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FAIRFIELD — The Solano County tomato crop has been a top-five value commodity since the 1950s, and in 2022, the gross value hit a record high of $47.35 million, the 73rd annual Crop and Livestock Report states.
FAIRFIELD — The first of the long-awaited KC-46A Pegasus refueling tankers landed Friday to cheers and applause at Travis Air Force Base.
And with the 11:01 a.m. landing, the security and future of the base felt more secure for many.
Col. Derek Salmi, commander of the 60th Air Mobility Wing at Travis, said the Pegasus is the key for Travis moving forward, but took the time to recognize the yearslong efforts of individuals, various Air Force wings and the many others who brought the plane to the airbase.
With the KC-46 comes 100 operator and support personnel, Salmi said, creating the newest “power projection platform” in the U.S. Air Force.
Salutes were snapped inside the civilian contingency, too.
“It’s great for Fairfield, it’s good for Travis and good for the nation,” said Fairfield Mayor Catherine Moy, adding she was more excited than if it was her own birthday.
“And, of course, the local economy depends on Travis; it’s like $2.7 billion,” Moy said.
That is the centerpiece to why Moy, three other mayors and a host of local officials attended the event along with state and national machers. Keeping Travis open and vital is absolutely necessary for the health and well-being of Solano County.
It is also why Moy said solving the housing shortage and expanding childcare to serve the base personnel must be high priorities.
“They keep saying it over and
over again,” Moy said of the Travis officials, “we need childcare and we need housing.” Equally important, as Air Force officials described during the arrival ceremony held inside the aircraft’s 174,300-square-foot, three-bay maintenance hangar, the security of the nation also was upgraded. The Pegasus is a “total force”
FAIRFIELD — A little magic was in the air Saturday for visitors to Legendary Letters, which hosted a birthday party for the “boy who lived.”
The theme for the Harry Potter-themed event’s second year was the second book in the series, “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.”
Stacy Rose, owner of the establishment celebrating the magical boy, has been a fan of the series since she was 24. That was a few years ago.
“My mother-in-law introduced me to the first book,” Rose said.
“I remember having to wait a full year for each book to come out. It was excruciating.” Her goal was to see
happy Harry Potter fans out enjoying the day.
“I plan to do a theme from the title of the books over the next few
years,” Rose said. The scavenger hunt allowed visitors to travel to 17 downtown businesses and receive a stamp and return with it to Legendary Letters. This year, a magical “unicorn” with flowers in her hair gave children or adults a chance to pet it and grab some pictures. Of course, the day wouldn’t be complete without the opportunity to buy some butter beer and a wand.
Legendary Letters handles all outgoing mail for the magical community. Yes, you read that right. They sort mail for
However, the overall gross value of crops and livestock in the county was down nearly 4.12% from 2021.
That overall value was reported at $390.881 million, down $16.971 million from 2021’s value of $407.642 million. Still, the 2022 total is the second highest in the past decade.
The report will be
presented to the Board of Supervisors when it meets at 9 a.m. Tuesday in the first-floor chamber of the government center, 675 Texas St., in Fairfield. Tomatoes – with 439,000 tons harvested from 9,500 acres, at $107.88 per ton – moved up from the second highest valued crop in 2021, to the top spot in 2022. Almonds, the county’s perennial topcrop, fell to sixth with a value of $21.29 million –a 70% decline of nearly $49.83 million from the 2021 value of $71.12 million, the report states.
“Extreme weather events throughout the
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LOS ANGELES — In a move backed by former President Donald Trump’s campaign, the California Republican Party on Saturday changed its rules for allocating delegates in the state’s presidential primary – a shake-up that could discourage other GOP candidates from campaigning here and make the state less competitive in next year’s nominating contest.
Tensions flared as the California GOP’s executive committee approved the plan, with pro-Trump protesters denouncing the move, police getting
called and two factions nearly coming to fisticuffs.
While they argued that the state party leadership was trying to undermine the former president, the decision by the California GOP’s executive committee reflects a concerted effort by the Trump campaign to mold state party rules across the country to benefit his candidacy.
The Michigan Republican Party also recently changed its rules for awarding delegates in a way that’s expected to benefit Trump. Republicans in Idaho, Nevada, Louisiana and Colorado
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Susan Hiland/Daily RepublicIf it feels like you’re more likely to stumble now than a few decades ago, there’s a reason: The Earth’s tilt is shifting. Really.
The reason? We’re sucking out so much groundwater that the globe is leaning to the east at a rate of about 1.7 inches per year. Talk about East Coast bias!
According to a study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters in mid-June, our constant extraction of groundwater has shifted the axis on which Earth rotates. So when you miscalculate while stepping off the curb and stumble, it’s not your fault. It’s the fault of water hogs. They’re really pumping it out!
A CNN report on the study included this:
“Between 1993 and 2010, the period examined in the study, humans extracted more than 2,150 gigatons of groundwater from inside Earth, mostly in western North America and northwestern India, according to estimates published in 2010.”
I suspect the term “gigaton” is made up, but that seems like a lot. And it’s ... wait, what?
“Mostly in western North America?” That’s, that’s, that’s ... that’s us! We’re in western North America! We’re making the Earth tilt!
Of course, you might be able to explain the tilt otherwise. The Earth spins on its north-
south axis at about 1,000 mph, which explains why your ears sometimes pop and you get carsick while sitting on a couch (or are both those just me?). Plenty of things can affect the rotation of the Earth: Changes in glaciers, changes in air pressure, changes in attitude, changes in latitude, as Jimmy Buffet fans can attest.
However, this one seems significant and tough to change, since it’s not like humans are extracting water from the top layer of the Earth’s crust for giggles. We need water for food, we need water to survive. Can you imagine making ramen, for instance, without water? Or making coffee without water?
I’m sure there are other uses of water, but I can’t think of any off the top of my head.
Oh yeah – imagine a world
where you can’t make Tang. Nightmarish. According to the study, this has been going on for a while.
Redistributing groundwater has shifted the rotational axis by more than 31 inches in less than 20 years, according to models created by the study’s authors. Thirty-one inches! No wonder it’s harder to shoot a basketball now than it was in the 1990s: The hoop has moved nearly 3 feet. No wonder we’re so terrible at darts now: The board is 31 inches to the east! (the science behind my claims has not been verified by independent sources). There are important longterm effects of changing the angle of the Earth, such as changes from season to season (for instance, how we experience summer). And the
aforementioned dart throwing. Since we’re taking too much water out of the Earth, I propose simple solution: We just pump more back in. Seriously. Let’s all turn on our sprinklers and let the water soak into the Earth. We can return things to their natural state and improve our dart-throwing and basketballshooting at the same time.
Where will we get this water?
Simple: Just turn on the sprinklers We can save the future of ramen, Tang, dart-throwing and return the Earth to its normal axis.
You’re welcome, Earth. Reach Brad Stanhope at bradstanhope@outlook.com.
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Something strange was waiting for Jessica
Means inside the mailbox she opened thousands of times over the 17 years she had lived at her house in Portland, Maine. Her July 14 stop at that mailbox started out as another unremarkable visit when she pulled out the mail carrier’s daily delivery and started flipping through it.
Mostly junk mail.
But there was something that shook her from the ordinary: a postcard of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
Huh, she thought.
Means, 46, flipped it over. It was addressed to a Mr. and Mrs. Rene A. Gagnon. At first, she figured the mail carrier had delivered it to the wrong house. But then she noticed the address was correct. Looking closer, she saw an original postmark dated March 15, 1969, and a far more recent one from seven days earlier out of Tallahassee.
Means was holding a piece of mail that had traveled at least 5,700 miles over more than 54 years to get to her house.
“It’s like this little gift from the universe,” she said.
And that was just the start of the mystery.
Means read the postcard’s message, written in faded ballpoint ink:
“Dear Folks
“By the time you get this I will have long since been home, but it just seems proper to send this from the Tour Eiffel, where I am now. Don’t have chance to see much, but having fun.”
The card was signed with the name “Roy.”
Means contacted WGME, a local news station that ran a story about her decades-old mail, and she wrote a Facebook post about it. Internet
sleuths got to work, quickly finding obituaries for Rene A. Gagnon and his wife, Rose, and replying to Means’s Facebook post with their findings.
Rene Gagnon was born in 1905 in Quebec, according to his 1988 obituary in the Evening Express. He immigrated to the United States as a young man, marrying Rose Koski in 1929. Thirteen years later, the couple moved to Portland. After a long illness, he died in 1988 at the age of 82. Rose lived for 14 more years, dying in 2002.
Both of their obituaries listed their surviving relatives, including one of their two daughters: Doris. According to those obituaries, Doris was married to a man named Roy Salzman. They also mention that the Salzmans had lived abroad for a considerable chunk of time – in Brussels. With the help of the internet, Means had found the Gagnons’ connection to a Roy who’d lived in Europe.
Roy Salzman died in 2006 at 73 after a yearslong battle with lung cancer, according to his obituary. Born in 1933, Salzman graduated salutatorian of his high school class, attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and served in the Air Force. In 1959, he left the military and became a consultant. He and Doris traveled the world for his work, venturing to Brazil, Mexico and Belgium before moving back to the United States in 1988.
The postcard had a much more recent history, which was also partially revealed by its markings. Means noticed that a modern U.S. Postal Service “Forever” stamp had been placed over one that was presumably from 1969.
A Tallahassee postmark dated July 12 covered the
1969 original out of Paris. According to Rose Gagnon’s obituary, she and Rene wintered in Florida every year to visit their other daughter and son-in-law.
Means also noticed that someone had added to the list of recipients. Under “Mr. + Mrs Rene A. Gagnon,” which had been written in the ballpoint ink, just like Roy’s message, an anonymous writer had added “or current resi dent” in all caps.
Means said she thinks the postcard may have arrived at its destina tion in Portland back in 1969. Then, perhaps after Rene Gagnon’s death in 1988 or Rose’s in 2002, it was taken from the house, possibly by a relative, eventually finding its way to Florida. There, she theorized, someone rediscovered it and, for reasons unknown, decided to send it to its original destination, if not its original intended recipient.
“I don’t think it was ever lost. I think it was tucked away and refound, and someone decided to put a stamp on it and send it back to this address,” she said. “And I think that’s really cool.”
She paused for a couple seconds. “And curious.”
Means wants to know the rest of the story. She’s hoping the Tallahassee sender learns that the postcard made it to its destination and contacts her to fill in the gap between March 15, 1969, and July 12, 2023.
“I think there are other people who would like to close the loop on this little postcard,” she said.
In the meantime, she has put the postcard on her fridge in the house where it was meant to be.
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VALLEJO – Solano County Chapter 035 of the Retired Public Employees Association will hold its quarterly meeting at noon on Aug. 9 at the Vallejo Moose Lodge Loran Vetter and Elena Yuasa from the State RPEA headquarters will be the guest speakers.
Anyone currently working under the California Public Employees Retirement System, and those who have retired from this system, and their guests, are welcome to attend.
Lunch is free for all attending their first meeting. Reservations are required and can be made by calling President Rachael Maldonado Aziminia at 510-501-2104. The deadline is Aug. 2.
The lodge is located at 337 Nebraska St.
FAIRFIELD — NorthBay Hospice and Bereavement will be hosting “Journey Through Grief” classes.
This is a 10-week series of classes focused on healing and learning about grief. Each participant must have been bereaved, or in mourning, for three months before beginning the class, according to a press release.
Each session is facilitated by a grief therapist and is offered free of charge to Solano County residents. The class is limited to 12 people and is done entirely online.
The classes are from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Sept. 5 to Nov. 7.
“Grief During the Holidays” meetings take place from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Nov. 14 to Dec. 19.
To register, call 707-646-3517.
FAIRFIELD — The 15th Annual Mount Calvary Baptist Church Backpack and School Supply Drive will return in August.
The event occur from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Aug. 12 at 1735 Enterprise Drive, Fairfield.
Parents or guardians just need to pull up and open the trunk, church volunteers will put the backpacks in the back with no contact.
This a first-come firstserve event while supplies last event.
FAIRFIELD —
Volunteers are needed Aug. 19-20 for the Tomato & Vine Festival. Volunteers are also needed the evening of Aug. 18 to assist with vendor set-up.
This is an annual, fun, family event that takes a village to host, say organizers.
This year there will be a car show, tomato eating contest, salsa contest, live music, food and entertainment.
Students can also earn community service volunteer credits for school.
To volunteer, visit https://www.signupgenius. com/go/20f0a44aaa 822a57-tomato1#.
BENICIA — The Benicia Waterfront Festi val brought out a little bit of fun for the entire family Saturday with some shop ping, music, food and even bounce houses for the children.
“This is really a fund raiser for the Main Street Program,” said Nancy Martinez, executive direc tor of the Benicia Main Street Program. “It helps to keep the doors open.”
The Main Street Program is a state and national network of grassroots down town revitalization projects coordinated by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Benicia was chosen to be one of the 15 demonstration cities to participate in the program in 1987. The selection was based on the commitment expressed by the city, downtown businesses, property owners and residents to support this program.
“The goal today is to see happy people,” Martinez said. “I hope people
come here, then stroll downtown and have lunch or dinner.”
The Benicia Waterfront Festival ran for about 10 years before stopping during the ’90s. Later, it was replaced with a jazz festival and over the past few years it has become a festival with several dif-
ferent types of bands.
The Waterfront Festival was revived, focusing on rock music and merchants. It’s been going strong ever since with visitors packing the downtown area. Then Covid hit and they put it on ice for two years, returning in full force once things returned
back to normal.
There were 52 vendors this year, including food vendors. So there is plenty to choose from for food and shopping.
The bands entertaining the crowds Saturday were Wake the Neighbors, Other People’s Money and In Living Cover.
Kayla Korman, 10, of Benicia, came with five generations of her family, her grandma Susan Korman said. “It’s a tradition,” she said.
Korman remembers when she was in her teens and the festival going down main street.
“It was a blast but a long time ago,” she said. “We are going to have lunch downtown and enjoy the afternoon.”
More than 100 volunteers make the event happen over the weekend with help from Benicia Rotary, Soroptimists International of Benicia and Coldwell Banker to name a few.
The fun continues from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday on the First Street Green, located at First and East B streets. Parking is available throughout the downtown area.
Admission is $15 adults and $10 seniors (65+) and free for children under 12. The bands will be House of Floyd, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.; Tin Man, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.; and Tortilla Soup, 4 to 6 p.m.
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FAIRFIELD — The Fairfield-Suisun governing school board will meet Thursday to decide how to go forth after board president David C. Isom’s resignation.
Isom officially resigned his position on July 24, and submitted his paperwork
to Lisette Estrella-Henderson, Solano County Superintendent of Schools.
His resignation is effective Monday. This has left a vacancy that needs to be filled for a fully operating board. The board’s vice president, Craig Wilson, has stepped into the position for the interim.
The board had two
choices for going forward: order an election or have a provisional appointment. board chose the process of making a provisional appointment to fill the vacancy.
The board will officially announce the vacancy Aug. 7. Appli
cation packets will be available on the district’s website, www. fsusd.org, and at the FairfieldSuisun Unified School District central office, 2490 Hilborn Road. Applications must be submitted by 4:30 p.m. Aug. 25.
A special board meeting will be held Sept. 6 to conduct interviews of eligible applicants and make the appointment. The new board member will then take the Oath of Office and serve until next regular election in November 2024. For more information, call 707-399-5000.
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The department has had to suspend its traffic and community service units. The department, including the chief’s position, is down to 77 officers. A full complement would be 132. Development of a public safety plan has started, and the department is contacting neighboring law enforcement agencies to help cover some of its service needs.
The library is located at 505 Santa Clara St.
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Isom to be honored with farewell service at St. Stephen CME Church
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FAIRFIELD — The Rev. David C. Isom will be bidding farewell to parishioners on Sunday. He has been the pastor for St. Stephen CME Church, along with his wife, Stephanie J. Isom, for 15 years. The church will honor his service with a goodbye service
and reception. The presiding prelate, Bishop Charley Hames Jr., will be the special guest speaker for the service. A reception will be held from noon to 3 p.m. at the Public Safety Academy, 230 Atlantic Ave., Fairfield. Parking is available in the front and back of the school.
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Celebrate Native American heritage at Peña Adobe park
armando Perez discusses native american history during an open house at Pena adobe Park in Vacaville, Feb. 3, 2018. Daily Republic Staff
The event will take place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Aug. 5.
Meet author Richard Burrill, who has published seven books on Ishi, the last surviving member of the California Native American Yahi tribe.
Also on hand will be Rebekah Canavesio from
the Cultural Resources Department at Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, who will speak with park visitors about the many aspects of Yocha Dehe culture, including preservation of its language and oral history, governance, dance, food and agriculture.
Kaitlyn Scott Moxon, artifacts and exhibition manager of the Vacaville Museum, will share Native American items from the museum’s collection. She will chat with guests about the Vacaville
Museum’s mission, which includes cultural and historical preservation for all of Solano County, according to a press release.
The Kalpulli Anuahuak Aztec Dancers will demonstrate Aztec dances for park visitors.
Later in the program, Chiricahua Apache Armando Perez of Vacaville, will dance the Crown Dance. The Apaches performed the Crown Dance to protect the community from disease and enemies.
Children can learn to make a corn-husk doll,
jority of his 20 years with the USPS at the Bulk Mail Center in Richmond, CA before retiring. A man of service and hospitality, Conrado always opened his home to family and friends ensuring they were always well fed and entertained with his perfect tenor during karaoke. Also known as, “Papa,” by his grandchildren, he COAST GUARD VETERAN
a shell necklace or a Native American pump drill, snack on Navajo fry bread – a 144-year-old Navajo tradition – and learn about the Native Americans who lived here long before the Vacas and Peñas arrived in 1841 from the New Mexico Territory.
The Peña Adobe Regional Park is located off I-80, left of the Lagoon Valley Park entrance.
For more information, call 707-447-0518 or e-mail penaadobe@gmail.com.
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Devo stops in San Francisco to celebrate 50 years of music
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SAN FRANCISCO —
Whip it. Whip it good.
Tickets are now on sale for Devo: The Farewell Tour Celebrating 50 Years at 8 p.m. Nov. 14 at BroadwaySF’s Golden Gate Theatre, 1 Taylor St.
Devo’s music and visual presentation (including stage shows and costumes) mingle kitsch science fiction themes, surrealist humor and mordantly satirical social commentary. The band’s namesake, the tongue-in-cheek social theory of “de-evolution,” was an integral concept in their early work, which was marked by experimental and dissonant art punk that merged rock music with electronics.
Their output in the 1980s embraced synth-pop and a more mainstream, less conceptual style, though the band’s satirical and quirky humor remained intact.
Their music has proven influential on subsequent movements, particularly on new wave, industrial and alternative artists. Devo was also a pioneer of the music video format.
Purchase tickets at broadwaysf.com. The band’s website is www. clubdevo.com.
FAIRFIELD – Travis Unified School District will continue to serve free meals under the National School Lunch/ School Breakfast Programs during the 2023-24 school year, the district announced.
All TK-12 students will be served lunch and breakfast at no charge at Center, Travis and Scandia elementary schools in Fairfield; Cambridge and Foxboro
elementary schools in Vacaville; as well as Golden West Middle School and Vanden High School, both in Fairfield. Program information may be made available in languages other than English. Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of communication to obtain program information (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, American Sign Language), should contact the agency to which they applied for benefits. Individuals who
Child Support giving away school-ready backpacks
The giveaway starts Tuesday in recognition of Child Support Awareness Month.
“We’re thrilled to be partnering with the Solano County Office of Education again this year to give out backpacks,” Liane Peck, director of Child Support Services, said in as statement.
“Helping students and their families
get the supplies they need to be successful in school is the perfect example of why we celebrate Child Support Awareness month, as it demonstrates the key role parental, emotional and financial support plays in the well-being of our children, our most precious resource,” Peck said.
The backpacks will come with essential school supplies, including crayons, rulers, pencils, pencil sharpeners, pocket folders, spiral notebooks, scissors and glue sticks. Every backpack also will come with a Beanie
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are deaf, hard of hearing or have speech disabilities may contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at 800-877-8339. For additional information, contact Ana Martinez, manager of Child Nutrition Services at Travis Unified, at Amarti nez@travisusd.org.
Anselmo Cano va Jr.
Anselmo was born in Thomasson, CA. and remained a lifelong resident of Solano County. His family moved to Fairfield in 1932. He attended local schools and graduated from Armijo High School with the class of ’43. He honorably ser ved three years in the Pacific with the US Navy in WWII. He married Betheleen Jane Vig in 1950 and they would have one son, Randy. He was a mechanic at Travis, part owner of Jo-Ran Health Foods and eventually joined CHP- Motor Carrier at the Cordelia scales. He retired after 25 years serving in the field, headquarters in Sacramento and as a Field Supervisor in Oakland. In retirement he enjoyed family, travel, volunteering, Sons of Italy and his church family at Trinity Lutheran. He was predeceased by his loving wife of 63 years in 2013. His volunteering and community involvement continued for many years. He passed away in Carmichael, CA after a short illness. He is survived by his son Randy Canova. Funeral services will be held August 1 at Trinity Lutheran Church, 2075 Dover Ave, Fairfield. Viewing will be held at 9:30 a.m. and the service at 10:30 a.m. In lieu of flowers, donations to Trinity Lutheran Church, Sons of Italy (Northern Solano Lodge #2534) or Disabled American Veterans would be appreciated. Arrangements entrusted to Bryan Braker Funeral Home, Fairfield You may sign the guestbook at www.bryanbraker.com
August 14, 1925 — July 16, 2023
Jose Concepcion Castillo Sr., 97, passed away peacefully at his home in Fairfield, CA on July 16, 2023.
Jose was born on August 14, 1925, in San Juan, Texas to Franciso and Crescencia Bocardo Castillo. He married Stella Reyes in 1951 and was married 56 years before her passing on July 24, 2007.
He is preceded in death by brothers Pedro and Santos; and sisters Rafaela, Amalia, Juana, and Tomasa.
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Jose served and retired from the U.S. Air Force as a Technical Sergeant following 24 years of service at Travis AFB, Calif. Among his awards and decorations were the Air Force Longevity Service Award with three bronze oak leaf clusters, Good Conduct Medal with four bronze oak leaf clusters, National Defense Service Medal with 2 Bronze Stars, and the Medal for Humane Airlift (Berlin Airlift).
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Following his retirement from the service he was elected as manager of the Travis AFB commissary grocery baggers for 34 consecutive years.
Mr. Castillo and his wife enjoyed traveling in
their motor home visiting family and friends in their later years.
Mr. Castillo is survived by his son, Richard Castillo, and his wife Judy of Vacaville, daughter Stella Dyer and her husband Bruce of Surprise, AZ sons Jose of Casa Grande, AZ Frank of Vacaville, Larry and Bruce of Honolulu, and daughter Debbie Miller and her husband Marty of Santa Cruz; eight grandchildren, 18 great-great-grandchildren, and three great-great- great grandchildren. A visitation and service will be held from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m., August 3, 2023, at Fairfield Funeral Home. Chaplain George Fredrick Meilahn will officiate. The burial will take place at the Sacramento Valley VA National Cemeter y, 5810 Midway Road, Dixon, CA on August 4, 2023.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made by donors to the charity of their choosing.
Arrangements are under the direction of Fairfield Funeral Home, 1750 Pennsylvania Avenue, Fairfield, CA, (707) 425-1041.
The WashingTon PosT FORDLÂNDIA, Brazil — When he was a young man, Luiz Magno Ribeiro felt nothing but pride in his city. It was, he believed, the most miraculous town in Brazil, a place of many firsts. The first settlement deep in the Amazon rainforest to have running water and electricity. The first to treat patients in a modern hospital. The first to build a swimming pool, a cinema, street lamps - an oasis of civilization in a remote jungle: Fordlândia. Where Henry Ford tried to defeat the Amazon and was instead defeated.
But one recent morning, as he set out to inspect the community, it wasn’t awe that the 49-year-old felt. It was frustration and grievance.
Despite all of Magno’s efforts, despite the community’s backing, despite the help of federal attorneys and a recent order by a judge, the remarkable history of Ford’s conquest to harvest Amazon rubber was being lost, historic building by historic building. And the roughly 2,000 people still here, many of them impoverished descendants of Ford workers, were being forgotten – again.
Now came another sign of neglect.
As Magno, the town historian, walked through the neighborhood where Ford’s executives once enjoyed the comforts of a Midwest suburb –wide-screened balconies, concrete sidewalks, porcelain bathtubs – he smelled something acrid. There, inside one of the stately houses, he saw it: bat guano. Mounds of it. The elegant home had been taken over by a squatter –and a colony of bats.
“He didn’t even clean it up,” said Magno, furious at the squatter. “There must be 20 pounds of guano here. And no one does a thing. I’ve never seen this city in worse condition.”
Nearly a century ago, the Ford Motor Co. spent heavily in blood and coin to construct what became, practically overnight, one of the Amazon’s largest cities. Thousands of acres of forest were razed. Millions of dollars were spent. Hundreds of workers died.
But neither Ford nor the Brazilian government, which assumed control of the property when the company departed in 1945, has done much of anything to preserve this historic town whose brief heyday came at so high a cost. William Clay Ford Jr., Henry’s great-grandson and now the company’s executive chairman, reportedly supported in 1997 the opening of a rubber museum here, but nothing came of it. Meanwhile, the Brazilian government, according to federal attorneys, has for more than 30 years ignored pleas to endow the town with historical protections.
Ford didn’t respond to requests for comment. Neither did Brazil’s National Historical and Artistic Heritage Institute, which is charged with safeguarding the country’s historic sites.
In recent years, Fordlândia’s collapse has only accelerated. The hospital, designed by Ford architect Albert Kahn and the first to perform complicated surgeries deep in the Amazon, was ransacked a decade ago and stripped of its roofing and walls. Down came a historic home where Ford executives had lived. The cinema, where American poetry was read in Portuguese, was condemned as a safety hazard in 2020 and knocked down.
And this year, the last resident who had worked for Ford died, at 102.
“There won’t be a Fordlândia in 30 more years,” Magno lamented. “It will all be lost.”
He has come to think of it as two towns. There’s the Fordlândia that’s been portrayed in the media: a ghost town whose story ended when Ford left. Then there’s the reality: Fordlândia never suffered an exodus. If it’s not quite thriving, it remains a community with schools, shops and churches.
What connects the two Fordlândias is failure.
First, the failure to conquer the jungle. And now, the failure to preserve.
Henry Ford had a problem. He had revolutionized factory assembly work and made the automobile affordable for the masses. But he didn’t have direct control of a rubber supply that would guarantee the company’s continued success.
Most rubber was produced by European colonial plantations in Southeast Asia. By the 1920s, there was talk of a rubber cartel.
Ford feared that such a group could dictate rubber prices worldwide, giving it the power to cripple his company. So the pioneering industrialist, an early believer in vertical integration, looked for a way to outflank them and produce his own rubber. He settled on the region where it was first harvested: the Amazon.
He found willing partners in Brazil, which was keen to revitalize the rainforest’s moribund rubber industry. Brazil, in an early example of the extraordinary incentives it would offer multinational corporations to set up in
the Amazon, granted Ford in 1927 a parcel nearly the size of Connecticut.
The prospect was attractive to Ford for several reasons. Increasingly disillusioned by an America turning toward urbanism, he saw in the Amazon an opportunity to start over. He wanted to build not just factories and plantations, but a pastoral utopia, transporting a bucolic Midwestern town, imprinted with his own idiosyncratic tastes and interests, to the heart of the Amazon. He discouraged drinking, gambling, Catholicism, yuca flour and ... cows.
“The crudest machine in the world,” Ford called the animal. At the maternity ward, infants would be given soy milk.
“He thought this was the perfect way to save rural life,” said Greg Grandin, a historian and the author of “Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City.”
By some measures, Ford succeeded. By the 1930s, a new town had risen out of the forest. On one side extended firehydrant-lined streets: Riverside Avenue, Hillside, Main Street. At the center were massive, Detroit-style warehouses. And on the other side was the “American Village.”
Built for American executives, the neighborhood had it all: a clubhouse, hotel, tennis court, swimming pool, golf course, swing sets, a movie theater and five stately homes furnished with wooden American furniture and paintings of rural Midwestern landscapes.
Ed Townsend, 81, grew up inside one. “I remember it being a very pleasant environment,” recalled Townsend, now a banker in Oklahoma. “An enjoyable, pleasant, beautiful, clean city.”
But there was a dark side. Hundreds died in the town’s construction,
More than 70 years later, in the spring of 2016, a young judge named Domingos Moutinho accompanied his wife on a work trip to the nearby gold-mining town of Itaituba. One day, when his wife busy at work, he decided to visit a place whose history had always fascinated him. Fordlândia was just up the river.
Riding up the Tapajós, Moutinho watched as verdant forest blurred past, each bend indistinguishable from the last. Then the unusual spectacle came into view: Sprawling rusted warehouses. A 150foot water tower – once the Amazon’s tallest structure. A water treatment facility. Stepping ashore, Moutinho asked if anyone could give him a tour.
That was when he met Magno. The historian was just finishing up his day job as a schoolteacher.
“An abusive delay,” federal attorneys said in a 2015 lawsuit. They alleged that every level of the Brazilian government had been negligent in its duty to maintain the town. While the request for historical recognition sat pending, the hospital had been ransacked and stripped of its valuable tiling. Some of the houses in the American Village had suffered an “invasion” of squatters, they said. Another had been demolished.
Late that afternoon, Magno walked Moutinho back to the port. The historian had enjoyed the visit, but didn’t think much would come of it. Moutinho seemed like just another curious passerby.
Neither knew that before long Moutinho would become a central player in the town’s struggle to survive.
‘We were born rich, then became poor’
according to Florida State University researcher Marcos Colón, most of them from disease. “The sanitary situation in Fordlândia is terrible,” the newspaper Diario Carioca reported in 1929, “making victims every day.”
And in its fundamental purpose - to harvest rubber – the experiment was a disaster. Ford’s buffoonish executives did virtually everything wrong. Planting in the wrong season, in the wrong terrain, with the wrong seeds. Clustering Hevea brasiliensis, a rubber tree that grows best when naturally dispersed.
Plagues struck. Pests invaded. When Ford workers introduced ants to kill them, the ants became yet another pest.
“Like dropping money into a sewer,” Ford executive William Cowling wrote to his superiors.
In 1945, after nearly two decades and $20 million spent, Ford wanted out. The company sold its properties and everything on them – the hospitals, houses, factories, manufacturing equipment – to the Brazilian government for a pittance, then departed.
The Brazilians, as if to punctuate that Ford’s strange experiment was over, turned Fordlândia into a cattle ranch.
The pair spent hours touring the town. Moutinho was stunned. One of the warehouses looked suspended in time, as if the workers had dropped their tools mid-shift and never returned. It was filled with dust-lacquered machinery, lugged from cities as distant as Cincinnati and stamped with the manufacturers’ insignia: Southwark Foundry and Machine Co., Brown & Sharpe, Westinghouse.
Looking down, Moutinho spotted an antiquated calculator on the floor.
“If I had wanted to put it into my backpack and leave, I could have,” he recalled. “There wasn’t any kind of real security.”
Magno told Moutinho that Fordlândia had been left to rot. Despite pledges to preserve the town, no Brazilian authority had done much. Not the federal government, and not the city of Aveiro, which included Fordlândia within its borders.
In 1990, state officials, responding to the lamentations of townspeople, submitted a request for historical recognition. The designation, granted by the National Historical and Artistic Heritage Institute, protects historic properties and incentivizes restorations with tax write-offs. Fordlândia’s leaders considered the recognition a crucial step toward resurrecting the town and drawing tourists. But the request, which typically takes about five years to be processed, languished without explanation for more than 25.
Early one morning in December 2021, Magno stepped out of his house and into the rain, hopeful for the first time in a long while.
Fate had placed Moutinho in charge of the court deciding the city’s case. Moutinho had called a meeting for that morning that drew officials from throughout Pará state. For the first time, the people of Fordlândia would have an opportunity to urge authorities publicly to preserve the city, and Magno had been selected as their representative.
Magno felt as if he’d prepared for decades for this day. The son of the chauffeur of an American doctor, he’d been raised to respect what Ford built here. Studying the town’s history for his college thesis, his admiration for Ford had only deepened. In a time when slave labor dominated much of the Amazon, the company had paid workers well and treated them with relative dignity. Then it had left it all behind - the makings and technology of a mighty Amazon city.
All the people had to do, Magno believed, was rise up and seize the opportunity.
But rather than race ahead, Fordlândia somehow slipped behind. In what promised to be an automotive capital, not a single road is paved. Electricity can go out for days at a time. None of the water is treated. Four in 5 people in the broader city of Aveiro live in poverty, and 1 in 4 adults are illiterate. So much potential,
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ordered Brazil’s heritage agency to finish the necessary paperwork and, by October 2022, to present to the community a “complete restoration plan.”
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Magno often found himself thinking, and none of it went fulfilled.
“We were born rich,” he liked to say, “then became poor.”
Now was a chance, at least in one small way, to set things right. Standing in front of the audience, he tried to make his case for its historical designation.
“This would be a declaration that would look, with great care, to the common good,” he said. Then, later: “There are larger cities. Cities with better infrastructure. But there is no city that has a history like Fordlândia.”
Within days, Moutinho delivered his decision.
“The historic value of Fordlândia is incontestable,” he wrote. “There remains to us no other measure but granting a historical designation.” He
But none of the deadlines were met. The designation was never awarded – and may never be. In a January filling, the agency doubted whether Fordlândia merited it. The community was found to have only “potential archaeological value,” the filing said. “Potential value” wasn’t enough for a historical designation.
The request was filed away for additional review. No further action has been taken.
Magno no longer gives tours to random visitors. Other than attending to questions about history from lawyers and academics, he tries to live in the present, rather than the past crumbling around him.
But every now and then, he sees a sign of neglect so egregious he has to look
away. So the day he saw the guano dirtying the American-style house, he didn’t go inside. Instead, he walked across the street, to where a newcomer had moved in, and witnessed what he’d come to believe was the birth of a new Fordlândia.
Every year, more outsiders were coming to the town. Many were drawn by the promise of wealth that had nothing to do with its past. Shortly after Ford pulled out, a massive deposit - 350 million tons of high-grade gypsum, used in fertilizers and construction - was discovered nearby. For decades, the difficulties of reaching Fordlândia had kept miners away. But now two companies were busy at work. Some days, Magno would stop and marvel at the size of their barge, weighed with thousands of tons of ivory-colored earth.
“A new economic cycle is opening,” said Moutinho, the judge.
Dear Annie: You printed “Thoughts from Ireland,” about the generous benefits that workers there have compared with those in the United States. I witnessed the same thing when we visited relatives in the U.K. 35 years ago. It was explained to me that companies hire enough employees to have coverage when workers are off for vacations or sick leave. They rotate the “floating” workers, who are trained to cover all types of work. Everyone has generous vacation time, but those with high stress jobs, especially
Annie Lane Dear Anniein direct care, have extra time off for their mental health.
We found this quite interesting because we had worked in a field where, when we returned from our “vacation,” our work that came in while we were gone would be waiting for us. Only emergencies were handled, which put extra work on coworkers already handling their own work. It would be great to have companies here follow some progressive practices for the mental health of the workers. Their system results in more
A paradox: Your life becomes simultaneously simpler and fuller. You’ll get carried away with a single focus and your enthusiasm opens a giant blossom of beauty. More highlights: a coveted membership that keeps you working toward a goal until it’s yours, an investment that triples your money, and renovations to up your game. Gemini and Sagittarius adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 48, 17, 6, 33 and 28.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). Your wants will mesh with the needs of those around you. Communicate to learn how you can help one another. Some will be too proud to express themselves. You’ll have to go first.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). To fully possess your world when you know it will not be the same tomorrow takes courage. Today you have the gravitas to give yourself over to changeable things. You’ll follow your heart and make the commitment.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). To withhold approval or affection until someone does what you want is a short-sighted ploy that usually backfires. You prefer a more honest and direct approach, and will have great success with it today.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). Improvement cannot be forced or magically conjured. It won’t materialize in response to an order nor can it be bought. Things will get better in the same way they always have – with a solid step-by-step plan and the determination to see it through.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). There’s great value exchanged between generations today, much to the benefit of all. You’ll learn from those who are much older or younger than you, and you have plenty to teach the ones who are receptive to it.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Your value never changes because attention is given or taken away. It’s intrinsic. There’s a deep-rooted certainty in you today. It’s not that you know you’re right, but you do know you’re worthy, so there’s nothing to prove.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). There’s a conflict between the responsibility you feel toward the others and the duty you have to do what’s right for you. Make no assumptions and remain calmly optimistic. A constructive conversation will illuminate a way to satisfy all.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). When you really want something, you tend to calculate the risks by minimizing the negatives and glorifying the gains. Take the wanting out of the equation and suddenly there is a much more accurate risk calculation available.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You don’t yet know which way of doing things fits you best. You’ll find out what it is by discovering what it’s not. Trying different methods is research. “This isn’t for me” is the data that gets you closer.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You’ll receive a vision for a relationship. This dream is doable. Though there will be a magical feeling about the process, it will still happen in practical steps. Work back from the picture to outline the steps.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). It is said that true love sees with the heart. Even so, test what you feel might be true against input from other senses. You may accept and love a person and yet find certain behaviors unacceptable.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Don’t be in too much of a rush to learn about how a process works. Knowing more about your pursuit will give you all kinds of advantages, and a perspective that helps you see clever and creative solutions.
CELEBRITY PROFILES: Listen for the familiar voice of a “friend” in the upcoming movie “Bright Futures,” narrated by Lisa Kudrow. Kudrow initially struggled for her breakthrough in entertainment and even considered quitting the profession before landing the beloved and Emmy Award-winning role of Phoebe Buffay. The lioness was born when the sun and Mercury were in Leo and the moon was in adventurous and worldly Sagittarius.
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people employed and a happier, more productive workforce.
Too bad our corporations and employers cannot grasp that. — Thoughts from the U.S.
Dear Thoughts from the U.S.: Most companies in the United States grasp what you are saying and offer generous benefits to their workers. You can compare our economic system with other systems, and I believe the American free enterprise system is best, certainly in terms of raising the overall standard of living. But
thanked for giving children/ teens gifts. Just tell them how you feel! When I was growing up, my grandmother was a loving but stern influence in my life and I now appreciate all the lessons she taught me. She always gifted us $20 each birthday in brand-new, crisp $1 bills that she specially requested at the bank.
I clearly remember one time when my sister and I as teenagers had gotten lazy about writing her thank-you cards. She sat us down and let us know that when someone gives you a
lesson to learn.
In the 30 years since, I still go out of my way to make sure I thank gift givers because of this conversation. A text at least, or a phone call. I don’t think a written card is always necessary depending on your relationship to the giver, but it sure can’t hurt! — Teen Who Is Now a Thankful Adult Dear Thankful: What a great letter. That is wonderful advice for the grandparents just to be honest and tell their grandchildren how they feel.
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The new school year is approaching, and this time of year is a good reminder about the vital role that vaccinations play in protecting children’s health, as parents and families gear up for the return to classrooms. National Immunization Awareness Month, observed every August, highlights the importance of vaccinations for individuals of all ages and serves as a reminder to protect against vaccinepreventable diseases through timely vaccinations.
Vaccinations have been instrumental in preventing the spread of deadly diseases and saving lives. According to the World Health Organization, immunizations currently prevent 4 million to 5 million deaths each year.
Vaccines work by imitating an infection and help the body learn how to defend itself from diseases without the dangers of a full-blown infection. The immune response to a vaccine may cause tiredness and discomfort for a few days, but the resulting protection can last a lifetime and can reduce the risk of life-threatening conditions or even death.
Many vaccines require more than one dose, as a single dose of vaccine only provides partial protection. Additionally, certain vaccines must be
updated periodically to protect against mutation-prone viruses that cause waves of infections months or years apart. To stay protected, individuals are encouraged to get updated vaccines even if an earlier version was received.
According to the California Department of Public Health’s 2021-2022 Kindergarten Summary Report, approximately 96% of kindergartners in the state have received the required vaccines for school entry, which include measles, mumps, rubella and polio. This is a testament to the dedication of parents, health care providers and public health campaigns in ensuring the well-being of children and families.
However, while these numbers show progress in achieving high vaccination rates among children, it is important to acknowledge that vaccine-preventable diseases, such as measles, whooping cough and chickenpox, can resurge and pose a threat to communities. Outbreak of these diseases have been reported in various parts of the U.S., which serves as a reminder of the importance of keeping vaccination schedules up-to-date.
Routine vaccinations should not be overlooked or delayed. Solano Public Health and other community partners aim to educate and empower parents and families by providing
essential information on vaccinations, increasing access to free and low-cost vaccination clinics, and the importance of speaking with health care providers to stay on track with routine vaccinations. Solano Public Health has partnered with local health care providers, school districts and college institutions, long-term care facilities, and Emergency Medical Service (EMS) providers to increase access to free and low-cost vaccination clinics for Solano County residents and serve as a trusted and reliable source to educate the community on vaccine safety.
During the month of August, let us take proactive steps to ensure a healthy future for our family and communities by staying informed, taking timely action and reaffirming our commitment to protecting against vaccine-preventable diseases. To find more information on recommended vaccinations, available free and lowcost vaccination clinics, and payment assistance programs in Solano County, visit Solano County Immunization Program or https://www.solano vaxfacts.com.
Isabella Lim is a health assistant from Solano Public Health’s Emergency services, Preparedness, Immunization & Communicable disease (EPIC) Bureau.
THURSDAY, JULY 27
1:20 a.m. — Shooting into a dwelling, 3000 block of N ORTH
TEXAS STREET
2:08 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 4300 block of CENTRAL PLACE
4:50 a.m. — Trespassing, 2000 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET
8:31 a.m. — Reckless driver, 1200 block of B. GALE WILSON
BOULEVARD
9:15 a.m. — Vandalism, 300 block of EAST TABOR AVENUE
9:21 a.m. — Trespassing, 4400 block of CENTRAL PLACE
9:53 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 2400 block of COURAGE DRIVE
11:38 a.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 5000 block of BUSINESS CENTER DRIVE
11:42 a.m. — Residential burglary, 1000 block of WEBSTER STREET
1:43 p.m. — Forgery, 300 block of DICKSON HILL ROAD
1:43 p.m. — Trespassing, 1700 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET
1:54 p.m. — Trespassing, 1900 block of KIDDER AVENUE
2:21 p.m. — Reckless driver, 200 block of SANTA BARBARA COURT
2:21 p.m. — Assault with a deadly weapon, 1700 block of DANIEL COURT
2:47 p.m. — Trespassing, 200 block of PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE
2:57 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 1300 block of TRAVIS
BOULEVARD
3 p.m. — Trespassing, 100 block of ALASKA AVENUE
3:05 p.m. — Reckless driver, EASTBOUND AIR BASE PARKWAY
3:46 p.m. — Forgery, 700 block of LINK ROAD
3:59 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 1300 block of PHOENIX DRIVE
4:38 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 100 block of EAST
TABOR AVENUE
8 p.m. — Forgery, 1500 block of GATEWAY BOULEVARD
8:05 p.m. — Vandalism, 1900 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET
8:44 p.m. — Brandishing a weapon, 1100 block of DANA
DRIVE
10:09 p.m. — Drunk driver,
EASTBOUND AIR BASE
PARKWAY
1:55 a.m. — Assault with a deadly weapon, 1700 block of WEST TEXAS STREET
2:13 a.m. — Grand theft, 4400 block of CENTRAL PLACE
Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, Cupid, the Tooth Fairy, the Wizarding World, you name it, they will take your letter.
Rose opened the busi ness in 1996 in the blue house around the corner from City Hall. In 2018, she decided to split the business into a separate building and opened the letters office down the road from her house.
Laura Bukovics, of Vacaville, brought her 6-year-old daughter, Kayless Bukovics, for the second time. Last year the entire family dressed up in Potter costumes.
“I just love the story and the magic,” Laura said.
Kayless likes the lightning bolt on Potter’s brow and dressing up for Halloween as one of the characters.
For those who have not read the book or seen the movie, Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling.
Harry Potter and his
are considering other measures that could give Trump an advantage.
a.m. — Vehicle theft, 2300 block of COURAGE DRIVE
p.m. — Battery, 300 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD
p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, HILBORN ROAD
p.m. — Vehicle theft, 1900 block of GRANDE CIRCLE
2:28 p.m. — Assault with a deadly weapon, 2000 block of CRAWFORD COURT
3:05 p.m. — Trespassing, 2300 block of FAIRFIELD AVENUE
4:20 p.m. — Battery, 1000 block of WEBSTER STREET
5:24 p.m. — Vandalism, 600 block of MADISON STREET 7:07 p.m. — Drunken driving, 1500 block of PHOENIX DRIVE
8:59 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 600 block of BARRINGTON COURT
9:14 p.m. — Shots fired, 3200 block of WAILEA CIRCLE
9:26 p.m. — Battery, 1600 block of PARK LANE
11:58 p.m.
The new rule in California means a Republican presidential candidate who receives more than 50% of the vote in the March 5 primary will win all 169 of the state’s delegates, which is the most of any state in the nation. If no one reaches this benchmark, delegates will be awarded proportionally on the basis of the statewide vote. State party leaders argued that the new plan will draw candidates to compete in the state.
“Today’s vote ... was a massive victory for California Republicans who are eager to have a say in deciding who our Party’s 2024 presidential nominee will be,” state party chair Jessica Millan Patterson said in a statement. “Republican presidential candidates will not only be encouraged to spend real time campaigning in our state and making their case to voters, but Republican voters will equally be encouraged to turn out to support their chosen candidate to help them win delegates.”
But other Republicans say the plan will actually make California less competitive than if the party had stuck with some version of the system it has used for much of the last two decades, where three delegates were awarded for each congressional district won, said Jon Fleischman, who was executive director of the state party when it adopted this plan in 2000 (it didn’t go into effect until after the
2004 election). Such a system would have allowed a candidate to strategically target a handful of areas instead of trying to campaign and advertise in an enormous state with some of the most expensive media markets in the nation.
“The net effect of passing this proposal will be no presidential campaign will be incentivized to do any campaigning in California, period,” Fleischman said. “The cost to advertise statewide is too great and the impact of trying to motivate volunteers is too small. So they will go to other states and ignore California in the primary as they ignore California in the general election.”
Trump’s campaign supported the plan because polling shows he can win more than half the votes in California’s primary, allowing him to sweep up the state’s huge haul of delegates, according to an executive committee member who spoke with a campaign official.
Trump strategists also believe an earlier proposal – that the California GOP scrapped – could have helped Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, said the executive committee member, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to talk candidly about the conversation.
Under that system, delegates would have been awarded by congressional district, with two going to the winner in each district and one delegate going to the second-place finisher. California is so big, with 52 congressional districts, that such a system would have created an enormous “consolation prize” amounting to more delegates than those awarded by multiple other states combined.
The Trump and DeSantis campaigns did not respond to requests for comment. The California GOP would have lost half its delegates to the Republican National Convention – a huge blow to the party’s clout – if it did not change its rules. Either of the plans that were considered would have met the national party’s requirements.
California’s primary is taking place March 5, Super Tuesday, along with more than a dozen other states. While California’s overwhelming Democratic tilt means it is not competitive for the Republican presidential candidate in next November’s general election, the state could have played a significant role in deciding the Republican nominee – particularly if a candidate doesn’t take a commanding lead in earlier contests in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina.
By the time California votes, Trump could be under indictment in four separate criminal cases. Currently, he faces charges related to an alleged hush-money payment to an adult-film star in the final days of the 2016 campaign, and of mishandling and illegally possessing classified documents at his Florida home after his presidency ended. The former president is also being investigated for allegedly attempting to change Georgia election results after the 2020 election, and trying to remain in office after losing the election, including his involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
But that has not dampened support from his base. More than 50 Trump supporters who staged a
protest at the Irvine Marriott on Saturday morning saw the California GOP’s earlier proposal as a purposeful effort to harm Trump. They were angry the decision was made by the party’s 100-member executive committee rather than more than 1,400 members at their fall convention, a reflection of conservative activists’ distrust of party leadership seen across the country. And they unsuccessfully pushed for a candidate having to receive a certain percentage of the vote to be awarded any delegates.
“There’s a part of me that does think that maybe they’re trying to take votes away from Trump, specifically, who’s coming in strong, and so they’re kind of thinking what can we do to take away votes for Trump?” said Bonnie Wallace, president of the Greater Pasadena Republican Assembly. As a state party delegate, she was able to observe the committee meeting, which was closed to the press, but unable to vote on the matter.
“What I heard in there is, ‘Oh, we need to open this up so all the candidates are welcome ... If they get 5% of the vote, they’ll get something,” added Wallace, carrying a sign that read “CAGOP & RNC Why NOT TRUMP? Stop Supporting Corruption!” “You know, we need to whittle things down. We don’t have participation trophies.”
The executive committee approved the delegate-allocation plan on a 53-16 vote. State party officials said they could not wait for the convention to debate the matter because of a tight deadline to submit their plans to national Republicans.
aircraft with advanced technologies that make it more adaptable and survivable. Among the noteworthy attributes, the KC-46 has a protected communications and data-transfer system that can connect to and link various land, air and space resources – viewed as especially critical during times of conflict.
The Pegasus has radar and infrared detection and defense systems, as well as other tactical defense capabilities.
Retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Sam Cox, representing Boeing at the event, called it the “foundation and bedrock of air mobility,” and noted the capacity to make even more technological upgrades and improvements as time passes.
2 inches long, with a wingspan of 156 feet, 1 inch. It is 52 feet, 10 inches tall, and is powered by two Pratt and Whitney 4062 High Base Engines, with 62,000 pounds of thrust per engine, the Air Force reported.
It is typically crewed by two pilots and a boom operator. However, a mission commander, aircraft commander, flying crew chiefs and addition boom operators were part of the crews of the planes on Friday.
The boom can link to 64 aircraft receivers for fueling. The aircraft can carry 200 personnel, and is specifically equipped for medical evacuation and similar missions. It has a cargo capacity of 32 tons.
who piloted one of the two KC-46 planes from the Boeing plant in Washington to Travis, recalled being a young KC-10 pilot, arriving at Travis only four months after the first of those aircraft had arrived in September 1994.
“Now the KC-10 is moving on,” said Jackson, pausing, putting his hand to his heart and releasing a long, audible sigh. The flight in was the last fixedwing flight of his military service. He is retiring after a 31-year career.
The KC-10, when finally divested, will go to the boneyard at DavisMontham AFB in Tucson, Arizona. The aircraft may be used for parts or returned to service if the need arises, the Air Force reported.
along with McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas; Altus Air Force Base, Oklahoma; Pease Air National Guard Base; New Hampshire; and Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina.
Travis was selected as the West Coast home for the Pegasus for several reasons: geographic location, existing tanker programs and better infrastructure capacity, according to information that has been provided by the Air Force Civil Engineer Center.
friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley are all students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It is a magical place where they hone their skills. But Potter has an enemy – He-WhoMust-Not-Be-Named – and it takes all his wits and friends’ talents to battle this dreadfully, evil creature who wants all the wizardly world for only those who can do magic.
Others called it simply, “historic.”
The Pegasus is 159 feet,
Over the next few years, Travis will be home to 24 KC-46 tankers, eventually replacing the fleet of 24 KC-10 Extenders, which will be honored at a later date for their long history of service.
Maj. Gen. Joel Jackson,
and rangeland conditions; and in early December, Lake Berryessa dropped to its lowest level since 1994,” King added.
The pilot of the second Pegasus was Maj. Gen. Corey Martin. He called the moment “an historic inflection” in the long history of Travis AFB.
Travis is one of five bases scheduled to receive the KC-46A,
white varietals went from about $10.5 million to more than $11 million, the report states.
It’s the first new aircraft at the base since August 2006, and with its mission, Travis becomes only the third airbase with four combat-ready air mobility planes: the KC-46A, the KC-10, the C-17 and the C-5, officials said.
The cost of the Pegasus is close to $173 million per plane, with an additional $230 million in infrastructure and other operational investments made at Travis.
year impacted crop and livestock production:
freezing temperatures in late February severely damaged the developing almond and olive crops; early September brought a relentless heatwave with temperatures peaking at well over 100 degrees across the county for nine consecutive days, including localized highs of over 115 degrees desiccating grapes on the vine,” Agriculture Commissioner Ed King wrote in the report.
“Mid-September rains temporarily halted the final weeks of tomato harvest and caused tomatoes still in the field to mold. (The) excessive heat and rain likewise led to mold and poor kernel color in walnut crop; a third year of drought continued to stress soil moisture, groundwater
Apiary pollination broke into the top 10 at eighth, with a gross value of $9.34 million. Dropping off the list was sunflower seeds, which was eighth in 2021 with a value of $10.529 million.
In 2022, that value was $7.487 million, the report states.
The rest of the top 10 crops, by gross value, were nursery products ($43.698 million), moving from third to second on the list; cattle and calves ($36,218 million), moving from fourth to third; alfalfa-hay ($30.946 million), from fifth to fourth; and wine grapes ($26.164 million), from sixth to fifth, the report states.
Within the wine grape category, red varietals went from about $14.93 million to about $16.16 million, and the
Rounding out the top 10 crop value list were almonds followed by walnuts ($11.304 million), holding at seventh; pollination; sheep and lambs ($9.074 million), holding at ninth; and staying at 10th was dried prunes with a gross value of $9.009 million, the report states.
“In 2022, the Solano County Agriculture Department issued 688 Federal Phytosanitary Certificates for agricultural commodities bound for export to 41 countries,” the report states, adding there were seven certified farmers markets held in the county.
The report also discusses pest control, with special note of the ongoing fight to eradicate the glassy-winged sharpshooter in north Vacaville, with 12 other pests on the watch list.
The report also has a section on the other half of the Agriculture Department – weights and measures. There were 5,300 measuring devices – such as gas meters; electric, vapor, water submeters; retail water meters; liquid propane meters; fabric, cordage, wire meters; and taxi odometers – that were inspected. The average compliance rate was 92%.
Additionally, there were 1,290 weighing devices inspected, with an average compliance rate of 87%.
Those devices include computing, counter scales; crane, hanging, hopper scales; dormant/ portable platform scales; vehicle scales; livestock and animal scales; railway scales; and monorail scales.
The livestock and animal scales had an average compliance rate of 68%, the report states.
FAIRFIELD — The Fairfield Suisun Visual Arts Association is seeking artists for its third Annual Art and Wine Festival, “The Crush,” running Sept. 3-4.
The event is from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days at Village 360, 4949 Suisun Valley Road.
but not limited to painting, photography, sculpture, jewelry and glass, and mixed media.
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NAPA — Valley Players continues its 2023 Summer Staged Reading Series with the final six original plays.
The series offers comedies and dramas, dynamic characters, and stories with topics ranging from drug-addicted family members to prehistoric board meetings.
These staged readings take place Friday and Saturday at CrossWalk Community Church. 2590 First St.
Friday’s readings begin at 7 p.m.
Featured are “Taken” by Susan Jackson, that begins with a newspaper article about an evicted tenant who committed suicide while living in San Francisco; and “For the Love of a Good Man,” by JS Jacklin, centers on woman’s attempt, albeit unconventional, to find a remedy for the marital doldrums.
Sunday’s plays get underway at 2 p.m. and feature: “C is for Cupid” by John Mabey, set during the global health crisis when there were more questions than answers;
“Miss Peddy & Grace” by William Ivor Fowkes, the tale of an experienced and dedicated caretaker of elderly loved ones
who is always available for hire; “Discharge,” by Lisa Quoresimo, the story of a professor and her student who turn to each other during a tragedy; “Minutes of the Last Meeting at Chauvet Cave,” by Steven R. Boyett, focuses on Neanderthals who hold a historic (well, prehistoric) meeting to debate whether this new “language” thing is bad for them.
Directed by Richard Pallaziol, the actors hail from Napa, Sonoma and Solano counties: Vic Chiarella, Todd Duda, Lizeth Flores, Bridget Folan, Bonnie Gamble, Sheila Lichirie, Mellene Miller, Judy Myers, Cam Oyen, Kathleen Puntillo, Patte Quinn, June Alane Reif, Craig Rekdahl, Bonnie Richardson, Daryl Roberts, Jessica Romero, and Esmé Nicolson-Singh. Reservations are requested, but not required and can be made online at valley-players.com/events. There is a $10 suggested donation that can be made at the door. For more information, visit valley-players.com, contact Valley Players at valley.players.napa@ gmail.com or by calling 707-948-6273.
This fine-arts event will feature artists specializing in original artwork
Applications are available online at www. fvaa-arts.org, or at the
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FAIRFIELD — California Secretary of State Shirley N. Weber will be the keynote speaker at the “Democ racy Matters: Be Visible, Be Vocal, and Vote” event hosted Aug.15bytheLeague of Women Voters Solano County. The event, which is specif ically targeting students but invites all residents, is set for 3 to 4:30 p.m. at the Solano Community College Theater, Building 1200, 4000 Suisun Valley Road, in Fairfield.
“Dr. Weber is a voice for justice who has dedicated her career to defending and strengthening fundamental civil rights, especially the right to vote. She will address her current efforts that are underway to make California the national leader in running inclusive, trustworthy and transparent elections; and to expand California’s right to vote to more citizens, including our youth by ensuring election security and providing data and logistics required
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FAIRFIELD — A use permit application for a junkyard and wrecking yard operation on Midway Road will be considered by the Solano County zoning administrator on
The meeting will begin at 2 p.m. in the Department of Resource Management office, Suite 5500, on the fifth floor of the government center, 675 Texas St., in Fairfield. Meeting access also is available by audioconference, 1-323-457-3408. The Conference ID is 293118721#.
to enable informed voter choices,” organizers said in a statement.
A panel of Solano student leaders also will discuss how “hands-on, civics learning activities provide the practical experience necessary to enter society knowledgeable, engaged and empowered citizens.” Other invited guests include U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, state Assemblywoman Lori Wilson, D-Suisun City, LWV California First Vice President Adena Ishii, Solano Community College President Celia Esposito-Noy and Solano County Superintendent of Education Lisette Estrada-Henderson.
To reserve a seat, send an email to lwvsolano @gmail.com.
Solano Town Center Gallery, located at 1350 Travis Blvd., D-8, Fairfield. Artist booths will be set up outside and within the
Village 360 facility. Each artist will be assigned a 10-by-10 space, booths cannot be shared. Artists must bring their own tables, chairs, and displays. Parking and admission are free, and food can be purchased on site at the Landing Restaurant. The Yuppie Liberation Front will perform Sept. 3, Psychedelic Dub Orchestra performs Sept. 4. For more information, contact Dennis Ariza at 707-688-8889.
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Baby – “a special friend to help start things off right,” the county said.
The department will also donate 40 backpacks to the Solano County Office of Education Foster and Homeless Youth Services Program and 41 smaller backpacks for toddlers.
Customers with an open child support case can come by the Child Support office, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., at 675 Texas St., Suite 5700, in Fairfield. Once backpack per child will be provided.
For more information, go to www.solanocounty. com/depts/dcss.
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife confirmed multiple sightings of what is believed to be the same wolverine in May, but the creature hasn’t been seen since.
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The U.S. and Australia reached an agreement to expand the U.S. military footprint on the southern continent, as both coun tries bolster defense ties to respond to an increas ingly assertive China.
The changes include more frequent and longer visits of U.S. sub marines to Australia, a regular rotation of U.S. Army watercraft and collaborating on guided missile production, the nations’ defense ministers announced on Saturday in Brisbane.
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LOS ANGELES — O
wolverine, where art thou?
Two months have passed since the creature was last seen roaming the California wilderness, vexing scientists who are working to track down the rare specimen.
According to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, there were eight reports of the animal over a two-week period, with the last on May 27. All reports came from the High Sierra region of the state, including Yosemite National Park and Inyo National Forest.
Julia Lawson, an environmental scientist with the agency, said there are several potential reasons California’s wolverine –only the second specimen to be verified by experts in the last century –has gone AWOL.
“One possibility is that was just a period of time of a lot of people recreating,” Lawson said. “It was kind of prime time for backcountry skiing.”
With the ski season largely over, fewer people are out in the remote mountain region – meaning fewer chances to encounter the wolverine. Despite some remaining snowpack in the Sierra Nevada, the melting snow has also made it less likely the wolverine would leave tracks, according to Lawson.
Wolverines lived in the Sierra Nevada until 1922, when the population was destroyed by hunting, trapping and poisoning. The solitary creatures are able to traverse great distances, with the nearest populations living in Washington and Idaho.
Before this year, the
last wolverine sighting in California was in 2018. This year’s sightings are believed to be of a different animal.
Little is known about this latest wolverine because researchers have been unable to retrieve a DNA sample. Since the sightings, Lawson and her colleagues have worked to track down the creature, but to no avail.
“We are definitely coming up with nothing at this point,” she said.
The agency has deployed multiple strategies to track down the creature, including using a network of remote cameras stationed throughout the high-elevation Sierras.
One method involved using a scented lure designed by carnivore trappers to attract the wolverine toward the cameras. Researchers also put out “hair snares,” baited bristles that can trap hair to yield DNA samples.
“We also kind of anticipated what we thought might be its likely travel path and tried to get a few steps ahead of it and put out cameras, also with deer meat as bait,” Lawson said.
Lawson speculates the lack of any concrete signs of the wolverine means it could have left California, especially given that the previous wolverine was spotted several times using bait lures.
“I would hope if this new individual was sticking around this area, that we would eventually pick it up,” Lawson said.
While it is possible the wolverine has left California for good, it may also just be eluding researchers. Only time will tell.
“We’re always being surprised,” Lawson said.
The wreckage of an ancient Roman cargo ship carrying hundreds of terra cotta jars has been found off the coast of Italy, authorities said Friday.
The ship – believed to have sunk more than 2,000 years ago – was found on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Civitavecchia, a port city just northwest of Rome.
The “exceptional discovery” was announced by the Carabinieri Art Squad, a division of the Carabinieri Police in charge of protecting Italy’s cultural heritage. Officials described it as “an important example of the sinking of a Roman ship which faced the perils of the sea in an attempt to reach the coast and bears witness to the ancient maritime trade routes,” according to The Guardian.
The vessel dates back to the first or second century BC and was filled with hundreds of amphorae, a type of terra cotta jar, which were found mostly intact, the Rome-based newspaper la Repubblica reported.
The amphorae were placed on the bottom of the ship, which is estimated to measure around 65 feet long.
A northeast Kansas man convicted in the malnutrition death of his 2-year-old daughter was sentenced Friday to nearly 57 years in prison.
Jeffery “James” Exon, of Topeka, was convicted in April of four crimes related to the death of his daughter Aurora, including aggravated child endangerment and first-degree murder in the commission of a felony. Officials said Aurora had died of malnutrition, which was due to the negligence of her father, local television WIBW reported.
On Friday, District Judge Jessica Heinen sentenced him to the maximum term of 56 years and 11 months in prison, according to The Topeka Capital-Journal. — Tribune Content Agency
Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles said the U.S.-Australia relationship “has never been in better shape than it is right now” as he reeled off a list of efforts to enhance cooperation.
Foreign Minister Penny Wong called the U.S. Australia’s “closest strategic partner.”
The two countries also announced plans to further cooperate on space issues as well as step up integration of Japan into military planning.
“There’s been a strategic convergence between Canberra and Washington over the range of challenges that China poses,” said Charles Edel, Australia Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. The relationship “has quickly evolved into one of America’s most important strategic partnerships.”
In a sign of the growing ties, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Marles are scheduled to view the largest-ever iteration of the biennial “Talisman Sabre” exercises off the northern coast of Australia on Sunday. More than 30,000 troops from more than a dozen countries will participate in the exercises, including a large contingent from the U.S.
The exercises were paused after an Australian army helicopter crashed in waters off the country’s northeast coast late on Friday night. A search-
and-rescue operation was underway for the four crew members who were on the MRH90, Marles said on Saturday, adding, “We desperately hope for better news.” The exercises were expected to resume.
U.S. Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said that the scale of the Talisman Sabre exercises was likely to have a “significant deterrent effect” on China as it considers whether it could take Taiwan by force.
“Being able to demonstrate that you can actually operate in combat with that number of allies and partners has a significant deterrent effect,” Wormuth said in an interview. “It wouldn’t be just the United States that would be involved in that conflict. It would likely be with our allies and partners.”
Australia and the U.S. have significantly deepened their security ties since 2021 in the face of growing strategic competition between Washington and Beijing. While China is Australia’s largest trading partner by a substantial margin, Washington and Canberra have a long-standing alliance dating back to World War II. Both countries are
also members of the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance, along with Canada, New Zealand and the U.K.
In September 2021, Australia and the U.S. joined with the U.K. to form a new security partnership known as Aukus, under which the British and American governments will help Canberra build and maintain a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines by the 2030s. Under Aukus, the three governments will also collaborate to step up their research efforts in areas of strategic importance, such as quantum computing and artificial intelligence.
Since the center-left Labor government took power in May 2022, Australia has also announced several major purchases of military equipment from the US valued at almost $10 billion, including 20 C-130J Hercules transport aircraft, 220 Tomahawk missiles and about 40 Black Hawk helicopters.
Speaking at a news conference in Brisbane on Saturday following the meetings, Austin said the U.S. was planning to establish the region as an area for “enduring logistics support.”
Austin said the U.S. was committed to accelerating Australia’s access to “priority munitions” through a streamlined acquisition process. The U.S. Secretary of Defense added he wanted to expand trilateral cooperation between the U.S., Australia and Japan, including F-35 training. The U.S. and Australia have also stepped up their diplomatic efforts in the Pacific in the past 12 months, following the shock announcement in April 2022 that the Chinese government had signed a security agreement with the Solomon Islands.
As a result, U.S. and Australian diplomats, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Foreign Minister Wong have increased the regularity of their visits to the region. Speaking at the opening of a new embassy in Tonga on Wednesday, Blinken accused the Chinese government of “increasingly problematic” behavior in the region, including allegations of “predatory economic activities.”
Austin also paid a visit to a Pacific island nation on his way to Australia, becoming the first U.S. defense secretary to visit Papua New Guinea.
scour SoCal high country, but rare creature remains elusivePat Hoelscher/AFP/Getty Images/TNS From left, Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin attend a news conference at Queensland Government House in Brisbane, Saturday.
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4 to 7 p.m. Sunday
Jazz and Blues Music
3, 721 Texas St. www. threefoodbeerwine.com.
5 p.m. Wednesday Chris, Ron, Jeff and Todd Pioneer Tap Room, 4491 Suisun Valley Road. www.facebook.com/ pioneertaproom.
5 to 8 p.m. Friday R&B Favorites
3, 721 Texas St. www. threefoodbeerwine.com.
7 p.m. Friday Poker
Pioneer Tap Room, 4491 Suisun Valley Road. www.facebook.com/ pioneertaproom.
6 p.m. Saturday La Orquestra De La Isla Pioneer Tap Room, 4491 Suisun Valley Road. www.facebook.com/ pioneertaproom.
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Noon Sunday Jazzy Champagne
Brunch Marina Lounge, 700 Main St., Suite 106. www.marina loungesuisun.com.
3 p.m. Sunday
2nd Planet Waterfront, 600 Main St. www.suisun.com.
7 p.m. Thursday
Karaoke Marina Lounge, 700 Main St., Suite 106. www.marina loungesuisun.com.
7 p.m. Friday
CenterSight True Symmetry, 315 Marina Center. www.facebook.com/ truesymmetrybrewing.
8 p.m. Friday
Reconnection Party Marina Lounge, 700 Main St., Suite 106. www.marina loungesuisun.com.
9 a.m. Saturday Farmers Market Waterfront Lawn at Sheldon Plaza. https://business. fairfieldsuisunchamber.com.
6:30 p.m. Saturday Los Cochinos Suisun Waterfront. www. suisunwaterfront.com.
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10 a.m. Wednesday Free movie Journey Downtown Theatre, 308 Main St. https://events. journeydowntown venue.com.
6:30 p.m. Friday 23rd Annual CreekWalk series: Time Bandits Andrews Park, 614 E. Monte Vista Ave. www.ci.vacaville. ca.us/government/ parks-and-recreation/ special-events/creekwalk.
9 p.m. Friday and Saturday
Dueling Pianos Makse, 555 Main St. http:// duelingpianovacaville.com.
8 p.m. Saturday Skynnyn Lynnyrd Journey Downtown, 308 Main St. https://events. journeydowntown venue.com.
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2:30 p.m. Sunday Ticket to the Limit The Rellik, 726 First St. www.therelliktavern.com.
2:30 p.m. Sunday The Big Jangle Lucca Bar and Grill, 439 First St. www.luccabar.com.
6:30 p.m. Tuesday The Inaugural Lucca Beer Garden Guitar Festival 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.
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FAIRFIELD — Kisos, a New York-based DIY artist and Fairfield High graduate, is releasing a new EP on Friday.
He will celebrate the release with a show at New York’s Berlin Under A on Aug. 12 with a dream of a Bay Area show before the end of 2023.
During the pandemic he launched Queerantine, a digital showcase for LGBTQ+ indie artists. After years of letting his music fall by the wayside, in 2023 he paused to refocus on himself and produced, mixed and mastered “Autophagia.”
The final track, “Six Feet Under,” was inspired by Uma Thurman punching her way out of the coffin in “Kill Bill.”
“That adrenaline of near-death flipped into this indescribable, instinctual will to survive — as I wrote this song with my friend Pinky and Clementine, the words came to life. I’m only focusing on love in this world from now on,” he shared in press materials.
The 2009 Fairfield High School graduate began playing the flute in fourth grade. He moved on to drums in middle school and the Scarlet Brigade in high school.
After graduating college and working a “soul-sucking” tech startup job, Kisos moved to the Big Apple. Since, he’s been featured in Billboard, Paper Magazine and Genius, and signed on as an ambassador with international nonprofit It Gets Better.
All his social media are @itskisos, and he’s happy to chat about music with students. While “Autophagia” is on streaming services on Friday, you can find it on Bandcamp now, or www.kisosmusik.com and join the email list for updates.
Born Nate Hernandez, Kisos answered the following questions via email.
Q: How did the idea for Queerantine come about?
A: It was a bit of a happy accident! I livestream music on the popular website Twitch, and was thinking of ways I could do something special to entertain the newly homebound people of the world, while also
supporting my LGBTQ+ music community at the same time.
I had the simple idea to do an MTV-style music video showcase where people could join the chat and discover new artists in real time, and it took off! We ran about 45 episodes, featured around 300 unique artists, and raised $12,000 for various nonprofits.
Q: How did you know it was time to pause Queerantine and record again?
A: As the world began to reopen, the audience for Queerantine began to fade away. People wanted to be outside again! My business partner at the time, Cory Stewart, and I decided to convert the digital show into a series of in-person concerts called The Queerantine Tour and took that on tour last fall.
But after the first run of shows were said and done, the burnout of nonstop working through the pandemic, the pressure I put on myself to be this perfect beacon for the LGBTQ+ community, and some sudden losses in my family all crashed into me at once, and I went into hermit survival mode.
Q: What inspired your new EP?
A: My EP “Autophagia” is a diary of sorts as I processed the pandemic. Autophagia is a Latin word for self-cannibalism and, psychologically, represents the stress many of our minds were under, eating ourselves alive. The EP starts with sleepless nights and creeping pessimism in “Bloodshot,” and transitions into anger at a government encroaching on human rights on “Bite Your Tongue.”
“Transience” is manic, feeling like there’s no stability in life, and “the hole you left” poured out of me after the sudden passings of my last grandparent and also my beloved dog.
In a sense those songs fill a first “half,” and interestingly, I call on a lot of Fairfield in the last two healing songs. Interlude “Caretakers” features my grandfather, but also voices from a dinner with my best friends from Fairfield High School. Final happy song, “Six Feet Under,” has lyrics inspired by beautiful memories of lemonade
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VALLEJO — It has been exciting to see and be a part (as a fan) of Bay Area Stage’s ongoing theatrical journey. They have carved out their own unique niche in the Solano County theater scene since they debuted in 2009 at the old Fetterly Playhouse for the Arts in Vallejo. In addition to the now defunct Fetterly, they have put on productions in Vallejo at the Mira (Bay Terrace) Theater and The Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum as well as in the black box in Fairfield’s Missouri Street Theatre.
Their quest to create the most comfy space for patrons to enjoy the fruits of their labor has not ceased
Bay Area Stage Productions presents ‘On Golden Pond’
8 p.m. Aug. 4-5
3 p.m. Sunday; Aug. 6 Bay Area Stage Theatre, 515 Broadway, Vallejo www.bayareastage.org
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as they recently added carpet to their home since 2016, the Bay Area Stage Theatre on Broadway Street in Vallejo. Since they have been there they have performed crowd pleasers like “The Odd Couple” and “Sister Act,” revived shows
stands and playing in Mankas Park as a kid who went to K.I. Jones.
Q: Tell me about the Armenian duduk? I read the list of movies the instrument has been featured in, and it’s quite impressive. Do you think non-musicians knew they were hearing the duduk?
A: My mother’s side is Armenian, and during the pandemic I became more interested in that heritage. I saw a duduk performer live in New York City and when I looked up the instrument, noticed they were pretty affordable. It’s often called the saddest instrument in the world because it has such a mournful sound, and I’d say is somewhere between an oboe and saxophone. It requires a ton of breath and technique, so I have to record sections over and over to get something that sounds good. I’d definitely be surprised if most people could name the duduk! I also wanted to include it as an ode to my grandfather who passed, as he was my only connection to Armenian culture.
Q: What advice would you give a Fairfield High student who wishes to pursue a career in music?
A: I have a ton of advice snippets! But honestly, I think the most generic advice is actually the best. Have fun. But I mean you really need to take those words to heart. The best music doesn’t come from pressure, comparison and self-doubt. The best music comes from the joy of creating and pursuing your own lane. Also, be kind to everyone but also take time to trust. Some people will try to take advantage when they see your passion and talent.
Q: Do you still have family here?
If so, who?
Yes! My dad still lives near Fairfield High School, and I love visiting Fairfield a few times a year to see him and other friends in the area. I actually have a dream of starting a nonprofit in Fairfield somewhere down the line to help youth get into pursuing music careers. There is so much talent in this city and I think we can nourish heavy hitters like Vallejo and Oakland do too.
that many may never have seen nor heard of like “Bell, Book and Candle” and “I Ought to be in Pictures,” and tackled classics like “Death of a Salesman” and “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.”
With their latest production, “On Golden Pond,” they faced the challenge of putting on a play where audiences are probably more familiar with the movie adaptation. The 1979 play was written by Ernest Thompson, debuted on Broadway that year and won numerous Tony and Drama Desk awards. The 1981 major motion picture won three Academy Awards and generated a more than tenfold return on its $15 million budget.
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VALLEJO — Delta Wires will perform at 1 p.m. Saturday at Vino Godfather, 105 Walnut Ave.
The group is a longtime blues mainstay in the San Francisco Bay Area music scene. They are on tour all summer.
This East Bay-based band has been generating blues for more than 30 years, performing at festivals from Monterey to Italy, which earned them membership in California’s Blues Hall of Fame in 2012.
Delta Wires started out as an Anthology of Blues Music that harpist Ernie Pinata presented as an undergraduate project for credit at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland. The program
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‘On Golden Pond’ is heartwarming, real
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Oh and two of the three Oscars it won were for Best Actor (Henry Fonda) and Best Actress (Katherine Hepburn).
So definitely no pressure on Bay Area Stage cast to deliver.
After the program, the band went on to play professionally, performing with some of the greats that were studied: Lowell Fulson, Bo Diddley, Freddie King, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells and many others.
Delta Wires were finalists in the international Blues Challenge in Memphis in 2008, representing the Sacramento Blues Society.
They have recorded seven albums and performed at the Monterey Bay Blues Festival and the Sacramento Jazz Festival and Jubilee.
For more information, visit www. deltawires.com.
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6:30 p.m. Thursday
Agape Soul Lucca Bar and Grill, 439 First St. www. luccabar.com.
7 p.m. Thursday
DJ Glenn Snyder
The Rellik, 726 First St. www.therellik tavern.com.
5 p.m. Friday Tam Funk Railroad
The Rellik, 726 First St. www.therellik tavern.com.
6:30 p.m. Friday
Thankfully they did not feel the need to try to mimic those wonderful performances by two superheavyweights of the silver screen, but instead added their own unique flavor and made their respective roles their own. Kudos to director Jeff Lowe.
Eddie Roberts plays Norman Thayer, a curmudgeon who is adored by his wife, but who has a strained relationship with his adult daughter Chelsea. I had seen Roberts in smaller roles in shows down the road apiece in Benicia Old Town Theatre Group’s 2018 offering “Social Security” and 2019’s “Born Yesterday.” In both shows, he maximized his time on stage and left an indelible impression.
He came across as authentic as octogenarian
Strange Brew Lucca Bar and Grill, 439 First St. www. luccabar.com.
8:30 p.m. Friday Boyz and Wyldz
The Rellik, 726 First St. www.therellik tavern.com.
1:30 p.m. Saturday Clay Bell Lucca Bar and Grill, 439 First St. www. luccabar.com.
5 p.m. Saturday Jennifer Belle
The Rellik, 726 First St. www.therellik tavern.com.
6:30 p.m. Saturday Camp Jeff
Lucca Bar and Grill, 439 First St. www. luccabar.com.
9 p.m. Saturday Austin Mo Experience The Rellik, 726 First St. www.therellik tavern.com.
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Norman, who wields pessimism and snide humor as a sword to keep family away from discovering his deep fears of mental and physical deterioration. I’d never seen the play, and haven’t seen the movie in decades, but remembered him as being more of a lovable “old poop” as his wife called him, but in the stage version, in some ways, he came across as closer to Archie Bunker than I recalled. Still, Roberts’ bravura performance where he clothed himself in the character like, well, an old dude’s sweater, was a delight.
I’ve always loved seeing Stacey Loew on stage and have since I first saw her in “Meshuggah-Nuns! The Ecumenical Nunsense” at the aforementioned Fetterly back in 2006. As Ethel Thayer, she was equal parts doting yet nagging wife, loving yet distant mother and sweet nature lover with a heart of gold. Her attention to detail when immersed in the life of someone living only on stage and in that moment when the show is taking place always shines through once the lights go down and the curtain goes up.
Now, in addition to the
4 p.m. Sunday
‘Shakespeare in the Park’ Hanns Park, 198 Skyline Drive. www.vallejoshakespeare.org.
6:30 p.m. Wednesday AJ Crawdaddy Empress Lounge, 330 Virginia St. https:// empresstheatre.org.
legends in the lead roles in the movie, Jane Fonda, no acting slouch herself, played Chelsea. BAS newcomer Yvette Elizabeth Carrillo displayed proficiency in portraying the tricky dynamic of being an estranged daughter, a new wife and a new stepmother. The character’s stepson, Billy Ray, was played wonderfully by Alex Alberto Perez-Carrillo, her actual son. A veteran of the Bay Area Stage Jr. Theatre Workshop, the younger Cabrillo was most impressive in his main stage debut. Matt Cardigan as Charlie the mailman (forgive me) delivered in his brief scenes on stage and the hyenameets-Amadeus laugh he employed was a scream. I hadn’t seen Keith Thompson on stage in some time, but have always enjoyed him in shows for On the Fringe Visual and Performing Arts produc-
tions like “The Laramie Project” and “The Bad Seed” (which, full disclosure, also had my wife Beth as a cast member). He displayed his acting chops in his role as Bill Ray, Chelsea’s fiancé then husband, especially in a living-room verbal joust with Norman.
All of the cast did a wonderful job in bringing the earthy, humorous and heartwarming story to life. The only real criticism I have is for a cast member not listed in the program, but essential to the story: the pond itself.
I know that less is more, but sometimes more is more. The memories of some of the scenes in the movie of the fishing and bonding between Norman and Billy Ray and Chelsea doing a back flip couldn’t be done in a play where the set is the living room of their summer home. To be sure, the sound of the loons helped, but the
movie kind of spoiled me. That said, Bay Area Stage’s production is full of heart and resonates with truth about the complexities of different family dynamics and the difficulties in navigating them. The show is, well, golden.
Fairfield freelance humor columnist and accidental local historian Tony Wade writes two weekly columns – “The Last Laugh” on Mondays and “Back in the Day” on Fridays. Wade is also the author of The History Press books “Growing Up In Fairfield, California,” “Lost Restaurants of Fairfield, California,” the upcoming book “Armijo High School: Fairfield, California” and hosts the Channel 26 government access TV show “Local Legends.”
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In a world captivated by technological wonders and scientific progress, it’s crucial to recognize that these advancements cannot mend the inner brokenness that plagues humanity. Much of what we regale is more akin to putting lipstick on a pig than solving humanity’s real problems.
Just as Jesus Christ proclaimed over 2,000 years ago, his message remains ever-relevant today: “Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”
This powerful call to repentance holds the key to addressing the deep-rooted issues we face in the modern world. While times may have changed, the struggles of the human heart persist.
Jesus beckons us to confront ourselves honestly, to take ownership of our mistakes, and to abandon the excuses and justifications for wrongdoing. He reminds us that our Creator, God, calls us to account for our actions on the day of judgment. Through his message, Jesus seeks to restore our relation-
ship with Almighty God, offering us a path to redemption and healing.
Let us not ignore this timeless call. Instead, let’s embrace it with open hearts and minds, seeking true healing and restoration. Only by heeding this clarion call can we confront the challenges of our time and create a world where compassion, love and understanding prevail.
It is through repentance that we find the transformative power to bridge the divide within ourselves and foster a harmonious world for all.
Selfishness has emerged as a pervasive cancer, spreading its destructive influence worldwide. If left unchecked, it threatens to cause even more death and devastation than any technology-driven problem we face. The Gospel of Me, a heresy that glorifies self-indulgence and puts “me first,” has ensnared many, leading them down a path of self-destruction. It is the root of most of the evils that afflict us.
The timeless call to repen-
tance and turning toward God is not only a teaching Jesus Christ preached but a way of life he exemplified. Throughout his time on Earth, Jesus consistently demonstrated selflessness, compassion and unconditional love, setting an example for humanity to follow.
From the very beginning of his ministry, Jesus put the needs of others above his own desires. He healed the sick, fed the hungry and comforted the brokenhearted, showing that true fulfillment comes from serving and caring for others.
ushering those who follow him into the Kingdom of Heaven.
This act of self-sacrifice stands as the pinnacle of love and the ultimate example of putting others before oneself. Yet, despite this profound example, our modern world is plagued by the insidious effects of selfishness. Families, the foundation of society, suffer greatly as selfishness takes root in hearts and homes. The corrosive nature of self-centeredness manifests in fractured relationships, discord and alienation within families.
His life was a testament to the power of selflessness and changed the world. Nowhere is this selflessness more evident than in Jesus’ ultimate sacrifice on the cross. He willingly laid down his life, bearing the weight of humanity’s sins, to offer redemption and eternal life to all who would believe;
When husbands and wives prioritize each other’s needs, they build a strong partnership, better equipped to weather the storms of life. Parents who lead with selflessness instill in their children the values of kindness and service, preparing them to be responsible and caring individuals.
By turning toward God and seeking his guidance, families can find the strength to overcome selfish tendencies and rediscover the joy of selfless love. Let us heed the teachings of Jesus Christ, not just in words but in deeds, and bring
healing to our families, communities and the world at large. As we embrace repentance and selflessness, we can transform our lives, one heart at a time, and create a brighter, more compassionate future for all. The path to redemption is not in seeking external fixes but rather within ourselves. Repentance is the clarion call to change our thought patterns and realign our purpose away from self-centeredness and toward God. By embracing this profound shift, we can find the strength to combat the allure of selfishness and instead strive for a life of purpose and compassion. Like a guiding light in the darkness, repentance offers a way out of the turmoil and toward a path of healing and renewal.
Gary Hill is the pastor of Christ Centered Community, a new church plant in Fairfield, meeting 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Sundays at the Fairfield Community Center patio, 1000 Kentucky St. He can be reached at gary94533@gmail.com.
From its founding 173 years ago, California’s history has been dominated by one word: growth.
Its population grew from a few thousand to nearly 40 million, becoming by far the nation’s most populous state. Its economy grew to $3.6 trillion, the fourth largest in the world, and its $310.8 billion state budget is virtually the same as Russia’s.
But that was then and this is now. California’s indices of growth have hit a plateau.
The state’s population has been drifting downward for several years, and the state Department of Finance recently projected that it will remain virtually unchanged at just under 40 million at least until 2060 – a radical change from earlier predictions that it would top 50 million by then.
The state’s labor force is likewise stagnant, according to the state budget’s projections, which explains why employers are having such great difficulty filling positions. Personal income is barely keeping up with inflation, while real, inflationadjusted wages, the budget says, are declining.
The Department of Finance projects that state tax revenue will remain virtually unchanged for at least the next several years, leading to operating deficits for the remainder of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s second and final term.
Looking ahead, the old saying that demography is destiny comes into play.
A stagnant population has myriad social, political and economic impacts – some already evident – such as not having enough workers to fill jobs and California’s loss of a congressional seat for the first time in its history.
A non-growing population is an aging population with ever-fewer Californians of working age (18 to 64), and greater demands for health care and other services. Even the youngest members of the post-World War II baby boom generation are now close to retirement.
The net outflow of population vis-àvis other states exacerbates the workforce dilemma even more, and a chronic lack of workers discourages employers from expanding operations with a negative effect on the overall economy.
California lost one congressional seat after the 2020 census because its population grew slower than the rest of the country. Over the next several decades, at least, California and other slow- or no-growth blue states, such as New York, will lose more seats to fast-growing red states such as Florida and Texas, and therefore more presidential electoral college votes.
California’s net loss in state-to-state migration patterns may already be a factor in the state’s projection of stagnant tax revenues. The state’s tax system is inordinately dependent on taxing the incomes of the state’s most affluent residents. The highest income 1% of Californians generate nearly half of income taxes, which are the lion’s share of overall revenues.
A fierce debate has raged in academic and political circles over whether there has been a significant flight of wealthy taxpayers from the state as marginal tax rates rose and the federal government sharply restricted their ability to deduct state taxes on the federal tax returns –the latter an issue now raging in Congress.
The debate gained new fodder recently when SmartAsset, a website devoted to economic issues, revealed that California and New York have the highest out-migration rates of taxpayers with incomes over $200,000 a year.
The SmartAsset study, based on federal tax return data, found that in 2021, California had a net loss of 27,341 high-income taxpayers, a 42% increase from the outflow in 2020. California’s loss was the nation’s highest and Florida and Texas, neither of which has an income tax, were the major gainers.
It’s reasonable to assume that the flight from California contributes in some measure to the state’s projection of stagnating tax revenues and ongoing deficits.
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.
I thought the voters settled the issue of MAGA Republican anarchy vs. preservation of the rule of law by choosing democracy in the 2020 election.
I was wrong.
The Alabama legislature openly violated the U.S. Supreme Court’s redistricting order.
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, wants to defund both our immigration policies and the FBI.
Texas Gov. Abbott defied federal law and international treaties by violating the Rivers and Harbors Act.
Former President Trump has threatened mob violence as he faces legal action, with members of Congress remaining silent or conspiring to undermine his prosecution.
With these examples of the increasing open and blatant defiance of the rule of law, it’s going to require even more action in 2024 than occurred in 2020 to preserve our democratic republic.
Bob Panzer FairfieldKelvin Wade writes a probing column (The Other Side: We don’t serve Christians here). I am sure it is a welcome topic – especially for secularists or unbelievers. But we need to consider it, even though his treatment is a subterfuge! The real issue, though, is not simply “serving,” but what are you agreeing to or participating in?
This country was founded by Christians. It is accepted that 54 of 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence and 94% of quotes by our Founding Fathers were biblically grounded. You must also read David Barton’s detailed book on the Founding Fathers of America.
So this issue is like going to Indonesia and proclaiming “WE DON’T SERVE MUSLIMS HERE.” Wade’s column misleads because no one was refused because of their beliefs but rather because of the unacceptable purpose that demanded complicity of the vendors! And there was no maligning of the LGBTQ. A reasonable analogy would be for a kitchen ware vendor to refuse sale of a knife
to a customer that admitted a plan for some personal attack. Also, the scientific method is not violated by one’s belief in the Holy Bible miracles, as you implied!
The SCOTUS (even if were all Christian) should not, and did not, deny one’s freedom to believe in LGBTQ. They simply deny the forcing of a vendor to participate in a patron’s iniquity. But legal immigrants and/or unbelievers still have their option to not serve Christians.
William Coburn FairfieldAre umpires past their time in baseball? Watching several Oakland
A’s and San Francisco Giants baseball games recently, I was enamored with the little rectangle showing on the TV over home plate and what happened with the umpires calls compared to what it showed in the rectangle with each pitch. Umpires are pretty good at calling strikes when the ball is inside the rectangle. But when the pitch goes near the rectangle’s outer edge, or just touches it, the umpire often misses the call. Sometimes it’s a strike when outside the rectangle, sometimes a ball even when it hits the rectangle. I don’t think there is any bias from the umpires because the missed calls seem about equal for missed balls and strikes and the average for any game probably equals out.
It does seem that with the technology we have today, such as the little rectangle for TV viewers, a device can be easily created to send a signal
to an umpire’s earpiece when the pitch is in or hits the rectangle at any point so he can call a strike. If he doesn’t hear a ping, it would be a ball, no matter how it looks to the umpire, or to the batter for that matter. I still think we need umpires to let park attendees, who don’t see the little rectangle, know whether it was a ball or strike, and to eject batters and coaches when they don’t behave.
Jerry Mulenburg Fairfield
Longtime Vacaville resident Dave McCallum applied for and was unanimously appointed to the VUSD board to fill Area 4’s vacated seat. A petition was circulated by dissatisfied opponents to force a special election to fill this seat which expires in only 14 months. This special election will cost the VUSD an estimated $114,000; money that should be going to schools and our students.
Dave and his family have a deep commitment to the city of Vacaville. Dave is currently the chair of the Visit Vacaville board of directors, and his wife just recently retired after serving 32 years in VUSD.
Dave is a supporter of public schools and would be an effective and productive school board member. If you live in Area 4, please consider casting your vote for Dave McCallum.
Jeanie White VacavilleAt long last, we now have a disease-modifying drug for Alzheimer’s. By the end of this year, we’ll likely have another. But although these treatments can modestly slow the inexorable march of the disease, there’s a clear need to treat patients earlier and to find other drugs that have a stronger effect. But how early is early enough? And what other drugs? New research out of a decades-long study offers some new ideas about both.
Eisai and Biogen’s treatment Leqembi, and a second drug from Eli Lilly called donanemab, both reduce levels of the amyloid plaques long considered a hallmark of the mind-robbing disease. Data so far suggests that these drugs can ease the decline in people with mild forms of the disease by around 30%. To get beyond that, the field needs to put more energy into identifying and testing for the less obvious actors contributing to the disease potentially decades before symptoms arise.
“These amyloid-clearing drugs appear to work – that’s fantastic,” says Keenan Walker, a neuroscientist at the National Institute on Aging, and lead author of the new study. “They’re slowing disease, but they’re not halting it. We’re going to need to target other pathways to achieve better outcomes.”
So far, much of the focus of drug development beyond amyloid has been on the other obvious player in Alzheimer’s disease, tau, another protein that tangles together in the brains of people with the disease. And targeting amyloid and tau made sense. After all, they light up on specialized brain scans and, increasingly, can be detected in the blood tests, diagnostic tools that transformed the way Alzheimer’s drugs were tested.
But the legions of amyloid-targeted drugs that came before Leqembi and donanemab made clear that plaques aren’t the only culprit –
or even maybe the main culprit – in the disease. Other processes unquestionably contribute to the memory loss and overall declining function of people with the disease – likely ones that happen well before amyloid or tau might show up on a brain scan. Now, as technology makes it easier to winnow those players out, scientists should step up the search for alternate or even complementary approaches to diagnosing and treating Alzheimer’s even earlier.
The new study provides some good clues about other players involved at the very earliest stages of the disease. The team found a collection of proteins that appear perturbed in midlife in the people who go on to develop Alzheimer’s disease 15 or even 25 years down the road. Many of those proteins were not directly involved with amyloid and tau, but instead were involved in immune processes, communication between nerve cells, and protein regulation.
The NIA team was able to find this potential sign of early risk by capitalizing on a rich data source: nearly 15,800 people recruited when they were between the ages of 45 and 64 for a long-term study of atherosclerosis, or buildup of plaque in the arteries. Those volunteers began rolling up their sleeves in the mid-1980s – before Walker was even born – and still are being followed today.
As part of that atherosclerosis study, participants agreed to regularly answer questions about their health and come in every few years for an exam. By 2010, as people in the group started hitting their 70s and 80s, researchers added in a new battery of tests to capture everyone with dementia. Using health records, they could even track Alzheimer’s development among patients lost to attrition – giving them an overall group of nearly 11,000 people to study.
In the decades since they started following these folks, technology has raced ahead. The NIA team could
go back to those early samples and, in a cost-effective, reliable way, take inventory of thousands of proteins contained within each person’s plasma to ask if any were associated with a risk of Alzheimer’s later in life.
They came up with a list of a few dozen proteins that were more prominently expressed in people who went on to develop the disease. But one, called GDF15, rose above the crowd, Walker says. That protein seems to be involved with regulating certain kinds of inflammation and, although it had been linked to Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases, it has until now never been shown to be a predictor of dementia.
Further digging showed that while it’s a predictor, it’s not a driver of the disease, Walker says. The researchers hypothesize that it is likely an anti-inflammatory molecule that is kicking into action in response to some danger – a process that is happening as early as someone’s 40s. That adds to a growing body of evidence from genetic studies pointing to the immune system’s role in the disease long before plaques can be seen in a brain scan.
These findings aren’t an early test for Alzheimer’s risk; they don’t even clearly identify a target for new drugs. But by flagging these proteins, the study could help scientists better understand the very early processes that set some people on the path to dementia. That, in turn, could lead to better ideas for drugs and tests.
For too long, the field has focused on the obvious targets of amyloid and tau. Happily, that work is finally bearing fruit, but getting closer to cures will require a deeper understanding of the early stages of this disease.
Lisa Jarvis is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering biotech, health care and the pharmaceutical industry. This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.
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SAN FRANCISCO — JD
Davis needed just one pitch to hit his 14th home run of the season, walk off the Boston Red Sox and tie the series with a 3-2 victory.
He belted the first pitch he saw from Kenley Jansen over the left-field wall, electrifying a Giants crowd that a few moments earlier had sat stunned after the visitors rallied to tie the game. San Francisco had gotten scoreless performances from
Ryan Walker, Sean Manaea and Tyler Rogers against the Red Sox.
All the Giants needed was for All-Star closer Camilo Doval to notch his 32nd save of the season while leading 2-0.
Instead, longtime Giants nemesis Justin Turner drove in two runs, tied the game, and sent it into extra innings, setting the stage for Davis.
The Giants at one point appeared headed for a stressfree victory.
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BLAINE, Minn. —
Famed for its wind, water and birdies, TPC Twin Cities is known as a course where no lead is safe.
Not even 3M Open third-round leader Lee Hodges’ fiveshot advantage?
The 28-year-old former University of Alabama golfer took his four-shot Friday lead and made it one more on a delightfully cooler, drier afternoon Saturday.
Seeking his first PGA Tour victory, Hodges is 20 under par after he shot 63, 64, 66 during the 3M Open’s first three days.
That combined 193 wis the tournament’s 54-hole scoring record, previously held by Scott Piercy’s 195 set last summer.
Hodges leads J.T. Poston by five shots, defending champion Tony Finau by six and resilient Australian Aaron Baddeley by seven.
Third-round leaders have won two of the four 3M Opens. Matthew
Wolff did so in the inau gural 2019 event and Michael Thompson did it in 2020. Thirdround leaders have won 22 times on the PGA Tour this season, the last being Brian Harman, who won last week’s British Open after leading by five shots.
Finau knows such a comeback is possible.
Piercy led by four shots before last year’s final round and Finau trailed by five with just 11 holes remaining Sunday.
He won by three shots.
“It’s definitely some thing I can come back from,” said Finau, whose four back-nine birdies kept Hodges in sight. “Lee’s playing some great golf. There’s no question about it.
Tomorrow is going to be a challenge for all of us.”
Piercy’s disastrous back-nine 41 and finalround 76 last year made Finau’s closing 67 the winner.
Hodges has shown no such generosity, so far. He arrived in Minnesota 74th in the FedExCup
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SANTA CLARA —
Frank Gore, the San Francisco 49ers’ all-time leading rusher, is joining the team’s front office as a football advisor.
Gore’s agent, Malki Kawa, tweeted out the news Saturday morning and 49ers general manager John Lynch confirmed the hiring to ESPN.
“He’ll go out on the road with some of our road scouts to make school calls,” Lynch said of Gore in a statement to ESPN. “He is a smart football mind, and we want to tap into it and he wants to learn from us, so it’s a good thing for
Undefeated rookie Ryan Walker (3-0) took the mound as the Giants’ opener, and he cruised through 2 2/3 scoreless innings in which he struck out three and allowed just one hit.
The Giants then turned to Manaea, whose last appearance was a 5 2/3-inning appearance out of the bullpen a week prior.
The 31-year-old followed up that extended action with another 4 2/3 innings of scoreless work with five strikeouts.
The top of the order didn’t
take long to do damage against Boston starter James Paxton, with Wilmer Flores driving leadoff hitter Austin Slater in from first on a double into deep right field. Flores went 3 for 5.
The Giants had several opportunities to expand their lead, but failed to deliver that critical hit for much of the game. San Francisco had 11 hits to Boston’s five.
Starting at shortstop, rookie Marco Luciano made it two straight games with a hit, going 2 for 3 with a single and double
in front of 37,470 fans. A few batters later, Luciano scored the game’s second run on Slater’s 17th RBI of the season.
After Doval’s ninth-inning hiccup, the Giants (57-48) handed the Red Sox (56-48) a rare loss (56-48). Boston entered the game on a five-game winning streak and victors in 16 of its last 21.
The teams will play again on Sunday at 1:05 p.m.
everyone involved.”
Gore, 40, signed the contract Friday, per his Instagram account, and has been attending the team’s practices throughout training camp. Gore also attended the 49ers’ local pro day before the NFL draft in April, and a year ago, signed a ceremonial contract to retire as a member of the organization.
Gore was drafted by the Niners in the third round in 2005 and in 10 seasons with San Francisco, rushed for a franchise-leading 11,073 yards and is second on the team’s all-time list with 64 touchdowns.
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LAS VEGAS —
Brandin Podziemski was supposed to leave with Trayce Jackson-Davis. Dripping with sweat in his blue Warriors hoodie, they’d done an hour more than their required work for the day, and Vegas was calling.
But the No. 19 pick stayed behind. Instead of heading out to enjoy his free time on the Strip, he parked his butt on a metal bleacher and took in an even rarer sight at the Warriors’ practice facility in Las Vegas.
Stephen Curry and Chris Paul, two future Hall of Famers and his new teammates, working out together for the first time since 2009.
“It’s a million-dollar experience,” Podziemski said. “Anybody would pay any amount of money to watch them two work out.”
Who would’ve thought the kid who didn’t take basketball seriously until eighth grade and rode the bench in college just two years ago would wind up here?
“It’s a super surreal moment,” Podziemski said.
Podziemski stayed for another hour and soaked in every piece of knowledge they were willing to share. They talked about handling point guard responsibilities and the nuances of the game. They also discussed the challenges that await Podziemski as he prepares for his rookie season. All of it left the 20-yearold wanting more.
“I’m super serious about it,” Podziemski said. “I want to be the best that I can be and help the team win.”
Podziemski was far from his best in Summer League, and sees no reason
to sugarcoat that fact.
“I played pretty bad,” he told reporters after the final game.
Podziemski averaged 9 points while shooting 26.3% from the field and 21.7% from 3-point range in five Summer League games. He led rookie shooting guards in assists (6.0) and was second in rebounds among rookies at his position (6.8) in Vegas, but he also turned the ball over an average of 4.2 times per game. But Podziemski isn’t going to let his disappointing shooting numbers in the summer showcase shake his belief that he can be an impactful NBA player as a rookie. That’s not who he is. He is ultra-confident, perhaps even borderline arrogant by some accounts. A day after the draft, he declared that he was going to one day be a “triple-double guy in
the NBA,” despite never recording a single such game in two years of college ball. Some might balk at such a declaration, but the Warriors were excited.
“I wouldn’t sell him short for what he can do,” Mike Dunleavy Jr. said of Podziemski on draft night. “He’s got a really high skill level. And when you have a really high skill level (and) toughness, you have a chance.”
Family, friends and coaches say Podziemski has always been like this. Even going back to elementary school, he’s had this edge to him, an unrelenting desire to be great and prove people wrong.
A 4-year-old Podziemski would challenge his father for a rematch when he lost “Washer Toss,” a game that involves tossing discs into an open pipe
See Fire, Page B7
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BERLIN — Sweden scored three goals in seven minutes in a 5-0 demolition of Italy on Saturday which sent them into the knock-out stages of the women’s World Cup.
Italy collapsed in the final minutes before halftime of a game in which Arsenal defender Amanda Ilestedt claimed a brace to see them through from Group G.
Sweden are the third team to advance so far at the tournament in Australia and New Zealand,
joining former champion Japan and Spain.
France meanwhile rebounded from a poor first game by beating Brazil 2-1 in a heavyweight battle to put themselves into a good position to go beyond the group stage as well.
Captain Wendy Renard headed France to victory late in the game in Group F in which South American champions Brazil slipped to third because Jamaica beat Panama 1-0 for a first-ever World Cup win.
Ilestedt headed home in the 39th and 50th
minute in Wellington for a tournament tally of three as the rampant Scandinavians exposed Italy’s defense through dangerous corner kicks from Jonna Andersson.
Both of Ilestedt’s goals were off Andersson corners from the right, and so was Sweden’s second, Fridolina Rolfo on target at the far post in the 44th.
The third came two minutes later in stoppage time from Stina Blackstenius when Italy also failed to deal with a cross from the right. Rebecka
Blomqvist wrapped up matters with a stoppage-time solo.
Italy had started brightly with an early chance from Sofia Cantore but soon the Swedes took over, vastly improved compared to their late opening 2-1 win over South Africa.
“We had a difficult start but then it went quite well with the goals,” Ilestedt told German broadcasters ZDF. “We did well with our corners and it was a lot of fun. We are happy
See Sweden, Page B7
CALENDAR
MLB Oakland vs. Colorado, NBCSCA, 12:10 p.m. Boston vs. San Francisco, NBCSBA, 1:05 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees vs. Baltimore, ESPN, 4:10 p.m.
Basketball Big3 Basketball, 5, 13, 10 a.m.
the tournament Quarterfinals, ESPN2, 1 p.m.
WNBA Los Angeles vs. New York, ESPN, 1 p.m.
Golf Senior Open Championship, 3, 9 a.m.
PGA, 3M Open, GOLF, 10 a.m.
Lacrosse
pLL
Waterdogs vs. Archers, 7, 10, Noon.
Motorsports
F-1, Belgium Grand Prix, ESPN, 5:55 a.m.
NHRA, DENSO Sonoma Nationals, 2, 40, 1 p.m.
NASCAR Cup Series, Cookout 400, USA, Noon.
soccer International Friendly
Aston Villa vs. Brentford, USA, 9 a.m.
Chelsea vs. Fulham, 3, 11:45 a.m.
Manchester United vs. Dortmund, ESPN2, 6 p.m.
Leagues Cup
Monterrey vs. Seattle, FS1, 6 p.m.
Women’s World Cup Costa Rica vs. Zambia, FS1, 12 a.m. (Monday).
Japan vs. Spain, 2, 40, 12 a.m. (Monday).
softball
Athletes Unlimited
Team Rhodes vs. Team McCleney, ESPN2, 9 a.m.
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that the Podziemski men play during their annual camping trip.
As a sophomore at St. John’s Northwestern Military Academies outside Milwaukee, he walked into the gym and surveyed the wall where he saw coach DJ Mlachnik’s name next to all the 3-point records. He then turned to Mlachnik and said, “I’m taking all those down.” He later followed through on that threat.
Both Podziemski and his father, John Podziemski, suggested his upbringing is the reason he’s tough and determined.
“Growing up, my parents never let me win anything,” Podziemski said.
John described the Podziemskis as a “com-
Hodges
sweden
to be in the last 16.”
Sweden, runners-up in 2003 and silver medallists at the last two Olympics, clinched a last-16 berth with a maximum six points atop Group G where Italy have three and Argentina and South Africa one each.
The final group games on Wednesday are Argentina v Sweden and Italy v South Africa.
In Brisbane, France started strongly with Eugenie le Sommer’s glancing header saved superbly by Leticia but the Lyon striker could celebrate minutes later when she nodded home after Kadidiatou Diani had headed a cross into her path.
Brazil should have leveled in the 23rd but Adriana incredibly aimed wide right completely unmarked.
But it was 1-1 in the 58th when Kerolin’s pass deflected to Debinha who calmly beat goalkeeper Pauline Peyraud-Magnin into the far right corner.
It was an end to end game now before France broke the deadlock again in the 83rd when Renard sneaked in behind the Brazil defense to head in Salma Bacha’s corner kick
Brazil brought on veteran star Marta but were unable to find another equalizer.
“The pressure was higher because we didn’t win the first game. We had to win to be in a good position,” France coach Herve Renard told ZDF.
“It’s only the second game. We have to stay concentrated and stay focussed to meet our goal and finish first. We want to stay really long.”
Looking at a late outburst which saw him yellow-carded, Renard admitted: “Sometimes I am a little crazy.”
France moved top of the group, having scored more goals than Jamaica, with both on four points.
Brazil have three and must now get a result against Jamaica in their final game Wednesday, when France face eliminated Panama.
Jamaica dominated Panama in Perth, with Drew Spence’s freekick on the stroke of half-time hitting the top of the bar before Allyson Swaby headed the winner in the 56th into the bottom right corner.
Jamaica were denied a chance to go top in the group when they were not given a stoppage time penalty after a long video review, originally awarded over a Wendy Natis handball.
points standings, four places out of qualifying for next month’s threestage playoffs. If he wins Sunday, it’s projected he’ll move all the way to 33rd. That’s just three places from advancing to the season-ending Tour Championship in Atlanta.
On Saturday, he bogeyed two front-nine holes and shot an evenpar 35. He made five birdies coming home for a back-nine 31.
Asked afterward what nervousness he might feel Sunday, Hodges said,
petitive family.” From a young age, he’d tell his son, “If you’re going to win, you got to win it yourself. You got to work harder. If you want to do it, it’s not going to be handed to you.”
From that, Podziemski later adopted a mantra: “The work’s always gonna win.”
Nearly every pro athlete has at least one story of going above and beyond in training during the climb to the top. That’s why Herb Sendek, who coached Podziemski at Santa Clara after he transferred from Illinois, said isolating one example of Podziemski’s hard work would diminish its totality.
“What sets him apart is his consistency with it,” Sendek said. “It’s just day-in, day-out, it’s a habit. It’s more of a habit than it is an example.”
Becoming an NBA player was not a goal or a pie-in-the-sky dream for Podziemski. It was
“Same as it has been, I guess. I have nothing to lose. I’m out here playing with house money. I have a job next year on the PGA Tour. This is all great. This is just icing on the cake.”
The only other time in Hodges’ short career that he went to bed holding a 54-hole lead, he finished tied for third at the 2022 American Express in Palm Springs.
Poston shot a 5-under 66 on Saturday and has made only two bogeys all tournament – both in Thursday’s first round. He tied for sixth in two of his last three events, the John Deere Classic and Scottish Open.
Poston, 30, has also won twice on the PGA Tour,
an obsession. “He’s an outlier,” Sendek said. “We’ve coached many guys who work really hard and want to be the best, but he is among the guys who I would say was most consumed with that.”
That drive pushed an unsettled Podziemski back to the Warriors’ offStrip practice facility to work out for another hour and a half after playing 32 minutes in a Summer League game.
“My shots will start to go in!!!” he tweeted after going 1-for-10 from the field. “I trust my work and preparation!!!”
Podziemski received a text from Curry while in Vegas, reminding him that even Curry, now a four-time NBA champion, struggled with his shot during his rookie Summer League showing.
Podziemski said Curry reassured him that the shots will start falling and lauded his ability
the 2019 Wyndham Championship and 2022 John Deere, and knows what Hodges is experiencing.
“It’s kind of a funny place to be,” Poston said. “My last win at the John Deere, I slept on the lead a few days in a row. It’s an uncomfortable feeling, but it’s exciting at the same time. This is why we play. This is why we’re out here. All of our goals are to win. Lee’s no different.”
Hodges can’t remember having a five-shot lead as a pro.
“I don’t think so ever, maybe not even in junior golf,” Hodges said. It’s going to be hard tomorrow. There’s unbelievable golfers behind me. Not like I can go shoot even
to impact the game in other ways.
“The good thing about you is you fill out the box scores and make your teammates better even when you’re not making shots,” Podziemski recalled Curry telling him. “Over the next two months, keep putting the work in.”
Podziemski has big ambitions, but the constant feeling of being underestimated continues to drive him. That unrelenting competitive fire as well as his innate toughness were some of the traits that enticed the Warriors to take a chance on him with their firstround pick.
At 20 years old, with only about seven years of competitive basketball experience, he still has plenty of room to grow.
“It’s his mission,” John said of his son. “He will give everything that he can to do it. He’s different.”
par tomorrow. I’m going to keep making birdies. I’m just going to stay aggressive, as I have been.”
If Hodges holds on to win, he will get a twoyear tour exemption, an invitation to the seasonstarting event in Maui and he’ll make that FedExCup points jump.
Finau knows anything can happy on a Sunday at TPC Twin Cities, where water lurks everywhere on the final two holes.
“Last year was pretty crazy, just in a few holes,” Finau said. “There’s a lot of water in play the last few holes. I don’t know that really any lead, more than four or five, is safe.”
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NewASSIGNEDFILENO.2023000926 CHARLESLOMELI,SolanoCountyClerk DR#00064583 Published:July9,16,23,30,2023
PUBLICNOTICE PursuanttoEducationCodeSection5092 VacavilleUnifiedSchoolDistrict BoardofEducation NOTICEANDDURATIONOF PROVISIONALAPPOINTMENT OFBOARDMEMBER
OnJuly18,2023,byamajorityvote,the VacavilleUnifiedSchoolDistrictBoardof TrusteesappointedAMYTRANRUSSELL tofilltheBoardvacancyinTrusteeArea6 createdbytheresignationofKELLY WELSH,whoseresignationwasdatedand effectiveMay22,2023.AMYTRANRUSSELLwillholdofficeuntilt henextregularlyscheduledelectionofDistrictBoard members,whichisNovember5,2024, subjecttoEducationCodesection5091.
Unlessapetitioncallingforaspecialelection,containingasufficientnumberofsignatures,isfiledpursuanttoandinaccordancewithEducationCodesection5091, withtheSolanoCountyOfficeofEducationSuperintendent sofficewithin30days ofthedateoftheprovisionalappointment, itshallbecomeaneffectiveappointment. MichaelKitzes,BoardPresident VacavilleUnifiedSchoolDistrict DR#00064932
AMENDED ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME PETITION OF:
BEATRICE AUREA RUTH MAGDALENO CASE NUMBER: CU23-01489
TOALLINTERESTEDPERSONS: Petitioner:BeatriceA.R.Magdalenofileda petitionwiththiscourtforadecreechangingnamesasfollows: PresentName: a. Beatrice A.R. Magdaleno
ProposedName: a. Beatrice Aurea Ruth Magdaleno THECOURTORDERSthatallpersonsinterestedinthismattershallappearbefore thiscourtatthehearingindicatedbelowto showcause,ifany,whythepetitionfor changeofnameshouldnotbegranted. Anypersonobjectingtothename changesdescribedabovemustfileawrittenobjectionthatincludesthereasonsfor theobjectionatleasttwocourtdaysbeforethematterisscheduledtobeheard andmustappearatthehearingtoshow causewhythepetitionshouldnotbegranted.Ifnowrittenobjectionistimelyfiled, thecourtmaygrantthepetitionwithouta hearing.
NOTICE OF HEARING
Date: AUG 04, 2023; Time: 9:30a.m.; Dept: 22; Rm: 3 The address of the court is: SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF Old Solano Courthouse 580 Texas Street Fairfield, CA 94533 AcopyofthisOrdertoShowCausemust bepublishedatleastonceeachweekfor foursuccessiveweeksbeforethedateset forhearingonthepetitioninthefollowing newspaperofgeneralcirculation,printed inthiscounty:DailyRepublic PleasefileProofofPublication5businessdaysinadvanceofhearingdate. (newspaperdoesnotfilew/court).
Date:JUN15,2023 /s/A.Jones JudgeoftheSuperiorCourt FILED:JUN162023 DR#00064612 Published:July9,16,23,30,2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS VALTER PLUMBING LOCATEDAT1336JamboreeDrive,FairfieldCA94533Solano.Mailingaddress 1336JamboreeDrive,FairfieldCA94533. IS(ARE)HEREBYREGISTEREDBY THEFOLLOWINGOWNER(S):Williams Valera1336JamboreeDriveFairfield, 94533.THISBUSINESSISCONDUCTEDBY: anIndividual Theregistrantcommencedtotransact businessunderthefictitiousbusine ss nameornameslistedaboveonN/A. Ideclarethatallinformationinthisstatementistrueandcorrect(Aregistrantwho declaresastrueinformationwhichheor sheknowstobefalseisguiltyofacrime.) /s/WilliamsValera INACCORDANCEWITHSUBDIVISION (a)OFSECTION17920AFICTITIOUS NAMESTATEMENTGENERALLYEXPIRESATTHEENDOFFIVEYEARS FROMTHEDATEONWHICHITWAS FILEDINTHEOFFICEOFTHECOUNTY CLERK,EXCEPTASPROVIDEDIN SUBDIVISION(b)OFSECTION17920, WHEREITEXPIRES40DAYSAFTER ANYCHANGEINTHEFACTSSET FORTHINTHESTATEMENTPURSUANTTOSECTION17913OTHERTHAN ACHANGEINTHERESIDENCEADDRESSOFAREGISTEREDOWNER. ANEWFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENTMUSTBEFILEDBEFORE THEEXPIRATIONJuly092028. THEFILINGOFTHISSTATEMENT DOESNOTOFITSELFAUTHORIZE THEUSEINTHISSTATEOFAFICTI-
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS MAIJA'S MACRONS & MORE LOCATEDAT711CapricornCircleFairfield,CASolano.Mailingaddress711 CapricornCircleFairfield,CA94533.IS (ARE)HEREBYREGISTEREDBYTHE FOLLOWINGOWNER(S)Maija Nacionales711CapricornCirFairfield 94533.THISBUSINESSISCONDUCTEDBY: anIndividual Theregistrantcommencedtotransact businessunderthefictitiousbusiness nameornameslistedaboveonN/A. Ideclarethatallinformationinthisstatementistrueandcorrect(Aregistrantwho declaresastrueinformationwhichheor sheknowstobefalseisguiltyofacrime.) /s/MaijaNacionales INACCORDANCEWITHSUBDIVISION (a)OFSECTION17920AFICTITIOUS NAMESTATEMENTGENERALLYEXPIRESATTHEENDOFFIVEYEARS FROMTHEDATEONWHICHITWAS FILEDINTHEOFFICEOFTHECOUNTY CLERK,EXCEPTASPROVIDEDIN SUBDIVISION(b)OFSECTION17920, WHEREITEXPIRES40DAYSAFTER ANYCHANGEINTHEFACTSSET FORTHINTHESTATEMENTPURSUANTTOSECTION17913OTHERTHAN ACHANGEINTHERESIDENCEADDRESSOFAREGISTEREDOWNER. ANEWFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENTMUSTBEFILEDBEFORE THEEXPIRATIONJune222028. THEFILINGOFTHISSTATEMENT DOESNOTOFITSELFAUTHORIZE THEUSEINTHISSTATEOFAFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAMEINVIOLATION OFTHERIGHTSOFANOTHERUNDER FEDERAL,STATEORCOMMONLAW (SEESECTION14411ETSEQ.,BUSINESSANDPROFESSIONSCODE). FiledintheOfficeoftheCountyClerkof SolanoCounty,StateofCaliforniaon: JUN232023 NewASSIGNEDFILENO.2023001000 CHARLESLOMELI,SolanoCountyClerk DR#00064615 Published:July9,16,23,30,2023
CU23-01639
PresentName: a. Kai Noah SerranoEusebio ProposedName: a. Kai Noah Serrano Eusebio THECOURTORDERSthatallpersonsinterestedinthismattershallappearbefore thiscourtatthehearingindicatedbelowto showcause,ifany,whythepetitionfor changeofnameshouldnotbegranted. Anypersonobjectingtothename
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS KEEP ME HANDY LOCATEDAT307ETaborAveApt3, Fairfield,CA94533Solano.Mailingaddress307ETaborAveApt3,Fairfield, CA94533.IS(ARE)HEREBYREGISTEREDBYTHEFOLLOWINGOWNER(S):FlyrouteLewisLLCCA.THIS BUSINESSISCONDUCTEDBY: aLimitedLiabilityCompany Theregistrantcommencedtotransact businessunderthefictitiousbusiness nameornameslist edaboveon 07/11/2023. Ideclarethatallinformationinthisstatementistrueandcorrect(Aregistrantwho declaresastrueinformationwhichheor sheknowstobefalseisguiltyofacrime.)
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF Old Solano Courthouse 580 Texas Street Fairfield, CA 94533 AcopyofthisOrdertoShowCausemust bepublishedatleastonceeachweekfor foursuccessiveweeksbeforethedateset forhearingonthepetitioninthefollowing newspaperofgeneralcirculation,printed inthiscounty:FairfieldDailyRepublic PleasefileProofofPublication5businessdaysinadvanceofhearingdate. (newspaperdoesnotfilew/court).
JudgeoftheSuperiorCourt FILED:JUN142023 DR#00064614 Published:July9,16,23,30,2023
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FiledintheOfficeoftheCountyClerkof SolanoCounty,StateofCaliforniaon: JUL112023 NewASSIGNEDFILENO.2023001078 CHARLESLOMELI,SolanoCountyClerk DR#00064707 Published:July16,23,30August6,2023
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
PETITION OF:
ERIK SHAWN ROGERS
CU23-01235
CASE NUMBER:
TOALLINTERESTEDPERSONS:
Petitioner:ErikShawnRogersfiledapetitionwiththiscourtforadecreechanging namesasfollows:
PresentName: a. Erik Shawn Rogers
ProposedName: a. Erik Sean Ellington THECOURTORDERSthatallpersonsinterestedinthismattershallappearbefore thiscourtatthehearingindicatedbelowto showcause,ifany,whythepetitionfor changeofnameshouldnotbegranted. Anypersonobjectingtothename changesdescribedabovemustfileawrittenobjectionthatincludesthereasonsfor theobjectionatleasttwocourtdaysbeforethematterisscheduledtobeheard andmustappearatthehearingtoshow causewhythepetitionshouldnotbegranted.Ifnowrittenobjectionistimelyfiled, thecourtmaygrantthepetitionwithouta hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: AUG 18, 2023; Time: 9:00AM; Dept: 4; Rm: 305 The address of the court is: SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF Old Solano Courthouse 580 Texas Street Fairfield, CA 94533 AcopyofthisOrdertoShowCausemust bepublishedatleastonceeachweekfor foursuccessiveweeksbeforethedateset forhearingonthepetitioninthefollowing newspaperofgeneralcirculation,printed inthiscounty:DailyRepublic PleasefileProofofPublication5businessdaysinadvanceofhearingdate (newspaperdoesnotfilew/court).
Date:MAY18,2023 /s/E.BradleyNelson JudgeoftheSuperiorCourt FILED:MAY242023 DR#00064596 Published:July9,16,23,30,2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS THE POINT RESTAURANT LOCATEDAT120MarinaDrRioVistaCA 94571Solano.Mailingaddress120MarinaDrRioVistaCA94571Solano.IS (ARE)HEREBYREGISTEREDBYTHE FOLLOWINGOWNER(S)TomasaDe GarciaGonzalez3458LibertyIslandRd RioVista94571-2028.THISBUSINESS ISCONDUCTEDBY: anIndividual Theregistrantcommencedtotransact businessunderthefictitious business nameornameslistedaboveon 01/06/2014. Ideclarethatallinformationinthisstatementistrueandcorrect(Aregistrantwho declaresastrueinformationwhichheor sheknowstobefalseisguiltyofacrime.) /s/TomasaDeGarciaGonzalez INACCORDANCEWITHSUBDIVISION (a)OFSECTION17920AFICTITIOUS NAMESTATEMENTGENERALLYEXPIRESATTHEENDOFFIVEYEARS FROMTHEDATEONWHICHITWAS FILEDINTHEOFFICEOFTHECOUNTY CLERK,EXCEPTASPROVIDEDIN SUBDIVISION(b)OFSECTION17920, WHEREITEXPIRES40DAYSAFTER ANYCHANGEINTHEFACTSSET FORTHINTHESTATEMENTPURSUANTTOSECTION17913OTHERTHAN ACHANGEINTHERESIDENCEADDRESSOFAREGISTEREDOWNER. ANEWFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENTMUSTBEFILEDBEFORE THEEXPIRATIONJuly42028. THEFILINGOFTHISSTATEMENT DOESNOTOFITSELFAUTHORIZE THEUSEINTHISSTATEOFAFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAMEINVIOLATION OFTHERIGHTSOFANOTHERUNDER FEDERAL,STATEORCOMMONLAW (SEESECTION 14411ETSEQ.,BUSINESSANDPROFESSIONSCODE). FiledintheOfficeoftheCountyClerkof SolanoCounty,StateofCaliforniaon: JUL052023 NewASSIGNEDFILENO.2023001043 CHARLESLOMELI,SolanoCountyClerk DR#00064585 Published:July9,16,23,30,2023
SummaryofUrgencyOrdinanceNo.2023-09
URGENCYORDINANCEOFTHECITYCOUNCILOFTHECITYOFFAIRFIELD ADDINGCHAPTER12,ARTICLEXIIITOTHEFAIRFIELDMUNICIPALCODERELATINGTOTHEPROTECTIONOFCRITICALINFRASTRUCTURE,WILDFIREAND FLOODRISKAREASANDYOUTH-SERVINGAREAS
Ordinance2023-09recognizesthatthedestruction,damage,orinterferencewithcritical infrastructuresignificantlythreatenspublichealth,safety,andwelfare.Thisincludesinfrastructurecrucialforpublicservicessuchaslawenforcement,fireprevention,transportation,andutilities.Theproposedordinanceseekstoaddressthisconcernbyprohibiting camping,storingpersonalproperty,andaccumulatingdebrisorpersonalitemswithin specifiedareas,includingcriticalinfrastructure,wildfireriskareas,andlocationsserving thehomeless.
Furthermore,theordinanceemphasizesthepotentialrisksposedbyaccumulateddebris instormchannels,drycreeks,orotherwateroutlets,leadingtodangerousfloodingconditionsandendangeringlivesandpropertyinsurroundingareas.Byimplementingregulationsandenforcingtheremovalofunauthorizedactivitiesintheseareas,theCityaimsto mitigatethethreatsofdegradation,fire,flood,andotherpotentialcausesofdestruction anddamagetocriticalinfrastructureandpublicsafety.
Noticeisherebygiventhatcopiesoftheabove-numberedordinanceareavailableforinspectionbyallinterestedpartiesattheOfficeoftheCityClerkofFairfield,1000Webster Street,4thFloor,Fairfield.Thisordinancegoesintoeffectimmediatelyafteradoption.A publichearingforthesaidordinancewasheldonJuly18,2023,andwaspassedandadoptedonJuly18,2023,bythefollowingvote:
AYES:Councilmembers:CARR/BERTANI/MOY/PANDURO/TONNESEN/WILLIAMS/VACCARO
NOES:Councilmembers:
ABSENT:Councilmembers: ABSTAIN:Councilmembers:
KarenL.Rees,CityClerk
Dated:July18,2023
DR#00064925
Published:July30,2023
Vistawillholdapublichearingtoconsiderarecommendationtoamendthealloweduses intheIndustrialParkand/orIndustrial(I-P-I)zonetoincludePersonalStorageand RV/BoatStorageasallowedusesatitsregularmeetingonWednesday,August9,2023, at6:00p.m.,in-personattheCityHallCouncilChambers,1MainStreet,RioVista,California,andviateleconference.
PROJECTTITLE:I-P-IZONEALLOWEDUSES
LEADAGENCYNAMEANDADDRESS:CITYOFRIOVISTA
1MAINSTREET RIOVISTA,CA94571
CONTACTPERSONANDPHONENUMBER:PaulJunker,ContractPlanner(916)8388384 PROJECTLOCATION:
THEREAREEIGHTPARCELSWITHINTHECITYOFRIOVISTATHATAREDESIGNATEDI-P-I.THEPROPERTIESTOTAL92.7ACRESANDAREIDENTIFIEDBYTHE FOLLOWINGASSESSORPARCELNUMBERS:176010640,178020030,178020040, 178020050,78020060,1780 20070,178020080AND178020090.
ENVIRONMENTALREVIEW:
TheproposedOrdinanceisexemptfromreviewundertheCaliforniaEnvironmentalQualityAct,PublicResourcesCodesection21000etseq.("CEQA"),pursuanttoCEQA Guidelinessection15601(b)(3)(commonsenseexemption)thatestablishesCEQAonly appliestoprojectswhichhavethepotentialforcausingasignificanteffectontheenvironment.ProposedamendmentstotheI-P-Izonewouldclarifythatperson alstorageand RV/boatstoragearealloweduses.WhileomittedfromthecurrentI-P-Ialloweduses, theseusesaresimilartoandcompatiblewithcurrentlyalloweduses.Duetothenatureof personalstorageandRV/boatstorage,theseusesgeneratelowertrafficvolumesand lowerdemandsforwater,wastewaterandelectricalservicethanmostofthecurrentlyallowedusesintheI-P-Izoningdistrict.Additionally,anyfuturepersonalstorageor RV/boatstorageprojectwouldbesubjecttoSiteandArchitecturalreview,adiscretionary reviewthatbothaddressesusecompatibilityandissubjecttoreviewunderCEQA.The proposedI-P-Iamendmentsdonothavethepotentialtoresultinasignificanteffecton theenvironmentandthereforetheproposedamendmentsarenotsubjecttoCEQApursuanttoCEQAGuidelinessection15061(b)(3).
NOTETOALLINTERESTEDPARTIES:
Thismeetingwillbeheldviateleconferenceandinperson.Allrequis iteopportunitiesfor andprotectionstopublicaccessandpubliccommentshallbeprovided,asrequiredby theBrownAct,GovernmentCodesection54950etseq.Publicaccessisavailableeither in-personattheCityHallCouncilChambers,1MainStreet,RioVista,California,orvia livestreamthroughalinkandinstructionsincludedinthePlanningCommissionagenda at:https://www.riovistacity.com/citycouncil/page/meeting-agenda-attachments-minutesvideo
ThePlanningCommissionwillacceptoralandwrittencomments.Oralcommentsmaybe givenduringthemeetingeitherin-personorbyfollowingtheteleconferencepubliccommentinstructionsonthePlanningCommissionagendaat: https://www.riovistacity.com/citycouncil/page/meeting-agenda-attachments-minutes-video
Writtencommentsmaybesubmittedviaemailto:pcpubliccomments@ci.rio-vista.ca.us. Pleaseprovidetheagendaitemnumberinthesubj ectlineofyouremailorletter.Written commentsreceivedpriorto5:00pmontheTuesdaybeforetheCommissionmeetingwill bedistributedtotheCommissionandpostedontheCity'swebsite.Ifyouneedassistanceordonothaveaccesstoacomputer,pleasecontactKrystineBallat707-374-6447. IfyouwishtolegallychallengeanyactiontakenbytheCityontheabovematter,youmay belimitedtoraisingonlythoseissuesyouorsomeoneelseraiseinwritingforthePublic Hearingdescribedinthisnotice,orinwrittencorrespondencedeliveredtotheCitypriorto oremailedasdescribedintheabovenote.
FURTHERINFORMATIONonthisitemmaybeobtainedbycontactingKrystineBallat (707)374-6447
DR#00064918
PublishedJuly30,2023
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME PETITION OF: ELIZABETH ECHIGOYA AND MOTOKI ECHIGOYA
CASE NUMBER: CU23-02466
TOALLINTERESTEDPERSONS:
Petitioner:ElizabethEchigoyaandMotoki Echigoyafiledapetitionwiththiscourtfor adecreechangingnamesasfollows:
PresentName:
a. Alessandra Juliette Pelayo
b. Jacquelyn Aimee Pelayo
ProposedName:
a. Alessandra Juliette Echigoya
b. Jacquelyn Aimee Echigoya THECOURTORDERSthatallpersonsinterestedinthismattershallappearbefore thiscourtatthehearingindicatedbelowto showcause,ifany,whythepetitionfor changeofnameshouldnotbegranted. Anypersonobjectingtothename changesdescribedabovemustfileawrittenobjectionthatincludesthereasonsfor theobjectionatleasttwocourtdaysbeforethematterisscheduledtobeheard andmustappearatthehearingtoshow causewhythepetitionshouldnotbegranted.Ifnowrittenobjection istimelyfiled, thecourtmaygrantthepetitionwithouta hearing.
LOCATEDAT461SkymasterCircle,Bldg 650,PMB#197,TravisAFB,CA94535 Solano.Mailingaddress461Skymaster Circle,Bldg650,PMB#197,TravisAFB, CA94535.IS(ARE)HEREBYREGISTEREDBYTHEFOLLOWINGOWNER(S)JosephJackManning461SkymasterCircle,Bldg650,PMB#197Travis AFB94535.THISBUSINESSISCONDUCTEDBY: anIndividual Ther egistrantcommencedtotransact businessunderthefictitiousbusiness nameornameslistedaboveonN/A. Ideclarethatallinformationinthisstatementistrueandcorrect(Aregistrantwho declaresastrueinformationwhichheor sheknowstobefalseisguiltyofacrime.)
AMENDED NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: VICENTE TANAKA CRUZ CASE NUMBER: PR23-00235
bepublishedatleastonceeachweekfor foursuccessiveweeksbeforethedateset forhearingonthepetitioninthefollowing newspaperofgeneralcirculation,printed inthiscounty:DailyRepublic PleasefileProofofPublication5businessdaysinadvanceofhearingdate. (newspaperdoesnotfilew/court). Other:Dependingoncircumstances,may requirepersonalserviceto biologicalfather. Date:7/12//2023 /s/StephenGizzi JudgeoftheSuperiorCourt FILED:July14,2023 DR#00064949
Published:July30August6,13,20,2023
/s/JosephJackManning INACCORDANCEWITHSUBDIVISION (a)OFSECTION17920AFICTITIOUS NAMESTATEMENTGENERALLYEXPIRESATTHEENDOFFIVEYEARS FROMTHEDATEONWHICHITWAS FILEDINTHEOFFICEOFTHE COUNTY CLERK,EXCEPTASPROVIDEDIN SUBDIVISION(b)OFSECTION17920, WHEREITEXPIRES40DAYSAFTER ANYCHANGEINTHEFACTSSET FORTHINTHESTATEMENTPURSUANTTOSECTION17913OTHERTHAN ACHANGEINTHERESIDENCEADDRESSOFAREGISTEREDOWNER. ANEWFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENTMUSTBEFILEDBEFORE THEEXPIRATIONJune292028. THEFILINGOFTHISSTATEMENT DOESNOTOFITSELFAUTHORIZE THEUSEINTHISSTATEOFAFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAMEINVIOLATION OFTHERIGHTSOFANOTHERUNDER FEDERAL,STATEORCOMMONLAW (SEESECTION14411ETSEQ.,BUSINESSANDPROFESSIONSCODE). FiledintheOfficeoftheCountyClerkof SolanoCounty,StateofCaliforniaon: JUN302023 NewASSIGNEDFILENO.2023001031 CHARLESLOMELI,SolanoCountyClerk DR#00064582 Published:July9,16,23,30,2023
PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE PLANNING COMMISSION
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE PLANNING COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF FAIRFIELD willholdapublichearingonthefollowingitem: ARRIVE FAIRFIELD COMMON OPEN SPACE REDUCTION – Development Review (DR2023-007). ApublichearingontherequestofRonWuofRedTailMultifamilyLand Developmenttoreducecommonopenspacefrom170,830to161,554squarefeetforthe approvedArriveFairfield(SunsetAvenueApartments)projectwith130apartmentssoutheastcornerofSunsetAvenueandEastTaborAvenue(APNs:0037-030-200;0037-030210;0037-060-480).Thereductionincommonopenspacewouldfacilitateanexpansion ofprivatepatiosintolandscapeareasandminorexteriorbuildingrevisions.ThePlanning CommissionoriginallygrantedDevelopmentReview(DR2021-017)approvalfortheunbuiltprojectonSeptember28,2022.TheadoptedMitigatedNegativeDeclarationfound thattheprojectw illnothaveasignificanteffectontheenvironment.(Planner:Jonathan Atkinson,707-428-7387,jatkinson@fairfield.ca.gov)
NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN THAT saidpublichearingwillbeheldon WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2023 beginningat 6:00 p.m. intheCouncilChambers,1000WebsterStreet,orthepublicmayjointhemeetingviaZoomat https://fairfieldca.zoom.us/j/87687427555?pwd=cjFUemtROWFWelN5Q3VpcW8vcHZNQT09orbyPhoneat(408)638-0968.WebinarID:87687427555Passcode : 7074287440atwhichtimeandplaceanyandallpersonsinterestedinsaidmattersmay appearandbeheard.Ifyouchallengeanyoftheabove-citeditemsincourt,youmaybe limitedtoraisingonlythoseissuesyouorsomeoneelseraisedatthepublichearingdescribedinthisnotice,orinwrittencorrespondencedeliveredtotheCommunityDevelopmentDepartmentat,orpriortothepublichearing.Anypartyaggrievedoraffectedbya decisionordeterminationbythePlannin gCommissionintheadministrationoftheCity s DevelopmentRegulationsmayfileanappealwithin14businessdaysofthedecisionor determinationusingtheappealformavailablefromtheCommunityDevelopmentDepartment.Tofileanappeal,completetheformandsubmititwiththeappropriatefeetoCommunityDevelopmentDepartment,1000WebsterStreet,2ndFloor,Fairfield,CA94533 , nolaterthan14businessdaysfromthedateofthishearing.Postmarkswillbeaccepted Foradditionalinformation,pleasecontacttheCommunityDevelopmentDepartment,City Hall,2ndFloor,orphone707-428-7440. TheCityofFairfielddoesnotdiscriminateagainstanyindividualwithadisability.City publicationswillbemadeavailableuponrequestintheappropriateformattopersonswith adisability.Ifyouneedanaccommodationtoattendorparticipateinthismeetingdueto adisability,pleasecontactCindyGarcia,AdministrativeAssistant, at707-428-7452,cgarcia@fairfield.ca.gov,inadvanceofthemeeting.
DR#00064966
Published:July30,2023
Toallheirs,beneficiaries,creditors,contingentcreditors,andpersonswhomay otherwisebeinterestedinthewillorestate,orboth,of: APetitionforProbatehasbeenfiledby: RamonaBeatriceCruzintheSuperior CourtofCalifornia,Countyof:Solano ThePetitionforProbaterequeststhat: RamonaBeatriceCruz beappointedaspersonalrepresentative to administertheestateofthedecedent. Thepetitionrequeststhedecedent'swill andcodicils,ifany,beadmittedtoprobate.Thewillandanycodicilsareavailableforexaminationinthefilekeptbythe court. ThepetitionrequestsauthoritytoadministertheestateundertheIndependentAdministrationofEstatesAct.(Thisauthority willallowthepersonalrepresentativeto takemanyactionswithoutobtainingcourt approval.Beforetakingcertainveryimpo rtantactions,however,thepersonal representativewillberequiredtogivenoticetointerestedpersonsunlessthey havewaivednoticeorconsentedtothe proposedaction.)Theindependentadministrationauthoritywillbegrantedunless aninterestedpersonfilesanobjectionto thepetitionandshowsgoodcausewhy thecourtshouldnotgranttheauthority.
A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows:
DATE: Aug 21, 2023; TIME: 8:30am; DEPT. 4 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF Hall of Justice 600 Union Avenue Fairfield 94533 Probate & Conservatorship/ Guardianship Department
If you object tothegrantingofthepetition,youshouldappearatthehearingand stateyourobjectionsorfilewrittenobjectionswiththecourtbeforethehearing. Yourappearancemaybeinpersonorby yourattorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, youmustfileyourclaimwiththecourtand mailacopytothepersonalrepresentative appointedbythecourtwithinthe later of either(1)four months fromthedateof firstissuanceofletterstoageneralpersonalrepresentative,asdefinedinsection58(b)oftheCaliforniaProbateCode, or(2) 60 days fromthedateofmailingor personaldeliverytoyouofanoticeunder section9052oftheCaliforniaProbate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may wantto consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court.Ifyouareapersoninterestedinthe estate,youmayfilewiththecourtaRequestforSpecialNotice(formDE-154)of thefilingofaninventoryandappraisalof estateassetsorofanypetitionoraccount asprovidedinProbateCodesection 1250.ARequestforSpecialNoticeformis availablefromthecourtclerk.
Petitioner: RamonaBeatriceCruz POBox789,KingsBeach,CA96143 (775)745-7061 DR#00064800 Published:July30August2,6,2023
