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Smoke billows from the attic of Victorian home on the corner of 17 Mile Drive and Lighthouse Avenue as firefighters battle the blaze in
Pacific Grove on Friday.
By Tess Kenny
tkenny@montereyherald.com
PACIFIC GROVE >> A fire broke out
in a 128-year-old, Victorian-style
home at the corner of 17 Mile
Drive and Lighthouse Avenue
Friday morning, sending 35 fire-
fighters from multiple agencies
across the Monterey Peninsula
out to help douse the flames.
According to Monterey Fire
Police Chief Gaudenz Panhol-
zer, crews responded to calls of a
structure fire at 1030 Lighthouse
Avenue at around 9:48 a.m. Fri-
day. Panholzer said that when
crews got there, “they found a
fire on the second floor” of the
home, which was visible from
Lighthouse Avenue.
A man was reportedly inside
the home when the fire broke
out. Panholzer said the man no-
ticed the fire and tried to put it
out using a fire extinguisher. Ul-
timately unsuccessful, he exited
the house uninjured.
Responding crews then “tried
to get in and extinguish the fire,”
Panholzer said, but also faced
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By Haven Daley
and John Antczak
The Associated Press
SACRAMENTO >> California rivers
fed by this winter’s massive Si-
erra Nevada snowpack have been
turned into deadly torrents, draw-
ing warnings from public safety
officials ahead of the Memorial
Day weekend’s traditional start
of outdoor summer recreation.
At least seven people, including
two children, have died or gone
missing this spring in the grasp
of powerful rivers plunging down
from California’s towering moun-
tain range, and there have been
numerous rescues.
“This year we’re seeing higher
water, faster water and colder
water,” said Capt. Justin Sylvia, a
fire spokesperson in Sacramento,
which is crossed by the American
River.
Sacramento has already had 20
water rescues this year, nearly as
many as all of 2022, Sylvia said
Tuesday as crews practiced swift-
water rescues on the lower Ameri-
can River near its confluence with
the Sacramento River.
Memorial Day weekend is typi-
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license of drug
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ministration stripped one of the
nation’s largest drug distributors
of its license to sell highly addic-
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of suspicious orders at the height
of the opioid crisis.
The action against Morris &
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Carmel baseball, Notre Dame softball in finals

By John Devine
jdevine@montereyherald.com
SALINAS >> Going back to
the title game for the sec-
ond straight year came with
a little redemption for Car-
mel High.
Having seen its baseball
season end in the Central
Coast Section Division IV fi-
nals last year to St. Francis
of Watsonville, the Padres
returned the favor Thurs-
day in the semifinals with a
3-1 win at Hartnell College.
Carmel will go into the ti-
tle game as one of the hot-
test teams in the section,
having won five straight
and eight of its last nine
games. Pitching ace JJ San-
chez is likely to start Satur-
day’s championship game
(4 p.m., San Jose Municipal
Stadium) against top seed
Branham of San Jose.
Tri-champions of the
Mount Hamilton Division
of the Blossom Valley Ath-
letic League with Leigh and
Live Oak, Branham beat Sa-
cred Heart Prep of Atherton
2-1 in the semifinals to ex-
tend its season.
“We will start doing
our homework tonight on
them,” Carmel coach Mike
Kelly said. “There was no
shape or form that we were
looking past St. Francis.
Our focus was dead set.
Looking ahead gets you
beat.”
The Bruins have out-
RAUL EBIO — HERALD CORRESPONDENT
Carmel High starting pitcher Matt Maxon delivers against
St. Francis during the CCS Division III semifinals at Hartnell
College in Salinas.
scored two playoff oppo-
nents 12-1, having rattled
off six straight wins and are
11-1 in their last 12 games.
A common opponent be-
tween the two teams is
Christopher, which Bran-
ham beat twice in league
play by one run. The Padres
knocked off Christopher in
the quarterfinals 3-2 with
the aid of a three-run homer
from Ethan Jackson.
The Padres, who have
dropped their last three
section title games, includ-
ing last year’s 4-2 decision
to St. Francis, have won five
section titles during Kelly’s
first tenure as the program’s
head coach.
“When you face a pro-
gram that’s as well run at
St. Francis, it doesn’t turn
into an emotional redemp-
tion,” Kelly said. “I can’t say
that about every team. Re-
venge is wasted energy. We
needed to take care of our-
selves to have a chance.”
Kelly returned to the
program two years ago af-
ter an 11-year absence, hav-
ing reached the CCS finals
in each of the past two full
seasons.
Carmel and St. Francis
were no strangers to each
other, having battled three
times in the Pacific Coast
Athletic League Gabilan
Division. While the Sharks
took two games, they fell in
the team’s last meeting 6-1
on April 25.
During the Padres’ past
10 games, the pitching staff Sophia Cardinale has em- performing at an excep-
has allowed just 14 earned braced the challenge in the tional level.”
runs, three in the post- circle for the Spirits. Before the championship
season. Freshman Matt The sophomore pitcher game, six seniors will grad-
Maxon, who has already tossed her third straight uate Saturday morning.
committed to Stanford, shutout — second in the “We’re going to have to
handcuffed St. Francis on postseason — as Notre take quick pictures and
five hits over 4.2 innings, Dame is headed to the Cen- get in the car and get refo-
striking out nine. tral Coast Section Division cused,” Cardinale said.
“Our pitching has car- I finals after ending Carl- Having relied on Sophia
ried us during this stretch,” mont’s season in six in- Cardinale’s arm in a 1-0 win
Kelly said. “We have done nings. in the quarterfinals, the
just enough offensively to “She has carried us at bats came to life against
make it work. We feel we’re times,” said Notre Dame Carlmont with Addison
better than that offensively. coach Tom Cardinale, in Amaral ripping a three-run
It just hasn’t all come to- speaking of his grand- blast and JulieAnn Lopez
gether.” daughter. “Look at the hitting the first of her two
The offense, however, has number of shutouts and her homers in the first inning.
had clutch moments, pro- ERA. She’s bent a little. But “Our league (Gabilan
ducing two runs in the first she’s a competitor.” Division) isn’t one power
inning with Bo Iandoli tri- After three years of being team,” Tom Cardinale said.
pling in Justin Lemaster, thrown into the Open Divi- “We have several teams that
who opened the inning with sion, the Spirits are back in can give you a battle. You
a single, before stealing sec-the CCS finals for the first get battled tested. Some of
ond base to put himself in time in six years, as they the other leagues have two
scoring position. will face Westmont on Sat- teams that beat up on the
The pair were at it again urday at 3 p.m. at San Jose rest of their league.”
in the sixth when Lemaster City College. Case in point is six of the
tripled to start the inning, “I have not played either eight teams in the Gabilan
before Iandoli drove in his team this year,” said Tom Division will be playing for
second run of the game. Cardinale, who did face section titles in five of the
“We don’t hang our Westmont in a tournament six divisions on Saturday.
heads,” Kelly said. “We be- in 2018, beating them 11-0. Lopez added added an-
lieve something will hap- “I have no thoughts. I hope other homer in the fourth
pen.” we’re ready.” inning when Notre Dame
Zander Lunt relieved The top-seeded Spir- opened up a 8-0 cushion.
Maxon and tossed 2.1 in- its (19-7) will be chasing a Flordia Atlantic-bound Sa-
nings of hitless relief with CCS record 17th section ti- mantha Rey collected three
four strikeouts to earn the tle — with their last coming more hits, raising her sea-
save. in 2014 when they won the son average to .524.
Division III title. Olivia Bakker added two
Softball — Division I “We had fun today,” said hits and drove in two runs,
NOTRE DAME 10, CARLMONT Cardinale, who has guided while Maddie Albert-Day
0 >> Asked to fill a void af- Notre Dame to three of finished with two hits, dou-
ter an injury at midseason, those CCS titles. “We are bling home a run.

CCS BASEBALL FINALS

Stevenson celebrates program’s 1st section championship

By John Devine
jdevine@montereyherald.com
SAN JOSE >> Nick Wilcox
feels his dad’s presence in
the Stevenson School dug-
out each time he sets foot
into it, whether it is practice
or during a baseball game.
When Wilcox’s father
passed away a few years
back, Nick Wilcox took the
reins of the Stevenson pro-
gram, determined to main-
tain the culture that his dad
had built over the years.
“It’s hard not to think
about him on the baseball
field,” Wilcox said. “This
one is for him and me.”
An emotional and proud
moment occurred for the
Wilcox family as Stevenson
added another milestone to
what is becoming a historic
season Thursday, capturing
the program’s first ever Cen-
tral Coast Section baseball
title.
Behind the arm of Vil-
lanova-bound Trent Toole,
the Pirates won the Division
VI title with a 12-2 decison
over Alisal at San Jose Mu-
nicipal Stadium.
“I had some of the Alisal
coaches come over and
mention how proud my
dad would have been,” Wil-
cox said. “That meant a lot
to me.”
Since starting the sea-
son 0-2, the Pirates have
gone 20-2, with 12 consec-
utive wins going into next
weeks’ Northern California
divisional playoffs.
“It’s incredible,” Wilcox
said. “What these seniors
have been through over
the last four years with the
pandemic. It’s awesome to
see them celebrate. Nobody
wanted to leave the field.
These seniors have helped
establish a different cul-
ture.”
One of those seniors is
Toole, a three-sport all-
leaguer, who was on the
mound last year when Ste-
venson won its first league
title in 35 years.
“These seniors lead on
and off the field,” Wilcox
said. “It’s amazing to see
what they’ve been through
and what they have been
able to accomplish.”
All four seniors were on
the roster as sophomores
when the Pirates watched
Harker score nine runs in
the seventh inning in a 16-
15 loss in the Division VI fi-
nals in 2021.
When Stevenson built a
9-2 lead after five innings,
senior center fielder Rider
McCormick gathered his
team in the dugout.
“I pulled everyone to-
gether in the sixth inning,
knocked on wood and said
it’s not over,” McCormick
said. “We know what can
happen if we let them back
in the game. It was in my
head. How could it not be.
It feels like a sigh of relief.”
McCormick, who will
play football and baseball
next year at Carleton Uni-
versity in Minnesota, had
a clutch two-run triple in
the second inning for the
Pirates to help erase a two-
run first-inning deficit.
“Our objective is to win
every inning,” McCormick
said. “So when Alisal scored
two in the first inning, we
said let’s get two back. We
ended up getting four. We
won every inning from that
point.”
Igniting that four-run
first inning for the Pirates
was right fielder Andrew
Ariada, who ripped a two-
run double.
“T he mentality was
how to do we respond and
bounce back,” Wilcox said.
“We’re fortunate to have
a lineup from 1-through-9
that can get the job done.
I don’t feel there is a weak-
ness in our lineup. It would
take more than two runs to
beat us.”
Case in point came from
the bottom of the order as
hitters’ 7-through-9 com-
bined for five hits, while
driving in five runs for the
top-seeded Pirates.
Stevenson, which beat
Alisal twice during the Pa-
cific Coast Athletic League
Mission Division season,
was a team on a mission
in the postseason, outscor-
ing three teams 32-5 — with
two games being halted in
the sixth inning because of
the 10-run mercy rule.
“The playoffs are so dif-
ferent,” Wilcox said. “Alisal
was peaking as well. They
had a couple of key players
back. They competed their
butts off just to get into the
playoffs.”
Alisal, which won a play-
in game to advance to the
postseason as the No. 2
seed, was in the CCS finals
for the first time in the pro-
gram’s 50-plus year history,
finishing the year 16-12.
Once Toole settled down,
he quieted the Trojans’ bats,
holding them hitless over
the final four frames with
four strikeouts.
“Alisal did a nice job of
putting the ball in play in
the first two innings,” Wil-
cox said. “Trent flipped the
switch. Pitching in that sta-
dium is an adrenaline rush.
He was hyped up. He fought
through the first inning and
settled into a groove.”
Production came up and
down the lineup as senior
Alex Glasscock finished
with two hits and three
runs batted in, while Reg-
gie Bell and Phinn Thomas
both collected a pair of hits.
“I can leave Stevenson
with a sense of accomplish-
ment, of bringing the school
its first CCS baseball title,”
McCormick said.
Stevenson will be seeded
Sunday into the Northern
California playoffs, with
the hope that a 20-4 record
and a section title will earn
them a home game in the
single-elimination tourna-
ment.
“It’s exciting to take this
team, the program into
something new,” Wilcox
said. “We’ll keep our fin-
gers crossed that we can
hold off on some of those se-
nior trips for another week.”

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FROM PAGE 1
“floating down the Amer-
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essential Sacramento ac-
tivity,” said Ken Casparis,
spokesperson for Sacra-
mento County regional
parks.
“Probably thousands
of people use the river for
floating or swimming or
rafting, what have you, and
this weekend conditions
are shaping up to be pretty
dangerous, so we have been
urging people to stay off the
river,” he said.
Even just wading along
the shore is being dis-
couraged, said Casparis,
who was hoping for chilly
weather to discourage river
use. Forecasters predicted
mild weather in the interior
of Northern California ex-
cept for chances of thunder-
storms in the mountains.
With Californians ex-
pected to flock to the out-
doors, the Governor’s Of-
fice of Emergency Services
on Thursday issued a broad
caution about conditions
they might encounter, in-
cluding fast-moving water,
following months of severe
weather.
An extraordinary series
of storms this past winter
buried the Sierra range in
deep snow that is now melt-
ing, swelling Central Val-
ley rivers that just months
ago were running low be-
cause of years of extreme
drought.
Reservoirs that store wa-
ter and provide flood con-
trol must release high flows
into rivers to maintain
room for incoming runoff.
That, in turn, changes riv-
ers. Sandbars and ledges
may become steep drop-offs
Swift water rescue teams conduct an exercise on the American River in Sacramento,
Calif., Tuesday. California rivers fed by winter’s massive Sierra Nevada snowpack have
been turned into deadly torrents, drawing warnings from public safety officials ahead of
the Memorial Day weekend and the traditional start of outdoor summer recreation.
and lead to an unexpected
plunge into cold water.
“It can really give a shock
to the body,” said Daniel
Bowers, Sacramento city’s
director of emergency man-
agement. Experts say mus-
cle control can be lost in
minutes.
The recent tragedies in-
clude an 8-year-old girl
and her 4-year-old brother,
who were swept away by
the Kings River on Sun-
day. The girl’s body was
found that afternoon and
the boy’s body was found
nearly 2 miles (3.2 kilome-
ters) downstream on Mon-
day, the Fresno County
Sheriff’s Office said.
The fatal accident oc-
curred even though both
the Kings and San Joaquin
Rivers have been ordered
closed to recreational us-
ers since March 14.
In the Sierra northeast
of Sacramento, a man was
HAVEN DALEY — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
swept away by the Ameri- cho Cordova has tempo-
can River on April 29, two rarily suspended its oper-
days after Placer County au- ations on the lower seg-
thorities first issued warn- ment of the river because
ings. His body was found the rate of flow is too high,
Friday in a lake miles away. co-owner Kent Hansen said
Another man who vanished Thursday.
in the river on Mother’s Day “We definitely under-
remains missing. stand that this is part of the
Placer County’s messag- business and that’s why we
ing about the risk is blunt. would never put profits over
“If the public doesn’t listen safety,” Hansen said. “We’re
to our warnings this year, hoping that all of our guests
people are going to die, will choose a safe time to
more people than we’ve go soon when water flows
seen over the last few years,” get back a normal, raftable
sheriff’s Sgt. Kevin Griffiths flow.”
says in a public service an- Sylvia, the fire captain,
nouncement video. emphasized that people
The American River has should immediately call 911
not been closed to recre- if someone gets in trouble in
ation in Sacramento but the water.
Bowers, the emergency “If you have a rope or if
management official, urged you have a life jacket that
all river users to wear life you can throw to them, do
jackets, even if they’re us- that, but do not go in the
ing another flotation device. water after them because
American River Raft you will become a second
Rentals of suburban Ran- victim,” he said.
DEA
FROM PAGE 1
Dickson in part for hold-
ing up the process by seek-
ing delays due to the CO-
VID-19 pandemic and its
lengthy pursuit of a settle-
ment that the agency said
it had considered. The or-
der becomes effective in 90
days, allowing more time
to negotiate a settlement.
DEA Administrator Anne
Milgram said in the 68-page
order that Morris & Dickson
failed to accept full respon-
sibility for its past actions,
which included shipping
12,000 unusually large or-
ders of opioids to pharma-
cies and hospitals between
2014 and 2018. During this
time, the company filed just
three suspicious order re-
ports with the DEA.
Milgram specifically cited
testimony of then-president
Paul Dickson Sr. in 2019 that
the company’s compliance
program was “dang good”
and he didn’t think a “sin-
gle person has gotten hurt
by (their) drugs.”
“Those statements from
the president of a family-
owned and operated com-
pany so strongly miss the
point of the requirements
of a DEA registrant,” she
wrote. “Its acceptance of
responsibility did not prove
that it or its principals un-
derstand the full extent of
their wrongdoing ... and the
potential harm it caused.”
Shreveport, Louisiana-
based Morris & Dickson
traces its roots to 1840,
when its namesake founder
arrived from Wales and
placed an ad in a local news-
paper selling medicines. It
has since become the na-
tion’s fourth-largest whole-
sale drug distributor, with
$4 billion a year in reve-
nue and nearly 600 employ-
the effective date of the
order to allow time to set-
tle these old issues,” it said.
“We remain confident we
can achieve an outcome
that safeguards the supply
chain for all of our health-
care partners and the com-
munities they serve.”
Morris & Dickson’s
much larger competitors, a
trio of pharmaceutical dis-
tributors known as the Big
Three, have already agreed
to pay the federal govern-
ment more than $1 billion
in fines and penalties to
settle similar violations.
Cardinal Health, Ameri-
sourceBergen and McKes-
son also agreed to pay $21
billion over 18 years to re-
solve claims as part of a
nationwide settlement.
While Morris & Dickson
wasn’t the only drug dis-
tributor who the DEA ac-
cused of fueling the opi-
oid crisis, it was unique in
its willingness to challenge
those accusations in the
DEA’s administrative court.
In a scathing recommen-
dation in 2019, Adminis-
trative Law Judge Charles
W. Dorman said Morris &
Dickson’s argument that it
has changed its ways was
too little, too late.
Anything less than the
most severe punishment,
the judge said, “would
communicate to DEA reg-
istrants that despite their
transgressions, no matter
how egregious, they will get
a mere slap on the wrist and
a second chance so long as
they acknowledge their sins
and vow to sin no more.”
But as the ensuing years
passed, neither the Biden-
nominated Milgram nor her
two predecessors took any
enforcement action. Past
DEA officials told the AP
such decisions usually take
no more than two years.
As the pills kept flow-
ing, Morris & Dickson at-

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“Defining what loss is,
that’s really hard,” he said,
watching the mansion from
Lighthouse Avenue Friday
afternoon. “So I’m not going
to say yes, it’s a total loss
(and the property owners)
have to tear it down right
now. There are some steps
we’ll go through in order
to get some professionals
to establish what’s savable
and what’s not.”
Through the incident,
the Pacific Grove Police
Department closed sev-
eral roads to the public,
including: Lighthouse Av-
enue from Ridge Road to
Bentley Street and 17 Mile
Drive from Heacock Avenue
to Bay View Avenue.
About 35 firefighters re-
sponded to the LaPorte fire,
including crews from Mon-
terey Fire, Seaside Fire, Cal-
Fire and Presidio of Mon-
terey Fire.
On behalf of Pacific
Grove, City Manager Ben
Harvey said, “We’re grate-
ful and appreciative for the
multi-agency response to
the incident.”
“Of course, it’s always
sad when you lose a his-
toric structure like the
LaPorte Mansion … but
we’re gratef ul for the
swift and robust response
from our first responders
and that there were no in-
juries.”
ees serving pharmacies and
hospitals in 29 states.
In a statement, the com-
pany said it has invested
millions of dollars over the
past few years to revamp
its compliance systems
and appeared to hold out
hope for a settlement.
“Morris & Dickson is
grateful to the DEA ad-
ministrator for delaying
tempted to stave off pun-
ishment, appealing di-
rectly to Milgram to
order a reopening of the
proceedings, arguing it
would introduce new evi-
dence showing it had im-
plemented an “ideal” com-
pliance program with the
help of a consultant who is
now second-in-command
at the DEA, Louis Milione.

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TODAY IN HISTORY Star report POLITICS

1935
The U.S. Supreme
Sam Smith cancels
UK dates due to
vocal cord injury
DeSantis inspires push to make
book bans easier in some states
Court, in Schechter
Poultry Corp. v. United After pulling the plug
States, unanimously midway through a con-
struck down the Nation- cert Wednesday, Sam
al Industrial Recovery Smith has called off ad-
Act, a key component ditional tour dates due
to a vocal cord injury. By Andrew DeMillo,
of President Franklin D. Anthony Izaguirre and
Roosevelt’s “New Deal” The singer-songwriter
ended Wednesday’s Nicholas Riccardi
legislative program. The Associated Press
show at Manchester’s
1936 AO Arena after just four
songs, later announcing
the cancellation of two
TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA >>
As he vies for the Repub-
The Cunard liner RMS lican presidential nomina-
Queen Mary left England more UK concert dates tion, Florida Gov. Ron De-
on its maiden voyage to in Birmingham, England Santis is touting a series
New York. and Glasgow, Scotland. of measures he has pushed
“Sam is heartbroken that have led to an upswing
1941 to have had to cancel
these shows but they
in banned or restricted
books — not just in Florida
The British Royal have been told by doc- schools but in an increasing
Navy sank the German tors that if they keep number of other conserva-
battleship Bismarck off singing, they will do tive states.
France with a loss of permanent damage Florida last year became
some 2,000 lives, three to their voice,” read a the first in a wave of red
days after the Bismarck statement shared on states to enact laws mak-
sank the HMS Hood Twitter. ing it easier for parents to
with the loss of more — New York Daily News challenge books in school
than 1,400 lives. libraries they deem to be
pornographic, deal improp-
1942 LOTTERY
erly with racial issues or in
other ways be inappropriate
KATIE ADKINS — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nate Coulter, executive director of the Central Arkansas Library System, at the main
branch of the public library in downtown Little Rock, Ark., on Tuesday. The library system is
Doris “Dorie” Miller, a for students.
cook aboard the USS THURSDAY’S expected to sue over the new Arkansas law that goes into effect on Aug. 1 that could impose
WINNING NUMBERS Books ensnared in the
West Virginia, became Florida regulations include criminal penalties on librarians who knowingly provide “harmful” materials to minors.
the first African-Ameri- Daily 3 Afternoon: 1, 9, 6 explicit graphic novels
can to receive the Navy Daily 3 Evening: 0, 2, 8 about growing up LGBTQ+, Sanders signed a law, set president of the Florida laws’ standards are so
Cross for displaying “ex- Daily 4: 3, 3, 3, 7 a children’s book based on a to take effect this summer, Education Association, the vague they don’t know what
traordinary courage and Fantasy 5: true story of two male pen- that could impose criminal state’s main teachers union. books might place them in
disregard for his own 8, 11, 25, 27, 29 guins raising a chick in a penalties on librarians who Kasey Meehan, who di- legal jeopardy.
personal safety” during zoo and “The Bluest Eye,” knowingly provide “harm- rects the Freedom to Read Michael Woods, a special
Japan’s attack on Pearl DAILY DERBY a novel by Nobel laureate ful” materials to minors. program at the writers’ or- education teacher in Palm
Harbor. 1st: 3, Hot Shot Toni Morrison that includes The law also would estab- ganization PEN America, Beach County, said new
descriptions of child sexual lish a process for the public said that, when books are rules compelling him to cat-
2020
2nd: 10, Solid Gold
3rd: 9, Winning Spirit abuse. Certain books cover- to challenge materials and targeted in Florida, they alog books in his classroom
ing racial themes also have ask they be relocated to a later become the subject of led him to empty a small li-
Protests over the death Race time: 1:46.59 been pulled from library section minors can’t access. complaints filed by parents brary he set up where stu-
of George Floyd in police SUPER LOTTO PLUS shelves, sometimes tempo- “It’s a perverse world in other states. dents could choose to read
custody rocked Min- Wednesday’s drawing: rarily, as school administra- when we’re talking about “It’s something that con- something that interested
neapolis for a second 3, 7, 8, 22, 40 tors try to assess what ma- trying to criminalize librar- tinues to cause alarm for in- them. Now those volumes
night, with some people terial is allowed under the ians,” said Nate Coulter, ex- dividuals who are advocat- are stored in a box he’s
looting stores and Mega number: 7
new rules. ecutive director of the Cen- ing for the freedom to read stashed in his closet for fear
setting fires. Protests Saturday’s estimated The day before DeSan- tral Arkansas Library Sys- or for a diversity of knowl- of getting in trouble.
spread to additional cit- jackpot: $62 million tis entered the presiden- tem in Little Rock, which is edge, ideas and books to be “That kind of positive
ies; hundreds of people MEGA MILLIONS tial race earlier this week, expected to sue over Arkan- available to students across connection to reading is no
blocked a Los Angeles a K-8 school in Miami-Dade sas’ law. the country,” Meehan said. longer there,” he said.
freeway and shattered Tuesday’s drawing:
3, 10, 22, 65, 66 County put the poem “The In Indiana, school librar- PEN earlier this month The individual chal-
windows of California Hill We Climb” by Amanda ies will be required by July sued the Escambia school lenges to books might be
Highway Patrol cruisers. Mega Number: 19 Gorman on a restricted list 1 to publicly post a list of district in Florida over the coming from a fairly nar-
Friday’s estimated for elementary students af- books they offer and pro- removal of 10 books, includ- row segment of the popula-
Birthdays jackpot: $169 million ter a parent complained. vide a complaint process ing “The Bluest Eye” and tion, according to PEN and
Former Secretary of POWERBALL The reasons for the objec- for community members “Lucky,” a bestselling mem- the American Library As-
State Henry Kissinger is tion to the poem, which under a law Republican oir by Alice Sebold about sociation, which track re-
100. Actor Lee Meri- Wednesday’s drawing: Gorman read during Pres- Gov. Eric Holcomb signed her rape when she was 18 quests to pull books. The
wether is 88. Comedian 12, 21, 44, 50, 58 ident Joe Biden’s inaugu- this month. In Texas, a bill years old. library association said
Adam Carolla is 59. Actor Powerball: 26 ration, were not clear. The creating new standards There have been chal- 40% of all requests chal-
Paul Bettany is 52. Rap- Saturday’s estimated book version remains avail- for banning books from lenges to books in schools lenged 100 or more books
per Andre 3000 is 48. jackpot: $211 million able to the middle school schools that the govern- for decades — “The Blu- at a time.
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ment considers too explicit est Eye” has been tar- Raegan Miller of Florida
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Commentary Cartoonist’s take

Sex, and
what it has to
do with love
By Stephen Kessler
The sex crimes of the x-
president, among his other of-
fenses, have further fouled
our cultural and interper-
sonal ecology. It’s people like
him who give sex a bad name,
when it should be — and has
been for some of us—our most
profoundly loving behavior.
That’s why, Tina Turner to the
contrary, they used to call it
“making love.”
After seven and a half de-
cades, two marriages, three or
and Kim Addonizio have been
more explicit about their sex
lives than any male poet could
get away with in the current
climate without being accused
of something unspeakable. But
if women can write so fear-
lessly of their experience, good
for them, because it’s hard for
most people to speak of such
intimate matters and part of a
poet’s job is to say things that
can’t be said any other way, or
anywhere else.
Correct me if I’m wrong —
and I’m sure you will anyway — Commentary
but it seems to me that with the

The achievement gap

four major loves and various
minor ones, my understanding
of love and sex and heartbreak
is more elusive than ever, even
though I know they have some-
thing to do with the animal
urge to mate and procreate.
One is always at risk of fall-
ing in love, I suppose, but for
a while now it’s a relief to be
spared the ecstasies and ago-
nies of passion because it gives
you the perspective to reflect
on what a fool you’ve been.
In recent years, thanks to
exposure of the monstrous
crimes of powerful men (Har-
vey Weinstein, et al.) and the
petty misdemeanors of clueless
seducers (Garrison Keillor, et
al.) against vulnerable women,
sex has got a bad smell about
it, contaminated by males
who’ve used it as a weapon of
domination. The tender beauty
of erotic love has been compro-
mised and corrupted by too
many tales of creepy behav-
ior of horrible horny males, fol-
lowed by a backlash against
conduct even as harmless as
flirting. That’s why it feels
good to be out of the game and
not likely to be vilified for mis-
placed eye contact.
I haven’t kept up with all the
latest literature, but I’m certain
there’s plenty of current fic-
tion and nonfiction and mem-
oirs and poetry by women not
as victims of predatory men but
as agents of their own sexual
satisfaction. Ever since Anaïs
Nin out-scandalized her men-
tor Henry Miller with tales of
her own feverish adventures, fe-
male writers have been flipping
the script on the Norman Mail-
ers and Philip Roths and John
Updikes who preceded them:
women as animals just as
driven as men by desire in all
its pure and perverse forms.
Contemporary poets of my
generation like Sharon Olds
#MeToo movement, and dating
back to the Andrea Dworkin
“all sex is rape” 1980s, the puri-
tanical streak in American cul-
ture has resurfaced to criminal-
ize even the most polite desire.
So that the idea of romance be-
tween consenting adults tak-
ing a chance on love is regarded
with deep suspicion.
According to some histori-
ans, the birth control pill was
a turning point for women’s
liberation, and the sexual rev-
olution of the 1960s and ’70s
was half their doing. Accord-
ing to others, the same male
dominance prevailed even in
the most progressive reaches
of the various movements of
the time. And from what I
hear and read, in much of in-
stitutional America those old
testosterone-addled habits
continue to poison personal
and professional relations.
If it were possible for men
and women (and queers of any
and all genders and persua-
sions) to speak candidly and
vulnerably about their needs
of one another, their desires,
fantasies, marriages of minds
as well as bodies, who knows,
maybe biological attraction
would be less fraught — but
probably not.
As ever, love is a can of
worms, a piñata loaded with
exploding sex toys, a magical
genie that won’t go back in the
bottle. It is, whatever the sexu-
ally correct may say, the same
old flame to which moths are
drawn and by whose blinding
light praying mantises mate
and eat each other.
That must be what Tina was
talking about.
Stephen Kessler is a Santa
Cruz writer and a regular
Herald contributor. To read
more of his work visit www.
stephenkessler.com
By Dan Walters
CalMatters
When Jerry Brown returned
to the governorship in 2011, a
quarter century after his first
stint in California’s highest of-
fice ended, one of his early goals
was changing how the state fi-
nances the education of nearly
6 million public school stu-
dents.
Brown had a plan, adapted
from the theory of Michael
Kirst, a distinguished aca-
demic and Brown’s long-time
education adviser, to concen-
trate more money on students
who chronically trail in aca-
demic achievement, regardless
of whether the children lived in
poverty or did not speak Eng-
lish at home.
Kirst called it a “weighted
formula,” and the legislation he
and Brown persuaded the Leg-
islature to adopt a decade ago
was called “Local Control Fund-
ing Formula,” or LCFF. It would
give school districts with large
numbers of at-risk students
in those two categories extra
funds on the assumption that
they would improve achieve-
ment.
The legislation lubricated
passage by also eliminat-
ing most “categorical aids” —
money for specific education
programs — and thus giving
local school officials more
f lexibility in spending money
from local property taxes
and state budget appropria-
tions.
Over the last decade, Brown,
successor Gavin Newsom and
the Legislature have allocated
tens of billions of dollars to
LCFF in hopes of closing what
educators call the achievement
gap between the kids deemed to
need extra instructional help —
about 60% of public school en-
rollment — and their more priv-
ileged peers.
Has it worked? Follow-up
studies indicate that there may
have been a slight narrowing
of the gap, but whatever LCFF
achieved vanished during the
COVID-19 pandemic. At-risk
kids were profoundly affected
by school closures, since they
had less ability to engage in re-
mote learning, dubbed “Zoom
school,” and less access to tu-
toring than more affluent fam-
ilies.
Pandemic impacts aside,
LCFF has not delivered on its
promised transformative im-
pact. Even if spending more
money would have narrowed
the gap — an unproven the-
ory — many school districts,
particularly those in urban ar-
eas dominated by hardball
politics, often fail to concen-
trate the extra funds on at-
risk kids.
Brown insisted that the funds
go to districts, not the specific
schools where the targeted kids
were most numerous, saying he
trusted local educators to spend
the money wisely. He dubbed
it “subsidiarity,” adapting the
term from an obscure theologi-
cal theory.
Education reform groups
have criticized Brown’s
hands-off approach, saying
local school systems need
more oversight to prevent
them from diverting LCFF
funds to other purposes.
However, in a recent podcast
interview marking the formu-
la’s 10th anniversary, Brown
complained that districts
have not been given enough
flexibility.
“We spend too much time on
not anything to do with teach-
ing. Its accountability, its fi-
nance, its compliance. This
is really a noxious evolution,”
Brown said during the inter-
view. “I hope that legislators
(are) aware they’ve gone over-
board … we have to look for the
wise path.”
Meanwhile, in a separate
10th anniversary interview,
Kirst said he regrets that local
districts did not use subsidiar-
ity’s flexibility to become more
creative in educating kids who
fall behind.
“This was their chance to
get beyond formulaic bud-
gets and the budget complex-
ity to create a three-year bud-
get plan with clear priorities,”
Kirst lamented. “And gener-
ally, my impression is that they
have not.”
Neither of LCFF’s two fa-
thers offered any appraisal of
whether children it purports to
help have, in fact, been helped.
That lack of analysis may indi-
cate that both know LCFF — as
implemented, not as envisioned
— has not been a roaring suc-
cess.
California has doubled the
amount of per-pupil spend-
ing on schooling in the last de-
cade but in national tests of ac-
ademic achievement, the state
still trails other states that
spend much less, while state
testing tells us that the achieve-
ment gap remains unaccept-
ably wide.

Commentary

DeSantis’ ‘War on Woke’ casts shade on sunshine state

By Amy Goodman
that the book had been banned launched a campaign against The clear and present danger to Lati- dom House and several authors
& Denis Moynihan
from an elementary school li- Walt Disney Company after Dis- nos in Florida and to Americans and parents are suing the school
Democracy Now!
brary in Miami-Dade County, ney publicly opposed his anti-LG- in general,” LULAC President board in Pensacola, Florida, for
Florida. BTQ legislation, dubbed the “Don’t Domingo Garcia said on May 17. banning books from school li-
“We’ve braved the belly of the That Florida is the state Say Gay” law. He banned the Col- “We’re issuing a travel advisory braries.
beast. where this highly acclaimed lit- lege Board’s Advanced Placement for anybody traveling to Flor- “We are suing in Escambia
We’ve learned that quiet isn’t erary work was banned should African American studies course ida. Florida is a dangerous, hos- County to challenge the removal
always peace, come as no surprise. Under Re- in an assault on Critical Race The- tile environment for law abiding of books from classroom and
and the norms and notions publican Gov. Ron DeSantis, ory. Americans and immigrants … school libraries,” Suzanne Nos-
of what just is who formally launched his pres- The NAACP is so alarmed with you can be arrested for literally sel, CEO of PEN America, said
isn’t always just-ice.” idential campaign on Wednes- Florida’s drastic policies that it taking somebody to the hospital, on the Democracy Now! news
These lines are from The Hill day in a glitch-ridden Twitter has issued a travel advisory for for literally taking somebody to hour. “This effort disproportion-
We Climb, a poem recited by livestream hosted by billionaire the state. “Florida is openly hos- Disney World.” ately targets books by and about
then-22-year-old Inaugural Poet Elon Musk, Florida has become tile toward African Americans, DeSantis’s attack on educa- authors of color, LGBTQ narra-
Amanda Gorman at President ground zero for systemic, state- people of color and LGBTQ+ in- tion didn’t stop at the AP Afri- tives…we’re asking the school
Joe Biden’s swearing in on Jan- sponsored censorship, intoler- dividuals,” the NAACP’s advi- can American studies course. board to put these books back
uary 20, 2021. Her words reso- ance and discrimination. DeSan- sory reads. ”Before traveling to He targeted Florida’s renowned, on the shelves, and the court
nated with extra force that day, tis clearly sees his path to the Florida, please understand that progressive public New College to vindicate children’s right to
as she wrote the poem just two White House is to out-Trump the state of Florida devalues and of Florida, replacing its board of read.”
weeks earlier, on Jan. 6, as she Trump. It seems there isn’t a marginalizes the contributions of, trustees with hand-picked po- “History has its eyes on us,”
watched the Trump-inspired historically marginalized group and the challenges faced by Af- litical hacks who immediately writes Amanda Gorman in The
MAGA mob storm the U.S. Capi- or progressive policy that De- rican Americans and other com- fired the president and key ad- Hill We Climb, currently un-
tol. Trump’s desperate efforts to Santis isn’t willing to attack. munities of color.” ministrators and dissolved the available to elementary school
overturn his 2020 election de- DeSantis is casting shade over LULAC, the League of United school’s diversity office. readers in Miami Lakes, Florida.
feat failed, but the racist, nativ- the Sunshine State. Residents, cit- Latin American Citizens, sec- This is all part of DeSantis’s “We will not be turned
ist movement of Trumpism is izen and non-citizen alike, are suf- onded the travel ban, in re- so-called “War on Woke,” which around
still alive and well. More than fering under a barrage of punitive sponse to a DeSantis-signed law he intends to take national or interrupted by intimida-
two years later, Gorman’s re- legislation, targeting the LGBTQ going into effect on July 1st, that should he win the White House. tion
markable poem is back in the community, African Americans, severely criminalizes undocu- People are organizing to stem because we know our inaction
news. It was published as a book and immigrants. DeSantis signed mented immigrants. “LULAC the damage DeSantis is doing and inertia
not long after the inauguration, a draconian six-week abortion ban believes that these hostile and on a daily basis in Florida. will be the inheritance of the
and this week Gorman tweeted in April. A year before that, he dangerous new laws create a PEN America, Penguin Ran- next generation.”

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POLITICS

Yellen says debt ceiling deadline is extended to June 5

By Lisa Mascaro,
Seung Min Kim
and Kevin Freking
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON >> Treasury
Secretary Janet Yellen said
Friday the projected debt
ceiling deadline is extended
to June 5, four days later
than previously estimated.
Yet, Yellen renewed her
warning in a letter to Con-
gress that inaction on rais-
ing the borrowing limit
would “cause severe hard-
ship.”
Yellen’s latest letter to
legislators on the “X-date”
came as Congress broke
for the long Memorial Day
weekend. She said that the
Treasury Department had
deployed an extraordinary
measure not used since
2015 to get the U.S. finan-
cial position to this point.
The X-date arrives when
the government no longer
has enough of a financial
cushion to pay all its bills,
having exhausted the mea-
sures it’s been using since
January to stretch existing
funds.
Earlier Friday, House
Speaker Kevin McCarthy
said his Republican debt
negotiators and the White
House had hit “crunch”
time, straining to wrap up
an agreement with Presi-
dent Joe Biden to curb fed-
eral spending and lift the
nation’s borrowing limit
ahead of the fast-coming
deadline.
They had hoped to end
weeks of frustrating talks
and strike a deal by this
weekend. Treasury now
says the government could
start running out of money
as soon as a week from
Monday, sending the U.S.
into a potentially cata-
Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., talks to reporters about the debt limit
negotiations as he arrives at the Capitol in Washington on Friday.
strophic default with eco-
nomic spillover around the
world.
Anxious retirees and so-
cial service groups were
among those making de-
fault contingency plans as
lawmakers left town for the
long holiday weekend. The
next batch of Social Secu-
rity checks are due to go
out next week.
“The world is watching,”
said International Mone-
tary Fund Managing Di-
rector Kristalina Georgieva
after meeting Friday with
Yellen. “Let’s remember we
are now in the 12th hour.”
Democrat Biden and the
Republican speaker were
narrowing differences, la-
boring to lock in details
on a two-year agreement
that would restrain federal
spending and lift the legal
borrowing limit past next
year’s presidential election.
J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Any deal would need to
be a political compromise,
with support from both
Democrats and Republi-
cans to pass the divided
Congress.
“We know it’s a crunch,”
McCarthy said as he ar-
rived at the emptied out
Capitol, acknowledging
more progress needed to
be made.
In remarks at the White
House honoring the Louisi-
ana State University cham-
pion women’s basketball
team, Biden gave a shout-
out to one of this top nego-
tiators saying she’s “putting
together a deal, hopefully.”
He was referring to Of-
fice of Management and
Budget Director Shalanda
Young who attended the
event as did Rep. Garret
Graves of Louisiana, a top
Republican negotiator.
While the contours of
the deal have been taking
shape to cut spending for
2024 and impose a 1% cap
on spending growth for
2025, the two sides remain
stuck on various provisions.
The debt ceiling, now at $31
trillion, would be lifted for
two years to pay the na-
tion’s incurred bills.
A person familiar with
the talks said the two sides
were “dug in” on whether
or not to agree to Repub-
lican demands to impose
stiffer work requirements
on people who receive gov-
ernment food stamps, cash
assistance and health care
aid.
House Democrats have
called such requirements
for health care and food
aid a nonstarter.
Asked if Republicans
would relent on work re-
quirements Graves, fumed:
“Hell no, not a chance.”
House Republicans have
pushed the issue to the
brink, displaying risky
political bravado in leav-
ing town for the Memorial
Day holiday. Lawmakers
are tentatively not expected
back at work until Tuesday,
just two days from the June
1 “X-date” when Treasury
Secretary Yellen has said
the U.S. could face default.
Biden will also be away
this weekend, departing
Friday for the presiden-
tial retreat at Camp David,
Maryland, and Sunday for
his home in Wilmington,
Delaware. The Senate is on
recess and will return after
Memorial Day.
“Each time there is for-
ward progress, the issues
that remain become more
difficult and more challeng-
ing,” said negotiator Rep.
Patrick McHenry, R-N.C.,
at midday Friday.
Weeks of negotiations be-
tween Republicans and the
White House have failed to
produce a deal — in part
because the Biden admin-
istration resisted negoti-
ating with McCarthy over
the debt limit, arguing that
the country’s full faith and
credit should not be used
as leverage to extract other
partisan priorities.
“We have to spend less
than we spent last year.
That is the starting point,”
said McCarthy.
One idea is to set the
topline budget numbers
but then add a “snap-back”
provision to enforce cuts if
Congress is unable during
its annual appropriations
process to meet the new
goals.
On work requirements
for aid recipients, the White
House is particularly resist-
ing measures that could
drive more people into pov-
erty or take their health
care, said the person famil-
iar with the talks, who was
granted anonymity to de-
scribe behind-closed-door
discussions.
Over the Republican de-
mand to rescind money for
the Internal Revenue Ser-
vice, it’s still an “open is-
sue” whether the sides will
compromise by allowing
the funding to be pushed
into other domestic pro-
grams, the person said.
In one potential devel-
opment, Republicans may
be easing their demand to
boost defense spending be-
yond what Biden had pro-
posed in his budget, in-
stead offering to keep it
at his proposed levels, ac-
cording to another person
familiar with the talks.
The teams are also eye-
ing a proposal to boost en-
ergy transmission line de-
velopment from Sen. John
Hickenlooper, D-Colo., to
facilitate the buildout of
an interregional power
grid.
Meanwhile, McCarthy is
feeling pressure from the
House’s right flank not to
give in to any deal, even if
it means blowing past the
June 1 deadline.
“Let’s hold the line,” said
Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, a
Freedom Caucus member.
McCarthy said Donald
Trump, the former presi-
dent who is again running
for office, told him, “Make
sure you get a good agree-
ment.”
Watchful Democrats,
though, are also press-
ing Biden. The top three
House Democratic leaders
led by Rep. Hakeem Jeffries
spoke late Thursday with
the White House.

ECONOMY

A measure of inflation tracked by Fed increased in April

The Associated Press
WASHINGTON >> A key index
of U.S. prices ticked higher
in April, and consumer
spending rebounded, a sign
that inflationary pressures
in the economy remain high.
The index, which the Fed-
eral Reserve closely moni-
tors, showed that prices rose
0.4% from March to April.
That was much higher than
the 0.1% rise the previous
month. Measured year over
year, prices increased 4.4%
in April, up from 4.2% in
March. The year-over-year
figure is down sharply from
a 7% peak last June but re-
mains far above the Fed’s
2% target.
Friday’s report from the
government also showed
that despite rising prices,
consumers remain buoy-
ant. Their spending jumped
0.8% from March to April,
the biggest increase since
January. Much of the in-
crease was driven by spend-
ing on new cars, which
soared 6.2%. Among other
items, Americans also
bought more computers,
gasoline and clothing.
Despite longstanding
predictions of a forthcom-
ing recession, Friday’s data
underscored the U.S. econ-
omy’s surprising resilience.
Consumer spending, which
drives most of the U.S. econ-
omy, has been bolstered by
solid job gains and pay in-
creases. The economy,
which grew at a sluggish
1.3% annual rate from Jan-
uary through March, is pro-
jected to accelerate to a 2%
pace in the current April-
June quarter.
At the same time, the per-
sistence of high inflation is
complicating the Federal
Reserve’s interest rate de-
cisions. Chair Jerome Pow-
ell has signaled that the Fed
will likely forgo a rate hike
when it meets in mid-June,
after 10 straight increases in
the past 14 months. But a vo-
cal group among the Fed’s
18-member interest-rate set-
ting committee has pushed
for more rate hikes later this
year on the grounds that in-
flation isn’t slowing quickly
enough.
“Inflation is too sticky for
the Fed to commit to an ex-
tended pause,” said Michael
Gapen, U.S. economist at
Bank of America Securities.
“Even if the Fed skips June,
it will keep July in play” for
a rate hike.
Among individual items,
grocery prices slipped 0.1%
in April, a second straight
decline. By contrast, gas and
other energy costs jumped
2.4%.
Fed officials particularly
watch a category of prices
called core inflation, which
excludes volatile energy and
food costs and is considered
a better gauge of underlying
inflation. Core prices rose
0.4% from March to April,
the same as in the previ-
ous month, and 4.7% from
12 months earlier. The year-
over-year core inflation fig-
ure has changed little since
it first touched 4.6% in De-
cember.
Some economists fore-
see inflation easing in the
coming months. Omair
Sharif, founder of Inflation
Insights, noted that a few
pricing quirks fueled April’s
bigger-than-expected rise in
core prices and said he be-
lieved they won’t likely per-
sist. Legal services, for ex-
ample, skyrocketed 3.8%
from March to April. That
was the sharpest such
monthly jump on records
dating to 1959.
Though used car prices
jumped 4.7% last month,
Sharif noted that measures
of wholesale used car costs
are declining and suggested
that they will help slow over-
all inflation by June.

Monterey County ProPerty SaleS

CITY/AREA NAME: CARMEl
TOTAL SALES: 9
LOWEST AMOUNT: $490,000.00
HIGHEST AMOUNT: $4,150,000.00
MEDIAN AMOUNT: $1,255,000.00
AVERAGE AMOUNT: $1,715,555.56
Transactions are shown alphabetically by cityy CITY/AREA NAME: CARMEl VAllEY
TOTAL SALES: 2
Individual transactions contain the following information, if available: Address (alphabetically by street),
) LOWEST AMOUNT: $1,650,000.00
HIGHEST AMOUNT: $3,050,000.00
sales price, bedrooms, baths, square footage, year built, seller, buyer, date MEDIAN AMOUNT: $2,350,000.00
AVERAGE AMOUNT: $2,350,000.00

Carmel Greenfield 1684 Via Isola 93940: $1,375,000, 608 Loma Vista Drive 93901: $710,000, CITY/AREA NAME: EAsT GARRIsoN
4 Bdrms/2576 SqFt/1963 YrBlt, Wareham Family Trust 2 Bdrms/1441 SqFt/1959 YrBlt, Davis Trust to TOTAL SALES: 1
264 Hacienda Carmel 93923: $490,000, 19 Pepper Tree Court 93927: $510,500, A. & E. Natera on 04-19-23 LOWEST AMOUNT: $800,000.00
to T. & G. Cannon on 04-19-23
515 SqFt/1964 YrBlt, Vanostrand Trust to H. Nino to C. Cadenas on 04-21-23 HIGHEST AMOUNT: $800,000.00
F. Stowell on 04-20-23 409 Riker Street 93901: $723,500, MEDIAN AMOUNT: $800,000.00
44242 Teague Avenue 93927: $600,000, marina 3 Bdrms/1710 SqFt/1918 YrBlt, M. Eriksen to AVERAGE AMOUNT: $800,000.00
6 Hacienda Carmel 93923: $730,000, 3 Bdrms//855 SqF
FtTeague Avenue Homes LLC to N. & T. Burger on 04-17-23
200 Spruce Avenue 93950: $1,250,000, CITY/AREA NAME: GREENfIEld
2 Bdrms/910 SqFt/1964 YrBlt, Williams Family Trust to J. & I. Ceja-Bojorquez on 04-18-23
2 Bdrms/844 SqFt/1926 YrBlt, Aykroyd Trust to 1785 Londonderry Way 93906: $750,000, TOTAL SALES: 2
K. Jeffries on 04-20-23 Hawn Trust on 04-20-23 LOWEST AMOUNT: $510,500.00
marina 3 Bdrms/1814 SqFt/2001 YrBlt, A. Cox to HIGHEST AMOUNT: $600,000.00
73 Del Mesa Carmel 93923: $991,000, S. & F. Alvarez on 04-18-23 MEDIAN AMOUNT: $555,250.00
318 18th Street 93950: $1,700,000,
2 Bdrms/1317 SqFt/1968 YrBlt, Kerns Trust to 3039 Vaughn Avenue 93933: $670,000, AVERAGE AMOUNT: $555,250.00
2 Bdrms/730 SqFt/1928 YrBlt, Walker Visions LLC to 1263 River Road 93908: $839,000,
Dambrosio Family Trust on 04-21-23 3 Bdrms/1323 SqFt/1980 YrBlt, N. Ogisu to
Silva Living Trust on 04-20-23 Mccauley Family Trust on 04-20-23 3 Bdrms/2082 SqFt/1972 YrBlt, D. Mahlman to CITY/AREA NAME: MARINA
A. & F. Orejel on 04-19-23 TOTAL SALES: 6
3850 Rio Road #84 93923: $1,100,000, 311 Chestnut Street 93950: $1,795,000, LOWEST AMOUNT: $670,000.00
458 Reindollar Avenue 93933: $688,000,
2 Bdrms/1580 SqFt/1976 YrBlt, Rayne Family Trust to 3 Bdrms/2017 SqFt/1991 YrBlt, Whitten Trust to 14802 Mossy Oak Place 93907: $858,000, HIGHEST AMOUNT: $1,364,500.00
3 Bdrms/1054 SqFt/1963 YrBlt, Majcher Trust to MEDIAN AMOUNT: $775,000.00
Woods Trust on 04-17-23 3 Bdrms/2015 SqFt/1975 YrBlt, Fisher Trust to
R. Tapia on 04-21-23 Smith & Bromann 2017 Trust on 04-17-23 AVERAGE AMOUNT: $892,416.67
45 Del Mesa Carmel 93923: $1,255,000, R. & M. Fairbanks on 04-19-23
3008 Seeno Circle 93933: $700,000, Pebble beaCh CITY/AREA NAME: MoNTEREY
2 Bdrms/1584 SqFt/1968 YrBlt, Dickerman Trust to 22585 Toreador Drive 93908: $955,000,
3 Bdrms/1471 SqFt/1962 YrBlt, O. & D. Mosley to TOTAL SALES: 6
Edler Family Trust on 04-20-23 4041 Los Altos Drive 93953: $2,500,000, 3 Bdrms/2315 SqFt/1965 YrBlt, H. Howard to LOWEST AMOUNT: $126,000.00
Waidrup Trust on 04-20-23
3 Bdrms/3044 SqFt/1990 YrBlt, Nguyen Living Trust to T. & C. Argoud on 04-21-23 HIGHEST AMOUNT: $1,375,000.00
3548 Greenfield Place 93923: $1,649,000,
3156 De Forest Road 93933: $850,000, J. & A. Aulakh on 04-19-23
MEDIAN AMOUNT: $1,025,000.00
3 Bdrms/2502 SqFt/1973 YrBlt, Johnson Family Trust to 3 Bdrms/2150 SqFt/1977 YrBlt, C. Jacobsen to 14390 Mountain Quail Road 93908: $1,400,000, AVERAGE AMOUNT: $868,333.33
Steven Living Trust on 04-19-23 M. & S. Strelkoff on 04-18-23 3893 Ronda Road 93953: $5,398,000, 3 Bdrms/2120 SqFt/1991 YrBlt, Klugman Family Trust
CITY/AREA NAME: PACIfIC GRoVE
4 Bdrms/2923 SqFt/1962 YrBlt, Wood Family Trust to to M. & J. Gordon on 04-20-23
95 Yankee Point Drive 93923: $1,800,000, 286 Beacon Drive 93933: $1,082,000, TOTAL SALES: 3
Balasubramaniam Living Trust on 04-17-23 LOWEST AMOUNT: $1,250,000.00
2 Bdrms/2817 SqFt/1959 YrBlt, Odom Trust to Shea Homes to G. & T. Ali on 04-19-23 seaside HIGHEST AMOUNT: $1,795,000.00
M. Mancheno on 04-18-23 MEDIAN AMOUNT: $1,700,000.00
272 Sandy Gulch Drive 93933: $1,364,500 salinas 1300 Flores Street 93955: $655,000, AVERAGE AMOUNT: $1,581,666.67
7036 Valley Greens Circle 93923: $3,275,000, Shea Homes to Le-Pham Family Living Trust on
611 Melrose Drive 93901: $575,000, 3 Bdrms/987 SqFt/1955 YrBlt, B. & J. Nielson to
3 Bdrms/3158 SqFt/2004 YrBlt, Dresser Trust to 04-20-23 CITY/AREA NAME: PEbblE bEACh
3 Bdrms/1258 SqFt/1971 YrBlt, J. Negroni to C. & J. Donlon on 04-17-23 TOTAL SALES: 2
R. Owner on 04-20-23
monterey V. & F. Hunkin on 04-20-23 LOWEST AMOUNT: $2,500,000.00
5 Mansell Court 93955: $870,000, HIGHEST AMOUNT: $5,398,000.00
20 Mentone Road 93923: $4,150,000,
820 Casanova Avenue #121 93940: $126,000, 237 Loma Drive 93906: $610,000, 3 Bdrms/1712 SqFt/1970 YrBlt, J. Frear to
MEDIAN AMOUNT: $3,949,000.00
3 Bdrms/5068 SqFt/1976 YrBlt, Goyette Family Trust to AVERAGE AMOUNT: $3,949,000.00
506 SqFt/1985 YrBlt, Velman Living Trust to 3 Bdrms/1252 SqFt/1950 YrBlt, J. Phillips to M. Perez B. & J. Nielson on 04-21-23
J. & K. Sequeira on 04-17-23
P. Suarez on 04-18-23 on 04-17-23 CITY/AREA NAME: sAlINAs
Carmel Valley 209 Montclair Lane 93906: $639,000, soledad TOTAL SALES: 14
820 Casanova Avenue #9 93940: $449,000, LOWEST AMOUNT: $575,000.00
3 Bdrms/1386 SqFt/1966 YrBlt, N. Farrell to 3 Bdrms/1587 SqFt/1995 YrBlt, Kowal Living Trust to 836 Vasquez Drive 93960: $300,500, HIGHEST AMOUNT: $1,400,000.00
2 La Rancheria #A 93924: $1,650,000,
N. & S. Martinez on 04-13-23 J. & D. Gutierrez on 04-19-23 MEDIAN AMOUNT: $691,500.00
3 Bdrms/1805 SqFt/1957 YrBlt, S. Bruno to Soledad 92 Lp to T. Ruiz on 04-18-23 AVERAGE AMOUNT: $759,107.14
Craig Family Trust on 04-21-23 257 Littleness Avenue 93940: $1,020,000, 965 Sage Court 93905: $655,000,
105 Buena Vista Parkx 93960: $323,000, CITY/AREA NAME: sEAsIdE
2 Bdrms/1279 SqFt/1950 YrBlt, B. Sullivan to M. Mesa 3 Bdrms/1442 SqFt/1998 YrBlt, C. & C. Perez to
515 West Carmel Valley Road 93924: $3,050,000, TOTAL SALES: 2
on 04-21-23 E. Ceja on 04-21-23 3 Bdrms/1145 SqFt/1976 YrBlt, E. Oliveros to LOWEST AMOUNT: $655,000.00
2 Bdrms/3095 SqFt/2001 YrBlt, Amon-Higa Family Trust
to Rdf Investments LLC on 04-21-23 1335 Cherokee Drive 93906: $660,000, F. & J. Vega on 04-19-23 HIGHEST AMOUNT: $870,000.00
721 Oak Street 93940: $1,030,000, MEDIAN AMOUNT: $762,500.00
3 Bdrms/1758 SqFt/1956 YrBlt, M. & G. Epstein to 3 Bdrms/1212 SqFt/1970 YrBlt, M. & R. Boggs to AVERAGE AMOUNT: $762,500.00
east Garrison sPreCkels
Seaside R/E & Invs Inc on 04-18-23 S. Saragarvani on 04-21-23
11 4th Street 93962: $769,000, CITY/AREA NAME: solEdAd
19114 Fallingwater Lane 93933: $800,000, 1184 Josselyn Canyon Road 93940: $1,210,000, 1126 Pacific Avenue 93905: $673,000, TOTAL SALES: 2
3 Bdrms/1646 SqFt/2019 YrBlt, G. & T. Labrador to 3 Bdrms/1358 SqFt/1954 YrBlt, J. Dietz to 2 Bdrms/828 SqFt/1941 YrBlt, Rubio Investments Lc to 4 Bdrms/1945 SqFt/1973 YrBlt, Roel Trust to LOWEST AMOUNT: $300,500.00
HIGHEST AMOUNT: $323,000.00
P. Guenther on 04-17-23 D. & T. Gallagher on 04-20-23 V. & E. Paz on 04-19-23 A. & O. Rodriguez on 04-20-23 MEDIAN AMOUNT: $311,750.00
AVERAGE AMOUNT: $311,750.00

Advertise your home for sale in the Monterey County Herald, CITY/AREA NAME: sPRECkEls
TOTAL SALES: 1
LOWEST AMOUNT: $769,000.00
call Dana Arvig @ 831-726-4343 or email darvig@montereyherald.com HIGHEST AMOUNT:
MEDIAN AMOUNT:
$769,000.00
$769,000.00
AVERAGE AMOUNT: $769,000.00
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COURTS
2 more Oath Keepers
sentenced to prison
terms for Jan. 6 attack
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON >> Two Army
veterans who stormed the
U.S. Capitol in a military-
style formation with fel-
low members of the Oath
Keepers were sentenced
Friday to prison terms, a
day after the far-right ex-
tremist group’s founder
received a record-setting
18-years behind bars in the
Jan. 6, 2021, attack.
U.S. District Judge Amit
Mehta sentenced Jessica
Watkins, of Woodstock,
Ohio, to eight years and six
months behind bars and
sentenced Kenneth Har-
relson, of Titusville, Flor-
ida, to four years in prison.
A federal jury acquit-
ted Watkins and Harrel-
son of the seditious con-
spiracy charge that Oath
Keepers founder Stewart
Rhodes was found guilty
of in November. But ju-
rors convicted Watkins
and Harrelson of other
Jan. 6 charges, including
obstructing Congress’ cer-
tification of President Joe
Biden’s victory.
Rhodes’ 18-year term
is the longest prison
sentence that has been
handed down so far in the
hundreds of Capitol riot
cases. The charges against
leaders of the Oath Keep-
ers and another extrem-
ist group, the Proud Boys,
are among the most seri-
ous brought in the Justice
Department’s massive in-
vestigation of the riot.
Mehta agreed with the
Justice Department that
Rhodes and the other Oath
Keepers’ actions could be
punished as “terrorism,”
increasing the recom-
mended sentence under
federal guidelines.
But the judge ultimately
gave Watkins and Harrel-
son far less time than pros-
ecutors were seeking. The
Justice Department had
requested 18 years for Wat-
kins and 15 for Harrelson.
Watkins and Harrelson
marched toward the Capi-
tol with other Oath Keep-
ers members in “stack”
formations as a mob of
Trump supporters clashed
with outnumbered police
officers. Harrelson was
the group’s “ground team
lead” on Jan. 6. Watkins,
who formed a separate
Ohio-based militia group,
recruited others to join the
Oath Keepers in Washing-
ton that day.
Mehta said that while
Watkins was not a top
leader, like Rhodes, she
was more than just a “foot
soldier,” noting that at
least three others charged
in the riot wouldn’t have
been there if she hadn’t re-
cruited them to join.
“Your role that day was
more aggressive, more as-
saultive, more purposeful
than perhaps others,” he
told her.
Watkins tearfully apol-
ogized for her actions be-
fore the judge handed
down her sentence. She
condemned the violence
by rioters who assaulted
police, but conceded that
her presence at the Capitol
“probably inspired those
people to a degree.” She de-
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scribed herself as “just an-
other idiot running around
the Capitol” on Jan. 6.
“And today you’re going
to hold this idiot respon-
sible,” she told the judge.
The judge said Watkins’
personal story of strug-
gling for years to come to
terms with her identity
as a transgender woman
made it especially difficult
for him to understand why
she has shown “a lack of
empathy for those who suf-
fered” on Jan. 6. Watkins
testified at trial about hid-
ing her identity from her
parents during a strict
Christian upbringing and
going AWOL in the Army
after a fellow soldier found
evidence of her contact
with a support group for
transgender people.
Harrelson told the judge
he went to Washington af-
ter another Oath Keeper
offered him a “security
job,” but said he has never
voted for a president in his
life and doesn’t care about
politics. Some of the Oath
Keepers provided security
for Trump ally Roger Stone
and other right-wing fig-
ures at events before the
riot.
“I have totally demol-
ished my life,” he said as
he broke down in tears. “I
am responsible, and my
foolish actions have caused
immense pain to my wife
and our children.”
Mehta said he doesn’t
agree with the govern-
ment’s portrayal of Har-
relson as a “mid-level orga-
nizer” for the Oath Keep-
ers. Unlike many other
group members charged
in the attack, Harrelson
didn’t send any messages
“that anyone would con-
sider extremist,” the judge
said.
But the judge said he
was struck by an image of
Harrelson patting down a
police officer on his way
out of the Capitol.
“You weren’t just there
that day because you got
swept in,” the judge told
him.
During a nearly two-
month trial in Washing-
ton’s federal court, law-
yers for Watkins and the
other Oath Keepers argued
there was no plan to attack
the Capitol. On the witness
stand, Watkins told jurors
she never intended to in-
terfere with the certifica-
tion and never heard any
commands for her and
other Oath Keepers to en-
ter the building.
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Memorial Day is full of contradiction
By Ben Finley
The Associated Press
NORFOLK, VA. >> Memo-
rial Day is supposed to be
about mourning the na-
tion’s fallen service mem-
bers, but it’s come to an-
chor the unofficial start of
summer and a long week-
end of discounts on any-
thing from mattresses to
lawn mowers.
Auto club AAA said in
a travel forecast that this
holiday weekend could be
“one for the record books,
especially at airports,”
with more than 42 mil-
lion Americans projected
to travel 50 miles (80 kilo-
meters) or more. Federal of-
ficials said Friday that the
number of air travelers had
already hit a pandemic-era
high.
But for Manuel Casta-
ñeda Jr., 58, the day will be May 5, 1866, and was later
a quiet one in Durand, Illi- proclaimed to be the holi- Has the holiday
nois, outside Rockford. He
lost his father, a U.S. Ma-
rine who served in Viet-
nam, in an accident in Cal-
ifornia while training other according to the Library mented the holiday’s drift
Marines in 1966.
“Memorial Day is very
personal,” said Castañeda,
who also served in the Ma-
rines and Army National
Guard, from which he knew
men who died in combat.
“It isn’t just the specials. It
isn’t just the barbecue.”
But he tries not to judge heard speeches and dedi- Frederick Douglass feared
others who spend the holi-
day differently: “How can I
expect them to understand
the depth of what I feel
when they haven’t experi-
enced anything like that.
It’s a day of reflection
and remembrance of those
who died while serving in
the U.S. military, accord-
ing to the Congressional
Research Service. The hol-
iday is observed in part by
the National Moment of
Remembrance, which en-
courages all Americans to
pause at 3 p.m. for a mo-
ment of silence.
Holiday’s origins
The holiday stems from Ohio. The ceremony’s orga-
the American Civil War, nizers turned off his micro-
which killed more than phone because they said it
600,000 service members
— both Union and Confed-
erate — between 1861 and
1865.
There’s little controversy
over the first national ob-
servance of what was then
called Decoration Day. It
occurred May 30, 1868,
after an organization of
Union veterans called for
decorating war graves
with flowers, which were
in bloom.
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the Civil War’s impetus —
slavery — when he gave a
Decoration Day speech at
Arlington National Ceme-
tery.
“We must never forget
that the loyal soldiers who
rest beneath this sod flung
themselves between the
nation and the nation’s de-
stroyers,” Douglass said.
His concerns were well-
founded, said Ben Rail-
ton, a professor of Eng-
lish and American studies
at Fitchburg State Univer-
ANDREW HARNIK — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
sity in Massachusetts. Even
A member of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, also known as though roughly 180,000
The Old Guard, places flags in front of each headstone for Black men served in the
“Flags-In” at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington on Union Army, the holiday in
Thursday to honor the Nation’s fallen military heroes ahead many communities would
of Memorial Day. essentially become “white
Memorial Day,” especially
The practice was already wasn’t relevant to honor- after the rise of the Jim
widespread on a local level. ing the city’s veterans. The Crow South, Railton said.
Waterloo, New York, began event’s organizers later re- Meanwhile, how the day
a formal observance on signed. was spent — at least by the
nation’s elected officials
— could draw scrutiny for
day’s birthplace. always been a source years after the Civil War. In
Yet Boalsburg, Pennsyl- of contention? the 1880s, then-President
vania, traced its first ob- Grover Cleveland was said
servance to October 1864, Someone has always la- to have gone fishing — and
“people were appalled,”
of Congress. And women from its original meaning. said Matthew Dennis, an
in some Confederate states As early as 1869, The emeritus history professor
were decorating graves be- New York Times wrote that at the University of Oregon.
fore the war’s end. the holiday could become By 1911, the Indianap-
But David Blight, a Yale “sacrilegious” and no lon- olis 500 held its inaugu-
history professor, points to ger “sacred” if it focuses ral race on May 30, draw-
May 1, 1865, when as many more on pomp, dinners and ing 85,000 spectators. A re-
as 10,000 people, many of oratory. port from The Associated
them Black, held a parade, In 187 1, abolitionist Press made no mention of
the holiday — or any con-
cated the graves of Union Americans were forgetting troversy.
dead in Charleston, South
Carolina.
A total of 267 Union
troops had died at a Con-
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called out for their father.
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SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA >> A doors and other equipment
passenger opened an emer-
gency exit door during a
plane flight in South Ko-
rea on Friday, causing air
to blast inside the cabin
and slightly injure 12 peo-
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or wounded, according to
Ukrainian officials.
That figure does not in-
clude casualties from the
Russian occupied city of
Mariupol, which is also part
of Donetsk province, where
Ukrainian officials have
found it difficult to track
the dead and wounded.
Before the war tore them
apart, the Hinkin family
was like any other living in
the village of Torske, which
today is just 35 kilometers
(22 miles) from the front.
With the death of their
father in October, the chil-
dren were orphaned. Their
mother died years before
the war.
Six months later, the sib-
lings appear to be moving
past the worst of their or-
deal.
Police and volunteers
evacuated them to a safer
area in western Zakarpat-
tia region, where they were
cared for by government so-
cial services and a Ukrai-
nian charity organization
called SOS Children’s Vil-
lages, which provided hous-
ing and counseling.
T heir stor y became
known in and around Tor-
ske after police released
a widely seen video that
showed their father’s body
being removed from the
family home.
“We knew the village. We
knew where they lived. We
knew these people,” said
Nina Poliakova, 52, from
the nearby town of Lyman.
Although she fled last
year with her family to Lviv,
Poliakova continued to fol-
low news from her native
area. Then tragedy struck
her life as well when her
16-year-old foster son died
suddenly from a heart con-
dition.
She also has a 16-year-old
foster daughter she took in
with her husband in 2016
from the occupied town of
Horlivka, where hostilities
with Russian-backed sepa-
ratists began, years before
the 2022 invasion.
Mired in grief, Poliakova
received a call one day from
a local center supporting
children. The caller asked
if she would be willing to
meet the Hinkin siblings.
At their first meeting,
they talked mostly about
the Hinkin family home
and the domestic animals
they had. One of Andrii’s fa-
vorite activities was to feed
the pigs.
immediately released.
The law bars passen-
gers from handling exit
on board and provides for
penalties of up to 10 years
in prison, the ministry said.
The plane with 194 peo-
ple aboard was heading
to the southeastern city of
Daegu from the southern
island of Jeju. The flight
is normally about an hour,
and the incident occurred
when the plane was reach-
ing the Daegu airport at an
altitude of 700 feet (213 me-
ters).
A video apparently taken
by a person on board that
was posted on social me-
dia shows some passengers’
hair being whipped by the
air blowing into the cabin
SATURDAY, MAY 27, 2023
Poliakova decided to wel-
come the two children into
her extended family.
“We had that tragedy in
our family, and then fate
just brought us together,”
Poliakova said. “Now many
children have been left
alone, without parents.
Children need care, love.
They seek to be embraced
and comforted.”
Many foundations have
emerged to help children
overcome the trauma of
war, including a group
called Voices of Chil-
dren, which has processed
around 700 requests from
parents looking for help
with children suffering
from chronic stress, panic
attacks and symptoms of
PTSD.
The pleas have changed
as the war has progressed,
according to a report issued
by the charity. During this
past winter, parents sought
help after noticing behav-
ioral changes in their chil-
dren including apathy, ag-
gression and anxiety, sen-
sitivity to loud noises and
anti-social habits.
“A child’s psyche remains
more malleable than that of
adults, and with timely and
quality support, we under-
stand that a child can more
easily overcome any trau-
matic events,” said Olena
Rozvadovska, the head of
Voices of Children.
Recovering from months
living so close to combat
lines was difficult for the
siblings, Poliakova said.
“They were very scared,”
she said. Olha would cry
and hug her every time she
heard the air-raid sirens.
Andrii was relatively calm
during the day but would
start screaming in the mid-
dle of the night.
A charity known as Sin-
cere Heart has operated
short-term recovery camps
for children and their moth-
ers since the start of the in-
vasion last year. More than
8,000 people have used the
camp services.
Poliakova took her three
foster children there. She
wanted to help revive the
childhood they lost to the
war.
At the camp they played
with other children who
had similar experiences
and took part in art ses-
sions, dance classes and
other activities designed to
help children express emo-
tions.
through the open door.
The passengers included
teenage athletes on their
way to a track and field com-
petition. Some screamed
and cried in panic, Yonhap
news agency reported, cit-
ing their unidentified coach.
Yonhap quoted other pas-
sengers as saying they suf-
fered severe ear pain af-
ter the door opened. It said
some cabin crew shouted
for help from passengers to
prevent the door from being
opened.
Twelve people were taken
to hospitals for treatment,
according to the Transpor-
tation Ministry. Emergency
officials in Daegu said the
injured people suffered
breathing problems and
other minor symptoms.
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ABDUCTION CHARGES

Taken Carmel Valley child found

To be reunited with father; mother arrested
By James Herrera
jherrera@montereyherald.com
SALINAS >> A little girl will be re-
united with her father after being
taken by her mother months ago
to another state.
Monterey County Sheriff Tina
Nieto held a press conference late
Thursday afternoon at the Sher-
iff’s Office to announce the suc-
cessful recovery of 6-year-old Eve-
lina Madsen of Carmel Valley.
In April 2022, Veronica Esc-
obedo Lopez, the 51-year-old
mother of the little girl, took her
child without her father Ryan
Madsen’s consent, according to
Nieto.
Both the mother and father
had shared custody of the little
girl in the beginning and “over
the course of six months, he was
able to get full custody of Eve-
lina,” said Nieto.
On Feb. 3, Madsen reported to
the Sheriff’s Office that his daugh-
ter was abducted by her mother.
“Mother/child abductions refer
to where a mother takes a child or
children away from their home or
the custody of the other parent,”
Nieto explained.
Sheriff’s Office Investigations
Unit Lead Detective Arras Wil-
son said that during the ongo-
ing custody battle, “once it be-
came apparent to Veronica that
she no longer had physical or le-
gal custody of Evelina that was
when she made the conscious de-
cision to flee the state, hide from
the courts and hide from the law
enforcement.”
Wilson said it is not clear why
Lopez went to Vermont, but de-
tectives knew she was there in
October 2022 and efforts were
made by law enforcement to con-
tact her there. She fled again and
it took several more months to
find her.
Monterey County Sheriff’s In-
vestigators got the case and for-
warded it to the District Attor-
ney’s Office. As a result of both
the Sheriff’s and D.A.’s investi-
gations, a felony arrest warrant
was issued for Veronica Esc-
obedo Lopez for the child ab-
duction.
“We’re very happy today be-
cause the U.S. Marshals were able
to contact the mother in Ludlow,
Vermont and they took her into
custody and they were able to lo-
cate Evelina who was placed in
protective custody and is doing
well,” said Nieto.
L op e z w a s a r r e s t e d by
U.S. Marshals in Vermont on
charges of violation of Califor-
nia Penal Code 288.5(a) Child
Abduction. She is being held
in Vermont with bail set at
$20,000.
Ryan Madsen speaks
about the successful
recovery of his daughter
who had been abducted
by her mother and
taken to Vermont at a
press conference at the
Monterey County Sheriff’s
Office as Sheriff Tina
Nieto and others listen
in this screen grab from
the livestreamed event on
Thursday.
SCREENSHOT
Madsen, who attended the
press conference, thanked the
Sheriff’s Office in helping to find
his daughter.
“I’m just so happy this is over
and I can have some quality time
with my daughter starting very
soon,” said Madsen. “I’m on my
way to Vermont right now to pick
her up.”

HIGHER EDUCATION CRIME & PUBLIC

SAFETY

Seniors receive first Monterey Masseuse

Bay Aquarium scholarship
Two Monterey Peninsula Unified School District seniors are the first to receive a new scholarship from the Monterey Bay Aquarium — four
years of fully-funded admission to California State University Monterey Bay.
By Molly Gibbs
mgibbs@montereyherald.com
Two Monterey Peninsula Uni-
fied School District seniors are
the first to receive a new schol-
arship from the Monterey Bay
Aquarium — four years of fully-
funded admission to California
State University Monterey Bay.
Desiree Torres, a 17-year-old
senior at Marina High School,
and Rylee Jue, a 17-year-old se-
nior at Monterey High School,
are the inaugural awardees of
the Monterey Bay Aquarium
George P. Schultz Future Lead-
ers Scholarship.
The scholarship was estab-
lished through Schultz’s fam-
ily and donors who wanted to
honor his legacy.
Schultz was a founding chair
of the Aquarium’s Leadership
Council and served as a trustee.
Throughout his highly distin-
guished career in academia
and public service he was dedi-
cated to equity in education. He
helped lead efforts to disman-
PHOTO COURTESY OF MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM
tle segregation in schools and involved in school sports and
served in various positions in- activities. She played volley-
cluding Secretary of State, Sec- ball, basketball and softball her
retary of Labor and Secretary of freshman year and became ac-
the Treasury. tive in her school’s Associated
Thanks to Schultz’s family Student Body government. She
and generous donors, Torres and served as sophomore class pres-
Jue will attend CSU Monterey ident, junior class vice president
Bay at no-cost. and senior class president.
At CSU Monterey Bay, Tor- She said getting involved in
res will study computer science school sports and student body
with a software engineering fo- government is what made her
cus and a minor in Spanish. fall in love with Monterey High
Throughout her high school School.
career, Torres has been actively AQUARIUM » PAGE 2
convicted
of sexual
battery
By Tess Kenny
tkenny@montereyherald.com
SALINAS >> A Monterey masseuse
was convicted of sexual battery
in Monterey Superior Court this
week after a jury trial, the Mon-
terey County District Attorney’s
Office announced Thursday.
Wuguang Wang, 29, was con-
victed of touching a female pa-
tron’s breasts during her massage
appointment.
On Jan. 1, 2022, Jane Doe —
the victim — was in Monterey
with her husband and two chil-
dren for a short holiday, the DA’s
Office said in a press release.
During the trip, Doe made an
appointment for a massage at a
local spa in Monterey.
At around 4 p.m., Doe arrived
for her appointment, and after
what began as a “normal mas-
sage,” according to the DA’s Of-
fice, Wang began “touching Joe
Doe’s breasts.”
The DA’s Office said that while
Doe froze in what is known as
“counterintuitive victim behav-
ior,” she was able to “‘squeak’ out
a NO” before the sexual battery
escalated. Doe then returned to
her hotel and told her husband
about the incident. Her husband
called 911, and Doe reported the
incident.
Doe testified in Monterey
County Superior Court. She was
assisted by the DA’s Office vic-
tim advocate Kristen Peterson
and investigator Sarah Jack-
son.
Wang’s sentencing is set for
Tuesday, May 30. As a tier one
offense, a sexual battery convic-
tion requires registration as a
sex offender for at least 10 years.
Wang faces a maximum impris-
onment of six months in county
jail.

CRIME & PUBLIC SAFETY

Student stabbed at Salinas High School

Suspect has been
taken into police
custody
By Molly Gibbs
mgibbs@montereyherald.com
Two high schools within the Sa-
linas Union High School District
were under lockdown Thursday
due to separate incidents of vio-
lence between students.
The first incident occurred at
Everett Alvarez High School and
involved a “student altercation
between a small number of stu-
dents” according to the district.
The students involved were iden-
tified and removed from the site
and the lockdown was lifted at
1:03 p.m.
The second incident occurred
at Salinas High School at 1:15
p.m. when a male student and
a female student were involved
in a fight that resulted in the
male assaulting the female with
a 2-3” pocket knife. The female
was transported to the hospital
and treated for non-life threat-
ening injuries and the male stu-
dent was taken into police cus-
tody.
The district explained that stu-
dents and staff were placed on
lockdown while law enforcement
officers conducted their investiga-
tion into the incident.
“This is a time of year where
families are celebrating promo-
tion to high school and gradua-
tion,” the district said in a press
release. “This is obviously not the
expected behavior and we will
work through the investigations
with the law enforcement agen-
cies.”
The City of Salinas also sent
out a press release Thursday night
and explained that officers re-
sponded to a report of a stabbing
victim at Salinas High School
around 1:21 p.m.
Upon arrival, the 16-year-old fe-
male student had suffered “mul-
tiple stab wounds” to her upper
torso area and was transported
to a local medical facility. The
17-year-old male student was de-
tained and transported to Juve-
nile Hall on attempted murder
charges.
“Our first concern is for the
safety and well-being of our stu-
dents, staff, families and those
who were impacted by this ter-
rible event,” the district contin-
ued in the press release. “School
counselors, social workers, be-
havior specialists and adminis-
trators are available to support
students and parents as needed.
Salinas High School staff stand
ready to provide resources to help
students and staff who need ad-
ditional resources to process this
incident.”
In the wake of the incident, the
district said it will be reviewing
school safety plans and lockdown
procedures to ensure the safety
and security of its schools.
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Judge says fire retardant drops are
polluting streams, allows use to continue
By Matthew Brown
The Associated Press
BILLINGS, MONT. >> A judge
ruled Friday that the U.S.
government can keep using
chemical retardant to fight
wildfires, despite finding
that the practice pollutes
streams in western states
in violation of federal law.
Halting the use of the red
slurry material could have
resulted in greater envi-
ronmental damage from
wildfires, said U.S. District
Judge Dana Christensen in
Missoula, Montana.
The judge agreed with
U.S. Forest Service officials
who said dropping retar-
dant from aircraft into ar-
eas with waterways was
sometimes necessary to
protect lives and property.
The ruling came after
came after environmental-
ists sued following revela-
tions that the Forest Service
dropped retardant into wa-
terways hundreds of times
over the past decade.
Government officials say
chemical fire retardant can
be crucial to slowing the ad-
vance of dangerous blazes.
Wildfires across North
America have grown big-
ger and more destructive
over the past two decades
as climate change warms
the planet.
More than 200 loads of
retardant got into water-
Aquarium
FROM PAGE 1
Torres said she discov-
ered her passion for com-
puter science when she at-
tended a Hackathon with
CSU Monterey Bay in mid-
dle school. Participating
teams were tasked with
creating an app, and her
group decided to create an
app that would help make
public transportation more
accessible for visually-im-
paired individuals.
“The app didn’t really
work, it was bare bones,”
Torres admitted. “It was
just the outline, but that’s
really what got my wheels
turning (that) this is some-
thing that I want to do.
There’s so much that I saw
that that could be done with
technology. It just piqued
my interest. And ever since
then, I’ve just been really
interested in computer sci-
ence and the technology
world.”
Torres taught herself
how to code with Python
by watching YouTube videos
and took additional classes
through Monterey Penin-
sula College.
Monterey Peninsula Uni-
fied School District has ded-
icated time and resources
to encouraging women
and minorities to partici-
pate in science, technology,
engineering and mathemat-
ics. In 2022, Seaside High
earned the College Board’s
AP® Computer Science Fe-
male Diversity Award for
Expanding Young Women’s
Access to AP Computer Sci-
ence Principles.
Torres said the lack of
representation in STEM is
another factor that encour-
aged her to pursue com-
puter science.
“Once I started really
looking into computer sci-
ence and I saw that it was
a really underrepresented
field — not only me being a
woman, but being a woman
of color, being a Chicana —
it just motivated me more…
I need to do this, I need to
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wildfire and homes in the dry, densely wooded Black Forest
area northeast of Colorado Springs, Colo., on June 13, 2013.
ways over the past decade.
Federal officials say those
situations usually occurred
by mistake and in less than
1% of the thousands of loads
annually.
A coalition that includes
Paradise, California —
where a 2018 blaze killed
85 people and destroyed
the town — had said a court
ruling that stopped the use
of retardant would have put
lives, homes and forests at
risk.
“This case was very per-
sonal for us,” Paradise
Mayor Greg Bolin said. “Our
brave firefighters need ev-
ery tool in the toolbox to
protect human lives and
property against wildfires,
and today’s ruling ensures
be successful. I need to
show people that we can do
it, that I can do it,” she ex-
plained. “And it’s not about
me being a woman, it’s not
about me being Mexican,
being a Chicana. It’s me, I
can do it. I’m perfectly ca-
pable. Those are just as-
pects outside of it.”
At CSU Monterey Bay,
Jue will study social and
behavioral sciences with
a concentration in politi-
cal economy to achieve her
goal of going into interna-
tional law.
Jue spent her time at
Monterey High School in
the Monterey Academy of
Oceanographic Science.
The program teaches stu-
dents through an interdis-
ciplinary approach to sci-
ence and technology and
features hands-on science
labs, field studies, intern-
ships and oceanographic
experts.
Jue also spent her junior
and senior year in the In-
ternational Baccalaureate
program. The rigorous cur-
riculum teaches students a
variety of topics through a
global perspective. Students
are required to complete
several extensive research
papers and exams in each
course.
Jue was an active mem-
ber of her school’s student
body government and held
positions as class trea-
surer and secretary. Dur-
ing her sophomore year
— in the height of the CO-
VID-19 pandemic — she
was challenged to create
class events and increase
student involvement. She
helped organize virtual
events, including game
nights, trivia events and a
movie night.
Jue also participated in
her high school’s cheerlead-
ing team throughout high
school and was the only ath-
lete to be invited to join the
varsity team her sophomore
year. Later, her coach told
her she had qualified for the
varsity team her freshman
year but was unable to par-
ticipate because freshmen
are restricted to the junior
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we have a fighting chance
this fire season.”
State and local agencies
lean heavily on the U.S.
Forest Service to help fight
fires, many of which origi-
nate or include federal land.
Fire retardant is a spe-
cialized mixture of wa-
ter and chemicals includ-
ing inorganic fertilizers or
salts. It’s designed to alter
the way fire burns, mak-
ing blazes less intense and
slowing their advance.
That can give firefighters
time to steer flames away
from inhabited areas and in
extreme situations to evacu-
ate people from danger.
“Retardant lasts and
even works if it’s dry,” said
Scott Upton, a former re-
varsity teams.
She took dual enrollment
classes at Monterey Penin-
sula College throughout her
time in high school, includ-
ing courses in international
relations, politics, finance
and business.
But it was the Ameri-
can Sign Language Course
that resonated with her the
most.
“(That) was very special
to me because I was born
with a birth defect called
a Cleft Palate so I couldn’t
communicate with my par-
ents verbally (until) I had
cleft palate repair surgery,”
Jue explained. “I commu-
nicated with my family
through ASL and so I was
really interested in further-
ing that…so that was really
special to me.”
Through the George
P. Schultz Future Leader
Scholarship, Torres and
Jue will also receive men-
tal health resources and
mentorship from Monterey
Bay Aquarium educational
program staff. The students
will also participate in in-
ternships for the first two
years.
Monterey Bay Aquari-
um’s vice president of ed-
ucation, Jenny de la Hoz,
explained that as inaugu-
ral awardees of the schol-
arship, Torres and Jue will
help aquarium staff plan
and implement the next
phase of the scholarship
program, including the in-
ternships.
“We’re hoping that we
can then tie them into dif-
ferent departments,” de
la Hoz explained. “Maybe
Rylee will get an opportu-
nity to work with our pol-
icy team, so she can see
what policy work looks like
for a nonprofit. Maybe De-
siree (will) work with our
database team or our peo-
ple that are doing analytics
on our visitors.”
De la Hoz explained that
the scholarship received
around 25 applications for
its first year and focused
on local youth that wanted
to stay in their community
and give back.
gion chief and air attack
group supervisor for Cal-
ifornia’s state fire agency.
“Water is only so good be-
cause it dries out. It does
very well to suppress fires,
but it won’t last.”
The Oregon-based group
Forest Service Employees
for Environmental Ethics
argued in its lawsuit filed
last year that the Forest Ser-
vice was disregarding the
Clean Water Act by continu-
ing to use retardant with-
out taking adequate precau-
tions to protect streams and
rivers.
Christensen said stop-
ping the use of fire retar-
dant would “conceivably re-
sult in greater harm from
wildfires — including to
human life and property
and to the environment.”
The judge said his ruling
was limited to 10 western
states where members of
the plaintiff’s group alleged
harm from pollution into
waterways that they use.
After the lawsuit was
filed the Forest Service ap-
plied to the Environmen-
tal Protection Agency for
a permit that would allow
it to continue using retar-
dant without breaking the
law. That process could take
years.
Christensen ordered fed-
eral officials to report every
six months on their prog-
ress.
Torres and Jue have lived
in Monterey County for
their whole lives and they
both expressed excitement
at the opportunity to re-
main in the area. Although
both women were accepted
to a variety of schools in
California, they saw the
opportunity to remain in
Monterey County as an ad-
vantage.
Torres said she’s excited
that she’ll be able to stay lo-
cal and help coach her high
school basketball team.
She was also relieved that
she’ll be able to stay close
to her family and watch her
younger siblings grow up.
Jue also mentioned her
excitement at being able to
stay in the area and watch
her younger brother’s sports
games.
“For them, it was not a
loss for them to stay here
and go to school at CSU
Monterey Bay. They actu-
ally saw it as a benefit,” de la
Hoz explained. “These two
young women not only see
their family as an asset, but
they also see them as an im-
portant part of who they’re
going to be when they get
older…That felt really im-
pactful for me. Youth that
felt the value of being here
on the Peninsula and be-
ing connected to the ocean
even in their careers was re-
ally important.”
De la Hoz said she hopes
Torres and Jue will be the
first of many local youth to
receive this scholarship.
“There are none more
deserving than some of
the youth in our backyard.
They just need a little help-
ing hand,” she said. “We’re
currently still looking for
more donors to make this
possible for future years
to really boost the endow-
ment and make sure that
it can stay here for a very
long time. So Desiree and
Riley are not just the first,
but the beginning of many
ocean leaders that are fol-
lowing their dreams in dif-
ferent areas, but still have
the ocean as an important
part of the work that they
do and their identity.”
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FINANCIAL MARKETS
Tech leads more
gains on Wall Street
By Damian J. Troise
The Associated Press
NEW YORK >> Technology
stocks powered solid gains
for Wall Street on Friday
after another chipmaker
reported strong demand
related to artificial intel-
ligence.
The upbeat finish to the
week for major indexes
comes amid lingering anx-
iety over persistently high
inflation, the risk of a U.S.
debt default and broadly
weak corporate earnings.
The S&P 500 rose, 54.17
points, or 1.3% to close
at 4,205.45. It notched a
small gain for the week
and is in the green as May
nears its close.
The Dow Jones Indus-
trial Average rose 328.69
points, or 1%, to 33,093.34.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq
notched the biggest gains,
rising 277.59 points, or
2.2%, to 12,975.69. The in-
dex rose 2.5% for the week
as artificial intelligence be-
came a big focus for inves-
tors.
Mar vell Technolog y
surged a record-setting
32.4% after the chipmaker
said it expects AI revenue
in fiscal 2024 to at least
double from the prior year.
That follows Thursday’s
report from fellow chip-
maker Nvidia, which gave
a big forecast for upcom-
ing sales related to AI.
The revolutionary AI field
has become a hot issue. Crit-
ics warn that it is a potential
bubble, but supporters sup-
porters say it could be the
latest revolution to reshape
the global economy. The
nation’s financial watch-
dog, the Consumer Finance
Protection Bureau, said it’s
working to ensure that com-
panies follow the law when
they’re using AI.
Wall Street remains fo-
cused on Washington and
ongoing negotiations for
a deal to lift the U.S. gov-
ernment’s debt ceiling and
avert a potentially calami-
tous default.
Officials said Presi-
dent Joe Biden and House
Speaker Kevin McCarthy
were narrowing in on a two-
year budget deal that could
open the door to lifting the
nation’s debt ceiling. The
Democratic president and
Republican speaker hope
to strike a budget compro-
mise this weekend.
Wall Street and the
broader economy already
had a full roster of con-
cerns before the threat of
the U.S. defaulting on its
debt became sharply high-
lighted on the list.
“Should we avoid that,
and it appears that is a
high probability, we come
back to a trajectory of a
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slowing economy, still-too-
high inflation and restric-
tive monetary policy,” said
Bill Northey, senior invest-
ment director at U.S. Bank
Wealth Management.
A key measure of infla-
tion that is closely watched
by the Federal Reserve
ticked higher than econ-
omists expected in April.
The persistent pressure
from inflation complicates
the Fed’s fight against high
prices. The central bank
has been aggressively rais-
ing interest rates since
2022, but recently sig-
naled it will likely forgo a
rate hike when it meets in
mid-June. The latest gov-
ernment report on infla-
tion is raising concerns
about the Fed’s next move.
Wall Street is now lean-
ing slightly toward the po-
tential for another quarter-
point rate hike in June,
according to CME’s Fed-
watch tool. The Fed has
already raised its bench-
mark interest rate 10 times
in a row.
The Fed faces a difficult
choice at its next meeting,
wrote Brian Rose, senior
US economist at UBS, in
a report.
“Inflation is too high but
further rate hikes could
push the economy into re-
cession,” he said.
Bond yields had been
slipping just prior to the lat-
est inflation data, but rose
following the report. The
yield on the 10-year Trea-
sury, which helps set rates
for mortgages and other im-
portant loans, rose to 3.80%
from 3.78% just before the
report was released.
Movement for the two-
year Treasury yield, which
tends to track expecta-
tions for Fed action, was
more forceful. It jumped
to 4.56% from 4.49% prior
to the report.
The latest inflation data
also highlighted the contin-
ued resilience of consumer
spending, which has been
a key bulwark, along with
the strong jobs market,
against a recession. The
economy grew at a sluggish
1.3% annual rate from Jan-
uary through March and it
is projected to accelerate
to a 2% pace in the current
April-June quarter.
The impact from infla-
tion and worries about a
recession on the horizon
have been hitting corpo-
rate profits and forecasts.
The latest round of com-
pany earnings is nearing
a close with the profits for
companies in the S&P 500
contracting about 2%. That
follows a previous quar-
terly contraction and Wall
Street expects the current
quarter to end with more
shrinking profits.
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SATURDAY, MAY 27, 2023
Think before you speak, and
avoid emotional problems with
those you live or work with this

wants biological
year. Doing some research will
help keep you out of trouble.
Get your facts straight and
put your time and energy into

siblings to meet
DEAR AMY >> A few years
back, I discovered that
I had fathered an adult
child resulting
from my being a
sperm donor de-
cades ago.
This child was
raised by a single
mother and has no
siblings.
This child
sought me out
because they
“wanted more family.” We
have become good friends
and I treasure this rela-
tionship.
I have encouraged the
adult child I raised (also
a biological child) to meet
their half-sibling but, al-
though there has been
sporadic texting, the
adult child I raised has
not made much effort to
meet their half-sibling.
They are very close in
age.
I don’t want my en-
couragement to be misin-
terpreted.
Should I discontinue
encouraging these two to
connect?
— New Father
DEAR NEW FATHER >> You
should continue to en-
courage these two to con-
nect, but your encourage-
ment should be a soft-
sell, understanding that
these two adults have the
right to face — and pace
— the possibility of their
own relationship in their
own way.
You should relate to
each of them as individ-
uals, and be transparent
and relaxed about your
contact with each.
This is a complex and
awkward situation for
the child you raised, who
I assume was not aware
Sudoku
of your donation or pre-
pared for the possibil-
ity of encountering a sib-
ling until recently,
whereas the re-
cently discovered
child sought out
contact with you.
The child you
raised might not
have ever wanted
“more family.”
Now that they have
more family, they
will need time to adjust.
DEAR AMY >> I’d like to add
an additional point to
your response to “Wor-
ried Mom” and the anxi-
ety she has over the chal-
lenges her young adult
sons face as they navigate
the world.
You advised her to let
her sons know about the
anxiety their conversa-
tions can provoke.
It’s possible that her
sons have inherited her
anxious tendencies and
are looking to her for re-
assurance during conver-
sations.
As a parent who strug-
gles with anxiety and has
children who have inher-
ited that gene, it is of-
ten a balance between
being vulnerable with
them while also lend-
ing strength when they
need it.
Worried should ap-
proach the subject care-
fully, lest her sons begin
to feel they should only
share positive news.
— Also Anxious
DEAR ANXIOUS >> Thank
you for this very valuable
insight.
Contact Amy Dickinson
via email, askamy@
amydickinson.com.
improving your life. Traveling
and attending conferences
and observation could be nec-
essary if you want to make a
difference in your community.
Gemini (May 21-June 20):
Stop, reevaluate what’s hap-
pening around you and avoid
doing something unwise.
Choose discipline over emo-
tional mayhem. Do something
that you find satisfying or that
will benefit you.
Cancer (June 21-July 22):
Pitch in and help others. Ex-
press your concerns and sug-
gest solutions. An interesting
idea will lead to a new way to
spend time and make extra
cash. Try not to take on too
much or stretch your budget.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22):
Rethink your financial strategy.
You’ll have to tighten your
purse strings if you want to
save money. Don’t let others
define or change you. Make
your intentions and desires
clear.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Be
receptive to information that
comes your way, but verify its
validity before you share it with
others. Be energetic but not
aggressive in all things today.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23):
Rearrange your home to suit
your needs. Sort and declutter.
Don’t let laziness set in when
you know you’ll feel better once
you have everything in order.
Keep busy and learn as you go.
Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 22):
Fill in the blanks, and you’ll
get your answer. You can fix
an emotional situation if you
share your feelings. Don’t let
your secretive nature stand
between you and something
you want. Love is favored.
Sagittarius (Nov. 23-Dec.
21): Don’t fold under pressure.
Someone will use emotional
manipulation to push you in
a questionable direction. Put
your energy into something
that will strengthen your
position.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
Head to a place that puts your
mind at ease and brings you
the comfort and confidence
you require to move forward.
Focus on home, family and
improving your relationships
with others.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19):
Stick close to home. Bypass
situations that are extreme,
tense or indulgent. Observe
rather than get involved in
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something that can disrupt
a relationship. Keep the ball
Instructions: Celebrity Cipher cryptograms are created from quotations by famous
rolling. people, past and present. Each letter in the cipher stands for another.
Pisces (Feb. 20-March 20):
Put every ounce of your energy
into what’s important to you.
Turn an idea into a way to
save money and live with less
tension. Spend time pamper-
ing yourself and relaxing with
a loved one.
Aries (March 21-April 19):
Don’t overdo it or let anyone
take advantage of you. Relax,
rethink your plans and adjust
whatever is slowing you down.
Don’t structure your life to suit
others when success is your
responsibility.
Taurus (April 20-May 20):
Think big and get involved in
something that makes you
feel good about yourself. Hard
work will make a difference
and provide insight into how
you want to live your life and
spend your time.

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The object is (9) KQED 9 9 9 John Denver's Rocky 'TVG' Vanishing < Kind Hearts and Coronets 'TVG' (:45) < Korla (‘15) Tuskegee
to place the (54) KQED+ 10 - 11 Aging Backwards 4 Country Pop Legends (My Music) 'TVG' Memory Makeover 'TVG' Get Ready
numbers 1 to 9 (11) KOTR 11 - - Heartland Poker Tour World Poker Tour Bare Knuckle Paid Prog. TMZ (N) Storage
in the empty (26) MCAET 26 - 17 2022 Authors and Ideas Andrés Martin's Unst Music Presence MCAET
squares so that (36) KTVU+ - 6 - News (N) Short List TMZ (N) Mod Fam Mod Fam Big Bang Big Bang Seinfeld Seinfeld News (N)
each row, each (44) KBCW - - - FamFeud FamFeud Neighbor Neighbor Masters of Masters of Weird Weird CBS News Bay (N) Friends
column and each (65) KKPX 16 - 5 Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law-SVU "Terrorized" Law-SVU
(15) KMUV 18 12 22 (4:50) Copa <++ Penguins of Madagascar (‘14) 'TVG' <+++ Fighting With My Family (‘19) 'TVG' Noticias T
3x3 box contains
(67) KSMS 4 10 8 Vecinos Noticiero Vecinos Vecinos Vecinos Vecinos <+++ Alpha (‘18) Kodi Smit-McPhee. (N) 'TVG' Nosotr.
the number only (27) KYMB 19 - - Stooges :40 Stooges Stooges :40 Stooges Svengoolie "The Killer Shrews" (N) 'TVPG' Batman Star Trek
once. A&E 47 35 55 The First 48 The First 48 The First 48 The First 48 The First 48 First 48
AMC 49 36 57 (4:30) < Gran Torino <++++ The Shawshank Redemption (‘94) Tim Robbins. 'TVPG' <++ The Guardian (‘06) 'TVG'
ANPL 51 33 49 Swamp Wars Swamp Wars Croc Rescue The Bond Extinct or Alive Extinct
BET 68 97 64 (5:30) <++ Rush Hour 2 (‘01) Jackie Chan. 'TVG' <+ Rush Hour 3 (‘07) Chris Tucker, Jackie Chan. 'TVG' < The Hitman's Bod...
BRAVO 48 64 56 Movie <++ The Mummy (‘99) Brendan Fraser. 'TVPG' <++ The Mummy (‘99) Brendan Fraser. 'TVPG'
CNBC 58 51 39 Undercover Boss Undercover Boss Undercover Boss Undercover Boss Undercover Boss Paid Prog.
CNN 56 53 37 Heaven's Gate Heaven's Gate Heaven's "The Exit" How It Really How It Really Newsroom
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CSPAN 22 55 99 Public Affairs Events 'TVG' Public Affairs Events 'TVG'
CSPAN2 109 56 - History TV The Presidency History TV Lectures in History History TV The Presidency History TV Civil War
CW 14 4 4 (4:00) MLB Baseball Mod Fam Mod Fam Housewife Housewife Neighbor Neighbor KTVU's Ten (N) Special
DISC 15 31 47 Naked and Afraid XL Naked and Afraid XL Naked and Afraid XL Naked and Afraid XL Naked and Afraid XL 'TV14'
DISN 55 39 50 Ladybug Ladybug Raven Raven <+++ The Jungle Book (‘16) 'TVG' Saturdays Saturdays Marvel's (:05) Kiff
ESPN 38 23 34 College Softball SportsCenter (L) (N) SportsCenter (L) (N) SportsCenter (L) (N) SportCtr
ESPN2 39 24 35 30 for 30 Bullies of Baltimore Player 54: XFL Dream 30 for 30 Four Falls of Buffalo Quest
FNC 59 52 40 To Be Announced Lawrence Jones (N) One Nation To Be Announced Lawrence Jones Cross Country
FREE 52 38 30 Movie <++ Cars 3 (‘17) 'TVG' <+++ Zootopia (‘16) 'TVG'
FX 36 44 74 (5:30) <+++ Deadpool (‘16) 'TVPG' <+++ Deadpool 2 (‘18) Josh Brolin, Ryan Reynolds. 'TVPG' <+++ Deadpool 2
GALA 69 - 24 (5:00) ¿Bueno? XHDRBZ (N) 'TVPG' XH Derbez Faisy Nights (N) + noche
HIST 62 34 46 Ancient Aliens Ancient Aliens Ancient Aliens: Declassified "Ancient Sites & Structures" (N) 'TVPG'
LIFE 46 29 29 < The Girl Who Escaped: The Kara Robins... < Who Killed Our Father? (‘23) (P) < How to Live Your Best Death
MSNBC 60 50 41 Ayman (L) (N) Leguizamo Does Ayman Ayman Dateline "Collision" Dateline
MTV 43 98 63 (4:55) <+ Identity Thief 'TVPG' <++ Just Go With It (‘11) Jennifer Aniston, Adam Sandler. 'TVG' (:25) <++++ Titanic
NBCSBA 40 - 36 Poker Poker Driven Race-A.. MLB Baseball Giants Postgame Poker
NICK 53 92 51 (5:) < Despicable Me <+++ Despicable Me 2 (‘13) 'TVG' Friends Friends Friends Friends Friends
OXY 70 84 53 Accident, Suicide Accident, Suicide Accident, Suicide (N) Accident, Suicide Accident, Suicide Dateline
PARMT 45 96 60 5:45 Yello.. (:50) Yellowstone 'TVMA' (:55) Yellowstone (:55) Yellowstone Yellowstone Yellowst.
SYFY 160 48 58 3:55 < The Lost Worl... (:55) <++ Jurassic Park III (‘01) 'TVG' <++ Jurassic World (‘15) Chris Pratt. 'TVG'
TBS 35 27 27 Movie Burgers Burgers Burgers Burgers Burgers Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang I Survived
TLC 50 32 48 Match Me Abroad Match Me Abroad 90 Day Fiancé (N) 90 Day Fiancé (N) 90 Day Fiancé (N) 90 Day (N)
TNT 37 26 31 (5:30) Basketball Boston Celtics at Miami Heat Inside the NBA (L) (N) Rampage (L) (N) Rampage NCIS: N.O. "Baitfish"
TOON 54 41 52 Craig Craig King/Hill King/Hill King/Hill King/Hill Rick Rick Rick American American
TRUTV 65 66 77 Jokes Jokes Jokers Jokers Jokers Jokers Jokers Jokers Jokers Jokers Jokers
TVLAND 72 94 54 Mike Mike Mike Mike Raymond Raymond Raymond Raymond Raymond Raymond King
USA 42 28 33 (5:30) < Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 'TVG' <+++ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (‘05) Daniel Radcliffe. 'TVG'
VH1 44 99 62 Cheaters Cheaters <+ Friday After Next (‘02) Ice Cube. 'TVPG' <++ Boo! A Madea Halloween (‘16) Tyler Perry. 'TVG'
HBO 550 668 518 (5:50) <++ Black Adam (‘22) 'TVG' <++ Shazam! Fury of the Gods (‘23) (P) 'TVG' (:15) Sarah (N) Movie
MAX 561 694 549 <++ Lord of War (‘05) Nicolas Cage. 'TVPG' < 300: Rise of an Empire 'TVPG' (:45) <+++ No Country for Old Men 'TVPG'
SHOW 576 719 578 Movie Ghosts "Emergence" < Marcel the Shell With Shoes On <+++ The Fabelmans (‘22) Michelle Williams. 'TVG'
TMC 591 738 598 Movie (:45) < Bandit (‘22) Elisha Cuthbert, Josh Duhamel. <+++ Carrie (‘76) 'TVPG' (:45) < Midsommar
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El Distrito de Tránsito de Monterey-Salinas (MST) llevará a cabo
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PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE incluyen, entre otros, operaciones y mantenimiento de servicios de
Monterey-Salinas Transit District (MST) will hold a public hearing to tránsito, implementación del plan Innovative Clean Rollout “plan
adopt the FY24 and FY25 Operating and Capital Budget. The public innovador de implementación limpia”, incluyendo autobuses de
hearing is an opportunity to learn about the operating and capital cero emisiones, SURF! Proyecto de Vías de Autobús y Transito
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ited to transit service operations and maintenance, implementation Los miembros del público tendrán la oportunidad de ofrecer
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tions and Maintenance Project. Members of the public will have an
opportunity to offer comments about the FY24 and FY25 Operating Lunes, 12 de junio de 2023 a las 10:00 a.m.
and Capital Budget at the public hearing: Monterey-Salinas Transit Administration
19 Upper Ragsdale Drive, Suite 100
Monday, June 12, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. Monterey, CA
Monterey-Salinas Transit Administration
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19 Upper Ragsdale Drive, Suite 200, Monterey, CA 93940 or clerk@ms 93940 o clerk@mst.org . El presupuesto de los años fiscales 24 y 25
t.org. The FY24 and FY25 Budget may be reviewed at MST at 19 Up- se puede revisar en MST en 19 Upper Ragsdale Drive, Suite 200,
per Ragsdale Drive, Suite 200, Monterey or on the MST website at ht Monterey o en el sitio web de MST a https://mst.org/about-mst/fin
tps://mst.org/about-mst/financials/ on May 26, 2023. The deadline ancials/ el 26 de mayo de 2023. La fecha límite para enviar
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ing are available by request within 72 hours of the meeting date.
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modifications or accommodations, auxiliary aids, or services to en-
able individuals with disabilities to participate in public meetings.
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dress, phone number, description of the requested materials, and
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three working days prior to the meeting at the address below.
Public comments may be submitted for any item under considera-
tion by contacting MST:
Mail: MST, Attn: Clerk to the Board, 19 Upper Ragsdale Dr., Suite 200,
Monterey, CA 93940
Website: https://mst.org/contact-us/ • Email: clerk@mst.org •
Phone: (888) 678-2871
TTY/TDD: 831-393-8111 • 711 Relay
A pedido, Monterey-Salinas Transit proporcionará materiales
escritos en formatos alternativos apropiados, incluyendo
modificaciones o adaptaciones relacionadas con la discapacidad,
ayudas auxiliares o servicios para permitir que las personas con
discapacidades participen en reuniones públicas. Por favor envíe
una solicitud por escrito, incluyendo su nombre, dirección postal,
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tres días hábiles antes de la reunión a la dirección a continuación.
Se pueden enviar comentarios públicos sobre cualquier tema en
consideración comunicándose con
MST:
Correo: MST, Attn: Clerk to the Board, 19 Upper Ragsdale Dr., Suite
200, Monterey, CA
93940
Sitio Web: https://mst.org/contact-us/ • Correo Electrónico: clerk@
mst.org • Teléfono: (888)678-2871
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City name Today’s Albany, NY 81/53/s 88/56/s Des Moines 80/55/s 84/61/pc Oklahoma City 82/62/c 77/64/t
75/43 High/low forecast Big Sur Albuquerque 81/58/s
Amarillo 70/58/t
82/59/pc
75/56/t
Detroit
Duluth
78/53/s
77/50/s
81/56/pc
75/51/s
Omaha
Orlando
84/55/s
83/64/pc
86/63/pc
85/68/t
75/43 Yesterday’s
High/low
65/51 King City Anchorage 51/43/r 55/42/c El Paso 91/68/s 90/67/c Philadelphia 78/55/pc 76/58/pc
*Estimated 50/45 79/48 Asheville 60/47/r 63/54/r Fairbanks 68/45/pc 68/48/c Phoenix 97/72/s 98/71/s
56 Water temperature 57 62/53
Atlanta
Atlantic City
Austin
75/53/pc
67/56/c
87/63/pc
75/58/pc
66/57/c
86/67/pc
Fargo
Flagstaff
Grand Rapids
88/62/s
70/34/s
78/51/s
90/63/pc
70/36/s
81/54/pc
Pittsburgh
Portland, ME
Portland, OR
77/53/s
75/50/s
74/53/c
76/57/pc
81/59/s
75/53/c
Baltimore 78/54/pc 73/57/c Great Falls 65/47/t 71/51/c Providence 75/50/s 79/56/s
CALIFORNIA FORECAST ALMANAC ALLERGY REPORT Billings 73/51/t 76/54/t Hartford 80/49/s 84/55/s Raleigh 59/55/r 70/60/sh
Bay Area: Cloudy this Statistics through 1 p.m. yesterday Birmingham 80/59/pc 77/58/pc Helena 69/49/t 68/52/t Rapid City 77/52/t 76/52/t
Allergy, dust and dander today: Beneficial Honolulu 84/70/pc 83/74/pc Reno 75/53/t 70/54/t
morning, then clouds and sunPrecipitation Bismarck 84/61/pc 81/58/t
this afternoon; pleasant in Pollen levels Boise 76/55/pc 78/58/pc Houston 89/68/pc 89/71/pc Richmond 70/57/c 67/60/r
24-hour Season Last Season
the south bay. Boston 75/58/s 84/61/s Indianapolis 79/58/pc 76/59/c St. Louis 83/61/pc 82/63/pc
Eureka Redding City total to date season normal
Grass ........... Moderate Weeds ................... Low Buffalo 76/51/s 79/54/s Jackson, MS 83/59/t 86/57/s Salt Lake City 74/56/t 78/60/c
Big Sur ................. 0.01...... 61.90 ......32.03 ..... 43.97 Burlington, VT 82/55/s 88/57/s Jacksonville 76/54/pc 84/60/pc San Antonio 88/67/c 85/68/c
Trees .................... High Mold ...................... Low
Tahoe Sierra Nevada: Times of Carmel ................. 0.00...... 22.34 ......13.59 ..... 17.60 Casper 74/47/t 78/46/t Juneau 52/47/r 54/45/r Santa Fe 77/49/s 80/49/pc
Valley sun and clouds today; a Carmel Valley ...... 0.00...... 19.47 ......12.51 ..... 17.60 Source: Central Coast Allergy Charleston, SC 64/55/r 73/56/c Kansas City 81/56/c 84/63/s Seattle 68/49/c 71/50/pc
thundershower, but dry in
Santa King City .............. 0.00...... 16.78 ........6.47 ..... 11.71 Charleston, WV 73/51/c 65/54/c Las Vegas 93/72/s 94/74/s Shreveport 87/61/pc 91/64/s
the southern Sierra.
Rosa Sacramento Modesto .............. 0.00...... 19.71 ........9.00 ..... 11.99 AIR QUALITY FORECAST Charlotte 58/54/r 64/57/r Little Rock 85/60/pc 87/62/s Sioux Falls 83/57/s 85/62/pc
San Monterey ............. 0.00...... 23.64 ......10.62 ..... 20.00 Cheyenne 69/48/t 73/48/t Louisville 80/59/pc 70/59/c Spokane 73/55/pc 78/56/pc
Oakland City Today’s air quality
Francisco Oakland ............... 0.00...... 31.63 ......17.27 ..... 18.28 Chicago 75/55/s 78/58/pc Memphis 79/62/t 82/62/s Slt. Ste. Marie 77/44/s 79/48/s
San Jose Pacific Grove ....... 0.00...... 25.12 ........8.93 ..... 20.00 Cincinnati 76/58/pc 69/58/c Miami 86/74/t 88/74/t Syracuse 78/52/s 81/54/s
Carmel Valley ............................................... Good Cleveland 74/54/s 76/58/pc Milwaukee 70/53/s 72/53/pc Tampa 86/68/s 86/72/s
Monterey Fresno Salinas Airport .... 0.00...... 14.41 ........7.31 ..... 15.14 Hollister ........................................................ Good Columbus, GA 79/52/pc 77/57/pc Minneapolis 82/57/s 81/61/s Topeka 84/54/c 86/62/pc
Shown is San Francisco ...... 0.00...... 31.38 ......18.12 ..... 19.33
Salinas .......................................................... Good Concord, NH 81/47/s 88/51/s Nashville 81/57/pc 69/56/pc Tucson 96/63/pc 96/66/s
today’s Bakersfield San Jose ............... 0.00...... 15.33 ........7.29 ..... 15.81
Santa Cruz .................................................... Good Dallas 89/67/c 85/68/c New Orleans 86/69/t 87/71/pc Tulsa 85/59/pc 83/65/s
weather Santa Cruz ........... 0.00...... 35.78 ......16.35 ..... 30.15
Scotts Valley ................................................ Good Dayton 79/58/pc 73/58/c New York City 75/58/s 76/60/pc Wash., DC 76/57/pc 73/59/c
Santa Barbara Watsonville ...... Trace...... 40.13 ......19.38 ..... 22.37 Denver 80/51/t 76/51/s Norfolk 66/62/r 70/64/r Yuma 95/68/s 97/65/s
Watsonville .................................................. Good
Southern California: Temperatures at Monterey Airport
Low clouds followed
by some sun today, but Los Angeles
Palm Springs
High/low ........................................................ 59°/53° What it means: 0-50: Good; 51-100: Moderate;
101-150: Unhealthy for sensitive people;
International cities
plenty of sunshine in the Normal high/low .......................................... 64°/50°
151+: Unhealthy for all. Source: Unified Air Pollution Athens 79/65/pc 79/64/pc Jerusalem 92/68/pc 81/64/pc New Delhi 93/75/t 98/77/pc
deserts. San Diego Record high .............................................. 82° (1974)
Control District Baghdad 102/76/pc 105/80/c Johannesburg 66/49/c 69/48/pc Paris 76/55/s 78/55/s
Record low ............................................... 42° (1953)
Bangkok 101/80/t 99/79/t Kyiv 76/53/t 71/49/s Rio de Janeiro 80/68/pc 80/70/pc
CALIFORNIA CITIES TODAY’S UV INDEX Beijing 73/61/sh 84/68/c Lima 76/69/c 76/68/c Rome 80/58/s 77/58/s
Yesterday Today Sun. RESERVOIR LEVELS
10
Berlin 70/49/s 75/51/pc Lisbon 73/58/t 71/56/c Santiago 67/41/pc 63/45/c
City Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W As of 7 a.m. yesterday 11+: Extreme
Buenos Aires 60/47/pc 56/49/pc London 72/49/s 70/46/pc Sydney 66/44/s 66/49/c
Alameda 66/55/0.00 64/53/pc 62/55/pc Level Capacity Release 8-10: Very high Cairo 97/75/pc 88/70/pc Madrid 73/58/t 70/54/t Taipei City 90/73/c 92/77/pc
Reservoir (acre feet) (percent) (cfs) Highest at 2 p.m. Havana 88/70/t 88/71/sh Manila 91/80/sh 90/83/c Tokyo 76/66/pc 76/66/pc
Bakersfield 82/58/0.00 86/62/s 86/57/pc
San Antonio 234,288 70% 10 (The higher the 6-7: High Hong Kong 89/81/t 89/80/sh Mexico City 82/54/pc 78/56/sh Toronto 75/54/s 79/57/s
Eureka 56/48/0.00 55/48/pc 56/49/c
Long Beach 69/59/Trace 69/59/pc 68/61/pc Nacimiento 358,630 95% 131 number, the faster 3-5: Moderate Istanbul 75/60/pc 71/61/c Moscow 71/46/r 59/48/r Vancouver 67/53/s 66/50/pc
Los Angeles 69/59/0.00 70/57/pc 68/59/pc skin damage will
occur.) 0-2: Low Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice
Newport Beach 68/58/0.02 67/59/pc 67/62/pc SUN AND MOON
Oakland 67/55/0.00 64/52/pc 64/55/pc Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset PACIFIC TODAY Jet Stream WEATHER HISTORY
Palm Springs 89/64/0.00 95/66/s 94/63/s EXTREMES YESTERDAY
Today 5:53 a.m. 8:17 p.m. 12:57 p.m. 2:00 a.m.
Pasadena 68/55/0.00 70/56/pc 68/56/pc A tornado struck the passenger train
Paso Robles 75/50/0.00 79/48/pc 72/50/pc Sun. 5:52 a.m. 8:17 p.m. 1:55 p.m. 2:24 a.m. California
Red Bluff 83/59/0.17 84/60/pc 83/58/s
“Empire Builder” near Moorhead, Minn.,
Hours of sunlight High ................................................. 89 at Needles
Redding 84/60/Trace 83/62/pc 83/58/s 14 hr., 24 min. on May 27, 1931. Of the 117 passengers,
May 27 June 3 June 10 June 17 Low .......................................... 30 at Big Bear City
Sacramento 76/53/0.00 77/53/pc 72/53/s one died and 57 were injured. Five
San Diego 66/60/0.00 67/60/pc 67/60/c National (for the 48 contiguous states) 70-ton coaches were lifted from the
San Francisco 65/56/0.00 65/54/pc 62/55/pc SKY WATCH
San Gabriel 70/57/0.00 72/56/pc 70/57/pc The first quarter moon is high in the south at sunset, slowly High ......................................... 95° at Phoenix, AZ track, and one was carried 80 feet.
San Jose 71/55/0.00 71/54/pc 69/53/pc descending toward the west. At nightfall, the stars of Leo Low ......................................... 24° at Grayling, MI
San Luis Obispo 67/51/0.00 67/53/c 67/51/pc the Lion can be seen surrounding it, and the moon remains
Santa Barbara 68/59/0.00 68/56/pc 68/57/pc against that constellation until it sets at about 2:00 a.m. EARTHQUAKE REPORT
Santa Monica 66/56/0.00 66/57/pc 65/59/pc
Stockton 79/53/0.00 82/54/pc 75/54/s
Venus sets at 11:50 p.m. Jupiter rises at 4:15 a.m.
Tahoe Valley 61/35/0.12 65/41/t 60/40/t
Vallejo 67/53/0.00 66/54/pc 64/54/pc Mars sets at 12:29 a.m. Saturn rises at 1:57 a.m. https://scedc.caltech.edu/recent/Quakes/ Forecasts and graphics provided by
Today’s noon forecast
Yosemite 64/42/0.31 72/47/t 67/45/t Source: Morrison Planetarium quakes0.html AccuWeather, Inc. ©2023
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 Contents June 2023, Volume 8, No. 109

Fitness, Fellowship, Faith

Local men’s workout group gains more than muscle

FEATURED STORY

8
Step By Step 12 16
80-year-old attorney’s daily
A Lucky Break Risky Business
walk ensures his longevity AT&T ProAm caddy looks to a healthier future Why more men need care at trauma center

18 20 22 28

Muscling In Act F.A.S.T. Robot Recruits Doctor’s Notes

Protein is important, but so are Time is of the essence when High-tech assistants added Medical news from
other components of men’s diet diagnosing and treating stroke to Community Hospital around Monterey County

Men’s
IMPORTANT STATISTIC

Did you know? Health

> Approximately 36 million Americans have hearing loss. Men are twice
as likely to have hearing loss than women, among adults ages 20-69. I S S U E
It’s thought that this difference arises because men often work in
noisier environments, such as construction. Larry Biegel, a Monterey Peninsula attorney, has
committed to walking every day and has done
so for more than 1,000 consecutive days.
Reference: National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders (www.nidcd.nih.gov/)
Photo by Randy Tunnell

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 Editor’s Desk
In the course of doing this job, I read a little bit of everything. I enjoy the updates
from Harvard Health Publishing, the consumer education division of Harvard
Medical School.

A recent article from HHP concerns prostate cancer and how to best care for the
condition. Although in past decades doctors advocated surgery and/or radiation,
there is now an alternative protocol called “active surveillance,” where oncologists
can monitor for and treat only if the disease starts progressing rapidly.

This “allows men to delay — or in some cases, outlive — the need for aggres-
sive treatment, which has challenging side effects,” writes HHOP editor Charles
Schmidt. Now the long-term results of a clinical trial indicate that prostate cancer
death rates are low, no matter which strategy is adopted.

The British study followed 1,643 men over 15 years, some of whom underwent
Photo by Susan Gerbic
surgery for their cancer, others that had radiation, and the remainder under active
surveillance. Over that time, 45 men died directly from prostate cancer, but death
rates were roughly the same from each of the three groups.

That’s good news for men who may not want to undergo surgery or radiation
— this other way, of watching, waiting and monitoring, is a viable option. Go to
health.harvard.edu and check out this interesting article for more details.

Here’s to your health!

June 2023, Volume 8, No. 109

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 In It For the
Long Haul 80-year-old attorney takes steps to ensure his longevity
BY LISA CRAWFORD WATSON

Larry Biegel
8 HEALTH MATTERS | MEN’S HEALTH | JUNE 2023
When Larry Biegel looks back on his long and productive life,
it is not to lament what has come and gone but to appreciate
where he’s been and where he’s headed now. In many ways,
his life is better than ever.
When Biegel was diagnosed with shallow lung function at age
70, he wasn’t willing to take the news lying down. He gathered
nearly a dozen contemporaries, grabbed four bottles of cham-
pagne, and organized a hike up the Sobranes Canyon Trail. He
jokes that he had everyone sign a health waiver before head-
ing out.
“Nobody gave up, and nobody fell,” he says, “and we all en-
joyed the champagne. I loved the idea of doing something
physical like that to prove I wasn’t old. Seventy is old, but 80 is
older. Facing the onset of 80, I decided to make an even bigger
investment in my health.”
Three years ago, Biegel made a lasting commitment. In May
2020, anticipating his 80th birthday in 2023, the long-time
local attorney launched a project on behalf of his health and
well-being. His intention was to build his lung capacity to en-
sure his strength and longevity.
Biegel began by walking four or five miles a day, up hills and
down scenic stretches, typically before the rest of his Carmel
community came to life each morning. He and local running
legend Hugo Ferlito, a member of the Monterey Bay Half Mar-
athon Governance Board, would walk together on the week-
end, which got Biegel thinking about signing up to walk-run
the Monterey Bay Half Marathon.
Participants in the half marathon must be able to maintain
under a 16-minute-per-mile pace. Biegel’s pace was 18 at the
time, so he pushed himself to get faster. He also set a goal to
get out on the road every day for 1,000 days straight.
When he reached his goal, family and friends hosted a celebra-
tion. By the end of last month, he had logged in 1,095 walks
without missing a day—even while traveling.
Part of his training for the 2022 Monterey Bay Half Marathon
included legendary Olympic runner Jeff Galloway’s Run-Walk-
Run technique, which involves introducing a regular walk in-
terval throughout the running distance. This proven practice
helps avoid injury and fatigue.
“Exactly one month after my 80th birthday,” says Biegel, “the
elite runners lined up under letter A at the start line. I stood
under letter M. Accompanied by former client and ultramara-
thoner John Gibson, my finish time was three hours, 25 min-
utes, just under the pace limit.”
Biegel also has completed the Big Sur Marathon 11-miler four
times, in 2018, 2019, 2022 and 2023. And whether or not he
decides to continue entering races, his morning constitutional
remains a commitment.
“Last September, we flew to New York and looked forward to
going to Balthazar Café on Spring Street after we landed. But
by the time I did my walk in Central Park,” says Biegel, “I knew
it would be too late for dinner. So I got motivated to get up at
3 a.m. in Carmel. I pulled on my beanie with its headlight, and
I got in my walk before we left for the airport. I’m all in on this.”
The Biegels arrived in
New York at the end of
Hurricane Ida, the last
plane allowed to land in
Newark, amid sheeting
rain. “If I hadn’t gotten
up at 3 a.m.,” he says, “I
would have missed my
walk.”
Last February, Biegel
took his family to Ha-
waii. Travel delays left
them stuck in the San
Francisco Airport, and
he knew, once again,
he was going to land
too late to get in the
walk he’d anticipated
on the island. Instead,
he strolled the length of
the airport, back and forth, until he’d logged in five miles.
“There was no way I was going to endanger my walking
streak,” he says. “May 28 marked three years I’ve been doing
this. I know it’s going to stop someday, but I have no desire to
see that happen. This has done so much for my health.”
VITALITY IS A LIFESTYLE
Biegel believes his relentless exercise routine has made him
fairly immune to getting sick. It insulates him, he says, by mak-
ing his constitution strong. Today, he can walk up from the
beach to the top of Ocean Avenue without becoming winded.
“I feel pretty safe in my skin,” he says, “if not invincible. My
health numbers have improved, my pace and stamina are
stronger. My doctor loves it as much as I do.”
Biegel also plays tennis with his wife, fellow attorney Tina Bie-
gel, who is a force on the courts. In addition, he trains with their
son Brandon Kirsch, a surfer and professional fitness trainer at
Carmel Valley Athletic Club.
“This is the coolest thing Larry has done is prove to himself
that he can be this fit and healthy every day,” says Kirsch. “He’s
exercised over the years, but he was never this consistent with
a fitness routine. To quote English author George Eliot, ‘It’s nev-
er too late to be what you might have been.’ Larry has inspired
so many people through this, and I am so proud of him.”
During the week, Biegel leaves home at 8 a.m. to get to court
or his office, which means he must be up and out by 5:30 a.m.
to make sure he gets in his morning mileage.
“Plenty of days I don’t want to walk,” he says, “but there is never
a choice. As soon as I hit the road, I feel great.
“I see all these younger attorneys retiring, but that’s not me.
Turning 80 makes me older but not old.”
Lisa Crawford Watson lives with her family on the Monterey Peninsula.
She specializes in writing about art and architecture, health and lifestyle,
and food and wine.
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 B Y L I S A C R A W F O R D W A T S O N
FITNESS,
FELLOWSHIP
AND FAITH
Local men’s workout group
gains more than muscle
The easiest part about exercising is intention. The hardest part
is motivation, actually lacing up a pair of sneakers and getting
up and out. That was the inspiration behind F3 Nation, a net-
work of more than 3,800 free peer-led workouts for men across
the country and a few other regions in the world.
Established in North Carolina in 2011, F3 represents the orga-
nization’s core values of Fitness, Fellowship, and Faith, the last
of which is interpreted as being part of something bigger than
one’s self.
According to respiratory therapist Chris Kramer, who joined
F3 Monterey five years ago, faith might refer to one’s faith in
himself, in his peers, in the effort, in a higher power, religion,
or other faith tradition. But for him, it is faith in the power of
community leadership and stewardship.
“Fitness is a bootcamp-style workout,” he says, “which we do
first thing in the morning four times a week, rotating among
Monterey, Pacific Grove, Carmel, and East Garrison. Fellowship
is formed by working out together and during monthly get-to-
gethers for a barbecue, happy hour, afternoon at the arcade or
coffee. And for faith, we try to do unto others.”
F3 Monterey has raised money for the Veterans Transition Cen-
ter and has helped out at MEarth, which is dedicated to ed-
ucating and inspiring the community through environmental
stewardship. F3 member have also volunteered at Concorso
Italiano, says Kramer, which supports Habitat for Humanity.
F3 was founded and operates on five core principles, which
help foster fitness, fellowship, and faith among members: 1.
Participation is free of charge 2. Workouts are open to all men.
3. Workouts are held outdoors, rain or shine, warm or cold. 4.
They are led by a rotating roster of participants, for which for-
mal training and certification are not required. 5. Workouts end
in a Circle of Trust.
“At the beginning of each workout, we provide a disclaimer
that the leader is not a professional trainer, although we wel-
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come that,” Kramer
says. “Everything
we do should be
modified to meet
each individual’s
abilities, injuries
and capacities. Any
of our exercises can
be modified for in-
tensity, distance, or
duration.”
And there is no peer pressure, says Kramer, to participate in any
fitness activity or level of exertion or for skipping parts of the
workout. “We’re competing only against ourselves, not the oth-
er guys.”
For the fifth core value, the Circle of Trust, participants gather
into a circle and do what Kramer calls a “name off.” Each states
his birth name, his age, and his F3 name, which he received
upon initiation into the group. When new members show up
for their first workout, they are invited to share something
about themselves. Based on their stories, they earn an F3 nick-
name, which becomes their key to participation in any F3 work-
out in the world.
“It’s part of the fellowship,” Kramer says. “After my first workout,
I told the group I play a lot of beach volleyball. That earned me
the nickname ‘Beach.’ If we don’t like our nickname and request
a new one, we’re almost guaranteed to like the new name even
less. I like mine fine.”
Once a member participates in his 50th workout, his name is
burned or engraved onto a log or wood pole. It’s quite an achieve-
ment, says Kramer, and an honor, which builds fellowship.
“Guys join F3 Monterey for the workouts,” says Kramer, “to be-
come healthier and more fit. But F3 is about so much more
than that.
“It’s a support network. It’s a place to share problems and con-
cerns, and receive support from one another. Fitness is the
magnet that draws us in, but fellowship is the glue that keeps
us together. I put a lot of faith in that.”
F3 Monterey workouts take place at 6 a.m. on Mondays at Del
Monte Beach, Wednesdays in Pacific Grove, Fridays at East
Garrison and at 7 a.m. Saturdays at Carmel High School. While
hundreds of participants have come and gone over the years,
on average, says Kramer, a dozen or so guys show up at the
workouts.
For more information or to get involved, visit
www.f3monterey.com or their Facebook page at
www.facebook.com/F3Monterey/.
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 B Y M E L A N I E B R E T Z
A LUCKY BREAK
AT&T ProAm caddy looks to healthier future after cardiac arrest
There’s something about being in the right place at the right
time. For professional caddy Leo Lukenas of Monterey and
spectator Sgt. Kelly Bunn of the Sacramento County Sheriff’s
Department, the timing could not have been better.
The 2023 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am in February marked a
dramatic turning point in Lukenas’ life. Walking down from the
11th hole with putter and driver in hand was the last thing he
remembers before waking up in the intensive care unit at Com-
munity Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula.
“If my heart attack hadn’t happened when and where it did, I
would be dead,” says Lukenas. “It was a total miracle and a bless-
ing in disguise. I had a problem with my heart that I was not
aware of. Something was going to go wrong sooner or later.”
Fortunately, he collapsed next to Bunn, who immediately be-
gan CPR and continued until paramedics arrived.
At the hospital, Lukenas was diagnosed with severe multi-ves-
sel coronary artery disease and underwent quadruple bypass
surgery.
“Leo is very lucky to be here today,” says Dr. Gregory Spowart,
a cardiothoracic and vascular surgeon with Monterey Medical
Group who performed the quadruple bypass surgery. “That is
due in large part to the actions of Sgt. Bunn, a swift response
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by the paramedics and his timely transportation to the hospital.
Surviving cardiac arrest is rare and Leo’s high spirits and fast re-
covery make his case even more of an outlier.”
According to the American Heart Association, out-of-hospital
cardiac arrests claim nearly 350,000 lives in the United States
each year, with less than 10% of patients surviving.
Lukenas is fairly typical of men who put off seeing a doctor until
they have a medical emergency. “The last time I had a physical
was in high school when I was trying out for the football team,”
he says.
After being in the hospital for more than a month, and realizing
how close he came to death, he’s made many changes—includ-
ing getting a primary care doctor and a cardiologist, signing up
for cardiac rehab and making a number of lifestyle modifica-
tions.
“Elia Mendoza, my girlfriend of 34 years, is really strict,” Lukenas
says with a smile. “She helps me eat right, exercise, make doc-
tors’ appointments and take better care of myself.”
Lukenas has been a caddy at the Monterey Peninsula Coun-
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ProAm.
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me and started CPR. He’s a wonderful guy.”
The two reunited for a press conference at Community Hospi-
tal a few weeks after the incident amid hugs and tears of joy. “I
will always be most proud of the moment I saw Leo out of his
hospital bed, being able to walk, talk and move around,” says
Bunn. “It was just a very proud moment for me to be sitting next
to Leo in the company of all the people who helped him get to
this point.”
According to Dr. Steven Lome, cardiovascular disease and life-
style medicine specialist with Montage Medical Group, Lukenas
is among the 20 to 30% of people whose first sign of heart dis-
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“That’s just one reason why having a primary care doctor is so
important,” he says. “Your doctor can guide you in prevention,
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PROSTATE CANCER AND A NEW
NON-INVASIVE TREATMENT OPTION
Approximately 1 in 8 men will be diagnosed
with prostate cancer in their lifetime. That is
a shocking statistic many people are unaware
of. Furthermore, African American men are
nearly twice as likely to be diagnosed and die
from prostate cancer compared to Caucasian
men. lt is the most common, non-skin cancer,
found in men and the American Cancer Society
estimates 288,300 cases will be diagnosed in
the U.S. this year.
Prostate cancer is being diagnosed at much
earlier stages due to a simple blood test
called the PSA which is provided annually by a
primary care physician. The key to successful
treatment is early detection. When caught
early, there are many treatment options for
prostate cancer with high cure rates, but most
of them, such as radical surgery and radiation,
have high rates of erectile dysfunction and
incontinence. An FDA approved technique
called High Intensity Focused Ultrasound or
HIFU, offers men the same cure rate as surgery
and radiation with far fewer complications
such as erectile dysfunction and incontinence.
One physician offering HIFU to his patients in
Northern California is Dr. J. Anthony Shaheen
of the Monterey Urology Center. Dr. Shaheen is
a board-certified urologist with deep ties to the
Monterey Peninsula in California who has been
practicing medicine since 1994. Many patients
drive down from San Francisco to consult
with Dr. Shaheen because of his urologic
expertise and experienced HIFU practice. “I
want men to know that the prospect of facing
prostate cancer today is not at all like it was
in the past. As recent as a decade ago, men
had every right to be concerned when they
received a positive prostate cancer diagnosis.
Too often, impotence and incontinence were
the result of radiation or radical procedures
such as surgery. But now, there is absolutely
no excuse for not getting screened for prostate
cancer- or even becoming overly concerned
with a positive diagnosis;” says Dr. Shaheen.
“Additionally, Medicare now covers HIFU at
Monterey Peninsula Surgery Center where
I currently offer HIFU to my patients.”
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such as erectile dysfunction and urinary
prostate. After a brief recovery from general
incontinence, are significantly lower with HIFU
anesthesia at the surgery center, patients
than with surgery (radical prostatectomy) or
return home to recover more comfortably and
radiation.
often return to their normal lifestyle after a few
HIFU is delivered using a medical device called days. Patients are routinely back to work in a
the Sonablate. The Sonablate probe contains couple days and playing golf within a week.
transducers that emit ultrasound energy that
provides an image of the prostate; it can Additionally, unlike with radiation and surgery,
also be focused to a central point, where the if for some reason there is a recurrence
temperature is raised rapidly causing cell of prostate cancer, HIFU does not exclude
patients from having any other treatments.
destruction. This works in the same way that
This also means that, while not common,
sunlight can be focused to burn a hole in a
HIFU may be repeated if necessary. If a man
leaf. This does not cause any discomfort to the
chooses to have HIFU, he is not limiting himself
patient.
to pursuing other treatment options down the
The Sonablate system allows doctors to
road.
obtain a real -time image of the prostate and
plan exactly where they want to deliver the WHO QUALIFIES FOR HIFU?
HIFU energy, thus destroying the targeted While only a physician can determine whether
tissue. The physician also receives immediate you qualify for HIFU, typically men with localized
feedback to confirm the targeted prostatic prostate cancer (meaning the tumor has not
tissue has been eliminated. The precision of spread outside of the prostate gland) and with
HIFU system allows the physician to see the a prostate gland of 40 grams or less may be
nerve bundles that control sexual function and candidates for HIFU. The other information that
to avoid harming these critical structures.
physicians usually look at to determine if you
Unlike surgery, which requires the physician qualify for HIFU is a PSA of 20 or less and a
to remove the entire prostate, HIFU enables Gleason score of 7 or less.
the patient to receive whole gland treatment,
Anyone interested in HIFU for localized prostate
hemi-ablation or a focal treatment. If there
cancer should speak with Dr. Shaheen about
is only cancer on one side, or small areas of
the prostate, the physician and patient can his specific diagnosis and whether it would be
determine if only the cancerous portion of the a good treatment option.
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advanced MRI imaging and diagnostic tools
cancer. This experience allows him to provide
to evaluate the stage of the prostate cancer.
precise diagnosis and recommend the most
HIFU is often referred to as the “lumpectomy
effective and often least invasive forms of
for men’: “HIFU is a truly revolutionary new
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permanent bladder control problems and
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gland affected by cancer - without damaging
surrounding cells. The prospect of attaining the
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 B Y M E L A N I E B R E T Z
RISKY BUSINESS
Why more men need care for serious injuries at Natividad’s Trauma Center
Knowing the numbers reveal significantly more men than
women sustain injuries requiring treatment at Natividad’s Level
II Trauma Center is one thing. Pinning down the reasons behind
the numbers is another.
Medical and mental health experts cite multiple and varied in-
fluences—from cultural, societal, generational and role-based
norms to hormonal, psychological and other factors that lead to
a tendency toward riskier behaviors among males.
“For the three years 2020 to 2022, Natividad’s trauma center
saw an average of 1,450 patients annually, and 68% of them
were male,” says Dr. Alexander Di Stante, trauma center medical
director and chief of surgery at Natividad. “When we look at the
types of injuries that bring people to our trauma center as well
as their major causes, the number of men surpasses women sig-
nificantly in both categories. A tendency toward riskier behav-
iors is thought to be behind, at least in part, both the types of
injuries we see and their causes.”
“Risk-taking and responding to challenges can be exciting
and can make the activities enticing,” says Dr. David Martínez,
Ph.D, behavioral health services manager for Natividad’s Family
Medicine Residency program. “Taking on risks and challenges
are part of normal development and we see it in adolescents
as well, but we need to support healthier options. Sports can
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be good alternatives that provide a challenge without putting
your life at risk.”
Designated as a Level II Trauma Center by Monterey County
Emergency Medical Services in January 2015, Natividad has the
only Level II trauma center between Santa Barbara and San Jose.
“Trauma centers like ours focus on physical trauma rather than
medical trauma such as drug overdoses, for example,” says Dr.
Di Stante. “We initiate care for patients of all ages with traumatic
injuries brought to our center.” He notes that in the three-year
average for patients under the age of 15 (2.4% of patients),
nearly 31 percent were stabilized and flown to a trauma center
for a higher level of care.
Level II Trauma Centers include 24-hour immediate coverage
by general surgeons, as well as coverage by the specialties of
orthopedic surgery, neurosurgery, anesthesiology, emergency
medicine, radiology and critical care.
At Natividad, motor vehicle accidents account for 44% of trau-
ma center cases, falls for 17% and motorcycle accidents for 10%.
The remaining cases include bicycle accidents, being hit by a
motor vehicle, blunt assaults, beatings, gunshots and stabbings.
Injuries from falls in older men are often caused by tripping and
balance issues, while other causes across all age groups may in-
clude falls from ladders, rooftops or balconies.
Taking a look behind the curtain at the numbers of men versus
women in each of the major categories of injuries treated at Na-
tividad provides an even starker picture of the disparity. Men
account for 58% and 91% of injuries caused by motor vehicle
and motorcycle accidents respectively; 61% of falls and 83% of
bicycle accidents that result in admission to the trauma center;
of patients who are hit by a car, 62% are male; blunt assaults
from being beaten are 90% males; and stab wounds and gun-
shot wounds are 93% men.
Nationally as well as in Monterey County, males tend to engage
in more risky behaviors and more often die from their injuries.
Fatalities increase dramatically for men in their fifties and old-
er. Males ages 15 to 19 are two-and-a-half times more likely to
sustain fatal injuries, and five times more likely to die as a result
of homicide or suicide, compared to men of other age groups,
and women.
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 MUSCLING IN
Protein is important, but so are other components of balanced diet
B Y B A R B A R A I N T E R M I L L ,
Physical strength is largely determined by muscle mass—the
amount of lean tissue we carry in our bodies. Strong muscles en-
able us to move and lift. They also help us breathe with muscles
called lungs. And perhaps our most important muscle is the heart.
Genetically, men tend to possess a greater mass of muscle than
women. Males generally have greater upper body strength than
their female counterparts. And because men tend to weigh more
than women, their requirements for muscle-building nutrients
such as protein are usually higher when compared to females.
Muscle protein synthesis—the process of accruing muscle mass—
is a hot topic in sports nutrition research. A 2021 article in the In-
ternational Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism,
for example, reviewed the effect of eating whole eggs (versus egg
white) on the development of muscle mass.
Besides high-quality protein (egg protein is the gold standard by
which other food protein sources are measured), this review fo-
cused on other compounds in eggs that may help stimulate the
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R D N , C D C E S , L M N T
growth of muscle including vitamin D, omega-3 fatty acids and
choline.
While 60% of egg protein resides in the white, the other 40%—
along with other compounds that have shown potential to im-
prove muscle health—is in the yolk.
Although more research is needed, some studies on young men
have found that the intake of whole eggs helped produce more
protein in muscles than was observed with the intake of egg
white only.
Of course, egg yolks also house a fair amount of cholesterol which
was previously associated with an increased risk for heart disease.
In 2013, however, after decades of research, the American Heart
Association and the American College of Cardiology stated that
there was “insufficient evidence” to determine whether lowering
cholesterol in our diet reduces the “bad” LDL cholesterol in our
blood—the type most apt to clog arteries.
C O N T I N U E TO PA G E 2 6
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 B Y L I S A C R A W F O R D W A T S O N
ACT F.A.S.T.
Time is of the essence when diagnosing and treating stroke
In ancient Greece, it was called apoplexy, which implies being
struck with a deadly blow. In contemporary terms, it is called
stroke. Either way, the reference speaks to a serious, potentially
fatal health event caused by a loss of blood flow to the brain.
“It is amazing how much literature has come out regarding
stroke in the past few years and how much more we understand
about it, yet still questions remain,” says Dr. Rene Colorado, a
board-certified vascular neurologist and the medical director for
the Stroke Center at Salinas Valley Health. “It has become clear
that stroke affects men and women in different ways.”
The lifetime risk of stroke in women is about 20%, he says, and
about 15% in men. It is reportedly the third leading cause of
death in women, behind heart disease and cancer, but is the fifth
leading cause of death in men.
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“Yet, in general, women have a greater longevity than men, typi-
cally an average of two years, so the higher lifetime risk of stroke
could potentially be associated with living longer,” says Dr. Dana
McDermott, a board-certified neurologist at Montage Health.
But there also are risk factors unique to women, says Dr. Colora-
do, which include use of oral contraception, pregnancy and hor-
monal changes, particularly during and after menopause.
“The use of oral contraception more than doubles the risk of
stroke among younger women,” he says, “and prolonged use of
estrogen and progesterone can increase risk among menopaus-
al women. Yet lower doses delivered via transdermal route do
not have a big risk contribution in healthy women.”
Stroke also is a relatively high risk during pregnancy and in the
postpartum period, says Dr. Colorado, as well as when women
have a history of adverse pregnancy outcomes, such as pre-term
delivery, preeclampsia, and gestational hypertension.
“It’s always a concern when I get a call from the delivery floor,
so I get there fast,” he says, “knowing that the risk of postpartum
stroke increases almost nine-fold for ischemic stroke (blockage),
and almost 28-fold for hemorrhagic stroke (bleeding).”
At the other end of a woman’s life cycle, literature regarding
women’s risk of stroke during menopause tends to focus on
prolonged use of hormone replacement therapy with mixed
reviews regarding the risk of estrogen use, particularly when
paired with progesterone.
SYMPTOMS OF STROKE
The sooner we can detect and identify changes as potential
symptoms of stroke, the greater our chances for abating them,
surviving stroke, and recovering well. Because some symptoms
could be benign or be unrelated to stroke, it is easy to ignore
them, try to wait them out, or mistreat them.
“Symptom acuity or perception is key,” says Dr. McDermott. “The
first clue is a sudden change or onset of neurological changes,
such as weakness or numbness on one side of the body, facial
weakness, inability to speak or understand language, sudden
onset of vertigo, or incoordination of the extremities. Addition-
al symptoms may be hearing loss on one side or sudden vision
changes, where one half has gone missing or there’s double vi-
sion or a sensation of a curtain coming over the eyes.”
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 B Y J A M E S H E R R E R A
ROBOT RECRUITS
High-tech assistants added to Community Hospital
Robots have come to Community Hospital of the Monterey Pen-
insula—it’s not science fiction, but a new way to support nurses
and other staff who can then turn more of their attention to pa-
tient care.
Community Hospital is the first hospital in Northern and Central
California to engage robot assistants and allow them to access
multiple areas of the hospital to complete their tasks.
“Moxi will be on 24/7,” says Community Hospital’s chief nursing
officer, registered nurse Debbie Sober.
Two Moxi robots are now on duty at the hospital through
an agreement with their creator, Diligent Robotics. With ma-
chine-learning technology, the robots use an array of sensors to
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map the hospital and have a mechanized arm to navigate multi-
ple types of doors, including those which require badge access.
Moxi helps with tasks such as fetching items from central sup-
plies, delivering lab samples, picking up medicines from the
pharmacy, distributing personal protective equipment and
other items, improving overall clinical workflows and efficiency,
according to Sober. It’s estimated that nurses spend nearly one-
third of their time getting supplies, so automating these duties
enable staff to operate at the top of their training and skills and
spend more time with patients.
Sober says it is important to note that the robots will not replace
any workers.
When the two Moxi robots were officially deployed in March,
they hit the floor running, supporting nurses and clinical care
teams. Community Hospital chief financial officer Matt Morgan
says the hospital is confident the robots will have plenty of work
to do, and the hospital could possibly see another Moxi added
in the future.
“Once they get going, we can think of other things they can be
used for,” says Morgan.
Moxi’s arm is primarily used to help navigate the environment. It
has a gripper to push pressure points like elevator buttons, and
a badge to scan for access to secure areas, says Nicholas Bloom,
Dliigent’s head of client success.
Moxi uses Apple iPad technology, both built into its body and
at the clinician’s access point or kiosk. It has a badge reader for
secure deliveries—its drawers are locked until it gets to its final
destination, where a clinician shows a badge to Moxi, enabling
the robot to unlock its drawer to complete the delivery, says
Bloom.
“Moxi has what is called ‘mox spots,’ waypoints that have been
dropped on a virtual map throughout the entire hospital, so only
when Moxi arrives to a mox spot of its designated destination is
the only time it can be unloaded,” says Bloom.
Designed to be compatible with the busy, semi-structured envi-
ronments of hospitals, Moxi is programmed with its own social
intelligence, allowing it to open elevators and doors on its own,
avoid people or objects in hallways, and even pose for selfies.
Moxi is also able to navigate the facility’s ADA-compliant doors
and elevators without requiring a sig-
nificant investment in infrastructure.
In addition, the more that staff uses
the robots, the more the robots learn

Hormones?
and adapt.

Community Hospital chief operating

officer Daniel Chibaya says the robot

Hair Loss?
needed to be trained on the layout of
the building so it would know where
to go and where to stop. There was
also training for the people who have
access to Moxi—how to use the ki-
osk, request an order, what can be
put into the robot’s drawer, and how
to open it.

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Hospital has with Diligent for the ro-
bots provide for Moxi’s evolution.

“If it breaks down or if a new version

comes out or if there are upgrades,
that’s all included and we automat-
ically get that,” says Morgan. “Part of
the real advantage of leasing some-
thing like this … is that you get all of
that included in the lease.”

Moxi’s evolution could include both

software and hardware upgrades, ac-
cording to Bloom.

“Moxi is a very modular robot, so as

we deploy new features and new
equipment, we’re able to bring those
new features to all of our robots
across the fleet to make sure that all
the robots are always the newest, lat-
est and greatest,” says Bloom.

For more information about Commu-

nity Hospital’s Moxi robot assistants,
visit montagehealth.org/moxi.

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Socioeconomic issues such as job loss, lack of health insurance,

“As men, as parents of males and as a society, we need to have
more discussion and gain a better understanding of what’s be-
hind risky behaviors,” says Dr. Martínez. “We also need to take a
look at the psychosocial reasons why men tend to delay or ne-
glect seeing a doctor and getting treatment when experiencing
physical and mental health issues.”
fewer resources, and not being able to take time off work to care
for physical or mental health also play a role.
“We face a mix of our individual beliefs and behaviors and so-
cial determinants outside of our control,” Dr. Martínez says. “Role
transitions such as loss of employment or retirement, and the
ability to provide for themselves and their families can contrib-
ute to the problem.”
Dr. Martínez suggests that we also need to reframe what “being
a man,” masculinity and machismo mean in today’s society.
“There is well-documented evidence that gender norm expec-
tations influence men to participate in more physically and sex-
ually risky behaviors than women,” he says. “Taking undue risks
is not a sign of strength nor a sign of being macho; however,
that’s a belief that many people have.
“Spending time with your family, nurturing your kids, leading
by example, working to provide for your family, and taking on
responsibilities are betters ways to define what it means to be a
strong man, a strong person.”

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MUSCLING IN

Today, eggs in moderation are recommended as part of healthy eat-

ing patterns by both the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Ameri-
cans and the American Heart Association.
Of course, protein resides in many other types of foods besides
eggs, including lean meats, fish, beans and poultry, milk, yogurt and
cheese. Grains, vegetables and nuts also provide protein in smaller
amounts.
Believe it or not, strong muscles also need a fair amount of car-
bohydrates—sugars and starches found in fruit, starchy vegetables,
whole grains, milk and yogurt. That’s because carbs are the fuel for
working muscles. And it’s physical activity that promotes and main-
tains muscle growth and strength.
Muscles are also best maintained when we eat a good source of pro-
If you haven’t noticed yet, muscle strength becomes hard- tein at each meal along with fruit, vegetables and whole grains. Need
er to build and maintain as we get older. That’s why a lifetime a plan specifically for you? Go to www.myplate.gov and for age-spe-
of physical activity that includes resistance training (weights, cific guidelines for eating and exercise. A balanced diet along with
bands, push-ups) as well as cardio “huff and puff” exercise con- regular physical activity is truly the best way to keep those muscles
tinues to be even more important with each passing decade. strong at any age.

Barbara Intermill is a registered dietitian nutritionist and syndicated columnist. She is the author of “Quinn-Essential Nutrition:
The Uncomplicated Science of Eating.” Email her at barbara@quinnessentialnutrition.com.

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A LUCKY BREAK

screenings, regular checkups, vaccinations and risk manage-
ment.” When screenings and tests show atypical results or you
have symptoms that could indicate an issue with your heart, your
doctor can do a simple, painless electrocardiogram (EKG), and or-
der additional tests as needed.
“The sooner you start with prevention—even more critical begin-
ning around age 40—the better,” Dr. Lome says.
His prescription for prevention and a healthy lifestyle involves
80% diet and 20% exercise. He describes a healthy lifestyle as in-
cluding regular exercise, eating a largely plant-based diet, know-
ing your blood pressure, cholesterol and other numbers, and un-
derstanding what they mean for you. “Accumulation of plaque in
the arteries starts in childhood, so the sooner you focus on con-
trolling risk factors, the better off you’re likely to be later in life.”
When his cardiac arrest occurred at the Pro-Am, Lukenas was cad-
dying for friend and golfer Jeff Couch. Lukenas has been a caddy
at the Monterey Peninsula Country Club since 2003, and 2023
was his 18th time working the Pro-Am.
Their foursome also included amateur golfer Lukas Nelson, son
of Willie Nelson, as well as pros Max McGreevy and Beau Hoss-
ler. Lukenas was touched to learn that while he was undergoing
treatment at Community Hospital, Nelson performed one of his
songs for fans—“Set Me Down on a Cloud”—in Lukenas’ honor.
Bunn was also being honored in May with a round of golf at the
Monterey Peninsula Country Club, courtesy of Jeff Couch and
other golfers for whom Lukenas often caddies.
With a new lease on life, Lukenas is looking forward to a healthier
future. His advice to other men? “Don’t wait until you have a heart
attack or other health problem to see a doctor and start taking
care of yourself. Start now.”
As a thank-you to the community, Lukenas and his family have
provided funding to Montage Health Foundation for an automat-
ed external defibrillator that will be available at First Tee, a local
nonprofit organization focused on golf and building character for
youth.
Melanie Bretz lives in Monterey and has written on a wide range of
topics, including health care, during a writing career spanning more
than 30 years.

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 Youth advisory council helps
Most of us could use a dose of inspiration, especially when it Big Sur Health Center
comes to kick-starting important lifestyle changes that improve
guide Ohana leadership
our health and well-being. And inspiration is just one of the ben- awarded $3,000 grant
efits ofAparticipating
newly formed inadvisory council
a walking moai for Ohana,
with a local Project
Blue Zones youth mental Big Sur Health Center was recently awarded a grant from Yellow
health program
Monterey County. run by Montage Health, is comprised of teens who Brick Road Benefit Shop in Carmel, which will be used to bring the
help advise the leadership of the program. center’s information technology capabilities up to date with new
Moai (pronounced mow-eye) is a Japanese word roughly trans- office computer equipment.
Ohana provides mental health services to thousands of Monterey
lated as “coming together for a common purpose.” It’s also one of Yellow Brick Road grant coordinator Lynn Prince, said the group’s
County children and youth through individual and group therapy,
the threads running through the five initial Blue Zone commu- board of directors approved a contribution of $3,000 to purchase
outpatient care, emergency and crisis care, classes, workshops, and
nities where people were identified as living significantly better a new computer for the administration office, as well as to install,
more.
and longer lives compared to the rest of the world. setup and configure systems, integrate security software, perform
Ohana’s Youth Advisory Council helps guide Ohana leadership in
data migration, and link with electronic medical record system.
their decision-making
“The beauty of a walking moai and is
program
that it development. Council mem-
not only encourages
bers meet
movement, for 10
but also sessions over
socialization, the course
forming bonds,of half a year
finding sup-and use Over its 30-plus years, the Yellow Brick Road Benefit Shops have do-
their meeting
port, making lastingtimes to discussand
connections program-related
having fun,”decisions including
says Tiffany nated nearly $7.6 million to Monterey County nonprofits. To help
class
DiTullio, and workshop
executive topics,
director adjuncts
of Blue to therapy,
Zones Projectflyer and brochure
Monterey continue this philanthropy, more volunteers are needed. Anyone
content, what defines and contributes to good mental
County and chief administrative officer for wellness at Salinas health, and wishing to volunteer can call (831) 626-8480 or visit
Ohana gift shop items.
Valley Memorial Healthcare System. www.yellowbrickroadbenefitshop.org.

“As Ohana grows, we want to make sure that what we’re doing res-
A typical walking moai group is launched with five to eight
onates with the teens in our community. This council makes the
Date set for Key for a Cure’s
people who commit to walking for at least one hour a week for
programs and services that Ohana provides more relevant and
10 weeks. People from one of four Blue Zones Project teams in
charity golf tournament
helpful for the population that we serve,” says Krista Reuther, Oha- The date for Key for a Cure Foundation’s third annual Golf Tourna-
Monterey County help get it off the ground, provide participant
na assistant director, who oversees the council. ment has been set for Oct. 2 at Corral de Tierra Country Club in Sa-
and leader guides, attend the first event, collect data from the
group, This
and group of 10 teenagers
help celebrate is the first iteration of the council, serv-
their success. linas. Proceeds will benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in
ing as a pilot group before the next cohort launches in August support of pediatric cancer research.
2023.
“The goal is The
thatbroad range will
the group of perspectives and experiences
become self-sustaining, helps to
grow The golf tournament is part of the nonprofit organization’s on-
form a well-rounded
and continue sampleafter
on independently of thethey
area’s broader the
complete community
10- of going mission to raise funds for pediatric cancer research, which
youth. ” says DiTullio.
week program, will directly benefit the work of St. Jude. People can support their
efforts by participating in the tournament, or by securing one of
Some recruited to the inaugural council are past or current Ohana
Anyone can form a walking moai anywhere in Monterey County. several sponsorship opportunities.
patients recommended by their therapists. Others were recruited
A good place to start is with a visit to montereycounty.bluezone- For children, cancer can be especially heartbreaking. Despite ad-
from local schools because of their leadership skills and passion for
sproject.com or an email to bluezonesprojectmontereycounty@ vances in treatment, the reality is one in five children will not sur-
youth mental health.
sharecare.com. Make sure to include your city and someone vive cancer. St. Jude Children’s Hospital stands on the front line of
“Throughout
from the Blue Zonesmy life I’ve
Project experienced
team mental
in your area health
will get challenges
back to this battle, working tirelessly against children’s catastrophic diseas-
and
you with have
the received treatment from Ohana,” says council member
details. es, particularly leukemia and other cancers.
Savannah Hunter. “Their treatment has helped me more than I
could50
More than have ever asked
walking moaifor, so I’mhave
groups passionate about the
completed helping
10- other The local community has enabled Key for a Cure to raise more than
people who
week program have
since it been in my position.
was launched ”
in June 2019. Reactivat- $910,000 toward ground-breaking research and $50,000 has gone
ed November 2021 after the height of the pandemic, about 29 directly to local children diagnosed with cancer who need services
“They feel so excited to have input on what Ohana is doing. When such as in-home medical care, rides to and from medical appoint-
groups have completed the program since then, and 10 more
we asked what they want to get out of this experience, they said ments and delivery of nutritious meals.
are currently under way. Walking moai groups are often started
unanimously that they wanted to feel that they are influencing
by service clubs, jobsites, faith-based organizations, a collection Last year, proceeds from the tournament, through an on-course
choices made by Ohana leadership, that they are getting to make a
of friends, even a group of neighbors. That was the case with fundraising competition, post-tourney reception, and silent auc-
difference,” says Reuther.
Anne Vallone of Marina, a Blue Zones Project Monterey County tion, raised $46,365 in net revenue, according to Liz Grijalva, Key
High school
Ambassador, students
volunteer andwho
avid are interested in applying for the Youth
walker. For A Cure Foundation president. The Chasing Dreams Barrel Event
Council can get more information by emailing mollyhansen@ held the same week added another $21,305 in net revenue for the
chomp.org. cause. This year, Key for a Cure is partnering with Tony and Tina
Sammut of T&T Enterprises as the event’s presenting sponsor.

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