Daily Republic: Friday, July 28, 2023

Sheriff differs with grand jury’s directions on cost controls A3

How does 49ers’ Brock Purdy look in his comeback? B1

Bevy of fun on tap for National Night Out

Daily Republic Staff DRNEWS@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET FAIRFIELD — Solano County residents are encouraged to get outside Tuesday to mingle with first responders and neighbors as National Night Out marks its 40th anniversary.

There are neighborhood celebrations, community gatherings, food, car shows, music and plenty of photo opportunities to share on social media.

More than 16,600 communities participated in 2022, according to New Spirit, an official publication of National Association of Town Watch Inc. The organization is a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to the develop-

ment and promotion of organized community crime prevention activities and to the groups and the individuals participating in local crime watch efforts.

The first annual National Night Out involved 2.5 million neighbors across 400 communities in 23 states.

All events are Tuesday. Fairfield

A new event this year is National Night Out in downtown. From 5 to 8 p.m. downtown businesses and residents will gather for a collective night out against crime in the 600 block of Madison Street.

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Vallejo City Council declares emergency due to police staffing

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VALLEJO — The City Council Tuesday night unanimously approved a proclamation for a public safety staffing emergency in the Vallejo Police Department.

“In times of great challenge with limited resources, decisive leadership is required to identify priorities, obstacles and solutions. These are difficult discussions and even harder choices.

I am optimistic that city leadership, elected officials, and the Police Department can collaboratively formulate a public safety plan that

can immediately enhance community safety,” interim Police Chief Jason Ta said in a statement released Wednesday. Sgt. Rashad Hollis, public information officer for the department, said in a phone interview Thursday that the chief will be contacting area agencies – likely the Solano County Sheriff’s Office, Napa County Sheriff’s Office, the California Highway Patrol and nearby police departments – to assist with manpower as needed.

The city’s statement said the “Emergency Proclamation will help

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FAIRFIELD — The Solano County Mosquito Abatement District will be pushing forward with new technology in its endless battle against mosquitoes.

The district has started the permitting and licensing procedures to use a drone in that battle. Mark McCauley, a supervisor and 23-year employee with the district, expects to have the program operational next year. The price of the drone, $35,000, and other costs put the start-up at more than $100,000, McCauley said. The company is Leading Edge Aerial

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FAIRFIELD — The 2022-23 Solano County civil grand jury issued a predominantly sympathetic report on the challenges the county faces inside its Fleet Management Division.

“The Fleet Management Division of Solano County is facing many challenges. This includes continued response to Covid pandemic, supply chain issues (e.g., inabil-

ity to get parts, etc.), high gas (and) diesel prices, and inflation-related uncertainties,” the grand jury report states in its summary.

“These factors are influencing fleet service costs and the turnaround times for maintenance. Additionally, increasing (state) regulatory initiatives to reduce gaspowered auto emissions are creating uncertainty about how the budget

Inaugural Armijo High School Hall of Fame inductee Nurse Virginia Arvin

For the past three weeks I have highlighted some of the 2023 inductees into the Armijo High School Hall of Fame that will be inducted on Sept. 3 at Fairfield’s Downtown Theatre. While I will continue to do so in coming weeks leading up to the event, I want to take a timeout now and focus on one of the inductees in the inaugural event back in 2015, Nurse Virginia Arvin.

Virginia Marshall was a Vacaville native who was born in 1921 and graduated from Vacaville High in 1940. She was a nurse in World War II. In 1947, she married Burke Arvin and became the school nurse at her alma mater. She worked there until 1952 when she came to Armijo. Nurse Arvin was a fixture at Armijo for decades. When Fairfield High School opened in the mid-1960s she did double duty there as well.

How long was she at Armijo? Well, she was the school nurse when my Armijo Alumni Association friend Nanciann Gregg graduated in 1959 (that year’s La Mezcla yearbook was dedicated to Arvin). She was also the school nurse when I graduated in 1982. Arvin retired in 1986 after 34 years of service and died in June 1996.

Generations of students have memories of Nurse Arvin and I want to share one of mine. When I was a senior I wrote a lot of stories for the April Fools issue of the Armijo school newspaper. When I saw the mock-up of the paper before printing, there was a picture of Mrs. Arvin walking down the hallway with a generic caption so I changed it to “Nurse Arvin grooves to the sound of the Go-Go’s of which she is a former member.”

Other locals shared

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Ingram Harmon: She was great. She told us about working at the free clinic at Haight-Ashbury in the late ’60s. She also took me home one time when I was sick and fixed me hot tea! She was kind, sassy and funny.

Carol Hanson: I started to black out when I slammed my hand in the attendance office’s heavy door at Armijo. I stumbled to her office, freaking out, and she took care of me and calmed me down. After checking me out, she said, “You’re fine,” (except for my hand; no broken bones, luckily).

“You almost fainted, that’s all.” Her reassuring matter-of-fact manner worked wonders!

Geoffrey Cheadle: She helped me out quite a few times. I can still see the circles on her ceiling tiles while laying down to rest after a seizure.

Marsha Johnson: She was nice, but strict. She listened to a LOT of made up illnesses and excuses.

Charmaine Nenio Yoon: Even after graduating I still went to her for questions that needed answers. She always welcomed me. She was so compassionate.

Tony Horst: Nurse Arvin was hard but fair to all of us kids. She pulled my head out of my butt and helped me with my meager career after I was out of school. I can still picture her indescribable stare over her wire-rimmed glasses and the bun that she wore as a tiara. She had an ocean full of companionship and understanding available to anyone who sincerely asked for it. A beautiful and wonderful person in her own right.

Linda Draper: I loved her – she helped guide me to my nursing career!

Jaime Smith-Meyer:

In 1986, in gymnastics, I broke my arm (compound ... my arm was shaped like a “Z”) and she was the most amazing, calm person. It was exactly what a hysterical 16-yearold needed at the time!

Claudette Ramirez: She used to keep Lorna Doones in her desk. We’d go to the office and distract her so we could sneak a few. It made her sooooo mad.

Nanciann Gregg: Nurse Arvin was also the truant officer at Armijo in the ’50s. If she thought you weren’t sick enough to be at home, she got in her little green coupe and came and got you.

Rena Wood: The day a pigeon pooped on my head she helped me clean it out – now that is dedication. When President Kennedy was shot, I went to her office for a sense of security. She was always a good person to talk to about anything. Mrs. Arvin was a savior.

Joyce Fondersmith: She was strict when you needed it, but was mostly a kind, funny lady. When I was having my son at Travis she let my husband stop at her house in Vacaville to get some of her flowers to bring to me. She was a real down-toearth woman and a great friend, and I’m proud I knew her.

Beverly Mealer: I remember when she would make us get on our knees if she thought our skirts were too short.

Starbound stages Disney’s ‘The Lion King Jr.’

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VACAVILLE — The African savanna comes to life on stage in Disney’s “The Lion King Jr.” this weekend at the Vacaville Performing Arts Theatre.

This version is adapted from Disney’s Broadway production and the motion picture and features Simba, Rafiki and a cast of characters as they journey from Pride Rock to the jungle and back

again in this coming-of-age tale. Classic songs include “I Just Can’t Wait to Be King,” “He Lives in You” and “Hakuna Matata.”

This production from Starbound Theatre is the result of a three-week Summer Theatre Camp for young performers ages 7 to 17.

More than 50 students from Solano County are enrolled in this year’s camp, attending all-day classes and rehearsals at The Saturday Club of

Vacaville in preparation for their performance.

Performances are at 3 and 7:30 p.m. Friday, and 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Vacaville Performing Arts Theater, 1010 Ulatis Drive. The show runs 90 minutes including intermission. Tickets can be purchased by visiting www. vpat.net, calling 707-4694013, or in person at the VPAT Box Office noon to 6 p.m. through Friday.

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Armijo Alumni Association presents The Armijo High School Hall of Fame 1 to 4 p.m. Sept. 3 Downtown Theatre, 1035 Texas St., Fairfield

If they didn’t touch the floor, she sent us home to change. She was one of a kind.

Jackie Taylor: Nurse Arvin never judged, but she was firm. She had a heart bigger than the sky. 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.”

Sheriff differs with grand jury’s directions on cost controls in jails

FAIRFIELD —

Sheriff Thomas Ferrara does not agree with the 2022-23 Solano County civil grand jury’s assertions that he is not effectively managing costs and assets at the local jails.

Ferrara, in a point-bypoint response to the grand jury report, stated that he fully, or at least partially, disagrees with all three findings issued in the report, and had similar responses to the grand jury recommendations.

At the center of the report is the contention that as the inmate population has dropped, the Sheriff’s Office has not proportionately reduced staffing and other costs, and therefore the price of managing inmates is rising.

“Due to changes in state law and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, among other potential factors, the Custody Division has seen a 39% reduction in its average daily (inmate) population over the last six years. This has resulted in a drop in the detention facility occupancy rate in the county from 65% down to 37%,” the grand jury report stated in its summary.

“While it might be expected that a dramatic reduction in the number of detainees would result in a similar drop in custodial staff, that has not been the case. In fact, during this same period, the county custodial staff has only experienced a 2.5% reduction. As a result, the average annual cost of housing each detainee in the county has increased from $65,329 in 2017 to $139,430 in 2022,” the report stated.

Michael Wright, a member of the grand jury, spoke to the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday

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and argued that the county will be spending upward of $25 million per year in the Custody Division if the Sheriff’s Office does not get a hold of its staffing and other expenditures.

The grand jury recommended that “the county continue re-evaluating operations to assess how to control costs with a currently declining inmate population, including consulting with other jurisdictions and reviewing best practices and efficiencies achieved in other counties.”

Ferrara said that is already taking place. He further stated in his response that the grand jury’s report does not reflect all the efforts his office is taking to reduce costs, but did not provide details.

Ferrara also noted that the Custody Division typically has 20 to 25 vacancies in any given fiscal year, and another 10 to 15 staffers could be out on extended leaves due to injuries or family issues. Moreover, the sheriff said he will not be looking to cut correctional staff as recommended by the grand jury, citing safety and

other California Board of State and Community Corrections standards.

To that end, Ferrara received support at the board meeting from George Guynn Jr., who usually rails about how the county should be looking to cut costs. However, he said it would be more expensive to try to restaff the jails if more inmates were to be incarcerated.

The grand jury also called on the Sheriff’s Office to find ways to increase revenues by leasing beds to other jurisdictions, a practice Ferrara said has been done in the past, and is an option he continues to consider.

Better use of the Rourk training facility, use of less expensive technology options – such as video inmate visits and an electronic monitoring center – also were recommended. Ferrara said those, too, are part of the jail system in one form or another.

“Just in the last year, the Sheriff’s Office has provided 14 vocational training programs and trained 85 students. The students consisted of 51 incarcerated individuals and 35 individuals supervised by the Probation Department,”

Police: Officer nabs 2 suspects; discovers loaded handgun

FAIRFIELD — Fairfield Police were dispatched late Monday to a call regarding a fight at a home in the 2500 block of Greenfield Drive, with one person displaying a black handgun. It was further relayed that the two men involved had fled the scene in a vehicle.

Airbase Parkway. The passenger immediately exited the vehicle and, although he initially refused to follow commands, was safely detained. The driver was detained without incident.

Officers saw a handgun in plain view near the front passenger seat. The handgun was loaded and had a round in the chamber.

Ferrara stated. “The training programs provided were: laborer’s pre-apprenticeship, welding, forklift certification, scissor lift certification, warehousing employment, and power pallet jack certification,” the response stated. “The Sheriff’s Office will be adding stick welding, industrial welding, tire maintenance and repair, along with carpentry readiness by the end of 2023. We continue to evaluate the job market, establish training partnerships and looking to expand opportunities for all incarcerated (or) justice-involved individuals.”

Ferrara, however, sprinkled into his response the reality that the jail is housing higher-risk inmates that, in the past, were typically sent to state prison. Therefore, some programs or practices mentioned in the grand jury report cannot be implemented.

The grand jury called on the county’s budget officer “to take an active role helping correctional administrators overcome obstacles that make it difficult to reallocate dollars to community-based treatments.”

There was no mention of that suggestion.

As Officer Richard Mroz neared the area, he saw a vehicle with people matching the description given of the suspects inside. A traffic stop was subsequently conducted on eastbound Interstate 80, at the bottom of the on-ramp from

The driver, Jason Brown of Vacaville, 29, was booked for weapons related charges, including carrying a concealed weapon. The passenger Jamonte Butcher of Suisun, 29, was booked for resisting arrest.

OBITUARIES

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 served 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

Russell Sheppard

$2.35

million in rebates to customers

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SAN RAFAEL — Marin

Clean Energy, which serves Benicia, Fairfield, unincorporated Solano and Vallejo, released its 2022 Energy Efficiency Annual Report, noting it saved customers more than $2.35 million in rebates and reduced CO2 emissions by 20,793 metric tons in 2022 – equivalent to taking over 4,600 gasolinepowered cars off the road.

“Helping people use energy more efficiently is one key way to meeting the growing demand for energy,” said Alice Havenar-Daughton, MCE’s vice president of Customer Programs, in a press release.

“That’s why in 2022, MCE focused on

Bay Area air quality district hits Richmond plant with $1.15M fine

FAIRFIELD — Chemtrade, a global industrial chemical producer, has been fined $1.15 million by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District for air quality violations at its sulfuric-acid manufacturing plant in Richmond.

The violations primarily involved Chemtrade’s continuous emissions monitoring system, which measures the plant’s sulfur dioxide emissions.

“Chemtrade failed to properly calibrate, operate and maintain this monitoring system over an eight-year period. This caused the monitoring system to under-report sulfur dioxide emissions by an estimated 33% per year on average,” the air district said in a statement.

The penalty resolves seven notices of violation issued.

“The substantial financial penalties for these violations send a clear message to Chemtrade that they must accurately monitor their sulfur dioxide emissions in compliance with all air quality regulations to help protect those living in the surrounding communities,” Philip Fine, executive officer of the air district, said in the statement.

Sulfur dioxide can have adverse impacts on the respiratory system and contributes to acid rain, the district reported. However, the

air district’s audit did not find evidence that Chemtrade’s sulfur dioxide emissions exceeded the facility’s permit limits, only that Chemtrade’s monitoring system was “unable to reliably monitor the extent of the plant’s emissions.” The Air District’s Hearing Board previously issued an abatement order that required Chemtrade to address the problems with its monitoring system in April 2022.

With broken hearts, we are sad to announce the passing of Russell Har vey Sheppard on July 5, 2023 with friends and family by his side. He was born on February 22, 1936 in Richmond, CA. He graduated from Ripon High School in 1954 and joined the Air Force shortly after. While stationed in Thailand, he met the love of his life, Joan LaVerne Willson, on the 4th floor of the US embassy. They married in 1961 in Bangkok. Their love traveled the world during his 22 year career. He served in Vietnam from 1969-1970 and was awarded the bronze star. He retired as SMSGT at TAFB in 1976 and set roots down in Suisun City. In 1998 he retired from both Anheuser-Busch and the Suisun City fire department as a v olunteer assistant fir e chief after 23 years.

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He joins the love of his life, Joan, who we lost in 2014, and his son Timothy “Shep,” who passed in 2005.

He is survived by his daughter, Cynthia Sheppard; granddaughters Meagan Gilbert and Michelle (Greg ) Boam; great-grandchildren Indie and Dax; sister, Arlene Floodman; brother Lee Sheppard; the Marciel cousins: Greg and Sabrina, Larr y and Lauri, and Keila and Fabian.

We would like to thank the staff of Vaca Valley & a special thank you to his cardiologist Dr. Mark Villanon at North Bay. This last year with Papa was a true gift.

A military service is scheduled for Tuesday, July 25, 2023, at 1:15 p.m. at Sacramento Valley National Cemetery in Dixon, CA.

Jose Concepcion Castillo Sr.

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.

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He is preceded in death by brothers Pedro and Santos; and sisters Rafaela, Amalia, Juana, and Tomasa.

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.

CALMATTERS COMMENTARY COMMENTARY

63-year-old higher education plan could use a reality check

As California’s population exploded in the 1950s and 1960s – surpassing New York to become the nation’s most populous state in 1962 – its political leaders responded with sweeping plans to satisfy burgeoning demands for public services.

New freeway routes were plotted to carry millions of additional cars. State and local bond issues were drafted to build schools for the baby boom. New dams and canals were designed to increase water supplies. And, a master plan was written to unify California’s colleges and universities.

Six decades later, California’s population is nearly three times larger, but stalled at just under 40 million and has been declining slowly.

Many of those once-planned freeways never got past the planning stage, public school enrollment is declining, the California Water Plan has mostly been built (but still has a bottleneck in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta), and the much-vaunted Master Plan for Higher Education remains on the books but never achieved the seamless pathway to low-cost, universal student access it envisioned.

While the demand for higher education is huge, and while the state’s economy rests on having a highly trained and educated workforce, the state’s three collegiate systems – the University of California, California State University and more than 100 locally managed community colleges – remain more competitive than cooperative. If anything, friction among the systems has been increasing as they squabble over academic turf and compete for financing in a state budget that struggles to pay for all of its spending.

The 1960-vintage master plan, whose two political fathers were UC’s legendary president, Clark Kerr, and then-Gov. Pat Brown, delineated the roles that all three would play.

UC would be the state’s premier research institution while providing high-intensity undergraduate and graduate educations, with degrees up to doctorates. CSU would educate teachers, engineers and other professionals and offer both baccalaureate and master’s degrees. Community colleges would provide two-year associate degrees, prepare students for transfer to four-year schools and also offer job-oriented, sub-professional training.

Demands from students that outstripped supply and budgetary pressures have eroded the demarcation lines. Community colleges have begun offering some limited baccalaureate degrees, encountering stiff opposition from the state university system, while state universities have sought, with some success, to award doctorates, thereby encroaching on UC’s jealously guarded turf.

Virtually every legislative session is marked by at least one conflict over competing ambitions of the three levels. One current measure, Assembly Bill 656, which has passed the Assembly and is pending in the Senate, would give CSU broad new authority to award doctorates.

Meanwhile, there has been constant friction over the transfer of credits from one level to another, with community college graduates often frustrated about gaining admission to four-year schools, despite the master plan’s promise.

Although there’s an official goal of boosting the number of community college students transferring to four-year schools from 89,000 to more than 120,000 by 2022, a year later fewer than 100,000 were making the transition, CalMatters recently reported.

“Of the students enrolled in a community college in California who said they wanted to transfer to a four-year university, an average of 9.9% went on to enroll at a four-year institution in 2021, the most recent data available,” reporters Adam Echelman and Erica Yee found.

UC is opposing a measure, Assembly Bill 1749, that would make transfers easier.

These two situations – competition for degree authority and the difficulty community college students face in transferring – indicate once again that the Master Plan for Higher Education is broken. If it’s worthwhile having such a plan, it should be worthwhile to make it relevant to 21st-century realities, not 1960s theories.

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.

Was Gen. Mark Milley right last year about the war in Ukraine?

As Ukraine’s counteroffensive struggles to make headway against fortified Russian lines, I found myself going back to remarks late last year by Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Milley spoke at the Economic Club of New York in November 2022 just as Ukrainian troops were completing the expulsion of Russian forces from the southern city of Kherson. Kyiv had stunned the world by repelling Moscow’s initial invasion – forcing Russia back to roughly the lines of control in place today – and the top U.S. general made news by floating a negotiated settlement to the war.

He compared the situation in Ukraine to World War I. Around Christmas of 1914, Milley said, “you’ve got a war that is not winnable anymore, militarily.” Yet European leaders decided they had no choice but to push for total victory. One million deaths became 20 million by the war’s end.

“Things can get worse,” Milley said, adding: “When there’s an opportunity to negotiate, when peace can be achieved, seize it. Seize the moment.”

The next week, Milley again suggested that time was ripe for negotiations. In a news conference, he said that despite Ukraine’s heroic success in driving the Russians from Kharkiv and Kherson, it would be “very difficult” to evict Russia’s army from the entire country by force. There might be an opening for political solutions, however: “You want to negotiate from a position of strength,” Milley said, and “Russia right now is on its back.”

Milley’s trial balloon fell to the ground. The Biden administration promptly distanced itself from his remarks. We don’t know whether Russia could have been open to negotiations. But even the idea of exploring a political settlement was cast in Washington policy circles as

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undercutting Ukraine’s goal of a total victory. Expectations for Ukraine’s prospects of pulling off a decisive counteroffensive against the remaining Russian positions in the East swelled through the winter and spring.

Powered by infusions of American arms, the offensive finally began early last month. But the hoped-for breakthrough hasn’t materialized. The military analysts Michael Kofman and Rob Lee, who recently returned from the front, describe a grinding war of attrition with entrenched Russian forces holding their ground while relatively inexperienced Ukrainian soldiers are struggling to synchronize their offensive operations.

In public, Western leaders are urging patience. Ukraine’s counteroffensive is far from over. Yet Milley’s skepticism about Ukraine’s ability to achieve total victory appears to have been widespread within the Biden administration before the counteroffensive began.

The Wall Street Journal’s Daniel Michaels reported this week that “Western military officials knew Kyiv didn’t have all the training or weapons – from shells to warplanes –that it needed to dislodge Russian forces.” That tracks: In April, The Post reported on a leaked U.S. intelligence document forecasting only “modest” territorial gains for Ukraine. “Enduring Ukrainian deficiencies in training and munitions supplies probably will strain progress and exacerbate casualties during the offensive,” the document said.

If this is representative of intelligence and military assessments in government, why has the Biden administration not been quicker in providing advanced arms to Ukraine?

One answer is that there is no magical “wonder weapon” that could make a decisive difference. Speaking at the Aspen Security Forum last week, national security adviser Jake

Sullivan pointed out that the high quality of air defenses on both sides have made air superiority unachievable. He said American military commanders doubt “the notion that F-16s would play a decisive role in this counteroffensive.”

Another answer is that the West is straining to meet Ukraine’s existing needs, as its military industrial base is not on a war footing. The shortage of 155mm artillery shells is apparently so bad that the Biden administration was forced to send cluster munitions to fill the gap. Sending Ukraine the Army’s ATACMS missile system – one of the last major weapons the administration is holding back – could hurt U.S. readiness elsewhere in the world. It’s worth posing the question Gen. David Petraeus famously asked ahead of the Iraq War in 2003: “Tell me how this ends.” If Ukraine’s counteroffensive falters, the path of political least resistance is probably not negotiation with an emboldened Russia. It’s for the West to gear up for another Ukrainian offensive in 2024, and another one after that. After all, there are worse outcomes than a grinding stalemate in eastern Ukraine, which – while costly – is neither physically risky nor politically humiliating for the United States.

Ukraine is still in the fight, and a Russian collapse could still happen. Wars of attrition can appear to be descending into stalemate, until suddenly the mounting toll leads to defensive lines collapsing. And the Wagner Group mutiny last month vividly highlighted the brittleness of Russia’s command structures.

But if the prospects for Ukrainian military victory are in fact remote – and if American leaders know it – then let’s hope they can show more wisdom and flexibility than the World War I leaders of whom Milley spoke last November.

Jason Willick is a Washington Post columnist focusing on law, politics and foreign policy.

It’s time for the Fed to pause interest rate hikes

The Federal Reserve announced on Wednesday that it intends to increase interest rates by 0.25 points, bringing its total target rate to 5.5 percent. I have long supported such rate hikes; aggressive action by the central bank was essential to temper the economic havoc unleashed by the pandemic-related stimulus programs.

But it’s time to pause this policy going forward. Doing so would give the Fed’s governors a chance to gauge the primary reason for sharply increasing interest rates: the glut of savings in the U.S. economy.

It’s hard to understate how much Americans benefited financially from stimulus programs in recent years. Trillions of dollars gushed into the economy, including directly to individuals. For the tens of millions of Americans who endured unemployment and the thousands of companies that struggled to cope with suppressed consumer spending during lockdowns, this money was surely helpful. But for the many workers who continued to draw their full earnings on top of the stimulus checks, all it did was drive up savings.

The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco estimated that by August 2021, this hoard of cash reached a massive $2.1 trillion more than would otherwise be expected. This windfall flowed to people in all income levels, according to a JPMorgan Chase analysis. This meant that people had unprecedented levels of accumulated savings when the economy started to open in mid-2021.

Americans reacted to this like a starved man in front of a feast. First it was consumer goods, many of them imported from abroad. Remember the supply chain problems from last

year as goods from abroad swamped ports and strained the trucking industry’s ability to transport them? That was the first tidal wave caused by the injection of savings into the economy. This precipitated the first bout of inflation, as people naturally were willing to pay higher prices for the things they wanted.

The second wave started later last year as people shifted their spending from goods to services. Prices for things such as airline tickets and hotels skyrocketed as consumers started to make up for lost time and experiences during the pandemic, known as “revenge travel.” They’ve also been using their savings to finance higher housing costs, some of which has been fueled by the Fed’s rate hikes. That’s why the most recent inflation report showed annual price hikes for services are nearly double the rate of the overall consumer price index.

Standard analysis would support the Fed continuing its rate hikes after this week’s session because inflation remains stubbornly high. But no one yet knows what will happen when the flood of consumer spending subsides.

That moment is fast approaching. The San Francisco Fed reported that there was still about $500 billion in excess savings as of the end of March. It also estimated that consumer spending would continue to flow through the end of the year, assuming households drew down their cash balances at the rate they had in the prior months. If that’s true, economic activity would naturally tail off in the fourth quarter of this year as households reach the end of their savings and start to pull back. This natural pullback would likely coincide with the overall economic slowdown that the Fed has been

trying to engineer. Economic forecasters already project growth will slow to a crawl during the fourth quarter of this year. It takes time for rate hikes to work their way through the economy, and that impact has so far been blunted by the countervailing effect of excess savings. But that money could begin to run out later this year, which would amplify the rate hike’s delayed effect.

In other words, continuing to raise rates after this week’s meeting risks a significant overcorrection. The Fed’s next scheduled meeting is in mid-September. If it focuses on the inflation rate, which will likely remain above the Fed’s 2-percent target, it could be tempted to raise rates by another 0.25 points. But that hike would send short-term interest rates to 5.75 percent. This would push short-term interest rates to their highest since 1999.

Pausing further rate hikes until later this year, if necessary, is the safer course. That would give the Fed three to four months of additional data with which to assess where the economy will move after excess savings are depleted. It would also allow the Fed to determine whether households are depleting their savings at a slower pace, thereby continuing to fuel inflation. Together, those data would help the central bank assess how to lower inflation without triggering a sharp recession.

It’s hard enough to manage the economy in normal times. In these unprecedented times, an error by the Fed could be potentially catastrophic. Taking a breather and watching what happens is the wisest option available.

Olsen is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

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‘Depp v. Heard’: New Netflix documentary examines the famous defamation case

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The trailer just dropped for a new Netflix documentary that examines how a defamation trial became a global fixation.

“Depp v. Heard” is a three-part series examining the infamous defamation case between “Pirates of the Caribbean” star Johnny Depp and his ex-wife “The Rum Diary” star Amber Heard. The trial captured the public’s attention and became the world’s first trial by TikTok.

Showing the testimony side-by-side for the first time, the docuseries explores the global media event, questioning the nature of truth and the role it plays in modern society.

When the court hearings began in April 2022, TikTok became a hot spot

for seemingly endless pro-Depp and antiHeard memes and videos about the trial, which was broadcast on Court TV and other outlets. Numerous videos featuring the hashtag #JusticeForJohnnyDepp surpassed 2 million likes each. Some posts featured audio clips from the trial, including Heard’s comment about her dog stepping on a bee. Singer Doja Cat seemed to mock the line in a TikTok that has since been deleted. More than 450 TikTok videos seemingly mocked Heard with a remix of her statement.

TikTok videos also praised Depp attorney Camille Vasquez, with some showing people cheering for Vasquez in public and others posting flattering video edits of the attorney.

Two reservoir projects to get $40 million in federal funding

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FAIRFIELD — A pair of Northern California water storage projects –including expansion of the Los Vaqueros Reservoir in Contra Costa County – will receive $40 million in federal infrastructure funds.

“Reliable sources of water are vital to our communities as we face extreme drought and weather events,” Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, said in a statement announcing the funding.

The Los Vaqueros Reservoir is getting $10 million, while the new Sites Reservoir project in Colusa County will get $30 million.

“The funding for Sites and Los Vaqueros announced as part of the Investing in America agenda will help provide our families, farmers, and communities with the water resources we need to combat drought and live

Suit settled against Balance of Nature for ‘misleading’ consumers

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FAIRFIELD —

healthy lives. When I was in the state Senate, I appropriated the first funds for the Sites Reservoir, and this funding will help move the project forward. Proud to have voted for the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that is part of the largest investment in climate resilience in our nation’s history,” Thompson added. The Los Vaqueros Reservoir expansion project will allow to 115,000 acre-feet of additional water storage through new conveyance facilities with existing facilities.

“This will allow Delta water supplies to be safely diverted, stored and delivered to beneficiaries,” Thompson’s statement said. The Sites Reservoir Project, when completed, creates up to 1.5 million acre-feet of water from the Sacramento River system to be located in the off-stream site west of Maxwell.

Bill introduced on environmental reviews for transportation projects in California

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FAIRFIELD — Federal legislation was introduced this week that would make permanent a U.S. Department of Transportation’s program to eliminate duplicative environmental reviews for federally funded infrastructure projects.

The “Expedited Federal Permitting for California Act” (H.R. 4908) was introduced Thursday by Rep. John Garamendi, D-Walnut Grove.

“My bill would simply let federally funded transportation projects make use of our existing state permitting process without the need for a redundant, less stringent federal environmental review,” Garamendi said in a statement.

“I call on (Gov. Gavin) Newsom and all members of California’s Congressional delegation to join me in supporting this commonsense reform. We cannot watch the $1.2 trillion in available federal funding to rebuild our state’s roads, public transit, airports and ports pass us by. It needs to happen now,” Garamendi added.

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understanding and removing barriers that residents and businesses face when saving energy. Together, we avoided $4.58 million in system-wide energy costs and improved the health and safety of hundreds of families and businesses.”

All of the $2.35 million in rebates helped residents and businesses make upgrades to save energy across lighting, refrigeration, air conditioning and more, the press release said.

Low-income, state-designated disadvantaged communities who are traditionally underserved by energy efficiency programs were prioritized among many of

The Napa County District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday it had reached a $1.1 million settlement with Evig LLC, doing business as Balance of Nature, in a case that involved Solano and eight other counties.

Balance of Nature did not admit liability.

“The complaint alleged that Balance of Nature made representations regarding the effectiveness and attributes of its products that were not supported by competent and reliable scientific evidence,” the announcement stated.

Balance of Nature made the following claims, as examples, which the district attorneys from 10 counties said lacked scientific support:

n The company claimed that one serving of its Fruits product, which weighs approximately 2 grams, contained the “nutritional equivalent of over 5 servings of fruits per dose.”

n “When you take the

recommended 3 capsule dosage of Balance of Nature Fruit and Veggies, your body receives as much nutrition as it would from eating more than 10 servings of a salad made with 31 different fruits and vegetables.”

n “Can the daily recommended servings of fruits and vegetables fit into just 6 capsules? Yes!”

“Making misleading statements about their products and signing customers up for recurring charges without their knowledge are complete violations of the public’s trust and the law,” Napa County District Attorney Allison Haley said in the statement. “Balance of Nature made dubious claims that their products could treat or cure serious diseases placing the public’s health in danger. Customers have the right to expect the products they purchase to work as advertised.” The DA’s statement further stated that “Balance of Nature made claims that its products could prevent, treat, mitigate, or cure serious disease conditions, includ-

ing diabetes, arthritis, heart disease, fibromyalgia, and cancer. The company went so far as to recommend that customers take 12 capsules each of its Fruits and Veggies supplements if they had been “diagnosed with life threatening illness.

“Balance of Nature also used customer testimonials to make scientifically unsupported claims that the products could treat or cure disease conditions such as lupus, ulcers, gout, congestive heart failure, Hepatitis C, and multiple sclerosis,” the statement added. “The complaint further alleged that Balance of Nature enrolled customers into an automatically renewing subscription program, and charged them a recurring monthly fee, without clearly disclosing the terms of the program, giving customers an adequate acknowledgement of their enrollment in the program, or allowing customers to cancel online, all in violation of California’s Automatic Renewal Law.”

Solano was part of the California Food, Drug, and Medical Device

Task Force – along with Alameda, Marin, Monterey, Orange, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Shasta and Sonoma counties.

The Solano County District Attorney’s Office also released a statement, noting the case was filed in Napa County, but did not give any specifics to what role it or the task force had in the matter.

The settlement requires Balance of Nature to pay $850,000 in civil penalties and investigative costs. It also sets aside $250,000 for customer restitution. Notices on how to collect a refund will be sent out to residents who purchased a Balance of Nature product in the past six years, the Napa and Solano statements said.

Balance of Nature is prohibited from “engaging in any of the unlawful conduct described in the complaint.”

An email seeking comment was sent to Evig without immediate response. The customer service center for Balance of Nature did not have a media contact number or email available.

Valero grant provides van for Leaven Kids

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Congress, in 2015, established the program that allows states, like California, with more stringent environmental laws than the federal to substitute their state reviews in lieu of the federal review. It has saved time and money, the statement said.

The U.S. Department of Transportation, in January 2021, finalized the regulations to implement this 2015 pilot “so that states with high environmental standards could apply to substitute their state environmental reviews in lieu of completing a redundant federal review to permit transportation projects.”

“To date, the California Department of Transportation has never made use of this federal pilot authority and continues to insist on completing less stringent federal environmental reviews on behalf of the Federal Highway Administration and the Federal Transit Administration at additional taxpayer expense,” the statement said.

The bill also would allow, for the first time, federally funded airport and port development projects to use this review option.

MCE’s initiatives. Eight multifamily properties will receive more than $580,000 to complete energy upgrades across 784 low-income units.

More than 360 residents received $1.5 million in no-cost air sealing, insulation and other efficiency upgrades to save money on their energy bills while increasing comfort.

Incentives also included $146,000 for agricultural customers; $478,000 for businesses; and almost $200,000 for industrial customers.

The California Public Utilities Commission has approved $78 million in energy efficiency funding to support MCE programs for 2024-2027. For more information, visit mccleanenergy.org.

Leaven Kids, a nonprofit committed to early childhood education, has been awarded a $60,000 grant from Valero to expand access to its educational programs and services within the greater-Benicia area.

“Leaven Kids would like to extend our heartfelt appreciation to Valero and its leadership team, who have long been a vocal advocate for our mission and the development of early childhood education in our region,” Leaven Kids CEO Mark Lillis said in a news release.

“Without the support of our local partners, we would not have the impact that we see today in places like Benicia. It is through

the generous financial support from companies like Valero that Leaven Kids is able to maximize our impact and help ensure local students have access to the educational resources they need to succeed, both in school and in life.”

Leaven Kids will purchase an eight-passenger van, which will provide transportation for students to and from its Benicia-based learning center and enable greater logistical support during scheduled field trips. Past field trips have included visits to local museums, landmarks, educational venues, military bases, and businesses – all of which encourage students to consider future careers and identify areas of interest.

With five vans already

in operation across its 22 learning centers, an additional vehicle will expand Leaven Kids’ reach and enable a greater degree of flexibility when conducting operations within Solano County. By aggregating this resource with vans in neighboring communities, Leaven Kids can help remove transportation as a barrier to students looking to take advantage of local community resources and increase their access to transformative educational experiences.

“Transportation is a critical first step to ensuring that local youth have access to the in-community resources made available to them through programs like Leaven Kids,” said Paul Adler, director of community relations and government

affairs for Valero, in the news release. “Through the purchase and mobilization of an 8-passenger van, we can help remove obstacles faced by young students when looking to connect with local educational services.”

Leaven Kids is dedicated to expanding student access to afterschool tutoring and mentorship by providing reliable transportation directly to its learning center facilities.

“With the help of dedicated volunteers,” the news release said, “Leaven Kids helps to transform entire communities by providing love and patience to children struggling to learn and succeed in school.”

To learn more, visit leavenkids.org.

Crime logs

FairField

TUESDAY, JULY 25

6:24 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 5300 block of DISCOVERY WAY

STREET 10:30 p.m. — Prowler, 300 block of EAST TABOR AVENUE

10:50 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 1500 block of GATEWAY BOULEVARD

will be impacted by price increases on fuel and other necessary supplies.

Fleet Management is proactively planning and implementing measures to address pending issues and policy considerations,” the report states.

Specifically, those considerations are:

n Space issues resulting from the merger of the Light Equipment Shop with the Heavy Equipment Shop.

n Continue to implement enhancements to their technology platforms such as Telemetric Monitoring and Fleet Anywhere software.

n Continue to explore parts inventory practices.

tions. However, she said a new maintenance facility is still a number of years away.

4:52 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 1800 block of BLOSSOM

AVENUE

5:02 p.m. — Trespassing, BALBOA COURT

5:59 p.m. — Battery, 1200 block of B. GALE WILSON BOULEVARD

6:01 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 2600 block of BLOOMFIELD COURT

7:15 p.m. — Vandalism, 3900

block of CLAY BANK ROAD

7:39 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 1900

block of GRANDE CIRCLE

8:12 p.m. — Trespassing, 3300

block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

8:24 p.m. — Trespassing, 1300

block of GATEWAY BOULEVARD

8:32 p.m. — Trespassing, MARIPOSA WAY

8:37 p.m. — Residential burglary, 900 block of OHIO

expedite the process of finding ways to utilize resources such as staff from nearby law enforcement agencies or retired officers and potentially changing shifts or allowing outside officers fill-in on the graveyard shifts.”

The department, including the chief, has 77 officers. A full complement would be 132.

The five-man detective division is the only specialty unit still operating, Hollis said, noting that the traffic and community service units have been suspended in order to beef up daily patrols. Moreover, one detective is assigned to patrol each week.

Hollis said Vallejo is not the only law enforcement agency that is struggling with vacancies. He said it is a trend across the country. Locally, the impact started to be felt about 18 months ago.

And while the Covid pandemic certainly was a factor, Hollis said, there are other issues as well.

“I know working wages and conditions (are) a significant factor,” Hollis said.

The department has had its share of controversies in recent years, including citizen complaints regarding the use of force by officers – including fatal shootings – but it also has had an increasing number of internal grievances regarding department and

SuiSun City

n Infusing of hybrid and electric vehicles into the county’s fleet. The grand jury issued six findings and corresponding recommendations, much of them to do with using newer technologies to help control operational costs. However, the report also recommends finding a larger workshop for fleet maintenance. While the county’s formal response had yet to be posted by the Superior Court, Megan Greve, director of General Services, said much of what the grand jury commented on is in place, and it would not cost much to move forward on other sugges-

FINDING 1 –Electronic controls for dispensing and monitoring gasoline and diesel fuel use, have been successfully implemented. However, there are no similar electronic controls for vehicles using propane or diesel exhaust fluid.

RECOMMENDATION

1–Investigateimplementing dispensing and monitoring controls for usage of both propane and DEF.

(DEF is a chemical mixture of 67.5% deionized water and 32.5% urea, a compound in nitrogen that turns to ammonia when heated and is used in a variety of industries. During the chemical reaction, it reduces nitrogen oxides. Greve said the county does not have enough of a need to justify the expense at this time.)

FINDING 2 – Telemetric monitoring is available in many of the county’s fleet vehicles,

ments because the district will need permission to fly the drone into its planned treatment areas.

but those capabilities have not been activated. Having telemetrics activated in the county’s fleet vehicles would benefit multiple divisions in required vehicle maintenance, emergency breakdown notification, vehicle location and geo fencing notification.

RECOMMENDA -

TION 2A – Update the county’s software to enable electronic communications to and from county fleet vehicles to the maintenance department and divisions within the county for the limited purpose of enabling data for maintenance purposes.

RECOMMEN-

DATION 2B - Activate the current county’s fleet vehicles that already have the telemetric monitoring systems onboard for the limited purpose of enabling data for maintenance purposes.

RECOMMENDATION

2C - Install the needed telemetric hardware in the remaining county fleet vehicles that do not

and make precise control treatments,” the association said in a statement.

currently have that hardware and activate it for the limited purpose of enabling data for maintenance purposes.

FINDING 3 – Combining the Fleet Management shops has resulted in a loss of workshop space.

RECOMMENDATION

3 – Fleet Management initiate a request to identify a new location that can handle maintenance requirements for both light and heavy equipment vehicles.

FINDING 4 – Twenty percent of the county’s fleet vehicles are being driven less than the required minimum miles each year. The county is experiencing a great deal of underutilized vehicles.

RECOMMENDATION

4 – The county should complete an in-depth analysis of the needs of the county’s fleet requirements and determine a realistic minimum number of miles accumulated by each vehicle and the steps needed to utilize available telemetric technology.

city support for the officers.

Furthermore, two Solano County civil grand juries have noted the poor conditions of the department station. A report by the 2022-23 grand jury indicates its intentions to contact the state Occupational Safety and Health Administration due to those conditions.

There is no timetable for when the public safety plan will be completed, but Hollis said work has started. The police officers union will be involved in development of that plan.

“City management staff will work closely with ... Ta to fund efforts to efficiently help with staffing in the Vallejo Police Department. Since it takes approximately 18 months for recruits to graduate and complete backgrounds, city staff and the City Council agreed they should look into creative ways to recruit such as higher pay for lateral officers and incentives to retain current officers,” the statement said.

“This is an important first step in the right direction toward bringing additional resources and stability to the Police Department staffing. It’s critical to keep the dialogue open with all parties affected to ensure public safety and successful recruitment,” Assistant City Manager Gillian Hayes said in the statement.

The Solano County Sheriff’s Office already staffs the Rio Vista Police Department.

Technologies out of Florida.

The funding is part of the district’s regular operational budget, with the hope of realizing some cost savings along the way, as well as being more efficient and effective in controlling the mosquito populations in Solano County.

“We purchased a drone for treatments and we have a smaller drone for training because no one on our staff had ever flown a drone,” McCauley said.

“We can do self-training, but we will be trained through the drone manufacturer,” he said. “Right now we have two people licensed ... and when it is all said and done, we will probably have three.”

The 160-pound drone would be used primarily for planned medium-sized operations such as the dredge oil ponds on Mare Island, which are currently treated by helicopter.

Larger marsh operations are a possibility, too.

Essentially, the district will download the treatment patterns to the drone, which then operates autonomously, although there are observers still involved. If something goes wrong, the drone is programmed to return to where it was launched.

What the drone will not be used for are smaller ground operations, and when crews come across areas of specific concern that need immediate treat-

Travis Air Force Base, for example, has a 5-mile, no-fly perimeter around the base, McCauley said.

Discussions about starting a drone program started at least five years ago, McCauley said. Once the decision was made to move forward, the district began working its way through the regulatory requirements from the Federal Aviation Administration, and because of the drone’s size and purpose, also the state Department of Pesticide Regulation.

In fact, the district must prove to the state its efficiency in using the drone before it will be allowed to use it operationally.

“And after all that, in my best guesstimate, that will be next year,” McCauley said.

Solano is, by no means, the first abatement district to use drones. The Mosquito and Vector Control Association of California noted the increased use of drones in the industry, and has put out a “whiteboard video” on the topic.

“As mosquitoes continue to spread throughout the state, mosquito control professionals are increasingly using innovative technologies to prevent the spread of serious diseases and protect people from their painful and itchy bites. One innovative control method involves using drones to optimize field operations and enable mosquito control agencies to easily detect mosquito habitats

have a chance to snap a photo of Marty McFly’s “Back to the Future” 4x4.

Other technologies being employed come out of the laboratory, from which, as one example, self-limiting male mosquitoes are created and released.

“When they mate with wild females their offspring inherit a copy of the self-limiting gene. This prevents female offspring from surviving to adulthood, ultimately reducing the number of biting female mosquitoes,” the association noted in published material.

The use of male mosquitoes with certain natural, but lab-linked bacteria also can prevent eggs from hatching, and irradiated, sterilized male mosquitoes are used as well.

McCauley said he has spoken to a number of districts about drone operations, and specifically has received a great deal of information from the Placer Mosquito Vector and Control District, which has been using drones for more than six years.

Joel Buettner, the district manager, said it started with a pilot program to explore possible uses. It has expanded to a peak of five drones being operational at one time and the district is looking to add uses in the near future.

Outreach to other agencies and the public also was key in the beginning.

“And we still notify 9-1-1 dispatch when we do drone operations,” Buettner said.

and to view the Mosquito and Vector Control Association of California video, go to www.mvcac.org/ vectors-and-publichealth/innovativetechnologies.

He said one of the most valuable uses is just showing the district staff what it looks like in areas that are difficult to access. It also helped the crews evaluate areas during the winter thaw that used to be accessible only by snowshoeing to those areas.

While the district is responsible for the whole county, the drones have been particularly helpful in treating rice fields and drainage ditches when the mosquitoes are still in their aquatic life stages instead of when “they are flying around,” Buettner said.

Buettner, who chairs a subcommittee on drone use for the American Mosquito Control Association, said new FAA guidelines and other information is expected to be released in the new future to help simplify agency use.

Drones can also be used to map out a county’s topography, which can identify areas where mosquito treatments can be most effective. McCauley said Sacramento-Yolo Mosquito & Vector Control uses its drones for that purpose.

McCauley said Solano, in the future, has plans to purchase another drone for a mapping program.

included a scavenger hunt that ends Monday. With a National Night Out passport, downtown customers will receive stamps for their purchases which will earn them entry into a drawing for $200 in gift cards.

The schedule is:

n 5 to 6 p.m.: Scavenger hunt.

n 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.: Food and games.

n 6:30 p.m. Drawing for gift cards. (Must be present).

n 7 to 8 p.m.: Karaoke. Attendees will also

More details at www. facebook.com/fairfield police, which also lists other National Night Out events in Fairfield.

Suisun City

Free hot dogs and face painting are just the beginning of the fun, from 5 to 8 p.m. at Joseph Nelson Community Center, 611 Village Drive. Police and fire vehicles will be on hand and raffle prizes awarded. There will also be vendors, a bounce house and DJ. More details at www. suisun.com/eventsdirectory.

Giants’ prospect Luciano soaks in highly anticipated debut

‘It’s

something I’ll never forget’

evAn WeBeCk BAY AREA NEWS GROUP SAN FRANCISCO — The reception when Marco Luciano stepped into the batter’s box for the first time Wednesday night was unlike any other this season.

Before his name had escaped the mouth of public address announcer Renel Brooks-Moon, the 36,142 on hand at Oracle Park had broken out into a thunderous standing ovation. Upon returning to the dugout after coming just short of a storybook home run, he was

greeted by the fans on their feet for a second time.

“I’m very thankful for the appreciation I felt from the fans,” Luciano said through Spanish-language interpreter Erwin Higueros. “It’s something that I’ll never forget.”

For as long as Luciano had been waiting for this moment, the Giants’ fanbase had built up just as much anticipation.

The organization hasn’t had such a highly regarded hitting prospect make his debut since Buster Posey in 2009. The most prospect-crazed fans

How does Brock Purdy look in his comeback?

BAY AREA NEWS GROUP, SANTA CLARA —

Here is how the 49ers’ four quarterbacks looked in Thursday’s practice according to our sideline clipboard:

BROCK PURDY

Jan. 29: Right elbow injured. March 10: Ulnar collateral ligament repaired. July 27: Return to practice! Well, that escalated quicker than anticipated, a 179-day span that sure beats a year-long hiatus had he required Tommy John reconstruction.

Purdy looks healthy. Perhaps rusty. But

healthy, so he certainly is poised to retain the starting role for the Sept. 10 opener at Pittsburgh.

Statistically, he completed just 3-of-10 passes in full-team drills. Not all those misses were on him, such as his first pass being dropped by Ross Dwelley in the right flat.

The most concerning pass: Purdy’s second series began when Clelin Ferrell brought pressure from Purdy’s left, and Purdy pushed a pass off his back foot toward Brandon Aiyuk. That resulted in an interception, by Tashaun Gipson Sr., who returned it for a would-be, 30-yard pick-six.

Purdy put his whole

6-foot-1, 220-pound body into a throw that precisely found George Kittle on an out route near the left sideline. That was in a 7-on-7 session, followed by a high throw nabbed over the middle by Aiyuk, then an overthrow for Jauan Jennings 40 yards down the sideline.

Purdy’s pocket presence resurfaced in team drills when he stepped up to avoid Kevin Givens’ rush and completed a pass to Aiyuk, ironically while the song “Rookie Of The Year” (by Moneybagg Yo) blared on the loudspeakers. Shanahan recently referred to the “Rookie Of The Year” movie character Henry Rowengartner, who, as a teenager, broke

his arm and came back with a 100-mph fastball to pitch for the Cubs.

As for Purdy’s velocity, he showed enough zip to find Aiyuk over the middle after a playaction fake to Christian McCaffrey. Purdy’s last throw, however, nearly got intercepted by linebacker Demetrius Flannigan-Fowles over the middle on another target toward Aiyuk. In this offense, accuracy and timing mean more than velocity.

Once practice ended, Purdy stuck around for some extra throws, as did Sam Darnold, to Ray-Ray McCloud and

have been familiar with his name since he signed at 16 years old out of the Dominican Republic for a bonus of $2.6 million.

Delayed by a pandemic, set back by injuries, the moment Luciano and Giants fans had been waiting for finally came Wednesday.

At 21 years old, with only six Triple-A games under his belt, Luciano became the sixth-youngest player to wear a major-league uniform this season. And, while he was subbed out for a pinch-hitter in the fifth inning, he looked like he was meant to be there.

“When I enjoy myself, good

Remember those fancy renderings the A’s released of their proposed Las Vegas ballpark, built right on the Strip?

The A’s are now telling people to forget all about them.

A’s director of design Brad Schrock spoke to the Las Vegas Review-Journal this week and said that the team is telling the architectural groups interested in building the ballpark to ignore the initial renderings.

“We told the groups, ‘You saw renderings in the newspaper, but wad those up for now,’” Schrock said. “We are really encouraging them to think creatively about the different ways to solve the problem. It will be fun to see what we get back.”

Those renderings were produced just as the A’s were meeting with Nevada lawmakers, seeking approval for up to $380 million in taxpayer money to help build the 30,000-seat, nine-acre stadium that is expected to cost $1.5 billion total. After several special sessions, Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo signed Senate Bill 1 into law on June 15. In some ways, it was obvious from the beginning that the renderings were not feasible. They appeared to show the ballpark on a much larger plot of land than the 9 acres the A’s have. Schrock also acknowledged that a retractable roof, which the first renderings showed, is not likely to come on a

stadium built on such a small plot.

“The real interesting problem about the Tropicana site is we have a footprint that’s basically constrained within 9 acres,” Schrock said. “Traditionally [with] big, retractable roofs, you move off of the footprint.”

Another thing that isn’t set in stone, apparently, is the stadium’s seating capacity. Schrock said the A’s will be flexible for “a unique seating capacity,” which could go up to 33,000 seats.

“That really puts us in a sweet spot for a lot of other events aside from just baseball,” Schrock said. “So we want to make sure the way that the seating bowl is designed has the flexibility to accommodate multiple events and that it’s a really fun place for fans to come and watch a game.”

Schrock told the Review-Journal that two groups are finalists to design the team’s stadium: a combined effort from the firms Bjarke Ingels Group, which designed the Howard Terminal renderings for the A’s in Oakland, and HTNB, which helped designed the Raiders’ Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas; and Gensler, a global architect firm that has a history of designing sports venues and has a Las Vegas office.

Schrock said the A’s consider “creating the ballpark that has the greatest ability to feel like it’s outdoors” their top goal for the fan experience in building a new stadium.

US Women’s National Team remains unbeaten, but its dominance is missing

CAndACe BuCkner

THE WASHINGTON POST

Admit it. For about 62 minutes, this was scary.

The kind of scary that would make even the most die-hard fan of the U.S. women’s national soccer team cover his or her eyes while watching the team’s second match in groupstage play, perhaps only peeking through the slits in their hands once the Netherlands players disappeared from the screen. Who knew the color orange could look so terrifying? Because this match – a Thursday afternoon affair in Wellington, New Zealand, but because of the time difference, a Wednesday nightmare over here – reinforced the uncomfortable truth that this U.S. team still needs

to grow and round into its once-dominant form.

In their final friendly before the World Cup, the Americans looked less physical against Wales. During the tournament opener, they scored just three goals against a Vietnam team they should’ve bulldozed. Then, in its toughest test in the group stage, the USWNT trailed the Dutch by a goal and needed an equalizer from captain Lindsey Horan to escape with a 1-1 draw. The United States might have outplayed the ninth-ranked team in the world in the second half. But that first half? Its set pieces faltered. Its frustration escalated. And panic spread from Oceania to the States.

Inside Wellington Regional Stadium, a rowdy crowd filled with “American Outlaws” wore their fancy scarves and banged their drums, their fanaticism masking any doubt. But here on the other side of the globe, as we watched the Fox Sports broadcast, some of us might have imagined pulling retired star Carli Lloyd off the set, shuttling her to Wellington and pumping youth-rejuvenating substances into her veins, then playing her for the entire second half.

The Americans were in that much trouble.

Out of the starting 11, six players were making just their second starts in a World Cup match. Against Vietnam, a first-timer on this stage, the inexperience, all the missed

chances and the uninspiring 3-0 victory could be easily masked and glossed over. A win’s a win, right?

Against the experienced Dutch, however, America’s youth got exposed.

Someone, please, alert the New Zealand authorities for a missing American midfielder by the name of Andi Sullivan. Subject last seen getting smoked by Dutch women.

While we’re at it, let’s remind defender Naomi Girma that it’s okay, and actually preferred, to ... you know, have played some defense against wide-open Dutch midfielder Jill Roord. But at least we can always count on and locate Savannah DeMelo. Just look for the frustrated midfielder constantly rolling

her eyes while picking herself up after being knocked over, pushed around and downright disrespected – who pulls a ponytail, seriously?

By the end of the first half, DeMelo had had enough, so she decided to turn herself into a human bowling ball, running over anyone in orange she could find. DeMelo received a warning for her last maneuver that would’ve earned a UFC fighter’s respect. The takedown, however, didn’t count on the scoreboard, and after a half in which the Dutch narrowly missed a second goal while the Americans’ second looks resulted in feeble, wayward headers, the team in red, white and blue found itself in unfamiliar territory.

For the first time since the 2011 World Cup, which also included its one and only loss in group stage play, the U.S. trailed at the half. By this point, any fan would’ve have been forgiven for spending halftime weepily singing “R.O.C.K. In The U. S. A.” into their pillow. Or smiling through the pain while replaying highlights of Megan Rapinoe doing her Wonder Woman pose during the 2019 tournament.

But in the second half, veteran Rose Lavelle, recovering from a knee injury, replaced DeMelo. Lavelle joined old-timers Alex Morgan and Julie Ertz, who have played in about 84 World Cups, give or take. As well as the

A’s reportedly toss out initial Las Vegas ballpark renderings

My mother won’t listen to request for space between us

Dear Annie: My mom and I have always had a weird relationship. Throughout my childhood, I always considered us close, even when she moved hours away to the other side of the state when I was in middle school. We would talk regularly, and I would go see her for summer and winter breaks. When I graduated high school, I happily made the move to live with her.

Throughout the years of living with her, I started to see her true colors coming out. I learned my mom is a habitual liar, is manipulative, has cheated on everyone she’s been with, and gaslights when she has been caught in a lie or when she is unhappy about a decision that has little or nothing to do with her.

A few years back, with the help of my husband, I managed to move away from her and to start healing from a lot of the stuff she has said and/or done

ARIES (March 21-April 19).

Difficult people will require your patience and it will be very worth your while to extend it. The more patient you are now, the richer you’ll be later, both in dollars and in something else you value.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Your hobbies are sitting somewhere in your closet, twiddling their thumbs as they wait for you to join them. Getting mixed up into something you do strictly for fun will take your mind off issues you need a break from.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21).

Knowledge is as light as air, as bright as sunbeams and equally hard to deliver. How does one package sunbeams? Good fortune comes from organizing your thoughts and ideas with the aim of effectively imparting your knowledge.

CANCER (June 22-July 22).

People say that there are no bad questions. But there are so many excellent questions, why waste time looping around in foggy territory? You’ll aim your curious mind precisely, getting down to the specifics that lead to progress.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You know it’s love by the price you’re willing to pay. When love’s chord is struck, you will be willing to endure the tedious, irritating, difficult, boring and painful parts to

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to me that has left some traumatic imprints. She decided to follow me (and a man she was cheating on my stepdad with) to my new home despite me begging her not to so I could have space. She is now constantly texting me and ignores my pleas for space.

I am constantly nervous about leaving my home in fear I will run into her and she will decide that now whatever I’m doing she is doing as well. I have debated blocking her, but she has made comments in the past about having people constantly watching me and making me feel like she would show up unannounced at my home or workplace.

I have no clue what to do at this point. I’m an only child and she has no friends or family out here. I desperately want and need my own space so I can heal from the trauma she caused me in my childhood and early adulthood, but she

Today’s birthday

Astonishing surprises are in store in this year of plot twists. Relationships will be sweeter than birthday cake. A settlement or sale allows you to open a new chapter. More highlights: Someone credits you with changing their life. You’ll be often above the clouds literally and emotionally. Your work will meet a much bigger audience. Libra and Aquarius adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 5, 30, 10, 17 and 8.

keep that music strumming.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).

You’re in no mood to stare into the ethereal mist and wonder what’s coming. You already know what you want the future to look like. Bringing this together will involve many projects. Start anywhere.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).

The work may look easy to the outsider, but that’s only because you’ve mastered the art of it. You may field requests that are ill-aligned with how you work. You will give them the benefit of the doubt without catering to their ignorance.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).

Gaining self-knowledge can be harder than you think it should

constantly makes me feel guilty about needing space and will reach out multiple times a week when I ask for space. How do I make her understand I can’t do this anymore? How do I create space with someone who doesn’t respect my request for it? — Feeling Suffocated

Dear Feeling Suffocated: It sounds like you have been on quite the journey with your mother. Is there any part of you that wants to maintain a relationship with her? Perhaps with some firm boundaries and direct communication, you two can work something out. For example, plan to have dinner together once per week but request zero communication beyond that.

Other parts of your letter, however, are more concerning. If you are worried about your safety, I would suggest consulting a lawyer about getting a restraining order. Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@ creators.com.

be. Experience teaches you the most, especially bad experience. Stress has a way of highlighting the traits you most and least prefer.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21). Vacations aren’t always tremendously relaxing, but there’s a benefit to doing something different from your usual routine whether you’re relaxed or not. The need for novelty is real and you’ll start to feel stressed out if you don’t get enough of it.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19). Perhaps you’re not as skilled at something as you thought. Waste no time on embarrassment or regret. You’ll keep improving because you’ll keep working. Believe in yourself all along the way.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18). You can start over at any moment. The thing that keeps you from doing that is the safety of holding on to certain ideas about yourself. Don’t worry: There’s much you can let go of without losing your whole identity.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Reality rules in the end, but don’t worry – you don’t have to give it the beginning and the middle, too. Keep your fantasies alive and work your way toward them. Reality just might let you win.

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deduce his holding in the suit.

South’s jump to three spades over his partner’s transfer bid showed a maximum one-no-trump opening with four trumps and a doubleton somewhere -- a so-called superaccept. North was happy to push on to game.

West led the heart 10, dummy played the three, East encouraged with the eight, and South ducked, letting West win the trick. Declarer won the heart continuation, drew trumps in two rounds, cashed his top clubs, ruffed a club in the dummy and ruffed dummy’s last heart in his hand. Now South led his fourth club and, when West produced the 10, discarded a diamond from the dummy. West, with nothing but diamonds left, could do no better than lead the ace and another, giving declarer both a trick with his king and his contract.

HIS PLAY PAINTS A REVEALING PICTURE

At the bridge table, the more counting you do, the better. Count points, winners, losers, suit lengths, anything you can think of and retain! However, to be a top player, you also need card sense. This means that because an opponent or partner played one card rather than another, you can

That was well played by South, but East could have shone instead of South. When declarer didn’t cover the heart 10 with dummy’s jack at trick one, West was marked with the heart nine. East should have overtaken with the heart queen. If South ducked, East could have shifted to the diamond 10 (or queen), defeating the contract immediately. If South won trick one, he couldn’t eliminate hearts without letting East in for the lethal diamond switch.

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Yesterday’s solution:

HIS

Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 grid contains the digits

PLAY PAINTS A REVEALING PICTURE

At the bridge table, the more counting you do, the better. Count points, winners, losers, suit lengths, anything you can think of and retain! However, to be a top player, you also need card sense. This means that because an opponent or partner played one card rather than another, you can

1 through 9, with no repeats. That means that no number is repeated in any row, column or box. Solution, tips and computer program at www.sudoku.com

B4 Friday, July 28, 2023 — DAILY REPUBLIC 10

‘Haunted Mansion’ movie

Easter eggs from the Disney ride

Tribune ConTenT AgenCy

ANAHEIM — Disneyland fans watching the new “Haunted Mansion” movie will be treated to a few extra laughs from the supernatural horror comedy when they spot Easter egg tributes to the classic dark ride hidden in plain sight throughout the film.

Movie trailers and preview screenings offer a host of hints about the visual nods and character references the “Haunted Mansion” film will make to the Haunted Mansion ride at Disneyland when the new Walt Disney Studios release hits theaters on Friday.

The new movie stars Rosario Dawson as a single mom who moves into a haunted mansion with her son and engages a psychic (Tiffany Haddish), priest (Owen Wilson), paranormal specialist (LaKeith Stanfield), New Orleans tour guide (Winona Ryder) and historian (Danny DeVito) to rid the house of 999 ghosts. Along the way they encounter Madame Leota (Jamie Lee Curtis), the Hatbox Ghost (Jared Leto) and Constance Hatchaway (Lindsay Lamb).

Consider this your spoiler alert if you don’t want to read about any plot and character details before seeing the film.

Let’s take a closer look at the 10 Easter eggs in the new movie that make reference to the Disneyland ride.

1. Disneyland facade

The film’s mansion is a replica of the Disneyland attraction facade.

Walt Disney asked artist Ken Anderson to develop a haunted house experience for Disneyland. Anderson’s rendering of a dilapidated mansion in an overgrown New Orleans bayou was originally rejected by the boss. The “Ghost House” drawing, based on the Shipley-Lydecker House in Baltimore, eventually became the design used for the Haunted Mansion attraction. Each of the five Haunted Mansion-style attractions at Disney theme parks around the world have a distinct architectural style.

2. Haunted armor

Moving suits of armor terrorize the living and try to chase them out of the mansion in the film.

An armored knight with a shield and spear flanks the endless hallway with a floating candelabra in the Disneyland ride. The haunted armor makes slight movements as riders pass in their Doom Buggy ride vehicles.

3. Hatbox Ghost

The Hatbox Ghost plays a central role in the film as he searches for the elusive 1,000th soul to go with the other 999 happy haunts.

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The Hatbox Ghost — whose head disappears from his shoulders and appears in a hatbox — returned to the Disneyland ride in 2015 after remaining out of sight for more than four decades.

The original Hatbox Ghost was removed from the attic scene a few months after the attraction’s 1969 debut because the effect wasn’t effective. Despite his short stint, the beloved and elusive character soon developed a cult following among hardcore fans.

4. Stretching Room

The windows and doors disappear in a stretching room that traps the living during a key scene in the film.

Barrels of explosives, quicksand and crocodiles from the stretching portraits terrorize the living in the film as the characters in the portraits try to offer advice about how to escape the stretching room. The Stretching Room in the Disneyland attraction serves as an elevator that takes riders down to the load area of the ride.

The octagonal room with no windows or doors features four paintings of previous Haunted Mansion guests in their “corruptible mortal states” flanked by candle-wielding gargoyles. The stretching room reveals the comically dreadful fates of the subjects in the portraits.

5. Grandfather clock

A grandfather clock with a 13th hour makes a prominent appearance in the film’s trailer.

An identical Gothic clock with a 13th hour appears in the Corridor of Doors in the Disneyland ride. The crooked hands on the clock spin backwards as the shadow of a clawed hand passes over the fanged demonic clock face.

6. Madame Leota

The psychic medium Madame Leota helps connect the living and the dead using her crystal ball in the film.

Madame Leota’s spirit head appears in a crystal ball in the Seance Circle scene of the Haunted Mansion ride. She

uses “sympathetic vibrations” to summon ghosts for a “swinging wake” in the mansion.

7. Grand Hall

The Grand Hall serves as a central location in the film during a fight scene.

Riders on the Disneyland attraction travel along a balcony overlooking the marquee ballroom scene where ghosts waltz in endless circles, fly in through the windows, emerge from the pipes of an organ and swing from chandeliers.

8. Portrait Corridor

Portraits change from shot to shot and a pair of busts follow the movements of the living in the film.

Riders on the Disneyland attraction pass through the Portrait Corridor as they exit the Stretching Room and walk to the Doom Buggy loading station. Lighting flashes in the windows on one side of the hall as portraits on the other wall transform into macabre figures. At the end of the hallway, Watchful Busts in twin alcoves stare at riders as they pass.

9. Attic bride

A bride in a wedding dress emerges from the attic with an ax and chases the living in the film’s trailer.

Constance Hatchway, the Black Widow Bride, shows up in wedding portraits in the attic scene of the Disneyland attraction with a series of husbands who lose their heads.

10. Mariner ghost

Returning a mariner ghost to the sea serves as a central plot point in the film.

An early script for the Haunted Mansion attraction at Disneyland created by Anderson that ultimately went unused involved a character known as Captain Gore or Captain Blood whose family met their demise in the mansion. The sea captain storyline would have created a narrative link between the Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Caribbean attractions at Disneyland.

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Crossword by Phillip Alder

Bridge

Ackerman. She was beautiful and a good bridge player. One evening, Jay and Lorraine played this deal against Dan and myself.

After Jay opened with a strong two-bid, fashionable in those days, I overcalled five diamonds. Lorraine doubled, but Jay was too distributional to pass. Now Lorraine jumped to six spades.

When I led the diamond king, Jay thought they had missed an easy seven. Immediately, he won with dummy’s diamond ace and drew one round of trumps, getting the bad news. He cashed the club queen before turning his attention to hearts. However, Dan ruffed the second round and returned his second diamond. Jay couldn’t avoid losing another trick.

“How unlucky,” he wailed. “Why should East be so short in hearts?”

“But you should have made it,” replied Lorraine.

EVEN IF IT LOOKS EASY, STILL PAUSE

The Senior Life Master, feeling happy, gave a friend $20 and said, “Buy both of us a drink.” When the friend returned with two glasses of white wine, he was given a piece of paper containing today’s diagram. Many years ago at this club (began the SLM), two brothers, Dan and Jay Cooper, were wooing Lorraine

“Yes,” I chipped in. “You should have ruffed dummy’s second diamond at trick two. Then you cash one trump, unblock the club queen and start the hearts. When Dan ruffs, he has to give dummy the lead. Your low hearts go on the ace and king of clubs.”

“Or,” Lorraine added, “if Dan doesn’t ruff, you can trump the fourth heart, establishing your hand.”

“Exactly,” I added. Lorraine and I were married a year later.

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EASY, STILL PAUSE

Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 grid contains the digits 1 through 9, with no repeats. That means that no number is repeated in any row, column or box. Solution, tips and computer program at www.sudoku.com

The Senior Life Master, feeling happy, gave a friend $20 and said, “Buy both of us a drink.” When the friend returned with two glasses of white wine, he was given a piece of paper containing today’s diagram.

Difficulty level: GOLD

Yesterday’s solution:

Tributes honor ‘badass’ Sinéad O’Connor, a person who ‘spoke truth to power’

Los A ngeLes Times

Tributes honor ing singer-songwriter Sinéad O’Connor poured in Wednesday from all corners, following news of the Irish artist’s death. Celebrities from across the entertainment world and political figures praised O’Connor’s musical talent and her knack for calling out injustices.

“Really sorry to hear of the passing of Sinéad O’Connor,” tweeted Leo Varadkar, Ireland’s taoiseach, or prime minister. “Her music was loved around the world and her talent was unmatched and beyond compare. Condolences to her family, her friends and all who loved her music.”

Irish mixed martial artist Conor McGregor recalled the relationship he had with the vocalist, who sang the intro song for the fighter’s entrance at UFC 189 in 2015.

“The world has lost an artist with the voice of an Angel,” McGregor wrote. “Ireland has lost an iconic voice and one of our absolute finest, by a long shot. And I have lost a friend. Sinéad’s music will live on and continue to inspire!”

“I hope Sinéad O’Connor finds the peace she’s been seeking,” country singer Margo Price tweeted. “I’ll never forget watching her rip up a photograph of Pope on SNL in an act of protest against sex abuse in the Catholic Church and thinking, what a badass. Way ahead of her time and gone too soon.”

Singer-songwriter

Jason Isbell shared his condolences, writing, “I hope there’s peace for Sinéad at last.”

“Respect to Sinead….. She stood for something… Unlike most people…. Rest Easy,” rapper Ice-T tweeted.

Musician Melissa Etheridge remembered a personal interaction she had with O’Connor.

“This is such a tragedy. What a loss. She was haunted all her life. What a talent,” she recounted. “I remember my first

Grammy show meeting this small shy Irish girl.”

“That insanely beautiful voice that could carry all the emotions in one line. Her bravery. Sinéad was so loved by so many of us but she was also not treated well at all,” penned Irish actor Sharon Horgan. “I’m just feeling so angry about how she was treated. But over all just heart breakingly sad for her and her family.”

The world was rocked Wednesday by the news of the O’Connor’s death. She was 56.

The singer rose to prominence with her version of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” and made international headlines when she unexpectedly shredded a picture of then-Pope John Paul II on “Saturday Night Live” in 1992.

“It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Sinéad. Her family and friends are devastated and have requested privacy at this very difficult time,” a family statement said. No cause of death was given.

Born Dec. 8, 1966, in the Dublin suburb of Glenageary, O’Connor was the third of five children. She became an international sensation after the release of her 1990 album, “I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got.” Her cover of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” was her first No. 1 hit, and she was nominated for four Grammy Awards in 1991.

Also paying tribute on social media were Diane Warren, Billy Corgan, Michael Stipe, Perfume Genius and Sky

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things happen,” Luciano said afterward. “That’s basically what I’m going to do. I don’t feel any pressure. I’m just going to have fun out there.”

With a muscular 6-foot1, 209-pound frame, Luciano came with a reputation for his powerful right-handed swing, and he showed why. First in batting practice, he launched one moonshot that nearly made it to the

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Willie Snead IV.

concourse in left field. Then, in his first at-bat, he attacked a first-pitch fastball and nearly came up with his first big-league home run on his first swing.

He had to settle for a 338-foot fly out.

“Obviously he went to the plate ready to hit,” manager Gabe Kapler said. “I thought he put a good swing on that ball. He looked great in the box.”

It didn’t take long after accepting the managerial post in 2020 before Kapler had the run down on Luciano, their top prospect even back then. That

Stats: 3-of-10 in team drills with an interception and no touchdowns (no quarterback has thrown a touchdown in team drills through two practices); 5-of-7 in 7-on-7 action with no linemen.

TREY LANCE

After completing 4-of-5 passes in Wednesday’s full-team drills, Lance completed just two passes in a limited encore as he rotated second-team reps with Sam Darnold. Lance’s first pass, to Jennings, nearly got intercepted by Flannigan-Fowles and Sam Womack. Linebacker Marcelino McCrary-Ball broke up Lance’s next pass, for Ty Davis-Price,

included scouts’ belief that because of his large frame, Luciano would one day have to move off shortstop, to third base or maybe the outfield.

But Luciano and the Giants believe he has taken significant strides defensively, and it showed in his debut.

The second batter of the game, Zack Gelof, rolled a grounder toward shortstop that Luciano charged and backhanded. He double-clutched on the throw, taking just enough time to fire an accurate throw to LaMonte Wade Jr. at first base to get Gelof by a step.

before completions came to Jordan Mason and Danny Gray.

Stats: 2-of-5 in team drills

SAM DARNOLD

Darnold got skipped in the first rotation of quarterbacks during 11-on-11 drills, with Lance immediately relieving Purdy, followed by Brandon Allen. Darnold made good on his first opportunity, however, and completed a 20-yard strike to Deebo Samuel on the sideline vs. Womack.

One of Darnold’s best plays came when he unleashed a highspeed pass that Gray leaped to grab (then fumble and recover). Darnold may exercise too much patience at times in the pocket, but when he throws, he throws hard. Another highlight came when Darnold found Aiyuk for a 30-yard shot, after Womack slipped in coverage.

Stats: 3-of-5 in team drills.

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CITYOFRIOVISTA PROPOSEDORDINANCESUMMARY

TheCityCounciloftheCityofRioVista willconsideradoptingOrdinance005-2023 atitsRegularMeetingonAugust1,2023 at6:00p.m.,intheCityHallCouncil Chambers,1MainStreet,RioVista,CA Themeetingmaybeattendedinperso n andalsobeaccessedviaZoomat Weblink:https://zoom.us/j/98631154749

DialbyLocation:+16699006833US (SanJose),MeetingID:98631154749.In summary,theproposedOrdinanceisas foll ows:

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PleasecontactCityClerkPamCarononganatpcaronongan@ci.riovista.ca.usorbycalling707-374-6567for furtherinformationorquestions.

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Luciano also teamed up with Casey Schmitt to turn two 6-4-3 double plays, scooping up a grounder from Aledmys Diaz to start an inning-ended turn in the second and another from Gelof for the first two outs of the fifth.

“Those were smooth, easy turns,” Kapler said. “His first play, to his backhand, he looked really really relaxed and like he had a pretty good clock in him. The play was fast, right? He got the base runner by a step. After that it seems he got more comfortable out there.”

Luciano, just like Luis

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new Captain America, the one whose super powers come out once provoked. “Peeved” would be the G-rated word to describe Horan after she absorbed hard contact from Dutch player Daniëlle van de Donk in the 59th minute. The two are teammates on the French club Olympique Lyonnais, but when the referee tried to work an intervention shortly after the contact, Horan still wasn’t ready to make nice with her old buddy. She was good and mad, and on the following corner – a set piece that finally worked – Horan turned her frustration into fire and headed the ball into a sweet

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Matos, had his debut cut short by a pinch-hitter. Consider it an indoctrination. (Catcher Patrick Bailey fittingly debuted as a defensive replacement for a pinch-hitter.)

Kapler said it was an easy call, with Luciano’s spot due up to lead off the seventh inning against a right-hander, Angel Felipe. Those situations are earmarked for Joc Pederson, and while it didn’t work out, you don’t have to look far back for proof of concept; Austin Slater hit a pinch-hit homer the inning prior. One day, though, the

caress of the net.

“Coming back from being a goal down is huge,” Ertz told Fox Sports after the match. “

... And I think that just speaks volumes to the players and the energy that we can bring in, the game-changers that came in. I thought Rose elevated it when she came in as well. But that’s what the tournament is about. You just roll up your sleeves. You find your grit, and then you find your goals.”

After the captain answered, the fear was gone. The U.S. resembled the deepest squad in the tournament we thought they’d be. In the 67th minute, Trinity Rodman, another one of the newcomers, delivered a sweet pass to Morgan, but Morgan was offsides and her would-be go-ahead goal didn’t count. Later, Rodman had the step on a Dutch defender but

Giants hope Luciano will be the one taking those big at-bats.

“Obviously we’ll have a conversation with Marco, though I don’t think it requires much explanation,” Kapler said. “It might be a good time to just say, hey, it doesn’t meant that we don’t think you’re not gonna take down huge at-bats for us. Joc Pederson is kind of a special hitter. We have guys on the bench like that for a reason.”

not the angle, and her best shot of the day veered wide of the net. She looked up to the sky after just missing the game-winner, and the USWNT settled for a tie.

So in their two World Cup matches, the Americans remain undefeated. They have shown flashes of their speed and strength. They outshot the Netherlands, 18 to 4, and earned 11 corner kicks to one for the Netherlands. They still sit atop the Group E standings, thanks to a superior goal differential, although the Netherlands could claim the top seed with a blowout of Vietnam.

However, something’s not quite right about this team. Its dominance is missing. Its opponents aren’t afraid. And that should scare the living confidence out of America.

Legal and Public Notices

SealedproposalswillbereceivedbytheCityClerkoftheCityofSuisunCity,701Civic CenterBlvd,SuisunCity,CA,94585until2:00P.M.onWednesday,August23,2023,for workinaccordancewiththeprojectplansandspecificationstowhichspecialreferenceis made,asfollows:

RECTANGULARRAPIDFLASHINGBEACONSPROJECT

ProjectNumber:HSIPL-5032(037)

ThegeneralprojectscopeincludesinstallingRect angularRapidFlashingBeacons (RRFB)andothercrossingimprovementsatthefollowingthreelocations:

1)GoldenEyeWayatShovellerDrive.

2)HarrierDrivenorthofOspreyWay.

3)PintailDriveatCraneDrive(AdditiveAlternate).

Projectscopealsoinclude,butisnotlimitedtoinstallingcurbextensions(bulbouts) pavementmarkings/striping,androadwaysigns,aswellasreplacingsidewalk,existing crosswalkswithahighvisibilitycrosswalks,andcurbram pswithADA-compliantcurb ramps.

Attentionisdirectedtotheplansandspecificationsforcompletedetailsandbidrequirements.

OBTAININGCONTRACTDOCUMENTS:Copiesofthecontractdocument,specifications,anddrawingsmaybeobtainedbyloggingonto http://www.blueprintexpress.com/suisuncityorbycalling BPXpressReprographicsat707745-3593.Theseitemsmaybeobtainedbyprospectivebiddersuponreceiptofanon-refundablefeeof$65.00perset, plusshipping.

Proposalswillbeopenedandreadaloudat2:00P.M.atCityHall,onthedayspecified above.

Nopre-bidmeetingisscheduledforthisproject.

Forbondingpurposes,theEngineersEstimateis$210,000. Inquiriesorquestionsbasedonallegedpatentambiguityoftheplans,specificationsor estimatemustbecommunicatedasabidderinquirypriortobidopening.Anysuchinquiriesorquestions,submittedafterbidopening,willnotbetreatedasabidprotest.

RefertoSection2-1.06oftheSpecialProvisionsforrequirementofContractorsandSubcontractorstoberegisteredwiththeDepartmentofIndustrialRelations(DIR)tobeeligibletosubmitaresponsivebid.

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Bidsarerequiredfortheentireworkdescribedherein.ThiscontractissubjecttoState contract,nondiscriminationandcompliancerequirementspursuanttoGovernmentCode Section12990.

Thesuccessfulbiddershallfurnishabidbond,apaymentbondandaperformancebond Materials&LaborBond,andaone–yearwarrantybondwhenworkiscompleted.The Contractorandallsub-contractorsshallpossessavalidSuisunCitybusinesslicensepriortos tartofwork.

TheCityofSuisunCityreservestherighttopostponethedateandtimefortheopening ofproposalsatanytimepriortothedateandtimeannouncedintheadvertisement. BiddersmustdirectallquestionsaboutthemeaningorintentofBiddingdocumentstothe Cityinwritingviae-mailtoNickLozanoatnlozano@suisun.comandtoGemmaGeluzat ggeluz@suisun.com.InterpretationsorclarificationsconsiderednecessarybytheCityin responsetosuchquestions willbeissuedbyAddendaviae-mailtothosebidderswho areontheplanholderslistmaintainedbyBPXpressReprographics.AllbiddersshallconfirmthattheyhavebeenincludedontheofficialplanholderslistmaintainedbyBPXpress Reprographics.Thedeadlinetosubmitquestionsis5:00P.M.onTuesday,August15 2023,unlesssubsequentlymodifiedbytheCitybyaddendum.Onlyquestionsanswered byformalwrittenAddendawillbebinding.Oralandotherinterpreta tionsorclarifications willbewithoutlegaleffect.ItshallbetheBidder sresponsibilitytoensureithasreceived allAddendaissuedpriortosubmittingabid.

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Nocontractororsubcontractormaybelistedontheproposalforthisprojectunlessthey areregisteredwiththeCaliforniaDepartmentofIndustrialRelations(DIR).Inotherwords nocontractororsubcontractormaybeawardedthecontractforthisprojectunlessthey areregisteredwiththeDIR.WorkperformedonthisprojectissubjecttocompliancemonitoringandenforcementbytheDIR.TheContractormustpostjobsitecompliancewith Title8CaliforniaCodeofRegulationsSection16451.Also,theContractorandhissubs arerequiredtosubmitcertifiedpay rollrecordstotheLaborCommissioner.Certified PayrollRecordsmustbesubmittedonlineaftersettingupanonlineaccount : https://apps.dir.ca.gov/ecpr/DAS/AltLogin. Allproposalsshallbevalidforaperiodofsixty(60)daysafterthebidopening.TheCity ofSuisunCityreservestherighttorejectanyandallbidsortowaiveanydefectsorinformalityinthebidding. DR#00064928 Published:July28August4,2023

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AMENDED ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME

PETITION OF: ZUKHRA ALEXANDRA MARIYA COLLINGS-PATTERSON CASE NUMBER: FCS059712 TOALLINTERESTEDPERSONS: Petitioner:ZukhraalexandraMariyaColings-Pattersonfiledapetitionwiththis courtforadecreechangingnamesasfollows:

PresentName: a. Zukhra Alexandra Mariya CollingsPatterson

ProposedName: a. Zukhra Alexandra Mariya Collings Patterson THECOURTORDERSthatallpersonsinterestedinthismattershallappearbefore thiscourtatthehearingindicatedbelowto showcause,ifany,whythepetitionfor changeofnameshouldnotbegranted. Anypersonobjectingtothename changesdescribedabovemustfileawrittenobjectionthatincludesthereasonsfor theobjectionatleasttwocourtdaysbeforethematterisscheduledtobeheard andmustappearatthehearingtoshow causewhythepetitionshouldnotbegranted.Ifnowrittenobjectionistimely filed, thecourtmaygrantthepetitionwithouta hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING

Date: July 26, 2023; Time: 8:30 am; Dept: 12; Rm: I The address of the court is: SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SOLANO Old Solano Courthouse 580 Texas Street Fairfield, CA 94533 AcopyofthisOrdertoShowCausemust bepublishedatleastonceeachweekfor foursuccessiveweeksbeforethedateset forhearingonthepetitioninthefollowing newspaperofgeneral circulation,printed inthiscounty:FairfieldDailyRepublic PleasefileProofofPublication5businessdaysinadvanceofhearingdate. (newspaperdoesnotfilew/court).

Date:6/5/2023 /s/C.Carringer JudgeoftheSuperiorCourt FILED:JUN072023 DR#00064654 Published:July14,21,28August4,2023