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Sex-assault trial begins for softball coach BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer
US News ranked UC Davis No. 39 over all and No. 11 among public schools in its latest rankings. CALEB HAMPTON/ ENTERPRISE FILE PHOTO
UCD ranked among best BY CALEB HAMPTON
The ranking system took several criteria into account, including student debt, social mobility, graduation rates and retention rates. UC Davis was ranked the 15th best school specifically on social mobility criteria, which is determined by the outcomes of Pell Grant recipients as well as other data.
Enterprise staff writer UC Davis was once again rated among the top colleges in the country in the latest “Best Colleges” rankings by U.S. News & World Report, which were released Monday. U.S. News ranked UC Davis the 11th-best public school in the United States and the 39th-best school overall.
According to the publication, UC Davis students have a higher-than-expected gradua-
tion rate, with 87% of students graduating within six years. UC Davis was also ranked highly for its ethnic diversity and relatively low amount of federal student loan debt that students have at graduation. UC Davis’ undergraduate engineering program was ranked the 28th-best in the country and its computer science program was ranked 36th. UC Davis was also ranked
the 18th-best school for veterans, the 50th most innovative school and was the school with the No. 55 ranking for undergraduate teaching. “Our students make UC Davis a better place in many ways, and these accolades reinforce what we already know about their drive and intelligence,” UC Davis Chancellor
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WOODLAND — As his own lawyer put it, Jack “Buck” Thomas can be rough around the edges. A “renowned” hitting coach in the youth softball and baseball circuit, “he’s crass, he’s vulgar, he has no filter,” Yolo County Deputy Public Defender Emily Fisher told a jury Monday. But while “off-putting” in style, as Fisher also described him, did Thomas sexually assault two clients, ages 15 and 16, in the summer of 2018? Or did one girl’s father, dissatisfied with Thomas’ coaching regimen, create the allegations when Thomas refused to refund his money? Jurors heard both theories during opening statements Monday in Yolo Superior Court, where Thomas, 44, is standing trial on multiple felony sexual-assault charges. West Sacramento police brought the case in cooperation with the Sheriff ’s Office in Maricopa County, Ariz., where authorities arrested Thomas on Jan. 4, 2019, on suspicion
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Chapman aims for District 5 City Council seat BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY
reimagining downtown Davis and crafting a plan for the future. Along with his background (and degree) in small business management, the father of two elementary school-age boys also has roots in another field: Prior to moving to Davis 11 years ago, he taught for many years, first for AmeriCorps in Washington, D.C., and later as a high school teacher in San Francisco working with youths in the juvenile delinquency system. More recently, he taught suicide prevention and mental health lessons in local junior high schools on behalf of Suicide Prevention of Yolo County. That combination of immersion in the local business and political scene as well as his
Enterprise staff writer For a decade now, Josh Chapman has been a key figure in the downtown Davis scene, both as a small business owner and as a civic leader. He and his wife, Athena, own and operate Armadillo Music — a business started by her parents in 1996 — and Chapman has spent years on the Davis Downtown Business Association board of directors, including as president. He was an original sponsor and organizer of the Davis Music Festival and more recently served as the DDBA’s representative on the Downtown Plan Advisory Committee, tasked by the City Council with
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interest in community service had Chapman considering a run for City Council several years ago. CHAPMAN But he was still DDBA Ready to step up president at the time and his children were still young, so he decided against it, he said. Now with his work on the downtown plan wrapped up, his boys a little older and the switch to district elections, he’s decided to take the plunge, entering the race to represent the 5th District on the Davis City Council. “It was the next logical step
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for me in terms of wanting to give back and the civic duty I’ve worked to encompass in my life,” he said. Providing representation on the council for residents of South Davis is critical, Chapman said. “I can have this immediate direct impact on the community in which I live,” he said, a community that includes not only the children he coaches on youth sports teams and their families, but also the broader community surrounding Montgomery Elementary School, where he is a parent volunteer. “There has definitely been a sense that South Davis hasn’t been represented at the council
Davis school district staff will outline preliminary plans still under development for an eventual “phased return to campus” during Thursday’s meeting of the Davis school board. No target dates for a phased return to campus are being identified at this point. Before such a discussion can begin, Yolo County will need to have logged less than 200 new coronavirus cases over a period of 14 consecutive days.
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Briefly Driver faces multiple charges Davis police arrested a woman on drunkendriving and childendangerment charges early Monday outside a South Davis hotel. Lt. Art Camacho said bystanders summoned officers to the Days Inn on Chiles Road after the suspect, 23-yearold transient Thalia Cisneros, drove into the parking lot and confronted another woman there at about 4 a.m. Police officers determined that Cisneros had traveled there under the influence of alcohol among other offenses, which “included her unrestrained 2-year-old son in the back seat of the vehicle.” An open can of beer was found in the car’s drink holder, he added. Cisneros was arrested after failing a fieldsobriety test and booked into the Yolo County Jail, Camacho said.
City extends cooling center The city announced Tuesday that the cooling center at the Davis Senior Center — now dubbed the “weather relief center” — will remain open through Friday to provide shelter from the unhealthy air. Hours at the center, located at 646 A St. in the multi-purpose room, will be from noon to 6 p.m. Face coverings and social distancing are required at the shelter. The city will assess if further hours are needed after Friday.
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It was quite a ruff night all around D S OG DAY AFTER HOURS ... a kind reader sent me a note musing about that East Davis burglar who was recently taken into custody after “two police K-9s were deployed into the building and apprehended the man.” ... Noted the author, “a doggone good arrest.” ... indeed ... now, you may be wondering how this fearsome twosome managed to “apprehend” the man ... first, these are exceedingly well-trained dogs ... second, there are several definitions for the word “apprehend,” including “to seize,” “to catch” and “to capture,” all of which describe exactly what these dogs did ... As I understand it, the dogs, who spent three years training at the UC Davis School of Law, also read the suspect his Miranda rights ... Noted The Enterprise account of this crime, the suspect “was treated for dog-bite injuries at Sutter Davis Hospital before being booked into the Yolo County Jail.”
... turns out, in addition to being fearsome, this was a toothsome twosome as well ... POLITICAL FOOTBALL ... my friend Scott, who claims that the best college football can be found anywhere but on the West Coast, writes to say “I love how Trump is really trying to get the Big Ten to play but could care less about the Pac-12. Just shows he knows his college football. Most fans feel that way, too.” ... For those who haven’t been following this earth-shattering story, the president called Big 10 Commissioner Kevin Warren the other day and applied presidential
pressure to have the Big 10 reverse its decision to not play football this fall. As much as I hate to break it to you, Scott, this has more to do with the Electoral College and less to do with college football ... the president realizes that twothirds of the Pac-12 teams are located in the decidedly blue states of California, Oregon and Washington where his haul of Electoral Votes on Nov. 3 will be absolutely zero ... However, the Big 10 has all sorts of swing states like Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Ohio and Minnesota, and the president figures if he can take credit for getting college football up and running in those states, he’ll win by a landslide ... the president said his talk with Commissioner Warren was so productive that the ball is now on the one-yard-line ... in his wily way, however, Mr. Trump did not tell us on which 1-yard-line the ball is resting ...
PEAKING OF FOOTBALL ... I can’t for the life of me understand how both the Rams and the Chargers can play full contact NFL football in Los Angeles, but the football players at USC and UCLA aren’t even allowed to practice ... The same for the 49ers opening the season with a game last Sunday in Santa Clara, while nearby schools Cal and Stanford are still forbidden from holding practice ... this is a glaring double-standard that screams for a yellow flag and a 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty ... Pac-12 football will not be allowed to start until the public health authorities in the California counties in which USC, UCLA, Cal and Stanford reside give the green light for a resumption of play ... which is as it should be ... safety first, football second ... but why those same standards don’t apply to professional football in California remains a mystery ... — Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.
Man killed by West Sac cops Yolo still purple, daily was former police employee case rate has declined Special to The Enterprise The man fatally shot by West Sacramento police officers Saturday was a former employee of the law-enforcement agency who was battling mental illness and suicidal thoughts, police disclosed Monday evening. Robert Coleman, 88, worked for the West Sacramento Police Department for nearly a decade, starting in the late 1990s as a code-enforcement officer and later as a parking-enforcement officer and Volunteer in Policing, police officials announced in a written statement after meeting with Coleman’s relatives. “Many people are impacted any time a life is lost. In this case, Mr. Coleman was not only a loving husband and caring father, but he was also a member of the West Sacramento Police Department family for almost 10 years,” the statement read. “According to Mr. Coleman’s family, he had recently been struggling with mental illness and had expressed suicidal ideations. We are all deeply saddened by this tragedy and ask that you keep the Coleman family in your thoughts.” Police have said Coleman held a handgun as he exited a vehicle at about 3 a.m. Saturday in an area where officers had been investigating reports of an armed male on West Capitol Avenue.
“As officers continued searching the area, one officer noticed a subject seated in a vehicle behind the police units at Merkley Avenue and Poplar Avenue,” Sgt. Eric Angle said in a news release about the shooting. “As the officer attempted to contact the driver, the unidentified adult African American male exited the vehicle armed with a handgun and a shooting ensued.” Police have not disclosed whether there was an exchange of gunfire during the incident, though no officers or other civilians were injured. Four officers directly involved in the shooting — a sergeant and three patrol officers — remain on administrative leave pending an investigation by the Davis Police Department. “Mr. Coleman’s condition, although relevant, will not impact the investigative efforts to scrutinize the actions of the involved officers,” police said in Monday’s statement. Body-camera and patrol-car camera footage of the incident currently is being prepared for public release in accordance with state law, “and more details about the incident will be provided at that time,” the statement said. — Reach Lauren Keene at lkeene@ davisenterprise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @laurenkeene.
Lecture eyes environmental justice Special to The Enterprise Extreme weather events throughout 2020 have devastated natural landscapes and human communities. Climate change contributes to the intensity and severity of these events, which disproportionately affect people in developing nations and marginalized communities within the United States. UC Davis professor Julie Sze will present a timely lecture on her book, “Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger,” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 23. Her work examines the intersection of climate change with racism, class exploitation, indigenous struggles for land, and privatization, interwoven with threads to create a primer on restorative environmental justice. “We live in precarious times, and it is precisely in this moment that understanding environmental justice movements is essential,” she said. Julie Sze teaches American studies and directs the Environmental Justice Project of the UC Davis John Muir Institute for the Environment. Her research investigates environmental justice and environmental inequality, culture and environment, race, gender, power and community health. Sze will be joined in conversation by Adelita Serena, an organizer for Mothers Out Front, a grassroots climate action organization. Serena has a long history of humanrights activism from marching with César
Chávez to advocating for youth and survivors of sexual assault. She explained, “As a mother and Indigenous woman, what we are currently seeing is a very clear and loud alarm from our mother earth and ancestors. We must change course off fossil fuels before it’s too late. I have two sons and I want them to have a future. We must act now with great urgency.” This event is hosted by the Episcopal Church of St. Martin. “It is almost a cliché for Christians to talk about loving our neighbors. But we can no longer separate loving our neighbor from loving the Earth on which our very existence depends,” said Pamela Dolan, rector of St. Martin’s. “There is a long tradition, almost a countertradition, within Christianity that recognizes that all of creation is bound together as kin; a threat to any part of the web of creation is a threat to all of it, including humanity,” Dolan said.
“Now, in this moment of danger, we must join together with people of all faiths or no professed faith to act on this understanding.” Cool Davis, the Yolo Interfaith Alliance for Climate Justice, the Yolo Climate Emergency Coalition, Mothers Out Front, and the Sierra Club Yolano Group are cosponsors of the event. This event is free and will be hosted on Zoom. Register in advance at http://bit. ly/environmentaljustice talk. For more information, contact the Episcopal Church of St. Martin at 530-756-0444 or info@ churchofstmartin.org.
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BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer Yolo County remains at least two weeks away from moving out of the state’s purple tier for counties with widespread risk of COVID-19 transmission, although cases have been decreasing locally. The adjusted case rate dropped from over 9 per 100,000 residents last week to 7.5 this week, according to data released by the state Tuesday. However, to move into the red tier that would allow additional businesses to reopen, the county’s daily case rate must go below 7 and remain there for at least two weeks. The return of thousands of UC Davis students in the next week, many of whom will be screened by the university for COVID-19 upon arrival, could make that difficult if the increased testing results in a higher daily case rate for the county as a whole. Some 24,000 UC Davis students are expected to be living here for the fall quarter, which starts Sept. 28, with the vast majority living in apartments and single-family homes in Davis and surrounding cities. The university plans to test all students moving into university housing next week and expand that testing to all students and staff thereafter, likely on a weekly basis. The impact of that testing on the county’s daily new case rate would likely be seen over the next several weeks. Daily new case rates are not the only metric used by the state in its tierbased system: a county’s test positivity rate is also
taken into consideration. Yolo County’s test positivity rate — the percentage of all tests producing positive results — continued to drop along with the daily case rate over the last week and stood at 5.8 percent as of Tuesday, according to the state’s calculations. In addition to having a daily case rate below 7 per 100,000 residents, a county must also have a test positivity rate below 8 percent in order to move from the purple Tier 1 to the red Tier 2. Moving to Tier 2 would allow a number of Yolo County businesses, including gyms, libraries, nail salons, movie theaters and places of worship to reopen, albeit with restrictions on the number of people allowed in at a time. Restaurants could also resume indoor dining with a maximum capacity of 25 percent or 100 people, whichever is fewer, and schools could resume in-person instruction. On Tuesday, three counties made that move, with Inyo, Marin and Tehama joining 14 other counties in the red tier. Yolo County is one of 30 counties that remain in the purple tier, while nine counties are in the orange Tier 3 and two in the yellow Tier 4, which has the fewest restrictions on businesses and other activities. As of Tuesday, Yolo County has reported a total of 2,710 cases of COVID-19. The county has averaged about 16 new cases per day over the last week, according to the online dashboard. Meanwhile, hospitalizations have remained flat and no deaths have been reported since Sept. 2.
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TRIAL: Defense says it’s retaliation scheme From Page A1 of assaulting the 16-yearold when she traveled there for softball training. That girl also reported being sexually battered by Thomas at the younger girl’s West Sacramento home, where the 15-yearold alleged she was assaulted as well. Both teens, teammates on a West Sacramento competitive softball team, met Thomas in July 2018 when they attended a tournament in San Diego, Deputy District Attorney Rachel Raymond told the jury in her opening remarks. The parents of the younger girl, “K,” hired Thomas shortly thereafter, paying him $4,500 for a week of college-placement training at their home in late July and early August. The inappropriate behavior began on Instagram, Raymond said, with Thomas messaging K “that he was going to be her boyfriend for the week.” Upon his arrival at the airport, Thomas reportedly asked the girl a series of sexuallyoriented questions. That night, after a family dinner, Thomas allegedly sexually assaulted K while giving her a massage in her bedroom. According to Raymond, K later told her parents that Thomas “might have” touched her during the massage, “but it could have been an accident.” After that, the parents arranged their schedules so that Thomas rarely was alone with her. After subsequent incidents during which Thomas tried entering K’s bedroom at night and she fully disclosed the alleged assault, K’s parents confronted Thomas and demanded a refund. When that failed to materialize, the parents “made the decision to go to the authorities,” Raymond said. After that, “O,” the 16-year-old, came forward with allegations that Thomas sexually battered her in West Sacramento, and the behavior escalated when she traveled to Arizona for training. Raymond said jurors also will hear testimony from three adult women — all former softball players — regarding Thomas’ allegedly inappropriate conduct dating back to 2008. Fisher, meanwhile, urged the jury to keep an open mind during the two-week trial. “You will get a picture that Mr. Thomas is vulgar and crass and inappropriate, but not arising to the level of the allegations that
will be made in this courtroom against him,” she said. Fisher said that in addition to his rough mannerisms, Thomas is “very hands-on with the players that he coaches, both male and female. … He’s very in tune with the movement of muscles and joints in the process of hitting a baseball or softball.” Some former clients, she added, have reached professional status. His college-placement program pledged “intensive” mechanics training for K, with daily sessions lasting 12 to 14 hours, Fisher said. But following a fullbody stretch that first night, Thomas informed K’s parents she suffered from a previously undiagnosed back injury. That modified the training plan, which spanned far fewer hours than initially anticipated, Fisher said. Emotions began to run high, with K’s father accusing Thomas at one point of making the girl “uncomfortable” during the initial body stretch. But Thomas apologized, Fisher added, and began asking permission before touching K’s body. Meanwhile, O’s parents also hired Thomas to coach their daughter, who received some training during his West Sacramento visit. K’s parents also continued to seek his services, but began to suspect O was receiving “special treatment” including video conferences and lessons at Thomas’ Arizona home, Fisher said. By late September 2018, K’s parents began demanding a refund of the $4,500 fee, sending Thomas and his wife texts that read: “I ask that you make this go away quietly … and we go our separate ways, or you will have a s—storm coming your way,” Fisher told the jury. Still emptyhanded two months later, they contacted police. According to Fisher, it wasn’t until they underwent forensic interviews that both girls levied the assault accusations, leading to Thomas’ arrest. As the allegations hit the news, “the conjecture, speculation and gossip within the softball community sparks like a wildfire,” Fisher said. However, “you’ll see that the evidence in this case isn’t as straightforward as the prosecutor wants you to believe.” Thomas’ trial resumed Tuesday before Judge Paul K. Richardson. — Reach Lauren Keene at lkeene@davisenterprise .net. Follow her on Twitter at @laurenkeene
RANKED: Princeton is still No. 1 overall From Page A1 Gary S. May told the campus news service. Other campuses in the University of California system also earned accolades. UCLA was ranked the best public school in the country while UC Berkeley was ranked second-best. All nine UC undergraduate campuses ranked in the country’s top 40 public schools and the
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Briefly Country rock’s origins on radio Larry Lobre, a retired UC Davis administrator and musician, is teaching a class in October for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute on the origins of country rock. On the current edition of the KDRT program “Davisville,” he talks about the genre, what it offers, the influential but poorly selling LP “The Gilded Palace of Sin,” and the time Merle Haggard, his backseat full of 45 records, drove in to a Signal gas station where Lobre was working in Oildale. “Davisville,” hosted by Bill Buchanan, is broadcast on KDRTLP, 95.7 FM Mondays at 5:30 p.m., Fridays at 12:30 p.m., Saturdays at 8:30 a.m., and Sundays at 12:30 p.m. The talk with Lobre began airing Monday, will be broadcast through Sept. 27, and is available anytime at http://kdrt.org/ davisville or on Apple podcasts.
Measure D has lawn signs The Yes on Measure D campaign, to renew Measure J, now has lawn signs available. Anyone who would like one should contact citizens@dcn.org or call 530-756-5165. Donations for the campaign are welcome. Send checks made out to “Yes on Measure D” to Yes on Measure D, 2015 Renoir Ave., Davis, CA 95618. Measure D on the November ballot would renew Davis’ Measure J, “The Citizens’ Right to Vote on Future Use of Open Space and Agricultural Lands.” Measure J gives the city the leverage to get betterdesigned projects and the citizens the final say on projects that would develop ag land or open space. For more information or to help with the campaign, call 530756-5165 or 530-7566856 or email citizens@dcn.org.
Virtual house party backs Deos The public is invited to join Linda Deos, candidate for Yolo County Supervisor, at a virtual house party hosted by Steve Reynold at 7 p.m. tonight. To join the Zoom event, email Hello@ LindaDeos.com for details.
Dodd to host virtual town hall State Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, will host a virtual town hall on emergency preparedness amid the dual challenges of the coronavirus pandemic and record-setting wildfires, providing an update on how the Legislature is addressing these serious problems. It is planned for 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 22. The senator will be joined in the town hall broadcast live on KSVY/Sonoma TV and streamed across multiple channels by a panel of experts who will answer submitted questions and take calls from listeners. For streaming live audio, go to KSVY.org. For video, go to https:// sd03.senate.ca.gov, https://www.youtube. com/user/SonomaTV/ or SonomaTV.org. Email questions to townhall@ksvy.org. or call 707-933-9133.
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CHAPMAN: ‘We have to be more forward-thinking’ From Page A1 level,” he said. “There are a lot of families in South Davis that feel marginalized, especially in the (Montgomery) community.” As a council member, Chapman said, he would be that representative that people can approach to weigh in on issues or seek help. “I want to go and be a voice and advocate for them,” he said. Chapman believes had there been a South Davis representative on the council in recent years, some things would be different. Case in point: the Mace Boulevard project. “It was voted on and approved and went its own way and now here we are seven years later talking about possibly ripping it out,” Chapman said. “If somebody was on the council representing South Davis specifically, that could have gone a whole lot differently.” Another is the desire for
a public library in South Davis — something that’s been long discussed but has yet to come to fruition. “If I was on the council, that would be one of those things that would always be on the burner for me,” Chapman said. “That’s an important project because it provides a place for people in this community to go — a space to meet and talk about things that are happening and the issues we’re facing. “We need somebody on the council really strongly advocating over and over and over again to really make that happen.” The city as a whole, Chapman noted, finds itself in a unique point in time. The pandemic, he said, “has upset the apple cart.” “For me, one of the main things is really zeroing in on leading the city through the pandemic-induced (economic) crisis that we’re experiencing. That’s going to be one of the most important things we have to do.”
But throughout that process, he said, “we still have to meet the most basic needs of the most vulnerable residents.” That includes ensuring the safety of people of color, he said, of the unsheltered and those who need mental health and social services. “We still need to make sure we are taking care of them and any budget adjustments reflect who we are and what our principles are,” said Chapman. As for helping Davis businesses survive the pandemic, Chapman said, “I think I’m uniquely situated to do that.” When the shelter-inplace order came down, Chapman said he worked closely with others in the DDBA on creating a unique gift card program that infused $200,000 into downtown businesses in a matter of weeks. Going forward, he said, “as a business owner, I can provide a voice in that conversation and be a steward for the business community
to ensure we still have a downtown that’s vibrant, that’s accessible to all people.” He’s supportive of the actions the city has taken to allow businesses to expand outdoors during the pandemic but is thinking about what happens when the cold and rain come. “We have to be more forward-thinking about what’s going to happen,” Chapman said. “We’re not going to be going back to business as usual in November.” As a council member, he would work with the DDBA and the Chamber of Commerce “and really reach out to the people in the business community (to) figure out what the problems and obstacles are and find creative solutions.” The bottom line, said Chapman, “is we have to have someone with experience in listening to and helping people, and for me, that’s what my background’s always been.” As he’s been meeting and
talking with South Davis residents, Chapman said at the front of everybody’s mind “is how does the city come out of and bounce back from this situation we find ourselves in.” “There’s a lot of conversation about how we continue to support the downtown. It’s the gem of our community and a lot of people are so tied to it… there is a lot of concern about how we continue to keep that downtown viable and sustainable and vibrant. “Finding ways to meet the basic needs of vulnerable residents is another piece that comes up a lot,” Chapman said, as does the need for police reform. “The way we as a city handle all of this must reflect our values,” he said. Learn more at https:// www.chapman4citycouncil .com. — Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@ davisenterprise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.
SCHOOL: Meeting will air live on DJUSD cable channel From Page A1 In preparation for the eventual return to campus, the school district is now discussing the various health indicators, safety plans, and issues of access and equity that will need to be addressed when the number of new coronavirus cases in Yolo County declines to the point that it becomes appropriate to begin discussions about a return to campus. Among the topics mentioned in agenda documents for Thursday’s school board meeting: ■ Student training sessions
relating to the use of face masks, handwashing, and social distancing at school. ■ Preparation of campuses and classrooms for the return of students and teachers. ■ Monitoring of illness, including daily health assessments at home, and protocol for students who become ill. The school district is planning a five-phase process that includes: ■ Phase 1 — full distance learning. (This phase is currently underway.) ■ Phase 2 — partial return and limited physical contact. This
phase will involve “small, stable cohorts” (groups of 160 that will be isolated from all other groups at school during lunch, recess, etc). ■ Phase 3 — a hybrid model that includes more in-classroom activities, daily health assessments and (where appropriate) contact tracing protocols, as well as daily disinfection of spaces. ■ Phase 4 — modified, in-person instruction on campus. ■ Phase 5 — a full return to in-person instruction on campus. The open session portion of the Thursday, Sept. 17, school board
meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m., with the trustees participating online from a variety of locations. In person attendance at this meeting will not be permitted. Email public comment to boe@djusd. net. The meeting will be available for viewing live on cable television on DJUSD Education Channel 17, and can also be viewed as live streaming video on the school district’s website www.djusd.tv. — Reach Jeff Hudson at jhudson@davisenterprise.net or 530-747-8055.
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OBITUARIES Richard Hoffman Jan. 8, 1925 — Dec. 26, 2019
Richard Hoffman died Thursday, Dec. 26, 2019. He was born Jan 8, 1925, to Edith and Sidney Greenberg in Chicago. In 1927, his mother married Chester Hoffman. He spent four years in the Navy during World War II, loading airplanes. He returned to Chicago, majored in market research at Eleanor Roosevelt College and worked various jobs after graduation. He met Carol Bernard in 1950, and they were married in 1952. He taught himself to make sandals, and opened Sandal Makers Shop in a semi-basement on the near North Side of
Chicago, taking orders at North and South Side fairs. He moved to Los Angeles in 1956, where his daughter Laura Sabra was born on April 14,1956. He made jewelry and was hired by the Los Angeles area Chamber of Commerce in 1965, retiring in 1992. He joined his daughter and son-in-law Mike Busch in Davis in 1995. Granddaughter Mackenzie Busch was born in 1995. He had German shepherd named Galatea and many kittens (his favorite was Ishtar); planted roses, took OLLI classes; loved his family; and was loved in return. He will be missed.
Judith Kay Berry
Aug. 29, 1943 — Sept. 10, 2020 Judith Kay Berry (born Judith Kay Kruse) passed away at her home on Sept. 10 after a long battle with cancer. She was a loved and respected member of her church and community, known for her friendliness and positive attitude. She worked as a medical assistant for Kaiser Permanente for more than 30 years, retiring in 2010. Judi was an assistant teacher of Ikebana and enjoyed playing with a local ukulele group. She was a supporter of the Yolo Crisis Nursery and served many hours there. Judi hand-sewed 800-plus face masks for her friends and neighbors, some of which were shipped to other countries. Judith is survived by her husband, Richard
Berry, her sister Sue Brown in her hometown of Auburn, Ind., her sons Brian and Bruce Sellnow (Nancy), and her daughters Marcia Berry (Carl Schwedler) and Cheryl Berry. Dick and Judi have eight grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, the family has requested supporting Judi’s legacy with a donation to the Yolo Crisis Nursery: https://yolocrisisnursery.org/give/. Send checks to Yolo Crisis Nursery, 1107 Kennedy Place, Suite 5, Davis CA 95616. Call 530-758-6680 for more information. The family will be holding a memorial service at a future date once conditions are more suitable for travel and attendance.
Beryl Checketts Eshom Oct. 20, 1932 — Sept. 1, 2020
Beryl “Billie” Checketts Eshom passed peacefully on Sept. 1 in Sacramento at the age of 87. Beryl was born at home to Charles and Margaret Checketts, in Preston, Idaho, on Oct 20, 1932; she was the youngest of six children. Beryl moved with her parents to California at the age of 10. She met the love of her life, Russell Eshom, at Elmhurst Junior High in Oakland in 1947. They graduated from Castlemont High School in Oakland in 1950 and married in 1951. She lived most of her adult life in Castro Valley and Livermore, until she moved to be closer to her daughters in Davis and Sacramento. Beryl is preceded in death by her husband, Russell Eshom (1989), and her son Richard Eshom (1993) as well as her parents and her five siblings. She is survived by her daughters Judith Eshom, Laura Cook (Bryan), Marie Heitman (Rick’s widow),
her grandchildren Rochelle Repka (Zachary), Cheslie Cook (Natalie), Tanner Eshom and her three great-grandchildren as well as many nieces and nephews. Beryl loved life, her family, her friends, her faith, traveling, cooking and entertaining. Beryl was an avid animal lover and raised German Shepherd dogs for 40 years, establishing well-recognized champion bloodlines with Russ and continuing to show dogs after his death in 1989. The family will receive visitors from 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 16, at Smith Funeral Home, 116 D St. in Davis. Services are at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 17. A private burial will follow at Lone Tree Cemetery in Hayward. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Golden State German Shepherd Dog Rescue, http://www.gsgsrescue.org, or a memorial donation to a charity of your choice.
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into this option if they are near any of these types of gardens. — Sharing Abundance Dear Sharing Abundance: What a great tip. Thank you for the idea!
Dear Annie: I had two brothers die within a year of each other. One was 53, and the other was 62. They were my only remaining siblings. They resided in Ohio, You must draw a line and I live in Arizona. I had to plan both Dear Annie: I have a friend who is of funerals by myself and clean out and sell Pentecostal faith while I’m of Catholic whatever I could of their homes and pos- faith. She monopolizes the conversation on sessions. her religion and doesn’t allow me to talk. I At the same time, my mom was diag- hate being preached to, and she has nothnosed with dementia and had to be put in a ing else that interests her but reading her nursing home. Eventually, I brought her to Bible and preaching. live with me in Arizona. I had to clean and She complains that no one calls her or sell her house, and her belongings, too. I visits her. It has been nine years since she was in Ohio for four months getting every- lost her best friend, mother and brother, thing straightened out. My husband of 12 who was also her boss, which meant she years never came to help, nor did he come to lost her job as well — all within a threethe funerals. Am I wrong for resenting him month period. She keeps bringing this up for this? — Alone at Funerals every time we talk. I suggested that she Dear Alone: No, you are not wrong for might be resenting his absence. Marriage is a partseverely nership, and when your partner is going depressed through a difficult time, you should be at and should her side and not leaving her to carry the consider entire burden herself. However, resentgetting proment is like drinking poison and waiting fessional for the other person to die. help. She Let’s work on turning your resentment replied that into a healing conversation. Does your she is not husband know how it hurt your feelings depressed and made you angry that he didn’t attend and, if she were, she can’t afford it. the funerals or help relocating your Having been a care provider, I see that mother? You have the power to express she is having issues just doing the day-toyourself and share, so do so. And listen to day duties and suggested she might find an why he wasn’t there to support you. If he is assisted care facility that would help her. unconcerned or unapologetic, then I She claims to either have too much money would suggest marriage counseling. for that or not enough money for that. She ——— is going downhill but doesn’t want help, Dear Annie: We took in my son, his wife won’t move and complains that no one and her toddler son. Her son has struggles comes to see her. I suggested that she hold and is in the process of getting tested for Bible study at her house, but she said she autism. He is now 5 years old and sup- can’t do it. I offer to bring her devotional posed to be starting kindergarten this year; readings, puzzles and a few other things to however, he’s not completely potty trained, keep her busy, but she refuses it. so the school system wants him to do a year She was on the phone with me yesterday of preschool first. for 2.5 hours, preaching to me 99% of the Our problem is that his mom is doing time. She is not open to change, and I don’t nothing — no child care application, no want to be in contact with her, for I’m preschool and no autism test. We’re won- physically drained after we talk. She knows dering if we should do what we think is nothing about what’s going on in my life, best for the boy and turn her in to family and doesn’t care. What do you suggest I services for neglect. We don’t know how do? — Exhausted and Worried Friend much more of his behaviorial issues we can Dear Exhausted and Worried Friend: take. — At a Loss First things first: You must set boundaries Dear At a Loss: While you might be feel- with her. Two and a half hours of being ing at a loss, this poor child is the one suf- preached at over the phone is way too fering the most. Speak with your son about much. It is not healthy for either of you. your concerns and tell him that you are Conversation and friendship should be a thinking of calling social services regarding two-way street. It sounds like your friend is neglect. The child’s well-being must come depressed or has some type of mental first, and if he is living under your roof, decline, given that she is having trouble then you are correct to be concerned. This with day-to-day activities. You are right to child needs support and love. As for the be concerned and try to get her help. If she behavioral issues, consider learning more won’t listen to you, perhaps you could about supporting children and grandchilreach out to one of her family members dren with autism from resources such as and express your concerns. the Autism Speaks website: https://www. In the end, she has to want help. I know autismspeaks.org/tool-kit/grandparentsshe is rejecting your efforts now, but once guide-autism. ——— 09977408035, Label/Insignia Number FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME TRA351582, and stored on property Dear Annie: STATEMENT within the Davis Creek Mobile Home Park, I just wanted Filed: August 28, 2020 at 500 Artis Lane, Davis, California 95618, to remind your FBN Number: F20200718 County of Yolo, California (specifically readers of 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) the space designated as 500 Artis Lane, another way to Nathan’s Property Management Space #89 within the park), will be sold 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of by auction at the mobilehome park at use up excess Principal Place of Business in California. 500 Artis Lane, Davis, California 95618, garden pro- Business is located in Yolo County. County of Yolo, California (specifically duce. Many 2820 5th Street the space designated as 500 Artis Davis, CA 95618 urban gardens Lane, Space #89 within the park), on 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), October 1, 2020, at 11:00 a.m., and are in “food Residence Address, State, and Zip such succeeding sales days as may be deserts.” In our Nathan Park necessary, and the proceeds of the sales city, there is a 2820 5th Street will be applied to the satisfaction of the Davis, CA 95618 “share shelf ” lien, including the reasonable charges of in which peo- 4. Business Classification: notice, advertisement, and sale. Individual ple can share 5. Beginning Date of Business: The the excess Registrant(s) commenced to transact This sale is conducted on a cash or certified fund basis only (cash, cashier’s bounty of their business under the fictitious business check or travelers’ checks only). Personal name or names listed above on: gardens with checks and/or business checks are not October 29, 2010 others who live “I declare that all information in acceptable. Payment is due and payable in these food this statement is true and correct.” immediately following the sale. No The mobilehome and/or deserts. When (A registrant who declares as true exceptions. contents are sold as is, where is, with no information which he or she knows to be I am going in guarantees. is guilty of a crime.) that direction, false 6. Signature of Registrant(s): This sale is conducted under the I drop off my Nathan Park authority of California Civil Code 798.56a excess vegeta- 9/9, 9/16, 9/23, 9/30 962 and Commercial Code 7210. bles. This PUBLIC NOTICE allows others Unless a written waiver is received from park management, the mobilehome NOTICE OF AUCTION SALE who live near and contents must be removed from the these “share NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a park within 10 days. The buyer will have shelves” to get mobilehome, registered to MICHAEL no right to the space after the home is healthy food D. SCHARLACH, Legal Owner DYNEX removed. for free. Please FINANCIAL INC and described as a urge your 1997 MEADOW CREEK mobilehome, DATED: September 8, 2020 readers to look Decal Number LAZ9824, Serial Number JOSEPH W. CARROLL
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you get firm with her on your own boundaries, she might miss you as a friend and be more inclined to take you up on the puzzles or devotional readings.
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out to Tommy. Divorce is always challenging for children, and the best thing you can do for his sake is continue trying to get along with your boyfriend’s ex. It sounds like you do a wonderful job at that. Your boyfriend should have an open and honest conversation with his ex about his concerns. If she is seeking full custody, he might want to seek legal counsel. The only thing you can do is be supportive and loving to Tommy. Never badmouth his mother, and practice the good old-fashioned rule that if you don’t have anything nice to say about someone, don’t say anything at all. I wish Tommy’s mother would live by that, too.
Dear Annie: My boyfriend and I have been dating for about a year and a half. While maintaining separate homes, we spend the majority of our days and evenings together. I have three children and get along very well with my ex-husband and his girlfriend. My boyfriend has a son, “Tommy.” The problem is that my boyfriend’s exwife creates conflict and difficulties for him. She is remarried to the man she left him for, and though my boyfriend accepted him in time, she continues to make things difficult for everyPUBLIC NOTICE one. In fact, she goes around talking about both of us, telling people that he is not involved with Tommy and doesn’t pay for City of Davis anything, which is not true. Combined Notice of Public Comment Period and Public They have 50/50 shared cus- Hearing for Proposed Reallocation of CDBG-CV1 Funds and Activities in an Amendment to the 2019 Annual Action Plan tody, and we do support Tommy. and Approval of the HOME TBRA Policies Recently, my son came to us and said Tommy told him that The City of Davis Social Services Commission will conduct a my boyfriend hates Tommy and meeting scheduled for Monday, September 21, 2020 beginning at 7:00 p.m. The City Council will conduct a public hearing at a lied about several things. I meeting scheduled for Tuesday, September 22, 2020 beginning assume this is likely because at 6:30 p.m. In compliance with the Shelter in Place Order, and Tommy constantly hears nega- as allowed by the Governor’s Executive Order N-29-20, which tive things about his dad and allows for a deviation of teleconference rules required by the Act, Public Meetings will be held by teleconference was seeking attention. We often Brown only until further notice. In-person attendance in Community talk with Tommy about the chal- Chambers will not be permitted. lenges his mom presents. We have put him in counseling to The Social Services Commission will review a proposed help him cope with the conflict, reallocation of CDBG-CV1 funds and activities in an amendment to the 2019 Annual Action Plan and approval of the HOME and we feel we have done every- Tenant Based Rental Assistance Program (TBRA) Policies at their thing we can possibly do to help. meeting on September 21, 2020 and make recommendations But, recently, Tommy has been to the City Council. The City Council meeting is scheduled asking to stay with his mom to hear comments from the public to aid them in making decisions for funding and activity reallocation to the CDBG-CV1 more and more, and we believe funds previously approved in the 2019 Annual Action Plan and she is seeking full custody. to approve the HOME TBRA Policies. My boyfriend is sick over this, as we’ve tried very hard to pro- CDBG-CV-1 Program vide a different and more posi- Reallocate $362,662 of a total of $437,662 approved CDBG-CV1 tive environment for Tommy. funds from the following activities to Subsistence Payments This hasn’t been easy with three (rental assistance to homeless): kids of my own and the chalInstallation at Respite Center -$150,000 lenges that split homes naturally Shower Rental Units Acquired or rehabbed for homeless -$212,662 have anyway. Subsistence Payments for homeless $362,662 We realize things will never change with my boyfriend’s ex, HOME TBRA Policies but how do we navigate this? Draft Policies will be presented with considerations up to and Things with her are always an including approval regarding preferences for tenant selection, issue, whether it is clothing which services to assist with-rent, security deposit, utility bills Tommy has there versus here, or (PG&E) or utility deposit, a cap on total amount received per me helping with homework. household and percentage of required tenant contribution to rent. More and more, Tommy is pulling away, and it’s not only Public Comment & Meeting Requirements: Per the CARES extremely hurtful to my boy- Act Public Law 116-136, HUD Secretary is authorized to grant friend; we worry about the neg- specific waivers, and alternate requirements to permit flexibility speed in program implementation. Therefore, per HUD, a ativity he constantly encounters and reduced public comment period for action plan amendments in his mother’s home. What is approved from 30 days to 5 days, and allows the option of more can we do? Or is it simply virtual meetings in lieu of in‐person public hearings, in order to comply with national and local social gathering requirements. time to let go? — Wanting What’s Best The City will make available the draft HOME TBRA policies for Dear Wanting: My heart goes a required 5-day public review/comment period on the city’s Attorney at Law 610 Fulton Avenue, Suite 100 Sacramento, CA 95825 (916) 443-9000 9/16, 9/23
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: September 9, 2020 FBN Number: F20200742 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) Pemberton Engineering Inc. 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California. Business is located in Yolo County. 312 Walnut Street Woodland, CA 95695 Mailing address: 2050 Lyndell Terrace Ste. 200 Davis, CA 95616 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Pemberton Engineering inc. 2050 Lyndell Terrace Ste. 200 Davis, CA 95616 4. Business Classification: Corporation 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: January 3, 2020 “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) 6. Signature of Registrant(s): Mark Pemberton Jessica Pemberton CEO, Pemberton Engineering Inc. 9/16, 9/23, 9/30, 10/7 969
Remote Public Comments for Public Hearing: All interested parties are invited to comment at the public hearing by submitting written comments to the City Manager’s Office no later than 12:00 p.m. on the hearing date. Written comments may be submitted by mail to Kelly Stachowicz, City of Davis, 23 Russell Blvd., Suite 1, Davis CA, 95616, or via email to cmoweb@ cityofdavis.org. Public Comment may also be submitted by following instructions for public comment on the City Council Agenda, located at www.cityofdavis.org/councilagendas. Availability of Documents: The HOME TBRA policies will be on the city’s webpage at www. cityofdavis.org. Per the Governor’s Executive Order N-29-20, public computers are not available for online viewing, nor are documents available for review at City Hall, as the building closed to the public at this time. By request, alternative document formats are available to person with disabilities. To request alternative document format or to arrange aid or services to modify or accommodate persons with a disability to participate in a public meeting, contact the City Clerk by calling (530) 757-5648 (voice) or 7575666 (TDD) or emailing clerkweb@cityofdavis.org. The City does not transcribe its proceedings. Persons who wish to obtain a verbatim record should arrange for attendance by a court reporter or any other acceptable means of recordation. Such arrangements will be at the sole expense of the person requesting the recordation. Individuals wishing to challenge the action taken on this matter in court are notified that, the challenge may be limited to only those issues raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to City Manager’s Office prior to the public hearing. Kelly Stachowicz, Assistant City Manager City Manager’s Office 9/16
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Educate students, don’t promote grudges T here could be no better way to promote a lifelong sense of victimhood and an enduring series of grudges and resentments than to adopt a publicschool, ethnic-studies curriculum like the one now proposed for California’s public schoolchildren. Here’s why: Despite being sent back to the drawing board last year because of its obvious biases, untruths and incompleteness, the second draft plan still is under the strong influence of the Critical Ethnic Studies Assn. (CESA), a collegelevel academic group that stresses (according to its websites) “colonialism and conquest, racial chattel slavery and white supremacist (doctrines).” Although it has added anti-Semitism and the Armenian genocide of the early 20th Century to its list of longstanding persecutions, the new version still lacks emphasis on anyone’s positive contributions
to America and California, let alone those of European-derived whites who organized this country. Its stress on conquest would likely result in teaching schoolkids about how their infecting the Aztecs, Incas and Mayans of Mexico and Central and South America with smallpox enabled a very small force of Spanish conquistadors to conquer large and successful empires. But chances are it would ignore the fact that the Spanish conquests ended human sacrifice and some limited forms of cannibalism in this hemisphere. Odds are it would also ignore how English settlers brought ideas like freedom of religion here after being persecuted in Britain. Yes, the proposed curriculum would justifiably and properly emphasize how much enslaved Africans contributed to the building of America, but it would downplay the contributions of figures like
LETTERS A breath of fresh air This is in reference to the forthcoming election on Nov. 3, and not the change of climate caused by regional fires. I mean the election of Colin Walsh to District 2 of the City Council. For the past four years, the incumbent has reigned over the following events in Davis, each of which has contributed to a deterioration of public services: ■ Increased crime with particular reference to bike theft. ■ Chronic degradation of road conditions. ■ The Council approval of the U-Mall development despite a 7-to-0 opposition by the Planning Commission. ■ The BrightNight project, in which the city made a bad deal on valuable city-owned land. Each of the above suggests a changing of the guard is needed at City Hall to encourage greater public participation and transparency over important decisions that affect our city and lifestyle. Colin Walsh offers a ray of light in addressing these issues and more as we strive to re-engage our citizens with improved decision making and public services. John R. Pike Davis
Arguments against Measure B laughable If you ever have the misfortune of reading the Argument Against Measure B, I can give you a primer. Apparently, we will lose 200 acres of prime farmland. I forgot that Davis has been facing a critical shortage of food, and that if we build all these useless houses and offices we’ll all starve. And don’t forget, we’ll apparently lose sight of that famous Sacramento skyline (which we all totally see, right guys?). As for our greenhouse-gas emissions, it is true that they will go up if Measure B is passed, but there is a difference between an absolute amount and a per-capita amount. By their argument, the best climate plan is one in which we split Davis in half. Look we cut our emission in half! Finally, they fail to mention that, while there will be an inevitable increase in traffic, $77.5 million in transportation funds for Mace Boulevard will be approved. I guess mentioning a
Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and James Madison because they owned slaves. Not that those seminal historic figures should be excused for owning, exploiting and trading in the lives of other humans. But the fact that they promoted and wrote into the Constitution ideas contrary to their personal practices must also be recognized, if there is to be any accuracy to this program. Their vital contributions to establishing the world’s first democracy since King Philip of Macedon defeated ancient Athens cannot be ignored, even as some of their statues come down.
But accuracy is not the hallmark of the CESA. Grudges are. As one reader noted, it’s not enough to cover the history of American slavery and blame it all on Europeans, although they were certainly culpable. Ignoring the fact that slavery was an ancient practice recognized and not condemned even in the Bible makes America seem uniquely evil, promoting lasting resentment of this country.
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gnoring the fact that Africans held and traded in slaves long before they began selling some to Europeans who carried them to America promotes an inaccurate version of history. Said the reader, “Our children have to be taught the history of America using hard facts and documents, not opinions.” Of course, opinions about what’s important vary, also changing over time. Is it more important
to cover Jim Crow laws in an ethnic studies course or to examine the racial and religious restrictions that prevailed in America until about 80 years ago, some still memorialized in current deed restrictions that are no longer recognized legally? Why not look at both? But the proposed curriculum prevents such a realistic look at a seamy side of American life by dividing this nation into four basic groups: whites, African Americans, Hispanic Americans and Asians and Pacific Islanders. Where does that leave, for example, Jews — they have lived for centuries in every area from which those four groups stem. Yet their exclusion until the last half-century or so from many neighborhoods and the limitations admission quotas long placed on their presence at many universities would be ignored by the curriculum. In short, the CESA-led group that designed the
new planned curriculum has decided which people are and were legitimate victims and which were not, regardless of what may really have befallen them. That’s not a factual approach and cannot help but lead to inaccurate classroom instruction. Which means that the state Board of Education, due to okay or reject the latest curriculum plan by the end of next March, must send it back for another rewrite, or perpetuate what may be the most destructive set of academic guidelines ever introduced into California’s education system. — Email Thomas Elias at tdelias@aol.com. His book, “The Burzynski Breakthrough: The Most Promising Cancer Treatment and the Government’s Campaign to Squelch It,” is now available in a softcover fourth edition. For more Elias columns, visit www.calif orniafocus.net.
big pile of money to solve a problem is bad politics. I’m here all night folks. Zachary Cosenza Davis
A conscientious communicator I happily endorse Linda Deos for Yolo County Supervisor and here’s why. I have never, ever received an email from my current county supervisor, Jim Provenza. I get wonderfully informative emails from Don Saylor, who is not my supervisor. Most recently, I learned about the UC Davis Ready Plan, how the students are expected to conduct themselves. He provides a link to a recording of the Board of Supervisors meetings, reminds us of ways to conserve electricity and we learn of emergency alert tests in the greater Winters area. Linda Deos pledges to be a good communicator and send emails to her constituents. For nearly a decade, we have been represented by five male supervisors. It’s time for diversity on our board, and Linda is an energetic, informed person to start that happening and restore some balance. Her priorities include affordable housing for seniors, families and young people and more affordable childcare for all income levels. She will create a local, green new-deal to address climate change, which is increasingly serious. Linda believes Yolo County can become a rural innovation hub. Linda has even rolled up her sleeves to work on open-space restoration doing the hard, physical jobs like weeding and planting. Please join me in voting for Linda Deos to represent District 4 on the Yolo County Board of Supervisors. We can use her lawyerly skills and her demonstrated commitment to children’s issues, social justice and healthcare. Jean Jackman Davis
Re-elect Freirichs I live in Gloria Partida’s district, and so can’t vote for city council candidates this November, but I write to strongly support the re-election of Lucas Freirichs for two reasons. First, it’s my sense that the change to district elections requires an analysis of what we expect from service on the city council and of what voters should
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look for in evaluating candidates. Personal characteristics as a basis for voting become less important in this new election context, which moves candidates further away from assessing the good of the larger community in favor of a focus on, and responsibility for addressing, particular issues arising from specific districts. Lucas merits re-election now because our councilmembers will need to be able to balance the responsibility to specific districts brought on by our new election policy, with the responsibility to the entire community. Because of his previous service as an at-large councilmember, Lucas understands trends in the needs of the general community. He has consistently raised issues and concerns around our most vulnerable populations — the mentally ill, elderly and homeless. Further, his involvement both as a Davis planning commissioner and at-large city councilmember gives him an understanding of land-use and environmental policy issues that could well affect the entire community — local and regional — for decades. His present employment in the State Legislature encourages this regional perspective. It is precisely this type of broad-range experience and perspective that will be fundamental as, moving forward, we grapple both with Davis’ General Plan, and with the implementation of our Climate Action Plan. Second, Lucas consistently listens to, and is guided by, this community. He has demonstrated steadfast refusal to bend to council decisions, where, after the public weighed in, he felt a
decision was unresponsive to community needs. He rejected the MRAP, and was the only council member to vote “no” on the Bright Night contract. In these unprecedented times, we can expect him to continue to listen to us and to adhere to principles he believes will benefit us all. Please consider these reasons to re-elect Lucas Freirichs to city council. Nora Oldwin Davis
Chapman for Council I am writing to support Josh Chapman for Davis City Council, District 5. Many Davis residents know Josh as the owner of Armadillo Music and a leader in the Downtown Davis business community. Others know Josh as a dedicated volunteer at Marguerite Montgomery Elementary School (where his boys attend) and through Davis youth sports, where for years Josh has coached baseball, soccer and flag football. However, many Davis voters may not know the history behind Josh’s dedication to public service. After graduating from college (the first in his family to do so), Josh signed up for AmeriCorps and spent a year volunteering at the Boys and Girls Club in Southeast Washington, D.C. Josh then moved to California, where he earned a master’s degree in education with a focus on social justice and equity. Josh then worked at San Francisco General hospital with juvenile delinquency-involved youths who suffered from serious mentalhealth issues. After Josh moved to Davis, along with running a small
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Advocate Provenza I met Jim Provenza when we were classmates in law school, over 40 years ago. It is noteworthy that he began his career as a legal-services lawyer and has been a public-interest advocate ever since, regardless of the positions he has held. As a longtime public interest/disability rights attorney myself, I particularly appreciate Jim’s career-long commitment to often underrepresented and neglected groups, including children, people with disabilities, seniors and lowincome individuals. Jim has maintained his progressive values as a productive and effective county supervisor and, based on his lifelong record of accomplishments, I am confident he will continue to do so. I urge fellow residents of the Fourth District to vote on Nov. 3 (or, better yet, earlier) and join me in re-electing Jim Provenza as our representative to the Board of Supervisors. Eric Gelber Davis
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Recipe ideas to get the kids involved, eating Kidlet Corn Gems T he law says that you have to feed your children. On the subject of what you have to feed them, however, the law is silent. That’s merciful for the parents of 2-year-olds, who might otherwise have to explain to an officer of the court the rationale of a child who has decided to eat nothing but celery sticks and dry cheerios for the last three weeks. The law is content if you feed your children something like food something like three times a day. This means that you’re allowed to feed your children fast-food burgers every night, or a macrobiotic diet, or to argue with them over whether or not they’re going to eat the cooked broccoli. The first two ideas I’ll leave alone, but I’ve got a solution for the third. If your child announces that they are not going to eat their broccoli, I suggest that you ask, with the best appearance of greed that you can muster, if you can have their broccoli. (If given, you do have to eat every bite.) This will cause your child to question their position on broccoli slightly, which is more than you’ll get if you force them to eat it. (Yes, you can do that, and even “win.” You’ll end up with a child who still hates cooked broccoli and a headache, so why bother?) I think the best plan for feeding children is to cook a reasonable meal (reasonable being defined as something the majority of the diners will eat) and put it on the table. Serve all the children one bite of everything, and provide seconds upon request. Don’t engage them in any conversation about what they might or might not like, and don’t require anyone to clear their plate. From a child’s point of view, this takes all the fun out of the food-as-power game, but I’m sure they’ll think of some other way to entertain themselves. Unless it’s your secret dream to be a shortorder cook, I don’t
advise excessive catering to the eating desires of kids (or partners, for that matter.) It’s one thing to avoid mushrooms because you’re the only one who likes them, and quite another to cook three separate dinners every night. That said, it’s useful to remember a few things about feeding kids, especially since they apply to an awful lot of adults, too. ■ Some kids can’t abide complicated foods. Carrots and peas mixed together is walking the edge for them, and your average casserole will send them right over it. Most people grow out of this naturally, and there’s not much point in fighting with them about it. A meal of bread and salad while everyone else eats casserole won’t hurt them a bit. ■ The concept of “difficult to eat, but worth it” is an alien one to children. Don’t waste artichokes or whole lobster on your average 5-year-old. The exception to this is the child who drives you mad by eating very, very, slowly. You might as well give them an artichoke. ■ Most kids like most fruit. Adults packing school lunches (when we have them again) should remember, however, that no child will eat slow fruit in preference to playing tag. Strawberries are better than apples for this reason. ■ Finger food, especially finger food with a dip, is heaven for
children. The same child who will flatly refuse to eat cooked broccoli with a fork will devour it raw if there’s a dip involved. This is a good thing to remember if you have a child who is a slow adopter of new foods. ■ Children, like most people, strongly dislike certain foods. I’ve never understood why it’s acceptable to make someone eat a food they hate based merely on their age. Think about the foods that you just can’t bear to eat before you order a small person to clear their plate. ■ If you tell a child that they probably won’t like something, they probably won’t. The reverse, alas, is not true. It’s doubtless better to remain silent, or say something in a neutral tone of voice along the lines of “try it and see what you think.” (I have had some success with “oh, it’s probably too grown-up for you yet” causing children to demand the opportunity to taste things, but whether that will work for you I can’t say.) I spent many years teaching cooking classes for children aged 3 and up as well as visiting elementary school classes all over Davis to teach cooking. Herewith are a few recipes that are generally winners with children. — A version of this column first appeared in The Vine in June 2001. Send questions, comments or kindness to jacross@ dcn.org or visit her on Facebook at The New Home Ec.
Pumpkin Fritters Serves 4 Ingredients: 2 cups pureed pumpkin ½ cup minced shallots 1 cup fine bread crumbs 1 egg 6 tablespoons flour 1 teaspoon salt ½ teaspoon baking soda ½ teaspoon nutmeg olive oil
Putting it together: Mix all the ingredients except the olive oil. Add just enough olive oil to coat a heavy frying pan. Drop fritter batter by the tablespoonful into hot pan. Cook over medium heat until golden brown (about 4 minutes). Turn and cook other side until brown, 2-3 minutes. Repeat, adding more oil to pan, until all fritters are cooked.
Stuffed Pasta Shells Serves 2 Ingredients: 16 large pasta shells 8 ounces ricotta 1 cup frozen spinach, thawed ¼ cup grated parmesan 2 cloves garlic, crushed 1 teaspoon dried oregano 2 tablespoons onion, finely chopped salt and pepper to taste 2 to 3 cups tomato sauce ¼ cup grated mozzarella Putting it together: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cook pasta shells for half of time recommended on package. While pasta cooks, squeeze the water out of the spinach, then mix it with ricotta, parmesan, garlic, oregano and onion. Add salt and pepper to taste. Drain shells and rinse with cold water. Put ½ cup of tomato sauce in a casserole dish. Place cheese mixture in plastic zipper bag. Cut corner of bag and pipe into shells. Place shells cheese side up in casserole dish. Cover with remaining pasta sauce and sprinkle with grated mozzarella. Bake, uncovered, 20 to 25 minutes until sauce is bubbling and cheese is melted.
Butter Turnips I once received an email from a parent because their child had returned from a cooking class shouting, “I like turnips now!” This is the recipe that did it. Ingredients: 2 pounds fresh turnips 1 apple (I like a Braeburn) 2 tablespoons butter 1 tablespoon sugar salt and pepper to taste Putting it together: Peel the turnips. You can peel the apple if you’d like, but you don’t have to. Cut into bite-sized pieces. Put everything but salt & pepper in a pot, fill half full of water, cover and cook gently until tender. Salt and pepper to taste.
Pasta shells can hold anything little fingers can stuff in there. METRO CREATIVE PHOTO
These are awesome for lunches or snacks. Makes 40 mini muffins.
Ingredients: ½ cup unbleached all-purpose flour ½ cup whole wheat flour 1 cup yellow cornmeal ¼ cup sugar 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt ½ teaspoon baking soda 2 ounces (½ cup) grated cheddar cheese 1 cup plain yogurt 2 eggs ¼ cup oil 2 tablespoons water or milk 1 cup corn kernels, fresh or frozen 3 green onions, chopped (optional) Putting it together: Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Spray mini-muffin pans with cooking spray. Combine first seven ingredients in large bowl. Mix well; add cheese and toss to coat with flour. Whisk yogurt, egg whites, water and oil in another bowl. Add liquid to dry ingredients and gently stir just until combined. Fold in corn kernels and green onions. Fill mini muffin cups. Bake until golden and tester inserted into center of muffins comes out clean, about 12 minutes. Cool on rack. These freeze well, and keep better if refrigerated.
Fresh Ricotta Gnocchi Shaping ricotta is a soothing repetitive task, and some children are very good at it. Serves 4 Ingredients: 2 cups whole-milk ricotta (1 pound) 2 large eggs, lightly beaten 1 cup finely grated parmesan cheese 1¼ cups all-purpose flour Putting it together: Mix ricotta, eggs and parmesan very very well. Stir in the flour just until it’s mixed. Turn the dough out onto a floured work surface and divide it into four parts. Roll each part out like a snake until it’s the same size as a Lego. Use a butter knife to cut the snake into pieces the same size as a 2-by-3 Lego. Toss the pieces with a little flour so they don’t stick. For a traditional gnocchi, roll each piece along the tines of a fork to make ridges. Cook gnocchi in lots of boiling salted water. They will sink when you drop them in, and float when they’re cooked, which takes about 4 minutes.
Machine overlords get in on the bartending gig
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efore beer is swallowed to begin its new life as a nutrition item for the human body, it must be dispensed. “Dispense” is the industry word for pour, serve or present the beer. Dispense might be as simple as removing the crown from a bottle or pulling the tab on a can and drinking directly from the container. That is a horrible decision and egregious mistake that many make, and I am always sad to see that. To get the maximum enjoyment of all the sensory stimuli that beer can invoke, beer should be dispensed or poured into an impeccably clean glass, preferably one somewhat tulip-shaped. This advice is not new to those discerning few who do me the honor of reading this column. That is the preferred form of dispense. Of course, creating a glass of beer in pubs and taverns is the primary meaning and application of dispense: beer is dispensed from a keg or barrel or larger serving tank in a brewpub. Here the mechanism of dispense may be a hand-pump, which was typical of dispense in traditional British pubs in days gone by. In that case, a pull of the handle was the pump to draw beer up from the cellar to the glass. That required considerable energy from a good right arm. This is the origin of the term “pulling a pint” and maybe the idea of “draught” or “draft” beer. More modern practice is to have the beer moved by a pump activated by a switch on the bar-top.
In most American bars where the beer in kegs is highly carbonated and under pressure, the beer flows, driven by that overpressure, from a keg into a glass. All-in-all, these are ways of moving beer from some form of bulk storage into a glass for service to a customer. In every case, the man or woman behind the bar is in charge of dispense. Skill is required to draw a perfect pint under any form of dispense and, since this part of the hospitality industry, the bartender’s pleasant demeanor helps a lot. The bartender takes the money and makes change and may engage in chit-chat with a customer to add to the overall pleasant experience of enjoying a pint in a pub. Except on busy nights when speed of filling pint glasses outweighs everything else. Nevertheless, the human touch is a natural part of the pub experience. Some time ago, I learned of a device for eliminating the bartender from the dispense equation. It was called PourMyBeer. I thought it was a dumb idea. However, I recently learned that the investment/innovation arm of the Coca-Cola company is taking a significant stake in the parent company of PourMyBeer, Innovative Tap Solutions. They intend to use the technology in Europe.
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Get a taste of the future at the Green River Tap Room in Winters. Now, I’m pretty sure Coke does not intend to dispense beer but, of course, the technology can be used for any liquid. Thus, it might have some special interest to them and, especially in these COVID-driven times, some practical application. When I followed up on this bartender-eliminating idea, I found the strategy has made inroads while I wasn’t looking, and now claims some 7,000 installations, including a number in our area. Turns out there is an installation of this technology at the Green River Tap Room, 4513 Putah Creek Road in Winters, that is on view on their website.
The idea of PourMyBeer is that customers can dispense their own beer directly from one of many taps available and pay by the ounce for the beer(s) they choose. I don’t remember seeing this unit at the Green River Tap Room when I was there some years ago, so I visited to see it and learn how it accomplished this hands-off dispense. I had a nice chat with the perfectly charming lady who was the bartender, who told me I could get a dispense card in exchange for a credit-card number. The card activated the mechanism for dispense and kept track of the charge-per-unit volume
dispensed. The dispense card would, in effect, run a bar tab that I could settle at the end of the session (photo). As it turned out, I bought a beer from the bartender at the beer tent in the Green River outdoor seating area and found the experience perfectly satisfactory. I am sure there are many beer drinkers who would find the PourMyBeer technology innovative and exciting and useful and attractive. I just don’t know any of them. — Reach Michael Lewis at lewiswales@me.com. Comment on this column at www.davis enterprise.com.
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A10 THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
Here are more musings about hydrogen T
he prior column was about hydrogen, specifically hydrogen as a fuel for vehicles, but there wasn’t room, only 900 words, to talk about both the obstacles hydrogen faces and also some of the potentially positive developments for the future of hydrogen as a fuel. So, this column is also about hydrogen and focuses less on the former and more on the latter. But first, I want to clarify something a reader pointed out to me in the prior column, where I stated, “Once you get it into a car’s fuel tank, it can power the car without producing any greenhouse gases. Combustion in the engine results only in water coming out the tailpipe.” Mostly true, but the statement contains a significant error. Namely, there is no “combustion” in a hydrogen-fueled vehicle. This is, of course, also the case in an electric vehicle and it deserves some explanation. Whereas electric vehicles are battery powered, hydrogen vehicles rely on fuel cells consisting of both a positive and a negative terminal, much like a battery. Oxygen is inserted to the negative terminal. Hydrogen from the car’s fuel tank is fed into the fuel cell to the positive terminal,
where a catalyst strips off its electron and passes it to an electric motor that powers the vehicle. The remaining part of the hydrogen (a proton) misses its minus and is attracted to the negative terminal and passes through a membrane to combine with oxygen to form water. Voila. Power is produced from a process called electrolysis and water is the by-product. But, how does the hydrogen get into the fuel tank in the first place? This is where the argument against hydrogen as a fuel has found one (there are others) of its biggest barriers to widespread adoption. As indicated in the prior column, there’s not much hydrogen just floating around in the air. One estimate compares it to two liters of water randomly mixed into an Olympic-sized (50 meters; 2,500,000 liters) swimming pool. So, we have to manufacture hydrogen, and this currently
involves using methane as a feedstock and CO2 as a by-product. But there is a better way, and the result of this other process is what is coming to be called “green hydrogen” produced from water via an “electrolyzer” using renewable energy to drive the process. This device is basically a positive electrode and a negative electrode separated by a membrane. When water is introduced and electricity is supplied, the water splits into hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen is harvested. Sounds simple, but currently, it’s expensive to manufacture and operate an electrolyzer that can produce hydrogen at a scale commercially competitive with the current process. Though, the forecast by some is that this could happen as soon as 2030 due to both declining costs for renewable energy to power the process as well as advances that have resulted in declines in the cost of the electrolyzers. And this not all theory — there are large investments being made in green hydrogen. To list a few: ITM Power, a manufacturer of electrolyzers, has contracted for, or has bids on, $300 million worth of electrolyzers; the German company
ThyssenKrupp is targeting 10 GW capacity to meet that country’s COVID-19 stimulus package goal for green hydrogen; and the government of Australia recently announced funding of $70 million for hydrogen projects. Utah’s Intermountain Power Project is shutting down a 1,800 MW coal plant to be replaced by a two-unit plant capable of burning 30 percent green hydrogen with 70 percent natural gas by 2025 and 100 percent hydrogen by 2045 that will be managed by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. The U.K. is examining hydrogen as an alternative to installing new electricity infrastructure to replace diesel locomotives. (More about hydrogen and trains in a future column.) This one sounds a bit on the speculative side, but Nikola Motors, a firm in Arizona that intends to manufacture zeroemission vehicles, is reported to be offering a seven-year, 700,000-mile lease for hydrogen-powered trucks that includes filling stations “in multiple states and trucking routes” and has purchased 85 MW of green hydrogen production capacity to supply planned heavy-duty vehicle filling stations.
A friend, and expert on all things transportation, let me know that, “The most recent big focus on H2 in transportation is on big vehicles or marine vessels where the need for fast filling is important and a small number of stations can do the job.” Hydrogen production facilities in close proximity to ports, trucking centers and businesses reliant on specialized heavy-duty vehicles such as the steel and chemical industries, using renewable energy produced on site or nearby, combined with a relatively small number of filling stations, can reduce some of the remaining barriers to widespread adoption of hydrogen fuels, including the requirement to liquefy and transport and the current lack of a refueling infrastructure. As a parting thought, doesn’t it seem strange that as a hydrogen-fuel future potentially unfolds in front of us, we refer to the current liquid fuel we pump into our cars as “gas” and where we get the fuel as a gas station? — John Mott-Smith is a resident of Davis.This column appears the first and third Wednesday of each month. Please send comments to johnmottsmith@comcast.net.
Now it’s time to focus on a little bit of good news
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atch for western bluebirds in the North Davis greenbelt, the result of the successful nestbox project that began in 2019 in North Davis. Forty-eight western bluebirds and 39 tree swallows fledged in the 20 nestboxes along the North Davis greenbelt and the Davis Uplands, the new open space along F and Anderson. The nesting ended in August. “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,” said Melanie Truan, research ecologist. There were 10 westernbluebird broods and eight tree-swallow broods. The five nestboxes added most recently in the uplands were used immediately. The nestbox trail project came together quickly thanks to the urging of Friends of North Davis Ponds, with the cooperation of the city of Davis, the UC Davis Wildlife Museum and conservation biologists. It all started when graduate student Allison Ke came to a Friends bird stroll and said she wanted to do a research project in November 2018. The Friends had some ideas for her and set up a meeting where agreements were made. Why nestboxes? Some birds need tree cavities for nesting and since we no longer have big, old trees around with holes, we need to provide nestboxes. We didn’t have wood ducks nesting in the Julie Partansky Wildlife Area until we installed specific wood duck nestboxes that resulted in several families each year since 2015. Kelli O’Neill is an
appreciated active member of the Friends. She now manages the bulletin board, found between the soccer field and the Northstar Pond. Each month she features a new bird. This month, you can learn about the green heron, found in the two North ponds most of the year. Their plumage is an iridescent dark green, slate blue and cinnamon. Once when I was a new birder, I spotted one in full sun at the Partansky Pond and thought it was a spectacular tropical bird since it looked so colorful. Last month, O’Neill spotlighted the Cooper’s hawk at the bulletin board display. Plus, she has become observant of raptors in the area. She reports four hawk species who had broods in and around Northstar Park — two confirmed where she observed the nest and the parents and two where she observed the immature with a parent nearby. Red-tailed hawks were born over in the farmland area. While on her run, she spotted two fuzzy chicks born in March but believes only one survived. O’Neill observed the Cooper’s hawk nest near the Heron Street entrance to the west side of the park. She watched a juvenile Swainson’s hawk with a parent nearby in a tree across on Norte Avenue in July when it was a brancher, the term for when the immatures appear bigger than the adults but hop around on branches still calling to be fed by dutiful parents. She watched an
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Watch for western bluebirds with bands on the North Davis greenbelt between the Veterans Memorial Center and Northstar Pond as many have been born in nestboxes and will be around all year. immature white-tailed kite at the drainage ditch. I can’t remember a time when I’ve enjoyed backyard birds more as during this pandemic and apocalyptic air-pollution time. Backyard birds provide a beautiful and hopeful distraction. Make sure you provide water and food during these challenging times as birds are increasingly at risk of extinction from global temperatures rising. All you need is a simple plant saucer of water. Birds need cover, food and water to want to visit your yard. Now is a time for fall planting. Would you like a yard with wildlife? Go to arboretum.ucdavis.edu and click on “gardening for pollinators” and then click on “hummingbird plant list” if you would like to feed the hummingbirds that are here all year long. If you want to attract bees, butterflies and birds, search the arboretum AllStar plant database. You can filter the results by their “wildlife value.”
You can also go to Audubon.org and click on “help birds with native plants.” You can search its database by zip code. I never fail to delight on a gray winter day when I see a hummingbird in the yard. Fall warblers are migrating through. Manfred Kusch reporting from Putah Creek spotted Wilson’s, yellow, orangecrowned, black-throated gray, hermit and Townsend’s warblers. At one point, he observed nearly a hundred yellow warblers in a 1.5-hour period. White-crowned sparrows are returning. More good news. In August, a federal judge
ruled that Trump’s rollback of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act is illegal. Basically, the Trump administration attempted to allow polluters to kill birds without repercussions through a rewriting of the 100year-old act. The decision is a result of lawsuits brought by Audubon, several other conservation groups and eight states. Trump has attempted to roll back more than 100 environmental protections and many cases are being fought in the courts. Wear your mask, wash your hands and kiss each day. This too shall pass. — Jean Jackman is a Davis resident. Her columns appear on the third Wednesday of each month. Got a story, question, correction? Contact her at JeanJackman@gmail. com.
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