Issuu

Gaslighters prepare for British ‘invasion’ at Fiesta Days B1

DR’s 2023 All-Region baseball team delivers in clutch B6

SUNDAY | May 21, 2023 | $1.50

DAILYREPUBLIC.COM | Well said. Well read.

MAYkers Market draws crowd to Fairfield Susan Hiland

SHILAND@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET

Robinson Kuntz/Daily Republic

Vacaville High ninth-grader Rayna Neff, center, enters the Lynne Lee’s Annual Prom at Armijo High School accompanied

by Chris Neff, Friday. Armijo Leadership students greet each promgoer with applause as they enter the gym.

Special needs prom a big hit with students, parents Amy Maginnis-Honey AMAGINNIS@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET

FAIRFIELD — Suits, ties, prom dresses and a tiara dominated the hardwood in the Armijo High School gym Friday. Lynne Lee’s Annual Prom was expected to draw a few hundred for a few hours of dancing, conversation, some snacks, pictures and the tradition of naming a homecoming

king and queen. The almost 30-year-old tradition began as a Spring Fling for students enrolled in adaptive physical education. Under the direction of retired adaptive PE teacher Lynne Lee, the event is the highlight of the school year for many of those who attend. Lee retired in 2020, during the Covid-19 outbreak. That year’s prom was done virtually with Lee leading the fun from her home.

FAIRFIELD — Downtown Fairfield was filled with vendors Saturday for the MAYkers Market, a spring edition of Small Business Saturday hosted by the city of Fairfield and Boss Con. Taylor Garcia, the event coordinator, couldn’t have been happier to see everyone out and enjoying themselves. Her goal was to bring people together downtown. “Boss means anyone, you can be the boss of your business, your kitchen, whatever,” Garcia said. “I grew up here. I am raising my kids here so this is my town and I love it. I wanted to give something back to the community I love,” she said. The theme was a Y2K throwback to that heady year before 2000, when everyone thought the computers would shut down the world. “The city asked me to do an event that would bring more life to the downtown,” she See Market, Page A10

DEBT CEILING TALKS

There was no prom in 2021. The event was held last year with just high school students. This year, adaptive physical education teacher Haley Duncan, who works at several schools in the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District, took the reins. As the prom neared, Lee and Duncan were in constant contact to ensure a memorable morning. See Prom, Page A10

GOP rejects White House offer to freeze spending The Washington Post

1 scientist has spent 30 years trying to understand, treat Gulf War Illness Tribune Content Agency Dr. Robert Haley still has questions. “You’re always just trying to relieve this frustration that you don’t know the answer,” Haley said. The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center researcher is among those who have studied an illness afflicting thousands of Gulf War veterans since the mid 1990s. “First we proved that it was a disease and that it was an injury,” Haley said. “Then we proved that Sarin gas did it and then we’ve got this gene-environment interaction and

the guys that are sick – it’s not their fault; they were born with a susceptibility.” From the beginning, it was considered a mystery disease due to a lack of records of what every person was exposed to every day, according to Haley. “This is no longer a mystery disease,” he said. Using genetics, a study released by Haley and others last year linked the malady noted to cause respiratory complaints, sleep disturbances, forgetfulness, and muscle and joint pain, to the deadly

Christophe Simon/AFP/Getty Images/TNS file (1991)

See GOP, Page A10

0(025,$/ '$< 6$/(6 (9(17 6$/(6 (9(17 May 12-June 6th

See Years, Page A10

A U.S. Hummvee jeep and a Saudi tank pass under a highway sign directing them to Kuwait City in February 1991 during Desert Storm Allied forces offensive.

Republican negotiators rejected a White House offer to limit spending next year on both the military and a wide range of critical domestic programs as part of high-stakes negotiations over the federal debt ceiling, according to three people with knowledge of the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private talks. Republicans are instead pushing for higher defense spending and more significant domestic spending reductions, the people said, posing a challenge to White House negotiators aiming to resolve the debt ceiling standoff without agreeing to what they see as draconian changes to federal programs.

Ask about 0% Financing* *OAC, See store for details.

395-A E. Monte Vista Ave. Vacaville • 707.449.6385 Laineysfurnitureforliving.com

2SHQ :HHNGD\V DP SP 6XLVXQ 6RFLDO +RXU 'DLO\ SP :HHNHQG %UXQFK DP SP 2SHQ XQWLO SP 700 Main Street • Suite 104 • Suisun 707.425.1700 • castirongrillandbar.com