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UC Davis community debates future of policing on campus BY CALEB HAMPTON Enterprise staff writer As conversations about the future of policing and public safety rippled across the country in the wake of George Floyd’s death, UC Davis faculty and campus leaders have voiced urgent — and differing — demands for local change. On June 14, The California Aggie student newspaper
published a guest editorial titled “Disband the UC Davis police force now,” which was signed by more than 30 faculty members and addressed to campus administrators. “We, the undersigned faculty, call for the abolition of the UC Davis police force, the ending of all contracts between UC Davis and local, county and state police, and private security organizations and the replacement of
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policing with anti-carceral forms of accountability, including restorative and transformative justice and community-led public safety,” the editorial stated. On Tuesday, UC Davis Chancellor Gary S. May responded to the faculty’s demands in an editorial that was also published by The Aggie. Acknowledging many of the faculty’s criticisms of the police, May signaled a willingness to making significant changes but
pushed back against the faculty’s calls to entirely disband the campus police force. “The history and persistence of racism, and especially anti-Black racism, touches me deeply and personally,” May stated. “I clearly understand the police are one of several critical institutions, including our justice and penal systems, that have perpetuated and continue to perpetuate systemic racism in the United States.”
May continued: “I acknowledge that the signatories of the guest opinion advocate for a radical break, not just reform,” he stated. “While I question their approach, I share a belief that we have today an opportunity for significant and truly meaningful change, and that we must seize it.” Earlier this month, May assembled a task force, called the “Next
Woodland man granted clemency for 2007 gang shooting
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the course of the pandemic, Yolo County rarely reported more than one or two hospitalizations at any given time until last week when that number spiked to 13 hospitalized on Friday. Hospitalizations, as well as deaths, are lagging indicators of a surge, following an increase in cases by two or more weeks, county health officials have said. “The occurrence of hospitalizations underscores the seriousness of
A Woodland man who has spent nearly half his life in custody for his role in a 2007 gang-related shooting gained a swifter opportunity for parole Friday after Gov. Gavin Newsom commuted his state prison sentence. Andrew Kenneth Aradoz was 14 years old when Woodland police arrested him in June 2007 for shooting at a group of rival gang members from a stolen vehicle on Pioneer Avenue, injuring a 15-year-old boy. Prosecuted as an adult, as state law permitted at the time, Aradoz later admitted to charges of attempted murder, assault with a semiautomatic firearm and vehicle theft for the benefit of a criminal street gang, which along with various sentencing enhancements resulted in a prison sentence of 24 years and 8 months, to life. Now 27, Aradoz may soon be released from Avenal State Prison after Newsom issued the commutation, citing his “strong commitment to his rehabilitation and ... exemplary discipline record.” A commutation allows an inmate to appear before the Board of Parole Hearings to determine whether they are suitable for release. Aradoz previously hadn’t been eligible for a parole hearing until June 2026. “Mr. Aradoz earned his GED and is currently enrolled in college classes,” Newsom wrote in his clemency certificate. “He participated in self-help programming and completed vocational training. Mr. Aradoz has been praised by his supervisors for his work ethic and positive influence on others.” Convicted at age 16, Aradoz served his time in a juvenile detention facility until his transfer to the
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Enterprise staff writer The Davis City Council is expected to decide Tuesday whether to place before voters in November an innovation center and housing development proposed for east Davis. The Davis Innovation and Sustainability Campus (formerly known first as the Mace Ranch Innovation Center and more recently as the Aggie Research Campus) would bring 2.64 million square feet of business and innovation space as well as up to 850 residential units to the northeast corner of Mace Boulevard and Interstate 80. The developers — Ramco Enterprises, the Buzz Oates Group and Reynolds & Brown — say the project would provide muchneeded research and innovation space to businesses
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School board narrows field for empty seat to six BY JEFF HUDSON Enterprise staff writer During Thursday’s meeting, the Davis school board trimmed the list of applicants to fill the remainder of departing trustee Cindy Pickett’s term (as she moves to Chicago as an associate provost at De Paul University). The field of 15 applicants was reduced to six finalists, with a vote to appoint a new trustee to fill Pickett’s term (which runs through December 2022) expected at the school board’s next regularly scheduled meeting
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Diners hit the asphalt on G Street in downtown Davis, as restaurants expand into the closed roadway for the weekend, part of a new program, called Open Air Davis, which launched Friday, closing part of the street to traffic, and allowing restaurants and stores to expand onto the sidewalk and street. For more, see Comings & Goings on Page A5.
COVID hospitalizations still rising BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer Religious gatherings, workplace exposures and community spread of unknown origin have each accounted for about 10 percent of Yolo County’s new coronavirus cases, a county spokeswoman said Friday. Household gatherings — involving three or more households, often of extended family members — have accounted for about 35 percent of recent cases. Just 1 percent of the 127 new cases reported between June 10 and 23 were traced to recent protests, according to county spokeswoman Carolyn Jhajj. However, more than 30 percent of those recent cases were still under investigation as of Friday when the county notched another 30 cases, plus another 20 more on Saturday. Yolo County’s surge brings to 210 the total number of cases in the last two weeks. The county’s hospitalizations have increased as well, with 13 residents hospitalized on Friday for COVID-19, an all-time high. As is the case across much of California, increased testing has brought increased positive test results. But the percentage of test results that are positive has also increased, topping 6.2 percent for the last week. For most of the pandemic, the county’s positivity
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Briefly Man arrested for threats A man was booked into the Yolo County Jail on threats and battery charges Friday morning following an alleged altercation with city workers and police officers outside the Veterans Memorial Center. Jinnah Emery Dongo, a local transient, had been asked by city employees to leave the East 14th Street property and responded by threatening the workers and urinating on the grounds, Davis police Lt. Art Camacho said. Police were called to the scene, where Dongo allegedly spit on officers and vandalized a patrol car. Dongo, 29, was booked into the jail on charges including vandalism, threatening a public employee, battery on a peace officer and maintaining a public nuisance, Camacho said.
Climate camp goes online UC Davis student Megan Phelps is helping to put on a digital Youth 4 Climate Summer Camp for highschool students at https://youth4climate 350.org/youth-4climate-summercamp. The camp has two sessions, each four weeks, consisting of ondemand videos, a weekly challenge to take action on climate, and a 90-minute live session. Session 1 begins on June 29 and Session 2 begins on July 27. The cost is $50 for one session or $75 for both, with a sliding scale. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
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It’s cheese, but not as we know it I ’ve made no secret over the last few years of my fondness for the Food Section of the New York Times, the second greatest Food Section in the country. The section is simply called “Food” in the understated way The Times generally operates. The president likes to call The NY Times “fake news,” but there’s nothing fake about the food it pushes. The Times, of course, can’t match the wit and wisdom of the wide variety of food and drink writers that regularly grace the pages of The Davis Enterprise. That said, there is one small part of The Times Food Section called “Front Burner” that is truly excellent every time out. It features new food items and how one might go about having them delivered to your front door, even in California. The great part here is that these are rare items you might not ever have heard of, but they’re affordable even if you’re on an East Davis budget. For instance, The Times
had an aroma of, well, cheddar. Between the toffee and the crunch, this sounds more like a 20-yearold candy bar than a chunk of rare cheese. The good news is that it’s just $209 per pound, or about 10 bucks per year.
recently featured a small item on Hook’s Aged Cheddar Cheese from Mineral Point, Wis. What’s special about this cheese is that it has been aged 20 years, which means it was locked in storage before any of the four teenagers who share our home had even been born. I don’t know if this cheese was purposely aged 20 years or if someone put it in the back of the fridge and somehow forgot about it until now. Turns out this special cheddar “has an aroma of toffee and herbs and delivers an alluring hint of crunch.” Now I like cheddar as much as the next guy, but I’d prefer mine
Attempted murder charges filed in Woodland shooting BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer A Woodland couple faces attempted murder and other charges in connection with a September 2019 shooting in Woodland, in addition to their pending charges from a separate shooting that occurred less than three months later. Angelica Hernandez, 19, was taken into custody during a vehicle stop Wednesday and booked into the Yolo County Jail on counts of attempted murder, shooting at an occupied vehicle and participating in a criminal street gang, Woodland police Sgt. Dallas Hyde reported Friday. Her boyfriend, 21-yearold Jesus Raul Perez, is expected to be charged with the same counts, Hyde said. He remains in Yolo County Jail custody on charges related to the later shooting. According to Hyde, the earlier shooting occurred on Sept. 14, 2019, at a retail complex in the 600 block of Cottonwood Street, where witnesses reported that shots were fired in or next to a vehicle in the
parking lot. “Officers located one bullet hole in a window at the unoccupied Church on the Rock. A victim was not located and the suspect was unknown,” Hyde said. “At the time, the call appeared to be unrelated to a victim and possibly just shots fired into the building.” A subsequent investigation, however, determined that Perez and Hernandez followed three people to the church parking lot, where Perez allegedly shot at one victim multiple times as he exited his vehicle, Hyde said. He struck the occupied car twice but did not injure any of the victims. Both Perez and Hernandez were arrested in December as suspects in a shooting earlier that month in the 700 block of Kincheloe Court in Woodland. They along with a third person, 19-year-old Arturo Brenes Renteria, await trial in that case in Yolo Superior Court. — Reach Lauren Keene at lkeene@davisenterprise .net or 530-747-8048. Follow her on Twitter at @laurenkeene.
State budget deal puts school finances on firmer ground Enterprise staff Last week, the California Legislature and Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a deal to maintain spending for K-12 education at the current year’s level by restoring billions of dollars in cuts the governor had proposed in May. The deal also will include more one-time state and federal aid funding to help schools provide continuity of learning during the pandemic. Davis schools superintendent John Bowes said the budget plan agreed to by the legislators and the governor should “maintain spending for K-12 education at the current year’s level. “With this new information from Sacramento, we believe there will be no layoffs or furloughs (in the Davis district) for the 2020-21 school year. In addition, the funding from
community passage of the Measure G parcel tax for employee compensation will take effect for staff salary increases for the coming year, helping to bring our employee compensation to the regional average.” In a semi-related move, the Davis school board voted last Thursday to adopt the Davis district's 2020-21 budget, based on the governor’s May Revision budget, in order to meet the state mandated statutory deadline that local school districts adopt a budget before the end of June. Any modifications that are part of the final State budget or changes later in the summer will be reflected in a 45-day Budget Revision at the Davis school board's mid-August Board of Education meeting.
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cream disguised as finger food, you can order a six-pack of Morgenstern’s ice cream sandwiches to share with the kids for a mere $89. Now, if you think $15 is too much to pay for a single ice cream sandwich, you clearly don’t understand just how good this ice cream is. But wait, there’s more. After all, you may need something to wash down all that cheese and ice cream. As hard as it is to believe that all of this could be wrapped into one newspaper feature, The Times also has a short piece about the Torch & Crown Brewing Company, which is offering four-packs of 16-ounce canned beer for a bargain-basement $22. Unfortunately, you’ll have to pick it up yourself, because there’s no delivery beyond Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. Some deals are just too good to be true. — Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.
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POLICING: May vows action HOSPITALIZATIONS: Supervisors From Page A1 Generation Reforms to Advance Campus Safety,” to assess policing and campus safety at UC Davis. It will be chaired by Renetta Tull, vice chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and Kevin Johnson, dean of the School of Law. “The task force will engage in serious reflection, taking into account a broad range of views — the co-signers of the guest opinion column among them — and deliver recommendations for action,” May stated in his editorial. He has asked the task force to deliver its recommendations by Dec. 15. Citing a long history of failed police reforms in the United States, the faculty expressed doubt that recommendations by the task force might deliver sufficient change. “The path of reform has been long and led nowhere,” they stated. “Indeed, despite reforms banning the use of violent techniques in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and many other cities, violence perpetrated against communities of color by police has continued unabated.” Highlighting three incidents when UC Davis students were either harmed by police or harassed for taking a stance against police violence, the faculty wrote that “events on our own campus demonstrate the harm that police do.” In 2011, UC Davis students were famously pepper-sprayed by campus police while sitting down in the Quad during a peaceful protest. The incident made international news and caused further controversy when it was revealed that then-Chancellor Linda Katehi used $175,000 in university funds to have
references to the incident scrubbed from the internet. On Picnic Day in 2017, three Davis Police Department officers who were wearing plainclothes and driving an unmarked vehicle started a brawl with five Black and Latino revelers, who were arrested and charged with assault and resisting arrest. Police Chief Darren Pytel later apologized for “breaches of department policy” and for releasing false information about the incident in an initial press release. In 2019, following the killing of Davis Police Department officer Natalie Corona, who was widely memorialized with a photo in which she posed with a “Thin Blue Line” flag, members of the ASUCD Ethnic and Cultural Affairs Commission received death threats after they called out the flag as an anti-Black symbol. The flag had gained popularity among groups who opposed the Black Lives Matter movement’s demands for police accountability. In addition to these incidents, the faculty wrote, research on police officers nationwide indicates a tendency towards violence both on the job and in their personal lives. Rates of domestic violence, for example, are more than twice as high in the law enforcement community. According to the faculty, the “very presence” of police at UC Davis makes campus unsafe. “Students, staff and faculty of color — particularly Black, Latinx and Native members of the UCD community you have pledged to serve — are terrorized by any police presence at UC Davis.” In 2014, UC Davis established the first Police Accountability Board in the UC system. UC Davis also
created a cadet program that “has brought many diverse UC Davis graduates into our ranks so that they can embody our shared community values,” May stated, mentioning these as examples of progress while adding that more needs to be done. “I would like to think that the signatories (of the faculty editorial) would be surprised at the degree to which I am open to significant, even radical reimagining of ‘campus safety,’ ” May stated. He added, however, that “we are part of a larger system, and there are certain changes we cannot make independently.” Abolishing the UC Davis Police Department “would be a nationally visible gesture, but not necessarily a constructive or complete one,” May stated. “I am deeply convinced that the pathway on which we are now embarked is the right one: of imagining new forms of public safety, far beyond policing and into realms of social work and mental health.” The faculty said that it would be a “failure of imagination” to think it impossible, or even unusual, for a university to not have police on campus. After all, they said, the U.S. is one of the only countries that has armed police on college campuses. They cited the University of Minnesota’s recent decision to discontinue its relationship with Minneapolis police and the Minneapolis City Council’s promise to disband the city’s police force. “Freedom from policing on campus is the global norm, one that a campus committed to a global role must emulate,” the faculty wrote. “The time for temporizing and task forces is past.”
DISC: Voters could get say in November From Page A1 emerging from UC Davis, thousands of local jobs to graduates and other Davis residents and increase the city’s housing supply. Critics have said the project will bring increased traffic congestion to the Mace Boulevard/I-80 interchange area while taking agricultural land out of production and without a guarantee that the types of companies developers say will locate there actually will. If placed on the November ballot, DISC would mark the sixth time Davis residents cast a vote on a project under Measure J/R, the renewal of which will be on the November ballot as well. First enacted in 2000 as Measure J, the initiative requires a vote of the people before land can be redesignated from agricultural or open space to any urban use. Measure J was renewed for another 10 years (as Measure R) in 2010 and is up for renewal again this year. Five Measure J/R votes have taken place in the last
15 years, with the first three failing: Covell Village in 2005; Wildhorse Ranch in 2009; and Nishi 1.0 in 2016. But in 2018, voters approved two projects under Measure J/R votes: Nishi 2.0 and the West Davis Active Adult Community. Tuesday’s public hearing on the DISC project is expected to be a lengthy one. More than 100 people provided public comment on DISC when it went before the Davis Planning Commission earlier this month. Rather than deliberate and vote after midnight, the commission continued the meeting to the following week where they voted unanimously to recommend the City Council place the project on the November ballot. Public comment is likely to be numerous again this week. Members of the public can submit written comments to CityCouncil Members@cityofdavis.org. Emails are distributed to council members and staff. To ensure the City Council
has the opportunity to review information prior to the meeting, send emails by 5 p.m. on Tuesday. To submit voicemail comments before or during the meeting, call the city’s dedicated phone line 530757-5693. Staff will play comments during the appropriate agenda item. Speakers will be limited to no more than two minutes. The meeting can be viewed several different ways: ■ Televised live on city of Davis Government Channel 16 (available to those who subscribe to cable television) ■ Livestreamed online at https://cityofdavis.org/ city-hall/city-council/citycouncil-meetings/meetingvideos ■ Via Zoom at https:// zoom.us/j/98720102212 Tuesday’s City Council meetings begins at 5:30 p.m. with the DISC item expected to come up beginning around 6:30 p.m. according to the agenda. — Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@ davisenterprise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.
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to discuss next steps on Tuesday From Page A1 the illness, particularly for the most vulnerable members of our community — those age 65 and older or immunocompromised,” Jhajj said. “Our thoughts and prayers go out to the individuals hospitalized and we wish them a speedy recovery.” The surge in cases has raised concerns among some county supervisors who will discuss next steps at their meeting on Tuesday. “I, personally, am growing concerned that Yolo County openings of various activities and business categories may be in danger due to lack of adherence to simple common sense risk reduction practices,” Supervisor Don Saylor of Davis said in a social media post last week. Saylor noted a lack of national strategy in combatting the spread of the virus as well as the fact that Yolo County’s ability to do so is intrinsically linked to neighboring counties and the state as a whole. “In this context, we must consider our steps,” he said. “In the near future, I expect we will need to engage more intrusive enforcement tactics for groups and businesses who are not adhering to guidelines. “We must consider whether we can sustain the reasonably safe openings we have thus far permitted,” he said. Over the last several weeks, the county has reopened what were previously considered “higher risk” activities, including bars, hair and nail salons and gyms. And while family
“We must consider whether we can sustain the reasonably safe openings.” Don Saylor Yolo County supervisor gatherings involving multiple households have accounted for many of the recent cases, some religious institutions, as well as some local businesses, have been cited by local officials as examples of unsafe practices. At least one church was not following social distancing guidelines and the end result was viral spread, according to Brian Vaughn, the county’s director of public health. At last week’s Board of Supervisors meeting, County Administrator Patrick Blacklock said the county was turning its focus toward enforcement. “We are in a place where it is likely time to begin more aggressive enforcement where education has clearly not worked, where there are organizations that are willfully violating the guidance,” said Blacklock. Enforcement, he said, could include fines or even closure of businesses that are not adhering to guidelines. As the current surge began more than a week ago, Supervisor Jim Provenza of Davis said, “we need to get on top of things right away.” “The county is analyzing every single one of those
cases, tracing and tracking and testing, to find out the source of the virus, to find out if anything that we decided may have contributed, if any of the reopenings have contributed, and we’ll make any adjustments that we have to make,” Provenza said in a Facebook post. Cases have surged throughout the county, in every city, though Woodland and West Sacramento have been particularly hard hit. Woodland has reported 208 cases since the pandemic began, including 10 on Saturday, while West Sacramento has reported 155, with six more confirmed on Saturday. More than 64 percent of new cases in the last two weeks have come in individuals under age 44, including 51 individuals under age 24. The city of Davis reported no new cases on Saturday but 10 of the city’s 44 cases have come in the last week. Winters also has seen an uptick, with 10 of its 23 total cases reported in the last week, including four employees at the Mariani Nut Company reported on Thursday. The Board of Supervisors will receive an update on all of the recent COVID activity at their meeting on Tuesday and discuss any steps they may want to take. The board meets via Zoom at 9 a.m. and members of the public can participate via https:// yolocounty.zoom. us/j/112072974, Meeting ID: 112 072 974; or by phone 1-408-638-0968, Meeting ID: 112 072 974. — Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@ davisenterprise.net.
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UCD reports jump in summer sessions Soroptimists wrap up season BY JULIA ANN EASLEY Special to The Enterprise As UC Davis’ summer sessions began this week, thousands more students will log on to take hundreds of courses — all now online because of the pandemic. As of Monday (June 22), more than 14,000 students were enrolled, or about 27 percent more than last year, and for 138,750, or 29 percent more credit hours. June Dy, a rising thirdyear student, is among them. The pandemic interrupted her plans for a summer internship, so the cognitive science major decided to make the most of her time while sheltering at her family home in Hayward. Dy starts a course in organic chemistry in this first week of Summer Sessions I and will take a physics course in Summer Sessions II, which begins Aug. 3. “It’ll knock a lot of science classes out of the way,” she said. In the pivot to remote
instruction, Summer Sessions will continue to offer hundreds of courses, and students can register through Aug. 7 for the second six-week session. Financial aid is available, and a student’s enrollment automatically prompts a review for aid eligibility. Students have long used summer study to get access to high-demand courses, focus on more challenging subjects and accelerate progress toward their degree. This summer, those advantages stand out even more against the backdrop of the pandemic with the state’s stay-at-home order and the economic downturn providing fewer opportunities for summer employment and internships. “I think a lot of that is the circumstances of the coronavirus,” said Matt Traxler, associate vice provost for academic planning in Undergraduate Education. “If you’re home, you can still go to school.”
The campus announced in early April that summer courses would be offered by remote instruction. Traxler said colleges and others partners rallied to plan courses, and Summer Sessions enlisted academic advisers to provide information about summer opportunities to students. “We got out early with an announcement about summer and its format,” he said. “That helped students to do some planning.” Initially, the campus had left open the possibility that some courses in the later session could be offered in person, but as the pandemic developed, the university made the decision to offer only remote instruction. Special Sessions, this year June 15 to Sept. 11, is usually a showcase of courses with field work and other adventures, but fewer than 10 courses — in language, political science and biology — remain through remote instruction. — UC Davis News
Special to The Enterprise Soroptimist International of Davis isn’t letting the pandemic impede its work to improve the lives of women and girls. The service club wrapped up its year with its installation of officers on June 23. Also this spring, members stewarded a City Council resolution on women’s rights, gave grants to single moms and awarded local scholarships. For International Women’s Day, March 8, SI Davis worked with the city of Davis on a resolution supporting women’s rights. The resolution, adopted unanimously on May 19 by the Davis City Council, supports the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women, and requests that the United Nations treaty be ratified by the U.S. Senate. The resolution was originally on the agenda for March 10, to coincide with Women’s Day, but was postponed because of COVID-19. The Davis Phoenix Coalition and the UC Davis Women’s Center endorsed the resolution. CEDAW, an international “bill of rights” for women, was adopted by the United Nations in 1979. Though the U.S. helped draft the initial treaty, it remains the only industrialized nation that hasn’t ratified it. SI Davis’ two signature programs are
Live Your Dream: Education and Training Awards for Women, and Dream It, Be It: Career Support for Girls at King High School. It also funds high school scholarships, grants to nonprofits that align with the Soroptimist mission, and antitrafficking efforts. This year, the club awarded four Live Your Dream grants, helping four single mothers pay for expenses while they further their education. Soroptimists awarded four high-school scholarships. SI Davis is the largest donor of scholarship money to the local continuation high school. Recipients were Cristina Juliana Enriquez, Ingrid Daniela Gonzalez and Claudia Jaqueline Herrera from King High, and Catherine Ressa Scheuring from Davis High. June 23 was the club’s virtual installation of officers. Board members for the 2020-2021 year, starting July 1 are: Evie Wright, president; Katherine Hess, president-elect; Carol MacDonald, coordinator of calendar; Heather Carpenter, treasurer; Lori Hansen, assistant treasurer; Kacie Woodward, secretary; Karen Westphalen, director of fundraising; Maggie Memmott, director of membership; Lynn Fowler, director of programs; Wendy Weitzel, director of public awareness; Emily Ziser, immediate past president; and Elaine Barratt, parliamentarian.
OBITUARIES Hla Shwe
May 2, 1934 — June 21, 2020 Always in a Cal or Rotary shirt, Hla Shwe (Chiong Boo-Cheong) passed away peacefully on June 21, 2020, at his care home in West Sacramento. He will always be known for his passion about his family, daily exercise, cooking, UC Berkeley and Rotary International. Born and raised in Rangoon, Burma, as the eldest son of Chiong Boon Chin and Teoh Chye-Har, Hla grew up with four brothers and two sisters. Even though he did not start kindergarten until the age of 10 because of World War II, he earned the highest score in all of Burma on his final high school exam, which gave him the opportunity to study in the U.S. At the age of 20, he took his first trip out of Burma, boarding a flight to California as the first person in his extended family to attend university. The International House at UC Berkeley quickly became his home away from home, as he earned his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in physics. It was at the International House where he met his future bride, Sara. After a few years at Argonne National Laboratory and Ripon College, Hla and Sara found the bucolic Poconos of Pennsylvania, where he eventually became dean of
arts and sciences at East Stroudsburg University. Berkeley was still on his mind, though, with many summer-long family road trips for Hla to continue his research at Lawrence Berkeley Lab. Hla and Sara adopted Davis as their retirement destination, where he became deeply involved with UC Davis and local nonprofits. Embodying the Rotary creed of service above self, he gave generously to his family, community and alma mater. A lifelong educator, Hla stressed the value of education to his three children, providing them with many opportunities: frequent visits to the museums of New York, microscopes and telescopes galore, summer programs in high school, and funding their college educations. Hla was able to sponsor dozens of members of his immediate and extended families in their immigration from Burma to the United States, ultimately providing life-changing opportunities for hundreds. In his community, Hla was extremely active in local Rotary clubs, as president of the Rotary Club of the Stroudsburgs, District Governor, and a fervent attendee and
community volunteer in The Rotary Club of Davis. On road trips, he would regularly drop in on the local Rotary Club meeting of whatever city he was passing through. For UC Davis, he led the fund-raising efforts as President of the board of directors of International House Davis to rebuild it. In the ’70s, Hla joined the fitness running community just as it was starting to take off nationally. An early adopter of royal-blue Adidas track suits and the first models of Nike waffle trainers, he graduated from running at the local college track to laps around the hilly neighborhood of 143 Burma Road as he called it. He enthusiastically adopted cycling after moving to Davis, often exclaiming after a ride that he felt like they had built the greenbelt bike paths just for him. Hla and Sara shared a love for classical music, as subscribers to the New York Philharmonic and then the San Francisco Symphony. With these performances, came frequent trips to New York and San Francisco, to enjoy the food and culture. Hla nurtured family and friends through
Peter Deane Hackett
Ruth Priscilla Hager
Feb. 27, 1959 — June 6, 2020
Peter Deane Hackett, a software engineer and devoted father, died on June 6, 2020, at the age of 61, of prostate cancer. Peter died in his childhood home, surrounded by people who loved him. Peter was born in Woodland on Feb. 27, 1959, and spent his childhood in Davis and Los Angeles. He graduated from UC Berkeley in 1989 with a degree in computer engineering and worked as an engineer for several companies in the Silicon Valley. On Sept. 17, 1994, he married Karen, and on March 25, 1997, he welcomed his son Bryan, who brought him great joy. Peter, Karen and Bryan enjoyed many adventures from their house in Sunnyvale. Many of Bryan’s friends were regulars at their home where Peter listened to them carefully and imparted advice they were able to hear in return. Peter loved to build rockets, and his garage was filled with the tools and materials to construct high-powered rockets. He earned a Level 3 certification, and Peter and Bryan enjoyed the stark beauty of the
Black Rock Desert in Nevada, where they launched many times. Peter was a music lover, and he had an extensive and eclectic music collection, including a bit of everything from Hayden to Led Zeppelin. He shared his love of music with friends and family, making mixed tapes and burning CDs with excerpts from his collection. Peter is survived by his son, Bryan Hackett; wife Karen Szybalski; parents Ida and Wesley Hackett; sisters Robin Madsen (Greg) and Heather Hackett (John Steiner); brother David Hackett (Donna); sister-inlaw Annette Szybalski; a large, caring family of nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles and cousins; as well as many dear friends made over the years through school, work, rocketry, music, biking and hiking. He will be deeply missed by all who knew him. If you wish to donate in Peter’s memory, he would have appreciated contributions to the Nature Conservancy. A memorial for Peter is scheduled for September in the Black Rock Desert.
Barry McClure
April 1, 1937 — May 16, 2020 Barry McClure, a longtime Davis resident, died peacefully at home from complications of kidney cancer on May 16, 2020. Born in Arcata, he attended Lassen High School and Chico State College. In high school he excelled in track and played football. Throughout his life he continued to be an avid follower of track. After moving to Davis, he began to play tennis and became a devoted player of the sport. For many years he especially enjoyed the friendship and partnership of his Wednesday tennis regulars. After college Barry joined the Army Transportation Corps and was stationed in Livorno, Italy, where he met and married his wife, Laura Vincenzi. Their many worldwide travel adventures began there with his first new car, a Volkswagen Bug, in which they toured Europe and then drove it across the United States to his home town of Susanville in Lassen County. His first job was with Bank of America in Chester and, although not planned, it
became a progressively responsible 38-year career that took him to many locations in Northern California. His banking career was not void of excitement as twice the branches where he was working were robbed at gunpoint. Barry enjoyed retirement. A favorite activity was the very early morning bike ride to coffee. He took pride in tending his yard, doing volunteer work and especially traveling. He and Laura took several road trips near and far and were frequent overseas travelers. He touched the lives of many people with his engaged conversations and neighborly connections. Barry is survived by his wife Laura; brother Craig and wife Caryl ; and nieces Deanna Herman (Michael) and Laure Zmurk (Greg). He was preceded in death by his parents Vincent and Vera (Armstrong). A private service was held graveside at the Davis Cemetery. The family thanks Yolo Hospice for their support and the many friends for their expressions of sympathy.
his cooking. Typically planning his next dinner while still enjoying the meal in front of him, Hla took great pride in his Burmese and Chinese cooking — the curries and Ohn No Kauk Swe (Burmese coconut chicken noodle soup) were some of his favorites. He enjoyed buying ingredients for his cooking by riding his bike around Davis to the many markets in search of the best deal. Predeceased by his loving wife Sara and his sister Shirley Leong, Hla is survived by sons Walter and Michael (Cheryl); daughter Helen Hadani (David); grandchildren Alex, Ruby and Grace; sister Siok Hoon Fu; brothers George Tin, Vincent Aye, David Chiong and Desmond Chiong; and godbrothers Richard Choa and Richard Thein. Hla’s family is forever grateful to Ramon Silvestre, Carmen Ragas, and the other caring staff of Modern Care and Living in West Sacramento, where he lived for the past 11 years. To honor Hla’s legacy, the family suggests that you can make a donation to The Rotary Foundation, International House Davis, or International House at UC Berkeley.
Dec. 11, 1920 — June 15, 2020
Ruth Priscilla (Craig) Hager passed away peacefully on June 15, 2020, at the age of 99. A third-generation Californian, she was born in Oakland on Dec. 11, 1920, and grew up there during the Great Depression. She graduated from Oakland Technical High in 1938 and married during World War II. By the 1950s she was a single mom raising her son and daughter in Concord and working as a recording clerk for Contra Costa County, retiring after 30 years in 1982. By 1985, with her children grown, she moved to Davis to help raise grandchildren and lovingly hosted many family holiday celebrations. In 2012, she moved to Sonoma to live with her son, Craig Hager, and his wife Alla. Her final home was the Silver Linings Care Home in Fair Oaks and the entire family is grateful for the compassionate care she received there. Her life was one of complete devotion to family, always desiring to give more than
she received. Perhaps not adventurous by nature, she still traveled to France to visit her grandson and ventured to England, Scotland, Mexico, Prince Edward Island and, at 94, went to Ireland. This year she lived long enough to know three of her great-grandsons had just graduated from college. She is survived by her son, Craig Hager and his wife Alla; daughter Susan von Geldern and her husband Rick; grandchildren Kirk Sherriff, Sarah Rigney, Rosemary Sherriff, Rebecca Hager and Amber Whitmer; great-grandchildren Kristine, Rumi, Zain, Rich, Ella, Zerin, Ayden and Emerson (another on the way); great-great-grandchild Rose; and her nephew Bill Cullen and his wife Bonnie, his children Shanon and Shawn and his granddaughter Jessica. She took great satisfaction in her family’s successes and was always there to support each and every one of us every step of the way. Mom, you did a good job, thank you.
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G St. closes weekends for dining, shopping O pen Air Davis launched Friday, closing part of G Street to traffic, and allowing restaurants and stores to expand onto the sidewalk and street. Part of G Street — north of Open Rice Kitchen to Third Street — will close all day Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. The Davis Downtown Business Association manages the space allocations. Participating businesses must be a part of the Downtown Business Improvement District (merchants pay mandatory membership fees if their business is downtown). Restaurants are required to have tables in front of their own address. Starting July 10, the program will grow to include Second Street between E and F streets. City and DDBA officials plan to continue the Open Air Davis schedule for at least 10 weeks, through the end of August, possibly into September. As of Thursday, participating businesses for this weekend included KetMoRee, G Street WunderBar, Red 88 Noodle Bar, Woodstock’s Pizza and The Davis Beer Shoppe. Froggy’s Bar/Tommy J’s Grill has tables set up in adjacent parking spaces but is not within the street closure. The DDBA expects retail and service businesses to join Open Air Davis starting July 3. The dining tables are reserved for specific restaurants and
bars. Patrons will not be able to consume food or drink from other venues unless it’s usually allowed, like at The Davis Beer Shoppe, which permits outside food. The program helps businesses serve more customers while observing physical distancing and other health protocols. With COVID-19 cases continuing, some patrons often have fewer concerns about dining out if it’s outside. Signs will be posted with reminders about face coverings and 6-foot distancing between members from different households. It also encourages “more public interaction with downtown businesses this summer in a responsible way to help our local economy and business survival,” a Downtown Davis news release said. Each vendor space will be separated by at least 11 feet, and streets closed to traffic will maintain a minimum of 10-foot clearance down the center for pedestrians and emergency access. Bicyclists must walk their bikes. During street closures, the city does not require a temporary use permit. Permits are required, however, if that business wants
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Marley gets some fresh air, too, as his family dines al fresco along G Street. Diners hit the asphalt on in downtown Davis, as G Street restaurants expanded into the closed roadway for the weekend as part of a new program. to use public space on other days of the week or at secondary location. Applications are free. Participating businesses are responsible for their customer-service areas, and must follow all Yolo County restrictions related to COVID-19, health codes and alcohol consumption. According to the news release, this includes rules related to “face coverings, table/chair spacing, sanitation and restroom accessibility, trash disposal, etc. Participating business personnel will clear tables, remove debris, and clean promptly after each seating and ensure customers maintain social distancing protocols.”
——— Starting Aug. 1, Taste of Thai is rebranding to become a Thai/Japanese fusion restaurant. The new name is probably going to be Ramen Gu, though that’s still being discussed, an employee said Thursday. She said it will be a combination of Thai and Japanese style food. The restaurant is at 301 G St. ——— BurgerIM reopened on June 22 for dine-in and takeout. Hours are 1 to 7 p.m. daily at 206 E St. ——— De Vere’s Irish Pub closed for a brief remodel, then reopened on June 25 for dine-in, by reservation only. It still offers to-go
and curbside pickup options. New modified hours are 3-8 p.m. Thursdays, 3-11 Fridays, 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturdays, and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sundays. It’s at 217 E St. ——— See’s Candies is back open for pickup at 1361 W. Covell Blvd. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and noon to 5 p.m. on Sundays. Customers must order ahead at https://pickup.sees.com/. And The Candy House of Davis is open at 901 Third St. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays. ———
A Room of Our Own Massage will be back open July 1, with outdoor service. Massage therapist Caitlin Eichorn moved her practice to a private backyard space. She will be open Wednesdays through Sundays, in the mornings and early afternoons, “to provide cool, shaded sessions with maximum air circulation.” More details and online booking are at https://www.aroom ofourownmassage.com. ——— I continue to update and add details to my Google spreadsheet of businesses affected by COVID-19, at https://bit.ly/DavisBusinesses. In it, there are sheets for Restaurantsopen, Restaurants-closed, Businesses-retail, Businesses-service, Special hours (for older adults or compromised shoppers), and Gifting Stimulus Program beneficiaries. The notes mention if they are Black-owned businesses. Please email wendyedit@ gmail.com to suggest updates. The following restaurants remain temporarily closed due to COVID19: Crepeville, Delta of Venus, D Street Steakhouse and Sam’s Mediterranean Cuisine. Crepeville plans to reopen in July. — Wendy Weitzel is a Davis writer and editor. Her column runs on Sundays. Check for frequent updates on her Comings & Goings Facebook and Instagram pages. If you know of a business coming or going in the area, contact her at wendyedit@gmail. com.
YFCU, local leaders join for COVID relief fund MBI regains compliance Special to The Enterprise A team of local leaders are calling on the local community to support Yolo County nonprofits in the face of the COVID-19 crisis. Those who are interested in supporting the Yolo COVID-19 Relief Fund may do so easily, thanks to a partnership with Yolo Federal Credit Union, which is accepting donations in its branches. Helen Thomson, former state assemblywoman, and Mike McGowan, former member of the Yolo County Board of Supervisors, are co-chairing the Volunteer Corps, part of the Yolo COVID-19 Relief Initiative. Members include Art Pimentel, Woodland Community College president; Lynnel Pollock, former member of the Yolo County Board of Supervisors and former president of the Yolo Farm Bureau; and Tom Stallard, Woodland mayor pro tem. According to Thomson, “With unprecedented levels of unemployment caused by this pandemic, our community is bolstered by the nonprofit organizations which have long contributed so much to our quality of life in Yolo County. Many are now themselves struggling to provide those services they are known for, and I want to help. I look forward to sharing the inspiring stories of the impact they are having on our community with donors who can help them
continue to make a difference.” The Volunteer Corps members will reach out to prospective major donors, encouraging them to maximize their support to Yolo nonprofits. For donors looking to learn more about where to give or that want to support the Relief Fund, the members will connect them with that information. “When times get tough, Yolo County comes together,” said McGowan. “That’s who we are here. We invite Yolo residents and businesses to join our team by supporting our local nonprofits, so our nonprofits can support this community. Get ready for our calls!” It’s not just large donations that are important to this effort; the Yolo community will thrive when each community member contributes what they are able. The Yolo Community Foundation calls upon local residents to donate directly to local nonprofits as they support our community through the COVID-19 crisis; to learn how local nonprofits are responding, potential donors can visit www.yolocf.org or follow the Yolo Community Foundation on Facebook.
In addition, community members that are interested in donating to the Relief Fund may follow the Give Now link from www. yolocf.org or donate in any Yolo Federal Credit Union branch. In addition to accepting donations for the Relief Fund, Yolo FCU generously covered the fees associated with the Relief Fund’s account and also made a $10,000 donation to the Relief Fund. “Our local nonprofits are facing unprecedented challenges,” says Jenee Rawlings, Yolo FCU President/ CEO. “We are proud to be part of the organizations and individuals working together in solidarity, providing support to the Yolo Community Foundation and the COVID-19 Relief Fund.” Adds Kelley Jacobsen, Yolo FCU Vice President of Marketing & Operations, “We have deep roots in this community, and it is important to us to help meet the needs of our local nonprofits who have been
impacted by the pandemic.” The Yolo COVID-19 Relief Initiative is a partnership between Yolo County, the Cities of Woodland, West Sacramento, Winters, and Davis, and the Yolo Community Foundation. To date, the Relief Fund has announced $290,000 in grants, with more grants to come soon. Other elements of the Relief Initiative include a donor engagement campaign and technical assistance for nonprofits. For a list of grantees, or to learn more about the effort, go to www.yolocf. org.sters volunteerism through the Yolo Youth Scholarship Awards and annual Philanthropy Day program, and supports local giving via its involvement in the Big Day of Giving. YCF currently has 60 philanthropic funds valued at over $4 million and is an affiliate of the Sacramento Region Community Foundation. Join us! Visit www. yolocf.org for more information.
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conduct on June 20, 2007, demonstrates his understanding of how his traumatic childhood informed his choices but did not relieve him from accountability,” Pelochino said. “He has spent considerable time painfully considering how his actions impacted not only the young man he shot, but also his family and the greater community.” Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig said his office also had been “extensively working” on examining Aradoz for possible early release under a new law, Penal Code section 1170(d). “This new law gives district attorneys the authority to reduce prison sentences and allows for a more rapid release than commutation,” Reisig said “We congratulate Mr. Aradoz for his rehabilitation efforts and the governor’s commutation.” Prosecutors at the time said Aradoz and two others — Kory Russell Sanchez, then 20; and Jose Damian Rodriguez, 18 at the time — chased down a group of rival gang members after
state prison system in 2010. Under current law, which since last year prohibits 14- and 15-year-olds from being criminally charged as adults under any circumstances, his case would have remained in the juvenile court system. Aradoz’s commutation application was prepared by the Yolo County Public Defender’s Office Adolescent Defense Team, whose attorneys said Aradoz shows proof of youths’ capacity to reform. “As we delved into Andrew’s history, it became readily apparent that Andrew’s formative years were marked by trauma, instability and the constant influence of negative, older persons,” supervising attorney Andrea Pelochino said. “After he was sentenced, Andrew faced the very real possibility that he would never be released from prison, yet he took advantage of the educational and rehabilitation services available to him and completely transformed himself. “Andrew’s insight into his
Rodriguez’s involvement in an altercation with them moments earlier. As Sanchez drove a stolen Ford Explorer along Pioneer Avenue, Aradoz shot at the rival group with a .45-caliber semiautomatic pistol, striking the 15-year-old victim in the back, prosecutors said. The teen was seriously injured but survived and identified his assailants to police. In his commutation certificate, Newsom noted that while Aradoz “committed a serious crime ... (he) has taken responsibility for his actions.” “I have carefully considered and weighed the evidence of Mr. Aradoz’s positive conduct in prison, the face that he was a youthful offender, and his good prospects for successful community reentry,” Newsom wrote. Meanwhile, one of Aradoz’s two codefendants, both convicted of attempted murder and gang charges, remains in state prison. Sanchez, now 31, is serving a 19-year sentence at Salinas Valley State Prison and is due for a parole hearing in June
2021. Rodriguez received a nine-year, eight-month term and has since been paroled. Aradoz’s commutation was one of 34 acts of executive clemency Newsom granted Friday — 21 commutations and 13 pardons. “The governor regards clemency as an important part of the criminal justice system that can incentivize accountability and rehabilitation, increase public safety by removing counterproductive barriers to successful reentry, and correct unjust results in the legal system,” Newsom’s office stated in a news release. “The governor weighs numerous factors in his review of clemency applications, including an applicant’s self-development and conduct since the offense, whether the grant is consistent with public safety and in the interest of justice, and the impact of a grant on the community.” — Reach Lauren Keene at lkeene@davisenterprise .net or 530-747-8048. Follow her on Twitter at @laurenkeene.
Juanitas named to associate superintendent position BY JEFF HUDSON Enterprise staff writer Laura Juanitas, who has been serving as the school district’s Director of Student Support Services since the 2013-14 school year, now has the title of Associate Superintendent of Student Support Services. Juanitas joined the school district as a temporary teacher in 2003-04, and then became a regular teacher at the Davis School of Independent Study (DSIS) in 2006-07. In 2010, she began working as a part-time teacher at DSIS and as a part-time manager of student support services, then in 2012-13 she became the part-time principal at DSIS (while
retaining her parttime duties in student support services). She became the director of student services in 2013-14. She grew up in different parts of CaliJUANITAS fornia — the Los Angeles area, the Bay New position Area, and Chico. She did her college studies at UC Davis, and then moved to Washington, D.C., where she worked as a medical social worker with AIDS patients. She started teaching when she returned to Davis in 1999. As an assistant superintendent, her duties she will include overseeing the
district’s enrollment, health and safety issues, and (this summer) the “nuts and bolts of reopening (schools) in the fall” from a logistical point of view. “We are going to start the new school year on time in August,” she said, adding that “what is unknown is exactly what it will look like... will it be brick-and-mortar schools, or distance learning, or some kind of hybrid model. That is what we are working on now.”
to be next president From Page A1 on Thursday, July 2. In other reaction to Pickett’s departures, current school board vice president Joe DiNunzio will be sworn in as the new school board president when Pickett’s resignation takes effect at the end of June. And trustee Tom Adams — a former school board president — will become the school board’s new vice president. DiNunzio and Adams will serve as school board president and vice president, respectively, until the next regularly scheduled school board organizational meeting is held following the November 2020 school board election. At that point, the post-election school board will select officers for the coming calendar year. ———— The six applicants still in contention to serve the remainder of Pickett’s term are Vigdis Asmundson, Rachael Fulp-Cooke, Hiram Jackson, Joy Klineberg, Swapna Panigrahi and Christine Taylor. Addressing the trustees, Asmundson described herself as a lifelong Davis resident — her parents, Vigfus Asmundson and Ruth Asmundson, both served as
mayors of Davis in decades past. Vigdis attended local schools (including UC Davis), and became an educator. Panigrahi expressed interest in “providing parents and caregivers more guidance as students learn from home” due to likely precautions because of the coronavirus pandemic. Fulp-Cooke stressed her involvement with the group Parents of African American Children of Davis, and her involvement with PTA and site council activities at Pioneer Elementary. Jackson mentioned his experience as an educator (he teaches geology at Cosumnes River College), and his fluency in Spanish (noting that this year, less than half of the Davis school district’s enrollment identifies as white). Klineberg mentioned her years of involvement in PTA and school site council groups, and her service as an appointed school board trustee for several months in 2018. Taylor stressed her “30 years of financial experience” in light of anticipated state budget cuts for education during the coming year. — Reach Jeff Hudson at jhudson@davisenter prise.net or 530-7478055.
As associate superintendent, she will receive a salary of $170,000. Her contract was approved by the school board during the June 18 school board meeting.
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he Yolo Crisis Nursery is an absolute gem of a resource in our community with its mission to provide early intervention services in a safe environment to nurture healthy and resilient children, strengthen parents, and preserve families. As a pediatrician, I have too often seen child abuse and neglect, typically at the hands of a parent or other family member. The Yolo Crisis Nursery’s trauma-focused, emergency respite childcare is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and is voluntary and free of charge for children ages birth to 5 years. This valuable resource is funded entirely by our community. We do not turn away any child and we serve all areas of Yolo County. We are proud that 98% of families served do not become clients of Child Protective Services (CPS). While CPS provides a critical service when necessary, it often requires family separation and Yolo Crisis Nursery works preventively to avoid the need for this level of intervention. Yolo Crisis Nursery is unique and particularly special in its
YOLO CRISIS NURSERY mission to keep families together. In addition to traumainformed emergency childcare, we wrap the families with services and education to address and resolve the crises that brought them to our door, enabling families to emerge strong and stable. Last year alone the Nursery had 2,735 safe stays and provided over 1,200 care packages to families and children in need in our community. We are able to reach so many children and families because of our amazing network of volunteers. The Nursery leverages the time and talents of volunteers to help fundraise, care for the children, and govern the organization and we are so grateful for each and every one of them! We have exceptional volunteers who come to the Nursery week after week to dedicate their time and efforts to assist the Nursery staff in caring for the children. “The staff at the Yolo Crisis Nursery transform children and families’ lives,” said Dr. David Nakano, a retired pediatrician
and one of our awesome volunteers. “Kids come in having been through some pretty terrible stuff. It is so rewarding to watch them transform into strong stable families. I cherish my time as a Yolo Crisis Nursery volunteer. I have formed deep connections with the staff and children, and I love being able to give back to our community in such an impactful way.” The Friends of the Yolo Crisis Nursery is a volunteer group that actively fundraises year-round to support the nursery. They are a group of dedicated, creative, and hard-working individuals that help to raise funds for the Nursery’s respite care program. They have hosted the Krustaceans for Kids crab feed for the last eight years, and last year they hosted our first ever Barn Dance! The Friends invite you to join them for friendship, fun and fundraising. They meet on the second Tuesday of every month at 5:30 pm. To learn more, please email friends@yolocrisis nursery.org. Finally, I need to recognize the incredible work of our talented volunteer Board of Directors. It has been my honor to recently join this dedicated and hardworking group of professionals from varied backgrounds.
Dr. David Nakano, a retired pediatrician and Yolo Crisis Nursery volunteer, holds a child at the nursery prior to the COVID-19 Pandemic. COURTESY PHOTO
I particularly enjoy that we are all unified in our commitment to the Nursery’s vision that all children deserve to grow up in a safe, loving, and stable home. It has been a remarkable experience to join this group who cares as much as I do about helping children thrive. On behalf of the Board of Directors and Nursery team, I offer an enormous thank you to all our volunteers. We are able to
provide exceptional service to our clients because of your dedication. The Yolo Crisis Nursery is the place of hope and help and it is precisely because of the generosity of our community. Please visit www.yolocrisisnursery.org to learn more, get involved, or donate to the Yolo Crisis Nursery. — Caroline Chantry is a Yolo Crisis Nursery board member.
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e are very grateful for our Pink Team of volunteers and board members for their commitment and leadership to help us through these very challenging times. Breast cancer does not stop during a pandemic and neither do we. Our Thriving Pink board of directors are all still working hard to serve our Thriving Pink community with ongoing workshops, peer support for newly diagnosed women, individual financial grants, and outreach to survivors. “This year, we have provided over $51,000 in individual financial grants to 41 local breast cancer survivors,” said Rose Cholewinski, chair of the Granting Pink program and owner of SwimAmerica-Davis, “continued with monthly workshops — now virtual — and pivoted to distribute thousands of face masks and comfort bags to local hospital oncology departments with special ‘front porch’ deliveries to survivors in our community.” Several board members are breast cancer survivors themselves, including Andrea Mayer who works as a planning consultant and local farmer. She has lived in Yolo County for over 26 years and is an ardent supporter of women’s empowerment in all
THRIVING PINK areas of life. “I volunteer with Thriving Pink because peer and community support are key to healing,” Mayer said. “As an eight-year cancer survivor/thriver, I appreciate the programs and support Thriving Pink provides to newly diagnosed women to help navigate challenges before, during, and after treatment.” She also serves as a member of the Yolo CASA Advisory Board and volunteers at the UC Davis Arboretum Nursery. Emily Ault, who serves as a Thriving Pink board member and works as a Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health Programs Coordinator for Yolo County Health and Human Services adds, “I’m honored to be part of this Pink Team because I see a great need for Thriving Pink’s services and programs on a local level. It is the only nonprofit organization in Yolo County which focuses on serving local breast cancer survivors.” Brelle Albert, Thriving Pink Board president and realtor partner at The Higgins Team, appreciates the hard work and steadfast leadership of the board members during this challenging landscape of COVID-19. “We have worked together to ensure our
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Andrea Mayer has lived in Yolo County for more than 26 years and is an ardent supporter of women’s empowerment in all areas of life. programs and areas of support continue to reach our community,” she said. “I am incredibly grateful to our board members: Raychel Kubby Adler (VicePresident), Rose Cholewinski (Granting Pink Chair), Joni Rubin (Mentoring Pink Chair), Emily Ault, Holly Rodriguez, Linda Dunn, LaRease Profaci, Andrea Mayer, Dr. Bubbly Bajwa, and Chasity Baltazar RN. We are honored to have a dedicated, core leadership team which also includes Jocelyn Roper Hernandez
(Finance Chair), Matthew Wehner (Accountant), Leslie Hunter (Program & Development Director), and Mary Yin Liu (Executive Director).” Thriving Pink continues to provide a series of open monthly workshops designed for those diagnosed with breast cancer and their family members and friends who support them. All workshops are professionally facilitated in a supportive environment. Topics range from treatment options and
advances in breast cancer research to navigating this new COVID landscape when immunocompromised and peer support groups. The following is a calendar of upcoming virtual workshops which are open to everyone and provided by Thriving Pink at no cost. RSVP to info@ thrivingpink.org for details and the Zoom link. July 2, Stitches of Love: sewing/quilting volunteer group, Patti Hadrava July 6, Writers Circle: reflective sharing, journaling, Melissa Lyans July 13, Pink Speaker Series: “The Role of Physical Therapy in Recovery from Breast Cancer Treatment,” Holly Rodriguez, MPT July 20, Pink Connection: “Growing Our Capacity and Well-Being in Uncertain Times,” Pam Cordano, LMFT Aug. 10: Pink Speaker Series, “Recent Developments in Breast Cancer Treatments,” Dr. Helen Chew A special thank you to our workshop leads and presenters who have been so instrumental in helping us pivot to continue our monthly educational workshops and peer support groups (virtual during this time): Sandy Walsh, Pam Cordano LMFT, Dr. Bubbly Bajwa, Dr. Karen Mo, Dr. Helen Chew, Holly Rodriguez MPT, Dr. Sandy Borowsky,
Kathy Newman, dietician, Jennifer Miramontes/Cancer Champions, Raychel Kubby Adler/YOLO WELL, Shani Simon, licensed social worker, Dr. Melissa Williams, Dr. Alicia Silva, Maude Blundell, genetics counselor, Melissa Lyans, Patti Hadrava, and many others. It is often difficult to know where or who to turn to for support and resources in difficult times. If you have a friend, neighbor, or loved one recently diagnosed with breast cancer, we hope you will refer them to Thriving Pink’s Mentoring Pink Program. Thriving Pink is dedicated to providing a network of support for local survivors. We connect newly diagnosed women with other survivors who volunteer as Pink Peers to guide them through the challenges of breast cancer by sharing their experiences and providing practical support. On behalf of our Thriving Pink team, we extend a heartfelt thank you to all our volunteers, supporters, and our amazing community partners for your continued support. Please visit www.thrivingpink.org to learn more, get involved, or give to Thriving Pink. — Submitted by Thriving Pink board of directors
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drive on the right. 4. Science. Starting with the letter A, what is the only naturally occurring long mineral fiber? 5. Shakespeare. In the play “Romeo and Juliet,” Juliet’s father is known by what two words? Answers: The 1970s (1976), Cornel West, Spain, asbestos, Lord Capulet. — Dr. Andy Jones is the quizmaster at de Vere’s Irish Pub. 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.yourquiz master.com.
Leadership consultant contributes to guide Enterprise staff Local leadership consultant, Holly Burkett, Ph.D., SPHR, was selected as a subject matter expert and featured contributor to the Talent Development Body of Knowledge, a first-of-its kind reference guide recently published by the Association of Talent Development (ATD), the world’s largest talent development association. The TDBoK provides a comprehensive, three-volume collection of concepts, models, methods, and best practices covering 23 essential capabilities that talent development professionals must have to successfully develop themselves, others, and their organizations. Burkett is principal of Evaluation Works, a performance consultancy in Davis. A sought-after speaker and facilitator, she is author of the award-winning book “Learning from the Long Run: Seven Practices for Sustaining a Resilient Learning Organization.” ————
NAME DROPPERS Ithaca College student Jordan Hayakawa was named to the dean’s list for the spring 2020 semester. Hayakawa is a musical theater major of Davis. Founded in 1892, Ithaca College is a residential college dedicated to building knowledge and confidence through a continuous cycle of theory, practice and performance. Home to some 6,200 students, the college offers more than 100 degree programs in its schools of Business, Communications, Humanities and Sciences, Health Sciences and Human Performance, and Music. ———— Julianna Morgan, a native of Davis, has been named to the Emerson College dean’s list for the Spring 2020 semester. Morgan is majoring in Creative Writing BFA and is a member of the Class of 2022. The requirement to make Emerson’s dean’s list is a grade
point average of 3.7 or higher. Based in Boston, opposite the historic Boston Common and in the heart of the city’s Theater District, Emerson College educates individuals who will solve problems and change the world through engaged leadership in communication and the arts, a mission informed by liberal learning. ———— Jacob Weiss was awarded his master’s degree in agriculture, food and the environment from Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy as part of the university’s first virtual graduation ceremony, held in May 2020. Weiss was recognized as one of three graduates inducted into the 2020 Honos Civicus for his exceptional commitment to civic engagement. Weiss is a 2012 Davis High School graduate, and received a bachelor’s degree in environmental studies from Lewis & Clark College in 2016.
Special to The Enterprise 1. Irish Culture. The Irish band U2 was formed near the middle of what decade? 2. Prominent Intellectuals. Irene B. West Elementary School in Elk Grove is named for the mother of what prominent African American political activist, professor and author of the 1994 book “Race Matters”? 3. Countries of the World. The 30th most populous country in the world is the second-most visited in the world. Name this country where they
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ature abhors a vacuum, and right now the sports world is sucking big time. For years, Los Angeles — the secondlargest television market in the nation — was without a professional football team. For a fraction of that time, the almighty Trojans of USC also were down on their luck. This left a giant void for the footballcrazed fans in L.A.; a void that could easily have been filled by UCLA. However, the Bruins bungled through countless gridiron seasons gaining little traction outside of alumni (and even some of them jumped ship). Now, the City of Angeles has two — count them, one, two — NFL teams and the Trojans have rebounded as well. Meanwhile, UCLA fumbled its chance to gain a larger share of the market. Now soccer has a chance to pull off what the Bruins failed to do. It can nutmeg its way into the hearts of fans starved for any sort of live sports action. In the first weeks of the worldwide sports stoppage (thank you, coronavirus) replays of historic match-ups and sports miniseries held sway with the public. Fans read through and listened to podcasts about what it would take to restart the NBA season or kick-start MLB. All the squabbling, the posturing — all the finger-pointing — just made the situation worse. Enter the Germans. The Bundesliga kicked off its season in empty stadiums but with players performing in massive arenas while fan noise was pumped in at high volume. I know little of soccer. My résumé does include covering UC Davis and Davis High squads and I attended the Women’s World Cup finals in Shanghai, so I’m not a neophyte. But while I knew nothing of Bundesliga, Enterprise staff writer Evan Ream pointed out the league to me and others in a column. Interest piqued, I was eager to see something new. I watched about 10 minutes of a half. I was more entertained by the sound controller, who tried to insert loud whistles or roars when appropriate. But the style of play left me wanting something more.
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Devil fall sports squads may use campus facilities starting Monday BY BRUCE GALLAUDET Enterprise sports editor The good news that Davis High fall sports athletes and their coaches were looking for came on Saturday. “Outdoor facilities are going to open on Monday for fall sports only,” DHS Athletic Director Jeff Lorenson announced. “Thus, the stadium and other outdoor spaces will be utilized. As for winter and spring sports, we are continuing to monitor how thisinitial (on-campus practice) start goes, then reevaluate.” Lorenson met in virtual fashion Saturday morning with DHS head football coach Steve Smyte, then with other involved fall coaches via computer in the afternoon to review Davis High protocols. Lorenson said Davis Joint Unified School District officials will continue to abide by Yolo County COVID-19 Task Force and state guidelines regarding pandemic protocols, adding that the Davis school district has gone to extraordinary lengths to ensure that local schools meet and often exceed those mandates. On Friday, Davis schools Superintendent John Bowes announced in his periodic online newsletter that “modified team practice (will start on) Monday ... after receiving sport-specific district approval from the athletic department.” Bowes continued, “Practices must be held outdoors and follow pre-approved protocols.
Currently there are no plans to be pushed back, we are also open school facilities, except planning for an alternate schedrestrooms and limited use of the ule.” weight room.” Lorenson says when the doors Things change in a heartbeat unlock, he expects studentduring this COVID-19 era ... athletes from football, girls volIn announcing that fall teams leyball, field hockey and water will have access to the multipur- polo squads to “start some sort pose stadium, baseball facilities of strength-and-conditioning and other outdoor athletic ven- practices this week.” ues, Lorenson went on to say, “I For most non-schoolam working ... affiliated summer with fall coaches programs around on scheduling of the state, it has the weight room been a lost sumand other outdoor mer. facilities. The Davis “During this first Community Track phase, we are limand Field Club ited to one coach has not ramped per 10 athletes in a up, myriad youth pod,” Lorenson camps have been said. scrapped and, for Jeff Lorenson many, AAU basBlue Devil footketball was not ball began 10 days DHS AD available. ago with an offcampus, socially distanced As for local prep sports, the workout schedule under the lines of communication have sponsorship of the Davis Junior remained open. First-year Davis Blue Devil club program (some- High baseball coach Ethan thing allowed by the state and Guevin told The Enterprise that county phasing protocols). he implemented a two-month Now, football can resume its online season-preparation profour-day-a-week sessions in and gram that has been adminisaround Ron & Mary Brown Sta- tered via computer. dium. While continuing regular As for Lorenson’s impression Zoom meetings with guests of what CIF — and especially the (such as Davis High graduate Sac-Joaquin Section — have in and Detroit Tigers prospect Ryan Kreidler), Guevin’s team store for fall sports: “As of today, (contact prac- has been keeping its focus, albeit tices) are scheduled to start on from afar. American Legion baseball was July 27 (football) and Aug. 3 for all other fall sports. We are con- canceled and various weekend tinuing to plan for a traditional scrimmages versus regional high CIF calendar, but knowing it is schools never materialized, so likely that the start date will/can Guevin says he relishes getting
“We are continuing to plan for a traditional CIF calendar.”
back on the diamond with his new crew — “but only with the proper precautions.” Cross country coach Bill Gregg long ago canceled his program’s traditional summer retreat in the Sierra foothills. Smyte and his staff have been in constant contact with DHS football players, conducting as many as four “meetings” a week, according to the coach, who brought DHS a Delta League championship and its first postseason win in almost three decades. Lorenson promises strict protocols for reuniting studentathletes and coaches. Temperatures will be taken, questions will be asked and repeated sanitizing of equipment will occur throughout the day, every day. Masks must be worn and strict social distancing will be enforced. In Yolo County, 438 coronavirus cases had been reported as of Friday, with 38 percent of those cases were recorded in the past two weeks. Twenty-four Yolo County residents have died from the virus. Bowes reiterated in his online message Friday: “DJUSD will be closely monitoring teams — as well as the local public-health information — and will make future decisions and revisions that err on the side of student and staff health and safety.” — Staff writer Lev Farris Goldenberg contributed to this article. Reach sports editor Bruce Gallaudet at bgallaudet 41@gmail.com or call 530320-4456.
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was stoked with the return of the English Premier League. Nope, I’m not a bandwagon fan of Man U or even frontrunner Liverpool. No, my adopted team is Crystal Palace because my friend, Owen Guthrie-Jones, who hails from England, is a lifelong fan. The Eagles, too, are playing in empty stadiums with pumped-in fan noise echoing off the empty seats. Typically, I’d have to buy some special package to watch the games, but I got lucky and NBC Sports had it as the match of the day, so I watched it on my big-screen TV. Granted this time of year, I’m usually yelling at Dodger pitcher Clayton Kershaw to stop hanging the curve ball or for teammate Kiké Hernández to go easy on the pine tar, but now I’m giving “the lads” what-for when they run offside or commit a silly foul. Closer to home, the USL announced it was kicking off a 16-game regular season — featuring five groups of four teams and three groups of eight teams — that will be capped with a single-elimination playoff. The Sacramento Republic FC is in Group A of the Western Conference with Portland, Reno and Tacoma. Sacramento and Tulsa’s opening night 1-1 draw way back in March will count toward group standings. The top two teams from each group will advance to the USL championship playoffs in October. Republic FC games are sometimes broadcast locally on channel 58 or ESPN-plus. The Premier League is on NBC Sports (part of an online package deal). With other professional sports on the doorstep of return, soccer should take advantage of this opening and make it easier to catch a game. Work with networks, who also must be starved for live action, to get games on non-paid channels or allow all-access for a month online. I know I’d watch more. This is soccer’s chance to enlist new fans, people who are tired of reruns and player-owner squabbles and just want to simply sit back on their couch and enjoy a game. — Kim Orendor is the associate sports editor for The Davis Enterprise. Reach her at de_sports@mcnaughton.media. Follow her on Twitter at @KOrendor.
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obody asked me, but ... ■ The Houston Astros finally have an adult in the room. Manager Dusty Baker has a good team, one very capable of winning the World Series. In my view, Baker already qualifies for the Hall of Fame, but a championship banner would cinch it. ■ One of the byproducts of the shortened MLB season is that, beginning with the 10th inning, a runner will be placed on second base to start each ensuing half inning. This modification of an international softball tie-breaker rule was used in the minor leagues in 2018-19. As presently constituted, the current designated runner is the person making the last out of the previous inning. So one team may have to go with its slowpoke catcher and the other with a fleet outfielder. Hardly fair. But here’s another way ... Each team designates three players as their runners with managers making the decision. It can be anyone on the active roster, including players who may have already come out of the game earlier. If one of the runners is injured and cannot play
further, he can be replaced, but the replacement goes to the end of the threesome. Each runner goes one inning, so innings 10-11-12 are covered if need be. Another solution, according to retired S.F. Chronicle ball scribe/editor Glenn Schwarz, is if a game is tied after 12 innings, it ends in a tie. ■ Two casualties of the pandemic include Sacramento losing out on the NCAA tournament regional in March. Now the All-Star Game, scheduled for July 13 in Dodger Stadium has gone by the boards as well. ■ The Kings made the right moves in transitioning Gary Gerould from radio to TV broadcasts and having Jason Ross take over radio calls for the remainder of this season. Whether these changes
become permanent remains to be seen, provided each man is comfortable with the arrangement going forward. However, there’s really no need to import anyone else. The G-Man will one day be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame and Ross has long distinguished himself on football and basketball playby-play. ■ If you’re not familiar with the “Immaculate Inning,” it’s when a pitcher retires the side on nine pitches, all strikes. Former Dodger great Sandy Koufax is the only man to do it three times. ■ The only thing safe to say about the upcoming 60-game MLB season is that the game as we used to know it is gone, forever. ■ Just wondering ... with no fans being allowed in Oracle Park or the Oakland Coliseum this year, might the Giants and A’s adjust some weeknight first-pitch times? Say to 6:05 p.m.? ■ Teams you won’t see in Bay Area until 2021 at earliest (unless Giants or A’s reach the postseason): Braves, Phillies, Nationals, Cubs, Yankees, Red Sox, Indians, among others.
■ Cardinals pitcher Bob Gibson, in a book he coauthored with Hall of Fame slugger Reggie Jackson, declared “Hank Aaron was the best fastball hitter I ever faced.” Check Amazon.com or head to The Avid Reader bookstore for “60 Feet, 6 Inches,” written a decade ago. ■ Something we need more of: civil discussion by anyone on why and how this country must change. ■ On this date 56 years ago, Phillies pitcher Jim Bunning, later a U.S. senator, threw a perfect game against the Mets. At the time, Bunning became the second player to toss nohitters in each league, joining Denton Young, a guy you probably know better as “Cy.” This unique group has expanded a bit since then, and now includes Nolan Ryan. ■ Stay safe, everyone. And, please, wear those masks when you’re out in public. — Doug Kelly is director of communications for Battle fields2Ballfields and managing general partner of Kelly & Associates. Kelly also is the longtime radio and television color man on UC Davis football broadcasts.
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Requiem for the necktie BY LLEWELLYN KING Special to The Enterprise
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t was ailing before; now in the age of the coronavirus, it’s at death’s door. I write about men’s fashion. Long before we’d ever heard the dread word COVID-19, the decline in man’s way of dressing had begun. Fans of old movies can marvel at how we once togged ourselves out: hats, suits with vests or double-breasted suits, and, at night, black or white tuxedos. In movies and real life, people smoked cigarettes as though the very act of lighting a cigarette was a fashion statement. Yes, good guys (and gals) smoked cigarettes, now it’s only bad guys. We were never quite as dress-conscious as the British, but we had our standards: always a hat, a necktie and a jacket. You couldn’t get into a decent restaurant, club or social gathering without a tie and jacket. Restaurants and hotels maintained loanerjacket closets for patrons. Church meant Sunday best: a suit, no matter how worn and bedraggled. These days men go to church dressed for the gym or the beach, wearing cutoff jeans, Hawaiian shirts and sandals. This dressing demise began, I’m afraid to say, with President John F. Kennedy. JFK had a fine head of hair and seemed to want us to know it, so he went bareheaded, everybody else followed. This must have thrown tens of thousands out of work: feltmakers, hat designers, milliners and shops that sold only headgear. Gone without even a shout in Congress, a mention on the stump or a bring-back-the-hat movement. One could say baseball caps have taken over, but really! What is a baseball cap compared to a fine Homburg, a derby or a sporty tweed cap? Not in the same league, you might aver. Brim up or brim down, hats counted, defined, identified and introduced the wearer. You lifted your hat to women, to superiors or older people, and took it off and cradled it indoors. Hats had their own rules and standards. The place where you now put your roll-aboard on planes started as a “hat rack.” As to the tie, it died slowly at first and then fast. It was pop musicians who gave it a huge shove in the 1970s. They didn’t wear ties. Then high-tech honchos in the 1980s dressed down. Think, Steve Jobs in those turtlenecks. In the last year, ties have gone the way of hats. Only evening newscasters still wear them, and not all of those. Ties are out on most television shows and were going out in business before the lockdown.
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ho decreed that a man would be a fossil if he wore a tie? Who thought we’d look better without them? The shirts men wear are clearly designed to be worn with ties, so all those tieless men you see everywhere look robbed, incomplete, underdressed, as though they forgot something when they left the house in the morning. Or were disturbed doing something naughty. Why make life so hard for those who love men? What are they to give us for birthdays, Christmas, anniversaries? The tie served magnificently. They were the perfect gift: easy to give, easy to receive and nearly always welcome. They eased the social ritual of thanking dad, husband or boyfriend for being there. There is, I notice, some attempt to save the day because those who feel it’s now oldfashioned to wear a tie are sporting showy pocket squares. Maybe this works. To me it just emphasizes the nakedness around the neck, where something is missing. Of course, ties have no use whatsoever except to vary the sameness of suits and, for the odd philistine, to be pressed into service to wipe eyeglasses. After the coronavirus, what? Suits may not come back at all, we may all wear only those things that can go into the washing machine and be worn without pressing. Fashion for men seems to have been hanged by the neck. — 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.
ere it not for the COVID-19 pandemic and the severe economic recession that followed, California’s biggest political story of the year would be the bankruptcy of PG&E, the huge utility that serves most of Northern California. A year and a half ago, PG&E declared bankruptcy due to almost countless billions of dollars in potential liability for killer wildfires caused by failures of its rural transmission lines during high winds — its second bankruptcy in two decades. It’s now poised to emerge from bankruptcy, having settled wildfire claims with a mixture of money — borrowed money — and stock and agreed to enough managerial and operational reforms to satisfy the federal bankruptcy judge, politicians, including Gov. Gavin Newsom, and the Public Utilities Commission. In doing so, PG&E’s executives achieved their primary goal, which was to stave off demands that it be sold to a new owner — billionaire Warren Buffet was often mentioned — or converted into some other entity, such as a co-op or a public agency.
meet the prescribed metrics, some sort of state takeover is possible, or even likely. It was being widely discussed early in PG&E’s bankruptcy and into this year, but seemed to lose steam as COVID-19 and recession became the preoccupations of politicians and the public.
However, corporate survival also means borrowing huge amounts of money, increasing its debt load to $38 billion, not counting more than $25 billion in wildfire payments. Emerging from bankruptcy allows it to tap a special $21 billion fund created by the Legislature for wildfire compensation. Servicing those debts, spending heavily on upgrades to prevent future fires and otherwise reconfiguring the company will be a heavy lift, because it also must remain profitable if it is to attract the investment capital that all corporations need. All of these expensive conditions will inevitably find their way into the power rates that PG&E’s millions of consumer and commercial customers pay — rates that are already among the nation’s highest. Were the company to stumble again, and fail to
LETTERS Prioritize nutrition Congress has responded to the COVID19 pandemic with strong bipartisan actions, but more needs to be done. COVID-19 is a hunger crisis. Families, and especially children, are experiencing urgent food insecurity, both in our country and abroad. Congress must make nutrition a priority in the next stimulus bill. As an advocate with Bread for the World, I recently wrote to Congress requesting: 1) a 15% increase in maximum SNAP benefits (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps) to cover a family's food needs through the end of each month; 2) an extension of the PandemicEBT program (Electronic Benefits Transfer cards, used by SNAP recipients) through the end of summer to fill the gap left by interrupted school breakfasts and lunches; and 3) no less than $12 billion in foreign aid to address the global increase in extreme hunger amid the pandemic. For children, especially those under 3, even brief periods of insufficient nutrition can carry a lifetime of consequences, including permanent mental and physical stunting. It is imperative that Congress address, without delay, these emergency hunger and nutrition needs by prioritizing them in the next pandemic stimulus bill. Write your representatives and
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owever, legislation that could convert PG&E into a nonprofit, publicly owned corporation called Golden State Energy is on the verge of enactment. Once it’s law, Newsom or a future governor could unilaterally trigger its creation and begin to take over PG&E’s assets, either by voluntary sale or involuntary taking. Given PG&E’s depressed corporate status, such a takeover might be relatively cheap. With its stock hovering around $9 share, it’s market value is scarcely $5 billion, one seventh of what it was three years ago. However, acquisition would also mean assuming the company’s huge debt load. Could it happen? Yes. Should it happen. Perhaps, if PG&E cannot successfully operate as an investor-owned utility. But having such a
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The right target to defund There is much talk of defunding the police, which is a terrible idea. We need the real police forces, but campus cops? A more useless breed of spongers does not exist. Off with the campus cops! Use the funds wasted on them to give raises to university staff, the people who actually perform useful jobs! William Estabrook Davis
Rename Fort Bragg The Northern California town of Fort
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huge utility under the control of politicians is a bit scary. Think Department of Motor Vehicles or the Employment Development Department, two current examples of governmental mismanagement. Speaking of which, at some point the role that the Public Utilities Commission played in PG&E’s debacle should be fully examined. The PUC, whose members are all appointees of the governor, is supposed to ensure that the regulated monopolies it oversees are serving their customers efficiently and profitably. If PG&E was neglecting the maintenance of its grid, allowing it to deteriorate and cause wildfires, where was the PUC? It should have been aware of the neglect and insisted that PG&E’s executives do the right thing. Golden State Energy, if it becomes reality, would also be under PUC regulation — something to keep in mind if that option arises. — 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.
Bragg is in desperate need of a name change ASAP! Sure, there will be some relatively minor expenses for residents from the municipal name change, but the cost of keeping the town’s current obnoxiously racist name will be far greater. First of all, no self-respecting Californian could ever possibly justify or countenance any town or city in the Golden State being named after Confederate General Braxton Bragg, who was not only a traitor and a slaveowner, but an especially intemperate and incompetent military commander as well. That name is nothing to brag about, Fort Bragg. Secondly, why would any patriotic American want to set foot in a town named after an anti-American racist traitor to the republic, like Braxton Bragg? Thankfully, Mendocino County has other equally picturesque communities to visit and spend our money in as tourists. Here are some non-Confederate, proAmerican options for you. Please feel free to choose any one of these as your town’s new name: 1.) Fort Lincoln 2.) Fort Grant 3.) Fort Sherman 4.) Fort Roosevelt 5.) Fort Eisenhower 6.) Fort Patton 7.) Fort Marshall 8.) Fort Bradley 9.) Fort Kennedy 10.) Fort Powell Jake Pickering Arcata
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Ditch office culture for healthier future BY DEAN FLOREZ Special to CalMatters
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he COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders have demonstrated that many of us can work successfully from home and adopt healthier lifestyles. In the past three months, we have reduced traffic on our streets and highways, and more people are teleworking. For decades, there has been a push to get cars off the road by encouraging more carpooling, bike riding and the use of public transportation. But those efforts didn’t produce the seismic shift in thinking about how we work until COVID-19 forced many of us to work from home, nor did they produce the stunning impact on our air quality. We can leave office culture behind and embrace a healthier future of work. At the peak of the COVID-19 induced shutdowns in April, the daily carbon dioxideemissions dropped by 17% globally, according to a study recently published in the journal Nature Climate Change. In our state since the start of the pandemic, California Air Resources Board estimates that the vehicle miles traveled for light- or medium-duty vehicles was reduced by as
COMMENTARY much as 70% to 80%, but vehicle miles traveled is already beginning to climb as COVID-19 restrictions are lifted. For the Southern California region, an employee drives an average of 21.3 miles on a weekday. If an employee in Southern California were able to work from home three days per week, that worker would travel 63.9 fewer vehicle miles per week. This means that workers buy less gas, save time from grinding commutes and help reduce air pollution. Time saved means that employees can get more rest and exercise. They can also keep an eye on what’s going on in their neighborhoods, creating safer streets for their families and friends. The time it takes to get to work plus the associated travel costs have been increasing in recent years, even as transportation agencies have promoted public transportation and ridesharing. At the same time, there have been advances in technology that make teleworking easier. Office space in our state is costly. In Los Angeles, the average yearly cost to rent office space per employee was more than
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The California Air Resources Board estimates that the vehicle miles traveled for light- and medium-duty vehicles was reduced by as much as 80% in the early days of the coronavirus crisis. $6,000, and in San Francisco, it was more than $14,000. Companies can save money by not renting as much office space and instead invest in their businesses and workers. Not going to the office all the time also means that businesses can save on heating, cooling and other energy costs, and employees can save money on their wardrobe and drycleaning. Teleworking has environmental impacts beyond the reduced emissions with vehicular travel. Leaders in California
and beyond are already thinking of ways to encourage telecommuting to continue. At the state level, the Air Resources Board upon which I sit, can flex its enormous power on air pollution to change the work week. Businesses should be incentivized to continue encouraging teleworking for their employees even as restrictions on shelter in place ease. The Air Resources Board can help make this shift in work culture happen with the money that industries pay
Ethnic studies needed more than ever COMMENTARY
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ven as the Assembly and Senate voted overwhelmingly with bipartisan support to make ethnic studies a graduation requirement at the California State University, CSU management and leadership is doing everything it can to blunt progress on inclusive learning. In a recent commentary, CSU Chancellor Timothy White decried systemic barriers to change while ironically promoting CSU’s status quo resolution on ethnic studies. White offered the resolution only after Assembly Bill 1460, proposed by Assemblywoman Shirley Weber, gained traction. The CSU complains of the “cost” of strengthening ethnic studies course offerings, but ignores — as many senators recently pointed out — the true cost of doing nothing: the continuation of centuries of racism against people of color, including the killing of black people, oftentimes at the hands of police. While I appreciate the CSU’s support of Assembly Constitutional Amendment 5 to bring back equity in college admissions and hiring, AB 1460 is just as meaningful to ending systemic racism. Now, Gov. Gavin Newsom has the chance to take the torch and ensure every student graduating from CSU’s 23 campuses learns of the contributions of racialized ethnic people and their experiences in this society. For more than 50 years, communities of color, students and faculty have advocated for ethnic studies, holding hunger strikes, rallies and sit-ins. In 1970, I was one of those students. As a young Chicana
student activist, I, along with two other young women, convinced hundreds of students to walk out of our high school to protest an educational system that lied about our history, dishonored and disrespected our language, and endeavored to confine our population to the lower end of the economic scale. At that time, Chicanas/os were about 20% of the population of Los Angeles, about half of my school was composed of students of color, and the number of Chicanas/os in colleges and universities was minuscule. Today, students of color represent the majority of students in our K-12 schools, community colleges and California State Universities. It is time to recognize the voices of those previously neglected. Nineteen of the 23 CSU’s are Hispanic Serving Institutions, 62% of the bachelor degrees granted to Latinx students are from the CSU, and the CSU brags that it is one of the most “ethnically and racially diverse university systems in the U.S.” The fact that we find ourselves embroiled in a battle for three units of ethnic studies as a graduation requirement is disheartening, to say the least. As ethnic studies faculty, we seek greater empathy with our stories of persecution and repression, therefore we consistently reference other forms
of oppression in our classrooms. Ethnic studies is an inclusive discipline; it is relevant, responsive and encourages students of all races to make meaningful connections to the curriculum.
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want my students to connect their lived realities and histories to the historical and contemporary struggles of my people. This is how we learn to intersect our stories, empathize with other people’s oppression and most importantly, learn the importance of unity and solidarity. Likewise, Christine Sleeter argues that ethnic studies allows white students to learn about cultures, histories and experiences other than their own and this impacts the ways in which they live in our society. This leads to reduced white supremacy, racism and hate that is rooted in ignorance and stereotypes. It is time to respect the histories, cultures and stories of students of color in California and the academic tradition of 50 years of ethnic studies. It is time for students across California to take an authentic ethnic studies course, and benefit from the tremendous academic and social value it has been demonstrated to provide for students of all races/ethnicities. It is time to recognize that ethnic studies is not just my history, it is California’s history. Newsom can do just that by signing AB 1460 when it lands on his desk. — Theresa Montaño is professor of Chicana/o Studies at CSU Northridge and chair of the California Faculty Association’s Teacher Education Caucus theresa. montano@csun.edu. She wrote this for CalMatters, a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s Capitol works and why it matters.
to pollute by buying allowances in a carbon-trading market. Policymakers can also consider carrots and sticks to promote teleworking. Some options include telecommuting tax credits for employers and employees, penalties for businesses that don’t offer teleworking options for its employees such as parking lot taxes, and incentives to improve local broadband networks in our rural communities. We don’t have to return to the car-centric, office
culture. The future of work can be healthier for everyone if leaders promote teleworking as effective and environmentally sound. — Dean Florez served in the Assembly and state Senate from 1998-2010 and is a member of the California Air Resources Board, senatordean florez@yahoo.com. He wrote this for CalMatters, a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s Capitol works and why it matters.
Poem of the month Sprout It could be Valley Oak or Snap-bean, Elderberry, or Cattail rising out of the creek; All began the same, a spark of life inside, The need to be coaxing their will into action. Seed and pod, nut and bulb, cajoled awake, called By the warmth of the sun, moisture in the soil, Swelling them, filling their hearts, beginning The slow push against the dormancy of the husk. The earth itself helps, offering its richness To eat, till one by one each plant claims a soul, And bursts free into the air, breathing, giving breath, Living in the sweet light of the distant sun. — James Lee Jobe ———— This is an old poem of mine, 25 or so years old, and has been published a few times. I am sharing it here for a reason. On the surface, the poem is about plant growth, which is simple enough, but on another level this poem is about hope and life, and the blessing that life is. We live in a troubled time. A deadly virus ravages humanity, and it does so in an era when people all over the world are calling out for real social change, calling out racism for the evil that it is. And those voices have hope and majesty, those voices have courage. May each of us claim a soul and burst free into the air, into the sweet life of the distant sun. — James Lee Jobe Poet Laureate, city of Davis
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Washing hands and rinsing away the haters Dear Annie: It’s horrible to be judged. Here is my story: I am fortunate to have a nice car. This vehicle is my first new vehicle after 15 years of saving. From my additional savings, I am able to provide to others and deliver the items they need. I also have friends who do not have transportation to get from food drives and other similar places. When the schools closed, my daughter and I packed up what we had in our pantry and dropped it off at her friend’s house, knowing that they would need food. I went to a school district food distribution to secure more food for them to drop off since they didn’t have transportation to get to the drive. While there, I got death stares and screamed at that I didn’t need free food because of my car! I’m fortunate to have a nice car, but I’m using it to deliver food to those who need it most. I’m also purchasing food, diapers and formula for churches to distribute. Do not judge if you don’t know the whole story. — Don’t Judge a Book... Dear Don’t Judge a Book...: I’m sorry that you received such harsh judgment from others. In this world, unfortunately, there will always be people who judge or condemn others. However, there will also be people who forgive and love. You are teaching your daughter to serve others, and your helping to provide food and essential supplies for those who need support is admirable. Doesn’t that make you feel good? Try to focus on the people you are serving and not the people who are judging, and you will be surprised at how quickly the judges fall by the wayside. It’s about a shift in where you draw your attention. ——— Dear Annie: We are certainly in challenging times. It sounds like COVID-19 will be with us for a long time. As a semiretired nurse, I think one of the greatest preventive measures is good hand hygiene. Unfortunately, often I see poor technique when using the alcohol hand sanitizers. Most people use
one pump, rub their palms, back of hands, and between fingers but do not treat the fingertips. Most of us touch our faces, particularly our eyes, with our fingertips. While the palm is still wet with sanitizer, rub the fingertips into the palm, with some sanitizer getting under the nails. Even better is washing with soap and water for 20 seconds, again paying attention to the fingertips. I think people have become very complacent with alcohol sanitizers, thinking they have cleaned their hands and not realizing that it was an incomplete action, perhaps not ridding them of this infectious virus. I love your column, which brings so much helpful info and advice to many. Thank you for letting me share. — Old Nurse Dear Old Nurse: I love your letter! Hearing from professionals on tips for proper hand-washing, and the use of alcohol sanitizers, always deserves a round of applause. Thank you for your reminder on how to properly protect against this virus, and many others, through proper sanitation techniques.
Less expectations, less worry Dear Annie: I so enjoy your column, and, as usual, you are on target in your advice concerning the woman who was hurt by not being notified about her cousin’s death. Two things have caused me to be a happier person. One is dropping my expectations of others, and the other is choosing not to be offended. People generally don’t set out to hurt other people. They are encased in their own pain and trying to navigate through their own
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rough waters. Those who would set out to cause pain are not worthy of our tears. I realized also that people cannot read my mind on what I want. So it’s best to give them what we need, which is love. Love lavishly, including those who are unlovable. Be thoughtful. Give encouragement and sincere compliments. I encourage this cousin to send loving words in sympathy cards to her grieving cousins. As you said, “grief has a way of wreaking havoc on short-term memory.” — Still Learning Dear Still Learning: Thank you for your wise words. True wisdom comes when you realize how little in the world you really know and you are forever a student of life. Seeing the world through love and compassion always leads to a better world and a happier life for you. ——— Dear Annie: In response to the letter regarding a request to wear socks at a party to preserve wood floors, such a request should always be accompanied by a statement of understanding that such an act is not possible for some guests. As a wheelchair user, I could not take my wheels off my chair! And some people can’t walk without their shoes, or they need to use a walker that scrapes the floor. We will never have a welcoming society for all if hosts create home features that they value over the ability of some guests to visit and enjoy their company. This is a sad example of prioritizing things over people. I had hoped you would point that out, as an example of your usual good advice. — Good Guest in Kansas Dear Good Guest in Kansas: Thank you for the reminder that not everyone can take their shoes off. A wheelchair should be an obvious exception. If a host complains about a wheelchair, I say that person is not worth visiting at all! ——— Dear Readers: We had some differing opinions on my response to Don’t Call Me ‘Dear.’ Dear Annie: I read the letter from Don’t Call Me ‘Dear,’ and I
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agree with her that it is demeaning. The reason I can tell is that it did not happen in the past. People only started calling me “Honey” and “Sweetheart” once I got enough wrinkles. These “terms of endearment” are the ones we use with children, and that is why I find it insulting. I am 66 years old, but I am not yet in my second childhood. I have asked the nurses at my doctor’s office to quit referring to me this way — to no avail. Unfortunately, I fear there is nothing to do about this. It’s just another irritation of advancing age that must be endured. Thanks for asking our opinions on this matter. Dear Annie: I can understand how the terms some people use (like “dear,” “sweetie,” “hon” or “honey”) in addressing you can seem a little too familiar if they’re total strangers. But in the days we’re living in now, I just choose to be thankful that these people are being kind in their address, and assume that they have no other motive than just being friendly. Life’s too brief to be upset by the little things.
Unwanted clutter Dear Annie: My parents and my in-laws have a habit of cleaning out their houses by bringing their unwanted things to my house. When we first moved in together, my husband and I thought they were trying to help by giving us things so we wouldn’t need to buy them, but it’s been over a decade, and it continues. When asked if we want items from their homes, we always decline. More frequently, though, things are left on our porch or in our garage. Unless it is something we think they may want back (something we know is an heirloom or expensive), we throw everything away. The things we feel like we have to keep go into the attic. Obviously this is a minimal issue compared to most, but we are tired of being responsible for their unwanted items. Please encourage your readers, especially those downsizing, to manage their own belongings and not push
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them onto family without asking, and to respect the response. — Minimalist Dear Minimalist: You and your husband need to have an open and honest conversation with both your and his parents. If you tell them you don’t want their items but then keep heirlooms when they are left with you, no wonder everyone is confused. While you are correct that family members should not unload their stuff on one another, it is also traditional for families to pass on heirlooms. Perhaps you and your husband should go over to your respective parents’ houses and decide what is an heirloom and what is trash. My guess is they are unclear. One clean sweep of everyone’s stuff will prevent this constant appearance of unwanted items. ——— Dear Annie: I can empathize totally with Sucker-Punched in Indiana, having had a similar experience years ago when my then husband told me he didn’t love me and never had, not even on the day we married. However, he did not want a divorce since we had two young children. I lived with that pain and bitterness for years, feeling trapped, hopeless and depressed. Eventually, though, friends talked me into seeking therapy, which, like Sucker-Punched, I resisted at first. However, when I finally relented, it was the best decision of my life. I came out on the other side stronger, more sure of who I am and what I want, and realizing I am worth far more than what my husband made me feel I was. Like you, I strongly advise Sucker-Punched to find a good therapist who will help her learn to view her situation with new eyes, make wise decisions and value herself again. I cannot state strongly enough how positively life-changing therapy was for me. — Stronger From Therapy Dear Stronger From Therapy: I’m sorry you coped for so long with a terrible, mean husband, though it’s wonderful therapy helped you turn your life around. Love your letter!
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hold said percentage of market rate residential units available for sale to households that include a local resident, defined as a person residing with the City or the Davis Joint Unified School District boundary or family of a local resident, a Davis employee, a Davis Grade school parent or an individual that attended Davis schools. The applicant proposes this section be removed in its entirety.
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or in written correspondence to the Director of Community Development and Sustainability or City Clerk at, or prior to, the public hearing.
Availability of Documents: Staff reports are available through the City’s website at: https://cityofdavis.org/ city-hall/commissions-and-committees/ planning-commission/agendas. Staff reports for the public hearing are The proposal requires a City Council generally available five (5) days prior to hearing and additional noticing, which the hearing date and may be available by will be scheduled following the Planning contacting the project planner. Commission hearing. Public Comments: Environmental Determination: All interested parties are invited to Environmental impacts related to the participate in the meeting electronically Bretton Woods Project, formerly known or by teleconference, or send written as the West Davis Active Adult Center, comments to Sherri Metzker, Project were adequately evaluated in the Planner, City of Davis, Department previously certified WDACC Project EIR of Community Development and (SCH#2017042043) and the Addendum Sustainability, 23 Russell Boulevard, Suite to the Bretton Woods Project EIR. The 2, Davis, California, 95616; or via email proposed change does not raise any at: smetzker@cityofdavis.org, no later new issues or exceed the level of impacts than noon the date of the meeting. For identified in the EIR or the Addendum, or questions, please call the project planner significantly alter its analysis and none at (530) 757-5610, extension 7239. of the conditions described in CEQA Guidelines Section 15162 requiring The City does not transcribe its preparation of a subsequent EIR apply. proceedings. Persons who wish to The proposed project is consistent with obtain a verbatim record should arrange the scope of the EIR analysis and the for attendance by a court reporter or circumstances, impacts, and mitigation for some other acceptable means of requirements remain substantively recordation. Such arrangements will applicable. All applicable mitigation be at the sole expense of the person measures continue to apply and no new requesting the recordation. If you or additional environmental analysis is challenge the action taken on this matter required. in court, the challenge may be limited to raising only those issues raised at the Hazardous materials/waste on site: public hearing described in this notice,
Ashley Feeney, Assistant City Manager 6/28 887 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: June 17, 2020 FBN Number: F20200470 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) Boss Communications 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California. Business is located in Yolo County. 1803 Oceano Way Davis, CA 95618 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Boss Co, LLC 1803 Oceano Way Davis, CA 95618 4. Business Classification: Limited Liability Company 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: April 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): Patricia Bosco CEO, Boss Co, LLC 6/28, 7/5, 7/12, 7/19 888
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In ancient Egypt, people wrote with pictures. The symbols in this kind of writing are called hieroglyphics (hi-ro-GLIF-iks). Sometimes a picture meant exactly what it showed. Other pictures stood for letters. The pharaoh’s name was spelled out inside an oval border called a cartouche (kar-toosh).
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In 1922 an archeologist named Howard Carter found an underground stairway in the Egyptian desert. It led to a tomb with its treasure untouched. It was the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun!
Read the cartouche to find out what the word PHARAOH means. Gold funeral mask inlaid with semi-precious stones. This mask gives us an idea of what Tutankhamun looked like.
Thousands of years ago, Egyptian kings, called pharaohs, were buried in tombs filled with incredible treasure. The Egyptians believed people would need these things in a life after death. Look at some of the objects Carter found. What do you think they tell about life in ancient Egypt?
Lotus flower drinking cup
Standards Link: History: Students identify the human and physical characteristics of the places they are studying and explain how those features form the unique character of those places.
Goldcovered statue of Tutankhamun standing on a raft with a harpoon
hortly after Howard Carter found King Tut’s tomb, Lord Carnarvon, Carter’s employer and patron, died suddenly. A rumor spread that a curse fell upon anyone entering a pharaoh’s tomb. Is it true?
In ancient Egypt, the Nile River flooded the farmlands each year, leaving behind rich topsoil. The farmers planned their growing season around the floods.
The problem with the curse is that Carter, who spent years excavating the tomb, lived for many years and died peacefully. Lord Carnarvon had been in poor health for many years prior to the discovery of the tomb.
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Look at the pictures that show a farmer’s year. Then read each of the six captions. Cut out the captions and the pictures and paste them in the correct order on a blank sheet of paper.
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6. June: When th floods came, the me went to work for then pharaoh. Young bo e and old men stayedys home and fished.
Numbers in the News Use Egyptian numbers to rewrite five or more numbers found in today’s newspaper. Standards Link: Math/Number Sense: Compare the structure of different number systems to base 10 and place value.
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… wondering about the past. ore than 5,000 years ago, the people of Egypt developed a system of counting that is much like ours. Look at the chart to read the Egyptian numbers and discover the answers to the questions. 1. How old was Tutankhamun when he became king of Egypt? years old. 2. The Nile River is the longest in the world. How long is it? Over
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EGYPTIANS GRAIN ARTIFACTS COUNTING SOWED PATRON TALES SEASON TOMB PHARAOH KING RIVER CURSE NILE DEATH
Find the words in the puzzle, then in this week’s Kid Scoop stories and activities. S T O S C U R S E H M E B T O M B G T O T R L C U W Y A R A E E A A N P E E N R N V S F T D L D O A U I R I I I E S S H O R A T N O R T A P F N K R G N I K E G S T U A G T K A S N Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognized identical words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.
TOMB The noun tomb means a place to hold the bodies of one or more dead people. The pyramids were constructed as giant tombs for Egyptians rulers. Try to use the word tomb in a sentence today when talking with your friends and family members.
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Simply Similes Use similes to describe the people, places and things found in today’s newspaper. King Tut’s curse is as________ as a _________. A pharaoh’s treasure is as_______ as a ______. The weather is as __________ as a _________. ANSWER: Because you can get so wrapped up in them.
Standards Link: Literary Analysis: Identify figurative language (e.g., simile).
This week’s word:
Imagine you have found a pile of rags. Wait! It’s a mummy— and it’s mmmoving! Tell a story about this mummy and an adventure you have together.
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Today Tomorrow Lo/Hi/W Lo/Hi/W 48/67/Clr 45/75/Clr 56/71/Drzl 55/76/Clr 61/73/PCldy 58/74/Drzl 64/86/Clr 58/90/Clr 64/70/Cldy 63/68/Rain 54/67/Drzl 55/70/Clr 55/76/Clr 53/81/Clr
Today Tomorrow City Lo/Hi/W Lo/Hi/W Sn Luis Obispo 55/68/Cldy 54/71/PCldy Santa Barbara 59/72/Cldy 58/74/PCldy Santa Cruz 51/69/PCldy 50/74/Clr Stockton 60/84/Clr 56/87/Clr S. Lake Tahoe 52/73/Wind 37/68/Clr Ukiah 55/81/Clr 52/88/Clr Yosemite 64/76/Clr 50/70/Clr
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Today Tomorrow Lo/Hi/W Lo/Hi/W 75/97/Clr 76/95/Clr 65/87/Rain 65/83/Rain 74/89/PCldy 72/90/Rain 78/91/Rain 78/92/Rain 68/88/Rain 72/90/Rain 73/92/PCldy 76/88/Rain 83/102/Dust 70/90/Clr 75/90/Cldy 75/90/Rain 71/87/Rain 74/92/Rain 74/92/Cldy 76/91/Rain 79/92/Clr 79/92/Rain 62/77/PCldy 65/83/Rain 68/87/Rain 71/91/Rain 77/89/Rain 77/90/Rain
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Today Tomorrow Lo/Hi/W Lo/Hi/W 65/92/PCldy 64/90/Clr 50/58/Rain 49/62/Rain 71/89/Rain 72/89/Rain 75/89/Rain 75/90/Rain 55/65/Rain 50/62/Rain 66/83/Rain 67/73/Rain 68/86/Rain 67/86/Rain 70/89/Rain 72/89/Rain 69/83/Rain 69/89/Rain 55/93/Rain 57/92/Clr 76/92/Rain 76/94/Cldy 60/95/Rain 61/95/Clr 70/89/Rain 75/88/Rain 65/87/Clr 65/87/Rain
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