"The sender was a longtime Trabuco Canyon resident named Forrest Gordon Clark, an eccentric figure well-known in the tight-knit community as a troublemaker with a temper who had long clashed with his family and neighbors."
"Concerned, the chief of the Holy Jim Volunteer Fire Department dialed Clark’s number, but the call failed."
READ MORE related to Energy & Environment: Wildfires still rage. They also shine light on California's environmental challenges -- DAN SCHNUR in a Special to The Bee; 'The president's right': Interior chief pushes thinning forests to cut fire risk -- Sacramento Bee's DALE KASLER; California's biggest environmental challenges? Water. Climate change. Political hot air. -- Sacramento Bee
Eric Swalwell, still a relative newbie in Congress, looking to presidential run
The Chronicle's MATIER & ROSS: "Call him ambitious, but with just five years under his congressional belt, 37-year-old East Bay Rep. Eric Swalwell is laying the tracks for a possible 2020 presidential run."
“Yes, I am considering running,” Swalwell said in a matter-of-fact way when we caught up with him at a recent National Night Out block party in San Lorenzo, where he was mixing with constituents."
"From the looks of his travel schedule, Swalwell — who has drawn national attention as one of the lead voices in Congress’ investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign — is already on his way, stumping hard for midterm candidates across the nation."
In emergencies, cell phone alerts can be too slow to save lives. Can the system be fixed?
Sacramento Bee's ANITA CHABRIA/RYAN SABALOW/TARYN LUNA: "Before the flames appeared, Sandie Freeman thought the sky above her Redding home looked especially beautiful."
"The evening was golden hued and still; pretty enough that she took a picture. Minutes later, a light wind picked up and leaves from her oak tree began falling like rain, she said."
"It was the only warning she received that something was amiss."
OP-ED: Pathways to college bill would help students like me
JOSE AVILA in Capitol Weekly: "College application season is upon us. This fall, I will begin my senior year of high school at Alliance Susan & Eric Smidt Technology High School and submit my application to my first-choice school, the California Institute of Technology, to study engineering. I’m excited to make my college dreams come true, after four years of hard work."
"But the chance to apply to college and pursue higher education should be available to every high school student, no matter where we come from or how much our parents make."
New projections show future of work in California. See growth prospects for every job
Sacramento Bee's PHILLIP REESE: "California will add two million jobs in the next decade, with the fastest job growth coming in sectors that require college degrees, according to new projections from the California Employment Development Department."
"The number of jobs that require at least an associate’s degree will grow by 810,000, or 12 percent, by 2026. By comparison, jobs that do not require a degree will grow by 1.1 million, or 9 percent."
"One major exception to that trend will be personal care aides — workers who take care of the elderly so they do not have to leave their homes. As baby boomers age, California will need an additional 250,000 personal care aides, a growth rate of nearly 40 percent. Personal care aides do not need a college degree."
Alcatraz tradition ends for former prisoners, guards and their families
The Chronicle's TRISHA THADANI: "Florence Stewart remembers Alcatraz for more than its convicts, choppy shark-infested waters and sprawling views of San Francisco. She remembers it as an island with beautiful gardens that she once called home."
"As the daughter of a former warden, 87-year-old Stewart is one of the few people who still remember what it was like to live on the island. But Sunday was the last time that she and her fellow Alcatraz alumni — former convicts, guards and their families — will gather on the island for an official reunion, a tradition that lasted 30 years or so."
"It’s sad,” she said. “It’s a wonderful get-together that brings back so many memories.”
On Charlottesville anniversary, white nationalists are vastly outnumbered by counter-protesters outside White House
LA Times's LAURA KING/TRACY WILKINSON: "Marching shoulder to shoulder in the nation’s capital, large crowds turned out Sunday to denounce racism as a small contingent of white supremacists staged a rally in a park across from the White House — a disparity that was heartening to many but belied deep fears over rising racial divisions across the country."
"A year after deadly violence in Charlottesville, Va., became a nationwide symbol of polarization and mayhem in the Trump era, authorities braced for potential clashes as the two sides converged on the same small patch of greenery in Lafayette Square."
"But as the steamy afternoon turned to a twilight thunderstorm, police managed to keep the opposing groups apart, with a few dozen white nationalists surrounded by barricades and vastly outnumbered by police, let alone the thousands of counter-demonstrators."
