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UCD will have remote winter quarter BY CALEB HAMPTON Enterprise staff writer
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Councilman Will Arnold watches returns coming in on TV with his children Reecy, 12, and Sonya, 6, Tuesday night.
Election wait Arnold, Frerichs, Chapman lead in early returns BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer Returns coming in for the first district-based City Council elections on Tuesday had two incumbents with leads in their races while a closer race was unfolding in the South Davis district. In District 2, Councilman Will Arnold had captured 53.12 percent of the early vote with 1,576 votes, while Dillan Horton stood at 25.85 percent and Colin Walsh at 21.03 percent.
A total of 2,967 votes had been counted. Over in Distrist 3, Vice Mayor Lucas Frerichs had received 2,330 votes to Larry Gunther’s 1,127 votes. Frerichs said 5,800 votes had been cast in that race as of 11 p.m. Monday, so the remaining 2,343 or so votes plus whatever was cast on Tuesday remained to be counted. In District 5, which encompasses all of South Davis, 2,885 votes had been counted by 8:15 p.m. on Tuesday. Josh Chapman had received 1,249 of those votes to former Councilmember Rochelle Swanson’s 936. Trailing Chapman and Swanson were Connor Gorman with 435 votes and Kelsey Fortune with 265.
District 5 City Council candidate Josh Chapman checks his phone along with Dan Olmos. In other early returns on Tuesday, Measure D had a commanding lead, ahead 84 percent to 16 percent. Measure D will renew the citizen’s right to vote on development projects on the city’s periphery. First passed as
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Yolo County could return to purple tier Yolo County could find itself back in the purple tier next week as new cases of the novel coronavirus continue to rise. When the state Department of Public Health updates county data on Wednesday (a day later than usual because of the election), Yolo County’s adjusted new daily case rate will have risen to 7.3 per 100,000 residents, according to the county’s new health officer, Dr. Aimee Sisson. That exceeds the metric for the red tier, where the county has been since late September and which allowed multiple businesses to reopen indoors with limited capacity. The state blueprint features four tiers based on the risk of COVID-19 transmission, with purple as the top tier where virus transmission is most widespread and business activities most restricted. Yolo County spent multiple weeks in the purple tier
A majority of winter quarter classes at UC Davis will be held remotely due to the coronavirus pandemic, Chancellor Gary S. May announced Friday. The announcement, which promised further details about the quarter will be released this week, came as no surprise. UC Davis largely shifted to remote learning in March. Since then, the United States has failed to contain the spread of COVID-19. The number of new cases nationwide reached record levels in recent days and public health experts are predicting the coming months to be the deadliest of the pandemic. So far, more than 230,000 people in the U.S. have died from complications related to COVID-19. Local cases and hospitalizations are also rising. On Saturday, Yolo County reported 28 new cases, the highest one-day total in six weeks, and the county’s test positivity rate continued to climb. As of Tuesday, 61 county residents had died of COVID19. Through this week, remote instruction and other public health precautions taken by UC Davis had been effective at limiting the virus’ spread in the campus community, according to testing data published on the UC Davis COVID-19 dashboard. From Oct. 24 through 31, the most recent week with results
Seven more COVID deaths reported at convalescent hospital in Woodland BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer
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before moving to red on Sept. 29. “While Yolo’s metrics land in the purple tier at this time,” Sisson told county supervisors on Tuesday, “we will remain in the red tier for the coming week. “Next week, if our metrics once again fall in
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the purple tier, we may have to move backward into the purple tier.” However, she said, the state last week changed its process for moving counties into more restrictive tiers. Previously, if a county’s metrics fell within a more restrictive tier for two weeks in a row, it would be
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Seven new COVID 19-related deaths were reported at the Alderson Convalescent Hospital in Woodland this week and another five deaths at the facility are suspected to be COVID-related, according to Yolo County’s new public health officer. “To date, 57 residents of this facility have tested positive along with 13 staff members,” Dr. Aimee Sisson told the Yolo County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday. One resident died last month. “Given the large number of resident cases, we expect more COVIDrelated deaths in this facility in the coming weeks,” Sisson said. This is the second COVID-19 outbreak at Alderson since the pandemic began. The first outbreak in
July at the family-owned skilled-nursing facility on Walnut Street affected 27 residents and employees and took three lives. This second outbreak began in early October. The good news, Sisson said, is the current outbreak appears to be slowing with just three residents testing positive last week. However, she said, that’s largely because “there aren’t that many vulnerable residents who haven’t already been infected ... they’ve essentially reached herd immunity within the facility, unfortunately.” Combined, the two outbreaks at Alderson have involved more cases than the deadly outbreak at the Stollwood Convalescent Hospital in Woodland during the spring, when 66 people contracted the virus and 17 died.
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Briefly Video captures burglary attempt Davis police are seeking the public’s help in identifying a suspect in a residential burglary attempt Sunday. Residents of the Madrid Court home called police shortly before 8 a.m. to report a burglary in progress after security video captured a suspect trying to enter the residence through a rear door. View the video at https://fb.watch/ 1v-X2GMato/. The suspect was gone by the time officers arrived on scene. Anyone who recognizes this person is asked to contact the Davis Police Department at 530747-5400.
Court warns of new phone scam Yolo Superior Court officials posted a warning last week about a phone scam in which the suspects appear to be calling from the court’s phone system. “The scam includes telling unsuspecting members of the public that they have a pending case, owe money or have a family member in jail that needs bail money,” officials said in a post on the court’s website. “The scammer eventually asks for money to be deposited into a specified bank account.” To report a suspicious call, visit the Federal Trade Commission official website, https:// www.consumer.ftc.gov/ articles/0208-phonescams./
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Study eyes migration and monarch wings BY KATHY KEATLEY GARVEY Special to The Enterprise Newly published UC Davis research analyzing modern-day and museum collections of monarch butterflies over a 200-year period indicates that the loss of migration and range expansion leads to smaller and shorter wings. The research, “Two Centuries of Monarch Butterfly Collections Reveal Contrasting Effects of Range Expansion and Migration Loss on Wing Traits,” appears this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “We measured the wings of 6,000 museum specimens of monarch butterflies collected from 1856 to the present, as well as contemporary wild-caught monarchs from around the world,” said lead author Micah Freedman, a former UC Davis doctoral candidate in population biology and now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago. “The major implications of the research,” Freedman said, “are that it shows loss of migration can affect the evolution of monarch butterflies over contemporary time scales--dozens to hundreds of years; and monarchs with large forewings are better-suited for longdistance movement, and this likely contributed to their global expansion over the past 200 years.”
Co-authors of PNAS paper Freedman works closely with noted migratory animal authority and coauthor Hugh Dingle, emeritus professor, UCD department of entomology
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Some of the monarch information in the PNAS paper came from monarchs reared by then doctoral student Micah Freedman in a UC Davis greenhouse. and nematology, who received a 2014 UC Davis Edward A. Dickson Professorship Award to research “Monarchs in the Pacific: Is Contemporary Evolution Occurring on Isolated Islands?” They co-authored the research with Sharon Strauss, professor and Santiago Ramirez, associate professor, Center for Population Biology and the department of evolution and ecology. “We used the monarchs’ recent global range expansion to test the hypotheses about how dispersal traits evolve,” said Freedman,
who received his doctorate from UCD in February after earning a degree in entomology and plant sciences at Cornell University. “We found that early monarch founders have large and elongated forewings, but post-establishment loss of migration repeatedly leads to smaller wings, a pattern detectable in both time series with historical specimens and experimentally reared monarchs.” Their research documents how migrationassociated traits may be favored during range
expansion but disfavored when species cease seasonal migration. “Furthermore, it highlights the value of museum collections by combining historical specimens with experimental rearing to demonstrate contemporary evolution of migrationassociated traits in natural monarch populations,” Freedman said. Said Dingle: “At a time when museum collections are under pressure from a scarcity of funding, the results also show just how valuable such collections can be to evolutionary research and to the understanding of ongoing biological processes in the face of anthropogenic change.” In their abstract, they pointed out that “migratory animals exhibit traits that allow them to exploit seasonally variable habitats. In environments where migration is no longer beneficial, such as oceanic islands, migration-association traits may be selected against or be under relaxed selection.” “Monarch butterflies are best known for their continent-scale migration in North America but have repeatedly become established as non-migrants in the tropical Americas and on Atlantic and Pacific Islands,” they wrote. “These replicated non-migratory populations provide natural laboratories for understanding the rate of evolution of migrationassociated traits.”
What they determined They determined how wing morphology varies across the monarch’s global range, whether initial longdistance founders were
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particularly suited for migration and whether recently-established nonmigrants show evidence for contemporary phenotypic evolution. Under controlled conditions in a UC Davis lab, they also reared more than 1000 monarchs from six populations around the world and measured migration-associated traits. “Historical specimens show that initial founders are well-suited for longdistance movement and loss of seasonal migration is associated with reductions in forewing size and elongation,” they related. “Monarch butterflies raised in a common garden from four derived non-migratory populations exhibit genetically based reductions in forewing size, consistent with a previous study.” Dingle said the findings “provide a compelling example of how migrationassociated traits may be favored during the early stages of range expansion, and also the rate of reductions in those same traits upon loss of migration.” Statistics show that the population of monarch butterflies in the United States has declined by 90 percent over the past 20 years. Dingle, who served as a UC Davis entomology professor from 1982 to 2002, achieving emeritus status in 2003, has engaged in research throughout the world, including the UK, Kenya, Thailand, Panama, Germany and Australia. The Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis was among the 22 global museum collections studied. The research also included private collections and online databases.
Enterprise staff A Knights Landing man faces life in prison after being convicted of 14 counts of child molestation Friday, according to the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office. Eduardo Castro, 58, was found guilty following a lengthy trial in Yolo Superior Court. The case involved crimes committed from the mid-1990s through 2019, involving four victims. “It takes a lot of courage for victims of sexual abuse to come forward and
disclose the awful crimes that often take place when other witnesses are not there to see it,” Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig said. “These verdicts validate the truth spoken by these victims and will ensure that, after all these years, justice will be served.” Sentencing in the case is set for Dec. 2 before Judge David M. Reed, who presided over the trial. In addition to a life sentence, Castro will be required to register as a sex offender.
‘Unfold’ podcast discusses decarbonizing energy Special to The Enterprise A quarter of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions comes from heating and electricity. In the latest episode of “Unfold,” Alissa Kendall, a professor in the UC Davis department of civil and environmental engineering, talks about renewable energy and other decarbonizing technologies and the importance of life-cycle analysis when discussing climate change solutions. In season 2,
“Unfold” explores the solutions to and complexities of climate change. It is available free, on demand at Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Amazon’s Tunein, Stitcher, Pandora and Spotify. Produced by Cody Drabble, it is hosted by Amy Quinton and cohosted by Kat Kerlin. Original music comes from UCD alumnus Damien Verrett and Curtis Jerome Haynes. Follow it on Twitter at @Unfoldpodcast.
Bob Dunning is on vacation. “The Wary I” returns on Friday.
Officers from multiple law-enforcement agencies responded Monday to a political rally in Woodland marked by “arguing and screaming” between two groups of attendees, police said. Woodland police Sgt. Victoria Danzl said her agency became aware at about 4:30 p.m. of the rally, which involved one group that gathered outside a fast-food restaurant at the corner of East and East Main streets, followed by another outside a 7-Eleven store across the street, with “both sides engaged in a heated verbal back-andforth.” “At one point, a protester on the 7-Eleven side crossed the street and began an argument with several people, including a 17-year-old,” Danzl said. “While we heard
complaints that both sides were armed with knives, our officers have determined that only one protester was carrying a putty knife.” “The protest continued to become more unpredictable with both sides arguing and screaming,” Danzl added. “In an effort to de-escalate the situation and maintain peace, our officers formed a skirmish line between the two groups.” Additional officers from other area law-enforcement agencies also assisted at the scene, including two from the Davis Police Department. Both sides ultimately disbanded, and Danzl said there were no arrests or injuries. “Woodland Police Department respects the right to free speech and peaceful protest,” Danzl said. “Our role is to provide a safe space for our community to gather and let their voices be heard.”
Man injured in agricultural accident BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer A man was injured in an agriculture-oriented industrial accident Friday morning in rural Yolo County, according to the Yolo County Sheriff ’s Office. Lt. Matt Davis said the
incident occurred shortly after 8:30 a.m. in the 20000 block of County Road 79 west of Capay, where two men were working with a tractor-mounted auger to dig holes for planting trees. “One of the individuals became entangled with the
equipment and suffered a serious leg injury,” Davis said. “The victim was transported by helicopter to a local hospital.” The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health was notified of the incident, Davis said.
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Wines in memory of the amazing Lulu Peyraud
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t may seem odd to read anything, even a wine column, the day after a momentous election and find not a whiff of election elation/despair. But readers must remember that this was written a week ahead when I was (am) wracked with anxiety and eager for diversion and cheer. So I write about a death. Though, as deaths go, a cheerful one. Lulu Peyraud was 102 when she died last month; she lived her life with grace, love, and gusto, and profoundly influenced the food and wine world, especially California's — mostly by way of Alice Waters and Kermit Lynch. Lulu inherited her parents' vineyard, Domaine Tempier in Bandol, which under the direction of her husband, viticulturalist Alphonse Peyraud, put Provençal wines firmly on the map — and became in the 1970s one of Kermit Lynch's most treasured wine sources. Lulu herself achieved fame for the amazing exuberant meals — all based on the seasonal food of Provence — that she served to family, friends and visitors. Alice Waters of Chez Panisse fame regarded her as a personal mentor and as an inspiration for Waters' only-the-freshest-mostperfect-ingredients philosophy, now known as “new California” cooking. American artist and food/wine writer Richard Olney, who introduced both Waters and Lynch to Lulu, wrote a cookbook with her in the mid-90s, “Lulu's Provencal Table.”
No matter the number of guests at that table, Lulu, friends report, never knew what she was going to cook until she had been to the morning market and her children — there were seven — had harvested something special from their garden and the local fishermen had brought in their catch. She was especially famous for her bouillabaisse, for which she had no recipe: “I put all the fish into a big cauldron with potatoes, tomatoes, garlic, fennel, saffron and water which are boiled fiercely for a short time — everyone has a feast of fish in their soup bowl.” And to drink? Simple — red (or rosé) wine and Champagne. Just days before her death, Kermit Lynch shared Champagne and amuse bouche with his very much alive and aware friend. Some say she drank only wine and Champagne — to which she often attributed her longevity (along with 50 swings a day on her garden swing). Water, she said, “makes one rust.” Of course, she had access to the best of her two beloved drinks — wines made with love and enormous
respect for their terroir. Robert Parker praised the Domaine Tempier Rosé (which you can buy at the Davis Food Co-op) as the greatest rosé in the world; Kermit Lynch: “If any wine can be said to have soul, it's Tempier.” To toast Lulu Peyraud's life (and to ease my election anxieties), I would rush right out and buy a bottle of that greatest rosé, but at $48, it's not in the current wine budget. And the reds go up from there. So I content myself with a couple of (to me) splurges that I imagine would pair well with Lulu's cooking and delight her if she could have been persuaded to drink outside her (beautiful and delicious) box. (On the other hand, any drinking regimen that gets you to a hale 102 perhaps shouldn't be mucked about with.) For Lulu's bouillabaisse, I'd open a bottle of Subject to Change Unsung Hero. Local-ish winemaker Alex Pomerantz and his Subject to Change partner Brad Friedman wanted to make “a full-bodied, textural Rhône blend with just the right amount of skin contact.” In other words, an “orange” wine. For grapes, he chose viognier, marsanne, and roussane. The viognier and marsanne he fermented together on the skins then barrel aged for six months before adding the laterripening rousanne. All the grapes were organically grown in Mendocino's Bonofilio vineyard. We had our first bottle of
Subject to Change at del Popolo in San Francisco, loved it, and so were delighted to find this blend on the Co-op shelves ($24). We drank it with provolone-topped farinata and a dish of longcooked green beans — a simple dinner that was much enhanced by this lime-scented, stone fruit wine that tastes much rounder and lusher—though with excellent structure — than its 11.3% alcohol would suggest. I'm especially confident that Lulu would have enjoyed it because Alex and Brad, too, regard it as “a gateway drug for the red wine drinker in your life who swears they don't drink whites.”
“noble” (and more lucrative) varieties. Like Unsung Hero, it's whole cluster fermented and made with minimal intervention. The winemaker is Napa's Pax Mahle (whom I've written about several times before). Quite a light red — very earthy and spicy — I chilled it for an hour, which worked perfectly. It has a lovely rose-scented nose and some pomegranate and cranberry notes that would make it an excellent choice not just for gratins but also for holiday fare. On our table it accompanied Friday night pizza with leeks and red pepper. But I can easily imagine it with any winter squash dish— or any of the varied foods that appear on the Thanksgiving table — you know, that outdoor table with seats 6 feet apart. You can get Pax Mission at The Pip in Dixon ($23) in person—or have Amy deliver it to your door.
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ratins of all sorts seem to be a feature of Provencal cooking — Lulu made several sorts. I chose the next wine to go with a winter squash gratin (though her potato sorrel gratin would work as well). And then I decided that this wine's so food friendly that it, too, would partner beautifully with her bouillabaisse. It's the Pax Mission, grapes from a single organic vineyard in Lodi — the Somer Vineyard, near the Mokelumne River bed. The mission grape, practically a California native, was brought here by missionaries from South America (it's known as pais in Chile), and this particular parcel was planted in the early 1900s. Unlike most parcels of the “humble” mission grape, it wasn't torn up to make way for the more
I like to think that not only would Lulu have enjoyed these two bottles but she probably had some influence in their creation—like the flutter of the butterfly wing that can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world. Well, maybe — given her Northern California connections--a little more direct than that. To Lulu! — Susana Leonardi is a Davis resident; reach her at vinosusana@gmail.com. Comment on this column at www.davisenter prise.com.
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From Page A1 reported, 2,414 students were tested through the campus’ asymptomatic testing program and three tested positive. Asymptomatic campus residents are screened weekly for COVID-19 using a quick-turnaround saliva sample test that is processed on campus at the UC Davis Genome Center. Until that pilot project is validated, students are being screened concurrently using a nasal swab test that is sent to a private lab for analysis. To date, the testing data on the online dashboard is from the nasal swab tests. Since the start of the quarter, more than 14,000 tests have been conducted, with 9 coming back positive. Most of the students tested so far have been campus residents, though UC Davis recently began expanding access to testing to students and employees who regularly or occasionally visit campus. Students and employees experiencing symptoms consistent with COVID-19 are advised to see their health care provider. Positive test results from those
students and employees are reported in a different online dashboard, which also includes cases from UC Davis students and employees living offcampus, all of whom are required to self-report to the campus by email if they test positive. In that dashboard, there are currently 10 students and 11 employees with active cases. They are all listed as living off campus, which means the three asymptomatic students in on-campus housing who tested positive are the only positive cases on campus. UC Davis has partnered with Yolo County to trace the contacts of students and employees who test positive. Close contacts are required to quarantine for 14 days, while individuals sick with COVID-19 must isolate for 10 days after their first symptoms appeared and must have improved symptoms with no fever before they end their isolation, as is recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Roughly 400 on-campus beds have been set aside for quarantine and isolation. According to the campus
dashboard, 3% of those rooms are currently in use. A survey conducted in early September found that 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. With some students expended to travel the week of Thanksgiving, Chancellor May announced last week that all on-campus residents who are leaving for Thanksgiving will be tested before they leave and when they return. “All of us should be proud of ourselves for how things are going, but we must not be complacent,” May said in a recent update. “Please keep wearing your face coverings, maintaining physical distance and washing your hands often. This is what we must do to protect our health and our community’s health.” — Reach Caleb Hampton at champton@ davisenterprise.net. Follow him on Twitter at @calebmhampton.
UCD entomologist joins international team BY KATHY KEATLEY GARVEY Special to The Enterprise Newly published research by an international team of scientists, including UC Davis entomologist and co-author Diane Ullman, promises to be an important resource on the genome analysis of the western flower thrips, an invasive global agricultural pest that feeds on plants and is considered a super vector, spreading plant viruses. The article, “GenomeEnabled Insights into the Biology of Thrips as Crop Pests,” is published in the journal BMC Biology. It is the work of 57 scientists on five continents. “This project represents over eight years of work by at least 17 laboratories across the globe,” said Professor Ullman, a former chair of the entomology department and a fellow of the Entomological Society of America
and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Her laboratory worked closely with project leader and first author Dorith Rotenberg of North Carolina State University. Project scientist Sulley Ben-Mahmoud of the Ullman lab is the paper's third author.
Western flower thrips cause billions of dollars a year in damage worldwide. Native to Western North America and about the size of a pinhead, the insect feeds on a wide array of food, fiber and ornamental crops and transmits plant viruses that cause significant economic damage.
Residents of skilled-nursing facilities are particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 outbreaks, given the congregate-care setting and the fact that so many residents are elderly and dealing with other health issues. The virus, health officials have said, is usually brought in from the outside by an unsuspecting and asymptomatic staff member who has picked up the virus from spread in the community. “The best way to protect vulnerable residents is to keep the disease rate low in the general community,” said Sisson. “Because staff come and go from the facility every day. They are part of our community, so their disease rate reflects that of the general community.” That is particularly the case in Woodland, which leads the county in COVID19 cases and where all 35 of the county’s skilled-nursing facility deaths have taken place. Supervisor Jim Provenza of Davis noted the consequences “when people in
the community don’t wear masks and don’t comply with the rules that the state and Yolo County have set forth.” “These seven deaths,” he said, “(are) terrible lonely deaths, somebody’s mother or grandmother, and I would like to see us redouble our efforts to protect them.” Provenza asked if one solution would be more testing of skilled-nursing facility staff members, who are currently screened once a week — something that Sisson said had merit, but with a caveat. “I do think that the implementation ... could potentially be met with resistance,” Sisson said. “Right now with the testing that is being done, it is nasal-swab based, so you have staff that are already getting a nasal swab once a week. If we were to increase that frequency to twice a week, I think we may begin to have staff refusing testing, which obviously is going in the opposite direction of frequent testing, so I think that’s something to keep in mind.” — Reach Anne Ternus-Bellamy at aternus@davisenterprise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.
PURPLE: Officials bracing for more From Page A1 in the less restrictive tier for another week. The bottom line for Yolo County: If on Nov. 10, the county still meets the purple tier metrics and there have been no signs of improvement, the county will be moved back to purple and restaurants, gyms, places of worship and other businesses will have 72 hours to close indoor operations. The data the state will be using for tier updates this week is based on the week of Oct. 18-24 when the county reported 119 new cases of COVID-19, Sisson said.
Fourteen of those cases, she said, or 12 percent of the total, were from the outbreak at the Alderson Convalescent Hospital in Woodland. But Sisson said she does not expect cases at Alderson to continue to drive up the county’s daily case rate as the outbreak there has ebbed. Rather, she said, it is cases in the general public that have been increasing recently. Going forward, she
said, “as this virus spreads, particularly as the weather gets cooler and more people are spending time indoors where we have a higher risk of aerosol transmission, I think there is potential for seeing cases continuing to increase.” In fact, she said, “I would not be surprised to see the cases in the general public continue to increase over the next several weeks.”
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Michael Works, deputy of technology in the county assessor/clerk-recorder/registrar of voters office, runs ballots through the Agilis Ballot Sorting System in October.
ELECTION: The count continues From Page A1 Speaking of Measure J/R, the existence of that local measure is why Davis voters were deciding on Measure B — the Davis Innovation & Sustainability Campus — on Tuesday night. Measure B was behind in the early returns on Tuesday evening, with 8,778
votes cast against DISC and 8,087 in favor. Another race of great local interest: the 4th District seat on the Yolo County Board of Supervisors. Incumbent Supervisor Jim Provenza is in a runoff with challenger Linda Deos after neither captured more than 50 percent of the vote in the March primary. In early returns on
Tuesday, Provenza led Deos by 57.21 percent to 42.79 percent with a total of 10,928 votes counted. — Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@ davisenterprise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy. Get updated results on the 2020 vote at www. davisenterprise.com
Asmundson, Hyder leading in early returns in school board race BY JEFF HUDSON Enterprise staff writer In early returns posted shortly after 8 p.m. on Tuesday evening, candidate Vigdis Asmundson opened up a substantial lead over candidate Andrew Cullen in the race for a two-year seat on the Davis school board (an at-large seat covering the entire Davis school district. Asmundson had received 13,714 votes, while Cullen had received 2,499 votes. And in the race for a four-year seat representing Trustee Area 5 (covering eastern portions of South Davis, including the neighborhood around Pioneer Elementary
Every year, Soroptimist International of Davis hosts a Soup Night and Silent Auction one week before Thanksgiving. This year, the (virtual) event is more important than ever since the service club’s primary fundraiser of 25 years — the beer booth at the Davis Farmers Market — was permanently canceled. Community members are invited to pre-purchase a meal to pick up at Sudwerk Brewing Co., bid in an online auction, and learn about the club by watching a live YouTube broadcast on Thursday, Nov. 19. The auction and program are open to anyone in the U.S. Orders are open through Nov. 15 for the meals, available for curbside pickup at Sudwerk, 2001 Second St., between 4 and 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 19. Selections include kabocha squash soup with a giant beer garden pretzel and green salad; märzen bratwurst and slaw on a Village Bakery brioche bun with mixed-green and potato salads; and linguica
sausage with grilled peppers and onions, on a bun with mixed-green and potato salads. Each meal has the option to add an apple tartlet from Upper Crust Baking and a selection of Sudwerk beers. Prices are $30 to $32 per meal, without add-ons. For an additional $20 donation, Soroptimists will offer contact-less delivery to Davis addresses. Each meal ordered will be given a ticket to be eligible for prize drawings if they watch “SI Davis Live” on YouTube. To enter the drawing without a purchase, email sidavis@ soroptimist.net. The show begins at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 19. Participants can enjoy games and entertainment while learning about the club, and how Soroptimists invest in the dreams of women and girls, locally and worldwide. The silent auction is always a great way to kick off holiday gift shopping. Items are still coming in, but include groceries from Nugget; beer and wine from local breweries and
wineries; wine tasting tours; rounds of golf at local courses; a Boreal ski pass; a record player from Armadillo Music; gift cards to stores and restaurants; haircuts; workouts; and gift baskets, among others. All links to order meals, bid on the auction and watch “SI Davis Live” are available at https://www. sidavis.org/soupnight. Unable to purchase a meal but still want to support the club? Text “sidavis” to 88793 to make a donation. Soroptimist is a global volunteer organization that provides women and girls with access to the education and training they need to achieve economic empowerment. It was founded in Oakland in 1921. Davis was chartered in 1954. Local members join some 75,000 Soroptimists in 122 countries and territories to contribute time and financial support to community-based projects benefiting women and girls. Its core values are gender equality, empowerment, education, diversity and fellowship.
School), candidate Betsy Hyder held a narrow lead over candidate Cecilia EscamillaGreenwald. Only a few precincts had reported from Trustee Area 5 as of 9 p.m., with Hyder receiving 981 votes (51.88 percent) and Escamilla-Greenwald receiving 910 votes (48.12 percent). In Trustee Area 2, Lea Darrah is running unopposed. Final returns in the Trustee Area 5 race will be posted on the Davis Enterprise website (and in the pages of the print edition) when they are released by the Yolo County Elections Office.
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Kabocha squash soup with a giant beer garden pretzel and green salad are one of three dinner options available Nov. 19 for the Soroptimist Soup Night and Silent Auction. Preorders are required by Nov. 15.
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County combats faults in the foster care system BY LYAH FITZPATRICK HUB Staff Rising numbers and racial disparities riddle the Yolo County foster care system. In response, the Yolo County Child Welfare Services Subcommittee is initiating a County Self-Assessment and developing a System Improvement Plan. The CSA is a five-year review, assessing the strengths and weaknesses of Yolo County child welfare, which was approved at a Sept. 29 county Board of Supervisors meeting. The SIP will propose solutions to worrisome trends.
An overloaded system According to the California Child Welfare Indicators Project, the number of children entering Yolo County foster care has increased by 85 percent in the past five years. For context, entries into foster care statewide decreased by 7 percent in that same period. The Yolo county increase coincided with the highly publicized death of 19-day-old Justice Rees
in 2015. Baby Rees was found dead in a remote Yolo County slough and his parents were convicted on charges related to his death. In a 2017-18 Grand Jury Investigation report, the Yolo County Health and Human Services Agency claims it “made significant investments in child welfare services” after the tragedy occurred. The “investments” shifted leadership and expanded staff. New policies emphasized removing children under a wider range of circumstances than had previously been done. The result: a sharp increase in foster care entries. “They were driven by good impulse,” said Don Saylor, the Yolo County District 2 Supervisor. “And we may have gone too far in those decisions.” Strained foster care capacity increased the number of out-ofcounty placements. As of Jan. 1, 61.6 percent of Yolo County foster children live outside of their supervising county. The statistic is triple the statewide standard of 22 percent. “Not only are they leaving their ... biological family, but ... they’re leaving everything that’s familiar
to them and that is an additional trauma,” said Tracy Fauver, executive director of the CourtAppointed Special Advocate program. Those who have been in the foster care system say out of area placement is difficult. Junior Tony Williams was moved from Folsom to a Davis group home at around the age of 8. “(The group home) was not a good experience,” Willliams said.
Early action is needed “What we really need to do better is on the prevention side,” said Jim Provenza, Yolo County District 4 Supervisor and member of the Child Welfare Services Subcommittee. He says reducing in-home stressors, rather than removing a child from a home, is ideal. Fauver agrees. “We know that children who are already traumatized by high degrees of stress and are removed from their home and placed in care are potentially subject to more stress (and) more trauma,” Fauver said. Statistics reveal the benefits of
keeping children in their homes. A 2017 study by the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform examined more than 15,000 “comparably-maltreated children.” The results showed that the children left in their own homes had fewer teenage pregnancies, fewer admissions into juvenile justice systems and greater employment. “It may be that we find out what’s going on with these families and we support them so that they can provide a caring, loving, nurturing environment so the child can thrive with their family of origin,” Saylor said. But according to Provenza, timing is essential. “The system has failed if we get to that point (of a child experiencing abuse),” Provenza said. In the case of Rees, Provenza believes earlier intervention “very likely would have worked, and the child would be alive, and the mother would not be in jail,” because the family was affected by drug abuse. Provenza is chair of the First 5 Yolo program, providing services to children ages 0-5 at risk, and teaching parents proper childcare
skills to prevent downstream abuse. He is also involved with the Yolo Crisis Nursery, which offers a place for children under 5 to stay during a family crisis. Ultimately, the family division decision is up to Child Protective Service workers, the justice system and the state, but Yolo County is working to prevent the need for separation.
Racial disparities In 2019, an African American child in California was 2.47 times more likely than a white child to come in contact with child welfare, according to the CCWIP. In Yolo County, that number was 4.46 — almost double the statewide statistic. Saylor claims Latinos face a similar disparity. According to Provenza, systemic racism might be a culprit. “This will be an ongoing effort, but I was really impressed with the work (the committee is) doing at this point,” said Provenza at the Sept. 29 Board of Supervisors meeting.
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DJUSD band program prepares for potential cuts in its funding BY ELLIOT DEJONG HUB Staff The Davis High band boosters are organizing a committee to prepare for possible funding cuts due to COVID-19. The categorical funds from parcel taxes that pays for these programs may decline due to the economic downturn, worries Thomas Slabaugh, the DHS symphonic and concert band director, prompting the exploration of alternate modes of funding. Band booster Stephen Inouye is organizing the planning committee with fellow booster Jamie Anderson. Inouye started playing clarinet in Davis in the fifth grade, and helped pass the first parcel taxes when he was a student at DHS in 1986. He expects the committee to consist of about 10 parents and band booster members. “We don’t even know if there will necessarily be a problem or not,” Inouye said. “(But) not being prepared can lead to trouble.” According to Inouye, the committee will prepare funding alternatives based on “data and facts” to support the program for the
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Band parents are concert that Davis Joint Unified School District may face program budget cuts. 2021-22 school year. Slabaugh experienced budget cuts when he was teaching at American River College and Sierra College and expects that band will have budget cuts in 2021. “The first program that goes in this region … is music,” Slabaugh
said. “What has kept Davis safe in those recession spirals is (parcel taxes).” According to Slabaugh, the music program doesn’t receive much funding from Davis Joint Unified School District in the first place. “(Orchestra teacher Angelo
Moreno and I) had to give up our materials budget, both of us, for one academic year to buy (the conductor’s podium and music stand) because they weren’t going to replace the one that was falling apart,” Slabaugh said. The
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receive funding from Measure H parcel taxes, which were approved by Davis taxpayers and formed 10 percent of the total DJUSD budget for the 2019-20 school year. The music programs received 5 percent of the parcel tax funding, totaling $500,120. Slabaugh also says the band boosters fundraise about $500,000 per year. Deputy Superintendent Matt Best says that not much is known about the budget next year. The state funding is usually based on attendance and student count, but due to COVID-19, the current funding is based on the attendance from February 2020. This provides a larger budget than if the state used current student count, because DHS has 250 less students due to COVID-19 when compared to last February. Slabaugh hopes that, when the final budget numbers are in, music will still be a school district priority. “Music requires not only the ability to think about it but you have to do it. You don’t have a choice,” Slabaugh said. “Because everything we do is about creating art from little black smudges on white paper.”
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The prize I for state is clean air BY THOMAS LAWSON Special to CalMatters
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ow long should Californians wait for clean air? At first glance, it appears that California is once again leading by example in battling climate change and providing clean air to those that need it most. However, for residents of Los Angeles and the Central Valley who currently breathe the dirtiest air in the country, the governor’s September executive order to ban the sale of new gasoline-powered cars doesn’t go far enough. The executive order’s goals are 15 and 25 years away. So it raises the question, what should California do between now and then? How is the state going to provide clean air to this generation? As CalEPA Jared Secretary Blumenfeld and California Air Resources Board Chair Mary Nichols recently wrote to US EPA Administrator Doug Wheeler: “Six of the 10 cities with the worst air pollution nationwide are in California. Ten million Californians in the San Joaquin Valley and Los Angeles air basins currently live under what is known as “severe non-attainment” conditions for ozone. People in these areas suffer unusually high rates of asthma and cardiopulmonary disease.” According to the South Coast Air Quality Management District, the Los Angeles region must reduce NOx pollution by 135 million tons per day by 2023 to meet federal air quality standards and by 142 million tons per day by 2031. A recently adopted regulation requiring 50% of all heavy duty trucks to be Zero Emission Vehicles by 2031 will only reduce 2 million tons per day. How will we reduce the remaining 140 tons per day required to meet federal air quality standards? And why wouldn’t we want to make more meaningful progress now since we have clean trucks today that can help get us there? Our state is one of the most innovative, diverse and pioneering states in the Union. We can and should support longer-term aspirational goals while also making the most of the current set of tools to reduce as much pollution as possible in the near-term. Deployment of our current tools should be in addition and complimentary to pursuing future goals.
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ur current political discourse is highlighted by our inability to talk and listen to someone that may have a different view on an issue from us. If we want a respectful discourse, we must practice it and not make allegations against someone’s character just because we don’t like their views on policy. That’s why we should applaud legislators who are rolling up their sleeves and looking for ways to create equity and solve problems today. Elected officials like Assemblymember Mike Gipson, a Democrat from Compton who authored Assembly Bill 3111, which seeks to modernize the legacy Carl Moyer program so that we can get more clean trucks, regardless of technology, on the road now; or Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva, a Democrat from Buena Park who authored Assembly Bill 1002, which sought to restore fuel-neutrality to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard. The Low Carbon Fuel Standard is providing very significant incentives to develop and sustain clean fuels including renewable natural gas, hydrogen and electricity in California so that we have alternatives to fossil oil and gas in our transportation sector. Creative solutions such as providing a non-monetary incentive such as Assembly Bill 2061, authored by Assemblymember Jim Frazier, a Democrat from Discovery Bay, that grants a weight exemption for electric zero emission and near zero emission heavy duty vehicles, so that fleets have viable alternatives to diesel trucks should be the emulated instead of lambasted. It’s imperative that we come together to fight air pollution and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In the transportation sector the enemy should be high-polluting trucks, and we all should make sure that we stay focused on the prize of clean air. Fossil fuels still make up 90% of the fuels used in transportation, yet engines for heavy-duty trucks operated on clean renewable fuel are available today. We can deliver public health and environmental benefits now while the state waits for heavy-duty zero-emission trucks to arrive a decade or more from now. — Thomas Lawson is president of the California Natural Gas Vehicle Coalition, Thomas@ cngvc.org.
n my last column, I explained why in 2020 we moved from black to Black in reference to people of African heritage. While the uppercase was preferred by some for decades, the killing of George Floyd and the subsequent fight against racism convinced most editors and writers this year to adopt the majuscule, putting Black ethnicity on equal footing with Chinese, Irish or Peruvian. Yet linguistic innovators are not done. There is a small but growing movement to refer to people of Latin American heritage as Latinx — pronounced LATin-ex — in place of Latino. The plural form is Latinxs — LAT-in-exes. According to Wikipedia, the “term was first seen online around 2004,” and thus far “only 2 to 3 percent use Latinx.” It’s not yet clear if Latinx will take hold or will fade away. Often, a change in language is first widely adopted by young people, and then as they age, the change becomes a new norm if later generations accept and use the term. So it may be another 20 years before we know if Latinx is the next Black. Those who favor Latinx to Latino are motivated by a desire to achieve social equality — similar to the Black innovators. In this case, it is for gender equality. In Spanish, most words ending in -o or -os are masculine; most ending in -a or -as are feminine. As such, Latino and Latinos are male; Latina and Latinas female. But when you have a mixed group — even if it is 99 women and one man — the standard is to use the
“neutral” masculine, Latinos. Historically, English works the same with singular pronouns. If we know a person is a man, we use he for the subjective, him for the objective. If we know a person is a woman, we use she for the subjective, her for the objective. But if we don’t know — say the person is anonymous or out of sight — standard English is to use the masculine as the neutral form. Older Anglophones, myself included, still do this. “The driver just jammed his brakes for no reason.” You could not see the driver. So you use the masculine as the neutral pronoun. Yet this old convention is fading away. To my repugnance, most younger Americans, rightly trying to achieve gender equality, wrongly employ they or their as the third person singular neutral pronoun. “The driver just jammed their brakes for no reason.” Gender neutrality in our tongue is much easier to achieve than it is in Spanish. Other than with personal pronouns, English is almost always genderless. In English, “We open a door (neutral), cook our breakfast (n) and drive to the city (n). But in Spanish, “Abrimos una puerta (f ), cocinamos nuestro desayuno (m) y nos manejamos a la ciudad (f ).”
In many occupational words in English, there is a feminine variation and a masculine which historically also served as the neutral. We have actresses and actors; an aviatrix and an aviator; and executrixes and executors. However, the feminine forms are fading away, seen as either unnecessary, insulting or passé. In some cases, we have adopted the -person suffix — chairman and chairwoman became chairperson or chair; waiter and waitress became waitperson or server. In others, such as with steward and stewardess, we found a new term, flight attendant.
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n Spanish, where every noun has a gender, it’s impossible to make the language genderless. So a move from Latino to Latinx goes against the grain. Yet, among younger Spanish speakers, some have adopted the neologism, Latinx. The word Latino came into English from Spanish, sort of. It’s an English shortening of the Spanish word Latinoamericano. It has never meant a person who speaks Latin or a Latinbased language such as Italian or French. Like its Spanish equivalent, Latino has always meant a person whose heritage is from Latin America. According to most sources, Latino was coined in 1946 and was accepted in standard English dictionaries by the 1970s. In Mexico and some other Spanishspeaking countries, Latino is now an accepted Spanish word. Nevertheless, its change to Latinx is still mainly among English speakers. Yet if you are an older Anglophone
who is fluent in Spanish — see photo above — the -x ending feels awkward. Moreover, there is a better way to achieve gender neutrality. Latinx looks and sounds weird. It’s also awkward because we don’t have other words that end in -x in order to make them neutral. That’s not to say we don’t have English words — mostly of Greek origin — that end in -x or -nx. For example, we have index and suffix and jinx, minx and larynx. Those are, of course, genderless nouns. But none was formed to convert a masculine form into neutral. What I propose — if we want to move away from Latino as the neutral form — is less awkward and looks better. Use a neutral -é in place of the masculine -o. Change Latino to Latiné, pronouncing it lat-in-AY. The plural would be Latinés. Latiné also works for a second reason some oppose masculine and feminine word forms — they identify as transgender or gendernonconforming. Rather than being called a Latino or a Latina, some in this “nonbinary community” prefer Latinx. But Latiné serves the same purpose, only it sounds and looks better. As I noted in my previous column, living languages are always changing. Whether Latinx or Latiné replaces Latino and Latina won’t be determined by people my age or older. It will be today’s youth and generations to come who decide what changes and what remains the same. — Rich Rifkin is a Davis resident; his column is published every other week. Reach him at Lxartist@ yahoo.com.
LETTERS Make It Happen thanks Mikuni The board and volunteers of Make it Happen for Yolo County wish to thank the Mikuni Charitable Organization for their very generous grant. MIH provides support and resources to Yolo County youth who have experienced foster care or homelessness and are transitioning into independent living. We provide new household goods and appliances as well as gently used furniture to enable these young adults to furnish their first homes. MIH is grateful to have been recognized by Mikuni’s Charitable Organization and appreciates their partnership in giving back to our Yolo County community. Jan Judson Davis
Remembering how it was The Davis Enterprise has provided some welcome reminiscing about an earlier UCD physical-education and athletics era through several good articles which have been published over this unhealthy summer. This letter is motivated by Bob Dunning’s column about Tony Martinez in the Sept. 30 edition of The Enterprise. As an office worker in the PE Department from 1969 to 1989, I was privileged to work with one of the most copacetic groups of University employees anywhere. Coaches, faculty and support staff made up a truly democratic department. I remember when Tony Martinez came to work with us, a transfer from (I think) the UCD mail room. He was funny, bright, compassionate, inventive and a real friend to all, another wonderful addition to our staff. The coaches in those days were on the
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The Davis Unit of the Salvation Army raised $17, 455 through their red kettle drive in December 2019 thanks to the generosity of the many Davis community bell ringers and the donors. Due to
the pandemic, the Board of the Davis unit decided it was not feasible to hold our annual “Child Spree” for Davis school-age children in August this year. In lieu of the shopping day, the board decided to ask Harmony Scopazzi at Davis Community Meals and Housing to identify 100 Davis school-age children in need of a $100 Target gift card. Thank you to Barbara Geisler and the Davis Rebekahs for donating the backpacks with school supplies and an extra Target gift card for the older children. The 12 boys at Progress Ranch also received $100 Target gift cards. There will not be a Salvation Army bell ringing fundraising event this year due to the pandemic. We hope to hold a shopping day in August 2021. The unit will use $5,500 remaining from the 2019 bell ringing to fund this event in addition to carry-over funds from the 2018 bell ringing. If you would like to donate to next year’s shopping day event in lieu of donating to the kettle drive this year, please make out your check to Davis Salvation Army c/o Toni Smith, 2253 Somerset Circle, Woodland, CA 95776. Toni Smith For the Davis Salvation Army Board
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supervisor ladder, in tandem with the professor ladder. All coaches taught all the activity classes in addition to their coaching duties, a full schedule. Faculty taught and researched in the history of sport, sport psychology, human physiology and kinesiology. They published widely. It was a department diversified in specialty and talent. I think none of this is the case today. UCD is now Division I with all of the fitting upgrades and changes that come with that, and few, if any, academic pursuits at the department level. Coaches coach. It is unfortunate the campus is losing its PE 1 activity classes; they have remained quite popular throughout the years. It is a shame several instructors will lose their jobs. I suppose in five years no one will remember how important any of this once was. But it was. Jeanie Sherwood Davis
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Friday, November 6, 2020 between 1:00 P.M and 3:00 P.M, meeting at the front parking lot to be escorted through campus. Signature of your firm’s representative on the Site Visit Log is Davis Joint Unified School District required. (“District”) is seeking proposals from qualified persons, firms, partnerships, Questions regarding this RFQ/P may be corporations, associations, or directed to William Savidge, by email to professional organizations to provide Bsavidge@K12schoolfacilities.org, and design, constructability review, value must be submitted on or by 4:00 P.M. on engineering, master scheduling, cost Friday, November 13, 2020. estimating, budgeting, and construction All Respondents must have already been services for the development and prequalified by the District in accordance construction for the following project, with Public Contract Code, § 20111.6. in accordance with the lease-leaseback First tier electrical, mechanical and structure set forth in Education Code plumbing subcontractors are required by section 17406 et seq.: Public Contract Code, §20111.6 and must be prequalified prior to subcontractor Cesar Chavez Elementary School, bids are submitted. Prequalification North Davis Elementary School, and applications are available at the Willett Elementary Multi-Purpose District’s website address noted above. Building Projects Contractors of all tiers must be currently RFQP #02-2021 registered and qualified to perform The Request for Qualifications and public work pursuant to Labor Code, Proposals (“RFQP”), which includes § 1725.5. instructions for its completion, is 10/30, 11/4 1033 available from the District’s website at the following link: https://djusd.net/ PUBLIC NOTICE departments/capital_operations/capital_ improvement. Respondents to this RFQ/P NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER shall submit a completed Statement of ESTATE OF EVELYN N. GRIFFIN aka Qualifications (“SOQ”) along with the EVELYN NERVIG GRIFFIN aka EVELYN Proposal (collectively “RFQP Packet”). N. RYAN Respondents must transmit their RFQP Case No. PR-1998-129 Packet by email attachment in pdf To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, format conforming to the requirements contingent creditors, and persons who of this RFQ/P to: may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of EVELYN N. GRIFFIN DAVIS JOINT UNIFIED SCHOOL aka EVELYN NERVIG GRIFFIN aka EVELYN DISTRICT N. RYAN 1919 Fifth Street Davis, CA 95616 A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed ATTN: David Burke, Director of Capital by Lorin Sullivan in the Superior Court of Operations California, County of YOLO. RE: RFQ/P #02-2021 THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests Dburke@djusd.net that Lorin Sullivan be appointed as ALL RESPONSES ARE DUE BY 4:00 P.M. personal representative to administer the ON Thursday, November 19, 2020. estate of the decedent. Oral, telegraphic, facsimile, or telephone THE PETITION requests the decedent’s RFQ/P Packets will not be accepted. will and codicils, if any, be admitted to RFQ/P Packets received after this date probate. The will and any codicils are and time will not be accepted. available for examination in the file kept by the court. A mandatory informational meeting will THE PETITION requests authority be conducted on Thursday, November to administer the estate under the 5, 2020 at 1:00 P.M. This will be a virtual Independent Administration of Estates meeting. A link to the meeting will be Act. (This authority will allow the personal provided on the District’s website at: representa-tive to take many actions https://djusd.net/departments/capital_ without obtaining court approval. Before operations/capital_improvement. taking certain very important actions, Interested parties are required to visit the however, the personal representative will Chavez, North Davis, Willett Elementary be required to give notice to interested School on Thursday, November 5, persons unless they have waived notice 2020 between 2:00 P.M and 4:00 P.M, or consented to the proposed action.) meeting at the front parking lot of The independent administration Caesar Chavez Elementary School to be authority will be granted unless an escorted through campus and then to interested person files an objection to the remaining campuses. Signature of the petition and shows good cause why your firm’s representative on the Site Visit the court should not grant the authority. Log is required. A HEARING on the petition will be held Questions regarding this RFQ/P may be on Dec. 3, 2020 at 9:00 AM in Dept. No. 9 directed to William Savidge, by email to located at 1000 Main St., Woodland, CA Bsavidge@K12schoolfacilities.org, and 95695. must be submitted on or by 4:00 P.M. on IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the Thursday, November 12, 2020. petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file All Respondents must have already been written objections with the court before prequalified by the District in accordance the hearing. Your appearance may be in with Public Contract Code, § 20111.6. person or by your attorney. First tier electrical, mechanical and IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent plumbing subcontractors are required by creditor of the decedent, you must file Public Contract Code, §20111.6 and must your claim with the court and mail a copy be prequalified prior to subcontractor to the personal representative appointed bids are submitted. Prequalification by the court within the later of either applications are available at the (1) four months from the date of first District’s website address noted above. issuance of letters to a general personal Contractors of all tiers must be currently representative, as defined in section 58(b) registered and qualified to perform of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 public work pursuant to Labor Code, days from the date of mailing or personal § 1725.5. delivery to you of a notice under section 10/30, 11/4 1032 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal PUBLIC NOTICE authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an DAVIS JOINT UNIFIED SCHOOL attorney knowledgeable in California law. DISTRICT REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS AND YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in PROPOSALS the estate, you may file with the court a LEASE-LEASEBACK CONSTRUCTION Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) SERVICES of the filing of an inventory and appraisal RFQ/P #01-2021 of estate assets or of any petition or Davis Joint Unified School District account as provided in Probate Code (“District”) is seeking proposals from section 1250. A Request for Special Notice qualified persons, firms, partnerships, form is available from the court clerk. corporations, associations, or Attorney for petitioner: professional organizations to provide CYNTHIA R COX ESQ design, constructability review, value HEIDI L MATTSON ESQ engineering, master scheduling, cost COX LAW GROUP INC estimating, budgeting, and construction 23326 HAWTHORNE BLVD services for the development and STE 390 construction for the following project, TORRANCE CA90505-3771 in accordance with the lease-leaseback CN973162 GRIFFIN Nov 4,11,18, 2020 structure set forth in Education Code 11/4, 11/11, 11/18 1038 section 17406 et seq.: FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME DaVinci Charter High School STATEMENT Technology Hub Project RFQP #01-2021 Filed: October 23, 2020 The Request for Qualifications and FBN Number: F20200885 Proposals (“RFQP”), which includes 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) instructions for its completion, is Infinite Microbes available from the District’s website at 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of the following link: https://djusd.net/ Principal Place of Business in California. departments/capital_operations/capital_ Business is located in Yolo County. improvement. Respondents to this RFQ/P 1308 Beech Lane shall submit a completed Statement of Davis, CA 95616 Qualifications (“SOQ”) along with the 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Proposal (collectively “RFQP Packet”). Residence Address, State, and Zip Respondents must transmit their RFQP Patrik Inderbitzin Packet by email attachment in pdf 1308 Beech Lane format conforming to the requirements Davis, CA 95616 of this RFQ/P to: 4. Business Classification: Individual DAVIS JOINT UNIFIED SCHOOL 5. Beginning Date of Business: The DISTRICT Registrant(s) commenced to transact 1919 Fifth Street Davis, CA 95616 business under the fictitious business ATTN: David Burke, Director of Capital name or names listed above on: Operations September 1, 2020 RE: RFQ/P #01-1920 “I declare that all information in Dburke@djusd.net this statement is true and correct.” ALL RESPONSES ARE DUE BY 4:00 (A registrant who declares as true P.M. ON Friday, November 20, 2020. information which he or she knows to be Oral, telegraphic, facsimile, or telephone false is guilty of a crime.) RFQ/P Packets will not be accepted. 6. Signature of Registrant(s): RFQ/P Packets received after this date Patrik Inderbitzin 11/4, 11/11, 11/18, 11/25 1039 and time will not be accepted. A mandatory informational meeting will be conducted on Friday, November 6, 2020 at 10:00 A.M. This will be a virtual meeting. A link to the meeting will be provided on the District’s website at: https://djusd.net/departments/capital_ operations/capital_improvement. Interested parties are also required to visit the DaVinci Charter High School on
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF Debra Gail Soliz CASE NO. PR2020-0192 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Debra Gail Soliz A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been
filed by: Danielle Crain in the Superior Court of California, County of: Yolo THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that: Danielle Crain be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A HEARING on the petition will be held on December 16, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. in Department 10 located at 1000 Main Street, Woodland, CA 95695. IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Signed: David T. hornsby, Esq. Attorney for petitioner 800 South Broadway, Suite 301 Walnut Creek, CA 94596 11/4, 11/6, 11/11 1040 PUBLIC NOTICE
CITY OF DAVIS ORDINANCE SUMMARY NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on October 27, 2020, the City Council of the City of Davis introduced and on November 10, 2020, the City Council shall consider adopting the following ordinance entitled: AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DAVIS ADDING ARTICLE 35.07 TO THE DAVIS MUNICIPAL CODE TO ESTABLISH A STREET CUT MORATORIUM ON NEWLY IMPROVED STREETS AND MAKING A DETERMINATION OF EXEMPTION UNDER CEQA The proposed ordinance will add Article 35.07 to Chapter 35 of the City of Davis Municipal Code. The purpose and intent of this Article is to prohibit any street cuts (trenches) in City streets that have been rehabilitated or newly paved within the last five years. The following exemptions apply: 1. Emergency Excavations that are: immediately necessary to protect life or property; an urgency affecting the health and welfare of the City’s residents or businesses occurs; or in the case of failed pipelines or utility services, that affect public security or public safety. 2. Repairs or modifications that are necessary to prevent interruption of essential utility service, or Excavations necessary to provide utility service for buildings where no other reasonable means of providing service exists. 3. Work that is mandated by City, state, or federal law. 4. Excavations, as determined by the City Engineer necessary for situations in which no other alternatives to cutting a street subject to the Moratorium exist. When granting exceptions, the City Engineer may impose reasonable conditions to ensure the rapid and complete restoration of the street and the surface paving. 5. If a street subject to the Moratorium is cut for any reason, the extent of required repairs for the damages caused by such cut are outlined in 35.07.50, or as determined by the City Engineer. If the City Engineer determines that restoration of the street is not appropriate at a particular time for reasons relating to weather or other short-term complications, the City Engineer may order a delay, or the posting of bonds, to ensure completion of the work when proper conditions allow for the restoration work. Alternatively, the City Engineer may approve direct payment to the City to cover the cost of restoration. This payment shall be based on the most recent bids for pavement restoration work.
PUBLIC NOTICES Legals Submission email legals@ davisenterprise.net. View legals at www.capublic notice.com be pursued to support an additional fee for these exceptions; to obtain a full understanding of the ordinance, a reading of the document in its entirety may be necessary. A certified copy of the full text of the adopted ordinance may be viewed in the City Clerk’s Office, 23 Russell Boulevard, Davis, California, and/ or copies may be obtained at a nominal charge. 11/4 1041 PUBLIC NOTICE
CITY OF DAVIS ORDINANCE SUMMARY NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN on October 27, 2020, the City Council of the City of Davis, California, introduced, and on November 10, 2020, the City Council will consider adopting the following two (2) entitled ordinances: AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 40 DAVIS MUNICIPAL CODE (ORDINANCE 1318) OF THE CITY OF DAVIS FOR PLANNED DEVELOPMENT #3-84, TO REZONE TWO PARCELS (6.2 ACRES) FROM COMMERCIAL MIXED USE TO MIXED USE, AND THE RELATED DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS FOR THE MIXED USE AREA (P-D) 3-84A -AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DAVIS APPROVING THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT FOR THE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH PARK PROJECT The following description summarizes the aforementioned ordinances to be adopted by the City Council: Rezone for Planned Development. The proposed Ordinance will amend Davis Municipal Code section 40.01.090 for the 6.2-acre property located at 1770 Research Park Drive (APNs 069-290-001000 and 069-290-044-000). The purpose of this planned development is to provide a mixed use district combining high density multifamily residential with office / open tech spaces and businesses that: A. Optimize infill location within the City of Davis; B. Provide for a mix of residential and non-residential uses to promote compact development patterns, mixed-uses, and higher- development intensities that use land efficiently; C. Reduce greenhouse gas emissions and auto dependence and the expenditure of energy and other resources D. Promote walking bicycling, and transit use, consistent with SACOG’s strategies to facilitate and streamline the development of residential mixed-use projects and Transit Priority Projects E. Provide a flexible mixed-use project with residential uses, offices, open tech spaces, business services, and employment; F. Provide energy efficient building design that incorporates sustainable design elements. Planned Development PD 3-84A establishes the allowed uses; offices; research and development uses; laboratories; and residential, including possible home occupations and live/ work uses. Medical, dental, optical and clinical uses and day care businesses, in combination with residential uses, would require the approval of an administrative use permit. It addresses the intensity of the land uses for the residential and retail development, unit mix, and parking. It also addresses the development standards for height, setbacks, landscaping, parking and requires approval of a Final Planned Development. Development Agreement. The Development Agreement by and between the City of Davis and the Developer of the University Research Park Project provides a vested right to develop the property in accordance with the terms of the Agreement, for the 15-year duration. Highlights of the obligations of the Agreement include, but are not limited to: A. Development Impact Fees, Connection Fees, and Community Enhancement Funds B. Affordable Housing Plan C. Local Hiring Program D. Environmental Sustainability Implementation Plan E. Residential Occupancy Management Plan F. Parking Management Plan G. Recordation of a covenant on the property to include a permanent obligation for the property owner to make payments to the City in lieu of the City’s share of otherwise-required property taxes in the event that residential units are leased or sold to a University of California or an affiliated entity exempt from payment of property taxes. H. Landscaping and Water Conservation Measures I. The maximum number of bedrooms in the project unit shall not exceed three bedrooms.
Additional information may be found at: https://www.cityofdavis.org/cityhall/community-development-andsustainability/development-projects/ Another major component of the research-park-mixed-use moratorium is the ability for the City to establish a fee, based on a study, The above summary constitutes the to compensate for the reduced life of major highlights of the proposed pavement if the street does need to ordinances. A reading of the documents be cut into due to one of the above in their entirety may be necessary exceptions, before the five years have to obtain a full understanding of the cleared. The Council voted to move ordinance. A certified copy of the full text of the ordinances may be viewed in the forward with the study. City Clerk’s Office, 23 Russell Boulevard, The above summary constitutes the Davis, California, and/or copies may be major exceptions to the street cut obtained at a nominal charge. 1042 moratorium and the fee study that will 11/4
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Holocaust survivor talks to Girl Scouts Special to The Enterprise At 11 years old, Magdalena “Leny” Heymann went into hiding from the Nazis during World War II. Not hidden under planks of a floor or tucked away in an attic, she was welcomed as a distant cousin by a Protestant minister and his family in Holland. These years in hiding were spent feeling afraid and “terribly homesick” and not knowing if she or her family would survive another day. Eighty percent of the Jews in Holland did not survive but Leny emerged from that period in her life to tell her story. In a recent Zoom meeting, Leny, now 89, recently spoke to older Girl Scouts and their leaders from Davis about her experiences. "Everyone should know what happened during World War II, including those who deny that concentration camps ever existed. My job is to keep telling this story. It’s this generation's responsibility
to make sure it does not repeat itself in the future." “No one believed what was happening in Holland. We lived in Deventer, a town of approximately 40,000 people and about one hour east of Amsterdam. Jews had been considered to be contributing members of our community, and my father was a well-respected doctor. As he did not want to abandon his patients, we waited for two years before going into hiding. When the Nazis first invaded in 1940, they instituted one terrible law after another. First, my father was forbidden to practice medicine. Then, they made us leave our home, sending us to an old, cramped apartment where we lived with another family. We were forced to wear ugly, yellow stars on all our clothing. I was ashamed to wear it.” In1942, Jews were rounded up and sent in cattle trains to concentration camps. After realizing life was very dangerous, her family split up and hid in
different houses. Leny had to walk by herself to a family she did not know in northern Holland. When asked why she did not attend public school, she told people she was unfit for normal schooling. Hiding with another family in Amsterdam, her younger brother was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Auschwitz, where he was killed. After the war, her family went back to Deventer. However, Leny’s mother never adjusted to life without her son and committed suicide. Her father buried himself in his work but never regained his health. Eventually, Leny moved to California where she attended UC Berkeley and graduated with a master's degree in social work in 1956. She is now a Davis resident. After Mrs. Heymann spoke on Sept. 30 and Oct. 7, the girls asked questions about what her life was like in hiding, what life was like before and after the war, and what life lessons she learned by
Picnic in the Park drops music, beer
going through so many ordeals.
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“One of the most important things I learned,” Leny said, “is that life is very fragile. The hatred of ‘other’ people has consequences. If we don’t act differently than in the past, we will repeat history. People have always looked for scapegoats to blame.”
The Davis Farmers Market is returning to its roots, putting the focus of its Wednesday market back on the farmers. COVID-19 health guidelines halted concerts and alcohol consumption at the market. There haven’t been the usual crowds filling Central Park for Picnic in the Park, yet farm-fresh produce sales are up. Since 1995, the Wednesday market has extended its hours into the early evenings. While not abandoning the Picnic in the Park name, the Davis Farmers Market plans to discontinue the music and beer garden. Meanwhile, the Davis Downtown Business Association is eager to pick up the music and alcohol portion of the event and incorporate it into Open Air Davis, as early as next spring. Randii MacNear, executive director of the Davis
The Girl Scouts discussed the need to stand up for people who are bullied or persecuted. Leny responded, “Like the families that sheltered me, we need to act upon what we see around us in our daily lives or around the world. Be aware. Don’t accept prejudice in any of its forms, from speech or from actions.” This event was sponsored by Girl Scouts Heart of Central California. For additional information about Girl Scouts Heart of Central California or to become a Girl Scout, visit http://girlscoutshcc.org/ join or email customer care@girlscoutshcc.org.
Farmers Market, said there’s been a continual shift with Picnic in the Park. Wednesday evenings in the summer meant Central Park was packed with picnickers. Increasingly, patrons brought their own food and alcohol. Visitors began coming just for the free concert, often requesting louder music, later hours and more costly bands. Then the pandemic banned such gatherings. “And the market is thriving like never before. Who knew that would happen?” she said. “The heart of the market still beats strong. Brett Maresca, executive director of Davis Downtown, hopes to capture the energy from this popular community event and carry it into the city’s core, giving merchants a much-needed boost. Though it’s too early to announce plans, he said they are enthusiastic about the opportunity.
OBITUARIES Brenton Elias Dumas
Greta Ann (Gockel) Heinemeier
May 4, 1985 — Oct. 17, 2020
Brenton Dumas, 35, died Oct. 17 at his home in Davis, He was born May 4, 1985, on the island of Dominica to Elias Dumas and Agatha Rosebud Eli. At the age of 7, he left the island to join his father and stepmother Jennifer Dumas in Davis. He attended school in Davis until graduating in 2004. He then joined the Air Force in 2005, excelling and winning multiple honors including a National Defense Service Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal and Iraq Campaign Medal. He did two overseas deployments, one to Qatar and one to Turkey, before returning home to Davis.
He is survived by his father Elias, his mother Agatha and stepmother Jennifer, sisters Tianna and Allison Dumas, brother Achille Eli of Dominica and numerous other caring aunts, uncles, cousins and friends in the U.S., Caribbean, Canada, England and others that loved him dearly. Brenton will be laid to rest with honors at the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery in Dixon at 11 a.m. Monday, Nov. 2. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that you consider donating to a recovering-veterans program such as Wounded Warriors or the Veterans of America.
Feb. 19, 1935 — Sept. 28, 2020
Greta Heinemeier, 85, died peacefully in her sleep at Carlton Senior Living in Davis. She is survived by brother Galen Gockel, daughter Kristin Heinemeier, and grandchildren Alicia Lamond and Peter and Benjamin Holderbein. Greta was born in Anna, IL to parents Herman Gockel and Mildred (Galen) Gockel, and grew up in St. Louis MO. She graduated from Valparaiso University with a degree in social work. She lived in Enfield, CT; Detroit, MI; Foster City, CA; and Mountain View, CA, before settling in Davis to be closer to her grandchildren. After working as a social worker and a kindergarten teacher, Greta eventually became a geriatric social worker and director of resident services at the Sunny View Lutheran continuing care facility in Cupertino — retiring after 20 years. Greta was a faithful and active member of the Lutheran Church of the Incarnation, representing it on the board of the Belfry Lutheran-Episcopal Campus ministry, and
Clara Louise O’Neil Comingore Sept. 26, 1926 — Oct. 22, 2020
Clara Louise O’Neil Comingore, at the great age of 94, passed away peacefully at home on Oct. 22, with her family at her side. Clara was born in 1926 in Moundsville, W.V., to Nelle (Lancaster) O’Neil and Ray O’Neil. Clara and her parents moved to Washington, D. C. when she was a young child. At the age of 9, she met the love of her life, Ed Comingore, through their church. Ed and Clara married on July 12, 1947, and celebrated their 73rd wedding anniversary this year. Together they had the joy of raising five daughters. Clara earned an associate’s degree from George Washington University and a bachelor’s degree from The Ohio State University. Her academic studies were topped off with a master’s degree in education from California State University, Hayward in 1978. Clara deeply enjoyed being a teacher of elementary-age children. She worked as a teacher, reading specialist and resource specialist for 20 years. Clara and Ed brought their daughters up to enjoy the outdoors. Clara taught all her daughters and many grandchildren how to ski. She was a member of the Boreal Ridge Ski Patrol as an auxiliary patroller for 25 years and, with her husband, skied until she was 89 years old. Clara also enjoyed tennis, swimming, running, walking, reading and writing. She played piano from childhood and
sang in choruses for many years. As a lifelong learner, at 78 she learned and became skilled in clarinet and alto saxophone. She played in a number of local bands and, at 90 years of age, performed her final concert at Carnegie Hall. Clara is survived by her husband Ed Comingore and their daughters: Nancy (Mark) Mitchell, Katherine (John) Miller, Darlene Comingore, Beth (Tom) Ward and Laura (Ron) Hubrich. She leaves a legacy of nine grandchildren: Brian (Jennifer) Mitchell, Douglas (Chrissy) Mitchell, John Miller, Andy Miller, Jacob Comingore, Travis (Kristy) Newkirk, Alli (Jared) White, Jenny (David) White and Ryan Hubrich; as well as 18 great-grandchildren. Clara challenged the minds and enriched the spirit of everyone she met. She will be missed by all she touched in her long life. A viewing will be held for friends and family from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4, at Smith Funeral Home, 116 D St. in Davis. Private funeral services will be held at Smith Funeral Home. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Ed and Clara Comingore Scholarship Foundation, providing scholarships to students interested in either teaching or engineering careers: c/o Ed and Clara Comingore Scholarship Foundation, 172 S. Temelec Circle, Sonoma, CA 95476.
frequently volunteering at the Interfaith Rotating Winter Shelter and for Cool Davis. She served the Lutheran Church more broadly as a member of the Sierra Pacific Synod Council and with the Lutheran Office of Public Policy. Greta is remembered as a kind person and a friendly neighbor who went out of her way to recognize people she appreciated — always with a “twinkle” in her eye. She was a gentle and courageous servant of Christ and advocate for the vulnerable. She touched the lives of many and will be remembered fondly. An in-person socially distanced funeral service will be held on the west lawn of Lutheran Church of the Incarnation, 1701 Russell Blvd. at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7. In lieu of flowers, please consider donating to Bread for the World (www.bread.org), one of Greta’s favorite charities. You are encouraged to record your memories of her in an online guestbook (www.memorial. yourtribute.com/Greta-Heinemeier).
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Richard Carl Dorf Dec. 27, 1933 — Oct. 22, 2020
Richard Carl Dorf (Dick) was born in the Bronx, N.Y., on Dec. 27, 1933, the only child of Carl and Marion Dorf (Fraser). He attended The Bronx High School of Science and Clarkson College in upstate New York, where he pursued a degree in electrical engineering. Joy was attending SUNY Potsdam at the time and the couple met and married. He then received a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder, and a Ph.D. from the Naval Postgraduate School in California in 1961. The couple spent a year in Scotland at the University of Edinburgh where Dick was a lecturer before returning to sunny California for a position as professor and department chair at Santa Clara University. Both girls were born around this time, Christine in 1962 and Renee in 1964. Dick began his writing career in the early 1960s with one of his most significant textbooks “Modern Control Systems” now in its 12th edition. In the early 1970s, the couple moved to Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, where Dick was vice president of student affairs. After three years in the Midwest, they returned to California where Dick took a position as the dean of extended learning at UC Davis, holding a variety of positions at the university until full retirement in
2012. He was one of the founding faculty members for the Graduate School of Management. In 2019, Dick was honored with the UC Davis Medal for his many contributions to the school and to the field of engineering and technology entrepreneurship. Dick was a teacher at heart. He loved inspiring his students and often had groups of students at the house for wine and cheese. He was approachable and encouraging to all of them. In his later years, he enjoyed his growing family, travel, special occasions with Joy cooking wonderful meals, and classic mystery shows. His life journey was completed on Oct. 22. Dick is survived by his wife of 63 years, Joy Macdonald Dorf, their daughter Renee, son-in-law Scott Schafer and son-in-law Steve Boilard. Grandchildren are Ian Boilard (wife Katelyn), Kyle Schafer (wife Kiya), Graham Schafer (wife Tamazin) and Kaitlyn Schafer. He is pre-deceased by his daughter Christine, 2008. Memorial remembrance gifts can be made to: “Davis Community Church Memorial Fund” and “Yolo Hospice — Healing Garden” or any nonprofit of your choice. There will be a Zoom Memorial Service at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 8. To access the link, go to dccpres.org and scroll down to “highlights and featured events.”
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oday, as I write this, is Nov. 2. When The Enterprise prints it, and you read it, it will be Nov. 4. Between now and then is Nov. 3, a day of great consequence for the climate crisis. I’m not sure how to characterize the outcome of the election. I know today I am a mix of hope, even optimism, and anxiety and dread. Is this a “tipping point” that will define our future? Yes. Are we at Yogi Berra’s “fork in the road”? Also yes. We know where the road we are on is taking us. Unlike Berra’s framing of this choice, we also know which road is the fork, and though we can’t see over the horizon to its final destination, it promises a better outcome than the one we are on. Should we fail to follow the fork in the road being offered to us, we, and that includes future generations, will forever regret the road not taken. So here’s to hoping that Nov. 4 will usher in a new morning in America, one in which we can exult, one in which we can get down to the serious business of planning and implementing a livable, equitable world, and one in which I can promise to lighten up on the clichés. For me, today, on Nov. 2, I am choosing hope and optimism, and here are a couple of touchpoints for that hope and optimism. According to a Bloomberg article, “Climate scientists have quietly begun converging on a stark conclusion: The window in which cutting emissions by reducing fossil fuels alone can reverse climate change has essentially closed. To keep temperatures on the planet from rising 2 degrees centigrade above pre-industrial levels, the stated goal of the 2016 Paris agreement, humanity will also have to swiftly develop ways to remove carbon from the atmosphere.” Enter Joanne Chory, plant biologist. She and her colleagues are genetically engineering a common roadside weed to develop very deep and thick roots. As she explains it, “Plants are really good at sucking up CO2.” This small project has bigger goals. The researchers admit that a weed sequestering carbon in its roots, no matter how deep and thick they grow, won’t have much of an impact on global climate. The weed is a Beta test; the bigger goal is to extend this research to crops like corn, wheat, soy, rice, cotton and canola that collectively occupy more than half of Earth’s arable land. The key to their approach is to isolate the genes that can “increase the amount of suberin in parts of the roots that are not needed to absorb water or nutrients. A major constituent of cork, suberin is impermeable to water and far harder for microbes to break down than the rest of the biomass. It will hold the sequestered carbon in the soil for decades, possibly
even centuries.” They’ve also identified some genetic variants that increase root mass — and the ability of the roots to grow deeper where there’s less oxygen and few microbes are present to break the roots down. It’s a bold vision, but is it pie-in-the-sky? Some don’t think so. The development of CRISPER technology enables many genetic modifications of just this sort. Also, the project is funded in part by the TED’s Audacious Projects organization backed by, among others, the Bill and Melinda Gates and MacArthur foundations. Big news also comes from a recent study published in Nature (as reported in a recent New York Times article) that purports to offer a pathway to “soaking up almost half of the carbon dioxide that has built up since the Industrial Revolution and averting more than 70 percent of the predicted animal and plant extinctions on land. The key? Returning a strategic 30 percent of the world’s farmlands to nature.” Sounds good, but what about losing all that land going to food production? The study asserts it could be accomplished “while preserving an abundant food supply” and it would be “one of the most cost-effective ways of combatting climate change.” The article indicates that the study’s authors (I’m not sure any of them are farmers) claim that, “Relinquishing 15 percent of strategic farmlands could spare 60 percent of extinctions and sequester about 30 percent of the built-up carbon in the atmosphere.” Sometimes, probably most times, it seems the bigger the idea the greater the difficulty of implementation and the harder it is to transform something science says could happen into something that does happen. This study is not alone, however, in its premise. The basic idea is echoed by other proposals, not all of which are focused on farmland, such as in the Bonn Challenge that “aims to restore 350 million hectares by 2030 and the Campaign for Nature that is “pushing leaders to protect 30 percent of the planet by 2030” and E.O. Wilson’s proposal in 2014 to save the earth by setting aside 50 percent for the environment. Nobody ever said the “fork in the road” would be without bumps potholes, washed-out bridges, and other obstacles. One thing that can be said, however, is that congestion on the fork in the road will not be a problem. — Please send comments to johnmottsmith@ comcast.net.
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