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MIKE HODGSON [email protected] Members of the public have until Friday to comment on a Trump administration plan to open what an environmental or- ganization says is nearly 122,000 acres of federal land and mineral estate in Santa Barbara County to fracking and oil drilling. Sites are located near Nojo- qui Falls County Park, Cachuma Lake, Highway 154, Tepusquet Canyon, Purisima Hills, Van- denberg Air Force Base, Sisquoc River, the Cuyama Valley foot- hills and Carpinteria. Local nonprofi t watchdog orga- nization Los Padres ForestWatch LEN WOOD, STAFF said it based its claim about the Cars turn into Costco from Bradley Road on Friday afternoon. O cials hope to open up the median in front of the northern entrance to the amount of land that could be parking lot, to allow greater access. opened to leasing on Global Infor- mation System data provided by the Bureau of Land Management. “This plan is a direct attack on some of the most iconic land- Costco parking lot, Betteravia marks in Santa Barbara County,” said ForestWatch Executive Di- rector Je Kuyper. “Drilling and fracking would irreparably change these places that have highway access to get makeover been set aside for their outdoor recreation opportunities, wild- New entry points, Set to go out to bid within up as motorists entering Costco principal city engineer. life habitat and scenic views.” the next two weeks, the plan to slowed down before turning Community members have The Bureau of Land Manage- turn pockets and improve access to Costco’s lot down one of the lanes to park. had complaints about the ac- ment did not respond to a re- addresses an issue that has been The goal is to give motorists cess into Costco’s lot at the quest for comment by the end extended medians ongoing since the store’s 2017 driving south on Bradley Road Meehan Street tra c light since of the day Friday. opening. a way to enter Costco before it opened, and it was no di erent Areas slated for drilling are RAZI SYED The Costco store — a Meehan Street, as well as to Friday afternoon. part of a regional study launched [email protected] 156,000-square-foot building create a narrow tapered me- Santa Maria resident Rich in August evaluating the envi- Looking to clear up tra c on an 18.2-acre lot — was ap- dian that would create a side Winslow said creating a second ronmental and public health im- and vehicle congestion around proved by the Planning Com- pocket for cars waiting to make access point would likely help pacts of fracking on 1.6 million Costco, Santa Maria is moving mission in March 2016 with left turns. reduce congestion at the main acres across six Central Califor- forward with plans to create three entrances to its parking The city hopes to have a con- entrance but feels the parking nia counties. another point of access to the lot. The main entrance, which tractor selected by mid-October lot design is fl awed. parking lot and remove part of a utilizes a tra c light at Meehan and to start construction shortly Please see OIL, Page A6 median on Bradley Road. Street, routinely became backed thereafter, said Rodger Olds, Please see ROADS, Page A6

President, stars join in farewell to Queen of Soul SB County JEFF KAROUB leum at Wood- Associated Press lawn Cemetery in fire chief DETROIT — A president and Detroit, just over preachers joined a parade of two weeks after music stars and other speakers she died of pan- announces Friday in a singing, hip-sway- creatic cancer at ing, piano-pounding farewell to age 76. Aretha Franklin, remembering In a send-o retirement the Queen of Soul as a powerful both grand and Franklin force for musical and political personal, a ce- Eric Peterson change and a steadfast friend lebrity lineup of mourners fi lled and family member. the same Detroit church that will leave post “Aretha’s singing challenged hosted Rosa Parks’ funeral and the dangling discords of hate and o ered prayers, songs and doz- at end of October lies and racism and injustice,” the ens of tributes. Guests included pastor William J. Barber II said. former President Bill Clinton, MIKE HODGSON PAUL SANCYA, ASSOCIATED PRESS “Her singing was revelation and former fi rst lady Hillary Clin- [email protected] Louis Farrakhan, from left, Rev. Al Sharpton, Rev. Jesse Jackson and was revolution.” ton, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Stevie Santa Barbara County Fire former President Bill Clinton attend the funeral service for Aretha On Friday evening, Franklin’s Chief Eric Peterson formally Franklin at Greater Grace Temple on Friday in Detroit. casket was interred in a mauso- Please see FRANKLIN, Page A6 announced Friday he will retire at the end of October. Although Pe- terson had dis- cussed his re- California police fight statewide marijuana deliveries tirement with friends and col- Opponents say rule largest pot market. States Council have set up a tion, California will lose these leagues in recent Police chiefs on Friday lined website that depicts wide-eyed safeguards,” council executive months, no o - would allow deliveries up against a proposed state rule children gesturing toward a pot director James Araby said in a cial announce- that critics say would allow un- delivery van outside a school. statement. ment was made Peterson in banned areas checked home marijuana deliv- They are asking opponents to The proposal has become a until Friday. eries anywhere in California — sign an online petition. major issue as the state considers Peterson has been with the MICHAEL R. BLOOD even in communities that have “Regulated marijuana dis- a series of changes to rules gov- department for 32 years, serving Associated Press banned cannabis sales. pensaries have tough security, erning the legal marketplace that as a fi refi ghter, engineer, captain, LOS ANGELES — A growing The California Police Chiefs checks for identity and legal age launched in January. The dispute training battalion chief, opera- dispute over where legal mari- Association, League of Califor- and strictly licensed workers. If could end up in court. tions battalion chief, fi re marshal juana can be delivered in Cali- nia Cities and United Food and marijuana can be delivered any- fornia is unsettling the nation’s Commercial Workers Western where with virtually no regula- Please see MARIJUANA, Page A6 Please see PETERSON, Page A6

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MS-13 used farm town as a base for crime Utility union benefits More than two committed in other juris- dictions and to prepare to dozen gang commit crimes in states as far away as New York,” members, affiliates Fresno County District from wildfire measure Attorney Lisa Smittcamp charged in probe said at a news conference Workers would in Fresno with state and win protections for SUDHIN THANAWALA federal officials. Associated Press‌ Mendota has a popula- jobs, salaries, and ‌SAN FRANCISCO — tion of roughly 11,000 peo- More than two dozen ple and lies 35 miles west of pensions MS-13 gang members and Fresno in California’s agri- affiliates were arrestedculturally rich Central Val- JONATHAN J. COOPER and charged following a ley. Nearly the entire pop- Associated Press‌ monthslong murder and ulation is Hispanic, with ‌SACRAMENTO — Utility drug trafficking investi- many immigrants from El workers would get protec- gation centered on a rural Salvador. tions for their jobs, salaries, California farm city that MS-13 is linked to more benefits and pensions as the gang turned into a base than 12 murders in Men- part of a measure allowing for its operations, U.S. and dota and western Fresno California power compa- state prosecutors said Fri- County over the past two nies to raise electric bills to day. years, said McGregor Scott, cover the cost of lawsuits MS-13 took advantage the U.S. attorney in Sacra- from last year’s deadly of limited resources in mento. The federal charges wildfires. the city of Mendota and announced Friday include The job protections ben- used it and other areas of allegations that two MS-13 efit politically connected Fresno County to “con- gang members kidnapped unions that joined with KENT PORTER, THE PRESS DEMOCRAT VIA AP‌ duct their crimes, to hide and murdered a Fresno utility management in lob- In this Oct. 9, 2017, file photo, a Cazadero firefighter struggles to protect a home from out from crimes that they County man in December. bying aggressively for the catching fire in CoffeyP ark, in Santa Rosa. Utility workers won protections for their jobs, ability to pass along the cost salaries, benefits and pensions as part of a measure allowing California power companies to of 2017 wildfire lawsuits to raise electric bills to cover the cost of lawsuits from last year’s deadly wildfires. LOTTERIES customers, even if the util- ity behaved negligently. ing a study showing the cords show. in Santa Rosa. Daily 3 Mega Millions The measure, which also Public Utilities Commis- Some of the measure’s PG&E suspended divi- „„ Midday: 2-5-7. Evening: „„ 07-18-29-32-45, Mega includes efforts to improve sion that there would be “no most vocal opponents dends to shareholders and 4-1-1 Ball: 17, Megaplier: 3. forest health and prevent reduction” in the ability to weren’t bothered by the la- executives expect to pay Daily 4 Estimated jackpot: $152 wildfires, is scheduled for respond to emergencies or bor provisions. billions in an eventual legal „„ 4-4-4-2 million votes in the Senate and As- respond to mutual aid re- “They are people with settlement. Daily Derby Powerball (Wednesday) sembly Friday night follow- quests from other utilities. families. Who can argue Utilities regulators gen- „„ 1st:12 Lucky Charms- „„ 25-41-53-57-67, Power- ing months of contentious The International Broth- with that?” said Jamie erally don’t let utilities bill 2nd:5 California Clas- ball: 12, Power Play: 2. negotiations. erhood of Electrical Work- Court, president of Con- their customers for the sic-3rd:8 Gorgeous Estimated jackpot: $90 Large power users and ers worries wildfire lawsuits sumer Watchdog. “The damage linked to impru- George, Race Time: million ratepayer advocates have would drive PG&E into bailout is largely a corporate dent management of elec- 1:41.41. Estimated jack- SuperLotto Plus (Wednes- blasted the measure, call- bankruptcy, threatening giveaway so at least workers trical equipment, but the pot: $398,000. day) ing it a bailout of Pacific jobs and pensions for its got something.” legislation lawmakers are Fantasy 5 „„ 10-23-28-38-39, Mega Gas & Electric company, thousands of union work- California courts have considering would create „„ 02-03-05-26-37. Esti- Ball: 15. Estimated jack- which has been blamed for ers. Unions also worry that ruled that utilities are en- a special process for the mated jackpot: $82,000 pot: $28 million some of the 2017 wildfires hedge funds take control of tirely liable for damage 2017 fires. It seeks to take that tore through Northern PG&E or Sempra Energy, caused by power lines, even as much as possible from California. the parent company of San if they’ve followed all safety PG&E’s investors without “Everybody’s getting Diego Gas & Electric and regulations. Lawmakers harming ratepayers, such protected, but customers,” Southern California Gas considered changing that as by trigger bankruptcy said Michael Boccadoro, ex- Company, said Scott Wetch, standard but backed off or downgrades in its credit ecutive director of the Agri- a lobbyist for the Coalition amid a barrage of lobbying rating. cultural Energy Consumers of California Utility Em- by wildfire victims and in- For the rest, the Pub- Association. “Utility share- ployees, a union group. surance companies. lic Utilities Commission holders are protected. Trial “We want to make sure Fire investigators have would have the option to 3200 Skyway Drive , P.O. Box 400, Santa Maria, CA 93456-0400 © Santa Maria Times Inc. 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Broadway, Santa Maria • 805.739.8895 ban on gay blood donors. 1 Santa Maria Times Saturday, September 1, 2018 | A3 NATION&WORLD DIGEST JOHN MCCAIN, 1936-2018 Lawyer details talks with British spy WASHINGTON — A senior Justice Department lawyer says Leaders salute senator former British spy Christopher Steele told him at a breakfast Colleagues pay tribute lious streak and today, near the end of his long The stop at the Capitol was de- meeting July 30, 2016, that impish humor. journey, John lies here.” signed to spotlight McCain’s out- Russian intelligence believed it to one of ‘bravest souls’ Absent from the Friday’s ceremony and pub- sized role in an institution burst- had Donald Trump “over a bar- event was Donald lic viewing was the midpoint of ing with big, willful personalities. rel,” according to multiple peo- that nation produced Trump, invited McCain’s five-day cross-country Just to the north of the rotunda in ple familiar with the encounter. to stay away by funeral procession from Arizona, the semi-darkened Senate, Mc- The lawyer, Bruce Ohr, also LAURIE KELLMAN AND MATTHEW DALY the family of the where he and wife Cindy raised Cain’s desk remained draped in says he learned that a Trump Associated Press‌ senator, who had their family, through the Cap- black and topped with a vase of campaign aide had met with ‌WASHINGTON — Congressio- McCain deep disagree- itol where he worked for more white roses. higher-level Russian officials nal leaders saluted John McCain ments with the than 35 years, to the U.S. Naval After the ceremony, Cindy than the aide had acknowl- on Friday as a model of service president. Academy cemetery in Annapo- McCain quietly sat behind her edged, the people said. Ohr de- in war and peace and “one of the McCain’s service in Vietnam, lis, Maryland — “back where it husband’s desk, escorted by his scribed to lawmakers this week bravest souls our nation has ever and his refusal to be released began,” as he wrote in his recent seatmate and close friend, Sen. in a private interview the details produced,” in a memorial cere- early as a prisoner of war, made memoir, “The Restless Wave.” Lindsey Graham. previously unreported. mony at the heart of the political the setting of Friday’s service all Today, the procession will pause Cindy McCain was the first battlefield where he fought for the more fitting, some said. by the Vietnam Veterans Memo- to pay respects at her husband’s more than three decades. “Half a world away, wearing our rial on the way to a formal funeral casket. She bowed over it and Order to help with Then thousands of fellow nation’s uniform, John McCain service at Washington National appeared to pray. The last of the retirement plans Americans, who had lined up stood up for every value that this Cathedral. family to file past was his mother, CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Pres- outside the U.S. Capitol in sti- Capitol Building represents,” Sen- In Trump’s absence, Vice Pres- 106-year-old Roberta McCain. ident Donald Trump signed an fling heat, began filing past in the ate Majority Leader Mitch McCo- ident Mike Pence, Defense Secre- Wheeled up to her son’s flag- executive order Friday directing majestic rotunda to say goodbye nnell told the crowd of McCain’s tary James Mattis, White House draped casket, she crossed herself the Labor and Treasury depart- as he lay in state. family, friends and aides. “Then, Chief of Staff John Kelly and other and was wheeled out. ments to help small businesses McCain, the Arizona sena- he brought that same patriotism officials represented the admin- As the service ended, thousands band together to offer retire- tor who died last Saturday at inside its walls — to advocate for istration. Pence at one point said of people were guided into snak- ment plans to their workers. 81, was remembered as a man our service members, our veter- that Trump, who mocked McCain ing lines along First Street on the Trump asked the depart- who inspired other leaders even ans and our moral leadership in for being captured, “respected his border of the Capitol complex to ments to take steps to elimi- as he vexed them with a rebel- the world. So it is only right that service to the country.” pay respects to McCain. nate regulatory hurdles that he said keep small businesses from sharing costs so they can offer what are called association re- UNITED NATIONS tirement plans. He said admin- Sex abuse istrative costs and other barri- ers discourage small businesses from making retirement plans allegations available to their employees. BRIEFLY adding to GUATEMALA: Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales an- nounced Friday that he is shutting down a crusading pressure U.N.-sponsored anti-graft commission that pressed a El Salvador contends number of high-profile cor- ruption probes, including one three migrant kids pending against the president himself over purported illicit abused at US shelters campaign financing. Morales said he had informed the U.N. JULIE WATSON AND MARCOS ALEMAN Associated Press‌ secretary-general of his deci- sion not to renew the body’s ‌SAN DIEGO — The Trump ad- mandate, and the government ministration is under increasing clarified it will remain in the pressure to speed up the reuni- country until Sept. 3, 2019. fication of immigrant families it separated at the Mexican bor- DACA: A federal judge on Friday der, following allegations three declined to order that the U.S. youngsters were sexually abused government halt an Obama- ADEL HANA, ASSOCIATED PRESS‌ while in U.S. custody. era program that shields young The government of El Salvador Protesters walk toward the fence where Israeli troops fire tear gas while others burn tires Friday at the Gaza immigrants from deportation, said the three, ages 12 to 17, were Strip border with Israel. marking a blow to President victimized at shelters in Arizona, Donald Trump and opponents and it asked the U.S. to make their of the Deferred Action for Child- return a priority. hood Arrivals program. U.S. Dis- “May they leave the shelters trict Judge Andrew Hanen said as soon as possible, because it is Texas and six other conservative US stops funding for there that they are the most vul- states that sued to block DACA nerable,” Deputy Foreign Rela- couldn’t prove that allowing the tions Minister Liduvina Magarin program to continue was causing said in San Salvador on Thursday. irreparable harm. The U.S. government already Palestinian refugees is facing heavy criticism over CRASH LAWSUIT: A Califor- nia-based trucking company its slow pace in reuniting more and one of its drivers were ac- Country funds nearly yet unclear peace plan for Israel we made it clear that the United than 2,600 children who were cused of negligence Friday in a and the Palestinians, and it could States was no longer willing to separated from their parents last pair of lawsuits as investigators 30 percent of relief intensify Palestinian suspicions shoulder the very disproportion- spring before the Trump adminis- sorted through the wreckage that Washington is using the hu- ate share of the burden of UNR- tration agreed to stop the practice. from a deadly bus crash on a New agency’s total budget manitarian funding as leverage. WA’s costs that we had assumed Hundreds remain apart more than Mexico highway. Eight people The Palestinian leadership has for many years,” the statement a month after the deadline set by were killed and 25 injured, in- SUSANNAH GEORGE been openly hostile to any pro- said. “Several countries, includ- a judge. Associated Press‌ cluding three young children. posal from the administration, ing Jordan, Egypt, Sweden, Qatar, Before the Trump adminis- The Greyhound bus carrying ‌WASHINGTON — The United citing what it says is a pro-Israel and the UAE (United Arab Emir- tration reversed course, many of nearly 50 people was headed States is ending its decades of bias, notably after Trump recog- ates) have shown leadership in the parents had been deported to west on Interstate 40 Thursday funding for the U.N. agency that nized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital addressing this problem, but the their home countries while their when a semitrailer going in the helps Palestinian refugees, the in December and moved the U.S. overall international response has children remained in shelters in opposite direction lost the tread State Department announced embassy there from Tel Aviv in not been sufficient.” the U.S. on its left front tire and veered Friday, a week after slashing bi- May. The Palestinian Authority The statement criticized the Attorneys for the U.S. govern- across a median and smashed lateral U.S. aid for projects in the broke off contact with the U.S. “fundamental business model ment and the immigrant fami- into the bus, police said. West Bank and Gaza. after the Jerusalem announce- and fiscal practices” of UNRWA, lies discussed how to accelerate The U.S. supplies nearly 30 ment. and what the department char- the process at a hearing Friday in SCHOOL SAFETY: A federal percent of the total budget of the In 2016, the U.S. donated $355 acterized as the “endlessly and San Diego in front of U.S. District panel convened after the deadly U.N. Relief and Works Agency, or million to the UNRWA, which exponentially expanding com- Judge Dana Sabraw, who set the school shooting in Parkland, UNRWA, and had been demand- provides health care, education munity of entitled beneficiaries.” deadline. Florida, will issue a series of best ing reforms in the way it is run. and social services to Palestin- Meanwhile, Gaza’s Health Magarin gave few details on practices to make schools safer, The department said in a written ians in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Ministry says Israeli gunfire has the three cases other than to say including recommendations on statement that the United States Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, and wounded about 80 Palestinians they involved “sexual violations, arming teachers, Frank Brogan, “will no longer commit further it was set to make a similar con- at a weekly protest along the bor- sexual abuses.” She said her gov- assistant secretary of elemen- funding to this irredeemably tribution this year. In January the der with Israel. ernment is ready with lawyers and tary and secondary education, flawed operation.” The deci- Trump administration released It said Friday a female medic psychologists to help the families. told The Associated Press. Age sion cuts nearly $300 million of $60 million in funds but withheld was critically wounded from “It’s unbelievable that children restrictions on gun purchases planned support. a further $65 million it had been a gunshot to the back and a who were fleeing violence here also are being considered. It comes as President Don- due to provide. The remaining 10-year-old boy seriously in- were met in the United States VILLAGE VOICE: The Village ald Trump and his Middle East amount — around $290 million jured. with the worst violence a child Voice, the Pulitzer Prize-win- pointmen, Jared Kushner and — had yet to be allocated. Hamas, the militant group that could encounter,” said Cesar Rios, ning alternative weekly known Jason Greenblatt, prepare for the “When we made a U.S. contri- rules Gaza, vowed to continue the director of the Salvadoran Migrant for its muckraking investiga- rollout of a much-vaunted but as bution of $60 million in January, protests. Institute. tions, exhaustive arts criticism, naughty personal ads and neu- rosis-laden cartoons, is going out of business after 63 years. US trade official’s negotiations with Canada break up Its publisher, Peter Barbey, an- nounced Friday that the paper is ceasing publication altogether Nations to resume next President Donald Trump no- an impasse in four days of nego- CORD COMMENTS to Bloomberg because of financial problems, tified Congress on Friday that tiations with U.S. Trade Repre- concerning Canada, and this a year after it stopped circulat- week; Trump to sign he plans to sign an agreement in sentative Robert Lighthizer. The powerful understanding was BLA- ing in print and went to digi- 90 days with Mexico to replace U.S.-Canada talks will resume TANTLY VIOLATED. Oh well, just tal-only. Mexico deal in 90 days the North American Free Trade Wednesday. more dishonest reporting. I am Agreement — and hopes Canada The negotiations had taken used to it. At least Canada knows LOBBYIST CHARGED: W. Sa m- LUIS ALONSO LUGO, PAUL WISEMAN can be brought on board, too. an odd turn for the worse Friday where I stand!” uel Patten, a business associate AND ROB GILLIES Congress eventually would have over news that President Donald Freeland tried to brush off the of a co-defendant of former Associated Press‌ to approve any agreement. Trump had told Bloomberg News controversy in a news conference. Trump campaign chairman Paul ‌WASHINGTON — Talks to keep The U.S. and Mexico reached that he wasn’t willing to make any “My negotiating counterparty is Manafort, pleaded guilty Friday Canada in a North American trade a deal on Monday that excluded concessions to Canada. Trump Ambassador Lighthizer,” she said. to failing to register as a foreign bloc broke up Friday and will re- Canada. The top Canadian trade said he wanted the remarks to re- “He has brought good faith and agent for a Ukrainian political sume next week with the two envoy, Foreign Affairs Minister main off-the-record. good will to the table.” party and also admitted his role longtime allies divided over such Chrystia Freeland, then hurried The comments were leaked to “It is Trump’s bluster at best, in a $50,000 donation scheme issues as Canada’s dairy market to Washington for talks aimed at the Toronto Star, and on Friday af- but obviously he is not going to involving the presidential inau- and U.S. efforts to shield drug preserving Canada’s membership ternoon, Trump took to Twitter to force anyone into a bad deal,” said guration. companies from generic compe- in the regional trade agreement. angrily confirm the Star’s report: Jerry Dias, president of the Cana- 00 1 — Associated Press tition. But Freeland couldn’t break “Wow, I made OFF THE RE- dian private-sector union Unifor. 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NASA/JPL-CALTECH/CORNELL/ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, AP‌ This composite image made from June 7-19, 2017, photos shows the scene from NASA’s Opportunity rover outside Endeavor Crater on the planet Mars. Flight controllers have been on the alert for a message from Opportunity ever since a dust storm enveloped Mars in June and contact was lost. NASA anxious to hear from Opportunity rover on Mars clear. again. If there’s no word back in cious rover to pull her feet from expectations. They were launched Contact from Flight controllers have been on the next couple of months, NASA the fire one more time,” project separately in 2003 and landed on Opportunity lost the alert for a message from Op- said it will cut back on its listening manager John Callas said in a Mars in 2004. portunity ever since a dust storm effort. Even if a message does get statement from NASA’s Jet Pro- NASA’s younger Curiosity rover since dust storm enveloped Mars in June and con- through, that may be the most the pulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, was unaffected by the dust storm; tact was lost. The storm has finally rover — mute since June 10 — can California. it relies on nuclear, versus solar, MARCIA DUNN diminished. That means the sky muster. Opportunity’s twin, Spirit, power. AP Aerospace Writer‌ is now clear enough for Oppor- Even before the dust storm, the got stuck in soft Martian dirt in Another NASA spacecraft, ‌CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — tunity’s solar panels to receive 15-year-old rover was exhibiting 2009, and NASA eventually gave meanwhile, is on its way to Mars NASA is anxious to hear from its sunlight and fire back up. signs of old age. Its front steering up trying to free it. Both rovers and should land in November. dust-silenced Mars rover, Oppor- But NASA this week warned it and flash memory are shot. were designed to operate for just Named InSight, this robotic ex- tunity, as the planet’s red skies may never hear from Opportunity “We are pulling for our tena- 90 days, however, and exceeded plorer has solar panels. Questions loom for Brett Kavanaugh In hyperpartisan JESSICA GRESKO indicted tion and preme Court cases — one Associated Press‌ during the investiga- involving Clinton and one US, independent ‌WASHINGTON — Su- term of of- tion while involving President Rich- preme Court nominee fice?” Ka- in office. It ard Nixon — indicating Brett Kavanaugh may be vanaugh never hap- that a sitting president isn’t campaigns join forces the person sitting in front raised his pened. The immune from certain legal of senators at next week’s hand. Supreme obligations. SUSAN HAIGH show voters there is a na- confirmation hearings, but Two Jus- Court In 1974, the court ruled Associated Press‌ tional movement, she pre- many of the questions he tice De- Kavanaugh Trump could still unanimously that Nixon ‌HARTFORD, Conn. — dicts, people will feel more gets are likely to be focused partment conclude had to produce subpoe- Kyle Bailey knows firsthand comfortable giving their vote on another man: President reports, one in 1973 and that the Constitution pro- naed recordings and doc- it can be lonely working on to someone different. Donald Trump. one in 2000 , came to the vides the same protection. uments. A 1999 magazine a campaign for an indepen- “What we see now is a Ongoing investigations same conclusion. And article about a roundtable dent political candidate. legitimate movement,” said swirling around Trump Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Gi- The president can be discussion Kavanaugh par- There’s no party struc- Brady Quinn, O’Dear’s cam- mean that lawmakers will uliani, has said that special subpoenaed ticipated in quotes him as ture to rely on to help with paign manager. “We’ve seen want to know how Kava- counsel Robert Mueller’s saying : “maybe Nixon was campaign fundraising, mo- third parties, but we’ve never naugh might vote on ques- team has indicated they Whether a sitting presi- wrongly decided — heresy bilizing voters, developing seen a movement. Our goal tions such as whether a would not attempt to in- dent must respond to a sub- though it is to say so.” More policies or even providing a is not to create a new party. president can be charged dict Trump. poena and answer questions recently, however, he listed sounding board. That lack of ... It’s to provide people that with a crime or be forced to Expect lawmakers to from investigators is another it among several landmark support adds to the challenge don’t affiliate with a party a testify as part of an investi- press the issue using two open question, and one per- Supreme Court cases, say- of getting someone who is place to go.” gation. Democrats also are law review articles Kava- haps more likely than the ing “some of the greatest not a Democrat or Republi- Kyle Lyddy, campaign expected to ask Kavanaugh naugh wrote. issue of indictment to come moments in American judi- can elected in the U.S. manager for Griebel, sees whether he can be truly in- In the first , pub- before the Supreme Court. cial history have been when But these days, Bailey feels that message resonating dependent from the presi- lished months after the Mueller hasn’t said that judges stood up to the other a lot less isolated. As the in 2018, given the rancor dent who picked him. hand-raising episode, he he intends to subpoena branches.” campaign manager for Maine and hyperpartisanship of Supreme Court nom- wrote that whether the Trump, but his team raised In 1997, meanwhile, the independent gubernatorial national politics that has inees avoid giving legal Constitution allows a sit- the prospect with Trump’s court ruled unanimously candidate Terry Hayes, he seeped into state politics. His opinions during their con- ting president to be in- lawyers in March . If that that Clinton wasn’t im- has joined forces with a loose ticket gets positive feedback firmation hearings, saying dicted is “debatable.” happens, Trump’s lawyer mune while president from network of campaign staffers daily from voters, he said. that would be improper. But he said the Consti- has said he’s ready to fight a civil lawsuit brought by for independent gubernato- “If there’s a time to do this, But Kavanaugh has said tution’s framers seemed all the way to the Supreme Paula Jones alleging sexual rial and U.S. Senate candi- this is the time in Connecti- or written a number of to anticipate that the re- Court. Lawmakers will want harassment. dates, all considered politi- cut to make this happen,” things that suggest he fa- sponse to presidential to probe how sympathetic Kavanaugh has written cally moderate, in about five he said. Connecticut had an vors giving the president a wrongdoing would be im- Kavanaugh would be to the that decision “may well states this year. independent governor from good deal of legal breathing peachment. president’s arguments in have been entirely correct.” They hold conference 1991-1995, former Republi- room, and he will be asked “The Constitution itself that case. He has also said: “I am not calls every Monday to share can U.S. Sen. Lowell P. We- about those statements. seems to dictate, in addi- In his 2009 article, Kava- sure whether or not Clinton ideas and experiences on icker Jr. Expect senators to ex- tion, that congressional naugh wrote that his time v. Jones is right as a consti- everything from social me- Griebel is not as well- plore Kavanaugh’s views investigation must take working in President George tutional matter.” dia to finding good interns. known. He’s a former banker, on whether: place in lieu of criminal W. Bush’s White House led They’ve produced a profes- lawyer, business leader and investigation when the him to believe that “the Recusals sional video that features Republican who asked life- A sitting president President is the subject President should be excused Democrats have said they some of their candidates long Democrat Monte Frank can be indicted of investigation, and that from some of the burdens of will press Kavanaugh to espousing the benefits of to run as his lieutenant gov- criminal prosecution can ordinary citizenship while promise that, if confirmed, electing an independent, and ernor. Frank is an attorney Legal experts are divided occur only after the Pres- serving in office.” He said he won’t participate in asks whether “our country’s and the leader of Team 26, on the question of whether ident has left office,” Ka- Congress should pass a law cases involving any inves- divisive partisan system is a group of cyclists that have a sitting president can be vanaugh wrote. exempting the president tigation of Trump. what our founding fathers ridden to Washington, D.C., charged with a crime. A decade later, Kavana- from answering investiga- Kavanaugh has an easy envisioned.” for five years to raise aware- At one point in 1998, Ka- ugh noted in a 2009 Min- tors’ questions. out here. He can say that if They’re considering ways ness about gun violence since vanaugh’s answer seemed nesota Law Review article “Even the lesser burdens confirmed he’ll follow the to raise money together from the deadly school shooting in to be no. Kavanaugh, who that a “serious constitu- of a criminal investigation recusal practices of his col- like-minded donors. There’s Frank’s hometown of New- worked on the Whitewater tional question exists” — including preparing for leagues. even a documentary in the town. investigation that resulted over whether a president questioning by criminal in- That generally means works. Their ticket’s slogan is: in President Bill Clinton’s can be indicted and tried vestigators — are time-con- only sitting out a case if a Bailey, who has worked “No politics. No parties. Just impeachment, was a pan- while in office. He wrote suming and distracting,” he justice participated in it on several independent solutions.” They talk about elist at a Georgetown law that would “cripple the wrote, without expressly at an earlier stage or has a campaigns, including for an appealing to “the radical school event where the federal government.” saying whether he believes financial or personal con- Atlanta mayoral candidate, middle” and the need to “put moderator asked : “How In both articles he called presidents’ testimony can flict. sees voters more disgusted aside differences in political many of you believe as a on Congress to pass a law be subpoenaed. But each justice makes and turned off than ever ideology” to help solve the matter of law that a sit- exempting the president Kavanaugh can also ex- his or her own recusal de- with the bickering, divisive- state’s serious budget prob- ting president cannot be from criminal prosecu- pect a grilling on two Su- cisions. ness and hyperpartisanship lems. surrounding the two major The message appealed parties, an “old model” he to Democratic voter Elaine contends “is just no longer Butler, of New London, a sustainable.” legal guardian for adults Seaweed in cattle feed may reduce emissions “There’s a whole lot of with mental illness, who said people in the middle who she’s “beyond frustrated” TERENCE CHEA with molasses to disguise don’t feel represented by a with state and national pol- Associated Press‌ the salty taste. political party,” Baily said. itics. She recently signed ‌DAVIS — University “I was extremely sur- “Culturally, as a society, Griebel’s petition during of California research- prised when I saw the re- we’re changing. Fewer peo- a campaign stop at a New ers are feeding seaweed to sults,” said Ermias Kebreab, ple see themselves fitting London coffee shop. State dairy cows in an attempt the UC Davis animal sci- nicely into a box.” election officials this week to make cattle more cli- entist who led the study. Regulars on the calls in- approved the 7,500 signa- mate-friendly. “I wasn’t expecting it to be clude staffers for Hayes, tures he needed to appear UC Davis is studying that dramatic with a small Connecticut gubernatorial on the November ballot. whether adding small amount of seaweed.” candidate Oz Griebel, Mis- “I figure I want to get ev- amounts of seaweed to Kebreab says his team souri U.S. Senate candidate erybody into the mix right cattle feed can help reduce plans to conduct a six- Craig O’Dear, Maryland U.S. now,” Butler said. “We need their emissions of methane, month study of a sea- Senate candidate Neal Simon change. Definitely need a potent greenhouse gas weed-infused diet in beef and Alaska Gov. Bill Walker, change. And the more people that’s released when cat- cattle starting in October. who is seeking re-election. that are running, the more TERRY CHEA, ASSOCIATED PRESS‌ tle burp, pass gas or make More studies will be “I feel like a rising tide lifts choice we have.” manure. needed to determine its Cows are milked June 8 at a dairy farm at the University of all boats,” Bailey said. But such sentiment might In a study this past safety and efficacy, and sea- California, Davis, in Davis, where researchers are feeding Bailey and the others say not be enough. Griebel and spring, researchers found weed growers would have seaweed to dairy cows in a bid to make cattle more climate- it makes sense to spend the Frank decided not to partic- methane emissions were to ramp up production to friendly. UC Davis is studying whether adding small amounts time each week picking one ipate in Connecticut’s pub- reduced by more than 30 make it an economical op- of seaweed to cattle feed can help reduce their emissions another’s brains and of- lic campaign finance system percent in a dozen Holstein tion for farmers. of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that’s released when fering advice because their and have struggled in recent cows that ate the ocean al- Dairy farms and other cattle burp, pass gas or make manure. respective candidates will months to raise contribu- gae, which was mixed into livestock operations are ultimately benefit from the tions because it took longer their feed and sweetened major sources of methane, a heat-trapping gas many operators to cut emissions success of their compatri- than expected to get their times more potent than by 40 percent from 2013 ots. The goal is to get more petitions approved — an- carbon dioxide. levels by 2030. voters to see independents other example of the chal- Researchers worldwide “If we can reduce meth- as a viable alternative to the lenges independent candi- The Santa Maria Times have searched for ways ane on the dairy farm Republican or Democratic dates face. office will be closed to reduce cattle emis- through manipulation of parties, and not as spoilers While they anticipate sions with various food the diet, then it’s a win for or unelectable. raising more money now Monday, September 3 additives such as garlic, consumers because it re- “I think there are a lot of that they have obtained oregano, cinnamon and duces the carbon footprint, people who are hesitant to ballot access, they face two in observance of Labor Day even curry — with mixed and it’s for dairy farmers vote for an independent can- wealthy major-party busi- results. because it increases their didate,” said Erin Nielsen, nessmen in November who If successful, adding feed efficiency,” said -Mi deputy campaign manager are mostly self-funding their seaweed to cattle feed chael Hutjens, an animal for O’Dear, who has been campaigns and have been could help California dairy scientist at the University coordinating with other running TV ads throughout farms comply with a state of Illinois, Urbana-Cham- campaigns since January. If the summertime primary 00 law requiring livestock paign. the different campaigns can season. 1 SANTA MARIA TIMES SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2018 | A5 EDITORIAL

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OUR VIEW: ROSES & RASPBERRIES Summer’s slow fade into fall IMPROVING NORTH COUNTY here’s just something about September that makes us think of fall. The weather’s about the same as it’s been for weeks, months Teven, so little change there. Maybe it’s the sun’s angle. It’s also Saturday, a day of rest for many of us, when we put our reg- ular jobs aside and ether tackle household chores, do a little shopping, go to the gym or for a jog — or maybe just do a whole lotta nothin’. Measure U would But for us, angle of the sun or Saturday relaxation, the mission’s the same — hand out roses and/or raspberries for jobs well done, or not so well done. Our fi rst batch of red beauties goes to the folks at the Santa Maria provide essential funds Valley Humane Society who have, once again, organized a low-cost program to help reduce the number of stray dogs that end up at the shelter. anta Maria has a track An update to Measure U, idents can look forward to the Time and circumstances have changed what once was known as the record of being a fiscally called the Public Safety/Es- same responsible spending, “pound” into what we now call a “shelter.” Pound has a jail-like, end- Sresponsible city. sential City Services Measure, with a significant boost for of-the-road sound to it. Shelter is just, well, more comforting. The city runs effectively is on the Nov. 6 ballot. Because police and fire, as well as other And comfort is what the Human Society folks are seeking, and fa- while maintain- the need for these services public safety services. cilitating by conducting a month-long spay/neuter program for larg- ing a healthy, and the cost of delivering Because it is a general-pur- er-breed pooches. overarching con- them continues to go up, the pose measure, Measure U2018 In removing a dog or cat’s reproductive organs, spaying/neutering cern for the cost measure increases the rate to 1 only requires a simple majority prevents the chance that unwanted litters will end up abandoned. In of essential ser- percent. to pass. The funds go into the the 2016-17 fi scal year, there were more than 3,000 homeless dogs vices. When de- "Measure U was general fund. Here is where the and 2,500 homeless cats in Santa Barbara County. cisions are made city has rightfully earned the created, proposed Without spaying or neutering, those numbers can, and do explode, DAVE that have a bud- trust of the taxpayer. Measure fi lling neighborhoods with feral animals. CROSS getary impact, it and passed with U was created, proposed and Hey, the Dog Days of Summer still linger, and it’s the perfect time is usually based passed with assurances on how to fi nd a life-long pal at the shelter. If this interests you, contact the on a comprehen- assurances on how the revenue would be spent, Santa Maria Valley Humane Society at 805-349-3435. sive review of the the revenue would be and the record shows Santa Roses to the Humane Society for thinking humanely. financial pros and cons. Maria has fulfilled that pledge. Roses also to the decision-makers at the Pentagon for convincing This fiscal trust is one of spent, and the record To further verify that the the administration to cancel the president’s proposed Veterans Day the reasons Santa Maria vot- shows Santa Maria has revenue from Measure U2018 military parade. ers overwhelmingly approved fulfilled that pledge." — will be spent as intended, the It’s not that we don’t appreciate a parade, giving the military Measure U in 2012. Measure current Measure U Citizens branches an opportunity to strut their stu , but when Pentagon num- U raised additional funds for Dave Cross Oversight Committee will be ber-crunchers fi gured the parade would cost taxpayers in the neigh- public safety by creating a As expected, the city did extended. In addition, the in- borhood of $92 million, they pulled the plug. quarter-cent sales tax that extensive background research come and expenditures will be And here’s why, and reason we are handing out roses: That money generated $4.5 million per year before proposing the new mea- reviewed by an independent could be better spent preparing our military for potential confron- in its first five years, and a pro- sure. City staff reached out to auditor. tations in several parts of the world, and on the veterans who have jected $4.8 million in 2018-19. the community and conducted The timing of Measure already served, and deserve good health care. It came with a promise from a survey to gain feedback from U2018 on this year’s ballot is The nation’s VA Medical Centers — there are 170 of them — serve the city that the funds would residents, and 71 percent of important. While the original more than 9 million patients a year, and too often the service is lack- be spent, as intended, on pub- respondents identified an in- measure sunsets in 2021, by ing. There are just too many homeless, sick veterans to spend $92 mil- lic safety. crease in police officers for placing the new measure on lion on pomp and circumstance. The city did not disappoint crime prevention and gang the 2018 ballot, U2018 will take Roses to the men and women who are running for local public of- taxpayers, and 91 percent of suppression as a top priority. effect in 2019. fi ce. The candidate list has been fi nalized and there are some interest- Measure U revenue is spent Most people also indicated The Committee to Improve ing races to be decided on Tuesday, Nov. 6. directly on public safety, po- staffing fire stations with ap- North County recognizes the Of special interest to us North County folks are the City Council lice and fire in particular. Ten propriate firefighters, main- valuable contribution Measure races in Santa Maria and Lompoc, which are ending their at-large percent of the city’s sworn po- taining 9-1-1 response times, U has made for public safety voting systems and instead have council members selected by those in lice officers and 20 percent of retaining youth services, and within Santa Maria. We ac- four areas of the cities. Mayors in both cities still will be elected by all Santa Maria’s fire stations are providing safe space for teens knowledge Santa Maria’s fiscal voters in the community. funded through the measure. as priorities. record and fully endorse Mea- It took some arm-twisting to make the switch to district elections, It also funds code compliance, Measure U2018 will bring in sure U2018 for approval this and at this point it’s still a work in progress, but the operative word graffiti abatement and city an estimated $18 million annu- November. there is “progress.” Make sure you study the candidates to make the park rangers. There is no doubt ally. Considering Santa Maria’s best choices on Nov. 6. that residents of Santa Maria proven history of budgetary Dave Cross is a local consultant We give roses because becoming a candidate for o ce is not a deci- have benefitted from Measure accountability in general, and and board Member of the Com- sion to be taken lightly. U. for Measure U specifically, res- mittee to Improve North County. LETTERS TO THE EDITORS

Thankful for those years. school. From day one we were It will cause a tremendous ble, deadly fi res. Water is low all Some people come from fam- taught that we’re all sinners and economic impact on the Central over the western U.S. who stand up for ilies of incest that has gone on need to o er our pain and suf- Coast’s economy. A billion and a We should be building more unreported for generations. It fering up to God as our penance. half dollars will disappear from carbon-free electric generat- victims isn’t easy to support a family To su er in “silence” was to the regional economy. That’s ing atomic reactors to give us I want to thank the priest who on your own if the abuser goes bring us heavenly rewards. We a big hit even for a major city electricity and desalinated fresh was on television Aug. 19 and to jail, and then you might ot were taught to “honor they fa- economy like Los Angeles. water as a free by-product, not told victims of sexual abuse to be believed. I had four friends ther and mother.” No one talked Workers at Diablo Canyon closing them. Where is the gov- report it to the police. He’s defi - in high school who were being about what to do if you were will have to sell their homes all ernment that is sworn to protect nitely a strong and courageous raped by a step dad or a family being sexually or physically at once and relocate to larger us? man. I can now see changes friend. abused by them. economies to fi nd work fi tting Just one plant — Diablo Can- happening for victims in all Some of their mothers knew. Arleen Miller their skill level. yon — supplies almost 10 per- walks ofl ife. If only everyone A time limit on reporting Nipomo Gov. Jerry Brown could call cent of California electricity. It could be strong enough to come sexual abuse should be elimi- a halt to the closure talk be- equals 14 Topaz solar farms in forward. nated. I was attacked in a rob- cause this is a public utility. He output. It runs at night, unlike I believe if these “Men of bery when I was 22, and still Keep Diablo plant and the Legislature can ask the Topaz. God” were truly sorry, they’d haven’t told anyone some of the Public Utilities Commission to Contact your government turn themselves in and make things that were done to me. I running cancel its decision. representatives and demand we a list of their victims. They did fi le a police report and I had Decent questions have been We are in a climate crisis of get o carbon electricity and should go to jail as should the proof. Some will never be strong raised about the desire of PG&E growing proportions. Climate help save our livable planet. people who transferred the enough to come forward. to close the Diablo Canyon nu- change due to over-use of fossil William Gloege abusers to other parishes for I had nine years of Catholic clear power plant. fuels contributes to our horri- Santa Maria

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crowd to its feet with a rousing Sharpton said. Franklin “Amazing Grace.” Ariana Grande Many noted her longtime com- From A1 sang one of the Queen’s biggest mitment to civil rights and last- hits, “(You Make Me Feel Like) A ing concern for the poor. The Rev. Wonder and Smokey Robinson. Natural Woman,” and Faith Hill Jesse Jackson urged attendees to Robinson, the Motown great, performed “What a Friend We honor her memory and register remembered first hearing Franklin Have In Jesus.” to vote. Her friend Greg Mathis, play piano when he was just 8 and The Aretha Franklin Orchestra the reality show host and retired remained close to her for the rest opened the funeral with a medley Michigan judge, recalled his last of her life. They talked for hours featuring “I Say a Little Prayer,” conversation with her. They talked at a time. ‘’Angel” and other songs she was about the tainted water supply in “You’re so special,” he said, be- known for, along with such gospel Flint. “You go up there and sock it fore crooning a few lines from his numbers as “I Love the Lord” and to ‘em,” she urged Mathis, para- song “Really Gonna Miss You,” “Walk in the Light.” phrasing the “sock it to me” refrain with the line “really gonna be dif- Jennifer Holliday ended the from “Respect.” ferent without you.” funeral with “Climbing Higher Her body arrived in a 1940 Ca- Bill Clinton described himself Mountains,” an uptempo gospel dillac LaSalle hearse. She wore a as an Aretha Franklin “groupie,” original by Franklin herself. shimmering gold dress, with se- saying he had loved her since A statement from former Presi- quined heels — the fourth outfit college. He traced her life’s jour- PAUL SANCYA, ASSOCIATED PRESS‌ dent George W. Bush that was read Franklin was clothed in during a ney, praising her as someone who to the crowd said Franklin would week of events leading up to her Jennifer Hudson performs during the funeral service for Aretha Franklin “lived with courage, not without “continue to bring joy to millions funeral. on Friday at Greater Grace Temple. Franklin died Aug. 16 of pancreatic fear, but overcoming her fears.” for generations to come.” The Rev. The casket was carried to the cancer at the age of 76. He remembered attending her Al Sharpton read a statement from church. Pink Cadillacs filled the last public performance, at Elton the service at Greater Grace Tem- and unpredictable artist, whose former President Barack Obama, street outside the church, a ref- John’s AIDS Foundation benefit ple encompassed many elements, passions ranged from soul to bal- who wrote that Franklin’s “work erence to a Franklin hit from the in November in New York. She emotions and regal entrances that let. He remembered her turning up reflected the very best of the 1980s, “Freeway of Love.” looked “desperately ill” but man- were hallmarks of Franklin’s more at a tribute to him in a tutu. American story.” Program covers showed a young aged to greet him by standing and than six decades on sacred and “There was the Queen of Soul, Sharpton received loud cheers Franklin, with a slight smile and saying, “How you doing, baby?” secular stages. She was remem- accompanied by members of the when he denounced President sunglasses perched on her nose, Her career, Clinton noted, bered as the pride of Detroit and City Center Ballet Company,” he Donald Trump for saying that the and the caption “A Celebration spanned from vinyl records to cell- a citizen of the world. recalled, with Franklin “doing singer “worked for” him as he re- Fit For The Queen.” phones. He held the microphone Actress Cicely Tyson reworked well-rehearsed pirouettes and sponded to her death. “She per- Detroit plans to honor one of near his iPhone and played a snip- the Paul Laurence Dunbar poem dancing with most impressive formed for you,” Sharpton said of its most famous residents. Mayor pet of Franklin’s classic “Think,” “When Malindy Sings” to “When agility and dignity. It was won- Franklin, who had sung at Trump- Mike Duggan announced during the audience clapping along. Aretha Sings.” Music mogul Clive derful.” owned venues. “She worked for us.” the service that the city would re- “It’s the key to freedom!” Clin- Davis, who helped revive Franklin’s Jennifer Hudson, whom Frank- “She gave us pride. She gave name the riverfront amphitheater ton said. career in the 1980s, described her lin said she wanted to play her in a us a regal bar to reach. She repre- Chene Park to “Aretha Franklin Lasting more than seven hours, as a loving friend and a dedicated movie about her life, brought the sented the best in our community,” Park.”

and 1st District Supervisor Das Oil Peterson Williams. From A1 From A1 “His skill, experience and lead- ership will be greatly missed,” The 30-day public comment and deputy fire chief before being Williams added. period on the study ends Sept. 7. named chief in January 2015. Peterson, in turn, praised the Based on BLM data, Santa Bar- He also served as president of men and women he has worked bara County parcels that could be Firefighters Local 2046. with over the years. opened to drilling and fracking “Chief Peterson has dedicated “I have had the pleasure of include: his entire career to this county,” working with a great team of „„Santa Ynez Mountains — Two said Mona Miyasato, county ex- firefighters and support staff at BLM parcels along the crest of the ecutive officer. “He has demon- the department, the support of Santa Ynez Mountains. One, con- strated leadership in the most wonderful operational area part- sisting of 217 acres, is located on trying of times, passion for doing ners and support from the Board the north face of Bald Mountain. what he believes is right, and, of Supervisors and county execu- The other, consisting of 120 above all else, care for our resi- tive officer,” he said. “It is hard to acres, is in the headwaters of No- dents and firefighters.” ask for anything better.” joqui Creek near Nojoqui Falls During his time with the de- Peterson lives in Santa Barbara County Park. Both are adjacent to CONTRIBUTED IMAGE‌ partment, Peterson witnessed with his wife, Kit, and 8-year-old Los Padres National Forest. A detail of a map produced by Los Padres ForestWatch using Bureau of some of the largest and most dev- twins, Phoebe and Zander. „„Highway 154 — Two small Land Mangement data shows areas of the county that could be opened up astating wildfires in county his- Dennis Bozanich, deputy Bureau of Reclamation parcels, to oil leasing in red. An interactive version of the map is available online. tory, including the Painted Cave, county executive officer, said the totaling 20 acres, located along Zaca, Jesusita, Tea, Gap, Sherpa, Board of Supervisors will name Highway 154, designated a Cali- „„Sisquoc River and San Ra- open for drilling and fracking at Alamo, Rey, Whittier, record-set- an interim fire chief prior to Pe- fornia Scenic Highway, near Ca- fael Wilderness — Several parcels forestwatch.maps.arcgis.com/ ting Thomas and recent Holiday terson’s departure, and a compre- chuma Lake. totaling 1,766 acres inside the apps/View/index.html?ap- fires. hensive recruitment process for a „„Cachuma Lake — A 40-acre national forest boundary near pid=96d9c40f4bdb48c880d- The Refugio Oil Spill and 1/9 permanent replacement will begin Bureau of Reclamation parcel on the Sisquoc River, including one 19fb8d1229bc7. Debris Flow in Montecito also in September. the north side of Lake Cachuma parcel adjacent to the San Rafael Some of the lands are owned by occurred during his tenure. More information about the near Happy Canyon Road, adja- Wilderness and another parcel BLM, while others are known as “I’ve appreciated Chief Peter- County Fire Department is avail- cent to Los Padres National Forest. straddling the Sisquoc River, con- “split estate” parcels because the son’s ability to foster strong rela- able at www.sbcfire.com. „„Tepusquet Canyon — Several sidered critical habitat for endan- surface of the property is privately tionships with our other fire agen- BLM parcels totaling 1,793 acres in gered steelhead. owned, but BLM owns the under- cies at the local, state and federal This report was compiled by Mike a rural canyon east of Santa Maria. „„Cuyama Valley foothills — lying mineral rights. levels, which has been crucial in Hodgson, news editor for the One of the largest parcels strad- Parcels totaling 13,375 acres along Kuyper said the BLM did not preparing for and responding to Santa Ynez Valley News. He can be dles Colson Canyon Road, one of the foothills of the Sierra Madre directly notify split estate surface disasters in our area,” said County reached at mhodgson@leecentral- the few gateways into the Los Pa- Mountains in the Cuyama Valley. owners of the public comment Board of Supervisors Chairman coastnews.com. dres National Forest in northern Most of the parcels are adjacent period, and many were unaware Santa Barbara County. to national forest lands proposed of it until notified by ForestWatch „„Purisima Hills — Several for wilderness protection un- after it requested the BLM data parcels between Los Alamos and der the Central Coast Heritage and analyzed it using mapping Lompoc in the Purisima Hills, in- Protection Act introduced in the software. cluding four parcels totaling 160 House and Senate earlier this year. Under federal law, once the acres owned by the Rancho Santa Two areas to be opened to drill- study is complete, the BLM can Rita Preserve, part of the state and ing and fracking are major gate- auction off the drilling rights to federally approved La Purisima ways into the Los Padres National those parcels for as little as $2 per Conservation Bank. Forest — Santa Barbara Canyon acre, Kuyper said, possibly giving The 853-acre bank, the first of and Bates Canyon. Both have oil companies the right to con- its kind in Santa Barbara County, publicly accessible trail heads and struct roads, oil wells, pipelines provides a mechanism for devel- roads leading into the Los Padres and other infrastructure. opers and agencies to mitigate National Forest. Members of the public can sub- their impacts by purchasing mit- „„Carpinteria — A 40-acre mit comments to BLM through igation credits at the property. parcel within 2,000 feet of Cate ForestWatch at www.LPFW.org/ CONTRIBUTED PHOTO, MIKE ELIASON, SANTA BARBARA COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT‌ The conservation bank contains School and directly adjacent to fracking or directly through the With members of his department lining the walls of the Santa Barbara a healthy population of endan- the Los Padres National Forest. BLM’s website at www.blm.gov. County Board of Supervisors chambers, Eric L. Peterson is sworn in as gered California tiger salaman- This is a privately owned parcel county fire chief by CountyE xecutive OfficerM ona Miyasato in this photo ders. with federally owned subsurface This report was compiled by Mike from February 2015. „„Vandenberg Air Force Base — mineral rights. Hodgson, news editor for the A total of 102,650 acres — nearly ForestWatch has posted the Santa Ynez Valley News. He can be the entire base — is slated to be BLM’s GIS data on an interac- reached at mhodgson@leecentral- designated “open” for drilling. tive map showing the parcels coastnews.com. Marijuana From A1

control through the course of this six months — will extend the me- There are strikingly different Roads work.” dian on Betteravia Road by around assessments of what the proposal From A1 In addition to creating a new 400 feet to enlarge the pocket of would mean. way to access the Costco parking space for drivers making lefts Because vast stretches of the Gyroplane instructor Vance lot on Bradley Road, Santa Maria is onto northbound 101, and allow state have prohibited local canna- Breese, who was using the lot Fri- gearing up to perform significant roughly 200 feet of more space for bis sales, supporters say it would day, said he has seen cars backed work on Betteravia Road and the those turning onto South Bradley allow legal deliveries by licensed RICHARD VOGEL, ASSOCIATED PRESS‌ up into the lot at the Meehan en- onramp to Betteravia from south- Road. companies into those so-called This March 31 photo shows a booth trance, and that while opening the bound Highway 101. The city’s period for contrac- pot deserts. advertising a delivery service for median could help reduce vehicles Put out to bid on Tuesday, the tors to submit bids ends on Sept. They argue that sick and frail cannabis at the Four Twenty Games stacking up, the Costco parking road improvements consist of 25, after which they’ll be reviewed people in those areas who depend in Santa Monica. lot layout remains a problem. several components: widening and the selected bid will go before on marijuana to relieve pain or “It’ll give people a smoother the onramp to add an additional the City Council for approval. The anxiety cannot make a lengthy Control, which oversees the mar- way to get into the badly-designed right-turn lane, removing some city — which is asking that the drive to make a purchase, so they ket, has said the proposed rule is mess,” he joked. earth on the right-hand side of selected contractor complete the are being shut out of the legal mar- merely clarifying what has always While southbound motorists on the ramp which blocks motorists’ work within a 120-day period — ket. been the case: A licensed pot de- Bradley Road will be able to turn sight as they approach Betteravia will then decide whether to start On the other side, police chiefs livery can be made to “any juris- left into the lot after construction Road, modifying the traffic signal building immediately or wait un- and other critics say it would cre- diction within the state.” is complete, the exit out of the lot at the top of the ramp and on Bet- til the holiday shopping season ate an unruly gray market of largely A proposal in the Legislature will remain right-turns only to ac- teravia Road itself, extending left- passes. hidden pot transactions, opening intended to clarify that a licensed commodate vehicles entering the turn pockets onto northbound “Internally, we’ll make a de- the way for criminal activity. business can deliver cannabis future Enos Ranch Auto Center. Highway 101. cision — if we’re ready to go and At issue is apparently conflict- anywhere in California stalled in “It’s been a little bit of a tricky Olds said the Betteravia ramp it’s the heat of the holiday season ing fine print in the maze of laws the Senate. Meanwhile, online di- design since we needed to make work will take a little longer to and we say ‘you know, if we put and regulations. rectories like Weedmaps advertise sure we maintained the ability to bid out and will require final ap- it off another two weeks, we can Proposition 64, the law ap- delivery services — some legal, allow lefts into [the future Enos proval from the City Council due get around the holidays, maybe proved by voters in 2016 that some not. Ranch Auto Center],” Olds said. to the estimated cost — around I’ll put off construction until the opened the way for legal pot sales In general, California treats pot While it’s not clear how much $1 million — which surpasses the first of the year,” Olds said. “That’s for adults, says local governments like alcohol, allowing people 21 vehicle traffic will be affected $175,000 limit on informal bids, one thing we look at — we know can ban nonmedical pot busi- and older to legally possess up to during construction, Olds said like the Costco project. traffic gets heavier during the nesses. 1 ounce of the drug and grow six there will certainly be some re- As major Enos Ranch projects holiday season. Do we want to be But state regulators point to plants at home. strictions for vehicles on Bradley have opened, it’s become neces- under active construction at that the business and professions California’s legal market has Road. “There will be some traffic sary to add an additional right- point?” code, which says local govern- gotten off to a bumpy start. Illicit control,” Olds said. “That’s the turn lane to keep the southbound ments “shall not prevent delivery sales are still thriving, a shaky sort of thing we leave to the con- ramp onto Betteravia from getting Razi Syed covers Santa Maria City of cannabis or cannabis products supply chain has customers look- tractor as far as how they want to backed up, Olds said. Government for Lee Central Coast on public roads” by a licensed op- ing at barren shelves in some shops do their operations, but there will The road improvements — Newspapers. Follow him on Twitter erator. and there have been complaints 00 be some pretty significant traffic which have been in design for over @razisyed The state Bureau of Cannabis about testing and hefty taxes. 1 Santa Maria Times Saturday, September 1, 2018 | A7 CENTRAL COAST LABOR DAY WEEKEND Daytime temps in mid-70s predicted Warmer weather tures across the Central Coast will An approaching low-pressure around 55. highs up to 80 degrees, but five de- be near or lower than seasonal av- system will bring some of the re- Highs in Lompoc are forecast near grees cooler at the beaches. A thick expected in Santa Ynez erages. gion’s coolest temperatures into 74 degrees for the week, with over- marine layer is expected to roll in Sustained winds between 25 and Labor Day, weather specialist Stuart night lows dipping to 57. during the mornings before burn- Valley, South Coast 40 mph — with gusts up to 50 mph Seto said, with minor warming ex- Warmest temperatures will be ing off to scattered clouds by the — are expected for the Santa Ynez pected in the coming week. Coastal in the Santa Ynez Valley, where the afternoon. STAFF REPORT Mountains and other South Coast areas and inland valleys can expect 86-degree daytime average is pro- ‌Despite the wind advisory issued cities through 6 a.m. Saturday. The patchy, low clouds during the morn- jected to remain consistent through Mathew Burciaga covers education for a portion of Santa Barbara Coun- sundowner winds are expected to ing and consistent daytime highs. Friday. Overnight lows are forecast in Santa Maria and the surrounding ty’s South Coast, officials at the Na- be strongest from Gaviota to Goleta Daytime highs through the com- for 55. area for Lee Central Coast News- tional Weather Service said Friday before diminishing as the weekend ing week are expected to hover near Travelers heading to the Santa papers. Follow him on Twitter @ that Labor Day weekend tempera- progresses. 75 degrees, with overnight lows Barbara area can expect daytime math_burciaga Ex-airman faces DUI charges in fatality Lompoc couple killed near VAFB in 2016 GINA KIM [email protected]‌ ‌Two years after being involved in a crash that killed a Lompoc couple and a year after being fed- erally indicted for DUI, former U.S. Airman Shaquille Ahmed Lindsey now will be prosecuted in Santa Barbara County. Ruben Betancourt, 51, and Bertha Betancourt, 57, were killed when Lindsey allegedly veered into their vehicle near Vanden- berg Air Force Base on Aug. 28, 2016. Their son Juan Betancourt, now 33, also was in the car and sustained major injuries. The federal case against Lind- LEN WOOD PHOTOS, STAFF‌ sey was dismissed in July over a Santa Barbara County District Attorney Joyce Dudley, left, and Joanne Britton, librarian at the Santa Maria Public Library, look at children’s books jurisdiction issue, leaving the donated to the library by staff in theDA ’s Office. case open for the Santa Barbara County District Attorney’s Of- fice to pursue. On Friday, charges were refiled. Lindsey, 25, of Covington, District Attorney’s Office turns Georgia, now faces the follow- ing charges: two felony counts of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and one felony count of DUI involving alcohol to books to prevent crime and drugs (marijuana) caus- ing injury to Juan Betancourt. New program to class. “If they can’t get to school, In addition, Lindsey also faces it’s because something is stopping special allegations of causing promote school them. Either no one can take them great bodily injury for each fel- there; they’re living at home with ony count. engagement through drug addiction or domestic vio- The collision occurred on lence; or they’re afraid of the gang a stretch of Santa Lucia Can- literacy, parents members around the schools.” yon Road in an area originally Librarian Joanne Britton, who believed to be Vandenberg Air MATHEW BURCIAGA oversees adult and account ser- Force Base property and within [email protected]‌ vices for the Santa Maria library, federal jurisdiction. In July 2017, ‌Santa Barbara County District said Dudley and her office got in Lindsey was federally indicted on Attorney Joyce Dudley and mem- contact after learning that the two counts of involuntary man- bers of her office donated dozens bookstore would remain open. slaughter, and one count of DUI of gently used children’s books She said the donation caters to a to the Santa Maria Public Library unique demographic often over- Please see DUI, Page A8 bookstore Friday, an initiative she looked by regular donors. said will help promote school en- “This is an especially good gagement and prevent crime be- Children’s books donated to the Santa Maria Public Library by staff in donation because the items are COUNTY LINES fore it happens. the District Attorney’s Office are shown. very gently used and are specific “One way to prevent crime is to to children’s lit,” Britton said. “We Santa Barbara County‌ lock people up so they can’t get children are attending and prop- Success (CLASS) truancy pre- want to get books into the hands out and hurt anybody else,” she erly behaving in school. vention program, a multi-agency of children and teens. We defi- explained. “Another way to pre- “When a parent reads to a collaborative program run out of nitely receive a lot of donations, Three suspected vent crime — and for me, it’s the child, a whole bunch of won- the District Attorney’s Office. but this one is great since it’s best way — is to ensure it never derful things happen,” she said. The program, she explained, geared directly toward children.” drug dealers happens. The best way I know [to “They’re enjoying something to- aims to reduce truancy by iden- Dudley said this is her office’s arrested after five- do that] is to engage [students] gether — the child is pressed up tifying and addressing the root of first donation of its kind. The in school ... and get them excited against the parent ... and the par- the problem. Families struggling books, which include some of her week investigation‌ about reading.” ent feels like they’re giving back with truancy who participate in favorite entries in the “Curious Prior to her 28-year legal career to the child. All of that creates a CLASS are referred to or provided George” series, will be sold for a Three suspected drug dealers with the Santa Barbara County parental bond and enthusiasm for additional services to improve suggested donation of 50 cents. were arrested Wednesday in an District Attorney’s Office, Dudley the book.” student attendance. The goal is “I think I was a ‘Curious investigation that spread across spent 12 years working with chil- As of 2016, the most recent year to ensure students and parents George’ kind of character myself,” three counties, led to the recov- dren in the classroom and outside data is available for, the truancy are held accountable under state Dudley joked. ery of $9,000, of it. Touting experience as an rate for Santa Barbara County education laws. methamphet- instructional aide, early child- students hovered at 24 percent “We want to keep kids in Mathew Burciaga covers education amine and heroin hood educator and director of — 10-percent lower than the school [and] make them excited in Santa Maria and the surround- and resulted in a the county’s Head Start program, statewide average. Dudley cred- about [going] to school,” Dudley ing area for Lee Central Coast child being taken Dudley stressed the importance its the decline to the Community said, adding the program serves Newspapers. Follow him on Twitter into protective of parental engagement to ensure Leadership in Achieving Student as a “carrot” to keep students in @math_burciaga custody, officials said. In a five-week Nelson investigation, detectives from the Santa Bar- Violent crimes in Lompoc spike during August bara County Sheriff’s Special Investigations Bureau identified Police ‘not sure of tion size is about 43,000 — 55-year-old Randall Nelson, of surpassed neighboring city Santa Maria, as an alleged nar- the reasons’ Santa Maria’s statistics for cotics dealer, sheriff’s spokes- August 2018, which reported woman Kelly Hoover said GINA KIM 18 violent crimes. Santa Ma- On Thursday, detectives fol- [email protected]‌ ria has a population of about lowed Nelson to Ventura, where ‌As police are investigating a 106,000. he allegedly met with two peo- second stabbing that occurred “There’s definitely been a ple later identified as Christian in the city of Lompoc this sudden spike in violent crimes Omar Barcelo Mendoza, 26, and week, reasons for the sudden in the month of August alone Julie Villa Roman, 24, both of uptick in violence remain un- compared to other months of Baldwin Park. clear. the year,” Sgt. Vincent Ma- While watching the meeting, There have been a total of gallon said. “We’re really not detectives saw a package ex- 25 reports of violent crimes, sure of the reasons.” change, followed by the parties including robbery, battery, Last year, 32 violent crimes separating, Hoover said. aggravated assault, spousal were logged in August 2017. Detectives continued follow- battery and attempted murder “When you think of Lom- ing all the parties and saw Nel- — for the month of August, ac- poc, you think of a quiet small LEN WOOD, STAFF‌ son enter a hotel room in the 300 cording to data provided by the town, but we do have a fair A family watches as Lompoc Police officers and sheriff’s deputies investigate Lompoc Police Department. 00 the scene of a shooting, in the alley in the 700 block between North D and E 1 Please see LINES, Page A8 Lompoc — whose popula- Please see STABBING, Page A8 streets, on Aug. 13. A8 | Saturday, September 1, 2018 OBITUARIES Santa Maria Times

OBITUARIES Raymond “Ray” Leroy Shafer ‌Raymond ‘Ray’ L. Shafer, Scientists blast EPA effort 85, a resident for 33 years in Santa Maria, CA, passed away on August 28, 2018. Ray was born at home on a farm in Garrison, Iowa on July 19, that may discredit research 1933. After graduation from high school in 1953 Ray en- MELISSA HEALY search on the health effects Tribune News Service‌ listed in the U. S. Army where of secondhand smoke and he was trained as a Nike mis- ‌When the Environmen- whether they warranted sile repairman. After his hon- tal Protection Agency an- new restrictions on smok- orable discharge he continued nounced a proposal last ers. In an attempt to gain to work on the guided missile week to give states more access to the research and programs at Fort MacArthur in latitude in regulating pol- cast doubt on the findings, San Pedro, CA until 1974. Work- lution from power plants tobacco-industry allies ing for over 10 years as a civil- within their borders, it came pressed the agency to adopt ian Quality Assurance Special- with a sobering forecast of “transparency” measures. ist in Palmdale, CA on the Space Shuttle program and 11 years its likely impact on Ameri- The measure found its way cans’ health. into a House appropriations at Vandenberg AFB he ended his 42 years of Federal govern- By 2030, adoption of the bill in 1998, but never made ment service in 1996 when he retired. Affordable Clean Energy it into law. Ray and his wife, Judy, were fortunate to witness the his- Rule could lead to 470 to “If you challenge the fun- toric first launch of the Columbia Space Shuttle in Florida and 1,400 additional premature damentals, you challenge then flew home to California to witness the first landing of -Co deaths each year because of the finding,” said Janice No- lumbia in April 1981. an increase in tiny airborne TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE‌ len, assistant vice president Ray was a humble and kind hearted man who was nick- particles. Children with The Monroe Power Plant in Monroe, Mich., shown in this of policy for the American named ‘Saint Raymond’ by Judy’s grandmother for his loving asthma could miss 21,000 2002 file image, consists of four generating units built in the Lung Association. “That’s care of her before her death. Despite his numerous health extra days of school annu- early 1970s. why you’re seeing this pro- problems and frequent and lengthy hospitalizations, Ray nev- ally, and up to 48,000 more posal.” er gave up and truly appreciated the exceptional care he re- people could experience at EPA is coming to an end,” to everyone,” said George The initiative comes at a ceived from the doctors, nurses and staff at MarianR egion- “exacerbated asthma” as EPA Administrator Scott Thurston, an environmental vulnerable moment: In re- al Medical Center. air quality deteriorates. Pruitt — who since has re- medicine researcher at New cent years, scientists have Ray was preceded in death by his parents, Floyd and Glad- Those estimates were signed — said when he an- York University’s Langone been grappling with the ys Shafer, his beloved sister, Esther Burciaga and his niece, made possible by de- nounced the initiative in School of Medicine who fact that in certain fields, Lois Ann Smith. cades-old studies that April. “Americans deserve opposes the EPA plan. “The too many landmark find- Ray is survived by his loving wife of nearly 44 years, Judy linked the rise and fall of to assess the legitimacy of problem is that people with ings can’t be replicated by Shafer; his dog Bebe ; nephews Charles Smith, (Pat) of Ten- microscopic airborne par- the science underpinning an agenda can statistically independent researchers. nessee; and David Smith ,(Lurraine) of Fresno, CA and David’s ticulates — smog and other EPA decisions that may im- manipulate the data and Editors of peer-reviewed children, Christopher Smith, Ashley Ocegueda and Courtney emissions from automo- pact their lives.” come up with really inap- science journals have re- Scheidt. bile tailpipes, factories and Who could possibly be propriate conclusions. And sponded with calls for Ray requested that no services be held. other industrial sources — against that? if they have a profit motive, broader sharing of data to T o leave a condolence for the family visit www.dudleyhoff- to predictable patterns of Nearly 70 medical societ- that’s likely to happen.” ensure the integrity of new manmortuary.com premature death. It’s the ies and public health groups, Even the EPA’s Science research. Dudley-Hoffman kind of analysis that federal including the American Advisory Board is skeptical. The EPA says those voices Mortuary & Crematory regulators will be barred Medical Association., the The board, which was not “informed” its transparency (805) 922-8463 from considering if the EPA American Academy of Pe- consulted on the transpar- initiative. www.dudleyhoffmanmortuary.com adopts a plan ostensibly de- diatrics, the American Lung ency proposal, voted in May Scientists acknowledge signed to enhance the qual- Association and the Ameri- to review the initiative itself. that such openness is the ity of research. can Association for Cancer Before a four-month ideal in research. But it’s not DEATH NOTICES The Strengthening Research. In their view, it’s public comment period always practical. Transparency in Regu- a backhanded attack on the closed last week, more than Researchers are often Thomas Michael Sua latory Science initiative key air pollution studies 6,000 people and organiza- bound by requirements to August 29, 2018 would allow rulemakers to that forced companies to tions weighed in on the pro- protect the privacy of their ‌Thomas Michael Sua, 54, resident of Santa Maria, CA base their decisions only spend billions of dollars on posal. It is now in the final subjects. New methods passed away August 29, 2018. Arrangements are under the on studies whose raw data is cleaner factories and better stages of deliberation and in data management have direction of Dudley-Hoffman Mortuary, Crematory and Mem- available to the public. That equipment. could be adopted as early as made it possible to main- way, anyone who doubts the “I can’t come up with any this fall. tain privacy while sharing ory Gardens. www.dudleyhoffmanmortuary.com findings can make their own explanation other than that To Thurston, the tactic personal data, they said. attempt to validate, or dis- they want to make this data has a familiar ring. But those often don’t help credit, them. available to vested inter- Twenty years ago, he said, researchers whose subjects “The era of secret science ests by making it available the EPA was examining re- were enrolled decades ago.

partment of Children and As a pursuit ensued, an High School girls wrestling Lines Family Services, Hoover officer reportedly witnessed coach accused of sexual From A7 said. the suspect throw a plastic battery, is no longer em- baggie on the ground. Cas- ployed by the district. block of East Thompson Lompoc ‌ tillo was caught and subse- Magdaleno, who was in- Boulevard, where they quently arrested. vestigated by the district served a search warrant and In their search of Castillo, last October after school allegedly found 5 ounces of Police nab police found him in posses- administrators received methamphetamine, 1 ounce sion of a loaded .32-caliber complaints of inappropri- of heroin, evidence of nar- known felon, revolver in his waistband. ate behavior, resigned June cotics sales, pepper spray gang member The baggie Castillo at- 30. Neither party admitted and narcotics parapherna- tempted to dispose of con- fault or wrongdoing as part lia. after pursuit‌ tained nine separate quan- of the separation agree- Nelson was subsequently tities of heroin, totaling ment, and Magdaleno was arrested on suspicion of A known felon and Lom- 16.6 grams, with a street paid $31,812 in wages. possessing methamphet- poc gang member is in cus- value of $1,600, police said. As part of the agreement, amine and heroin for sale. tody with no bail after try- Castillo is a convicted Magdaleno will be prohib- Meanwhile, other detec- ing to get rid of drugs while felon and the serial num- ited from being rehired for tives tailed Mendoza and fleeing the police and pos- ber on the firearm he pos- any position within the Roman south to El Monte in sessing a loaded weapon. sessed has been altered and district. Los Angeles County, where, At about 4:14 p.m. destroyed by authorities, Magdaleno was placed with the assistance of the Thursday, a Lompoc Police police said. on administrative leave af- GOFUNDME‌ Arcadia Police Department, patrol officer attempted He was booked into cus- ter the district learned of Lompoc residents Ruben and Bertha Betancourt died Aug. their vehicle was stopped. to make a tody with no bail. the complaints. In April, 28, 2016, following a two-vehicle collision on Santa Lucia A search of the vehicle traffic stop investigators with the San Canyon Road near the Lompoc federal prison complex. turned up a 2-year-old child on Fabian Nipomo‌ Luis Obispo Sheriff’s De- and approximately $9,000 Angel Cas- partment recommended both the District Attorney’s in cash, Hoover said, and tillo, who the District Attorney’s Of- DUI Office and victims’ family to a narcotics detection dog is a known Former girls fice file charges against the From A7 keep them on the case, as alerted to several areas in Lompoc teacher. The District Attor- they have been in constant the vehicle, including the gang mem- wrestling coach ney’s Office, citing insuffi- causing great bodily injury. contact with the Betan- child’s car seat. ber and cient evidence, ultimately Castillo accused of The indictment alleged courts’ children, according Roman and Mendoza on active declined. that Lindsey reportedly to Chief Deputy District At- were arrested on suspicion post-release supervision. sexual battery A civil lawsuit was filed was traveling on Santa Lu- torney Mag Nicola. of possessing metham- Castillo was driving in Aug. 16 on behalf of an cia Canyon Road, driving This is the first time phetamine and heroin for his vehicle in the 400 block no longer anonymous student nam- more than 15 miles above federal prosecutors have sale, transporting meth- of North L Street when he ing Magdaleno and Lucia the speed limit, when his been authorized to serve in amphetamine and heroin, jumped out of the moving employed by Mar as defendants. Dis- vehicle veered into the on- the Santa Barbara County and child endangerment vehicle and fled on foot. His Lucia Mar‌ trict officials said the law- coming lane and, without District Attorney’s Office, and were booked into Los abandoned vehicle contin- suit contains additional braking, crashed head-on Dudley said Friday. Angeles County Jail. ued moving and crashed Lucia Mar Unified School claims not previously al- into the Betancourts. Court Lindsey is scheduled to The child was taken into into two parked cars in the District officials confirmed leged against either party. papers further indicate that be arraigned at 8:30 a.m. protective custody by the area, according to Lompoc Friday that Justin Magda- They are now looking into Lindsey also was using his Sept. 18 at Lompoc Supe- Los Angeles County De- Police. leno, the former Nipomo the new allegations. cellphone while driving. rior Court. Had Lindsey been con- Lindsey is not in custody victed of the three offenses on the felony charges and charged in the indictment, will not have to be extra- stabbing is the second The shooting occurred alleged crimes are gang-re- Lindsey would have faced dited from Georgia to Santa Stabbing this week in less than two near the 700 block of North lated. Officers also don’t a statutory maximum sen- Barbara County, as he has From A7 days and the fourth vio- D and E streets. As of Friday have evidence the crimes tence of 18 years in federal agreed to appear for his lent crime in the last three afternoon, an arrest had yet are connected. prison. court dates voluntarily, ac- share of incidents, just like weeks. to be made, according to “They all seem to be iso- Throughout Lindsey’s cording to Nicola. a bigger neighboring city About 24 hours earlier, Magallon. lated incidents, but we’re federal criminal court pro- In December 2016, the like Santa Maria,” Magallon Lompoc Police were dis- Just two weeks later, on still investigating,” Ma- ceedings, it was determined Betancourts’ children sued said. patched to the Lompoc Sunday, Aug. 26, Lom- gallon said. that a boundary marker Lindsey for negligence, Frequency of recent Gardens apartments to a re- poc Police investigated Officials hope to make for the Vandenberg Base wrongful death, emotional violent crimes port of a stabbing in the 500 another crime — assault arrests in the near future, property was incorrect, distress and sought puni- The latest incident Lom- block of North I Street, just with a deadly weapon — according to Magallon, but and the collision had oc- tive damages, according to poc Police officers are in- before 4:30 p.m. Wednes- which took place at about are seeking the public’s curred within Santa Bar- Santa Barbara County Su- vestigating is an alleged day. Upon arrival, officers 7:45 p.m. in the alley be- help. bara County jurisdiction, perior Court records. stabbing that occurred located a juvenile victim tween 700 block of North “We really implore the according to the District The suit also named EAN around 6:30 p.m. Thursday and initiated medical care. D and E streets. A 26-year- public to contact our de- Attorney’s Office. Holdings LLC, Enterprise in the 400 block of North The teen was subsequently old man was reportedly partment if they have any The federal case was dis- rental car company, as Lind- M Street. Upon arrival, of- airlifted to a nearby hospital shot in the leg by a suspect information about any of missed without prejudice sey was reportedly driving ficers found an adult male via CALSTAR helicopter. who allegedly fired from a these incidents this past in July. a rental Dodge Challenger who had sustained a stab As of Friday afternoon, dark-colored vehicle while month. Anything, no mat- District Attorney Joyce during the crash. wound to his body. He was police confirmed the teen in a carport in the alley. ter how big or small, can Dudley has appointed two The suit was settled out treated by the Lompoc Fire is in stable condition. Two The man was taken in help.” assistant U.S. attorneys, of court for $1.6 million in Department and American unidentified male juveniles a private vehicle to Lom- Anyone with informa- Joanna Curtis and Julian 2017, according to plaintiff Medical Response before have been arrested in con- poc Valley Medical Center, tion is asked to contact the Andre, as special deputy attorneys at Harris Personal being transported to Cot- nection to the crime. where he was treated for Lompoc Police at 805-875- district attorneys to handle Injury law firm. tage Hospital. On Monday, Aug. 13, a nonlife-threatening inju- 8120. the case. The incident is believed shooting occurred in east ries. No arrests have been Curtis and Andre were the Gina Kim covers crime and to be gang-related, author- Lompoc that left two peo- made. Gina Kim covers crime and original federal prosecutors courts for Santa Maria Times. ities said, although no ar- ple injured, a neighborhood Besides the stabbing courts for Santa Maria assigned to the case, and it Follow her on Twitter @ rests have been made. in shock and police officers Thursday night, Lompoc Times. Follow her on Twitter 00 was in the best interest of gina_k210 Officials said the alleged in search of suspects. Police cannot confirm if the @gina_k210 1 SPORTS Saturday, September 1, 2018 | santamariatimes.com | SECTION B

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL | WEEK TWO SCOREBOARD

St.‌ Joseph 31 Righetti 35 Nipomo 35 Rio Mesa 29 El Diamante 17 Garces 30 Pioneer Valley 0 Golden West 20 Cabrillo 6 Paso Robles 10 8-man Lompoc 36 Santa Ynez 36 Arroyo Grande 28 SLO 41 Stockdale 46 Cate 62 Bishop Diego 10 Santa Maria 0 Independence 14 San Marcos 33 Atascadero 20 Orcutt Academy 30 Warriors beat Panthers, win the Helmet Righetti now 3-0 town rivals in the annual Battle The Warriors kept the mo- for the Helmet football game, the mentum going behind quar- after 35-0 shutout win Warriors' second straight Battle terback Brandon Giddings and for the Helmet win. running back Adan Solis. ELLIOTT STERN “It was a hard-fought game,” That, and a stifling defense led [email protected]‌ said Pioneer Valley head coach by Caleb Thomas. ‌The Righetti High School John Ruiz. “Righetti was well The Warriors picked up 475 Warriors are feasting on home prepared. Their defense played yards of total offense, 350 of cooking. great. For the first time in a long those on the ground with Solis Friday night, the main course while, I think we were out-phys- rushing for 161 yards and three was the Pioneer Valley Panthers. icalled.” touchdowns on 26 carries. Righetti had its third straight “We wanted to make a state- Righetti’s dominating defense home game Friday night when ment tonight,” said Righetti head held Pioneer Valley to just 107 the Warriors hosted the Pioneer coach Tony Payne. “We have a yards of total offense — 47 rush- DAI V D DUBRANSKY, CONTRIBUTOR‌ Valley Panthers. lot of respect for Pioneer Valley ing and 67 passing. Righetti running back Adan Solis takes advantage of a hole up the middle And Righetti ran its record to but we wanted to show our first “Caleb took over the game. during Friday night’s Battle for the Helmet game against the Pioneer Valley 3-0 win a 35-0 shutout victory two wins (a 56-9 win over Santa He had his most dominant game Panthers. Solis finished the night rushing for 161 yards and three touchdowns in a CIF Central Section non- Maria and a 49-21 win over Oak on 26 carries in Righetti’s 35-0 victory. league game against their cross- Park) weren’t just luck.” Please see WARRIORS, Page B5 Santa Ynez pitches shutout at Santa Maria Pirates win 36-0

KENNY CRESS [email protected]‌ ‌The Santa Ynez defense had a grand night Friday night. The Santa Maria offense had an aw- ful one. The Pirates’ defensive unit has had a big year so far in this early season and Santa Ynez blanked Santa Maria 36-0 at the Saints’ Ralph Baldiviez Stadium in an out-of-section game at Santa Maria High School. Santa Ynez plays in the CIF’s Southern Section. Santa Maria plays in the Central Section af- ter moving there earlier this year. The shutout was the first for Santa Ynez since the Pirates’ sec- ond game of 2017. The blanking was the first a Santa Maria team has taken since 2015, as the Saints’ 2018 home opener was a bust. Santa Ynez moved to 2-1. Santa Maria is 1-2. The Pirates’ defense has given up two touchdowns LOO EN W D, STAFF‌ this year. St. Joseph’s Devin Guggia gets past Garces’ Kaden Uribe to score a touchdown during Friday night’s game at Jay Will Stadium. The Knights won 31-30. “It’s not that we have a great defense,” said Santa Ynez coach Josh McClurg. “This is kids play- ing for each other, backing each other.” McClurg said, “The coaches can do the Xs and Os. The kids Knights rally, stun have to execute. They have to want to do it.” The Pirates kept the Saints to 129 yards of total offense. Turn- overs often put Santa Ynez on Santa Maria’s end of the field, and quarterback Bennett Redell threw three touchdown passes, Rams on final play all in the first half. Redell connected with Jasper Collins catches TD game against Bakersfield Garces. after his kick sailed over the tion team since their move to the Kadlec for a 14-yard touchdown The Knights, though, rallied. crossbar and was chased by his Central Section this season. pass early in the second quarter pass with no time left St. Joseph quarterback Chase wild mob of teammates before Though the victory was thrill- for the first score of the game. Artopoeus found Billy Collins the players settled down and ing for the Knights, Garces’ fight Redell tossed a 10-yard TD pass JOE BAILEY in the back of the end zone on shook hands with the Rams, was just as remarkable. to Cameron Prendergast later in [email protected]‌ a throw over the middle as time who suddenly found themselves Halsell’s 33-yard field goal the quarter, and Kadlec out-du- ‌The Knights were in control. expired. The touchdown pass facing their third defeat in three with 6:16 left in the third quar- eled two Santa Maria defenders Until they weren’t. knotted the score at 30-all. Na- games. ter gave St. Joseph a 24-10 lead. for the ball and took off to com- Somehow, they still came out than Halsell, St. Joseph’s senior Meanwhile, St. Joseph, and But the Rams kept grinding plete a 66-yard scoring play in on top. kicker, booted the point-after try first-year head coach Pepe Vil- away, chipping at the Knights’ the last minute of the first half. St. Joseph let its 24-10 sec- through the uprights to give the lasenor, are staring at a 3-0 re- advantage. ond-half lead turn into a 30-24 Knights a 31-30 win. cord. The Knights hosted the Please see YNEZ, Page B5 deficit in Friday night’s football Halsell raced across the field first out-of-area Central Sec- Please see KNIGHTS, Page B5 Lompoc rolls past defending state champions LORENZO J. REYNA which has never happened in zone with three Cardinals at- [email protected] ‌ the Andrew Jones era. Jones tached to his back; giving Lom- ‌The Braves can now add this lauded the way his team fought poc more comfort on the score- to their long list of football ac- throughout the night. board and building the lead to colades: A victory against a de- “It’s huge,” Jones said. “We 16-3. Morgan went on to catch fending state champion from the had a rough week. I thought us four balls for 80 yards against Central Coast. going through the adversity and the Cards. Lompoc – in its third consec- mental toughness was key.” Then, quarterback Cam Irib- utive road game and one that re- Lompoc went straight to arren had the 2017 CIF State Di- quired an hour of travel this time Leondre Coleman in the first vision 3-AA champions fooled – walloped the Bishop Diego quarter – who went on to col- on the next offensive posses- Cardinals 36-10 on Friday night lect 75 yards in the first period sion. He tucked the ball in on a at Santa Barbara City College’s with a rushing touchdown. He fake handoff, sprinted toward La Playa Stadium. finished with 142 rushing yards the right side of the defense and The win completes a rough on 16 carries. crossed the end zone on the 35- three-game road stand that saw “We saw a peak of what we yard scamper – placing LHS up LHS (2-1) travel down to Ventura could be. We all clicked tonight,” with the commanding 23-3 lead. County, the East Los Angeles re- Coleman said. Iribarren added another gion and finally Santa Barbara – In the third, Ryan Morgan strike that stretched past 50 totaling a combined 700 miles sprinted behind the Cardinals yards: This one a 54-yarder to worth of travel. secondary and hauled in a 52- Coleman on a bubble screen MI IKE EL ASON, CONTRIBUTOR‌ The rout of the Cardinals also yard bomb – which ended with that inflated the lead to 30-3. Lompoc high's Dechlan Sparrow (16) runs for a gain after a catch in the prevented LHS from losing two the junior chopping his legs and second quarter during Friday’s game against Bishop Diego at La Playa 00 1 regular season games in a row; muscling his way into the end Please see LOMPOC, Page B5 Stadium in Santa Barbara. B2 | Saturday, September 1, 2018 SPORTS Santa Maria Times

‌Pregame.com Line OLYMPIC SPORTS‌ Major League Baseball‌ USADA — Announced wrestler Victoria Francis tested Saturday‌ positive for a prohibited substance and accepted a 40th annual SM Open set to begin National League‌ one-year sanction for her violation. FAVORITE LINE DOG LINE‌ SOCCER‌ at SAN FRANCISCO -148 New York +138 National Women’s Soccer League‌ Chicago -133 at PHILADELPHIA +123 ELLIOTT STERN and mixed doubles.” doubles and mixed doubles “We have a number of at WASHINGTON -138 Milwaukee +128 SKY BLUE FC — Signed M Eliza Bona, D Gabby Cuevas estern@leecentralcoastnews. There are so many championship decided af- exciting local players in at ATLANTA -160 Pitt. +150 and M Nickolette Driesse. com‌ at ST. LOUIS -168 Cinn. +158 ‌College matches scheduled that ter singles play wraps up. the field,” said Wright. Colorado -158 at SAN DIEGO +148 at L.A. -173 Arizona +161 BROWN — Named John Svec and Mike Higgins men’s ‌Bigger and better than they won’t have room for In the Men’s Open Divi- “(KCOY-TV news anchor- American League‌ assistant lacrosse coaches. ever. all of them on the Santa sion, Evan Song, from Las man) Scott Hennessee is FAVORITE LINE DOG LINE‌BUFFALO —Promoted Nate Wills to deputy athletic at NEW YORK OFF Detroit OFF director, chief operating officer That’s what organizers Maria Country Club Vegas, is the No. 1 seed. coming back. Scott won at HOUSTON OFF L.A. OFF CSU NORTHRIDGE — Named John Barry volunteer of the 40th annual Santa courts. Song has an ATP ranking the Men’s 4.0 Division two Boston -148 at CHICAGO +138 assistant softball coach. at CLEVELAND -107 Tampa -103 FLORIDA STATE — Announced sophomore QB Bailey Maria Open Tennis Tour- “We’ll begin play Satur- of 402. years ago. He’s moving up at KANSAS CITY -117 Balt. +107 Hockman will transfer. nament are promising day morning at 8:30 a.m. Daniel Cutierman, an to the 4.5 Division this year Minn. -125 at TEXAS +115 FREDONIA STATE — Named P.J. Gondek assistant Seattle -133 at OAKLAND +123 director of athletics. when the three-day Labor at the Country Club and Israeli who plays for USC, and will be the No. 2 seed.” Interleague‌ FAVORITE LINE DOG LINE‌GUILFORD — Named Thomas Deeley men’s assistant Day weekend tournament also on the Pioneer Val- will be the division’s No. 2. Clay Schroeder is seeded at MIAMI -108 Toronto -102 soccer coach and Asia Laudal women’s assistant kicks off Saturday. ley High School and Han- “Alexois Halberian, who first in that division. College Football‌ soccer coach. Saturday‌ IOWA STATE — Suspended senior DB De’Monte Ruth Players in the Open Di- cock College courts,” said won the Men’s Open Di- Arroyo Grande High FAVORITE OPEN NOW O/U DOG‌ one game after being arrested for driving with a visions are competing for Wright. “Then on Sunday vision in 2016, is seeded School stars Delanie and at OKLAHOMA 24 20½ (72) FAU suspended license. Houston 21 26 (55½) at RICE MARTIN METHODIST — Named Billy Evans Women’s a share of a $25,000 prize (beginning at 9 a.m.) and fourth. That shows just Peyton Dunkle will com- at OHIO STATE 38 38½ (64) Oregon St. Basketball coach. pool. Monday, we’ll move all how strong the Men’s Open pete in the Women’s Open at PENN ST 28½ 23½ (54) Appalachian St. TEXAS RIO GRAND VALLEY — Named Kim Graham at NEBRASKA 17 26 (55½) Akron associate athletic director for operations. “We’ll have a record the remaining matches to Division is,” said Wright. Division along with former at BOSTON COLLEGE 20 17½ (63½) UMass at ILLINOIS 14½ 16½ (55½) Kent St. number of top players the Santa Maria Country “It shows how the quality St. Joseph High star Claire at RUTGERS 13½ 16½ (47) Texas St. TENNIS from across the country,” Club.” of player keeps improving.” Bouquet. Indiana 12 10½ (56½) at FIU at IOWA 13 10 (47½) N.Ill. US Open Results said tournament organizer Play will wrap up on Sat- The top ranked player Pioneer Valley graduate Texas 10½ 13½ (53) Maryland ‌NEW YORK (AP) — Results Friday from the Boise St 10½ 10 (48) at TROY Darien Wright on Thursday urday and Sunday at about in the Women’s Open Di- Kaitlyn Brown will be in La. Tech 10 10 (51) at SOUTH ALABAMA U.S. Open at USTA Billie Jean King National evening. “We’ll have be- 8 p.m. vision is Mahak Jain, who the mix along with Righetti Marshall 2½ 2½ (51½) at MIAMI (OHIO) Tennis Center (seedings in parentheses): at NORTH TEXAS 1½ 4½ (71) SMU Men’s Singles‌ tween 155 and 160 players All division champion- comes all the way from In- High’s girls tennis coach at VANDERBILT 7½ 3 (56½) MIDDLE TENN. at ARIZONA 13 11½ (60½) BYU ‌Third Round in men’s and women’s open ships will be decided Mon- dia. Jain was ranked 29th in Maddie Seeds. at ARIZONA ST 14½ 18 (54½) UTSA Rafael Nadal (1), Spain, def. Karen Khachanov (27), divisions, men’s A, B and C day with the Ladies Open the world when she com- Arroyo Grande’s Dana at SOUTHERN CAL 31½ 26 (63½) UNLV Russia, 5-7, 7-5, 7-6 (7), 7-6 (3). at UCLA 14 14½ (64½) Cinn. Nikoloz Basilashvili, Georgia, def. Guido Pella, divisions and a men’s 50s Division final beginning peted as a junior player. Evangelista is playing in Auburn 3 2½ (48½) Wash. Argentina, 6-3, 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (4). division. We’ll have cham- at 9 a.m., the Men’s Open Monica Robinson is the 50s Division this year. at KENTUCKY 20 17 (49) C. Mich. Dominic Thiem (9), Austria, def. Taylor Fritz, United Tx.Tech +1½ 2½ (66½) Miss. States, 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5), 6-4. pions in singles, doubles Division final at 11 a.m. and seeded second. Admission is free. at SOUTH CAROLINA 35 29½ (57)Coastal Carol. Kevin Anderson (5), South Africa, def. Denis West Virginia 7 9½ (61) Tenn. Shapovalov (28), Canada, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4. at CALIFORNIA 6 7½ (60) N. Carol. Wash. St 4 1½ (45½) at WYOMING Juan Martin del Potro (3), Argentina, def. Fernando at OREGON 28½ 32 (72½) Bowl.Grn. Verdasco (31), Spain, 7-5, 7-6 (6), 6-3. Old Dominion 5½ 5½ (58) at LIBERTY Borna Coric (20), Croatia, def. Daniil Medvedev, at NOTRE DAME 2 1½ (46½) Mich. Russia, 6-3, 7-5, 6-2. Donald ends holdout with record deal from Rams Alabama 28½ 24 (62½) Louisville John Isner (11), United States, def. Dusan Lajovic, Navy 15 10 (62) at HAWAII Serbia, 7-6 (8), 6-7 (6), 6-3, 7-5. GREG BEACHAM work re- his four NFL seasons. The Phillips, the Rams won ‌SUNDAY Milos Raonic (25), Canada, def. Stan Wawrinka, Associated Press‌ FAVORITE OPEN NOW O/U DOG‌Switzerland, 7-6 (6), 6-4, 6-3. ported the 27-year-old Pitt product their division for the first Miami 3 3½ (46½) LSU Women’s Singles‌ ‌LOS ANGELES — All- new deal is is the centerpiece of the time since 2003 and ended ‌MONDAY FAVORITE OPEN NOW O/U DOG‌ ‌Third Round Pro defensive tackle Aaron worth $135 Rams’ defense and one of the franchise’s streaks of 13 at FLORIDA ST 6½ 7½ (55½) Va.Tech Kaia Kanepi, Estonia, def. Rebecca Peterson, Sweden, Donald agreed to a massive million the NFL’s most dominant consecutive non-winning NFL‌ 6-3, 7-6 (3). Thursday‌ Serena Williams (17), United States, def. Venus new contract with the Los over six linemen, demonstrating seasons and 12 straight FAVORITE OPEN NOW O/U DOG‌ Williams (16), United States, 6-1, 6-2. at PHILADELPHIA 5½ 3 (45½) Atlanta Angeles Rams on Friday, years, with remarkable effectiveness non-playoff seasons. Ashleigh Barty (18), Australia, def. Karolina Muchova, ending his second consec- a $40 mil- against the run and the But Donald also took ‌Sunday 9/9 Czech Republic, 6-3, 6-4. FAVORITE OPEN NOW O/U DOG‌ Karolina Pliskova (8), Czech Republic, def. Sofia utive preseason holdout as lion signing pass. a hard line in negotiat- Pitt. 6½ 5½ (46½) at CLEVELAND Kenin, United States, 6-4, 7-6 (2). Donald at MINNESOTA 5 6 (46) San Fran. Sloane Stephens (3), United States, def. Victoria the highest-paid defensive bonus and Donald was a key com- ing his football future. at INDIANAPOLIS 1½ 3 (47) Cinn. Azarenka, Belarus, 6-3, 6-4. player in NFL history. $87 million guaranteed. ponent of Los Angeles’ He skipped the past two at BALTIMORE 3 7 (41) Buffalo Elise Mertens (15), Belgium, def. Barbora Strycova Jack. 3 3 (43½) at NY GIANTS (23), Czech Republic, 6-3, 7-6 (4). The Rams announced a Donald is already under extraordinary one-year training camps and pre- at NEW ORLEANS 7 9½ (49½) Tampa Anastasija Sevastova (19), Latvia, def. Ekaterina new six-year deal through contract this season for turnaround under rookie seasons while seeking a at NEW ENGLAND 6½ 6½ (51) Houston Makarova, Russia, 4-6, 6-1, 6-2. Tenn. 1½ 1 (45½) at MIAMI Elina Svitolina (7), Ukraine, def. Qiang Wang, China, 2024 for Donald, the $6.89 million in the final coach Sean McVay in 2017. new contract, and he also at LA CHARGERS 3 3 (47½) Kan.City 6-4, 6-4. reigning NFL Defensive year of his rookie deal. With Donald leading their skipped the Rams’ entire at DENVER 1 3 (42) Seattle at CAROLINA 2½ 2½ (43) Dallas Men’s Doubles‌ Player of the Year. Donald was chosen for defensive efforts under offseason program this at ARIZONA PK PK (44) Wash. at GREEN BAY 8 8 (47½) Chicago ‌Second Round ESPN and the NFL Net- the Pro Bowl after each of veteran coordinator Wade year. Jurgen Melzer, Austria and Nikola Mektic, Croatia, ‌Monday 9/10 def. Leonardo Mayer, Argentina and Joao Sousa, FAVORITE OPEN NOW O/U DOG‌ Portugal, 6-3, 6-3. at DETROIT 6½ 6½ (44) NY Jets Austin Krajicek, United States and Tennys Sandgren, LA Rams 1 3½ (49½) at OAKLAND United States, def. Julio Peralta, Chile and Horacio CENTRAL COAST‌ SPORTS Updated odds available at Pregame.com Zeballos (13), Argentina, 6-4, 7-6 (4). Robin Haase, Netherlands and Matwe Middelkoop Saturday‌ „„ Boys water polo: Nipomo, Santa Maria at Home Tourney, TRANSACTIONS (14), Netherlands, def. Philipp Petzschner, Germany „„ Tennis: 40th annual Santa Maria Tennis Open, opening Santa Maria, Nipomo, 10 a.m. and Tim Puetz, Germany, 6-3, 3-6, 6-1. ‌Baseball Ryan Harrison, United States and Christian Harrison, rounds, Pioneer Valley High School, Hancock College, „„ Girls water polo: Nipomo, Santa Maria at Home Tourney, United States, def. Feliciano Lopez, Spain and Marc Major League Baseball‌ Lopez (10), Spain, 6-2, 4-6, 6-3. Santa Maria Country Club, 8:30 a.m. Santa Maria, Nipomo, 10 a.m. OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF BASEBALL — Malek Jaziri, Tunisia and Radu Albot, Moldova, def. „„ Boys, girls cross country: Santa Ynez at UCSB Blue Lagoon, „„ Girls volleyball: Orcutt Academy at Providence Tournament Suspended Minnesota minor league RHP Alex Banks Horia Tecau, Romania and Jean-Julien Rojer (6), (DSL) 72 games and Boston minor league C Alberto 8 a.m. Sunday‌ Netherlands, 3-6, 7-6 (8), 6-2. Schmidt (Lowell-NYP) 76 games after both tested Maximo Gonzalez, Argentina and Nicolas Jarry, Chile, „„ Boys, girls cross country: Arroyo Grande, Pioneer Valley, „„ Tennis: 40th annual Santa Maria Tennis Open, semifinals, positive for Stanozolol, a performance-enhancing def. Michael Venus, New Zealand and Raven Klaasen substance in violation of the Minor League Drug Cabrillo, Nipomo, Orcutt Academy at Greg DeNike Invita- Santa Maria Country Club, 9 a.m. (8), South Africa, 6-3, 7-6 (5). Prevention and Treatment Program. Roman Jebavy, Czech Republic and Andres Molteni, American League‌ tional, Talley Farms, Arroyo Grande, 9 a.m. Argentina, def. Andreas Seppi, Italy and Matteo CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Purchased the contract of Berrettini, Italy, 7-6 (3), 6-4. RHP Ian Hamilton from Charlotte (IL). Marcel Granollers, Spain and Ivan Dodig (11), Croatia, CLEVELAND INDIANS — Acquired 3B Josh Donaldson RADIO‌ def. Robert Galloway, United States and Nathaniel from the Toronto Blue Jays for a player to named. Lammons, United States, 6-4, 7-6 (1). NEW YORK YANKEES — Acquired OF Andrew Edouard Roger-Vasselin, France and Rohan Bopanna Saturday‌ Sunday‌ McCutchen from San Francisco for INF Abiatal (15), India, def. Matthew Ebden, Australia and Avelino, RHP Juan De Paula and cash. Baseball: Cal Poly at North Dakota State (1280 AM) 12 p.m.Baseball: Arizona at L.A. Dodgers (1280 AM) 12 p.m. Jackson Withrow, United States, 6-4, 6-4. TEXAS RANGERS — Acquired RHPs Abdiel Mendoza Women’s Doubles‌ Baseball: Arizona at L.A. Dodgers (1280 AM) 6 p.m.Baseball: L.A. Angels at Houston (1280 AM) Follows and Teodoro Ortega from Oakland for RHP Cory Gearrin. Recalled RHP Connor Sadzeck from Round ‌Second Round Rock (PCL). Barbora Krejcikova, Czech Republic and Katerina TELEVISION‌ TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Acquired OF Demi Orimoloye Siniakova (1), Czech Republic, def. Bethanie Mattek- from the Milwaukee Brewers for OF Curtis Sands, United States and Lucie Safarova, Czech Saturday‌ Indiana at FIU (CBSSN) 4 p.m. Granderson. Republic, 6-4, 6-3. AUTO RACING‌ National League‌ Laura Siegemund, Germany and Lyudmyla Kichenok, Cincinnati at UCLA (ESPN) 4 p.m. CHICAGO CUBS — Placed OF Jason Heyward on the Ukraine, def. Monica Niculescu, Romania and Irina- Formula One, Heineken Italian Grand Prix, practice, at 10-day DL. Recalled RHP Dillon Maples from Iowa Camelia Begu (15), Romania, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2. Michigan at Notre Dame (NBC) 4:30 p.m. (PCL). Monza, Italy (ESPN2) 2:55 a.m. Su-Wei Hsieh, Taiwan and Aryna Sabalenka, Belarus, Stephen F. Austin at Mississippi St. (ESPNU) 4:30 p.m. COLORADO ROCKIES — Acquired C Drew Butera def. Nina Stojanovic, Serbia and Fanny Stollar, Formula One, Heineken Italian Grand Prix, qualifying, at and cash considerations from Kansas City for LHP Hungary, 6-4, 7-6 (5). Charleston Southern at Florida (SEC) 4:30 p.m. Jerry Vasto. Monza, Italy (ESPN2) 5:55 a.m. Oksana Kalashnikova, Georgia and Nao Hibino, Louisville vs. Alabama, at Orlando, Fla. (ABC) 5 p.m. MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Acquired LHP Xavier Cedeno Japan, def. Johanna Larsson, Sweden and Kiki NASCAR, Xfinity Series, Sport Clips Haircuts VFW 200, quali- from the Chicago White Sox for OF Bryan Connell and Bertens (9), Netherlands, 7-6 (3), 6-4. Akron at Nebraska (FOX) 5 p.m. RHP Johan Dominguez. Irina Khromacheva, Russia and Dalila Jakupovic, fying, at Darlington, S.C. (NBCSN) 9:30 a.m. WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Acquired RHP Andrew Abilene Christian at Baylor (FSN) 5 p.m. Slovenia, def. Asia Muhammad, United States and NASCAR, Monster Energy Cup Series, Bojangles’ Southern Istler from the Los Angeles Dodgers for RHP Ryan Jennifer Brady, United States, 7-5, 6-4. UTSA at Arizona St. (FS1) 7:30 p.m. Madson. Recalled LHP Sammy Solis from Syracuse Christina McHale, United States and Caroline 500, qualifying, at Darlington, S.C. (NBCSN) 11 a.m. (IL). Acquired C/1B KJ Harrison and INF Gilbert Lara BYU at Arizona (ESPN) 7:45 p.m. Dolehide, United States, def. Zhaoxuan Yang, China NASCAR, Xfinity Series, Sport Clips Haircuts VFW 200, at from the Milwaukee Brewers for LHP Gio Gonzalez and Hao-Ching Chan (10), Taiwan, 5-7, 6-2, 7-6 (5). Navy at Hawaii (CBSSN) 8 p.m. and international slot value. Ajla Tomljanovic, Australia and Magda Linette, Darlington, S.C. (NBC) 12:30 p.m. American Association‌ GOLF‌ Poland, def. Lidziya Marozava, Belarus and Lesley ST. PAUL SAINTS — Released OF Richard Prigatano. Kerkhove, Netherlands, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-1. IndyCar, Grand Prix of Portland, qualifying, at Portland, Ore. Atlantic League‌ Kristina Mladenovic, France and Timea Babos (2), European PGA Tour, Made In Denmark, third round, at Aar- LONG ISLAND DUCKS — Acquired RHP Brett Marshall (same-day tape) (NBCSN) 4:30 p.m. Hungary, def. Nicole Gibbs, United States and Sabrina from Southern Maryland to complete a previous hus, Denmark (GOLF) 3:30 a.m. Santamaria, United States, 6-0, 6-2. COLLEGE FOOTBALL‌ trade. Activated RHP Matt Larkins and C Wagner Web.com Tour, DAP Championship, third round, at Beach- Mixed Doubles‌ Oregon St. at Ohio St. (ABC) 9 a.m. Gomez. Placed RHP John Brownell, LHP Hector ‌First Round Kent St. at Illinois (BTN) 9 a.m. wood, Ohio (GOLF) 10 a.m. Silvestre and RHP Lorenzo Barcelo on the inactive PGA Tour, Dell Technologies Championship, second round, at list. Christina McHale, United States and Christian Houston at Rice (CBSSN) 9 a.m. ‌Basketball Harrison, United States, def. Nicholas Monroe, United Boston (GOLF) 12 p.m. States and Vania King, United States, 3-6, 7-5, 10-5. Mississippi vs. Texas Tech, at Houston (ESPN) 9 a.m. ‌NBA Ivan Dodig, Croatia and Latisha Chan (4), Taiwan, def. James Madison at NC State (ESPNU) 9 a.m. LPGA Tour, Cambia Portland Classic, third round, at Port- MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES — Waived C Dakari Johnson. Artem Sitak, New Zealand and Lyudmyla Kichenok, land, Ore. (GOLF) 3:30 p.m. OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER — Waived F Kyle Singler. Ukraine, 6-4, 3-6, 10-8. Villanova at Temple (ESPNews) 9 a.m. PHOENIX SUNS — Sent G Brandon Knight and F Bethanie Mattek-Sands, United States and Jamie FAU at Oklahoma (FOX) 9 a.m. Champions Tour, Shaw Charity Classic, second round, at Cal- Marquese Chriss to the Houston Rockets for F Ryan Murray, Britain, def. Michael Mmoh, United States gary, Alberta (same-day tape) (GOLF) 5:30 p.m. Anderson and G De’Anthony Melton. and Amanda Anisimova, United States, 6-4, 7-6 (2). Texas vs. Maryland, at Landover, Md. (FS1) 9 a.m. ‌Football Juan Sebastian Cabal, Colombia and Abigail Spears HORSE RACING‌ Southern at TCU (FSN) 9 a.m. ‌NFL (8), United States, def. James Cerretini, United States Coastal Carolina at South Carolina (SEC) 9 a.m. Saratoga Live, Glens Falls and Saranac Stakes, at Saratoga BALTIMORE RAVENS — Waived CB Robertson Daniel, and Kaitlyn Christian, United States, 5-7, 6-3, 10-6. G-T Andrew Donnal, G Justin Evans, TE Nick Keizer, Nikola Mektic, Croatia and Alicja Rosolska, Poland, Washington vs. Auburn, at Atlanta (ABC) 12:30 p.m. Springs, N.Y. (FS2) 11:30 a.m. DE Christian LaCouture, DB Kai Nacua, CB Jackson def. Makoto Ninomiya, Japan and Ben Mclachlan, Japan, 4-6, 6-2, 10-6. Appalachian St. at Penn St. (BTN) 12:30 p.m. Breeders’ Cup Challege Series, Spinaway and Woodward Porter, WR DeVier Posey and LS Trent Sieg. Waived- injured LB Alvin Jones. Placed S DeShon Eliiott, DB Bruno Soares, Brazil and Elina Svitolina, Ukraine, def. West Virginia vs. Tennessee, at Charlotte, N.C. (CBS) Stakes, at Saratoga Springs, N.Y. (NBCSN) 2:30 p.m. Bennett Jackson, CB Stanley Jean-Baptiste and OT Lucie Hradecka, Czech Republic and Roman Jebavy, MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL‌ Greg Senat on injured reserve. Czech Republic, 7-5, 4-6, 13-11. 12:30 p.m. CAROLINA PANTHERS — Released RB Kenjon Barner. Oliver Marach, Austria and Nicole Melichar (2), Washington St. at Wyoming (CBSSN) 12:30 p.m. Detroit at N.Y. Yankees (FS1) 1 p.m. Waived WR Rasheed Bailey, DE Sterling Bailey, TE United States, def. Frances Tiafoe, United States Tampa Bay at Cleveland (FS1) 4 p.m. Evan Baylis, T Adam Bisnowaty, LB Richie Brown, and Whitney Osuigwe, United States, 7-5, 6-1. Austin Peay at Georgia (ESPN) 12:30 p.m. DB Alex Carter, T Blaine Clausell, S Demetrious Cox, Cent. Michigan at Kentucky (ESPNU) 12:30 p.m. L.A. Angels at Houston (FSW) 4 p.m. T Quinterrius Eatmon, LB Chris Frey, CB LaDarius AUTO RACING North Carolina at California (FOX) 1 p.m. Arizona at L.A. Dodgers (SNLA) 6 p.m. Gunter, WR Bug Howard, G Norman Price, TE Jason Reese, TE Cam Serigne and DT Tracy Sprinkle. ‌NASCAR Monster Energy Cup SOCCER‌ E. Illinois at Arkansas (SEC) 1 p.m. CLEVELAND BROWNS — Terminated contract of Schedule and standings Premier League, Leicester City vs. Liverpool (NBCSN) 4:30 p.m. WR Jeff Janis. Waived TE Stephen Baggett, DBs Boise St. at Troy (ESPNews) 3 p.m. Christian Boutte and Elijah Campbell, OL Anthony ‌Feb. 11 — x-Advance Auto Parts Clash, Daytona Beach, Bundesliga, Bayer Leverkusen vs. VfL Wolfsburg (FS1) Fabiano, Avery Gennesy and Fred Lauina, DL Jeremy Fla. (Brad Keselowski) Faulk, QB Brogan Roback and DBs Derron Smith and Feb. 15 — x-Can-Am Duel 1, Daytona Beach, Fla. (Ryan 6:30 p.m. DL Blaine Woodson. Waived-injured WR C.J. Board, Blaney) Bundesliga, Eintracht Frankfurt vs. Werder Bremen (FS2) LB Justin Currie and DL Lenny Jones. Traded OL Feb. 15 — x-Can-Am Duel 2, Daytona Beach, Fla. (Chase Shon Coleman to the San Francisco 49ers for a Elliott) 6:30 p.m. seventh-round draft pick. Feb. 18 — Daytona 500, Daytona Beach, Fla. (Austin Premier League, teams TBA (NBCSN) 7 p.m. DETROIT LIONS — Released DE Cam Johnson, CB Dillon) Dexter McDougle and CB Sterling Moore. Waived Feb. 25 — Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500, Hampton, Ga. Senior Premier League, Manchester City vs. Newcastle United WR Brian Brown, DT Josh Fatu, TE Marcus Lucas, (Kevin Harvick) March 4 — Penzoil 400, Las Vegas (Kevin Harvick) (NBC) 9:30 a.m. T Jamar McGloster, LB Chad Meredith, G John Montelus, WR Teo Redding, DT Christian Ringo and March 11 — TicketGuardian 500, Avondale, Ariz. (Kevin DE Jeremiah Valoaga. Placed S Marcus Cromartie on Harvick) injured/reserve. March 18 — Auto Club 400, Fontana, Calif. (Martin Spotlight HOUSTON TEXANS — Released P Shane Lechler. Truex Jr.) KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Traded OL Parker Ehinger to March 26 — STP 500, Martinsville, Va. (Clint Bowyer) Dallas for CB Charvarius Ward. 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SATURDAY’S GAMES ON TV 9 a.m. Oregon State at Ohio State ABC 9 a.m. Fla. Atlantic at Oklahoma FOX 9 a.m. texas at Maryland FS1 9 a.m. Kent State at Illinois BTN Screen Play 9 a.m. Coastal Carolina at S. Carolina SEC 9 a.m. Ole Miss vs. Texas Tech ESPN YOUR TV GUIDE TO THE WEEK IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL 9 a.m. James Madison at N.C. State ESPU 9 a.m. Villanova at Temple ESPNews TUBE RATINGS‌: ●●●●● Don’t change the channel | ●●●●● Worthy of your full attention 9 a.m. Houston at Rice CBSN ●●●●● Unless your favorite show is on, tune in | ●●●●● Football’s still football 12:30 p.m. Washington vs. Auburn ABC 12:30 p.m. appalachian State at Penn State BTN Main attraction‌ 12:30 p.m. tennessee vs. West Virginia CBS 12:30 p.m. C. Michigan at Kentucky ESPU No. 6 Washington vs. No. 9 Auburn, 2:30 p.m., ESPN: This year’s Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game features two teams with College Football Playoff aspirations. Washington will lean on quarterback Jake Browning, running back Myles 12:30 p.m. N. Illinois at Iowa BTN Gaskin and a salty defense. Auburn counters with offensive wiz Gus Malzahn and quarterback Jarrett Stidham. 12:30 p.m. Washington State at Wyoming CBSN Not a bad way to enjoy your afternoon. 12:30 p.m. austin Peay at Georgia ESPN TUBE RATING: ●●●●● 1 p.m. uNLV at USC PAC12 1 p.m. N. Carolina at California FOX 1 p.m. eastern Illinois at Arkansas SEC 3 p.m. boise State at Troy ESPNews 4 p.m. Cincinnati at UCLA ESPN 4 p.m. Indiana at FIU CBSN 4:30 p.m. michigan at Notre Dame NBC 4:30 p.m. Stephen F. Austin at Miss. State ESPU 4:30 p.m. Charleston Southern at Florida SEC 5 p.m. Louisville vs. Alabama ABC 5 p.m. bowling Green at Oregon PAC12 5 p.m. akron at Nebraska FOX 7:30 p.m. utSA at Arizona State FS1 7:45 p.m. byu at Arizona ESPN 8 p.m. Navy at Hawaii CBSN

SUNDAY’S GAME ON TV 4:30 p.m. miami vs. LSU ABC

MONDAY’S GAME ON TV 5 p.m. Virginia Tech vs. Florida State ESPN

AROUND THE PAC-12 NORTH CONF ALL THIS WEEK California 0-0 0-0 North Carolina, 1 p.m. Oregon 0-0 0-0 Bowling Green, 5 p.m. Oregon State 0-0 0-0 at Ohio State, 9 a.m. Stanford 0-0 0-0 San Diego State, late Friday Washington 0-0 0-0 vs. Auburn, 12:30 p.m. Washington State 0-0 0-0 at Wyoming, 12:30 p.m. SOUTH CONF ALL THIS WEEK Utah 0-0 1-0 defeated Weber State 41-10 Thurs. Arizona 0-0 0-0 BYU, 7:45 p.m. Arizona State 0-0 0-0 USTA, 7:30 p.m. Colorado 0-0 0-0 vs. Colorado State, late Friday UCLA 0-0 0-0 Cincinnati, 4 p.m. Southern California 0-0 0-0 UNLV, 1 p.m.

ASSOCIATED PRESS TOP 25 1. Alabama (0-0) vs. Louisville, 5 p.m. (Orlando, Fla.) 2. Clemson (0-0) Furman, 9:20 a.m. 3. Georgia (0-0) Austin Peay, 12:30 p.m. 4. Wisconsin (0-0) W. Kentucky, late Friday 5. Ohio State (0-0) Oregon State, 9 a.m. 6. Washington (0-0) vs. No. 9 Auburn, 12:30 p.m. (Atlanta) 7. Oklahoma (0-0) Fla. Atlantic, 9 a.m. 8. Miami (0-0) vs. No. 25 LSU, 4:30 p.m. Sun. (Arlington, Texas) ASSOCIATED PRESS 9. Auburn (0-0) vs. No. 6 Washington, 12:30 p.m. (Atlanta) Auburn quarterback Jarrett Stidham, right, avoids the tackle of 10. Penn State (0-0) Appalachian State, 12:30 p.m. Missouri linebacker Terez Hall, left, during a game last season in Setting the scene‌ Columbia, Mo. 11. Michigan State (0-0) Utah State, late Friday Young Big Ten QBs 12. Notre Dame (0-0) No. 14 Michigan, 4:30 p.m. take the stage‌ 13. Stanford (0-0) San Diego State, late Friday Kicking off your day‌ In an earlier time, a true freshman 14. Michigan (0-0) at No. 12 Notre Dame, 4:30 p.m. No. 23 Texas at Maryland, 11 a.m., FS1: The Terps won 51-41 in Aus- starting quarterback wasn’t neces- 15. USC (0-0) UNLV, 1 p.m. tin, Texas, last year, spoiling Tom Herman’s debut as the Horns’ coach. sarily unthinkable. It certainly was 16. TCU (0-0) Southern U., 9 a.m. If Texas is going to make a move up the food chain, it will need to im- an outlier. 17. West Virginia (0-0) vs. Tennessee, 12:30 p.m. (Charlotte, N.C.) prove its running game (110th nationally last year). Not so much anymore, not in this TUBE RATING: ●●●●● age of what Rutgers offensive co- 18. Mississippi State (0-0) Stephen F. Austin, 4:30 p.m. Commercial check-ins: Oregon State at No. 5 Ohio State, 11 a.m., ABC; ordinator John McNulty calls the 19. Florida State (0-0) No. 20 Virginia Tech, 5 p.m. Mon. Kent State at Illinois, BTN; Ole Miss vs. Texas Tech, 11 a.m., ESPN. “bred quarterback,” those players 20. Virginia Tech (0-0) at No. 19 Florida State, 5 p.m. Mon. who immerse themselves in football 21. UCF (1-0) defeated UConn 56-17 Thurs. year-round, get individual coaching Afternoon highlights from quarterback gurus and arrive 22. Boise State (0-0) at Troy, 3 p.m. on campus ready and expecting to 23. Texas (0-0) at Maryland, 9 a.m. Tennessee vs. No. 17 West Virginia, 2:30 p.m., CBS: Tennessee’s re- play right away. vamped defense will be tested by quarterback Will Grier, who averaged 24. Oregon (0-0) Bowling Green, 5 p.m. Three of the Big Ten’s six new 317.3 passing yards per game last year. This game will take place in 25. LSU (0-0) vs. No. 8 Miami, 4:30 p.m. Sun. (Arlington, Texas) starters were in high school a year Charlotte, North Carolina. ago. Now consider the Big Ten had TUBE RATING: ●●●●● only five true freshman quarter- Commercial check-ins: Northern Illinois at Iowa, 2:30 p.m., BTN; backs start openers from 2003-17. BY THE NUMBERS Washington State at Wyoming, 2:30 p.m., CBSN; Appalachian State at Zack Annexstad will be taking No. 10 Penn State, 2:30 p.m., BTN. snaps for Minnesota. Arthur Sit- That’s how many defensive linemen from No. 2 kowski will start for Rutgers against 3 Clemson made the Associated Press preseason Texas State and Adrian Martinez for All-America team. Clelin Ferrell and Christian Wilkins In prime time‌ Nebraska against Akron. were first-team selections, while Dexter Lawrence made No. 22 Boise State at Troy, 5 p.m., ESPNews: With Troy heading to With quarterbacks specializing at the second team. Lincoln in two weeks, Nebraska fans will be watching this one closely. their position at younger ages and The number of new coaches in the SEC this year Boise State averaged nearly 33 points per game last year, while Troy often skipping other sports, they 5 (not including Mississippi’s Matt Luke, who was an averaged more than 40 over its final seven contests, so this could be a show up with strong fundamentals interim coach last year but got hired on a permanent track meet. and are well ahead of where fresh- basis after the season). That’s the SEC’s highest total TUBE RATING: ●●●●● men used to be in their physical de- since 1946. velopment. Once on campus, they No. 14 Michigan at No. 12 Notre Dame, 6:30 p.m., NBC: The Wolver- must learn schemes, terminology No. 1 Alabama has defeated unranked opponents ines and Irish meet again after a four-year hiatus. Notre Dame is re- and reads. 73 an FBS-record 73 straight times. The Crimson turning 10 defensive starters, while Michigan — with QB Shea Patterson Much of that can be accom- Tide is undefeated in openers under coach Nick Saban in the fold — is retooling its offense. In fact, points for both teams may plished if — as Annexstad, Sitkow- and has won the past six neutral-site openers by an av- be hard to come by. ski and Martinez did — they gradu- erage margin of nearly 24 points. TUBE RATING: ●●●●● ate early from high school and enroll That was the Big Ten’s record against Louisville vs. No. 1 Alabama, 7 p.m., ABC: Alabama is only the sec- in January, which allows them to go 39-11 nonconference opponents last season. ond team to start three consecutive seasons as the Associated Press through spring practice and get a The Big Ten’s .780 winning percentage in nonconfer- No. 1 team, joining Oklahoma (1985-87). Bama coach Nick Saban is 11-3 jump on college life. ence games was the best of any league. against ACC teams. Here is a hunch it will be 12-3 after Saturday night. “They’re really not freshmen TUBE RATING: ●●●●● when they do that,” Rutgers coach Michigan’s all-time winning percentage, Chris Ash said. “When you combine .729 which leads all FBS schools. Even so, the No. Commercial check-ins: BYU at Arizona, 9:45 p.m., ESPN. the early enrollment, all the training 14 Wolverines head to No. 12 Notre Dame having lost 16 they’re getting year-round at that straight road games against ranked teams, dating back Peeking ahead position, the game has changed. It to 2006. really has. All those things com- Points scored last season by Florida Atlantic Next week’s big games bined, it has led to more young guys 198 running back Kevin Singletary, a figure that „„ No. 2 Clemson at Texas A&M having an opportunity to compete led all FBS players. Singletary and the Owls carry a 10- „„ No. 15 USC at No. 13 Stanford and potentially play.” game winning streak into their season opener at No. 7 „„ No. 18 Mississippi State at Kansas State — Associated Press Oklahoma. — Associated Press 00 1 B4 | Saturday, September 1, 2018 BASEBALL Santa Maria Times

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East W L Pct GB WC L10 Str Home Away‌ single drove in Adam Frazier Boston 93 42 .689 — — 5-5 W-3 48-18 45-24 with the tiebreaking run, New York 85 50 .630 8 — 6-4 W-1 47-23 38-27 and Pittsburgh recovered Tampa Bay 71 63 .530 21½ 8½ 8-2 L-1 41-24 30-39 after blowing a two-run Toronto 61 73 .455 31½ 18½ 6-4 W-1 34-33 27-40 lead to win in Atlanta. Baltimore 40 95 .296 53 40 3-7 L-1 24-44 16-51 Central W L Pct GB WC L10 Str Home Away‌ INDIANS 3, RAYS 0: Corey Cleveland 77 57 .575 — — 5-5 W-2 42-25 35-32 Kluber pitched seven spar- Minnesota 63 71 .470 14 16½ 4-6 W-1 39-29 24-42 kling innings and Edwin Detroit 54 81 .400 23½ 26 3-7 L-1 34-34 20-47 Encarnacion homered to Chicago 53 81 .396 24 26½ 6-4 L-1 25-41 28-40 lead Cleveland past Tampa Kansas City 43 91 .321 34 36½ 5-5 W-3 23-45 20-46 Bay at home. Kluber (17-7) West W L Pct GB WC L10 Str Home Away‌ allowed two singles, struck Houston 82 53 .607 — — 7-3 L-2 35-32 47-21 out eight and walked two in Oakland 80 55 .593 2 — 5-5 L-2 39-27 41-28 Cleveland’s AL-best 14th Seattle 75 59 .560 6½ 4½ 4-6 W-1 38-28 37-31 shutout this season. Los Angeles 66 69 .489 16 14 3-7 W-2 34-34 32-35 Texas 58 77 .430 24 22 3-7 L-5 29-41 29-36 ANGELS 3, ASTROS 0: An- drelton Simmons hit a ‌Thursday’s results two-run homer in a three- Cleveland 5, Minnesota 3 L.A. Angels 5, Houston 2 Detroit 8, N.Y. Yankees 7 Seattle 7, Oakland 1 run sixth inning that led Los Boston 9, Chicago White Sox 4 Angeles to victory in Hous- ‌Friday’s results ton. Jaime Barria (9-8) scat- N.Y. Yankees 7, Detroit 5 Kansas City 9, Baltimore 2 tered three hits. Cleveland 3, Tampa Bay 0 Minnesota 10, Texas 7 ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOS Toronto 6, Miami 5 Boston at Chicago White Sox, (n) BLUE JAYS 6, MARLINS 5: L.A. Angels 3, Houston 0 Seattle at Oakland, (n) Philadelphia’s Asdrubal Cabrera celebrates after hitting a walk-off home run in the 10th inning Friday to defeat the Chicago Cubs 2-1. It was Cabrera’s fifth career walk-off homer. Justin Smoak hit a pinch- ‌Today’s games hit, two-out grand slam in Detroit (Norris 0-2) at N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 9-5), 1:05 p.m. BREWERS 4, NATIONALS 1: Chicago and pull within Jordan Zimmermann’s bid the top of the ninth inning Boston (Rodriguez 11-3) at Chicago White Sox (Rodon 6-3), 4:10 p.m. Jhoulys Chacin pitched ef- two games of Atlanta in the for a no-hitter. to cap Toronto’s dramatic L.A. Angels (Pena 1-4) at Houston (TBD), 4:10 p.m. fectively into the seventh NL East. It was Cabrera’s comeback in Miami. Tampa Bay (Snell 16-5) at Cleveland (Bieber 8-2), 4:10 p.m. Toronto (Estrada 7-10) at Miami (Chen 5-9), 4:10 p.m. inning and Travis Shaw hit fifth career walk-off homer. CARDINALS 12, REDS 5: Paul Baltimore (Bundy 7-13) at Kansas City (Fillmyer 2-1), 4:15 p.m. a two-run homer to lead Javier Baez hit his 29th ho- DeJong hit a three-run ho- ROYALS 9, ORIOLES 2: Brad Minnesota (Berrios 11-9) at Texas (Gallardo 7-3), 5:05 p.m. Milwaukee to a victory in mer for the Cubs. mer and a two-run single Keller (7-5) pitched eight Seattle (Paxton 10-5) at Oakland (Mengden 6-6), 6:05 p.m. Washington. The Brewers for a career-high five RBIs innings, allowing just four also got home runs from YANKEES 7, TIGERS 5: Gley- as St. Louis pounded vis- hits, and Kansas City hit NATIONAL LEAGUE Jesus Aguilar, his 31st, and ber Torres drove in the go- iting Cincinnati. Matt Car- three home runs to defeat Erik Kratz in winning their ahead run one batter after penter hit his NL-best 35th Baltimore at home. East W L Pct GB WC L10 Str Home Away‌ third straight game. a contested check swing homer and Austin Gomber Atlanta 74 60 .552 — — 5-5 L-3 35-31 39-29 loaded the bases for New pitched seven effective in- TWINS 10, RANGERS 7: Jake Philadelphia 72 62 .537 2 3 4-6 W-2 43-24 29-38 PHILLIES 2, CUBS 1 (10 IN- York in the eighth inning in nings and contributed a Cave and Tyler Austin hom- Washington 67 68 .496 7½ 8½ 5-5 L-2 33-32 34-36 NINGS): Philadelphia short- its home victory over De- two-run double. ered in Minnesota’s eight- New York 59 74 .444 14½ 15½ 5-5 W-1 28-40 31-34 stop Asdrubal Cabrera hit troit. Brett Gardner, Aaron run fifth inning to beat Miami 53 82 .393 21½ 22½ 4-6 L-4 31-39 22-43 a walk-off home run to Hicks and Miguel Andujar PIRATES 3, BRAVES 2: Greg- Texas in Arlington. Central W L Pct GB WC L10 Str Home Away‌ left-center field to beat homered in the sixth to end ory Polanco’s eighth-inning — Associated Press, mlb.com Chicago 79 55 .590 — — 8-2 L-1 44-24 35-31 St. Louis 76 59 .563 3½ — 8-2 W-2 37-29 39-30 Milwaukee 76 60 .559 4 — 7-3 W-3 40-26 36-34 BOX SCORES Pittsburgh 66 69 .489 13½ 9½ 3-7 W-1 35-34 31-35 Cincinnati 57 78 .422 22½ 18½ 2-8 L-3 32-37 25-41 ‌Phillies 2, Cubs 1 ‌Angels 3, Astros 0 West W L Pct GB WC L10 Str Home Away‌ Chicago AB R H BI BB SO Avg.‌ Los Angeles AB R H BI BB SO Avg.‌ Arizona 74 60 .552 — — 6-4 W-2 35-31 39-29 Murphy 2b 5 0 2 0 0 1 .303 Calhoun rf 3 1 0 0 1 3 .226 Baez ss 5 1 2 1 0 2 .295 Fletcher 2b 4 1 1 0 0 0 .276 Colorado 72 61 .541 1½ 2½ 5-5 L-1 34-30 38-31 Rizzo 1b 4 0 0 0 1 2 .278 Trout cf 2 0 0 1 1 1 .309 Los Angeles 72 62 .537 2 3 6-4 L-1 35-34 37-28 Zobrist rf 4 0 0 0 1 1 .310 Upton lf 4 0 1 0 0 0 .266 Almora cf 5 0 2 0 0 0 .296 Simmons ss 4 1 2 2 0 0 .299 San Francisco 67 68 .496 7½ 8½ 6-4 L-1 38-28 29-40 Contreras c 2 0 0 0 2 1 .265 Ohtani dh 3 0 1 0 1 0 .276 San Diego 53 83 .390 22 23 4-6 W-3 26-43 27-40 Happ lf 3 0 0 0 1 2 .236 Marte 1b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .201 Quintana p 2 0 2 0 0 0 .091 Ward 3b 3 0 1 0 0 1 .196 La Stella ph 1 0 1 0 0 0 .273 Cowart 3b 1 0 0 0 0 1 .133 ‌Thursday’s results Caratini ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .252 Briceno c 3 0 0 0 1 2 .280 Milwaukee 2, Cincinnati 1, 11 inn. Arizona 3, L.A. Dodgers 1 Bote 3b 4 0 0 0 0 2 .250 Totals 31 3 6 3 4 9‌ Houston AB R H BI BB SO Avg.‌ St. Louis 5, Pittsburgh 0 San Diego 3, Colorado 2, 13 inn. Totals 36 1 9 1 5 12‌ Philadelphia AB R H BI BB SO Avg.‌ Springer cf 4 0 1 0 0 2 .252 Chicago Cubs 5, Atlanta 4 Quinn rf-cf 4 1 1 0 0 1 .362 Bregman 3b 3 0 0 0 1 1 .291 Altuve 2b 4 0 0 0 0 3 .326 Hoskins lf 3 0 0 0 1 0 .253 Correa ss 3 0 1 0 1 0 .247 ‌Friday’s results Hernandez 2b 4 0 1 1 0 1 .254 White dh 3 0 0 0 1 0 .310 Milwaukee 4, Washington 1 St. Louis 12, Cincinnati 5 Ramos c 4 0 1 0 0 2 .309 Gonzalez lf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .246 Philadelphia 2, Chi. Cubs 1, 10 inn. Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, (n) Santana 1b 4 0 1 0 0 0 .222 Gurriel 1b 4 0 1 0 0 0 .277 Toronto 6, Miami 5 Colorado at San Diego, (n) Cabrera 3b-ss 4 1 1 1 0 0 .264 Reddick rf 4 0 1 0 0 0 .245 Kingery ss 3 0 0 0 0 1 .228 Maldonado c 2 0 1 0 0 0 .225 Pittsburgh 3, Atlanta 2 N.Y. Mets at San Francisco, (n) Herrera cf 2 0 0 0 0 1 .267 Kemp ph 1 0 1 0 0 0 .279 Franco 3b 1 0 0 0 0 0 .271 Totals 32 0 6 0 3 7‌ Today’s‌ games Pivetta p 1 0 0 0 0 1 .118 N.Y. Mets (Matz 5-11) at San Francisco (Holland 7-8), 1:05 p.m. Bautista rf 2 0 0 0 0 2 .197 Los Angeles 000 003 000 — 3 6 1‌ Totals 32 2 5 2 1 9‌ Houston 000 000 000 — 0 6 1‌ Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 10-10) at Philadelphia (Eflin 9-5), 4:05 p.m. E — Ward (2), McHugh (1). LOB — Los Angeles 6, Chicago 000 010 000 0 — 1 9 0‌ Houston 8. 2B — Kemp (13). HR — Simmons (9), Milwaukee (Anderson 9-7) at Washington (Strasburg 7-7), 4:05 p.m. Philadelphia 000 001 000 1 — 2 5 1‌ Pittsburgh (Archer 4-7) at Atlanta (Gausman 9-9), 4:10 p.m. off McHugh. RBIs — Trout (63), Simmons 2 (65). One out when winning run scored. SF — Trout. DP — Los Angeles 2; Houston 1. Toronto (Estrada 7-10) at Miami (Chen 5-9), 4:10 p.m. E — Franco (14). LOB — Chicago 10, Philadelphia Los Angeles IP H R ER BB SO ERA‌ Cincinnati (Castillo 7-11) at St. Louis (Poncedeleon 0-0), 4:15 p.m. 3. 2B — Quinn (5). HR — Baez (29), off Pivetta; Barria, W, 9-8 6 3 0 0 1 4 3.46 Cabrera (21), off Cishek. RBIs — Baez (98), Anderson, H, 17 1 0 0 0 0 1 3.40 Colorado (Gray 10-7) at San Diego (Erlin 3-4), 5:40 p.m. Hernandez (42), Cabrera (68). CS — Almora (3). Buttrey, H, 3 1 2 0 0 1 2 1.23 Arizona (Corbin 10-5) at L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 6-5), 6:10 p.m. DP — Philadelphia 3. Parker, S, 13-16 1 1 0 0 1 0 3.28 Chicago IP H R ER BB SO ERA‌ Y ankees manager Aaron Boone confronts umpire Nic Lentz Houston IP H R ER BB SO ERA‌ Quintana 6 3 1 1 1 7 4.21 before being tossed in the fifth inning of Friday’s game Valdez, L, 2-1 5 2 1 1 3 3 1.26 Wilson 1 1 0 0 0 1 2.96 McHugh 2 2 2 2 0 3 1.89 2 AROUND THE MAJORS De La Rosa 1 /3 0 0 0 0 1 3.80 against Detroit in New York. Boone ended his argument by Pressly 1 0 0 0 0 2 2.93 2 Cishek, L, 4-2 /3 1 1 1 0 0 1.90 squatting behind home and impersonating a catcher to show Rondon 1 2 0 0 1 1 2.13 Philadelphia IP H R ER BB SO ERA‌ Valdez pitched to 1 batter in the 6th. Pivetta 5 5 1 1 3 6 4.66 Lentz what he was missing. Inherited runners-scored — McHugh 1-1. 1 McCutchen dealt to Yankees Arano 1 /3 2 0 0 0 1 2.66 T — 3:18. Att. — 35,675 Morgan 1 1 0 0 0 1 3.98 2 ‌Pirates 3, Braves 2 ‌Blue Jays 6, Marlins 5 ‌NEW YORK — The Yankees acquired former NL MVP Dominguez /3 1 0 0 1 2 3.04 Pittsburgh AB R H BI BB SO Avg.‌ Toronto AB R H BI BB SO Avg.‌ ‌Cardinals 12, Reds 5 Andrew McCutchen from the San Francisco Giants on Neris 1 0 0 0 1 2 5.31 Marte cf 4 1 2 0 0 0 .279 McKinney lf 5 0 3 0 0 2 .381 Cincinnati AB R H BI BB SO Avg.‌ Neshek, W, 2-1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.47 Bell 1b 3 0 0 0 1 1 .261 Gurriel Jr. ss 4 0 1 1 0 0 .293 Hamilton cf 5 0 1 0 0 0 .244 Neris pitched to 1 batter in the 10th. Friday for two prospects. McCutchen is expected to ar- Polanco rf 4 0 1 1 0 2 .246 Morales 1b 4 1 1 0 0 0 .258 Peraza ss 4 1 1 1 0 0 .287 Inherited runners-scored — Morgan 1-0, Freese 3b 4 0 1 1 0 0 .282 Grichuk rf 3 1 0 0 1 1 .245 Votto 1b 4 1 2 0 1 1 .283 rive in time to debut today against Detroit, when he’ll Neshek 1-0. WP — Dominguez. Suarez 3b 5 0 1 1 0 0 .294 Dickerson lf 4 1 1 0 0 1 .296 Pillar cf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .253 T — 3:23. Att. — 22,556 Gennett 2b 4 1 3 1 1 0 .317 play right field, filling in for the injured Aaron Judge. Jansen c 3 1 1 0 1 1 .333 Diaz c 3 0 1 1 0 0 .286 Ervin lf 5 0 0 0 0 2 .283 Diaz 3b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .253 The 31-year-old McCutchen is hitting .255 with 15 Cervelli c 1 0 0 0 0 0 .262 Schebler rf 5 1 3 2 0 0 .271 ‌Indians 3, Rays 0 Harrison 2b 4 0 1 0 0 2 .255 Travis 2b 3 1 0 1 1 0 .231 Barnhart c 4 1 2 0 1 0 .252 Tampa Bay AB R H BI BB SO Avg.‌ home runs, 55 RBIs and 13 stolen bases. He was a five- Newman ss 4 0 0 0 0 1 .125 Sanchez p 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Herrera ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .190 time All-Star with Pittsburgh. Wendle 2b 4 0 1 0 0 2 .295 Taillon p 2 0 0 0 0 1 .064 Granderson ph 1 1 1 0 0 0 .245 Williams ph 1 0 1 0 0 0 .301 Duffy 3b 3 0 0 0 1 1 .296 Frazier ph 0 1 0 0 1 0 .281 Hernandez ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .240 Totals 38 5 14 5 3 3‌ Other deals ahead of Friday’s deadline to pick up play- Choi dh 3 0 0 0 1 1 .260 Totals 33 3 7 3 2 8‌ Smoak ph-1b 1 1 1 4 0 0 .251 St. Louis AB R H BI BB SO Avg.‌ ers and have them eligible for potential postseason play: Pham lf 3 0 1 0 0 1 .253 Atlanta AB R H BI BB SO Avg.‌ Totals 34 6 8 6 3 6‌ Carpenter 3b-1b 5 1 2 2 0 1 .274 Bauers rf 3 0 0 0 0 3 .201 Acuna lf 4 1 1 1 0 1 .290 Miami AB R H BI BB SO Avg.‌ Molina c 5 1 1 0 0 1 .272 Cron 1b 3 0 0 0 0 0 .255 Inciarte cf 4 0 2 0 0 1 .259 Ortega rf 5 0 1 0 0 0 .275 Martinez rf 2 2 2 0 3 0 .314 BREWERS: Milwaukee was busy ahead of the deadline, Kiermaier cf 3 0 0 0 0 0 .196 F.Freeman 1b 4 0 0 0 0 3 .309 Anderson 3b 3 2 2 0 2 0 .278 Adams 1b 4 1 1 0 0 1 .253 Adames ss 3 0 0 0 0 2 .251 acquiring lefty starter Gio Gonzalez, outfielder Curtis Markakis rf 4 0 0 0 0 0 .305 Realmuto c 5 1 1 1 0 0 .285 Garcia ph-2b 1 0 0 0 0 0 .218 Sucre c 2 0 0 0 0 0 .201 Granderson and lefty reliever Xavier Cedeno in separate Camargo 3b 3 1 2 1 0 1 .278 Dietrich 1b 4 1 2 1 0 0 .270 O’Neill lf 4 1 1 0 1 2 .270 Lowe ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .208 Rojas 1b 1 0 1 0 0 0 .255 DeJong ss 5 2 2 5 0 1 .232 Totals 28 0 2 0 2 11‌ Suzuki c 4 0 2 0 0 0 .265 trades. After finishing sixth in National League Cy Young Albies 2b 4 0 0 0 0 2 .273 Castro 2b 4 1 3 1 1 1 .289 Bader cf 4 1 1 0 0 1 .276 Cleveland AB R H BI BB SO Avg.‌ Munoz 2b-rf 4 1 2 2 1 1 .278 Swanson ss 3 0 0 0 1 1 .243 Riddle ss 4 0 1 1 1 0 .226 Award balloting last season with a 2.96 ERA in 32 starts, Lindor ss 3 1 0 0 1 1 .286 Gomber p 3 1 1 2 0 0 .200 Sanchez p 2 0 0 0 0 1 .000 Dean lf 4 0 0 1 0 1 .204 Gonzalez was struggling in the final year of his contract Brantley lf 4 0 1 1 0 1 .303 Sierra cf 4 0 1 0 1 0 .174 Wisdom 3b 2 1 1 1 0 0 .333 Ramirez 3b 4 0 0 0 0 2 .288 Duda ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .240 Straily p 2 0 0 0 0 1 .161 Totals 39 12 14 12 5 8‌ Encarnacion dh 3 1 1 1 0 0 .236 Totals 33 2 7 2 1 10‌ with the Nationals. He is 7-11 with a 4.57 ERA. Galloway ph-rf 1 0 0 0 0 0 .256 Cincinnati 200 000 030 — 5 14 1‌ Alonso 1b 2 0 0 0 1 0 .246 Pittsburgh 010 001 010 — 3 7 0‌ Totals 37 5 12 5 5 3‌ St. Louis 043 000 05x — 12 14 0‌ INDIANS: Cleveland picked up third baseman Josh Don- Cabrera rf 3 0 1 0 0 0 .277 Atlanta 000 001 100 — 2 7 2‌ Kipnis 2b 3 0 0 0 0 1 .227 Toronto 000 001 005 — 6 8 0‌ E — Suarez (16). LOB — Cincinnati 12, St. Louis E — F.Freeman (6), Albies (10). LOB — Pittsburgh 9. 2B — Schebler (17), O’Neill (4), Gomber (1). aldson from Toronto. The 2015 AL MVP has been limited Gomes c 3 0 0 0 0 2 .257 Miami 000 320 000 — 5 12 0‌ 5, Atlanta 6. 2B — Dickerson (27), Inciarte (22). HR — Schebler (13), off Cecil; Carpenter (35), G.Allen cf 2 1 1 0 0 0 .243 to 36 games because of injuries but homered in a minor HR — Acuna (22), off Taillon; Camargo (15), off LOB — Toronto 5, Miami 12. 2B — McKinney off Bailey; DeJong (15), off Bailey; Wisdom (2), Totals 27 3 4 2 2 7‌ league rehab game on Thursday. Taillon. RBIs — Polanco (75), Freese (42), Diaz (5), Anderson 2 (30), Castro (27). HR — Smoak off Stephens. RBIs — Peraza (45), Suarez (96), Tampa Bay 000 000 000 — 0 2 0‌ (30), Acuna (48), Camargo (64). SB — Marte (22), off Steckenrider. RBIs — Gurriel Jr. (24), Gennett (80), Schebler 2 (40), Carpenter 2 (73), DODGERS: Los Angeles bolstered its bullpen by acquir- Cleveland 000 000 12x — 3 4 0‌ (30), Polanco (10). CS — Marte (12), Newman T ravis (43), Smoak 4 (68), Realmuto (67), DeJong 5 (48), Munoz 2 (34), Gomber 2 (4), LOB — Tampa Bay 3, Cleveland 3. HR — (1), Inciarte (11). DP — Pittsburgh 1. Dietrich (43), Castro (50), Riddle (31), Dean (7). Wisdom (4). SF — Peraza. S — Bailey 2. ing right-hander Ryan Madson from the Nationals for Encarnacion (29), off Glasnow. RBIs — Brantley Pittsburgh IP H R ER BB SO ERA‌ CS — Castro (3). SF — Gurriel Jr. DP — Toronto 2. Cincinnati IP H R ER BB SO ERA‌ (70), Encarnacion (92). SB — Lindor 2 (22), Toronto IP H R ER BB SO ERA‌ Bailey, L, 1-13 5 9 7 3 2 5 6.13 a minor league pitcher. Taillon, W, 11-9 7 5 2 2 1 7 3.45 1 Cabrera (1), G.Allen (14). DP — Tampa Bay 1; Sanchez 4 /3 8 5 5 3 2 5.22 Wisler 2 1 0 0 1 3 5.02 Kela, H, 4 1 0 0 0 0 2 2.66 2 2 Cleveland 1. Barnes /3 0 0 0 0 0 5.50 Stephens /3 4 5 5 2 0 6.23 ATHLETICS: Right-handed reliever Cory Gearrin was Vazquez, S, 29-33 1 2 0 0 0 1 2.53 1 Tampa Bay IP H R ER BB SO ERA‌ Smith 1 1 0 0 1 0 8.10 Dixon /3 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 Atlanta IP H R ER BB SO ERA‌ St. Louis IP H R ER BB SO ERA‌ acquired from the Rangers for minor leaguers. Glasnow, L, 1-4 7 2 1 1 1 6 3.95 1 Mayza 1 1 0 0 0 0 4.56 Sanchez 5 /3 5 2 1 1 6 2.98 Gomber, W, 5-0 7 10 2 2 0 3 2.77 2 Biagini, W, 3-7 1 1 0 0 0 0 5.79 Stanek 1 2 2 2 1 1 2.77 S.Freeman /3 0 0 0 0 0 4.95 1 Giles, S, 19-19 1 1 0 0 1 1 5.62 Cecil /3 1 3 3 2 0 6.75 ROCKIES: Colorado acquired Royals catcher Drew Butera. Cleveland IP H R ER BB SO ERA‌ 2 Jackson 1 1 0 0 0 0 3.74 Hicks, H, 21 /3 2 0 0 1 0 3.07 Kluber, W, 17-7 7 2 0 0 2 8 2.80 2 Miami IP H R ER BB SO ERA‌ Brach, L, 2-4 /3 1 1 0 1 0 3.78 Leone 1 1 0 0 0 0 3.38 C.Allen, H, 4 1 0 0 0 0 2 4.53 1 Straily 8 4 1 1 1 4 4.13 BRIEFLY Biddle 1 /3 0 0 0 0 2 2.32 1 Inherited runners-scored — Dixon 2-0, Hicks Hand, S, 31-36 1 0 0 0 0 1 2.61 Barraclough /3 2 3 3 1 1 4.11 Inherited runners-scored — S.Freeman 2-0, 2 1-1. HBP — Stephens (Bader). Stecknrder, L, 4-4, BS 5 /3 2 2 2 1 1 4.08 HBP — Glasnow (G.Allen). WP — Stanek 2. Biddle 2-0. HBP — Taillon (Camargo). T — 3:22. Att. — 42,365 RED SOX: Left-hander David Price likely won’t make his T — 2:18. Att. — 25,639 Inherited runners-scored — Barnes 2-0, T — 2:55. Att. — 36,650 next scheduled start, and the team remains unsure when Steckenrider 3-3. HBP — Smith (Straily), Mayza (Dean). WP — Barraclough. ‌Twins 10, Rangers 7 ace lefty Chris Sale will return to the rotation. ‌Yankees 7, Tigers 5 Minnesota AB R H BI BB SO Avg.‌ Detroit AB R H BI BB SO Avg.‌ ‌Brewers 4, Nationals 1 T — 3:11. Att. — 8,871 Milwaukee AB R H BI BB SO Avg.‌ Mauer 1b 5 1 2 0 0 1 .276 CUBS: As third baseman Kris Bryant and shortstop Addi- Candelario 3b 5 0 1 0 0 3 .226 Polanco ss 4 1 1 2 0 1 .275 Adduci 1b 3 0 1 2 0 1 .286 Cain cf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .308 Yelich rf 4 1 2 0 0 0 .317 ‌Royals 9, Orioles 2 Grossman lf 3 1 1 0 2 0 .258 son Russell prepare to come off the DL today, outfielder Mahtook ph-lf 1 0 1 1 1 0 .218 Baltimore AB R H BI BB SO Avg.‌ Aguilar 1b 4 1 1 1 0 0 .276 Sano 3b 3 0 0 0 2 0 .205 Castellanos rf 5 1 1 0 0 3 .288 Mullins cf 4 2 2 1 0 0 .317 Kepler rf 5 2 2 0 0 0 .229 Jason Heyward went on the list after injuring his right Shaw 2b-1b 4 1 1 2 0 1 .247 Martinez dh 4 0 2 0 0 0 .252 Villar 2b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .262 Garver c 5 2 3 4 0 0 .267 Braun lf 4 0 0 0 0 0 .252 hamstring Thursday against the Braves. Reyes pr-dh 1 0 0 0 0 1 .211 Mancini dh 3 0 0 1 0 2 .241 Cave cf 3 1 1 2 0 1 .258 Moustakas 3b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .254 — Associated Press, mlb.com Goodrum lf-1b 3 1 1 1 1 1 .233 Jones rf 4 0 1 0 0 0 .285 Austin dh 5 1 1 1 0 1 .236 Rodriguez ss 3 0 0 1 0 2 .208 Kratz c 3 1 1 1 0 1 .260 Davis 1b 2 0 0 0 2 0 .173 Adrianza 2b 5 1 1 0 0 0 .249 McCann c 4 1 1 0 0 2 .221 Arcia ss 3 0 0 0 0 0 .212 Beckham ss 4 0 0 0 0 1 .216 Totals 38 10 12 9 4 4‌ Jones cf 4 1 1 0 0 1 .204 Chacin p 3 0 1 0 0 0 .180 Nunez 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 .231 Texas AB R H BI BB SO Avg.‌ STAT OF THE DAY Lugo 2b 4 1 3 0 0 0 .500 Totals 33 4 6 4 0 4‌ Rickard lf 3 0 1 0 0 0 .229 Choo lf 4 1 0 0 1 2 .277 Totals 37 5 12 5 2 14‌ Washington AB R H BI BB SO Avg.‌ Joseph c 3 0 0 0 0 0 .206 Odor 2b 5 1 1 1 0 1 .266 New York AB R H BI BB SO Avg.‌ Eaton rf 5 1 2 0 0 1 .302 Totals 30 2 4 2 2 4‌ Andrus ss 4 3 2 0 1 0 .269 Gardner lf 4 2 2 2 0 2 .240 Turner ss 4 0 3 0 1 0 .270 Kansas City AB R H BI BB SO Avg.‌ Mazara rf 5 1 1 3 0 0 .263 Stanton dh 3 0 0 0 1 2 .275 Harper cf 4 0 0 0 1 2 .245 Merrifield 2b 2 3 2 1 2 0 .310 Beltre dh 4 0 0 1 1 1 .271 Profar 3b 3 0 2 2 2 1 .256 Hicks cf 3 2 1 1 1 1 .251 Rendon 3b 5 0 1 1 0 1 .297 Gordon lf 4 1 1 0 1 1 .240 Andujar 3b 4 1 1 1 0 1 .299 Soto lf 3 0 2 0 1 1 .295 Gallo 1b 5 0 0 0 0 2 .208 Dozier 3b 4 2 2 2 0 0 .228 Chirinos c 2 0 0 0 1 1 .217 Voit 1b 3 1 0 0 1 1 .304 Zimmerman 1b 3 0 0 0 1 0 .263 O’Hearn 1b 5 1 3 4 0 0 .257 Torres ss 4 0 2 2 0 1 .282 Wieters c 3 0 1 0 0 1 .233 Tocci cf 4 1 1 0 0 1 .206 Bonifacio dh 5 0 1 0 0 1 .233 Totals 36 7 7 7 6 9‌ Walker rf-3b 3 0 0 0 1 0 .224 Kieboom c 1 0 0 0 0 0 .191 Goodwin cf 4 1 0 0 1 2 .244 Romine c 4 0 1 1 0 1 .255 Difo 2b 4 0 0 0 0 0 .238 Mondesi ss 4 0 2 0 0 0 .273 Minnesota 000 080 200 — 10 12 3‌ Torreyes 2b 4 1 0 0 0 0 .289 Texas 002 400 001 — 7 7 2‌ Roark p 1 0 0 0 0 1 .208 Phillips rf 4 0 1 0 0 0 .184 Totals 32 7 7 7 4 9‌ Taylor ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .228 Gallagher c 3 1 2 1 1 1 .259 E — Polanco 2 (9), Garver (3), Gallo (3), Tocci Detroit 000 120 110 — 5 12 1‌ Stevenson ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .255 Totals 35 9 14 8 5 5‌ (1). LOB — Minnesota 8, Texas 9. 2B — Mauer New York 000 004 03x — 7 7 0‌ Totals 35 1 9 1 4 8‌ (22), Polanco (12), Garver 2 (17), Profar (30), Baltimore 100 001 000 — 2 4 0‌ Tocci (3). HR — Austin (15), off Hutchison; Cave E — Lugo (1). LOB — Detroit 8, New York 5. 2B Milwaukee 211 000 000 — 4 6 1‌ Kansas City 100 113 03x — 9 14 1‌ — McCann (14), Gardner (18). 3B — Adduci (2). (8), off Moore; Mazara (17), off Gonsalves. Washington 100 000 000 — 1 9 0‌ RBIs — Polanco 2 (28), Garver 4 (36), Cave HR — Goodrum (15), off Severino; Gardner (12), E — Mondesi (6). LOB — Baltimore 4, Kansas E — Arcia (13). LOB — Milwaukee 2, Washington 2 (28), Austin (33), Odor (60), Mazara 3 (64), off Zimmermann; Hicks (23), off Zimmermann; City 9. 2B — Mullins (6), Merrifield (36). HR — 12. 2B — Turner (20). HR — Shaw (27), off Beltre (47), Profar 2 (67). SB — Profar (10). Andujar (23), off Zimmermann. RBIs — Adduci Mullins (3), off Keller; Dozier (8), off Cashner; Roark; Kratz (5), off Roark; Aguilar (31), off S — Polanco, Cave. DP — Texas 1. 2 (14), Goodrum (43), Rodriguez (14), Mahtook Gallagher (1), off Cashner; O’Hearn (7), off R oark. RBIs — Aguilar (93), Shaw 2 (76), Kratz Meisinger. RBIs — Mullins (6), Mancini (49), Minnesota IP H R ER BB SO ERA‌ (17), Gardner 2 (40), Hicks (64), Andujar (75), 2 (19), Rendon (66). SB — Yelich (15), Turner (34). Merrifield (48), Dozier 2 (23), O’Hearn 4 (19), Gonsalves 3 /3 6 6 3 4 0 9.90 Torres 2 (62), Romine (38). SF — Rodriguez. 1 Magill, W, 3-2 1 /3 1 0 0 0 2 3.94 Detroit IP H R ER BB SO ERA‌ S — Roark. DP — Milwaukee 1. Gallagher (3). SB — Merrifield (29), Gordon (9), Milwaukee IP H R ER BB SO ERA‌ Moya, H, 3 1 0 0 0 0 1 4.72 Zimmermann 6 3 4 1 1 6 4.22 Mondesi (18). SF — Mancini, Merrifield, Dozier. 1 1 May 1 /3 0 0 0 0 4 1.88 Chacin, W, 14-5 6 /3 6 1 1 2 6 3.53 Coleman 1 1 0 0 0 1 3.50 DP — Baltimore 1; Kansas City 1. 2 2 Rogers /3 0 0 0 0 2 3.16 Days on the sidelines for Cubs third baseman 2 Jennings, H, 11 /3 1 0 0 0 0 3.21 Baltimore IP H R ER BB SO ERA‌ Jimenez, L, 4-4, H, 20 /3 1 3 3 2 2 4.58 Hildenberger 1 0 1 1 2 0 4.45 1 Barnes, H, 4 1 1 0 0 1 0 3.53 1 Kris Bryant, who is expected to return to the Wilson /3 2 0 0 1 0 3.76 Cashner, L, 4-13 5 /3 9 4 4 3 1 4.86 2 Texas IP H R ER BB SO ERA‌ 39 Jeffress, S, 8-13 1 1 0 0 1 2 1.50 3 New York IP H R ER BB SO ERA‌ Ramirez / 3 2 2 0 0 6.36 Hutchison 4 6 4 4 1 2 6.75 lineup today. Bryant, the 2016 NL MVP who’s been out Severino 6 6 3 3 0 10 3.32 Washington IP H R ER BB SO ERA‌ Scott 1 1 0 0 0 2 5.91 Moore, L, 3-7 1 3 4 4 1 0 7.27 2 since July 24 with a sore shoulder, went 2-for-10 with Holder, H, 6 /3 2 1 1 0 0 3.18 Roark, L, 8-14 6 6 4 4 0 3 4.03 Meisinger 1 1 3 3 2 2 6.35 Claudio 2 3 2 2 0 1 4.94 1 Britton, W, 2-0 1 /3 3 1 1 1 1 4.06 Glover 1 0 0 0 0 0 4.91 Kansas City IP H R ER BB SO ERA‌ Perez 2 0 0 0 2 1 6.75 three walks and four strikeouts in four rehab games at Robertson, S, 5-9 1 1 0 0 1 3 2.90 Cordero 1 0 0 0 0 0 3.12 Keller, W, 7-5 8 4 2 2 2 4 3.26 Hutchison pitched to 4 batters in the 5th. Triple-A Iowa. Inherited runners-scored — Wilson 3-3, Grace 1 0 0 0 0 1 2.84 McCarthy 1 0 0 0 0 0 3.41 Inherited runners-scored — Rogers 1-0, Britton 2-1. PB — Romine (4). WP — Chacin. WP — Ramirez, Meisinger. Moore 1-1. HBP — Hutchison (Cave), May 00 — mlb.com T — 3:10. Att. — 41,026 T — 3:11. Att. — 30,676 T — 2:39. Att. — 15,394 (Chirinos). T — 3:42. Att. — 22,808 1 Santa Maria Times SPORTS Saturday, September 1, 2018 | B5

‌PREP FOOTBALL: WEEK TWO Titans get to 3-0 with win over Trailblazers SUMMARIES

BRIAN STANLEY With the offense putting points Nipomo’s Non-league Contributor‌ on the board, Nipomo’s defense Carmelo Nipomo 35, Visalia Golden West 20 ‌Opening the football season took to shutting down Golden Hernandez Oxnard Rio Mesa 29, Cabrillo 6 Templeton 34, Mendota 20 with the best start in school his- Valley’s offensive charge. The breaks free Arroyo Grande 28, Bakersfield Independence 14 tory, the Nipomo Titans defeated Titans forced the Trailblazers to to score a Bakersfield Stockdale 46, Atascadero 20 second-half Visalia El Diamante 17, Paso Robles 10 the Golden West Trailblazers 35- punt on their first three posses- San Luis Obispo 41, San Marcos 33 20 at Titan Stadium Friday night. sions. touchdown Santa Barbara 54, Oxnard Channel Islands 3 “It’s great,” Nipomo head Following a Nipomo punt af- during Dos Pueblos 26, Ventura 24 Friday’s Mission Prep 42, Kern Valley 14 coach Tony Dodge said about ter going three-and-out, Golden 8-man home game beginning the season 3-0, a West’s quarterback Tyson San- Cate 62, Orcutt Academy 30 mark never achieved by a Nipomo dri hit Josiah Washington for 34- against Laguna Blanca 42, Valley Christian Academy 20 Golden West. St. Joseph 31, Garces 30 team. “What it tells me is that we yard touchdown strike on the first Garces 3 7 0 20 - 30 are doing the right things, we’re play of the possession to even the The Titans St. Joseph 0 21 3 7 - 31 coaching them the right way, score at 7-7 with less than a min- won 35-20 SCORING we’re running the right (plays) ute left in the first quarter. to move to First quarter 3-0 for the G — Delis 40 kick (6:12) and the boys are responding.” The remainder of the first half Second quarter Led on the ground by sopho- was back and forth between the first time SJ — Guggia 10 run (Halsell kick, 11:53) more running back Keyshawn two squads. in school G — Bell 16 catch from Joseph Cambell (Delis kick, 7:43) SJ — Cole 5 run (Halsell kick, 2:46) Pu’a, Nipomo knocked off the de- The Titans scored again early history. SJ — Cole 23 pass from Artopoeus (1:40). fending CIF Central Section Divi- in the second frame on a 4-yard PETER KLEIN, Third quarter CONTRIBUTOR‌ SJ — Halsell 33 kick (6:16). sion IV Champions Golden West touchdown run by Carmelo Her- Fourth quarter (1-2). Pu’a racked a total of 102 nandez to take a 14-7 lead, col- G — Campbell 3 run (Delis kick, 11:40) G — Tobias 5 run (Delis kick, 2:55) yards of rushing on 15 touches, lecting the first of his two touch- lead to 21-13. On the ground, Nipomo finished G — Tobias 1 run (Kick failed, 47.1) including a 19-yard touchdown downs on the ground. Hernandez’s second touch- with 255 rushing yards as a team. INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS run in the fourth quarter to ex- Groshart struggled with turn- down strike came when he broke The Trailblazers’ top rusher of RUSHING: Garces: Nick Tobias 21-104, Joseph Campbell tend Nipomo’s lead to 35-13. ing over the ball against the Trail- loose for 35 yards late in the third, the night was sophomore run- 9-70, Isaiah Bell 2-7. St. Joseph: Devin Guggia 15-51, Darien Langley 3-5, Chase Artopoeus, 7-46, Billy Collins 2-5, Trevor “(Pu’a) is developing as a man. blazers, turning over the ball putting Nipomo up 28-13. Her- ning back Lonnie Wessel, finish- Cole 2-3. Last year as a freshman, he was four times, fumbling twice and nandez finished with 48 yards on ing with 109 yards on 18 carries, PASSING: Garces: Joseph Campbell 10-19-0, 152. St. Joseph: Artopoeus: 15-25-1, 243. getting his feet wet, now as a throwing two interceptions. four carries. including a 41-yard pickup on RECEIVING: Garces: Isaiah Bell 3-39, Drew Mosely 1-20, sophomore he’s gaining confi- The junior quarterback “Carmelo, he’s a beast,” Dodge Golden West’s last scoring drive. Isaac Bowers 2-36, Jack Etchison 1-19, Philip Bradford 2-27. St. dence, you can tell he’s running couldn’t complete the hand- said. “He’s got legs the size of tree Golden West capped off an 81- Joseph: Guggia 3-71, Langley 6-86, Miles Enos 2-42, Cole 4-44. Santa Ynez 36, Santa Maria 0 hard and he doesn’t come off the off to Wyatt Omohundro in the trunks and he’s tough to bring yard drive with a 1-yard score up Santa Ynez 0 20 13 3 - 36 field on defense,” Dodge said. second quarter. The loose ball down. I’m so glad he came out to the middle by Christian Ortiz. Santa Maria 0 0 0 0 - 0 The Titans didn’t waste time was recovered by Golden West’s be a part of the team.” Under center, Sandri threw for SCORING SUMMARY putting points on the scoreboard. Michael Wessel on Nipomo’s 34- In the final minutes of the 122 yards, completing 6 of 19 pass Second Quarter SY—Jasper Kadlec 14 pass from Bennett Redell (Quincy On Nipomo’s first possession, ju- yard line to set up a Trailblazers’ game, Groshart was intercepted and throwing one interception. Valle kick). nior quarterback Brayden Gro- touchdown on the next posses- by Jose Ramos to give Golden That interception was pulled SY—Cameron Prendergast 10 pass from Redell (Valle kick). SY—Kadlec 66 pass from Redell (kick blocked). shart connected with Cole Ba- sion. Taking the handoff, Wessel West the ball back with 52 sec- down by Lopez. Third Quarter jema for a 29-yard touchdown scored from 10 yards out to cut onds left in the game. Trailing the Nipomo begins a three-game SY—Kadlec 20 run (Valle kick). SY—Cash Transeth 9 run (pass failed). pass to finish off a 59-yard drive. Nipomo’s lead to 14-13. The point Titans by 15 points, the Trailblaz- road trip next Friday, kicking Fourth Quarter “It’s absolutely beautiful,” after touchdown attempt was no ers didn’t hold on to the ball long. things off with the Bishop Diego SY—FG Valle 19. Dodge said of the offensive per- good. Michael Wessel fumbled the ball Cardinals at La Playa Stadium in INDIVIDUAL STATS formance. “From where we were Finding the end zone for the which was recovered by the Ti- Santa Barbara. The Trailblazers RUSHING: Santa Ynez—Transeth 13-78, Juan Sanchez 3-28. Santa Maria—Samuel Herrera 11-26, John Rojas 8-26,. in game one, where we couldn’t Titans early the second half, tans’ Anthony Lopez to close out return to the Central Valley and PASSING: Santa Ynez—Redell 12-21-1, 148. Santa do anything offensively. Game Luis-Diego Riquelme scored his the game. remain on the road next week Maria—Rojas 1-6-2, 25. Sebastian Sainz 2-7-1, 8. two, we improved a ton. Game first touchdown of the season on Groshart finished with 66 facing off with the Madera South RECEIVING: Santa Ynez—Prendergast 5-39, Kadlec 3-89. three, we continue to improve.” a 3-yard run to open the Titans’ yards, completing 8 of 15 passes. Stallions. Santa Maria—Andres Vargas 1-25.

Enos, a senior receiver. Enos DeLuna and Jovanny Lucatero orary captain. Knights hauled in the throw and gained Lompoc both collected a sack on the night. “When we thought of this, we From B1 some yards-after-catch — good From B1 Coleman finished with one stop thought of them right away with for a 38-yard gain down to the behind the line of scrimmage. Noah and continuing to honor Garces quarterback Joseph Garces two. The junior signal-caller went on “I thought Dustin Davis’ de- them – and him,” Jones said. “It Campbell stretched across the The Knights were in business to combine for four touchdowns fensive plan was huge,” Jones was great to see them out here.” goal-line for a 3-yard touchdown with 10.5 seconds left in the on the evening, with his final said. “Coach Tom Crawford is Lompoc returns home to face run with 11:44 left in the game, game. Villasenor burned his fi- touchdown coming on a 1-yard one of the best offensive minds annual non-league rival Arroyo cutting the St. Joseph lead to 24- nal timeout, setting the Knights quarterback sneak. around. To really hold them to Grande at 7 p.m. next Friday. 17 with Peter Delis’ point-after up with a first-and-goal at the “To be honest, we just came that one run when we had the re- kick. Rams’ 2. back from a sour taste from St. serves in was huge. It’s just great RIO MESA 29, CABRILLO 6‌ Nick Tobias, who rammed his Artopoeus was unsuccessful Paul,” Iribarren said. “We put in to get back on track.” The Conquistadores fell to 0-3 way to 104 yards on 21 carries, on his first two pass attempts and a lot of good work in practice and Before the game, the family overall after losing to the Spar- powered into the end zone on a there was just enough time left, came in hyped up.” of Noah Scott joined the Braves tans at Huyck Stadium on Friday 5-yard run with 2:55 left to tie the with 1.9 seconds on the clock, The Braves defense – who as honorary captains on Team night. game at 24. for one last play. The Knights came in allowing 59 combined Cheek Night – which had a spe- The Spartans (2-1) led 15-0 at St. Joseph got the ball back lined up with speedster Darien points in the first two games cial booth set up for adults inter- halftime before holding on for and was intent to take back the Langley in the backfield and Ar- including that 31-13 loss to St. ested in becoming a donor. The their second win in a row. lead. The Knights’ aggressive topoeus faked a pitch back, then Paul – held the Cardinals to just event helped spread awareness of No stats were available from play-calling, however, backfired. rolled left and fired a pass to the three points through the first childhood cancer and both teams the game. Garces defensive back Nick Sill back of the end zone. Collins sank three quarters. Nick Dominguez wore gold on their hats, gloves CHS will return to the road and intercepted Artopoeus’ third- down and caught it low, tumbling snatched one interception late in or polo shirts to honor children face former Los Padres League down pass at the St. Joseph 18. to the turf. the third quarter on a sputtered battling cancer. Bishop Diego was opponent Pioneer Valley next The Rams had the ball deep in He held on. bomb attempt by Jake Engel. Juan joined by Henry Miller as its hon- Friday night. Knight territory with 2:10 left in The officials signaled touch- the game. Tobias got a carry and down and the party at Jay Will rumbled down inside the St. Jo- Stadium commenced. Halsell’s seph five before being brought point-after try, the icing on the two sacks on the night. in their game at Laguna Blanca. down at the 1. The clock wound cake, solidified the evening. Warriors The drive didn’t end well and But the ending went the other down to inside of 50 seconds. St. Joseph will try to make it From B1 the Panthers were forced to punt way. Tobias then got another carry four straight wins to start the the ball away. The Lions went up 2-0 on a and plowed into the end zone on season next week at Bakersfield of the season so far. Getting Righetti had excellent field first quarter safety. a 1-yard run, giving Garces a 30- Christian. Things get tougher for Anthony Porcho back (from an position, starting at its own 48. Laguna Blanca later fumbled at 24 lead with 47.1 seconds left. Garces, as the Rams host Fresno’s injury) at safety gave our entire Ten plays later, Solis made it their own 10 yard line and VCA Delis, who drilled a 40-yard San Joaquin Memorial on Sept. 8. defense extra confidence,” said 13-0, slicing through the defense went on to score to make it 8-0. field goal that bounced off the Isiah Bell caught a 16-yard Payne. “Adan was awesome. for an 8-yard touchdown run. “It was 8-8 after the first quar- cross bar and in during the first touchdown pass for the Rams’ Brandon led the charge but you The drive featured two big ter and Laguna Blanca really got quarter, came on for the point-af- first touchdown. St. Joseph’s have to give a lot of credit to our plays — the first, a bruising 13- things going in the second. They ter try. His kick sailed wide, leav- Trevor Cole had two first-half offensive line — they had a point yard run from fullback/offensive led 30-14 at the half,” said VCA ing the door open for a Knights touchdowns, a 5-yard run and a they wanted to prove tonight and guard/defensive tackle Andrew head coach Pete Fortier. “It was comeback. 23-yard catch. Guggia rushed for a they showed everybody that Martinez followed by a 15-yard hot in Santa Barbara (Laguna St. Joseph’s Devin Guggia re- touchdown in the first half. Lang- they’re the real deal.” pass to a wide open Reynoso Blanca’s home city) – the hottest turned the ensuing kick to his own ley had 3 catches for 64 yards, in- The Warriors pounced on the down the middle. game we’ve played in years. We 30. Guggia then caught a 19-yard cluding a 50-yard grab that set up Edgar Zacarias’ squib kick to With the point after, Righetti had several guys cramping up but pass to move the chains for the the Knights’ first touchdown. open the game at their own 37- led 14-0 at 7:48 of the second they did, too. The heat affected Knights. Artopoeus scrambled yard line. quarter. everyone.” and found some yardage to move Joe Bailey is the sports editor at They followed with an 8-play, Pioneer Valley came right The game had a 4 p.m. start- the Knights inside Ram territory. Lee Central Coast Newspapers. Con- 63-yard drive that ended with a back, mounting its best drive ing time because Laguna Blan- Then came the game’s sec- tact him with tips and story ideas Solis 1-yard touchdown run with of the night, going 58 yards on ca’s field has no light, forcing ond-biggest play, from an un- at jbailey@leecentralcoastnews. 8:45 left in the first quarter. 9 plays, getting down to the the teams to play before the heralded playmaker. With 22 sec- com or (805) 739-2239. Follow Giddings began the drive with Righetti 7 before their fourth- temperatures dropped for the onds left, Artopoeus fired a pass him on Twitter at twitter.com/jbai- a 21-yard pass to Chase Reynolds down play was stuffed for a evening. down the right sideline to Miles leysmsports on the right sideline. 1-yard loss. Starting quarterback Tyler Solis, Isaiah Gayfield and With just over four minutes McCoy threw two touchdown Giddings then fed the Panthers left in the half, The Warriors passes for VCA. His older brother a steady diet of runs, pounding marched 92 yards on 11 plays. Ethan came on in the fourth 20-yard touchdown on an end the ball down to the one before Giddings hit Mike Flores with quarter and threw one TD pass. Ynez around play in the third quarter. Silos banged into a pile of Pan- a huge 26-yard pass, followed Andrew Sparlin had two of the From B1 A penalty (Santa Ynez had 12) thers, turned around and pushed that with a 15-yarder to Reynoso, touchdown receptions and Matt nullified a Transeth interception himself backwards into the end and finished off with a 15-yard Hollihan had the third. The game was scoreless after return for a touchdown, but his zone. touchdown toss to Flores that “Ethan also rushed for 66 the first quarter, but things de- pick set up his nine-yard run later Nathaniel Ordonez kicked the put Righetti up 21-0 at the half. yards on 14 carries,” said For- teriorated rapidly for the Saints in the quarter for the last TD. first of his five extra points to give Near the end of the third quar- tier. “Ethan also had 9 unas- afterward. By the end of the first Transeth, who missed Santa the Warriors a 7-0 lead. ter, Solis broke through the Pan- sisted tackles and 11 overall on half, John Rojas, a starting wide Ynez’s 14-7 win over Carpinte- Righetti had an excellent thers’ defense and headed for a defense. He had a solid night on receiver, was in at quarterback. ria with an injury, led all rushers chance to score just seconds later score, dragging Pioneer Valley’s both sides of the ball.” Starter Sebastian Sainz “Took with 78 yards. but Pioneer Valley’s defense rose Adrian Garcia along with him Valley Christian is home next a helmet-to-helmet hit and got Santa Maria’s defense showed up to that challenge. into the end zone. Friday night against Frazier a concussion,” said Santa Maria better than the final score indi- After the Warriors’ touch- Now leading 28-0, the night Mountain. coach Dan Ellington. cated. Benjamin Bautista recov- down, the Panthers fumbled was over for Righetti’s starters. “Our back-up quarterback ered a Santa Ynez fumble to stop away the kickoff with Righetti’s With just over 5-minutes left GIRLS VOLLEYBALL‌ is hurt. When you’re down to a Pirates’ drive, Kenneth Olpindo Avery Fondern recovering the in the game, Righetti’s Kidasi your third-string quarterback, set up the Saints deep in Pirates’ ball at the Pioneer Valley 25. Nepa found a hole in the defense VCA 3, Cuyama Valley 2‌ it’s hard. He just hasn’t had the territory in the first half with an But the Panthers defense and was gone —his 72-yard run Valley Christian Academy (necessary) reps. It is what it is.” interception, though Santa Ma- held, and when Righetti failed closed out the scoring. picked up its first volleyball McClurg said his team has had ria couldn’t capitalize, and Jason to convert on fourth down, the Righetti now leads the all-time victory and first Coast Valley its own share of injury troubles. Sanchez helped the Saints slow Panthers escaped a potential series 8-5. League victory with a five-set The Saints did plenty to hurt the Pirates’ running game. disaster. Pioneer Valley (0-2) will have thriller (19-25, 25-18, 18-25, 25- themselves. One of 11 first-half As for the Pirates’ defense, The Panthers stopped another its home opener next week when 21, 15-7) against Cuyama Valley. penalties on Santa Maria nulli- “There are new people every Righetti touchdown when, late the Panthers host Cabrillo. Mayley DiBernardi led the of- fied a Rojas run inside the Santa year,” said second-year varsity in the first quarter, Solis fumbled Righetti is on the road for the fense with six aces during one Ynez 5. man Juan Sanchez, who had a big as he was trying to score from first time next week. The War- serving run. Lindsay Mikkelson The Saints were driving in the game at nose guard. the 2-yard line. The Panthers riors will be heading to Bakers- was VCA’s leading passer. fourth quarter and then no one “The defense has been able to pounced on the ball in the end field Centennial. Valley Christian (1-1, 1-0 CVL) was there to take a Rojas pitch. rise to the challenge.” zone to escape another possible plays Saturday in the Providence Defensive back Redell scooped Santa Maria will play at Bakers- Righetti score. Laguna Blanca 46, Valley Tournament at Bishop Diego up the ball, and his return set up field Golden Valley at 7:30 p.m. On the final play of the first Christian Academy 20‌ High School. a 19-yard Quincy Valle field goal next Friday night. Santa Ynez is quarter, Thomas flattened Pio- VCA returns to CVL play for the last points of the game. off until Sept. 14 when it will host neer Valley quarterback Jayson Things started out well for the Tuesday when it hosts Arroyo 00 1 A short punt set up a Kadlec San Luis Obispo. Garcia for the first of Thomas’ Valley Christian Academy Lions Grande Coastal Christian. B6 | Saturday, September 1, 2018 Santa Maria Times

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CONTRIBUTED PHOTO‌ Altrusa International of Santa Maria held its annual Hoedown with the Hounds benefit event to benefit the Santa Maria Valley Humane Society at the Santa Maria Elks Club. Altrusa raises

CONTRIBUTED PHOTOS‌ over $10,000 ‌Leah Torres, was presented with the $1,500 Jack Baldwin Scholarship the Kiwanis of Santa Maria Valley Nighttime Club meeting (Nighttime Is the Right Time) on Tuesday. Torres, a student at Pioneer Valley High CONTRIBUTED REPORT Highlights of the show in- School, wants to be a nurse. Above left, from left, are her parents, Torres and Jim Sullivan, club president. ‌Altrusa International of Santa cluded dogs on parade show- At the same meeting, Alma Loaeza was awarded the $2,000 Walmsley Memorial Scholarship. Loaeza, also Maria raised $10,645.50 at its re- ing off their talents, dogs from Pioneer Valley High student, wants to major in biological sciences at UCSB. Above right, from left, are her cent Hoedown with the Hounds the Humane Society that were brother, mother, Loaeza and Sullivan. at the Santa Maria Elks Club. available for adoption and a very More than 150 guests from talented “rescue” dog, a Schnau- Santa Maria, Santa Barbara, Lom- zer mix that had been trained in poc, Nipomo, Arroyo Grande, Colorado and assists Santa Maria Arizona, Nevada and Hawaii at- resident Sarah Cale. GOOD NEWS tended the fun-filled fundraising Betty Baxter and her crew are event to benefit the Santa Maria already planning Hoedown with T idbits‌ viduals will continue to receive needed for service on a first- Valley Humane Society. the Hounds in August of 2019. City introduces new portal updates until they unsubscribe. come, first-served basis between for council, committee in- During the transition, the city 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. every Wednes- formation — In a bid to make will discontinue its previous day, a sheriff’s spokesman said. it easier for the public to access method of sharing information Appointments can still be INI THE MIL TARY important information, Santa about City Council meetings. made for service between 8 a.m. Maria has introduced a new In the near future, the existing and 4 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, ‌U.S. Air Force Airman Joseph core values, physical fitness, website portal that connects the boards, commissions, and com- Thursday and Friday by calling E. Martinez has graduated from and basic warfare principles and community to public meeting mittees websites also will be 805-934-6175 for the Santa Ma- basic military skills. agendas, minutes and videos, as phased out. ria Station and 805-681-4357 for training at Joint Airmen who complete basic well as similar material for var- The portal is within Santa the Santa Barbara Station. Base San Anto- training also earn four credits ious city boards, commissions Maria’s website (www.cityof- The Live Scan fingerprint nio-Lackland, toward an associate in applied and committees. santamaria.org) and can be ac- stations assist the public with San Antonio, science degree through the With the portal, residents can cessed directly by visiting city- pre-employment fingerprinting Texas. Community College of the Air use the calendar to find an up- ofsantamaria.civicweb.net. and can transmit fingerprints to The airman Force. coming or previous public meet- Anyone with questions is the California Department of completed an Martinez is the son of Eliza- ing, subscribe to email updates asked to contact the City Man- Justice and the Federal Bureau intensive, eight- beth V. and Oscar Martinez, of about meetings, view meetings ager’s Office/Records-City Clerk of Investigation. Martinez week program Santa Maria. organized by type, watch meet- Division at 805-925-0951, ext. Those getting Live Scan fin- that included training in military He is a 2016 graduate of Pio- ing videos, search the city’s re- 2307. gerprints must bring a Live Scan discipline and studies, Air Force neer Valley High School. sources for specific topics and Walk-in Live Scan services request form completed by the read council agendas and min- offered on Wednesdays — The agency or person requesting the utes. Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s fingerprinting, photo identifi- Email addresses of those who Office is accepting “walk-ins” cation, such as a state ID card or B IRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS had previously requested to re- for Live Scan fingerprinting at driver’s license or a passport and ceive City Council agenda up- both the Santa Maria and Santa cash for the fee. dates have been imported into Barbara stations. M arian Regional A boy was born to Cameron the new system. Those indi- No appointment will be Please see TIDBITS, Page C6 Medical Center and Lauren Martin on Aug. 23, 3018. A boy was born to Valente and A girl was born to Juan Gonza- Alma Sanchez on Aug. 20, 2018. lez Gonzalez and Valeriana Lopez S MVHS PETS OF THE WEEK A boy was born Guillermo Ventura on Aug. 23, 2018. Garcia Sanchez and Juanita Agu- A girl was born to Fernando ilar Hernandez on Aug. 21, 2018. Barajas and Kristen Marino on A girl was born to Jorge and Aug. 23, 2018. Crystal Gutierrez on Aug. 21, A girl was born to Jesus Huante 2018. and Andrea Rodriguez on Aug. A boy was born to Lloyd and 23, 2018. Mary Kingsley on Aug. 21, 2018. A boy was born to John Rivera A girl was born to Ernesto Pina and Gabriela Uriarte on Vazquez and Elena Pacheco on Aug. 26, 2018. Aug. 21, 2018. A girl was born to Mauricio A girl was born to Felix Sorto Tinoco Lua and Mayra Martinez Ramirez and Lucia Ramirez on Santiago on Aug. 26, 2018. Aug. 21, 2018. A girl was born to Eric and A girl was born to Mathhew Shauna Hernandez on Aug. 26, Rogers and Adrianna Rangel on 2018. Aug. 21, 2018. A boy was born to Christian Lompoc Valley Fletcher and Kyna Alejardro on Medical Center Aug. 22, 2018. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO‌ CONTRIBUTED PHOTO‌ A boy was born to Allen Pearse A boy was born to Jose and B etty is a 2-year-old large female, domestic short- Mugsy is an 8-year-old male wire-haired and Manika Anderson on Aug. Kaila Cruz on Aug. 23, 2018. haired cat. Chihuahua, who weighs about 11 pounds. He is 22, 2018. A boy was born to Victor She is our three-legged wonder cat. an interesting looking guy with his wild hair and A girl was born to Dwight and Cabrera and Cassandra Loveless Betty was born with a deformed front leg but, no overbite. Chenia Rushing on Aug. 22, 2018. on Aug. 25, 2018. worries, she is used to it and it does not slow her In his kennel, Mugsy appears shy. Sometimes he A boy was born to Tomas Vil- A boy was born to Warupong down. hides in the back where no one even knows he is lalovos III and Brittany Brown on and Kanyanut Chayunggoon on She is a very curious kitty. She is still coming out there. When Mugsy is outside his kennel and in Aug. 22, 2018. Aug. 27, 2018. of her shell since being surrendered but when she the play yard, he transforms into a whole other thinks no one is looking, you can see her explore dog. He will run around and do “zoomies.” the room, play with string, crawl through cubbies Mugsy’s most favorite thing of all is tummy rubs. SAM C PET OF THE WEEK and just enjoy being a cat. He will roll over, close his eyes and just enjoy the attention. He is a real spunky boy once he is Dusty is a black and brown German Betty is slowly adjusting but she now comes out comfortable with you. shepherd, who is about 3 years old. for pets. She likes to flop on her side and be petted from head to tail. A quiet home with little activity would give him He is sweet, playful and easy to the best opportunity to help him be himself. walk on a leash, and would make a She is also a fan of treats and other cats. All animals are examined by the Santa Maria All animals are examined by the Santa Maria good family dog. Valley Humane Society veterinarian, spayed/ Valley Humane Society veterinarian, spayed/ Dusty has been at the Santa Maria neutered, vaccinated and microchipped. Everyone neutered, vaccinated and microchipped. Animal Center since Aug. 20. He goes home with a free bag of pet food. Everyone goes home with a free bag of pet food. was found on West Church Street Check out our website at www.smvhs.org and visit Check out our website at www.smvhs.org and in Santa Maria. us at 1687 W. Stowell Road, in Santa Maria. Hours visit us at 1687 W. Stowell Road, in Santa Maria. Dusty is available for adoption at are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday. Hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday through the county shelter, 548 W. Foster For more information, call 805-349-3435. Sunday. Road, in Santa Maria. Dogs, cats, For more information, call 805-349-3435. bunnies and roosters can be adopted from from 10 a.m. to Share your news 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday. ‌Have story, photo or community tidbit you’d like to share with the community? We would, too. Also find adoptable animals online What’s going on with your organization or club? at http://www.countyofsb.org/ animalcare.sbc. Tell us, we’d love to publish it. For more information, call 805- Email your news and photos to Features Editor Gary Robb at [email protected]. 00 934-6119. JAE NNE SPARKS, CONTRIBUTED PHOTO‌ 1 C2 | Saturday, September 1, 2018 Santa Maria Times

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‌T o add your church listing to this M orning Worship service 10:45 am. www.santamariafumc.net. 287-0123 or 287-0033. P acific Christian Center, 3435 Santa com or 928-2118. calendar, email it two weeks in ad- Info: 922-1919. SANTA MARIA, Sundays: Wor- SANTA MARIA, Tuesdays: Upper Maria Way, family night with youth ARROYO GRANDE, Fridays: First vance to calendar@santamaria- ORCUTT, Sundays: St. Andrew ship services; community and group R oom, 113 W. Main St., Bible study groups, adult Bible study and more, United Methodist Church, 275 N. Hal- times.com or mail to Calendar, P.O. United Methodist Church, 3945 S. Bible study; children’s church and group, especially for those in addic- 6:45 to 8 p.m. Info: 934-3491. cyon Road, Bible study, 8:30 a.m. Box 400, Santa Maria CA 93456. Bradley Road. Contemporary wor- fellowship. All are welcome. Chris- tion recovery, 8 p.m. Info: 264-3449. SANTA MARIA, Wednesdays: Info: 481-2692. ship at 8:30 a.m.; traditional wor- tian Family Church, 324 Suey Road. NIPOMO, Tuesdays: The Nipomo Bible Study, “iCharge,” First Baptist ARROYO GRANDE, Fridays: New WEEKLY‌ ship at 10:20 a.m. From 5:30 to Information: 705-2494. Lutheran Bible Study continues to Church of Santa Maria, 2970 Santa Hope Church, 900 N. Oak Park Blvd., SANTA MARIA, Saturdays: 7 p.m. Wednesdays, Chancel choir SANTA MARIA, Sundays: Potter’s meet the first and third Tuesday Maria Way. Info: 937-8405 or www. Celebrate Recovery, 6 p.m. dinner Church for Life, 3130 Skyway Drive, rehearsal with director Dr. Greg House Christian Fellowship, 2115 S. evenings for small group discus- fbcsantamaria.com. followed by large and small group Celebrate Recovery, 6:30 p.m. Info: Magie; from 7 to 8 p.m., Handbell Broadway, Suite 104, Sunday School, sions, prayer and refreshments. SANTA MARIA, Wednesdays: meetings. Info: 489-0600. 925-4820. choir rehearsal with director Scott 9:45 a.m. Info: 361-0060. Contact Pastor Wayne Riddering at Santa Maria Community Seventh-day SANTA MARIA, Fridays: Pacific SANTA MARIA, Saturdays: Santa D avis. Info: 937-2470 or saumc.sm@ SANTA MARIA, Sundays: Inter- 556-5193 for location and time. Ev- A dventist Church, 1775 S. Thorn- Christian Center, 3435 Santa Maria Maria Seventh-day Adventist Church, gmail.com. national Church House of God, 2360 eryone is welcome. burg St., prayer ministry, 7 p.m. Way, Celebrate Recovery, 6:30 p.m. 1775 S. Thornburg St., potluck lun- ORCUTT, Sundays: First Bap- A St., bilingual service, 11 a.m. Bible ARROYO GRANDE, Wednesdays: Info: 925-7118. Info: 934-3491. cheon after 11 a.m. service. Bring tist Church of Santa Maria, 2970 classes for ages 3 and up. Childcare First United Methodist Church, 275 N. ORCUTT, Thursdays: Star of dish to share. Info: 925-7118. Santa Maria Way, Sunday school, available. Info: 347-7682. Halcyon Road, youth fellowship for Bethlehem Church, 4465 S. Blosser HELPING HANDS‌ SANTA MARIA, Saturdays: 9:45 a.m. Info: 937-8405 or www. SANTA MARIA: Filipino Christian junior to senior high school teens, Road, 10 a.m. Bible study. Info: GROVER BEACH: Captive Hearts Grafted in Hebraic/Christian Min- fbcsantamaria.com. Church, 410 W. Church St. Sunday 7 p.m. Info: 481-2692. 937-0339. Ministries is collecting used cell- istry — Power of Prayer 2015, 1:30 ORCUTT, Sundays: Gloria Dei Lu- services start at 11:15 a.m. in En- ARROYO GRANDE, Wednesdays: ARROYO GRANDE, Thursdays: phones and ink cartridges to help p.m in the City Hall Courtyard, 110 theran Church, 4380 Orcutt Road, glish, 6:00 p.m. in Tagalog. Wednes- Saint John’s Lutheran Church, 959 First United Methodist Church, 275 N. women in need. These items are E. Cook St. Info: 937-4642. blended worship service at 10 a.m. day prayer meeting at 7 p.m. Info: Valley Road, youth group night for Halcyon Road, prayer group, 10 a.m. recycled to raise money for pro- SANTA MARIA, Sundays: through September. No Sunday 928-3043. seventh- to 12th-graders, 6:30 p.m. Info: 481-2692. grams and to help the environment Christ United Methodist Church, school during the summer. Start- ARROYO GRANDE, Mondays: Info: 489-1259. ORCUTT, Thursdays: Unity by keeping them out of landfills. All 219 Mary Drive; traditional wor- ing Sept. 9, three Sunday services First United Methodist Church, 275 GUADALUPE, Wednesdays: Liv- Chapel of Light, 1165 Stubble- proceeds help provide funds for ship at 10:30 a.m.; Wednesday Bible will be offered: traditional service N. Halcyon Road, Women of Prayer ing Water Foursquare Church, 177 field Road, healing prayer circle, rent, food, clothing, medical bills Study, 10 a.m.; taiko drum practice, at 9 a.m.; Sunday school begins at and men’s Bible study, 7 p.m. Info: Guadalupe St., 7 p.m. Bible study. 9:30 a.m. in the sanctuary, 7 p.m. the and other necessities. Bring phones 3:30 p.m. Info: 925-3116 or www.sm- 10 a.m.; contemporary service at 481-2692. Info: 343-4084. Universe is Calling. Info: 937-3025. and ink cartridges to 882 W. Grand christumc.org 11 a.m. Nursery care will be avail- SANTA MARIA, Tuesdays: Gloria ORCUTT, Wednesdays: Central SANTA MARIA, Thursdays: Sal- A ve., Grover Beach. Info: 481-4500. SANTA MARIA, Sundays: All for able during the worship service for D ei Lutheran Church Men’s Disciple- Coast Church, 4890 Bethany Lane, vation Army, 402 S. Miller, Wom- GROVER BEACH: Five Cities Chris- Christ, a congregation of Grace Com- children under 5 years old. ship, 7:30 a.m. at Denny’s Restau- family dinner and Bible studies, en’s Home League Fellowship, 10 tian Women Emergency Food Minis- munion International. 10 am service SANTA MARIA, Sundays: First rant at Main Street and Highway 6 p.m. Info: 937-4563. to 11 a.m. Info: 349-2421. try is in need of nonperishable food at Minerva Club, 127 West Boone St. United Methodist Church, 311 S. 101. Info: 937-3905. ORCUTT, Wednesdays: Unity SANTA MARIA: Temple Beth El items and monetary donations. Bring Info: all-4-christ.org. Broadway, contemporary Service at ORCUTT, Tuesdays: Betha- Chapel of Light, 1165 Stubblefield holds shabbat services each Friday donations to 192 S. 9th St., Suite B, SANTA MARIA, Sundays: Cor- 8:45 am, classical service at 10:30 nia Christian Center (South Valley Road, meditation, 7 p.m. Info: at 7:30 p.m. and Torah study some or mail monetary donations to P.O. nerstone, a Church of the Naza- am. Sunday school at both services. Church), 1054 Clark Ave., Bible study 937-3025. Saturdays at 10 a.m. 1501 E. Alvin, Box 756, Grover Beach CA 93483. rene, 1026 E. Sierra Madre Ave., Children’s choir. Info: 925-9573 or and prayer ministry in Spanish. Info: SANTA MARIA, Wednesdays: Santa Maria. Info: tbesantamaria. Info: 473-1157.

SENIOR CALENDAR‌ SATURDAY ASTROGRAPH ‌If you have an item for this cal- certified instructor Leslie Mar- 9:30 a.m. — Knit/Crocheting 10 to 11 a.m. — Zumba Gold, 922-9931. endar, email it two weeks in ad- shall at lesliepraisemoves@ya- 9:30 a.m. — Hiking (meet at Or- $25 registered, $31 nonregistered Braille Institute is looking for vance to calendar@santamari- hoo.com, 760-672-9628 or www. cutt Community Park) per month a volunteer once a week to assist ‌Explore new avenues and atimes.com or mail to Calendar, praisemoves.com. 9:45 a.m. — Arthritis Exercise Noon to 4 p.m. — Mahjong (first with bringing students to class bring about changes that P .O. Box 4, Santa Maria CA 93456. Senior Tennis Group meets 11:15 a.m. — CAC Lunch and third Wednesday) and returning them home and aid will make you happy. Stabi- 9 to 11 a.m. Tuesdays and Thurs- 11:30 p.m. — Ukulele Class 1 to 3 p.m. — Book Exchange the teacher during their teaching lize your life by getting rid of EVENT‌ days, Minami Community Center, 12:30 p.m. — Ukulele Band (third Wednesday) session individually or in a group dead weight and unwanted The Santa Maria Recreation 6 W. Enos Drive. Info: 451-4081 or 1 p.m. — Rummikub 1 to 3 p.m. — Knit, Chat and setting. Info: 922-9931 or email pressure. Seek out oppor- and Parks Department and Santa 937-9076. 2 p.m. — Bereavement Support Crochet (first, second and fourth [email protected]. tunities that allow you to Maria Valley Senior Club will pres- Beginning Line Dance Class is 6 p.m. — Caregivers Support Wednesday) Central Coast Literacy Council spend more time with loved ent “Boogie on Down,” featuring held Mondays, Half Century Club, 6:30pm — Ballroom/Swing has an ongoing need for tutors to THURSDAY‌ ones. Live life your way. the Riptide Big Band, with vocalist 341 North N St., Lompoc. $2 dona- workshop 9 to 10 a.m. — Build Your Own tutor adults either on a one-to-one Bob Nations and a special perfor- tion appreciated. Info: 736-6669. THURSDAY, SEPT. 6‌ B ody Exercise, $25 registered, $31 situation or in a small group. Tu- VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. mance by the In Time Trio, on Sun- Dance Workshop is held 8:30 a.m. — Gentle Yoga nonregistered per month toring basic reading/writing skills 22) — Try something new. A day, Sept. 23, from 1:30 to 4 p.m. 9:30 a.m. Mondays, Half Century 9:45 a.m. — Tai Chi 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. — Drop-in Soft- and English as a second language. change of plans will turn out at the Elwin Mussell Senior Cen- Club, 341 North N St., Lompoc. 10:30 a.m. — Build Your Own ball, Hageman Sports Complex T raining provided. Info: 922-9931 to be extremely entertaining ter, 510 Park Ave., in Santa Maria. A ges 18 and over welcome. Info: Body 2:30 to 3:45 p.m. — Folk Dancing or email [email protected]. and will give you a new lease The dance, which is free, will kick 736-6669. 10:45 a.m. — Beading Workshop FRIDAY‌ Lompoc Adult Services needs on life. Go with the flow and off this year’sA ctive Aging Week. Central Coast Follies prac- 11:15 a.m. — CAC Lunch Noon to 4 p.m. — Mahjong volunteers to answer phones, scan enjoy the ride. E vent info: Call 805-925-0951, ext. tices 11 a.m. Sundays and Wednes- 1 p.m. — Android Phone Users 1 to 4 p.m. — Bingo documents, make follow-up calls. 2207. Band info: Contact Judy at LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) days, Dellos Dance Studio, 1229 E. 1 p.m. — Yack and Snack Drop-In Pool Room — 9 a.m. Possibly some field work such as — Don’t get wrapped up in 775-813-5186 or visit Riptidebb.com Grande Ave., Arroyo Grande. Info: driving a county car to run errands 1 p.m. — Income Tax Seminar to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday; someone else’s negativity. Be or Riptide Big Band on Facebook. Dixie, 474-1525. 2:30 p.m. — Choir for Adult Protective Services. Info: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday positive and seek out people ONGOING ‌ HD Support and Care Network 6 p.m. — Chinese Language Ongoing Lunch Program 922-9931 or email rsvpsm@srvol- helps HD families find resources 6:15 p.m. — Country Dance 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday unteer.org. offering stimulating con- The Northern Santa Barbara for support and care by collabo- Lessons through Friday. Reservations are Santa Barbara County Edu- versation and suggestions County National Alliance on Men- rating with community services, 6:30 p.m. — Hula Dancing required 24 hours in advance; call cation is looking to fill some key that can enrich your life. tal Illness meets the second Mon- social service agencies, medical FRIDAY, SEPT. 7‌ 925-3010. volunteer positions in surrounding Romance and personal im- day of the month at the Elwin Mus- resources and other organizations. 8 a.m. — Senior Exercise schools. If you are a retired teacher sel Senior Center, located at 515 provement are encouraged. Info: Contact Melissa Biliardi at 9 a.m. — Ind Painters VOLUNTEERS‌ or enjoy working with children, call E . Park Ave. Santa Maria. Info: SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 350-0708 or [email protected] 9 a.m. — Ceramics Community Partners in Caring 922-9931 or email rsvpsm@srvol- 349-8014. 22) — Travel, visit friends and visit www.hdscn.org. 9:45 a.m. — Arthritis Exercise (Santa Maria, Lompoc and Santa unteer.org. Alzheimer’s Association or relatives and take part „„ Activities at Luis Oasis Se- 11:15 a.m. — CAC Lunch Y nez Valley) is looking for volun- Central Coast Literacy Council caregiver support groups meet in activities that require nior Center, 420 Soares Ave., Old 12:30 a.m. — Hand and Foot teer for Medical and Social Trans- has an ongoing need for tutors to 10:30 a.m. to noon on the third Orcutt. Info: 937-9750 1 p.m. — Mahjong portation, Shopping and Errands, tutor adults either one-to-one or stamina. A good workout or T uesday of the month, Merrill Gar- SATURDAY, SEPT. 1‌ 1 p.m. — Silversmith-CXL Friendly Visits, Telephone Reassur- in a small group in basic reading/ physical challenge will ease dens, 1350 Suey Road, Santa Ma- 9 a.m. — MIT Traffic School 6 p.m. — AA 12-Step ance, Minor Home Repairs, Yard writing skills and English as a sec- your stress and boost your ria, 310-4102; 6 to 7:30 p.m., first MONDAY, SEPT. 3‌ „„ Activities at Elwin Mussell Work. Info: 922-9931. ond language. Training provided. morale. Wednesday of each month, Luis Closed for Labor Day Senior Center, 510 E. Park Ave., The Dunes Center Is looking Info: 922-9931. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23- Oasis Senior Center, 420 Soares Santa Maria. Info: 925-0951, for an Education and Administra- Guadalupe Dune Center is look- A ve., Orcutt, 354-5326; more op- TUESDAY, SEPT. 4‌ Dec. 21) — Discuss matters of ext. 2207. tive Coordinator to answer phones, ing for an education and admin- tions, Alzheimer’s Association’s Cal- 8:30 a.m. — Gentle Yoga concern. You’ll be more suc- 9 a.m. — Reflexology SUNDAY‌ file, occasional computer work and istrative coordinator to answer cessful if you can put unfin- ifornia Central Chapter, 892-4259. other tasks as needed. Love the phones, file, occasional computer Swinging Seniors drop-in soft- 9 a.m. — Card Making 1 to 4 p.m. — Dancing to Live ished business to rest before 9:45 a.m. — Tai Chi Band (second Sunday) $10 per outdoors this is the place for you. work and other tasks as needed. ball is 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Mondays Info: 922-9931. Info: 922-9931. moving forward. Speak up, and Thursdays, Hagerman Com- 10:30 a.m. — Build Your Own person. but don’t make assumptions Body Gyfted is looking for volunteers Lompoc Police Department is plex, Santa Maria. Info: Wes, 314- MONDAY‌ or overreact. Ask questions. 11:15 a.m. — CAC Lunch 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. — Drop-In Soft- who are skilled at grant writing, looking for volunteers for a vari- 1528, or Ruth, 925-8364. community outreach, crisis inter- ety of tasks within the department. CAPRICORN (Dec. Stretching and strength class 1 p.m. — Creative Art ball, Hagerman Sports Complex 1 p.m. — Basic Water Color 10 to 11 a.m. — Zumba Gold, vention, tutoring and homework as- Info: 922-9931. 22-Jan. 19) — You’ll have a for seniors, “Praise Moves, A sistance and more. Info: 922-9931. City of Santa Maria Recre- Christian Alternative to Yoga,” P ainting $25 registered, $31 nonregistered chance to make some money. 2:30 p.m. — Simple Spanish per month Country Oaks Care Center is ation and Parks Department Buying and selling, making is held 10 to 11:15 a.m. Tuesdays looking for volunteers to work offers services and activities to 6:30 p.m. — Al-Anon TUESDAY‌ upgrades to your living space and Wednesdays at Central Coast with the activities department in meet the needs of older adults in WEDNESDAY SEPT. 5‌ 9 to 10 a.m. — Build Your Own and settling pending prob- Church, 48901 Bethany Drive in a variety of tasks. Info: 922-6657. the community, and works with 8 a.m. — Senior Exercise B ody Exercise, $25 registered, $31 Orcutt. Cost: free. Info: Contact Santa Maria Salvation Army community organizations that lems should be priorities. nonregistered per month is looking for volunteer to assis- provide additional programs and AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 10 to 11 a.m. — Yoga, $12 reg- tance as a Case Worker – assisting services in city facilities. Programs 19) — Before you decide to do istered, $14 nonregistered per with food orders, diaper orders, range from low-vision evaluations something, get the facts. In- month customer service and light office to lunch programs to exercise and 1 to 4 p.m. — Poker dulgent behavior will lead to Pastor’s Corner support. Administrative Assistant dance classes. More information 1 to 4 p.m. — Double Deck Pi- a bigger problem. Consider — Answer phones, send email mes- can be found in the City of Santa Delighting in the Lord nochle (second and fourth Tues- the influence someone has sages, make copies, greet guests M aria Recreation Guide, available day of the month) on you and if it’s healthy or By Pastor Mike Tittes etc. Info: 922-9931. at the Recreation and Parks Of- 1:30 to 4 p.m. — Bunco (first toxic. Salvation Army needs Bell Ring- fice, 615 S. McClelland St., at the Grafted in Christian-Hebraic Ministry and third Tuesday of the month) ers for the holidays. Info: 922-9931. Elwin Mussell Senior Center, 510 E. PISCES (Feb. 20-March WEDNESDAY‌ PCPA is looking for ushers to P ark Ave., or online at www.ci.san- 20) — You have more options In Psalm 37:4, King David gave his profound promise 9 to 11 a.m. — Chairobics Exer- than you realize. A close to every believer: Delight yourself in the Lord, and He meet and greet, help seat, han- ta-maria.ca.us. cise, $12 registered, $14 nonreg- dle money, assist with conces- Lompoc Auxiliary Gift Shop is friend or relative will offer shall give you the desires of your heart. How do we istered per month sions, etc., in the Marian and Sev- looking for a volunteer sales per- you sound advice. Consider find ourselves delighting in the Lord? Is it a caseof 9 to 11 a.m. — Artists Meet erson theaters in Santa Maria. Info: son to write sales tickets for mer- a joint venture with someone warm fuzzies, or some mental exercise? The definition chandise, keep a running log for whose skills complement of the experience of delighting in the Lord is found in candy sales and related duties. yours. A financial gain looks Holy Scripture itself – God’s Word. King David said it Must be able to make change promising. well, “I delight to do Your will, O my God; your Torah Christian Science Society and work 2½-hour shifts. Gift shop hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. ARIES (March 21-April is within my heart” (Psalm 40:8). Delighting in the Monday through Friday and 1:30 19) — A reality check will Lord, then, is manifest in delighting in God’s Word, to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. do you good. Mull over past both written and the Incarnate Word. It is defined as T raining provided. Info: 922-9931. events and your feelings delighting in the Torah (Word of God) – the written Santa Barbara County Ed- about what’s transpired be- Torah and the Living Torah, Christ Yeshua (Jesus). ucation is looking to fill some tween you and a friend, peer key volunteer positions in our or loved one. Consider how surrounding schools. If you are to best make amends. In Psalm 119 the idea of delighting in the Lord is a retired teacher or enjoy work- expressed in seven declarations: verses 16, 24, 35, 47, TAURUS (April 20-May ing with children they would love 20) — The changes you make 70, 77, and 174. “I long for your salvation, O Lord, to have you. Training is available and your law is my delight.” The way to prove that one and volunteer days are flexible. now will stabilize your life. truly delights in the Lord is to do the things that God Info: 922-9931. Be true to your beliefs and has said in His Holy Word. Without faithfulness to the Santa Maria Natural History don’t argue over issues that are non-negotiable. Do your instructions of God, there is no evidence of faith in Museum is seeking docent vol- unteers. Training is provided. own thing and stick to your God. Jesus encapsulated this idea perfectly when He D ocents are asked to provide principles. said, “If you love me, keep my commandments.” “This The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, information on the wildlife and GEMINI (May 21-June is the love of God, that we keep His commandments” peace, forbearance, kindness, physical displays in the museum. 20) — Don’t feel you must (1John5:3). Those who willfully disobey the Info: 922-9931. share personal information. Santa Maria Valley Histori- instructions of Holy Scripture have no evidence that goodness, and self-control. Someone will try to interfere they love God. Indeed, the opposite is true. cal Museum is looking for Do- Galations 5:22-23 cents to assist with museum tours with your plans if you are ac- for local students. Training is pro- commodating. Protect your John had the real answers for receiving the desires of The Holy Bible NIV vided. Info: 922-9931. assets, secrets and posses- your heart: Whatever we ask we receive from Him Special Needs Network seeks sions from anyone prying because we keep His commandments and do the Sunday Service - 10:00 a.m. a drama director who can work into your affairs. things that are pleasing in His sight (1John3:22). with club members at least once CANCER (June 21-July Delight in the Lord! You will be amazed at the Sunday School - 10:00 a.m. a week for an hour and a half. 22) — What you do for others The volunteer would be part of blessings that will flow! Wednesday Service - 7:30 p.m. will bring you satisfaction. a four-person team that also in- The suggestions you make cludes a coordinator, music di- 2466 Baseline Avenue, Ballard and the role you play will rector and an experienced aide, encourage the people around Instructional Wisdom from God who assists at every club meet- ~ Reading Room ~ ing. The club members are ages you to strive for perfection. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Psalms 119:47: “And I will delight myself in thy Monday to Friday 11:00 - 3:00 18 to 40 and are develop.m.en- commandments, which I have loved.” tally disabled. The club mem- Keep a lookout for anyone 410 Second Street, Solvang bers are ages 18-40 and are de- trying to impress you or talk velopentally disabled. They are you into something that you JESUS LOVES YOU All Are Welcome! probably shouldn’t do. In- dulgent behavior will not be www.PrayerThatHeals.org/Solvang 00 Please see SENIORS, Page C6 easily forgotten or forgiven. 1 SANTA MARIA TIMES SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2018 | C3 TECH Alexa, Cortana finally get conversation going

RACHEL LERMAN temperature of the room through start in the smart speaker game. The Seattle Times an internet-connected thermo- Although Cortana has been avail- Amazon’s Alexa and Micro- stat and access many of the third- able on Windows 10 devices since soft’s Cortana are coming soon to a party skills other companies have 2015, Amazon Echos had been on smart device near you — together, built into Alexa. the market for nearly three years with new integrated features that The idea is to capitalize on each before the Harmon Kardon speaker allow the digital assistants to talk company’s strength — Amazon’s with Cortana was released last fall. to each other. in consumer technology, and Mi- The companies fi rst announced The two companies said the crosoft’s in workplace software. plans to have their personal as- integration would be live for U.S. The integration will bring more sistants work together a year customers on Aug. 16, the fi rst work-focused functions to Alexa ago, saying the integration would public launch for the joint service through Cortana and general life launch by the end of 2017. But since the companies began testing capabilities to Cortana. things went silent after the initial it more than a year ago. U.S. customers who use any announcement, until Microsoft Alexa, which does everything Echo device, computer with Win- and Amazon executives debuted from play music to buy items dows 10 or a Harmon Kardon In- a working demo onstage at Mic- MICROSOFT from Amazon on Echo speakers voke speaker — which turns Cor- rosoft’s developers conference in Alexa and Cortana, Amazon’s and Microsoft’s digital assistants, will now and other Alexa-enabled devices, tana into a stand-alone digital Seattle in May. work on each other’s devices by letting one assistant summon the other. will be able to summon Cortana assistant — were able to test the “This is a fi rst-of-its-kind col- to read emails or check calendar new skills starting on launch day. laboration that involved lots of “We want to provide quality ex- crosoft said the integration would appointments from Microsoft Microsoft may benefi t from hav- work and learnings from both the periences, and that takes time.” start rolling out to customers Aug. Outlook. Alternately, Cortana ing popular Alexa skills available teams at Amazon and Microsoft,” Now U.S. customers will fi nd 16 and would reach all U.S. cus- will be able to ask Alexa to set the on Cortana, which got a slower a Microsoft spokeswoman said. out if it’s been worth the wait. Mi- tomers within days.

TECH Q&A Update creates fake drive UESTION: Following a Windows 10 update, I got Q a warning that said, “You are running out of disk space on disk (E).” I’ve never had a disk E, but now File Explorer shows it as a drive with a capacity of 449 megabytes, of which only 42 megabytes are available. Yet when I click on drive E, File Explorer shows that it’s empty. What should I do? — Keith Loe- wen, Shoreview, Minnesota ANSWER: The update caused this situation, but it isn’t a big prob- lem. DREAMSTIME The update Google clarifi ed that it does in fact collect users’ location data, even if the user’s Location History setting is turned o . mistakenly re- classifi ed the hard disk space occupied by your recovery fi les Yes, we track your location, even STEVE ALEXANDER (which can be used to fi x Win- dows 10 if some- thing goes wrong) as a mythical when you turn o Location History separate disk drive. In reality, these recovery Google confession no longer stored” with the Loca- carry privacy risks, with one wanted her to rate a shopping fi les occupy a small space (449 tion History setting shut o . calling Google’s practice “disin- trip to Kohl’s despite her having megabytes) on your hard drive, SEUNG LEE The change came three days genuous.” AP corroborated their shut o Location History. The or C drive. You weren’t aware The Mercury News after The Associated Press pub- fi ndings with computer science researcher, K. Shankari, wrote of them before because their Google clarifi ed that it does lished an investigation revealing researchers at Princeton Univer- about her discovery and her per- storage space is partitioned o in fact collect users’ location several Google apps and services sity before publication. sonal questions in a blog post on from the rest of the C drive, and data, even if the user’s Loca- stored user location data regard- Google takes snapshots of the a UC Berkeley research website. they are designated as “hidden” tion History setting is turned less of the Location History set- user’s Location History when the “Data collection for web fi les that File Explorer doesn’t o . The admission comes days ting. Maps app is opened, the weather browsing and social media is normally see. after a report uncovered the Sil- In a statement to this news widget on Android phones up- currently under intense scru- But when the update reclas- icon Valley giant stored the data organization, a Google spokes- dates and during some Google tiny, but smartphone sensors sifi ed the recovery fi les parti- from smartphones regardless of person said, “We have been up- searches that have nothing to do can be the source of even more tion as a separate E drive, the setting. dating the explanatory language with location, according to AP. privacy sensitive data, collected operating system automatically Google revised a help page about Location History to make After the snapshot, Google saves completely without human in- began monitoring the new about its Location History set- it more consistent and clear it to the user’s account. teraction,” Shankari wrote. “Is- drive. It found that the drive ting, clarifying that the setting across our platforms and help In order to turn o snapshots sues around consent, control and was nearly full and began send- “does not a ect other location centers.” The spokesperson did from Google apps and services, trust are currently fuzzy in this ing you warnings. However, the services on your device” and not address why Google contin- users need to turn o both Loca- domain due to the blurring of warnings aren’t signifi cant be- that “some location data may be ued collecting location data even tion History and Web & App Ac- boundaries between the phone cause no additional data will be saved as part of your activity on when the user chose to turn o tivity settings, according to AP. operating system and propri- stored in the recovery partition. other services, like Search and its location history. AP started its investigation af- etary services. … How can we You can get rid of the Maps.” The AP report alarmed pri- ter a graduate researcher at UC truly know what closed source Before the Aug. 16 edit, the vacy researchers, as collecting Berkeley noticed that her An- software is actually collecting Please see TECH Q&A, Page C6 page stated “the places you go are continuous location data may droid phone’s Google Maps app and when it is doing so?”

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DEAR ABBY TODAY IN HISTORY

Today is Saturday, Sept. 1, the Father’s accountant refuses payment 244th day of 2018. There are 121 days left in the year. EAR ABBY: For the past I saw him and his family several write him a letter. In it, express miscarriage. I’m 28 and have a Today’s Highlight in His- 2 1/2 years, my deceased times in my childhood, I haven’t how much you appreciate the master’s degree, and I would like tory: D father’s friend and ac- seen him in decades, so I have hard work he has done and the to try again with the right man, On September 1, 1945, Ameri- countant has been working on no idea what hobbies or restau- kindness he has shown to your the right way (after marriage). cans received word of Japan’s for- winding up his estate. The bulk rants he enjoys. I’m guessing his family. Tell him you know what How do I start? — DO-OVER mal surrender that ended World of the estate has been disbursed, age to be in his late 80s to early a good friend he was to your IN CALIFORNIA War II. (Because of the time di er- and it should be 90s, and his wife is still alive. father and how much your dad DEAR DO-OVER: I pre- ence, it was Sept. 2 in Tokyo Bay, clearing sometime I’m pretty sure people in that trusted and respected him. Then sume, having lost a baby you where the ceremony took place.) soon. age group don’t need any more say thank you, and if he and his wanted and having to face the On this date: He has refused “stu ” for their house, and I wife live close enough, o er to reality that your ex wasn’t the In 1807, former Vice President to take any com- know they’re fi nancially com- take them to dinner and thank supportive person you thought Aaron Burr was found not guilty pensation from fortable. him again in person. he was, that you are having trust of treason. (Burr was then tried the estate for I have thought about fl owers DEAR ABBY: I had a mis- issues. The time to resolve them on a misdemeanor charge, but was JEANNE executor’s fees. or a gift basket, but the small carriage two years ago. My ex is before you start looking for again acquitted.) PHILLIPS I have told him amount they cost would pale wasn’t emotionally supportive another life partner. Some ses- In 1939, World War II began as by email and in against what he would have during our grieving process sions with a psychologist would Nazi Germany invaded Poland. person that Dad been entitled to had he taken his (I understand everyone deals help. In 1942, U.S. District Court would want him to be paid for executor’s fee. Do you have any with loss di erently). However, Once you feel it’s safe to open Judge Martin I. Welsh, ruling from his work, but he refuses to take suggestions on how I can ex- su ce it to say, our journeys no your heart to someone again, Sacramento on a lawsuit brought any payment and insists he press my thanks for everything longer aligned. wait until you know where the by the American Civil Liberties wants this to be the last thing he he’s done? — THANK YOU, IN I started dating again a few relationship is going before dis- Union on behalf of Fred Korem- does for my father. CANADA months ago and now realize cussing this chapter of your life. atsu, upheld the wartime deten- I feel a thank-you gift would DEAR THANK YOU: Be- I have built up an emotional The right man will understand, tion of Japanese-Americans as be appropriate, but I’m stumped cause he is refusing monetary wall. Also, I’m never sure when love you and give you the emo- well as Japanese nationals. about what to get him. Although compensation, I suggest you — or if — I should bring up my tional support you need. In 1969, a coup in Libya brought Moammar Gadhafi to power. In 1983, 269 people were killed when a Korean Air Lines Boeing BRIDGE ASK THE DOCTORS 747 was shot down by a Soviet jet fi ghter after the airliner entered Soviet airspace. If you see the In 1985, a U.S.-French expedi- Most typhoid cases tion located the wreckage of the points, believe Titanic on the fl oor of the Atlan- tic Ocean roughly 400 miles o Newfoundland. the figures contracted abroad In 2004, more than 1,000 peo- Richard Feynman, a Nobel- ple were taken hostage by heav- ist theoretical physicist, wrote, ear Doctor: How com- ily armed Chechen militants at a “There are 100,000,000,000 mon — and dangerous school in Beslan in southern Rus- stars in the galaxy. That used to D — is typhoid fever? I sia; more than 330 people, more be a huge number. But it’s only read that a day care center was than half of them children, were a hundred billion. It’s less than recently shut down because a killed in the three-day ordeal. the national defi cit! We used to student there was sick with it. I Ten years ago: Hurricane call them astronomical num- thought typhoid was a thing of ELIZABETH KO Gustav slammed into the heart of bers. Now we should call them the past. AND EVE GLAZIER Louisiana’s fi shing and oil indus- economical numbers.” Dear Reader: Of the 5,700 try with 110 mph winds, deliver- So, there are some six times cases of typhoid fever reported ing only a glancing blow to New more bridge deals than stars in each year in the United States, sible for typhoid is indeed pres- Orleans. Republicans opened their our galaxy, but many of them can the majority — about 75 per- ent. A typhoid fever diagnosis national convention in St. Paul, be played correctly by checking cent, according to the federal may also be confi rmed with a Minn., on a subdued note be- the 40 high-card points. taking the fi nesse. A priori, East Centers for Disease Control and test that detects the antibodies cause of Hurricane Gustav; John For our fi nal deal this week, will have the spade king 50 per- Prevention — are contracted the immune system sends out McCain’s running mate, Alaska how should South play in four cent of the time, and West will while traveling abroad. That in response to the typhoid bac- Gov. Sarah Palin, revealed that her spades? West leads the heart have a singleton king only 13 turned out to be the case with terium, or a test that identifi es 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, was king. East overtakes with his ace percent of the time. But is that the story you’re referring to. typhoid DNA in the blood. The pregnant. and returns the heart seven. West right here? The day care facility, located sole treatment for typhoid fever Five years ago: Syria derided wins that trick and exits with a East’s pass on the fi rst round in Quincy, Massachusetts, was is antibiotics. President Barack Obama’s deci- diamond. of the auction denied 6 points. shut down after a child was di- Someone is considered to be sion to hold o on punitive mil- North’s three-heart cue-bid Then, when he produces the heart agnosed with the disease. The a typhoid carrier whether or itary strikes, while the Obama showed spade support and at ace at trick one, declarer should child who became ill received not the bacterium has caused administration countered that its least game-invitational val- realize that West is marked with treatment and recovered. them to become ill. However, case for military action against the ues. South’s jump to game was the spade king. So, after winning Typhoid fever is a life-threat- the bacterium is present in the regime of President Bashar Assad aggressive, but he thought he the third trick, South should cash ening illness caused by Salmo- feces, and sometimes the urine, was getting stronger, saying it had would benefi t from the auction, the spade ace and hope the king nella typhi, a type of bacterium. of all carriers. You can contract evidence that the nerve agent sarin which proved correct. comes tumbling down. Symptoms include nausea, ab- the disease if you eat food pre- was used in a deadly August attack. South starts with three top When it does, partner should dominal cramps, fatigue, head- pared by an infected individual One year ago: A line of cars losers: two hearts and one club. congratulate him. ache, vomiting, loss of appetite who has not washed his or her stretched more than a mile at a So, he must avoid a trump loser. © 2018, UNITED FEATURE and a dangerously high fever. hands properly after using the water distribution center set up Normally, that would involve SYNDICATE A diagnosis of typhoid fever bathroom. It can also be passed on a high school football fi eld in is suspected when a patient along in contaminated water. Beaumont, Texas, which had been has recently traveled interna- Although there are typhoid left without drinking water by CELEBRITY CIPHER tionally to an area where the vaccines that can help prevent fl ooding from Hurricane Harvey. disease is common. The diag- infection, they are not 100 The mayor of Houston announced nosis is confi rmed via a sample percent e ective. For that rea- that ongoing releases of water of stool, urine, blood or bone son, even when they have been from two swollen reservoirs could marrow. The sample is placed vaccinated, travelers to regions keep thousands of homes fl ooded in a special medium that allows where the disease is common for up to 15 days. the bacterium to fl ourish. The should take precautions. Never Today’s Birthdays: Actor resulting culture is then visual- drink untreated water, avoid George Maharis is 90. Attorney ized under a microscope to see raw or undercooked foods, and and law professor Alan Dershow- whether the bacterium respon- be sure to wash hands often. itz is 80. Comedian-actress Lily Tomlin is 79. Singer Barry Gibb is SUDOKU 72. Talk show host Dr. Phil Mc- Graw is 68. Singer Gloria Estefan HOW TO PLAY: is 61. Former White House Press Solve the puz- Secretary Dee Dee Myers is 57. zle by entering Jazz musician Boney James is 57. numbers into Singer-musician Grant Lee Phil- the grids so lips (Grant Lee Bu alo) is 55. Rap NEA CROSSWORD that each row, DJ Spigg Nice (Lost Boyz) is 48. column, and Actor Maury Sterling is 47. Rock ACROSS 33 Nick or scratch DOWN 26 Under the covers 3 by 3 block singer JD Fortune is 45. Actor 1 Barn bird 34 Prez’s stand-in 1 -- out (withdraw) 27 Greet the dawn Scott Speedman is 43. 4 -- Maria (co ee 36 Sixth sense 2 Reporter’s query 30 Above of cells, each liqueur) 37 Club joiner 3 Wrinkle 32 ER practice contain every 7 Campus area 40 More ill-man- 4 Strong beat 35 Kudos number from 11 Frat letter nered 5 Unlucky gambler’s 38 Lunar periods, 1 through 9. TODAY’S THOUGHT 12 Crow’s-nest cry 42Boathouse item note roughly Each puzzle 13 Pakistan’s lan- 43 Dit opposite 6 Tar’s reply 39 Sheep call has only one “The most dangerous guage 44 Fish for salads 7 Face cards 41 Antenna type solution. of all falsehoods is 14 Countdown start 46 Shooting iron 8 Argue for 43 Germ killers 15 Genuine 49 Dainty pastry 9 Economist -- Smith 44 Bye, in Bristol a slightly distorted 16 I say! 50 Herr’s abode 10 Lemon (hyph.) truth.” 17 Marvy 52 Birthday no. 12 Charge 45 Europe-Asia 19 Abound 54 Western state 18 Rope-a-dope range Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 20 Research site 55 Sidle past boxer 47 Orpheus’ harp German scientist (1742-1799). 21 Sweetie-pie 56 -- Dawn Chong 19 Bunion site 48 Latin I verb 22 Tomato jelly 57 Lots of qts. 21 Comet -- -Bopp 49 Barge pusher 25 Gaul invader 58 Fabric meas. 22 Objective 50 Yo! 28 Clinch a deal 59 Dog days in Dijon 23 Racket 51 Tack on THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME PREVIOUS DAY’S 29 Eyelid darkener 24 Marquette’s title 53 Get the drift by David L. 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April 2017 when four local artists Saturday and closed Sunday. SOUND ADVICE Tidbits beautified utility boxes along Main For more information, call 343- From C1 Street. 1405 or 925-0994, ext. 8562. It is unknown when Phase 3 will After-school homework help Checks and credit cards are not take place, as there is currently no offered — The Santa Maria Public accepted, and the fingerprints funding available. Library, 421 S. McClelland St., is can’t be processed without the Aspiring artists are encouraged offering free after-school home- documents. to watch the Recreation and Parks work help for grades K-6 from 4 to With a billing number, the cost Department’s Facebook page for 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday. is $7. Without a billing number, the the next call to artists. No appointment is necessary. cost is $39 for the Department of The newly painted boxes will be Elementary school students will CAMBRIDGE AUDIO‌ Justice, $56 for the Department added to the city’s Public Art Map be assisted by volunteer tutors in The Cambridge Audio Air 100 speaker. of Justice and FBI and $81 for the on the city’s website. completing homework assign- Department of Justice and FBI for City Twitter page available — ments or practicing skills for im- jobs related to children. The city of Santa Maria has created proved mastery, according to the For more information about Live a City Twitter page at www.twit- library. Participating students will Cambridge Audio to Scan service, call the phone num- ter.com/City_SantaMaria. also have access to Chromebooks, bers listed above or visit www.sb- Content focuses on the wide computers, study aids, databases sheriff.org/home/fingerprinting/. variety of city services, pro- and will be introduced to online release limited amount Utilities Department grams,and opportunities. The tutoring options students can use awarded Green Business Cer- Twitter page supplements city at the library and at home. tification — The Santa Maria news releases, which are posted on Homework help is also avail- of Air 100 this month Utilities Department has been the city’s website at https://www. able at Cuyama, Guadalupe, Los awarded Green Business Certifi- cityofsantamaria.org/news. Alamos and Orcutt library branch eader email: I read your early start on holiday shopping cation through a county program For more information, call 925- locations. For more information, article this weekend and or to use in different rooms. I that recognizes local businesses 0951, ext. 2372. call 925-0994. Rordered a Cambridge Au- imagine that once purchasers for becoming more environmen- Adult coloring program in This program is provided with dio Air 100. I consider myself hear them they will want to buy tally sustainable. Los Alamos — The Los Alamos funding assistance through the lucky that there were still some more, just like S.L. in the email Organized as a public/private Branch Library is offering a new Santa Maria Public Library Foun- available. Well, above. partnership by Santa Barbara adult coloring program on the dation. DON it arrived this The good news is readers will County, the Green Business Pro- first Saturday of the month from For branch locations, visit www. LINDICH morning and it is have one last chance to get a gram is comprised of local govern- 10 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. cityofsantamaria.org/library. fantastic! Setup Cambridge Audio Air 100 for ment, special districts, nonprofits, The coloring activities are de- For more information, call Dawn was a breeze, it’s $144.99, Air 200 for $189.99 or utility companies, waste haulers signed to relieve stress and provide Jackson, Library Youth Services, at not too big and the sound is Bluetone 100 for $129.99. The and chambers of commerce. a creative and artistic outlet for 925-0994, ext. 2319. enormous. I’m testing my jazz company is bringing in a limited To qualify for certification, the adults of all ages. Participants are Library receives photograph collection over AirPlay, it’s easy quantity of each speaker from Utilities Department took steps to offered a choice of designs to color display — The Cuyama Valley’s and sounds great. I should have inventory located in other parts conserve water and energy, such and all materials are provided for history is now represented in a bought two. — S.L., Aptos of the world, and they will be as making more environmentally use during the program. A simi- series of historical photographs QUESTION: As soon as I available in mid-September. friendly purchasing decisions and lar coloring program at the Santa displayed in the Cuyama Branch read your article on the Cam- Given the prices it is not a mon- installing a drought tolerant land- Maria Public Library has been a Library. bridge Audio Air 100 and Air ey-making thing for Cambridge scape around the department’s success since its introduction 17 Thanks to the research and ef- 200 Bluetooth/Wi-Fi speakers, Audio, they are just trying to administration office. months ago. forts of two longtime residents, I went to the site to purchase. do right by their customers and In addition to its recent certifi- Sign-ups are not required for Jane Slama and John Mackenzie, Unfortunately, they don’t have introduce more people to the cation, the department has been this free program. Seating is lim- eight photographs from local fam- it in stock, though you said they brand. These speakers will be a partner of the Green Business ited and offered on a first-come, ily archives have been located, re- felt they had adequate supply available on a first-come, first- Program for many years, assess- first-served basis. The program produced, enlarged and donated to fill all the orders that might served basis and when they are ing local businesses to determine is sponsored by the Friends of the for permanent display. The pho- come in. Are these highly rec- gone, they are gone. You can if they meet the requirements to Los Alamos Library. tograph series dates from the ommended speakers discontin- call the Cambridge Audio Cus- earn certification. Call the library, at 405 Helena 1920s to the present and reflects ued? — J.L., Minneapolis tomer Support line at 877-357- For more information, call 925- St., to confirm dates and times. eras in Cuyama’s history, includ- ANSWER: The Cambridge 8204 or submit a support ticket 0951, ext. 7270. Library hours are 2 to 7 p.m. ing homesteading, ranching, Audio Air 100 and Air 200 are to be added to the contact list. Phase 2 of utility art box Monday through Thursday, 2 to farming, oil discovery and com- discontinued, which is why Anyone who wrote to me project complete — The city of 6 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. munity activities. Cambridge Audio reduced their about the situation received a Santa Maria has announced the Saturday and closed Sunday. The donors hope that the col- prices so dramatically. I spoke personal reply with this infor- completion of Phase 2 of its utility For more information, call 344- lection will inspire other local with the company and the spe- mation, so the list is filling up box art project by five local artists. 1025 or 925-0994, ext. 8562. residents to search their family cial prices are not considered a already. Recently, mini-murals with Guadalupe library offering archives and donate historical discount, as Cambridge Audio If you want a speaker I sug- scenes inspired by the commu- coloring program for adults — photographs to enhance the dis- products usually sell for the gest getting on the list right nity were hand-painted by five A new coloring program for adults, play. same price everywhere at MAP away as I suspect there may not local artists — Autumn Jennings, sponsored by the Friends of the The photograph series adds to (Minimum Advertised Price) be enough to go around, despite Angelina LaPointe, Frank Domin- Guadalupe Library, continues at the Cuyama library’s local history like Apple products do. Rather the manufacturer’s best efforts. guez, Laura Lozano and Ruben the Guadalupe Branch Library collection of books, newspaper than “discounted” the Air 100 The good news is the small- Espinoza — and chosen by a panel from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on the and magazine articles, and the and Air 200 are discontinued est Yoyo speaker, the Yoyo (S) of 13 judges to paint on traffic sig- fourth Saturday of the month. Cuyama Valley living history DVD products available at a lower is only $179.99 and sounds a nal utility boxes along Betteravia The free coloring activities are series that Slama and Mackenzie price than before. The Air 100 lot like its bigger brethren, as Road, west of Highway 101. designed to relieve stress and pro- recorded and donated in 2015. and Air 200 have been replaced it uses the same innovative, The second phase was devel- vide a creative and artistic outlet In the DVD series, 24 longtime with a line of speakers called patented Balanced Mode Radi- oped by the city with the support for adults of all ages. Participants Cuyama inhabitants talk about Yoyo. I just started testing the ator (BMR) speaker technology. of the public-private partnership are offered a choice of pictures to their history and past experiences Yoyo speakers and they are also Befitting a fine speaker from between the City of Santa Maria color, and all materials are pro- in the valley, its changes and its excellent. I will have detailed a British manufacturer, the Community Development De- vided. diverse community. The DVDs are reviews in a future column. Yoyo(S) has a beautiful wor- partment and local sponsors. The Sign-ups are not required, but available to library users outside Reader S.L. hit upon one of sted wool finish from famed city expressed its appreciation to seating is limited and will be of- of Cuyama Valley via interlibrary the reasons the speakers sold Yorkshire weaver Marton Mills. five local sponsors that supported fered on a first-come, first-served loan request from any library out so quickly, before my col- Available in four different the project: Diane and Kieran basis. branch. umn even hit all the different colors, the high-quality wool Adam, Tri W Enterprises Incorpo- Attendees are encouraged to call To view the historical pho- newspapers that run it regu- and the modern design of the rated, Santa Maria Arts Council, the library to confirm the dates and tographs, visit the Cuyama li- larly. I spoke with Cambridge Yoyo(S) combine to provide People for Leisure And Youth Inc. times. brary Mondays from 2 to 6 p.m., Audio and they informed me unbeatable visual and tactile (PLAY Inc.) and BMLA landscape The library, located at 4719 W. Wednesdays from 3 to 7 p.m. that a surprisingly high per- appeal. architecture. Main St., Suite D, in Guadalupe, or Fridays from 3 to 6 p.m. The centage of customers ordered The first phase of the Utility is open 12:30 to 6 p.m. Monday Cuyama Branch Library is located not just one speaker, but mul- Contact Don Lindich at www.soun- Box Art Project was completed in through Friday, 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at 4689 Highway 166. tiple units, probably to get an dadvicenews.com

clarification and miscellaneous clerical/ is looking for volunteers for their Grocery restock shelves, load, unload materials and Guadalupe Police Department needs Seniors organizational tasks. Training provided. Rescue Program to help sort perishable more. Info: 922-9931. volunteers to assist in a variety of tasks Info: 922-9931. products daily for distribution. Standing La Purisima Mission needs volunteers in house and outreaches. Info: 922-9931. From C2 Catholic Charities Santa Maria is and some lifting required as well as work- to primarily assist with visitor information, Lompoc Police Department is looking enthusiastic about their Drama and Mu- seeking volunteers to help in the stock, ing in and out of a cooler. Training pro- early California history of the mission and for volunteers for a variety of tasks within sic club, are courteous and respectful and restore, inventory and clerical assistance. vided. Volunteers for reclamation sorting costumed demonstration of mission-pe- the department. Info: 922-9931. have already put on several performances. Info: 922-9931. and distribution also needed. Standing and riod skills and activities with grade-school Santa Maria Police Department is The volunteer must also be available for a Central Coast Literacy Council has an some lifting required. Training provided. visitors. Training of history, skills and life- looking for volunteers to serve in different weekend preperformance rehearsal and ongoing need for tutors to tutor adults ei- Info: 922-9931. styles of period mission is provided. Vol- areas of the department. Info: 922-9931. for the production. Info: 922-9931. ther on a one-to-one situation or in a small Santa Barbara Food Bank is in need of unteers must have a background or inter- Santa Maria Public Library is looking Foster Grandparent Program seeks group. Tutoring basic reading/writing skills volunteers to help and give support in the est in history, ability to talk to groups of for volunteers to greet library visitors and caring individuals 55 and over on a limited and English as a second language. Train- warehouse in a variety of tasks. Info: 922- people and a tolerance for youth groups. provide general information about events income who can devote 15 to 25 hours a ing provided. Info: 922-9931. 9931 or email [email protected]. Info: 922-9931. and services to guests. Info: 922-9931. week at local schools working one-on-one Central Coast Rescue Mission has Gen Span Foundation is seeking vol- Lompoc Chamber of Commerce Needs Retired and Senior Volunteer Ser- and small groups with children with spe- an ongoing need for volunteers to assist unteers to work as mentors an hour a volunteers in the reception area to assist vices (RSVP), 528 S. Broadway, Santa cial needs. Participants receive a stipend. with food service to hungry people from week or more in the elementary schools visitors, distribute information, keep up Maria, matches volunteers ages 55 and Info: Rebekah Nagel, 884-7226. 1 to 3 p.m. Wednesdays and Fridays. Vol- in Santa Maria, Orcutt, Guadalupe, Lom- brochures and more. Info: 922-9931. older with nonprofit organizations and GenSpan Foundation needs adult vol- unteers also possibly needed for GED in- poc and Nipomo. All volunteers will be TB Lompoc Adult Services needs volun- public agencies throughout the Santa Ma- unteers to be mentors in Santa Maria, Or- struction and to help with major Thanks- tested and fingerprinted before they are teers to answer phones, scan documents, ria, Lompoc and Santa Ynez communities. cutt, Guadalupe and Lompoc elementary giving and Christmas events. Some training placed. Info: 922-9931. make follow-up calls. Possibly some field- Opportunities and locations are varied. schools. Also need volunteers for the in- provided. Info: 922-9931. Habitat For Humanity’s Santa Ma- work like driving a county car to run er- Info: 922-9931. tergenerational Story Catcher program. City of Santa Maria Parks and Recre- ria “Re-Store” needs volunteer sales rands for Adult Protective Services. Info: Santa Maria Chamber of Commerce is Info: 614-4968. ation is looking for a volunteers to serve clerks and experienced preferred (willing 922-9931. looking for volunteers to restock lobby bro- Senior Travel Club: Office hours are in a variety of tasks in several park and to train) cashier in their building materi- Lompoc Police Department is looking chures, make copies, stuff bags for visitor 12:30 to 3:45 p.m. Tuesday through Thurs- recreational centers throughout the city. als warehouse thrift stores open to the for volunteers for a variety of tasks within events, give directions to visitors, occasion- day, Elwin Mussell Senior Center, 510 E. Park Info: 922-9931. public three days a week. Flexible hours. the department. Info: 922-9931. ally answer phones, stuffing and mailing A ve., Santa Maria. Info: 925-0951, ext. 207. Family Care Network needs mentors Must be dependable and have good peo- Lompoc Auxiliary Gift Shop is look- sales leads, putting together membership Alliance Pharmaceutical Access, to foster children, provide assistance for ple skills. Construction knowledge a plus. ing for a volunteer sales person to write packets and relocation packages and other Santa Maria is searching for an assis- event preparation, assist with several Training provided. Info: 922-9931. sales tickets for merchandise, keep a run- miscellaneous tasks. Info: 922-9931. tant to the program coordinator for four events throughout the year in northern Central Coast Super Thrift Store Take ning log for candy sales and related du- Santa Barbara County Animal Ser- hours per day, Monday through Thursday. Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo coun- care of, organize and update inventory as ties. Must be able to make change and vices needs volunteers Monday to Satur- Duties include filling out online medication ties. Also needed is a volunteer for the it comes into the store. Info: 922-9931. work 2½-hour shifts. Gift shop hours are day for a minimum of two hours to assist applications, phoning in medical refill or- Youth Division to serve as a specialist. Habitat for Humanity volunteers are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday with animal and public. Training is pro- ders, inputting client info into computer, Info: 922-9931. needed for a variety of tasks in sorting, pric- and 1:30 to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. vided must love animals and people too. contacting doctor’s offices for prescription Food Bank of Santa Barbara County ing incoming donations, assist customers, Training provided. Info: 922-9931. Info: 922-9931.

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YESTERDAY’S U.S. MARKETS GAS PRICES SB County SLO County Regular Diesel Regular Diesel Source: AAA Dow Jones Nasdaq S&P 500 Gold Current $3.70 $3.97 $3.80 $4.10 Daily Month Ago $3.70 $3.96 $3.82 $4.10 Fuel 25,964.82 8109.54 2901.52 $1,206.90 Gauge ▼ -22.10 ▲ +21.17 ▲ +0.39 ▲ +$1.90 Year ago $3.09 $3.04 $3.19 $3.13 Report Acquistion gives Coca-Cola a caffeine hit Soda giant purchases maker BodyArmor. Coca-Cola’s investment holding company, has potential early expansion route seas recently, but had been look- other investments in recent years been buying up businesses and would be to use Costa’s vending ing to siphon off the business to British coffee chain have included milk that is strained brands associated with Peet’s, operation and expand the com- generate funds for the expansion to have more protein and a push Caribou, Stumptown and Krispy pany’s ready-to-drink products. and for its other business, the Costa for $5.1 billion into sparkling water. Kreme Doughnuts. And in May, Nicholas Hyett, an equity an- budget hotel chain Premier Inn. Rival PepsiCo, meanwhile, re- Nestle paid more than $7 billion for alyst at London-based stockbro- Then Coca-Cola got in touch PAN PYLAS cently bought carbonated drink the rights to sell Starbucks coffee kers Hargreaves Lansdown, said with what Whitbread said was a Associated Press‌ maker SodaStream, which pro- and tea in supermarkets and other Costa will get “lots of care and “highly compelling” offer. The ‌LONDON — Coca-Cola is hop- duces machines that allow people stores outside its coffee shops. attention” from Coca-Cola. Whitbread board unanimously ing for a caffeine-fueled boost to make fizzy drinks in their own Costa, which doesn’t currently “Its global reach should tur- backed the deal, which is expected with the acquisition of British homes. have a presence in North or South bo-charge growth in the years to to close in the first half of 2019. coffee chain Costa. Coca-Cola already owns the America, was the third-largest come, and hot drinks are one of Whitbread will use a “signif- The soda giant said Friday it is Georgia and Gold Peak coffee coffee shop chain globally in 2017, the few areas of the wider bever- icant majority” of the net cash spending 3.9 billion pounds ($5.1 brands, which make bottled and according to market research pro- ages sector where the soft drinks proceeds — around 3.8 billion billion) in cash for Britain’s big- canned drinks. But the Costa ac- vider Euromonitor International, giant doesn’t have a killer brand,” pounds after taking into account gest coffee company. Costa has quisition gives it a much bigger just behind McDonald’s McCafe he said. such things as transaction costs more than 2,400 coffee shops piece of the coffee market, which outlets but well behind Starbucks. Coca-Cola does already have — returning cash to sharehold- in the U.K. and 1,400 others in is growing by 6 percent a year, Without being specific about over 500 brands in its stable in- ers. Some will be used to pay down more than 30 countries, includ- according to James Quincey, Co- expansion plans, Quincey said cluding Fanta, innocent smooth- debt and make a pension fund ing around 460 in China, its sec- ca-Cola president & CEO. in a video posted on Coca-Cola’s ies and Powerade sports drinks. contribution. ond-biggest market. “Hot beverages is one of the website that the company would In 2017, it generated operating Doing so, Whitbread said, It’s Coca-Cola’s latest move few remaining segments of the “over time” look to take Costa “to income of $9.7 billion on revenues would “provide headroom” to to diversify as health-conscious total beverage landscape where more people in more places.” of $35.4 billion. expand Premier Inn in Britain and consumers, at least in America, Coca-Cola does not have a global In addition to its shops, Costa Whitbread had bought Costa for Germany. move away from traditional soda. brand,” Quincey said. has self-serve coffee machines 19 million pounds in 1995, when it Whitbread’s share price soared The company also recently said The coffee market itself is hot in grocery stores and gas sta- had just 39 shops. It has invested 14 percent. Coca-Cola shares it’s buying a stake in sports drink at the moment. JAB Holdings, an tions. Quincey indicated that one heavily in Costa’s expansion over- were little changed. Farrow’s former producer criticized NBC on Weinstein story DAVID BAUDER McHugh said that when he and Associated Press‌ Farrow were about to interview a ‌NEW YORK — Ronan Farrow’s woman with a credible allegation former producer at NBC News of rape against Weinstein, “I was says his old network breached told not to do the interview and its journalistic duty by failing to ordered to stand down, thus effec- stick with the story of Hollywood tively killing the story. Those or- mogul Harvey Weinstein’s sexual ders came to me from the highest misconduct. levels of NBC. That was unethical, Farrow instead took the story and a massive breach of journalis- to the New tic integrity.” Yorker, where he McHugh did not say who at shared a Pulit- NBC ordered him to stand down, zer Prize with the and Wilkenfeld did not return a New York Times message asking for clarification. for the story that NBC said that Farrow and launched the McHugh asked for an NBC camera #MeToo move- crew for the interview after it had ment. Farrow already been decided that Farrow MARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ, ASSOCIATED PRESS‌ “As a journalist was taking the story elsewhere. Ships are docked Aug. 22 at the Port of Long Beach in Long Beach. Between them, the California ports of Los for 16 years I do know that when NBC said in a statement that Angeles and Long Beach account for a large amount of the seaborne goods that the United States imports you have an explosive story you when Farrow believed he had a from China, and the prospect of a widening trade war between the global giants has port executives and never let it walk out the door,” said story ready to go on the air, he did longshoremen worried. Rich McHugh, who just left NBC not have a single victim of mis- as an investigative producer, and conduct by Weinstein, or witness, issued a statement through lawyer who was willing to be identified. Ari Wilkenfeld. “You keep digging “Two months later, he pub- Tariffs stirring fear at many for more so you can publish at lished a strong piece that cited the your network.” following victims by name: Asia McHugh’s statement and in- Argento, Mira Sorvino, Rosanna terview with The New York Arquette, Lucia Evans, Emma de US points of entry for imports Times ripped open a scab at NBC Caunes, Jessica Barth and Sophie News. The network has said that Dix,” NBC said. “Not one of these DAVID KOENIG The port is scouting for other list that includes fish and other it released Farrow to take the story seven women was included in the AP Business Writer‌ commodities it can import. But foods, furniture, carpets, tires, elsewhere following a disagree- reporting Farrow presented while ‌To understand why the impact expectations appear to be low. rain jackets and hundreds of ment over whether he had enough at NBC News.” of President Donald Trump’s tar- “In our business, steel is the additional items. Tariffs would material to go with it. Farrow, who NBC said it was an “outright iffs could be felt throughout the ideal commodity,” Landry said. make those items costlier in the was a freelancer when working on lie” that it tried to kill the Wein- United States, consider this: “It’s big, it’s heavy, we charge by United States. And if Americans the story with NBC, is writing his stein story while Farrow was From the West Coast to the the ton so it pays well. You never buy fewer of those goods, it would own book about the issue. working on it. Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mex- find anything that pays as well as likely lead to fewer container ico, at least 10 percent of imports steel does.” ships steaming into U.S. ports. at many ports could be hit by new The port of Milwaukee imports Here are some of the key find- tariffs if Trump’s proposals take steel from Europe and ships out ings from the AP analysis: full effect, according to an exclu- agricultural products from the „„U.S. tariffs will cover goods Oregon pot growers now must sive analysis of government data Midwest. Steel imports haven’t that are imported at more than by The Associated Press. dropped yet because they are 250 seaports, airports and ground Ports and ground terminals in under long-term contracts, said terminals in 48 states. notify officials about harvests nearly every state handle goods the port director, Adam Schlicht. „„At 18 of 43 customs districts stay afloat. that are now or will likely soon But there has been “an almost — including those represent- Policy is first among “They don’t do this to any other be covered by import tariffs. immediate halt” in outbound ing ports around Los Angeles, agricultural crop in the world,” And port officials fear this could shipments of corn because of San Francisco, New Orleans and marijuana-legal states said Miller, of Millerville Farms. mean a slowdown in shipping retaliatory duties imposed by Houston — at least 10 percent GILLIAN FLACCUS “All it does is it makes our mar- that would have ripple effects on the European Union on Ameri- of their total import value could Associated Press‌ gin go less and less — and we’re truckers and others whose jobs can products. be covered by new tariffs if all ‌PORTLAND, Ore. — Before already doing just about every- depend on trade. Much of the corn, he said, “is Trump’s proposals take effect. Matthew Miller harvests mari- thing at cost.” Since March, the U.S. has ap- just staying in silos. They are „„Retaliatory duties by China juana this fall from his fields in Oregon’s adult-use market plied new tariffs of up to 25 per- filled to the brim.” and other countries cover $27 southern Oregon, he’ll have to has struggled for months with cent on nearly $85 billion worth Many other ports have been billion in U.S. exports. notify the state for the first time too much marijuana. As of June, of steel and aluminum and var- humming along and even enjoyed Eugene Seroka, executive di- ever — a process that could bring there were nearly 1 million pounds ious Chinese products, mostly an unexpected bump in imports rector of the Los Angeles port, inspectors to make sure none of (450,000 kilograms) of “usable goods used in manufacturing. during June and July as U.S. busi- worries that “if tariffs make it too his pot is being illegally diverted. flower” in the system, and an ad- “Tariffs are working big time,” nesses moved up orders to ship expensive to import, there will be The new harvest notification ditional 350,000 pounds (159,000 Trump tweeted recently. before the new tariffs took effect. an impact on jobs.” policy, which takes effect Satur- kilograms) of marijuana extracts, The president has argued that That started with manufacturing Dwayne Boudreaux, an Inter- day, is the first of its kind among edibles and tinctures. Usable the tariffs will help protect Amer- goods and is now spreading to re- national Longshoremen’s Asso- states that have legalized mari- flower refers to the dried mari- ican workers and force U.S. trad- tail items for back-to-school and ciation official in Louisiana, said juana and is intended to ensure juana flower — or bud — that is ing partners to change rules that Christmas. that his stevedores are handling legally grown Oregon weed isn’t most commonly associated with the president insists are unfair to “Some of my retail customers about 10 percent less steel from being transported out of state. marijuana consumption. the United States. are forward-shipping the best Japan because of the new tariffs. It’s part of a raft of new mea- The Oregon Liquor Control At the same time, his adminis- they can to offset proposed tar- The impact might be greater sures to appease federal officials Commission, which regulates tration is preparing to slap tariffs iffs,” says Peter Schneider, ex- on truck drivers and warehouse who have publicly railed against the state’s general use marijuana of up to 25 percent on an addi- ecutive vice president of T.G.S. workers. Fewer will be needed, what they call Oregon’s “relaxed” program, stopped accepting tional $200 billion in Chinese im- Transportation, a trucking com- according to O’Connell. regulatory environment and inad- applications for new growing ports — many of them parts and pany in Fresno, California. Many drivers who deliver ship- equate oversight of an ambitious licenses in June so it could pro- materials U.S. companies depend Port officials were encouraged ping containers from the dock to legal pot industry. cess a monthslong backlog. State on, along with consumer goods by this week’s announcement warehouses are independents Oregon has an excellent lawmakers next year will likely — after a public comment period that the United States and Mex- contracted by trucking compa- pot-growing climate, and its rules consider a cap on the number of ends Thursday. These tariffs are ico had reached a preliminary nies, and they don’t get paid if allow applicants to have multiple permits issued for grows and fund the administration’s response to agreement to replace the North there is nothing to haul. Some licenses, permit out-of-state in- more field inspectors. its charges that Beijing uses pred- American Free Trade Agreement, might leave the profession, said vestment, and don’t cap grower Amid the glut, U.S. Attorney atory tactics to try to supplant hoping it might lead to reduced Weston LaBar, CEO of the Har- licenses — generous policies that Billy J. Williams has pressured U.S. technological supremacy. trade barriers. Canada’s partici- bor Trucking Association in Long have resulted in an oversupply of the state to tighten the rules and In New Orleans, port officials pation in any new deal to replace Beach, California. legal weed, with growers desper- crack down on growers who may say a tariff-related drop in ship- NAFTA, though, remains a major “It’s hard to retain drivers,” he ate to unload crops now worth half be diverting supply to the black ments is real, not merely a fore- question mark. said. “If we don’t have work for of what they were. market. Sheriffs in the southern cast. Steel imports there have de- The port officials continue to those drivers, we’re worried they In this environment, the harvest Oregon counties most impacted clined more than 25 percent from worry, though, that Trump will will leave for some other segment notification rule has riled many by outdoor growing sites have a year ago, according to the port’s make good on a plan to expand of the trucking business or go into cannabis cultivators who say it been vocal about a lack of re- chief commercial officer, Robert tariffs to an additional $200 another business, like construc- amounts to more bureaucracy in sources to sleuth out illegal mar- 00 1 Landry. billion in Chinese imports — a tion.” an industry already struggling to ijuana farms. C8 | Saturday, September 1, 2018 Santa Maria Times In Jamestown, a reckoning over slavery’s beginnings

BEN FINLEY harsh winter turned some knowledge the Africans the ships traded more than nation to understand this is her arrival, and lived in the Associated Press‌ colonists into cannibals. arrival in 1619 and slavery’s 30 Africans for food and an American story.” house of Captain William ‌JAMESTOWN, Va. — On a But the historic site is now impact. supplies. Recognition of the en- Pierce, a wealthy merchant recent afternoon, tour guide offering a regular tour that Meanwhile, Virginia has English colonists took slaved Africans’ arrival also and planter. Justin Bates pointed to the encourages visitors to con- launched its 2019 Com- the Africans, who came provides a counter-narra- The structure no longer spot where historic James- sider the beginnings of memoration, American from what is now Angola, to tive to the claims of white exists. But archeologists town’s legislature first con- American slavery. Evolution. It recognizes properties along the James nationalists that America’s with the National Park Ser- vened in July 1619. He then The “First Africans” tour the first English-style leg- River, including Jamestown. roots are white. vice and Jamestown Redis- gestured toward another is the first of its kind at the islature in North America in A visitors’ center and “It was not a white so- covery have uncovered its nearby spot where some of historic site. But it’s part Jamestown and other his- monument are planned for ciety with people of color brick floor and located the the first slaves in English of a much larger reckoning torical milestones from four the landing site in Hamp- as interlopers, playing bit kitchen area where Angela North America arrived a few over slavery, an institution centuries ago, including the ton. Known then as “Point parts,” said James Horn, likely worked. weeks later. that took root in England’s Africans’ arrival. Comfort,” the area is now president of the Jamestown The “First Africans” tour “Freedom over there,” first permanent colony 12 In 1619, the Africans came part of Fort Monroe, a Rediscovery Foundation, includes the excavation Bates told visitors near the years after its founding. on two ships, the White former U.S. military base which oversees archaeo- site as well as a spot on the banks of Virginia’s sprawl- In January, President Lion and the Treasurer, owned by the National Park logical digs there. river where Angela likely ing James River. “Slavery Donald Trump signed into that had recently raided Service. One ongoing excava- first stepped off a boat into over here.” a law the “400 Years of what’s believed to have been “It’s a difficult story,” said tion focuses on an African Jamestown. Jamestown has long been African-American His- a Spanish slave vessel in the Terry E. Brown, the first woman who was taken to “Think about what that associated with the legend tory Commission Act.” It Gulf of Mexico. Sailing into black superintendent of Jamestown in 1619. She had must have felt like,” Bates of Pocahontas and more requires a commission to the Chesapeake Bay to what the Fort Monroe National been given the name Angela, recently told a group of recently as a place where a develop programs that ac- is now Hampton, Virginia, Monument. “But I want the likely by the Spanish before visitors. Living history RENFROW AUTO GROUP museums santamariamazda.com santamarianissan.com rethink past On Battles Rd & Bradley! MARK PRATT Associated Press‌ ‌BOSTON — A Massachu- setts living history museum that depicts life in the early 19th century is looking to overhaul the way it presents the past in an effort to stay relevant to a 21st century audience. Old Sturbridge Village SANTA MARIA FORD has received a $75,000 grant santamariaford.com • 805.925.2445 from the National Endow- ment for the Humanities 805.925.0077 1035 E. Battles Rd, Santa Maria it will use to partner with scholars and other consul- tants for a multiyear study 2002 Chevrolet Silverado 1500hd into how it portrays four areas: agriculture and food, civics, industry and econ- omy, and race and gender. NOW It’s a modest grant, but it $11,999 could have a major impact. “What this grant will al- low us to do is look at the 9382T/141907 entire picture and really dive 805.925.0077 deep into making sure that 1001 E. Battles Rd, Santa Maria it’s a cohesive, purposeful 2011 hyundai Sonata liMited experience for the visitor as they progress through the museum,” said Rhys Simmons, Old Sturbridge 2006 Toyota NOW Village’s director of inter- $11,808 pretation. Avalon The reboot, the muse- um’s first in about 40 years, is sorely needed, Simmons NOW $6,878 9119T/278966 said. 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STUDIO PHOTOS From left: Gwilym Lee (Brian May), Ben Hardy (Roger Taylor), Rami Malek (Freddie Mercury) and Joe Mazzello (John Deacon) star in “Bohemian Rhapsody,” in theaters Nov. 2. Films to fall for From ‘Venom’ to ‘Mary Poppins,’ here’s a look at some of the movies hitting theaters this season

S EPtember OCTOBER “THE NUN” (SEPT. 7): A gothic supernat- “THE SISTERS BROTHERS” (SEPT. 21): “VENOM” (OCT. 5): Tom Hardy stars in “HALLOWEEN” (OCT. 19): Michael Meyers ural horror film and spinoff in “The Conjur- Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly play Marvel’s Spider-Man spinoff. returns in David Gordon Green’s install- ing” franchise. brother assassins in Jacques Audiard’s West- ment in the long-running horror franchise. “PRIVATE LIFE” (OCT. 5): Paul Giamatti ern. “THE PREDATOR” (SEPT. 14): Shane and Kathryn Hahn play a New York couple “THE HATE U GIVE” (OCT. 19): A young Black’s fourth installment in “The Predator” “SMALLFOOT” (SEPT. 28): An inverted an- navigating assisted reproduction in Ta- woman struggles for justice after her films, withB oyd Holbrook, Trevante Rhodes imated fable where a Yeti is convinced that mara Jenkins’ semi-autobiographical tale. childhood friend is shot by police. and Jacob Tremblay. humans exist. “A STAR IS BORN” (OCT. 5): Bradley Coo- “CAN YOU FORGIVE ME” (OCT. 19): “THE LAND OF STEADY HABITS” (SEPT. “THE OLD MAN AND THE GUN” (SEPT. per’s directorial debut is a remake of the Marielle Heller directs Melissa McCarthy 14): Ben Mendelsohn stars as a Connecticut 28): Robert Redford stars as an aged bank 1937 film, starring himself and Lady Gaga. in this story about a struggling writer who divorcee in midlife crisis in Nicole Holofcen- robber in David Lowery’s based-on-a-true- resorts to forging famous letters. “BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE” (OCT. er’s adaptation of Ted Thompson’s story heist movie. 12): Seven strangers meet at Lake ALSO PLAYING 2014 novel. Tahoe motel in Drew Goddard’s “The Happy Prince” (Oct. “WHITE BOY RICK” “NIGHT SCHOOL” (SEPT. 28): thriller. 5), “22 July” (Oct. 10), (SEPT. 14): Yann De- Kevin Hart plays the student “Goosebumps 2” (Oct. mange’s 1980s true-life and Tiffany Haddish the 12), “The Oath” (Oct. teacher in this GED comedy. “FIRST MAN” (OCT. tale about the youngest 12): Damien Chazelle’s 12), “The Kindergarten alleged FBI informant dramatization of Neil Teacher” (Oct. 12), ever, with Matthew ALSO PLAYING: Armstrong’s mission to “Serenity” (Oct. 19), McConaughey. “A Simple Favor” (Sept. the moon. Ryan Gosling “What They Had” (Oct. 14), “The Children Act” 19), “Johnny English “THE HOUSE WITH stars as Armstrong. (Sept. 14), “Lizzie” (Sept. Strikes Again” (Oct. A CLOCK IN ITS 14), “Colette” (Sept. 21), 26), “Hunter Killer” WALLS” (SEPT. 21): “BEAUTIFUL BOY” (OCT. “Life Itself” (Sept. 21), (Oct. 26), “Overlord” A fantasy of witches 12): Steve Carell and Timothee “Love, Gilda” (Sept. 21), (Oct. 26), “Suspiria” and warlocks, star- Chalamet play father and son “Quincy” (Sept. 21), (Oct. 26) ring Jack Black and in this adaption of David “Hold the Dark” Cate Blanchett. and Nic Sheff’s (Sept. 28) memoirs about ad- T iffany diction. Haddish Ryan Gosling

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“NOBODY’S FOOL” (NOV. 2): Tiffany Had- “FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES “THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS” (NOV. “RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET” (NOV. dish and Tika Sumpter play sisters in Tyler OF GRINDELWALD” (NOV. 16): Joel and Ethan Coen’s six-part West- 21): More destruction, this time by way of a Perry’s comedy. 16): The second installment ern anthology film for Netflix. wi-fi router, in this “Wreck-ItR alph” sequel. in J.K. Rowling’s Harry “BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY” (NOV. 2): A “CREED II” (NOV. 21): Michael “ROBIN HOOD” (NOV. 21): Taron Egerton Potter prequels, with biopic of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, B. Jordan returns as the young plays Robin Hood and Jamie Foxx is Little Johnny Depp as Gellert from director Bryan Singer. Adonis Creed to fight the son of John in the latest version of the Nottingham Grindelwald. Ivan Drago. legend. “THE NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS” (NOV. 2): Disney’s lavish live-ac- “GREEN BOOK” (NOV. 21): Pe- “THE FAVOURITE” (NOV. 23): Yorgos Lan- tion fantasy is inspired by E.T.A. Hoffmann’s “WIDOWS” (NOV. ter Farrelly’s road movie is about thimos’ drama is about two cousins (Emma original story. 16): Steve McQueen’s a Jamaican-American classical Stone, Rachel Weisz) courting the favor of “12 Years a Slave” fol- pianist (Mahershala Ali) touring the Queen Anne in 18th century England. “THE FRONT RUNNER” (NOV. 7): Jason low-up is heist movie, Deep South with his white driver Reitman’s film is about Gary Hart’s scan- “IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK” (NOV. where the job in ques- (Viggo Mortensen). dal-plagued 1988 presidential campaign, tion is carried out by the 30): Barry Jenkins’ adaptation of James with Hugh Jackman. widows of four slain Baldwin’s classic novel about love and injus- tice in early 1970s Harlem. “DR. SEUSS’ THE GRINCH” (NOV. 9): An ani- thieves. Viola Davis mated remake of the holiday classic, with Ben- stars. Viola ALSO PLAYING: edict Cumberbatch voicing the Whoville killjoy. Davis “Boy Erased” (Nov. 2), “The Other Side of the Wind” (Nov. 2), “Outlaw King” (Nov. 9), “At “THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER’S WEB” (NOV. Eternity’s Gate” (Nov. 16), “Instant Family 9): A reboot of the Lisbeth Salander thriller, (Nov. 16), “Second Act” (Nov. 21), “Shoplift- from the fourth book in the series, with ers” (Nov. 23) Claire Foy taking over for Rooney Mara.

DECEMBER

“MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS” (DEC. 7): Sao- “AQUAMAN” (DEC. 21): Jason Momoa’s un- irse Ronan stars as the Scottish monarch dersea ruler gets his first solo movie. “ON THE BASIS OF SEX” (DEC. 28): Felicity Mary Stuart and Margot Robbie as her Jones stars as a young Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “BUMBLEBEE” (DEC. 21): The “Transform- half-sister Queen Elizabeth I. ers” spinoff is a prequel to 2007’s “Trans- “BEN IS BACK” (DEC. 7): A long lost son formers” centered on the small, yellow “ROMA” (DEC., UNDATED): Alfonso Cua- Felicity (Lucas Hedges) returns home to his mother Autobot. ron’s semi-autobiographical black-and- Jones (Julia Roberts). white tale of a young domestic worker in “WELCOME TO MARWEN” (DEC. 21): Rob- the middle-class neighborhood of Mex- “SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE” ert Zemeckis’ fantasy stars Steve Carell as ico City’s Roma, set in the 1970s. (DEC. 14): Parallel dimension Spider-Men an assault victim who builds a miniature collide in an animated alternate reality. World War II village in his yard. ALSO PLAYING “Under the Silver Lake” (Dec. 7), “MARY POPPINS RETURNS” (DEC. 19): “HOLMES & WATSON” (DEC. 21): A comic “Mortal Engines” (Dec. 14), “Cold Rob Marshall’s sequel to the 1964 original twist on Arthur Conan Doyle’s detectives, War” (Dec. 21), “Alita: Battle stars Emily Blunt as the magical nanny. starring Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly. 00 Angel” (Dec. 21) 1 — Associated Press