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Ag officials keep sharp eye out for avian flu infection, sharpshooters Todd R. Hansen
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FAIRFIELD — Domestic poultry operations in Contra Costa and four other counties have been infected with the spreading and highly contagious avian influenza, but detection of the disease in Solano County has been limited to wild bird populations. Tuolomne was the latest county to have domesticated flocks infected, joining Contra, Sacramento, Fresno and Butte counties, the state Department of Food and Agriculture and U.S. Department of Agriculture report. “To protect other California flocks, the infected locations are currently
under quarantine, and the birds have been euthanized to prevent further disease spread,” the agencies reported in a statement. Ed King, the Solano County agriculture commissioner, said his department continues to advise commercial operators as well as residents with their own backyard flocks to keep the birds inside if possible and to limit interaction with wild populations the best they can. The department also provides guidelines for handling the birds. “There could potentially be a threat to humans, but according to the (Centers See Avian, Page A8
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Laurence Stahl, left, past commander of Manuel E. Reams Post 182, and Richard Bluhm, current commander of Manuel E. Reams Post 182, stand next to a display case honoring the sacrifices of World War I at
the Veterans Memorial Building in Suisun City, Tuesday. The Manuel E. Reams Post 182 will be honored next week at the World War I Memorial. In between Stahl and Bluhm hangs a portrait of Manuel E. Reams.
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SUISUN CITY — Manuel E. Reams Jr. was a cattleman and former baseball player when he was drafted into the U.S. Army during World War I. Known affectionately as Mannie, he also picked up the nickname “Babe” during his semi-pro baseball career from 1910 to 1915 – a time in which George Herman “Babe” Ruth was making a name for himself as a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. Reams would attend St. Mary’s College, where he played baseball, football, basketball and ran track,
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Ducks make their way through a slough near Grizzly Island Road in Suisun City, Monday. The viral spread of avian influenza is promoted by wild birds, especially in wild waterfowl such as ducks and geese.
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and finished his education at Santa Clara College, also playing baseball there. He eventually gave up baseball, got married and moved to Santa Rosa to raise cattle and other livestock. He was called into the war in 1917. Reams was wounded in the Meuse-Angonne offensive, a 47-day battle along the western front that started Sept. 26, 1918, and continued until the Armistice was declared at 11 a.m. Nov. 11, 1918. Believed to have been killed, the Suisun City native was found wounded in a German dugout. See Reams, Page A8
Gorbachev, who helped end Cold War, dies at 91 Tribune Content Agency Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader whose vision of humane communism liberated millions, bridled the global arms race and knocked down the walls dividing East and West, has died, according to Russian news agencies. Gorbachev, who had been in declining health, suffering from acute diabetes, was 91 and had been undergoing treatment at a hospital, according the news agencies.
One of the most influential politicians of the 20th century, Gorbachev used his six years as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to systematically dismantle the machinery of repression. He freed political prisoners, lifted the Iron Curtain, liberated the arts and pulled Red Army troops out of foreign conflicts such as the country’s 10-year debacle in Afghanistan. He forged disarmament treaties with Cold War enemies that helped melt away that
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adversarial era and revolutionized Soviet relations with the industrial powerhouses of the West. His controversial reforms, some short-lived, made perestroika and
glasnost household words around the globe in the 1980s and removed the shackles from a society deeply scarred by dictatorships that for decades had restricted thought,
word and deed. With his quixotic efforts to rescue a political order beyond salvation, he ushered in the unfamiliar notion of free elections, which opened the way for
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