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Survey details students’ anxieties BY CALEB HAMPTON Enterprise staff writer
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the first time the county's test positivity rate — the percentage of all tests that come back positive for COVID-19 — topped 10 percent on the county's online dashboard. All told, 1,446 county residents have tested positive for the disease; 122 have been hospitalized; and 39 have died. In just the last two weeks, 423 have tested positive, 30 have been hospitalized and 10 have died. Meanwhile, businesses in Davis continue to struggle, with many having been forced to
Enterprise staff writer Nearly every day for five months now, Yolo County has released a new batch of numbers indicating just where things stand in the battle to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus. On Tuesday, two of those numbers were historic. And not in a good way. For the first time ever, the county had more than 20 residents hospitalized with COVID-19 on a single day. Twenty-three, in fact. Also for
shut down again recently in response to those rising case numbers. Without another round of federal aid for small businesses, many may be shutting down permanently by fall. How did things reach this point? It was, after all, just two months ago, in late May, that Yolo County Supervisor Gary Sandy of Woodland declared the county “open for business.” From mid April into late May, the county’s coronavirus numbers had fallen and remained low, even as testing had increased. The county had successfully flattened the curve, officials said, by staying home,
wearing face coverings and avoiding gatherings. Following the state’s lead, Yolo County in late May gave the green light to hair salons, churches, restaurants and nonessential retailers to finally reopen for business after having been closed for 11 weeks during the shelter in place. After more than two months of not being able to dine inside a restaurant, get a haircut or attend religious services, county residents entered the month of June allowed to do all of the above. Less than two weeks later, gyms and bars had
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More COVID-19 deaths, hospitalizations in Yolo County BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer COVID-19 brought more misery to Yolo County on Tuesday, including two deaths and multiple hospitalizations. The deaths came in West Sacramento and Woodland, including one individual at Woodland Residential Services, a program for the developmentally disabled where an outbreak has taken four lives. To date the county has lost 39 residents to the novel coronavirus, including 10 in the last two weeks. The county has also seen an increase in hospitalizations, including more than 30 in
the last 14 days. A total of 23 county residents were hospitalized with COVID-19 on Tuesday, the most on a single day since the pandemic began. The county now fails to meet either of the two epidemiological stability criteria on its attestation — the total number of new cases in the last 14 days and having no more than 20 total confirmed COVID-19 patients hospitalized on any single day in the last 14 days. Meanwhile, the test positivity rate — the percentage of COVID-19 tests that came back positive during the first seven days of the last two-week period — increased to 10.52 percent on Tuesday, up from 7.49
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As fall term approaches, college students in California are experiencing a high rate of financial instability, coupled with great uncertainty about their future plans. A new survey, which was conducted in May and whose results were published last week, sheds light on how California college students have been impacted by the COVID19 pandemic and what their plans are for the coming year. The “Covid-19 Student Survey” was conducted by the California Student Aid Commission (CSAC) in partnership with the UC Davis School of Education’s California Education Lab. Roughly 60,000 currently enrolled college students and 16,000 high school seniors completed the survey, which was emailed to a random sample of students statewide who submitted financial aid applications to CSAC for intended college enrollment in the coming year. “Many of the 76,000 student respondents expressed great concern about what the future holds. They
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percent the week before. Testing delays and struggles with contact tracing also continue to hamper the spread of the virus. In many cases, people are reporting waits of two weeks or more for their test results, which makes it difficult for contact tracers and investigators to do their job before the virus spreads further. Despite more than 400 county residents having received positive test results in the last two weeks, just 53 people were in isolation on Monday because they’d tested positive. Another 79 people were in quarantine
Juan Tang, 37, a Chinese national who was recently a visiting cancer researcher at UC TANG Davis, made her first In custody appearance in federal court on Monday, appearing by video. Tang, who was booked into the Sacramento County Main Jail on July 24, is charged with visa fraud and has
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Briefly Cops investigate two collisions Emergency personnel responded to two local crashes over the weekend, one of which injured a bicyclist, while the other resulted in an arrest. The first occurred at about 6:45 p.m. Saturday at Russell Boulevard and Portage Bay East, where a gray Toyota Prius collided with a bicyclist at the intersection. The cyclist, a 48-year-old woman, was transported to Kaiser Hospital in Vacaville with a head injury, Davis police Lt. Art Camacho said. A crash between a moving vehicle and a parked car sent police to the 1600 block of L Street at about 10:30 p.m. Sunday. There, officers arrested the driver, 37-year-old Jose David Flores Sanchez of Davis, on suspicion of driving under the influence, according to Camacho. Both incidents remain under investigation, Camacho said.
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D.C. follies: Hail to the what, now? M ost of us have probably known this for a long time, but one man in the nation’s capital needs our help now more than ever. After defending the indefensible for a number of years, he’s actually reaching out to people all over the country to help him solve one particularly pressing problem. That man is Daniel Snyder, owner of the National Football League team in Washington, D.C., who finally gave in to public pressure and trouble with financial backers and dropped the name of the team mascot that pretty much everyone except the owner thought was offensive. After a “thorough review,” Snyder said the 87-year-old name would be dropped, but didn’t name a replacement. He had previously been adamant that a name change would never happen, telling USA Today in 2013 to “put it in all caps” that the name was not negotiable. Then, late last week, Snyder announced that the team would be known, for the time being at
least, as “The Washington Football Team.” You can say that doesn’t sound very original, but if you look around the league, you’ll suddenly realize that the name is the height of originality. Plus, “Go Team” has long been heard at football stadiums all across America, though it never specifically referred to The Washington Football Team. Now it does. Unfortunately, despite the cleverness of the new name, it is apparently only temporary. According to a scintillating report from ESPN’s Adam Schefter, “This is not a final renaming and rebranding for the team; this is the name it wants to
use until the adoption of a new name at some point.” Now that’s unfortunate. I mean, “The Washington Football Team” is just so darn catchy. “Terry Bateman, the franchise’s new executive vice president and chief marketing officer, said the team wants to include fans, business partners and alumni in the process. That takes time.” Said Bateman, “You’re doing a rebranding process that correctly takes 12 to 18 months.”
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ow. 12 to 18 months to come up with a new mascot? I’ll bet a class of third-graders could come up with a suitable mascot during recess. Added Bateman, “If you want to do it right, you have to take a deep breath, take a step back and go through the process.” Maybe do a few sessions of yoga just to get yourself in a mascot frame of mind “We want to do it right. We want something thoughtful and inclusive and smart and to bring a lot of points of view into this and
come out the other side with something everyone is proud of and can rally behind.” Yep, in a league full of Colts and Broncos and Packers and Bears and Cardinals and Rams, you’ve got some tough competition to deal with. I’ll bet it took Miami 12 to 18 years and several thousand focus groups before they finally settled on Dolphins. “It feels organic and natural to do this,” Bateman went on, switching the topic from team mascots to healthy eating habits. “I love the look of what we’ve done. It’s really strong. I like the logo and the uniforms and the colors. It’s a tremendous amount of work to go through this.” I can only imagine. If you have any ideas, please send them my way and I’ll forward them to Washington Football Team headquarters immediately. You have 12 to 18 months to respond. It’s the least I can do for a sport that I love. — Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.
Parole denied in West Sac assault Man arrested for Special to The Enterprise A two-commissioner panel of the state Board of Parole Hearings denied parole last week to 42-yearold Gregory Frank McKay, sentenced to 88 years to life in state prison for a 2001 assault in West Sacramento. On Sept. 1, 2001, West Sacramento police officers were dispatched to a home in reference to a possible assault with a deadly weapon. The victim stated he was inside the residence when a vehicle pulled into the driveway and continued past his house. The vehicle went to the end of the street, turned around, and headed back towards the house at a high rate of speed. The victim walked outside and was standing on the front lawn when three males exited the vehicle and walked towards him. He later identified the three suspects, McKay, who walked straight towards him while the others circled around him. He felt as though he could not escape. McKay pulled a knife from his front right pocket and opened it. He made two swinging motions with the knife in an attempt to cut the victim in the stomach area. The victim stepped backwards to avoid being cut. McKay said, “I
will slice you and stick you right here,” then made threats to shoot by saying, “I will blast your ass.” The trunk of the vehicle was open and the victim was unsure whether there was a gun inside. The victim’s mother, who also was outside, indicated she was going to call police, and the men left the scene. The victim obtained the vehicle’s license plate number. Two hours later, officers were dispatched to a firearm brandishing call involving a matching vehicle. The three subjects were located leaving an apartment complex, with McKay driving. He showed objective signs of being under the influence of an alcoholic beverage, later determined to be 0.206 BAC, more than twice the legal driving limit. The victim positively identified McKay, and knife recovered from inside the vehicle and was also identified by the victim. Friday’s parole hearing at Mule Creek State Prison in Ione, before Commissioners Maria Gutierrez and Norma Loza, took nearly three hours, ending with Gutierrez concluding McKay would still pose a continued risk to public safety if released from prison. Gutierrez commented in
First Northern Bank reports drop in income Special to The Enterprise DIXON — First Northern Community Bancorp, holding company for First Northern Bank, reported on Tuesday net income of $5.4 million, or 42 cents per diluted share, for the six months ended June 30, compared to net income of $7.4 million, or 57 cents per diluted share, for the six months ended June 30, 2019. Net income for the quarter ended June 30, 2020 was $2.7 million, or 21 cents per diluted share, compared to net income of $3.4 million, or 26 cents per diluted share for 2019. The bank attributed the decrease in net income to an increase in the provision for loan losses due to the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic and a decrease in interest income on loans subject to temporary forbearance relief due to the pandemic, which was partially offset by PPP processing fees. Total assets on June 30 were $1.61 billion, an increase of $379.9 million, or 30.8%, compared to 2019. Total deposits on June 30 were $1.44 billion, an increase of $346.5
million, or 31.7%. Total net loans (including loans held-for-sale) at June 30, 2020 were $981.9 million, an increase of $249.1 million, or 34.0%. The company continued to be “well capitalized” under regulatory definitions, exceeding the 10% total risk-based capital ratio threshold on June 30. “First Northern Bank, like many other banks, had an extremely busy second quarter with the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program launching on April 3,” said Louise Walker, president and chief executive officer. “The bank processed 1,320 PPP loans assisting local small businesses during the unprecedented economic uncertainties caused by the coronavirus pandemic.” First Northern Bank experienced robust growth in loans and deposits during the second quarter primarily as a result of PPP loan production. PPP loan origination fee income recognized during the second quarter totaled $2.0 million which is recognized as a component of interest income.
denying McKay’s release that while he has shown some growth in education and some positive institutional programming he still lacks relevant programming including anger management, drug and alcohol abuse and criminal thinking. She further stated he is still showing areas of minimization, has engaged in repeated rules violations — one as recent as February of this year — and has been involved in gang activities and fights during his incarceration. She also noted that he represented a high risk for violence, according to psychologist Dr. Wendy Weiss. Yolo County Assistant Chief Deputy District Attorney Melinda Aiello represented the Yolo District Attorney’s Office at the hearing by video conference, due to the COVID-19 crisis. “Our office is committed to representing the interests of victims’ families and public safety at these parole hearings, and when it’s appropriate we argue against the release of inmates who are a danger to the public,” District Attorney Jeff Reisig said. McKay will be eligible for parole again in 2025.
battery, animal abuse BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer
An altercation in downtown Davis led to a Woodland man’s arrest on battery, vandalism and animal cruelty charges, police said. Lt. Art Camacho reported Monday that officers were dispatched at about 11 p.m. Friday to the 200 block of G Street, where a witness informed dispatchers that a man was “jumping up and down on vehicles and damaging them.” Earlier, the man
reportedly suddenly struck the caller’s dog, a large English mastiff, hard enough to knock the animal to the ground, and at one point broke a rearview mirror off a car and threw it at the caller’s leg. Officers who arrived on scene found the man to be “verbally confrontational” and under the influence of alcohol, but “he was kind enough to wear a mask,” Camacho said. The man, identified as 25-year-old Ivan Salas, was booked into the Yolo County Jail.
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STRUGGLE: Government support will run out this month From Page A1 reopened. And a week after that, nail salons and more. Face coverings were required, as was continued social distancing, but even so, many people were left feeling things had returned to “normal.” And for many local businesses, the light at the end of the tunnel had materialized. In order to remain open, the county would have to continue maintaining epidemiological stability as well as testing, hospital and containment capacity. Former county health officer Dr. Ron Chapman told the Board of Supervisors in June he was comfortable with moving ahead with reopening “as we continue to build this new normal with public health measures in place to make these businesses and activities as safe as possible during the pandemic.” But Chapman also sounded a note of caution: “The virus is still out there,” he said. “Therefore, as we continue to reopen, we need to stay vigilant with testing, contact tracing and maintaining our successful public health measures.” County supervisors echoed his warning. “In a way, we’re threading a needle,” Supervisor Jim Provenza of Davis said in late May. Of critical importance, he said, “is the response of the public.” “The most important thing is
people understand this isn’t over and if we’re to avoid another increase, the possibility of additional outbreaks or additional deaths, we need to be very, very careful.” Supervisor Don Saylor of Davis also urged caution, saying, “We’re going to see more cases … This is not a ‘throwing down the face coverings and going out in the streets and celebrating.’ “We’re still dealing with a pandemic,” Saylor said. A little over a month later, those fears began to be realized.
The surge Cases began surging, outbreaks spreading. Testing delays cropped up and contact tracers couldn't keep up with caseloads. On June 16, the county had reported 265 cases, 48 hospitalizations and 24 deaths. A month later, on July 17, those numbers had jumped to 1,101 cases, 97 hospitalizations and 31 deaths. By then the county had landed on the state’s monitoring list due to the high number of new cases being reported each week as well as diminished ICU bed capacity. And weeks after they’d been allowed to reopen, bars and dinein restaurants had been ordered closed, followed a week later by gyms, churches, hair salons and more, unless they could move their services outdoors. In Davis, those businesses were already struggling.
According to a June survey by the Davis Chamber of Commerce, 70 percent of the 123 members who responded were experiencing a reduction in income with half saying the reduction was significant. And that was before the recent shutdowns. One in four said they had furloughed or laid off staff and half reported reduced operating hours or remote-only operations. More than half said the business environment had gotten worse over the last month. Many of them had been able to stay alive thanks to government aid, with 73 percent saying they had received federal, state or local assistance. The federal Paycheck Protection Program, in particular, was key. That program provided Small Business Administration loans to businesses to keep their employees on the job and those loans would be forgiven if employee retention requirements were met. But with that money running out now, the future looks stark for many. “Our huge concern is that that funding is going to be running out for most businesses, because they were required to spend it initially, primarily on employees, and absent additional programs from the federal or state level, I think you’re going to start to see some real significant suffering,” said Joe DiNunzio, chair of the chamber, who participated in a
joint meeting Monday between the chamber, the Davis Downtown Business Association, Visit Yolo and city officials. “We’re going to start seeing a lot more businesses grasping to try to stay open and I don’t think many of them are going to be able to,” added Cory Koehler, the chamber’s executive director. “It’s not just finding the money, it’s finding the customers, too,” said Koehler, who noted that many businesses have lost much of their customer base during the pandemic and sheltering in place.
Help from the feds? Councilman Dan Carson, who also participated in the meeting Monday, expressed hope that negotiations underway in Washington, D.C., right now may prove fruitful. “Some early reports suggested that this package might focus more resources on truly small business,” said Carson, “and I just have to think that would be a good thing for us here.” Meanwhile, city officials continue to offer what support they can to downtown businesses, in particular, during these difficult times. That will likely include extending well into the fall programs that have allowed many businesses to move their services outdoors. They include restaurants as well as some hair and nail salons now operating in public
spaces such as on sidewalks and even in streets where the Open Air Davis program has shut down traffic for that purpose. But the hopes of local businesses for reopening fully may lie not just in local programs and federal assistance, but also in changed behavior among members of the public. Family and social gatherings — in homes, backyards and elsewhere — remain the driver of new cases in Yolo County, county health officials have said repeatedly. Not wearing face coverings and not social distancing in those settings allows for virus transmission, and those infected then take the virus to their workplaces and elsewhere. As the outbreaks have spread, so, too, have the orders closing down activities and businesses. In a Facebook post, the operator of one Davis hair salon, Expressions Hair Design, which was forced to shut down again earlier this month, made exactly that point. “Salons are closed again,” the post said. “This is what I have to say: I’m not at all upset with our governor. I’m upset with those of you who refuse to wear a mask and refuse to practice social distancing. Those of you who refuse to comply shut down my business. Not him. Please be better so that I can stop carrying the consequences of your selfish behavior.”
SURVEY: Students’ financial instability stands out in the results From Page A1 were uncertain about where they would attend and how they would afford college, and a substantial number expressed concern about taking online instruction,” said CSAC Executive Director Marlene L. Garcia. A large majority of student respondents reported increased anxiety about their financial situation. According to the survey, more than 70% of students have lost some or all of their income due to COVID-19. Nearly 40% of students who were aware of the availability of financial aid for living expenses applied for it, with roughly half of applicants receiving
some. Around 35% of students said they might need to change their plans for fall term because they need to work more. “I may not have the financial means to support myself through the upcoming fall semester. I had planned on taking summer classes in order to catch up on credits but because I no longer had my savings, I could not afford to,” one student survey respondent said. “I am concerned about being unable to pay rent or other educational expenses. This has added a lot of stress that is distracting me from my academic goals,” another student said. Survey results showed substantial increases from
last year to this year in the level of concern students feel in having their basic needs met. Before the pandemic, roughly 15% of students were concerned “a lot” about paying for housing and food. Now, nearly 60% are concerned “a lot” about meeting those needs. A similar increase was reported for students’ concerns about paying for tuition. Over 20% of students said they think they need to attend a less expensive college. “Across the board, students reported dramatically higher levels of stress and concern over key economic and wellbeing measures in all areas as a result of COVID-19,” the survey stated.
Before the pandemic, less than 20% of students were concerned “a lot” about their personal health and well-being. Now, nearly 70% are concerned “a lot.” The percentage of students who said they were concerned about caring for family members and taking a full load of classes also increased dramatically. While California colleges and universities have made various forms of aid available to students, survey results showed that only around half of students were aware of the aid. Of those who applied for a free laptop loan, 75% received one. Roughly half of students who applied for aid for living expenses received some.
Survey results also indicated that many students have reservations about online classes. Around 90% said they were concerned about the shift to remote learning. Roughly a quarter of students dropped at least one course in the spring term. Students said a combination of these factors has contributed to the uncertainty many feel about their plans for the coming year. “Responses show an almost five-fold increase in the rate of uncertainty about where students will continue their studies in the fall,” CSAC said in a publication of the survey results. More than 80% of students “have either changed some aspect of their plans
for fall or are still uncertain of their plans,” CSAC said. According to survey results, nearly all current students plan to continue college in some form, with just over 2% saying they do not plan to attend college this fall. The percentage of 2020 high school graduates who plan to hold out on beginning college is slightly higher. Nearly 10 percent said they plan to delay their enrollment. “We are encouraged that the survey findings show that most students intend to begin or continue their enrollment in higher education in future terms,” Garcia said. “We are hopeful this finding holds true as colleges admit and enroll students in the coming months.”
VISA: Judge deems suspect a flight risk From Page A1 been accused by United States prosecutors of concealing ties to the Chinese military. On Monday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah Barnes deemed Tang a flight risk and ordered that she remain in custody until her lawyer makes an argument for her release on bail. Tang was appointed a federal public defender. According to a federal criminal complaint filed June 26 in the Eastern District of California, Tang was issued a J-1 visa on Nov. 5 to conduct research at UC Davis. She entered the United States on Dec. 27 and, according to UC Davis, left the university at the end of June. On her visa application, Tang said she was not affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party and had never served in the military. U.S. prosecutors allege that those were false statements. Internet searches conducted by the FBI revealed a 2019 article about Tang’s medical research, which included a headshot of her wearing a military uniform that bore the insignia of the Civilian Cadres of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army. In a Statement of Probable Cause, the FBI cited three news articles that list Tang’s employer as the Air Force Medical University (AFMU), formerly known as the Fourth Military Medical University (FMMU), in Xi’an, China.
On June 20, the FBI interviewed Tang at her Cranbrook Court apartment in Davis. After serving a search warrant at Tang’s apartment and seizing her electronic media, agents discovered a second photo of Tang wearing a different military uniform with the same insignia. “It appears that Tang is part of a civilian cadre whose members are considered active-duty military personnel,” the criminal complaint states. FBI agents said in the complaint that Tang told them she, like others at AFMU, wore the uniform as was required and was unaware of the insignia’s meaning. According to a UC Davis spokesperson, Tang came to Davis through an exchange program affiliated with Xijing Hospital, which has been part of the Air Force Medical University since 1954 and is one of China’s top teaching hospitals. “Juan Tang was a visiting researcher in the Department of Radiation Oncology, funded by the Chinese Scholarship Council, a study-based exchange program affiliated with China’s Ministry of Education and Xijing Hospital in China,” UC Davis Director of Media Relations Melissa Lutz Blouin said in an email to The Enterprise. UC Davis and the Chinese Scholarship Council signed a Memorandum of Understanding in 2012 to offer up to 20 Ph.D. fellowships annually to Chinese students, a program which has
brought in roughly $5 million over the past eight years. Tang worked exclusively in a research lab at the UC Davis School of Medicine, Blouin said. Last week, news surfaced that the FBI believed Tang, sometime after the June 20 interview at her Davis apartment, had sought refuge inside the Chinese consulate in San Francisco and was evading arrest. Less than two days after the news broke, online records showed Tang had been booked into the Sacramento County Main Jail. Tang is one of four visiting researchers from China recently charged with visa fraud “in connection with a scheme to lie about their status as members of the People’s Republic of China’s military forces,” the U.S. Department of Justice said last week in a press release. “In addition to these arrests, the FBI has recently conducted additional interviews of visa holders suspected of having undeclared affiliation with the Chinese military in more than 25 American cities,” the press release stated. The charges come amid rising tensions between the U.S. and China. If convicted of visa fraud, Tang faces a maximum of 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000. —Reach Caleb Hampton at champton@davisenter prise.net.
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YOLO: Worst-affected sites may be seeing relief From Page A1 after having come into contact with someone who tested positive. One spot of good news: several outbreaks underway in longterm care facilities in the county appear to have slowed, with no new cases reported recently. As of Monday, Alderson Convalescent Hospital in Woodland had reported
20 cases, including 11 residents and nine staff members; Courtyard Healthcare Center in Davis had reported 11 cases, including seven residents and four staff members; Riverbend Nursing Center in West Sacramento had reported five cases, including two residents and three staff members; and Woodland Residential Services had reported 12 cases, including
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s doctors, we fight for our patients, advocating for improved patient care and safety in our hospitals. When our weekly shifts end, many of us volunteer to further treat underserved populations. Recently my colleagues and I have marched with Black Lives Matter, promoted Paid Sick Leave legislation and organized PPE drives to help our health care peers feel safe during the COVID-19 pandemic. Residents provide the bulk of care for the most underserved in our community, serving as the major workforce at many of our county hospitals. Currently interns, resident physicians and fellows in the University of California system may be disciplined or terminated for an infraction that is not directly related to our academic or clinical performance. This includes when we speak out for our patients, our community or our safety. When we speak, we are putting our education and career at risk. Who will advocate for us? Residents are a vulnerable working population. We spend years learning in the classroom before entering residency, and our on-the-job training involves tremendous sacrifice and stress. Because we match into residency programs, a termination can negatively affect our future educational and employment opportunities. And if we can’t practice, we are left without a job and on average $250,000 in medical school debt. Represented by the Committee of Interns and Residents/SEIU, my colleagues at UC San Francisco and UCLA have successfully negotiated labor contracts in the last year. But each time during bargaining, UC administrators denied residents the inclusion of due-process protections, which many other residencies have. Enter 2020, COVID-19 and nationwide PPE shortages. Resident physicians across the country stood conflicted between the fear of catching and spreading the contagion and that of reprisal from hospital administrators for speaking out about the perilous working conditions we faced. Across the country we have seen attending physicians without due process lose their jobs for speaking out about unsafe working conditions. Due process is a fundamental employment right, but COVID-19 has proven that for residents, who are even more vulnerable, it is non-negotiable. California’s Assemblymember Freddie Rodriguez, D-Pomona, listened to resident appeals for due process. By sponsoring Assembly Bill 2114, he has demonstrated his respect and appreciation for the work we do. B 2114 provides a procedure for UC medical and dental interns and residents to “challenge a termination of employment or a disciplinary action by a (higher education) employer.” This bill specifically allows for due process in nonacademic or clinical matters — it would be only for professional, working matters. Residents absolutely want to be smart, competent and dedicated physicians, and this bill does not take away from that. Assembly members prioritized the legislation amidst a condensed legislative session, recognizing the urgency for UC resident due process protections, and passed the bill, 58-17, during a floor vote on June 10. As we await the bill’s introduction in the Senate, we urge state senators and Gov. Gavin Newsom to swiftly approve this measure and protect California’s interns, residents and fellows who, in spite of the tireless hours we devote to our communities, are not afforded these basic employment rights. Though this is a small protection, it is an important right for interns, residents and fellows working every day toward the health and safety of all Californians. (The views expressed in this piece are my own. I do not speak for my institution). — Dr. Anna Yap is a 3rd year emergency medicine resident physician in Los Angeles and a regional vice president of the Committee of Interns and Residents/SEIU, annalyap@gmail.com. She wrote this for CalMatters, a public-interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s Capitol works and why it matters.
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Normalcy will return as Trump exits “I believe that humanity will beat this pandemic, but only when most of the population is vaccinated. Until then, life will not return to normal.” — Microsoft founder Bill Gates, July 13
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ife may not return to normal in 2020. But I expect to be vaccinated by Jan. 20, 2021, the day Joe Biden is inaugurated as our 46th president. Last year, reportedly in November in Wuhan, China, the first person, Patient Zero, was infected by a novel coronavirus, since called COVID19. Eight months later, the deadly virus has spread the world over. There are now 16.3 million confirmed infections and 650,000 deaths. It’s probable, however, the actual numbers are much greater. Fiona Havers and several other scientists working for the CDC recently reported that for every positive test in the United States, “it is likely that greater than 10 times more SARS-CoV-2 infections occurred than the number of reported COVID-19 cases.” If this is true worldwide, more than 160 million people have already been infected by this virus. The total death count is also likely higher, missing some who had false negative tests and others who died untested. Hopefully, new and enforced efforts at ubiquitous mask-wearing, keeping 6 feet apart and prohibiting indoor gatherings will again slow the spread of this virus. That worked in several countries; and it worked here until many mistakenly thought it was OK to socialize. But, as Bill Gates and many others have said, life will not return to normal until there is a vaccine.
In the meantime, the economy in the U.S. and abroad is in a severe recession and things look like they might get much worse. In June, the consensus of experts at a UC Davis symposium said we were a year away from a safe, effective and widely available vaccine. Now it looks like they were wrong. Progress is astir. According to the New York Times, “Researchers around the world are developing more than 165 vaccines against the coronavirus.” There are currently 27 vaccines in human trials internationally. Five vaccines are already in largescale tests. It’s not unlikely a vaccine will be approved by the FDA this year. No government has put more money into producing a vaccine than ours. The CARES Act, passed in March, provided $10 billion for this effort. The federal Health and Human Services Department’s program, called Operation Warp Speed, intends “to deliver 300 million doses of a safe, effective vaccine for COVID-19 by January 2021.” There were originally more than 100 applications for funding from OWS. That was quickly narrowed to 14, with some companies receiving hundreds of millions of dollars and one, AstraZeneca — a British-Swedish biopharmaceutical company working with scientists at the University of Oxford in England — getting $1.2 billion.
No U.S. research group has made more progress to date than Moderna, a Cambridge, Mass., biotech company. In conjunction with the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Moderna started its Phase 3 trial — using 30,000 volunteers — on July 27.
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n a Phase 1 trial, companies test the safety of their vaccines with 20-80 peo-
ple. According to Concert Pharmaceuticals, “A key focus of Phase 2 studies is determining the optimal dose or doses of a drug candidate, in order to determine how best to administer the drug to maximize possible benefits, while minimizing risks.” Moderna completed Phase 2 a few weeks ago and reported its findings — that its vaccine works — in a New England Journal of Medicine article on July 14. While more than half the participants had side effects — including fatigue, chills, headaches, muscle aches and pain at the injection site — none were considered serious. After two doses, all the volunteers developed neutralizing antibodies that, in lab tests, inactivate the novel coronavirus. Phase 3 is a much larger, double-blind study to conclusively determine if the drug is safe and effective for people of all ages and for those with various health problems. The Moderna vaccine uses messenger RNA — a molecule used by cells — to build proteins that effectively serve as an early warning system to get the body to build up a strong defense against the virus. Dr. Barney Graham, the deputy director of the Vaccine Research Center,
explained the Moderna approach to CNN. “The (messenger RNA) that we use to make this protein is our vaccine. And when that RNA goes into the muscle cell, it creates and produces a protein, and when that protein is sitting on the muscle cell, it looks just like the protein that would be sitting on a virus, except we don’t have to give it the whole virus, we just give it the protein. “And this is the main point of attack; the immune system recognizes this, it starts making antibodies to different surfaces on this protein. And then we count on those antibodies to be present if the virus ever shows up with this same exact protein on its surface.” What remains unclear is whether a vaccinated person will be immune for the longterm, especially as the virus mutates. Close on the heels of the Moderna vaccine is the one being developed by AstraZeneca. They have reportedly begun a study involving 10,000 UK participants, and they are also conducting trials in Brazil and South Africa. According to the University of Oxford, “AstraZeneca has already initiated a largescale vaccine manufacturing program, aiming to have hundreds of millions of doses with delivery starting by the end of 2020.” While I’m not optimistic that our economy will fully recover in 2021, the recent research reports give me hope that early next year, everyone reading this column will be able to get vaccinated for COVID-19. — Rich Rifkin is a Davis resident; his column is published every other week. Reach him at Lxartist@ yahoo.com.
LETTERS Reopening schools Let’s take another look at the statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). It opens by stating, “Educators and pediatricians share the goal of children returning safely to school this fall.” The wording is important: the goal is a safe return to school. This is not a statement of unequivocal support for opening schools. In fact, the statement later says, “schools in areas with high levels of COVID-19 community spread should not be compelled to reopen against the judgment of local experts. A one-size-fits-all approach is not appropriate for return to school decisions.” Unfortunately, this is the situation that we now find ourselves in. No one was more disappointed than I or my soon-tobe sixth-grader son to see that our schools will open with 100% distance learning. But with the current surge, there is good reason for this. If you haven’t already, I encourage you to read the AAP statement in its entirety (https://services.aap.org/en/news-room/ news-releases/aap/2020/pediatricianseducators-and-superintendents-urge-asafe-return-to-school-this-fall/) for it clearly articulates the many benefits, not purely the academic ones, of reopening our schools, and aptly calls for decisionmaking to be guided by science and community circumstances. Many, if not all, of us support the continued goal of safely re-opening schools. To move toward that goal, I encourage us all to do what we can to limit community spread through social distancing and wearing of masks, support and communicate with our schools as they strive to find the best solutions in this inherently difficult circumstance, and to expect our leaders, locally to nationally, to make decisions based in science not politics.
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University Mall Some things to think about when discussing changes to University Mall. Will there actually be a rental market for these apartments or will this be another failed project — like several of our past research parks, which turned into apartments because there was really no demand for more research parks?. It is possible that future student numbers here will be significantly less than expected. The council should require that the developer put up a cash bond, to reimburse the city if the project fails or is significantly delayed, as there will be negative costs to the city. It seems, like with every development,
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the developers manage to convince the city council that adequate parking is not needed because the prospective clientele are either students (eg. no cars) or families with one car. The reality is that a four-bedroom apartment will generate four cars if it houses students and three cars for families (most families have teen drivers part of the time). Therefore if this is approved, the city council will hand the next council a major parking problem with students trying to find day or overnight parking in all of the neighborhoods to the north and east of the development. The scope of the problem can already be seen with existing student day parking (in recent years — everyone is home for the duration of COVID). If I was a business person looking to rent space for business or retail in the proposed project, I would not because it is obvious that my customers would not find adequate parking near the business. The developer needs to provide realistic numbers of parking spots, not as was done in most of our other multifamily developments. Dan Parfitt Davis
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Parents grapple with education in a pandemic BY RICARDO CANO AND LAUREN HELPER CalMatters They worry about who will care for the children and how far their education will slide. They anxiously await details on what distance learning will actually look like this fall, hopeful but skeptical that there will be more structure and support than a spring of crisis education that left many dissatisfied. They’re furiously networking on Facebook and Nextdoor in the tens of thousands to form learning pods or arrange childcare. They’ve placed a huge number of calls to local tutoring services in search of help. Some wonder who will watch their child — let alone supervise online classes — while they work essential jobs. Parents of more than 5.9 million California K-12 children are scrambling to adapt to a new reality without schools to send their children to. Ninety-six percent of the state’s total enrollment calls one of the 37 counties currently on the state’s watch list home. Many students still do not have computers and internet essential for connecting online, and research has increasingly shown the inequitable toll distance learning took on disadvantaged students who lacked opportunities to meaningfully engage in learning. Many teachers and parents remain worried that physically reopening schools while coronavirus cases surge in most of the state will endanger educators and students and further spread the virus. Schools, which spent weeks devising plans for socially distant classrooms, still lack financial support from the federal government they say they need to safely reopen.
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Kyla Hill, 5, left, Rebecca Hill, center, and Kaden Hill, 7, right, sit in front of their home in Chico on July 23. Last week, as coronavirus cases continued to rise in California, Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled new requirements that effectively shut the door for most schools to begin school with in-person instruction until their respective counties stabilize infections and hospitalizations. Now, millions of working parents like Rebecca Hill in Chico have to wade through constantly evolving scenarios about the school year ahead, weighing the twin stressors of how prolonged campus closures will affect their children’s learning and mental wellbeing, as well as their own livelihoods. Hill’s son and daughter will start second grade and kindergarten in less than a month under distance learning after Butte County landed last week on the state’s COVID-19 watch list, whichnow governswhether local public and private schools can physically reopen for in-person instruction. But Hill, 38, is also back at work as a code inspector in neighboring Yuba County, where she spends her days scoping out buildings,
nuisance calls and illegal marijuana grows in the rural northern county. A few weeks ago, Hill and her husband debated whether to opt for morning or afternoon in-person classes under proposed hybrid scheduling — an anxiety-inducing prospect since her husband is immuno-compromised and receives dialysis three days a week. After their district said last week that it would start the year online, the question became whether to enroll full-time in an online school offered by the district, which Hill is leaning toward to minimize chances that her husband will get sick if and when schools do reopen in person. Homeschooling might be an option if they had the time. One thing is for sure: “We definitely don’t have the ability for me to not work,” said Hill, the family breadwinner.
Unanswered questions In Los Angeles, Tunette Powell’s three sons will begin the new year under distance learning, but
details so far remain sparse three weeks before schools begin instruction, adding stress for how she and her husband, an essential worker, will balance work and co-teaching their kids. As it did when it initially closed schools in midMarch, L.A. Unified, a massive district of 600,000 students, created a ripple effect across the state when it said July 13 that it would begin the year with fulltime distance learning, citing surging cases in the county. Superintendent Austin Beutner and school leaders across California have told families that distance learning programs will be more rigorous and robust than what schools offered this spring. New statewide standards for distance learning will attempt to hold schools accountable, and students will be graded for their work. A recent survey by Speak Up, a Los Angeles-based parent advocacy group, found wide disparities in the amount of live instruction Black and Latino students received this spring compared with their white peers. Many were dissatisfied with how little live, or
synchronous, instruction their students received, and the group has called on the district to gather input from parents over how to improve distance learning. Several critical questions remain unanswered for Powell and other parents as the first day of school draws closer. What will the school day look like? Will there be a consistent start time every day to plan her workday around? How much face time will her kids get with their teachers, and will her 11-year-old receive more live interaction than the weekly, one-hour check-ins from this spring? Will the district distribute newer devices to replace the outdated ones that resulted in several technical headaches last spring? Will there be support for Powell’s kindergartner and other young students not yet adept at using technology to learn? “I don’t know any of that. I know none of that. It worries me,” said Powell, interim director of UCLA’s Parent Project, a think tank aiming to improve parent engagement in schools. Powell’s oldest son, the 11-year-old entering sixth grade, is not enthusiastic about continuing distance learning. She’s especially worried about her youngest son, a 5-year-old who will start kindergarten at Baldwin Hills Elementary. Many academics believe younger students should be among the most prioritized groups for getting into physical classrooms once it’s reasonably safe to do so, arguing that elementary students stand the most to lose from being away from classrooms. “He knows he’s going to a new school,” Powell said, “but I don’t think he’s fully grasped that going to a new school is going to happen in his room, so that’s been difficult.”
DIY education With schools across the country planning for distance learning starts, parent interest in arranging “learning pods,” in which small groups of students are taught by a tutor or teacher, has grown. Shannon Mulligan, owner of Marin Tutors, has seen that spontaneous interest firsthand. “As soon as Gov. Newsom announced schools weren’t going to open, my phone rang every day, all day, for four days in a row,” Mulligan said, with parents inquiring about teachers or tutors willing to participate in a learning pod. The pod concept has attracted everyone from working class moms holding down full-time jobs looking for tutors to help guide their students during distance learning to a dad looking to secure a teacher for more than 60 hours a month to teach curriculum supplementing what his kids learn online. Mulligan’s tutoring company, which also works with the county to offer services for foster youths, charges hourly rates that vary depending on educators’ experience. Individual rates for parents go down as students are added to the pod, with a cap of five kids. Once inside a pod, everyone wears masks outside, socially distanced. Traffic on her website has increased by 75% since Newsom’s July 17 announcement. She said many calls come from parents with incoming kindergartners wary of how the tots will fare learning remotely. “So many (parents) said to me when they called, ‘I didn’t want to have this happen, but I’m forced to homeschool now,’” Mulligan said. — CalMatters.orgis a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture.
Recology and city of Davis to mail out bulky-waste vouchers Special to The Enterprise In April of this year, the annual April Bulky Items Drop-Off event was postponed due to the shelterin-place order from the County. As it is unknown when Recology will be able to provide a Bulky Items Drop-Off event due to the continued spread of COVID-19, the city and Recology offer a Bulky Waste One-time Voucher
Regional peace event goes virtual Special to The Enterprise In August 1945, the United States became the only country in history to deploy nuclear bombs in a conflict. Local anti-nuclear groups will join a twoday national virtual event which will be broadcast on Aug. 6 and 9. “75 Years After Hiroshima & Nagasaki: Rolling Back the Nuclear Arsenal” is a virtual event that will livestream on Sunday afternoon, Aug. 9, from 2 to 3 p.m. Pacific Time, accessed via www.HiroshimaNagasaki75.org/events. “The August Peace Event 2020 on the 75th anniversary of bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is a time to pause and remember,” the the Sacramento Regional Peace Event team said in a statement. “It is also a call to action and a reaffirmation that nuclear weapons must never be used again.” Go to sacpsr.org.
Program for Davis customers to dispose of bulky items this year. Look for the voucher to arrive in the mail late July or early August. The vouchers will be mailed out to all Davis residents the week of July 27. The voucher will be your ticket for the program, so don’t forget to bring the voucher with you when you go to the landfill. The one-time voucher will be valid from Aug. 1
until Nov. 31, and will allow Davis residents to dispose of one free load of bulky waste at the Yolo County Central Landfill. The load can be up to a fullsize pickup truck bed, full-sized van, or small trailer (less than 3 feet high and less than 8 feet long) in size. Additional items must be paid for by the customer. This voucher is valid only for Davis residents. No commercial businesses will be accepted. Only one
voucher will be accepted per household, and proof of residency in the city of Davis will be required at the landfill (ID, utility bill, etc.). The voucher can only be used at the Yolo County Central Landfill. Items accepted through the voucher program include: large appliances (limit of two refrigerators and/or freezers), toilets, sinks, plumbing fixtures, scrap metal, wood scraps, furniture, mattresses,
OBITUARIES Olga Santiago Cabrera Elich March 10, 1936 — July 23, 2020
Olga Santiago Cabrera Elich, 84, of Upper Lake since 1963 and Davis since 1975, passed away peacefully in Davis on Thursday, July 23, 2020. Olga was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, in 1936. She came to California for more opportunity and to continue her schooling when she was 16 years old to live with family in San Francisco. She met John C. Elich in San Jose and married him in 1957. They were married for 52 years until John predeceased her in August 2009. Olga was a full-time homemaker in support of their 60-acre pear ranch in Upper Lake since 1963 and was active in the daily management of their rental properties in Davis since 1975. Olga and John retired from farming in 1996. Olga enjoyed RV traveling, handmade crafts, and organic gardening. A love of hers was to travel to the ocean
in the RV with John. They had countless adventures together which were a source of great joy in their long marriage. Olga was passionate about natural foods even back in the ’60s and cooked many unforgettable meals. She would energetically tend her flower and vegetable gardens late into the summer evenings. John was always by her side. Olga was fluent in both Spanish and English, written and verbal. She dedicated many hours to teaching her children to speak and understand Spanish. Olga inspired her children to preserve the ranch for future generations and to respect the wildlife that still abounds and is enjoyed on the family ranch in Upper Lake. Olga is survived by her son, John C. Elich Jr; daughter Diane Elich (Darell) Lawver; and grandsons Daniel and David Lawver. Funeral services for Olga are private.
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June 30, 1945 — July 14, 2020 David A. Lazzari died Tuesday, July 14, 2020, in Woodland. David was born and grew up in Sacramento, then was a Davis resident for more than 40 years. A man of many talents, he worked in construction, made jewelry and eventually owned a watch repair
shop in downtown Davis. While on daily morning walks on the North Davis greenbelt he made many friends with people, dogs and blue jays. He is survived by his wife, Terry McDowell, and brother Boniface Victor Lazzari of Lacy, Wash.
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textiles, empty cardboard boxes, electronics (TVs, computer monitors, keyboards, microwaves, printers, etc.), yard materials, and other bulky items. Items not covered by this voucher include business waste, soil, sod, dirt, concrete, automobile and truck tires, asphalt, commercial construction debris, and hazardous waste. Customers who currently
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NASA’s 2020 Perseverance Mars Rover is scheduled to launch from Florida’s Cape Canaveral on Thursday, July 30, at 4:50 p.m. local time. After a 6½-month journey, the rover is scheduled to land inside Mars’ Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021, for a long-term robotic exploration of the Red Planet. Perseverance’s primary mission is to “search for signs of habitable conditions on Mars in the ancient past and for signs of past microbial life itself,” and to also study the geology and climate of the Red Planet. The Jezero site was selected as the landing site because clay minerals deposits were detected in the fan-shaped delta within the crater indicating presence of an ancient lake that could potentially harbor signs of ancient Martian life. To accomplish its mission, Perseverance is equipped with a special drill to collect core samples of rocks and soils. These samples will be sealed in tubes and cached on Mars for future robotic or human missions to bring back to Earth for more detailed scientific analysis than can be done on Mars. Another new addition to the rover is the robotic helicopter, named Ingenuity, that will be test-flown in the thin Martian atmosphere to scout out the best routes for the rover to traverse. Perseverance rover is similar in design and size to its predecessor, Curiosity, which was launched in November 2011 and is still exploring Mars. It is more rugged and robust than all the other previous Mars rovers and has more advanced suite of scientific
instruments and cameras on-board. It will also employ the ingenious “skycrane” for the touch-down part of the entry, the descent and landing system that was pioneered by Curiosity. If the spacecraft is unable to be launched on July 30, NASA has very tight two-week period from that date to send the rover on its way to Mars. Otherwise, it will be delayed until September 2022, the next optimal time for a mission to Mars. This is because the Earth and Mars come close together in space every 26 months, around the time Mars is in Opposition, to make the journey economical in terms of fuel and time. To take advantage of this fortuitous alignment, NASA’s Perseverance has been proceeded by two other recent missions to Mars. United Arab Emirates Amal (Hope) orbiter was launched on July 19 and China’s Tianwen-1 (Quest for Heavenly Truth) lander/orbiter/rover was launched on July 23. All three spacecrafts will rendezvous with the Red Planet in February 2021. European Space Agency’s ExoMars rover mission had to be rescheduled for 2022 as it was not ready to be launched by July 2020. The momentous event will be broadcast live on NASA TV and livestreamed at https://www.nasa.gov/ nasalive on Thursday, July 30 starting at 7 a.m. with a post-launch news conference scheduled for 8:30am. More information about the mission is available at https://www.nasa.gov/ perseverance. For information, contact Vinita Domier of the Davis Astronomy Club at vcdomier@yahoo. com.
Kids’ video workshop offered Special to The Enterprise This summer, Davis Media Access has reimagined its youth videomaking classes and will offer “Hollywood at Home,” an interactive, collaborative online workshop for students ages 9 through 12 from 3 to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, Aug. 10 to 14. Students will work together online to develop the video’s concept, storyboard and script. Each participant will then video portions of the script at home using the cameras built into their phones. Students will share their segments using an online video editor called WeVideo and work together to edit and piece together everyone’s different parts. The five afternoon online sessions will cover the following: ideas, storyboards and script; creative costumes (made/gathered before class) and locations
(around your home); shooting-for-the-edit and acting when other people are not there; how to use online editing to work together remotely; and finishing it all off with some sound effects and music. The workshop will be led by Alex Silva-Sadder, Davis Media Access’ programming and training manager. Alex oversees DMA’s Summer Youth Workshops, mentors the Davis Teen Animators Club and has taught volunteers, kids and teens video production skills at DMA for more than 12 years. Workshop enrollment is limited to a maximum of eight students and registration closes by Thursday, Aug. 6. For details and online payment, go to https:// davismedia.org/hollywoodat-home. For additional questions, email info@davismedia. org or call 530-757-2419.
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Caution: shoe dropping zone T
he press release from Big Sky Conference headquarters in the heart of Utah was ominous. “Big Sky to push back date of Fall 2020 competition for Olympic sports,” said the headline. The first shoe has now officially dropped. “Friday, Sept. 18, will serve as the first date for the traditional sports of soccer, volleyball and men’s and women’s cross country, as well as the non-championship seasons for men’s and women’s tennis and softball,” the release begins, noting this action was taken by the Big Sky Presidents’ Council in response to the coronavirus pandemic. “The competition start date for football will be assessed at a later date,” the release added. It should be noted that UC Davis competes as a Big Sky member only in football. We’ll turn the calendar into August come Saturday, which means the Aggies’ season opener at Nevada will be just four weeks away if the Big Sky doesn’t drop the other shoe between now and then. The Aggies learned earlier this week of the first casualty on the
2020 football schedule when the Pioneer League announced a conference-only format that eliminated a Sept. 5 game against University of San Diego in Davis. Football, obviously, involves more person-to-person contact on one play from scrimmage than cross country, volleyball, and tennis combined do in an entire season. If this beloved rite of fall, witnessed annually by many millions of devoted fans across the country, is pushed back to a Sept. 19 start date by Big Sky officialdom, UCD stands to lose its entire three-game nonconference slate against Nevada (Aug. 29), San Diego (Sept. 5) and San Jose State (Sept. 12). Even if the Big Sky doesn’t move the date back, both Nevada and San Jose State will fall from the schedule if the Mountain West conference decides to play league games only, which remains a distinct possibility. If that happens, UCD will be down to an eight-game schedule. With the Pac-12’s recent announcement that it was going to play a conference-only slate,
also with a later start date, Big Sky members lost a total of seven nonconference games, with Portland State taking a two-game hit when games against Oregon State and Arizona were scrubbed.
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acramento State lost a much-anticipated date at Washington, Idaho at Washington State was canceled, along with Montana State at Utah, Cal Poly at Cal, and Northern Arizona at Arizona State. It remains to be seen, of course, if the Big Sky Presidents’ Council will cancel the entire season, move the full schedule into early 2021 or allow a modified fall schedule to proceed. If the games are moved to January, February and March as high school football in California
was recently switched, things will get very interesting in the far-flung Big Sky Conference. Montana State plays outdoors in Bozeman, where the all-time low temperature of 46-below zero has been reached in both January and February. The lowest temperature in March is a balmly 39-below. The University of Montana is located in Missoula, in the state’s Banana Belt, where the all-time low is just 33-below. Lest you think these are temperatures from long ago before global warming hit the Big Sky, Missoula recorded a 23-below in March of last year. The crazy part about all this confusion is the dramatically different start dates for classes among the Big Sky’s 13 member institutions. While UC Davis is within a month of Halloween with its Sept. 30 opening, Northern Arizona will begin classes on Aug. 12. Big Sky Commissioner Tom Wistrcill was not happy with the Pac-12’s decision that cost his league so many attractive games, not to mention monster paydays.
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ccording to John Canzano of The Oregonian, “Wistrcill said he was particularly frustrated that the Pac-12 canceled the nonconference games without offering a chance to meet Pac-12 COVID19 testing standards. “Set the money aside, those games are good for everybody,” Wistrcill said. “I can make the case that it’s safer for Portland State to play Oregon State than it is for Oregon State to play UCLA. Safer for Idaho to play Washington State than it is for Washington State to play Arizona State.” True enough. I mean, Idaho’s starting lineup could easily jog the eight miles to Martin Stadium from its campus in Moscow, while Portland State players could save the school all kinds of money by hitchhiking from PSU’s park blocks headquarters to Reser Stadium in Corvallis. So many questions remain to be answered with opening day just around the corner. Or will there even be an opening day this fall? — Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.
Watney’s comeback is well worth tracking W
ere it not for a spike in breathing rate — detected by his WHOOP wrist monitor — the PGA’s Nick Watney may never have known he had contracted COVID-19. The wearable tech device was the first to alert the veteran Tour golfer there was something amiss — revealing a near 30-percent climb in his average overnight respiratory rate following his opening round of play last month at the RBC Her“It was a bit scary,” Watney admitted. itage. “Apparently, I got a pretty mild strain. But “I didn’t feel badly in terms of anyif people can learn more and this helps thing,” Watney told members of the media anybody else, that can be a good thing, later on. “I didn’t feel very rundown. I obviously.” didn’t feel hot. I didn’t have a cough. I Back in fighting shape this past weekdidn’t have shortness of breath, none of end in Minnesota, the 2000 Davis High that.” graduate played in a designated group Thus, it came as quite a shock later that along with Denny morning, not just to McCarthy and HarWatney, but the ris English — two nearly 400 addiplayers who also tional Tour particicontracted the virus pants who had also last month. been screened upon In contention for their arrival at Harwhat would have bour Town Golf been his sixth PGA Links ... Tour title, Watney The 39-year old walked away had tested positive with more than for coronavirus — $120,000 in prize becoming the first money, ultimately Tour player to do so. finishing among a Thankfully, all 11 six-player tie for individuals he had 12th place at been in contact with 14-under. tested negative in Winner Michael their followups. Thompson shot “I haven’t really 19-under to secure found the proper the event’s $1.2 milway to describe lion payout. being the first guy,” According to Golf Watney said this NICK WATNEY/COURTERSY GRAPHIC Digest, the PGA past week — back in The first PGA Tour participant to test positive Tour purchased action at the 3M more than 1,000 for COVID-19 last month, Davis High alum Open following a WHOOP devices in Nick Watney was tipped off by the WHOOP two-week quaranthe days following tine at his Austin, wrist monitor he’s worn since 2019. Watney’s positive Texas, home. test. The WHOOP “I went to the golf company says its monitors have been course,” Watney said, recalling the day he shown to detect 20 percent of COVID-19 was whisked off the links. “Socialcases in the two days prior to the onset of distanced while warming up, and got a symptoms, as well as 80 percent of cases call about 20 minutes before (my second by the third day a person is symptomatic. round) that said, ‘Your test came back Watney, who won a Sac-Joaquin Secpositive. You need to go. You need to leave tion boys golf title with the Blue Devils in as soon as you can.’” 1999, will get a crack at a $10.6 million “I said to the doctor, ‘Is this real? I purse starting Wednesday when the Tour know I saw the data, but …’ ” he said, resumes in Tennessee at TPC Southwind. ‘‘This is real. You need to go.’” — Reach Owen Yancher at oyancher@ After quarantining in Hilton Head, S.C., he acquired a rental car and began davisenterprise.net. Follow him via his 1,160-mile trek back to Texas. Twitter at @530athletics.
Former Aggie standout Katie Toole, 13, drives to the basket for 2 of her team-leading 402 points last season. She signed a contract to play for RACA Granada in the Spanish women’s basketball league. OWEN YANCHER/ ENTERPRISE FILE PHOTO
Toole joins RACA Granada 3rd Aggie in European league this season Enterprise staff Katie Toole, the leading scorer for the UC Davis women’s basketball team last season, signed her first professional contract with RACA Granada of the Spanish Liga Femenina 2. Toole is the third member of the of Big West Conference champion Aggies to play in Europe. She joins Morgan Bertsch, who inked a deal to play with Pszczolka AZS-UMCS Lublin in Poland after spending the 2019-20 campaign in Russia, and Pele Gianotti, who signed a deal with T71 Basket Dudelange in Luxembourg after spending the last two years in Germany. In her senior season, Toole was an AllBig West Conference second-team selection and a Big West All-Academic Team honoree (her second scholastic honor). She
averaged 13.9 points and 2.9 rebounds per game for the Aggies in the 2019-20 season, shooting better than 55 percent from the field, 42 percent from threepoint range and 80 percent from the line. Her 402 points last season — which included hitting 12 of 19 from the floor for a career-high 30-point outburst at Saint Mary — tied for 10th on the school’s single-season Division I list. The Farmington, Utah, native, who graduated with a degree in communication, led UC Davis in points, scoring average, field-goal percentage, free-throw percentage, minutes (810) and minutes per game (27.9), while ranking among the top 10 in the Big West in field-goals made (eighth), field-goal percentage (second), three-point percentage (third), points (10th) and scoring average (eighth). Toole finished in double figures in all but six games in 2019-20, including scoring 10 or more points in each of the team’s first 15 contests to start the season.
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Comics
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Mussels and corn, a summer match F
riends slipped into our backyard the other evening, through the side gate, to join us for a patio dinner in honor of a fond shared memory. Waving salutes, chairs well apart, we settled in. Several years ago the four of us had a special experience on a European holiday. We found ourselves traipsing about at the lunch hour in Bruges, a small Belgian city known for its preserved medieval ambiance and its moules — mussels to Americans. We entered an eatery that seemed less touristy. Literally no one was eating or in evidence, actually. Undeterred, we found the owners, a young couple. Chairs were offered, orders were taken, and soon a mountain of delicious mussels came to our table, where we’d already been enjoying Belgian beer. The four of us saluted that memory as I served up 4 pounds of mussels I’d acquired at Sunh Fish on Broadway in Sacramento. Sunh Fish is a longstanding wholesaler to regional restaurants, including many Japanese chefs, with a retail counter up front that’s ably staffed. The mussels were fat, clean, and fresh. Many of our Davis supermarkets sell mussels as well, although you must be careful to spot the dead ones (open) and pluck them out before cooking. I do find Sunh’s mussels a notch higher in quality. Mussels are inexpensive, extremely easy to steam, and a perfect alternative to having barbecued meat for the umpteenth time. Will you like them? You will if you like cooked clams in the shell in linguine, or barbecued oysters. Simple recipes for steamed mussels abound. In Bruges they certainly don’t serve corn with mussels — frites, or french fries, are the thing — but here in California, this month, corn is the way to go. There’s an art to buying fresh corn ... or passing it by and looking elsewhere in normal times. (In these virus days, we lower standards.I certainly wouldn’t recommend going from one store to another without a great reason, which isn’t fresher corn.) Corn from Brentwood is highly touted and should be. Brentwood is 75 minutes south of us and brings the first topflight corn to our market each year. It shows up at the Davis Farmers Market. The Save Mart store on Anderson Road has been carrying it at a good price — 50 cents an ear.
Most of the corn from local farmers is very good right now, but expect to pay top dollar for it. Ikeda’s has had corn at a bargain three for a dollar, but it hasn’t matched last year’s quality. The Davis Food Co-Op and the Nugget stores usually don’t carry corn of the first order, and they charge a lot. As a general rule, avoid ears with the tips cut off. Who hasn’t husked corn in the kitchen and discovered its kernels are too undeveloped, or they look like impacted human molars, which indicates a starchiness? At the point of purchase, choose an ear of corn that is chilled and has a fresh-looking full husk. Use your fingernail to strip through the top inch of husk, two inches at the very most, and expose the first few rows. The kernels should look pearlescent with a certain fullness you’ll come to recognize after a bit of experience. When I worked at a vegetable stand in my youth, it irked me when ignorant shoppers stripped an ear halfway down to examine the kernels. If it’s put back in the pile, no later shopper will buy that ear. So be thoughtful. Yellow or white? Truthfully, it hardly matters these days, although a generation ago it did. So many sweet varieties are in the markets; Silver Queen is an old-time white standard, but there are wonderful yellow corns out there as well, and bi-color varieties that have eye appeal. Freshness is paramount. Here are some corn tips. (You can easily look up further details online.) How do you butter your corn on the cob? Here’s an easy method. Put a healthy pat of butter on the heel of a loaf of bread. Fold it up, slide the corn through again and again. Microwaving corn is quick, very simple and retains flavor. Corn can also be dropped in boiling water for a short period. On the plate, you won’t be able to distinguish whether an ear has been microwaved or boiled. When barbecuing corn, opt for first stripping the husk away. Corn grilled within its husk will be blisteringly hot when you take it to the kitchen or the dining
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Steamed mussels are a top alternative to the usual meats on the barbecue. Below, grilling corn is best done without the husk, for easier handling.
table — too hot to easily handle. I lay the unadorned raw ears on the grate will grilling other things, rotating a quarter turn every few minutes. A tiny bit of char here and
there is applaudable. Many people are not enamored these days with eating from a full ear of buttered corn in their hands. Reflect on your audience. Consider using your
heaviest chef ’s knife to sever an ear of corn in half before cooking, to minimize waste and for easier handling. But here’s an outstanding way to prepare local sweet corn in August that is definitely worth the time. On a large cutting plastic or board, hold a stripped, uncooked ear of corn vertically. The thick end should be firmly on the surface; your free hand holds the tip of the ear. Run a sharp slicing knife down the ear of corn, time and again, the ear revolving as you work, until you’ve stripped it clean and the raw kernels are in a scattered pile. If you’re cooking for two, strip two ears. In a saute pan, melt two very healthy pats of butter. Saute three tablespoons of chopped onion or shallots, plus all your kernels, over medium heat. Stir occasionally, until you see some lightly browned kernels, perhaps five to eight minutes. Dust it in the pan with paprika and a little salt, mix in, and it’s ready. It’s remarkably sweet. An alternative to paprika is to garnish, on the serving plate, with parmesan. We’re missing so much of life, its sights, sounds and smells, during these COVID days. Don’t let August slip by without enjoying the local corn that’s easily at hand, affordable and a memory of summers past. — Daniel Kennedy has a long history with the earth’s bounty and is an adviserto the Davis Farmers Market. Reach him at kennedy46@gmail.com.
How do I love Pinot — let me count the ways
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n days characterized by routine and predictability (including regular computer breakdowns and internet interruptions), I revel in the offbeat grapes I’ve been writing about and the wines I’ve been drinking. Colombard, charbono, chasselas, blaufrankish, alicante bouschet, moscofiero, frappato, melon, muzvanec, hondarrbi zuri, trousseau gris — it’s a comforting litany. Occasionally someone wants to know what my favorite is — a question I find bewildering because how could I possibly choose among the hundreds of candidates? And relishing the more obscure among them doesn’t diminish my affection for the famous. Like pinot noir. Finding a good, affordable pinot is every bit as exciting as trying a posip — in part because there are so many bad or unaffordable ones (pinot, not posip). A friend ordered a glass of an expensive pinot recently (well, it must not have been that recently — when was the last time any of us ordered a glass and, horrors, shared it?). As soon as the overripe fruit plus oak plus alcohol assaulted my tongue, I crossed that wellreviewed wine (which shall go unnamed — if you can’t say something good about it and all that) off my list. Shortly afterward, though, I discovered Brea Pinot Noir — clean, lovely cherry-and-darkberry, barely a trace of oak (aged
in neutral French barrels for 10 months), layers of savory herbs, surprises at every sip. And under $20! Here’s a pinot I could drink three times a week with everything from roasted salmon to pizza. I wasn’t shocked, then, when I found out that Berkeley natural winemaker Chris Brockway had a hand in it. Brea, it turns out, is a joint project of Chris and importer Tim Elenteny, though this is far from an import. The grapes come from two carefully tended vineyards in the Santa Maria Highlands and the wine is made with Chris’ characteristic skill and minimal manipulation. Pinot noir is, of course, not the only well-known pinot; its sib pinot grigio is one of the most famous and ubiquitous of whites. And like pinot noir, it can be dreadful or wonderful, usually dreadful. It has the advantage, though, of being thoroughly chillable. Cold enough and even a very inexpensive bottle can be at least refreshing — partly because no one has decided that six months
in new oak barrels or a pail full of oak chips would add to its charm. But a good pinot grigio charms even at room temperature. Amy at the The Pip Wine Bar (also get the Brea there) put me on to Grin, a fun, easy, tasty patio sipper that does doesn’t mind a bit of summer evening warming and goes equally well with a nice meal. Amy, in fact, put it in her carbonara kit because she thought its pitch-perfect acidity and restrained fruit would cut right through the luxurious fat of her homegrown bacon. Not a bacon eater, I paired it with a fish-sauced eggplant dish. Perfect. Pinot grigio, by the way, is exactly the same grape as pinot gris. While Italy uses the former name exclusively, here — especially in Oregon — you see both. Some vintners choose the “gris” to indicate a somewhat lusher style. And often a higher price. Sibling pinot blanc, though, is a different grape. Since it’s less widely planted and finds a favorite home in Alsace, it’s less likely than “grigio” to be either cheap or deplorable. The Kuentz Bas (Co-op, $15) is an excellent example. Imported by Kermit Lynch, its elegance equals that of the tall graceful bottle it comes in. I just drank a bottle of the 2017 — the wine is deliberately released with a bit of age. That plus the old, old oak barrels it ferments in
contribute to the lovely depth and the delight of lush pear giving way to herbs and a dry, smooth finish We drank it with our first tomato pesto of the season (made with Everything Under the Sun farm Marzanotype tomatoes). Though it’s 70% pinot blanc, the rest is auxerrois, a grape to add to my euphonious litany. The Kuentz-Bas family, vintners for centuries, grow the grapes on their organically farmed acres and make their wine using techniques traditional to the region. The Co-op also carries their Riesling and Pinot Noir, both of which have been personal favorites for many years. An even lesser-known pinot, pinot meunier, is, with pinot noir, one of allowed Champagne grapes. But unlike pinot noir, it’s seldom used on its own. The Pip, though, does have one — the Poe Pinot Meunier from Sonoma. I haven’t yet tried it, but if you go on a pinot adventure, I’m betting it’s a worthwhile investment (at $39, it IS is a bit of an investment). Since these pinots (plus chardonnay) are the Champagne grapes, they’re often the grapes of other wonderful sparklers, some white, some rosé. A new favorite of mine is the 2019 Biokult RoséSecco. 100% pinot noir, it’s from Austria, made by the Michlit family whose organic natural wines, even at this entry level, are
consistently excellent. (The Biokult pinot noir is probably the most frequently drunk red in this household.) The tangy, bubble rosépractically dares you not to like it. It’s fun and food-friendly in the extreme but still sophisticated and well-structured. In a recent Eric Asimov wine column, he shakes his head in astonishment at readers who refused to participate in his rosé“wine school” tasting because, as one put it, roséis the Coors of the wine world. If you have friends who agree with him, try serving them this. The Co-op carries Biokult wines, all in the $15 range. And $15 is a seriously good price for a sparkler of this quality. The South African government has banned all domestic sales of alcohol. This is devastating the entire South African wine industry, so please do consider supporting it by trying some of the wonderful wines that come from South Africa. Both the Co-op and Nugget carry a few. The Pip currently has two that Amy’s excited about — Mullineux “Kloof St.” Chenin Blanc ($21) and Simonsig Brut ($22), a sparkler. Check out the website (thepipwinebar.com) for details. — Susana Leonardi is a Davis resident; reach her at vinosusana @gmail.com. Comment on this column at www.davisenterprise. com.
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Public Notices X R. The developer is required to provide 12 acres of parkland and 10.5 acres of green belts, including 7.5 acres of Ag Buffer. S. The developer commits to planting a minimum of 1,800 trees on the site. CITY OF DAVIS ORDINANCE SUMMARY T. The developer has agreed to require the project site be the Point of Sale for all NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN on July 7, 2020, retail sales and for sales tax obligations. the City Council of the City of Davis, U. The developer has also agreed to California, introduced, and on July 21, extend fiberoptic infrastructure to site 2020, the City Council unanimously and has agreed to allow other users to adopted the following two (2) entitled connect to the network under terms to ordinances: be negotiated. V. The Developer will provide $50,000 to ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION fund a study of a potential transit route 40.01.090 OF CHAPTER 40 OF THE and phased implementation plan to CITY OF DAVIS MUNICIPAL CODE serve Davis, Woodland, UCD and other BY PREZONING APPROXIMATELY local areas. 228± ACRES (Assessor’s Parcel W. Prior to approval of the hotel planned Numbers (APNs) 033-630-006, -009, for the site, the developer must prepare a -011, and -012; 033-650-009, and market demand and feasibility study for -026) LOCATED NORTHEAST OF THE the conference center. This will ensure INTERSECTION OF MACE BOULDVARD there is no oversaturation of market. AND INTERSTATE 80 OF, TO PLANNED DEVELOPMENT (PD) # 4-14 UPON The above summary constitutes the ANNEXATION TO THE CITY OF DAVIS major highlights of the ordinances. AS OUTLINED IN SECTION 40.01.110 A reading of the documents in their OF CHAPTER 40 OF THE DAVIS entirety may be necessary to obtain a MUNICIPAL CODE full understanding of the ordinance. A certified copy of the full text of the AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL ordinances may be viewed in the City OF THE CITY OF DAVIS APPROVING Clerk’s Office, 23 Russell Boulevard, THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT Davis, California, and/or copies may be FOR THE DAVIS INNOVATION AND obtained at a nominal charge. SUSTAINABILITY CAMPUS PROJECT PUBLIC NOTICE
Additional information may be found The following description summarizes at https://www.cityofdavis.org/citythe aforementioned ordinances adopted hall/community-development-andby the City Council: sustainability/development-projects/ davis-innovaton-sustainability-campus Prezoning and Preliminary Planned 7/29 928 Development. The proposed Ordinance will amend Davis Municipal Code section 40.01.090 for the 229-acre DISC Property Annexation, APNs 033-630-006, 009, 011, 012 and APNs 033-650-009, 026. The purpose of this planned development is to create an innovation center to develop spaces to deliver office and corporate spaces for highly flexible and technologically advanced uses.. Planned Development #4-14. The Ordinance also includes Special Conditions, including but not limited to, compliance with Baseline Project Features of the General Plan Amendment. The Mace 25 parcel will be zoned Agriculture, while the Mace Triangle will be zoned a combination of Public-SemiPublic and General Commercial Development Agreement. The development agreement, by and between the CITY OF DAVIS, a municipal corporation (herein the “City”), RAMCO ENTERPRISES, LLC, a California Corporation, BUZZ OATES, a California Corporation, and R&B DELTA III, a California Limited Liability Company (collectively “Landowners” and “Developer”). establishes obligations for development of the DISC Property. The Agreement provides a vested right to develop the property in accordance with the terms of the Agreement, for the 30-year duration. Highlights of the obligations of the Agreement include, but are not limited to: A. Compliance with Baseline Project Features of the General Plan Amendment. B. The developer has agreed to construct 153 affordable housing units C. All the buildings will meet the CalGreen Tier 1 and the Residential Energy REACH code standards. D. Passive heating and cooling building design. E Project fueled by 100% clean energy. F. The installation of photovoltaics or future renewable energy technology. G. Project will sell and distribute all electricity generated on site with a first right of refusal being provided to Valley Clean Energy. H. All residential shall be all electric. I. All outdoor lighting shall be net zero. J. The project is required to implement a Transportation Demand Management plan (TDM plan). K. All housing built within the project will be built at 15 to 50 dwelling units per acre. No detached single family residential housing is permitted. L. The developer to construct several new bike/pedestrian related improvements, including a grade separated undercrossing of Mace Blvd M. Parking lots within the DISC project will utilize Low Impact Development features, such as bioswales to catch and clean runoff from the project. N. Parking preferences will be designed to be given to high occupancy vehicles and electric vehicles after handicap parking. O. All commercial parking areas will be designed with infrastructure for EV charging stations. P. The developer has agreed to preserve up to 342 acres of local agricultural lands to mitigate for the loss of the DISC site. Q. There will be a 150 foot wide Ag Buffer around the perimeter of the site
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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case Number: PT20-915 1. Billy Luangphonh filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Billy Luangphonh to Billy Nguyen-Rossi 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition should not be granted. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: August 26, 2020 Time: 9 a.m. Dept: #9 Room: N/A The address of the court is 1000 Main Street, Woodland, CA 95695 3. a) A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: The Davis Enterprise 315 G Street, Davis, CA 95616 Date: July 8, 2020 Daniel M. Wolk Judge of the Superior Court 7/15, 7/22, 7/29, 8/5 911
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: July 20, 2020 FBN Number: F20200580 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) MB’S FINANCIAL SERVICES 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California. Business is located in Yolo County. 1800 Moore Blvd. #241 Davis, CA 95618 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Mohamed Balla 1800 Moore Blvd. #241 Davis, CA 95618 4. Business Classification: Individual 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: July 3, 2007 “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): Mohamed Balla, owner 7/22, 7/29, 8/5, 8/12 917 LIEN SALE
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Family safety first Dear Annie: We were in the same situation as Divided Family, anticipating an eight-hour drive to New Orleans for a family wedding we really wanted to attend. We decided not to go because of the pandemic but sent not only the usual wedding gift but also the money that we would have spent on the trip there. That clearly showed the bride and groom how much we wanted to be with them, and everybody ended up as happy as they could be under the circumstances. — Marriage More Important Than Wedding Dear Marriage More Important Than Wedding: There are no truer words. While a beautiful wedding is always very nice to celebrate the love between two people, it is the marriage that really counts. I love your generosity and wisdom! Thanks for sharing it.
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Dear Annie: My in-laws are planning on taking care of our two young children when I go into labor. However, my motherin-law has recently tossed caution to the wind and resumed her normal social routines, including hosting multiple parties over the holiday weekend. My biggest fear is that my children will be exposed to the coronavirus, become asymptomatic and risk infecting our newborn, after my husband and I worked so hard to keep the family healthy. We need the assistance from his parents, but I also don’t feel it is my place to dictate how my mother-in-law lives during this unprecedented time. — Nervous and Pregnant Dear Nervous and Pregnant: Your fear is very understandable. It’s time to have an intervention with your mother-in-law. Bring your husband and father-in-law into the conversation. Explain your concerns; remind her that it is only temporary; and let her
know you would really like her to take COVID seriously, for your sake and the sake of her unborn grandchild. ——— Dear Annie: My son is 52 years old. He is a good person but an alcoholic. He followed me to Florida nine years ago. I spent thousands of dollars to get him on his feet. I ended up broke trying to help him. He has since been fired from three jobs. I kicked him out five years ago. He managed to get his own place and survive, but recently, he was fired again. He started another job and was fired after only three weeks. He has been in and out of rehab and the hospital frequently. My question is: Am I wrong to not let him move back in with me? I have told him no, that I can’t afford to help him. — Mother of an Alcoholic Dear Mother of an Alcoholic: You are not wrong. In fact, you are giving him the greatest gift you can give him, independence. Even if you could afford to help him, he needs to help himself and come to that conclusion on his own. Remember you can lead a horse to water but you can’t force it to drink. He has to want it for himself.
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