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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2020
Bicycle Commission back in the saddle BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer The city’s Bicycling, Transportation and Street Safety Commission may be back to full strength sooner than expected. The City Council on Tuesday will make appointments to the BTSSC as well as the Natural Resources, Police Accountability and Tree commissions. The bicycling commission ended up without enough members to form a quorum last month after resignations and a twomonth suspension of one commissioner resulted in what was expected to be just three members for the months of February and March. February’s commission meeting was cancelled as a result. But on Tuesday the council will choose four new BTSSC commissioners from a pool of seven applicants — three who had previously applied and four new applicants — to bring the commission back to its full strength of seven members and one alternate. The council will also appoint two new members and an alternate to the Tree
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The Officer Natalie Corona Odd Fellows Scholarship Fund aims to raise enough money to offer scholarships in perpetuity.
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UC Davis students march to Mrak Hall on campus in support of striking student workers at UC Santa Cruz.
BY JEFF HUDSON
Students march for living wage Aggies pledge grading strike if demands aren’t met Enterprise staff writer Students at UC Davis and across the University of California system rallied on Friday, demanding a living wage for teaching assistants and other graduate student workers. A growing coalition of UC students
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UC students living in some of the country’s most expensive housing markets say they cannot afford to live on their current salaries. “The majority of our pay goes to just trying to have a shelter over us,” said Beshara Kehdi, a Ph.D. student at UC Davis. “We are fighting for a decent kind of living.”
In a letter to UC Labor Relations director Peter Chester, union executives said “skyrocketing rents” coupled with California’s failure to pass rent-control legislation had pushed students to a breaking point. “We believe the circumstances have changed to such a degree as to
The second annual Music for Natalie event — an evening including dinner and music honoring the service of the late Davis Police Officer Natalie Corona — will be on Saturday, Feb. 29, at the Odd Fellows Hall, 415 Second St. in downtown Davis. Last year, the Officer Natalie Corona Odd Fellows Scholarship Fund awarded $1,000 scholarships to Davis High students Kleo Redd and Zane
Earlier this month, United Auto Workers Local 2865, the union that
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pushing for a cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, has set off a power struggle between students and administrators.
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Fundraising dinner backs Corona scholarships
represents student employees across the UC system, submitted demands to campus administrators, asking them to negotiate a salary adjustment.
Will ax-throwing business make the cut? N ews doesn’t go on vacation when I do. So, find a comfy place to read this long catch-up column …
An ax-throwing business is looking to come to Davis. Doug Link, owner of The Smart Axe, is asking the city for a zoning amendment, to allow commercial recreation at his proposed site — 720 Olive Drive, Suite U2, near Rocknasium. (Yes, the climbing gym sounds like commercial recreation to me, too, but I’m not a city planner). It should go before the City
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The Smart Axe first opened in Rancho Cordova last year, and has another in the works in Roseville. Other locations listed on its website as “coming soon” include Modesto, San Jose, Livermore and Chico. The Rancho Cordova business offers 75-minute sessions for $30 per person, with $10 extra to BYOB. Patrons must be at least 12.
Council on Tuesday. The premise is a fun outlet and team-building activity where patrons throw an ax at a target.
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The Roseville site will serve beer but no food, according to the Sacramento Business Journal. A city official told me the
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Davis application does not include food or beer, as neither would be permitted. ——— By now you’ve likely read the great news that The Avid Reader and Avid Reader Active are under new ownership. I was in Costa Rica and couldn’t take the call when longtime owner Alzada Knickerbocker rang with the news. The announcement came Jan. 31. The parties celebrated Friday evening with a community reception.
The new owners are Davis residents Brett and Erin Arnold. The couple met while attending UC Davis, and moved back here six years ago. They have two children: Emelyne, 11, and Owen, 9. Erin studied human development while at UC Davis and went on to get a master’s degree in marriage and family therapy. Brett, who grew up on a Central Valley farm (his parents also met at UC Davis), studied crop science and management, theology
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