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BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise Residents of a South Davis neighborhood have been complaining to city staff for several months now about an Airbnb operation they say has diminished the quality of life on their cul-de-sac with increased traffic and parking, people coming and going at all hours and “the commercialization of an otherwise residential neighborhood.” And while city staff say that situation appears to be an outlier, with only sporadic complaints about similar short-term rentals elsewhere in the city, they will bring options to the City Council on Tuesday for mitigating the impact of short-term vacation rentals on all Davis residents. Currently the city has an agreement with Airbnb — the largest provider of short-term rentals in the city — that brings in about $180,000 a year in transient occupancy taxes. Airbnb voluntarily entered into the agreement in 2017 and has been collecting a 12-percent tax that it has passed on to the city ever since. The council has also
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Flavored tobacco on the agenda BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer The Davis City Council will weigh in Tuesday on whether the city should ban the sale of flavored tobacco products. Doing so would bring the city in line with the county as well as the cities of Woodland and West Sacramento which have already voted to do so. The Yolo County Board of Supervisors voted back in 2016 to ban the sale of flavored tobacco under the county’s Tobacco Retail Permit Ordinance, affecting tobacco retailers in unincorporated areas of the county. Supervisors did so because of concern that flavored tobacco products are marketed primarily to youths. The cities of Woodland and West Sacramento followed suit with bans that
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Davis police officers secure the scene of a shooting Thursday in East Davis. The victim, 19-yearold Jarred Vargas of Davis would die overnight.
that right and you haven’t missed anything.” No arrests have been made, and Doroshov said the matter likely will be forwarded to the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office for a decision regarding further actions, if any. The brother, who also
On Thursday night, the Davis School board heard from several teachers and community members who are working on the campaign supporting Measure G — the proposed local school parcel tax that is on the March 3 ballot, which would raise about $3 million annually in order to equalize salaries for Davis teachers and staff, bringing them up to a level competitive with other nearby school districts. David Plaut, a sixthgrade teacher at César Chávez elementary (and the parent of two students attending Davis public schools), said, “I want my children to have the best teachers possible, and that’s not going to happen when we are paying lower salaries for teachers ... we have recently been unable to hire some of the new teachers that we recruited. So I’m knocking on doors and delivering Measure G yard signs. People have been overwhelmingly positive — I am reminded that Davis people really appreciate their teachers.” Roxanne Deutsch, a teacher at Birch Lane Elementary (and the parent of a 2011 local high school graduate), said, “I personally have knocked on around 150 doors in the Birch Lane community. Along the way, I met the very first Birch Lane PTA president, and many others. It’s really invigorating, and I’m enjoying it a lot. I’ve found that in Davis,
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Below, memorial candles mark the walkway to Vargas’ apartment on Saturday. LAUREN KEENE/ ENTERPRISE PHOTO
Davis High senior dies in apparent accidental shooting BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer Dozens of candles line the walkway and form a heart outside the East Davis apartment where a Davis High School student was fatally shot Thursday in what police are calling a “horrible tragedy.” “Imma miss all those classes with you,” a grieving classmate wrote on one of the candles, lit in memory of 19-year-old Jerred Leroy Vargas. Vargas, a senior on track to graduate in June,
passed away several hours after arriving at the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento with a gunshot wound to his chest, Davis Deputy Police Chief Paul Doroshov confirmed Friday. “It’s almost surreal. He was only 19,” Doroshov said. “It’s horrible for the whole family.”
the Tuscany Villas Apartments, 2526 E. Eighth St., according to the Davis Police Department’s online bulletin.
Investigators on Saturday were continuing their probe into the shooting, reported at about 3:30 p.m. Thursday as a “male shot in the chest, accidental gunshot by brother,” at
“That’s the information we got initially,” Doroshov said. “But it will be a pretty substantial investigation. Whether or not it was an accident, you want to make sure you’ve got
What happens if California takes over PG&E? BY JUDY LIN CalMatters Calling the bankruptcy of California’s largest investor-owned utility a “godsend,” Gov. Gavin Newsom has threatened a public takeover of PG&E unless it can transform into a provider of affordable, reliable, clean and — above all — safe energy. That means no more ferocious wildfires sparked by PG&E equipment. That means no more fire-season blackouts that drag on for days or weeks, disrupting the state’s $3 trillion economy. It has been a little over a year since PG&E sought Chapter 11 protection, fearful that it might be locked out of the capital market by mounting wildfire liability
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PG&E CEO Bill Johnson testifies before the California Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee about power shutoffs and wildfires. and a fire-prone, climate-driven future. Reorganization was intended to give the company breathing room, keep utility workers employed — and keep Northern California’s lights on.
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PG&E hasn’t been without lifelines. Last year, the state created a fund to help utilities deal with the rising risk of wildfires. If PG&E emerges from bankruptcy by June 30, it can qualify for that assistance — something it desperately needs to get out of a hole created by nearly $25 billion in settlements with wildfire victims and insurers. One by one, as the current reorganization has proceeded, those victims, insurers and bondholders have signed on to PG&E’s plan, in order to be repaid. But PG&E also has a long, bitter history with Californians, from the lax maintenance that led to eight deaths in a 2010 San Bruno gas explosion to the groundwater contamination that
prompted a class action lawsuit in the 1990s to the role its aging equipment has played in recent wildfires. Only Newsom, speaking for a distrustful public, now stands in the utility’s way. Newsom has resolved to block the electricity provider unless it overhauls its corporate governance, refocuses on safety and opens itself up to state control if conditions become dangerous. He can do that: PG&E’s reorganization plan requires approval from Newsom’s appointees on the California Public Utilities Commission. PG&E has pledged to bring in some new board members and a safety monitor. But the utility
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TOBACCO: City playing catch-up TAX: Teachers back Measure G From Page A1 go into effect in April, according to city staff. Tobacco products included under the ban include any with artificial or natural flavors, or herb or spice, including menthol, strawberry, grape, orange, clove, cinnamon, pineapple, vanilla, coconut, licorice, cocoa, chocolate, cherry or coffee. “Banning the sale of flavored tobacco and flavored tobacco products within city limits is a start in addressing the concern that flavored tobacco products are primarily marketed to youth,” according to the staff report prepared for Tuesday’s council meeting. The report cites data from the California Department of Public Health which found that more than 80 percent of youths ages 12 to 17 who have ever used tobacco started use with a flavored product. Concerns over tobacco use by minors recently prompted the Davis Joint Unified School District to file a lawsuit against JUUL Labs, Inc., “for the company’s role in cultivating and fostering an e-cigarette epidemic that disrupts the education and learning environment across the district.” E-cigarettes (which are vaped) are often sold in a variety of flavors that appeal to the younger population, city staff noted. The county’s ban covers flavored ecigarettes as well as flavored cigarettes, cigars and pipe tobacco. The ban does not include FDAapproved nicotine products for use in treating dependence nor does it prohibit vaping or the use or possession of flavored tobacco products, only the sale. Additionally, the ban does not cover non-tobacco products such as cannabis. Any such ban in the city of Davis would impact about 21 vendors who currently sell tobacco products, according to city staff. Back in 2007, the city adopted Yolo County’s Tobacco Retail Permit program, allowing the county to regulate the sale of tobacco and tobacco products within city limits. Now the city must decide whether it wants to incorporate the ban on flavored tobacco as part of that program. On Tuesday, city staff will be seeking
direction from the council on whether to adopt the county’s ban or “provide a Davis-specific version of a ban on flavored tobacco.” Also on Tuesday, the City Council will consider a proposal to replace a singlefamily home on Russell Boulevard with four single-family townhouses in two buildings. The Davis Planning Commission unanimously recommended approval of the University View Townhomes in January, with commissioners calling the proposal exactly the sort of housing the city should be encouraging. The project requires a General Plan amendment to rezone the property from residential low-density to high-density and split the existing lot into four separate parcels. Currently a single-story, threebedroom, two-bathroom house, the property at 335 Russell Blvd. — between Oak Avenue and College Park and across Russell from UC Davis — would become home to four two-story, single-family townhouses in two duplex buildings. Each townhouse would have three bedrooms and two and one-half bathrooms. Immediate neighbors of the site include two single-family homes and a sorority housing UC Davis students. During the Jan. 10 planning commission meeting, one neighbor called the existing house — home to student renters for many years — “a de facto fraternity house” that has been a nuisance for many years and expressed hope that replacing it with owner-occupied townhouse would be an improvement. Property owner Maureen Guerrieri has said the townhouses “will attract university faculty, staff and graduate student residents with its family-friendly amenities and high-end finishes.” “I’m trying to make these really nice homes that people would like to buy,” Guerrieri told planning commissioners in January. Tuesday’s council meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. in the community chambers, 23 Russell Blvd. — Reach Anne Ternus-Bellamy at aternus@davisenterprise.net.
From Page A1 people love their teachers.” And longtime parent/ activist Hiram Jackson, a volunteer in the campaign, described Measure G as “a chance for our district to take better control of our finances. My youngest son graduates (from high school) this year, so for me, this is very much a ‘pay-itforward’ moment. Measure G is a chance to make compensation for our teachers (in this district) work in a better way for future generations.”
Chávez MPR Three teachers from Chávez Elementary expressed dismay at the likely delay in the start of construction for a new MultiPurpose Room at that campus. In recent months, a number of homeowners live close to the school have expressed concern about the proposed building site for the new MPR on the Chávez campus, and complained that the district did not do a good job informing the neighbors about meetings concerning the new MPR. Sixth-grade teacher Plaut told the trustees that the likely postponement of the new MPR at Chávez due to “the inability to arrive at a decision about placement” is “incredibly frustrating and disheartening ... this seems very much a situation where the grownups were unable to resolve their differences, and our students are paying the price. To be honest, I don’t have an opinion about where the
MPR goes. I just know that we need it to be built as soon as possible.” Plaut pointed out that the existing MPR, was built in the 1950s, and is too small to accomodate all-school gatherings. “It has no stage, and the kids are squished to the brim ... we are probably violating fire code. And it’s hard to get the kids to be a good audience under these circumstances. I hope the facilities subcomittee understands the urgency of getting this project going.” Kaitlin Post, a thirdgrade teacher at Chávez, told the trustee that while “we knew there were parent concerns, we voted unanimously as a staff to support the district’s plan (for locating the new MPR). We are so ready to have a new MPR. We all know how much we need it. It is really hard to be at a school with so many students that has an MPR without enough space. That’s why everyone on the staff came together and said ‘we support the district’s plan, and we want it to go forward.’ ” And Petrina Jonas, a teacher/librarian at Chávez, told the trustees that “you could almost hear the sighs of frustration when it was announced that we were most likely going to be pushed back in the construction sequence. There’s a lot of worry that we won’t have enough money left (when construction finally begins) because of inflation costs, and the scale of construction might be reduced, and (the new MPR) won’t meet our needs.” Jonas added “Our kids
don’t like going in the (existing) MPR on rainy days. The MPR smells ... we need a new MPR — the teachers want it, the parents want it, and the kids want it.” Elsewhere on the agenda, the school board heard an update on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s January budget proposal. Bruce Colby, the district’s longtime Chief Budget and Operations Officer, told the trustees that the district is looking at modest increases in state funding (less than 3percent annually) under the governor’s proposal. But pension costs are going to increase by upwards of 18-percent annually, the cost of property insurance and liability insurance is almost certain to increase, and the Davis school district will need to work hard to maintain the state-mandated 3-percent budget reserve. Superintendent John Bowes added that the district would need something like an 8-percent budget reserve in order to cover all the district’s expenses for one month. The next meeting of the Davis school board will be on Thursday, Feb. 20. That meeting will include a discussion of school safety plans (the state requires school districts to annually review and update safety plans for each school campus), and a study session on the district’s efforts regarding social-emotional learning. — Reach Jeff Hudson at jhudson@davisenterprise. net or 530-747-8055.
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Briefly Provenza hosts coffee gathering The campaign for Jim Provenza for Yolo County Supervisor will host a coffee event from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 16. “Share what’s on your mind and hear Jim discuss his vision for Yolo County,” a news release said. To RSVP and receive the address, please contact 530386-2647.
Poets read on gun violence The Yolo County and Sacramento Valley chapters of Brady United Against Gun Violence will host a community forum featuring the 2017 poetry and prose anthology, “Bullets into Bells: Poets & Citizens Respond to Gun Violence,” from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 11, at the Pence Gallery, 212 D St. in Davis. The event is hosted in association with the UC Davis Campus Community Book Project. Featured presenters include poet Dean Rader, co-editor of the anthology, and contributor Pastor Mike McBride. UCD students and community members also will read selections of poetry and prose reflecting on gun violence. Local novelist Naomi J. Williams, author of “Landfalls” and a co-founder of the Yolo Brady chapter, will emcee the event. The forum is part of a yearlong series of events connected with the 2019-2020 Campus Community Book Project, which addresses the topic of gun violence. For information, visit www.BradyUnited.org.
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ush Limbaugh relying on ‘relationship with God’ amid lung cancer diagnosis,” said the headline in one prominent online publication. “Rick Perry tells Trump he’s God’s ‘Chosen One,’ ” said another. “Nancy Pelosi says she prays for Trump.” “Mitt Romney cites prayer for impeachment vote.” “Trump slams Pelosi, Romney at National Prayer Breakfast.” There was even a long story detailing how Kobe Bryant and his daughter had attended 7 a.m. Sunday Mass in Newport Beach shortly before their fatal helicopter crash. Prayer, which for many people is both personal and private, is front and center in the public square these days. Which is all well and good, but for the fact that some folks are throwing stones at people who have expressed their faith in God and their belief in the power of prayer. Limbaugh, in announcing his diagnosis of advanced lung cancer, said he has “a deeply personal relationship with God” that has sustained him during his battle with this dread disease. “I have been working that relationship tremendously,” he added. A number of critics immediately
called Limbaugh a hypocrite. How could a man who has made a career of mocking and denigrating his fellow human beings, people that Christians believe are made in the image and likeness of God, now claim in his time of need that he has a “deeply personal” relationship with God? Well, as my dad told me long ago, when someone expresses their faith in God, whether you like them or not, it’s best to take them at their word and let God sort it out. We’re all children of God, he said, not just some of us. Christianity is for sinners, not saints. Or at least for sinners who hope to become saints, but sinners nonetheless. Now, if you wish to say that Limbaugh does not deserve the Presidential Medal of Freedom for a career that helped to create the atmosphere of hatred and division that we see in our country today, have at it. Just don’t
attack his faith. Mitt Romney, meanwhile, in voting to convict President Trump on one article of impeachment, said “My oath before God demanded it of me. “ Furthermore, said Romney, “I have prayed through this process. I am profoundly religious. My faith is at the heart of who I am. I take an oath before God as enormously consequential.”
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s for Nancy Pelosi, who led the charge for impeachment, she said she “prays for the president every day,” even as she tried for many months to have him removed from office. At the National Prayer Breakfast last Thursday, the president was the one slamming another person’s faith. “I don’t like people who use their faith as justification for doing something they know is wrong,” he said of Romney, a man who is unlikely to lie about how seriously he takes his “oath to God.” “Nor do I like people who say ‘I pray for you’ when they know that that’s not so,” he added of Pelosi, who was sitting just four seats away. Later in the day he told another gathering, “I doubt she prays at all.” Again, as my dad would say,
you’re skating on thin ice when you question the prayers and beliefs of others, no matter how much you may disagree with them. Said Pastor Robert Jeffress, a close friend of Trump, “I can understand why the president would think the decision (of Romney) was based more on selfpromotion and bitterness than it was on prayer.” What an incredibly hurtful and harmful thing for a pastor to say about another man’s faith in God. Added Jeffress of Romney, “It’s obvious he’s bitter that the American people rejected him two times for president and President Trump was able to do something he wasn’t.” In other words, it was jealously that motivated Romney, not sincerity about his relationship with God. If you listen closely to the raw hatred being aimed at Mitt Romney, his crime has to do with mixed-up priorities. Instead of God, family and country, in that order, Romney should have followed his critics’ one simple rule. “Party first, no matter what.” — Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net
PG&E: Options on the table as massive utility struggles From Page A1 wants to keep its corporate structure intact and use stock to pay half of the settlement it owes victims of the fires caused by its equipment, essentially making them shareholders. Meanwhile, treetrimming it was supposed to do to mitigate future risk remains backlogged. And even under its bestcase scenarios, blackouts can be expected for another decade. So can Newsom force change? And if he does, what might that change look like? History isn’t on Newsom’s side, but … Newsom has insisted “there’s gonna be a new company or the state of California takes it over.” But he hasn’t offered any specifics about what a public acquisition would look like – let alone mention that any takeover could cost $60 billion or more, a high price even for a state with an $18 billion rainy day fund. And bankruptcy court may be a difficult venue to do it. “We haven’t seen the bankruptcy system in recent years used to dramatically alter the structure of a major privately owned public utility,” said Jared Ellias, law professor at UC Hastings. “This is new. There’s not a set of transaction documents sitting on anybody’s shelf.” Still, state and local leaders don’t want to allow the status quo given PG&E’s poor track record. A December poll by the Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley conducted for The Los Angeles Times found fewer than 1 in 8 likely voters want PG&E to fix its own problems and maintain its current structure. There is no consensus, however, on what changes should be made.
investor to public ownership. The new entity would be called the Northern California Energy Utility District with a public benefit corporation called Northern California Energy Services managing the day-to-day operations. The bill would allow cities, such as San Francisco, to eventually fulfill plans for their own utilities.
Customer-owned For months, San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo has been pushing to transition PG&E from investor ownership to customer ownership in the form of a cooperative, such as credit unions or mutual insurance companies. According to Liccardo, more than 900 cooperatives already serve 19 million customers in the U.S. The “co-op” would not require taxpayers to fork over tens of billions of dollars to buy out PG&E’s infrastructure. Instead, customers would be the owners, which would give them an incentive to make the grid safer. “A customer-owned cooperative would encounter sharply lower capital costs than PG&E does today, because it would not need to pay dividends to shareholders, or federal taxes to Uncle Sam,” Liccardo wrote in an op-ed for CalMatters. “By saving billions in interest payments, a customer-owned company would devote more of its resources to improving the company’s infrastructure and service.”
Wires as highways In order to make PG&E safer, somebody — either investors, taxpayers or customers — will have to contribute significant sums of money to bury the most
fire-prone power lines and do the necessary “hardening” of the electrical grid. PG&E’s rates are already high for the state, if not the country. And taxpayers are already paying for the firefighters who have to be deployed before a wildfire starts. For the upcoming wildfire season, Newsom said teams will be prepositioned along PG&E’s transmission lines. David Freeman, who headed the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and served for decades as general manager of the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, is proposing a radical third way: Take over all the poles and wires in California and treat them as a public good as the state does with roads, highways and bridges. Freeman proposes creating a new state agency to take over all transmission systems in California and tasking it with making the infrastructure safe and reliable. The cost to taxpayers would be tremendous, perhaps to the tune of $1 trillion over 10 years, but he argues the cost of disrupting the state economy is even higher. Utilities would continue to run the business of selling electricity. Freeman
said treating the power lines like freeways would actually improve utilities’ finances because it would relieve both public and private utilities of strict liability for disaster damages — an ongoing issue that stems from a legal doctrine in state law known as “inverse condemnation.”
Resistance PG&E, which serves 16 million people in 48 counties, has long thwarted defectors. Nearly a century ago, the citizens of Sacramento voted to establish a community-owned, nonprofit electricity service, and to get out of PG&E’s service territory. Decades of litigation ensued. The Sacramento Bee’s investigative role in the fight is part of the paper’s lore now. Only in the late 1940s did the Sacramento Municipal Utilities District begin operations. More recently, PG&E sank more than $46 million into a failed campaign in 2010 on Proposition 16, which would have limited the ability of local governments to enter the electricity business. The initiative would have made municipal power authorities harder to establish by
requiring cities and counties to win two-thirds approval before spending public money to start or join a public power agency. Today, PG&E says it’s committed to exiting the bankruptcy process as quickly as possible. A white paper conducted by Concentric Energy Advisors outlines rebuttals to both municipalization and cooperatives, citing high debt and high customer rates. “We remain convinced,” the company stated, “that a government or customer takeover is not the optimal solution that will address the challenges ahead and serve the long-run interests of all customers in the communities we serve.” What does the governor really want? Newsom made multiple takeover threats during an appearance at the Public Policy Institute of California last week. “PG&E, that company no longer exists,” Newsom said. “There’s gonna be a new company or the state of California takes it over and that new company is going to be transformed and in five or 10 years.” — CalMatters.org is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.
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State takeover San Francisco state Sen. Scott Wiener this week introduced legislation that would turn PG&E into a publicly owned utility. Senate Bill 917 is modeled on a public-private partnership at Long Island Power Authority, owned by the state of New York. PG&E said its facilities are not for sale and pointed to Long Island’s substantial debt load and high electricity rates. Wiener’s plan calls for establishing a state power authority, led by a governor-appointed board, to purchase the utility’s assets and then transition from
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Briefly Project Linus meets Feb. 12 Project Linus makes blankets for children in the community who are seriously ill, traumatized or otherwise in need. Anyone who enjoys quilting, knitting or sewing is invited to join the gathering from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 12, at the Davis Senior Center, 646 A St., to share ideas, patterns and lots of good conversation. All are welcome to attend and help sew labels on blankets that will be given to organizations that serve children in need. Members may take home fabrics and yarn to complete blankets, which can be brought to the next gathering or to the Joann Fabric store in Woodland. For general information, drop-off location questions or fabric and yarn donations, contact Diane McGee at dmm yolo@gmail.com or 530-753-3436.
See black-history letter collection International House Davis and Imagining America present Daphne Muse and her collection of letters in an exclusive presentation from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 12, at I-House, 10 College Park. Muse is an activist, writer, educator, movement elder and cultural broker. Her collection of more than 5,000 letters documenting black life and culture across the diaspora from 1958 to the present includes correspondence from activist Angela Davis, comedian Richard Pryor, President Barack Obama, the San Quentin Six, author and poet Alice Walker, and leaders in the Black Arts, Pan-African and Civil Rights movements. This event is free and open to the public and International House is wheelchair accessible. For more information, contact Suzi O’Rear at suzi@ihouse davis.org or 530-7535007.
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Where does our coffee come from? BY SARA THOMPSON Special to the Enterprise
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any of us start each morning with a cup of coffee to get us through the day. Coffee is one of the most widely consumed beverages in the world, with the U.S. importing more coffee than any other nation and is the leader of the consumer of coffee in the world. Where does this drink come from? Coffee starts as a seed of the Coffea plant, which grows in the warm, tropical areas surrounding the equator. The two most common coffee varieties are Arabica and robusta. Both plants grow similarly, but the robusta requires a slightly higher temperature to grow. Both varieties of coffee tree require heavy rain early in growth, and less as the tree ripens. The trees can grow between 15 and 30 feet high and produce a red or purple fruit, similar to a
EXPLORIT SCIENCE CENTER cherry. Like most stone fruit, the coffee cherries have large seeds in the middle. Coffee cherries have a paired seed, rounded on one side and flat on the other. Coffee “beans” are the seeds inside the coffee cherries, they are not, however, truly beans but are named so because of the resemblance. When the coffee fruit is ripe it is picked off the trees and is gone through one of two methods for processing. One method is to separate the flesh of the berry from the seed. The seeds are soaked in water for a few days to soften the sticky pulp that surrounds the seeds and are then washed. The other method is to lay the berries out in the sun to try for several weeks, being turned regularly to completely dry.
The caffeine in the seeds is a defense mechanism, helping to protect the seed from being eaten by insects and animals. This defense mechanism is what human crave and need to get us through the day. After the beans are dried and their pulp removed, they are packaged and sent to facilities to be roasted and used to make the coffee drink we all know and love. Our educators don’t mind getting a cup of coffee when we travel to area schools to provide fun, hands-on science programs! There is still time to reserve an Explorit program for your school! Call us as (530) 756-0191 or go online at http://www.explorit.org/ programs to find out more. ———— Explorit’s coming events: ■ Visit our Light & Sound exhibit during our public hours on Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. Admission is
$5 per person, free for ages 2 and under, Members, teachers, and ASTC. ■ Come find Explorit at the following community events: Duck Days Saturday, Feb. 22; Children’s Activity Faire, Tuesday, Feb. 25; and Women in STEM-Leap In at Peregrine School, Saturday, Feb. 29. ■ Pi Day Celebration! Saturday, March 14, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $6 for members/$8 for nonmembers for a day of circle and pi fun! No passes. ■ Extended public hours: 1 to 5 p.m. every day during the week of April 6-10. Regular hours resume Saturday, April 11. ■ Enrollment still available for Explorit’s Nature Bowl team. This is an after-school science team from students grades 3-6. Call 530-756-0191 to register. The $25 fee covers weekly meetings and a T-shirt.
Grant cycle open for students to ‘Go Visit a Farm!’ Special to The Enterprise Local nonprofit Yolo Farm to Fork is accepting grant applications for Yolo County public and private schools to “Go Visit a Farm!” The grants will send fourth-, fifth- and sixthgrade classes on a field trip to a local organic farm and provide $300 per bus toward transportation. The grants are sponsored by local family-owned grocery chain Raley’s. Classes visit one of three Yolo County farms. Full Belly Farm is a 400-acre diversified organic farm in Guinda, while Fiery Ginger Farm and 3 Sisters Gardens are small organic urban farms in West Sacramento. Every student will harvest and sample the produce grown. Other learning activities may focus on identifying parts of a flower, growing vegetables at home, pruning and caring for fruit trees, keeping livestock, vermicomposting with worms or recognizing beneficial insects and birds. After the farm visit, some classes will visit a local Raley’s store that purchases vegetables directly from the farmers. At the grocery store, students will learn how to read a nutrition label, identify seasonal produce and egg sizes and categories and complete the
full farm-to-market-tofork cycle. Haley Friel, Full Belly Farm’s director of outreach and education, says students love tending the newborn piglets and gathering freshly laid chicken eggs on the field trips. “Some students bravely reach under the chickens to grab the eggs. Others have seen eggs being laid right before their eyes.” Friel says that visiting a working farm teaches the students “where their food really comes from and all the effort and energy that goes into bringing it to them.” According to Friel, many young people are surprisingly detached from our food system. “Even students that live in rural areas are often disconnected from the realities of our food system and have no context or connection to it.” The farm visits, she says, provide “engaging, exciting experiences” that help students connect to the food they eat and spark “curiosity and interest in the agriculture on which they depend.” Yolo Farm to Fork created the “Go Visit A Farm!” program eight years ago. President Suzanne Falzone explains, “We’ve been doing farm visits from our very beginnings in 2012.
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Local school children enjoy a fun and educational trip to the farm. Yolo Farm to Fork is accepting grant applications for Yolo County public and private schools to participate in the “Go Visit a Farm!” program. Applications are due Sunday, Feb. 23. “We want kids to experience where food originates and how it grows. We also want to acquaint them with our county’s rich ag heritage.” With about 800 students participating each year, the grant program has provided more than 6,000 farm visits since its inception. The grant application cycle is open until Sunday, Feb. 23. To apply for the “Go Visit a Farm!” grant, visit https://www.yolo farmtofork.org.
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Linda Deos for Supervisor “In the past few years, housing, healthcare and childcare costs have skyrocketed, the percent of youth in foster care has increased by 50% and homelessness has exploded. It doesn’t have to be this hard. I am running to be your Supervisor to lead us onto a better path, and to bring vision, courage and accountability to our county.”
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AIRBNB: Neighbors look for solutions for short-term rental impacts From Page A1 directed city staff to require business licenses for individuals who rent out their properties as shortterm rentals. But the council in 2015 declined to enact additional regulations, “partially as a means to encourage the burgeoning gig economy,” according to city staff. However, residents living on and near Calmia Place in South Davis want the city to do more — including prohibiting short-term rentals in residential neighborhoods like theirs altogether. In multiple letters to the city over the last few months, residents have laid out their concerns about the “mini-motel Airbnb operation” on their street. One letter, signed by members of six households, describes “cars that belong to none of the neighbors driving in and out, sometimes at speed; parking, sometimes in front of the fire hydrant; sometimes dumping their small detritus out from their cars onto our street. “A constantly changing cast of strangers is moving in and out, sometimes looking into neighbors’ windows as they smoke or socialize on the sidewalk; the customers’ dogs are being walked or let off leash around the neighborhood to do their business on the neighbors’ landscapes; and so forth,” the letter states. “Because check-in time for
the Airbnb operation is from (3 to 11 p.m.), neighbors hear a constant stream of car doors and trunks being opened and closed, and car alarm locks going on and off, sometimes multiple times per car. And, some of these customers come and go throughout the late evening hours and return back playing their car music very loudly at times.” Other complaints include increased police activity on the culde-sac, cars blocking driveways and even people looking for their shortterm rental who mistakenly enter the wrong private residence. “Residential neighborhoods such as ours were not intended to incorporate apartments, motels and other commercial enterprises, however ‘mini’ they may be,” said one letter. “Our neighborhood is not an urban mix both by planning and by carefully considered resident choice. The city can have areas planned and designed for urban mixes of residential and commercial and perhaps the city will consider those environments to be suitable for short-term rentals. We who have purchased homes in single family residential neighborhoods don’t choose to live in that type of environment.” That neighborhood’s concern, city staff note in the report prepared for Tuesday’s council meeting, raises a particular concern that the single-family home is “functioning as a quasi-hotel resulting in a level of intensity that impacts that
quality of life on an otherwise quiet cul-de-sac.” Other cities in California have taken a variety of approaches to mitigate the impact of short-term rentals, city staff said, including Santa Monica, Napa and San Francisco. Santa Monica’s ordinance flatly prohibits short-term vacation rentals of less than 30 days unless property owners register for a business license and live on-site during a guest’s entire stay. The ordinance also has occupancy limits. Napa, meanwhile, regulates vacation rentals through its zoning code and requires a vacation rental permit, has limits on the total number of vacation rentals (hosted and non-hosted) subject to an annual fire department inspection and numerous restrictions on advertising, occupancy, noise and annual notice requirements, city staff said. “San Francisco, on the other hand, has elected to carve-out a short-term rental exception to its existing prohibition on the unlawful conversion of residential units in order to safeguard permanent housing units in what is already a tight and expensive housing market,” city staff report. San Francisco has a permanent resident requirement where the permanent resident operator must spend at least 275 nights a year in the unit where they host shortterm rentals.
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license and TOT requirements. This could also include the process for filing a written complaint about a short-term rental and possible penalties for violations. ■ Requiring certain restrictions, such as vehicle occupancy limits, pet restrictions, quiet hours and public notice to neighbors. ■ Prohibiting short-term rentals from renting to more than one party per night in any single-family residential zone or develop occupancy limit formulas. ■ Banning all short-term rental properties as commercial activity in areas where zoning does not permit commercial activity. Calmia residents have a very specific request to council: “We want this commercial operation to cease, and we want there to be clear direction/regulation preventing the property from being operated as a mini motel or mini dorm by this neighbor and any successor owner,” the letter signed by residents of six households states. “Anyone who wishes to operate a mini motel or mini dorm should purchase a property in an area planned for that dynamic.” Tuesday’s council meeting begins a 6:30 p.m. in the community chambers at 23 Russell Blvd. — Reach Anne Ternus-Bellamy at aternus@davisenterprise. net. Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.
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March 28, 1941 — Dec. 25, 2019
Jan. 24, 1940 — Jan. 8, 2020 Richard Cowen died suddenly and unexpectedly on Jan. 8, just a few weeks before his 80th birthday. The cause was cardiac arrest. Richard grew up in the northwest of England attending local schools. He won a scholarship to Cambridge University (Christ’s College) and went on to earn his bachelor’s degree and his Ph.D. in geology. In 1967, he was offered a one-year position in the geology department at UC Davis and moved half-way around the globe. In 1968, he was offered a permanent tenure track position which he happily accepted. He reconnected with a college acquaintance, a fellow Brit, Jo, which resulted in their marriage in 1971. Together they raised two daughters. Richard’s early paleontology research focused on the functional morphology of several extinct and living invertebrate animals. His later research focused on dinosaurs and the origin of flight as they evolved into birds. Family travel, whether overseas, or long car trips in the summer, was of great importance, including sabbaticals in Hawaii, the U.K. and Australia while the girls were young. Many special memories stem from these adventures. Richard was an incredible teacher. He loved to teach and in 1993 was awarded a “Citation for Distinguished Teaching” from UCD. He continued to teach UCD undergraduates even
Existing regulations in Davis include noise and nuisance ordinances that apply to all units, whether they are or short-term or long-term rentals or owner occupied. Additionally, property owners who wish to rent out their properties, all or in part, must get a business license. If they don’t live on site, they must participate in the city’s rental registration and inspection program. As for what the city should do now, staff will over a variety of options to the council on Tuesday, including: ■ Maintaining the status quo, including if the council determines that any additional regulations on this type of commerce would stifle economic opportunity for property owners and concerns can be mitigated through current requirements. ■ Limiting the number of nights a property can be used as a shortterm rental when the owner is offsite or banning short-term rentals altogether where the owner is not present. ■ Enacting a permanent resident occupancy requirement where an owner must spend a minimum number of nights per year at the residence where the short-term rental is offered. ■ Requiring specific short-term rental permitting process or annual registration, including demonstration of compliance with business
after his retirement in 2003. Later, he created and taught classes for OLLI — the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute — and just loved his senior students, who just loved his classes. Richard wrote and revised five editions of his textbook “History of Life,” which was translated into several languages and offered students around the world his view of the interactions among living organisms, their physical environment and time. The textbook lives on as “Cowen’s History of Life.” Always a voracious reader, in retirement Richard enjoyed volunteering for his local library. He embraced his role of “gentleman farmer,” including seasonal selling at the Davis Farmers Market. Always with a twinkle in his blue eyes, his wit, kindness, and curiosity will be greatly missed by family, friends, and colleagues. Richard is survived by Jo, his wife of 48 years, his daughter Claire (Jacob) and grandchildren Greta, 11, and Teddy, 7, of Seattle, his daughter Alexandra (Nathan) of Portland and his sister Doffi (Tony) of Reading, England. There will be a “Celebration of Life” in the spring. Please, no flowers. Donations can be made to OLLI, Winters Friends of the Library, The Cordell Durrell Field Geology Fund at the UCD department of earth and planetary sciences or the Yolo County SPCA.
Fred Dorn, a 35-year resident of East Palo Alto, died on Christmas Day, 2019, of heart failure. Fred was born in Baltimore, Maryland and grew up in Houston, Texas. After graduating from the University of Texas with a BA in Anthropology, Fred joined the Peace Corps in 1965 where he met his wife, Midge. He taught English and learned to read and write Thai in a small town in northern Thailand. When he returned to the United States, he became a technical writer and worked for several Bay Area technology companies. He retired in 2001. Fred was always had many interests including photography, music, ham radios, building computers, and traveling to
Mexico to study Spanish. He also enjoyed being in community theater productions at Menlo Players Guild including Bus Stop, Once Upon a Mattress and Annie Get Your Gun. He particularly loved performing in musicals and often sang the songs at home. Fred loved his family and they all enjoyed spending time together, sharing lots of laughter. In 2017 Fred and Midge moved to Davis, California. In the last year, he had several falls eventually leading to his death. He is survived by his wife of 51 years and his daughters, Lisa and Erin. A memorial for Fred will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 22 at Yolo Hospice at 1909 Galileo Ct. in Davis.
Paul Norton Goldstene Nov. 23, 1930 — Feb. 3, 2020
Paul Norton Goldstene passed away Monday, Feb. 3, 2020, in Davis. A 49-year resident of Davis, Paul was a professor of political philosophy at Sacramento State University for more than 30 years and taught regularly for 13 years with Osher Lifelong Learning. He was also a writer and the author of five books on the subjects of politics,
science and democracy. Survivors include his wife of over 60 years, E.F. “Pat” Goldstene; son James, daughter-in-law Jami and granddaughter Lily of Gold River; and daughters Claire and Beth, both of Davis. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to the ACLU, the Southern Poverty Law Center or any Democratic candidate of your choice.
Lillian Goldenberg April 8, 1925 — Jan. 28, 2020
Lillian (Lillie) Goldenberg died peacefully at home at the age of 94. Lillie was born in the Bronx, N.Y. At age 8 she was hit by a car and treated at the Hospital for Joint Diseases, which kept her in and out of school for several years. It was during this time that Lillie taught herself to sew, which became one of her lifelong passions. On Feb. 16, 1947. she married Leo Goldenberg when he returned home from the Pacific Theater in World War II. Together they raised four children and spent 17 happy years in Bayside, Queens. Bell Park Gardens, the vibrant community in which they lived, was the first veteran’s co-op established after WWII. They had many lifelong friends and hosted boisterous parties with lots of food, dancing and laughter. Lillie was an avid Scrabble player and loved card games, especially bridge and poker. She learned to play Mahjong as a young wife and continued to play the game into her 90s. In 1969, the Goldenberg family moved to Davis to open The Yardage Shop on L Street
with Leo’s brother, Danny. Lillie worked as a salesperson and seamstress in the shop and sewed many garments and accessories for display. She and Leo volunteered at the Sacramento Jazz Festival every summer. Regardless of her age, Lillie was energetic and genuinely interested in life and people, especially children. She loved to drive. One summer, Lillie organized a cross-country trip with her oldest grandson, Ian. They stopped in New Orleans and Biloxi Miss., where Lillie won $200 at a riverboat casino craps table — a thrilling moment for her. When Leo retired, the couple moved to Del Ray Beach, Fla., to be close to Lillie’s two sisters and brother. Leo was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 1979 and Lillie was his primary caregiver. This didn’t stop her from pursuing her interests and staying active. She enjoyed water aerobics, ceramics class, knitting, cooking, sewing and socializing with her spirited siblings. After Leo died in 2003, Lillie moved to
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San Antonio to be closer to her daughter, Roberta. During this chapter, Lillie returned to school to complete her GED. She crossed the graduation stage in her cap and gown at 85 years old to the cheers of her classmates and family. In his speech, the school principal told the crowd that she was proof it was never too late to achieve your goals. Lillie moved back to Davis in 2011 when she secured an apartment at Eleanor Roosevelt Circle near her daughter Eve and her son-in-law, Allan. Lillie lived there for eight years and made many friends, as she did wherever she went. At ERC Lillie started a Mahjong class and taught several residents to play; she participated in a knitting circle and shared her lifelong acquired knowledge of the art; she continued to cook and bake (her specialty was mandel bread) for her neighbors. Lillie cherished her independence. She knew the Davis city bus routes and most of the drivers. She loved to walk and could
often be seen pushing her walker down Russell Boulevard, no matter what the weather was. When she was no longer able to live by herself, Lillie moved to Rocklin to stay with her daughter, Miriam and her husband, Max. She was there until accommodations were made for Lillie to move back to San Antonio, where she spent her remaining months. With the help of her daughter Roberta, her daughter-in-law, Pam, and her aide, Dawn, Lillie was able to enjoy her days surrounded by family and animals — two dogs, two tortoises and a bird. One of Lillie’s favorite activities was sitting in the sun and watching all of nature in the backyard, fully present in the moment, as she was in so many moments of her life. Lillie will be remembered with love by all those who knew her, including the youngest generations who received her hand-sewn baby blankets and balls. Lillian is survived by her three daughters, Eve Holloway, Miriam Harrison and Roberta Sparks; her son, Norman Goldenberg; and their families.
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Today ■ Davis United Methodist Church is offering a program on gun violence from 9:45 to 10:50 a.m. at the church, 1620 Anderson Road in Davis. Mary Lou Rossetto of Moms Demand Action will discuss “What Can We Do About Gun Violence?” Moms Demand Action welcomes both non-gun owners and gun owners. The group of “mothers and others” are busy in Yolo County and across the nation, helping to educate citizens and pass sensible gun legislation. Rosetto will discuss facts related to gun violence and talk about the 2020 priorities and the programs that are planned for the local group. For more information, visit www.davis umc.org or contact the Davis United Methodist Church office at davisumc@ davisumc.org or 530-7562170. ■ The Davis Phoenix Coalition benefits from Davis Odd Fellows Bingo. Doors open at noon at the Odd Fellows Lodge, 415 Second St. in Davis. The event will feature around 15 games from 1 to 4 p.m. Presale packets are available now and include a single pack for $12 or a double pack for $20. There will be cash and prizes up to $250, pull-tab winners and raffle baskets. A snack and beverage bar will be open throughout the event, with food and drinks. Coffee is free. Bingo players and all guests must be at least 18 years of age. Visit www. DavisBingo.com.
Monday ■ Davis Girl Scouts presents a free STEM night from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Davis Girl Scout Cabin, 1520 Tulip Lane in Davis. The event is open to all grade levels. Participants will take part in multiple fun stations and also learn how to become a Girl Scout. No registration is required. For more information, contact Brigitte Harmon at brigitte. harmon@girlscoutshcc.org or 916-827-0037 or visit girlscoutshcc.org. ■ The Yolo Prostate Cancer Support Group meets at 7 p.m. in the Stephens Branch Library, 315 E. 14th St. This group helps prostate cancer patients and their families. Board-certified urologist Kadee Thompson, M.D., director of the Survivorship Prostate Cancer Program at Sutter Medical Center in Sacramento, will discuss sexual and urinary recovery following prostate cancer treatments. She is formerly the chief of urology at Travis Air Force Base. For more information, call Gil Walker,661-6449.
Tuesday ■ The Peripheral Neuro-
pathy Support Group welcomes John Richards, owner of Professional Village Pharmacy in Sacramento. His many years as a pharmacist include service on the clinical staff at UC San Francisco and University of the Pacific schools of pharmacy. The group meets from 3:30 to 5 p.m. at the Davis Senior Center, 646 A St. For information, contact Mary Sprifke at 530-756-5102.
■ The Yolo County and Sacramento Valley chapters of Brady United Against Gun Violence will host a community forum on gun violence featuring the 2017 poetry and prose anthology, “Bullets into Bells: Poets & Citizens Respond to Gun Violence,” from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Pence Gallery, 212 D St. in Davis. Featured presenters include poet Dean Rader, co-editor of the anthology, and contributor Pastor Mike McBride. The event is hosted in association with the UC Davis Campus Community Book Project. For more information about Brady United Against Gun Violence, visit www.Brady United.org or follow Yolo Brady United on Facebook.
Wednesday ■ Project Linus members gather from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the Davis Senior Center, 646 A St., to share ideas, patterns and lots of good conversation, as well as help sew Linus labels on handmade blankets that will be given to Yolo County organizations that serve children in need. For more information, contact Diane McGee at dmmyolo@gmail.com or 530-753-3436. ■ International House Davis and Imagining America present Daphne Muse and her collection of more than 5,000 letters documenting Black life and culture across the diaspora from 1958 to the present in a free presentation from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 12, at I-House, 10 College Park. For more information, contact Suzi O’Rear at suzi@ihousedavis. org or 530-753-5007. ■ “Everyday Improv” is a weekly drop-in improv comedy workshop where participants play improv games that help build mental agility, resilience and lots of laughter. It runs from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at The Melon Ball at Watermelon Music, 1070 Lake Blvd. Suite 1. Registration is appreciated but not required by texting 530304-4393 or emailing Liz@ ImprovForLiving.org. The cost is a $10 sliding-scale donation at the door. ■ The Yolo County Community Services Department invites community members to an open house about the bike and safety improvements for County Road 98 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the social hall of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Davis, 27074 Patwin Road in Davis. For more information about the project, visit http://www. yolocounty.org/communityservices/public-worksdivision/public-worksproject-updates/cr-98. For more information about the meeting, contact Darlene Comingore at darlene. comingore@yolocounty.org or 530-666-8433 or Lilia Razo at lilia.razo@yolocounty. org or 530-666-8845.
Thursday ■ The Active Older Adult
Wisdom Circle meets at 10:15 a.m. in the Stephens Branch Library, 315 E. 14th St. The group of elders will watch a YouTube clip and discuss the conscious aging movement and how they can be a part of it.
One of the best ways to mess up your personal finances is to let yourself get unorganized. Let’s face it; when life gets hectic, you might not stay on top of your bills, bank statements, receipts or filing the way that you should. Your financial records can be the key to your peace of mind. Unfortunately for most people, those documents are a great source of anxiety and frustration. But that’s all about to end right now. You deserve to not worry about your
finances. One important way to have peace of mind when it comes to money is to know where it all is. Travis Credit Union invites community members to learn the basic fundamentals to help you achieve your financial goals. Learn why some record-keeping systems fail, how to develop an efficient bill-paying system, what records to keep and for how long, how to take a home inventory, what to have handy in case of a natural disaster, and where to go for help.
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Special to The Enterprise DIXON — Louise A. Walker, president and CEO of First Northern Bank and First Northern Community Bancorp has announced the appointment of Daniel F. Ramos to both the bank and Bancorp’s boards of directors, effective Jan. 23. He will also serve on First Northern Bank’s Audit and Loan Committees. Mr. Ramos fills the seat left vacant from Lori Aldrete’s retirement in April 2018 at First Northern’s mandatory director retirement age. Aldrete served on the Company’s Board for more than 23 years. Ramos has been involved in the commercial real estate industry in the Sacramento region for more than 38 years. As vice president of Ramco Enterprises/Ramco Properties LP., a Yolo County-based real estate
development company, he has been involved in all aspects of real estate development services including project management, financing, leasing, income RAMOS property sales, joint New to two venture structuring boards and negotiations, property management, and commercial construction. As president of Ram Properties Inc., he has also been involved in real estate sales connected with that company. Ramos holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Southern California. In addition to serving on the First Northern boards, he has served, or is serving on the boards of Sacramento Metro Chamber of Commerce, West
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Special to The Enterprise SACRAMENTO — State Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, introduced legislation this week to allow UC Davis to sell wine made by viticulture and enology students, which would otherwise go to waste. The proceeds would generate funds for the university. “It has always struck me an as absolute waste to dump wine crafted by these promising young vintners,” Sen. Dodd said. “This bill allows them to instead bottle and sell it with the proceeds going back to the department. It’s a win-win situation that ensures students get to see their efforts come to fruition while supporting the program for future generations.” UC Davis’ viticulture program was established in 1935 following the repeal of prohibition. It has since become a center for innovation and a model of sustainability. Historically, the university disposes of wine produced by students due to a quirk in state law.
Senate Bill 918 continues earlier legislative efforts to change that, allowing the issuance of a sales license to a nonprofit entity to sell up to 20,000 gallons of wine a year. “I’d like to thank Sen. Dodd for his continued support of our viticulture and enology program,” said David Block, department chair. “This bill is very important to the department. As the most sustainable winery in the world, it doesn’t make sense for us to be pouring our wine down the drain year after year. This will give us a much more sustainable means of disposing of our wine, and any income from the sales will be re-invested into our teaching, research, and extension programs to help us help the California grape and wine industry.” Dodd represents California’s 3rd Senate District, which includes all or portions of Solano, Napa, Sonoma, Yolo, Sacramento and Contra Costa counties. Learn more at www.sen. ca.gov/dodd.
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Carolyn Stiver, a local Edward Jones financial adviser, will host a coffee club at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 11, at 4627 Fermi Place, Suite 130, in Davis. Stiver will provide an update on the stock market and the economy in a
relaxed environment. “The coffee club offers us an opportunity to learn from one another and receive market updates,” Stiver said. “I look forward to keeping individual investors informed about the current market and economy, as well as have fun and get to know some of my neighbors.”
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What are some of the best ways to say hello?
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pulled a fast one on some of my favorite people in the world, but I’m going to ’fess up in this column. I’ll start by explaining that these favorite people are the members of the board of Yolo Hospice, 16 volunteers from our community who oversee the organization and set policy for the future. I’ve been a board member for seven years and board president for almost four. Because the Davis Enterprise generously provides column space to Yolo Hospice, this is not the place for me to cheer the board members or explain in detail why I’m so fond of them. I’ll just say that their competence and skill combined with big hearts for people who are frail, sick or dying makes me want to hold them close. Closeness was what my stunt was about. ———— We were on a daylong retreat, our first in a couple of years, at a country site away from Davis. We devoted our morning to the hard topics of finance and evaluation. After lunch, I wanted to provide a moment of lightness, some activity that would have us
stand up, move around and get to know each other better. I had read up on “ice breakers” without finding something that felt just right. I was drawn to the idea of having people invent a new way of shaking hands, for example, but that didn’t feel useful, really. I was still thinking about hands when I received a blog entry from a relative who was visiting New Zealand with Overseas Adventure Travel, a company that introduces travelers to the native peoples. My relative was struck by the traditional Maori greeting, called hongi. Here’s what he wrote: “Four Maori met us, and we each performed a traditional greeting with each of them starting with a handshake, putting the other arm on their shoulder, and then moving heads together
gently until foreheads and noses touch, and holding that for a few seconds. The tradition is that both parties exhale together and share air. As air is the most important thing to life, sharing air is the highest honor you can give each other.” If you picture that movement, it’s warm, intimate, and more than most Americans would tolerate. Nevertheless, at the retreat, I told the board members that I had planned an activity for us and I wanted them to listen carefully. Then I read the description above. I wish I had been able to freeze-frame their faces as I got to the part about sharing air. Some of the board members are medical professionals, others volunteer with hospice patients, and all have been thoroughly briefed in the rules for good hygiene. No one looked shocked, but the room became quiet and still. People who work with death and dying know how to keep their cool, but what were they thinking? Did they think I’d gone off the deep end, asking
them to do some weird out-ofbounds thing because this was a “retreat?” Then I explained their assignment. They would divide into groups of two to four people and create a greeting that would be appropriate for someone you’re close to, like a friend or, in this case, a fellow board member. The room was still very quiet. “However,” I added, “Since this is the time of Corona virus and flu, there will be one rule for your greeting. It must not involve touch.” As we counted off and people headed out in groups to perform the task, maybe they were thinking, as I was, that our society needs the kind of greeting I was asking them to create. Suddenly, I wanted to be part of it myself, and I rushed to join a group. I didn’t ask my group members to explain why they got silent when I described pressing noses and sharing air, and instead we focused on our task, ultimately agreeing on a greeting that began with opening the arms while looking the other person in the eyes, smiling, and saying “Hi.” The move completed when both people crossed their arms
and let their hands come to rest gently over their own hearts. It felt gracious and affectionate. ———— When the board and executive team gathered a few days later for our regular monthly meeting, I described our newly invented gesture to people who hadn’t been at the retreat, and demonstrated it with one of the board members. Suddenly the physician sitting close to me started waving her hand. “Come on, Marion,” she said forcefully, “You’re not telling the whole story.” And then several people started talking at once, about my stunt, their horror, their silent moment of not knowing what to do. It was as if I’d pulled everyone down a ski mountain hurtling towards a tree as their brains screamed, “How do we get this madwoman to stop?” The group hadn’t looked agitated to me, but it turns out they were. I confess: This is very satisfying. — Marion Franck has lived in Davis for more than 40 years. Reach her at marionf2@gmail. com.
The only way out is one child at a time BY TRACY FAUVER Special to The Enterprise
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wo weeks ago today, many Americans learned that Kobe Bryant’s helicopter crashed on the way to his 13-yearold daughter’s basketball game, killing the pilot and all nine passengers on board. In addition to the deaths of Bryant and his young daughter, Gigi, we also learned in the subsequent coverage that four other families’ lives changed in an instant that day. Specifically, Christina Mauser, Gigi’s team’s coach, also died that day, leaving behind her husband and three daughters ranging in age from 3 to 11 years old. Another mother, Sarah Chester, died alongside her 13-year-old daughter, Payton Chester, that morning, also leaving behind her husband and two other children. And finally, John and Kerri Antobelli died alongside their 13-year-old daughter, Alyssa Antobelli. They left behind two other children who likely never could have imagined they would be left without parents that Sunday morning. While the whole incident leaves me incredibly unsettled, that last story really gets me. Can you imagine learning that you’ve lost both parents in an instant? I truly can’t, and the same unsettling feeling comes up when I hear these kinds
YOLO CASA of stories at Yolo County CASA. According to child welfare.gov, at any given time (taking into account entries and exits), there are nearly 443,000 children in foster care nationwide. Each of these children has a story — ranging from neglect, to severe abuse, to traumatic events like parental illness and death. As I sat with my emotions over Bryant’s helicopter crash, I did some math. When I divided 443,000 by 365 days, I realized that if even one of these stories were told each day, it would take 1,214 years to tell them all. Imagine that … all of the shock, hurt, and fear that those four families felt on the day the helicopter crashed, being felt by a child somewhere in the United States each day for 1,214 years. That’s devastating … and it’s our reality. While we can’t change the devastation, we can change the outcome. At Yolo County CASA, we are on the front lines of helping children in foster care through our CASA volunteers. While this means we inevitably hear a lot of bad news, we also her a lot of good news. And most of this good news comes from providing key relationships when a child needs them the most. Imagine how it feels to
Participants in Yolo County CASA’s winter training class are on their way to making a profound impact on the lives of foster children. COURTESY PHOTO
be removed from the only parental figure or figures you’ve ever known. Even in the worst of situations, this is traumatic and grief inducing to most children. And amidst all of these feelings, these children are also experiencing more traumatic events — moving, new schools, a new family structure, an entirely new day-to-day existence. It’s our goal at Yolo County CASA to pair these children with a CASA volunteer as soon as possible
— one person of their very own to check in with them, one person of their very own for them to confide in, one person of their very own to make sure their needs are met. In the midst of everything a child entering the dependency system is losing, at least that volunteer is one thing they can gain. And through just that one relationship, research shows the child gains a whole lot more — a higher likelihood to graduate high school and attend college,
a higher likelihood of reunification or adoption, and a higher likelihood of living a life free of chronic mental and physical illness. That’s how powerful an advocate can be not only in the moment, but to someone’s outcomes for the rest of his or her life. This Friday is Valentine’s Day. As a social worker, I’ve always viewed Valentine’s Day as a holiday more about love than couples. In my career, I’ve
seen a lot of love come into the life of another when it’s needed most. You see, in crisis, there is always a key time that we admit our need for help. Whether it’s an addict who sees his mortality flash before his eyes, or a foster child who lets her guard down and confides that she is scared or depressed to a trusted other — we all need at least one key relationship in the moment when we are ready to admit that we are crashing, to begin the journey of coming out on the other side of a crisis. Now and in the coming weeks, all of the families of those on board the helicopter are undoubtedly leaning on the closest relationships they have. My biggest hope is that no one affected is alone… because that is the one ingredient that when missing, can lead to devastating outcomes. On Jan. 28, we started our winter training here at Yolo County CASA. Twenty people made a commitment to not let a child be alone. And for that, this will be a very happy Valentine’s Day for me. After all, the only way out of 443,000 stories of sorrow (431 of which are from Yolo County), is one child at a time. To learn more about Yolo County CASA, please visit yolocasa.org. — Tracy Fauver, LCSW, is the Executive Director of Yolo County CASA.
Eastin to speak at Women’s History lunch Special to The Enterprise The Yolo County Women’s History Month Committee has announced Delaine Eastin as its guest speaker for the 33rd annual Women’s History Month luncheon scheduled from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, March 12, at the Woodland Community and Senior Center, 2001 East St. in Woodland. The theme for this year is “Valiant Women of the Vote.” It celebrates the centennial of the 19th Amendment, when women won the right to vote in the United States. Eastin served as the state superintendent of public instruction from 1995 to 2003, the only woman ever elected to that position. Eastin managed more than 40 percent of the California budget and oversaw the education of 6.1 million children. She championed state standards and assessments aligned to standards, reduced class sizes in kindergarten through third grade, and strengthened arts education and hands-on
science, including gardens in schools. She also fought to rebuild California school libraries and to wire schools for technology. She served as a EASTIN California AssemblyIs guest member for eight speaker years and a candidate for governor of California in 2018. The Women’s History Month committee is participating as a sponsor of the “Fashion Forward, Women’s Wear and Social Reform” exhibition at the Gibson House and property. The exhibit highlights the changing role of women in society and their involvement in the suffragette movement. The Yolo County Archives provided profiles of politically prominent Yolo County women including documents to support the exhibition.
The luncheon will be catered by Anderson Family Catering & BBQ of Winters, and the cost is $30. For reservations, make checks payable to WHM, and mail to WHM, P.O. Box 711, Woodland, CA 95776. Payment by credit card may be made online at www.ycwhm.org/making-reservations. Reservations and payment must be received by Wednesday, March 4. Sponsorships for the luncheon are due by Friday, Feb. 28. New this year is an opportunity to anonymously sponsor a luncheon reservation for a college student. Visit www.ycwhm. org/sponsorships. Proceeds from the luncheon will benefit the public libraries in Yolo County for the purchase of women’s history materials. For more information, contact Louisa R. Vessell at 916-451-2113 or 916-799-9932 or email her at lvessell@sbcglobal.net or Katherine Mawdsley at 530-758-5093 or visit www.ycwhm.org.
BY ANDY JONES Special to The Enterprise 1. Science. As any organic chemistry student knows, methane, propane and octane are all examples of what four-syllable H-word? 2. Great Americans Named Mary. One of America’s greatest painters was born in Pennsylvania but died in Paris in 1926. Name her. 3. Unusual Words. What two-syllable A-verb means “scrape or wear away by friction or erosion”? 4. California Cities. Starting with the letter S, the second most-populous city in Orange County is
also the county seat. Name the city. 5. Pop Culture — Television. Fox has a competitive singing TV show where the singers wear masks. Name the show. Answers: Hydrocarbon, Mary Cassatt, abrade (as in “abrasion”), Santa Ana, “The Masked Singer.” — Dr. Andy Jones is the quizmaster at 7 p.m. Mondays at de Vere’s Irish Pub, 217 E St. in downtown Davis. He is the author of the new book “Pub Quizzes: Trivia for Smart People,” now available at The Avid Reader. Find out more at www.yourquizmaster. com.
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TRAGEDY: Davis High will offer counseling From Page A1 lived at the apartment, “has been fully cooperative with us throughout the investigation thus far,” Doroshov added. He disclosed that the firearm was a handgun, but further details such as how the shooting occurred or where the gun was obtained have not been released. However, “we don’t have any evidence at this point suggesting it was illegally owned,” Doroshov said. Several other people also were inside the apartment at the time, but it remained unclear on Friday how many may have witnessed the shooting. There were no updates Employment
regarding the police investigation on Saturday. An autopsy to confirm Vargas’ cause and manner of death will be conducted next week, Yolo County Chief Deputy Coroner Gina Moya said Friday. Meanwhile, the Davis Joint Unified School District has dispatched teams of crisis counselors not only to Davis High School, but also to campuses throughout the city to offer counseling and bereavement support services to both students and staff, district spokeswoman Maria Clayton said. “We know he (Vargas) had friends and siblings in other places,” Clayton said. The counselors “are going
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to be on hand as long as they’re needed.” According to Clayton, VARGAS Vargas Was 19 began attending Davis schools as an eighth grader at Harper Junior High after moving here from another district. “Our sincere condolences go out to Jerred’s family and friends,” DJUSD Superintendent John Bowes wrote in a message sent Friday to students’ families. “Sudden tragedy can be difficult to manage and may bring up other
hardship and loss. We encourage you to seek out support and resources for students and yourself as necessary.” The message included a link to access the school district’s mental health and support resources: https:// www.djusd.net/cms/one. aspx?pageId=850888. “This is a difficult time, but as a community we can look to one another for strength and support. Please join me in keeping the Vargas family in your thoughts,” Bowes wrote. — Reach Lauren Keene at lkeene@davisenter prise.net or 530-747-8048. Follow her on Twitter at @laurenkeene
Public Notices FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: January 10, 2020 FBN Number: F20200038 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) Observant Books 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California. Business is located in Yolo County. 1360 Hoover Place Woodland, CA 95776 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Clifton Thomas Moberg 1360 Hoover Place Woodland, CA 95776 4. Business Classification: Individual 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: January 10, 2020 “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) 6. Signature of Registrant(s): Clifton Thomas Moberg, Owner 1/19, 1/26, 2/2, 2/9 687
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GoFundMe fundraiser, car wash aid victim’s family BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer An online fundraising campaign has been established to aid the family of Jerred Vargas, the Davis High School senior who died in an apparent accidental shooting Thursday. “The unexpected tragedy has those who knew and loved Jerred in disbelief, and mourning his passing,” organizer Carmen Castellanos wrote on the GoFundMe page: https://www.gofundme. com/f/jered-leroy-vargas. “Those who knew Jerred (saw) he wore his heart on his sleeve. He loved his family more
than anything and always had a smile on his face, especially when he was fishing,” Castellanos wrote. “We ask everyone to please keep the Vargas family in your prayers during this time of need.” As of Saturday evening, donors had contributed nearly $11,000 of the fundraising goal, which was raised from $10,000 to $15,000. Meanwhile, a car wash and bake sale fundraiser is planned from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday at Pete’s Restaurant & Brewhouse, 164 Main St. in Woodland, where the Vargas family lived prior to moving to Davis.
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Valentine’s dog days of love BY LLEWELLYN KING InsideSources.com
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ow different President Trump’s State of the Union speech would’ve been had he included something like this: “At the White House, we are overjoyed at the arrival of a new friend and counselor, Lancelot, a stray from a Washington animal shelter.” He could, of course, have gone on about what a joy the dog would be to his 13-yearold son Barron; how the boy could learn about perfect love, forgiving adoration, uncritical companionship and eternal job approval — things otherwise missing from the political upbringing and life in Washington. But Trump didn’t. He didn’t care about all the wonders that enter a human life when four feet come through the door, intent on forever residence. Barron won’t know those wonders. And the president won’t get the one-issue dog voters. Trump has said that he’s too busy to have a dog. Well, having watched presidential dogs from Richard Nixon’s King Timahoe, an Irish setter, to the hypoallergenic Portuguese water dogs favored by the Obamas, I can attest there’s help aplenty at the White House for a dog. They needn’t inhibit an arduous golf schedule. They’re always the darlings of the media, the Secret Service and pro-pet cabinet members and dignitaries. Queen Elizabeth used to get though meetings with people she had nothing in common with otherwise with a few words about her Welsh corgis. Trump’s doglessness is, in my view, a coldheart problem. How he could’ve warmed his self-aggrandizing State of the Union speech with a line or two about a dog. Dogs are so humbling: It’s hard to be pompous when cleaning up after a puppy accident. Clearly Trump’s love of Trump is so complete there’s no room for a bundle of furry joy in his heart, filled as it is with selfregard. In our house, Valentine’s Day is Dog Day. My wife, Linda Gasparello, says Feb. 14 is the birthday of all dogs with no known day of birth. Love, you see. It all began because one Valentine’s Day, I gave her a shelter dog of uncertain age and parentage. She had some German shepherd in her, definitely some Airedale terrier, and a pinch of this and dash of that. What she had was a deep commitment to taking over running the house and stable — and disciplining our Siberian Husky. Her love and loyalty were total: Even when she was old and arthritis had slowed her, as it does so many dogs, she would drag herself up the staircase to sleep in our bedroom. We named her Valentine, although the shelter workers in Leesburg, Va., told me the family who turned her in named her Gal. She was no gal. She was a dame, made to preside.
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f the many dogs we’ve had, I believe Valentine was the cleverest. She thought and she worried. The cure for her anxieties was routine and order; things in their places and activities at given times, like going on a hack or hosting a dinner party. Whenever she would hear Linda speaking on our PBS program “White House Chronicle,” turned on in the living room, and speaking at the same time in the kitchen, she was distraught: This couldn’t be. She ran to Linda in the kitchen to be assured and back into the living room to be unassured, and back again into the kitchen, deeply upset that someone could be in two places at the same time. To go through life without a dog, a Valentine of your own, is to miss one of the great dimensions of love: that between dog and owner, although it’s debatable who owns whom. Valentine owned us. So, The Donald has no dog and the White House is, in that sense, incompletely furnished. No great bounding down the driveway to meet visitors coming through the Northwest Gate (where reporters enter too), no conversation starter with heads of state, and no care for the Dogs Come First voters. Of course, there are those, like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who hope that come November, Trump will need a dog: a comfort dog. — Llewellyn King is executive producer and host of “White House Chronicle” on PBS. His email is llewellynking1@gmail. com. He wrote this for InsideSources.com.
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Has Newsom settled water wars?
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he beating heart of California’s massive system of capturing, storing and distributing water is the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Water flows into the West’s largest estuary from the Sacramento, San Joaquin and several lesser rivers that drain the state’s mountain chains on its northern and eastern edges. While most of the water continues into the Pacific Ocean, giant pumps on the southern edge of the Delta suck much of it into canals supplying San Joaquin Valley farms and Southern California cities as far south as San Diego. Accordingly, the Delta is also the center of more than a half-century of often bitter political, legal and financial conflict, generally pitting environmental groups who want to curb Delta diversions against farmers who use most of the Delta’s water, with municipal water interests more or less caught in the middle. During his first governorship four-plus decades ago, Jerry Brown tried to build a “peripheral canal” that would have carried Sacramento River water around the Delta. He got it through the
Legislature, only to see it defeated in a referendum. In the 1990s, Bruce Babbitt, the former Democratic governor of Arizona who had become interior secretary in the Clinton administration, attempted to mediate the conflicts with Republican Gov. Pete Wilson’s blessing, and seemed to succeed. “Peace has broken out amid the water wars,” Wilson said at the time. It was a premature declaration of victory and Wilson’s successor, a notoriously riskaverse Democrat, Gray Davis, stood aside as the conflict continued to simmer, mostly in federal courts. Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger tried to revive the peripheral canal as twin tunnels beneath the Delta, which Brown, in his second governorship, enthusiastically embraced. Brown also brought back Babbitt as a mediator and bequeathed to successor
LETTERS So many reasons to support I am writing in strong support of Jim Provenza to be re-elected to County Supervisor for many reasons. Jim has been an extremely dedicated and effective Yolo County Supervisor since he was first elected, and we need him to continue his work. Jim has had a long history of public service. Early on, as an attorney with the Legal Aid Foundation, Jim worked as an attorney to help protect women and children against domestic violence. Later, when he worked at the State Capitol, he successfully created legislation to help enforce protection from stalking and against hate crimes as well. Jim has been an advocate for children, families, seniors and the disadvantaged for decades. He has stepped up to be a leader on committees such as chairing First 5 Yolo for at-risk children under 5. Jim prevented Yolo County Crisis Nursery from being shut down by successfully securing emergency funding. Jim is also chair of the Yolo Healthy Aging Alliance nonprofit and the Yolo Aging Commission. He is working on getting a new County Adult Day Care Center to help families with aging family members, particularly with dementia. Jim has been great on land use and environmental issues, including addressing climate change and protecting ag land and habitat. I was impressed to see that Yolo Farm Bureau (who rarely endorse candidates) was happy to endorse Jim. As an animal lover, I especially have appreciated Jim working on helping to get our county a much-needed new animal shelter. Jim currently represents the county on a city-county task force that is working to form a new agency to govern shelter operations and to consider construction of a new state-of-the art shelter. Jim is a strong advocate of a new shelter and is also participating in fundraising efforts to make this goal a reality. Finally, while I am a feminist, I always base my vote on who I see as the most qualified and effective candidate, not on their gender. After watching the LWV forum of the supervisorial candidates, I knew I would be voting for Jim Provenza, and encourage others to also. Eileen Samitz Davis
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Gavin Newsom the beginnings of a peace process through “voluntary agreements.” Newsom continued to pursue it, even vetoing a bill, Senate Bill 1, that would have locked Obama administration environmental rules into state law after water interests and Sen. Dianne Feinstein warned that it would torpedo the negotiations.
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ast week, Newsom unveiled a compromise framework that would enhance flows through the Delta by up to 900,000 acrefeet a year and restore 60,000 acres of habitat for wildlife, particularly salmon, facing decline or even extinction due to the diversions. “Today, my administration is proposing a path forward, one that will move past the old water binaries and set us up for a secure and prosperous water future,” Newsom wrote in CalMatters. The framework is just that. Many details remain to be nailed down, and it also would need the approval of various state and federal agencies. But it’s progress. So why might Newsom succeed where others have failed? One factor is that farmers have seen their political clout
attorney, Linda has always advocated for the vulnerable. She supports efforts to address the needs of the entire community, especially children and families. Linda realizes that jobs, as well as affordable and sufficient housing, build the base of a strong community. She also realizes that impacts on agriculture and the environment must take careful consideration in any decision because we need to look to the future of our community. She supports smart growth. Linda is dependable and fiscally responsible. She gives her word and sticks to it. I have found her to be a highly ethical person which is something we need in our politics today. She says what she thinks and does what she says. More than ever, we need the voice, thinking and ethics of Linda Deos. Please vote Linda Deos for the 4th District seat, Yolo County Board of Supervisors. David Murphy Davis
Bernie brings young voters I saw Bernie Sanders speak at Sacramento’s César Chávez Plaza park with 2,000 others standing in the late-August sun. I was curious then, his message has gained momentum. Sanders is a man of substance, not poetry. His message was consistent then and he remains consistent. More access to education — less student debt. More renewable energy and transportation infrastructure — less deadly oil conquests. More for those left out — less breaks for the wealthy. Managers of dark politics, conventional and social media will create as much “socialist” chaos noise about Sanders as they can. And shame on the Democratic Party establishment if they help to repeat this meme. Sanders has been consistent, fair and practical for 30 years. Sanders won’t become a darling of the DNC because he is the least sympathetic with the 1%; who fear becoming part of the impoverished 2%. What’s the hang-up? It’s unite or die — I will be 100% behind the Democratic nominee. I’m inspired by the youth vote for Sanders (67% in California 18-30, and double Biden’s youth numbers nationally). Other candidates will have a harder time exciting young voters. I’m voting for Sanders because Sanders is a vote for the future, a vote for a persistent, inspiring and youthful administration. Win with our young people, build with our young people. Sanders for president. Scott Ragsdale Davis
Speak out President Hon. Donald J. Trump, The White House, Washington, D.C., 20500; 202-456-1111 (comments), 202-456-1414 (switchboard); email: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact
U.S. Senate Sen. Dianne Feinstein, 331 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20510; 202-224-3841; email: http://feinstein. senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-me Sen. Kamala Harris, 112 Hart Senate
Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20510; 202-224-3553; email: visit https://www. harris.senate.gov/content/contact/senator
House of Representatives Rep. John Garamendi (3rd District), 2368 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20515; 202-225-1880. District office: 412 G St., Davis, CA 95616; 530-753-5301; email: visit https://garamendi.house.gov/contact-me
Governor Gov. Gavin Newsom, State Capitol, Suite 1173, Sacramento, CA 95814; 916-4452841; email: visit https://govapps.gov. ca.gov/gov40mail/
wane in an increasingly blue state. They also face threats by the State Water Resources Control Board to order permanent cuts in agricultural water and the newly enacted regulation of groundwater that lessens their ability to tap underground aquifers during droughts. Newsom’s shrinkage of the twin Delta tunnels to a single tunnel also plays a role, along with progress on a large new reservoir, called Sites, on the west side of the Sacramento Valley. It’s intended to capture more runoff on the assumption that climate change will lessen the mountain snowpacks that feed water into the Delta. “Inaction, recalcitrance and adherence to the statusquo puts our water future at risk,” Newsom wrote. “The alternative to the voluntary agreements is a contentious regulatory process that will take many years and require adjudicating a thicket of litigation in every direction before restoring river flows.” — CalMatters is a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s state Capitol works and why it matters. For more stories by Dan Walters, go to calmatters.org/ commentary.
A diplomatic advocate I’ve known Supervisor Jim Provenza for 30 years, first meeting him at the state Capitol where I managed legislation pertaining to domestic violence and sexual assault. This was at a time when the law was stacked against victims and it was mostly impossible to have reforms heard in committees. Few men took on the challenge and we called on Jim many times. He was skilled at convincing the law enforcement community to remove their opposition so that victims would have a voice. For example, victims of spousal rape were not given the same protections as victims of non-spousal rape. Both crimes are now treated equally. Another example: when a woman defended herself against an intimate partner’s abuse, law enforcement would often arrest both parties. Now, an officer must identify the primary aggressor rather than criminalize victims (and remove innocent children from a parentless household). Jim was critical to these changes … and more. And when I was President of the Friends of the Yolo Crisis Nursery during its crisis and the doors nearly closed for lack of a host agency, Jim guided me on a daily basis. He also secured emergency county funds. We could not have saved this precious resource without his unyielding support. I’ve supported Jim as a school board member and now as a county supervisor because his service is genuine. He is one of the most persistent and diplomatic advocates I’ve ever known. I agree; we need more women in elected office and particularly on the Board of Supervisors, but Supervisor Provenza is the wrong man to replace. Heidy Kellison Davis
Thank you, Tree Davis Here is a positive shout out to the volunteers of Tree Davis! On Jan. 25, a Saturday morning, I noticed a gathering of all ages wearing shiny safety vests and fully engaged in planting new trees at the junction of Lake and West Russell boulevards. “Tree Davis” signs were posted along Russell as they worked. When I returned later in the day new trees lining both sides of Russell Boulevard, stood straight and tall, beautifying the old U.S. 40 route. It reminded me of the time when there was pride in our community, when we had campaigns to keep our states and small towns free of litter. Then we could
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Rent control again ... is this vote needed? I t was a head-scratcher the other day when the AIDS Healthcare Foundation submitted more than 1 million voter signatures aiming to place comprehensive rent control before Californians next fall, just two years after they rejected the same idea by a 20-percent margin. But no one in politics today seems to heed what the voters want: Anti-abortion advocates keep losing as they try again and again to enact parental notification requirements for pregnant teenage girls who seek abortions. Bankruptcy judges and state regulators try hard to keep irresponsible utility companies and their monopolies afloat when the public and many elected officials would rather convert them to localized co-ops. And so on. That’s also how it was last year when state lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom enacted what they billed as America’s toughest rent controls just one year after voters decisively nixed them. Now comes the Los Angelesbased AIDS Healthcare Foundation, seeking even tougher
controls than voters rejected in 2018 or what’s been state law since Jan. 1. That new law limits rent increases to 5 percent per year, plus the local rate of inflation in locales where there previously was no rent control, while letting existing city rent control laws stand in places like Santa Monica, Los Angeles, Glendale, San Francisco and others that have had controls for years. For what it’s worth, those controls have not ended the housing affordability crisis anywhere; some of the highest-priced rentals in America exist in Santa Monica and San Francisco, both of which have had strong controls for decades.
These are also among the densest areas in California, with scores of new apartment buildings rising in recent years to replace older, smaller ones. New construction — usually defined as less than 15 years old, but extending as far back as 1978 in some cities — is exempt from rent controls under most city laws, so it pays for developers to buy up older buildings, evict longtime tenants and build newer units where they can charge market rates, which keep climbing. The new state law was designed partly to mitigate this and give tenants more stability by making evictions of paid-up renters more difficult, whether they are designed to build new units or merely to raise rents. The main difference between the new law and the upcoming ballot proposition is that the initiative would end the practice of vacancy decontrol, where a state law passed in the 1990s now allows rents to rise to whatever the market will bear whenever a unit is vacated. The proposition
would hold rents at the same limits even when a tenant leaves. This stricture, claims the California Apartment Association, could drive many landlords out of the rental business. That was one of their main arguments against the losing 2018 Proposition 10, and most voters apparently agreed.
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ut vacancy decontrol and the lack of controls on newer buildings has put San Francisco, San Jose, Los Angeles and San Diego all into the top 10 most expensive rental markets in America for the last 20 years. So maybe there is justification for ending vacancy decontrol, if that could make housing more available to the millions of Californians who can’t afford to live where they like. Here’s what the affordability crisis means in real life: The average minimum-wage worker would have to put in 92 hours of labor merely to pay the monthly rent on an average onebedroom California apartment. The situation is tighter than in
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any other state. But compared to the new controls the state has already imposed over the wishes of its voters, the new initiative’s main change would be minimal. In some ways, it’s a form of hectoring voters who believed they decided the matter in the last statewide election. Of course, as abortion activists and others can attest, no matter is ever really decided permanently in California. The populace is too fluid, with millions moving into and out of the state each decade, to rule out fast and significant changes in public preferences. Which means rent control won’t be the last issue on which voters will get multiple chances to vote. — Email Thomas Elias at tdelias@aol.com. His book, “The Burzynski Breakthrough: The Most Promising Cancer Treatment and the Government’s Campaign to Squelch It,” is now available in a soft cover fourth edition. For more Elias columns, go to www.californiafocus.net.
Happy for Avid Reader As long-time patrons of The Avid Reader, we are thrilled that new local buyers have come forward to continue operating this iconic bookstore. Most of the many treasured books in our home were purchased at The Avid Reader. It’s good to know that many years of browsing and buying new books in downtown Davis lie ahead. Congratulations to the new owners, Brett and Erin Arnold, for keeping an independent bookstore in downtown Davis. We hope Davisites will reward the Arnolds for their faith in downtown retail. Greg and Kathy Rowe Davis
From Page A8 travel without seeing garbage and road kill that seldom, if ever, gets cleaned up — a blight for sore eyes. A time when there were few potholes on streets and roads and when crime in Davis was minimal. Then aggressive grab-andrun thefts of laptops from our innocent students were unheard of and they were safer from bodily harm at home and at work. Then vandalism, as occurred recently at the Pence Gallery, was fairly nonexistent and seldom that horrific, and public defecation on our city streets was unfathomable ... what can I say? It’s disheartening, disgusting and disturbing. Hurrah, Tree Davis! You did my heart good and I’m sure those of others, too. Thank you volunteers! You made a positive difference. Well done! Susan Torguson Davis
Time for a change to Deos It is time for a change. It is not enough to have your name on a long list of committees and task forces. We should look beyond limited and static outcomes. Linda Deos will bring bold, new initiatives that deliver new results. It is past time for a leader in our county to anticipate, rather than react to the issues of caring for our foster children. As outlined in a recent forum article in the Davis Enterprise, our current Board of Supervisors, in 2016, voted to make changes to the county’s foster care system that have resulted in a 68% increase in out of home placements while California statewide has decreased foster placements. In Yolo County, a child, already traumatized by a chaotic and possibly abusive home, now is too often rushed out of his or her home. The child is taken away from siblings, grandparents, teachers, classmates and even pets, to be placed in a foster home that has a 60% chance of not even being in Yolo County. Children find themselves in many foster homes and unfamiliar school placements each year which leave kids isolated, lagging in their education and becoming further traumatized. Linda Deos uniquely understands the complexity of determining removal from a home. She understands the benefits of stronger actions such as mandatory programs for parents, increased safety checks by social workers, and communications with schools to improve the home environment prior to removal. She also understands that removal from a home should be the last resort. Linda has spent her career working with people on the margins of our society. She
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will anticipate issues, ask questions and really listen before acting to placate public pressure or to support old alliances Linda Deos will be proactive in attempting to repair the damage from the actions of the current Supervisors. Now is the time for a change. Ginni Davis Retired DJUSD associate superintendent; former CASA board president
BTSSC quorum Lack of a quorum on the BTSSC is an opportunity for the city council to act boldly: Disband the existing BTSSC to allow one to be reconstituted by a districtelected council. Historically, the BTSSC has functioned as a bicycle advocacy advisory. Now that multi-modal transportation (safe, efficient access for all modes of travel) is an established statewide objective, our city deserves a refreshed transportation commission, one that includes an updated mission statement and a diverse newly appointed membership by district. Elly Fairclough Davis
Yes on Measure G Recent letters to the editor asking seniors to support Measure G have spoken to us. We have lived in Davis 37 years and our two sons attended Davis public schools. As seniors in our community, we want to support continued quality education for all children. Better pay for our teacher’s benefits our community and will help maintain the high ratings enjoyed by Davis schools. David and Denise Morse Davis
Abramson for supervisor When considering who to vote for in the election of District 4’s Yolo County Supervisor, I am looking for someone who will listen to the people of Davis and be responsive to the needs of our community. I am also looking for someone who will lead us to be an example of how a community can serve all of its members, and I think we have that candidate in David Abramson. David has answered the call for new leadership in government. He is an earnest person dedicated to the improvement of quality of life for everyone. He is an innovator and someone who will make the changes necessary to respond to our most dire needs, as evidenced by his Local Green New Deal. David is also someone who walks the talk. He has been committed to finding ways to minimize his own environmental impact, going as far as to not use lawn signs for this campaign because of the difficulty of repurposing and recycling those signs. If you’ve had a chance to talk with him, you know that he values the input of everyone, not just his supporters, and will work to make sure all of those voices are heard when he’s elected. It takes bravery to challenge the status quo and that is something desperately needed today, and something we have with David. He is an ideal candidate for District 4’s Yolo County Supervisor, and if elected, there is no doubt that David will do whatever he can to bring people together to better this community. Please join me in voting for David Abramson for Yolo County Supervisor. Nick Gallaudet Davis
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When so much of life can be unsettled, it’s important to be able to count on dedicated elected officials who put service to their constituency above all else. We are extremely fortunate to be represented by Yolo County Supervisor, Jim Provenza and he deserves to be re-elected in appreciation for all he has done and continues to do. Jim is hard-working and gravitates toward complex tasks rather than the limelight. As a volunteer with the Friends of the Yolo Crisis Nursery I saw this when the Nursery nearly closed. Jim rolled up his sleeves and made sure our most vulnerable children and their families would be cared for. With his support, the Nursery is as strong as ever. There are numerous other examples as well; programs for the elderly, maintaining Yolo agriculture and Yolo habitat conservancy He’s earned my respect and my vote and I hope you’ll join me by voting for him March 3. Veronica Stanton Davis
Parents support Measure G I am writing to express my strong support for Measure G. As a parent, I know first hand the importance of teachers for our community. Teachers are the foundation of our educational system and the guardians of our children during the school day. Unfortunately, Davis teachers are underpaid relative to those with comparable experience in nearby districts. Measure G would close this compensation gap. Please join me in voting for Measure G to do what is best for our teachers, our children, and our community. Sharon Hanks Davis
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Sentiments that rose colors are meant to convey Special to The Enterprise Roses are a popular gift on Valentine’s Day. When accompanied by a box of chocolates, a bouquet of long-stemmed roses is sure to make a sweetheart smile on February 14. Few people may know that the color of a rose is meant to convey a certain message. As a result, even the most head-over-heelsin-love man or woman may not be saying what they mean to say when giving roses. If that special someone has a favorite color of rose, then it might be wise to give that color regardless of what tradition suggests. But when sweethearts have no such preferences, it might be best to keep this guide, courtesy of ProFlowers, in mind. • Red: Red roses say “I love you.” Red is symbolic of love, especially romantic love. Red also symbolizes beauty, courage and respect. • Pink: Pink is a popular color on Valentine’s Day, but sweethearts should know that pink roses say “Thank you,” which makes them a better choice for friends than lovers. • White: White roses say “I am the one for you.” White symbolizes true love, purity, innocence, reverence, humility, youthfulness, and charm. • Yellow: Yellow roses say “We’re friends and I care about you.” Joy, gladness, friendship, delight, and remembrance are just a few of the sentiments yellow conveys. • Yellow with red tip: Yellow roses may be best for friends, but yellow roses with red tips say “I’m falling in love with you.” • Orange/coral: Another awe-inspiring color, orange/coral roses say “I want you in my life.” This color indicates desire, enthusiasm and fascination. • Red and white together: A mixed bouquet
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of red and white roses says “We are a great match.” • Peach: Peach symbolizes intimacy, telling a lover, “Let’s make this a memorable Valentine’s Day.” Different color roses say different things, meaning Valentine’s Day celebrants can find a rose to convey any message they hope to send this February 14. — Metro
Alternatives to engagement rings Special to The Enterprise Engagement rings are often sizable investments. Money magazine reports the average engagement ring costs around $5,800. An engagement ring symbolizes the start of a lifelong commitment and may even set the tone for a couple’s wedding day. Jewelry styles are personal, and grooms-to-be should carefully research their significant others’ preferences in terms of precious metals, colors and gemstones. Even though tradition holds that a diamond gemstone is classic for engagement rings, these precious stones are not the only options. In fact, before World War II, just 10 percent of proposals involved diamond engagement rings. That number jumped to 80 percent by 1990. However, many modern couples now lean toward other offerings not only for the uniqueness they provide, but also for the potential cost savings. Those seeking something unique can embrace these engagement ring options. ■ Amethyst: This vibrant, lavender-hued stone can be breathtaking when cut the correct way. Purple shades have long been associated with royalty, making an amethyst fitting for such an occasion as special as an engagement. Because amethysts, which are less expensive
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than diamonds, are a seven on the Mohs scale for gemstone hardness, they can be very durable. ■ Knot rings: These rings do not have a center stone. Rather, they’re designed to be a tied knot or infinity symbol. These rings can be particularly sentimental as they represent true, unbroken love. ■ Opal: Gemstones, like flowers, have been assigned certain meanings. Tying the engagement ring to one of them can infuse more symbolism into the relationship. Opal, for example, represents love, passion, creativity, spontaneity, and inspiration. Those traits seem tailor-made for surprise proposals. ■ Sapphire: While sapphire stones often are blue, they can also be yellow, green, pink, and white. Sapphires are the third hardest mineral. A white sapphire can be
the perfect diamond replacement. ■ Garnet or ruby: Red is the definitive color of love. A Valentine’s Day proposal can be made even more special by presenting an engagement ring with a red gemstone. ■ Moissanite: The jewelry source Brilliant Earth says moissanite is a gemstone first discovered in 1893 by Henri Moissan in a meteorite that fell to earth. It is remarkably similar to a diamond in appearance and strength. Moissanite also has heightened brilliance, with a refractive index higher than that of a diamond. Couples have many beautiful alternatives to diamonds that they can explore when shopping for engagement rings. — Metro
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Gregg runs to harrier hall of fame Longtime Blue Devil coach honored
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don’t think it came as a surprise to anyone this past week that longtime Davis High cross-country mentor Bill Gregg was announced as a 2020 inductee to the Sacramento Running Association Hall of Fame. After winning 22 Sac-Joaquin Section team titles, coaching 17 SJS individual champions, collecting 15 top-10 team finishes at the CIF State Championships, placing 16 harriers among top-10 individual finishers at the state level and snaring four CIF State banners — just to name a few of his long laundry list of accomplishments — it was about time. Anyone involved with DHS sports since the turn of the century knows Bill, or at least of him. Since he joined the Blue Devil fold in 1997, Gregg has had a significant impact on the school’s athletic program. Over the years, the UC Davis alum has sent more than 60 athletes on to competitive situations in college. Some people call him a legend. Personally, I don’t think they’re wrong to do so ... Two years ago, I dropped in on Bill, unannounced, after one of his Blue Devil practices in Community Park. Looking for
wisdom on how to deal with the growing DHS swim team I coach, I picked his brain about ways to facilitate team bonding when working with 100-plus athletes, as he does. Sitting on the Yudin Field turf with me, Bill was honest. He told me there was no magic formula. He admitted some years, teams just don’t gel. And other seasons, you cannot get kids to leave and go home, even after workouts have finished. His advice was to mostly avoid any mandatory team chemistryoriented activities. Instead, he suggested I simply try to create the best environment to allow for the things I wanted to see take place to blossom organically, through the student-athletes themselves. He was genuine. And I think that’s part of the reason why over the past two-plus decades that he’s earned the respect of the many hundreds, if not thousands, of Devil athletes he’s impacted. Being a football guy, I never ran cross country during the fall while I was a student at DHS. But if Bill had asked me to, I probably would’ve.
“Some people call him a legend. Personally, I don’t think they’re wrong ...”
How could I say no to a legend like Bill Gregg? Congrats, coach. Notes: Prior to his tenure at DHS, Gregg was an Aggie assistant coach. He’s also coached: 15 top-six individual finishers at the CIF level, a State Champion in Stanford’s Fiona O’Keeffe, a pair of USATF Junior National Track & Field Champions, three IAAF World Junior Championships qualifiers, two Nike Cross Nationals top-five individual finishers and mentored Devil squads to two Nike Cross Nationals team
runner-up finishes. Two of his children, Kaitlin and Brendan, are professional runners. Bill’s wife, Carolee, is longtime program director of the Davis Summerdarts swim team and head age-group coach for the Davis Aquadarts. ... The induction is Saturday, Feb. 15, at the Holiday Inn Arena, 300 J St., Sacramento. ... Tickets are available online at www.brownpapertickets. com/event/4477015. — Reach Owen Yancher at oyancher@ davisenterprise.net. Follow him via Twitter at @530athletics.
Zot! Anteater uprising Stobbart’s 18 not enough for UCD women Enterprise staff IRVINE — It should have been a loud bus ride to the airport after Sage Stobbart scored a career-high 18 points and tied the UC Davis record for blocks — seven — in a game. But on a Saturday afternoon that saw just enough go wrong for the
Aggie women at Bren Arena, it was UC Irvine whooping it up after snapping UCD’s seven-game Big West win streak, 73-68. Davis (12-10, 7-2 in BWC) continues to pace its conference — but only by a half-game now that second-place Hawaii (13-10, 7-3) knocked off UC Santa Barbara this weekend. The Aggies came in not having lost since UC Riverside prevailed, 75-70, in the Big West opener. But Irvine, who at one point led by as many as 10, overcame a late Davis rally, in which the visitors led 68-66 with 2:48 to play. It marked the first time since the Highlander loss that anyone had
UC Davis center Sage Stobbart, seen here blocking a shot against Sacramento State earlier in the season, entered the Aggie record books with a career game Saturday. Stobbart blocked seven shots and scored 18 points, but the Aggies’ sevengame Big West streak ended at Irvine.
scored more than 70 points against the three-time defending circuit champs. Davis’ Big West opponents had been limping along with a 53-point average when facing the Blue-andGold. However, on this day, the Anteaters (7-16, 3-6 Big West) showed some of the promise bestowed upon them when BWC coaches voted UCI to win the conference in preseason voting. Irvine — expected to be accomplished from the outside — got a back-breaking 3-pointer from Dani
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Soccer shocker: DHS girls lose, 4-1 A look back at lengthy list of records
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ver the past couple of years, there have been several amazing streaks compiled by the Davis High girls soccer team. There was the 71-game unbeaten streak that began in 2016 and didn’t end until a playoff loss in the 2018 NorCal Tournament. There’s the five-consecutive Delta League titles the Blue Devils have won — which move to six as soon as Monday. And then there’s, of course, the four straight Sac-Joaquin Section titles, streak which remains open-ended. But one streak ended with a 4-1 loss to rival St. Francis on Friday night: a 73-game Delta League unbeaten string, which is what I’m writing about today. Greatness is hard to achieve, and over a five-year period, this team has ascended to that lofty brilliance, so let’s take a look at what greatness looks like through some numbers: ■ Davis last lost at Franklin on March 18, 2015. The streak began five days later with a 5-1 victory over Pleasant Grove and ended this Friday, meaning that no one beat the Devils in Delta League play for 1,782 days. That’s four years, 20 months and 15 days. ■ During the streak, DHS put up a 66-0-7 record, but only a 5-0-5 mark against St. Francis. The only two other teams to tie
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71-game unbeaten streak, but it’s impressive nonetheless. Yes, Grant and Monterey Trail were frequently blown out in double-digit fashion by Davis, but St. Francis, Franklin and, at times, Pleasant Grove, provided real challenges. Especially in the away games, where you’d never know what the field conditions are going to be like. I’ll always remember two things about the streak: ■ I absolutely dreaded the Grant and Monterey Trail games because it was legitimately hard
The streak ends at 71 straight games ... For the first time since 2015, there will be a blemish on the Davis High girls soccer team’s Delta League record heading into the postseason. Needing just a win to secure the Blue Devils’ sixth consecutive league title, DHS fell, 4-1, to rivals St. Francis in a backand-forth contest Friday night at Ron & Mary Brown Stadium. “We haven’t been in this situation in a long time. It’s been years, hence St. Francis’ celebration (after the final whistle),” said DHS head coach Sara Stone. “The learning lesson is when the energy and the crowd is involved, we still have to play good soccer. We were a bit frantic (Friday).” Though Davis (9-1-3, 8-1-1 Delta League) lost on the night, it still leads the Delta League by two points over the Troubadours with two matches remaining. From the get-go, the 16-2-3 visitors (7-1-2 DL) appeared the stronger side, constantly getting in between the Devils’ midfield and back line, while taking a plethora of shots from outside the box. And St. Francis was
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St. Francis defender Hailey Lemon (20) jumps in front of Annabelle Lossin’s shot on goal Friday at Brown Stadium. the locals were Franklin and Pleasant Grove. ■ In those 73 games, Davis scored a preposterous 407 goals, while allowing just 30. That comes out to an average of 5.6 goals per game and just 0.41 goals against per game — an average margin of victory by more than five goals. ■ The biggest victory during the streak came in a May 2, 2016, contest against Grant, where the Devils won, 19-0. That came just under a month after DHS had set its previous high in that time frame, a 17-0 victory, also against Grant. ■ In only four games did
opposing teams even score twice against Davis, with St. Francis accomplishing the feat twice. The Devils were 3-0-1 in games in which opposing teams tallied two strikes. Obviously, this streak isn’t as impressive as the overall
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Top gifts for your Valentine Countdown to Valentine’s Day with week of fun Special to The Enterprise Millions of people eagerly await the arrival of the shortest month of the year for the opportunity to show their spouses, girlfriends, boyfriends, companions, and many other special people in their lives how much they are loved. Even though Valentine’s Day is just one day a year, that doesn’t mean it should be the only time one expresses his or her love for a special someone. With this in mind, individuals can count down the days to Valentine’s Day with these daily events that precede the day of love.
February 9: Chocolate Day Lavish a loved one with all the decadent treats they enjoy. These can include store-purchased chocolates, chocolate fudge sundaes or warm brownies fresh out of the oven.
February 10: Teddy Day This day can be interpreted in different ways. Couples adding spice to their relationships can celebrate Teddy Day with the lingerie of the same name. Those looking for a more G-rated experience can gift each other with an adorable stuffed bear. Make-your-own stuffed animal retailers at nearby malls are a place to turn for customizable teddy bears.
February 11: Promise Day
Special to The Enterprise Valentine’s Day is an opportunity to show the ones you love just how much you care about them. This is achieved through various gestures, including giving heartfelt gifts. Research from Business Insider found that 51 percent of Americans now celebrate Valentine’s Day. While a recent poll from Insights West found that although many Canadians view Valentine’s Day as overly commercial, 75 percent still plan on celebrating it. People are still spending big bucks on making Valentine’s Day special. The National Retail Federation indicates Americans spent more than $20.7 billion on the holiday in 2019 and forecasters predict similar spending in 2020. Every Valentine’s Day, certain gifts emerge as the most popular. While certain gifts are common, there are ways to make them seem fresh and exciting. Here are some ideas for Valentine’s Day gifting.
Flowers The National Retail Federation estimates that people spend around $2 billion on flowers for gifts.
Promise Day provides an opportunity to make promises to each other that are specific to couples’ relationships. These can include being more patient, traveling more or spending more time together.
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February 12: Hug Day On this day the world celebrates the uplifting and comforting power of hugs, which can be powerful expressions of love.
February 13: Kiss Day Couples can pucker up and spend a few extra moments showing their affection with some kisses. The lips are quite sensitive to touch, and kissing is one of the more renowned expressions of intimacy. Show love all week long leading up to Valentine’s Day. — Metro
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While certain Valentine’s Day gifts are common, there are ways to make them seem fresh and exciting. While roses are much sought after, thinking outside the bouquet can produce unique results. Choose different blooms, perhaps a loved one’s favorite flower or something regional. Potted plants also will last longer than cut flowers, giving them more staying power. Skip bouquets in favor of table centerpieces, which can be eye-catching.
but a better option is to take inventory of what your loved one wears on a daily basis and try to mimic the size and scope in your gift. Other thoughtful jewelry gifts include understated pendant necklaces or bracelets engraved with key dates or the names of their children. Colored gemstones in lieu of diamonds also may be a striking choice.
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Gifting jewelry can be tricky because it is such a personal gift that must tie into a sweetheart’s style. It may be tempting to go with something large and flashy or full of diamonds,
Dinner and a movie is a classic date night, but on Valentine’s Day restaurants and theaters may be overcrowded and only offer limited menus. An alternative can be to
Roughly $1.8 billion is spent on candy each Valentine’s Day, says the National Retail Federation. A box of chocolates certainly can fit the bill, but other options abound. Perhaps a sweetheart has a favorite candy that recalls his or her childhood or prefers a chocolate maker from his or her hometown. Purchase those items to add a bit of nostalgia. Make the holiday magical by setting up a candy bar right at home, where your sweetheart can pick and choose from candies displayed in eye-catching bowls and canisters. Another novel idea is to use candy molds to make your own sweet treats. Thoughtful Valentine’s Day gifts can make the day even more special for sweethearts. — Metro
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Bring it like Muhammad Ali? PT program not only fixes, it helps excel
Julius “Julz” Ancheta demonstrates the Sutter Sports Lab’s new 3D motion analysis system with Carina Bender-Abrams. The K-motion system is being used with Davis High school golf and baseball players.
BY LEV FARRIS GOLDENBERG Enterprise staff writer On Thursdays, Sutter Health Physical and Hand Therapy holds a movement and boxing class. Athletes jabbing, bobbing and weaving around the clinic on Lake Boulevard in West Davis are not what one might expect. In fact, many of them are Parkinson’s disease patients. The boxing program — called balance-friven boxing — is one part of the newly upgraded Sutter Sports Performance Lab. Since receiving a Sutter philanthropy grant last year, the lab hopes to explore new avenues of physical therapy. According to Sutter Lab orthopedic physical therapist Carina Bender-Abrams, the facility’s primary goal is to get patients back to their prior level of function. “For some folks that’s getting out of bed easily, going up and down your stairs without a problem, getting in and out of the car,” says Bender-Abrams, a UC Davis graduate. “And for other people, it’s a 99-mile-per-hour fastball.” At the Sutter Lab, the hope is to inhabit that intersection. “We’re looking to bridge the gap between traditional physical therapy and performance,” Bender-Abrams says. “A lot of the time physical therapy, especially in the insurance-based model, stops when people get to basic function. We call that activities of daily living. Things that everybody needs to be able to do — get dressed, take care of yourself. “And when people need more than that, sometimes (traditional) physical therapy does not continue enough, in our opinion.” With new equipment and a fresh philosophy, the lab aims to
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take further steps to help clients not only recover but to excel. One step has been to partner with local youth sports. Together with Performance 22 (owned by Davis High and UCD graduate Josh Reese), the clinic put on a six-week winter-training camp for baseball players with the goal of movement training and stability. Using a 3D-motion analysis
system — which the lab recently invested in — they performed movement screening on players and gave “report cards” on areas in which they could improve. “It happens to be that the training that improves performance in a smart way also helps prevent injuries,” Bender-Abrams says. Blue Devil baseball, under new coach Ethan Guevin, and golf, with new coach Zeb Becker, also
Julius Ancheta works with Phil, a member of Sutter clinic’s Balance Driven Boxing class last week. Thanks to a philanthropy grant, the clinic upgraded their equipment and is hoping to grow their fitness classes.
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The DHS athletes use something called K-Motion, a 3D screening tech that is popular in pro baseball and golf training programs. Sensors are strapped onto the upper body, upper back, pelvis, arm and bat or club.
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are getting into movement testing. After screening the ballplayers, the lab teaches them exercises based on what the athletes are not doing well.
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a Yee 3-pointer and a pair of Isaiah Conlan floaters had DHS back in the fight but trailing, 68-66, with just 27 seconds remaining. However, with the visiting Wildcats in the bonus, Davis could only foul and pray that late in the game. “It wasn’t any one person’s fault,” Yee added. “As a team we just could’ve (played) better.” Franklin’s Albert Green was nails all night from 3-point land. The junior guard was responsible for four of his team’s eight makes from beyond the arc, finishing with a game-high 24 points. Marquis Hargrove added another 20 for the Wildcats, while Davis’ lone man in double digits was Ryan Hakl, who tossed in four treys himself en route to 15 credits. Conlan scored 9 for the Devils, while Mikey Finerty and Jackson Isidor tallied 7 apiece and Barker had 6. “We have to focus on PG now,” Yee went on. “We just have to focus in practice and
play good defense. Then we’ll be ready.” Notes: Friday’s game was played in the school’s south gym, known as The Cage, following the mechanical failure of a motor that powers the suspended backboards in the school’s North Gym. A fix is expected early next week, in time for the Devils’ final home contest. ... DHS is averaging 78.2 points per game this season and allowing opponents 65.6. ... Asta’s scoring average of 9.3 and 7.9 rebounds per game are both team highs. ... Last season, six Delta League teams were awarded playoff spots, despite the conference holding only four guaranteed postseason berths. Strength of schedules and overall win-loss records also factor into the section playoff committee’s seedings, with play-in games allocated for borderline teams. First-round games begin Feb. 18. ... In JV action, DHS lost, 71-60, despite a 13-point outing by Brett Wiebe. Devil freshman fell similarly, 71-62. — Reach Owen Yancher at oyancher@ davisenterprise.net. Follow him via Twitter at @530athletics.
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After the player stands still for a second to calibrate, they swing away while the sensors send 3D-motion data to a computer. “We can check and make sure that all the pieces of their system that need to move well are, indeed, moving well,” BenderAbrams says. “So that from a coaching perspective we’re not asking them to do something they can’t do. “The philosophy here is there’s not really one way to swing a bat or throw a baseball or swing a golf club, it’s what works efficiently for that person.” Bender-Abrams, who earned her master’s degree in biomechanics while at UC Davis, says for young athletes, learning how their body moves is especially important. “The thing that we tell the kids, is that the only piece of equipment you have and will always have is your body,” BenderAbrams adds. “In two years, you’re gonna need different cleats, a different glove, but you’re always going to have your body.” Avoiding injury — and as importantly, learning how to prevent it — is vital for high-school athletes hoping to play at the next level. Bender-Abrams says that being aware of how the body moves is good for anyone who stays active: “I want to be more available for bio-mechanical testing, which is movement testing and the motion analysis, in order to help drive better performance and smarter training, especially for young athletes, but regardless of age.” The Sutter Health clinic also is working with Davis Little League this year, hoping to expand its movement-testing program even further. Little League, high school, adults ... All those opportunities will mean more movement classes, more interaction with coaches — and eventually more Parkinson’s patients gliding like Muhammad Ali. — Reach Lev Farris Goldenberg at levfg2000@gmail.com.
From Page B8 on the evening — Davis’ second highest total of the year. But just 16 shots fell for the Blue Crew, who fell to 13-12 overall. “I thought overall we played a pretty complete game,” Highshoe added. “We just hurt ourselves with fouls there early on.” Five Devils rode the the bench with two fouls in the first half, and the Wildcat guards took advantage, shooting 16-19 from the charity stripe to build a 36-20 halftime lead. “Again we were trying to play catch-up and we just didn’t have enough time,” Highshoe said. A trio of Franklin guards handled the majority of the Wildcats’ scoring — Rena Sy led all scorers with 18, Reba Sy added 15, and Malia Clark bucketed 14. For Davis, Skylar Schouten led the way with 12 points and nine rebounds and Surina Beal contributed 11. As usual, Mara Bledsoe was a force off the bench, adding 8 points (all in the second half ) and 10 boards. “Mara’s just a beast inside,” Highshoe told The Enterprise. “Her strength, her size, her physicality, it goes pretty unmatched
against any one of our opponents.” The sophomore is fifth on the team in points per game with a 5.1 mark, and pulls down 4.2 rebounds a night. The Devils — who lost their third straight — outscored Franklin (22-4 overall, 10-0 league), 25-23, after intermission, but could not get within double digits. On Monday, Davis hosts another local powerhouse as No. 1 ranked McClatchy (23-2, 10-1) comes to town at 7 p.m. for a non-league bout. “Anyone who pays attention to basketball knows what kind of team McClatchy is,” Highshoe said. “For us lately it’s just been a matter of executing our stuff better and focusing on what we can control.” The Metropolitan Conference leader won the Speck Tournament in early December, and since then has been on a tear. The Lions come to town on an eightgame win streak, and recently avenged their only league loss with a 46-45 victory over Laguna Creek. McClatchy beat Sheldon by 40 earlier this season, and ripped Elk Grove for two 30-point wins. — Reach Lev Farris Goldenberg at levfg2000@gmail.com.
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Calendar TODAY Davis High No events scheduled. UC Davis SOFTBALL: Aggies, NorCal Kickoff, vs. Idaho State, 11:30 a.m. WATER POLO: Aggie women vs. TBD, Triton Invitational, TBA. MONDAY Davis High BASKETBAL — Devil boys vs. Sheldon, 4 p.m.; Devil girls vs. McClatchy, 7 p.m. SOCCER — Devil boys vs. Sheldon, 3:30 p.m.; Devil girls at Sheldon, 3:30 p.m. SKIING & SNOWBOARDING — Skiing at Boreal; Snowboarding at Northstar UC Davis GOLF — Aggie women at The Battle of the Rock, Riverside, all day. TUESDAY Davis High No events scheduled. UC Davis GOLF — Aggie women at The Battle of the Rock, Riverside, all day. WEDNESDAY Davis High BASKETBALL — Devil boys vs. Pleasant Grove, 7 p.m.; Devil girls at Pleasant Grove, 7 p.m. SOCCER — Devil girls vs. Cosumnes Oaks, 4 p.m.; Devil boys at Cosumnes Oaks, 3:30 p.m. UC Davis BASKETBALL — Aggie women vs. Cal Poly, 6 p.m. Listen: KDVS 90.3; Watch: BigWest.TV. THURSDAY Davis High No events scheduled. UC Davis BASKETBALL — Aggie men vs. UC Santa Barbara, 7 p.m. Listen: KHTK 1140; Watch: BigWest.TV. TRACK — Aggies indoor Don Kirby Elite Invitational, Albuquerque, N.M., all day. FRIDAY Davis High BASKETBALL — Devil boys at Jesuit, 7 p.m.; Devil girls vs. St. Francis, 7 p.m. WRESTLING — Devils at individual trials, Sacramento, 7 p.m. UC Davis BASEBALL — Aggies vs. Utah, 2 p.m. LACROSSE — Aggies vs. California, 7 p.m. SOFTBALL — Golden State Classic, Lake Elsinore: Aggies vs. Bradley, 9 a.m.; Aggies vs. Loyola Marymount, 5 p.m. SWIMMING — Aggie women, Senior Classic, Coronado. TENNIS — Aggie men at UNLV, 2 p.m.; Aggie women at Stanford, 3 p.m. TRACK — Aggies indoor Don Kirby Elite Invitational, Albuquerque, N.M., all day; Husky Classic, Seattle, Wash, all day. SATURDAY Davis High WRESTLING — Devils at individual trials, Sacramento, 7 p.m. UC Davis BASEBALL — Aggies vs. Utah, 1 p.m. BASKETBALL — Aggie women vs. UC Irvine, 2:30 p.m. Listen: KDVS 90.3; Watch: BigWest.TV.; Aggie men vs. CSUN, 5 p.m. Listen: KHTK 1140; Watch: BigWest.TV GYMNASTICS — Aggies at Air Force, Colorado Springs, Colo., 1 p.m. SOFTBALL — Golden State Classic, Lake Elsinore: Aggies vs. Utah State, 2 p.m.; Aggies vs. Portland State, 4:30 p.m. SWIMMING — Aggie women, Senior Classic, Coronado. TENNIS — Aggie men vs. Weber State, Las Vegas, 10 a.m. TRACK — Aggies indoor Husky Classic, Seattle, Wash, all day. WATER POLO — Aggie Classic: women vs. Cal, 10 a.m.; women vs. San Jose State, 3:30 p.m.
REAM: It was fun to watch From Page B10 to keep up with the goal scoring and ensure that my game reports were accurate. In one game against The Trail, the referee had the final score as 12-0, head coach Sara Stone had it 13-0 and I had it 14-0, so I literally had to ask each and every player how many goals they scored in order to get the information correct. ■ It was absolutely a foregone conclusion that the Devils were going to win, or at least draw, in every game, even against traditional power Franklin and almost always at home against St. Francis. At the time of that Franklin loss in 2015, Stone had never won at the Wildcats. Since, she’s only even tied there once. Even though there was great soccer involved and it was truly a delight to cover such an amazing run, I’m kind of glad it’s over. Because at least now when I show up to a Delta League game, I know it’s actually possible that DHS can lose. — Evan Ream’s column publishes Sundays. Reach him at eream@ davisenterprise.net or follow him on Twitter @EvanReam.
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Slew of grapplers advance Bordios, Turner win Delta titles BY EVAN REAM Enterprise staff writer The Davis High wrestling team entered the postseason in a door-die situation at this weekend’s Delta League championships on Saturday at Sheldon High. Finish high enough and each wrestler would live to see another day. Have a bad day and you’re done until next year. Fortunately for the DHS contingent, all 15 wrestlers had great days and all competing Blue Devils advanced to either next weekend’s divisionals (boys) or Northern Regionals (girls). “It went really well,” said DHS head coach Johnny Rosendale. “The Delta League has some really good wrestlers. In some of
the weight classes, the top three Kelsey Bordios (second) and in each weight class will be near Astraea Blue Coat (second) also the top three in both divisional will participate in next weekend’s and masters.” Regionals, set to be conducted at Leading the way, again, was Natomas High on Friday and junior Adrienna Turner, who Saturday. captured her third On the boys side, straight Delta there were no top League girls title. placers, but junior Zach Brooks again “There’s good proved his worth, wrestlers in (Turnin second er’s group). WomJohnny Rosendale finishing place and only fallen’s wrestling in California is grow- DHS wrestling coach ing to Peter Ming, the No. 2-ranked ing, so it’s an amazing thing to say that Adrienna has wrestler in the state. Ming, who won it three years in a row,” moved to California from SwitRosendale said. “I don’t think zerland, attends Elk Grove High. that I’m embellishing to say that Meanwhile Josh Prudhomme, Adrienna is the best wrestler in Tristen Wollrich, Aaron Turner the history of Davis High.” and Ethan Rosendale all went 3-1 Joining Turner at the top of the — each earning a third-place finpodium was classmate Emma ish. Bordios, who also captured a title “This kid just started wrestling with a 3-0 record stemming from two months ago,” Rosendale said three pins. of Prudhomme. “It’s just aweJuana Peralta (second place), some ... I mean, to get third place
“It went really well.”
in the Delta League? “This is also the best I’ve ever seen Tristen wrestle,” Rosendale added. “Which is good, because this is the postseason.” Also qualifying for the divisionals will be fourth-place finishers Kosta Christopulos and Ethan Horowitz, who has been wrestling a weight class up while training against teammate and the 2019 State Tournament qualifier Brooks in practice. “You can only get your butt kicked by Zach Brooks for so long before you realize in your matches that the kid you’re wrestling is not Zach Brooks,” Rosendale said. “Ethan is 10 or 12 pounds lighter than everyone in his division and he’s just throwing people around.” Lastly, also making it to next weekend’s meet at Del Oro High school will be Noor Mashiana and Vance Tangren, each placing fifth.
Franklin takes out Devils Boys can’t solve ’Cats
Despite battling, girls fall
BY OWEN YANCHER Enterprise staff writer Clinging to what’s now left of their playoff hopes by the skin of their teeth, the Davis High boys basketball team may be facing its last hurrah of 2020 this upcoming week. Yet another heartbreaking 73-66 loss at home Friday against Franklin moved the Blue Devils to a disappointing 2-8 mark in Delta League standings. Four wins now separate DHS and a 6-4 Elk Grove squad, which can secure the conference’s fourthand-final guaranteed playoff bid with a victory Monday against Franklin. Meanwhile, the Devils find themselves backed into a corner heading into their 7 p.m. Senior Night showdown against Pleasant Grove next Wednesday. Winless since the start of Delta play, the Eagles (7-16, 0-8) lost to DHS by 43 points when the two schools met three weeks ago. But it’s anyone’s guess as to what PGHS team will show up for the Devils’ home finale. The foundering Eagles nearly stole a win from their cross-town rival Elk Grove last week, losing a defensive battle, 47-45. Davis, too, has been a question mark throughout conference play. The
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Blue Devil Colin Walsh (20) barrels into Franklin’s Jaztein Blackmon in Friday’s loss. once-mighty Devils, once ranked as high as No. 4 in the section by MaxPreps, were four athletes short Friday against Franklin, missing three injured players (two centers) and one out with the flu. Adding salt to the wound, Davis’ top rebounder, senior Joey
Asta, fouled out in the second half. “We had to really come together on the rebounding and do their dirty work down under,” said Devil shooting guard Collin Yee, who netted 5 points in the loss while collecting six boards. “I thought we fought hard. We just didn’t come out
with a win at the end.” The locals had trailed by as many as 12 points several times throughout the ballgame before inching their way back into the contest during the closing minutes. Bryce Barker’s layin and subsequent free throws,
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Standing at 3-7 in league with only two games left to play in the regular season — Davis High girls basketball is dangerously close to missing the section playoffs for the first time in eight seasons. But you wouldn’t know it by the way they’re playing... In a 59-45 loss on Friday at Franklin — the No. 2-ranked team in the SacJoaquin Section — the Blue Devils dominated the stat sheet. The locals outrebounded the Wildcats, 47-38, including 28 Davis offensive boards. And after committing 25-plus turnovers in each of the past four games, DHS coughed up just 16 turnovers while forcing 19 miscues from Franklin. “At the end of the night, as long as we compete, that’s all us as coaches can really ask of them,” said head coach Heather Highshoe. Compete they did, putting up 71 shots
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rewarded for its audacity just 5 minutes into the match as junior midfielder Mia Solorio-Smith wound up from 30 yards and blasted a shot into the upper corner of the net to break the deadlock. DHS then created two chances, both thanks to junior midfielder Franny Bolivar. The first came when Bolivar found classmate Summer Baron in the 8th minute with a 40-yard through-ball, but the forward could only shoot just wide. Then, 14 minutes later, Bolivar rifled a 30-yard, knuckling free kick that nearly squirted under the Troubadour goalkeeper, but ultimately was saved. Three minutes later, the visitors increased their lead as junior forward Jackie Stanco blasted a 25-yard free kick into the upper righthand side of the goal. Down 2-0 after the
break, senior winger Annabelle Lossin gave the hosts some hope, toe-poking in a low free kick from Bolivar to bring the Devils back within one. Needing a second goal, Stone sent more and more players up into the attack, and though DHS created a few half chances, nothing came close to hitting the back of the net. With so many players forward, the hosts were either going to score or be scored on, and scored on they were, thanks to Stanco. First, in the 71st minute, the attacker drew in a pair of Devil defenders before slipping the ball through to senior forward Taylor Earle, who coolly finished to make it 3-1. Stanco then called her own number in stoppage time, scoring again from 25 yards — this time with a shot that hit the underside of the crossbar. The final whistle then blew as a dejected Devils
squad watched the entire St. Francis side dogpile each other in celebration of the first Troubadour victory over Davis since a playoff win in 2015. “Today they had some dangerous free-kick opportunities and some dangerous players on the field and their shots just went into the back of the net,” Stone said. “When we made it 2-1, we got some momentum and tried to push some players up, risking giving up things in the back and they capitalized on it. “I mean, I would do the same thing again, though.” Notes: The Devils could win the Delta League Monday with a victory at Sheldon and a St. Francis loss at Pleasant Grove. ... Friday’s loss marked the most goals that Davis had given up since a 6-0 defeat to St. Francis in 2007. The last time the Devils had even been scored on three times was in a 3-2 loss to Franklin in 2009.
Enterprise staff Despite losing 3-0 to rivals Jesuit for the second time this year, the Davis High boys soccer team is on the brink of clinching a playoff spot, continuing a streak that runs for the entire time the Devils have participated in the SacJoaquin Section. The match, which took place Friday in Carmichael, dropped DHS to 9-5-2 on the season and 4-4-2 in league play, but still has it three points ahead of the next three teams in the table: Pleasant Grove, Sheldon and Cosumnes Oaks. With a win Monday on Senior Night against Sheldon (5 p.m. kickoff at Brown Stadium), Davis will clinch a spot and be in position to finish third in the Delta League. As far as Friday’s game, teams have had trouble knocking off the 17-1-1 Marauders (9-0-1 Delta League) all year, and the Devils were no exception as Jesuit came out strong and dominated a DHS team that was without sophomore talisman Zach Anderson.
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UCD men hold on to top CS Fullerton Fuller scores career-high 23 Enterprise staff FULLERTON — This time they held on. When Ezra Manjon’s short jumper gave UC Davis a 5-point lead with less than 45 seconds remaining, there was relief in Aggie Nation. This certainly wasn’t a case of too little, too late, because the locals held the lead for a lion’s share of the evening at Titan Gym. And because UCD would finish
strong enough, there wasn’t going to be any second-half collapse. No, not on the this night. The Aggies were the team that their coach Jim Les thought they’d be all along. “That was fun,” Les told Scott Marsh, the radio voice of the Aggies, afterwards. “Well, it’s fun now. Some moments in there weren’t as fun, but I’m really proud of the guys. They did some of our things almost to perfection. They locked in and really did a nice job on the ball handlers ... contested shots.” When the Titans finally fell, 87-81, on Saturday it sent the 10-15 Aggies to 4-5 in Big West play, allowing the locals to climb over
Fullerton (9-15, 4-5) into a fifthplace tie with UC Riverside. Using Caleb Fuller’s career-high 23-point performance — and an overall 52.5 percent shooting night — Davis put five players in double figures and was time and again able to repel any Fullerton advances. “We got contributions from across the board,” Les added. “Obviously, Caleb was awesome. He played with great pace and balance and played confidently. And while he was scoring ... he was guarding Jackson Rowe, which is no easy task.” While scoring his 23 points, the sophomore by way of England’s
Barking Abbey School, was 9 of 12 from the field and collected four rebounds. Stefan Gonzalez contributed 14 points as Elijah Pepper threw in 13. Halfway through the first period, as the Titans crept to within 6, it was a Rogers Printup trey and a Kennedy Koehler lay-in that made things, 31-19. (Both would go on to score 10 points each.) A Koehler put-back and 3-pointers from Gonzalez and Majon restored Davis’s margin to 14 and only 5 minutes to intermission. Back-to-back Fuller baskets allowed Davis to lead 76-69 with 4:36 in the game. Still Fullerton wondered if there was a way. Titan
forward Rowe got hot and the pesky hosts were within 81-78 — until freshman Manjon provided that last-minute breathing room. Rowe would lead Fullerton with 21. “(Caleb) was big-time for us ... stepped up, no doubt,” explained Printup, whose off-the-bench points seemed to come at gamesaving times. “Caleb’s the reason we got the dub. He works hard. He’s a young bull and he always works hard.” Next up for Davis is a Thursday (7 p.m.) date at The Pavilion with UC Santa Barbara. The Gauchos are coming off a 64-61 win over front-running UC Irvine.
WOMEN: Team has slim lead in league
All-around debut Aggie’s best yet
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Guglielmo with 43 seconds remaining. The trey vaulted the ’Eaters into a 69-68 lead. From there, the Aggies didn’t recover, as Davis was forced to foul and Lauren Saiki and Guglielmo sank game-securing charity tosses. Nonetheless, along the way, it was redshirt sophomore Stobbart showing fans why she was a 2017 ESPNW four-star recruit, the 13th-ranked prep post player in all of her native Canada. Stobbart hit seven of her 11 overall attempts — including 3 for 3 from downtown — to establish her game- and career-best 18 points. Her 14 rebounds also signaled her new collegiate standard. With her big afternoon, Stobbart passed teammate Kayla Konrad for second among Aggie rebounders (136-130), both behind junior glass-cleaner Cierra Hall. And speaking of Hall, the Fairmount Prep Academy graduate was en fuego herself: her 16-point, ninerebound performance included two assists and three steals. The 6-foot-tall forward canned 4 of 6 beyond the arc and went 5 for 10 shooting overall. Point guard Mackenzie Trpcic, another Canadian Aggie, added 12 points and handed out five assists. Sophia Song scored 7. Still, UC Davis couldn’t overcome Irvine’s inspired play. Saiki went 7 for 14 from the field for 17 points. Her game-high seven assists did extensive damage in the second half. Guglielmo finished with 16 points, thanks mostly to four 3pointers. Defensively, Irvine had its eye on UCD leading scorer Katie Toole, holding the Utah State transfer to 5 points, almost 10 off her season’s average. While the statistics seemed even — both schools schools shot 44 percent and split 68 rebounds — Irvine got two more baskets than Davis (27 of 61) and sank five more free throws. Next up for the Aggies will be an encounter with visiting Cal Poly on Wednesday at 6 p.m. Two weeks ago, Davis scrambled past a stubborn Mustang crew (6-14) in the lowestscoring contest of the Big West season, 42-38. Cal Poly beat Long Beach State, 61-41, on Saturday. Wednesday’s matchup marks the first of three consecutive home games for Davis, which also gets UC Irvine right back next Saturday (at 2:30 p.m. as part of a doubleheader with the men at The Pavilion). The Aggie men meet CSUN at 5 p.m. Then on Feb. 20, the Aggie women face Cal State Fullerton in an unusual 11 a.m. start.
CAMMI JOHNSON
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High-flying Aggie Cammi Johnson hits her routine on the beam earlier this season. Johnson had a brilliant all-around on Friday.
Aggie gymnast Cammi Johnson soared to new heights Friday night, leading UC Davis to a win over San Jose State in a dual meet at The Pavilion. Johnson, a senior human development major from Los Gatos, vaulted to an individual title and tied for the meet’s all-around championship with the UCD program’s highest allaround debut in history. The Aggies won the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation dual meet with a score of 194.600 to the Spartans’ 193.525. It was UCD’s second head-to-head win over San Jose State in as many weeks, as the Aggies previously claimed a 194.925192.575 victory at the SJSU Event Center one week earlier. Johnson scored a total of 39.225 in the four events to tie the Spartans’ Taylor Chan for the all-around win. She is only the second UCD gymnast ever to break the 39-point barrier in her first attempt, joining teammate Gabby Landess, who performed the feat two years ago.
Johnson’s 9.825 on vault beat the field by a .050 margin, while her 9.775 on bars was good for second place. She added a 9.800 on beam, then made her collegiate debut on floor — her first meet performance in that event since her junior year of high school — with a 9.825, good for third place. Other highlights included freshman Rachel Schuelke, who led the balance beam rotation with a careerhigh 9.850, tying tied teammate Alyssa Ito for third place in that event. Sophomore Cortney Cunningham also placed third on both vault (9.750) and bars (9.750). Overall, UCD opened with a 48.725 on vault, added a 48.100 on bars, notched a 48.875 on beam and finished with 48.900 on the floor. Besides Johnson’s debut, the Aggie floor squad saw freshman Logan Clagg and junior Landess each score 9.800. UCD now begins a run of four straight road meets, starting with a MPSF dual at the Air Force Academy on Saturday, Feb. 15.
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Leon’s third dinger paces Aggie ballers Enterprise staff Pour water on the Aggie bats before they melt. With Isabella Leon, Maddie Rojas, Riley Siegel and Leah Polson all hitting home runs, the UC Davis softball team banged out 15 hits in a five-inning 11-3 knockout of Santa Clara in the third day of the NorCal Kickoff conducted at La Rue Stadium. Senior Katie Kibby went the distance in the pitching circle. The Aggies improved to 3-1 and meet Idaho State at 11:30 a.m. today, the tournament’s final day. For Leon it was her third round-tripper of the young season while freshman Poulson cracked her first Aggie homer. Kibby scattered seven hits and walked two on just 78 pitches in her five innings of work. It was a homecoming for new Bronco head coach Gina Carbonatto. She previously served as an Aggie assistant for three years.
Sun Devils pushed Mar Alvear won nine of the Aggies’ 20 draw controls — and finished as one of four Aggies to net two goals — but visiting Arizona State had a hot hand and topped its hosts, 16-12, in the women’s lacrosse opener at UC Davis Health Stadium. Alvear and seniors Maddie Myers, Sorana Larson and Kate Graham each had two goals for the locals. Davis stays home, next meeting California on Friday. Game time is 7 p.m.
Water polo split SAN DIEGO — The UC Davis women’s water polo squad lost to No. 19 Indiana, 12-11, in sudden-death overtime and then defeated Pomona-Pitzer to close the first day at the Triton Invitational. Against the Hoosiers, Chloe Robinson made the double hat trick with six total goals and Noelle Wijnbelt had a hat trick. The Aggies jumped out to an early lead in the 14-8 win over Division III powerhouse Pomona-Pitzer. Goals came from six different players: Wijnbelt, Devin Holcomb, McKenna
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Aggie Anna Belenis (3) guards Arizona State’s Brittany Chamberlain on Saturday. ASU won 16-12. Martin, Cassidy Smithson, former Davis High standout Alyssa Lengtat and Julia Hartmann also contributing. Holcomb and Smithson had hat tricks. UC Davis continues its bid for ninth place with a noon game against No. 22 CSUN. The Aggies will advance to play LMU or the winner of Marist and San Diego State no earlier than 4 p.m. in the Canyon View Pool.
Aggies in 14th WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — The UC Davis men’s golf team finished 14th at the 29th annual Amer Ari Invitational at the Waikoloa Kings Golf Course on Saturday. The Aggies finished with a final round 291 to end the three-day event at 2-over as a team, placing ahead of No. 25 Stanford (4-over) and No. 26 Oregon State (14-over) — as well as besting Big West Conference rivals CSUN (9-over) and Hawaii (21 over). Top-ranked Pepperdine stormed back to win the team title at 39 under, just two strokes up on Texas. The Waves’ William Mouw won a playoff with Arizona State’s Mason Andersen tied for medalist honors. Freshman Lucas Carper was the Aggies’ biggest mover on the day, firing a 3-under 69.
Thomas Hutchison shot a 75 to finish the event at 4-under in a tie for 32nd.
Broncos net close win In their second consecutive 4-3 loss, the Aggie women’s tennis team fell to the Broncos Saturday, with junior Sara Tsukamoto completing an epic comeback to win the final singles match of the day. The Aggies opened with a clean sweep at No. 2 doubles, where Kristina Breisacher and Shirley Hall recorded their fifth win together in a perfect 6-0, but Santa Clara won the next two matches to earn the point. Transitioning into singles play, Breisacher was the first off the court and the only Aggie to win both matches. Breisacher dispatched Madison Clarke 6-4, 6-1 to even the overall score at 1-1. Facing Maddie Pothoff — who was as high as No. 876 in ITA national rankings last season — Tsukamoto won a decisive second set to force a third, and found herself down 1-5. Tsukamoto toughed her way to 3-5, and saved a match point at deuce to hold serve, bringing the match to 4-5. In a wild finish, Tsukamoto dropped the first set en route to a 2-6, 6-1, 7-5 victory, winning six straight games to highlight the day.