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CIF gives school sports more time

Final votes counted; no changes to local races

BY BRUCE GALLAUDET

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The nine-tile mural, featuring flora and fauna designs, graces the wall just outside Room 126 of the Environmental Horticulture

Four weeks after one of the more unusual elections in history, the final votes in Yolo County have been tallied by the county elections office and final results posted.

It was an election made challenging this year by CHAPMAN both the New pandemic councilman and the switch by the city of Davis and the Davis school district from at-large to bydistrict elections.

The pandemic prompted the state to order that voteby-mail ballots be sent to every active registered voter in the state — and shuttered most polling places — and the change to district elections required the local elections office to create more versions of the ballot than ever before.

There were hiccups — incorrect ballots were sent

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In a desert filled with bad news for Davis High sports, that oasis of proposed December practice restarts turns out to be another mirage.

When the state Department of Public Health postponed its updated youth-sports guidance this week, it forced the California Interscholastic Federation to cancel all Season 1 statewide championships.

In essence, by doing so, CIF is buying its 11-member section constituency more time to start preparation for an already twicedelayed 2021 “fall” season.

For the Blue Devils, who were scheduled to renew team workouts this month (Monday for football and Dec. 14 for remaining sports), that means cross country, football, girls tennis, girls golf and both boys and girls volleyball and water polo will have to wait again for the all-clear. Boys volleyball has been moved to Season 1 from later in 2021.

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UC Davis students, in a course taught by faculty members Diane Ullman and Gale Okumura, created this mural. Their assignment was to design a mural that was meaningful to them and that addressed a problem in the world. It now graces a wall outside Room 126 of the Environmental Horticulture Building on the UCD campus.

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“The assignment was to design a symbol that was meaningful to them and that addressed a problem in the world,” said artist-entomologist Diane Ullman, professor and former chair of the UC Davis department of entomology and nematology, who taught the class, “The Power of Visual Language

It’s titled, “When Words Are Not Enough.”

A newly installed UC Davis mural created by students enrolled in a remote-instructed class on symbolism and design is more than enough — it’s considered

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through Symbolism and Expression in Clay” with designerlecturer Gale Okumura of the UC Davis department of design.

With ICUs expected to hit capacity in just School board to hear COVID update B J H weeks, new stay-at-home order looms Y EFF

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer It’s all about the math for state officials projecting what’s coming in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Roughly 12 percent of all COVID-19 cases result in hospitalizations, they say, and 10 to 30 percent of those patients ultimately require critical care in an intensive care unit.

So with cases surging to unprecedented levels in recent weeks, projections that have ICU beds

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statewide filled to capacity by mid-December have prompted warnings of a new stay-at-home order aimed at limiting further spread of the virus.

“Bottom line is we are looking at intensive care unit capacity as the primary trigger for deeper, more restrictive actions because when that capacity goes away, or even when it gets stretched so far that staffing is stretched, we know that the quality of care … sometimes takes a dip and we see outcomes

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we don’t want to see,” said Dr. Mark Ghaly, California’s secretary of health and human services.

“We want to act sooner than that so that we can get transmission down and we can handle those potential high ICU surges,” Ghaly said during a press briefing with Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday.

Data the pair presented projected that hospital beds statewide will be at 78 percent of capacity by

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The Davis school board will hear another update from staff regarding the status of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in Yolo County when the trustees meet online on Thursday, Dec. 3, at 6:30 p.m.

The Davis school district closed local campuses due to the pandemic back in mid-March 2020, and the vast majority of local students have been receiving lessons online via distance learning since that time.

District staff has recently been reviewing models for the safe reopening local school campuses, once local health authorities have determined that it is safe to do so. Governor Gavin Newsom moved Yolo County back into “purple tier”

COVID status on Nov. 17, due to the rising number of COVID cases in the county. School district staff has been developing several models for reopening local campuses, and will be recommending a model to the school board.

The school board will also hear an update on the district’s progress in providing special education projects to students during the period of distance learning.

The school board also will recognize outgoing trustees Alan Fernandes and Bob Poppenga for their service. Fernandes was appointee to the school board in May 2014, and then elected to a fouryear term in November 2016. Poppenga was likewise elected to the school board

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Stick around, we’ll get there soon S ome call it folklore and others call it fact, but it does seem that, more often than not, when a major news story breaks, there’s always a local angle.

Such is the case with last weekend’s major story out of the world of sports. No, we’re not talking about the 49ers last-second field goal to beat the hated Rams or a SUNY-Buffalo running back piling up 409 rushing yards as part of an 8-touchdown performance.

But we are talking about Sarah Fuller, who became the first woman to play in a Power 5 college football game when she booted the opening kickoff of the second half for Vanderbilt in a Southeastern Conference game against Missouri.

Not only are we talking about the Power 5, we’re also talking about the SEC, long regarded as the most powerful of the Power 5 conferences.

And never mind that Vanderbilt is winless this year and probably couldn’t beat a decent high school

team in its hometown of Nashville.

Missouri routed the Commodores, 41-0, so Fuller did not get to attempt an extra point, a field goal or more than one kickoff, though all those things were in the game plan when she buckled her chin strap and ran out onto the field with her teammates.

Wearing a special sticker on the back of her helmet that said “Play Like a Girl,” Fuller executed a perfect squib kick that Missouri downed at its own 35-yard line.

Vanderbilt coach Derek Mason said she delivered the kick exactly as it was designed. Even so, Mason was fired shortly after the game

after seven years as head coach, though that decision had nothing to do with Fuller’s appearance.

Noted Fuller of her brief but historic playing time, “Honestly, it’s just so exciting. The fact that I can represent all the girls out there that have wanted to do this or thought about playing football or any sport really, and it encourages them to be able to step out and do something big like this, it’s awesome.”

Indeed it was.

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or her efforts, Fuller was named as the SEC’s Special Teams Player of the Week, which was a bit of a stretch for football purists who wondered out loud if she’ll win the Heisman Trophy as well.

So, you may be asking at this point, where’s the local angle that was teased at the top of this piece?

Was Fuller born at Sutter Davis, attended North Davis Elementary while playing AYSO on Saturday mornings and eventually accepted a soccer scholarship at Vanderbilt?

Sheriff’s detectives probe shooting death in Esparto

BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer A death investigation is underway in rural Esparto after a man was found fatally shot on his own property, according to the Yolo County Sheriff ’s Office.

It was relatives who discovered the body of Frank Ryan Estepa, 39, at about 11:45 a.m. Nov. 21 in the 24000 block of County Road 22A, sheriff ’s Lt. Matt Davis said.

Davis said Estepa’s cause of death was determined to be a gunshot wound, but detectives are still investigating whether the case is a homicide or involves another manner of death.

Detectives declined to release additional details, such as the location of Estepa’s gunshot wound and whether a weapon was recovered from the scene.

“Due to the active nature of the investigation, no additional information will be released at this time,” Davis said in a news release issued Monday.

Asked why it took the Sheriff ’s Office nine days to publicly disclose the death, Davis said, “The incident was not immediately reported by the Sheriff ’s Office in order to maintain the integrity of the investigation.”

Anyone with information about this case is urged to contact sheriff ’s dispatchers at 530-666-8282. Anonymous tips can be reported at 530668-5248.

Meanwhile, relatives have established a GoFundMe page to aid Estepa’s wife and three children, describing Estepa as “a loving and supportive husband, father, son and brother.”

No, the local angle has nothing to do with Fuller specifically, but it does have everything to do with the first young woman to ever play in a college football game at any level.

Let me quote from the Associated Press story out of Salem, Oregon on October 18, 1997.

“A soccer player-turned kicker at Willamette University became the first woman ever to play in a college football game,” the story began.

“Liz Heaston, 20, kicked two extra points as the Bearcats beat Linfield College, 27-0, on Saturday. Heaston, a standout for the school’s soccer team, was recruited by football coach Dan Hawkins.”

Dan Hawkins, of course, is currently the head football coach at his alma mater, the University of California at Davis.

And there, as promised, is the local angle to this story.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

UC Davis LIVE discusses COVID-19 long-haulers Special to The Enterprise While most make a full recovery, for some people, the symptoms of COVID-19 can last for months. These patients are called “long-haulers” and UC Davis Health recently opened a clinic specifically to help.

What is long-haul COVID? Why do some people have longlasting health problems and what can be done to help them?

The conversation, hosted by Soterios Johnson, will be streamed live on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter beginning at 11 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 3. For links, go to https://bit. ly/33yYFrM. Christian Sandrock is a professor of pulmonary and critical care medicine at UC Davis Health.

He specializes in treating

respiratory infections and has been on the frontlines of treating COVID-19 patients. He is part of the team that recently launched a Post-COVID-19 Clinic to help patients dealing with long-term health issues associated with COVID-19.

His research focuses on preventing outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases and improving ICU care for critically ill patients.

Marina Oshana is a professor emerita with the UC Davis department of philosophy and a patient of the UC Davis Health Pulmonary Medicine Clinic.

She has been dealing with symptoms of COVID-19 since February.

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Enviromental nonprofits need our help T he work of building a more resilient and less dangerous world post pandemic will focus on, among other things, the “environment” a singe word that encompasses an enormous number and range of areas of policy and programs.

Many hands, one might even say “all hands on deck,” will be needed from organizations across the board currently working, both locally and globally, to reduce fossil-fuel use, protect plants and animals and otherwise make our planet livable.

Many of these hands are, of course, already hard at work. We won’t need to invent new organizations or campaigns — that is, if we protect those people and organizations currently hard at work.

We are lucky in Davis to have a committed citizenry already engaged. However, this is a tough time for many nonprofit organizations, many of which depend on activities and/or events to raise the money to support their work. This is hard in normal times, and triple times more difficult during a pandemic when gatherings and events are not possible.

This article is about a few of the organizations we have in town, all of which need our support to make it through this difficult time. It’s near the end of

the year, and a good time to make donations. Please consider the organizations listed below. If you already donate to these or other groups, great. Please consider donating more.

Let’s start with Cool Davis.

This organization was established a decade ago to implement, through the engagement of the community, the city’s Climate Action Plan. It’s easy to take this organization for granted. But it’s not the norm; few cities have such an organization made up of citizens actually devoted to promoting and implementing local actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Take a look at its website, www.cooldavis.org, and you’ll get a picture of how thoroughly this organization goes about its mission.

It has programs to encourage solar PV on our rooftops, to promote electric vehicles, a virtual library of ways our homes can be made more energy efficient, and

a wide range of resources available for people looking for information on these and other topics. It’s monthly newsletter is very worth subscribing to.

Weaning ourselves from fossil fuels is critical to reducing exposure to the most serious adverse effects of the climate crisis. The Davis Electric Vehicle Association, a program of Cool Davis, advocates for electric vehicles and supports development of electric vehicle infrastructure, such as charging stations, in our region.

It also (in non-Covid times) offers opportunities to view or test drive a wide range of models of electric vehicles and can provide information on tax credits.

Contact Sandra Hall at sand. hall.08@gmail.com or Tim Tutt at kingtutt1@live.com.

Davis is famed as a bikefriendly city for good reason.

Residents use bikes instead of cars for getting kids to school, shopping for groceries and just plain fun. Contact Bike Davis at nmagnan@bikedavis.us or at pjacobsen@bikedavis.us.

Bikes and electric vehicles are one big part of reducing fossil fuels. Another, and perhaps even bigger part, is how we build our community to be walkable and bikeable. What policies should we as citizens push our city council to enact? It’s not rocket

science. In many ways making cities more livable is just common sense if one is designing a city from the ground up.

But the process of transforming a city that’s already built from a car-centric to a bike/walk centric emphasis often times collides with the momentum of existing infrastructure, and it takes some very bright people to imagine and propose policies that get us there.

For more information, contact Davis Futures Forum, also a project of Cool Davis, through Judy Corbett (judycorbett@ sbcglobal.net) who, in partnership with her husband Michael Corbett, built Village Homes.

Both continue to be leading figures in reimagining our urban environment.

There’s been much talk recently about the emerging importance of carbon capture; somehow taking carbon out of the atmosphere to offset what we are emitting into the atmosphere. Much of what is talked about involves technology, but there’s recently been recognition of the potentially important role cities can play in planting trees; the urban forest.

Davis has a very active, and very professional organization promoting not just the planting of trees, but the planting of the right tree for the location.

Contact Tree Davis at www. treedavis.org. For that matter, if you have a question about trees, about what to plant or how to care for them, it is an excellent resource.

I’m running out of space here so I’ll just list some more options. There’s Cool Cuisine, “a coalition of individuals and organizations seeking more plant-based, planet-friendly, and health-conscious dining and shopping options in Davis” (www.coolcuisine.net) or by emailing anya.m.mccann@ gmail.com). There are also many organizations protecting nature and open space, such as the Yolo Basin Foundation (www. yolobasin.org), Putah Creek Council (www.putahcreek council.org) and Tuleyome (www.tuleyome.org).

Giving Tuesday this year is Dec.1, which may be after you read this, but if so there’s no reason to confine giving to that one day. All of the organizations listed above have information about how to learn more and most have information on how to donate.

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

A second chance for Eel River salmon and steelhead?

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or many years PG&E has operated the “Potter Valley Project,” a hydroelectric facility on the main stem of the Eel River consisting of Scott and Cape Horn dams and a tunnel diverting water into the Russian River watershed, where it is used to generate a small amount of electricity and for irrigation by farmers in Potter Valley and farther south in Sonoma County.

The construction of Scott Dam in 1922 completely blocked passage of critically imperiled anadromous fish including salmon, steelhead and lamprey while simultaneously forming Lake Pillsbury, a 2000-acre reservoir in remote northwestern Lake County used for boating, fishing and camping. Consisting of several hundred dwellings, primarily on Mendocino National Forest leaseholds but also including a scattering in private ownership, this community has very few permanent residents.

As with all other substantial hydroelectric generating systems, the Potter Valley Project requires periodic relicensing from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. PG&E initiated the relicensing process in 2017, but withdrew its application early in 2019, stating that this operation has been a consistent money-loser for years and its fiscal prospects could only get worse given declining energy markets. Current law requiring relicensing to include provisions for fish passage costing nearly $100 million dollars made the financial picture even less tenable. PG&E’s current license will expire on April 14, 2022, presenting significant risks, liabilities, and uncertainty to local communities and the environment.

In response, Rep. Jared Huffman, D-San Rafael, called together a diverse group of

environmental organizations, water agencies, local governments and tribes and formed an “Ad Hoc Committee” to explore options for the future operation of the project.

From the Ad Hoc Committee, a working group composed of California Trout, Humboldt County, the Mendocino County Inland Water and Power Commission, the Sonoma County Water Agency and the Round Valley Indian Tribes developed a plan they called the Two-Basin Solution Partnership. This proposal would reopen the main stem of the Eel River to spawning runs of salmon and steelhead by removing Scott Dam, while maintaining electric generation and water deliveries to Mendocino and Sonoma counties.

Lake Pillsbury would disappear.

In 2019 the Two-Basin Solution Partnership filed a Notice of Intent to apply for relicensing and ownership of the project, followed in the spring of 2020 by a feasibility study and project plan that includes removal of Scott Dam, and a commitment to provide water to Potter Valley and the Russian River. Water exports would take place during high winter flows rather than in the summer as they do presently and would be stored in Lake Mendocino. Project objectives include improved conditions for native fish, maintenance of reliable water supply, respect for tribal rights, and minimization of impacts to Lake County, which is the location of Scott Dam, Lake Pillsbury, and many miles of prime spawning habitat on the upper reaches of the Eel River.

Many questions remain, starting with impacts on local recreational users and cabin owners.

What would replace the lake’s function as a firefighting resource? What would be the

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The Scott Dam on the main stem of the Eel river holds water for the Lake Pillsbury reservoir. effects on surrounding wildlife such as the resident herd of tule elk? Are mitigations to Lake County sufficient and reasonable? Can alternative recreational uses such as fishing and mountain biking be developed?

Are downstream flows sufficient to support spawning migrations this far upstream? Will the disposal of mercury-laden sediments in the reservoir be a problem? All these and many more questions will be addressed in detailed studies required to support a final relicensing application. Besides addressing complex environmental issues, these studies would include an economic analysis designed to narrow down cost estimates, which vary wildly from little more than $100 million to more than $500 million.

Beneficiaries of the Two-Basin Solution obviously include the fish: according to esteemed ichthyologist Peter Moyle, more than 99 percent of available spawning habitat upstream of Soda Creek in the upper mainstem Eel River is blocked by Scott Dam, including Gravelly Valley, “some of the best historical spawning habitat in the drainage.” Beneficiaries also include the water users. Without relicensing, FERC would have to initiate a “decommissioning” process that probably would result in the removal of both

Scott and Cape Horn dams, restoration of historic flows to the Eel, and cessation of water exports to the Russian River watershed.

Seeing themselves on the losing end in either scenario are the Lake Pillsbury cabin owners and lessees, who would lose the reservoir-oriented recreation that presumably drew them to the area in the first place. Dam removal would likely entail a number of years of disruptive construction and restoration work in the reservoir footprint and the probable (though perhaps temporary) diminution of their property values. In response, they have formed a “Lake Pillsbury Alliance” which advocates for the retention of the reservoir and development of alternative ways to provide fish passage.

Apparently, at the request of the Alliance, Rep. John Garamendi, D-Walnut Grove, whose district includes northern Lake County, has submitted formal comments to FERC announcing his categorical opposition to the removal of Scott Dam and demanding that Lake County be given a “full and equal seat at the table” by inclusion in the Two Basin Working Group, not just the Ad Hoc Committee which has had representation from the Lake County Board of Supervisors all along.

Although Congressman Garamendi is to be commended for defending the interests of Lake Pillsbury property owners, even though very few are Lake County residents or his constituents, it is most unlikely that anything — including his involvement — will ultimately lead to the retention of the reservoir given the high costs of maintaining the project in its current form. Since the deadline for any relicensing application has passed, the only options FERC has are relicensing to the Two-Basin Solution Partnership or decommissioning

Downstream from Lake Pillsbury is an existing fish ladder at the Cape Horn Dam. the facility altogether. FERC can’t compel the Partnership to pivot to a dam-retention-plusfish-ladders outcome or consider that outcome at all without a willing and well-funded entity to assume responsibility for massive construction costs and liabilities including ongoing dam maintenance. Since no such willing entity exists, for the Congressman to use his influence to help the county negotiate meaningful mitigations would probably be a more fruitful approach than categorical opposition.

In the meantime, the clock is ticking for the salmon and steelhead. Every year that a solution is postponed increases the likelihood of extinction.

That said, despite everything I remain cautiously optimistic that benefits to the watershed and its endangered fish species can be realized, benefits similar to those already seen on the Elwa River in Washington state and anticipated on the Klamath in far northern California.

— Victoria Brandon is the president of Tuleyome’s board of directors and she has lived in Lake County, exploring the local scene and hiking the local trails, since 1981. As well as the Tuleyome Board, she also serves on the board of the Lake County Resource Conservation District and Lake County LAFCo. State Senator Pat Wiggins named her Senate District 2 Woman of the Year in 2008. Tuleyome is a nonprofit conservation organization based in Woodland. For more information go to www. tuleyome.org.

Resource conservation district keeps students connected to nature Special to The Enterprise Solano Resource Conservation District returns to Suisun Marsh next week to continue live-streaming virtual field trips for sixthgraders participating in the district’s 12th year of the Suisun Marsh Watershed Education Program. SRCD has had more than 1,300 participants since September and is expecting to engage another 900 students by early March.

“We have been participating in Solano RCD’s Suisun Marsh Program for many years, and we were very glad that they adapted it for distance learning so

that this year’s students could still participate,” said Robin Shishido-Bailey, a sixth-grade science teacher at Benicia Middle School.

To help keep the virtual experience engaging, program educators implement chat boxes, games, polls, mindfulness activities, and

movement to help students process what they are learning and interact at levels in which they are most comfortable. Students also get

to step away from the computer and explore their own surroundings, create nature journals and write poetry.

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Briefly Cops investigate strong-arm theft Davis police are investigating a robbery that occurred at a homeless camp along F Street north of Covell Boulevard over the weekend.

The victim called police shortly before 11 a.m. Saturday to report that the suspect had attempted to light his belongings on fire during an argument, left the scene, then returned with a golf club that he swung several times at the victim’s head, Lt. Art Camacho said. The suspect then left with a women’s crosstrek bike that had been in the victim’s possession.

Camacho described the suspect as a white male, 20 to 30 years old, about 6 feet tall with a thin build and long blond hair. He was last seen walking the bike north on F Street wearing jeans, a gray flannel shirt and an orange backpack.

Anyone with information can contact the Davis Police Department at 530-747-5400.

Pair nabbed for stealing car Two men face criminal charges after allegedly taking a stolen car on a spin through Davis, police reported Monday.

According to Lt. Art Camacho, an officer patrolling the 900 block of West Olive Drive last Thursday morning stopped the car for having no license plates. Both occupants were on probation, and a subsequent investigation revealed the car allegedly was taken from its Citrus Heights owner the night before.

Jason Michael Slater, 34, of Auburn; and Mathew Patrick Martin, 26, of Citrus Heights; were jailed on charges including vehicle theft, receiving stolen property and drug possession, Camacho said.

Police find gun in cereal A probation search led to the arrest of a Dunnigan man on weapon charges last week, the Yolo County Sheriff ’s Office reported Monday.

Trayon Finley, 24, was taken into custody Nov. 25 after probation officers searching his room discovered a loaded .38-caliber revolver hidden inside a bag of breakfast cereal, sheriff ’s officials said in a Facebook post. A check of the serial number revealed the gun had been reported stolen in Redmond, Ore. Finley, already on post-release supervision, was booked into the Yolo County jail.

BOARD: Watch online From Page A1 in November 2016.

Newly elected Davis school board trustees Vigdis Asmundson, Betsy Hyder and Lea Darrah are scheduled to be sworn in at the Dec.17 school board meeting.

The Dec. 3 school meeting will be carried live on local cable television on Channel 17 (starting at 6:30 p.m.), and video of the meeting can also be viewed online at www.djusd.tv.

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CAPACITY: Indoor activities still the riskiest From Page A1 Christmas Eve and 80 percent of capacity in the greater Sacramento region while ICU beds will be at 112 percent of capacity statewide and 103 percent in the Sacramento region.

Yolo County may already be seeing the warning signs in increased hospitalizations.

“Our hospitals have capacity, but limited,” county spokeswoman Jenny Tan said Monday.

County residents hospitalized with COVID-19 increased from 12 last week to 22 as of Monday.

Tan said last week Woodland Memorial Hospital, one of two hospitals in the county, “had to increase capacity for a short duration so they opened their surge unit.”

“That situation has since stabilized,” Tan said, “and we’ve been lucky enough that an additional unit hasn’t needed to stay open for longer periods of time, but that could very much change due to the pandemic and this current surge that we’re in. “(With) the number of cases we’ve seen in Yolo County in the last two weeks … we could end up at a point where there are not enough hospital beds and especially not enough ICU beds in our local hospitals for people with COVID,” Dr. Aimee Sisson, Yolo County’s health officer, told KDRT’s Autumn LabbeRenault during her COVID-19 Community Report on Tuesday.

Woodland Memorial and

actually transmit it is higher than it’s ever been,” said Ghaly. “And we know indoors is the kind of scenario where COVID does transmit and pretty easily.

When you take down your mask, when you close that distance between you and others who aren’t in your household, all of those things that we’ve been talking about for months, are only amplified today because of the level of transmission.

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Sutter Davis — the county’s two hospitals — are relatively small with limited numbers of ICU beds, so critical-care patients are often transferred elsewhere.

“Hospitals work within their healthcare systems first to increase capacity and will then transfer patients as needed,” Tan noted. “Once our hospitals and hospital systems are full, then they will reach out to other facilities for additional capacity.”

Additionally, county residents who belong to healthcare systems such as Kaiser Permanente or UC Davis generally go to hospitals outside of the county, in Sacramento or Vacaville, for example.

That reliance on a regional healthcare system is common throughout the state, particularly for smaller counties.

“So we are looking at this from a regional perspective,” said Ghaly, “because … if a patient needs care

and they can’t get it in a hospital in their community, in their county, then we need to make sure that surrounding counties’ hospitals are able to serve those individuals.”

And while the state has increased hospital-bed capacity, including making Arco Arena available, if needed, in the Sacramento region, hospital beds are not the same as ICU beds, Ghaly noted.

“Much of the surge capacity that we have built up is able to take care of what we say are medical/surgical beds,” he said. “They are not ICU-equivalent beds. What we worry about at this time is specifically the ICUs … usually specialized space, specialized equipment and specialized staff.”

And with cases of COVID-19 spiking the way they have — well before the outcome of Thanksgiving gatherings is seen — drastic action may be needed, Newsom said Monday.

“If these trends continue,

we’re going to have to take much more dramatic, arguably drastic action, including taking a look at those purple-tier counties,” Newsom said. “If we see these trends continue, (there is) the potential for a stay-athome order for those regions in purple because of hospitalizations and ICUs.” “We are now not just looking at positivity rates,” added Newsom. “We’re now not just looking at case rates. We are now looking in real time at hospitalization numbers and ICU capacity in those regions.”

What that stay-at-home order would entail remains to be seen, but indoor activities remain the riskiest, and riskier than they’ve ever been, Ghaly said, given how widespread virus transmission has become.

“The minute you walk in the door of any entity indoors, the chance of encountering someone with COVID who can

“So although people want us to identify the sector or sectors where we see transmission the most, the truth is right now it’s just all around our communities and everyone is somewhat vulnerable to having an encounter with someone who’s infected.

“And that means that activities that people thought a month ago were safe and lower risk today are higher risk,” said Ghaly.

“So part of this is we need to recalibrate for a short period of time what we do to keep this transmission down, protect people who could become sick and hospitalized and need that care and, frankly, to keep the death toll in California as low as we can.

“But we are really in a different situation with transmission than we’ve ever faced before. Every activity a month ago lower risk, this month higher risk than ever before.”

— Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@ davisenterprise.net.

Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.

‘Finance U’ to educate teens about postsecondary opportunities Special to The Enterprise Travis Credit Union invites young adults to attend “Finance U,’” an interactive virtual event designed to teach youths about financial-aid opportunities for postsecondary education, choosing a school and preparing for campus life and admissions. Events will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursdays, Dec. 3 and 10.

The program includes special guests and giveaways to engage youths interested in education

after high school. All youths ages 13-21 registered for the event will be entered in a drawing to win a new Chromebook. Attendees can register at traviscu.org/finance-u.

Since 2006, Travis Credit Union has come together with community partners to increase student awareness of available state and federal opportunities for financial aid.

One of the goals of the event is to ensure students learn about the available financial-aid resources from financial-aid experts. Last

VISUAL: Remote study presented challenges From Page A1 Building, 200 Arboretum Drive. Measuring 36-by-34 inches, it’s the collaborative work of students Leslie BricenoMarquez, Jason Hu, Analiese Ignacio, Heewon Shin, Emma Storm, Anushka Vispute and Mia Xiong, and their instructors.

The mural includes a honey bee, created by Storm, an anise swallowtail butterfly by BricenoMarquez and an octopus

by Anushka Vispute.

Students learned the history of the use of symbols and signs in visual language from ancient to contemporary times, and gained an introduction to basic design principles, including the golden ratio, rule of thirds, and the use of lines, shapes, composition and perspective, as well as color theory and Gestalt Principles. They then applied them to their designs.

“Gale and I were both very inspired by the creativity of the students and their willingness to reach inside themselves and their cultural backgrounds for meaningful imagery,” Ullman said.

The instructors billed the course as “how to use symbolic representation in design and visual narrative to enhance expression and understanding of ideas and concepts.” Each student designed a symbol and

then integrated it with their classmates’ symbols in an online collaborative process. The work was then printed on tiles using a screen-printing method.

Remote instruction proved to be challenging at times. “This class was meant to be highly participatory and hands-on, so leading discussions in a remote environment and not being able to have students in our classroom, also called the Labudio (Lab plus Studio), was really difficult,” Ullman said. “We overcame this obstacle by sending them the materials they needed to draw their designs and then we used their digitized designs to print the design on ceramic tiles that were sent to them for completion, along with the glazes and brushes they needed. They then sent them back to us and we fired them.

“This meant that all the steps of screen printing they would have learned and done themselves in the Labudio — printing film positives of their designs, coating silk screens with special emulsion, burning the screens with their designs, printing their designs with underglaze on ceramic tiles, had to be done by us. In addition, we had to prepare and address the packages.”

year, the California Student Aid Commission reported that only 54 percent of California’s public high school seniors completed a FAFSA or Dream Act application.

“By promoting postsecondary education after high school, we are seeking to help youths avoid common financial vulnerabilities and build economic stability” said Barry Nelson, president and CEO of Travis Credit Union.

“Ensuring that our students know various forms of aid are available is

more crucial than ever, especially during this ongoing public health and economic crisis,” said Marlene Garcia, executive director of the California Student Aid Commission.

The Finance U events are hosted in partnership with Sacramento Area Youth Speaks, the California Student Aid Commission, Immigrants Rising, the #WeBelongin College campaign and the "Personal Statement" film, featuring the event’s keynote speaker, Karoline Jimenez.

OBITUARY John Paul Lejardi Jan. 15, 1922 — Nov. 13, 2020

John Lejardi died on Nov. 13 at the age of 98. Born in Boise, Idaho, to Pedro and Petra, Basque immigrants from Spain, he was the youngest of four children.

During college, he obtained his private pilot’s license and then enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corp during WW II, serving from 1943-1946. After the war, he finished earning his business administration degree from the University of Portland and then obtained his MBA from Stanford University in 1949.

At the Catholic Newman Club on campus, he met the love of his life, Florence, a feisty Italian, who was earning her teaching credential and studying music. In 1952, they married and settled in Los Altos, where they raised three children. John worked as a CPA for his entire career.

John loved the outdoors and taking his family on camping, fly-fishing and skiing trips. The life of the party with a great sense of humor, he enjoyed dancing, singing, hosting barbeques, playing cards and making his signature sherry flips for holidays.

After retirement, he and Florence traveled

extensively throughout Europe, Canada and the U.S. He cherished his role as “Gpa” and had just as much fun as his grandsons, whether camping or taking them trick-or-treating.

John became a most amazing caregiver for Florence in her last years. After she died in 2010, he joined the gym at 88 and worked out regularly until 95. Not one to sit around, he fly fished until he was 92.

In 2015, tired of living alone, he moved into Carlton Senior Living in Davis. He enjoyed the activities, the residents and especially the caring staff, who on occasion danced with him.

Until the end, he enjoyed being the Domino champ, picnicking in the park and savoring desserts and ice cream.

John was devoted to his Catholic faith, family, friends and fly fishing. He was an optimist and always grateful for everything he had in life. As he often said, “I’ve had a good life and a lot of luck in it.”

He is survived by his children, Mark, Jeannette, and Denise, and two grandsons, Christopher and Brenden Sawyer. The family would like to thank the Carlton staff for their outstanding care of John.

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Delectable desserts for the holidays Special to The Enterprise With so many traditions and ways to celebrate the holiday season, the options are nearly endless for families looking to spend special moments together. One of the tastiest and most enjoyable activities you can engage in with family and friends is to team up and create sweet eats in the kitchen.

Whether you’re a chocolate lover or prefer traditional seasonal flavors like peppermint and gingerbread, these tasty, dairyinspired treats from Milk Means More provide heartwarming ways to tingle your taste buds while bringing everyone together.

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Peppermint Cheesecake Brownies Recipe courtesy of Sarah Bates of “The Chef Next Door” Prep time: 10 minutes Cook time: 30 minutes Servings: 16 Ingredients: Nonstick cooking spray Cheesecake Batter: 8 ounces low-fat cream cheese, at room temperature 1/3 cup granulated sugar ½ teaspoon peppermint extract 2 eggs 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour Brownie Batter: 1 cup all-purpose flour ½ cup cocoa powder ½ teaspoon salt

1 cup granulated sugar ¼ cup vegetable oil ¼ cup milk 2 eggs 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract Topping: ½ cup peppermint baking pieces Putting it together: Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Coat 8-inch square baking pan with nonstick cooking spray.

To make cheesecake batter: Place cream cheese in bowl of stand mixer. Beat on medium speed until smooth and creamy.

Add sugar and peppermint extract; beat well. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add flour and beat mixture until blended.

To make brownie batter: In medium bowl, whisk flour, cocoa powder and salt until combined.

In separate bowl, whisk sugar, oil, milk, eggs and vanilla until well combined. Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and mix until blended.

Pour brownie batter into pan.

Carefully pour cheesecake batter over top, spreading evenly. Carefully swirl layers together using knife tip. Bake 20 minutes.

Sprinkle brownies with peppermint baking pieces and bake 10 minutes until brownies are set. Cool brownies completely in pan on wire rack before cutting.

Cranberry Orange Bread Pudding Recipe courtesy of Kirsten Kubert of “Comfortably Domestic” Prep time: 20 minutes Cook time: 65 minutes Servings: 12

Pudding: 1 loaf Texas toast or day-old bread 1 to 2 tablespoons softened butter 1½ cups fresh cranberries 6 eggs ¾ cup granulated sugar 3½ cups 2% milk 1 teaspoon freshly grated orange zest ¼ cup fresh orange juice ¼ cup unsalted butter, melted and slightly cooled 1½ teaspoons vanilla extract 1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1½ tablespoons coarse granulated sugar (optional) Orange Custard Sauce: 3 egg yolks ¼ cup granulated sugar 1 cup half-and-half ½ teaspoon freshly grated orange zest Putting it together: To make pudding: Cut bread into bite-sized cubes. If bread is soft and fresh, place cubes on half sheet pan and let stand at room temperature overnight.

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Grease 13-by-9-by-2-inch baking dish with softened butter.

Place bread cubes in prepared baking pan. Scatter cranberries over bread.

Beat eggs with sugar, milk, orange zest, orange juice, melted butter, vanilla and cinnamon until well blended. Pour evenly over bread and cranberries to coat. Sprinkle with coarse sugar, if desired. Bake 60 to 65 minutes, or until custard is set and edges of bread are browned.

To make custard sauce: In small saucepan, whisk egg yolks with sugar until lightened to pale

yellow color, about 2 minutes.

Stir half-and-half into mixture until combined. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, 15 to 20 minutes, or until sauce thickens enough to coat spoon. Stir orange zest into custard sauce.

Serve bread pudding with warm custard sauce over top.

Gingerbread Cupcakes Recipe courtesy of Megan Gundy of “What Megan’s Making” Prep time: 10 minutes Cook time: 25 minutes Servings: 20 Cupcakes: 1½ cups all-purpose flour 1½ tablespoons ground ginger 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon ¼ teaspoon ground cloves ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg ½ teaspoon salt 1½ cups unsalted butter, at room temperature 1½ cups granulated sugar 3 tablespoons molasses 4 large eggs 2 teaspoons vanilla extract Whipped Vanilla Buttercream: 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 4 cups powdered sugar 2 to 4 tablespoons heavy whipping cream 1 pinch salt cinnamon, for topping Putting it together: Adjust oven rack to lowermiddle position and preheat to 350 degrees. Line muffin pan with cupcake liners. Set aside.

To make cupcakes: In medium bowl, whisk flour, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and salt.

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Peppermint Cheesecake Brownies.

In large bowl of stand mixer, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes.

Add molasses and beat until incorporated. Beat in eggs, one at a time, then beat in vanilla.

Add flour mixture and mix on low speed until just combined.

Divide batter evenly among muffin cups, filling each about ¾-full. Bake 30 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center of cupcake comes out clean or with moist crumbs. Let cupcakes cool 10 minutes then transfer to wire rack to cool completely.

To make whipped vanilla buttercream: In large bowl of stand mixer, beat butter on mediumhigh speed until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add vanilla and, with mixer on low, slowly add in powdered sugar, cream and salt, scraping down sides of bowl as needed. Once incorporated, whip frosting at least 3 minutes on medium-high or high speed. If frosting is too thick, gradually beat in additional cream. Pipe on top of cooled cupcakes and sprinkle with cinnamon.

Wine gifts for healing what ails us, the planet

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he holidays look very different this year, and I imagine holiday shopping will look very different, too. Given the drastic effects of the pandemic on small businesses and our local communities, I’m hoping shoppers everywhere will give their dollars to independent stores and farmers markets. For folks like me who would like not to be inside buildings this season, online shopping, too, can both support the local and be wonderfully convenient. Wine shops and wineries are making this easy for wine-related giftgiving.

Berkeley’s Broc Cellars, for example, offers some wonderful possibilities — like their Winter Table assortment ($175) — that you can order and have delivered directly to your recipient. Or have delivered to your door a six-pack or case of their the 2020 Valdiguié Nouveau (their first vintage — $25 a bottle) and distribute to your giftees accordingly (you might want a few for the holiday table as well). His current “pet nat” is also a valdiguié ($36). I haven’t had a chance to try it, but it’s on my to-do list (that would be the to-do list that I like to look at for a daily jolt of joy).

As you know if you’re a regular “Wineaux” reader, Chris Brocway’s wines are “natural” beauties — he never adds anything, not even yeast. And like many other wineries, Broc Cellars is giving back. Ten percent of their holiday assortment packs, for example, goes to

help feed the community.

I’ll be writing more about sparkling wines in the next column, but one great gift idea is a festive package from McFadden Winery in Potter Valley that includes Guiness McFadden’s multiple award-winning sparkling brut or sparkling rosé.

Add either a garlic braid or a holiday bay wreath (the latter will last for months and can then be harvested for the bay leaves — it practically pays for itself). All the grapes are organically grown on this solar and hydro-powered estate and all products are organic and made right on the premises.

They also sell herbs and happiness.

For the sheer fun of the name on the labels and for some of the most acclaimed wines in California (all “natural,” of course), order gifts from Forlorn Hope, Dirty and Rowdy, or Donkey and Goat. Wouldn’t you be excited about a Dirty and Rowdy bottle even before you tasted the wine? Forlorn Hope’s holiday special is 50% off shipping if you buy three bottles. Everything I’ve tasted from this winery has been delicious,

including their newly released zinfandel, “The Nonna.” Since Nonna is what the grandkids call me, my daughters conspired to bring me a bottle. Perfect holiday gift even if it did come a little early.

Donkey and Goat has come out with a 2020 New Glou — “chuggable, delicious and vibrant with exactly the right amount of big girl funk.” It’s a rosé-ish wine, a co-fermentation of grenache, syrah and mourvèedre with a couple of other grapes — all biodynamically farmed — added for good measure.

They also have a three-pack of their sparkling wines. If only Santa didn’t have such stringent travel restrictions this year (and I hadn’t been such a very bad grump), it would be the #1 item on my list for reindeer delivery.

Napa-based Dirty and Rowdy Family Winery has a

holiday three-pack ($111, plus $20 shipping) and six-pack ($248, plus $25 shipping), both of which include one of their terrific skin-contact wines.

A less expensive gift: a Dirty and Rowdy face mask ($15). All guaranteed to spark joy — and smiles all around.

Berkeley wine importer Kermit Lynch had no sooner announced the arrival of its famous Dupeuble Beaujolais Nouveau when it sold out (before I even had a chance to get a bottle!). But they have some other new wines from Beaujolais that sound equally wonderful. I’m a big fan of gamay in general, especially as a winter holiday wine, and they offer free delivery on orders over $125, which is a seriously good deal.

I’ve been writing a lot about The Pip Wine Bar/ Shop in Dixon both because owner Amy Grabish has carefully, personally selected every bottle (she has a great palate) and because she has been delivering wine to my door during all these months of isolation. She can ship to your recipients for a modest fee or deliver to your door if you’re preparing gift baskets. You can put

in a couple of nonalcoholic goodies as well, like buffalo milk blue cheese, duck prosciutto and homemade peach confit.

One festive Pip selection that would be perfect in a holiday gift basket is the Schloss Gobelsburg Cistercien Rosé 2019; it comes from a Cistercian monastic estate in Austria where monks were making wine as far back as 1171 — serious history! This bright, apple-y, zesty rosé of zweigelt, besides being a great gift for a history buff, would look lovely on your own holiday table and go with just about anything you could throw at it.

I just read a piece in which several sommeliers described their holiday picks. Eric Hsu of Coast and Valley in Brooklyn chose the Folk Machine Carbono, made by the amazing Kenny Likitprakong. Here’s Hsu’s take: “Charbono is one of California’s heritage grapes; it’s endangered

because no one knows about it (which will make you the cool kid at the table). Part of the profit goes to the organization 1% for the Planet, so you’re saving the world while drinking wine.

“Finally, the nose is crazy intense, like you’re getting a whiff of smoked meat, and on the palate you get cherry Coke, vanilla and baking spice.

This wine will mess with your mind, and that’s the reason you’ll love it, too.”

Indeed. After we finished our first bottle, we kept it around for months just because the label’s so lovely. Fortunately, Amy has it ($19) and can include it in your delivery.

Mindful, Earth-friendly, community-supporting shopping has never been easier.

— Susana Leonardi is a Davis resident; reach her at vinosusana@gmail.com.

Comment on this column at www.davisenterprise.com.

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VOTES: More than 38,000 ballots counted since Nov. 3 From Page A1 to some voters throughout the county and had to be replaced, and an elections office staffer tested positive for COVID-19 in the days after the election — but the county met the deadline for finishing the count.

That count included plowing through more than 38,000 ballots that were still left after Election Night and waiting an additional three weeks for any ballots that were postmarked by election day to arrive in the office.

“I am extremely proud of the teamwork and leadership of staff, colleagues and the community that is helping us to conduct a successful election in the middle of a pandemic,” Jesse Salinas, the county’s assessor/ clerkrecorder/ registrar of voters, said last ARNOLD week.

Davis City In the Council end, no local races changed in the month since the initial returns were posted online late on Nov. 3.

As a result, Davis City Councilman Will Arnold and Vice Mayor Lucas Frerichs will return to the council for the next four years, with Arnold representing District 2 and Frerichs District 3.

Josh Chapman, meanwhile, will represent South Davis in District 5.

Chapman finished with 43.07 percent of the vote in that district, trailed by former council woman Rochelle Swanson with 29.9 FRERICHS percent; Davis City Connor Council Gorman with 16.86 percent; and Kelsey Fortune with 10.17 percent.

Arnold took just shy of 50 percent of the vote in District 2, trailed by Dillan PROVENZA Horton Yolo County with 28.6 Board of percent Supervisors and Colin Walsh with 21.82 percent.

And Frerichs finished with 63.73 percent of the vote in District 3 to Larry Guenther’s 36.27 percent.

Also returning to office for another four years will be Yolo County Supervisor Jim Provenza, who defeated Davis resident Linda Deos 58.24 percent to 41.76 percent.

Provenza and Deos were in a November runoff after neither garnered more than 50 percent of the vote back in March when a third candidate, David Abramson, also was on the ballot.

Provenza will continue to represent District 4 on the Board of Supervisors, a district that includes much of central, east and south Davis.

Meanwhile, Davis voters will continue to have a say on future development projects on the city’s periphery after approving Measure D overwhelmingly, with 82.75 percent of voters in support.

Measure D renews the citizens’ right to vote on the use of open space and agricultural land, a right first WILKERSON enacted 20 years ago Los Rios CC as Measure Board J and then renewed 10 years ago as Measure R. That citizens’ right came into play this year with Measure B, the Davis Innovation and Sustainability Campus.

Placed on the ballot by a unanimous City Council, the project would have brought 2.64 million

square feet of business and innovation space as well as up to 850 residential units to ASMUNDSON the north- Davis School Board east corner of Mace Boulevard and Interstate 80.

But voters turned the project down on a 52 percent to 48 percent vote.

In other local races, Davis High teacher Kelly Wilkerson held on to her lead in the race for the Los Rios Community College District governing board.

Wilkerson won with 46.42 percent of the vote to Katie Villegas’ HYDER Davis School 35.36 percent and Board David Sandino’s 18.22 percent.

The Davis Joint Unified School District board of trustees will welcome two new members shortly: Vigdis Asmundson easily won the seat vacated by former trustee Cindy Pickett, winning 81.95 percent of the vote to Andrew Cullen’s 18.05 percent. And Betsy Hyder will represent Area 5 in South Davis on the board, having DARRAH defeated Davis School Cecilia Board EscamillaGreenwald by a vote of 52.62 percent to 47.38 percent. In Area 2, Lea Darrah ran unopposed and will be sworn in along with the rest of the board.

— Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@ davisenterprise.net.

Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.

TIME: Just postponing the end?

From Page A1 When Yolo County fell into the COVID-19 purple tier last month, DHS workouts were suspended for two weeks.

“Now, CIF is saying we’re not going to have state championships, and that will buy more time for individual sections to have their (year-end playoffs),” Davis High Athletic Director Jeff Lorenson told The Enterprise. “This just pushes everything back with the hope of safely getting the games in.”

Each section will be on its own to rework schedules based on their coronavirus case-tracing tier structure and the state edict, whenever that comes out. The relative health of the surrounding counties will come into play, too. Davis High is scheduled to begin its football season with a nonleague game versus Vacaville on Jan. 8.

DHS head football coach Steve Smyte said restarting next Monday with conditioning would “provide the minimum time needed” to get ready for an early January game.

A self-described “eternal optimist,” Smyte tried to keep a stiff upper lip in assessing his program’s future: “We’re going full step ahead when we can because

I think it’s in the best interest of our kids. (In conducting practices) whether we play or not, they’re going to learn discipline and learn some things through this that will be different.

“I want to give them hope, but the (state-issued) COVID numbers don’t look good. The bottom line?

What do we learn beyond this?

“If we quit now and say ‘Oh, woe is me,’ we’ve set up a dangerous mindset.”

A canvass of about a dozen Blue Devil coaches, student-athletes and parents — under the promise of anonymity — has told The Enterprise, to the person, that playing Season 1 of the postponed high school season is anywhere between a “long shot” and “now impossible.”

CIF said in its prepared statement: “By canceling regional and state championship events, more student-athletes will have the opportunity to participate in a longer season, rather than a truncated (state postseason) for a limited number of schools.”

Explained Lorenson, “With no regional or state championships — for sports like football and water polo — at least for this year, you won’t be able to go on and play after you win your section’s title game. That allows sections

to (push back) further any section championship dates … buying time at the beginning of the season.”

Lorenson told The Enterprise that if the COVID-19 cases don’t start to decline, further postponements are ensured, putting the entire Season 1 of statewide sports in jeopardy of not being played at all.

“We clearly hope that doesn’t happen,” Lorenson explained. But then he pointed to the spiraling California COVID cases and added: “The bottom line is, at this point, we just don’t know.”

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday conducted an ominous news conference regarding far-reaching “drastic” pandemic new directives.

With almost 20,000 deaths from COVID-19 reported in California — and the numbers spiking daily — the governor said, “If these trends continue, we’re going to have to take much more dramatic — and arguably drastic — actions.”

He hinted at a stay-athome order on the horizon.

— Reach Enterprise sports editor Bruce Gallaudet at bgallaudet41@ gmail.com or call 530320-4456. Follow Gallaudet on Twitter: @ BGsportsinDavis.

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BY GENNA OLAVARRI HUB Staff From school to Black Friday shopping, the pandemic has pushed many resources to an online platform, but the internet can prove extremely difficult to navigate for people with certain disabilities.

“It’s funny how the more the internet spread around the world and became popular, the more inaccessible it became,” said UC Berkeley’s Lucy Greco, the university’s resident “Accessibility Evangelist.” “(Some of ) the new-fangled features we have on the internet … can really be a … terrible roadblock for someone with a disability.”

An accessible website ensures everyone has equal access to it by including elements like captioning for video and audio clips, text that describes graphics for visually impaired people using a screen reader (alt text) and high color contrast for people with low vision or color blindness, among other elements.

Federally funded programs are legally obligated to adhere to website accessibility guidelines, according to Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act. “The (Davis High) website should be compliant with Section 508 because it is a law that applies to government entities. DHS is a school and is therefore a government entity,” said Bruce Cummings, the head teacher librarian and webmaster for DHS. School Messenger, the Davis Joint Unified School District’s website hosting platform, incorporates most of the guidelines required by Section 508 and the district frequently audits, or reviews, all of the individual school websites.

However, with limited resources and no experts on website accessibility on staff, the school district relies on School Messenger, which does not catch every accessibility error. Maria Clayton, DJUSD Public Information Officer, says her focus is on keeping the websites up to date rather

than on seemingly minor accessibility flaws.

“We’re never going to make it 100 percent, like that’s just not a realistic goal,” Clayton said. “We try to stay up on everything but there’s certainly going to be holes.”

According to ANDI, a website accessibility assessment tool created by the Accessible Solutions Branch of the U.S. Social Security Administration, the home page of the DJUSD website has 49 accessibility alerts to check for errors with the links and buttons, 10 for the graphics and images and five for color contrast.

In comparison, the homepage of the Web Accessibility Initiative website, which is a member organization of the international program World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that establishes widely acknowledged website accessibility guidelines, has no accessibility alerts for links and buttons, none for graphics and images and just two alerts about the color contrast.

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The move to online learning has highlighted the accessibility issues in many websites.

DJUSD is not alone in finding it difficult to make websites fully accessible.

For example, Wordpress is a wildly popular website hosting platform that hosts

websites for companies such as the Walt Disney Company and the Obama Foundation. Wordpress offers 7,986 themes yet only 109 of these themes

are accessibility ready, meaning they are created with accessibility in mind.

“There are almost (no websites) that are perfect,” Greco said.

English teachers push for diversity in curriculum

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Jennifer, Sarafina and Sophia Farwell work together to pick pomegranates for Community Harvest.

Volunteers help community despite COVID-19

BY AYISI NI HUB Staff Early on a Saturday, Jennifer Farwell takes her two daughters to harvest fruit in masks and long-sleeved jackets. Even through quarantine, Davis residents show up to volunteer for community causes.

Since the COVID-19 shutdowns, more people than ever before need help from the community as jobs, businesses and livelihoods are lost.

Local organizations that provide those essential services are dealing with more demand and less resources.

Volunteers help to close that gap.

Joy Cohan, the director of philanthropic engagement at Yolo Food Bank (YFB), says there is a 60-percent increase in the number of people YFB has been serving since the beginning of lockdown. Even with an increase of 700 new YFB volunteers since March, she says collecting and distributing 900,000 pounds of food every month is challenging. The food is donated by farmers, grocers, other retailers, distributors and processors, all within Yolo County.

“The logistics are incredible, from sourcing and coordination, to a fleet of freightliners and other vehicles, massive refrigeration units within 36,000 square feet of storage, and

delivery at more than 130 food distributions countywide each month. But, it’s at those distributions, where our county’s most vulnerable connect with the food that they need, that volunteers make the biggest difference. They are changing lives and saving lives,” Cohan said.

Kathleen Walton, volunteer coordinator for Therapeutic Riding and Off-Track Rehabilitation, says TROTR experiences a similar lack of resources. Walton’s nonprofit usually raises funds through a socially distanced petting zoo on Halloween., This year, the attraction had to change. Walton said that bunnies, a very popular attraction, were not allowed this year as there are cases of rabbit COVID-19 infection.

“Yeah, who knew? They can’t get rabies, but they can get COVID,” Walton said.

Another organization in need of inperson labor is Community Harvest.

Farwell and her daughters harvested fruit on Oct. 24 in aid of lowerincome families.

“I find that it’s very important to keep a sense of community right now,” said Farwell, holding her pomegranate clippers in hand.

Farwell reaches up to higher branches as the fruit becomes sparse on lower ones and tells her daughters

to catch fallen pomegranates. When they find a bad pomegranate, they throw it into a blue bucket.

There are virtual volunteering opportunities, too. Dalgona Bakery is an online organization that was founded during the shutdown by Davis High students. Artists can send their work in exchange for service hours and recognition to Dalgona, which will print their art as stickers and donate profits to charitable causes. Dalgona has promoted itself mostly online and as a resource for students to do service remotely.

“Our volunteers are high school students, just like us,” said Amina Malik, the founder of Dalgona.

Dalgona is also involved in the DHS community by partnering with clubs, such as the California Scholarship Federation. Fern O’Brien, the adviser for CSF, says that her officers are trying hard to find interesting online volunteering programs. In addition to Dalgona, CSF recommends its members volunteer online at the Smithsonian, the American Heart Association and Yolo County flu drives.

“By the end of the semester, we will know if people enjoyed volunteering online and if you should continue to push for more online opportunities,” O’Brien said.

At the beginning of quarantine, Davis High English teachers began working on their initiative to diversify the English curriculum, starting with the books.

The teachers have narrowed down five books that they hope to have in the curriculum by next school year.

These five titles include “I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter” by Erika L. Sánchez, “The Hate U Give”

by Angie Thomas, “Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe” by Benjamin Alire Sáenz, “Hey Kiddo” by Jarrett J. Krosoczka and “The Color of Water” by James McBride. All five are written by and about people of color or people within the LGBTQ+ community.

English teacher Spencer Elliott wants to have diverse protagonists and authors, and believes that “there are still missing voices.”

Although this is an important step, many students and teachers feel this is not enough.

“My students can’t see themselves in their books and that’s a problem,” sophomore teacher Christine Baker said. Coming to DHS only a year ago, she quickly noticed that the lack of diversity here was “a slap in the face.” She explained that students lose interest when they do not feel represented. “(It) makes me feel like I can’t have an impact on the world. I feel like my queer identity will keep me from being known ... I can’t aspire to be a politician or famous scientist or author,” said sophomore Ian Bourne.

Bourne believes that representation of minority students should not be overlooked since they make up about half of the student body at DHS. “The DHS education system has relied on the same white and male dominated English curriculum since the 1960s,” English department chair David Achimore said.

“The DHS student body is composed of 45 percent Latino/Latina and Asian American students. We currently only have three titles from authors of these ethnicities,” Achimore said.

Baker feels that subjects such as art, science and history should reexamine their curriculum as well. Even in math class, textbooks rarely have names that are considered “ethnic” in written problems.

The English teachers are hopeful that other departments will soon join them to create a more well-rounded curriculum for students at the high school.

“With greater exposure to diverse and different perspectives and voices, I believe students can become more empathetic when engaging with the world around them,” Achimore said.

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he COVID-19 pandemic has shone a spotlight on our health care system. Often it has revealed heroics showing that California’s health care workers put themselves on the frontlines for their community, the industry came together to meet new and evolving challenges, and forged partnerships to innovate in double time.

The pandemic has also shone a bright light on many of the shortcomings in the system, like health care workforce shortages. Even before the pandemic, our nation was experiencing a growing shortage of health care professionals.

In California, this issue resulted in an uneven distribution of providers that exacerbated existing inequities and a workforce that does not reflect our state’s diverse population.

These challenges are most acutely felt in our state’s Medi-Cal system.

And while the California Future Health Workforce Commission met recently to discuss this issue, it is crucial that we establish a better and broader public understanding of the problem and potential solutions so that we can work together to tackle the challenge.

Over the last 10 years, Medi-Cal providers have struggled to keep pace with the program’s expansion. In 2013, there were 59 full-time primary care doctors per 100,000 Medi-Cal patients — by 2015, the ratio had dipped to 39 doctors per 100,000 patients — a 34% dip.

As one of the health plans with the longest history serving the Medi-Cal population, Health Net understands the disproportionate impact provider shortages have on patients, and we have worked with partners at the local and state level to address these issues head-on.

From these partnerships, we have seen what works and what does not, and three core areas of focus have emerged: the importance of identifying new talent pools, the need to provide upward mobility across all levels, and the critical role of cultural competency training and recruitment to build a more robust and diverse pipeline of health care professionals.

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he first step to filling the gap is recruiting new talent. To do this, California should focus on identifying untapped talent pools — shifting recruitment to engage underrepresented professionals in underserved markets, like high schools and community colleges in safety net counties.

In San Joaquin, HealthForce Partners of Northern San Joaquin Valley identified the region’s barriers to entry for the field and now offers residents training opportunities and pathways to careers as nurses, lab technicians and medical assistants. The Greater Sacramento Urban League teamed with Health Net, WellSpace Health and Sacramento City College to establish the Community Health Worker Pathway Program, designing a curriculum and providing support for students to pursue careers as much-needed community health workers in the region.

We also must recognize the need to build opportunities across all levels. By focusing on career ladders for community health workers and medical assistants, as well as primary care providers and doctors, we can increase clinic capacity and improve patient satisfaction.

Investing in training and enabling all professionals to upskill is key to retention and augmenting shortages.

Finally, to foster more equitable health outcomes throughout California, we must make a more concerted effort to design a workforce ready to address disparities. This includes representative recruitment, investments in cultural competency training and the establishment of new professions focused on serving our most historically in-need patients. Partnering with public and private organizations on these efforts is key to building a more diverse pipeline and addressing the unacceptable inequities that exist today.

Building a health care workforce that works for every patient is one of the most important investments we can make in the future health and wellness of California and, as we have experienced firsthand, it requires collaboration.

Now, as we grapple with the fallout of the pandemic, it is crucial that we come together to implement solutions on a statewide scale so that we can design a future workforce that serves all Californians.

— Brian Ternan is the CEO of Health Net, mediainquiries@healthnet.com.

nglish never stops growing.

Our language — which started as AngloSaxon, a German dialect — has borrowed and modified a majority of its words and word forms from French, Latin and Greek.

But we also have taken thousands from almost every other tongue on Earth.

There is disagreement as to how many words there are in English. Using Google, researchers at Harvard University estimate there are more than 1 million; the English Wiktionary has 928,989 entries; the Oxford English Dictionary recognizes 600,000; and Websters Third New International Dictionary contains 470,000.

Many English words arise and then fade into obsolescence. According to the editors of the OED, of the 600,000 English words, 171,476 are in current use.

Each widely accepted word we speak and write was invented at some point to fill a need. In times of technological advancement, we have come up with new terms to describe or explain what we are seeing, using, doing or experiencing.

When, for example, the personal computer — a term dating back to 1959 — became commonplace in the 1980s, we needed a word for “a computer program that performs a special function.”

So we took app (1981) from application, and now mainly use that for programs designed for our cell phones.

The early to mid-1980s also gave us adware, bitmap, cable modem, camcorder, CD-ROM, cell phone, chat room, cyberspace, desktop publishing, disk image, domain name, e-mail, hard drive, information superhighway, infotech, internet, IP address, laptop, mouse pad, phone card, screen saver, search engine, shareware, spellchecker, spreadsheet, technobabble, text messaging, uninstall and WYSIWYG. Some of these have held up; others have not. That is

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true of neologisms from all eras.

I love to think about words that feel like they always should have been there, but were not. For example, George Washington never had lunch.

He died in 1799, and that word for a midday meal was not coined until 1800. However, our first president was likely familiar with its predecessor, luncheon, which goes back to 1652.

Other substantial neologisms from the year 1800 include anemia, berserk, bureaucratic, chrome, coincidental, egoism, gelatin, grand slam, outsider, pub, shrinkage, statistician, tranquilizer, uneventful and wholesaler.

Patrick Henry — remembered best for saying, “Give me liberty or give me death” — was another famous Founding Father who passed away in 1799.

So that lawyer, planter, slaveholder and governor of Virginia never knew the many new English words of the first years of the 19th century.

They include hysteria, ignore and pajamas (1801); café, handshake and tirade (1802); businessman, idealist and objectivity (1803); catchy, spree and stereotype (1804); bête noire, gumbo and love child (1805); dementia, restaurant and unforgettable (1806); doorbell, fired and sodium (1807); baggy, pinkie and peripheral (1808); and cookbook, stock market and suntan (1809).

The second decade of the 19th century was rife with new scientific and technical words. These include aluminum, boilermaker, boron, Celsius, chloride, chlorine, climatology, dermatology, electrician, fluorine, hiber-

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nate, iodine and invertebrate.

Most metric-system terms, including kilometer, were coined in the 1810s.

Other significant scientific words from that decade are lithium, magnesium, mammal, morphine, mutate, necrotic, nicotine, obstetrics, odontology, pomology, selenium, strychnine, unleaded and vaginitis.

In late 1809, famed American explorer Meriwether Lewis committed suicide. So he was never aware of the additions to our lexicon in the decade after his death.

They include eulogize, fire extinguisher and unreliable (1810); noncombatant, quotable and tourism (1811); coffee shop, gerrymander and subplot (1812); cooking, diplomat and unattractive (1813); bloodbath, gastronomy and straitjacket (1814); critter, diner, picnic and skyline (1815); cleavage, liberalism and underarm (1816).

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or reasons unknown to me, the year 1817 saw an explosion of new words in English that have held up well for more than 200 years. These include abnormal, aglow, carpe diem, circular saw, dehumanizing, dry-clean, entitled, expeditionary, interdependence, Islam and knockout.

And more: living wage, medieval, organized, overdrawn, paid, pianist, pseudonym, realism, rainfall, sentimentalism, statistic, sugar beet, svelte, taffy, warmonger, technique, visualize, word-of-mouth and worrying (1817).

In 1818 English added dozens more words, including cereal, coonskin, diarist, disenfranchised, elementary school, Frankenstein, grandiose, gullible, hospice, ginger ale, gossipy, ineradicable, nomadic, router, sadism, suffragist, tulle, waitress and white privilege — the last of which likely saw its usage zenith in 2020.

The final year of the 1810s saw the introduction of adlib, backstop, bilingual, butter up, conversationalist,

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deluxe, doggone, dominance, erotica, freelance, gasbag, introspective, life preserver, marginalia, miler, miscarriage of justice, name-calling, pubic, rodeo, streetlight, sweetening, telling, transitional, windowpane and yokel.

While the contributions above have maintained their value for a long time, it feels like most words added to our dictionary in the 21st century are transitory. Ironically, transitory — meaning “tending to pass away; not persistent” — has been part of English for over 600 years.

In 2000, we coined climate change denial, deep state and speed dating, all of which feel Trumpian; in 2001, bromance, PED and twerking; in 2002, CRISPR, nip slip and selfie; in 2003, binge-watch, flash mob and social distancing; in 2004, paywall, podcast and social media; in 2005, ransomware, sexting and truther; in 2006, crowdsourcing, dumpster fire and YouTuber; in 2007, coworking, fat-shaming and tweetstorm; in 2008, burner phone, mansplain and photobomb; and in 2009, alt-right, anti-vaxxer and cryptocurrency.

In the last decade, surprisingly to me, we have added very few lowercase words. These include filter bubble (2010); blockchain (2011); escape room and hot take (2012); bingeable (2013); gig worker and manspreading (2014); red flag law (2015) and deepfake (2018).

Although it is not a lowercase word, COVID-19 — an abbreviation of coronavirus disease 2019 — is certainly the neologism of the year. It will be remembered for its widespread lethality and economic chaos. Yet if it is soon stopped by vaccinations, COVID-19 will be far more transitory than transitory.

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New relationship has changed Mom’s personality Dear Annie: I am in my 40s, married, with children. My parents were married for 38 years before my father’s passing six years ago. My siblings and I had discussed the idea of our mother finding new love at some point.

We felt it was inevitable because our mother, honestly, would be quite the catch. She is loving, funny, smart, kind, dependable, hardworking, a great cook and debt-free (thanks, Dad!). All qualities that we were grateful to have in a role model for ourselves and our children. So, we were not surprised when she told us two years ago that she was “talking” to someone.

Within the first year of the new relationship, this person gave our mother what we considered many red flags — narcissism, lying and infidelity, to name a few. She broke it off for a month, only to take him back, with her attitude being to forgive and forget. Over the past two years, our mom has seemingly turned into someone we do not recognize.

She is ill-tempered during any conversation, unreliable, selfcentered and co-dependent. I believe she acts this way because we do not approve of her man.

We do want her to be happy. But as people who care for her, we also feel she deserves better. She is not open to discussing any of this as a family.

Where did our mom go? Is there an age or moment when one decides to stop being a parent? Should we stop trying to see her as our parent and start seeing her as another adult with issues?

In relationships, are we together because we are similar, or are we similar because we are together?

— Life Upside-Down Dear Life Upside-Down: It sounds like you had an incredible role model and upbringing. No, a mother never stops being a mother, but at a certain age, or after a traumatic event such as the death of your father, relationships and roles can change and grow. Your desire for your mom to be happy is a by-product of your love for her, and you are right to be concerned for her happiness.

A happy person is not ill-tempered, unreliable and self-centered. This dramatic shift in personality is a warning sign that something unhealthy is going on in her new relationship. They say that love is blind, but when you are being manipulated and abused by a narcissistic partner, you can’t be blind to bad behavior.

However, it’s your role to continue to be there for your mom unconditionally. If she gets angry at you or cancels appointments, then meet her with kindness and forgiveness. Maybe see if you can go for a mother/daughter day together. When you are alone, ask her how she is doing and really listen to her. If you feel that there

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is any type of abuse going on, encourage her to seek immediate help. Losing her spouse of 38 years is a traumatic event. A professional therapist could help her regain independence and see this relationship clearly.

Teach a man to fish Dear Annie: My husband and I are 72 and retired. We have always had a special relationship with our 27-year-old grandson, bailing him out financially whenever he was in a tight situation.

However, he just recently asked for big help with his rent, utilities and other expenses since he changed jobs again. His new job sounds very promising, but history tells us that something bad will happen with this opportunity as well.

He did not take our refusal to help him very well, and my husband is feeling guilty about not helping him out, although we really cannot afford this any longer. I feel we had no choice and that he must learn to deal with life’s problems himself. Am I right? Will he learn?

— Enabler No More Dear Enabler No More: Yes, you are right. He is a 27-year-old adult and very capable of providing for himself. This was the kindest thing you could do for him and his self-esteem — in the long run. He might be mad and have a little tantrum, but once he is over it, he will realize that he can indeed take care of himself and will hopefully apologize to you for having acted like a child.

Give a man a fish and he will always ask for more; teach him to fish and he can provide dinner for himself and his entire family.

——— Dear Annie: This is a message to the girl who was cyberbullied: I know you have a beautiful spirit because you thought the best about the girls and didn’t understand their ugliness. Internal beauty gets more beautiful with time, physical beauty less so.

(That doesn’t mean you’re not beautiful outside, too.) The main girl and her followers are attacking you because they see that you are different. Using their experience and vocabulary, the closest they can come is “nerd.” It is your choice to be bullied or not, not theirs. If you’re not bullied, they will be wasting their time, and people will see them as they are.

Don’t look at their stuff, and don’t pay attention to them in school. To be more “nerdy,” write,

“I forgive you, and I am moving on.” Help another good nerdy girl, as two are stronger together. It will encourage others and open up a whole new world with the kind of people you want to be with. They are out there.

— Concerned Grandmother Dear Concerned: Thank you for your beautiful letter. Focusing on the beauty inside of people will lead to a much happier, more fun and more joyful life. Your vibe attracts your tribe, and you are encouraging this beautiful young girl to find her tribe. I love it!

Dear Annie: Before cyberbullying, my grandson was physically bullied by a leader and two boys.

They knocked him down, broke his arm and threatened his life in school. They got away with it. My daughter contacted the police, who secured counseling for the bullies. The police said that in another year, the boys would have been so emboldened as to be beyond help and most likely would be in the criminal justice system.

Today, my “nerdy” grandson has a master’s degree and a lovely wife. They have a darling baby; a nice home; many kind, successful friends; and spectacular careers.

Happy endings can take time and effort.

— Grateful Grandma Dear Grateful Grandma: It was wonderful that your daughter involved the police and you were all able to stop events that could have turned tragic. I’m always reminded of the famous Aesop’s fable of the tortoise and the hare. Sometimes, the slower to develop or bloom end up winning the race. In life, that goal is to find happiness and to be surrounded by friends and family, filled up with warmth and love.

You should be so proud of your grandson, and your daughter is something special.

Boyfriend texts female friend back but not me Dear Annie: A few months ago, I found out that my boyfriend was messaging a girl. He says she is just a friend. I’ve asked where he knows her from, but he brushes it off and says it was just a friendly text. I believe him that she’s just a friend, but what bothers me is that the whole time this was happening, he would tell me that he was too busy to reply to me. He does work a lot so I’ve tried to be understanding when there’s limited communication.

However, it hurts me that he took the time to reply to her messages during his workday while saying that he didn’t have time to reply to mine. It has been two months since I discovered this, and I am still very upset. I’ve brought it up again a couple of times, and he listens to a point, but then he just shuts down the conversation, saying she’s just a friend and I shouldn’t worry

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Date: November 13, 2020 621 4th Street, Suite 6 Daniel M. Wolk Davis, CA 95616 Judge of the Superior Court Mailing address: 11/25, 12/2, 12/9, 12/16 1062 P.O. Box 74194 Davis, CA 95617 NOTICE OF LIEN SALE 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Notice is hereby given pursuant to Kathleen M. Coleman California Business and Professional 6832 Antigua Way Codes #21700-21716, Section 2328 of Sacramento, CA 95831 the UCC of the Penal Code, Section 535 4. Business Classification: the undersigned, Storquest Express Self Individual Storage of Woodland, will sell at public 5. Beginning Date of Business: The sale by competitive bidding the personal Registrant(s) commenced to transact property of: Name: Rachelle Calderon, business under the fictitious business David Garcia, Haley Ware, Javontae name or names listed above on: Felix property to be sold: household October 28, 2020 goods, furniture, appliances, clothes, “I declare that all information in toys, tools, boxes & contents. Auctioneer this statement is true and correct.” Company: www.storagetreasures.com (A registrant who declares as true The Sale will end at 10:00 AM, Dec.17 information which he or she knows to be 2020. Goods must be paid for in CASH false is guilty of a crime.) at site and removed at completion of 6. Signature of Registrant(s): sale. Sale is subject to cancellation in the Kathleen Coleman, ND event of settlement between owner and 11/11, 11/18, 11/25, 12/2 1049 obligated party.

Storquest Express Woodland FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME 1610 Tide Ct. STATEMENT Woodland, CA 95776 Filed: November 5, 2020 (530) 338-3531 FBN Number: F20200904 12/2, 12/9 1069 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) NOTICE OF PETITION TO

By Design Studio, Inc. ADMINISTER ESTATE OF 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California.

Sheila Stephens Business is located in Yolo County.

CASE NO. PR-2020-0176 528 D Street To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, Davis, CA 95616 contingent creditors, and persons who 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), may otherwise be interested in the will Residence Address, State, and Zip or estate, or both, of: Sheila Stephens

By Design Studio, Inc. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been 528 D Street filed by: Deborah Stephens in the Davis, CA 95616 Superior Court of California, County of: 4. Business Classification: Yolo Corporation THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests 5. Beginning Date of Business: The that: Deborah Stephens be appointed Registrant(s) commenced to transact as personal representative to administer business under the fictitious business the estate of the decedent. name or names listed above on: 1996 THE PETITION requests authority “I declare that all information in to administer the estate under the this statement is true and correct.” Independent Administration of Estates (A registrant who declares as true Act. (This authority will allow the personal information which he or she knows to be representative to take many actions false is guilty of a crime.) without obtaining court approval. Before 6. Signature of Registrant(s): taking certain very important actions, Elma Gardner however, the personal representative will 11/18, 11/25, 12/2, 12/9 1054 be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME or consented to the proposed action.)

STATEMENT The independent administration Filed: November 16, 2020 authority will be granted unless an FBN Number: F20200928 interested person files an objection to 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) the petition and shows good cause why Firearms Defense Institute the court should not grant the authority.

2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of A HEARING on the petition will be held Principal Place of Business in California. on December 3, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. in Business is located in Yolo County.

Department 9 located at 1000 Main 91 Utah Ave. Street, Woodland, CA 95695.

Woodland, CA 95695 IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), the petition, you should appear at the Residence Address, State, and Zip hearing and state your objections or file Nicolas Jack Marquette written objections with the court before 91 Utah Ave. the hearing. Your appearance may be in Woodland, CA 95695 person or by your attorney.

4. Business Classification: IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent Individual creditor of the decedent, you must file 5. Beginning Date of Business: The your claim with the court and mail a copy Registrant(s) commenced to transact to the personal representative appointed business under the fictitious business by the court within the later of either name or names listed above on: N/A (1) four months from the date of first “I declare that all information in issuance of letters to a general personal this statement is true and correct.” representative, as defined in section 58(b) (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal false is guilty of a crime.) delivery to you of a notice under section 6. Signature of Registrant(s): 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Nicolas Marquette 11/18, 11/25, 12/2, 12/9 1055 Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME a creditor. You may want to consult STATEMENT with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

Filed: November 20, 2020 YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the FBN Number: F20200945 court. If you are a person interested in 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) the estate, you may file with the court a Olson Investigation Services 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) Principal Place of Business in California. of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or Business is located in Yolo County. account as provided in Probate Code 397 Cardinal Drive section 1250. A Request for Special Woodland, CA 95695 Notice form is available from the court Mailing address: clerk.

P.O. Box 1304 Signed: Nicholas D. Yonano, Esq. Woodland, CA 95776 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Attorney for petitioner Yonano Law Offices, P.C. Residence Address, State, and Zip 4944 Windplay Drive, Suite 119 Tamara Pelle El Dorado Hills, CA 95762 397 Cardinal Drive (916)817-4422 Woodland, CA 95695 12/2, 12/4, 12/9 1070 4. Business Classification:

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Yolo DA hosts Youth Leadership Academy Special to The Enterprise The Yolo County District Attorney’s Multi-Cultural Community Council recently held its fourth annual Youth Leadership Academy virtually via Zoom.

The mission of the Multi-Cultural Community Council is to use this Youth Leadership Academy to promote and educate their values to seek fair and equal justice in our community, facilitate understanding, ensure open communication, and promote community participation, education and diversity within the criminal justice system.

At the Youth Leadership Academy, held Nov. 14 and 15, students had the opportunity to learn about the different areas of the criminal justice system, and learn the importance of community involvement.

Over the course of the weekend, students were able to participate in discussions with leaders in local government, nonprofit organizations, members of law enforcement, the judicial system, victims of crime, and even a person who was convicted of a crime who recently completed their prison sentence.

Students also received community-service hours to meet school credits.

The goal of the academy this year was to promote the importance of relationships, acceptance and peace within Yolo County communities. The MCCC brought in a variety of community members and organizations to discuss these topics.

Presenters encouraged the students to engage and become involved in their communities. The students and facilitators then discussed the importance of

taking pride in community and learned how to understand one’s self. Students also learned about all sides of the criminal justice system.

Many students who attended the academy have shared their thoughts on the positive experience they had.

“Personally, the community leaders panel and the mock trial were my favorite parts about the academy. I want to be a prosecutor, so seeing a live trial and talking to the DA and DDAs (deputy district attorneys) was really interesting to me,” one student said.

Another participant said, “This leadership academy has really helped me and it has given me the chance to see many opportunities that are in the criminal law field. ... This academy is helping me to think of what I really want to do with my life.”

“Hearing the victim’s story and understanding what these people went through really put things into perspective for me,” a third student said.

District Attorney Jeff Reisig noted the importance of this event. “We all want to make a difference in our community, which starts with our youth,” he said. “Our office and the MCCC are committed to providing healthy opportunities for youth to explore leadership in the context of public service.”

The plan moving forward is to make each year’s academy even better than the next and promote fair and equal justice, communication, and community for Yolo County youths. For more information, contact Victim Services Program Coordinator and MCCC Co-Chair Laura Valdes at 530)-666-8187 or Laura.

Valdes@yolocounty.org.

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BY KAREN NIKOS-ROSE Special to The Enterprise Young children who have experienced compassionate love and empathy from their mothers may be more willing to turn thoughts into action by being generous to others, a UC Davis study suggests.

In lab studies, children tested at ages 4 and 6 showed more willingness to give up the tokens they had earned to fictional children in need when two conditions were present — if they showed bodily changes when given the opportunity to share and had experienced positive parenting that modeled such kindness.

The study initially included 74 preschool-age children and their mothers.

They were invited back two years later, resulting in 54 mother-child pairs whose behaviors and reactions were analyzed when the children were 6.

“At both ages, children with better physiological regulation and with mothers who expressed stronger compassionate love were likely to donate more of their earnings,” said Paul Hastings, UC Davis professor of psychology and the mentor of the doctoral student who led the study.

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In each lab exercise, after attaching a monitor to record children’s heart-rate activity, the examiner told the children they would be earning tokens for a variety of activities, and that the tokens could be turned in for a prize.

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At the same time, mothers answered questions about their compassionate love for their children and for others in general. The mothers selected phrases in a survey such as “I would rather engage in actions that help my child than engage in actions that would help me,” “Those whom I encounter through my work and public life can assume that I will be there if they need me” and “I would rather suffer myself than see someone else (a stranger) suffer.”

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