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Schools put out guide on reopening

It’s sparse now, but what will UC Davis look like when students return?

With colleges across the country having a rocky time keeping coronavirus from spreading as students return, Yolo County officials worry what will happen once UCD starts filling up again.

BY JEFF HUDSON Enterprise staff writer

to prompt what Dulcich called “COVID-safe behavior,” and ultimately, enforcement of that behavior.

County Administrator Patrick Blacklock, who along with county health officials has been meeting with UC Davis leaders, said there may be some type of COVID behavior compliance policy governing student activity both on and off campus.

“We talked quite a bit about the student impact off campus and the need for the university to exert influence off campus as well as on campus,” Blacklock told county supervisors.

Supervisors, including Don Saylor and Jim Provenza — both of whom represent Davis — have expressed concerns about the return of students several times in recent weeks.

The new school year will begin for Davis students on Aug. 26, and many parents (and students, and members of the community at large) have a lot of questions.

With that in mind, the Davis school district released a 33-page “Reopening Guide for Families” on Friday, Aug. 14.

Printed copies are being mailed to student households this week. The guide is also already available to the general public online, in both English and BOWES Spanish.

Superintendent In the guide’s introduction, Superintendent John Bowes writes that the school year will begin with students and teachers working in “a redesigned and strengthened Distance Learning model,” which will feature a number of changes and upgrades to the Distance Learning approach that the Davis school district developed and implemented quickly last spring when the growing dimensions of the rapidly spreading COVID-19 virus triggered, as school districts (large and small) closed down their school campuses and teachers began working with their students online.

Bowes also wrote that eventually, there will be a multi-phased, gradual transition from the District Learning approach back to in-person instruction, “when health and safety conditions make that possible.”

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County keeps an eye on campus Supervisors seek assurances on return of students during pandemic

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer The resumption of classes and some semblance of college life at UC Davis next month continues to be a concern for local officials.

As it is, the 18-25 age group has the highest number of COVID-19 cases in the city of Davis and with thousands of students expected to return to town in September, county supervisors and health officials are seeking reassurances from campus leaders about the situation.

At Tuesday’s Yolo County Board of Supervisors meeting, a UC Davis representative laid

out ongoing efforts to prepare for students’ return and how those efforts continue to be shaped by what’s happening on college campuses across the country that have already reopened.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for example, announced this week it would no longer hold in-person classes on campus after about 130 students tested positive for COVID-19 since classes began.

Images and videos of college students gathering in large numbers, with few masks, to party over the weekend everywhere from Georgia to Alabama to Oklahoma have stoked fears around the country about

spread of the virus as well. Likewise, outbreaks at fraternities at UC Berkeley and elsewhere have heightened concerns about campus social life lending itself to spread of the virus even when classes are held remotely.

“We are looking at the examples of other universities, where we have seen their early openings,” said Matt Dulcich, UCD’s director of environmental planning and government relations.

UC Davis leaders, he said, are looking at those universities’ operational planning and how that played out when students returned; the clinical side of campus health in terms of testing and screening “and how we need to make adjustments to our plan for those”; and what to do about student socializing.

The latter effort will likely include messaging to students, encouragement and incentives

UC lecturers rally for more job protections

BY CALEB HAMPTON Enterprise staff writer

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Lecturers at UC Davis and throughout the University of California system held car caravans across the state on Monday, demanding greater job protections in ongoing contract negotiations between the university and UC-AFT, the union that represents nontenure track faculty.

UC Davis lecturers formed a caravan of about 20 cars and drove to Chancellor Gary S. May’s residence, where they honked and displayed signs demanding stronger job protections. Across California, lecturers also addressed their demands to new UC President Michael Drake, who replaced Janet Napolitano on Monday.

“This statewide day of action, with caravans happening at every UC, is meant to bring to President Drake's attention the fact

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UC Davis lecturers drove a car caravan through Davis on Monday. that for over 18 months, UC-AFT lecturers have been bargaining for better job security,” UC Davis lecturer and campus president of UC-AFT Katie Rodger said in a statement.

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Lecturers represented by UC-AFT, who teach roughly a third of credit hours at the university, have been working with an expired contract since February. In negotiations for a

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UC’s 6,000-plus contingent faculty are mostly

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West Nile Virus activity is intensifying in Davis and Woodland as well as parts of Sacramento, the local vector control district announced Monday.

“We are keeping a very close eye on all these locations as we have seen a steady amplification of the virus,” said Gary Goodman, manager of the Sacramento-Yolo Mosquito & Vector Control District.

“The extremely hot temperatures are rapidly increasing mosquito populations and making the virus more intense,” he added.

West Nile virus is transmitted to humans via the bite of infected mosquitoes, with symptoms — including fever, headache, body aches and nausea —

typically developing within three to 14 days.

Approximately 80 percent of those infected with the virus will not show any symptoms, but about one in 150 will develop a severe neuroinvasive illness that can include high fever, headache, neck stiffness, seizures and paralysis.

People over age 50 and those with diabetes or hypertension are more likely to develop the most serious symptoms.

As of Monday, 36 infected mosquito samples have been found in Yolo County as well as three dead birds that tested positive for the virus.

Positive mosquito samples have been found throughout Davis, including near Wildhorse Golf

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Briefly On KDRT: Palms ending its lease The Palms Playhouse, with no clear end to the pandemic in sight, has gone on indefinite hiatus and isn’t renewing its lease for its location in downtown Winters, says co-owner Nora Carey on the latest edition of the KDRT program “Davisville.”

She also talks with host Bill Buchanan about the pandemic, the last concert the Palms held on March 7, running a for-profit business with no profit, some favorite moments since she and Andrew Fridae bought the Palms in 2016, the magic of a good performance and what might come next.

The Palms opened in Davis in the 1970s in a former barn, then moved to Winters in 2002.

“Davisville” is broadcast on KDRT-LP, 95.7 FM at 5:30 p.m. Mondays and at 8:30 a.m.

Wednesdays and Saturdays. The Palms program will be broadcast through Aug. 30, and online at http://kdrt. org/davisville or on Apple podcasts.

City adds hours at cooling center Hours at the cooling center opened by the city of Davis have been extended.

The Davis Senior Center will provide shelter from the heat from noon to 9 p.m. through Wednesday, Aug. 26.

Any community members in need of shelter are welcome in the multipurpose room at the senior center, located at 646 A St. Face coverings and social distancing are required.

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Heading down that road again Y ou can put this one in the file labeled “Here We Go Again.”

The news came in a “Media Alert” from Yolo County public information officer Jenny Tan with the headline “Yolo County Requests input on County Road 32A Railroad Crossing Relocation Project Study Report.”

Like I said, here we go again.

Input, of course, is what we common folks are supposed to provide our elected representatives so they can advance the common good.

“Yolo County is requesting interested members of the public to offer input regarding the preparation of the County Road 32A Railroad Crossing Relocation Project Study Report,” which is a heck of a lot better than disinterested members of the public providing input.

“Yolo County is working with the city of Davis, Union Pacific Railroad, the Bike Davis group, the Yolo County Farm Bureau, the California Public Utilities Commission and the Sacramento Area Council of Governments to consider a relocation of the County Road 32A railroad crossing at

32A railroad crossing at CR 105 with a new crossing within two miles east of the current crossing.”

Now wait a minute. That sounds like a decision has already been made.

I don’t see “leave well enough alone” or “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” among the alternatives being considered.

County Road 105 to improve safety.”

That’s a lot of chefs working on this stew and let’s just hope when they all put their heads together that everyone is properly socially distanced.

“This crossing has a history of accidents, despite the implementation of many safety countermeasures over many years.”

Yep, they tried just about everything. Everything, that is, but a good old-fashioned, tried-andtrue, easy-to-install sign featuring the most well-known four-letter word in the English language: STOP. “The current study being prepared by T.Y. Lin International will result in a Project Study Report to establish alternatives and a preferred option for replacing the CR

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while back, a friendly critic slammed my stop sign suggestion by noting that “audible rumble strips, flashing beacons, 10 mph speed signs, RR Xing paint on the pavement, RR Xing signs, numerous large reflective signs and reflective guardrails” had not improved this spot to his satisfaction.

He asked me “What would compel a driver to ignore all the warnings that are already in place and suddenly comply with a stop sign?”

Well, I noted, stop signs are compelling. People obey them.

They’ve been obeying them since before Davis was Davisville. That’s why they’re still in use at most all of our county’s intersections. In fact, even the intersection of 32A and 105 has stop signs at two of the intersection’s three

approaches. If they don’t work, why would they be there at all?

My kind critic then suggested a stop sign was a “flippant suggestion,“ which is flipping crazy.

Maybe we could resurrect some of those old Burma-Shave signs that had a clever message spread out on half a dozen billboards along many of our rural roadways.

“STOP in the name of love, before you break my heart” might just do the trick.

“Funding opportunities will be reviewed for subsequent future construction of the selected viable alternatives.”

Ah yes, funding opportunities.

Like maybe they plan to sell advertising signage along the new route to the highest bidder.

Trust me, when you add up what this suspect project will eventually cost, we could have dented California’s unemployment rate by hiring several dozen fulltime crossing guards to man the intersection 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

And that includes the cost of their fancy orange vests.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

LECTURERS: High turnover rate, not a lot of prospects From Page A1 hired on short-term, parttime contracts with a high rate of turnover from one quarter to the next. On average, non-tenure track lecturers are retained for less than two years. A majority teach for a year or less.

“Despite their love of teaching, the vast majority lack a viable career path at the UC,” the union said in a press release. As of last week, less than 8% of “the most vulnerable and precarious teaching faculty” who were on payroll for the past year — roughly 4,000 lecturers — had been hired back for fall 2020, according to the press release.

“UC management can no longer afford to treat teaching as gig work,” said

UC-AFT President Mia McIver. “We have great hopes that under President Drake’s leadership our University will stop squandering highly educated, highly experienced scholarteachers whose first commitment is to UC students and whose expertise is essential to confronting the challenges of today’s world.”

According to the union, stronger reemployment protections for lecturers would also benefit students and university administration. “Under these working conditions, not only do students lose the mentors they should be able to depend on, but the UC also incurs unnecessary recruiting and onboarding costs,” the press release stated.

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Local crews fight wildfires

BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer The Davis and UC Davis fire departments deployed strike teams in recent days to assist with several California wildfires.

Davis and UCD crews are part of a Yolo County strike team assigned to the Ranch 2 wildfire in Los Angeles County, which as of Tuesday evening spanned 4,300 acres since sparking on Aug. 13 and was about 19-percent contained. Fire investigators suspect it was caused by arson, according to the U.S. Forest Service.

A second Davis F.D. rig is at the Hennessey Fire, east of St. Helena in Napa County, which had scorched 2,700 acres with zero containment Tuesday night, the California Department of Forestry

and Fire reported.

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UCD also dispatched personnel to the Jones Fire in Nevada County, which stood at 550 acres and 5-percent containment on Tuesday morning. The crew assigned to the Ranch Fire previously worked the Lake Fire in the Angeles National Forest, which began Aug. 12 and stands at 38-percent containment after burning more than 21,000 acres.

Meanwhile, the YoloSolano Air Quality Management District warned Monday that smoke from the Hennessey Fire and Gamble Fire, also in Napa County, has been drifting into Solano and Yolo counties. Those sensitive to air quality are cautioned to remain indoors and keep doors and windows closed.

securities would bring not only more financial stability to many lecturers, but also the peace of mind that they will have their jobs next quarter or next year,” Rodger said. “This will make them better teachers, as they can focus on their classes and their students.”

In 2018, the median annual salary for UC lecturers — many of whom work part-time — was just $20,255. A third of lecturers were excluded from eligibility for health insurance and other benefits.

While COVID-19 has caused unanticipated financial losses to the university, UC-AFT emphasized the indispensable role of lecturers in UC’s ability to continue educating students through the pan-

demic. “As the faculty with the highest teaching loads, they have been largely responsible for ensuring educational continuity during the shift to online instruction,” the press release stated.

In its most recent bargaining update, the university said it “has offered the union numerous proposals that (it) believe(s)recognize (the union’s) many contributions to UC and our students.” The latest proposal, which has not been accepted by the union, includes some job security and reemployment improvements as well as a pay increase.

“We continue to believe the way to a solution is at the bargaining table with a mutual commitment to

BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer Davis police arrested three people on assault charges in recent days during several unrelated incidents.

Officers received several reports last Thursday of a man getting into altercations with relatives at an apartment in the 1600 block of Drew Circle, Lt. Art Camacho said. At one point he allegedly physically attacked a woman at the residence, prompting another man to intervene.

“That enraged him (the suspect),” who then brandished a knife and threatened to kill the other man, according to Camacho. The victims fled to a nearby gas station and called police, who arrested the suspect at the scene.

Ronald Jake Herrera, 58,

a local transient, was booked into the Yolo County Jail on charges of assault with a deadly weapon and criminal threats, Camacho said.

A second alleged assault occurred Friday evening at the Amtrak station on Second Street, where the victim reported being attacked after refusing to buy a train ticket to Sacramento for a man he didn’t know.

“When the victim said he couldn’t do that because he didn’t have enough money, the suspect kicked the victim in the head and threw a wine bottle at him,” causing visible injuries, Camacho said. The suspect, 41-yearold Shawn Patrick Sweeney of Orangevale, went to the Yolo County Jail on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon.

Camacho said the third

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The Reopening Guide for Families does not suggest when a return to inperson instruction might take place. But during a recent Davis school board meeting, Bowes said that he expects the Distance Learning approach to be in place through at least the end of December 2020.

Ultimately, the decision about when to begin the gradual shift back toward in-person instruction will hinge on a number of factors. State and County officials will want to see a prolonged decline in the number of new COVID-19 cases before authorizing local school districts to start reopening classrooms

As of now, union leaders say the university must offer more. “The UC will pay for what it values,” Rodger said. “We’d like to see more evidence that the UC values its lecturers and all educational faculty.”

— Reach Caleb Hampton at champton@ davisenterprise.net. Follow him on Twitter at @calebmhampton.

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to students, even on a limited basis.

Among the topics that the Reopening Guide addresses are: ■ DJUSD’s phased return to campus plan ■ Elementary school schedule ■ Junior high school and high school quarter block schedule ■ Technology ■ Athletics and extracurriculars ■ Back to school basics ■ Preparing for a safe return to campus The online version of the Reopening Guide for Families is available at djusd. net/restart.

— Reach Jeff Hudson at jhudson@davisenter prise.net or 530-747-8055.

good-faith negotiations,” UC spokesperson Sarah McBride said. “The University is in collective discussions with union leaders about COVID-19’s operational and fiscal impacts.

We believe successfully navigating the crisis will require genuine partnership and collaboration between UC and its represented workforce.”

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suspect used his hands to assault a female relative at a hotel in the 100 block of B Street after a verbal argument turned physical at about 2 a.m. Monday.

“During the argument, it appeared that the suspect attempted to strangle (the victim) with his hands,” Camacho said. Officers arrested 24-year-old Jonas Enrique Navarrete on assault charges and lodged him at the Yolo County Jail.

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Innovating for the future of the planet I ’ve been searching high and low for innovations that could help power a more energy-efficient and sustainable future. There’s a lot out there, some very much closer to being a concept than an actual product or process. Still, the sheer number of ideas being pursued is a somewhat hopeful sign in and of itself. We will need innovation.

There’s a lot of activity around improving the process for making concrete. A recent New York Times article indicated that concrete is the “most widely used construction material on the planet” and “If concrete were a country, it would rank third behind China and the United States.” Hmmm, there may be some double-counting in there.

A few concrete manufacturers have been making what they refer to as “low-emission concrete” or “Green Concrete.”

CarbonCure, a company that injects liquid carbon into cement during its manufacture claims a 5 to 7 percent reduction in carbon emissions. Not a huge innovation but given the size of the problem, also not negligible.

Lafarge Holcim, a Swedish company, has apparently improved on that by making a concrete with 30 percent fewer carbon emissions and they’re working to increase that to an

estimated 50 percent. The higher number will cost 5 percent more, which could be offset should governments ever get around to putting a cost on carbon emissions.

Right here in our backyard, though the Bay Area probably doesn’t think of itself that way, a marine geologist who studies corals and their ability to turn CO2 into calcium carbonate, started Blue Planet to mimic that process by turning CO2 into pebbles that can be substituted for gravel in the manufacturing of concrete.

Blue Planet harvests the CO2 directly from factory smokestacks, with the side benefit of reducing the need for gravel mining. The Foundation for Climate Restoration, of which Blue Planet is a partner, estimates that in addition to all the other measures required to curb emissions we need to remove a trillion tons of CO2 from the

atmosphere. The Foundation calculates that “getting 30,000 Blue Planet plants up and running by 2030 would create enough CO2 removal capacity to remove all the excess CO2 from the atmosphere.”

Hmmm, I don’t know about that, but whatever the level of carbon removal, it wouldn’t hurt.

Moving along, let’s talk about another construction material: bricks. Two innovations were described in recent news. One was from the Trump administration. Steven Winberg, the assistant secretary of fossil energy at the Department of Energy, speaking at a hearing of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, called timeout on dissing the future of coal.

“Many people think coal’s time is over. I don’t think that way.

Rather than using the heating value of coal, we can use the carbon value of coal.” He stated that technological advances were imminent and coal could be useful in the manufacture of ceramic roof tiles, backyard decks and other products.

In support of this form of sequestering carbon that could be better sequestered if just left in the ground, his enthusiasm continued to, “Can you imagine

building a house that is fireproof with coal? That will be reality in the not-too-distant future.”

Neither he nor the article explained how coal might become non-combustible. Interestingly, and not directly related to the climate crisis, and this seems to be true, precious metals that are necessary in the manufacture of iPhones and other high-tech equipment can be extracted from coal, “in a costeffective and environmentally friendly way.” Who knew?

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he other article about a potentially innovative role for bricks in moving us to a more sustainable future appeared in the journal Nature Communications. Scientists at Washington University in St. Louis have developed “a proofof-concept simple red construction brick imbued with the ability to store energy as well as power small devices.”

In other words, it can store electrical energy like a battery, and also, if connected to solar photovoltaic panels on the roof of a building built out of bricks, release that stored electricity to power appliances or whatever else requires electricity. This brick technology is not ready for prime time. As of now, it takes

CAMPUS: Demographics worry supervisors From Page A1 Both reiterated those worries on Tuesday.

“I have concerns about the reopening and bringing large numbers of people between the ages of 18 and 25 back into Yolo County at a time when we are still experiencing additional cases,” Saylor said. “As this unfolds, we’re going to have to work collaboratively with the campus and the city of Davis … on any of the approaches that might be taken.

“An influx of (as many as 20,000) people from many different locales around the country and world is something we need to monitor.”

Provenza, noting that UC Davis’ existing campus plan indicates fewer than 30 classes will be held in person, asked, “why would we bring back thousands of students from all over the country into the community and risk those consequences?

“That’s something that we’ve asked to be looked at several times,” Provenza said, “but in many ways we’re running out of time.

They’re going to be back and whatever the consequences are, will be the consequences.”

Dulcich responded that the campus plan “is to reopen the campus in a very safe way, in a way that reflects the need to recognize the way this disease is transmitted and at the same time balance that with meeting the needs of students who could be on campus and, where possible,

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attend some limited classes that are really needed to help them continue towards their graduation so that we don’t have a cohort of students that are stalled out in their efforts to graduate.”

Additionally, he said, UC Davis anticipates providing campus housing to a limited number of freshman students “who could live in our residence halls in a very isolated and socially distanced environment.”

“We think having their first-year experience happen on campus and being exposed to a college environment is also an important step in their efforts to proceed through a university education,” said Dulcich. “So we’re focused on that, of having a plan for the fall.”

That plan, he said, takes into account the likelihood that fewer students will actually come to campus than would be expected in a typical year, making it possible to have more singleoccupancy rooms and, when necessary, two students in a room with spacing that meets the state’s guidance for higher education.

Likewise, off campus, he said, “we expect there will be less students… some will elect to stay home and the density in most apartments will be less.”

The county health officer will have a great deal of say in how the campus reopens.

For example, the Los Angeles County health officer has advised colleges and universities in that county that as far as campus housing goes, only

those students with “no feasible alternative” to living in campus housing would be allowed to do so and then only in single occupancy units.

Los Angeles County’s rules are stricter than those of the state.

In announcing the restrictions, Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said, “the very nature of the way that colleges and universities operate creates a significant risk of outbreaks of COVID-19 among students, faculty and staff.

“And these risks extend beyond campus into the community. That is why we have made the difficult but necessary decision to limit the reopening of these important institutions,” Ferrer said, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Yolo County’s interim public health officer, Dr. Larissa May, said recent news of colleges around the country having to shut down and turn to remote learning after COVID outbreaks is “certainly of concern.”

Blacklock told supervisors that the county is meeting regularly with UC Davis leaders and will continue to do so as the start of the academic year approaches.

“And they, like we, are monitoring what’s happening in the higher education institutions across the nation that are opening earlier and I suspect those will be telling in terms of some of the

lessons learned.”

Additionally, he said, “the general feeling is that (UC Davis leaders) are putting a lot of thoughtful time and energy into how (to reopen)” as well as how to respond if outbreaks occur.

But Provenza said the county should do everything it can to ensure outbreaks don’t occur in the first place.

“Because if there was an outbreak, that outbreak spreads to seniors and spreads to other individuals who get sick and die,” Provenza said. “And sure, you can pull back, but the person who got sick and died is still dead … so that’s why we need to be very careful about the way we are doing this.”

Provenza also brought up the issue of 12-month leases that UC Davis students signed prior to the pandemic beginning. Many have told the Davis City Council and the Board of Supervisors that they are unable to break those leases or find other students to fill their place so they can remain at home.

City officials have been in discussions with the university about how to deal with that issue, according to Vice Mayor Lucas Frerichs.

Provenza said Tuesday that the leases provide “almost a disincentive to not return or to try distance learning from the family home.”

"That's a topic that we need to bring back," he said.

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60 of these bricks stacked together to power a 3-watt light bulb for an hour, though the bricks can be fully recharged in 15 minutes.

This discovery came out of a search for a substitute to lithium-ion batteries. Scientists must have so much fun. This lab was investigating iron-oxide (rust) and found when they immersed red clay flowerpots (iron oxide gives them their red color) in a series of gases, the result was a plastic coating that could conduct electricity. They moved from flowerpots to bricks and found that bricks absorbed the gases like a sponge and, like a sponge, there’s an enormous amount of surface area for the conductive plastic coating, thereby increasing the amount of energy it can store. They are now working to increase the brick’s limited energy density.

In their words, “If we are able to overcome that limitation, then I can really tell you that we are going to create jobs in America.”

This is a time for innovation.

Go, science!

— John Mott-Smith is a resident of Davis. This column appears the first and third Wednesday of each month. Please send comments to johnmotsmith @comcast.net.

WEST NILE: Infected birds found on Pole Line From Page A1 Club, Arroyo Park, North Davis and El Macero. Dead birds infected with the virus were found near the Department of Motor Vehicles on Pole Line Road and east of the city limits.

But West Nile Virus is not the only concern — the heat wave also increases the possibility of detecting the invasive mosquito Aedes aegypti which is capable of transmitting other dangerous viruses, including Zika, Goodman said. To date, those mosquitos have not been detected within the district but were found in Citrus Heights last year.

The district is currently evaluating surveillance data to determine the best plan of action moving forward and continues to encourage residents to be vigilant in protecting themselves from mosquito bites.

“It just takes one mosquito bite to change your life,” said Goodman.

“Please be aware that (West Nile Virus) can affect anyone.”

Activities to date have included widespread mosquito trapping and testing as well as aerial spraying of insecticides over agricultural areas outside city limits and ground spraying within cities.

Areas of Davis treated recently include Wildhorse Golf Club, Arroyo Park and Isla Place.

For information about any treatments planned in the area, visit www. fightthebite.net.

Protect yourself by practicing the district’s “D’s of Mosquito Prevention”: ■ Drain standing water that may produce mosquitoes.

■ Dawn and Dusk are times to avoid being outdoors.

■ Dress appropriately by wearing long sleeves and pants when outside.

■ Defend yourself by using an effective insect repellent. Make sure to follow label directions.

■ Door and window screens should be in good working condition.

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Nora (Eleonore) Agnes Rosenberg, 96, of Walnut Creek (Rossmoor) and Davis (Carlton Senior Living), passed away on Aug. 3, 2020. She was born to parents Aladar Vadasz and Lillian Berger Vadasz, on Jan. 12, 1924 in Budapest, Hungary.

Nora was very studious and intelligent. She studied languages and was interested in art history at University of Brussels in Belgium but was unable to graduate due to World War II. Nora survived the Holocaust as a young adult. After the war, she escaped to Bogota, Colombia, where she married another Hungarian refugee, Stefan Rosenberg in October of 1952.

Nora worked as an assistant administrator and translator for various companies.

Eventually she retired from the California Teachers Association.

Nora was kind, friendly and enjoyed her family and friends; traveled internationally; was an exceptional duplicate competitive bridge player; engaged in sports including tennis, ski-racing, waterskiing, horseback riding, swimming, figure skating and hiking; spoke seven different languages; loved

reading and listening to classical music, and socializing with friends.

Nora played the violin in various orchestras throughout the Bay Area of California. She ended her playing career at the age of 90 with the Mount Diablo Orchestra in Walnut Creek.

Nora and Stefan raised two children: Anne and Charles in Bogota. The family immigrated to the United States in 1968. In 1973, Nora and her family became naturalized citizens of the United States.

Nora is survived by daughter Anne; son Charles; son-in-law Fred Main; and grandchildren Kaitlyn, Douglas and Andrew Rosenberg Main.

She was preceded in death by husband Stefan, parents Aladar and Lillian Vadasz, and brother Andrew Vadasz.

No memorial will be held due to the COVID-19 epidemic.

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2020

East Davis backyard gets a special visitor A

yellow-bellied marmot in Davis?

Well, we have foxes, coyotes, skunks, raccoons and mink. This summer we had a bear. And now, a marmot that showed up in Larry Guenther’s backyard in East Davis.

It’s native to the mountains, usually living above 6,500 feet.

So what’s it doing in our 52-feetabove-sea-level Davis?

Joan Humphrey said, “I remember when I worked up in the mountains and we had to watch the car engines because the marmots liked to get in under the hood and chew on all the rubber hoses and such. What a mess. Seems like every now and then one could be in or on some vehicle when the vehicle started, and they could end up being stowaways. I was doing volunteer work on a bird field study in Hall Natural Area up near Tiago Pass, where cars got left at the trailhead for long periods of time.”

The marmot must have felt lonely because they live in burrows in colonies of up to 20 individuals. These 11-pound critters eat grasses, forbs and seeds in the summer. They hibernate for about eight months of the year.

The animal-loving community spread the word. David Mollel,

from California Department of Fish and Wildlife, caught him.

He’ll be checked over and then taken up to the mountain for release.

Be on guard for squirrels that also like to get under the hood and make a nest, chew on your wires and insulation. It makes for expensive repairs. I solved it by making a paste of cayenne and water and spread it all over in my engine and on my car hood insulation. Never had a problem again.

———— Watch for newly banded birds in North Davis. We have 20 nest boxes stretching from the Veterans Memorial Center to the Northstar Pond. Five are newly added along the North Davis Uplands Habitat on F Street and Anderson Road.

Melanie Truan of the Museum of Wildlife and Fish Biology at UC Davis, reported a total of 87

fledglings — 48 western bluebirds and 39 tree swallows. The 87 came from a total of 18 broods.

It all began when Alison Ke attended a Friends of North Davis Pond monthly bird stroll and said she was looking for a study for graduate work. We had a meeting with Alison, Melanie, city staff, Friends volunteers and the cooperation began. Before then, we did not have western bluebirds in North Davis except for one that came over from Putah Creek where Melanie began an extensive nest box trail 22 years ago. The five newer nest boxes along F and Anderson were immediately used.

The nesting ended about a week ago. Melanie says, “They’ll start nesting again in March or April of next year, but in the meantime, people can keep an eye out for color-banded bluebirds in the greenbelt. They should stick around all fall and winter.”

———— Recently, we drove the auto tour out at the Yolo Bypass and were shocked to see construction, less water than ever and fewer birds. We did enjoy the many egrets, great blue heron, ibis, flocks of blackbirds.

Robin Kulakow, policy

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White-faced ibis are visible now on the Yolo Basin Wildlife Area road tour along with many egrets, hawks and blackbirds.

Water in September will bring many birds.

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A yellow-bellied marmot was recently spotted in Davis. director of Yolo Basin Foundation, provided the answers. She wrote, “It’s an exciting set of two projects to improve the movement of water that comes into the Wildlife Area from the South Davis Drain. The drain carries stormwater and ag return water that can overpower the current system of canals.

“Proposition 1, a recent park and wildlife bond, is funding the construction through grants from the Delta Conservancy and Wildlife Conservation Board to Ducks Unlimited. These projects are not easy — they require a lot of analysis, planning and permitting. This all took about five years.

“The two projects you can see are bridges that are replacing culverts that were too small. The beavers did a good job clogging them up. The bridges are prefabricated and then put in with a crane. With the canal and bridge improvements, wetland and ag (rice) management will be improved. There will be less nuisance flooding from the South Davis Drain, so access for everyone will be improved.

“There is a third project that you can’t see from the driving

loop. It is a new pump that will be used to restore 200 acres of new wetlands. Earthwork is being done to create the ponds as well.”

Robin noted we are fortunate that California Dept of Fish and Wildlife has kept the Wildlife Area open at a time when many public lands are not open due to the pandemic. Do the driving tour. See the flocks of ibis. Get the long views. And enjoy it even more in September when construction is done, and they flood up the wetlands and we’ll see many more birds.

Progress continues on the North Davis Uplands Habitat Open Space of F and Anderson.

Volunteers are weeding the horrible knotweed and other invasives. Planting will be happening in September. Volunteers are needed: Please contact me so we can notify you of the next city of Davis training (mandatory before volunteering).

— Jean Jackman is a Davis resident. Her column appears on the third Wednesday of each month. Got a story, question, correction? Contact her at JeanJackman@gmail.com.

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Here’s how hot weather affects a garden

BY DON SHOR Special to The Enterprise

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he National Weather Service issued an “excessive heat warning” through at least today.

This kind of heat can be hard on the garden! We are likely to see the effects during the heat wave, as well as for a couple of weeks thereafter.

The evapotranspiration rate (ET) rate of plants is related to temperature and wind speed. On a normal summer day here, the ET rate is about .26 inch.

During comparable heat waves, ET rates of plants have ranged from 0.30 to 01.37 inches. This is a direct measure of the plants’ water needs during a heat wave: a 15% to 40% increase in water usage, higher if it’s windy.

Physiological effects ■ Tomato, pepper, cucumber, bean and squash plants are unlikely to pollinate during high temperatures. Blossoms that open over the next several days will just fall off. Don’t fret, we still have time for pollination and fruit development once the heat subsides.

■ Fruit of tomatoes and peppers that is exposed to direct afternoon sun, as on the west side of the plant, may sunburn (‘sun scald’).

The damaged portion can be cut away and the rest of the fruit is usable. If you

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Sunburn on peppers and tomatoes occurs on the west side of the fruit during heat waves. The rest of the fruit is fine. When you see we’re about to have a very hot spell, consider picking bell peppers that are exposed to the afternoon sun. Tomatoes with a blush of color can be picked and ripened indoors.

Adequate watering can help prevent sunscald, as can lightly shading the plants from the hottest afternoon sun. have tomato fruit in direct sun that are beginning to blush with color, they can be picked and allowed to ripen indoors on your kitchen counter.

■ Plants can be shaded from the west side to reduce the likelihood of sun scald. You can pound some stakes into the ground and staple shade cloth or landscape fabric on it to block the hottest sun of the day.

■Drought stress can increase the likelihood of sun scald on both fruit and leaves, as it causes thinning of the epidermal layer that ordinarily protects the plant. Make sure your vegetable plants are well watered right now.

■ Many of our popular lawn grasses are better adapted to cool regions,

and show a lot of stress in high temperatures. Mowing them when it is hot is not good for them (it exposes the growing points, which may wither) nor is it good for you. Wait to mow until the heat passes.

■ Some species of trees need extra attention to watering and will get scorched leaves if they don’t have adequate soil moisture. Good examples are maples, especially Japanese maples, as well as coast redwoods and magnolias.

Water your trees During protracted periods of heat, plants can be harmed or die from lack of water. When the available water in the soil is depleted, the roots, leaves and new

shoots start to wither. If the lack of water continues, so progresses the dieback. Some plants respond by dropping leaves, others get scorched but the leaves hang on. In any case, the appearance and vigor are damaged.

A common situation is watering systems that don’t reach to the full extent of the root system.

Tree roots extend well past the canopy (often called the drip line). If you’re just watering below the tree, you’re not watering the whole root area.

Drip irrigation systems installed for flowers and vegetable plants rarely get run long enough to benefit the larger shrubs and trees.

Conventional sprinkler heads put out water too quickly, leading to runoff before you’ve achieved sufficient depth of soil moisture.

A simple work-around is to manually run the system for a much longer period, about once a month for larger shrubs and trees and perhaps more often for higher-water species such as maples.

A series of concentric rings of drip-watering tubing can be installed temporarily: under the tree, on the edge of the tree’s drip line, and out past the drip line a few feet. This is then run at a low volume for several hours or overnight.

Higher-water species can be watered this way every couple of weeks, while more drought-tolerant types may be watered once a month, into mid-October.

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For a more detailed explanation and calculator for your situation, check out the Tree Ring Irrigation Contraption article published by the California Center for Urban Horticulture.

If you don’t feel like putting a system together, a simple soaker hose might suffice although the output is variable. A sprinkler set and run until the soil saturates locally, then moved and run again until you’ve set it all around the tree can do the job.

Micro-sprayers on regular drip tubing work, although they have to run a long time to provide enough water. Measure the output and try to get at least a couple of inches of water over the whole root zone.

The point is to water deeply at wide intervals, much the way you see orchards managed locally.

Newly planted trees need a thorough soaking about once a week. TREE Davis recommends “giving your young tree 15 gallons per week during the summer. Continue to water weekly for two months, then every two weeks for the remainder of the dry season. Remember to increase the amount of water, depending on how hot and dry it is outside.”

They also provide excellent videos and articles at their Tree Resources page.

Young trees especially also benefit from having the soil surface mulched to shade the soil and conserve moisture.

On the other hand I manage plants in pots for a living. I can tell you that on a normal summer day here, most potted plants outside need daily watering (perhaps less often if your yard is very shady). Be sure to hold the hose there until you see water coming out the bottom drain holes. Good rule of thumb: for a 5-gallon pot, count slowly to five.

For a 15-gallon pot, count slowly to 15. For a halfbarrel or larger planter, count slowly to at least 30.

Your raised vegetable planter bed is basically a large pot because you filled it with fast-draining soil. It is likely that you will need to water raised beds every day, perhaps for 30 to 40 minutes at a time, during the hottest period of the summer.

It’s important that your water system distribute water evenly, which requires an emitter every square foot. Exact run times and frequency will depend on the output of your emitters and your soil type, but most people don’t seem to run them often enough or long enough. If your vegetables aren’t thriving in your raised beds, they probably need more water as well as some nitrogen.

Poking a trowel into the soil in various places will help you assess the distribution of water, but plant performance is your ultimate guide to how to

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BY CHARLES F. CHAMPION Special to The Enterprise

oets like me look for incongruities. We seek to discover and create works that delight or surprise with unusual phrases, with atypical uses of common words, or with startling combinations of sounds. Such creativity can offer an alternative, perhaps even an antidote, to the unthinking and unfeeling transactional ways that we typically speak to one another.

At the highly successful Aug. 9 Davis march for African American mothers, sisters and daughters, my son Jukie and I found ourselves right in the middle of the pack of protesters, a group that was attenuated by the need for us to maintain sufficient social distance from our brother and sister marchers.

As a result, the group around us could hear the calls and responses coming from both the woman with the bullhorn at the very front of the procession, as well as from the man with a bullhorn at the very back of the group.

Because of this mélange of fervent voices, my poet’s ear discerned that some people appeared to be answering questions different from those being asked.

One interchange sounded like this: From the front of the protest march, we heard “What do we want?”

From the back of the march, answering a different question, we heard “Sandra Bland!”

I thought to myself that we do want Sandra Bland back, just as we mourn any woman or man who enters a police department because of a traffic violation, and then never comes out.

Reflecting that Bland graduated from the same suburban Chicago high school as my wife, I wondered if she could have been any of us, or if she was singled out.

As California Gov. Newsom reminded us in his most recent press briefing, any untimely death is a tragedy for the family and community that feel the loss most deeply.

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also heard this chant: “Say her name!”

“Justice!”

Hearing this, I thought of the ancient Roman goddess, Justitia, who stands above courthouses across the country.

She is blindfolded, carrying balanced scales in one hand and a mighty sword in the other.

Saying her name, we ask Lady Justice to return to us. In our country, Justice seems not to have been properly blindfolded, with her scales imbalanced, for her sword seems to have been used discriminately.

“Breonna Taylor!”

“Matters!”

This is the central assertion of any such protest, that as humans we matter inherently, intrinsically, without regard to the past causes of discrimination that had affected the life and death of Ms. Taylor, such as skin color, gender or class.

The odd and sustained echoes of that important march Sunday remind me that the lamentations of loss, the calls for justice, and the demands for actual equity and equality in our country need be heard and heeded by those who make and enforce our country’s laws and policies.

Until that happens, I anticipate that noisy bands of poets, protesters and social-justice patriots will continue to assemble.

— Andy Jones is a lecturer in the UC Davis University Writing Program, and a former Davis poet laureate.

brand management and crisis communication professor I know at a leading university contends that brands reside in the minds of customers, not at company headquarters. So, when crisis strikes, he argues, protecting the brand boils down to this: protecting your customers.

The California News Publishers Association is charged with protecting the “brands” of 450-plus California newspapers. We’ve been fighting against a rising tide of newsroom closures as the COVID19 wave breaks over our members’ businesses.

We’re advocating for passage of Assemblywoman Blanca Rubio’s (D-Baldwin Park) AB 323 to get relief and prevent job losses, small business failures and threats to freedom of the press. All valid and prescient rationale, of course. But I suspect that some see the arguments as selfpreservationist: it’s just business trying to protect its profits.

In truth, however, our advocacy is a plea to protect our readers, the people who rely on news reporting to inform their daily lives as citizen-activists, consumers, foodies, artists, travelers and sports fanatics, to name few.

We tend to take news — and free press — for granted in our country. It is in our constitutional DNA, so we rarely consider life without it. But we may have to. Due in large measure to the financial impact of the pandemic and the increased costs of new employment laws in California, the death knell is sounding for dozens and dozens of community and ethnic newspapers.

We’re working to keep their presses running and protect readers from the

crushing impact of “news-less” communities, public information deserts, in effect.

Imagine Yolo County with no source of reliable information on tax increases, zoning changes, public health and criminal justice. Think of decisions on school safety, elder care, homelessness and property development being made without a newspaper to cover the stories and gauge, monitor and track community consensus or dissent.

What if Yolo County didn’t have a watchdog on public corruption, law enforcement and the latest internet scam.

What if voters had to go to the polls not knowing what candidates really stand for?

And try to imagine morning coffee without an opinion page to get the blood running (or boiling); or letters from neighbors to express agreement and joy, dismay and disappointment?

And that’s not all. Think about weeks without movie reviews, obituaries, columnists and cartoons; Saturdays without the whole story on last night’s high school sports games; or Sundays without feature stories on community events, places to go and things to see.

To some, losing these newspaperdelivered information assets may seem inconsequential. There are plenty of other news outlets: radio and TV, social media, blogospheres, etc.

But readers hardly find them adequate.

They want more than sound-bytes and tweets from untrustworthy trolls. They want the credible — and more expansive — coverage provided by working journalists at local newspapers.

According to the Pew Research Center, “an overwhelming majority of adults say it is at least somewhat important for journalists to understand their community’s history (85%) and to be personally

engaged with their local area (81%), and at least 4 in 10 deem each very important.”

Pew’s research is more than a data point.

It is a description of the relationship between readers and reporters that is at the heart of our free society. With as many as 20% of the state’s newspapers on the financial cliff, the relationship is in jeopardy in many communities, most of which have only the local paper to gather and report news.

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ut the relationship doesn’t have to end. Together, readers and newspapers can save local journalism by telling representatives in Sacramento that we strongly support Rubio’s AB 323. Passing it will bolster local news outlets by granting greater access to state advertising and more time to adjust to independent contractor laws.

State Sen. Bill Dodd is a co-sponsor of the bill, but you can still email, text or call Assemblywoman Cecila Aguiar-Curry, D-Winters, today and say, “Vote for AB 323 to save local journalism in my hometown,” at 530-757-1034, assemblymember. aguiar-curry@assembly.ca.gov, @Asm AguiarCurry on Twitter, or @Assembly memberCeciliaAguiarCurry on Facebook.

There is a saying that goes, when we take things for granted, the things we are granted get taken. Our association is working very hard to make sure it doesn’t apply to local newspapers in this case.

In the meantime, we know The Enterprise will do what it has been doing every day (week): keep you abreast of the news and in touch with events that affect your daily lives.

— Charles F. Champion is a former community newspaper owner/publisher and currently is president and CEO of the California News Publishers Association.

LETTERS Support DJUSD staff, teachers The pandemic has intruded on every aspect of our lives, and has devastated the lives of many in our community. There are no easy answers when it comes to whether and how to open up our economy, and it’s even harder when it comes to decisions about school. We all care about what’s best for our kids — academically, socially and physically. No decision about how to move forward with school this fall feels satisfactory in all of those categories.

Back in March, the DJUSD staff and teachers had to pivot to distance learning with little prep time; they then had to grapple with the endless complexities of opening up for the fall; now they have to quickly develop a new normal for school that looks nothing like what we have always known.

School administrators and teachers were not trained in school to teach kids online. They are having to figure it out as they go, just as we as parents are having to figure out how to manage work with distance learning support. I am grateful to the administrators and teachers for all the extra, unexpected work they spent this spring and summer planning out how best to serve our diverse student population, in the context of an unprecedented public health crisis.

I anticipate this school year will be bumpy and at times frustrating.

And, our collective support for the administrators and teachers busting their butts to continue educating our children during this time will be critical. It will show our kids how a community comes together during difficult times.

Andrea P. Clark Davis

Sort out Post Office trouble A representative of Louis De Joy, Postmaster General, announced over the weekend that “no more sorting machines will be removed before the November election.” This is a weak statement at best.

Let’s demand that the more than 600 sorting machines be put back in place in the post offices from which they’ve been removed.

Let’s demand that the big blue mailboxes on which so many of us depend be replaced and that no others be removed — either before or after the election!

Our postal service dates back to 1775 and was initiated to draw us together as a nation. This is a time to do everything we can to strengthen communication and national discourse, not erode it.

This is a time for each of us to speak out.

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I still don’t get it Despite Bob Dunning’s valiant effort to explain the upcoming Davis School Board election — the transition from at-large to district voting — I still can’t fully understand it. Even with a Ph.D. in political science and years of teaching local government at UC Davis (Bob was my student in antiquity), I have difficulty absorbing the details.

Just joking! I kind of understand the situation, but don’t like it.

Blame the irresponsible threat of legal action by a gadfly attorney in Southern California to get a number of districts including Davis to shift from district to at-large elections. This is a really counterproductive move that ignores local circumstances.

It’s unfortunate that the districts were not able to take collective action against this travesty.

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If we use the pandemic and economic problems to put the kibosh on new housing construction, when the recovery comes we will just see a predictable increase in homelessness and unaffordability that has racked this state and city for a decade after the last “flood.” We should get out ahead of this crisis.

The data bears this out. According to the St. Louis Fed, rental vacancy fell from its 2011 11.1% peak during the worst years of the recession to 5.7% in 2020. In Davis this number is near 1-2%. This is a clear indication that even in the worst of times, demand for housing in Davis is sky high. Once COVID recedes into memory, the storm of unaffordability will return. We can either ignore this like we ignored the housing crisis for years or “save our suburbs.”

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101, give or take, uses for summer squash M y birthday happens to fall on national Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor’s Porch Day (a real thing, honest!). Taken in combination with a grandfather who bought a small tractor upon retirement in order (apparently) to grow all the squash in the world in his yard, this means I have more squash recipes than you could shake a giant zucchini at.

Presented herewith are the summer (“you can pierce the skin with your fingernail”) squash recipes.

Winter (“you may need a hatchet to piece the skin”) squash recipes will arrive in due time (although not soon enough for this fall-loving cook.)

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Vegetable Migas Traditionally a breakfast dish, but great for dinner if you’re not a cooked breakfast household.

You can vary the ingredients endlessly provided you have tortillas and eggs.

and refrigerate until needed (up to 48 hours) but add 15 minutes to baking time.

Chicken & Rice Salad

A nice lunch to make with leftovers.

Ingredients: 4 large, 8 small or 12 tiny zucchini salt 1 cup cooked greens 2 tablespoons chopped herbs 1 cup breadcrumbs ¼ cup grated Parmesan, optional (2 slices bacon, fried crisp and crumbled) Putting it together: Wash zucchini and drop in boiling water for 4 to 6 minutes, depending on size. Drain and let cool. Trim ends of cooled zucchini. Cut in half lengthwise, and use a spoon to scoop out insides, leaving a thin shell.

Chop insides.

Mix together all ingredients except zucchini shells. Mound filling generously into shells.

Place in lightly oiled baking pan and bake, uncovered, at 350° about 20 minutes.

Stuffed zucchini can be made ahead up to final baking. Cover

Ingredients: 2 cups cooked rice 3 tablespoons olive oil 2 tablespoons vinegar 1 clove garlic 1 teaspoon soy sauce ¼ cup pecans ½ cup cooked chicken ½ cup diced sautéed summer squash ¼ cup golden raisins Putting it together: Place vinegar, soy sauce and crushed garlic in a bowl. Whisk in olive oil a little at a time to form a dressing. Mix rice, green beans, chicken, pecans and raisins. Add dressing a little at a time.

Summer Squash Fritters I cooked these with many elementary school classes, and they were always a hit! Makes about 24 fritters.

Putting it together: Wash and grate summer squash. Mince onion. Mix all the ingredients except the oil. Heat half of the oil in a big frying pan over medium heat. When oil is hot, drop in fritter batter by the tablespoon full, flattening mounds slightly. Cook over medium heat until golden brown (about 4 minutes). Turn and cook other side until brown, 2 to 3 minutes. Repeat with remaining batter, adding more oil to the pan if needed.

Veggie Skillet I grew up eating a lot of fried potatoes — with breakfast, as a dinner side dish and cold standing in front of the refrigerator!

This dish grew out of those childhood memories. Serves 2.

Ingredients: 8 to 10 new potatoes, cooked 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 small onion, finely sliced 1 bell pepper, finely sliced 1 to 2 summer squash, diced 1 tablespoon lime juice 1 cup corn kernels 1 to 2 cups cooked beans or chili (any other leftovers that seem good)

Ingredients: 2 corn tortillas 1 tablespoon butter 1 tablespoon oil 1 tomato, chopped ½ cup chopped bell pepper ½ cup chopped onion ½ cup diced supper squash (1 jalapeño, sliced) 4 eggs ½ cup cheese salsa sour cream

Putting it together: Cut potatoes into big slices or, if very small, quarter. Add oil to a large heavy skillet and heat.

Add potatoes and cook, stirring occasionally, until potatoes are golden, about 10 minutes. Add onions, bell peppers and squash and cook until crisp tender, 4 to 5 minutes. Add lime juice, corn kernels, beans and anything that needs heating up and cover.

Cook until just heated through, 1 to 2 minutes. Serve with salsa verde or salsa from a jar, sour cream and tortilla chips.

Putting it together: Heat butter and oil in a skillet.

Tear tortillas into bite-sized bits and fry in fat 3 to 4 minutes.

Remove from pan and reserve.

Add vegetables and cook in skillet until tender. Beat eggs and add to skillet along with tortillas.

Scramble. Top with cheese, salsa and sour cream.

Stuffed Summer Squash You can replace the greens with chopped tomato when you have lots of those!

Ingredients: 2 cups grated summer squash (3 little squash or 2 big ones) ½ cup minced or grated onion (about ½ an onion) 1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese ½ cup fine bread crumbs 1 egg plus 1 egg white 6 tablespoons flour ½ cup half and half 2 to 4 tablespoons olive oil

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Instant Pot Summer Minestra This soupy main dish is good

hot, but it’s also very nice served cold on hot days. It’s particularly delightful with a spoonful of pesto swirled into the bowl just before serving.

Ingredients: 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 small onion, diced 1 small bell pepper, diced 2 teaspoons dried oregano (1 teaspoon Aleppo pepper or red pepper flakes) 3 cloves garlic, minced or pressed ½ cup dried cannellini beans 1 bay leaf 1 teaspoon salt 4 cups broth 2 carrots, scraped and diced 2 stalks celery, strings removed, diced 4 ounces uncooked pasta or rice ½ cup green beans, cut into 1” lengths 1 zucchini, cut into dice (chunk of parmesan rind if available) 1 ear corn, cut from cob 3-4 tomatoes, diced, with their juices salt and pepper to taste

Putting it together: Set the Instant Pot to sauté.

Add oil, onion and bell pepper and cook until they start to soften, stirring frequently, about 5 minutes. Remove vegetables and reserve. Add oregano, Aleppo pepper and garlic and cook about 30 seconds, just until fragrant. Add broth, bay leaf, salt and beans. Seal Instant Pot and set to cook 45 minutes at high pressure.

When beans are done, let off pressure. Fish out bay leaf.

Add reserved onion and pepper, carrots, celery, rice if using, and green beans. If you are the clever sort of cook that has a bag full of Parmesan rinds in the freezer, drop one in here. If not, you may want to add another half teaspoon of salt. Reseal and cook 5 minutes under pressure.

Release pressure and fish out Parmesan rind.

If your making this to serve now: set Instant Pot to sauté.

Add zucchini and pasta, if using, and cook 5 minutes. Add corn and diced tomato and cook until zucchini and pasta are done.

Taste and adjust seasonings.

If you’re making this to serve later: Turn Instant Pot off and remove pot from machine. Stir in zucchini, pasta if using, corn and tomato. Let stand 10 minutes.

Stir again and chill. Adjust seasoning before serving.

Pondering the ‘what ifs’ of this crazy time I like reading history and, occasionally, novels based on historic events. History, I suppose, is so fascinating because the outcomes that we now know so well through the perfection of hindsight, were at the time, so uncertain.

I have always been fascinated by the “What ifs?” of history, because everything is chance; no one, not even our greatest leaders, can read or control the future; even with the best of planning or earnest intentions or righteous determination, sometimes we are lucky and sometimes not.

What if? …

What if the bullet had missed or struck home?

What if the weather had been worse or better?

What if the attack had pressed on or pulled back, or happened sooner or later, or in greater force?

What if the leaders or the people had been more or

less eager? What if the vote had been different? What if the message got through or didn’t?

And so on …

Half a dozen books based on the events of World War II have come my way recently all of them inevitably involving the two leaders of the English-speaking world at that time: FDR and WSC. And so I have asked myself what if our present leader in the White House were elected in 1936 instead of 2016. After all, he has nominated himself to be a wartime president but with the COVID virus, not German Nazis, as his implacable enemy.

Given his leadership performance in the war against COVID, if DJT replaced FDR in World War II, I know we would now speak German, we would have only Aryan friends and the trains would run on time.

wait, like India, until after World War II for independence from the British Crown.

We can look further back in time …

If our present leader were a founding father, given his particularly poisonous mixture of racism, misogyny, authoritarianism and self-serving narcissism, the founding document of 1776 would have undoubtedly been a Declaration of Loyalty.

That would have been the result of a beautiful letter from George III, and because printing presses could not find enough ink for Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense.”

As a result, of course, the Revolutionary War would not be fought and we would probably have to

If given a role in writing the Constitution I’m not sure liberty, equality, fraternity of the French Revolution would have been its companion and model.

DJT would have orchestrated a powerful presidentfor-life along the lines of a true ruling monarchy. He is working on that now, in this day and age, right before our very eyes. How much easier it would have been to install that idea in the turbulent days as the founders struggled to

create a nation. And, of course, no Missouri Compromise.

What if DJT, not Abe, had been elected in 1860?

There would be no artillery shells falling on Fort Sumter and no Civil War because there are good people on both sides. Our president, with no moral compass and no courage and a tower to build in Atlanta and Chattanooga, would find Jefferson Davis a very good friend and a very fine person.

Well, you get the idea.

What has surprised me in these last few years has been the fragility of our

foundations: our longstanding and much-appreciated and crucial American traditions. I’m afraid the vile stew of his personality has poisoned our constitutional democracy.

What if in our fall election we give this man and his cronies another four years in which to dismantle our democracy? We will be left wistfully asking: “What if his emigrant forebears had gone back to where they came from?”

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Celosia, cosmos, petunias, marigolds and more, thrive in summer heat. These are in containers, so they get watered nearly every day. In the ground they would need water about twice a week.

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GARDEN: There a few plants that like it hot From Page A5 schedule your watering.

Plants not growing, fruit not developing? Leaves looking kind of scorched?

You probably need to water more thoroughly, more often, or both. If the system isn’t covering well, consider setting a sprinkler now and then to get better coverage.

Containers, raised beds and planter boxes are the only garden situations likely to require daily watering. That frequency of irrigation can cause plants to die out in the garden in regular soil.

Watered too often?

Phytophthora is encouraged by high moisture around the crown of the plant during unusually high temperatures. Free moisture allows the motile spores of the organism (formerly classified as a fungus) to move to the bark of the plant and inoculate, then infect the vascular system. The infection inhibits the uptake of water and the movement of sugars downward. The plant wilts and dies.

This process takes a few days, so we see plants die of “crown rot” or “root rot” (common names for the phytophthora infection) after heat waves. Certain plants are especially vulnerable, including many California natives and plants from Mediterranean climates, Australia, and South Africa.

Best is, if possible, to water thoroughly just before a hot spell, and then not again until for a week or more. Low-water landscapes may be able to go a month or more between waterings. If you are watering these types of woody plants during the heat wave, give a very long soaking once to thoroughly hydrate

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Do any plants like it this hot?

Sure.

■ Flowering perennials and low shrubs for full sun in the Valley heat include black-eyed susan (Rudbeckia), catmint (Nepeta), lantana, lavender, red hot poker (Kniphofia), Russian sage (Perovskia), many types of salvias, and verbena. Heat-loving annuals include moss rose (Portulaca) and Madagascar periwinkle (Vinca rosea).

■ Bigger shrubs for hot sun zones in your yard include California lilac (ceanothus), dwarf varieties of olive, golden breath of heaven (Coleonema), grevillea, rockrose (Cistus), rosemary, Texas ranger (Leucophyllum), toyon, and many more.

■ The Ruth Storer Garden at the UC Davis Arboretum is a great resource for landscape ideas for sunny locations.

■ Most of our culinary herbs such as chives, marjoram, oregano, rosemary and sage prefer full sun and have good drought tolerance once established.

Water your garden thoroughly and deeply, as infrequently as your soil and your plant palette will allow. It doesn’t matter what time of day you water. Water containers daily in hot weather.

And please water your trees.

— Don Shor and his family have owned the Redwood Barn Nursery since 1981. He can be reached at redbarn@ omsoft.com. Archived articles are available on The Enterprise website, and they are always available (all the way back to 1999) on its business website, www.redwoodbarn.com.

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