coliseum.

“That was a tough one today, a real tough one,” Sox manager Pedro Grifol said. “We use our whole roster, basically, and ended up on the losing end.

“These games when you use every pitcher and everybody on the roster, you want to win them. But

it didn’t go our way.”

Wade was on second with two outs in the 10th.

JJ Bleday hit a grounder to Andrus, who didn’t field it cleanly. Andrus recovered, but Bleday beat his throw to first. Wade kept running and scored ahead of the throw to the plate by first baseman Gavin Sheets.

“I thought (Andrus) did a good job of getting down on the ball,” Grifol said of the final play. “It just hit off his glove.

“And then threw the ball to first base and – I haven’t seen the video – but it seemed like to me live that (Sheets) reacted late on that throw to home. But I haven’t seen the video on that, so I’ll look at it here after we’re done.”

The Sox have dropped the first two in a series in which they couldn’t afford this type of stumble.

The eighth inning alone was filled with momentum swings.

Trailing 4-3, Luis Robert Jr. doubled and Eloy Jiménez walked to start a rally for the Sox. A’s reliever Lucas Erceg struck out Andrew Vaughn and Jake Burger and had Yasmani Grandal

Expos score early, hang on to defeat All Pro in tourney

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FAIRFIELD — The Fairfield Expos had their opener in the Western Amateur Baseball Federation tournament Thursday night and came away with an 8-6 win over All Pro at Laurel Creek Park.

The Expos scored all eight runs in the first three innings and hung on for the next four for the win. Fairfield's American Legion summer baseball team improved to 33-11 and was scheduled to resume action Saturday night against the East Bay Bulls.

Jace Parkinson, Blake Bozzini, Bryce Alcantara and Matty Hague all had two hits apiece in the win over All Pro. Bozzini hit a double and drove in three runs. Alcantara and Hague also drove in runs.

Noah Rodda doubled and drove in a run for Fairfield. Eli Blurton and Isaiah Pasminto both had hits and RBIs. Teagan Gonzalez, DJ

Andersen, Landon Dodge and Connor Broschard all pitched for the Expos.

In other games Friday, Napa beat Petaluma 4-2, Delta and East Bay played to a 5-5 tie and Clovis defeated Vallejo 9-3.

In Saturday's other games, Clovis beat Napa 71, Clovis rolled by Petaluma 14-3 and All Pro downed Delta Valley 8-2.

Sunday's games feature Vallejo against Napa at 10 a.m., Vallejo versus Petaluma at 12:45 p.m., East Bay against All Pro at 3:30 and the Expos closing out the night at 6:15 p.m. against Delta. The teams are divided into two divisions. In the blue division is Fairfield, Delta, All Pro and East Bay. Clovis, Petaluma, Napa and Vallejo are in the Red Division.

Monday's games will feature fourth-place division finishers squaring off at 10 a.m., third place teams meeting at 12:45 p.m., division runner-ups squaring off at at 3:30 and division champions meeting at 6:15.

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CERIANI Petras Malukas/AFP/Getty Images/TNS file Real Madrid’s Mario Hezonja, right, defends against Olympiacos’ Sasha Vezenkov during a EuroLeague semifinal, May 21.

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Warriors star Draymond Green agrees to $100M, four-year deal

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FRANCISCO —

The Golden State Warriors and Draymond Green have agreed in principle to a $100 million contract that will keep the forward in San Francisco for the next four years, The Chronicle confirmed Friday. General manager Mike Dunleavy Jr. said retaining Green was the team’s top priority. He became a free agent after declining his $27.5 million player option for next season, but the fourth year of Green’s new deal will be a player option. The 2017 NBA Defensive Player of the Year has played his entire 11-year career with Golden State.

As a result, the Warriors’ dynastic core of Green, Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson remains intact.

San Jose Sharks add toughness, shore up depth at goaltending

SAN JOSE — The San Jose Sharks hope they’ve shored up one of their most problematic areas from last season as they signed goalie Mackenzie Blackwood to a two-year contract worth $2.35 million per year.

Blackwood will make $2.2 million in salary this upcoming season and $2.5 million in 2024-25. He and the Sharks came to terms just minutes before Blackwood was set to become an unrestricted free agent.

Blackwood was acquired by the Sharks from the New Jersey Devils on Tuesday for a sixth-round draft pick this year but was a pending restricted free agent in need of a new contract. Although Blackwood was not given a qualifying offer by the Sharks on Friday, the two sides continued to talk and were able to get a deal done.

“Mackenzie is a big, athletic goaltender with a lot of potential and upside,” Sharks general manager Mike Grier said in a statement. “He will be a good addition to our goaltender group.”

The Sharks also tried to address what they felt was another need in what’s been described by Grier and coach David Quinn as

“pushback,” and signed defenseman Kyle Burroughs and forward Givani Smith to multi-year deals.

Burroughs, listed at 6-foot and 193 pounds, averaged just over 17 minutes of ice time per game in a depth role last season for the Vancouver Canucks. He had five points and 62 penalty minutes – which included eight fighting majors – in 48 games.

“The game is a physical game and those fights, they come from passion and sticking up for your teammates and having to answer the bell,” said Burroughs, who turns 28 on July 12.

The Sharks also acquired Anthony Duclair from the Florida Panthers in exchange for center Steven Lorentz and a 2025 fifth-round draft pick.

Duclair, who turns 28 in August, is entering the final year of a threeyear, $9 million contract he signed with the Panthers in 2021. He is coming off a season in which he had nine points in 20 regular season games and 11 points in 20 playoff games as Florida advanced to the Stanley Cup Final.

“Anthony will bring speed and tenacity to our lineup on a nightly basis,” Sharks general manager Mike Grier said in a statement. eight years.

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“He’s been a spectacular player for us,” owner Joe Lacob said. “We would not have these championships without his involvement, no question. I think everyone understands that in this room. He’s meant a lot to this franchise.

“He’s a bit of a controversial player perhaps in some corners around the league, certain things that have happened over the years. He knows that. We know that. But the good overwhelms the bad is what I would say.”

Green punched former teammate Jordan Poole during a training camp

practice in October, an incident that became even more controversial after video of the altercation was leaked. Green was fined an undisclosed amount by the team and Golden State launched an internal investigation into the leak. Results of that investigation were never revealed.

Green was also suspended for Game 3 of Golden State’s first-round playoff series against the Kings for stepping on the chest of Sacramento’s Domantas Sabonis in Game 2. Green also served a league-mandated one-game suspension in March after picking up his 16th technical foul of the regular season.

The Warriors traded Poole, Patrick Baldwin Jr., Ryan Rollins, a protected first-round pick in 2030 and a second-round pick in 2027 to Washington on draft night in exchange for Chris Paul – a deal that gave Golden State enough

financial flexibility to re-sign Green to a longterm contract suitable for both parties.

The first year of Green’s new deal will be worth $23.3 million, according to the Athletic. That salary slice will net the Warriors around $43 million in savings, which will assist them in their efforts to duck under the first and second tax aprons that will be enforced by the league’s new collective bargaining agreement.

Following the re-signing of Green, the Warriors’ 2023-24 team salary stands at $203.2 million for 11 players. With luxury taxes, the total roster cost is $365.1 million. Golden State is expected to carry 14 players on the 15-man roster next season, does not have access to the taxpayer mid-level exception this season and can only offer minimum contracts to fill out its final three roster spots.

However, it does have three additional spots for two-way contracts.

Green will be 37 years old when his deal expires after the 2026-27 season. Curry is under contract for the next three seasons and will be 39 when it expires. Thompson is entering the final year of a $43 million deal and will seek an extension next summer.

“I know the league is an interesting place sometimes and there’s a lot of moving parts and all that, but we have a lot more left in the tank, so we want the opportunity to ride until the wheels fall off,” Curry told The Chronicle in May. Green, a four-time AllStar and four-time NBA champion, remains one of the premiere defenders in the game, evident by his fourth-place finish in Defensive Player of the year voting and an All-NBA Defensive second-team selection last season. He averaged 8.5 points, 7.2 rebounds and 6.8 assists in 73 regular-season games and shot a career-best 52.7% from the field.

The Warriors’ success can be directly tied to Green’s production at both ends of the court. Following Golden State’s Game 6 loss to the Lakers in May, head coach Steve Kerr told reporters that the team cannot continue to contend for championships without him.

“He’s that important to winning and to who we are,” Kerr said.

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interest overseas. He feels the technology could be used for football quarterbacks and cricket players as well. Ceriani said he has sunk a big chunk of money into the the device and has enough to launch 500 systems in the first run, at an estimated sales price of $899 per unit. There have already been 270 presold.

“You can also post videos and put the numbers right there on the screen,” Ceriani said. “And you can send it yourself to colleges.” The launch comes 28 years after Ceriani signed his first profes-

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in a 1-2 count.

Grandal lined an RBI single to right to tie the score. Carlos Pérez was called on to pinch hit and fell behind 0-2 in the count.

Pérez then pulled a sinker that stayed just fair down the third-base line for an RBI double, giving the Sox a 5-4 lead. Andrew Benintendi drew a basesloaded walk later in the inning, making it 6-4.

But the A’s came right back with their unorthodox rally, which eventually led to a devastating defeat.

“It was a tough one,” Sox starter Dylan Cease said. “We battled to the end. Unfortunately it was one of those that didn’t go our way.”

Saturday saw the Sox trail, lead, fall behind again, fight back and then fall in a painful way.

“This one hurts a little bit, but tomorrow is another game,” Jiménez said.

Jiménez – who had two hits and a walk – homered leading off the second to tie the score at 1. He broke the

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play extremely fast, and so I think he can be a really effective player in the NBA at a high level, especially

sional contract with the Milwaukee Brewers. He played Division I ball at Cal State Northridge and Ole Miss before a minor league career that spanned from 1998 to 2010,

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getting as high as DoubleA, before extending his career into independent baseball and abroad.

Ceriani said the highlight of his career was playing in the first World

Baseball Classic for Italy in 2006, when he had major leaguers like Mike Piazza as teammates, and played against the “all-star” team that was the Dominican Republic.

Despite, the back trauma and other injuries from the game, like a broken neck, he is fit again and hoping his new invention will help the catchers of the future. He has worked with many and believes his invention could be a game-changer.

“I’ve been involved in all of this project, from production to testing, to soldering, and working in the lab with the engineer,” he said. “We’re hoping this replaces the handheld stopwatch in evaluating catchers.”

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2: Kay Williams, Judy Royle, Nancy Reublin, 36.

3: Phyllis McFadden, Kay Bone, Willa Sheppard, 36.

4: Pat Alvestad, Marilyn Weaver, Barb Jacobson, Jodene Nolan, 38.

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tie an inning later, driving in Tim Anderson with a single. Robert scored on a fielder’s choice, stretching the Sox lead to 3-1.

The A’s were on the verge of a big fifth inning when Bleday’s grounder appeared headed to the outfield for a two-run single.

Sox second baseman

Zach Remillard dived and got a glove on it. The ball was hit so hard, it jarred Remillard’s glove from his

with his toughness. He’s not afraid at all and I love that about him.”

Vezenkov joins a forward rotation that includes Harrison Barnes, Keegan Murray and Trey Lyles. Barnes agreed to a new three-year, $54 million contract on Thursday.

hand. But most importantly for the Sox, he slowed the ball enough to keep it in the infield, meaning only one run could score.

That play turned out to be important when Anderson fielded A’s catcher Carlos Pérez’s grounder to short deep in the hole and threw him out at first to end the inning.

The Sox were able to limit the damage again in the sixth after Ryan Noda

Lyles agreed to a new two-year, $16 million contract on Friday.

Vezenkov shot 37.8% from 3-point range on 5.2 attempts per game this season for Olympiacos. He has a quick release and gets his shot off in a variety of ways.

tied the score with an RBI double against Cease.

The next two batters reached via a walk and single against reliever Gregory Santos, loading the bases with one out. Santos struck out Esteury Ruiz, and Kemp grounded out to second, keeping the score tied at 3.

Seth Brown broke the tie with a solo homer in the seventh against Keynan Middleton.

“The way we play, he fits in really good,” Brown said. “He shoots the 3 ball. He’s got size. He’s got toughness. He rebounds.

“All those things are exciting with the way we play the game of basketball., Brown said hoping his news selection shines.

Photo timing straps on gloves for the catcher and infielder can help record pop times and velocity.

Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images/TNS the oakland Athletics’ tyler Wade dives in to score the game-winning run against the Chicago White sox in the 10th inning in oakland, saturday. the A’s won the game 7-6.