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Volunteer Kayla Sarmianto, right, serves some traditional Thanksgiving Day food to be delivered by other volunteers
or given out curbside at the Vacaville Veterans Memorial Building, Thursday.
Veterans Hall serves up
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Thanksgiving dinner with a twist Susan Hiland
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VACAVILLE — The city’s veterans were not deterred from serving their annual Thanksgiving dinner Thursday because of the novel coronavirus pandemic. It just meant a few changes were needed and a lot of elbow grease to make it all come together. Thanksgiving Day saw 50 volunteers putting together food boxes for deliveries and pickups outside the VFW Hall. It was a far cry from the
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rows of tables seen in past years. “Usually we have over 200 volunteers,” said organizer Lynn Jewell. “It is a lot less this year.” The fear of getting Covid-19 is what she credits as the deterrent. “Many people just didn’t want to do it this year,” she said. The entire day was different from
FAIRFIELD — Solano County reported 112 new Covid-19 cases Wednesday, pushing the county past 10,000 cases one day before Thanksgiving. The total is 10,036, the Public Health Division reported. Dr. Bela Matyas, the county public health officer, said he is bracing for the worst coming out of the holiday, numbers he expects to begin to see at the end of next week. “Basically, we have not seen a leveling off of disease since Halloween and we’re getting ready for Thanksgiving,” Matyas said. He has repeatedly said his primary concern is the family holiday traditionally includes older family members who are more susceptible to the disease. Add together the multigenerational holiday, case rate and positivity testing rate, and Matyas said there is a strong indication for “an acute increase of disease.” Preparation includes discussions with the hospitals for an anticipated increase of more serious cases. “And deaths,” Matyas said. “They (hospitals) are definitely very concerned, but they have assured us their plans are in place and ready to activate as
in the past. Volunteers were given training on proper cleaning. They then cleaned and sanitized the entire building from top to bottom daily the entire week. Everyone wore masks, temperatures were taken at the door, people wore gloves and used hand sanitizer before entering the preparation areas. “Before we would serve the meal, people would come and eat, then take a box or two home with them,” Jewell said. “This year the numbers See Veterans, Page A10
Liberty Church delivers meals to Suisun’s seniors Susan Hiland shiland@dailyrepublic.net
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Isaiah Lagang packages food at the Joseph A. Nelson Community Center to be delivered to Suisun City seniors, Thursday.
SUISUN CITY — Thanksgiving is a time for family and for generosity. Along with the many food giveaways and pickups this week, Thursday was also a day of distributing meals to the city’s senior citizens. Liberty Church took over the kitchen at the Joseph A. Nelson Community Center, where volunteers put together a complete meal for
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90 seniors in the area. “We have turkey, rolls, dressing and even pumpkin pie,” the Rev. Patricia Phillips said. The church was blessed with 20 volunteers who came early and grabbed large bags of food to go. “This is different than last year,” Phillips said. “We usually have a sitdown meal plus we have deliveries, but with Covid we changed that.”
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Customers wearing face masks wait in line to pick up their Thanksgiving meal orders at Chez Soul in Fairfield, Wednesday.
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Trump’s imprint on Supreme Court shows conservative effect in Covid ruling The Washington Post The Supreme Court’s new conservative majority showed its muscle on Thanksgiving Eve, with Justice Amy Coney Barrett playing a key role in reversing the court’s past deference to local officials when Melina Mara/The Washington Post (file 2019) weighing pandemic-related President Donald Trump speaks to restrictions on religious Justice Brett Kavanaugh during the organizations. All three of President 2019 State of the Union.
Donald Trump’s nominees to the court were in the 5-to-4 majority that blocked New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s restrictions on houses of worship in temporary hot spots where the coronavirus is raging. The court’s most Coney conservative justices distanced themselves from Chief Justice John Roberts Jr.
Justice Neil Gorsuch, Trump’s first nominee, went out of his way to say that lower courts should no longer follow Roberts’s guidance of deference, calling it “mistaken from the start.” “Even if the Constitution has taken a holiday during this pandemic, it cannot become a sabbati-
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