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at Home Kit Distribution event at the Fairfield Suisun Veterans Building in Suisun City, Friday.

Solano County group ensures veterans get home safety kits Susan Hiland

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SUISUN CITY — Rebuilding Together Solano County has given away hundreds of Disaster Safe At Home Kits to veterans and families over the past few months. The Fairfield-Suisun Veterans Building hosted another giveaway Friday for veterans to take home what the group describes as essential home safety items. The Disaster Safe At Home Kit includes a first aid kit, hand crank radio/LED flashlight/cellphone charger, a fire extinguisher, plug-in night lights, emergency blanket, glow sticks, emergency

whistle, hand sanitizer, hand soap, face masks, a set of trash bags and disaster backpack with emergency information. Each kit has a value of $175. Rebuilding Together Solano County provides free home repair and rehabilitation services for low-income homeowners and community facilities. “We do similar work to what Habitat for Humanity does but for people who already own a home,” said Elizabeth Hoffman, executive director for Rebuilding Together Solano County. “Volunteers help seniors who own their own home with maintenance things.”

Rebuilding Together Solano County can assist those who can no longer climb ladders or crawl beneath sinks for upkeep and repair work. It is a local nonprofit organization dedicated to helping low-income veterans, seniors and the disabled. “This helps them to remain in their own homes,” Hoffman said. Rebuilding Together Solano County was established in 2009 and boasts more than 12,000 volunteers throughout the county. It has several programs that include veteran home rehabilitation, disaster safe-at-home kits, smoke/CO See Kits, Page A9

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California was hit with 12 feet of snow; is it enough to ease the drought? The Washington Post SODA SPRINGS — To keep out the snow, most of the windows of Andrew Schwartz’s cabin are boarded up with plywood, creating a gloom so persistent that he keeps his house plant alive with a grow light and consumes daily vitamin D from a pillbox in his desk. Snow falls in such abundance around Schwartz’s home – which doubles as the UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Laboratory – that prior residents of his research station have been known to ski directly into a thirdstory window. The drifts bury cars, warp walls and pile up in monstrous mushroom caps on his roof, before sliding off

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Andrew Schwartz, a scientist at the University of California at Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Laboratory, clears snow from scientific equipment on a lab tower in Soda Springs, Thursday. with startling violence. But even Schwartz, who has chased hailstorms in Australia and tornadoes in Oklahoma, faced weather this week unlike any he has known.

The blizzard that blanketed California’s inland mountains hit Schwartz’s cabin with 70 mph winds and blinding snow that covered up his snowshoe tracks minutes after he

made them. On Tuesday afternoon, as he went to check his instruments, he slipped and plunged into a drift up to his neck. “That was the first time I’ve ever had a moment like: Am I going to get out of this?” he recalled. “That storm was genuinely the worst one I’ve seen in my life.” The amount of snow that has fallen on California is rivaling some of the most bountiful years on record. Just in the past two weeks, more than a dozen feet of snow fell in this area, pushing the snowpack in the Central and Southern Sierra Nevada Mountains to roughly twice the amount of a normal See Drought, Page A9

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WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is nearing completion of an executive order that would restrict investments by U.S. companies in parts of the Chinese economy, including advanced technologies that could enhance China’s military and intelligence capabilities, people familiar with the matter said. The effort is at an advanced stage, with President Joe Biden prepared to request funding

for it in his March 9 fiscal 2024 budget, according to reports to Congress obtained by Bloomberg. The order would add to the administration’s toolkit to address concern about China’s technological advances, which includes export controls on advanced semiconductors and new guidance on screening Chinese investments in the U.S. While working on the policies, officials discovered that U.S. investments in China often come with See China, Page A9

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FAIRFIELD — The City Council on Tuesday will discuss the “Heart to Heart Listening Tour” proposed by Mayor Catherine Moy and Vice Mayor Pam Bertani. The district-by-district meet-and-greet has had little MOY input from the rest of the council, which has raised concerns and the frustration level among some council members. The concept is for Moy and Bertani, and presumably at BERTANI least the council member representing the district in which the meeting is taking place – to hear what those residents have to say. Moy and Bertani have

tentatively suggested the fourth Saturday of each month, starting March 25 in Councilwoman Doriss Panduro’s District 5, for the gatherings. That would be followed by meetings in District 3 in April, District 2 in May, District 4 in June, District 6 in July and finishing in District 1 in August. That schedule and locations will be two of the topics to be discussed at the council meeting. The council meets at 7 p.m. in the City Hall c h a m b e r , 1000 Webster St. The regular meeting follows a closed session at 5 p.m. during which the council will be updated on existing

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