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Participants in the Vacaville Museum Guild’s downtown history tour arrive at the entrance of Andrews Park in

downtown Vacaville, Saturday. The Museum Guild offers tours the first and third Saturday of the month.

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VACAVILLE — Vacaville's downtown history came to life Saturday morning thanks to the Vacaville Museum Guild, kicking off its monthly historical tours. For Layton Damiano, who grew up in Vacaville, it was a trip down memory lane. His family settled there in 1904. He spoke of Saturday afternoons, walking to the movie theater, now Journey Downtown. When the film ended, a stop was made at a hobby store where he could purchase comic books, novelty items and model car kits. Damiano fondly recalled the old library,

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The Odd Fellows lodge as seen in 1910. It is part of the Vacaville Museum Guild’s history walking tour in downtown Vacaville. also on Main Street, where adults went to the top floor to get books. Youth had to go to the lower level. While he was curious what was above, Damiano held firm. One day, he said,

librarian Mary Eldridge approached him, saying, "Layton, I think you have read just about everything (downstairs). I am going to give you a pass to go upstairs." The tour was led by

Heidi Casebolt, who was Vacaville Museum's curator for many years. She was accompanied by other museum volunteers and a bevy of maps and stories. Her favorite are the Sanborn Insurance Company maps. "I adore them," she said of the details. Casebolt shared how Callen Street was to be called Gallen Street. She told the story of how a cemetery was moved to make room for Andrews Park. Participants saw oldtime photos, too, including those of the International Order of Odd Fellows building, which is being used today. The Patwin Indians See Tour, Page A7

California’s historic wet winter risks making wildfire season even worse Bloomberg News Don’t let all the flooding fool you: The same rain and snow that have drenched California this winter and spring risk making the state’s next seasonal calamity – fire season – even worse. An epic winter left parts of the Central Valley underwater, a problem that may persist for months as one of California’s largest mountain snowpacks on record melts. That elevated moisture is now fueling an explosion of plant growth unlike anything the state’s seen in years. Whole

landscapes are blossoming into so-called “superblooms,” as flowering bushes starved by years of drought make the most of the bounty. Soon, that growth will dry out, transforming buds and blossoms into kindling. “What we expect to see out of the rains is an increase in the amount of fuel there is to burn,” said Issac Sanchez, a spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, known as Cal Fire. Although the full price tag won’t become clear for months, California’s first-quarter storms have likely cost billions of dollars

in everything from road repairs to lost crops. If a devastating fire season follows on its heels, that one-two punch of climate disasters threatens to sap growth in the U.S.’s largest economy. The same dynamic could also play out elsewhere in the West, with record snows now starting to melt across Nevada, Utah and western Colorado, portending a delayed but dangerous fire season this fall. While wet winters don’t guarantee historic fire seasons, it has happened before – and with deadly See Wildfire, Page A7

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Klobuchar: Feinstein must decide soon on future in Senate Bloomberg News WASHINGTON — Dianne Feinstein, who has been absent from the U.S. Senate for weeks due to illness, needs to make a decision soon about her fate if she doesn’t recover enough to return for key votes in the closely divided chamber, Sen. Amy Klobuchar said. “We are going to need her vote on the Senate floor eventually,” Klobuchar said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.” Specifically, the Minnesota Democrat cited the debt ceiling crisis. “If this goes on month after month after month, then she’s going to have to make a decision with her family and her friends about what her future holds because this isn’t just about California, it’s also about the nation,” she said.

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WASHINGTON — Since the day Russia invaded Ukraine nearly 14 months ago, President Joe Biden has cited the strength of the widespread international commitment to the mission of defending an independent democracy against a brutal aggressor. But newly leaked secret U.S. government documents provide details of how some close non-European allies have been reluctant to provide arms to Ukraine, and in the case of Egypt, even considered supplying rockets to Russia, because of competing interests and concerns. In particular, three U.S. allies who are among the largest recipients of U.S. financial or other aid and assistance – Israel, Egypt and South Korea – had to be aggres-

sively lobbied by U.S. officials to join efforts to help Ukraine, with spotty results. The documents, most of which appear to have originated at the Pentagon and were allegedly leaked by an information specialist with the Massachusetts Air National Guard, have shown up on social media over the last several weeks, roiling Washington and potentially doing significant damage to U.S. intelligence-gathering networks abroad. The leaks represented an embarrassing revelation of this country’s secrets and inability to safeguard them. Following an investigation by officials from the Pentagon, Justice Department and other agencies, who always seemed to be several

Feinstein, 89, who’s not seeking reelection in 2024, was hospitalized earlier this year with shingles, according to her office. Her absence has concerned fellow Democrats, including Rep. Ro Khanna of California, who called for her to resign and said it “is obvious she can no longer fulfill her duties.” With Democrats holding only a 51-49 Senate majority, Vice President Kamala Harris was twice called in for tie-breaking votes while both Feinstein and Sen. John Fetterman, a Pennsylvania Democrat suffering from depression following a stroke last year, were away. Feinstein decided last week to step off the Senate Judiciary Committee, asking Majority Leader See Feinstein, Page A7

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