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Data lag means virus count is worse

County appoints interim health chief

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY

Enterprise staff writer

Enterprise staff writer

UC Davis Health professor Dr. Larissa May has taken over as Yolo County’s interim health officer and will serve in the position until a permanent health officer is selected following a recruitment process.

Dr. Mary Ann Limbos had been serving in the position since the retirement of former health officer Dr. Ron Chapman in June, but MAY is unable UCD Health to serve in professor the position longterm given her other commitments, including as medical director for California Children’s Services, according to the county.

Limbos and May will share the health officer responsibilities, with May serving as interim health officer and Limbos returning to her previous position as deputy health officer.

May, a professor of emergency medicine and a public health expert, is a board certified emergency physician with an interest in quality improvement and patient safety. Her work has often focused on the epidemiology and management of infectious diseases, including best practices for diagnostic testing, outbreak response and infection prevention, according to a county press release.

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Ian Joseph, a student at the UC Davis School of Medicine, speaks at a rally organized in June by White Coats for Black Lives at the state Capitol in Sacramento.

Grading the college Student group releases racial-justice report on UCD medical school

BY CALEB HAMPTON Enterprise staff writer Members of the UC Davis chapter of White Coats for Black Lives (WC4BL), a medical student-run organization working to dismantle racism in medicine, released a Racial Justice Report Card (RJRC) last week, scoring the UC Davis School of Medicine in 14 different categories related to racism.

The report card system was developed in 2018 by the national chapter of WC4BL “to allow medical schools to evaluate their school and larger institution on metrics of racial justice and equity.” Additionally, it was designed “to ensure public accountability” for academic medical centers.

The 2020 UC Davis report comes amid increased attention by the wider public to racism in medicine, particularly following the death of

George Floyd earlier this year and the ongoing disproportionate harm of the coronavirus pandemic to Black and Latino communities.

“The intent of this report is to more specifically delineate which areas of racial justice are doing well and which provide opportunity for focused improvement,” the UC Davis report states. In each category, UC Davis was given a letter grade, with A being the highest grade and C the lowest.

UC Davis scored high on the proportion of underrepresented in medicine students in its student body. According to the report card, 19% of UC Davis medical students identify as Black or African American and 27% identify as Latino.

The data used for the report card was not from the entire student body but only from 2019 graduates, the most recent matriculating class.

Coronavirus outbreak at University Retirement Community makes it 14

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer Yolo County currently has 14 confirmed COVID-19 outbreaks, including one at University Retirement Community in Davis, where three staff members have tested positive.

Five more possible outbreaks are under investigation, county supervisors were told Tuesday.

However, given the lag in receiving test results, there may be other outbreaks underway that have yet to be uncovered.

“Unfortunately, we continue to see delays in test results which is making it really hard to get accurate and timely results and to do contact tracing and contact investigations in a way that’s effective,” said Brian Vaughn, the county’s director of public health.

University Retirement Community is one of five longterm care and skilled nursing facilities in the county with confirmed outbreaks.

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UC Davis was given a high score for its recognition of URM students and alumni in the school’s physical spaces and for not celebrating racists or white supremacists in any statues, portraits or building names. The school’s Alumni Wall of Honor currently features California Surgeon General Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, who has been at the forefront of the state’s coronavirus

The extent of the spread of COVID-19 in Yolo County is not only worse than it would appear from the latest numbers but actually has been worse than reported for a while, county supervisors were told Tuesday.

Due to delays in receiving test results, as well as problems with the state’s electronic reporting system, cases have been significantly under-reported, according to Brian Vaughn, the county’s director of public health.

In fact, Vaughn told supervisors, Yolo County was placed on the state’s monitoring list on July 8 but data now shows it exceeded the threshold for cases on June 21.

Meanwhile, during the board’s July 21 meeting, Vaughn presented data showing Yolo County had a rate of 146 cases per 100,000 residents. “Now that the data has caught up, the actual rate on that date … is well above 200,” he said.

“The problem’s been much worse than we’ve been presenting but we haven’t had all the data collected yet when we were presenting these results,” he said. “We have a rate in the middle of July that’s close to 250 cases per 100,000 residents, which is significantly higher than what we’ve thought.

“It’s much, much worse than we’ve been saying.”

The others are Courtyard Healthcare Center in Davis with 11 cases; Alderson Convalescent Hospital in Woodland with 20 cases; Woodland Residential Services with 12 cases and four deaths; and Riverbend Nursing Center in West Sacramento with five cases.

Five additional outbreaks are located at food-packaging and agriculture businesses in Yolo County while others are at a religious institution, a homeless shelter, a school and an unidentified workplace.

The five possible outbreaks under investigation include four healthcare centers and one food-packaging or agricultural business. Three are in Woodland and two in Davis, according to Vaughn.

Meanwhile, the county continues to enforce local health orders related to face coverings, social distancing and allowed activities.

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According to national data analyzed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Ph.D. candidate Davi da Silva, UC Davis is the only medical school in the United States where the percentage of Black and Latino students is equal to or greater than their share of the U.S. population. The vast majority of medical schools nationwide meet neither of those criteria.

Despite its diverse student body, UC Davis scored poorly on faculty representation. Roughly 2% of UC Davis Medical School faculty are Black. Another 2% are Latino.

Escamilla-Greenwald files for school board

BY JEFF HUDSON Enterprise staff writer Cecilia EscamillaGreenwald filed candidacy papers for the Davis school board with the Yolo County Elections Office on July 17.

Escamilla-Greenwald is seeking the seat representing Trustee Area 5, which covers El Macero (and some other portions of South Davis) as well as the core area of the UC Davis campus. The Trustee Area Five seat is currently held by incumbent Bob Poppenga, who has indicated he does not intend to seek another term.

“I am running to ensure that all children receive a high-quality education,” said Escamilla-Greenwald, who is a long-time advocate for children’s programs such as Head Start, foster

care, and special needs programs.

“During these challengESCAMILLAing times, it’s GREENWALD Running in imperaArea 5 tive that we continue to provide adequate funding and resources to our schools, so that teachers have the tools they need to help all children thrive.”

Escamilla-Greenwald has served on two of the school district’s Strategic Planning Committees and has worked with parents to provide input and feedback on the Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP).

Escamilla-Greenwald’s

experience also include previously serving on th Recreation and Parks Com mission and currently serv ing on the Polic Accountability Commis sion (PAC).

At the county level, sh served as chair and vice chair of the Head Star Policy Council.

As a foster/adopt paren Escamilla-Greenwald spoke before the Assembl Budget Subcommittee o Health and Human Ser vices and the First 5 Com mission to advocat protecting funding fo critical programs that hel foster children.

She said her years o experience collaboratin with parents and advocat ing for underprivilege children, coupled wit

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Briefly Men try, can’t evade police Two Woodland men found themselves under arrest this past week after allegedly trying to elude police during separate incidents.

One chase Tuesday morning prompted the Woodland Police Department to issue a stay-away alert for the area of California and Beamer streets, where 32-year-old Pablo Martinez fled on foot from a vehicle stop, officials said in a Facebook post.

Wanted for being a felon in possession of a loaded firearm allegedly found in his vehicle — a violation of his probation terms — Martinez avoided officers who searched the area, but was taken into custody shortly before noon after being spotted on Mariposa Street.

Police said the recovered gun had been reported stolen.

Woodland police embarked on an earlier chase Saturday when a patrol officer encountered a white Honda with no license plates at West and Clover streets.

“Due to the fact that the vehicle matched a recently reported stolen vehicle, the officer attempted to pull it over,” police reported on Facebook. “The driver of the vehicle refused to pull over and fled at a high rate of speed into oncoming traffic while passing other vehicles and running stop signs.”

The chase cameended when Jared Lampkin, 35, pulled into an apartment complex on West Elliot Street and surrendered. The vehicle, it turned out, was not the stolen Honda.

Both Martinez and Lampkin were booked into jail on evading and other charges.

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I need one of those tags for my hat I t seems my old hometown of Portland is having trouble figuring out just who is a journalist and who is not a journalist.

In California long ago the Highway Patrol used to issue “credentials” so you could prove you were a journalist if you came upon an auto wreck, a forest fire, a 9.8 earthquake, a train derailment or a Republican trapped in the city of Davis.

“Move aside, folks. The press is here. Give them some room.”

I still have my old Highway Patrol Press ID, which expired on 12/01/00, though I’m not sure whose photo is on the card.

“This card is issued only for the purpose of identifying the holder as an accredited representative of the organization stated in using it.”

I’ve read the words “of the organization stated in using it,” a dozen times now and still can’t figure out what they mean. Maybe there were different rules of grammar back then.

I’ve shown it to a select few individuals three of four times over the years, and invariably it made folks think I was a cop.

After all, right there next to my handsome mug are the words “CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL” in bright, bold, blue letters.

But back to Portland, the city of my birth and a place that still holds a special fondness in my heart.

“Protections for journalists, legal observers at protests to continue, judge rules,” said the headline in The Oregonian, the

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It’s like new! excellent statewide newspaper out of Portland.

“Protections against being removed or having equipment seized by police for journalists and legal observers covering the weeks of protests in Portland will remain in place, a judge ruled,” said a recent piece by Alex Hardgrave.

“A preliminary injunction ruled

by U.S. District Judge Michael Simon will be in place until Oct. 30. The order bars police from arresting, threatening to arrest, or using physical force directed against journalists or legal observers for not leaving when an unlawful assembly is declared.”

Reminds me of the time I was covering the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake — I mean Game 3 of the Giants-A’s World Series showdown — at Candlestick Park and was allowed to stay along with my newspaper colleagues long

after the stadium had been cleared.

“The injunction, which is an order put in place until a ruling can be made, also bars police from ordering journalists or legal observers to stop photographing, recording or observing a protest or seize any equipment.”

T

he only equipment I carry is a thin reporter’s notebook and a cheap ballpoint pen, so I don’t really need an injunction protecting my gear, but I appreciate the thought.

“Previously, Simon had asked police and journalists to reach a temporary solution.”

But here’s the part that has me really scratching my head.

“The order listed some indicators that a person is a journalist, including carrying a press pass or badge and wearing distinctive clothing that identifies them as a member of the press.”

Jail COVID efforts charted

BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer The Yolo County Sheriff ’s Office launched a COVID19 tracking feature on its website this week, providing weekly updates on the agency’s efforts to guard against a coronavirus outbreak at the Yolo County Jail.

While 34 inmates have been tested and two housed in medical isolation after showing possible COVID19 symptoms, to date no inmates have tested positive for the virus while in custody since the pandemic began.

For more information, visit https://www.yolo countysheriff.com/services/ jail/covid-19-mitigation.

As of Monday, the jail’s population numbered 193, less than half of the facility’s capacity of 455 as the Sheriff ’s Office, which operates the Woodland jail, aims to minimize the virus’ spread.

A statewide court order calling for the release of jail inmates with less than 60

days remaining in their sentences, as well as the state’s emergency zero-bail schedule — which Yolo Superior Court officials extended in June — achieved the population decrease, which has enabled the jail to house inmates in individual cells.

Jail visitations remain suspended, though inmates still receive two free 10-minute phone calls per week.

Other continued strategies to safeguard jail inmates and staff include: ■ Medical screenings: All incoming inmates receive increased medical screenings, while jail staff are screened prior to the start of their shifts. Screenings also are administered to people entering the jail facility.

■ Physical distancing: In addition to the individual housing of inmates, the jail has suspended inmate programming and reorganized pods to space chairs at least six feet apart.

Commissary goods are

distributed by staff instead of by vendors.

Also, inmates receive literature regarding the importance of social distancing and have access to tablets in order to contact their attorneys.

■ Sanitation: Jail cleaning protocols have doubled amid the pandemic, including inmate access to sanitizer. Inmate mail is held for a 24-hour period prior to distribution.

■ Preparation: The jail continues to maintain a 10-bed medical isolation unit for inmates with possible COVID-19 symptoms, while a 50-cell pod — part of the jail’s recent expansion project — also is available in the event of an outbreak.

■ Releases: Upon their release from the jail, inmates receive literature regarding emergency housing available to them.

— Reach Lauren Keene at lkeene@davisenter prise.net or 530-747-8048.

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City employees agree to furlough days

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer City of Davis employees will be furloughed one day per month beginning in August and continuing through February.

With projected revenue losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the city negotiated with employee groups on cost-saving measures, resulting in $1 million in employee salary reductions that will be achieved through furlough days.

City Hall will be closed on those days.

“Residents may notice a delay in service because of furlough days,” said City Manager Mike Webb.

“However, the city, as always, will strive to uphold excellent customer service standards.”

Public safety and critical service employees will maintain a constant level of service and will schedule furlough days as they are able to avoid operational disruption due to nature of their work, the city reported.

All other employees will

have the following furlough schedule: ■ Aug. 14 ■ Sept. 4 ■ Oct. 23 ■ Nov. 25 ■ Dec. 18 ■ Jan. 8 ■ Feb. 5 “The city thanks its employees for our shared sacrifice during budget reductions stemming from the pandemic,” said Mayor Gloria Partida.

“We will rise through this together as an organization by being creative and supporting one another.”

— Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@ davisenterprise.net.

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Let’s read that one again: “Wearing distinctive clothing that identifies them as a member of the press.”

You mean there’s some sort of “Dress the Press for Less” store out there where I can buy official and distinctive gear that will tell the world – and especially the police – that I am a member of the press?

Will I have to stop buying my socks at the Dollar Tree?

Where can I find this Dress the Press store and what will the merchandise look like?

I mean, I generally write my column at home in my pajamas and it seems to work, because I’ve never been arrested while so clothed.

Of course, the local force did once cite that poor Davis woman for snoring — they had to wake her up to do so — but maybe if she had been wearing the appropriate press gear she could have beaten a charge that made her the first person in human history to commit a crime while fully asleep.

For now, I’m going to forego our family’s usual summer sojourn to my old and beloved hometown until I can find the proper gear to keep me out of the slammer.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

Suspect sought in Davis rape attempt

BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer Davis police are searching for a man suspected of trying to sexually assault a woman on a South Davis bike path late Sunday night.

Lt. Art Camacho said the incident occurred at about 11:30 p.m. as the victim walked alone along Putah Creek near El Pescador Court, where the unknown suspect approached her from behind.

“The male suspect placed his arms around the female’s neck and pulled her to the ground.

The male stated that he was armed with a gun and ordered her not to scream,” Camacho said in a news release.

“He then attempted to sexually assault the victim. During this attempt the victim continuously pleaded with the suspect to let her go and he eventually complied.”

Before he left the scene, the suspect admitted to the victim that he did not have a firearm, and none was seen during the incident, Camacho said. The man was last seen leaving the area on foot near the 1600 block of Drew Circle.

Camacho said the

victim provided a detailed description of her assailant, whose first name may be “Roy.” He is described as a Hispanic male, 35 to 40 years old, about 5-foot-6 with a muscular build, large jaw muscles, a mole on the right cheek area and one eyebrow with a clearly visible vertical cut.

At the time of the assault attempt, the suspect wore a black T-shirt and pants, black sneakers with white soles, and a black COVID-type face mask that he later removed.

“The suspect spoke English with a strong Spanish accent and smelled strongly of bodyodor and cigarettes,” Camacho noted.

He declined to say how the suspect’s possible name came to be known, saying it could compromise the ongoing investigation.

Anyone with any information about this crime is urged to contact the Davis Police Department at 530-747-5400.

— Reach Lauren Keene at lkeene@davisenter prise.net or 530-7478048. Follow her on Twitter at @laurenkeene

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Briefly Palms going on ‘indefinite hiatus’ The Palms, a longtime institution in the Yolo County arts scene announced on Tuesday it was closing its doors indefinitely and refunding tickets.

“We are writing to let you know that The Palms is going on indefinite hiatus,” said an email from owners owners Andrew Fridae and Nora Cary. “We’re so grateful for your support over the last 45 years!”

Opening in a South Davis barn in 1975, the venue hosted a wide range of musical acts including blues, folk, Celtic, swing and bluegrass. It was forced to find a new home in 2002 due to encroaching development and moved to the Winters Opera House. Fridae and Cary bought it in 2017.

Library cancels curbside pickup The Yolo County Library system has shut down library phone and curbside pickup services, which have allowed library patrons to reserve and borrow books and other library materials in recent weeks, even while library buildings have been closed due to coronavirus precautions.

In an undated announcement posted on the Yolo County Library website (www. yolocountylibrary.org), the Yolo County Library announced, “Due to an abundance of caution regarding potential COVID-19 exposure, all library phone and curbside services have been temporarily cancelled until further notice. We apologize for the inconvenience.”

Berryessa tour, on ‘Davisville’ The new book “Exploring the Berryessa Region: A Geology, Nature, and History Tour” says there’s much more to see and explore in the area west/northwest of Davis than the Lake Berryessa reservoir.

On the current edition of the KDRT program “Davisville,” co-author Marc Hoshovsky, a retired naturalist in Davis, talks with host Bill Buchanan about what you can find in the Berryessa region, plus how and when to see it.

“Davisville” is broadcast on KDRT-LP, 95.7 FM Mondays at 5:30 p.m., Wednesdays at 8:30 a.m., and Saturdays at 8:30 a.m. The Berryessa program began airing Monday, will be broadcast through Aug. 16, and is available anytime at http://kdrt.org/ davisville or on Apple podcasts.

Buddhist poet on Friday reading Davis Poet Laureate James Lee Jobe continues his online poetry reading series on Friday, Aug. 7, with the work of the Chinese poet Wang Wei (701761). Wang Wei is considered to be one of China’s first great Buddhist poets, as well as a musician and a landscape painter.

This free reading will be posted online by 7:30 p.m. at both james-lee-jobe. blogspot.com/ and at youtube.com/james leejobe.

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Testing our metal, and our mettle T he extent to which the pandemic now gripping our nation has unexpected effects continues to amaze me.

There is not just a shortage of bicycles, but also of exercise equipment, canoes and kayaks and boats and vacation real estate for rental or purchase, among other things. None of this affects me directly, but a shortage of aluminum cans has me a little concerned. The beverage-supply industry, including brewers, is scrambling to find enough aluminum cans to meet demand.

The problem is not the supply of aluminum itself but simply the inability to make enough cans to meet a dramatically increased need. There are two main causes of this. As consumers can no longer drink in bars and restaurants they drink at home, creating more demand for packaged goods. In addition, the remarkable expansion of the market for seltzer drinks, some other new products and expanded packaging of craft beer in cans has strained supply.

Increased production will take time to catch up to demand. In the meantime brewers and other beverage makers will prioritize packaging their best-selling products at the expense of those more specialized beverages with a smaller following.

I can’t say that brewers are not themselves a bit responsible for this. Bottles have long been the traditional standard package for beer, because glass is inert to beer and its design helps limit inclusion of air in the package. A case in point might be the craft industry that started out entirely by

packaging their hand-craft beers in the finest and most traditional package for beer; that is, bottles.

However, over the years, there has been a general move away from heavy, fragile bottles to the modern aluminum can. This container, with improved packaging technology, has proved highly successful. Brewers, including craft brewers, appreciate its light weight, which reduces freight costs and recyclability. Finally, consumers appreciate the safety and convenience of cans, all of which contributes to today’s shortage.

It’s an unrelated statistic but COVID-19 in the USA has now killed three times more civilians than World War II bombs in Britain. As a result COVID is changing our world in unexpected and perhaps irreversible ways. Many of those outcomes will be advantageous to some though not all, and some changes will be detrimental.

Among many fascinating effects, this pandemic may help curb the greatest threat facing us; that is, climate change. We already see cleaner air thanks to less burning of fossil fuel for transportation.

Whenever I get a little overheated I have a COVID temperature. When I cough it’s a COVID

cough and any aches and pains are surely virus driven. So I’m paranoid about the disease that is so devastating to folks of my age.

However, I’m not willing to isolate myself entirely from the world by adopting an online lifestyle and using delivery services, wise though that may be. I am just mindful of and sensitive to all the basic strategies for staying safe as I move about in public. So far so good.

M

y best friend and I have just spent a week at the north end of Lake Tahoe near Tahoe City. It has been a quite magical week and a nice opener to our celebrations of our 60th wedding anniversary. The weather in the mountains has been cool with light breezes and we have enjoyed spectacular views of the lake during pleasant walks along the shore. And well-spaced patio conversations with family, while admiring views across the lake in the setting sun, have been a delight.

On walks through Tahoe City and Truckee we have been impressed by the work the cities have done to keep residents and the tumult of visitors aware of the need to keep safe. In every possible location are pale blue signs that encourage wearing of masks as good and safe citizenship and community caring. As a result, although the towns were busy, there was a good sense of community respect and awareness for public health.

Two ladies own and operate a hole-in-the-wall liquor store that we frequent when in Truckee.

JUSTICE: Report card highlights UC Davis’ successes and failures From Page A1 response.

The WC4BL student group gave UC Davis a moderate grade for its antiracism training and curriculum. All first-year medical students at UC Davis take a mandatory Health Equity Course and there are additional elective courses on racism in medicine. However, students reported that, outside of those courses, race is often handled irresponsibly. “The broader curriculum consistently uses race as an intrinsic, genetic risk factor and basis for diagnostic reasoning,” the report card states.

UC Davis ranked poorly in racial grading disparities. According to the report card, an evaluation done 10 years ago found potential bias in grading.

Since then, UC Davis has not followed up with any other evaluations of possible racial bias in grading.

WC4BL gave UC Davis a moderate score on the support and resources available to URM students.

There are lounge areas and

designated safe spaces on campus, as well as support staff in the Office of Student and Resident Diversity. However, according to the report, UC Davis lacks mental health providers and peer counselors specifically equipped to serve URM students.

UCD was given a low grade in the “Campus Policing” category. In 2014, UC Davis set up a Police Accountability Board composed of students, staff and faculty. However, the board cannot make specific recommendation on disciplinary actions and disciplinary action taken by UCPD is not public record.

UC Davis also scored poorly on its treatment of marginalized patients.

“Students are routinely given more independence when caring for marginalized patients,” the report states, adding that supervision was enforced less strictly at clinics that serve marginalized patients.

The UC Davis WC4BL chapter also reported the UC Davis Medical Center has failed to provide equal access for all patients.

According to 2019 demographic data collected by the health system, the proportion of patients who received primary care services at UC Davis was just 5% Black and less than 3% Hispanic, while Sacramento’s population is 13% Black and 27% Hispanic.

The report card also noted that the UCD Medical Center has reduced the number of Medi-Cal patients it accepts for primary care in recent years.

There are 424,238 MediCal enrollees in Sacramento County, roughly half of whom are Latino. The number of Medi-Cal patients at UC Davis is currently capped at 5,000. The report recommends that the Medical Center remove all caps on Medi-Cal patients.

The full report is available online at https:// health.ucdavis.edu/diversity-inclusion/PDFs/ Racial-Justice-ReportCard_FINAL_2020.pdf.

— Reach Caleb Hampton at champton@ davisenterprise.net.

Follow him on Twitter at @calebmhampton.

OBITUARY Jan Campbell

Feb. 17, 1945 — July 18, 2020 Jan Campbell, a long time Davis resident with her husband Davis Campbell, passed away early Saturday morning, July 18, 2020, at home due to complications of pancreatic cancer.

Jan was born Feb. 17, 1945, at Presidio Hospital in San Francisco to her mother Margaret Starrett and her father Patrick Starrett. Jan and her sister Kelly and brother Michael grew up together in Marin County California.

Jan went to Sonoma State University where she met her husband to be, Davis Campbell. They married in 1969 and moved to Davis. Jan went to work as a staff member at the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences. When she retired she was staff coordinator of the UCD Aquaculture Center.

Jan was an avid gardener. After retirement from UCD, Jan spent time developing her garden and became a volunteer gardener at the UCD Arboretum. She was an active supporter of the Arboretum and Public Gardens and deeply appreciated the wonderful staff and volunteers. She and Davis also served on the Arboretum Planning Council.

She had a special place in her heart for Qigong. Jan was devoted to her

special group of “crones,” led by Rebecca Pope, who met every week without fail to practice their Qigong. It brought her friendship, peace and mindfulness.

On Sept. 6, 2019 Jan and Davis celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. Davis’ late mother always referred to them as “Tweedledee and Tweedledum”. A matched set.

Her sister Kelly wrote: “My sister Jan was my best friend and confidant. To one another we were known as Swedish sister warriors.

We never give in without a fight. That’s what we do.” Jan was also very close to her brother Michael, who lives in Truckee. Both Michael and Kelly were at her side with Davis when she passed on July 18.

Jan’s longtime family friend Jane Hill wrote, “Stroll through Jan’s amazingly beautiful garden; you see and feel her everywhere — her pure heart, her positive attitude and her sense of humor that never left. Her creativity abounds in her harmony and love with nature. A carved stone tucked into her space says it all; ‘Make each moment an occasion to live deeply, happily and in peace.’

Because of the pandemic, a celebration of life service in Jan’s memory will be held at a later date.

They have implemented very strict rules and the place now runs more like a speakeasy than a shop: Limited membership and access, admission by request only after knocking and the password (“Yes, we have used the hand sanitizer”), Plexiglass screens and credit cards and pens wrapped in sanitary tissue.

It was an entirely different story for holiday-makers on the beaches in Tahoe City and rafting on the Truckee River. I guess the proximity to water for recreation dissolves any resolve to be safe, or just washes away any cares they might have. It was just good old times are here again. Folk were mostly without masks and close together.

It occurred to me that all the focus and controversy and political divide on wearing of masks has placed too much responsibility on that practice. A mask alone is not an impregnable barrier against infection. Physical distancing and avoiding crowds, especially indoors, are the other half of the requirement. Masks plus distancing help a lot, of course, but avoiding crowds reduces the chance of meeting an infected person and staying outdoors likely limits the possible survival of infective aerosols.

At the end of the day it is the behavior of the herd that will control the virus, and the sooner we get on board with that idea the better.

— Reach Michael Lewis at lewiswales@me.com. Comment on this column at www.davisenter prise.com.

Yolo COVID-19 relief fund up to $404,000 in grants Special to The Enterprise The Yolo Community Foundation announced that the Yolo COVID-19 Relief Fund disbursed $114,000 in grants over the past two months; combined with the $290,000 announced in early June, the Relief Fund has now made 30 grants totaling $404,000.

The Relief Fund is a partnership between Yolo County; the cities of Woodland, Winters, West Sacramento and Davis; and the Yolo Community Foundation.

It makes grants in two categories: Front-Line Response grants, to support organizations that are addressing problems that were created or exacerbated by COVID-19 and its fall-out, and smaller Nonprofit Sustainability grants, which

support organizations that have been negatively impacted by the crisis.

For additional details about these organizations, the grants they received, and their efforts to support the community, please go to www. yolocf.org.

Needs in Yolo County remain significant, and local nonprofits are working hard to address them — but they need ongoing support. “The vital role these nonprofits play in providing services and support to Yolo County residents, particularly in the wake of a pandemic, cannot be over-stated,” said Gary Sandy, Chair of the Yolo County Board of Supervisors. “These grant recipients provide food and other necessities to highly vulnerable populations.”

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Trump escalates war on California

The lesson P in rejected ballots

BY GARRETT JENSEN Special to The Enterprise

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ajor media around the world trumpeted the apparent flaws in California’s March primary when nearly 7 million people cast their mail ballots.

Headlines from Al Jazeera to the Washington Post blared the news of 102,428 rejected mail ballots — about a 1.5% rejection rate. Given the state’s ambitious new law, “Every Vote Counts,” mandating that election officials give voters the opportunity to correct ballot mistakes, the rejection rate is cause for investigation, not panic.

Importantly, rejection is almost never due to fraud. Instead typical causes are voter education, limited communications from election officials to voters, out-of-date home addresses that make a ballot undeliverable, or lags in postal service delivery. The 100,000-plus figure is a helpful warning in a system with a few growing pains.

Vote-by-mail balloting has been around for decades, with many upsides. Not only is it appealing for the time-stressed American, especially those who can’t leave work to vote, but also for voters requiring additional assistance.

Limited-mobility voters, aging voters, military voters and voters away at college are all examples of why voters like vote-bymail. In fact, even before the pandemic and March primary, more than 60% of Californians voted by mail. This number will certainly increase come November given Gov. Gavin Newsom’s recent excutive order that all registered voters receive a mail ballot due to COVID-19 public safety concerns.

And while in-person voting will be available in November, submitting a ballot by mail is convenient, accessible and safe.

So what happened in the March primary? Late ballots comprised 70% of the total rejections. Given that the bulk of mail ballots are received in those crucial days immediately following Election Day, the Legislature has extended the timeline to 17 days after Election Day. This legislation should help ensure that delayed ballots count in the November general election.

Given the importance of counting valid votes that can change results in tight races, we should be patient waiting beyond election night for results.

What about the other 30% of the rejected ballots? Knowing what’s behind those rejected ballots is critical to correcting the problem. We know that about half of the 30,000 rejected ballots were signed, but did not match the voter’s signature on file, and the other half were missing a signature altogether. Both of these challenges trigger a process to contact the voter and fix the mistake, thanks to the Every Vote Counts Act of 2018. nder the Every Vote Counts Act, the voter will, at a minimum, receive one letter in the mail informing them of the missing or mismatched signature and instructions to correct the ballot.

Voters seeking to protect themselves from COVID-19 may also be wary of visiting their local elections office to submit their ballot. Perhaps the state could enable voters to cast their ballots through secure digital means or require an elections office to notify the voter more than once, possibly through methods beyond the postal service.

And certainly, the state can lower financial barriers for voters by simply ensuring that forms have prepaid status.

Some of the burden for fast, efficient elections is on us as voters. We must ensure we sign our ballot envelopes, mail them early and track our votes. The California Secretary of State is implementing a statewide online tracking system so voters in the November election can confirm that their ballot was counted and, if not, have a window of time to fix it.

Overall, the 102,428 rejected ballots are a learning opportunity not only for California, but for any state expanding vote-bymail operations. These are lessons that Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Utah and Washington — all 100% vote-by-mail states — have also learned over time.

— Garrett Jensen is a team lead for the Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project.

He wrote this for CalMatters.

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resident Trump’s more than three-year administrative war on California has now morphed beyond his many attempts to exact revenge upon this state, which provided the margin by which he lost the popular vote in 2016, when the Electoral College made him America’s second minority president out of the last three.

Not that Trump’s moves against California are trivial: He’s attempted to stop the Golden State’s long-running battle against smog, he’s tried end runs around clean water laws, he’s attempted to end sanctuary city laws passed by many cities, and much more.

While most of what he’s done against California has been by unilateral decree in the form of executive orders that a new president could countermand, it has usually looked legal. When courts ordered him to stand down, he did.

That was before he began feeling desperate in the face of polls showing him far behind as the November election approaches.

Just last month, the U.S. Supreme Court said Trump cannot simply end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program begun under ex-President Barack Obama.

The program allows undocumented immigrants brought here as small children to remain in America, where they grew up.

But Trump wants them deported quickly to countries they have never known.

Never mind that more than 10,000 such folks now work on health-care front lines

fighting the coronavirus pandemic.

Upon learning of the court ruling, Trump promised to find another way. He soon did. Ignoring the court, he ordered federal officials to stop issuing DACA documents. So much for court orders, which all American presidents have respected, regardless how they felt about those orders.

That was only a start. Seeing continued demonstrations against police brutality in cities around the nation, Trump next sent a variety of federal agents working for agencies like the Border Patrol and Customs Enforcement into Portland, Ore., to tear gas some of them and arrest some without specifying why, saying they are “violent anarchists.”

His surrogates suggest many belong to the loose, almost mythical Antifa, billed as an anarchist organization — an oxymoron when anarchists by definition resist organization.

Trump next sent hundreds of agents to Seattle, Chicago and Albuquerque, saying they would act against crime and gang shootings. Every state and local official in those places objected, until Chicago’s mayor relented before the inevitable. Trump also threatened to send forces to Oakland, Philadelphia and New York.

Of course, the Constitution gives him no such authority

short of declaring a national emergency, for which he has no grounds. The 10th Amendment, part of the Bill of Rights, says the federal government can only deal in specifically authorized fields.

Presidents have never had authority to get involved in local law enforcement without local requests. Trump completely disregarded this legality. Maybe that’s why he sent Homeland Security forces rather than the military, which is trained to disobey illegal orders. ext, he told the Census Bureau to act illegally in its every10-year head count, which determines how many congressional representatives each state will have and often controls federal domestic spending, where states frequently get money in proportion to their population.

The Constitution charters the Census to count “the whole number of free (meaning non-enslaved) persons” in the land, never mentioning anyone’s legal standing. No other president ever challenged this basic law. But Trump, posing as a “law and order” candidate, has now apparently broken a law he swore to defend.

He did this by ordering the Census, run by the Commerce Department he controls, not to count undocumented immigrants.

Because an earlier Supreme Court decision forbade placing a citizenship question on the Census questionnaire, no one knows how to identify illegals en masse.

That’s unlikely to keep Trump appointees from making a guess, then trying to

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The Constitution charters the Census to count “the whole number of free (meaning non-enslaved) persons” in the land, never mentioning anyone’s legal standing. No other president ever challenged this basic law. report it as a fact. This, after all, is the administration that invented the concept of “alternative facts.”

The timing of the Census means a new president could rescind that order, but first Trump would have to leave office.

All of which means this president has lately gone far beyond his long-running campaign against California, now warring on fundamental American precepts under the guise of law and order.

— Email Thomas Elias at tdelias@aol.com. His book, “The Burzynski Breakthrough, The Most Promising Cancer Treatment and the Government’s Campaign to Squelch It” is now available in a softcover fourth edition.

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LETTERS Single-issue voting President Trump supports Israel in public and dramatic ways while using speech, actions and inactions to garner the support of white supremacists who support him as racists and anti-Semites and we know it … Trump is also for himself and his pocketbook. And we know that, too.

The question is will we vote on the basis of a single-issue, Israel or our pocketbooks? If we do we therefore accept misogyny, lies, racism, personal disrespect, disrespect of science, general ignorance, a lack humility and outright hate for so many “others”? I for one am not a one-issue voter as are anti-abortionists. I am complex, thoughtful, loving and magnanimous with hope for the future of our country and Israel and the world. Let’s all be better and good.

Kenneth Firestein Davis

Wearing facemarks This is in response to Keith vonBorstel’s letter about wearing facemasks.

According to information given on the Yolo County Health Department website regarding facemasks and dated June 18, 2020, there is an exception to the facemask mandate for individuals who are exercising outdoors (running, biking, walking, etc.) as long as they are able to maintain an adequate social distance from other individuals.

There is an excellent table on the website which lists when facemasks are and are not required. The more detailed facemask order (also available on the website) states that the individual should carry with them and have readily available a facemask in case they are in a situation where they cannot maintain appropriate social distancing. It also states that people who are exercising strenuously — running or cycling fast — observe more than the 6-foot social

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If there is a more recent requirement than this I did not find it on the website, which is excellent and includes all kinds of useful information. It’s hard to stay up-to-date with requirements and openings/closings changing frequently, but I assume the County Health Department has the latest guidelines on their website.

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Downtown park and parking I was just sitting at the corner of Third and F streets, by the running statues, and looking around, a thought crossed my mind. With the value of the downtown assembly/open space already determined by the E and F street open space next to Baskin Robins, and the need for parking downtown continuous, what if we could have both again?

What if the city reclaimed much or most of its old City Hall developed open spaces, now with delightful patios, trees and shrubs, and returned the converted parking lot between E and F streets to parking? We’d still have a lovely downtown city park/assembly area, perhaps even improved, and we would return some parking spaces to the needs of downtown.

Certainly, small sections of the corner patio at Third and F would be retained for, and melded into, the business buildings, and the remainder would remain a lovely central place for the citizens of Davis. Sadly, I don’t think the city still controls the Old City Hall property, so purchases might have to be made, but if the city is looking to expand parking?

What a curious idea!

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Too many forks in the football road S

o much happening in college football, on so many fronts.

It’s enough to keep me typing 24 hours a day. Here is the latest, hot off the keyboard ...

■ Fall football fading fast ...

While the big boys of college football seem bound and determined to play this fall, even with fewer games and a much later start, many of the lower-division schools and their conferences are planning to play in the spring instead. ... We’re all still waiting for the Big Sky chancellors and presidents — including UC Davis Chancellor Gary May — to weigh in.

May and his colleagues have the final say about when, or if, Big Sky football will be played ...

However, if the NCAA decides to move the FCS championship game to the end of a spring season, it’s a virtual certainty the Big Sky will move to spring play as well.

The Big Sky bosses are supposed to meet Thursday, but like

everything else these days, that date is tentative and subject to change on a moment’s notice ...

■ Respecting the FCS ... The Football Championship Subdivision, formerly Division I-AA, learned this week that it may need a full-time publicist to explain just what the division is all about. ...

This after NCAA president Mark Emmert had trouble explaining just how the FCS playoff works.

As Emmert explained it to ESPN’s Heather Dinich, “The FCS is a round-robin championship with 20 teams participating and a full-on championship event.” ...

Not even close, Mr. President. ...

The playoff features 24 teams, not 20 — and it’s single-elimination, not round-robin. ...

Can you imagine just how long it would take for a 20-team playoff, as described by Emmert, to complete a “round-robin” format, which means everyone plays everyone? ... But that’s OK, after all, the NCAA is a massive organization with all sorts of teams and

playoffs and championships. ... It’s apparently much too much for one man to keep track of.

■ Parallel universes ... UCD Chancellor May has indicated that even if football is played on campus this fall, it most likely will be without fans in the stands.

Meanwhile, the University of Texas sent out a memo to seasonticket holders telling them that attendance at home games will be capped at 50,000. ... That’s about half of stadium capacity. ... Apparently, if you flash the “Hook ‘em, Horns” gesture, the virus will magically disappear.

Up in Missoula, University of

Montana officials have suggested capping crowd size at 18,000 in 25,000-seat Washington-Grizzly Stadium.

The insanity continues ...

■ Speaking of football ... After a recent Berkeley fraternity party was cited as a super-spreader event, the University of California switched course and scrapped its hybrid instruction model and replaced it with distance-learning for the upcoming semester.

Nevertheless, the Cal football team will continue to gather and practice and plans to play Pac-12 conference games this fall. ... The campus may be unsafe for the average student, but it’s apparently safe for football. ... Do athletes have a special immunity that Dr. Fauci is not aware of?

■ No games at BYU ... Brigham Young has a proud football history that includes a national championship, but the Cougars couldn’t have anticipated this season’s difficulties when they moved to independent status nearly a

decade ago.

With so many leagues going to a conference-only schedule in 2020, BYU has now lost six games off its 12-game schedule and could lose three more if the Mountain West follows suit and goes to conference-only play as well ...

■ Speaking of lost games ... A number of FCS teams have had “money” games against FBS teams canceled by the conference-only situation.

Now, if the games had been canceled by a hurricane or the entire season scrubbed by the pandemic, the contract would likely be null and void and no money owed to the FCS school.

However, the FBS schools are continuing to play football this fall, but have unceremoniously dropped FCS opponents like so many hot potatoes. ... As such, it seems as if they’ll still have to pay up, even though the games will not be played ...

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

Running a COVID Carnival of Chaos AD Lorenson juggling teams, practice areas

BY BRUCE GALLAUDET Enterprise sports editor When the California Interscholastic Federation announced that fall prep sports would be pushed back to a December start date — joining many winter sports at the same time — a special kind of nightmare emerged for high school athletic directors across the state.

At Davis High, AD Jeff Lorenson was asked about how things are going. Take four aspirin and relax before answering, Jeff ...

“Oh man. I don’t know if it’s completely been set,” Lorenson told The Enterprise. “We’re still working on our league schedules, but the nightmare is definitely going to (revolve) around the facility use.

“When you start putting lacrosse, soccer, track and field — all those outdoor sports — in the same season is where we’re going to find ourselves being very creative.

“Once we have a solid schedule in front of us ... that’s when we’ll start that process.”

CIF moved volleyball, water polo, cross country, traditional cheerleading, football, field hockey and skiing and snowboarding to winter beginnings — normally two seasons jammed into one.

But then winter sports like wrestling, basketball, lacrosse and soccer have now joined swimming and diving, tennis, golf, badminton, baseball, track, sport cheerleading and softball in the spring.

Lorenson said DHS “is pretty fortunate” in that it has site options beyond Ron & Mary Brown Stadium. For soccer there is Yudin Field and Playfields Park and beyond baseball’s left-field fence there is a vast stand of grass

JEFF LORENSON for practices.

“I know soccer would like nothing more than to get back on the grass, so we’ll see,” offered Lorenson.

But will it work, cramming three seasons into two?

“I think we’ll get through it,” Lorenson said.

So what does Lorenson hear about competition for athletes between overlapping varsity sports?

The veteran administrator doesn’t see coaches putting mandates on student-athletes like, “You have to choose one or the other. I feel real bad for those athletes who are going to have to try to make two seasons work

(simultaneously).

“We’re going to do everything we possibly can to accommodate an athlete that plays basketball and baseball or track and soccer, things like that.

“Our coaches are going to be committed to that, knowing there are going to be times … an athlete may or may not be there for a certain game or practice.

“The hope is this is just the one year, and we’ll make the most of it (working together).”

The Blue Devils have dealt with two- and three-sport athletes in the past, sometimes sharing soccer players with football and track standouts getting involved with other spring sports.

Also, Lorenson believed “time will tell” how DHS varsity coaches deal with AAU basketball players or showcase soccer players being stretched between club and high school allegiances.

“It will be interesting to see how those outside sports impact those who are playing on a varsity team,” the athletic director added.

“My hope is ... we’ll be able to accommodate both.”

Lorenson said he has talked with every one of his 27 varsity program head coaches since the CIF edict came down last week: “At this point, everybody is just

happy to hope and believe that we’re going to have a season and we’ll be back in competition soon.

I think when the seasons set in, and if there’s a conflict somewhere, that’s when we’ll find ourselves working together. The main goal is what the best interest of the athlete is and we’ll go from there.”

Lorenson is pleased with the cooperation and understanding of his coaching staff ...

“The student-centered idea stands out in talking with coaches,” he reported. “Multiple coaches said, before I could even bring it up, ‘This is going to be a year that we all just work together and have to be accommodating in those scheduling conflicts for field use.’ They said, ‘Let’s work this out for best interests of the student-athlete.’ I couldn’t be happier or more proud to hear that.”

Lorenson and various coaches conducted a Wednesday Web-Ex meeting and will be at it again next month.

“We’ll have more intimate discussions with lacrosse, soccer, track just to work together on what is a practice week going to look like, what are the accommodations ... teams going to be OK with? What

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Coach looks at spring basketball Gonzalez poised to deal with challenges in class, on court ■ Editor’s note: This is the second of two parts concerning the adjustments Davis High basketball teams will have to make now that they will officially compete alongside baseball, track and other spring sports in 2021.

BY BRUCE GALLAUDET Enterprise sports editor Davis High’s Dan Gonzalez knows a little something about challenges, especially after last year.

“It was hard the way we got hit,” the longtime mathematics teacher and basketball coach said of trying to teach during the beginning of the pandemic that ended the spring sports season and relegated students to distance learning.

Before that, his challenges were keeping the wheels on a basketball squad that started 11-0 but reeled after losing one of its stars for the season.

Davis schools again will be providing instruction from afar — but this time, Gonzalez’s basketball test comes from his season being moved from winter into the spring. Thank you, COVID-19.

As for instruction, Gonzalez is hopeful about improved teaching

programs and support software.

And, he has his fingers crossed that there will, indeed, be a basketball campaign — albeit in a competition for not only a league title but for student-athletes who might be interested in baseball, track or another spring sport.

“There are more platforms now ... textbook folks who have put together (lesson plans and techniques) specially for distance learning,” Gonzalez told The Enterprise. “The AP College Board has put things together, too, for my calculus class.

“This fall is going to be different in that (the school district is) going to be way more prepared.

And I’m not to going to say there aren’t going to be challenges. ...

(Teachers, students and parents) are going to need to be a real team.

Everyone has to be supporting everyone else.”

Ditto for Gonzalez’s basketballplaying Blue Devils ...

With official practices slated to begin Feb. 22, 2021, it will be almost a year since DHS basketball will have met as a team.

“It’s really going to throw a lot of things off,” Gonzalez believes.

“Who knows how rusty the kids

DAN GONZALEZ will be? And it’s just not going to feel right, knowing that baseball is starting, track will be going.

And I’m wondering, too, how we’re all going to fit (at the various campus facilities).”

Gonzalez recognizes that spring is a time when club and AAU basketball tournaments ramp up. He also knows how important those showcases are these days: “For the college coaches, money-wise, it’s just easier for them to see more talent in one place (like at a Las Vegas AAU jamboree) instead of visiting individual high schools.”

Then, Gonzalez — like most other Devil coaches — has a couple of players who aren’t positive what sport they’ll play come spring.

The coach sees some teams sharing athletes. Not unusual in the past. To wit, in 200607, hoopster and now MLS standout Jalil Anibaba shared time between basketball and advanced soccer

academy teams. Football has borrowed from soccer for kickers and wide receivers, and track and baseball have seen giveand-take with select athletes.

Gonzalez was asked about how he’d feel about having a player tell him a week before the Jesuit

game that he wanted to be off to a track meet or showcase tournament and couldn’t make the basketball game ...

“What place are we in?”

Gonzalez replied with a laugh, quickly adding: “I think every

situation is unique, and if allowing our athlete to possibly have that door open at the next level, we have to do what’s right for the kid.”

Entering his 22nd season at the helm of the Devils, the coach believes it “will probably be better to have a policy in place that isn’t so rigid that isn’t just a blackand-white thing.”

Gonzalez has joined each Davis High varsity head coach in substantive discussions with school Athletic Director Jeff Lorenson and believes the 2021 schedule “is pretty much under control.”

Even the eight-team Les Curry Invitational is a go. Moved from December to March 25 to 27, Gonzalez says the DHS-hosted tournament includes Pleasant Grove, Bear Creek, Will C. Wood, Rodriguez, River Valley and Christian Brothers. Liberty had committed, but with the realignment of the seasons, the North Coast Section member may have to back out, the coach noted.

“In all these years, it’s never happened like this,” Gonzalez said, stating the obvious. Now, Blue Devil fans just have their fingers crossed that the game plan doesn’t change yet again.

— Reach sports editor Bruce Gallaudet at 530-320-4456 or bgallaudet41@gmail.com.

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PUBLIC NOTICE

City of Davis Notice of Demolition Application The City of Davis has received planning applications for Demolition and Design Review for a residential addition located at 621 Elmwood Drive. The application is being processed in accordance with Municipal Code Section 8.19.040 and 40.31.040. Pursuant to the Municipal Code, prior to approval, there will be a 14-day comment period ending on August 18, 2020.

Location: 621 Elmwood Drive Project Applicant: Maria Ogrydziak, 241 B Street, Davis, CA 95616 Property Owner: Randall O’Reilly & Yuko Munakata, 621 Elmwood Drive, Davis, CA 95616 File Number: Planning Application #2020: Demolition#01-20, Design Review #05-20 Description of Project: The applicant is requesting planning approvals for to allow an 1,862 sq. ft., two-story addition plus a 390 sq. ft. attached garage to an existing 2,063 sq. ft. single-story house. The two-story addition will be added to the front of the house. The project includes a new 390 sq. ft. garage that will replace the existing carport, interior renovations, and related site improvements. The new house will consist of 5 bedrooms, 4.5 bathrooms, with a living and dining room, family/ recreation room, mudroom/laundry, and study alcove. The addition results in the removal of more than 25% of the exterior perimeter walls and qualifies as a demolition pursuant to the City’s demolition ordinance, which requires noticing.

The project also includes Design Review as an increase above the allowable 40% floor area ratio (FAR) for single-family residences and for additions to singlefamily residences that increase the gross square footage of the dwelling by more than 40%. The proposed project would add 1,862 sq. ft. of new livable area and 390 sq. ft. garage to the existing 2,063 sq. ft. dwelling. The addition exceeds 40% of the existing dwelling’s square footage.

Additionally, the proposed project will have a FAR of 41%, which exceeds the 40% standard.

Environmental Determination: The proposed project is categorically exempt from further environmental review pursuant to CEQA Section 15301, which exempts the demolition and addition to existing structures, and Section 15303, which exempts the construction a singlefamily residence in a residential zone.

Tthere are no unusual circumstances related to the project or project site that warrant environmental review.

Appeals: Upon approval there is a 10day appeal period, which will end at 5:00 p.m. August 28, 2020.

Availability of Documents: The project application information is available for review from the Department of Community Development and Sustainability. This comment period will enable you to bring your comments or questions to the attention of the Community Development and Sustainability Department. No appeal form or fee is required and you may correspond orally or in writing. If you have any questions about the project or the process or would like to review the project application file, please contact the project planner, Eric Lee, at (530) 757-5610 x 7237; or via email at: elee@ cityofdavis.org.

Ashley Feeney, Director Department of Community Development and Sustainability 8/5 931 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 NOTICE OF LIEN SALE Notice is hereby given pursuant to California Business and Professional Codes #21700-21716, Section 2328 of the UCC of the Penal Code, Section 535 the undersigned, Storquest Express Self Storage of Woodland, will sell at public sale by competitive bidding the personal property of: Name: Matthew Butler property to be sold: household goods, furniture, appliances, clothes, toys, tools, boxes & contents. Auctioneer Company: www.storagetreasures.com The Sale will end at 10:00 AM, Aug. 20, 2020. Goods must be paid for in CASH at site and removed at completion of sale. Sale is subject to cancellation in the event of settlement between owner and obligated party.

Storquest Express Woodland 1610 Tide Ct. Woodland, CA 95776 (530) 338-3531 8/5, 8/12 918

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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: July 15, 2020 FBN Number: F20200570 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) KIDS ON COWELL 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California.

Business is located in Yolo County.

5501 Cowell Blvd.

Davis, CA 95618 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Rachel Concepcion Esver 5501 Cowell Blvd.

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: May 5, 2020 “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.”

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HEALTH: Ready to step in

DATA: Students returning soon

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More recent numbers reported by the county also do not reflect what’s actually happening, he said, given the enormous delay in test results.

For example, the 183 new cases reported in the past two weeks “is completely an undercount,” Vaughn said. “The data in the last two weeks should be taken with a grain of salt.”

Those numbers could impact any decisions on whether elementary schools in Yolo County will be able to reopen for inperson instruction any time soon.

Currently, schools that are in counties on the state’s monitoring list must stick to distance learning until they’ve been off that list for two weeks. But as of Monday, elementary schools can apply for a waiver if they meet a number of standards, including on local disease transmission — namely, fewer than 200 cases per 100,000 residents in a county.

“I am not confident that we are under that right now even though more recent data suggests that we may be,” said Vaughn, “and that’s because of the delayed test results and the issues with the electronic reporting system right now.

“I would say, any data that includes the past two weeks I don’t have a whole lot of confidence in right now. We likely don’t meet that threshold and so we would not be issuing waivers.”

Any decision to issue a waiver for an elementary school to reopen for in-person instruction

“I had the pleasure of meeting with Dr. May prior to her selection,” said Supervisor Jim Provenza of Davis.

“She is extremely knowledgeable regarding all aspects of the pandemic, understands the crucial role of a health officer in mobilizing an effective response, and is very empathetic to those in our community who are suffering as a result of the current circumstances. We are fortunate to have her at the helm.”

May’s accomplishments and awards in the medical field include recently receiving the American College of Emergency Physicians’ Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Section Service Award. She also was honored with a Chief of Staff Award for her outstanding contributions as leader of the Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship Program at UC Davis Health.

May received her bachelor’s degree, medical degree and masters in both public health and health science from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. As the interim health officer, May will be providing subject matter expertise, helping to craft policy and health orders, and guiding the Board of Supervisors on health strategies and concerns.

Limbos will continue to provide clinical consultation to the county’s public health and COVID-19 response teams and support schools and childcare facilities in their re-opening plans.

“It is an honor to serve as Yolo County’s interim health officer in these unprecedented times and to share my expertise as a medical professional in the goal of public health of our local community,” May said.

“I look forward to working with (Limbos), the members of the public health staff and the Board of Supervisors in using best available evidence and guidance to improve the health and safety of all members of our community.”

“We are quite fortunate to have secured someone whose credentials and experience are as extensive and relevant as Dr. May’s,” said Supervisor Gary Sandy of Woodland, who chairs the Board of Supervisors.

“She will bring a fresh perspective to the crisis and her background in public health and research at UC Davis will be invaluable in combatting the spread of the COVID-19 virus in our community.”

SCHOOL: Races taking shape From Page A1 boards and commissions will make her a strong advocate for children’s education in Davis.

The filing period for Davis school board candidates continues through Aug. 7. Three seats are at stake in the Nov. 4 election: ■ Trustee Area 2, currently represented by trustee Alan Fernandes.

Lea Darrah has filed candidacy papers for Trustee Area Two. This is a four-year term.

■ Trustee Area 5, currently represented by Bob Poppenga, who is not seeking another term. EscamillaGreenwald has filed candidacy papers for a four-year term.

■ The at-large seat formerly held by trustee Cindy Pickett. Vigdis Asmundson has filed candidacy papers for this seat, which has two years remaining on the term.

— Reach Jeff Hudson at jhudson @davisenterprise.net or 530-7478055.

OUTBREAK: Cases worst in Woodland From Page A1 an ordinance earlier this summer allowing for civil fines for noncompliance, county code enforcement officers have investigated 48 complaints.

All but six of those businesses or organizations were found to be in compliance and only one of the remaining six — Fit Republic Gym in Woodland — was issued a citation for ongoing noncompliance.

The bulk of enforcement complaints have been in Woodland — 29 of the 48 — followed by Davis with 13 complaints; West Sacramento with four; and Dunnigan and Winters each with one.

—Reach Anne Ternus-Bellamy ataternus@davisenterprise.net.

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would have to come from the local health officer, Vaughn said.

“They’ll be the ones signing off.”

Meanwhile, Vaughn presented new data to the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday that he cautioned should also be taken with a grain of salt, given a significant portion of the data is not in yet.

That data showed that as of Monday, the county had 1,572 total cases, including 183 in the last two weeks and a seven-day test positivity rate of 9.13 percent.

“Maybe three weeks from now we’ll know what the current situation (actually) is,” said Supervisor Jim Provenza of Davis.

However, the test positivity rate, even with delayed test results, “is a pretty significant cause for concern,” said Provenza. “That’s a high rate and I think the message needs to continue to go out that people cannot relax in terms of compliance with the (health) orders and avoiding large gatherings, wearing face masks, avoiding (indoor activities).”

He asked Vaughn what else the county could be doing “because I’m concerned about the exponential increase in the virus.”

Vaughn replied that much is outside the control of the county.

“It’s largely being driven by gatherings… something we can’t control,” said Vaughn. “It’s a lot of personal behavior.”

However, he said, “certainly we don’t want large gatherings.

The schools cause us concerns.

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working with those entities to make sure if people are coming back, they’re as safe as possible.”

County supervisors also expressed concerns about UC Davis students returning.

The university’s policies, said Provenza, “need to be as strict as the order in the rest of the community.”

He cited one policy he said was lacking: “I noticed that they were permitting students to eat inside in their dining commons where we do not permit eating indoors in restaurants.”

He urged that the county health officer be vocal about what the university needs to do to reopen safely.

Supervisor Don Saylor of Davis noted that “the UC Davis campus doesn’t open until the end of September so there’s some time to continue to work on some of these plans.”

However, he said, “I think we have reason to be concerned about the return of thousands of people from all across the country, some from other parts of the world even.

“Making sure that we’ve got very careful thought going into how that might work, whether it should work, is really important,” he said. “It’s a major issue for us, for public health, for the communities of Yolo County.”

Vaughn said county health officials have been meeting with UC Davis representatives “and expressed our concerns about so many students coming back.”

— Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@davis enterprise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.

CHAOS: Bigger tests to come From Page A5 kind overlap can we safely have in the stadium? We’ve been there before … and our coaches are unbelievable in being able to work it out.”

Looking back on this Covid Carnival of Chaos, what has been the biggest overriding hurdle?

“The biggest challenge is sort of still there,” admitted Lorenson. “That’s the unknown — things just changing daily. You come up with these great ideas of how we can overcome restrictions and provide a safe environment — then things change.

“The what ifs: are we actually going to play come December? If not everybody, will certain sports allowed? All of the unknowns are creating the most anxiety … from myself to our coaches to our athletes to our parents, trying to plan a schedule that could be different tomorrow.”

— Reach sports editor Bruce Gallaudet at bgallaudet41@gmail.com or call 530-320-4456. Follow Gallaudet on Twitter at @BGsportsinDavis.

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Can these change the climate game?

W

e stand on the knife’s edge, the disaster that is the climate crisis looming, sending us nearly daily reminders, by way of storms, flooding drought, temperature records, while we confront an economy shattered by the coronavirus and ponder where we go from here. Do we rebuild the old, the world based on fossil fuels, resource depletion, and over-consumption? Or do we seize this opportunity to reimagine a different future, and if so, what would it look like? What would be different and how would we get there?

The former may protect the status quo, rescue those who have invested in the infrastructure that has brought us, the world, to the brink, and temporarily restore what we used to call “normal.” But it will also continue our accelerating momentum towards the various tipping points that will, when crossed, create irreversible disaster.

The latter requires a serious, careful and thorough exploration of just exactly what a new, sustainable world would look like. Figuring this out will take the best minds the planet has to offer, and the most courageous political leaders the globe can produce.

I have no idea how to go about this, to turn it from aspiration to implementation.

I do know it will require openness to new ideas, and a willingness to invest time and money in potentially untested ideas. So I’ve been keeping an eye out for products and practices that fit this bill. This column is about one of those that landed in my inbox in the last little while; the production of aluminum.

A recent article in Grist described this metal as the “most abundant” in the Earth’s crust, but it doesn’t appear there in the form that we know it in soda cans, bike frames, foil, and car parts. It has to be mined, or scraped from topsoil to extract bauxite, a reddish clay rock that contains alumina that is then refined to remove impurities and can then be heated (smelted) to make aluminum.

How does this relate to greenhouse gas emissions?

Quoting from the article, “All told, producing aluminum results in about 1 percent of global emissions.”

That’s a lot. If the information in this article is correct, it appears that technology, wedded to private sector actions and government policy, for this one piece of the puzzle of how we make the future more sustainable, could significantly reduce emissions from the manufacture of aluminum.

According to the article, smelting is responsible for about “14 percent of total emissions from global aluminum production.

Another 70 percent comes from the electricity used to run the smelters” (more about that in a minute).

Back to the process currently in use to manufacture aluminum. The alumina is dissolved in a molten very high temperature salt bath.

Humongous carbon blocks are lowered into the bath and the whole thing is

zapped by electrical current.

Aluminum collects at the bottom of the vat and carbon dioxide is created and given off as a byproduct.

Scientists have found an alternative smelting process that produces only aluminum (chemically the same as is produced from the current method) and oxygen: no greenhouse gas emissions.

That’s the good news. The caveat is that so far it’s only working in small-scale demonstration projects.

More good news is that research on this issue is blossoming all over the planet, including in Norway, China and Russia. The Grist article focuses, however, on Apple, which has committed to become 100 percent carbon neutral for both its own operations and its supply chain for the parts to build its products.

The company estimates that aluminum accounted for nearly a third of its “product manufacturing footprint”(greenhouse gas emissions) in 2015 and has indicated that some of its new Macbook Pro computers will include some “lowcarbon” aluminum.

This isn’t an advertisement for Apple, but they appear to be dead serious about this. The article indicates they currently use some recycled aluminum in their devices and prioritize suppliers who get their electricity from hydropower rather than coal which, taken together, has reduced their aluminumrelated emissions by 63 percent.

Apple wants to complete the low-carbon aluminum process by adding this new smelting process to its current practices of using recycled aluminum and buying from suppliers that rely on hydro instead of coal.

OK, good stuff, but how does this become important? Can this transform an entire industry and put it on a more sustainable path? I noted above that technology, wedded to private sector efforts and stimulated by government policy will be necessary to drive experimental efforts into mainstream practices.

Governments can help move this low-carbon aluminum forward in two ways. First, subsidize the development of the technology and the ability to manufacture at scale. Second, because the low-carbon process is potentially more expensive than the current coal-based process, governments should place a carbon tax on products the production of which produce greenhouse gases.

Private companies don’t have to wait for the government, however. They can follow Apple’s example and prioritize suppliers in their supply chain with lowcarbon footprints, even if it costs more while building the low-carbon product to a scale where it can compete based on cost.

— John Mott-Smith is a resident of Davis. Please send comments to john mottsmith@comcast.net.

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