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County takes input on Road 32A railroad crossing

Chris Scull, who was incarcerated at San Quentin for 22 years and released last month, tested positive for COVID-19 in June while in prison. Scull now lives in transitional housing in Hayward and experienced a second lockdown after one of his housemates tested positive for the virus.

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known to be infected. Scull, 42, didn’t have time to finalize his parole plan before he was released. “It was very chaotic,” Scull said. “All my support team, my employment, everything is in the Bay Area.” But he was taken to the motel in Los Angeles County with little oversight or guidance on what to do. “When I got released, I took it on myself to track down the parole agent,” he said. While he quarantined in the

Nearly three years after safety concerns prompted the Union Pacific Railroad to ask the state to close the railroad crossing on County Road 32A just east of the city of Davis, designs have been drawn up for moving the crossing further east and the county is seeking the public’s input on those options. On the table are three preliminary alternatives, two of which are atgrade crossings moved closer to the Yolo Causeway and one of which is an overcrossing that would be located a half-mile east of the current crossing. Estimated construction costs range from $5.35 million for a new atgrade crossing to $18.5 million for the bridge crossing. The county will host an online open house on Monday, Aug. 31, where participants can ask questions of the project team and provide feedback on the various alternatives. Written comments will be accepted through Sept. 4. The road to this point began back in October 2017 when Union Pacific filed an application with the state Public Utilities Commission seeking to alter, close or relocate the crossing on Road 32A. In its application to the PUC,

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Virus-hit prisons release thousands BY ROBERT LEWIS CalMatters Christopher Scull has vivid memories of early summer at San Quentin State Prison. During the worst of the prison’s coronavirus outbreak, which has infected more than 2,200 inmates, it seemed like the “man down” siren blared every half hour, signaling a medical emergency. The other inmates dropped to the ground while staff rushed by, carrying out a sick prisoner in a wheelchair or on a gurney.

Desperate to control the outbreak at California’s overcrowded prisons, state officials opened the gates to thousands of prisoners like Scull, including many before their scheduled release date. Scull, who tested positive for the virus in June but had minor symptoms, was released from San Quentin in mid-July after serving 22 years for carjacking and robbery. He said officials expedited his release by several weeks, sending him to a motel in Gardena, south of Los Angeles, to quarantine and recover.

From the start of the pandemic through the end of this month, California will release more than 11,000 prisoners early — largely nonviolent offenders with less than a year to serve — reducing the prison population to a 30-year low. Overwhelmed by the volume, California’s patchwork reentry system is scrambling to find transportation, housing, food and other services for released prisoners, many of whom were exposed to the virus. As of this week, the state had released more than 300 inmates

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Andrew Cullen enters contest for open school board seat BY JEFF HUDSON Enterprise staff writer Andrew Cullen filed candidacy papers for the Davis school board on Aug. 5. There are three Davis school board seats on the ballot in the Nov. 3 election — Cullen is seeking the “short term,” at-large position, which basically consists of filling the remainder of the term begun in 2016 by former trustee Cindy Pickett (who moved from Davis to Chicago this summer for a job at De Paul University). Cullen and the other contender who has filed

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candidacy papers (Vigdis Asmundson) are seeking to fill out the two years remaining in Pickett’s term. Cullen, 28, told the Enterprise that he grew up in the Marin County community of San Rafael, and attended the College of Marin (where he served as an instructional assistant and lab technician) and then UC Berkeley, earning an undergraduate degree in chemistry and a master’s degree in public health. He settled in Davis about four months ago. Cullen acknowledged that while he is not yet 30,

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“I’ve worked in CULLEN higher Two-year gig education, and now at a research institution for the last six years. I have a strong interest in public education, and I’ve done a lot of volunteering. Now I have some time to give back” to the field of education and the community, he said. Cullen has been working since 2018 at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. “I do emergency planning, mostly for emergency

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After reporting nearly 140 new COVID-19 cases on Monday and Tuesday of this week, the county reported a total of just 30 on Wednesday and Thursday.

County spokeswoman Jenny Tan had said Tuesday there might be spikes in the number of cases reported through the end of the week as a backlog of cases was cleared by the state, but 20 new cases were reported on Wednesday and just 10 on Thursday.

The county’s test positivity rate dropped to 5.97 percent at the same time. The backlog in cases was caused by issues with the state’s electronic data reporting system, resulting in the underreporting

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UCD enrolling participants for vaccine trial BY CALEB HAMPTON Enterprise staff writer UC Davis Health announced Wednesday it will participate in a global study of an investigational vaccine against COVID-19. The study, which involves roughly 30,000 participants at 120 sites around

the world, is led by Pfizer, the American pharmaceutical giant, in partnership with the German company BioNTech. In the coming days, UC Davis Health anticipates enrolling as many as 200 participants for a clinical trial, the medical

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Briefly Man arrested for lewd acts Davis police arrested a local man on indecent exposure charges Tuesday afternoon. Sander Ian Findlay, 30, was taken into custody at about 1:20 p.m. after witnesses reported seeing him expose himself multiple times in the area of Sycamore Lane and West Covell Boulevard, Lt. Art Camacho said. Officers apprehended Findlay inside the Safeway store at The Marketplace and booked him into the Yolo County Jail. Findlay previously spent nearly two years in jail after being identified as a suspect in the December 2016 attempted kidnapping of a 12-year-old girl walking home from school in the Mace Ranch neighborhood. But the court case unraveled nearly two years later in light of evidence that showed Findlay’s cell phone and vehicle — which was equipped with an ignition interlock device following a DUI conviction — were located roughly an hour away near Lake Berryessa when the kidnap attempt occurred.

Poetry features creek, valley DavisPoetLaureate James Lee Jobe continues hisonlinepoetry reading series on Friday, Aug. 14, with his poems of Putah Creek and the Sacramento Valley. This free reading will be postedonlineby 7:30 p.m. at james-lee-jobe. blogspot.com/and at youtube.com/jameslee jobe. Both sites always have poetry or poetry readings available.

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Don’t leave this one up to chance Y OUR VOTE MATTERS ... as you debate whether or not to make the small effort it takes to vote, remember that one City Council election in our town’s illustrious past ended up in a dead heat between UC Davis professor John McMurdie and downtown Ford dealer Ernie Hartz ... The matter had to be settled by a roll of a single die since the state constitution said such deadlocks had to be decided “by lot.” ... Hartz rolled first and came up with a five as McMurdie supporters in the packed chamber groaned ... McMurdie bravely stepped up and rolled — wait for it — a five ... nervous laughter erupted ... Hartz again, and again a five ... McMurdie again, and again — yes — a five ... now riotous laughter from everyone except the two participants in this tense electoral tug of war ... Mayor Norm Woodbury muttered something about “loaded dice” and asked for a new die to be brought into the room ... this time Hartz rolled a four ... McMurdie, always the comeback kid in this

strange game, rolled a winning six ... and the next thing you knew, our humble little town had Chet and David talking about us on the national news ... the moral of this story: your vote does count ... unless you’d rather see a game of dice ... A TOWN BY ANY OTHER NAME ... yes, Virginia, there is a Kamela, Ore., just one letter off from the frequently mispronounced first name of Joe Biden’s running mate ... Kamela is in the beautiful Blue Mountains in the remote northeast corner of the state, but the area is anything but Blue when it comes to politics ... Union County, where Kamela is located, gave Donald Trump 8,431

votes in 2016 to just 3,249 for Hillary Clinton ... interestingly, of Oregon’s 36 counties, 28 voted for Trump, most of them overwhelmingly so ... Grant County, in fact, gave Trump a whopping 76.4 percent of the vote to just 17.5 percent for Clinton, one of the highest percentages of any county in the country ... The president may want to take those numbers into account the next time he decides to slam the Beaver State ...

PEAKING OF THE VEEP NOMINEE ... no sooner had Joe Biden made his muchanticipated announcement than the president was calling Kamala Harris “nasty” and “disrespectful” ... this from her pointed questioning of Attorney General Bill Barr at a U.S. Senate hearing last spring ... So, when a male U.S. Senator sharply questions a reluctant witness who is clearly playing games, he is regarded as “hardhitting” and “no-nonsense” ... but when a female U.S. Senator does the same, she is “nasty” and

“disrespectful.” ... I’m just wondering how long it will take Trump to demand a birth certificate from this daughter of immigrants ... now, there are a number of positions that Biden and Harris hold that I disagree with, some strongly, but wouldn’t it be nice if we could have the kind of civility in a campaign that we saw back when John McCain and then Mitt Romney were opposing Barack Obama? ... I still remember when McCain graciously schooled an ugly supporter of his by saying that Obama was a good and decent family man, but one he disagreed with on a variety of issues ... unfortunately, I’m afraid we’re in for an ugly couple of months ... IS THERE A GRAMMARIAN IN THE HOUSE? ... in her questioning of the attorney general, Harris did ask him if anyone in the White House “inferred” he should investigate someone ... she meant “implied,” of course, but I’ll forgive her this once ... — Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

10 cars vandalized With temperatures rising, city will open cooling center at downtown Hilton BY LAUREN KEENE

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer With the daily high temperature forecast to exceed 105 degrees beginning Friday and lasting for six days, the city of Davis will open a cooling center at the Davis Senior Center for those in need of shelter from the heat. The multipurpose room at the center will be available Friday through Wednesday from noon to 7 p.m., according to Mayor Gloria Partida. “High temperatures over extended days are particularly dangerous to certain vulnerable groups,” Partida announced Wednesday. “If you know someone without adequate cooling capacity, please share this information.” The senior center is located at 646 A St. The National Weather Service in Sacramento has issued an excessive heat watch beginning at noon on Friday and lasting through 9 p.m. on Sunday, though very hot conditions are expected through next week. In addition to hot daytime temperatures, the National Weather Service said there will be “little to no overnight relief ” with lows expected in the 70s and even 80s. The heat wave comes as many of the usual places where Davis residents might find shelter from the summer heat — the library, city pools, movie theaters and more — are closed due to COVID-19. Recommendations from the National Weather Service for staying cool where air

conditioning is not available include: Opening windows before going to bed but closing them before it heats up in the morning Keeping blinds closed or investing in blackout curtains which can block the sunlight and unwanted heat from windows Using fans, including by setting ceiling fans to rotate counter-clockwise and filling a bowl with ice and positioning it in front of a large fan for a cool breeze Cooking outdoors on a grill rather than using the oven or stove which will make the house hotter Sleeping low to the ground, either downstairs or in a basement or by simply placing mattresses on the floor. The National Weather Service also urges people to drink extra water, avoid strenuous outdoor activity between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m and check on the elderly as well as pets. Given the risk of COVID-19, Davis residents utilizing the cooling center will be required to wear face coverings and observe social distancing requirements. In addition to the Davis Senior Center, the respite center for the homeless community will also be available. Located at 1717 Fifth St. (with the entrance on L Street) the respite center is open Mondays through Fridays from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturdays from 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. — Reach Anne Ternus-Bellamy at aternus@davisenterprise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.

Sutter market marks 10 years Special to The Enterprise Call it a decade of deliciousness or a tradition of nutrition. The Sutter Davis Hospital Farmers Market celebrates 10 years of bringing farm-fresh produce and local foods to employees and visitors. The Sutter Davis Hospital Farmers Market is from 10 a.m. to 1 every Thursday through Oct. 29. “Fruit and vegetables are foundational to healthy living — and when they’re farm-fresh and locally grown? That’s good for everyone,” said Rachael McKinney, CEO of Sutter Davis Hospital. “In our simplest form, Sutter Health is a nonprofit organization dedicated to health and wellbeing — both inside and outside the walls of our hospitals. The weekly market at Sutter Davis has easily become one of my favorite days of the week, where I can stock up on fresh produce and local items for my family, as well as interact with the community, our employees and patients.” About three quarters of the sellers at the farmers market come from less than an hour’s drive of Davis. The National Farmers Market Coalition points out that when farmers don’t have to worry about shipping long distances or prolonging shelf life, they can select plants and animal breeds for superior

flavor and quality. Plus, produce is often picked within hours of the market– at its peak for freshness and nutrition. The hospital’s market accepts EBT cards, WIC and Senior coupons. Shoppers with no cash on hand may purchase Market Dollars using debit or credit cards. Farmers markets are just one way Sutter Health strives to make its communities healthier. One of Sutter Health’s goals is to provide food that conserves and renews natural resources, protects the ecosystem on which all life depends, advances animal and human welfare, and increases local community resources. Practice Greenhealth is a nonprofit organization for institutions in healthcare and is collaborating with Sutter Health to support sustainable, eco-friendly practices. In partnership with Sutter Health’s Environmental Stewardship Food Committee, Sutter hospitals have increased the amount of plant-based food offered to surrounding communities. The goal is to increase fruits and vegetables by 20 percent and offer more plant-based recipes that meet healthy nutrition guidelines in Sutter’s hospital cafeterias. Additionally, Sutter hospitals throughout the Valley and Bay Area

have collaborated with Health Care Without Harm and Copia to feed the hungry. Food service employees log food waste in addition to edible leftover cafeteria and patient-meal food to donate to organizations that support those facing food insecurity. The Davis Farmers Market manages the markets at two Sutter hospitals as part of a partnership to promote good health. The additional location, at Sutter Medical Center in Sacramento, is temporarily closed. It typically runs from 3 to 6 p.m. Thursdays year-round at 2825 Capitol Ave. Davis is known for its farmers markets, especially its flagship market in Central Park, 301 C St. Its Saturday market runs yearround from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Its Wednesday market is 3 to 6 p.m. through March 2021. The summer Picnic in the Park and UC Davis Farmers Market are on hold during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Enterprise staff writer Guests of the Hilton Garden Inn in downtown Davis got a rude awakening Wednesday with the discovery that 10 cars had been vandalized in the hotel parking structure during the night. Davis police arrested a suspect in the case after he approached them on nearby Olive Drive. Lt. Art Camacho said the officers were on routine foot patrol in the 900 block of Olive Drive “when they heard loud banging noises” coming from the downtown area at about 2:20 a.m. Shortly thereafter, they were approached by 44-year-old Shayne Allen Pryde, who was walking

away from the source of the earlier noise, Camacho said. ”At the same time, they became aware that somebody had just committed vandalism on 10 cars at the Hilton Garden Inn,” 110 F St., using either a pipe or a baseball bat, Camacho said. A video provided by a witness to The Davis Enterprise shows extensive damage to at least seven of the vehicles, their windows shattered and glass shards littering the ground around them. Pryde, who according to Camacho has had prior contacts with Davis police, was determined to be a suspect in the crimes and booked into the Yolo County Jail on felony vandalism charges.

Free lap swimming for senior Woodland residents Special to The Enterprise On June 22, the Charles Brooks Community Swim Center in Woodland opened to the public for socially distanced lap swimming. As the temperatures continue to rise this summer, free lap swimming and water exercise will now be available to Woodland residents that are over the age of 55. Advanced registration is required with one-hour slots being available for each of the 20 lanes. For those under 55 and nonWoodland residents, lap swimming costs are $5 per visit. Monthly and 10 visit passes are also available.

Lap swimming times are available Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 1 pm (lane reservations at 10 and 11 a.m. and 1noon) and from 6 to 9 p.m. (lane reservations at 6, 7 and 8 p.m.). Lap swimming times on Saturday and Sunday are from 10 a.m. to 2 pm (lane reservations at 10 and 11 am, and noon and 1 pm). No indoor showers or locker rooms will be available for use. Participants will be limited to 60 minutes at the start of each hour. For additional information and to pre-register for a lap swimming time, visit www.cityofwoodland. org/lapswim or call 530661-2000.

Interested in Community and International service? The Rotary Club of Davis has been living its motto, “Service Above Self” since 1926. We meet on Mondays from 12:15pm to 1:15pm. First few meetings are free for prospective members.

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Marie Tharp’s work and maps honored BY SARA THOMPSON Special to the Enterprise

arie Tharp was born in 1920, and during her career as a geologist she changed scientific thinking of how the Earth works. Early in her life she enjoyed learning and knew its importance as her mother was a teacher. She was introduced to mapmaking early while she helped her father with his work as a soil surveyor. During World War II she had the opportunity to earn an advanced degree in geology, a field historically closed to women. She worked for Stanolind Oil for many years as a cartographer and drafter but was confined to the office and not allowed to do field work. In 1948, she moved to New York and was a drafter for the Lamont Geological Laboratory. Her years of mapmaking helped to hone that skill and lead to her most important discovery. Her colleagues at the Lamont Geological Laboratory, Bruce Heezen and Maurice Ewing, sought to map the ocean floor, which at the time had not been extensively explored. Since the war, sonar was becoming a more precise instrument and was more readily available for civilian and public use, including for scientific endeavors. Because of naval regulation, Tharp was not

EXPLORIT SCIENCE CENTER allowed on the ship charted for collecting sonar data of the ocean floor. Instead, Tharp remained in the lab, pouring over the data, and making calculations by hand to draft the firstever map of the ocean floor. After years of data collection and drafting, much of the Atlantic Ocean floor had its first map. At first, Tharp did not believe what her map showed, so she double- and triple-checked her calculations, but the results remained the same. There was a definitive rift valley in the middle of the Atlantic, where new material wells up to the surface, pushing the sides of the ridge away from each other. This discovery supported the controversial theory of continental drift, which was not taken seriously by the scientific community at the time. Even though her work was rechecked by herself and her colleagues, they still did not want to believe the find, dismissing it as “girl talk.” It took years of continued sonar data and aligning earthquake epicenters with the rift valley to convince Tharp’s colleagues that the Mid-Atlantic Ridge was an active rift valley. The first publication of the find was in 1957 and has been

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This is a painting of the Mid-Ocean Ridge with rift axis by Heinrich Berann based on the scientific profiles of Marie Tharp and Bruce Heezen (1977). deemed the turning point in geological thinking in support of continental drift and plate tectonics. In the following decades, with ever-increasing sonar technology, similar rift valleys have been found at other plate boundaries in the ocean floors of the earth. Marie Tharp passed away in 2006, but her work and maps are still in use today. The campers in Explorit’s Map It! Summer Science Camp this

Dodd’s ‘hi-lo’ evacuation warning bill clears Assembly committee Special to The Enterprise SACRAMENTO — With peak wildfire season approaching, the Assembly transportation committee today passed legislation from State Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, that would help expedite and improve emergency evacuations by authorizing municipalities across the state to use European-style “hi-lo” sirens in patrol vehicles. “This siren is absolutely essential for keeping people safe during California’s increasingly destructive wildfire seasons,” Dodd

said. “That unmistakable blast tells people to stop what they’re doing and get out now. I thank the committee for passing it today and bringing it one step closer to reality.” Existing law restricts the use of hi-lo sirens. However, a pilot program last year in Napa County showed the warning popularized in England would be highly effective in getting people to flee encroaching wildfires. The Sonoma County Sheriff ’s Office also successfully deployed the technique during the Kincaid Fire.

Senate Bill 909 allows all public safety agencies to use hi-lo warnings for evacuation purposes. It cleared the transportation committee with unanimous, bipartisan support. “When seconds count, this is the siren that has proven to get people out the fastest,” said Napa County Sheriff John Robertson. “I thank Sen. Dodd for introducing SB 909, which will greatly assist us in our continuing effort to make communities safer during disasters and other emergency situations.”

Pets of the week Special to The Enterprise Lots of animals are waiting for “forever homes” at the Yolo County Animal Shelter, 2640 E. Gibson Road in Woodland. Among them is Moose (A181883) — this silly girl is 3 years old and a little timid at first, but once she gets to know you, she will smooch and happily show you her belly for belly rubs. She is an active pup who could live with older kids.

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Moose Also looking for a good home is Kanji (A181819). He’s a huge sweetheart who loves to nestle in the crook of your neck. He is mellow for a 2-month-old and has a sensitive stomach, so he will go home with his current food. He will require changing his diet very slowly. All shelter animals are up-to-date on vaccinations, microchipped, and spayed or neutered. The shelter is closed to the public for non-emergencies but staff is available to assist at 530-668-5287 during new temporary hours: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. from Monday to Friday, and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays. For information, visit www.petfinder.com/ member/us/ca/woodland/

yolo-county-animalservices-ca283/. At Rotts of Friends Animal Rescue, you’ll find Tuck, a 1-year-old Anatolian shepherd mix. He’s big, mellow goofball who loves people, with the cutest half-masted ears. Thanks to a generous donor, Tuck is going through boot camp. Plus you will get three free private lessons, so he will be very well trained. Sheila is a super sweet 2-year-old spayed female Rottweiler who loves to be with people and plays well with nice male dogs. She needs a little work on her obedience commands but that will be easy with free obedience training classes.

The next Rotts of Friends’ adoption event is from 8 to 11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 15, at 34505 County Road 29 in Woodland. Come by 10 a.m., as it

Sheila takes at least an hour to meet and adopt a dog; everyone who will be living with the dog should come out to meet it. For more information, visit facebook.com/rotts offriends.

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How to define student success BY ROMAN STEARNS AND MARY PERRY Special to CalMatters

alifornia faces a major disruption to schooling as we’ve known it, which raises important questions for everyone involved with education in the state. What does it mean for young people to be prepared for future success? How can we anticipate their needs in a world that is so unpredictable, as we have learned over the past few months? Can existing knowledge provide educators and communities with confidence that we can equitably and holistically prepare young people for future success? Several states have been more proactive than California, answering these questions by naming the competencies that they believe young people will need to succeed in college, career and civic life. As of 2014, 35 states had defined college and career readiness. Some have gone further and created a Graduate Profile. States such as Virginia, South Carolina and New Mexico articulate a broader definition of student success because they believe that the traditional academic core, in and of itself, is not enough. Graduate Profiles differ, but generally include academic preparation plus other essential learning outcomes: ■ 21st Century skills — i.e., collaboration, critical thinking, creativity and communication. ■ Social-emotional learning outcomes — i.e., self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, responsible decision-making, adaptability, resiliency, growth mindset, empathy, etc. ■ Civic engagement — i.e., a demonstration of contribution to the local community. California is the largest and most diverse state in the nation. That makes defining student success or creating a Graduate Profile a daunting challenge. That said, back in 2012, two California-based organizations, ConnectED: The National Center for College and Career and WestEd drafted a research-based report, called “College and Career Readiness: What Does It Mean?” That was a good start and may have informed some measures of college and career readiness into the state’s reporting system. The California School Dashboard, for example, includes a College/Career Indicator that captures many measures, such as completion of a sequence of courses and performance on standardized tests. Unfortunately, the measures are limited to data that the state can easily and consistently collect from school districts. Moving forward, the state of California could blend prior efforts and create an updated definition. Such state actions will take time. Meanwhile, a growing number of California school districts are engaging their local communities to create their own Graduate Profiles based on local values and circumstances. Several of those districts are now working together, through a new partnership called Scaling Student Success, to assure that their community-wide definitions of student success play out in local classrooms. As we recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, local and state education leaders are imagining a new way forward. Now is the perfect time to reset accountability measures to align with a set of more holistic and equitable outcomes for our young people. In the near term, what if California school districts made outcomes such as creativity, self-management and resiliency a focal point of their plans for learning in the coming year? What if the state used this same opportunity to begin defining student success more broadly based on researchbased indicators, rather than limiting itself to the most accessible measures? Our young people deserve an education system that fully prepares them for the challenges ahead. We cannot allow bureaucracy, lack of imagination, or personal and organizational comfort to limit the learning outcomes and future opportunities that define success for the students we serve. Let’s take a stand and really prepare our children for the future. — Roman Stearns is founder and executive director of Scaling Student Success, a California partnership among educators, policymakers, researchers and others. Mary Perry is an independent consultant with more than 25 years of experience explaining California education policy.

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Mega-dorm fraught with problems BY EILEEN M. SAMITZ Special to The Enterprise

he University Commons redevelopment proposal is heading for a final City Council vote on Aug. 18. This project is completely out of scale for the surrounding neighborhoods and would create enormous impacts in the already heavily trafficked Russell Boulevard corridor and beyond. In addition to creating a seven-story, block-wide “wall,” the impacts from this project would negatively affect the entire community in various ways. The many problems include a “rent-by-the bed” group housing format, including four-bedroom apartments unsuitable for families. The city has approved four mega-dorms in the last few years; there’s no need for a fifth. The Planning Commission voted unanimously to reject the project and its EIR due to the reasons covered in a recent op-ed. Such a resounding denial rarely happens unless the project is exceptionally bad. Will the City Council respect the Planning Commission’s well-founded recommendation and the plethora of public input urging denial of this environmentally inferior project? The developers need to come back with a compatible project, such as the environmentally superior alternatives of either: a) retail-only, which was first sought by the developers; or b) the reduced mixed-use allowed by the current zoning for 53 apartments with retail. In any case, the council should not approve an exclusionary high-occupancy

COMMENTARY student bed rental project but instead make the developer provide traditional, smaller apartments to accommodate workforce and families. The developers were clearly receptive to downsizing and going back to the drawing board as evidenced by Sacramento Business Journal quotes such as: “Bill Brown, executive vice president for development with New York-based Brixmor, said one possibility is scaling back the project called University Commons overall, including the number of new housing units.” Will the City Council keep its previous commitment to not approve more megadorms? The developers need to be directed to redesign a scaled-down project compatible with its surroundings. If housing is included, it needs to be traditional, smaller apartments that workers or families can live in, not just students.

Inherent problems High-density housing dominates the project instead of community-serving retail. This proposal is completely out of scale for the site. Highdensity seven-story buildings would bring major impacts to nearby single-family neighborhoods. As it has evolved since early 2018, the developer’s intent to force another highdensity student housing project upon the city has become obvious. The original proposal was for 25% of the units being four-bedroom, and despite repeated requests for removal of these enormous group housing units,

the developers most recent iteration increased four-bedroom units to 45%. This means the project is not even remotely intended to meet the needs of the local workers and families, who are in desperate need of housing. This would just be yet another expensive student group housing mega-dorm, as the developers have tried to avoid including affordable housing. The other megadorms include 15%, but these developers want to do less. Local needs would be far better served by using the existing land use and zoning designation to provide up to 53 units of housing to meet the needs of our workers and families. Regarding this grouphousing format, given the COVID-19 pandemic and the fact that far fewer UCD students will be returning to campus, the last thing the city should be building is more group housing. Also, we haven’t seen the effects of the 3,888 student beds the City has approved, but not yet on line. Further, if more student housing was needed later, UCD can provide it oncampus. UCD is the largest UC with 5,300 acres and a 900-acre core-campus fully capable of providing at least 50% on-campus housing, like the other UCs.

Parking ‘plan’ can’t possibly work The parking concept is grossly insufficient and poorly designed. Only a far more scaled-down residential project parking for 53 smaller apartments could work. The shopping center now

has about 427 surface parking spaces for retail, which would be reduced to 160 spaces. A three-story garage would be added, with only 264 residual parking spaces for 894 residents, and an additional 254 retail parking spaces. However, inherent problems include that garage access and egress garage from Sycamore will cause even greater back-ups on Sycamore Lane, Russell Blvd. and beyond. Plus, the free surface parking would assuredly be raided by the residents and their visitors. Overspill parking will clearly wind up in the surrounding neighborhoods, including the adjacent medical complex. The outcome of inadequate parking spaces will be that non-student shopping center customers will decline because they won’t be able to find a parking space. Shoppers who can’t find a place to park will simply go elsewhere — even taking their retail sales tax dollars outside Davis. I strongly encourage concerned citizens to email the City Council at CityCouncil Members@cityofdavis.org before the Aug. 18th meeting and urge them to deny the inappropriate and environmentally inferior University Commons project due to the wide-range impacts it would have on our community. The developers need to be directed to pursue either the ”retail only” alternative, or the “reduced residential mixed-use” proposals, since both are compatible and are environmentally superior in many ways. For more information call 530-756-5165. — Eileen Samitz is a former city of Davis planning commissioner

LETTERS Coach Ralph Rago Bruce Galludet captured the importance of Davis’ most accomplished baseball coach, Ralph Rago. Coach Rago had an incredible 61 years coaching high school, college, American and International amateur baseball. I was privileged to play on his 1968 Davis High team which won the first undisputed league championship in school history. Mr. Rago says we might have won a Sac Joaquin Section championship that year but that playoff wasn’t yet established. Coach Rago was truly the best coach I ever played for. He drilled fundamentals into everyone and insisted that we all play up to our abilities. His motto: Anything worth doing is worth doing well. Thank you, Coach Rago. You now have the pleasure to look back on a job extremely well done. Bob DaPrato Las Vegas

The ‘E’ in this election is for all of the above “Hi is Collin available? Hi Collin I’m a volunteer for Joe Biden and Democrats up and down the ticket in Arizona.” And so we talk as he is a strong supporter. I get to the question about what matters most to him. The 10 items show up in a pop-down menu from Economy to Women’s Issues. “E, all of the above” he says. So I dutifully ask again and then we both decide that the imaginary “E-all” is the best answer and move on with a chuckle. I spoke with Collin for a while. He and his wife Janice were traveling outside of Arizona when they took my call. Collin served two tours in Vietnam. Retired

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now, he asks himself each morning, “what exactly was I fighting for considering the actions of this senate and this president? ... It’s treason. “It’s all important,” says Collin, “the most important thing of all to get this president out of there” The volunteers at Indivisible Yolo (indivisibleyolo.org) agree. Indivisible Yolo has joined hundreds of volunteers here and across the country because the answer to what matters most is “E” all of the above. There is a calendar of activities, time slots and a friendly Zoom training waiting for you so you can help save our country. Colin asked me to check the box “will volunteer.” He’s ready — how about you? Scott Ragsdale Davis

Please help us support you My family and I are doing whatever we can to support the downtown Davis businesses. Unfortunately, we have observed servers and cooks not wearing masks at three separate downtown restaurants, one of them twice, and another where a customer was allowed to enter and stay

Speak out President Hon. Donald J. Trump, The White House, Washington, D.C., 20500; 202-456-1111 (comments), 202-456-1414 (switchboard); email: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact

U.S. Senate Sen. Dianne Feinstein, 331 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20510; 202-224-3841; email: http://feinstein. senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-me Sen. Kamala Harris, 112 Hart Senate

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inside without a mask. These restaurants are now off the list of places we will patronize — our list is getting shorter and shorter. Downtown Davis businesses — we would like to support you. Please make it a little easier for us! Linda Mathew Davis

‘Security is a most seductive thing’ I came across a book review of Madeleine L’Engle’s “A Wrinkle in Time” from 2015 where L’Engle’s granddaughter found a previously unknown passage that had been cut from the published version. In the book, we see that totalitarianism can lead to a terrible evil. But in the deleted passage, L’Engle warned that evil can happen in a democracy if too much value is placed on security. The passage states, “Security is a most seductive thing. I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s the greatest evil there is.” L’Engle’s deleted passage is an apt warning for us today. Keith Redenbaugh Davis

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RAILROAD: Three alternatives to pick From Page A1 Union Pacific argued that the road configuration at the location — where Road 32A and a bike path meet Road 105 — is the primary cause of accidents there. Road 32A runs parallel to I-80 on the freeway’s north side, connecting Mace Boulevard to the Yolo Causeway. But at the Road 105 intersection, drivers traveling in either direction on the frontage road must make a right turn, cross the railroad tracks, then make a left turn to continue along. Union Pacific contended that too often, motorists overshoot the turn in the road because of speed, inattention or failure to comply with traffic signs. They lose control, leave the road and come to rest on the right-of-way near, and sometimes on, the tracks. The city of Davis and the Yolo County Board of Supervisors opposed Union Pacific’s request, however, arguing that closing the crossing would essentially close the road to vehicular traffic, including farm equipment and garbage trucks which frequently use the road, as well as commuter traffic between Davis and West Sacramento. The roadway is heavily travelled during peak commute times as drivers seek to bypass traffic on I-80. Joined by the Sacramento Area Council of Governments and the Yolo County Farm Bureau, the city and county filed protests against Union Pacific’s application and the two sides ended up in alternative dispute resolution in early 2018. Also a party to the proceedings was Bike Davis, which was granted status in the case. The nonprofit cycling advocacy group wanted to represent the interests of cyclists — as well as drivers and train passengers — that the group contends are endangered by the current crossing. That alternative dispute resolution process ultimately resulted in a memorandum of understanding reached in June 2018 in which Union Pacific agreed to withdraw its application in order to allow time to seek a longterm solution that might involve moving the crossing. The railroad retained the right to refile the application with the PUC if no solution was found. Later that year, SACOG announced a $200,000 grant, which along with $10,000 each from the city and county, would fund a relocation study. The goal: to establish alternatives and a preferred option for replacing the existing railroad crossing with a new crossing within two miles to the east. Now three preliminary alternatives have been drawn up. The first is the gradeseparated overcrossing, about a half-mile east of the current crossing, with an estimated construction cost of $18.5 million. According to the

consultants, the gradeseparated crossing would result in minimal need for new right-of-way acquisition and avoid impacting most utilities, though overhead power lines might need to be relocated. Meanwhile, the Class I bike path would be extended approximately 1.5 miles up to the new crossing location using the existing Road 32A which would otherwise be abandoned. The bike path would run under the new overcrossing and the remainder of the path from the crossing to the causeway would remain a Class II path until further development. The second alternative would relocate the atgrade crossing 1.7 miles to the east at an estimated construction cost of $6.35 million. This alternative would require extensive right-ofway acquisition and would leave remnant farmland between the new Road 32A and the railroad tracks that would be difficult to continue farming. The roadway would be raised approximately 7.5 feet using retaining walls to cross the railroad at grade and the Class I bike path would be extended approximately 2.1 miles using the existing Road 32A roadway. The bike path would pass under the new Road 32A alignment through a large culvert pipe. The third alternative would relocate the atgrade crossing approximately 1.6 miles east with an estimated construction cost of $5.35 million. This option requires a new right-of-way but allows for farming to be feasible on either side of Road 32A. As with the second alternative, the bike path would be extended 2.1 miles using the existing Road 32A and the path would pass under the new Road 32A. The intersection with Road 105 would move about .4 miles north of the current crossing. All of the design alternatives, as well as additional information, are available at https://www. yolocounty.org/community-services/publicworks-division/ project-updates. Written comments about the alternatives may be submitted until 5 p.m. on Sept. 4 by emailing Todd.Riddiough@ yolocounty.org or mailed to Yolo County Department of Community Services, Public Works Division, Attention: Todd Riddiough, 292 W. Beamer Street, Woodland, CA 95695. The county will hold an online open house on Aug. 31 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. where participants can provide verbal feedback and ask questions of the project team. A link to the Zoom meeting will be available on the project webpage (https://www. yolocounty.org/community-services/publicworks-division/ project-updates) —Reach Anne TernusBellamy ataternus@ davisenterprise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.

SCHOOL: Ready to work From Page A1 materials,” he added. At the time he started working at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, he expected to be commuting by train (using a bicycle for the last leg of the trip). “But I’m now working fulltime remotely,” he said.

Cullen is married, and his wife is working on a master’s degree and teaching credential at UCD. Cullen said is a “bike advocate and an outdoor enthusiast,” which is part of what attracted him to this community. — Reach Jeff Hudson at jhudson@davisenterprise. net or 530-747-8055.

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COVID: County still reconciling data From Page A1 of some 300,000 cases statewide. The California Department of Public Health reported Monday that the issues in the CalREDIE disease registry system had been resolved but that it would likely take several days for the backlog of cases to clear. All told, 169 new cases were reported by the county between Monday and Thursday. In the last two weeks, Yolo County has reported 417 new cases, 18 new hospitalizations and four deaths. As of Thursday, 18 county residents were in the hospital being treated for COVID-19, according to Tan. Since the pandemic began, Yolo County has reported 1,927 cases of COVID-19, 146 hospitalizations and 45 deaths. The city of Davis, which reported three new cases on Thursday, accounts for 216 (or just 11 percent) of the county’s total cases, as well as eight of the hospitalizations and one death. The city of Woodland accounts for 43 percent of all cases as well as 54 hospitalizations and 25 deaths (all but three of which occurred in longterm care facilities) while West Sacramento accounts for 29 percent of cases as well as 61 hospitalizations and 12 deaths. Meanwhile, unincorporated areas of Yolo County

account for 12 percent of cases, 19 hospitalizations and seven deaths, while the city of Winters has reported less than 5 percent of the county’s cases and four hospitalizations. ———— Yolo County libraries — closed since Aug. 4 after a staff member was exposed to COVID-19 — will resume some services on Friday. County spokeswoman Jenny Tan said both curbside and phone-in services would be available beginning Friday and additional information would be made available on the library website, https:// yolocountylibrary.org. County libraries — including the Stephens Branch Library in Davis — were closed last Tuesday after a staff member who did not work with the public but did interact with other library staff, was exposed to the novel coronavirus. After consulting with county health officials, the library suspended activities and implemented mitigation measures. ———— The Davis Food Co-op was informed Wednesday that an employee had tested positive for COVID19. In an announcement issued Thursday, the Co-op said the employee works out of the office space attached to the Teaching

Kitchen across the street from the Co-op. “Per (Centers for Disease Control) requirements and our in-store positive test protocol, we immediately called the Yolo County public health office to notify them of the situation,” the announcement said. “We have followed standard guidance for closure of that space and a deep clean with disinfection of the entire Teaching Kitchen and adjacent offices. “Any Co-op staff from the Teaching Kitchen building who have been in direct contact with the employee have also been sent home to self-isolate until they reach the end of their quarantine period, a total of 14 days.” The announcement added that the Co-op has been proactive and continuously committed “to providing a safe shopping experience by minimizing worker contact, maintaining six-feet distances as best possible, wearing masks, and constantly sanitizing all areas of the Co-op that workers and customers access.” ———— More COVID-19 testing is coming to Davis. OptumServe, which has been providing testing in Woodland and West Sacramento since the spring, will operate out of the Davis Senior Center from Aug. 25 to Sept. 30. Testing at the senior

center, 646 A St., will be open to all California residents regardless of documentation status and is by appointment only Tuesdays through Saturdays from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Appointment slots are available by the week and open the Thursday before. To schedule an appointment, call 888-634-1123 or visit https://lhi.care/covidtesting. All ages are welcome. For those who do not have health insurance, the cost of the test will be covered by the state. If residents have health insurance, their provider will be billed with no outof-pocket cost. Participants must wear a face covering and practice social distancing at the senior center. Test results typically come back within a week of receipt from the lab, however, there may be some delays in getting results due to high demand and a testing backlog statewide, the county said. The testing previously scheduled for the senior center on Aug. 27 has been canceled since the OptumServe testing will begin Aug. 25 at the same location. — Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@ davisenterprise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.

VACCINE: ‘Historic’ study Field of candidates set aims for October approval for school board election From Page A1 center announced Wednesday in a press release. “This upcoming COVI19 vaccine clinical trial is a historic opportunity for the UC Davis School of Medicine and our community at large to directly have a hand in preventing the spread of COVID-19 and potentially save lives across the globe,” said Allison Brashear, dean of the UC Davis School of Medicine. “We are uniquely positioned to help with a possible breakthrough due to our clinical trials expertise, ability to recruit for clinical trials quickly, and track record of outreach to minority communities,” added David Lubarsky, vice chancellor of human health sciences and chief executive officer for UC Davis Health. According to the press release, people at high risk of being infected with the virus, such as health care employees and essential workers in the service sector are considered ideal candidates for the vaccine study. People from ethnic and racial groups that have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19, such as Black people and Latinos, are especially encouraged to participate in the trial. All candidates should be healthy and between the ages of 18 and 85. “By volunteering, you will represent people like you – in age, gender, race, ethnicity, and the communities where you live. Involving people from all backgrounds will improve the development of this vaccine for everyone,” the UC Davis Health webpage for the study states. Participants will be paid $120 for each completed study visit, with six study visits planned in total. The clinical trial at UC Davis Health will be led by principal investigator Timothy Albertson, chair of the UC Davis Health internal medicine department and leading expert in pulmonary and critical care medicine, and co-principal investigator Angela Haczku, associate dean for translational research.

Participants enrolled in the study will be randomly assigned either the investigational vaccine or a placebo, both of which will be given by injection. The assignment will be made by a computer with neither the doctor nor the participant’s knowledge. Each participant will receive two injections about three weeks apart and have several follow-up visits. “Although there are a number of COVID-19 vaccine candidates worldwide, this one differs because it utilizes a novel modified mRNA (messenger ribonucleic acid), which includes a piece of the genetic code of SARSCoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19,” Haczku said. “We are very excited, as this is the first time in history that mRNA-based vaccines are used against an infectious disease. Based on the promising results of preliminary trials, we expect to see protection of vaccinated individuals against COVID-19,” Haczku continued. The trial, which is known as a phase 2/3 study, will seek to determine the efficacy and side effects of a single nucleoside-modified messenger RNA (modRNA) candidate from their BNT162 mRNAbased vaccine program. “The vaccine candidate has undergone rigorous evaluation in the United States and Germany and has previously shown significant positive results,” the UC Davis Health press release stated. Pfizer and BioNTech selected vaccine study sites based on each medical center’s world-class research experience, infrastructure, and nearby concentrations of COVID-19 cases. The two companies began the late-stage phase 2/3 study on July 27, when the first of the 120 sites were enlisted to begin enrolling trial participants. According to the press release, Pfizer and BioNTech have said they are on track to seek regulatory review as early as October if the vaccine candidate’s success continues.

BY JEFF HUDSON

Enterprise staff writer The candidate filing period for three seats on the Davis school board that will be at stake in the Nov. 3 election closed on Wednesday, and the lineup of contending candidates is now established. There Davis school board seats on the November ballot are: ■ Trustee Area 2, representing areas in North Davis, Wildhorse, and the neighborhood north of Loyola Drive between Pole Line Road and Monarch Lane. Lea Darrah is the only candidate who filed for the seat; she is therefore running unopposed. This seat has a four-year term. ■ Trustee Area 5, representing El Macero and some other portions of

South Davis, as well as the core area of the UC Davis campus. Two candidates are contending for the seat — Cecilia EscamillaGreenwald (who filed on July 17) and Betsy Hyder (who filed on Aug. 12), This seat has a four-year term. ■ The at-large seat representing the entire school district, which had a fouryear term originally when trustee Cindy Pickett was elected in 2018. Pickett moved out of town during the summer, so the candidate elected in November will serve through late 2022. Two candidates are contending for this at-large seat: Vigdis Asmundson (who filed candidacy papers on July 24) and Andrew Cullen (who filed on Aug. 5).

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by teleconference, without a physical location from which members of the public may observe and offer public comment. Information on how to observe the meeting and offer public comment electronically or telephonically will be included in the meeting agenda. Please contact the City Clerk’s Office or Department of Community Development and Sustainability for the approximate time this item will be heard. Project Name: University Research Park Project Location: 1770 Research Park Drive Applicant: Fulcrum Properties, David Nystrom File Number: PA#18-21, General Plan Amendment #03-18, PPD #03-18 Final Planned Development, Design Review, Lot Line Adjustment

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City of Davis Notice of Public Hearing The City of Davis Planning Commission will conduct a public hearing on the project application, as described below, at a meeting beginning at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, August 26, 2020 in the Community Chambers, City Offices, 23 Russell Boulevard, Davis, California. In accordance with Executive Order N-33-20 and N-29-20, this meeting may be conducted electronically or

Project Description: The proposed project includes an amendment to re-designate the property from General Commercial to Mixed Use; to Amend Planned Development 3-84 to create and apply a Mixed Use zone within the Planned Development; and a Final Planned Development, a Lot Line Adjustment, and an Architectural and Site Plan review for a mixed use project consisting of four buildings, each with four floors of residential apartment units over one floor of non-residential space. The 160 dwelling units would include 32 studio units, 96 one-bedroom units, and 32 two-bedroom units. The project would provide 138,431 square feet of residential

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space and 26,912 square feet of open plan tech/office space. The maximum building height would be 60 feet. This project will sit on a re-configured parcel approximately 4.5 acres in size. To service the apartments and tech space, the site will contain 214 parking spaces and 216 bike parking spaces – 148 long-term bike spaces within the buildings and 68 short-term bike parking spaces scattered throughout the site. Finally, there will be 40,100 square feet of open space within the project.

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and-committees/planning-commission/ agendas. Staff reports for the public hearing are generally available five (5) days prior to the hearing date and may be available by contacting the project planner.

Public Comments: All interested parties are invited to participate in the meeting electronically or by teleconference, or send written comments to Sherri Metzker, Project Planner, City of Davis, Department of Community Development and The proposed project is subject to the Sustainability, 23 Russell Boulevard, Suite review and approval of the City Council. 2, Davis, California, 95616; or via email Recommendations of the Planning at smetzker@cityofdavis.org, no later Commission are advisory to the Council. than noon the date of the meeting. For questions, please call the project planner at (530) 757-5610, extension 7230. Environmental Determination: The City has determined that the proposed project qualifies as a Transit The City does not transcribe its Priority Project under the California Public proceedings. Persons who wish to Resources Code (PRC) Section 21155 obtain a verbatim record should arrange and a Sustainable Communities Project for attendance by a court reporter or under PRC Section 21155.1. Therefore, for some other acceptable means of the project is exempt from the California recordation. Such arrangements will Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). The be at the sole expense of the person proposed project is also exempt from requesting the recordation. CEQA as an infill project pursuant to PRC If you challenge the action taken on this Section 21094.5. matter in court, the challenge may be limited to raising only those issues raised Availability of Documents: Additional information pertaining to at the public hearing described in this the project is available for review at the notice, or in written correspondence to Department of Community Development the Director of Community Development and Sustainability, Planning Division, and Sustainability or City Clerk at, or prior 23 Russell Boulevard, Davis, California, to, the public hearing. 95616. Staff reports are available through the city’s website at: https:// Ashley Feeney, Assistant City Manager 935 cityofdavis.org/city-hall/commissions- 8/14

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PRISONS: Inmates cast adrift without support services From Page A1 hotel room, Scull did step out once: “I went to In and Out. Wow, it was great,” he said. Nonprofits, county probation officials and state officials weren’t prepared to deal with the influx of people released into motels, group homes and the community. “I had friends out there protesting saying, ‘Let them all out.’ I said, ‘You don’t understand. There’s no system outside that can handle this,’” said Judith Tata, executive director of the California Reentry Program, which provides parole and pre-release services to inmates at San Quentin. “We have people who are transient when they’re arrested. They’re mentally ill, have substance abuse issues and we’re releasing them early to no social services.” Tata said her program got letters from people in prison asking for help connecting with services on the outside, but by the time they could respond, the men were already out. The prison outbreak began in late May, when the corrections department transferred sick inmates from the California Institution for Men in Chino to San Quentin and other facilities. Nearly 9,500 inmates were released from state prisons from July 1 through Aug. 6; almost half were early releases, according to the corrections department. “We just did not have this infrastructure in place,” said Sam Lewis, executive director of the Anti-Recidivism Coalition, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit. “This happened so fast and the successes have been because many of the community-based organizations have been doing this

with their own resources.” His organization estimates that it costs $650 to transport a single person to a housing facility, including mileage, a meal, protective equipment, clothing and employee wages. Private donors helped pay for it, but more state funding is now becoming available, he said. “This has been going on forever,” Tata said. “What this pandemic has done is highlight the inadequacies in the system.” As of this week, nearly 9,000 California prisoners have tested positive for the virus and more than 50 have died, according to the corrections department. The 2,200 infected at San Quentin is equivalent to more than two-thirds of its current population.

has been testing all inmates “no more than seven days before their release,” Simas said. “In addition to lab testing, we are also conducting point-of-care rapid response COVID-19 testing before an individual’s release.”

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Disease traps Prisons are a uniquely dangerous place for spread of the disease. U.S. prisoners tested positive at more than five times the rate of the general public, according to a July study co-authored by the UCLA Law COVID-19 Behind Bars Data Project. “You had people who were sitting ducks,” said Sharon Dolovich, a law professor who runs the data project. “You have lots of vulnerable people who need to get out. Then you have an underfunded and overworked reentry side.” But ultimately, she said, the state had to stop the outbreak even if it meant difficult days for reentry providers. “When the house is on fire you get people out,” Dolovich said, repeating a line she heard from a colleague. “You don’t keep someone in a burning house to wait for them to have a place to land.” Former inmates from a

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Scull says he always carries a mask with him but worries about wearing it in the community because he fears people will think he’s trying to conceal his identity. facility with an outbreak are supposed to quarantine for two weeks, often in a hotel room, before going to transitional housing or into the community. “For public health reasons, we cannot place anyone who is COVID-19 positive or is identified as being exposed into a reentry program in the community,” Dana Simas, a department spokeswoman, said in an emailed response to questions. The department relies on nonprofits and community organizations to provide reentry programs and is expanding its contracts with them, Simas said. There’s also state funding for the extra housing needs. There has been some

concern about the possibility that former inmates could spread the virus through communities. But corrections department officials said they can’t force former prisoners to stay in quarantine. “CDCR is not authorized to mandate a quarantine as a special condition of parole because it does not relate to criminal conduct or future criminality,” Simas said. CalMatters reached out to public health departments in California’s 10 most populous counties about the tracking of former inmates. Half responded and said they had no indication of community spread connected to the releases. The state since mid-July

CalMatters spoke to two former prisoners released just before those protocols went into effect. Both said they were not tested within a week before their release. Chanthon Bun, 41, said he refused to be tested before getting out of San Quentin because he was worried it could delay his release. The testing site was so packed that if he didn’t have the virus he was worried he’d catch it while there. Bun got out in July on his regular parole date. At the time, he said he had symptoms of the virus for several days, including a fever and chills. “Everyone in my building in San Quentin had COVID,” Bun said. Bun, a Cambodian refugee who was worried about getting picked up by federal immigration authorities after his release, said he turned down the offer of a hotel room to quarantine and instead hopped a bus to San Francisco. There he said he met up with advocates and his attorney who took him to get a coronavirus test — he was positive — and then to a Bay Area church where he has been holed up recuperating. “I really thought I was going to die,” he said. After weeks of 105-degree fevers and trouble breathing, he has finally tested negative. Another prisoner, James Wortham, who spent 35 years behind bars, said if it wasn’t for the nonprofit California Reentry Insti-

tute, he would have been lost after getting out. The institute helped him get a social security card and birth certificate and provided emotional support during the transition. Wortham, 54, worked in the prison hospital but was only tested for the coronavirus twice, and the last negative test was more than two weeks before he got out in early July. “When I left, they did not test me at all,” he said. Collette Carroll, executive director and president of the California Reentry Institute, said a parole officer was going to send one man to a reentry house. When she told him that he was COVID-positive, he was sent to quarantine at a hotel instead. “There’s just so much confusion,” she said. Local probation departments also are supervising many of the people getting out of prisons. The Los Angeles County Probation Department supervised about 700 new people last month as a result of the prison releases. In Contra Costa County, the Probation Department received 38 expedited releases to supervise since July. The officers have at times had to pick up people from the prisons, possibly exposing the officers to the virus. In late July, Scull moved to transitional housing in the Bay Area so he could be closer to his substance abuse sponsors, life coaches and employment network. But his freedom was recently curtailed again, when the house went into quarantine for its own outbreak of the virus. Scull brought a unique perspective to the new shelter-inplace life of a pandemic. “I’m used to being confined,” he said. “It’s not as big a deal to me.”

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Residential exterior under $50,000 The clients wanted to move the side entrance of this home to its original location in the front. City approval was contingent on returning specific historic architectural details, including replacing the brick columns with historically accurate wood columns and installing doors and windows more in line with the 1910 era when the house was built. “In New Orleans, we are very sensitive to preserving the historic character of our houses, so this was an important goal for both the homeowners and the city,” said Chris Kornman of Entablature, LLC in New Orleans. “We learned that history often directs the design

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The goal of this project was to integrate a kitchen, dining and mudroom addition with an open floor plan to accommodate large gatherings while maintaining an intimate spatial feel. Varied ceiling treatments, including a coffered living room, a smooth kitchen ceiling and a custom vaulted dining room ceiling helped differentiate the spaces. “We encountered some interesting structural challenges that involved a complex weaving and concealing of steel beams

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On-trend kitchen and bathroom upgrades Special to The Enterprise

itchens and bathrooms remain among the top picks for homeowners looking to upgrade because their functional contributions to the household can’t be overstated and they typically provide high return on investment. If you’re considering a renovation project for either in-demand space, consider some of these on-trend ideas from Doug King, owner of King Contracting, Inc. and president of the National Association of the Remodeling Industry.

Kitchen ■ Bigger functional spaces: Not only do many kitchen renovations result in added square footage, they also add practical features to make living and entertaining more comfortable and enjoyable. When it comes to physical space, a popular choice is removing or relocating walls to make the room larger. This added space can be instrumental in adding an island or peninsula for bar seating, which many homeowners view as a necessity when it comes to

entertaining. Other features like icemakers, tall wine refrigerators and walk-in pantries are high on the frequent request list. Another growing trend is a kitchen designed for two, complete with a second full-size sink, dishwasher and microwave drawer, along with a larger island. ■ Clever storage: Making the most of storage space has always been a top desire, and homeowners are getting increasingly clever about how to maximize their cabinetry. Drawer organizers are in high demand, along with pull-out waste baskets that hide recycling bins within. Another popular approach is large base cabinets with pivoting shelving mechanisms for storing large items like mixers and other taller countertop appliances. Making use of every inch of space is common; even the toe-kick area for drawers are proving useful to hold smaller items or put kid-friendly essentials in easy reach. ■ Feature-rich appliances: Appliance manufacturers are adding all kinds of bells and whistles, and those features are increasingly attractive to homeowners.

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A kitchen renovation can result in added square footage and also add practical features to make living more comfortable. Upper-end appliances are becoming more mainstream as homeowners discover features the more expensive models offer for ease of use and comfort. Larger freezer and columnstyle refrigerators are especially growing in popularity.

Bathroom ■ Spa-like setting: One long-term trend that is still in top demand for the master bath is a design that mimics a serene spa. This plays out in cooler colors like white, blues and grays. Glass tiles are taking on a bigger role with many homeowners using them as artistic focal points in showers or opting for pebble-like tiles that spill from walls onto the floor. ■ Upscale practicality: Little touches that may have once gone unnoticed

are now trending as opportunities to add elements of style. For example, curbless showers with offset lineal drains are preferred to traditional centered circular versions. Similarly, homeowners are upping the ante with lighting such as fixtures integrated with fans and mirrors, and even below floating vanities for ambient light at night. One more place you might find lighting: on the bidet, which is also an increasingly hot addition

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Something great you can only get here ■ Note: The Yolo County Fair, usually scheduled for mid-August, was canceled for 2020. Here’s a reminder from 2019 of something we can all look forward to next year.

ometimes I forget how lucky I am to live in this beautiful, bountiful and wonderfully diverse community that became mine over 23 years ago. It’s not that I don’t appreciate my good fortune to be here. But, inexcusably, it’s easy to take for granted how unique and special it is to live in this place with the richest soil, the most beautiful landscape and the loveliest people; this place just west of the state capital and east of the Sonoma and Napa Valleys, tucked between the majestic Sierra and the Pacific Ocean. Lucky for me, every third week in August, just as I begin to long for the summer thunderstorms of my native Montana and to doubt I can endure another 104-degree day or stifling evening without a sea breeze, I am gifted with a five-day, fun-filled, educational and enlightening immersion into all that is wonderful about Yolo County. And I remember how lucky I am. Today, the gates of the largest and oldest freeadmission fair in California will open to welcome us to a grand display of the best of Yolo County: the best livestock raised by our local FFA and 4H chapters; the best backyard gardeners, producing blueribbon pumpkins and monster zucchini; the best bakers with the chewiest

brownies and award-winning chocolate chip cookies (don’t eat the displays, please) and the best quilters with creations that will be treasured for years into the future. The entryway to the Yolo County Fair is the Midway, with all the flash and dazzle and sensory overload of a red carpet entrance to a Hollywood pageant. Although none of these attractions have much to do with Yolo County, this “red carpet” will thrill you with the blinking lights and whirring motors of the carnival rides and the carney calls to come toss dimes into their coffee cups or throw darts at balloons. Win a goldfish or a 4-foot-tall teddy bear. Take your life into your hands with a ride on the Zipper or the Hi-Roller (which we noticed a few years ago was propped up by a twofoot-high stack of scrap two-by-fours. During the ride, the stack would shimmy and shift. But, not to worry, when I asked the ride operator about it, he told me he straightened the stack after every ride). Thrilling, for sure. And then there’s the food: the deep-fried Twinkies, at the south end of the fairgrounds, next to the Flying Bobs ride; the roasted corn-on-the-cob at the corner where you turn to enter the exhibition

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My favorite attraction at the Yolo County Fair is the Holy Rosary taco booth. My family and I can’t get enough of those tacos. halls, the cotton candy and the corn dogs and the giant lemonades. So much good food. Which brings me to the point of this column. My favorite attraction at the Yolo County Fair — more than the Hall of Flowers, more than my kid’s third-place watercolor, more than the Fun House (that is actually fun) — is the Holy Rosary taco booth. I love those tacos. In fact, my family and I can’t get enough of those tacos. Literally, the most shameful moment of Bob Dunning’s life was the time he stood in line to purchase tacos for our hungry family of six and returned with only 24 tacos. We sent him back into the line to get 24 more. I love those tacos, and

that is why, on Monday morning, I drove to Woodland, to Holy Rosary Church’s Tumulty Hall, to learn more about how these tacos were made. I went to observe the operation and ask a few questions. I ended up in a hair net and an apron, shuttling hundreds of tacos in foil pans from the assembly tables to the cooling tables. It was fun and fascinating and an honor to be a tiny part of such an impressive, well-organized, wellintentioned operation. At one point, as I looked at boxes containing 5,000 pounds of fresh tomatoes on wire racks, I asked if they were local (what a ridiculous question) and the reply was quick: “Yes, of course. We picked them last night.” “You mean you picked them up last night, right?”

“No. We picked them last night.” “Wait. Do you mean you picked them from the field? Off the vine?” “Yes!” These volunteers had been working since 5 a.m., following a night of picking 5,000 pounds of tomatoes from the field of a generous Yolo County farmer. At the 2019 Yolo County Fair you will see the very best of Yolo County. And, if you eat a Holy Rosary Famous Taco, you will find that they are the best. Not because they are the most delicious tacos in the world, although they might be. And not because they are the biggest or most unusual or endorsed by the most famous celebrity or influencer of the day. The Holy Rosary Tacos

are the best because 400 volunteers work together to make 44,000 of them. Because they went into the tomato field to pick 5,000 pounds of tomatoes. Because the salsa is homemade. Because people woke up at 5 a.m. to warm tortillas, brown the meat and assemble the tacos and they will do that every day of the fair, providing tacos for the next day. They are the best because everyone wears hair nets and plastic gloves and aprons in a church kitchen on a day that is 102 degrees. Because there are sweet, funny teenagers who took the time to welcome me and show me how to “flip” the tacos as they cool and then pack them for transport to the fair. Because every taco needs three toothpicks to secure it (multiply that by 44,000 tacos). Because at the end of the shift, everyone is still smiling and having fun. The Yolo County Fair begins today. If you need to be reminded of all the things to love about Yolo County or you just need to eat a good taco, I hope you’ll drive 10 miles north to the Yolo County Fairgrounds on Gibson Road . I don’t often offer advice, but making an exception for Fair Week, in the words of Hunter Thompson, “Buy the ticket, take the ride.” Or, more simply, “Eat the tacos.” — Shelley Dunning is a Davis resident and a mom of four. Reach her at dunningsm@gmail. com.

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y current obsession: The garage door. Not mine — I don’t have a garage — but the generic garage door. This preoccupation is entirely the fault of COVID; in my former life (you know, prelockdown) I either walked the greenbelt (now too crowded for comfort) or set off on one of the two possible routes from North Davis to downtown, routes with only the occasional garage door. On my new routes, garage doors loom large. Often they dwarf their house and detract from the neighborhood charm. They tend to be composed of beige or white plastic (colors that amplify their size) with busily ridged panels and sometimes weird windows architecturally at odds with the house itself. But the strangest thing about them is that the house’s cars (usually at least two) are parked in front of said doors rather than behind them. (Garage: noun. a building or indoor area for parking or storing motor vehicles. When is a garage not a garage?) Behind them lives a gigantic storage space. When said doors happen to be open, I see bicycles and tools, yes, but most often shelves and shelves of Stuff. Piles and piles of Stuff. Boxes and boxes of Stuff. (Although I like to imagine those boxes filled with good wine, I hope they’re not — a Davis summer would strip them of any vestige of drinkability). Floor-to-ceiling Stuff.

So I begin to think of us not only as a nation of cars but as a nation of Stuff. I belong to that nation. If I did have a garage, it would no doubt accumulate Stuff without my even noticing, much like what happens to my little storage closet and my tiny pantry and the out-of-the-way nooks and crannies in the kitchen cabinets. The most frightening thing about Stuff is its persistence. Even when we get rid of it, we’re not really rid of it (or its packaging) — it lingers out there somewhere, most likely in a dump, aggravating our climate woes. It outlives us in all the worst ways. One of the things I most appreciate about food and wine is their friendlier and more benign persistence. They nourish body and spirit and then move on, mostly of their own accord. Scraps and leftovers can be used to make other meals. Leftover leftovers can be composted and made into soil to grow more food. Wine bottles can be recycled. And while at some times of the

week, the fridge, pantry, and wine rack are filled to the brim, cooking and eating quickly empty them to make room, almost magically, for the next round. I’m sure there are folks whose supply of canned beans and stored wine will outlive them, but most of us go through our stock weekly or monthly. Out with the old! Room for the new! This month’s favorite “new” (aside from enormous quantities of tomatoes, eggplant, corn, peaches, plums and other delights of the season) is a completely charming and irresistible sparkler, whose grape will probably surprise you — 100% lambrusco. In the old days (think centuries ago), families and restaurateurs (like Cleto Chiarli, proprietor of Osteria dell-Artigliere) in the Modena area made their own wine with this local grape. If sparkling, they used the slow “ancestral” method, which created a dry, bubbly, cloudy wine since it continued to ferment in the bottle, a bottle that after its winter rest went directly to the table. Later, though, Cleto’s descendants began to use the easier, faster, more predictable Charmat method — the wine fermented in vats, filtered and bottled most often with lots of residual sugar. Hence the lambrusco of my youth — alcoholic soda pop. Cheap, too. I gave it up after my

first try, and it took some convincing for me to reconsider. In the early part of the 21st century (which I think is the one we’re in now), Cierlo’s greatgrandsons, Mauro and Anselmo Chiarli, decided to move away from mass market and back to a more artisanal product. Today they make lambruscos by various methods, but most interestingly have returned to the ancestral method with one of their wines — the Lambrusco di Sorbara del Fondatore. This 2018 is rosecolored rather than red and filled with cherry and berry flavors and a hint of lemon and orange peel. Nicely structured, it’s alive and food-friendly. And delicious. I drank it with a wonderfully seasonal dish — creamy corn pasta with basil. (Easy to find recipe, which calls for no cream at all, online.) The contrast of the bright yellow sauce (I used the more deeply flavored yellow corn) with the lovely rose of the bubbles was as delightful as the pairing itself. At $20 (for what is essentially a pet nat) an excellent bargain. A second recent addition to those self-emptying racks comes from the Savoie, one of my favorite regions for easy-going, affordable whites. It’s the 2018 Domaine Labbé “Abymes” ($15), made from the native jacquère grape. One critic said this Abymes “might just be the brightest, crispest, most refreshing white wine that you’ve ever

tasted.” Maybe so. In any case, it’s pitch-perfect for summer, filled with citrus and apple and pear and characteristic Savoie minerality. Like the lambrusco, this Abymes is just 11.5% alcohol and perfect as an accompaniment to simple summer suppers. Equally perfect as a simple summer patio sipper. Add a few crackers and some French cheese or charcuterie, and you’ve been transported to a little cafe in the French countryside (not a garage door in sight) in the safest, easiest way possible. The only way possible — France doesn’t want us right now. Both wines are available from The Pip in Dixon, which you can easily visit; if, as I am, you’re sticking close to home right now, proprietor Amy Grabish will deliver them to your door. Visit her website; buy a case. After all, so much better to spend money in a struggling shop that supports struggling winemakers who support the struggling environment than spending it on yet another delivery of garagedestined Stuff from Amazon (which is definitely not struggling itself and is offering little support to either its struggling workers or our struggling planet). — Susana Leonardi is a Davis resident; reach her at vinosusana @gmail.com. Comment on this column at www.davisenterprise. com.

Local students graduate and makes dean’s list at their universities Enterprise staff Boston University awarded academic degrees to 6,927 students in May 2020. Receiving degrees were Monica Chowdary, M.D., and Hannah Puckett, with a master’s degree in environmental health, both of Davis. Founded in 1839, Boston University is an internationally recognized institution of higher education and research.

NAME DROPPERS Consisting of 16 schools and colleges, BU offers students more than 250 programs of study in science and engineering, social science and humanities, health science, the arts, and other professional disciplines. With more than 33,000 students, BU is the fourthlargest private university in the country.

———— Two Davis residents, Ryan W. Everitt and Zoe M. Senter, have recently been named to the dean’s list at Boston University for the spring semester. Each school and college at Boston University has their own criterion for the dean’s list, but students generally must attain a 3.5 grade-point average (on a 4.0 scale), or be in the top 30 percent of their class, as well as a full course load as

a full-time student. Founded in 1839, Boston University is an internationally recognized institution of higher education and research. Consisting of 16 schools and colleges, BU offers students more than 250 programs of study in science and engineering, social science and humanities, health science, the arts, and other professional disciplines. With more than 33,000 students, BU is the

fourth-largest private university in the country. ———— Jordan Holmes of Woodland has graduated from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis. The Lawrence community gathered virtually in mid-June for a Commencement celebration unlike any other in the school’s 171-year history. Held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic that moved Spring Term classes

to distance learning, the ceremony celebrated the accomplishments of nearly 270 Lawrentians in the Class of 2020. Holmes earned a bachelor’s degree with a major in psychology. Founded in 1847, Lawrence University integrates a college of liberal arts and sciences with a nationally recognized conservatory of music, both devoted exclusively to undergraduate education.

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‘The Secret: Dare to Dream’ Starring: Katie Holmes, Josh Lucas, Jerry O’Connell, Celia Weston, Sarah Hoffmeister, Aidan Pierce Brennan and Chloe Lee Rating: PG, for no particular reason

BY DERRICK BANG Enterprise film critic I’m always wary of films that open in the celestial heavens, somewhere above Earth, and slowly swoop down through clouds to finally hover above the intended setting; it’s invariably a cue that the filmmakers want us to think what follows will be significant. Instead, what we usually get is cloying, affected and ponderously melodramatic: guaranteed to induce skeptical raised eyebrows and long-suffering sighs. Director Andy Tennant’s handling of “The Secret: Dare to Dream” — available via Apple TV — skirts the ragged edge of such syrupy twaddle; there’s a definite sense that we’ve been dumped into an excessively mawkish Nicholas Sparks novel. Happily, this film is saved by warmly earnest performances from Katie Holmes and Josh Lucas — even if the latter gets stuck with some wincingly corny dialogue. Widowed single mother Miranda Wells (Holmes) works as a manager/food buyer for a family-friendly New Orleans restaurant run by Tucker (Jerry O’Connell), who clearly loves her. Alas, Miranda’s competence on the job isn’t matched by similar care given to her personal life, which is in shambles. She’s short of cash and forever late with bills; she dropped her dental insurance and now can’t afford to get a necessary root canal; and the roof leaks in her crumbling home, also badly in need of countless other minor repairs. She endures this with the resignation of one who, to quote Marilyn Monroe, always winds up with the fuzzy end of the lollypop. Miranda is one of those people who, if she didn’t have bad luck, would have no luck at all. She has three doting children, who nonetheless are a bit of a handful. Adolescent Greg (Aidan Pierce Brennan) shares his late

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As the story builds to its climax, Miranda (Katie Holmes, left) and her children — from left, Greg (Aidan Pierce Brennan), Missy (Sarah Hoffmeister) and Bess (Chloe Lee) — are about to discover the contents of a mysterious envelope. father’s fascination with building gadgets; young Bess (Chloe Lee) really, really, really wants a pony. Teenage Missy (Sarah Hoffmeister) pouts constantly, knowing that her upcoming 16th birthday party will be ruined by a more popular girl hosting a party on the same day. Enter amiable Bray Johnson (Lucas) who drives into town on a mission: to deliver the contents of a large manila envelope to Miranda, a woman he’s never met. Fate arranges a spontaneous introduction when she accidentally rear-ends his truck while (naturally) driving carelessly. Amazingly, he isn’t angry; the front of her car took the sole damage, which he graciously offers to repair. She accepts; he follows her home. (I know what you’re thinking, and you have a point. How many “stranger danger” scenarios like this have we seen? But this isn’t that sort of film, so you gotta just roll with it, however ludicrously unlikely it seems.) Bray proves every bit as kind and generous as he seems; the vehicular repair is simple, and young Greg is delighted to help. But the evolving dynamic is so

laden with expectation that Bray can’t bring himself to give Miranda the envelope. He departs after they all share a pizza — which arrived unexpectedly, as if in magical response to the three kids’ pleas for just such a dinner. At about this point, it’s tempting to think we’ve got an entry in the Christian cinema genre. Not quite. This actually is a “faith film” totally devoid of religious content, inspired by Australian author Rhonda Byrne’s 2006 self-help book, “The Secret.” She’s a proponent of a growing fascination in what has been dubbed the “Law of Attraction”: the notion that positive (or negative) thinking is an invisible power and that like attracts like. (While I’m a great believer in the power of positive thinking, and agree that the world would be a better place if we greeted each other with more gratitude and kindness, I draw the line at the notion that this is “pure energy,” a palpable force akin to magnetism. That’s just pseudoscience twaddle.) Anyway ... Hurricane Hazel is about to blow through the city; Miranda

and the kids go to bed without bothering to install storm windows. (Seriously?!? Who doesn’t do that?) The resulting damage proves much worse than some broken glass, when a huge tree branch crashes through the roof above the kitchen — which Bray also offers to repair, at no cost aside from materials. He finally justifies his kindness by explaining his belief in the “positive thinking” attitude that changed his life at some earlier point in time. Lucas, bless him, does his best with lines that sound like they were written for Obi-Wan Kenobi. But this is only half the equation; by now, we know that Bray also is motivated by something having to do with the contents of that envelope. At private moments, unseen by others, Lucas gives him a pensive, brooding bearing. This is a man with A Secret (hence the film’s title). By this point, his behavior has aroused suspicion in both Tucker and Miranda’s mother-in-law, Bobby (Celia Weston), both of whom wonder what the heck is up with this guy. In fairness, what follows goes down more smoothly than you’d

expect, thanks to the engaging character dynamics of all involved. These people feel authentic. The scripters — Bekah Brunstetter, Rick Parks and Tennant — take their time crafting the evolving relationship between Miranda and Bray; it never feels rushed or contrived (the latter’s occasionally “enlightened” dialogue notwithstanding). I also like the interplay between Miranda and her children, particularly the way Missy slowly shifts from bitchy self-centeredness to a genuine awareness that her mother needs a friend. And Brennan is terrific as Greg, the first family member to view Bray with genuine fondness. On the other hand, this is another story that takes place in an exclusively white universe, laden with wealthy characters. Due to current events, this is totally tone-deaf — and also ludicrous, given the New Orleans setting. Indeed, the only Black character is one of Miranda’s friends, whose token third-act appearance is so fleeting that it feels like an insulting afterthought. Tennant concludes his film as it began, this time pulling back through Earth’s atmosphere and retreating to the far edges of our galaxy: as if to verify that we’ve been properly awe-struck and indoctrinated. It’s a shame, actually, that this otherwise gentle and wellintentioned character study is marred by its pseudoscientific subtext; the drama would have been perfectly satisfying on its own. — Read more of Derrick Bang’s film criticism at http://derrick bang.blogspot.com. Comment on this review at www.davis enterprise.com.

Suspenseful ‘Greyhound’ makes for a successful sprint Taut thriller depicts one of WWII’s most dangerous military campaigns BY DERRICK BANG Enterprise film critic It’s a shame grim, realworld events kept this film from traditional theatrical release, because it would’ve been a breath-held, edgeof-the-seat nail-biter. Although certainly just as suspenseful when viewed at home — via its sole release on Apple TV — director Aaron Schneider’s “Greyhound” definitely isn’t as intense. Agitated viewers might even hit “pause” on occasion, to quell racing hearts, and you certainly can’t get such relief in a movie theater (which is as it should be). Schneider’s approach is a clever blend of old-school “dire odds” war drama — in the mold of 1961’s “The Guns of Navarone” and 1968’s “Where Eagles Dare” — augmented by up-tothe-minute CGI effects. The pacing is taut; Schneider and editors Mark Czyzewski and Sidney Wolinsky don’t waste a second of this crisp 91-minute thriller, which gets the job done and then gets off the stage. Schneider, a veteran cinematographer-turneddirector, also has an unerring sense of camera placement, and the careful use of tight close-ups to heighten the drama. Star Tom Hanks has long

‘Greyhound’ Starring: Tom Hanks, Stephen Graham, Rob Morgan, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Chet Hanks and Elisabeth Shue Rating: PG-13, for war-related action, dramatic intensity and fleeting profanity been adept at taking advantage of such moments; he’s far better than most, at the nuance of wordless concern, flashes of doubt, and grim resolve. Hanks also chooses his projects with care; he’s even more prudent with the ones he elects to script. This is only his third feature-writing credit — after 1996’s “That Thing You Do” and 2011’s “Larry Crowne” — and his first adaptation. “Greyhound” is based on popular nautical author C.S. Forester’s 1955 naval thriller, “The Good Shepherd,” and Hanks’ approach is quite faithful (if unable to match, in such condensed form, the character depth found within the 322-page novel). At the risk of stating the obvious, Forester’s title is far superior — and symbolically apt — than “Greyhound.” I cannot imagine what Hanks and Sony were thinking. The year is early 1942, a few months after the United States has officially entered World War II.

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Krause (Tom Hanks) constantly worries that his inexperience as a wartime commander may not be up to the challenge of safeguarding the 37 convoy ships under his care. Allied UK forces and the Soviet Union are in constant need of supplies, which must be delivered by sea convoys via the Atlantic Ocean. But the route is patrolled constantly by German U-boats; the most dangerous region is the midAtlantic gap dubbed the “black pit,” where ships are out of range of protective air cover. Hanks’ Ernest Krause is the commanding officer of the USS Keeling, a Fletcher-class destroyer codenamed Greyhound. Krause also calls the shots for the other escorts: “Harry,” a British Tribalclass destroyer; “Dicky,” a Canadian Flower-class corvette; and “Eagle,” a Polish Grom-class destroyer. Their mission: to protect

the 37 Allied ships heading to Liverpool. Although Krause is a veteran naval officer, this is his first wartime command; we quickly sense that he accepted the role proudly but reluctantly, concerned that his age and inexperience could impair the primary objective to keep everybody alive. But any such doubts are reserved for private moments; in the company of his men, Krause’s decisions are crisp and decisive, his intuition and sense of battle strategy well-honed. He’s also a deeply religious man, his faith proving both a consolation — as this mission exerts a terrible physical and emotional toll — and a burden. He grieves the loss of enemy life, just as much as that of

Allied soldiers. Hanks deftly conveys all aspects of such psychological complexity. Aside from a brief prologue and epilogue, the film takes place during the 52 hours — 13 watch rotations — spent in the black pit, where sonar blips indicating approaching German U-boats (“wolves”) might appear at any moment. Once visible by eye, upon surfacing for a torpedo run, it might be too late for evasive action or responding fire. To say the tension is palpable would be a gross understatement. Nights are worse, of course, when there’s no chance of visual spotting. Although Greyhound is a sizable ship, and Schneider and cinematographer

The pacing is taut; Schneider and editors Mark Czyzewski and Sidney Wolinsky don’t waste a second of this crisp 91-minute thriller, which gets the job done and then gets off the stage. Shelly Johnson move the action to an outer deck whenever possible, there’s still a strong sense of small spaces and claustrophobia. This is heightened by the physical limitations of the process; the sonar operator, below decks, must relay his information to Krause — back and forth — via a middle-man known as a “talker.” This is maddeningly clumsy and time-consuming, which adds to our sense of dread; we can’t help feeling this design is at odds with the need for lightning-quick decisions and action. (This film definitely encourages viewers to shout commands at the screen.)

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Let’s hear it for secret, guilty pleasures! Sometimes we cherish — but conceal — infamous stinkers BY DERRICK BANG Enterprise film critic Everybody has at least one. Maybe several. Movies that you enjoy — despite the fact that they’re indisputably awful. Movies that you’d never, ever suggest when friends or family are deciding what to watch on a Friday evening, but which you take pleasure in secretly, the sixth, 10th or 25th time you pop it into a player. Movies that you’d never display with the rest of your home video items, but instead keep hidden behind books on the top-most shelf. Movies you can’t possibly justify, because — well — they’re undeniably indefensible (although I’m impressed by the people who’ve occasionally tried, risking public humiliation). I call them “guilty pleasures,” because — in an odd way — they’re like comfort food. Mind you, I distinguish guilty pleasures from genuinely terrible movies. There’s a huge divide between the unwatchably bad and the watchably bad, although it’s impossible to classify. I’m also mindful of the fact that somebody’s guilty pleasure is at least one person’s all-time classic, so the following essay is not intended to offend. And while sifting through a lengthy list of possibilities, it was hard to narrow the field to just four titles. Near-misses include 1957’s “Plan 9 from Outer Space” (arguably the worst mainstream film ever made), 1968’s “Barbarella,” 1989’s “Road House,” 1992’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (nowhere near as sharply shaped as the later TV series) and 2006’s “Snakes on a Plane.” I’ll further admit that two of the following are among my guilty pleasures — but I’ll not say which! In chronological order, then ... 1963’s “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” was, at the time, the poster child for wretched excess: director/producer Stanley Kramer’s bloated attempt to craft a saga that would feature every known comic actor then working in Hollywood (even if some got no more than a fleeting appearance). The madcap William Rose/Tania Rose story is a parable on the dangers of greed, as dozens of total strangers get sucked into a race to find $350,000 in stolen cash … ahead of all the others. Primary cast members include Edie Adams, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Dorothy Provine, Mickey Rooney, Dick Shawn, Phil Silvers, TerryThomas and Jonathan Winters, with Spencer Tracy as the long-suffering police detective who gives these lunatics free rein in order to recover the loot when it’s found. The film’s major problem is one that dogs many films to this day: Most of the

above-mentioned comedians did their best work spontaneously, on stage, and simply couldn’t deliver when confined to a script more interested in wrecking the landscape. Jaw-droppers include Winters’ one-man destruction of a gasoline station; Caesar and Adams’ progressive demolition of a hardware store in which they’ve been trapped; and the dog-nuts finale atop a tall fire truck ladder unable to handle the weight of 11 panicked men. Kramer’s original cut ran 197 minutes, but — following its roadshow debut — United Artists hacked it down to 154 minutes; those were the only prints available for decades thereafter. The 2014 Criterion Collection release finally reconstructed the film to Kramer’s vision — making “World” even more of a guilty pleasure. Moving on ... When producers Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman inked their deal with Ian Fleming, bringing James Bond to the big screen, they obtained the rights to all of the author’s novels — except the first one. “Casino Royale” was held by producer Charles K. Feldman, who — in the wake of 007’s cinematic success — tried to interest Broccoli and Saltzman in a partnership. When that failed, Feldman decided to make a renegade Bond spoof, and there’s evidence to suggest that he hoped to sabotage the “legitimate” series (as if ). The resulting 1967 film is an impressive disaster. Feldman assigned isolated portions of the bonkers script to five directors — Ken Hughes, John Huston (!), Joseph McGrath, Robert Parrish and Val Guest — who worked independently of each other; the pieces were stitched together, like Frankenstein’s monster (who appears during the climax), after they left for other projects. The plot finds an aged Sir James Bond (David Niven) brought out of retirement to deal with SMERSH agents — mostly gorgeous women — who’ve been eliminating covert operatives belonging to MI6, the CIA, the KGB and France’s Deuxième Bureau. In order to “baffle” the enemy, Sir James assigns the 007 code name to all remaining MI6 agents. Lunatic sequences involve Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Woody Allen and Orson Welles. The film was released despite being incomplete; Sellers, initially hired as the primary star, walked off production before finishing his scenes. Considerable footage was cut and abandoned in an effort to salvage what remained, but the result nonetheless contains glaring plot and continuity gaps. (As opposed to “Mad Mad World,” the excised footage from “Casino Royale” is well and truly lost.)

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Baccarat expert Evelyn Tremble, aka Agent 007 (Peter Sellers, rear left), challenges Le Chiffre (Orson Welles) to an expensive game, while Vesper Lynd, aka Agent 007 (Ursula Andress), watches speculatively.

Wealthy Tyler Fitzgerald (Jim Backus, right) foolishly lets Benjy (Buddy Hackett, left) fly his Beech C-18S, while Ding (Mickey Rooney) watches in utter horror. It does, however, boast an ultra-cool Burt Bacharach score, anchored by Herb Alpert’s trumpet work on the iconic title theme, and one of the sexiest romantic ballads ever heard in a film: “The Look of Love,” which — the final insult — lost its Oscar nomination to (sigh) “Talk to the Animals” from “Doctor Dolittle.” Moving on ... Directors whose careers skyrocket early sometimes are given and ill-advised opportunity to helm a “dream project.” Studio chiefs tolerate all manner of cost overruns, assuming they’ll get another megahit; the result frequently is an expensive bomb. Sometimes it’s merely embarrassing (George Lucas, the driving force behind 1986’s “Howard the Duck”); sometimes it ruins a career and sends an entire studio into receivership (Michael Cimino, and 1980’s “Heaven’s Gate,” which destroyed United Artists’ run as an independent entity). Which brings us to 1979’s “1941.” Steven Spielberg had just come off “Jaws” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” — and would next helm “Raiders of the Lost Ark” — so Universal wasn’t about to say no to his pitch for a screwball World War II action comedy. The script’s premise is the panic that erupted in Los Angeles following the Pearl Harbor attack, when those on the California coast feared a similar invasion by Japanese air and submarine forces.

Jennifer Beals turned the sweatshirt-off-the-shoulder look into a fashion sensation. (Few women could have worn some of the other outfits she sports in “Flashdance.”) (I grew up less than a mile from an active Nike missile base that had been constructed on the remnants of a WWII-era coastal defense site, hastily built after the Pearl Harbor attack.) Spielberg populated his film with popular young talent and seasoned veterans: Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, John Candy, Christopher Lee, Toshiro Mifune and Robert Stack. Unfortunately — aside from a hilarious prologue that spoofs Spielberg’s opening in “Jaws” — the unwieldy result is (again) a bloated disaster. It’s the classic miscalculation: If destroying some planes and vehicles is amusing, then leveling an entire amusement park will be even funnier, right? Alas, no. “1941” also suffers from a mean-spirited attitude; as but one of many examples,

when the home owned by Ned Beatty and Lorraine Gary gets destroyed, this effort at humor feels tonedeaf and distasteful. The 118-minute film flopped during theatrical release, but — go figure — drew high ratings a few years later when aired on ABC-TV in Spielberg’s 146-minute “director’s cut.” Indeed, the film’s fans — few willing to identify themselves — are delighted by the extended length. Moving on ... Unlike 1984’s “Footloose,” which has the benefit of authenticity — the town of Elmore City, Okla., really did ban dancing from 1898 until 1980, when the local high school petitioned the school board to hold a junior prom — 1983’s “Flashdance” is little more than an overlong music video. No matter how much one admires the athletic

performance by dance double Marine Jahan, it’s impossible to discuss the Tom Hedley/Joe Eszterhas script without busting into derisive laughter. I mean, seriously: Jennifer Beals’ 18-year-old Alex Owens is a Pittsburgh steel mill welder by day (!), and sexy exotic dancer by night, at a neighborhood bar and grill (!!) that hosts an elaborate, Broadway-quality cabaret show each evening (!!!). Alex wants to become a professional dancer, but has no formal training; she falls in love with the steel mill owner, way above her working-class roots; her best friend wants to become a figure skater but winds up a stripper. The overcooked melodrama exists only to interrupt flashy dance sequences that owe more to rapid-fire editing than actual terpsichorean skill, all set to pop anthems such as “Seduce Me Tonight,” “Lady, Lady, Lady,” “Maniac,” “Gloria” and Irene Cara’s vibrant reading of the Oscarwinning title song. Despite its shortcomings and deservedly blistering reviews, “Flashdance” grossed more than $200 million worldwide and subsequently became an enormously popular home-video seller — but you’ll find very few people willing to admit owning a copy. — Read more of Derrick Bang’s film criticism at http://derrickbang. blogspot.com. Comment on this review at www. davisenterprise.com.

GREYHOUND: All but one of the actors in this movie are strong From Page B6 Supporting characters are sketched economically at best, and sometimes not at all; freshfaced Josh Wiggins, not even named beyond “Talker No. 1,” nonetheless conveys this man’s concern over the intensity of every moment, and the need for rigorous accuracy (and careful articulation). Stephen Graham gets more scripted meat as Lt. Cmdr. Charlie Cole, Krause’s calm and capable executive officer. When on the

bridge, Cole never takes his eyes off Krause: due both to awaiting orders, and also as a steadying presence. Whatever Krause’s concerns about his command abilities, Graham makes it clear that Cole completely trusts him. Rob Morgan is a strong presence as Mess Attendant George Cleveland, forever trying to get Krause to eat or drink something. This almost raises a smile from us viewers, as a recurring motif … but the circumstances are too dire. The patient Cleveland’s

concern is both protective and practical; Krause needs to maintain his strength and endurance, despite his tendency to worry about everybody except himself. The delicacy of Schneider’s direction also is evident in this relationship; despite being polar opposites in the command chain, both men clearly — if silently — respect each other. That’s a very nice touch. Manuel Garcia-Rulfo stands out as gunnery officer Lopez; Chet Hanks (the star’s son) is a bundle of agitated hyper-focus as

sonar operator Bushnell. The rest of the men — and there are many — are little more than cogs in the well-oiled machine that Krause relies upon, second by second. The film’s lone acting “failure” is Elisabeth Shue, who appears briefly during the prologue as Krause’s love interest. Her performance is stiff as a board, and — frankly — superfluous. Hanks’ relentless, nervousmaking narrative wastes no time testing Krause and his ship; matters get progressively more dire, particularly when sonar reveals a

wolf pack of six shadowing U-boats, remaining just out of firing range and taunting the Allies over the radio. Each subsequent failure — the loss of a convoy vessel, the concurrent loss of life — cuts fresh lines into Hanks’ already grave expression. (I imagined a circle of three dozen stranded people, treading water in the middle of the ocean, while circling sharks pick them off, one by one.) And we agonize: Will Krause endure? Can he endure? Watch and find out…

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t seems pretty simple to me ... If you want high school and college sports to return anytime soon, wear a mask in public. Hell, if you want any kind of normalcy to return to our world in general, wear a flippin’ mask! The seven of you walking down G Street in a pack right now, masks around your necks (but not over your faces), get a clue. You eight young men at Playfields Park, kicking the soccer ball around and distributing high-fives ... can’t you follow the lead of that one guy in the yellow shirt? He’s wearing a mask for a reason. The California Interscholastic Federation did the right thing last month when it postponed fall competition to its winter schedule, all to start right after the first of the year. Regardless of what the CIF had determined, you had the feeling the Davis Joint Unified School District would err on the side of caution. These are painful decisions, but we’re dealing first with the immediate health of our kids — then trying to put out a worldwide firestorm. At UC Davis, and in turn the Big West and Big Sky conferences, the response has been prudent. Again, sports are on hold. We’ve all been told how to slow COVID-19 while we wait for a vaccine.

r. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, warns, “We have to get the numbers down.” On Thursday, the coronavirus spread continued out of control in the United State. More than 5 million cases have been reported resulting in 166,027 deaths. Forty-five of those dead were in Yolo County. If I’ve got friends dying, and it’s your fault, none of us are going to forgive you. “If we don’t get the numbers down, we’re going to have a really bad situation in the fall ... as you get indoors and you get the complications of influenza season,” added Fauci, who has been neutered by the president as his head of the now-worthless White House COVID-19 Task Force. You’d think the numbers, mixed with common sense, would be enough for U.S., state and local officials to fall in line in the battle against coronavirus. But the president hasn’t drawn a line. He’s just doodled while playing politics with the pandemic. Legions of his followers, watching Donald Trump go without a face mask or a plan since the outbreak last winter, have marginalized the impact of COVID-19 and have chosen to be without protection as a form of rebellion. That’s fine if y’all wanna head to Sturgis, Burning Man or an SEC football game, but die in your own circle of friends. Folks serious about getting rid of this

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plague don’t want to be next to you in the supermarket. We don’t really even want you walking past us on the street. I don’t want you out and about like the dozen or so folks I saw sitting on the lawn near Korematsu Elementary School on Saturday — not a face mask to be found. But the stupidity isn’t limited. It’s on a grand scale ... ■ Three of the Power Five football conferences still want to press on with a spring schedule. ■ Marion County (Florida) Sheriff Billy Woods told his 900-person department on Tuesday, “When you are on-duty/working as my employee and representing my office — masks will not be worn,” the Associated Press reported. Added Woods: “Effective immediately, any individual walking in to any one of our lobbies (which includes the main office and all district offices) that is wearing a mask will be asked to remove it.” The rationale? He wants his constituency to see “transparent law enforcement.” Geez, if I had just gone to law school ... how much of Marion County’s treasury could I put in the pockets of the sheriff’s co-workers and visitors in a dangerousenvironment lawsuit? But that’s not the point. Woods’ edict will eventually kill people. ■ It’s not bad enough that the NFL is hoping against hope that it can keep a regular season humanely afloat, now Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is hinting at allowing fans into AT&T Stadium. ■ Some colleges in the SEC and ACC are pondering allowing tailgating in their parking lots while their stadiums remain empty. Some schools are fostering plans for social distancing inside the gates: 20-percent capacity. Sure, college football fans aren’t going to mingle. This is serious, folks.

here are a few bottom lines here: 1) Do what the public-health experts are suggesting; 2) Think about the well-being of other people, especially friends and older folks who don’t know you — and the family you’ll leave behind when the virus finds you; 3) Don’t turn a face mask into a political statement. I don’t want confrontations like we’re experiencing now — and you know if you don’t yield to common sense, the day is coming on which wearing a mask in public will become universal law (with punishment for failure to comply). Hmmmm. The more I think about it — given the Sheriff Woodses, Jerry Joneses and Donald Trumps of America — a national wear-a-mask law sounds prudent to me ... ... Unless those of you down at Playfields Park don’t mind hurrying over to Rite-Aid and picking up a couple of masks and lying low for awhile. — Reach sports editor Bruce Gallaudet at bgallaudet41@gmail.com or call 530-320-4456.

Aggie golfer advances to NCGA finals UC Davis sophomore Lucas Carper sank an eagle putt on the par-5, No. 11 hole Thursday en route to topping Brad Reeves 4-and-2 in a matchplay semifinal of the NCGA Men’s Amateur Championship at Spyglass Hill Golf Course. Carper, the 26th seed, is slated to face No. 12 Wes Payne of Menlo Park today for the title. First tee is scheduled for 7 a.m. on the par-72, 6,960-yard layout. For more information, visit www.davisenterprise.com.

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■ Editor’s note: This is second of a twopart interview with UC Davis men’s basketball coach Jim Les. Today: A look at the 2020-21 Aggie personnel.

BY BRUCE GALLAUDET Enterprise sports editor As writers navigate the vast desert that has become college sports, the search for answers about the future usually turns up a sole nugget of fool’s gold: “We don’t know.” Once he got past the uncertainty of when basketball will start workouts — and ultimately the season — UC Davis men’s head coach Jim Les could finally be definitive. “Last year, we had two freshmen and two sophomores playing at a really, really high level,” the former Bradley player and coach points out. “So is youth a good or bad thing? I think it’s great.” With those four “youngsters” — Ezra Manjon, Damion Squire, Caleb Fuller and Elijah Peppers — comprising ostensibly 80 percent of this season’s Aggie starting lineup, Aggie Nation can’t wait to hit the hard court. Noting that UCD has had back-toback large senior classes (graduating nine players in that time), Les said he knows this fall might seem like a rebuilding period to some. But that impression is nowhere to be found in the coach’s psyche: “We’re really excited by the back-toback recruiting classes that we’ve had. It’s shaping the future of our program.” Les said he threw his younger players to the wolves last season, but learning on the job helped chase many of the Big West Conference canis lupus from The Pavilion. Now a sophomore, guard Manjon averaged 12.1 points a game and led UCD with 130 assists. His fearless style and character, which belies a first-year player, drew praise from his coach. “He’s just a natural-born leader,” Les told The Enterprise. “To have those personality traits to go along with his talent? It was a slam dunk for us to go all-out to recruit him.” Manjon first came on the Aggie radar when coaches saw him as a reserve on an elite AAU team. Manjon, from Heritage High in Brentwood, then showed up at last summer’s UCD Shooters’ Camp. “We thought he could be an impact player for us, and we told him that,” Les added. “We don’t say that to everybody.” For his efforts, Manjon was named Big West Freshman of the Year. The 5-11 guard also was accorded secondteam all-league honors and twice was named BWC Player of the Week (the first true freshman to gain two such honors since 1974). Les expects Manjon to “be a cornerstone for years to come. We couldn’t be more excited about his future.” And this season’s Aggies are no onetrick pony ... Over the final 10 games last winter, Fuller led UCD in scoring. The junior swingman by way of Barking Abbey School in England shot 52.9 percent from the field while coming on to finish with a 7.2 ppg average. “He started to play with confidence and became a focal point of our team,” offered the coach. And then there was Quebec native Damion Squire, another guard whose season was interrupted by a hamstring injury, forcing him to miss five games. During his absence, the 14-18 Aggies went 0-5. “We would have probably won three

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Aggie guard Ezra Manjon, left, averaged 12.1 points per game last seaseon. The Big West Freshman of the Year led UCD with 130 assists.

or four of those games had he played,” Shaw and Cameron Ba are back, as is Les said. “Damion was rock-solid ... redshirt freshman Aaron Murphy. and he showed us that throughout the Les and Co. had a significant year (5.9 ppg and solid defense).” His recruiting season, too. They added 25 starts were third on the team. much-welcome height with 6-11 cenMeanwhile, Peppers was an all- ter Francesco Borra, born in Italy but around welcome addition. He ranked a 2020 graduate of JSerra High (San in the Big West top 10 in steals (1.16) Juan Capistrano). and rebounding (5.22) and was No. 11 Portland transfer Hugh Hogland in defensive caroms (3.69) and No. 12 joins the fray as a graduate student. in offensive boards (1.53). Peppers also The 6-10 forward by way of Iolani averaged 8.7 points a contest. School (Hawaii) shot 53.6 percent “Elijah stepped into a while averaging 4.4 ppg pretty significant role as and 3.2 rebounds in a freshman, hitting big 2018-19 in Oregon. shots for us, making big San Jose State transplays and drawing fer Christian Anigwe is tough assignments a 6-6 junior forward defensively,” Les said of who averaged just over his 6-4 guard from 5 points and five Selah High (Wash.). rebounds for the 7-24 “Those who have Spartans. seen (the four) ... can Noah Haynesworth say, ‘Boy, that’s a pretty comes to UCD from good, young nucleus of Skyline College, where talented, hard-working, he was team captain, high-character, great averaged 10.2 ppg and ambassadors for our was named the Califoruniversity.’ ” nia Community College Sure, the Aggies Men’s Basketball graduated leading Coaches Association’s Jim Les scorer Joe Mooney top men’s basketball (13.1) and the nation’s UCD men’s coach student-athlete in the top 3-point shooter in north state. Stefan Gonzalez (47.7 Tallinn, Estonia, back-court standpercent), but plenty of skill is found in out Ran Pehka also joins the Aggie the other rostered players. ranks. Pehka played on three of his Kennedy Koehler returns at forcountry’s national teams and started ward. The only senior among the for TLU Kalev in Europe’s LatvianAggies, he stands 6-7 and is effective at Estonian Basketball League. It’s the several inside positions. He hails from same circuit in which UCD’s 2018 Big Coronado High in Las Vegas. West Player of the Year T.J. Shorts Sophomore guard Ade Adebayo, a toiled. former teammate of Fuller’s at Also in the mix is freshman Caleb Barking Abbey, returns after playing McGill, an accomplished prep forward in 25 games last year. Classmates B.J. at Grandview High (Aurora, Colo.). Notes: UC Davis is scheduled to start the 2020-21 campaign on Nov. 10 against Holy Names. But Les understands that the pandemic remains in play. The Big West earlier this month moved all of its fall sports to a first-of-the-year start, leaving the decision regarding basketball to “later,” according to conference officials. The Aggies had nonconference games scheduled against Portland, Oregon State, New Mexico and Stanford and a berth in a Thanksgiving tournament at Tulane. The game at New Mexico seemed in doubt when the Mountain West postponed fall sports to the “spring,” although like the Big West, the MWC had no decision about winter sports. The jousts against Pac-12 members OSU and Stanford games were scratched Tuesday when Aggie Caleb Fuller, left, led the UC Davis men’s team in scoring in the final 10 games the Pac-12 voted to send fall sports — including basketball — to 2021. of the season. He scored 7.2 ppg and shot 52.9 percent from the floor.

“We’re really excited by the back-to-back recruiting classes that we’ve had. It’s shaping the future of our program.”