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Motorcyclist killed Montiel said that it does appear that impair- Best Buy in San Carlos was honored for
ment may have been a factor in the colli- Local briefs what sheriff’s officials described as out-
in Highway 101 crash sion. standing efforts and initiatives designed to
intersection of Manor Drive and Oceana
A 37-year-old Hayward man has been Anyone who witnessed the collision or Boulevard on a report of a possible hit-and- prevent crime in the store and keep its cus-
identified as the victim of a fatal collision has information about it should call CHP run involving a car and a pedestrian. tomers from being victimized.
on Highway 101 in Redwood City early Officer Daniel Scott at (650) 369-6261. Officers arrived at the scene and found a “Over the years, it has been clear to us
Monday morning, according to the San 35-year-old woman suffering from injuries that Best Buy takes crime prevention and
Mateo County Coroner’s Office. SamTrans makes changes, to her face and pain to her lower body. She the security of customers very seriously,”
Edwin Sandoval was driving a Harley- holding meetings on transit study was taken by ambulance to a hospital for said San Mateo County Sheriff Carlos
Davidson motorcycle going north on treatment, police said. Bolanos in a statement.
Highway 101 south of Whipple Avenue The San Mateo County Transit District
Police investigated and learned that the The Sheriff’s Office created the award as
when he crashed into the right rear of a has implemented suggestions for improve-
woman was walking west in the southern part of an ongoing effort to increase com-
GMC van as a result of speeding between ments recommended in a recent study, and
crosswalk of the intersection when she was munity awareness about crime prevention
the middle and second to the right-hand will hold two meetings to get public feed-
struck by a silver SUV that was turning and to help encourage others to protect
lanes just before 1:45 a.m., according to back on the study, transit officials said.
south onto Oceana Boulevard from Manor themselves, their businesses and their fam-
California Highway Patrol spokesman In response to the Coastside Transit Drive. ilies.
Officer Art Montiel. Study, the transit district began operating According to police, the driver stopped
the SamTrans Route 118 express bus to con-
The impact pushed Sandoval’s motorcy-
nect with the Daly City BART station and
his car and briefly spoke to the victim Ballet instructor from San
cle into the second lane from the right, at before driving away from the scene.
which point it collided with a Honda,
offering an additional evening trip for the He was described as a white man, 45 to 50
Mateo arrested for child molestation
same route. years old, 5 feet 10 inches tall with a medi-
Montiel said. A ballet instructor from San Mateo has
Other changes are in the works, transit um build and shoulder-length gray hair. He been arrested on suspicion of child molesta-
When the Harley and Honda collided,
officials said. was wearing a blue T-shirt and had a tattoo tion, and investigators with the Contra
Sandoval was ejected from the motorcycle
and was consequently hit by a Toyota trav- The upcoming meetings will be held, on his arm, police said. Costa County District Attorney’s Office are
eling in the middle lane. first, at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Grand Oak The case remains under investigation and asking anyone with additional information
Room, Ted Adcock Community Center at anyone with information is asked to con- about the case to come forward.
Montiel said Sandoval was pushed by
535 Kelly Ave. in Half Moon Bay. tact Pacifica police and refer to case no. 18-
momentum all the way into the farthest left Viktor Nikolaevich Kabaniaev was work-
The second meeting will take place at 6 0276. Information can also be submitted by
lane of northbound Highway 101. ing at Westlake School for the Performing
p.m. Thursday at the auditorium of the calling the Silent Witness Tip Line at (650)
Responding officers were called at 1:48 Arts in Daly City at the time of his arrest,
Pacifica Community Center at 540 Crespi 359-4444.
a.m. and performed CPR on Sandoval upon but he has also worked in Contra Costa
Drive in Pacifica.
arrival until fire officials could arrive, but County.
he was pronounced dead at the scene.
Best Buy gets first-ever
Woman injured in Kabaniaev, 54, was arrested on a warrant
An on-scene investigation closed all sheriff’s crime prevention award for 16 counts of sexually assaulting a child
lanes of northbound Highway 101 for an Pacifica hit-and-run The San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office under 14 associated with events that
hour, Montiel said. A woman was injured in a hit-and-run on Wednesday honored a San Carlos busi- allegedly occurred in Contra Costa County.
Montiel said that all lanes were reopened Friday night in Pacifica, according to ness with its first-ever Sheriff’s Crime Anyone with additional information
by 5:21 a.m. in time for commute traffic. police. Prevention Award, law enforcement offi- about the case is asked to call (925) 256-
The CHP is investigating the case, and At 8:50 p.m., officers responded to the cials said. 3541.
Obituaries What’s the real state of the union? A deep dive in the stats
Joan Elaine Hillestad STOCK MARKET August-September period of 2016.
NATIONAL DEBT
Joan Elaine Hillestad, born July 18, 1939, died Jan. 18, The average balance in individual retirement
As of Monday’s close, the Dow Jones Industrial accounts, or IRAs, rose to $103,500 in the third In Trump’s first year in office, the national debt
2018, in Millbrae, California. Average is up 45 percent since Trump was quarter of 2017, up from $94,000 in 2016. grew by $546.4 billion. In 2016, Obama’s final
She was born in Pueblo, Colorado, to Eunice and Hugh elected and 34 percent since he took office.The year, the national debt grew by $1.01 trillion.The
McClanahan on July 19, 1939. Joan was preceded in death by Dow closed at 18,332.74 on Election Day and
19,827.25 on Inauguration Day.
MILITARY/SECURITY debt would have grown more in 2017 if not for
the fact that the Trump administration is
her parents and her sister Cecilia Dunn. Survived by her hus- The S&P 500, the market gauge that professionals Trump has expanded America’s war-footing, both constrained by reaching the debt ceiling of $20.5
band Charles, Son Glenn Hillestad of Phoenix, Arizona, attach more weight to, performed about the in the number of troops deployed to war zones trillion. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has
Daughters Rebecca Goyette of Pueblo, Colorado, and Elaine same: It’s up 33 percent since the election and and in their ability to conduct offensive been using various accounting maneuvers to
Ritchey of Dry Run, Pennsylvania, also survived by grand- 26 percent since the inauguration. operations. keep Uncle Sam from going over the debt limit.
daughters, Emily, Morgan and Katelyn Ritchey. Joan is also Trump said at an economic conference in As his term wrapped up, President Barack Obama Mnuchin will lose the ability to use these
Switzerland last week that the market “is was withdrawing forces from Afghanistan as he techniques in late February or early March, at
survived by 12 brother and sisters-in law and 32 nieces and smashing one record after another,”adding more eyed an end to the war. In a reversal, Trump has which time lawmakers and the White House
nephews. Joan was a bookkeeper for 56 years and secre- than $7 trillion in new wealth since his election. approved sending in more troops and giving must agree on a plan to increase the borrowing
tary/treasurer and sang in the choir for over 40 years at St. Left unsaid is that the market has done much them greater authority to go after members of limit so the government won’t default on its
John’s United Church of Christ. She volunteered as a band better than experts initially anticipated because the Taliban and other insurgent groups. obligations.
the U.S. economy has continued to gain strength. U.S. forces in Afghanistan currently number
mother for the Capuchino High School marching band and around 14,000, a 75 percent increase from the
also volunteered with the Capuchino Community Theater. She
The rest of the world economy has also exceeded
performance expectations. 8,400 forces there as of December 2016. TRADE DEFICITS
met her future husband at Denver University in 1959 where Those factors, combined with low interest rates, The Obama administration had capped the Trump made America’s trade deficits with China
both were students. Memorial service will be 10 a.m. economic stimulus elsewhere and tax cuts number of troops in Iraq at 5,262. Because of and other countries a central tenet of his
Trump signed into law at the end of the year, Iraqi government sensitivities, the U.S. continues campaign, vowing to move toward trade that
Saturday, Feb. 10, at St. John’s UCC in San Bruno. In lieu of have helped stocks surge. to say publicly that roughly 5,200 troops are he deems fair and reciprocal to protect the U.S.
flowers donations may be made to Gideon’s International or there, when the actual number is now about from being taken advantage of financially.Within
St. John’s UCC, 480 San Anselmo N., San Bruno 94066. HEALTH INSURANCE 7,000. days of taking office in 2017, Trump pulled the
Obama had capped the number of troops in U.S. out of a sweeping trade pact with 11 Pacific
Theresa Mary Campbell Progress reducing the number of Americans
without health insurance stalled toward the end
Syria at 503. About 2,000 are there now. Rim nations. He is renegotiating NAFTA, a
decades-old agreement with Canada and
of President Barack Obama’s term, and it may
Theresa Mary Campbell died Jan. 26, 2018, at the age of
have slipped into reverse under Trump, according UNEMPLOYMENT Mexico, as well as a separate, bilateral trade pact
with South Korea.
73. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, during World War II to John to one major survey. More people are working or actively seeking The deficit in goods and services was $513.6
and Theresa (McGartland) Magill. Terry is The Gallup-Sharecare Well-Being Index finds that employment. The unemployment rate was 4.8 billion from January through November 2017.
survived by her three children, Steve the number of uninsured adults increased by percent in January 2017, the month Trump was That’s 11.6 percent higher than the $460.2 billion
(Blanca) Campbell, Joanne (Alan) about 3 million in 2017. sworn into office, according to the federal Bureau deficit recorded for the same period in 2016, the
Magrini and Michelle Barlesi. Her greatest But the government’s National Health Interview of Labor Statistics. The rate has fallen steadily final year of Obama’s term. The deficit for all of
love was being grandmother to Ryan and Survey estimated that 28.8 million people were since then to 4.1 percent in October, where it 2016 was $504.8 billion, and the 2017 figure
uninsured between January and June of 2017, remained through December, continuing a trend already exceeds that with December’s total still
Alex Campbell and Madison Barlesi. not a statistically different change from 2016 and of falling unemployment that began under to be counted.
Sister to John “Johnny” Magill and aunt 2015. In the first six months of 2017, the Obama. Obama took office at the depths of the The deficit in goods with China was $116.7 billion
to Megan Magill. When Terry retired from uninsured rate was 9 percent, the same share of Great Recession, when the economy was for the first 11 months of 2017, up 12.3 percent
Peninsula Dermatology she kept a busy the population as in 2016. shedding hundreds of thousands of jobs every from the same period in 2016.
month. With Mexico, the deficit was $65.7 billion, 9.6
social calendar. She was passionate about
cooking, chocolate, traveling, gambling CRIME The unemployment report for January 2018 will
be released Friday.
percent higher than the same period in 2016.
and loved baking goodies for her grandkids. She will be Early statistics released by the FBI last week show The economy added slightly more than 2 million
OPIOID EPIDEMIC
missed dearly by all who knew her. Her spirit will remain in declines in some violent crimes and increases in jobs in Trump’s first year, a figure that is close to
one category for the first six months of 2017, the 2.2 million jobs created during Obama’s final Drug overdose deaths have continued to climb.
our hearts forever. Funeral Mass will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday, compared with the same period in 2016. year in office. Provisional data through June 2017 show a 16
Feb. 3, at St. Robert’s Church, 1380 Crystal Springs Road, Murder and manslaughter increased 1.5 percent percent increase over the previous 12-month
San Bruno, with a reception to follow. Donations may be in the first six months of 2017 over the first six RACE RELATIONS period, according to the Centers for Disease
made in the memory of Terry Campbell to the American months of 2016.The number of rapes decreased Control and Prevention, with nearly 67,000
2.4 percent, robbery offenses fell 2.2 percent and More people think race relations have worsened deaths from July 2016 to June 2017. Opioids
Cancer Society at cancer.org. aggravated assaults were down 0.1 percent, since Trump’s election in November 2016. Back account for about two-thirds of overdose deaths.
according to the bureau. then, 25 percent of those surveyed by the Pew For the first time, the powerful painkiller fentanyl
The report is based on information from 13,033 Research Center expressed optimism that having and its close chemical cousins played a bigger
law enforcement agencies that submitted data the politically inexperienced New York role in deaths in 2016 than any other legal or
to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program businessman in the Oval Office would improve illegal drug, surpassing other opioids like
for the first six months of 2016 and 2017. relations between the races. By December 2017, prescription pain pills and heroin. In December,
the percentage who felt that way had sunk to 8 the CDC said drug overdose deaths had for a
401(K) RETIREMENT PLANS percent, according to Pew. Forty-six percent in
the November 2016 survey said Trump’s election
second straight year cut into how long
Americans are expected to live.
The amount of money being squirreled away in would worsen relations. That figure grew to 60 If the Trump administration made any progress
401(k) and IRA plans has increased 10 percent percent by last December. on this front, it was mostly in public awareness.
in the past year, aided by that strong stock Trump has weathered a number of racially A presidential task force, a White House speech
performance, according to the financial firm charged controversies as a candidate and since and the declaration of a public health emergency
Fidelity Investments.Trump has said people often taking office, including saying there were “very shined a spotlight on the number of overdose
approach him to thank him for the boom in their fine people”on both sides of a white supremacist deaths, but critics say Trump’s gestures are mostly
retirement nest eggs. protest and counterprotest in Charlottesville, symbolic without new funding from Congress.
The average 401(k) balance was $99,000 in the Virginia, last summer. He most recently dismissed The White House Office of National Drug Control
third quarter of 2017, up 10 percent from the African countries by using a vulgarity that Policy remains without a permanent director
average $90,900 balance in the same July- describes a filthy toilet. after Trump’s first pick withdrew.
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