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UC Davis publicly launched a $2 billion fundraising campaign today (Oct. 9), the largest philanthropic endeavor in its history. This bold goal will propel the university’s work to prepare future leaders, sustain healthier communities and bring innovative solutions to today’s most urgent challenges. The campaign, “Expect Greater: From UC Davis, for the world,” will harness the power of philanthropy to address defining issues of our time such as pandemic response, climate change, public safety and more. “While the COVID-19 pandemic and other current events have significantly impacted our community, they have also brought out the best of our unique UC Davis strengths in innovation and collaboration,” Chancellor Gary S. May said. “I’m tremendously proud of the remarkable work that happens here every day — work that our philanthropic partners are central to
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identified three students who were positive for COVID-19. The positivity rate for students tested during the first week of the quarter was around 0.1%. In comparison, Yolo County, whose positivity rate is lower now than it has been since June, had a positivity rate of just under 4% the last week of September, during which 61 county residents tested positive. By the end of the week, six
Nearly 180 households in Davis received incorrect vote-by-mail ballots this week, the county elections office announced Friday. The 280 voters in those 178 households received ballots containing incorrect races, including for the Davis City Council. The vast majority of those voters (252) live in two places: Covell Commons Condos or 8th and Wake Apartments. Countywide, 581 voters in 317 households received the wrong ballots. “The error is due to a transitioning of data systems, where not all streets were correctly carried over into the appropriate precinct as expected,” the elections office said in a press release. Davis Vice Mayor Lucas Frerichs, who is seeking reelection in District 3, said he first heard of the problem when he was contacted by several voters Friday morning. “I was quite concerned
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Students scan their IDs after showing their daily symptom survey at the front door before entering Shields Library on Sept. 30, the first day of classes for the Fall Quarter.
Few virus cases on campus Widespread testing identifies three cases
community members about the risk of students sparking new outbreaks, as has happened in college towns across the country.
BY CALEB HAMPTON
UC Davis students appear to have returned to campus largely virusfree, according to testing data released this week by UC Davis. From Sep. 28 through Oct. 2, the first week of the quarter, UC Davis tested 2,137 students for COVID19. The quick-turnaround tests, which are processed on campus at the UC Davis Genome Center,
Enterprise staff writer Two weeks have passed since many UC Davis students returned to campus to begin the fall quarter. They arrived after months of planning by campus administrators, scientists and health experts and amid vocal concern from
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A Louisiana-based fast-food chain specializing in chicken fingers wants to open a restaurant in the downtown building previously occupied by Watermelon Music. Raising Cane’s is seeking Planning Commission approval on Wednesday of a conditional use permit to convert 4,000 square-feet of the existing ground-floor retail space at 207 E St. into a new restaurant. City zoning code requires a conditional use permit for formula fast-food restaurants in the central commercial zoning district. As city staff note in the report prepared for Wednesday’s meeting, “the primary issues related to formula fast-food restaurants are the general concern about
Enterprise staff writer School board candidate Betsy Hyder feels she’ll bring “broad experience as a parent and a professional,” to the Davis school board as a new school board trustee, as well as “the right analytical skills to make pragmatic decisions.” Hyder grew up in the Midwest, the youngest of four children and the first in her family to go to college — in her case, Purdue University. After graduating, she spent a decade in
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the corporate world, working for manufacturing companies in positions that took her to Brazil for a year, and two years living in the United Kingdom, as well as travel to several other countries. She studied engineering at Purdue, and began her career doing international corporate work in product design and delivery. She and her family initially settled in the Atlanta area, where she and her husband worked with at-risk youth and foster youth at a local level. Hyder attended law
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school and became a HYDER child Running in advocate District 5 attorney, and also a foster parent. The family settled in the Davis area, where her kids attended Pioneer Elementary, where Hyder became a member of the Pioneer PTA board, and served as PTA president. (Her kids are now in their late teens.) “I’m familiar with our school system, and I’ve worked on a number of
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standardization and corporate requirements and the more specific concern about waste.” Founded in 1996, Raising Cane’s has around 500 outlets across the country with a menu consisting primarily of chicken fingers, chicken sandwiches, fries and toast. Proposed hours for the Davis location would be 9 a.m. to 1:30 a.m. Sunday through Thursday and 9 a.m. to 3:30 a.m. Friday and Saturday. The restaurant expects to employ about 16 people. “The applicant notes that the demographics of their clientele draws from a wide range of ages and is not limited to college students,” according to the staff report. “They expressed their eagerness to fill a
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Briefly Deos campaign goes virtual The campaign for Linda Deos for Yolo County supervisor will present two more Zoom meetings. Michele and Bob Van Eyken will host from 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15; and Anne and Kamal Kjemtrup from 7 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 21. To join this Zoom event, please email us at Hello@LindaDeos.com for details.
Parent workshop meets on Zoom For the fifth straight year, the Da Vinci Charter Academy Boosters and the Davis/Auburn Center for DBT with Dr. Susan Landes will offer a sixweek parent workshop on adolescent mental health and dialectical behavioral therapy. Topics covered include PTSD, BPD, ADHD, bipolar and depressive disorder, anxiety, OCD, risktaking behaviors, and addiction. This opportunity is open to all DJUSD parents or staff of seventh- through 12th-graders. To participate in the Zoom webinar, sign up on the Sign-Up Genius: https://www.signup genius.com/go/ 4090545aaac2aaaf85 -thecompassion1. Contact Erika Strand at estrand@djusd.net with any questions.
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Council keeps mayor picks in-house T o no one’s surprise, the five members of the Davis City Council put together a plan to pick future Davis mayors that keeps control of the decision within the council chambers. What the rest of us think about that plan remains to be seen. “City Council will pick future Davis mayors,” said the headline over Anne Ternus-Bellamy’s frontpager in Friday’s Enterprise. “Under a proposal approved unanimously Tuesday, the council will vote in a new mayor for an 18-month term in June 2022. Between now and then, Mayor Gloria Partida will serve out the rest of her mayoral term, and beginning in January 2024, a new mayor will be selected by the council every year.” A brief explanation is in order here. When Partida was elected to a council seat in an at-large election two years ago, she was the top vote-getter citywide. As such, she immediately became mayor pro tem, then automatically became mayor in the summer of 2020. Although Davisites do not directly elect the mayor, the old
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way of doing business assured that the voters determined who the next mayor would be. Unfortunately, Davis City Council members were recently threatened with a potentially costly lawsuit if they didn’t immediately switch to district elections. Rather than fight the threat, the council agreed to go to districts and the rest is history. Given that council members are now all elected in separate districts, some perhaps running unopposed and others facing a crowded field, it’s pretty much impossible to fairly determine a true top vote-getter. Thus, current council members — all of whom were elected atlarge — had a new problem to solve.
Once Partida’s term is done, the decision was made that a new mayor should be selected every year, with the exception that the same person could be picked two years in a row, but no more. My sense has always been that we make too big of a deal of the mayor’s position. The mayor, after all, is simply another voting member of the council, even if he or she does have a gavel in hand and gets to run meetings that are sometimes contentious. Plus, when the national news comes calling after we build tunnels for toads or cite sleeping women for snoring, the mayor is the one who faces the cameras and explains to the world what is actually happening in the City of All Things Right and Relevant.
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o, I like the idea of a one-year term, though I don’t think it should be renewed. In fact, the best plan would be to simply rotate the mayor’s job from one district to another, with each new mayor serving a oneyear term. This might be especially valuable as we all adjust to the notion of district elections. It would be nice for folks to know
that sooner or later the mayor of Davis will be a resident of their home district. Councilman Dan Carson, while not embracing that specific plan, made a lot of sense when he said “the selection of mayors after we shift to district elections poses a serious risk of dividing our council into factions.” Indeed it does. “I believe that establishing clear-cut selection rules for mayors under a new district system reduces that risk. I really believe that a certain process that doesn’t throw this issue up for grabs on a constant basis is less likely to lead to future political acrimony. What I really care about is some certainty in the process.” Certainty would be a good thing for what is largely a ceremonial position, but certainty is not we got. At least for the next 21 months, however, we do have the certainty that Gloria Partida will be guiding our local ship of state, and that by itself is something we can all be thankful for. — Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.
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BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer A spaghetti dinner fundraiser planned for Saturday evening at the Yolo County Republican Party headquarters in Woodland was canceled due to county COVID-19 regulations. The event, which was to feature Matt Nelson, the Republican challenging Assemblywoman Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, D-Winters, in the 4th District, included a dinner buffet and no-host bar in the Republican headquarters on Main Street in downtown Woodland. An email announcing the cancellation said, “The Yolo County Health Department has delivered an official Yolo County Administrative Warning, asking us to either do many things which would make it difficult to serve food and have speakers, cancel our event, or suffer a $500 fine. “After consultation with Matt Nelson, one of our local candidates, we have decided to cancel this event. We apologize for any inconvenience.” In lieu of the dinner, organizers suggested contributing directly to local Republican candidates’ campaigns. The original plan to host an in-person campaign fundraiser, complete with buffet dinner and no-host bar, was criticized on social media by some who dubbed it a “super-spreader event.” Others questioned whether such an event is even legal now given the ban on social gatherings. County spokeswoman Jenny Tan said Friday the county’s code enforcement team “met with the organizer yesterday and we provided them some information. They have since voluntarily canceled the event.” Back in July, Yolo County supervisors passed an urgency ordinance allowing for administrative fines to be levied against businesses and individuals who violate county health orders related to things like gatherings. Fines for noncommercial violations range from $25 to $500 depending upon the severity of the violation. Under California’s COVID-19 health orders, gatherings are defined as “meetings or other events that bring together persons
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from multiple households at the same time for a shared or group experience in a single room, space, or place such as an auditorium, stadium, arena, large conference room, meeting hall, or other indoor or outdoor space.” “They pose an especially high danger of transmission and spread of COVID-19,” the guidelines state. As such, they are prohibited, with exceptions made for faith-based services, cultural ceremonies and protests but with restrictions on capacity, social distancing, face coverings and more. Also canceled this week was a “campaign cruise” that Nelson’s campaign had organized for Saturday afternoon — an event that was to include a road trip through all of the counties in the 4th District. The district includes much of Yolo County as well as all or part of Lake, Napa, Colusa, Sonoma and Solano counties. “As much as I would like to have this happen, we have been asked to help with fire relief efforts,” Nelson announced on Facebook Thursday. “Our region is expecting another round of high winds, beginning over the weekend. Please be safe.” — Reach Anne Ternus-Bellamy at aternus@davisenter prise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.
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Woodland sisters Rorie and Ralynn Yubeta have been missing since Friday evening.
Teen sisters reported missing in Woodland BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer The Woodland Police Department is seeking the public’s help in locating two teenage sisters who went missing Friday evening. Rorie Yubeta, 13; and Ralynn Yubeta, 14; were last seen together in the area of Jones Street and Newton Drive, a residential area southeast of County Fair Mall and northeast of the Woodland Sports Park, shortly before 6 p.m. Friday, the police department announced in a social media post. Ralynn was last seen wearing a blue T-shirt and black pants, while Rorie wore a black hooded sweatshirt and
black shorts, police said in the post, which was made early Saturday afternoon. The sisters still had not been located as of that evening. Asked on social media why the department had not issued an AMBER alert — an emergency message issued when a law-enforcement agency determines that a child has been abducted and is in imminent danger — following the girls’ disappearance, police replied that the case “does not meet the criteria” for such an response but did not elaborate. Anyone with information on the sisters’ whereabouts is urged to call the police department’s dispatch line at 530-6662411.
The suspect in a West Sacramento homicide remains in Yolo County Jail custody while awaiting word whether the Yolo County Public Defender’s Office can represent her in court. Esther Garcia, 53, pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges Friday in connection with Wednesday’s fatal stabbing of another woman, 32-year-old Raechel Kay McGrath, during a violent altercation. Garcia requested a public defender, but that office also represented McGrath in a criminal matter last year and must determine whether taking Garcia’s case would pose a conflict of interest. “We can accept appointment and evaluate whether we have a conflict or not,” Supervising Deputy Public Defender Monica Brushia
said during the brief arraignment hearing, which was streamed online via Zoom. Visiting Yolo Superior Court Judge Stephen Mock made the appointment and ordered Garcia back to court Oct. 26 for a preliminary hearing. Meanwhile, West Sacramento police said Friday they’re still investigating the relationship between the two women and the motive for the fatal stabbing, which occurred at about 12:30 p.m. in the 900 block of Sacramento Avenue. “Our dispatch center received several 911 calls reporting that two women were fighting, and one was armed with a knife,” Sgt. Eric Angle said in a news release at the time. “Units responded to the scene and detained a woman who was pointed out as the suspect by independent witnesses.” Responding officers also performed life-saving mea-
sures on McGrath, who according to Angle suffered from “at least one” stab wound to her upper torso. She was transported to an area hospital but died from her injuries. In addition to murder, Garcia is charged with enhancements for use of a deadly weapon and for having a prior serious felony conviction, which Mock said appears as a strike offense on her criminal record. It was not immediately clear whether that prior conviction occurred in Yolo County or elsewhere. Local online court records show Garcia was charged with burglary in 2004 but ultimately pleaded no contest to petty theft with a prior, and was cited for trespassing in 2014 and jaywalking in 2017. — Reach Lauren Keene at lkeene@davisenter prise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @laurenkeene.
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“The shooting had occurred in the parking lot of an apartment complex in the 600 block of California Street,” Danzl said. “The victim and his girlfriend were in a vehicle and had pulled into the apartment complex.”
Woodland police are seeking the suspect in a shooting that left the victim with an arm injury. According to Sgt. Victoria Danzl, officers were dispatched at about 9:15 p.m. Wednesday to reports of gunfire in the 600 block of California Street. They tracked down the victim at Woodland Memorial Hospital, where he received treatment for a gunshot
Shortly thereafter, the suspect — identified only as a 31-year-old Woodland resident — approached the passenger side of the vehicle and shot from a silver
revolver into the passenger compartment, striking the victim in the arm, Danzl said. The girlfriend drove the victim to the hospital as the suspect fled the scene in his own car, but not before the license number was obtained and given to police, Danzl said. Detectives have obtained a warrant for the man’s arrest, though as of Friday morning he had not been taken into custody.
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FAST-FOOD: Spot vacant since 2016 From Page A1 downtown space that has been vacant since 2016 and to help reenergize the site. The applicant feels that they have something different to offer and can benefit the community.” The property in question is owned by the Browman Development Company, which purchased the building along with a number of other downtown properties from the Brinley family in early 2016. Watermelon Music had occupied the space for many years but relocated to West Davis not long after Browman purchased the property. In an op-ed published in The Enterprise at the time, Watermelon owner Jeff Simons expressed concern that “our funky, independent downtown” might be lost following Browman’s purchase of the Brinley properties. Browman, according to the staff report prepared for the Planning Commission, believes “Raising Cane’s is a good fit and a good tenant for the building.” The Downtown Davis Business Association has no objections to Raising Cane’s occupying that space, according to a letter to the city from executive director Brett Maresca. Maresca said the chain’s “focused/specialized menu” does not directly compete with many downtown restaurants and the proposed “Davis decor” theme that Raising Cane’s
committed to would keep the restaurant from being “another generically corporate branded fast food restaurant in the heart of our downtown.” City staff noted concerns among community members about the proliferation of restaurants and loss of retail businesses in downtown and said, “to some degree, Raising Cane’s would contribute to this. “However, it is not an issue specific to formula fast food. It is an ongoing issue with roots in larger economic and retail trends. “This building has been vacant since 2016,” the report noted. The Planning Commission on Wednesday will be asked to determine if the project is exempt from further environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act and approve the planning application. Wednesday’s meeting, which begins at 7 p.m., will be held remotely and is accessible the following ways: ■ Televised live on city of Davis Government Channel 16 (available to those who subscribe to cable television). ■ Livestreamed online at https://cityofdavis.org/ city-hall/city-council/ city-council-meetings/ meeting-videos. ■ Via Zoom at https:// zoom.us/j/93549715650. — Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@ davisenterprise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.
School reopenings look different across California BY RICARDO CANO Special to The Enterprise The night before the first day of in-person instruction for elementary students in San Diego County’s Poway Unified School District, principals sent families detailed instructions on how to drop off their children. The following Thursday morning, “welcome back” balloons adorned campuses’ front gates and school employees took students’ temperatures as they waited inside their parents’ cars. Principals from other schools in the district watched the process unfold, looking for processes they could implement at their own soon-to-reopen schools. So began for Poway the hybrid learning experiment playing out across the country. In Poway, one of the largest California school districts to attempt reopening campuses, elementary students learning in person will attend their school in cohorts for part of each weekday — either morning or afternoon — and learn asynchronously, or on their own, the rest of the school day. Families also have the choice to keep their students in fulltime remote learning programs. All of Poway’s 26 elementary schools will be open for a hybrid learning option Oct. 12. While the smaller continuation high school will launch its hybrid program this week — kids will alternate days on campus — still to be determined is how the district of more than 36,000 students will bring back its middle- and highschool students on campuses. “It’s not even that you’re building the plane as you’re flying,” Marian Kim Phelps, Poway’s superintendent, said. “We’re actually flying
BALLOTS: County hurries on correction From Page A1 when I was first made aware of voters who had received the wrong ballots,” he said. “I immediately called the county elections office, and was told by (Assessor/Clerk-Recorder/ Registrar of Voters) Jesse Salinas that they were aware of the situation, it was limited in size and that the county would be issuing new ballots to voters who are affected.” Within hours of confirming the error, the elections office determined the number of impacted voters and households and began implementing a plan to correct the problem, the elections office said. “This plan includes expediting to all impacted voters newly issued precinct ballots and voter information guides along with a letter describing the error.” At Covell Commons Condos and 8th and Wake Apartments, where 90 percent of the impacted Davis voters reside, “efforts are underway to directly
contact the property management entities associated with these properties,” the office said. According to Frerichs, residents of Covell Commons Condos received ballots with the District 2 City Council race instead of the District 3 race that they should be voting on. “Any voter contacted by our office who received a ballot with incorrect contests should discard that ballot and fill out and return the new one,” the elections office said. “If a voter already filled out and mailed back their originally received ballot, we will cancel that ballot once the new one is received. This will ensure that no voter is able to vote twice.” Dillan Horton, a City Council candidate in District 2, said in a social media post Friday that voter data previously provided to his campaign indicated there might be a problem. “(There) were a number of addresses in the voter
data that the county gave us for District 2 that we knew were not in District 2,” Horton said in a video posted to Facebook. “(W)e had some District 3 voters that had been mistakenly placed in our voter data set from the county, so that was an indication a little while ago that there was a problem here. “Hopefully the county can get these new, corrected ballots out as quickly as possible and there will be a minimized level of confusion,” said Horton. “This is obviously a disappointing error at this stage in the election.” Any voter with questions about their ballots or who believes they’ve received something in error should call the Yolo County Elections Office at 530-6668133. Voters in three other cities in Yolo County also received incorrect ballots this week, including 126 voters in Winters, 115 voters in Woodland and 60 voters in West Sacramento. “We apologize for any
inconvenience this has caused and are working diligently to resolve this issue,” said Salinas. Said Frerichs: “I appreciate that the county has responded swiftly to remedy it.” This year, dozens of different ballots have been sent out to Yolo County voters based on where they live. In Davis alone, there are multiple races for City Council and Davis school board, each of which will only be on some ballots, and a Board of Supervisors runoff election that only some residents will vote on. To determine what should be on your individual ballot, visit https:// www.yoloelections.org and click on “County Voter Information Guide & RAVBM.” Then click on “Access my Accessible Sample Ballot and Voter Guide.” You will be prompted to fill in your name and birth date. On the next screen, click “Reference Ballot” for a copy of what should be on the ballot you’ve received by mail.
HYDER: Candidate cites experience and pragmatism From Page A1 nonprofit boards (in addition to the PTA).” As an attorney, she’s worked as a child advocate. Hyder is running for the Davis school board seat representing Trustee Area Five, which covers the easterly portions of South Davis, including Pioneer Elementary School and the El Macero neighborhood. School board trustees spend lots of time working on the school district’s budget priorities, and the lion’s share of school district funding comes from the state. “And currently, our state budget is showing signs of distress from a shrinking tax base due to COVID-19. We also know that there are going to be some deferrals (of state funding).” That means that the school board “is going to have to
respond” in terms of “budgeting and fiscal decision-making for providing good services for children” in the school district. “I hope that we can come together as a board and move quickly and solidly to find ways to help our students when they come back” to the conventional school campuses for instruction. She expects that during the next couple of years, the school board will need to work toward stabilizing the school district’s still relatively new distance learning programs, and prepare the district for the eventual return to traditional on-site learning at school campuses. “We need to get our children and our teachers more connected ... for everybody’s sake. We need to be thoughtful and careful, but also move quickly,” she said.
“Partnering with parents is going to be a big part of what’s on my mind when I’m serving on the board. I know this community is committed to education, and we need to help get our parents more plugged into what’s happening. “We have a paraeducator program that’s a strength,” she said, but she also mentioned that “There are gaps that must be filled if we are going to serve all children in the Davis community, and I am committed to helping address those challenges. “I am running for the DJUSD school board because I want to use what I’ve learned to help the district serve all of our students, particularly when we are facing choices about how we address issues of equity and justice, online distance learning, and potential budget cuts,” Hyder said.
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No one’s happy As more California schools gain permission from the state to offer inperson instruction, they are grappling with a massive logistical puzzle: How, exactly, do you operate schools within schools, where some students attend classes in person in some form while others learn remotely full-time? Giving families the option to choose between a hybrid, or blended, model — meaning students split their time learning on campus and at home — and full-time remote learning appears to be the course that many of the state’s school districts are charting toward. Some of that is born out of necessity. The state signaled this summer that schools would likely have to implement some form of hybrid scheduling in order to reduce class sizes and implement the social distancing and safety measures that help mitigate the spread of the coronavirus. The plans to give families a choice also reflect the fact that, in any given community across the state, there are widely diverging thoughts from families and educators on when, how and if schools should physically reopen. “We have parents on one end of the spectrum begging us to reopen the schools, and we have parents clearly on the other side saying it is absolutely foolish to open the schools. And then there’s a whole bunch of people in between,” said Jim Hanlon, an assistant superintendent in Chico Unified.
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Ullrich Delevati, CPAs, a certified public accounting firm, continues to strengthen and expand its ability to serve its growing client base as it announces a Partnership transition. January 1st, 2020 marked the passing of the firm’s full-time Managing Partner role from Founding Partner, Marcus Ullrich to Anthony Delevati. Marcus Ullrich continues to serve his present clients as an active Partner for the
foreseeable future. Further, two senior staff members, Lisa Martinez Dunham and Vivian Plank, join as Partners and Jim Engstrom remains as a Principal for the West Sacramento Office. Of the transition, Ullrich stated, “The new year brought exciting changes to Ullrich Delevati, CPAs. I would like to extend my welcome to Lisa Martinez Dunham and Vivian Plank as
New Managing Partner Anthony Delevati started his accounting career working for Marcus Ullrich in 1981, and then joined as a Partner 1990 to create Ullrich Delevati CPAs. Over the course of three decades, they implemented the processes that grew a small partnership into the full-service accounting firm of uncompromising quality that they’re known for today. With more than 40 years in the industry, Delevati played a key role in cultivating Ullrich Delevati’s business practices and will continue to lead the firm in providing its clients with the highest level of expertise and personalized service. As a longtime Woodland resident,
Vivian Plank has over 16 years of experience in public accounting; and in 2006, she brought her comprehensive skill set to Ullrich Delevati, CPAs, where she provides an array of accounting services for their closely held and not-for-profit clients, including financial statement preparation, compilation, and reviews. With a B.S. in Business Administration with an Accounting major, Plank is currently pursuing her Master’s degree in taxation from Golden Gate University. As a Woodland resident for over twenty years, Plank is invested in improving the community; she enjoys supporting the arts and contributes to a number of local arts organizations. Of the new Partnership, Plank said, “I find this new position as a partner both exciting and challenging. I will continue serving our clients and be a key contributor to our firm’s success.”
new partners to the practice and to Tony Delevati, who will be serving as Managing Partner. During my years serving as the firm’s Managing Partner, I am most proud of the Ullrich Delevati staff’s professionalism and their desire to provide exemplary service to our clients. Tony and the new partners will do an outstanding job managing the firm and helping it continue to thrive.”
Delevati has served the community as an active member of several organizations, including his current role as President of the Woodland Rotary Endowment. Delevati commented, “The last 40 years working alongside Mark to develop this firm has been a fantastic experience, and I look forward to the future as Managing Partner. And I’m very pleased to welcome both Vivian Plank and Lisa Martinez Dunham into the Partnership. In the time that they have been a part of the firm, they have consistently contributed to our growth and body of expert knowledge and I know they’ll do that and more as Partners.”
Lisa Martinez Dunham has worked with Ullrich Delevati, CPAs for more than five years specializing in individual and business tax and accounting. As a new Partner, Martinez Dunham will continue to provide steadfast accounting solutions, working with clients on tax preparation, tax planning, financial statement preparations, and more. Martinez Dunham has her B.S. in Business Administration with an Accounting major and is a longtime Woodland resident — she supports the community by serving on the Board of Directors as Treasurer for Northern California Children’s Therapy Center and as a member of the Rotary Club of Woodland. Speaking of her new position, Martinez Dunham stated, “Since 2014, I’ve loved working with the clients of Ullrich Delevati, CPAs, and I’m thrilled to continue doing so in my expanded capacity as Partner.”
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CAMPUS: Going through 2021 public health reasons, a model that appears will be around for a while. Last month, the UC system’s top health official said public health modifications at the university, including remote learning, will likely need to continue at least through September of 2021. Campus operations are expected to adjust to public health needs, which means both lifting and possibly restoring restrictions. With the number of local cases decreasing and Yolo County having moved to the Red Tier of the state’s reopening stages, UC Davis has reopened some campus facilities with modifications based on local public health guidance. Shields Library, the Memorial Union and the Coffee House have all reopened in some capacity. UC Davis plans to reopen the Activities and Recreation Center (ARC) on Nov. 1 to students only and expand to faculty and staff on Dec. 1. As long as Yolo County remains in the Red Tier, maximum occupancy at the ARC will be limited to 10% and operations will be modified.
The California Highway Patrol recently announced a stepped-up focus on pedestrian, bicycle and motorcycle safety through two new programs funded by the state Office of Traffic Safety. To help support the CHP’s year-long effort to improve pedestrian and bicycle safety, the department was awarded the California Pedestrian and Bicyclist Enforcement and Education Project VIII grant. The CHP will use the grant funds to conduct enhanced enforcement patrols and public awareness campaigns through Sept. 30, 2021. “Whether traveling by motor vehicle, bicycle or on foot, we all share the road. Bicycle and pedestrian safety is everyone’s responsibility,” CHP Commissioner Warren Stanley said. “This grant provides us additional resources to focus on the safety of pedestrians and bicyclists, our most vulnerable roadway users.” Pedestrian and bicycle fatalities accounted for nearly 33 percent of all traffic-related deaths in California in 2018. The CHP reminds motorists to always scan each intersection for
potential foot and bicycle traffic and to yield the rightof-way to pedestrians whether in marked or unmarked crosswalks. On Oct. 7 — the National Center for Safe Routes to School’s “Walk and Bike to School Day” — the CHP targeted locations with high numbers of pedestrian and bicyclist crashes. Officers in plain clothes worked with uniformed officers to monitor crosswalks for motorists and pedestrians who fail to yield the rightof-way or who take unsafe or illegal actions. The CHP also will use the grant funding to educate the public on safe and courteous traffic behavior through public presentations and safety publications, and to provide bicycle and pedestrian safety equipment for distribution including bicycle helmets and reflective gear. Meanwhile, statewide motorcycle safety awareness is the focus of Get Educated and Ride Safe (GEARS) III, a year-long, federally funded program focused on educational and enforcement efforts. The primary goal of GEARS III is to reduce the number of motorcycleinvolved crashes and victims. In federal fiscal year 2017-18, the number of
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motorcycle-involved crashes increased about 3 percent within CHP jurisdiction. However, provisional 2018-19 data show a 10 percent decrease. “The ultimate objective is to improve not just motorcycle safety, but highway safety overall,” Stanley said. “The additional education and enforcement funded by GEARS III helps our officers meet this objective.” During the grant period, the CHP will increase motorcycle safety activities in regions with a high number of motorcycle incidents and participate in traffic safety education campaigns such as “May is Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month.” The campaigns will promote the use of Department of Transportationcompliant helmets for all riders and raise motorists’ awareness of sharing the road with motorcyclists. Officers also will focus on the most dangerous traffic violations, including speeding, improper turning, and driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Funding for these programs was provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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biweekly testing will move forward in phases, as our testing capacity increases,” the UC Davis testing plan states. As testing is expanded, the number of positive test results is expected to increase. According to a survey conducted in early September, half of all UC Davis undergraduates and 70% of graduate students were expected to be living in Davis during the fall quarter. In total, roughly 25,000 of the nearly 40,000 students enrolled this quarter are estimated to be in Davis. In addition to data collected from on-campus testing, UC Davis has released information about COVID-19 cases received through its wider reporting system. There are currently six students and 18 employees with active cases, all of whom live off campus. Because all UC Davis students and employees are required to report positive COVID-19 test results to the university, some of those cases may not be in Davis or even in California. Campus administrators said they are working towards making all UC Davis COVID-19 testing results available on a single website. Nearly all instruction at UC Davis is taking place remotely this quarter for
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ountain Mike’s Pizza opened on Tuesday in The Marketplace. It replaces Round Table Pizza, at 1411 W. Covell Blvd., Suite 111. The franchise group Mann and Kumar Pizza Inc. owns the restaurant. The group consists of Gurjeet Mann, Hanish Kumar and 2019 UC Davis graduate Sumeet Benipal. According to a spokeswoman, Mann is a longtime Mountain Mike’s franchisee who owns eight locations in California. He opened the Davis pizzeria in partnership with two of his former restaurant managers. “As an added incentive, Mann offers his most talented managers the opportunity to be partowners at select locations to grow with the brand,� a company news release said. Mountain Mike’s started in 1978 in Palo Alto. Today, it has more than 200 restaurants across California, Oregon, Nevada and Utah. It’s known for its “mountain-sized� pizzas, especially its signature pizza, covered edge-to-edge in crispy, curly mini pepperoni slices. Other menu items include oven-roasted wings in four flavors, garlic bread sticks, mozzarella sticks, salads, sandwiches, and local beers and wines. It offers indoor dining (presently at 25% capacity) with big-screen
TVs, patio seating, and contactless delivery and carryout. Hours are 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sundays through Thursdays, and 11-11 Fridays and Saturdays. ——— The Chicken Hawkers, a new Thai restaurant coming to El Macero Shopping Center, has its final approval to open. It plans a soft opening on or before Friday, Oct. 16. The owners have a restaurant in Vacaville. The eatery serves khao mun gai, a Thai chicken and rice dish that’s popular street food in Southeast Asia. The Davis store fills the former Extreme Pizza spot at 417 Mace Blvd. The pizza place closed in June. ——— Regal Davis Holiday, 101 F St., opened (at 25 percent capacity) when Davis went into the red tier. It was short-lived. On Thursday, U.S. Regal Cinemas temporarily closed its theaters nationwide. Regal’s other Davis
theater, Regal Davis, 420 G St., did not reopen in that brief period. The company cited “an increasingly challenging theatrical landscapeâ€? due to the COVID-19 pandemic. If health restrictions weren’t shuttering the theaters, a lack of movie releases is. According to National Public Radio, “movie studios have delayed dozens of big releases over the past six months as cinemas sat empty or showed films only to limited audiences.â€? ——— Davis Co-working is downsizing. After opening in May 2019 in University Mall (above Subway), it added a ground-level space in January. In an Oct. 5 Facebook post, owner Do Tromp said she “decided to end the lease for the ground-level space at the end of this month. ‌ (It’s) relatively expensive for the square footage it offers, and since many estimate that the pandemic will continue well into 2021, it makes sense to close the space and focus on the upstairs alone.â€? Tromp added, “I am hopeful that we can continue to maintain the upstairs space with the current support and occupancy.â€? The lease on the original space expires at the end of the year.
She’s hoping things will improve by then. Entrepreneurs and independent contractors rent access to the space via daily passes or monthly memberships. The facility includes shared desks and workspaces, a lounge area and a conference room. Tromp said there’s a waitlist for a monthly membership. ——— Almond Lane Farm Stand opened Oct. 1 at 20305 East St. in Woodland. It’s on Bullseye Farms, at the intersection of County Road 25A. The seasonal farm stand is open from 2 to 6 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays through Nov. 8. “This season, we are featuring locally grown pumpkins, gourds, almonds, walnuts, honey and beans,â€? said Jordanne Mariani. She said the farm stand is not connected to her family’s Mariani Nut Company. “We also have fall dĂŠcor available, corn stalk bundles, dried corn and custom pumpkin succulent arrangements.â€? With its farm partner, it acquires products from growers in Yolo, Colusa, Sutter and Sacramento counties. The merchandise reflects the “personal relationships we have developed with farmers throughout the
Sacramento Valley,� Mariani said. “We hope to open again in the spring, with different crops and goodies,� she said. Long-term plans are for the stand to be open year-round, featuring seasonal, fresh produce. ——— There’s a new diner in Woodland. Corabella’s Restaurant serves breakfast all day at 590 N. East St. in Woodland. Hours are 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. The spot was last occupied by Perry’s Cozy Diner, which closed in January 2018. ——— I regularly update my Google spreadsheet of more than 300 Davis businesses affected by COVID-19. It’s at https://bit.ly/ DavisBusinesses. In it, there are sheets for Restaurants-open, Restaurants-closed, Businessesretail, Businesses-service, Special hours (for older adults or compromised shoppers), and more. Please email wendyedit@gmail. com to suggest updates. — Wendy Weitzel is a Davis writer and editor. Her column runs on Sundays. Check for frequent updates on her Comings & Goings Facebook and Instagram pages. If you know of a business coming or going in the area, contact her at wendyedit@gmail. com.
Valley Clean Energy signs agreement with Ormat Technologies Special to The Enterprise RENO — Ormat Technologies Inc. announced on Oct. 5 that it has signed two resource adequacy agreements, each for 50% of its 5 MW / 20 MWh Tierra Buena battery energy storage project under development in Sutter County. Two community-choice aggregators — Valley Clean Energy in Yolo County and Redwood Coast Energy Authority in Humboldt County — each signed an agreement for 2.5 MW of resource adequacy from Ormat’s Tierra Buena energy storage project. Under the 10-year agreements, the project is expected to begin commercial operation no later than June 2022. These are the first energy storage deals for the two CCAs, sought in order to comply with a multi-year statewide mandate to add 3.3 GW of incremental resource adequacy to the California grid by 2023. This project marks another expansion of Ormat’s energy storage footprint in California, its current primary growth market for energy storage. It is in addition to Ormat’s acquisition of the operating Pomona energy storage facility (20 MW/ 80 MWh) and the ongoing construction of the Vallecito energy storage project (10 MW / 40 MWh), also in California. “Ormat is committed to being an active participant in California’s effort to
achieve its goal of 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2045,� said Doron Blachar, Ormat’s chief executive officer. “Increasingly, energy storage plays a key role in making this transition reliable and costeffective, and Ormat continues to expand its presence and capabilities in this area. “In particular, Ormat is focused on serving CCAs around the state, bringing innovative solutions focused on renewable and sustainable energy resources to meet current and projected demand, responsibly. We are pleased to leverage our proven capabilities and provide grid operators with the expertise to enhance grid performance, stability and responsiveness, while delivering capacity at the right time, the right place and the right price.� “Valley Clean Energy is proud to announce our
partnership with sister agency Redwood Coast Energy Authority, and battery storage experts Ormat, on this initiative,� said Don Saylor, chair of the VCE board of directors and a Yolo County supervisor. “Battery storage is critical to maintaining grid stability, especially within the context of increasing wildfires and power shutoffs in California. “VCE’s customers will continue to benefit from our commitment to climate resilience, community benefits and partnering on local projects like Tierra Buena.� Said Matthew Marshall, executive director of the Redwood Coast Energy Authority, “The Tierra Buena battery energy storage project will help us deliver cost-effective, lowcarbon electricity to our customers while helping the state maintain grid reliability as we transition
to renewables. “The deployment of energy storage statewide allows community-choice energy programs like ours to play a critical role in helping retire aging gas infrastructure by providing the flexibility necessary to rely on renewable sources to meet our energy needs.� CCAs provide a large and growing portion of California's energy supply. More than 10 million electric accounts are served by
CCAs in California, providing power to tens of millions of people. Ormat will deliver longterm resource adequacy to VCE and RCEA while also participating in merchant energy and ancillary services markets run by the California Independent System Operator, contributing to overall grid stability and reliability. Ormat will undertake engineering, procurement and construction of this project, leveraging its core
EPC capabilities gained through decades of renewable energy project development, as well as specific knowhow in battery storage design and operation. The project design will incorporate Li-ion batteries and other components from leading suppliers. The asset will be operated by Viridity Energy Solutions Inc., Ormat’s energy storage, demand response and energy management arm.
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The case for not spying your on loved ones ■ Editor’s note: This column first ran in August 2018
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hen I was in college, my roommates and I made up a lot of
games. In the pre-Internet days of the late 1980s, we were some clever and often bored girls. One roommate took an unconscionable amount of time to get ready to go out, so we had a lot of waiting around. One game we invented that occupied a lot of time was the “dictionary game,” which I honestly can’t remember how to play, but it involved opening the dictionary randomly and reading definitions for points? I don’t know, maybe we were drunk. Our biggest game success was definitely the “million dollar game” — and it bears repeating, this was long before the Internet could supply us with ideas — which morphed into some awesome dares. For a million dollars, would you walk naked, along busy UCLA’s Bruin Walk at noon, offering no explanation
of why you were doing it? (All of us idiots said “No way!” to this.) Would you amputate your pinky toe for a million dollars? (Maybe.) Would you not bathe for a year? (Yes.) But a game that has popped into my head many times over the past few decades is the “super powers game.” If you could have one super power, what would it be? My answer has never changed — I would fly. As a kid, I regularly dreamed that I could fly, and it was the greatest feeling. I would be happy the whole next day after those dreams, imagining it might someday be possible to just fly around by magic. Oddly, I’ve never wanted to
parachute or hang glide, which seems like an obvious way to scratch this itch. Anyway, my best college friend’s answer is the one I come back to regularly: She would be invisible so she could hear what people said when she wasn’t in the room. This might be my biggest nightmare, as well as the subject for a Ph.D. student’s entire dissertation. My aversion to eavesdropping on people I know is intense, although this doesn’t translate to strangers. I actually enjoy overhearing conversations where I don’t know the people, filling in the blanks of what they might be discussing. However, I’m most uncomfortable if I ever hear one of my kids on the phone and he doesn’t know I’m there. I immediately make my presence known so they don’t think I’m listening in. Disclaimer: I’ve read a lot on the subject of spying on one’s kids — mainly in the digital
realm — and I do understand parents’ desires to know that their children are being safe. Many see it as a necessary part of effective parenting to know who their kids are talking to online or where they are going, etc. It’s just not for me.
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believe that privacy is deserved at all ages, and parental guidance every step of the way is the proper course to raise trustworthy kids. But I also believe that if a kid shows you he can’t be trusted, you need to change tactics. On that note, I have made it a practice not to spy on my sons, including not showing up in social settings where they didn’t expect me to be. For example, last spring my husband and I were wandering downtown during the Whole Earth Festival, where fire dancers were going to perform on E Street Plaza. As we started that way, I told my husband I didn’t want to go because our younger son might be there and be sorry to see us there, cramping his style. I
wouldn’t want to see him change his demeanor in front of friends because he had to act a different way around me. Maybe he’s a dancing fool when I’m not around. Or maybe he would be a volunteer from the audience and try his hand at twirling fire. It’s primarily my kids and husband whom I don’t want to listen in on, but this applies to other people I’m close to. It would crush me to think my close friends were saying terrible things about me behind my back. “Wouldn’t it be better to know they are actually so twofaced?” one might ask. I see the case for that, but my gut tells me my true friends wouldn’t be saying terrible things. I want to take people at face value and believe they are who they show me they are. I want to trust people. And I really, really want to fly. — Tanya Perez is a staff writer at The Enterprise. Her column is published every other Sunday. Reach her at tperez@davisenter prise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @enterprisetanya.
Proactive outlook helps us avoid further harm to children BY TRACY FAUVER Special to The Enterprise
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hen a child enters the foster care system, one thing is clear: That child has been abused or neglected in some way. Once a child has been abused or neglected, we move from prevention to mitigation, and our CASA volunteers are key to mitigating the effects of trauma. We know that half of homeless adults were in the foster care system at one point in time. We know that no more than 10% of foster youth go on to college, and that’s out of the less than 50% who graduate from high school. We know that adults who spent time in foster care are also more likely to be incarcerated, and the list goes on. CASA was founded in 1977 by a judge in Seattle who felt that he wanted to hear more from the child’s perspective in dependency system cases. His idea caught on, and CASA organizations formed throughout the nation. Over the next 20years, CASA had grown nationwide, and a groundbreaking study came out that showed just how powerful CASA’s mission is.
YOLO CASA The “Adverse Childhood Experiences” (ACEs) study in the ’90s revealed that children who experienced four or more adverse experiences in their childhood were more likely to be mentally and physically ill as adults … so much so that their life expectancy was 20 years shorter. The primary antidote to these ACEs was found to be the presence of a trusted adult relationship. It turns out, that through trusted relationships, we can actually reverse the negative effects of trauma that are so commonly observed in the foster care system. With relationships at the heart of CASAs mission, it’s no wonder CASA volunteers are so effective. Often, a CASA volunteer is the only consistent and stable relationship a foster child has in a world of social workers, attorneys and foster parents, many of whom have several children on their caseloads. In order to do their jobs effectively, CASA volunteers get to know their foster children through weekly visits. Through these visits, CASA volunteers are able to learn about their foster children’s needs and
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The primary antidote to adverse childhood experiences is the presence of a trusted adult relationship. desires so that they can advocate for them effectively in court and in life. A secondary benefit of these close relationships is that foster children have a trusted adult to catch problems before they become crises. Amid a year full of reactivity and crises, it’s
easy to see how important proactivity is in relation to positive outcomes. In short, every child deserves a fair chance. While there are many circumstances beyond a child’s control dictating whether or not they get that chance, we know we can mitigate the effects of
trauma in a proactive way that prevents further harm and adverse outcomes. Our mission is unique and unduplicated. No other organization focuses on providing one-on-one support for foster kids. I hope that by explaining this to you, you might be
inspired to either become a CASA volunteer yourself, or mention this to someone who you know would make a great one. For more information, please visit our website at yolocasa.org. — Tracy Fauver, LCSW, is the executive director of Yolo County CASA.
Phi Kappa Phi hands out a pair of awards Enterprise staff Koral Buch and Stacey Anne Baterina Salinas, both of Davis, were recently awarded a Love of Learning Award worth $500 from The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines. The awards were given to 200 recipients. Buch was initiated in 2019 at UC Davis and Salinas was initiated in 2018 at UCD. Love of Learning Awards are designed to help fund postbaccalaureate professional development for active Phi Kappa Phi members, including graduate or professional studies, doctoral dissertations, continuing education, travel related to teaching and research, career development and more. Established in 2007, the Love of Learning Program gives 200 awards each year. The selection process for a Love of Learning Award is based on the applicant’s academic achievement, campus and
NAME DROPPERS community service, intended use of award funds as it relates to academic and career goals, and a personal statement. Since 1932, Phi Kappa Phi’s award programs have recognized members and students on its chapter campuses for outstanding academic achievement. In addition to the Love of Learning Program, Phi Kappa Phi awards graduate and dissertation fellowships, study abroad grants, and grants for local, national and international literacy initiatives. Each year, $1 million is awarded through programs that last year recognized more than 350 individuals. ———— Elena Burgess of Woodland is among the is one of nearly 500 cadets and students recognized by The Citadel for academic achievements during the spring 2020 semester. The traditional parade honoring the cadets was cancelled; but recognizing the academic successes of
Citadel cadets and students is a special tradition each semester, even one as atypical as this. These cadets and students earned their grades in unique circumstances and were able to focus on their studies while transitioning to virtual learning in March 2020. Gold stars are awarded to cadets and students at The Citadel who achieved a 3.7 grade point average or higher. Cadets and students who achieve gold star recognition are also placed on The Citadel’s dean’s list. Approximately 2,400 cadets and students currently attend The Citadel. Due to a commitment to academic excellence, 63% of Citadel cadets and students graduate after four years and go on to earn an average salary of nearly $57,000 after learning how to be principled leaders in all walks of life. The Citadel, in Charleston, S.C., offers a classic military college education for young men and women focused on leadership excellence and academic distinction. The approximately
2,400 members of the S.C. Corps of Cadets are not required to serve in the military, but about one-third of each class earn commissions to become officers in every branch of U.S. military service. ———— Georgia State University conferred a Graduate Certificate to Nikita Patel of Davis during the summer 2020 semester. More than 2,000 students were conferred degrees by Georgia State University at the associate’s, bachelor’s, graduate and professional-degree levels during the summer 2020 semester. Georgia State University, an enterprising urban public research university, is a national leader in graduating students from widely diverse backgrounds. The university has a student body of nearly 52,000 from all backgrounds. — Do you know of someone who has won an award or accomplished something noteworthy? Email it to newsroom@davisenter prise.net.
BY ANDY JONES Special to The Enterprise 1. Sports. According to the 2018 World Atlas, what is the world’s most accessible and practiced sport? 2. Literature. American Louise Glück won the Nobel Prize in Literature last week. Is she best known for her essays, novels, plays or poetry? 3. Unusual Words: Professions. A chandler makes what? 4. Helicopters. Starting with the letter M, what is the name of the helicopter of the
President of the United States? 5. Pop Culture — Television. What MSNBC chief anchor hosts the nightly wrap-up program “The 11th Hour”? Answers: Running, poetry, candles, Marine One, Brian Williams. — Dr. Andy Jones is the quizmaster at de Vere’s Irish Pub and author of the book “Pub Quizzes: Trivia for Smart People.” Dr. Andy is now also sharing his pub quizzes via Patreon. Find out more at www. yourquizmaster.com.
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Family dispute leads to police standoff BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer
A parade of cars congratulates Sophia Lo, an intern in the Office of Strategic Communications, at a safe distance after she graduated in the spring. GREGORY URQUIAGA, UC DAVIS/COURTESY PHOTO
FUNDRAISING: Culture of giving lives on From Page A1 advancing and elevating.” Expect Greater launches at a time of growing philanthropic momentum at UC Davis: The last four years have been the strongest for fundraising in its history. Since the campaign’s quiet phase began in July 2016, the university’s closest donors and friends have given $1.2 billion toward the goal. Now UC Davis is reaching out to the entire university community to help make a greater impact on the world. “This campaign is so much more than a number,” said Vice Chancellor Shaun Keister, head of Development and Alumni Relations and president of the UC Davis Foundation. “We are securing private support to make tangible change and to impact areas the world needs most by partnering with those who share our vision. One great example is today’s groundbreaking of the Engineering Student Design Center expansion, made possible by an early gift of $5 million from alumnus John Baum and his wife, Mindy.”
Expertise As one of the top 10 public universities in the nation, UC Davis is at the forefront of research, education and discovery, every day fulfilling its land-grant mission to serve California and the world. Since the start of the campaign, donors have established more than 40 endowed chairs and professorships, demonstrating support for the diverse, world-class faculty who make UC Davis a premier research institution. These positions enable the university to recruit and retain the world’s top minds — faculty who will have the sustained funding to maximize their impact, all while teaching the next generation of change-makers. In addition, such expertise provides leadership in times of crisis. UC Davis Health made national headlines this year, successfully treating the first case of COVID-19 that was acquired by
community spread. The health system is now conducting more than three dozen COVID-19 related clinical trials, including vaccine trials involving as many as 200 volunteer participants. Other COVID research is happening in 10 areas across the university. In direct response to the ongoing public health crisis, 2,108 donors contributed a total of $322,986 to emergency relief funds from March 1 to June 30. UC Davis has also been on the front lines of wildfire response, saving lives via research and rescue. Forestry scientists at UC Davis collaborate to formulate strategies for forest management and ecological rehabilitation in the face of worsening wildfire seasons. And more than 70 interdisciplinary faculty at the Air Quality Research Center tackle the complex subject of atmospheric pollution, including the health effects of inhaling polluted air. And like every year, the Veterinary Emergency Response Team has performed animal rescues and rehabilitation, plus wellness exams on animals sheltered in place, while the UC Davis Medical Center has treated human burn victims. In August alone, the UC Davis Fire Department contributed nearly 700 person-hours to firefighting efforts on the LNU Lightning Complex Fire and across the West.
Change Tomorrow’s leaders are the key to building a better world. Donors have given more than $180 million in this campaign toward student support, enabling full access to a UC Davis college education for thousands of young scholars. This is just one reason UC Davis is the second-best public university for social mobility, according to Washington Monthly’s annual assessment of U.S. schools based on what they do for the public good. Even with this year’s transition to remote learning, students continue to have access to resources
and services they need for a successful college experience. Donors support students’ undergraduate educations via programs that offer academic guidance, experiential learning opportunities and robust career preparation. Programs like Aggie Launch and Aggie EVO help students solidify their goals and land meaningful careers after graduation. “I am so incredibly grateful for all the donors who contribute to scholarships because they have given me countless opportunities to learn and grow,” said English major Victoria Choi ’21. “My scholarship has allowed me to have a world-class education as well as gain leadership skills in various organizations on campus like Aggies Helping Aggies and the Picnic Day board.”
Solutions Across the university, donor-supported initiatives are offering actionable solutions to today’s most formidable challenges. As a world-leading agricultural school, UC Davis is where students, faculty and researchers are working together to revolutionize farming and sustainability efforts using innovative technologies. Through the donor-supported Smart Farm and One Climate initiatives, UC Davis is developing state-of-the-art techniques for growing food and reversing climate change in order to sustain healthy communities for generations to come. The School of Medicine and the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing are advancing telehealth and care for older adults through the donorsupported Healthy Aging in a Digital World. And with philanthropic support, the Center for Violence Prevention Research is on the leading edge of public safety, gathering and analyzing data to inform policymakers of the most effective ways to curb violence. With the world’s No. 1 veterinary medical school and a comprehensive
medical center, UC Davis is uniquely positioned to conduct groundbreaking research at the nexus of human and animal medicine — the focus of the university’s donorsupported One Health Institute. At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, veterinary and health researchers quickly began collaborating on diagnostic and vaccine testing. And PREDICT — One Health’s pandemic prevention and response program — is part of an international effort to provide emergency support to collaborating countries in response to coronavirus spread.
Aggie difference UC Davis’ culture of giving lives on in alumni near and far. Every year thousands of alumni give their time, expertise and funds to their alma mater. Two proud alumni are Darryl Goss ’83, UC Davis Foundation chair, and his wife, Lois ’88, who serves on the College of Letters and Science Dean’s Advisory Council and the Women & Philanthropy Advisory Council. “Lois and I are honored to give our philanthropic support to the next generation of Aggies, who always go on to make a difference in so many ways,” Darryl Goss said. “UC Davis is where we received the education we needed to achieve our dreams, and today we’re proud to give back to this bold vision.” Expect Greater is UC Davis’ second comprehensive 10-figure fundraising campaign following the 2006-14 Campaign for UC Davis, which raised $1 billion for student scholarships, graduate fellowships, patient care, teaching and research.
A large police presence assembled in response to a criminal threats incident on a Woodland culde-sac last week, but ended about two hours later with no injuries or arrests, officials reported Friday. Both SWAT and crisis negotiations teams were sent to the house in the 600 block of Harvard Court at about 12:30 p.m. Wednesday after residents reported that a man was “causing a disturbance in the neighborhood and threatening to kill neighbors,” Sgt. Victoria Danzl said. Officers who made contact with the alleged suspect at the front door reported hearing him breaking items inside the
house and yelling at his stepmother. The man “refused to come out of the residence and stated that he ‘had every right to shoot anybody on his property,’ and gave officers five minutes to leave,” Danzl said. SWAT officers and crisis negotiators were summoned due to the alleged threats and “the fact that the female’s status was unknown,” although at some point she was able to leave the house. After a roughly twohour standoff, however, “ultimately none of the reporting parties would agree to be a victim of any crime and the stepmother wanted to return to the residence,” Danzl said. Officers broke down the neighborhood perimeter and left the scene.
Pandemic reshaped state politics in 2020 BY BEN CHRISTOPHER CalMatters It’s not easy to get work done during a pandemic. Even for the fortunate who kept their prepandemic jobs, productivity has taken it on the chin in 2020. The same goes for those in the lawmaking business. In March, just days after the governor instructed all Californians to shelter in their homes, legislators left Sacramento to do exactly that — and they stayed away for two months. A second viral wave, plus more than half a dozen infections among lawmakers and their staff, prompted another extended recess. The crunched calendar and the state’s gutted budget put a serious damper on legislators’ bill-passing ambitions. The California Senate Office of Research reports the Legislature passed fewer than 428 bills to the governor this fall. Of those, he vetoed 56. That makes 2020 the least quantitatively productive year in the Capitol since at least 1967. This was supposed to be a big year for new laws. California’s Legislature operates on two-year cycles. Any bills that don’t cross the finish line the first year often get another look in year two
— prompting a final crush of legislation. Not this year. The slim legislative pickings in 2020 mark a 63% decline from the 21st century average of bills passed in a session’s second year. While 2020 represents a low point for billpassing, it marks a record high for gubernatorial decrees. Since the beginning of the year, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed 59 executive orders. That’s how many his predecessor, Jerry Brown, issued between 2011 and 2018. The obvious reason for the unprecedented blitz of edicts: this coronavirus, which raised major policy challenges across the state. With the legislative process so hamstrung, Newsom rushed to fill the vacuum. Fifty-three of the orders this year have been COVID-related. Republican legislators have pushed back on Newsom’s seizing of the reins of state. His administration has also been sued nearly 40 times for his COVID-related decrees. But by and large, the strategy has polled well. In February, 53% of likely voters in California approved of the governor’s job performance while 33% disapproved, according to the Public Policy Institute of California’s survey.
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Sierra Club backs Davis’ Measure D Special to The Enterprise Citing grounds of “preservation of agricultural lands and open space, in-fill development and densification, and citizen oversight of sound land-use planning,” the Sierra Club announces its endorsement and support of Measure D in Davis on the November 2020 municipal ballot. Measure D is a ballot measure renewal of an existing city of Davis ordinance, “The Citizens’ Right to Vote on Future Use of Open Space and Agricultural Lands,” which gives the citizens the right to make the final decision on projects proposing to develop open space or agricultural within or adjacent to the city. It was originally approved by the voters in 2000 as Measure J and overwhelmingly renewed as Measure R in 2010. The Sierra Club has longstanding official policies designed to minimize urban sprawl onto farmland, conserving habitat and natural areas and maximizing
intensive infill development. The Sierra Club opposes sprawl as a pattern of increasingly inefficient and wasteful land use with devastating environmental and social outcomes. “The Sierra Club is strongly supportive of efforts to provide sustainable and affordable work-force and family housing and to stimulate local economic development,” said Alan Pryor, chair of the local Sierra Club Yolano Group. “However, we also believe this is most advantageously accomplished by allowing informed community input and final say on important decisions regarding peripheral growth,” Pryor added. The endorsement and support for this ballot measure follows an extensive evaluation process by the local Sierra Club Yolano Group, the Sierra Club Mother Lode Chapter Political and Executive Committees, and the Sierra Club California Local Measure Review Committee. For information, call Pryor at 916-996-4811 or at ozone21@att.net.
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Audubon hosts virtual meeting Special to The Enterprise The Yolo Audubon Society will offer a free virtual talk, as part of its monthly meeting, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 21. Curtis McCasland, Manager of the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge Complex, will give a talk titled Beyond the Scenes on a National Wildlife Refuge: Preparing for Fall and Winter Migrants. McCasland will take us behind the scenes to present what managers, biologists, and technicians do to prepare the wetlands for both the
migratory birds and the visitors that come to see them. Participants will learn how the knowledgeable staff work together to provide food, cover, and safety for migratory birds. The staff also considers how the habitat will appear to artists, photographers and birdwatchers. Colusa National Wildlife Refuge will be the primary focus of the presentation. The Zoom meeting will be limited to 100 participants. Register for the event on Yolo Audubon’s website, yoloaudubon.org, or Facebook page, facebook.com/
yoloaudubonsociety. Other questions should be addressed to yoloaudu@audubon.org. Until meeting in person becomes feasible again, Yolo Audubon will offer virtual events to educate and inform the public about birds and birdwatching. More information is available at their website. Yolo Audubon, a chapter of the National Audubon Society, is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to foster an appreciation of birds and conservation in Yolo County.
OBITUARIES Olivia Lynn Mabeus Dec. 21, 1957 — Oct. 5, 2020
Olivia Mabeus passed away in the Memory Care unit at the Carlton in Davis after years of living with frontotemporal dementia. Olivia, born in 1957, in Omaha, Neb., was the eldest child of Duane and Phelps Mabeus. She graduated as valedictorian of South Pasadena High School in 1976, followed by graduation from nursing school at Pasadena City College in 1979. Olivia’s first nursing job was at Sutter Davis Hospital while she simultaneously earned a degree in English from UC Davis. Olivia spent many happy years in Davis sharing places with her sister Karen. With a detour of a few years in Rhode Island, Olivia moved to Rockville, Md., and embarked on a 30-year nursing career in
surgical oncology at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. A lifelong Christian, Olivia taught Sunday school for 39 years consecutively. She loved her last church home, Potomac Presbyterian Church, very much. Olivia made annual visits to extended family members. Diagnosed with FTD, Olivia moved back to Davis to be near her sister. Olivia is survived by her brother Mark Mabeus (Shelah), her sister Karen Ruan (Randy) of Davis and her nephew Colin Ruan. By Olivia’s request there will be no memorial services. Friends can celebrate her memory in little groups. Those wishing to honor Olivia’s memory, can take a child to Sunday school, or make a donation to the SPCA.
Robert Rosado
Dec. 24, 1943 — Sept. 12, 2020 Robert Rosado died peacefully on Sept. 12 at his home in Davis, with his family surrounding him. The cause was a rare and aggressive form of bladder cancer. Robert was one of eight children born to Lydia and Miguel Rosado in Ponce, Puerto Rico, on Dece. 24, 1943. His birth name was Roberto Rosado-Cuascut. Early in his life, he moved with his family to New York City, where two brothers and a sister still live. Another sister lives in Virginia. As a teenager, he joined the Marines and served in Vietnam. Returning to San Juan, Puerto Rico, after military service, Robert lived there for many years and completed college. Working as a real estate agent in Santurce, P.R., he charmed his future wife Judith Healy when he rented her an apartment there in 1986. It was destiny that they met. They spent very little time away from each other since then, and were married for 33 years. During that
time the pair lived for many years in Mountain View, before moving to Davis in 2014. Robert was proud of his Puerto Rican heritage. He was a great salsa dancer and an even better cook. He created many enjoyable meals for friends and family. One of his specialties was paella, and every one of his birthday meals included homemade pasteles and the dish of root vegetables known as vianda. In 1995, he wrote a cookbook, along with his wife, titled “Recipes from La Isla-New & Traditional Puerto Rican Cuisine.” Robert was a good neighbor and a friend to many. He is already deeply missed by those close to him. Along with his siblings, he is survived by his wife Judith, and by sons Aaron of Lancaster, Ohio, and Adam of Davis. He is also survived by a grandson, Abram, born to Aaron and his wife April. He leaves his beloved bulldog, Bugsy, in the care of family. No memorial services are planned at this time.
Valerie Adeline Carrie March 12, 1971 — Sept. 19, 2020
Valerie Adeline Carrie passed away suddenly from natural causes on Sept. 19, 2020, at her home in Davis. She is survived by Rick Carrie, her devoted husband of 22 years, and by loving daughters Caroline and Catherine, who embody their mother’s goodness and grace. The youngest of three children, Valerie was born to Cora and Warren Smith in Riverside on March 12, 1971. Early on, she showed a soft spot for strays. When Valerie was four, a neighbor brought a lost dog to her parent’s door. She begged them to keep it. When they agreed, she put the pup in a stroller and walked it up and down the block. Years later, she adopted a succession of rescue dogs that soon appeared in the Carrie Christmas cards, the beneficiaries of a kind heart. In 1989, Valerie graduated from Del Campo High School and attended Sacramento State University. After earning her degree, she traveled, modeled and won the Miss Carmichael Pageant. While not one for tiaras or parades, Valerie enjoyed the public service work that came with the crown, especially where that work touched the lives of children. During this time, friends introduced Valerie to Rick at a party he was hosting. They fell deeply in love and were married on Oct. 3, 1998, in Los Altos. The newlyweds honeymooned on Bora Bora, where they stayed in a thatch-roofed bungalow with glass floors that revealed the clear turquoise sea. Valerie loved the ocean — regardless of whether it was the South Pacific or Pacific
Grove — and she treasured the family’s yearly vacation to Kauai. Bora Bora is a hard act to follow, but Rick and Valerie bravely returned to Davis. In nearby Woodland, Valerie soon found a job at Holy Rosary Catholic School, where she taught first grade until becoming pregnant with Caroline. Three years later, Catherine, was born. Valerie loved being a mother. She and the girls were especially close. She was their nurturer and their confidant, and they were her joy. Together, they giggled, conspired, traded emojis and jumped on beds. Valerie also had a remarkable bond with her own mother. The two would talk each day, often meeting for meals or a trip to the store. On Christmas Eve, Valerie and Cora would summon the girls to the Carrie kitchen and share Cora’s family tradition of making tamales. The kitchen was the center of the Carrie house. The kitchen was a place of love and warmth — a place where Valerie presided, and in spirit still presides, as a gracious host, a loving wife and mother, and as a caring daughter and best friend. Valerie’s family and many friends will miss her immensely. In addition to her immediate family, she is survived by her mother Cora and by brothers Gene and Jack. Her father, Warren, preceded her in death. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to the Yolo County SPCA. When conditions allow, the family will host a celebration of Valerie’s life.
Ruth Whitfield Eisele April 30, 1935 — Sept. 5, 2020
Ruth Whitfield Eisele passed away peacefully at the Carlton Senior Living in Davis. Ruth spent a couple of months in hospice care at The Carlton, being visited often by her children and grandchildren, all the while listening to her favorite music tunes and singing along proudly. Ruth was born Virginia Ruth Whitfield to Martha and George Whitfield on April 30, 1935, in Lynn, Mass. Ruth grew up in Schenectady, N.Y., where she loved the Adirondacks, especially Lake George. Ruth attended Russell Sage College where she got her degree in laboratory technology in 1957. She was known in college for her dry sense of humor, and as an able chauffeur, and always up for tennis. Ruth was married in 1961 to John H. Eisele Jr., M.D., and moved to Davis in
1969 from the Bay Area. She obtained master’s degrees in social work and gerontology, and worked as an administrator of several senior retirement homes including Covell Gardens in Davis and The Californian in Woodland. She also enjoyed volunteer work with the Commission on Aging. Her hobbies included watercolor painting, gardening, singing and gourmet cooking. Ruth was a vital part of an aging generation of Davisites. She raised her family and actively lived in Davis for 50 years. She loved seniors and the Davis Senior Center. Ruth is survived by her ex-husband, two daughters, two sons and six grandchildren. A private service will be held at The Davis Cemetery. A public celebration of life function will be held at a future date.
Marilyn Elen MacGregor Aug. 1, 1926 — Sept. 16, 2020
I am Marilyn MacGregor. My life ended a month-and-a-half after my 94th birthday. With COVID 19 restrictions, the University Retirement Community Skilled Nursing Staff did their best to honor me on my special birthday. I had been under their care for several years. My life began in Portland, Ore. During my childhood I lived in Longview, Wash., on the Columbia River with my parents Dade and Alta Mae Russell, my little brother Alfred, and my Danish maternal grandmother. We spent some lovely summers at the ocean in that area. I went to Oregon State University and on a bus ride home, I met Neil MacGregor. We struck up an intense conversation over my reading Emily Dickenson. After receiving my bachelor’s degree from Oregon State in 1949, Neil and I married. He was a liaison for the U.S. Forest Service to the National Park Service which allowed us to spend winters in the Bay Area and summers in the California National Parks. We built a house on Grizzly Peak in the Berkeley Hills and lived there for most of our married life until I moved to Davis. I loved being in Berkeley and driving my all time favorite car, an MG model MGA. I had a full and busy career starting at UC Berkeley as secretary to the German department, transferred to psychology, and then became administrative officer of the sociology department. At the same time I was a consultant for the US Office of Personnel Management and developed and taught a course on “Leadership and Women.” With my teaching skills, I switched to staff development, and at the end of 1976, had a
promotional transfer to UC Davis, where I taught a number of courses to staff and faculty including leadership and management skills, time management, effective communication and group dynamics. Throughout my career I was committed to employees, particularly women and people of color, to improve their opportunities to advance professionally. In 1989 I retired and moved to URC in 2000. I made good use of my organizational skills at URC, serving two years as secretary of the Resident Council and organizer of two URC elections. While in Davis I made many friends who shared my appreciation of fine cuisine and wine and others who were members of my Ski Club at Soda Springs. I was always a passionate reader, a student of Sherlock Holmes and P.G. Wodehouse, and an active member of Sherlockian Societies and Wodehouse Societies throughout the world. Before retirement I had never traveled abroad and soon became a member of the Lansdowne Club in London. With my interests in Holmes and Wodehouse activities and related organizations, I made dear friends in many different countries, visiting England, Scotland, France, Denmark, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Japan, the Netherlands and Switzerland. I had many interests in culture and art including the Asian Art Museum, the San Francisco Opera and environmental organizations. I enjoyed life fully and wish that my ashes be scattered outside the Golden Gate, gateway to a city that I truly loved. It’s time to say goodbye.
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on-revenue sports fret over college-athlete compensation,” said the headline over a recent Associated Press story attempting to explain the pending mess in college athletics. “College coaches in non-revenue sports are worried about the impact that legislation allowing compensation for athletes could have on their programs,” explained the article. As well they should be. But the genie is out of the bottle on this one and the genie will soon be passing out hundreddollar bills right and left. Non-revenue sports are what used to be called “minor” sports before it was decided that such a designation might hurt some poor athlete’s fragile ego. Non-revenue basically means there are no fans in the stands (or at least no paying fans). Even if a handful of folks actually had to buy a ticket, the revenue involved is not enough to offset the dollar output the sport requires. We’re talking golf and tennis and other sports that may end up being lucrative at the professional level but simply don’t draw fans at the collegiate level. Actually, football is the sport that pretty much pays for everything, although at a handful of schools, basketball might also fill that role.
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his compensation discussion has come about because college athletes are now allowed to profit from their names, images and likenesses, which means Mr. Touchdown might soon be walking around campus with cash falling out of his pockets, while the school’s water polo goalie is getting nothing. The fear is that booster money will now be even more concentrated on attracting top talent for football and basketball, leaving the non-revenue sports out in the cold. For years, college athletics was strictly amateur, even if rule-breaking was frequent and enforcement spotty. But finally, athletes won the right to do whatever any other student on campus can do — sell their name, image and likeness to the highest bidder. Even scholarship athletes, who theoretically have a so-called “full ride” paying for their every want, can sell their autograph to a 10-year-old after a game or do a cheesy ad for the local car dealership. “I drive to the stadium in my new Ford.” “Eat at Joe’s.” “I drink Bud. You should too.” Sounds crazy, doesn’t it”? Then again, a kid on a full math scholarship is not restricted in any way from selling his or her name, likeness or image
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BY BRUCE GALLAUDET Enterprise sports editor When UC Davis Director of Athletics Kevin Blue and Chancellor Gary S. May arrived on campus in 2016 and 2017, respectively, folks had their fingers crossed for a coherent path into the 21st century. The marriage of academics and sports had been a hallmark of the century-old university and a keen eye was trained on both of the newcomers. To date, nobody in Aggie circles
is disappointed. While May — a staunch “Star Trek” fan — continues to keep promises with his mantra “To Boldly Go ...,” Blue has been effectively guiding the athletic department to new heights in Division I competition. One of Blue’s original goals was to “significantly improve” sports facilities at Davis. If asked, Blue could tick off an arm’s-length list of successful build-out and rehabilitations
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One big, happy family Consistent coaching staff makes Aggie women’s team feel at home Special to The Enterprise
Taking it a few steps further, Gross and Abeyta were also It’s as close-knit a basketball coached by Therese Cardinet, a staff as ever there was ... longtime UC Davis fixture and Nowhere else does the slogan current administrative assis“When you’re here, you’re famtant with the program, who ily” apply more than with the was a member of both Jorja UC Davis women’s basketball Hoehn and Sandy Simpson’s program. staffs during the duo’s playing Entering their 10th season days. together in 2020-21, head Cardinet came to Aggie coach Jennifer Gross, her husNation from Davis High, where band (associate head coach) she was a member of the SacJoe Teramoto, associate head Joaquin Section’s first two girls coach Des Abeyta, and assisbasketball championship tant coach Matt Klemin hold teams. one mark above the rest of the If this list of connections isn’t country — no long enough, other women’s Gross and basketball prodirector of basgram in all of ketball operaDivision I has tions Stephanie had their entire Shadwell coaching staff locked horns as together longer prep rivals in than the their homeAggies. town of San In addition Diego back in to their longevthe day before Jennifer Gross ity, the connecShadwell went Aggie head coach tions among on to star at UC the quartet are Santa Barbara. nearly endless. “Our coachAside from the obvious husing staff is truly a family,” Gross band-wife connection, Gross said. “We love being around (1993-97) and Abeyta (1996each other, we have fun 00) were UCD teammates and together and we work really Kodak All-Americans. well together. I think our team sees how strong the relationKlemin and Teramoto were ships are on our staff and how college buddies at Cal Poly and much fun we have.” started coaching youth basketThe Aggies’ all-time leading ball together as undergraduate scorer Morgan Bertsch once students. Both Abeyta and Klemin were members of Gross told The Enterprise that a lion’s share of her attraction to UCD and Teramoto’s wedding party, was the feeling of family within while Teramoto and Abeyta the program: stood tall at the altar when “The academics at the school Klemin tied the knot with his are second to none, but when I wife, Lindsay.
“I am so lucky to have been able to work with my best friends all these years.”
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UCD head coach Jennifer Gross, left, and her husband (associate head coach) Joe Teramoto are about to enter their 10th season at the helm. first visited, I immediately felt a family atmosphere on the team,” explained Bertsch, who nows plays professionally in Poland. “From Day 1, I was part of the gang. And as the years (went) by, we all grew closer together. Truly unique.” Gross said it’s no mistake that Aggie teams feel like home away from home: “We try to find the balance between being focused and productive, but also having fun. That is an important example that we want to set for our team. “When you are around great
people whom you respect, it makes every day more enjoyable and makes the winning even sweeter. The relationships run deep in our family, in our staff, and I think it’s great for our players to be able to see that.” Those connections and the continuity have allowed the Aggie staff to efficiently grow the program into one of the nation’s best, winning each of the last four Big West Conference regular-season titles and becoming only the third school
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Curating the best nine golf holes in all of Davis
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hould you be like me, you’ve played a lot of golf during these past six months. Aside from tennis (fun) and running (boring), there just aren’t a ton of options for those of us who spend most of our free time embarking on athletically inclined adventures. It’s certainly an unfortunate time, but part of the repetitiveness of every day has gotten me daydreaming about certain interesting, if ultimately useless, thought exercises. The last time I wrote in this space, one of those thought exercises turned into 18 holes of golf with a single club in hand. This time — especially given the number of times I’ve hit the links of the Davis Golf Course and Wildhorse Golf Club lately — I want to imagine the perfect nine holes made from the 54 unique offerings we have on our three courses in Davis. Though I’ve only played El
Macero Country Club twice, I’ve picked my favorite nine testers — three from each course — to lay out in a hypothetical manner that showcases what I think is the best golf in Davis. By the way, today we’ll play the men’s blue tees ... ■ El Macero No. 15 (par 5), 512 yards Ninety-five percent of the courses I play begin with a vanilla, moderately difficult, par 4. Not this opener at Evan’s completely made up nine-hole golf links. The shortest par 5 at El Macero, No. 15 gives you the option of playing it safe down the fairway, or cutting the dogleg right to hit the green in two. It’s a perfect starter hole. ■ Wildhorse No. 1 (par 4), 316 yards My favorite local opening hole is my course’s No. 2. With a wide fairway, a plethora of bunkers and water on the right, this hole really rewards a straight shot
down the middle. The green is big and inviting, and the hole features the most picturesque views of the surrounding neighborhood. ■ Davis GC No. 15 (par 4), 301 yards We started off hard, but on No. 3 at the Ream Country Club, the layout provides an early birdie opportunity for even an average golfer. No. 15 is both my favorite hole at Muni and the most fun. With trees down the right side of the fairway and the green at a dogleg right, long hitters can aim straight over the
trees to try to hit the green in one. ■ Wildhorse No. 7 (par 5), 467 yards With a wide-open fairway and massive water hazard on the left, this is a challenging, yet birdieable (is that a word?) hole. The only problem: For a birdie to be in play, each golfer must hit over 150 yards of water. It’s high-risk, high-reward golf at its best. ■ Davis GC No. 12 (par 4), 295 yards More than halfway home is a relatively short distance from the blue tees. Our first dogleg left of the course features massive trees down the left side of the fairway and a water hazard on the right. A solid right-handed draw can reach the green in one. Miss right or left, though, and you might be re-teeing. ■ El Macero No. 6 (par 4), 428 yards El Macero’s No. 6 is my No. 6 here. The late Davis High
teacher and golf coach Karl Ronning called it the most difficult hole in Davis because it requires a perfect drive down the center to avoid the trees and set up a long approach shot. It’s the last truly challenging hole at Ream CC before getting a break to finish up. ■ El Macero No. 12 (par 3), 190 yards Everyone has their courses set up to end with a tough par 4 or 5. Not here at my course, where we finish with a trio of gorgeous par 3s. At El Macero, the choice would seem to be No. 7, but I prefer No. 12. More forgivable, this dandy layout has an elevated green and more water on the right that will punish all those who succeeded in the previous dogleg rights. ■ Wildhorse No. 12 (par 3), 166 yards Similar to El Macero’s No. 12,
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ith the Thursday passing of 91-year-old Whitey Ford, the oldest living Hall of Fame player is now Willie Mays, 89. Longtime Dodger manager Tommy Lasorda, 92, remains the dean of the shrine. A brilliant lefty, Ford pitched for the Yankees from 1950 to 1967, a period in which New York won 11 American League pennants and six World Series. ■ The San Jose Sharks drafted forward Ozzy Wiesblatt with the 31st and final first-round pick of this year’s NHL draft. Wiesblatt is one of five children raised by a single mother who is deaf. Prior to the announcement, Sharks director of amateur scouting Doug Wilson Jr. delivered the news first in sign language, so Kim White, Wiesblatt’s mother, knew at the same time everyone else did about her son’s selection. Said Wiesblatt, “That means a ton, especially to my mom and the deaf community in general.”
A very classy move from a classy organization. Thanks to Ross McKeon for the note. ■ When you see unemployed college football coaches as analysts on any network’s pregame show, know there are two kinds ... The former are guys looking to get back into the coaching fraternity who will offer only tepid criticism of one of their peers or an athletic director. The latter are coaches who are permanently retired from the profession and have no interest in going back and can offer pointed, honest analysis. ■ Among the things NFL players hate the most is playing a Sunday or Monday night game, getting beat, then looking at a sixhour plane ride home from one coast to the other. ■ Remember when everyone screamed that the 3-point basket would ruin college and pro basketball? Just the opposite happened. The game was enhanced.
So, with NFL kickers connecting at a record percentage right now, why not have a 4-point field goal for successful kicks of 60 yards or longer? Down three, 3 seconds left, with a chance to win the game? Worth thinking about. ■ We hear a lot lately about GOATs (Greatest Of All Time). Going with those still living, here’s one man’s opinion: MLB: Willie Mays NFL: Jim Brown NBA: Michael Jordan NHL: Wayne Gretzky. If we are talking about living or those who have come before us, a tie between Mays and Babe Ruth and a deadlock between Brown
and Tom Brady. What are yours? ■ Playing just seven games, a Pac-12 football team would have to win all its games to have any prayer of making it into the College Football Playoff four-team tournament. Even then, would a one-loss SEC team be taken over a 7-0 Pac-12 team? Quite likely, yes. ■ How many times during the MLB playoffs do you hear an announcer say “They’re down to their last strike” in the ninth inning? Not necessarily. As comedian and diehard Mets fan Jerry Seinfeld correctly points out, “What if the hitter with two strikes on him successfully reaches base? The next hitter has three new strikes.” ■ While yours truly doesn’t care for exhibition football, early NFL regular-season returns suggest one practice game may be necessary. That said, the week before the games count, play 16 games all on Thursday through Sunday. NBC,
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FOX, CBS, ESPN and NFL networks can divide the television load. Visiting teams get a home game the following year. Tickets for the exhibitions should not included in season ticket packages. Instead, tickets are free and distributed totally to disadvantaged youth and other low-income folks in the 16 NFL cities hosting games. Surely the league and Players Association can figure out all the details with local charitable organizations for this to happen. Make it a nationwide extravaganza. ■ Your scribbler correctly assessed all four Division Series outcomes. Braves over Marlins, Dodgers over Padres, Astros over A’s and Rays over Yankees. So, again for recreational purposes only, Braves over Dodgers and Astros over Rays in the NL and AL Championship Series. — Gripes, ideas? Reach Doug Kelly at DKelly3918@gmail.com.
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From Page B1 to accomplish the feat in the history of the league. Over the past four seasons, the Aggies have dominated the BWC with a 55-9 record. For comparison, the next best team over that same stretch has 20 fewer wins. “The main selling point for me was the coaches, the entire coaching staff,” said Class of 2018 defensive wiz Rachel Nagel. “They’re all close to each other. All best friends. “Usually you have coaching staffs that are able to work together but not where they’re that closely knit. It reflects onto the team and makes you feel more comfortable (as a player).” Trust and creativity have been hallmarks of the staff’s success, with each member bringing something unique to the table that allows everyone to challenge one another to continually make the UC Davis experience better for the student-athletes. “I am so lucky to have been able to work with my best friends all these years,” Gross said. “Joe, Des, Matt, Stephanie and Therese are smart, caring, enthusiastic — unbelievable mentors for our student-athletes. “The fact that they have been at UC Davis for so many years just shows how much they care about this program. Together, we try to provide our student-athletes with the most positive and amazing experience possible.” The list of individual accomplishments and accolades for Gross is lengthy: four straight Big West Coach of the Year awards (the first women’s basketball coach in league history to do so), a top-10 finalist for WBCA National Coach of the Year in 2018, 173 wins (which rank third in school history) and 98 conference wins, which both rank seventh on the Big West’s all-time list. In addition to Bertsch’s heady UCD accomplishments, the Santa Rosa native became the first Aggie drafted by the WNBA when Dallas took her in the third round in 2019. She played in Moscow before signing in
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The UC Davis women’s basketball coaching staff is entering its 10th year, making it the longest tenured Division I staff. From left are associate head coach Des Abeyta, administrative assistant Therese Cardinet, head coach Jennifer Gross, former forward Nina Bessolo and assistant coach Matt Klemin. Poland last summer. Former Bertsch teammates Nina Bessolo (Greece), Katie Toole (Spain), Sophia Song (England) and Pele Gianotti (Luxembourg) also are playing professionally abroad. Gross says her alumnae are a byproduct of hard work, preparation and savvy recruiting, but it’s the evolution of a culture within the program that emphasizes the development of the whole person that she is most proud of. That blueprint has generated a tremendous amount of “buy-in” from the student-athletes during Gross’ tenure, setting standards that constantly challenge them to grow — not only as basketball players, but as young and successful women. “It was more of a family atmosphere than I had even expected,” added Nagel, who coaches basketball and teaches algebra and chemistry at Rolling Hills Prep Academy in Southern California. As she was being recruited, Nagel met with veteran Aggie players like Sydnee Fipps, Kelsey Harris and Brianna Salvatore — all with different styles and personalities, but all pointing to that family feeling. “It is definitely even more so a family once you’re there,” she remembered. Gross continued: “I think when you look at how you sustain consistent winning, you really have to look to culture. We really want our players to know that we are 100 percent invested in them in all parts of their lives. “To sustain a championship culture you must have great people, and we
make sure that we bring quality student-athletes into our program who care about the team concept, who want to win — and want to win the right way. “I think the combination of student-athletes with great character and coaches who are truly invested in their development has led to our success ... (and) having a positive experience, which helps us recruit more great people to be part of the program.” With team gatherings mostly restricted to Zoom meetings in living rooms, this year’s team recently had an opportunity to reconnect with alumnae who spoke about their journey from wearing the shoes of a student-athlete to their current positions as post-graduate professionals. The Big West Conference, now comprising 11 schools with the addition of Cal State Bakersfield and UC San Diego, is expected to open its basketball season at the end of December. The NCAA says teams may have up to seven nonleague outings. A schedule is expected soon. “We’re really fortunate that we get to do a job that we love and we get to be around great people,” Gross said. “You just have to approach each day with the attitude that this is what we get to do and this is awesome. “I really value the opportunity to coach alongside this group and these incredible young women.” — UC Davis Assistant Director of Athletic Communications Jason Spencer and DE sports editor Bruce Gallaudet contributed to this story.
... as if anyone wants a signed photograph of the school’s abacus champion. Likewise, a promising drama major is not restricted from accepting a paying role in a TV commercial and a student in creative writing can accept a million-dollar advance on her first novel, if offered. The general rule of thumb is that the athlete shouldn’t be able to earn more than “fair market value” for such things as an autograph, but how do you decide what that value is? After all, if billionaire booster Billy Badboy at the Texas Institute of Touchdowns is willing to pay a heralded high school quarterback $100,000 for committing to play for Billy’s alma mater, does that by definition mean that fair market value for that kid’s
autograph is $100,000? In other words, where does fair market value stop and bribery begin? Now, instead of a booster donating to his alma mater, which can perhaps spread the money around a bit to support a number of sports, the booster can go straight to the starting quarterback or the charismatic running back with a handful of cash. “I’m going to be out of town for four years and I need someone to look after my new Mercedes and keep it in good running condition while I’m gone. I’ll pick it up when you graduate.” It’s all now legal. So, if your 10-year-old wants a postgame autograph from his favorite athlete, be sure he brings his piggy bank. — Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davis enterprise.net
REAM: Enjoy the view From Page B1 Wildhorse’s No. 12 offers plenty of water and a long distance to hit over, but it’s also the most secluded hole on the course, tucked in on the southwest side of the property. Teeing off at Wildhorse’s 12 makes you feel like you’re the only golfer in the world, and for that, it’s my penultimate hole. ■ Davis Golf Course No. 7 (par 3), 121 yards Lastly, we have the hole to which you almost assuredly lost 10 balls the first time you played through. That yardage might not be far, but given that the green here is small — and is the only target to hit without getting your ball
wet — trouble awaits. There’s no better way to end a round than at arguably the signature hole in all of Davis golf. Really, though, you can’t go wrong with any of the 54 holes in Davis, but if anyone tries this out, let me know. On the 2,796-yard, par35 layout at Ream Country Club, I’m not sure I could break 50, or lose fewer than a case of balls, given all the water at local facilities. At least the views are nice ... — Evan Ream’s column publishes every third Sunday. Reach him at eream@davisenterprise. net or follow him on Twitter @EvanReam.
FORWARD: First-class facility will be a solid recruiting tool for UCD From Page B1 over the past four-plus years. The revamped softball layout at LaRue Field, batting cages and the naming of the Dobbins Stadium playing surface as Phil Swimley Field, safe-proofing old Toomey Field, offices and meeting rooms at the Schaal Aquatics Center and what is expected to be the crown jewel of recent facilities — the Edwards Family Athletic Center. Construction on the $52 million project just northeast of UC Davis Health Stadium and the Bob Foster Team Center includes the Bob Biggs Practice Field and a building with 38,000 square feet of space for training, coaching, sports medicine, administrative offices, class and meeting rooms and a massive weight room. It’s no secret that a gift — the largest in athletics history — from Bruce and Diane Edwards was the catalyst for the project. The partnership with UC Davis Health got
the ball rolling and benefactors like Diane and Bruce West, Claudia and Roger Salquist, Nancy and Bill Roe, the Child family, Nancy and Paul Sallaberry — among many others — made the spring groundbreaking a reality. Despite the pandemic, work continues on the center, with Blue telling The Enterprise that completion is expected in 2022 but an exact grand-opening date is not etched in stone. “We’ve been fortunate that the construction process has continued without significant COVID disruption ... and we hope that continues to be the case,” Blue reported. “It’s a very large and complicated facility that is going to take significant work to get fully open, but we’re still on schedule.” Blue said the practice field is ready, adding: “But we have to decide whether or not now is the right time to use it. Of course, now there’s no practicing anyway, so we’re in a wait-and-see mode when it comes to using the field.”
Originally announced as a $40 million project, the build will be somewhere around $50-52 million, said Blue, noting that the UC Davis Health Sports Medicine Clinic (which had not been confirmed at the project’s November 2018 announcement) is now included. That clinic will serve the general public as well as student-athletes, Blue noted. At the shovel-turning ceremony in May, the chancellor said: “The student-athlete performance center is a perfect example of the growing collaboration between UC Davis Athletics and UC Davis Health. This is a firstclass facility that will maximize one’s time as an athlete and a student while at UC Davis.” Blue and coaches ranging from football’s Dan Hawkins to baseball’s Matt Vaughn and basketball’s Jim Les have told The Enterprise that a facility like the Edwards Family Athletic Center will be a solid recruiting tool as well. Les, Hawkins and women’s basketball coach Jennifer Gross
joined Edwards, May, Blue and Jim Carroll, UCD associate vice chancellor, in turning those first spades of dirt. And speaking of digging deep, Blue said the project is almost fully funded — “but we’re still accepting gifts!” Meanwhile, a record-breaking level of support from Intercollegiate Athletics (ICA) donors throughout the 2019-20 fundraising year saw $7.36 million raised, shattering the previous department mark of $6.04 million raised the year before. Included in last year’s total were four major gifts of $1 million or more. “When I started here at UC Davis over four years ago, it was clear that a primary accelerator for our growth was going to be a robust and successful fundraising operation,” Blue explained. “Through the efforts of thousands of alumni, families and friends of UC Davis athletics, we are now seeing the impact of philanthropy for our programs.”
Edwards played football for UC Davis and was re-introduced to the program about 30 years ago. He’s since been a driving force in the construction of what was once called Aggie Stadium (2007) and now the performance center that bears his name. “Bruce Edwards and his family have made an exceptional impact on our organization,” Blue pointed out. “His donor contributions are extraordinary, but more than that, he has really invested himself in getting to know our student-athletes, coaches and being there every step of the way throughout this process.” So when Aggie Nation talks about the new student performance center, “game-changer” is a phrase that will undoubtedly echo through the halls of what will be the Edwards Family Athletic Center. — Reach sports editor Bruce Gallaudet at bgallaudet41@ gmail.com or call 530-320-4456. Follow Gallaudet on Twitter: @BGsportsinDavis.
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They’re creepy and crawly. And every one of the 40,000 types of spiders (arachnids) in the world have fangs and venom. But most spider venom won’t really harm people. The fear of spiders is called arachnophobia. If you just can’t stand spiders, there’s really only one continent on Earth that is spider-free. (You’d better bring a heavy coat, though). Circle every third letter to find out the name of this continent.
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Spooky Search Look through the newspaper to find: • the scariest item you see • a pumpkin • a black cat • a spider • a word that rhymes with ghost • a word containing the letters B-O-O Standards Link: Research: Use the newspaper to locate information.
Find the words by looking up, PUMPKINS down, backwards, forwards, HALLOWEEN sideways and diagonally. CLOWNS B R Y R R O W B E W VAMPIRES T N C S T S O H G S CREEPY C H A L L O W E E N GHOSTS LUCK O R V T O R L B Q I BATS A L E K F W U A M K VENOM T Z C E L E N T O P CAT V U A B P O A S N M COAT WEB L P T J N Y T R E U FEAR W S E R I P M A V P WORRY Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recongized identical LOT words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.
1. Opposite of SAD 2. What your brain does 3. Credit cards are made of this 4. Opposite of WORK 5. The color of lemons 6. A heavy musical instrument 7. Opposite of SHORT 8. Main ketchup ingredient 9. You sweep it with a broom 10. Another word for MOTHER 11. Opposite of LEADER 12. Opposite of SOME 13. The sound a snake makes 14. Lives above the beanstalk 15. Short name for automobile 16. You sleep on this 17. Actors in a show 18. Large mammal with a trunk 19. Fragile drinkware 20. Female royalty 21. Use this when it rains 22. You write or draw with this 23. Opposite of DOWN 24. Werewolves, vampires, etc. 25. Moving to the music 26. Largest U.S. state 27. Caused by something funny 28. A lot of this during storms 29. Eight-armed sea animal 30. Short name for telephone 31. Opposite of LOW 32. Where Dracula sleeps 33. Short name for a bicycle 34. Opposite of LOSE 35. Response to a question
Phantom Letters Look through the newspaper to find words where the letters ph are blended to make the sound f. List these words and then create sentences using these words. Then see if you can do the same exercise with the letters gh blended to make the sound f.
Come up with a costume idea for a Halloween costume and give directions on how to make it. Use your imagination!
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Give Provenza another term as supervisor The issue: Experience, accomplishments merit re-election ■ Editor’s note: This is an updated version of The Enterprise’s endorsement in the Yolo County supervisor District 4 race that originally ran on Jan. 31. One of the fortunate aspects of living in a town like Davis is the sheer quality of candidates we get for local office. We doubt that there is any district in the state that had anyone as qualified as the three candidates who entered the race for District 4 of the Yolo County Board of Supervisors. FROM THIS well-qualified group, incumbent Jim Provenza emerged on March 3 as the leading vote-getter, but not by enough to avoid a runoff. Our opinion has not changed since then, and we still see Provenza as the clearest choice to serve the people of the district, which includes much of north, east and south Davis. Provenza’s dozen years on the board have been marked by his diligent work on behalf of his constituents and the most vulnerable residents of the county. He came to the board in 2009, following a lengthy career as an attorney that included stints at the Legal Aid Foundation of Santa Barbara County, where his work focused on domestic violence, consumer fraud and civil rights violations; with Legal Services of Northern California, where he focused on housing discrimination cases; as counsel to both the state Senate Judiciary Committee and the Assembly Public Safety Committee; and as a representative of the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office in the state Capitol. He is the chair of First 5 Yolo, an agency that improve the lives of the county’s youngest residents, from early developmental screenings to child abuse prevention efforts. Likewise, staff and volunteers at the Yolo Crisis Nursery credit Provenza with helping save the nursery when it was on the verge of being shuttered several years ago. The nursery, located in Davis, provides care to children 0-5 whose parents are in crisis. That care keeps young children safe while their parents receive the help they need. It is one of the most effective systems we have for keeping kids out of the welfare system. On other end of the spectrum, Provenza is also the chair of the Yolo Healthy Aging Alliance, an agency he helped create in 2010 to coordinate services for the county’s senior citizens. He is focused on building a new Adult Day Health Center, which provides a range of services for individuals and families dealing with challenges like dementia and chronic illness. He has also been a champion of agriculture and environmental concerns, helping preserve open spaces in the rural areas of the county. For his experience, his service and the good things he still has yet to accomplish, we are proud to recommend to the voters of the District 4 to send Jim Provenza back to the Board of Supervisors for another term.
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A new way forward for Davis T he months seem to fly by faster the closer we get to the end of the year. Not even the challenges of living in a COVID world seem to alter this constant. This time of year normally brings thoughts of planning for holidays and some years very active local elections. This year the addition of a National election adds weight to the typical decision making we wade through around local election items. In Davis, I am pleased with the level of vetting of issues our citizens engage in. The power to participate in the shaping of our communities is one of our most valuable civil rights. Whom ever you choose to represent your interests or interests you choose to support, I hope your choices are made from
as educated a place as possible. Often at this time of year the decisions made by the City Council come sharply into focus. Know that no matter the time of year my City Council colleagues and myself are available to discuss and address your concerns. I am confident that regardless of who will make up our council after November this will not change. Many are aware that this
LETTERS Curb the status quo I have known Josh Chapman for many years and could not be happier for all of us that he is running for Davis City Council. It’s been a long time coming. Josh is an incredible stand-up person. He’s the guy in the room who listens and when he speaks, it’s abundantly clear that not only was he listening, he’s informed and prepared. He’s done the reading. He’s one of those exceptional people who initiate action towards the shared aspirations we have about living here together in our great little town. He has participated on committees and civic groups for years, all aimed at making Davis a better place to live and work. Anyone who has ever owned and run a small business knows it requires an all consuming commitment and the ability to adapt under difficult circumstances. I have marveled at Josh’s business sense and his ability to adapt and grow a longstanding local business through the last recession and then step-up to lead the downtown in recovery. It comes as no surprise to many that Josh is ready and willing to represent South Davis at a time when we need innovative and fresh ideas that reflect the reality that we are a community facing new challenges of both economic and social justice. As I have had the opportunity to get to know Josh even better over the past year while working closely with him on several projects, I gained a greater appreciation for his wisdom, his wit and his fundamental knowledge of how cities work. He pays attention to the details, he asks excellent questions, he listens to everyone, makes time for anyone, and he makes balanced, thoughtful decisions. Josh will be an excellent representative for us all. His experience and longstanding
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will be the first year our city will use a district election system to elect our new City Council members. This means that not all citizens will vote to elect City Council members. This year citizens in districts 2, 3 and 5 will be voting for City Council members. While these City Council members will be the official representatives for these districts, every City Council member will continue to serve and consider the concerns of the entire community. You can find which district you reside in at, https://www.cityofdavis. org/city-hall/city-clerk/ elections/district-elections. Finally, I am pleased to inform that we have continued to work through many
commitment to our community is evidenced by his supporters, local residents from all walks of life that know Josh and trust him to be thoughtful and deliberate in driving positive change for all, not just a privileged few. Please join me in giving Josh your support and your vote. Lynne Ferda Davis
Choices for Nov. 3 On the November ballot, please consider these recommendations: 1) Re-elect Jim Provenza for County Supervisor; 2) Vote for Colin Walsh for City Council, District 2; 3) Vote yes on Measure D. Jim Provenza’s wealth of experience is an invaluable asset for all of us. His record is particularly good in assuring services to Yolo’s older population. Jim led the effort to raise over $3 million for a new Yolo Adult Day Health Center. He has actively supported the creation of an adult day care center to be operated in Davis by Yolo Hospice and Citizens Who Care. Jim established and chairs the Healthy Aging Alliance, a nonprofit organization that advocates for health needs of seniors and fosters community education and collaboration. He chairs the county’s Aging Commission, notably advocating for affordable senior housing and protections for mobile home residents in Davis. Colin Walsh is hardworking, honest, and principled. He understands that safe, diverse neighborhoods strengthen the quality of community life. A lifelong Davis resident and longtime civic activist, Colin will respect the right of all citizens to be heard. He is a master of city planning detail, and will hold developers to all aspects of their agreements with the city. Measure D will extend for 10 more years the right of Davis citizens to vote on any proposal to expand the city onto
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day to day City issues and some of the long range calendar items through the end of the year address the important issues of funding for roads and bike paths, appointing a committee for work on our housing element and a workplan for community health and safety improvements. You can find the long range calendar at https://www.cityofdavis. org/city-hall/city-council/ city-council-meetings/ meeting-schedule. The next time I write this column the world will be set on a potentially different path. This is the beauty of democracy, the power to allow all to have a voice in setting our course. — Gloria Partida is the mayor of Davis.
agricultural land. This democratic planning process has worked well. It was enacted in 2000, extended in 2010. Now it’s again time to renew it. Ken Wagstaff Former mayor of Davis
Lucas and Will for Council These are tough times for the city of Davis. As a member of the city’s Finance and Budget Commission, I’ve watched city revenue projections go from more than $2 million above what was expected earlier this year to millions below expectations just months later. We’ll survive this — just as we’ll survive the pandemic and the recession. But it’s especially important that we have a Council that’s able to make smart choices in the months, and possibly, years ahead. That’s why I’m supporting the reelection of Lucas Frerichs to the City Council in District 3, my own neighborhood, and Will Arnold in District 2. Both know this community and are in touch with its values. Both have impressive environmental credentials—Lucas is a co-founder of Valley Clean Energy, which is now delivering increasingly carbon-free electricity to county residents. Will has chaired the Yolo Habit Conservancy board. Both have played a part in getting clean river water to our taps, replacing well water that gummed up our pipes and didn’t meet the highest quality standards. And they both understand city finances. I’ve watched them at Council meetings dealing with contentious issues and making tough choices. They listen well and, in the end, let everyone know their thinking. In every case I know of, they put the interests of the whole community first. Please support Lucas and Will on the November ballot. Paul Jacobs Davis
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Ginsberg is gone but the fight continues COMMENTARY
BY JOHN GARAMENDI Enterprise staff writer
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ast month, our nation lost an icon. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a trailblazer who fought for the American people, right up until her final day. With the loss of Justice Ginsburg comes renewed uncertainty surrounding the future of the Affordable Care Act. If President Trump and Republicans succeed in repealing the ACA, over 20 million Americans could lose their health coverage. The Affordable Care Act bans discrimination on pre-existing conditions. It allows children to stay on the health insurance plans of their parents until age 26. It bans charging women a higher premium for the same
coverage. It expands Medicaid to cover more low-income Americans. And it has saved tens of thousands of lives by providing strong incentives against readmission of patients. If the Affordable Care Act is repealed, these benefits go away. In 2018, with the support of the Trump Administration, a group of Republican state attorneys general sued in federal court to eliminate the ACA and take away all of these critical services for Americans. California, along with a group of Democratic attorneys general, intervened to protect the ACA. The Supreme Court agreed to review the case in November, and without Justice Ginsburg, the consequences could be dire. I, along
with House Democrats, vehemently oppose the elimination of the ACA and will fight to keep it. If President Trump secures his nomination for the Supreme Court before the election, the GOP could secure a 5-4 ruling against the law and invalidate the entire ACA. We must not let this happen. Immediately following Justice Ginsburg’s death, less than two months before the election, Senator McConnell insisted that the Senate immediately fill her seat. When Justice Antonin Scalia died eight months before an election in February 2016, Senator McConnell argued adamantly that the Senate should not confirm his replacement until after the election. Millions of Americans have already cast their vote for
president in 2020, but Mitch McConnel and the Senate GOP have shamelessly and hypocritically forged ahead in ramming their nominee through before the winner of the 2020 election is inaugurated. President Trump promised to repeal and replace the ACA when he was elected four years ago. Since then, we have not seen a single viable health care plan from his administration that would ensure coverage for those with pre-existing conditions. Every American deserves good quality and affordable health care, especially during a once-ina-century global pandemic. House and Senate Democrats will continue to fight for the Affordable Care Act and urge Senator McConnell to not confirm a Supreme Court nominee
before this election. ———— I will keep you up to date with monthly columns in The Davis Enterprise, as well as on my Facebook page at http://www. facebook.com/repgaramendi, and on my government website at http://garamendi.house.gov. I can better represent you in Washington if I know your views and suggestions. You can contact me at my Davis district office, 412 G St., Davis, CA 95616, or 530-753-5301; or at my Washington, D.C., office, 2368 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20515, or 202-225-1880. — Rep. John Garamendi, D-Walnut Grove, represents the 3rd Congressional District, which includes Davis and Yolo County.
An end run around Measure O Help us deliver the BY SAMANTHA MCCARTHY Special to The Enterprise
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n 2000, community members realized their vision of protecting open space, the environment and habit when more than 70% of Davis voters approved Measure O, a parcel tax on new development, designed to be a long-term, stable funding source to acquire and maintain open space around Davis. The parcel tax provides “revenue for the acquisition, operation, and maintenance of lands and easements for open space, habitat and agricultural uses and preservation in the areas surrounding the city.” The Measure defines open space as “land in a predominantly natural state or altered for natural resource based uses (i.e., farming, parks), and may include, but is not limited to riparian areas, agricultural lands, watersheds, forests, floodplains, and habitat areas.” In 2016, during the first iteration of the DISC project (then called MRIC), the city wrongfully agreed to sell 25 acres (Mace 25) north of the project to annex into the MRIC project to fulfill the developer’s agricultural buffer requirement. The Mace 25 land was purchased with Measure O funds and must be retained as open space. When the city initially discussed the Mace 25 sale to the MRIC developer, members of the Measure O citizens group alerted the city to their concerns about the burrowing owls near the proposed project site. They met with individual councilmembers and requested that the Mace 25 not be sold and annexed to the MRIC project, and that the city
COMMENTARY place an easement on the lands to protect them in perpetuity from development. In general, they received positive responses from council members. In January 2019, the Open Space and Habitat Commission unanimously agreed that the Mace 25 should remain open space for habitat, farming, passive recreation, or a combination thereof. In preparation for DISC development, it appears that the city took action to drive off the resident burrowing owls from the Mace 25. This past spring, the city’s wildlife resource manager kept the grass long around two active burrowing owl nests in accordance with his personal belief “that the city should be doing what it can to prevent the owls from using the site.” Well, his belief was realized as the owls are gone, most likely dead, the land free and clear of burrowing owls and ready for urban development. This is not wildlife resource management, but a shameful lack of stewardship, which leaves only a single nesting Burrowing Owl pair in the entire city.
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ccording to the city, whether the developer and DISC will be allowed to use the 6.8 acres that are part of the Mace 25 for its required agricultural buffer will be decided at a future meeting — after the project has been voted on (and obviously approved or there would not be a future meeting). The city and the developer both appear to consider this a done deal. Otherwise, why is the Mace 25 parcel shown on
LETTERS No on B, yes on D I’ll thank Zachary Cosenza for his letter of Sept. 16 for one reason: it motivated me to write in support of voting No on B and Yes on D. While Davis voters have taken loss of open space seriously enough in the past to enact Measures S (1986) and O (2000), Cosenza dismisses the No on B ballot argument against paving farmland
DISC project maps, including the one in ballot Measure B? Furthermore, eliminating the use of the Mace 25 acres requires a significant redesign of the project, which at an Open Space and Habitat Commission meeting this developer made clear he is not willing to do.
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his developer must not be allowed to do an end run around Measure O by using public open-space land purchased with hard-fought Measure O open-space tax dollars to satisfy another citizen accomplishment that requires an agricultural buffer around Davis’ urban development. Our Measure O open space land must be held “in perpetuity.” This thinly veiled shell game, if allowed, constitutes a breach of public trust in which the City Council must not be complicit. Despite the council’s assurances to the Measure O group that Mace 25 would not be considered for development, the developer’s proposal is still on the table to use 6.8 acres of Mace 25 to meet his mandated 150-footwide agricultural buffer. The city’s ordinance requires the developer to use his own land to create an agricultural buffer to separate this project so it does not impact surrounding parcels. Thus, heading into the Nov. 3 election it is clear: Vote no on Measure B to protect the integrity of Measure O and the agricultural buffer ordinances. For information, visit https://www.votenoondisc. com and https://www. votenoondisc.com/10reasons-no. — Samantha McCarthy is a Davis resident.
by saying he, “forgot that Davis has been facing a critical shortage of food.” Maybe that gets laughs in junior high, but voters with knowledge of California agriculture are aware how much acreage has gone from growing crops to development. Food grown further away costs more to transport, is less likely to taste “just picked,” and uses more marginal soils because the “prime” ones are under a parking lot or building. The California Dept. of Food and Agriculture, or farmland trusts, have documented the positive benefits of farmland
project Davis deserves BY DAN RAMOS, DANA PARRY AND TROY ESTACIO
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We know many of those companies would prefer to stay in Davis, given the ability of UC Davis to produce so many qualified graduates, and the high quality of life and good schools that residents enjoy and appreciate.
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s Davis voters evaluate Measure B to approve the Davis Innovation and Sustainability Campus (DISC), we wanted them to hear directly from us as the project sponsors about why we think it’s such a great fit for the community. The DISC is a collaboration of Buzz Oates, Ramco Enterprises and Reynolds & Brown, who together own the 185acre site. Each firm has nearly 50 years of experience in all facets of commercial development throughout Northern California. When in 2014 we responded to the city’s request to develop an innovation center, we sought to apply our best thinking on what to propose. We brought together some of the best talent in the world to work on the specifics, including planners who designed the Science + Technology Park at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and Health Sciences Campus at the University of Southern California, and engineers who developed sustainability plans for the Google and Facebook campuses on the San Francisco peninsula. We also reviewed about 15 years of technology-related project proposals to the city of Davis that ultimately failed to meet local expectations. And we consulted with a variety of local Davis academics, community representatives and public officials. What resulted was an exciting plan for a true innovation district that was carefully designed to reflect Davis’ personality and values, and that due to its cutting-edge features was highlighted at the 2016 Association of University Research Parks international conference. The DISC is designed so that Davis can retain and locally grow the cuttingedge research and intellectual capital being developed next door at UC Davis, one of the largest recipients of research grants in the nation. Without nearby facilities for knowledge-economy employers to expand their businesses, the current reality is that they simply go elsewhere and rarely return.
preservation for food security, economic strength, and climate change mitigation. Even the proponents of DISC recognized the trade off between development and farmland when they put the S for sustainability into their project. We can disagree about how successful they were in their redesign, but I imagine some cringed when they read Consenza’s snark that “we’ll all starve.” What it would take to make me enthusiastic about peripheral development in Davis? DISC didn’t do it. The impact of more than 24,000 more auto trips on the
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One of the key things we’ve learned in our careers is that corporate real estate decisions are usually made based on a facility being deliverable in a near-term timeframe, typically 24 months or less. But other factors, chief among them the availability of meaningful housing opportunities for their employees, are often high-priority considerations. Due primarily to that reality, combined with an already severe lack of affordable housing in Davis, we felt that it was essential to provide housing in the project. The housing we propose is directly tied to the development of commercial space, so that it primarily supports DISC employees.
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fter 20 years of community effort, the DISC is the first university-related research center to meet the community's demand for an environmentally and economically progressive project that makes a difference for the planet and the people of Davis. With the DISC’s baseline features and long-term performance verification process overseen by city staff, the community will have the ongoing ability to actively participate in the process of making sure the DISC delivers on its obvious potential. There’s been a lot written already about DISC features, and the numerous and wide-ranging benefits it would deliver for Davis, and we won’t repeat them here. But what we do want to emphasize in the strongest way possible is that we know Davis deserves a worldclass project of which the whole community can be proud, and that’s what we want to deliver. Your “yes” vote on Measure B will allow us to do just that. — Dan Ramos is vice president of Ramco Enterprises and a former Davis resident. Dana Parry is president and CEO of Reynolds & Brown. Troy Estacio is senior vice president of Acquisitions & Development for Buzz Oates.
Mace/Interstate 80 intersection is one red flag. At today’s prices, $77.5 million for transportation improvements won’t make the mess go away. And it won’t make the millions of additional pounds of greenhouse gasses emitted sustainable. I value the process that projects go through with staff, commissions, and Council. But I’m very glad I have a part in it as a voter. That’s why Measure D is important to me. Doug Walter Davis
Editors’ choice for web comment of the week “I remember not knowing what I wanted to professionally pursue in life when I was in high school and college ... PE should be part of the curriculum and I’m surprised that UCD has removed it.” From Louise Craven
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Looking ahead to fall gardening BY DON SHOR
from nursery packs. Many coolseason vegetables can be planted again in February for late winter and early spring harvest.
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arrived in Davis to go to college on a hot, dry, dusty day in late September in the 1970s. The air was full of smoke, and the farmers were harvesting alfalfa and tomatoes with their distinctive fetid smells. Some things don’t change much, although in those days it was the rice farmers who were filling the valley with smoke. Even to this seasonless Southern Californian, it sure didn’t feel like fall. Gardeners new to the Sacramento Valley are often perplexed by our early autumn weather here. Days still in the 90s are common. Significant rain is rare before November, and leaves don’t turn color until later in that month. Something else that is new to beginning and newly arrived gardeners here, especially those from cold-winter garden zones, is that we have two full gardening seasons, each with its own crops and planting schedule. Our winter weather is perfect for many vegetables and flowers that prefer the cool days, and despite frequent light frosts, we don’t get cold enough to harm them.
About the summer vegetables ... This was a hot summer. How hot was it? We had five heat waves between the end of May and early September, and another as we enter October. Compare that with two each in 2018 and 2019. We hit 101 degrees in late May, 100-plus twice in July, and then the main scorcher Aug. 8 to 19 when we exceeded 108 degrees two days in a row and were above 100 on six other days. And if that wasn’t enough, we got to 107 again in early September. The episodes of extreme heat, not to mention the soot and ash from wildfires, definitely affected the growth and yield of our favorite summer edibles. Many people reported poor harvest from tomatoes, sun scald on peppers, lack of pollination of beans, issues with apricots and peaches damaged by direct heat on the fruit as they were ripening, apples dropping before they were ripe, citrus fruit splitting and more. Bottom line: if this was your first summer growing vegetables here, don’t get disillusioned if you didn’t have great results. This wasn’t typical.
What was going on? When temperatures are in the 90s and above, tomato flowers don’t pollinate (the pollen tubes fail) and the blossoms just drop off. Many of the popular heirloom tomatoes are not as well acclimated to our summer temperatures as hybrids are, and some gave few or even no fruit. Hybrid tomatoes generally did better, but still didn’t meet our usual harvest expectations. The same principle affects beans. Unfortunately, a lot of gardeners simply weren’t watering their vegetable gardens deeply enough or, in the case of raised planters,
When do we plant onions and potatoes? From seedlings in nursery packs in October, or (much easier) from bareroot plants in the first couple of weeks of November. What’s super easy? OK, novice gardeners: try lettuce, swiss chard, broccolini and radishes.
Flowers for the cool season Just as with winter vegetables, there are easy annual flowers that grow and bloom in winter and spring that we can plant now.
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Bees like poppies! This is the Danish Flag poppy. Planted from seed in October, it blooms in spring. often enough. The advent of modern drip systems has led to an increasing number of gardens where plants are kept in near-drought conditions. Drip systems are great in that they water very efficiently, with little evaporation, and the slow rate of flow allows infiltration into denser soils. But that low rate of output means they have to run for a long time to water the soil to a sufficient depth and allow roots to grow more deeply. Plants that are stressed during a heat wave are even less likely to set and hold fruit. The combination of high temperatures and insufficient irrigation led to poor yields for many gardeners. When I see that the weather service is predicting unusually hot weather for a period of several days, I run all of my irrigation systems sufficiently to provide about a week’s worth of water all at once. Then I can use my judgment about when to water again, comfortable that there is extra moisture in the root zone for the plants to draw on if it gets extra hot, or, even more important, windy (plants dry out and use more water when it’s windy). Those deep soakings kept my tomatoes growing well, and they flowered and set fruit enough during our cooler spells to give an adequate yield. You can’t water deeply with raised planters. Since they’re usually filled with fast-draining soil, the water moves down and out of the root zone rapidly. So during an unusually hot or windy week, you may need to add an irrigation cycle or two.
What to plant now? One of the great things about gardening in the face of one season’s adversity is that there’s always another season. And that begins right away here. Right now in the vegetable garden we plant: ■ Brassicas: broccoli, cabbage,
cauliflower (including Romanesco), collards, kohlrabi, mustard greens, pak choi. ■ Legumes: peas, including snow peas and snap peas and fava beans. ■ Leafy greens: corn salad, endive, kale, lettuce, radicchio, spinach, Swiss chard and spinach. ■ Root vegetables: carrots, radishes, turnips. ■ Garlic and shallots, and in early November, we’ll be planting onions. ■ And for those of you who like it, this is a great time to plant cilantro. Areas of the garden that aren’t in use for those listed above can be planted with cover crops: fava beans, annual ryegrass, clover and vetch are planted from seed now and grow to suppress weeds, add organic matter to the soil, and fix nitrogen from the atmosphere into the root zone.
Fall-planted vegetables Is it OK to plant while it’s still warm and dry? Yes. The young plants will adjust very rapidly, and so long as watering is consistent they will begin growth right away. Do they need special soil or fertilizer? No. None of our winter vegetables have special requirements. Adding some new compost on the surface around the plants, preferably containing an organic source of nitrogen, will enrich the soil sufficiently. For an added boost, fish emulsion or any soluble plant food can help young seedlings get growing faster. How often do you water the new plants? Check daily, water as needed. When you first plant out the seedlings, they may need water each day for about a week. As they adjust and their roots grow, you can water longer and less often. Once the rainy season begins you can stop watering
unless there are long intervals without rainfall. Plants in raised beds or containers should be checked if we go a week without rain or overcast. Any special pests to watch out for? Aphids and caterpillars are common on members of the cabbage family (the brassicas). Aphids can be blasted off with water, and the caterpillars can be hand-picked or sprayed with organic BT sprays. Both pests diminish as the nights get colder. White-crowned sparrows can wreak havoc on young beds of seedlings. If you see them doing damage, consider putting bird netting over the young plants. When can you start to harvest? Leafy greens can be picked almost immediately. With lettuce, arugula, spinach, Swiss chard, etc., you can pick leaves any time you want, and the plant keeps growing all winter. Side shoots of broccoli and broccoli raab can be harvested starting several weeks after planting and all the way into spring. Root vegetables are likely to develop in late winter. They aren’t harmed by freezing weather? Nope. We get a number of light frosts each winter, but rarely get below 28 to 29 degrees. Even when nights dip down into the mid-20s, they’ll be fine. Major freeze events in 1990 and 1998 did damage peas and the leaves of lettuce. Even those cold episodes didn’t hurt the brassicas. In fact, light frosts improve the flavor of many winter vegetables. The starches in the roots and leaves turn to sugar and they become sweeter. When is it too late to plant? That varies by crop. You can keep planting leafy greens and sprouting broccoli right through the winter. Peas can be planted directly into the garden by seed through October. As the nights get colder, you can still plant them — just pre-germinate them indoors, or transplant seedlings
Some are familiar, such as pansies and violas, paludosum daisy, snapdragons, stock and cyclamen. These will bloom right away and keep flowering all through the winter and spring. Ornamental cabbage and kale have bright leaves whose color intensifies with colder weather. Sweet peas are kind of oldfashioned and less commonly planted nowadays, but worth revisiting for their special fragrance. Now is the best time to plant them. Give them a short trellis or section of fence. They make very lightweight vines that begin blooming in February and continue until we get hot in May. Poppies are planted in fall for late winter and spring bloom. California poppies are best direct seeded where they are going to grow, and it’s important not to cover the seed as it needs light to germinate. In fact, the easiest way to grow California poppies is to scatter the seed on bare soil areas just before a rainstorm. Iceland poppies can be transplanted from nursery packs now for winter and spring bloom. Others such as Danish flag, breadseed or Shirley poppies can be grown readily from seed. Just be aware that the seedlings are fragile and need to be transplanted with care. All of the different types of poppies are very attractive to bees. Winter flowers mostly need full sun. Cyclamen are an exception that will bloom in partial shade. In fact, cyclamen flowers look best if they are kept out of the rain as their petals can mildew and rot if they are wet for extended periods of time. Cyclamen can be great choices for a planter near the front door, under an overhang. What winter flowers are easy? Johnny Jump-ups, paludosum daisies, dwarf snapdragons. Fall is almost here. Let the change in weather guide you toward a whole new season in the garden! — 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.
Pollution prevention as we head into the rainy season BY RHYS ROWLAND Special to The Enterprise
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ith the arrival of fall, the wet season commences in California, bringing rains that recharge your garden. Substantial rainfalls saturate the ground, which creates runoff on to streets and sidewalks and, ultimately, into city storm drains. Runoff flows into this stormwater system from the places where we live, shop, work and recreate, and because of this, runoff can degrade stormwater quality. Unlike wastewater, which is treated prior to being released into the environment, stormwater flows untreated to local waterways and to the Sacramento River. Typical pollutants in stormwater include: petroleum products, dirt, yard
ENVIRONMENTAL UPDATE waste, pet wastes, trace minerals, metals, detergents, soaps, garbage, pesticides, chlorinated water, trash and paint. While some of these pollutants occur naturally, when our activities add them to runoff they often create unhealthy concentrations of pollutants in water. Downstream from Davis, Sacramento River water is used for agriculture, recreation, potable water and wildlife habitat. To help keep our stormwater free from pollutants, follow these simple pollution prevention tips: ■ Avoid using water to wash down any outdoor surfaces. Use a broom or another dry-cleaning
method whenever possible. ■ When draining pool or spa water, make sure the water is clear (not green or brown), pHneutral (6.0 to 8.0) and has chlorine less than 1 part per million. You may drain without restriction to the sanitary sewer. ■ Avoid washing cars at home. Instead, use a car wash facility where the wash water is drained into the sanitary sewer and directed to the Wastewater Treatment Plant. If a vehicle must be washed at home, then direct wash water to a landscaped area. Use minimal amounts of water and use biodegradable soaps. Consider using waterless car wash products. ■ Check your vehicle for leaks. Have leaks repaired, recycle old auto fluids and clean up spills and leaks
using absorbent materials (cloths and kitty litter). ■ Dispose of household hazardous waste materials at the Yolo County Landfill Hazardous Waste DropOff Program (Friday and Saturday from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.). ■ Pick up your pet wastes, seal them in a bag, and dispose of them in the garbage (not the organics cart). ■ Keep rainwater out of your trash can. Keep trash in the bin and the lid closed on your container closed when not in use. ■ Limit the use of pesticides and herbicides. Look for less toxic products endorsed by Our Water Our World.OurWater OurWorld.org
Fall irrigation Fall, with its shorter
days and cooler temperatures, is the best time of year to plant. Landscape water needs decrease in the fall and irrigation can be reduced by shortening each watering cycle or eliminating a watering day or two each week. If it rains, turn your irrigation system off for at least 48 hours after a rain event. Consider turning off your irrigation system for the winter. Reducing the amount of water you use from November through February may reduce your water and sanitary sewer charges. The volumetric component of your sanitary sewer rate is adjusted on an annual basis and is based on your prior winter’s average water consumption (November-toFebruary water usage).
Bulky waste Have you already used your One-Time Bulky waste Landfill Voucher to dispose of unwanted appliances, furniture and other large items for free? If you haven’t, now is the time! Some restrictions apply. Davis residents should have received their voucher in the mail at the end of July. The voucher is valid until Nov. 30. Visit Recology’s website at Recology.com/Recology -Davis or contact Recology at 530-756-4646 or RecologyDavis@Recology. com for details. — Rhys Rowlandis a city of Davis environmental programs specialist; this column is published monthly. Reach him at RRowland@CityofDavis. org. Visit GreenerDavis.org for more information.
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(FTA) for funding. The City submits and executes grant applications and agreements, and then passes these funds through to Unitrans through a sub-recipient agreement. FTA regulatory guidance requires the City and Unitrans to make the proposed POP available for public review and comment prior to its ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR approval by the City Council. Unitrans CHANGE OF NAME staff will summarize all comments made Case Number: CV2020-1275 on the POP by the deadline and provide 1. Saravady Me filed a petition with this that information to the City Council when court for a decree changing names as it reviews and takes action in November follows: 2020. Saravady Thida Me to The deadline for submitting comments Saravady Elliot Thida on the proposed POP is Thursday, 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons October 22, 2020. interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated To receive a copy of this notice in another below to show cause, if any, why the language or alternative formats at no petition should not be granted. cost, please contact Unitrans by sending NOTICE OF HEARING an email message to comments@ Date: November 18, 2020 Time: 9 a.m. unitrans.ucdavis.edu or by calling Dept: 9 Room: N/A Unitrans at (530) 752-2877. The City The address of the court is and Unitrans welcome all comments 1000 Main Street, Woodland, CA 95695 from the general public and providers 3. a) A copy of this Order to Show Cause of other transportation services on this shall be published at least once a week proposed program of projects in the FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME for four successive weeks prior to the most convenient format available. The STATEMENT date set for hearing on the petition in most common ways in which to submit Filed: September 17, 2020 the following newspaper of general comments include the following: FBN Number: F20200776 circulation, printed in this county: 1) Send an email message with the 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) The Davis Enterprise subject “Program of Projects” to Wholesale Tire Distributors 315 G Street, Davis, CA 95616 comments@unitrans.ucdavis.edu 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Date: September 30, 2020 2) Send a letter addressed to Unitrans Principal Place of Business in California. Daniel M. Wolk ATTN: AGMA, 1 Shields Ave, South Hall Business is located in Yolo County. Judge of the Superior Court Room 5, Davis, CA 95616 1500 E. Kentucky Ave. 10/4, 10/11, 10/18, 10/25 1001 3) Attend a public hearing via Zoom Woodland, CA 95776 online on the Program of Projects at the FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Unitrans Advisory Committee meeting to STATEMENT Residence Address, State, and Zip be held on Thursday, October 22, 2020 at Fairfield Trading LLC Filed: September 23, 2020 4pm. Go to https://www.cityofdavis.org/ 1500 E. Kentucky Ave. FBN Number: F20200796 city-hall/commissions-and-committees/ Woodland, CA 95776 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) unitrans-advisory-committee/agendas 4. Business Classification: Community Development Fund Limited Liability Company 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of for information on how to participate in 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Principal Place of Business in California. the meeting. Registrant(s) commenced to transact Business is located in Yolo County. Unitrans Operating Assistance business under the fictitious business 2934 Boathouse Avenue Description: FTA Section 5307 Formula name or names listed above on: N/A Davis, CA 95616 “I declare that all information in 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Funds-Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, in this statement is true and correct.” Residence Address, State, and Zip (A registrant who declares as true California Statewide Community combination with a variety of other funding sources, will allow the City and information which he or she knows to be Development Fund, Inc. Unitrans to mitigate financial impacts false is guilty of a crime.) 426 D Street related to the COVID-19 pandemic that 6. Signature of Registrant(s): Davis, CA 95616 may cause service reductions to fixedSohail Ashraf 4. Business Classification: route bus service in Davis, California. 9/27, 10/4, 10/11, 10/18 991 Corporation Unitrans provides critical transportation 5. Beginning Date of Business: The FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME Registrant(s) commenced to transact services to the community and carries STATEMENT business under the fictitious business about 4.0 million passenger trips Filed: September 9, 2020 annually, which is the second-highest name or names listed above on: N/A FBN Number: F20200737 “I declare that all information in ridership level in the six-county 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) this statement is true and correct.” Sacramento metropolitan area. EZ Hulls (A registrant who declares as true 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of information which he or she knows to be FY 2021 Operating Assistance (for the Principal Place of Business in California. Period 7/1/2020 through 6/30/2021) false is guilty of a crime.) Business is located in Yolo County. Total Estimated Budget: $6,899,894 6. Signature of Registrant(s): 8 East Abbey Street Proposed Revised FTA Amount: Barbara A. Vohryzek Winters, CA 95694 10/4, 10/11, 10/18, 10/25 1003 $1,151,201 – FTA Section 5307 Formula 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Funds-CARES Act Residence Address, State, and Zip Other Funding: $5,748,693 - Covered PUBLIC NOTICE John Pickerel by FTA Section 5307 Formula Funds-FY 8 East Abbey Street NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY 2021, ASUCD Student Fees, City PROGRAM OF PROJECTS FOR FEDERAL Transportation Development Act, Fare Winters, CA 95694 TRANSIT ASSISTANCE FUNDING FOR Revenue, Advertising and Other Misc. 4. Business Classification: Individual THE CITY OF DAVIS/UNITRANS Revenue 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact On an annual basis and as needed, FY 2022 Operating Assistance (for the business under the fictitious business the City of Davis/Unitrans prepares a Period 7/1/2021 through 6/30/2022) name or names listed above on: Program of Projects (POP) that forms the Total Estimated Budget: $7,658,927 August 27, 2020 basis for grant applications submitted Proposed FTA Amount: $1,594,891 – FTA “I declare that all information in to the Federal Transit Administration Section 5307 Formula Funds-CARES Act STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME Filed: August 26, 2020 FBN Number: F20200708 The person(s) or entity listed below are abandoning the use of the following fictitious business name(s): Name of Business(es): Agent Clean Pressure Washing The fictitious business name was filed in Yolo County on August 26, 2020 and is being ABANDONED by the registrant(s) listed below: Windy Miller-Thompson Ernest Thompson 58 West Woodland Ave. Woodland, CA 95695 YOLO COUNTY The business was conducted by: A Married Couple I declare that all information is true and correct. 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FY 2023 Operating Assistance (for the Period 7/1/2022 through 6/30/2023) Total Estimated Budget: $8,041,873 PUBLIC NOTICE Proposed FTA Amount: $1,331,411 – FTA Section 5307 Formula Funds-CARES Act Other Funding: $6,710,462 - Covered by FTA Section 5307 Formula Funds-FY 2021, ASUCD Student Fees, City ORDINANCE NO. 2586 Transportation Development Act, Fare AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ARTICLE Revenue, Advertising and Other Misc. 15.02 OF THE DAVIS MUNICIPAL CODE Revenue ESTABLISHING EXCEPTIONS TO THE PURCHASING SYSTEM Total Available Unallocated FTA 5307 Formula Funds-CARES Act Amount: THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DAVIS $4,077,503 DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Total Proposed FTA 5307 Formula Funds-CARES Act Programming SECTION 1. A new Section 15.02.130 is Amount: $4,077,503 hereby added to Article 15.02 (Purchases) 10/7, 10/11 1004 of Chapter 15 (Finance and Taxation) of PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE ADOPTED ORDINANCE NO. 1525 NOTICE is hereby given that at its regularly scheduled meeting of September 29, 2020, the Yolo County Board of Supervisors adopted Ordinance No. 1525 repealing Chapter 6 of Title 2 of the Yolo County Code regarding Personnel Merit system. The Ordinance was adopted by the following vote: AYES: Provenza, Chamberlain, Villegas, Saylor, Sandy. NOES: None. ABSENT: None. ABSTAIN: None. Copies of the full text of the Ordinance are available at www.yolocounty.org > Board meetings > Meeting Agendas and Minutes or at the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors Office, 625 Court Street, Room 204, Woodland, CA 95695. Dated: October 11, 2020 Julie Dachtler, Senior Deputy Clerk Yolo County Board of Supervisors 10/11 1007 PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE ADOPTED ORDINANCE NO. 1526 NOTICE is hereby given that at its regularly scheduled meeting of September 29, 2020, the Yolo County Board of Supervisors adopted Ordinance No. 1526 to repeal and replace Title 1, Chapter 5, of the Yolo County Code of Ordinances regarding administrative citations and code enforcement.
the Davis Municipal Code to read as follows: “15.02.130 Exceptions.
Sections 15.02.040, 15.02.050 and 15.02.110 shall not apply to the purchase of supplies, services, and equipment under the following circumstances: (a) When such supplies, services, or equipment are unique because of their quality, durability, availability, or fitness for a particular use and, it is determined by the City Manager, that it is in the City’s best interests to suspend the purchasing procedures for the purchase or contract; (b) When it is determined by the City Manager that the supply, service, or equipment can only be obtained from one vendor; (c) When it is determined by the City Manager that it is in the City’s best interests to procure the supplies, services, or equipment through a cooperative purchasing program, such as programs through other governmental jurisdictions and public agencies, or cooperative purchasing organizations including, without limitation, the California Multiple Award Schedule (CMAS), the General Services Administration (GSA), the U.S. Communities Government Purchasing Alliance, OMNIA Partners, and the Western States Contracting Alliance (WSCA); (d) When it is determined by the City Manager that the procurement and purchase of the supply, service, or equipment is subject to federal, state, or local grant funding requirements; or (e) When it is determined by the City Manager that it is in the City’s best interests to procure the supplies, services, or equipment through a state, federal, or non-profit grant process.”
The Ordinance was adopted by the SECTION 2. This Ordinance shall take following vote: effect and be in full force thirty (30) days from and after the date of its final AYES: Provenza, Chamberlain, Villegas, passage and adoption. Saylor, Sandy. NOES: None. INTRODUCED on the 22nd day of September, 2020, and PASSED AND ABSENT: None. ADOPTED by the City Council of the City ABSTAIN: None. of Davis on this 7th day of October, 2020, Copies of the full text of the Ordinance by a unanimous vote. 1010 are available at www.yolocounty.org 10/11
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California expats helping turn Texas into a battleground state BY MATT LEVIN CalMatters When Dr. Myiesha Taylor saw her Biden-Harris lawn sign was missing from the front yard, she did what most parents would do — she blamed her kids. Taylor and her husband William sat their three children down to scour through the footage from their home security system. It was like family movie night, with the added intrigue that someone in the audience might be guilty of a campaign violation. “We’re watching and we’re watching, and then we see the car come up and turn on our street, and then stop,” said Taylor. “And we’re like ‘Wait, why are they stopping in front of our house?’ ” It’s nighttime and the security camera is pretty far away. But even through the Zapruder filter, you can parse pretty clearly what’s happening. The silhouette of a John or Jane Doe gets out of the passenger seat, jumps on the Taylor property’s retaining wall, snatches the Biden-Harris sign and smuggles it into the getaway car. “I’m from California,” said Taylor, who was born in Inglewood and went to medical school at the University of Southern California. “Never would I have thought that Trump would have won. I’m thinking, ‘Who voted for this guy?’ Then I moved here and I realized who voted for this guy.” “Here” for Taylor is Tarrant County, Texas — home to the cities of Fort Worth, Arlington and an endless stretch of freshly subdivided bedroom communities. Over the past decade, those bedrooms have been increasingly filled by a steady stream of Californians like Taylor, lured by lucrative job offers and cheap home prices. Taylor hasn’t solved the case of the lawn sign heist just yet. But one possible motive? Fear that Texas — a state once synonymous with Republican strength — could actually tilt Democratic this year, as recent transplants from California and other blue states help reshape the Lone Star state’s electorate. “Where things look really different in Texas politics right now are in these districts that have seen rapid population growth, and Californians have been a part of that growth,” said Jim Henson, director of the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas at Austin.
A new battleground Recent polls show President Trump with only a narrow advantage — 2 to 5 percentage points — over Democratic challenger Joe Biden in Texas. Some polls show the race as essentially tied, and very little polling has been done since Trump’s COVID19 hospitalization upended the campaign. While the prospect of Texas as a swing state may shock those who associate the state with George W. Bush, it shouldn’t surprise anyone paying attention to its politics over the last decade. While Barack Obama lost Texas by 16 points in his 2012 re-election bid, in 2016 Hillary Clinton closed that gap to single-digits. Two years later, Democrat Beto O’Rourke lost to incumbent Republican Sen. Ted Cruz by less than three points. The improving performance of Texas Democrats tracks well with the exodus of Californians into Sun Belt states over the past two decades. Since 2008, more than 700,000 Californians have moved to Texas, at first propelled by the Great Recession and later by their home state’s increasingly untenable cost of living. Henson warns it’s seductively reductionist to attribute Texas’ rapid statewide
purpling simply to California expats. When you factor in the number of Texans that have moved to California over the last decade, the net political effect on a state with 29 million people is less progressive tidal wave and more trickling blue-ish tributary. With a rising Latino population and growing metropolitan areas, Texas’ internal demographic shifts have combined with out-of-state immigration (not just from California) to alter its politics. It’s also a mistake to think everyone from California moving to Texas drove there in a Prius adorned with a “Billionaires can’t buy Bernie” bumper sticker. While precise polling on ex-Californians’ political persuasions is hard to find, loads of anecdotal evidence suggest a decent chunk of Golden State emigres are fleeing the state precisely because of its progressive culture. But the parts of Texas where Californians are most likely to move — the sprawling suburbs of Houston, Dallas and Fort Worth — are now politically competitive in a way that was unfathomable 20 years ago. Even if progressive Californians aren’t numerous enough to push Texas away from Trump, they can still tilt congressional and state legislative races. In many places, they already have. “Those areas, particularly the suburban and exurban areas outside of Texas metros, have become ground zero for a much more competitive Texas in which the Republican hegemony that has been so uniform here for the last twenty years has come under siege,” said Henson.
Democrats recruiting You won’t find a bigger fan of Californians than Deborah Peoples, chair of the Tarrant County Democratic Party. She says she’s gotten so used to running into Californians in her native state, she can spot one just by looking at them. “There’s something about the way they walk or something,” said Peoples. “I usually say ‘Are you from California?’ and 99% of the time I’m right.” Historically, Republicans have dominated the vast majority of the 902-squaremile county, situated about 30 miles west of Dallas. In the past, Tarrant County’s bluish-tinged cities of Fort Worth and Arlington were flanked by an overwhelmingly conservative block of rural voters. Lyndon Johnson was the last Democratic presidential candidate to win it. But an influx of new arrivals, including
State gives Davis schools $9M for technical education Special to The Enterprise The Davis Joint Unified School District announced Thursday that the district has received $9 million in facilities grant funds from the state of California to improve career technical education facilities at Da Vinci charter academy and Davis High School. Da Vinci will use the money for computer science, including pathways in digital arts, and software and system development; Davis High will fund robotics, automotive and agriculture programs. These four grants were highly competitive and required an enormous amount of preparation and support from the community. “We are grateful for the dozens of letters of support from local businesses, parents, and advocates in our community,” Rody Boonchouy, associate superintendent of instructional services, said. “We
are also appreciative of the hard work of our CTE staff who have helped develop a vision for each of these CTE programs and a concept for 21st century facilities to house these programs.” Each of the CTE facilities grants required a 1:1 funding match, which DJUSD is able to support through the recent passage of Measure M ($150 million) approved by Davis voters in 2018 and an additional $75 million in other funding. “The timing of this award could not be better,” Superintendent John Bowes added. “These grants come to us just one year after DJUSD’s largest expansion of CTE program offerings to 14 unique career pathways, across six different industry sectors, with each pathway specially designed to increase student engagement and college/career preparedness. This grant award is
one of the largest in the DJUSD’s history and provides a significant boost for our Career Technical Education program.” The Davis Senior High CTE grant projects related to the robotics, agriculture and automotive pathways are in an early stage of planning and will be part of facility improvements at the Davis Senior High campus. Da Vinci’s new CTE grant facilities include a new STEM lab for computer science. This is now part of the Tech Hub Bond project on that campus, with construction anticipated as early as Summer 2021. Information and updates on these projects are available at www.djusd.net/ bond. For information about DJUSD’s CTE pathways, visit https://www. djusd.net/instruction/ programs/career_tech_ education.
thousands from out of state, has made Tarrant County the fifth fastest growing county in the country, swelling its population to over 2 million last year according to Census estimates. That has meant more volunteers for Peoples — especially recent transplants from Southern California and the Bay Area. At $230,000 a pop, you can buy nearly three Tarrant County homes for the price of your average home in L.A. County. “I think we’re seeing this level of activism among Californians,” said Peoples. “When they get here they look at the political landscape, they say this doesn’t look like where I came from, and what do I do to change it.” The cracks in the Texas GOP’s grip on Tarrant County began to show after 2016. O’Rourke carried the county by a little more than 3,000 votes — a shocker to local Republicans. Democrats also flipped a state Senate seat held by a long-term incumbent Republican. Those gains have not gone unnoticed by national Democratic strategists. The Democratic National Committee is targeting an open congressional seat in Tarrant County, with money pouring in for the first time in decades.
‘Don’t California my Texas’ While Peoples may be elated with her
new Californian neighbors, the Texas GOP is not rolling out the welcome mat. Like President Trump, Republicans statewide are using California’s problems to mobilize their own voters. Homelessness and California’s exorbitant cost of living are rhetorical go-to’s. “Don’t California my Texas” was a popular campaign slogan for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in his successful 2018 re-election. You can buy T-shirts and mugs with the slogan. “California came to symbolize the kind of political change that Republicans were sure their voters did not want, in the sense that it symbolized a more liberal worldview,” Henson said. In her neighborhood in Keller, an affluent suburb in Tarrant County, Dr. Myiesha Taylor says she doesn’t hear antiCalifornia rhetoric all that much. That’s partly because she says most of her neighbors are from out-of-state anyway. She’s more likely to meet someone from New York or New Jersey or Illinois than someone born and raised in Tarrant County. Taylor’s quick to note that she loves some parts of living in Texas. Cheap real estate meant she could buy a big home with enough space for her growing family. The first Texas home they bought in 2009 was 2,500 square-feet — and only $250,000. Taylor also feels more respected as a physician in Texas than she did in California. Texans seem more inclined to respect authority and titles, and the “kumbaya” ethos of some of the California hospitals she worked in frequently made her job more difficult. But as a Black woman in a mixed-race household, Taylor does say she misses the sense of security she felt when living in California. While she and her family laugh at the lawn sign incident, Taylor says it triggered a part of her that’s never been quite so comfortable in her adopted home. “You start to think, ‘How far will people go, how crazy are people really?’ said Taylor. “And then on those occasions, I think maybe if I were in California, I wouldn’t have to worry so much about our safety.”