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Home for the Holidays Concert continues with online event Enterprise staff The 17th annual Home for the Holidays concert is on!

This popular event featuring touring musicians, with proceeds benefitting a worthy cause — the nonprofit Davis School Arts Foundation supporting local school music programs — will be an online event with streaming video this year, in keeping with the many changes stemming from the coronavirus pandemic.

While patrons may miss the in-person experience, there is one advantage to the online format: more musical acts than usual.

“We don’t have the time limitations with set changes between acts,” said Bill Fairfield, who helps organize the concerts each year.

This year’s lineup includes several crowd favorites from past years, as well as three new acts: Marcia Ball, Sons of the

County ready to begin vaccinations this week

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer

■ Sons of the Soul Revivers, featuring three brothers who grew up singing gospel material

General acute-care staff at Sutter Davis and Woodland Memorial hospitals will be receiving the county’s first allotment of coronavirus vaccines, likely later this week, followed by longterm-care facility staff and residents, according to county officials.

Yolo County’s initial allotment of 975 doses of the Pfizer vaccine is expected by Wednesday or Thursday, county health officer Dr. Aimee Sisson said last week, and an initial allocation of 1,500 Moderna vaccine doses is expected closer to Christmas.

The federal Food and Drug Administration authorized the Pfizer vaccine for emergency use on Friday while the Moderna vaccine is still under FDA review and could be authorized by the end of the week.

“Both of those will be prioritized to general acute care hospital staff,

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The Davis High School Madrigal Singers, seen here in 2015, will perform at this year’s concert. At right, Alaina Rose will once again bring her beautiful harp music to the annual concert.

Soul Revivers and Dave Nachmanoff.

Bringing a variety of sounds to the virtual stage are: ■ Marcia Ball, a blues singer who lives in Austin, Texas and

is familiar to Davis audiences because she has appeared several times at The Palms Playhouse (a nightspot in Davis and later in Winters that was a popular venue for many years).

Hong Kong security law reaches U.S. classrooms

‘I’m a survivor’: Victim confronts her assailant

BY CALEB HAMPTON

BY LAUREN KEENE

Enterprise staff writer When UC Davis students enroll this spring in professor Eddy U’s class on inequalities in contemporary China, they’ll be given the option to conceal their identities during Zoom discussions and submit work under a secret alias.

Still, some students told The Enterprise the course may be too risky for them to take.

A law passed this year by the Chinese government threatens harsh punishments — up to life in prison — for broadly defined crimes related to criticism of the Chinese Communist Party. Introduced to crack down on Hong Kong’s prodemocracy movement, the national security law applies to offenses committed anywhere in the world,

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including in the United States.

A former British colony, Hong Kong was returned to China in 1997 under a “one country, two systems” agreement that allowed the city to retain civil liberties like free speech and due process that are not protected in mainland China.

Over the past year, tensions between Hong Kong and Beijing have escalated, with the Chinese government exerting more control over Hong Kong and millions of Hongkongers protesting. Since passing the security law in June, Beijing has used it to arrest activists, journalists, professors and politicians who are critical of the Chinese government. Others have fled the country to escape prosecution.

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Hong Kong activists form a human chain in 2019 in front of the photographer’s former high school.

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WOODLAND — For more than a quartercentury, Kristen Escamilla pushed lawenforcement officers to find her attacker — the masked stranger who snatched and sexually assaulted her along a South Davis greenbelt in January 1994.

Her efforts came to fruition on Friday, when a Yolo County judge sentenced Mark Jeffrey Manteuffel to six years in state prison — part of an overall 35-year sentence stemming from three 1990s rapes solved recently through DNA science.

“Thank God, I am no longer a victim. I’m a survivor, and, most importantly, I am a Christian,” Anthony, a UC Davis student at the time of the

attack, told Manteuffel during an emotional, yet powerful statement she delivered in Yolo Superior Court.

“You did not break me,” she added. “Good prevailed, God prevailed, and you will have to face him someday.”

With that, Judge David Rosenberg handed down Manteuffel’s sentence, the product of a plea agreement the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office crafted with prosecutors in Sacramento County, where Manteuffel committed two other violent sex assaults.

Manteuffel, 60, pleaded guilty to two counts of rape causing great bodily injury, as well as unlawful digital penetration in the Davis case. In addition to

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Briefly Parolee arrested on drug charges Davis police busted a local man on drug charges last week after allegedly finding him with multiple controlled substances.

According to a Davis Police Department Facebook post, officers stopped 33-year-old Tyler James Webster’s vehicle at about 6 a.m.

Wednesday at Drew Circle and Research Park Drive. Webster was on searchable probation for a prior offense.

A subsequent search of his car revealed a locked safe containing three digital scales, several plastic bags containing 70 grams of methamphetamine, two small bags of tar heroin, an unlabeled pill bottle containing Hydrocodone and a powdered substance later identified as a mix of powdered Xanax and heroin, police said.

Officers also found a key to a room at the nearby La Quinta Inn, where a further search yielded a second safe containing assorted alleged drug paraphernalia including used and unused glass pipes and syringes, the Facebook post said.

Webster, a Davis resident, also was in possession of $1,800 in cash as well as multiple phones and a black notebook containing a list of names and phone numbers, police said.

He was booked into the Yolo County Jail on suspicion of possessing controlled substances for sales and a probation violation.

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Brushing shoulders with big stars I t’s a strange aspect of human nature that when those of us among the unwashed masses happen to inadvertently rub elbows with the rich and famous, we feel as if we, too, are rich and famous, if only temporarily.

The only time I covered a football game in Notre Dame Stadium, 10 years or so ago, I was waiting for an elevator to take me up to my seat in the press box several hours before game time.

I’d have preferred to take the stairs, but in a stadium this large, an elevator was the only option.

After several minutes of waiting alone, I watched as the elevator arrived and the doors slowly opened.

There was only one person inside: Joe Montana.

Now what are the chances that at that point in my life and at that point in his life, we’d meet oneon-one and share a potentially awkward elevator ride?

I nodded at Joe and he nodded at me. He didn’t say, “Hey, you’re that guy who writes a column for The Davis Enterprise,” and I consciously avoided saying, “I know who you are, you’re Joe Montana.”

I figured he probably already knew he was Joe Montana.

The doors closed and up we went.

I was not going to shake his hand, I was not going to tell him I lived in “49er Country,” I was not going to mention the weather and

I most definitely was not going to open up my $1.99 reporter’s notebook and ask for his autograph.

But as I subtly tried to size him up without staring, I wondered what made this completely ordinary looking guy such an extraordinary athlete. I mean, you look at LeBron James and you just know you’re in the company of athletic royalty. You look at Joe Montana and you have no idea.

“I hope the Irish can get it going today,” I offered.

“Me, too.”

We reached our destination, the doors opened and we both once again nodded, each gesturing for the other to exit the elevator first.

I haven’t seen him since, except in Guinness commercials. Then again, I don’t take elevators in Notre Dame Stadium that often.

Several years later, I had another compelling elevator experience, but I’ll let you decide if the person I rode with was more famous than the one I just described.

I was in New York as a radio host for Sirius XM Satellite Radio

as part of that network’s coverage of Pope Francis’ first visit to the United States.

Sirius is headquartered on the 36th and 37th floors of the McGraw-Hill Building near Rockefeller Center.

As you might imagine, you have to pass through considerable security just to get into the building, and you are then assigned to a specific elevator that goes to several specific floors.

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s I approached my assigned elevator, there was one other person waiting for it to arrive. He was unusually tall and his face was instantly familiar to me, though I couldn’t identify how it was that I should know him. He appeared to be about my age and I wondered if maybe he was someone I had gone to college with long ago.

And then, in an “oh-my-gosh” moment that left me embarrassed at my own stupidity, I realized I was looking up at none other than Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, certainly a more recognizable figure than Joe Montana.

That awkward elevator ride at Notre Dame Stadium covered just five floors. But this one was going to cover 36. How could I remain silent for that long and not tell him I watched his first game at UCLA on television when he was known as Lew Alcindor and I was still known as Bob Dunning?

Would I forever regret not asking him to pose for a selfie with me so I could tell skeptics that this elevator ride actually happened?

But what if I asked and he declined? Would I have to get off at the 15th floor in shame?

Still, did I really want to be the first person in history to ride 36 floors alone in an elevator with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and not utter a single word?

As we whizzed past floors 20, 21 and 22, I began to plan my exit strategy. I was determined to not tell him to “have a nice day” or “have a good one.” I figured he’d had plenty of nice days and good ones in his life.

Besides, he has a reputation as a true intellectual with deeply held opinions on a variety of subjects even as he looked as if he could still play a mean game of basketball.

I figured utter silence would be better than some worn-out phrase he’d heard a million times before.

At last we arrived. I gestured for him to leave the elevator first and he smiled as if he appreciated the fact I hadn’t wasted his time with small talk.

He took three steps out of the elevator and casually said “hi” to Yo-Yo Ma, who just happened to be standing alone in the 36th floor lobby.

Just another day in the big city.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

Former teacher sentenced for luring child for sex Special to The Enterprise A Yolo Superior Court judge sentenced 29-yearold Taylor Lewis Gholar to three years in state prison Thursday after a jury convicted him of meeting and communicating with a minor for the purpose of lewd or lascivious conduct, according to the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office.

Gholar, a Sacramento resident, will also be required to register as a sex offender for life.

At trial, the jury heard evidence that Gholar met the victim when she was in second grade while employed as her afterschool teacher. Gholar was the victim’s teacher for the next three years, resuming contact with her two years later when she was in seventh grade.

Witnesses testified that on Jan. 19, 2020, Gholar began communicating with the victim, who lived in West Sacramento, through Instagram direct message.

The victim immediately informed Gholar that she was 12 years old.

“Over the course of 12 hours, Gholar asked the victim if she wanted to have sex, requested provocative photos of her, and sent her a pornographic photo of himself,” prosecutors said in a news release. “The victim informed her parents when Gholar became concerned that her mother was aware of the conversation.

Once the victim’s parents were aware, her parents

and police pretended they were the child and continued communicating through social media with Gholar.”

In the early morning hours of Jan. 20, West Sacramento police officers, posing as the child, arranged to meet Gholar in West Sacramento, where Gholar believed he would have sexual intercourse with the 12-year-old victim.

Officers placed Gholar, who had condoms, under arrest when he arrived at

the location.

Judge Paul Richardson presided over the trial and handed down last week’s sentence.

“The court’s sentence reflects the seriousness of the crime and the trust the community places in its teachers,” District Attorney Jeff Reisig said. “This sentence not only provides justice for the victim but should serve as a deterrent to others in the community from engaging in similar conduct.”

VACCINATIONS: Limited rollout helps with scheduling, too From Page A1 followed by skilled nursing facility staff and skilled nursing facility residents,” Sisson said.

Under an agreement with the federal government, CVS and Walgreens will be responsible for vaccinating residents and staff in longterm care facilities.

“That partnership is expected to go live around Christmas,” Sisson said, “so if Yolo County has doses out of our initial 975 (Pfizer vaccines) that are not taken up by the general acute care hospitals, then we would use some of those vaccines in skilled nursing facilities.”

The county previously purchased — and received on Wednesday — the ultralow temperature freezer needed to store the Pfizer vaccine and that’s where the shipment will go when it arrives.

The vaccine can be kept at refrigerated temperature for five days after coming out of the freezer, Sisson said, “so it’s not like they have to go straight from the ultra-low temperature freezer into somebody’s arm … the process will involve placing the vaccines in a cooler with a data logger to make sure they maintain the proper temperature and then going to the skilled nursing facility,

observing the vaccination of the staff or residents and then any vaccine that’s left over — hopefully there’s none — would have to be used up in the next four days after that.”

The Pfizer vaccine requires a second dose three weeks later, so county officials will have to stay on top of that and ensure everyone gets that second shot — something that will likely be easier in skilled nursing facilities and hospitals than when time comes to vaccinate the general public.

“We’re developing a second-dose reminder system for when we get to the general public, Sisson said, “but for these early distributions, where it’s more of a ... very defined population approach, we can pretty much get everyone by scheduling the second pod three weeks after the first.”

As for the general public, when they will begin receiving the vaccine will depend on which phase they fall in — phases based on risk, age, health conditions and more.

“The state has a distribution plan where the first vaccines will go to those who are at highest risk of exposure (to COVID19),” said Jenny Tan, Yolo County’s public

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The first phase — Phase 1 — is split into 1A, 1B and 1C, she said, and within each phase are tiers.

“Within Phase 1A, there are prioritized tiers of who will get the vaccine first, such as those who work in acute care or longterm care settings,” said Tan. “This phase will be first in getting the vaccine and it may take time to get through this first subset of Phase 1A, especially since we are getting the vaccine in small shipments.”

Subsequent tiers in Phase 1A include paramedics, home healthcare workers, public health staff, specialty clinics and laboratory workers, Tan said.

“Phase 1B includes essential workers such as those in education, food and agriculture, utilities, police, firefighters, correction officers, transportation and others,” said Tan. Phase 1C includes adults with high-risk medical conditions and those 65 and over.

“For most of us in the general public who don’t work essential jobs, it may not be until mid-next year that there is an opportunity to get the vaccine because of these prioritization lists,” said Tan. Health officials will have

to make clear to the public not only why those lists were devised the way they were, but also convince vaccine skeptics to get the vaccine.

During Thursday’s Yolo Health Council meeting, member Dr. Pat MoorePickett noted that “the first roll out is going to be easy — it’s focused.

“But as it expands, and people wonder, ‘Why is that person ahead of me in line for the vaccine?’… I think maybe it’s not too early to start working on that messaging,” Moore-Pickett said.

And for those reluctant to get the vaccine, Tan

noted that both Pfizer’s and Moderna’s vaccines are mRNA-based vaccines which “do not put a weakened or inactive germ into our bodies.

“Instead,” Tan said, “they teach ourselves how to make a protein that triggers an immune response inside of our bodies. So these do not give someone COVID and do not use the live virus that causes COVID-19.”

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Davis Chickpeas closes; so do two bars C hickpeas Kitchen closed its Davis restaurant at 640 W. Covell Blvd., earlier this month. Owner DeKristie Adams is keeping the Woodland eatery at 800 Main St. open. The restaurant offers Middle Eastern and Mediterranean food like shawarma, falafels, gyros, tabbouleh, pitas and hummus.

In 2014, Mike Bennamer opened the Davis Chickpeas in Anderson Plaza. After Adams became a partner in 2017, they added Woodland, Sacramento (which closed in March) and Fairfield (which closed in July).

It was in the process of adding franchising when the pandemic hit. Now, Woodland is the only one left, and its first franchise deal — for a store in Marin County — fell through.

“We’re struggling but trying to stay open,” Adams said Thursday. “We’re going to do our best to keep serving our Davis clientele. We’re working really hard to set up our own delivery system.”

For now, deliveries may be arranged through DoorDash.

Before ordering online with DoorDash, however, she encouraged customers to call the store

at 530-650-8320 to check about delivery. View the menu firsts at http://gochickpeas.com/.

Before the pandemic, 35 to 40 percent of its income came from UC Davis. “We did a lot of really, really large events for them. …

(This is) catastrophic for us.”

A year ago, the company employed 24 people. Today, it’s down to eight. Adams, a single mom and former attorney, lives in South Davis with her two youngest children, ages 12 and 14. An adult son was the first employee she laid off.

“I have single moms working for me. I have someone with a disability working for me. They are going to have a hard time finding employment elsewhere,” she said, her voice cracking with emotion.

To make matters worse, the Chickpeas food truck needs a $10,000 new engine to meet state 2020 diesel standards.

She could drive it legally if she kept the mileage low. She’s looking for a place to park it semipermanently, where they could sell food but not rack up the miles.

Meanwhile, the Woodland restaurant is open for takeout from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays. They may add Sundays and expand daily hours back to 8 p.m. if there’s enough business. They hope to reopen in Davis after the pandemic but are not sure it would be in the same location.

———— As I confirmed last week, the Davis Cost Plus World Market is closing. Now we know when: Dec. 31.

In a Dec. 9 email to customers, CEO Jack Schwefel said, “This has been a particularly difficult year for all of us. It’s been very challenging on our business as well, and the pandemic has forced us to make really tough decisions. The last thing we want to do is close any of our stores.

But, in order to survive and thrive in the current environment, we need to put our company in the best possible position for the years ahead.”

The store is at 871 Russell Blvd. in University Mall. Schwefel referred customers to other nearby stores in Vacaville and Sacramento, which will remain open.

———— The stay-home order began on Thursday after the hospital intensive-care unit capacity in the Sacramento region dropped below 15 percent. Hair salons, barbershops and personal services like nail salons are closed through at least Dec. 30.

Restaurants are takeout only, and breweries and wineries are limited to retail sales. Indoor retail shopping will have a 20 percent capacity maximum, except for grocery stores, which are 35%. Non-essential workplaces must operate remotely.

Outdoor playgrounds remain open but campgrounds are closed. Gatherings of any size are prohibited, and non-essential travel is restricted.

In related moves:

■ The Yolo County Library suspended its services for curbside pickup for at least three weeks. In-person computer appointments ended on Friday.

■ I know of two Davis bars closing temporarily during the stay-home order: G Street WunderBar at 228 G St. and Parkside Bar & Lounge at 330 G St., Suite F. Check my spreadsheet (link below) for other updates.

———— My Google spreadsheet is updated, with more than 300 Davis businesses affected by COVID-19. It’s at https://bit.ly/ DavisBusinesses. In it, there are sheets for Restaurants-open, Restaurants-closed, Businessesretail, Businesses-service, Special hours (for older adults or compromised shoppers), and more.

Please email wendyedit@gmail. com to suggest updates.

— Wendy Weitzel is a Davis writer and editor. Her column runs on Sundays. Check for frequent updates on her Comings & Goings Facebook and Instagram pages. If you know of a business coming or going in the area, contact her at wendyedit@gmail. com.

Can ‘fire hardening’ solve the housing insurance crisis?

BY JAMES BIKALES CalMatters Sue Ladich spent $1,600 clearing brush and trees from around her home in 2014. In 2017, she ponied up $3,500 to clear even more potential wildfire fuel from her property. This year, she spent another $2,200.

But the more than $7,000 and countless hours of work spent in the name of keeping her Truckee home safe from wildfires added up to nothing in the eyes of insurers.

Californians across the state are taking measures to help save their homes from the state’s everworsening fires and satisfy risk-averse insurers, but many, like Ladich, are seeing their homeowners’ policy canceled or premiums jacked up anyway.

“When the local fire department or the Forest Service comes by to inspect our property, we pass with flying colors — they don’t have a single recommendation,” Ladich said. “In my conversations with insurance companies, I’ve raised these items to try to plead our case — it doesn’t make a difference; it’s like they don’t even care to hear these details. They just have a set map and they say, ‘Nope, we’re not insuring in that area.’”

Ladich has been dropped by two companies in three years, and when the third insurer proposed raising her premium from $5,000 to $11,000 this year, she finally gave up and joined the California FAIR plan, the state’s bare-bones fire insurance plan of last resort.

She’s far from alone.

Homeowners like Susie Williams in Tuolumne County and Lucy Smallreed in Marin have also been dropped by insurers despite efforts at making their homes safer. In 2019,

policy cancellations statewide rose by 61%, and the state’s 10 most fire-prone counties saw a 203% increase. Enrollments in the FAIR Plan jumped 225% last year.

Insurers say it’s simply too risky to write policies in these regions — payouts from the 2017 and 2018 fire seasons alone totaled $24 billion, almost completely wiping out the industry’s profits for the previous 16 years.

Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara backed a bill this year, AB 2367, that would have required insurers to renew policies for homeowners that met state standards for hardening their home against wildfire.

It died in committee after strong opposition from insurers.

In an October hearing on the insurance crisis and in interviews with CalMatters, both consumer groups and insurance companies indicated that, as a long term solution, they support creating an insurancebased mitigation program.

They disagree, however, on the logistics of such a system and whether the state is ready to move that way now.

Lara is convening a hearing Dec. 10 with fire and home hardening experts and wildfire catastrophe modeling experts to discuss incentivizing home hardening in order to increase insurance availability and affordability.

As Lara has pointed out, when car owners show their insurance company that they’re a safe driver who avoids accidents, they’re usually given a discounted rate. California

homeowners who demonstrate that they’ve made their home more immune to wildfire are hoping for the same deal on their insurance policy.

Who will certify?

Some California communities already require their residents to meet certain mitigation standards against wildfire. More than 350 jurisdictions in the state are enrolled in the National Fire Protection Association’s “Firewise” program, meeting certain community-wide mitigation standards. Individual cities and homeowners’ associations sometimes also set their own requirements for cutting back plants or using certain building materials.

Still, insurers are dropping customers who meet these community standards.

Susie Williams, a resident of Groveland, high in the Tuolumne County foothills, has to comply with strict fire mitigation measures stipulated by her homeowners’ association, such as cutting her grass to four inches or less.

Yet since the Rim Fire grazed the town in 2014, Williams has had her homeowners’ policy canceled by four different insurance companies, despite making no claims.

“It wasn’t one particular insurance company that was dropping people, one particular type of house, full-timers or part-timers,” she said. “Every time you turn around, you see someone whose insurance was dropped.”

Even those who have had

insurance company inspectors come to their property and followed their recommendations have faced cancellations.

Lucy Smallreed, who owns a home with her husband in the Marin County community of Inverness, said an Allstate inspector visited her home in 2018 and required her to cut back her trees for fire safety. She did that and more, but still received a cancellation in 2019.

“We keep the brush cut down, we have a metal roof on our home, it’s one story,” all measures experts say reduce the risk of a home burning down, she said.

“We’ve done a lot to make it fire-resistant, but that hasn’t resulted in us being able to get insurance.”

She’s now on the state FAIR plan, which costs 21% more than her previous comprehensive plan and covers only smoke and fire damage.

Risk mitigation Creating a successful risk mitigation program in California will require the buy-in of numerous parties, most importantly, the insurance companies and

state regulators. One successful model for such a program is Wildfire Partners in Colorado’s fireprone Boulder County.

Jim Webster, the program coordinator, said Wildfire Partners is unique in that it brings together stakeholders that are often adversaries for a “unified certification process” that encourages mitigation.

Because they’ve bought into the program before and trust that its inspectors are professionals, insurers can feel more comfortable continuing to insure those properties or avoid raising premiums.

As of now, the program has only certified 1,021 homes, but it’s drawing attention nationwide as a model mitigation program.

Webster said California could start by piloting a similar program in one county.

Ruiz, the trade group communications director, said the California insurance industry has already been examining Wildfire Partners model and is interested in working together with the Insurance Department to find a solution. And the Department has likewise shown

interest in Wildfire Partners, inviting Webster to present at its October hearing.

Susan Hassett, who lived in rural Yolo County until she lost her home to the LNU Lightning Complex fire this year, said such a partnership is exactly what would have helped her insure her home.

Hassett said that as a former firefighter, she knows what she’s doing on home hardening — she spent three years and thousands of dollars reducing the fire risk to her property, including clearing a 400-by700-foot swath of open space. But in 2017, her insurer canceled her policy.

“I started grilling them and I asked them questions like, have you driven our road? Will you come out and look?” she said.

The answer was no, and when she couldn’t find an affordable alternative plan, she went without insurance. After this year’s fire, she was left with nothing to rebuild.

— James Bikales is a health intern at CalMatters. He is a junior at Harvard University studying government and East Asian Studies.

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ASSAULT: Victim haunted for years by memory of attack From Page A1 his 35-year prison term, he must register as a sex offender and agreed to waive his appellate rights.

“Your days of terrorizing women and committing crimes against women are over,” Rosenberg told Manteuffel, a former prison administrator and college lecturer. “You will have plenty of time to ponder what you’ve done and try to improve yourself as a human being.”

A ‘monster’ attacks Manteuffel’s crime spree began on May 5, 1992, when he bound, blindfolded and repeatedly raped a woman inside her Sacramento County home. He committed a nearly identically brutal assault on another Sacramento woman on March 23, 1994.

The Davis attack occurred on Jan. 11, 1994, when Escamilla — then Kristen Anthony — was a 22-year-old student at UCD. She’d been sick during the holidays and, athletic by nature, decided a quick run to the grocery store would help get her back in shape.

“I had no idea that this would be my last solo night run, and I wouldn’t be coming home as planned,” Escamilla said in court Friday. “My run was cut

drastically short by this monster with an evil plan.”

She recalled that as she jogged, she saw a car pass her and slow down before turning the corner.

Minutes later, a man wearing a ski mask jumped from behind a fence and grabbed her, immobilizing her with a stun gun before dragging her off the greenbelt, binding her and beating her repeatedly in the head as he demanded money.

“There was a rage behind his punches. I’d never felt such anger, such evil,” Escamilla said. “I felt like this was going to be the end of me. I didn’t think I could endure any more pain.”

Yet Escamilla summoned the strength to thwart the attack, telling the suspect she was menstruating, according to a factual basis for the plea agreement that Supervising Deputy District Attorney Garrett Hamilton read in court.

“Through courageous persuasion, Kristen convinced him not to rape her,” Hamilton said. Still, he assaulted her in other manners for nearly an hour before leaving with a warning: “I might see you on campus. You won’t know. I might even give you a wink.”

Escamilla remembered thanking her assailant for sparing her life, “but I shouldn’t have thanked you, or felt the need to, because my life was not yours to take,” she

said. She also gave him some advice: “Please do not ever do this again to anyone.

“But he did. And with that, you disappeared,” she said. For years, darkness and silence inflicted Escamilla with paralyzing fear, and she found herself stopping and warning women who jogged alone at night.

“I was so desperate to protect them from the monster, to protect them from you,” she said. “I knew as long as you roamed this earth, it could happen to them.”

Suspect identified For decades, the rapes remained unsolved. But advances in DNA technology led not only to the development of suspect profiles in the three cases, but also the discovery in 2013 that they were committed by the same person.

In 2018, investigators uploaded that profile to a genetic genealogy database and began building family trees — the same method used in recent years to identify suspects in the Golden State Killer/East Area Rapist (Joseph DeAngelo) and NorCal Rapist (Roy Waller) cases, which also had Davis ties.

All the while, Escamilla kept urging police to track down her attacker, renewing that request when authorities announced

DeAngelo’s arrest in April 2018.

On Feb. 20, 2019, detectives “discovered that the family trees met at the intersection of the marriage of the parents of Mark Jeffrey Manteuffel,” Hamilton said. His age and physical description at the time of the assaults matched the details offered by the victims, and at one point he lived less than a mile from one victim’s home.

A search for Manteuffel’s current whereabouts led investigators to Oklahoma, Florida and finally Georgia, where in June 2019 an FBI agent seized a wine glass and straw from a restaurant where Manteuffel had dined.

DNA collected from those items proved a match to the profile developed in the rape cases, and agents soon arrested Manteuffel at his Decatur, Ga., home.

“While he did not directly admit the brutal sexual assaults, he did not deny them, either,” Hamilton said of Manteuffel’s subsequent police interview. Confronted with the “overwhelming” DNA evidence, “he hung his head, eventually placing his head facedown on the table, and remained in that position for an extended time.”

‘Forgive me’ Facing potential life sentences for his conduct, Manteuffel cut

his losses and pleaded guilty to the crimes, starting in Sacramento County on Oct. 23.

One of his two victims spoke in court that day, as did family and friends of the second woman, who passed away following Manteuffel’s arrest. But it wasn’t until Friday that Manteuffel broke his silence.

“I’m sorry, Kristen, for what I did to you. The lord has forgiven me, because I’ve asked him. It’s in his word,” Manteuffel told Escamilla. “I am a Christian now, a true Christian. I’m a different person now, because the lord’s spirit lives inside me. I’m truly sorry for what I’ve done, and I ask you to forgive me.”

Not given the opportunity to speak at his Sacramento sentencing, Manteuffel also addressed one of the victims in that case, who attended Friday’s hearing.

“I’m sorry for what I’ve done to you. I’m truly sorry,” he said, also apologizing to his third victim. “I hope you all forgive me as well.”

“I hope and trust that your words today are sincere,” said Rosenberg, who also noted Escamilla’s enduring courage.

“You’re a brave young woman.

You were strong then, and you’re stronger now,” the judge said. “I hope you do find closure — this was a step in the right direction.

Thank you for speaking your mind.”

SECURITY: No anonymity for professors teaching the wrong class From Page A1 While the security law isn’t specific to academia, it has significant consequences for universities around the world. “The law is designed to be a tool of censorship inside and outside the classroom,” said U, the UC Davis sociology professor.

In response to the law, UC Davis East Asian Languages and Cultures Chair Michael Dylan Foster drafted a disclaimer for professors in the department to use, which advises students that the content of a particular course “might be deemed sensitive or illegal by certain governments.” Similar measures have been taken this fall at other universities, including Harvard and Princeton.

Those in the U.S. likeliest to be targeted by the security law are students from Hong Kong or China — roughly a tenth of the UC

Davis student population — who plan to return there.

Anyone found to have violated the law while abroad could be arrested upon their return to Chinese jurisdiction.

“Even if I’m studying in the U.S., I cannot speak freely,” said W., a former UC Davis student from Hong Kong who transferred to UC Berkeley this quarter. In the spring, W. wrote a paper about the Chinese government’s abuses in Hong Kong and Xinjiang for a human rights class she took at UC Davis. “I would hesitate to write that kind of essay now,” she said.

UC Davis students from Hong Kong said they are especially wary of class discussions. Last year, they faced aggressive backlash on campus over their support for the Hong Kong protests. Classmates from mainland China — who saw the protests as an affront to their national

identity — cussed them out, tore down posters, interrupted rallies and persistently filmed the group.

Four UC Davis students from Hong Kong agreed to talk to The Enterprise, but only using an encrypted video conferencing software and on the condition that the audio recording of the conversation be deleted after it was transcribed.

“Everybody is scared to talk about politics in Hong Kong now,” S. said.

The law has yet to be addressed at an institutional level by either UC Davis or the University of California. “In consultation with UC’s International Students and Scholars directors, faculty members have been deciding how to best and most appropriately address the matter in the classroom,” UC Office of the President communications strategist Stett Holbrook told The Enterprise. “As this process

unfolds, we will continue to monitor and determine if systemwide measures are necessary.”

According to UC Davis spokesperson Melissa Blouin, various campus units are working on any “support that might be needed related to this new law.”

Students aren’t the only ones at risk. Any faculty who “openly teach China in an uncompromising way” could run afoul of the law, U said. And unlike students, who can be somewhat shielded by classroom accommodations like aliases, especially while classes are remote, “there is no way to protect the identity of the faculty,” he said.

No matter how committed a lecturer might be to truth and ethics, the law forces them to make hard choices. Professors who regularly travel to China for research or have family in China or Hong Kong must

tread carefully. “We can expect the law to have a chilling effect” on criticism of China, U said. “Scholars have careers to maintain.

They have to consider how to proceed in light of the boundaries being established by the Chinese government.”

U, who is from Hong Kong and lived there until immigrating to the U.S. in 1987, said he doesn’t plan to change his course material. “I won’t be watering

down or changing the content of my class,” he said.

On the contrary, U has proposed teaching a firstyear seminar course titled “Democracy and Authoritarianism in Hong Kong” in the spring. “I feel an urgency to teach students about what is going on in Hong Kong precisely because of the passage of the law,” he said. On the topic of his own safety, U said, “I’ll put it this way: I don’t have plans to go to China.”

OBITUARY Milton Hildebrand June 15, 1918 — Nov. 28, 2020

Milton Hildebrand died on Nov. 28. He was 102 years old.

Milton and his three siblings grew up in Berkeley in a family that provided varied outdoor activities and exposed them to science. (Their father was an eminent chemist on the UC Berkeley faculty.)

Starting at age 8, Milton participated in many Sierra pack trips with family and friends. The children all became proficient at camping and packing burros and mules.

When he was 11, Milton and his brothers attended a boy’s boarding school in Switzerland for six months, learning skiing, German, and how to be pals with international classmates.

As an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley, Milton majored in zoology. He skied in the winters (he was captain of the university ski team, and, on skis, made winter ascents of several peaks, including Mount Shasta), and spent most of his summers in the Sierra. He was the manager, and nine times leader, of the burro-trip outings of the Sierra Club (20 people and 12 burros for two weeks per outing; he taught everyone to pack the animals, cook and camp out). Also, with his brothers and friends, he went on 15 backpacking trips, making 76 ascents of peaks higher than 11,000 feet.

For six months in 1942, Milton interrupted graduate study to be the mammalogist on a university museum collecting trip to El Salvador. On his return, the U.S. having entered World War II, he was drafted into the 10th Mountain Division. As a private, he was a safety adviser to a battalion-scale winter maneuver in mountainous terrain.

Milton completed officer training at Fort Benning, Ga., in August 1943, and immediately married Viola Memmler. (The couple had met in a botany laboratory.) She followed him to Camp Hale, Colo., where he rejoined his division. He was placed in the

select group of soldiers forming the Mountain Training Group, which taught skiing, rock climbing, winter bivouacking, and mountain travel to chosen men from their own, and other, divisions. Later, Milton served as a platoon leader and then executive officer of a battalion headquarters company.

The 10th Division sailed to Italy in January 1945 and took position below the highest peaks of the Apennine Mountains, where the Allied offensive had long been stalled. In February, the 10th mountaineers captured all the highest ground. To his other duties, Milton had added that of battalion pack master, charged with supervising the use of 40 mules to deliver ammunition and rations, under the cover of darkness, to troops on terrain too rugged to be reached by vehicles. He received the Bronze Star for that work.

In April 1945, the 10th Mountain Division spearheaded the last great Allied offensive in Italy, being the first unit of the 5th Army over the mountains and into the Po Valley, first to cross the big Po River, and first to reach the foothills of the Alps, where they were when the German army in Italy surrendered.

Back in Berkeley, Milton resumed graduate study. (His thesis was on the skeletal anatomy of the 13 genera of the dog family.)

He joined the department of zoology at UC Davis in 1948. His teaching included embryology (to 2,400 pre-professional students over 19 years), analysis of vertebrate structure (one course in relation to evolution, and one in relation to locomotor and feeding adaptations to 4,000 students over 34 years) and human sexuality (in three lecture sections, to 17,500 students over 14 years). For a time he and his wife were accredited co-therapists for sexually

dysfunctional student couples.

Milton also taught a graduate course on the effective teaching of college biology, plus general zoology and seminars.

In 1967, the Associated Students gave Milton the Golden Apple Award for “outstanding teaching and concern for his students,” and, in 1973, he received the Distinguished Teaching Award from the Academic Senate. He was co-director of the faculty’s four-year study on “Evaluating University Teaching’” which became the most widely requested publication of the Center For Research And Development In Higher Education.

Milton’s principal research was on the locomotion of vertebrate animals, with emphasis on the gaits of mammals. He devised a way of translating gaits (walks, trot, gallops, etc.) from films to graphs, which enabled him to correlate gait with body conformation, age and ancestry. He analyzed the structural and behavioral adaptations that enable the cheetah to run faster than any other animal, and described force-multiplication mechanics in the feet of rodents.

When 6 years old, Milton started collecting skulls and other bony treasures. Over the years, specimens were picked up on trails and beaches, trapped, donated and exchanged. He taught himself skeletal preparation and techniques for freeze-drying dissections. His first book (1968) tells how to make “Anatomical Preparations.”

He used his collection extensively in teaching: “Here is a bone and a tooth. What were the animal’s locomotor and feeding habits, and how can you tell?” When he retired, in 1986, he donated 2,000 cataloged specimens to the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley, where much

of the collection is separately housed as showcase material.

Milton wrote a textbook, “Analysis of Vertebrate Structure,” which, now in a fifth edition, has been in print longer than any other text in its field. It has been translated into four foreign languages, and is known for the excellence of its illustrations, drawn by his artist wife, Viola, largely from specimens in the Hildebrand collection. Also, Milton proposed, and was a coeditor and contributor to, the advanced, multi-authored reference book, “Functional Vertebrate Morphology,” published in 1985.

Finally, in 1979, he published a small book of humorous, yet respectful verses about human sexuality.

Over the years, Milton visited 35 countries.

With Viola, he went on seven cruises off the shores of three continents. He was chairman of the Recreation Commission of the city of Davis for three years, chairman of the College of Letters and Science at UC Davis for three years, and chairman of the Division of Vertebrate Morphology of the American Society of Zoologists for three years.

More recently, Milton spent his time reading, walking, gardening, preparing the occasional sermon for the Unitarian Universalist Church, and now and then participating in gatherings of his large and loving extended family.

Milton is survived by his children Ross (retired data systems designer, valued family backup), Kern (retired recreation manager, international trip leader for the Sierra Club) and Joan Sowada (choral singer and widely exhibited fabric artist). All are, in their turn, hikers, gardeners and devoted parents. Milton also leaves five accomplished grandchildren and 11 “adorable” great-grandchildren.

A celebration of life will be announced at a later time. Memorial donations may be made to the Unitarian Universalist Church of Davis.

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HOLIDAYS: All-star lineup will keep yuletide vibe going From Page A1 in church and also sing at blues festivals.

“We went to them and filmed them at their home in the Bay Area,” Fairfield said.

■ Dave Nachmanoff, a local singer-songwriter who has toured throughout the United States and England, spending many years with Al Stewart (known for his hit “Year of the Cat”). With his own dedicated following, he will resume touring post-COVID. Nachmanoff is always happy to support local events, especially arts-related.

■ Joe Craven and Hattie Craven. This father-and-daughter musical pair have long been associated with the Davis area music scene, and have released a number of albums between them. In addition to performing music, Joe Craven will once again be co-hosting this year’s Home from the Holidays event as emcee.

■ Dorothy Morrison, who has contributed to the last two Home for the Holidays shows. She is known as the singer of the worldwide hit “Oh Happy Day.” This year, she contributes a video of her singing “Soulful Christmas.”

■ The Davis High School Madrigal Singers, who have traveled the world with their choral music over the past few decades as musical ambassadors of their school and the Davis community.

■ Bill Edwards, a longtime local musician and teacher who was an original member of Mumbo Gumbo. He’ll be featured in the somewhat irreverent seasonal song “Eating My Way Through the Holidays.”

■ The Fairfields, featuring Bill Fairfield and Ryley Fairfield, another family duo. In addition to performing some of their own material, the Fairfields will play some numbers together with Joe and Hattie Craven.

■ Alaina Rose: A superb young harpist, Rose has performed with many symphonies and orchestras, and has taken the harp in new directions with her songwriting and genrebending performances. She has been a crowd favorite at previous Home for the Holidays shows, and loves supporting the arts.

■ Boot Juice. Most of the five musicians in this band grew up playing music together, and their tunes draw on Americana, river rock and mountain blues. Boot Juice released an EP in 2018 and

their debut album in 2019.

“They’re a cool young band out of Davis, in their 20s, and they’ve been touring recently,” Fairfield said.

■ Misner & Smith, a popular local duo known for tight harmonies and excellent songwriting. Megan Smith is a Davis High School grad who enjoys giving back, via this benefit show, to the arts programs she enjoyed in high school.

■ Rita Hosking and Sean Feder: Local musical treasure Hosking’s songwriting and vocal stylings have drawn her an international following. Partnering with her husband Feder on banjo and guitar, they have an organic, roots sound that is unique. A former teacher at Emerson Junior High, Hosking is giving back to the schools she loves.

■ Kora Feder: The daughter of Rita

Hosking and Sean Feder, she is carving her own songwriting path, and performs primarily on the East Coast. This young folk/ Americana troubadour, and arts supporter, is giving back to the Davis schools she attended ■ Brian Rivers, who was a mainstay in the Davis musical community, from the original Music Shoppe of Davis to performing for years with the Spydels and Mumbo Gumbo. Now based in Cincinnati, Rivers teaches music and performs

regionally, and has submitted a video for this hometown show.

Viewers who pledge a $25 (or larger) donation will get a free DVD featuring highlights of past Home for the Holidays concerts, including an appearance by longtime local musician Little Charlie, who passed away earlier this year. Donations to Davis School Arts Foundation can be made at https://davisschoolarts foundation.org/donate.

Davis Media Access is a cosponsor of this popular Davis holiday tradition. The event will be simulcast at 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 17, on KDRT 95.7 FM and DCTV Channel 15 and will be available for video and audio streaming at kdrt.org (a link will be provided there the day of the show for the YouTube stream).

Joe Craven and Hattie Craven will return to the Home for the Holidays stage and Joe Craven will serve once again as the event’s emcee.

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OBITUARIES Alvin Dale Lucas

Jan. 7, 1943 — Nov. 26, 2020 Alvin Dale Lucas passed in the early hours of Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020. He was 77 years old.

Al or Luke, as he was known to many, was born in Muskogee, Okla. He moved to Davis in his early teens, graduated from Davis Senior High (class of ’61), and raised his family in Davis. He spent most of his career working at UC Davis, as a manager in the Mail Division. After retiring from UCD, he did handyman and roofing work for local residents. He liked to keep busy, and had many hobbies, including fishing, hunting, golf and spending time with family.

Alvin was preceded in death by his parents Alvin H. Lucas and Pauline Lucas, and his siblings Donald Lucas and Betty (Lucas) Wentz.

He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Anna Lucas. He was very close to, and enjoyed spending time with his children Dondra (Lucas) Nickell, Debbie (Lucas) Press, Jerry Lucas and Dana (Lucas) Andersen; grandchildren Kyle Lucas, Ryan Andersen (Salina), Tanner Press, Corey Lucas, Ashlin Andersen and Casey Gray (Mason); and his great-grandchildren Kaden Gray and Reagan Andersen.

Alvin served in the U.S. Army, as a paratrooper. He will be laid to rest in the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery, in Dixon. Due to current restrictions, a private ceremony will be held for Alvin’s immediate family. A memorial service is planned for a later date. Those who wish to sign a guestbook online may do so at: www.smith-funerals.com.

Viv-ette Jo Clark July 2, 1944 — Sept. 3, 2020

Viv-ette Jo Clark passed away on Sept. 3 surrounded by her three sons. She was born on July 2, 1944, in Orange. Her father, Myrl Shaw, was 27, and her mother, Tully, was 26.

After she graduated from Cal State Fullerton majoring in English, she married Jerry Allen Clark on March 18, 1967, at the Naval Chapel in Long Beach. They had three children, Bryan, Mike and Steve.

They moved to Davis in 1977 from

Gallatin, Tenn. She was a substitute teacher in Davis and president of the local Kiwanis branch in 2001.

She was an avid golfer and shot a hole-in-one at the Davis Municipal Golf Course on the 12th hole.

In addition to her three sons, she was survived by two daughtersin-law Stacy and Theresa, three grandsons, Frank, Ryan and Scott, two granddaughters, Christina and Darlene, and five great-grandsons, Jacob, Caleb, Owen, Emmett and Wyatt.

In Memoriam

Dennis Eugene Pleau April 9, 1954 — Nov. 29, 2020

Dennis Eugene Pleau was born April 9, 1954, in Sacramento to Lawrence Henry Pleau and Nathalie Elizabeth Pleau. He entered into eternal rest on Nov. 29. Dennis lived his entire childhood in Davis, where he was involved in Little League and Boy Scouts, enjoyed hunting and fishing with his dad and brothers, and shared many adventures with all the “Sunset Court Kids.” He attended Holy Rosary school in Woodland for a few years and graduated from Davis High School.

Dennis received an associate’s degree in engineering and worked for Intel in San Jose, New Mexico and Colorado before returning to Woodland (or “North-North Davis” as he liked to call it.)

Dennis and Debbie Smith were married on July 14, 1990. They added two sons to their family, Michael Dennis in 1992 and Steven Jay in 1993. Dennis and Debbie were avid collectors of Covair automobiles and enjoyed their membership in the Corvair Society of America. They enjoyed many family vacations traveling through the United States in their tent trailer.

Debbie passed away in 2007, and Dennis and his sons remained in Woodland. In his later years, he became very interested in wildlife photography and became an accomplished bird photographer. After his retirement, Dennis became involved with the Yolo Basin Foundation’s Discover the Wetlands program, becoming a docent and guiding hundreds of elementary school students through the wetlands, teaching units on local wildlife and conservation. This volunteer work brought him much joy and purpose.

Dennis had a very strong faith and was a lifelong member of St. James Catholic Church in Davis.

He was predeceased by his brother Richard Pleau, his mother Nathalie Pleau, his father Lawrence Pleau and his wife, Debbie Pleau.

He is survived by his two sons, Michael and Steven, his sister Elizabeth Hosmer (David), brothers James (Judy) and John (Cindi), sister-in-law Robin (Richard) and many nieces, nephews and cousins.

Due to COVID-19 restrictions, a private graveside service was held on Dec. 11.

Roland Hartsough Jan. 31, 1928 — Aug. 18, 2020

Roland was born in Merced to Josephine and Douglas Hartsough, joining older brother, Walter.

When Douglas passed away in 1936, Josephine moved the family to San Francisco to live with her mother. Although Roland was initially not fond of the move, he came to love the city.

After completing high school, he attended UC Berkeley, studying aeronautical engineering. In 1948, after one year at Berkeley, he was offered a position with International Business Machines as a customer service engineer. He accepted, and remained with IBM for 41 years, receiving several company awards for innovations. He viewed each service call as a challenge — a puzzle that he enjoyed solving.

While repairing IBM equipment at the National Weather Bureau in San Francisco, he met Lorraine Di Grazia. He was enchanted by her beauty and intelligence, she by his intellect and charm. They married in 1950 and lived in San Francisco until moving to Mill Valley in 1955. Their sons were born in 1952, ‘54 and ‘58. After Roland retired in 1989, he and Lorraine moved to Healdsburg. When Lorraine passed away in 2013, Roland moved to Davis.

Roland was curious, creative, productive, precise and the perfect gentleman. He designed the two homes in which he and Lorraine lived. He wrote voluminous notes on topics as varied as interpersonal relationships, investing and auto maintenance.

He was fascinated with flying. He built and flew model airplanes as a child and then with his sons. He enjoyed photography, a hobby he took up after receiving a camera as a gift from his brother. He also loved jazz music from the 1940s, by artists such as Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman. When working on maintenance projects around home, he enjoyed listening to NPR or talk radio.

He is survived by his sons Bruce (Marjorie), Gary and David, daughter-in-law Carlette, eight grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. The family thanks the staff of Carlton Senior Living and, especially, personal caregivers Isabel Gutierrez, Amber Bratton, Neelam Ralh and Capriah Lindsey for their attention to Roland’s needs during the past several years. Roland will be interred at the Davis Cemetery.

The family suggests that memorial contributions be made to the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America.

Charles L. Dawes

1939–2020

It is our honor to remember Charles Dawes, former President/ CEO of Yolo Federal Credit Union.

His innovation and commitment to Yolo Federal and Yolo County has left a lasting impression on those who had the pleasure of working with him. We ask that you join us in celebrating his life and accomplishments.

For more about Charles Dawes’ career with Yolo Federal, visit YoloFCU.org/Dawes.

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Squire grows into role Just a few things I could do without

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’ve never liked the term “pet peeve,” which has always sounded to me like some petty grievance that no one else should be bothered with.

Still, like an itch that won’t go away, there is a long list of offenses from the world of sports that invariably lead to irritation for me whenever they come up.

Like when a college-educated color commentator says, “The ball is laying in the end zone.” Well, let’s just say that unless the ball is also a chicken, it’s pretty much impossible for it to be laying anything. The ball, however, is lying in the end zone.

Math is sometimes challenging as well, for coaches and commentators alike.

I’ve never understood why a team that is trailing 8-0 and then scores a touchdown, decides to kick the extra point instead of trying to tie the game.

And I don’t care if it’s late in the game or early in the first quarter, you simply don’t know if you’ll have such a chance again. The game just might end up 8-7.

There are a million things wrong with this so-called strategy. First, the kicked extra point is not guaranteed, as Cal so painfully learned several weeks ago in that 24-23 loss to Stanford.

Imagine how stupid you’ll feel if you pass up a two-point conversion and a chance to tie the game, then miss the kick anyway.

Aggie guard is Mr. Consistent

BY OWEN YANCHER Enterprise staff writer Whether or not UC Davis basketball will ever see the light of the rest of this season is up for debate. So much is unknown ...

But something that’s already been settled among coach Jim Les’ ranks is the value of thirdyear guard Damion Squire.

Through the first four games of what’s already proved to be a patchy 2020-21 schedule, Squire has been Mr. Consistent

“Obviously, Ezra gets a lot of State and had another 13 in the attention,” says Les, now in Davis’ home win over William his tenth year as the Jessup on Dec. 4.

Aggies’ head coach.

“We’ve got a lot of “But there’s going to be guys we have confia lot of nights it’ll (be dence in who can make the other guys).” plays on the offensive end,” Les said after the In the Aggies’ opener 95-62 victory against against Nicholls State, Jessup, noting that Squire was The Man. weapons like Squire Using his strength make UCD all the more and athleticism to get SQUIRE tough for opponents to into the paint, he Averaging prepare for. dropped a career-high 13.2 points “It can’t just be ‘Stop 21 points, adding 14 the per game Ezra, stop the Aggies,’ ” following game against Santa Clara and his former Les said. “We’re more than Wasatch Academy prep team- that.” mate Josip Vrankic. He then scored 12 as UCD beat Idaho SEE SQUIRE, PAGE B2

Fall sports seasons canceled Five Aggie squads work to get over the shock

BY BRUCE GALLAUDET Enterprise sports editor

CAROLEE GREGG/COURTESY PHOTO

An explosion of color at sunset greeted the swimmers at Community Pool in Davis last week. Perhaps a brightly painted harbinger of things to come as Davis High’s aquatics center project moves forward?

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econd, there is a significant psychological difference between being in a tie game or being in a game where you’re behind, even if only by one point.

And even if you miss the two-point try, trailing by two points instead of trailing by one is not exactly catastrophic. A field goal still wins the game for you in either scenario.

Speaking of math, both the NFL and the NCAA celebrated significant football milestones during the preCOVID 2019 season.

The NFL, which started on Oct. 3, 1920, with a game between the Dayton Triangles and the Columbus Panhandles, celebrated the 100th season of professional football.

The first college game took place on Nov. 6, 1869, between Rutgers and New Jersey (now Princeton), so in 2019 the NCAA celebrated the 150th year of college football.

Those of you who are starting to get dizzy working your abacus know that someone’s math is wrong here and it’s not the NFL’s.

If the first NFL season was in 1920, then the 2019 season is indeed the 100th year of NFL football.

But, if the first college football game was in 1869, then 2019 is actually the 151st year of college football, even if Nov. 6, 2019, does, in fact, represent the 150th anniversary of college football.

for the Aggie men. With Davis off to a 2-2 start, the 6-foot, 185-pound psychology major has averaged 13 points, 3.5 rebounds and three assists.

No stranger to UCD’s lineup after starting in 25 of the 27 games he played last season, Squire has been a steady presence for the Aggies — just not always the biggest producer statistically.

But that’s not been the case this season. As Aggie opponents have keyed on All-Big West preseason selection Ezra Manjon, they’ve often eased off Squire.

And for that strategy, opponents have been punished each time.

New era

Davis High center will provide space for more aquatics

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f you have swum at Woodland’s 20-lane Charles Brooks Community Swim Center (it’s 25-yards-by-50-meters!), you have probably experienced pool envy.

I know I have.

But, Davis swimmers, our day is coming.

The $150 million school-bond issue voters approved in 2018 includes a large Davis High aquatics center that will be available to swimming groups throughout the year.

It will have 17 competition lanes and will be 25-yards-by-50meters. Located between the current south gym and Brown Stadium on campus at DHS, the $10 million facility will be large enough for two water polo games with floating goals.

It may be completed in three years. That grand opening can’t come fast enough.

The school district will have strong incentives to rent out the facility to offset, in part, the high operating costs. (It’s a lot of water to heat and filter.) There will also be spectator stands for hosting regional competitions.

It will have the knock-on effect of freeing up pool time at UC Davis’ Schaal Aquatics Center and city pools. As Enterprise sports editor Bruce Gallaudet has pointed out, 10,000 Davis recreational and competitive swimmers jockey for pool time.

That’s why we depend heavily on a neighboring city like Woodland for supplemental pool time.

The major advocate for community use of the new pool has been Owen Yancher, a former Blue

SEE BRALY, PAGE B2

Still numb from Thursday’s announcement that the Big West Conference has canceled the seasons for cross country, soccer and volleyball, UC Davis coaches are already working to regroup and look to the future.

Expectedly, the atmosphere around those Aggie programs is shrouded in shock and disappointment.

While UCD soccer, volleyball and cross country coaches told The Enterprise they “understood” the conference decision, it nonetheless is weighing heavily on staff and student-athletes as they plan a new path toward the day when competition resumes.

“My initial reaction is just being really upset and sad. I feel it a lot. I was very excited to get back,” Aggie volleyball coach Dan Conners said.

“The practice time we had this fall was great. We were doing it safely. It felt really good to get back. The team was really excited.”

Then the Big West edict hit.

“Having that conversation (about the season being canceled) with the players was difficult.

They’re sad and disappointed,” Conners added. “We’re definitely PETERSEN feeling it right now.”

UCD cross Added men’s soccer coach country coach Dwayne Shaffer in a prepared statement: “It’s disappointing that we are not going to play competitive games for the entire academic school year. However, for the health and wellness of everybody involved, including our student-athletes, I fully support this decision.”

The stop-and-go and not-knowing aspects of trying to run a collegiate athletic program have taken their toll. But every coach holds out hope that the next message coming is a green light, not the order to pack up, as was issued by the Big West last week.

“Everybody that’s involved in all this is probably at the breaking point by now,” offered cross country coach Emma Petersen, who said that, as early as Thursday morning, everyone on her women’s and men’s teams was pointing to a January start: “We had no idea. Kevin (Blue, UCD athletics director) sent out an email in the morning saying there was going to be a Big West meeting. That was

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LeMond receives Congressional medal

BY BRUCE GALLAUDET Enterprise sports editor Greg LeMond, a member of the Davis-based U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame, has joined national sports legends Jesse Owens, Jackie Robinson, Arnold Palmer and six others as the only athletes in receipt of the Congressional Gold Medal.

In legislation authored by Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, the three-time winner of the Tour de France, has joined yet another illustrious group of honored world figures.

Anthony Costello, a former Hall

of Fame board president, once called LeMond “the kind of role model we can all look to ... a man who embodies sportsmanship in the sport of road racing and life.”

LeMond is known, too for his condemnation of the use of performance-enhancing drugs on the cycling circuits — first speaking publicly about the subject after a 1989 Tour de France win.

“When I speak out about doping, people could translate it and think it was about the riders,” LeMond once told the Associated Press. “Actually, I feel like I am an

advocate for the riders. I look at them as being treated like lab rats that are test vehicles for the doctors. The doctors, the management, the officials, they’re the ones that have corrupted riders. The riders are the only ones that pay the price.”

In 2001, LeMond went further, leveling personal criticism at discredited seven-time Tour de France “winner” Lance Armstrong. Armstrong has since been stripped of his French victories, leaving LeMond as the only American to capture the world’s most

renown cycling event.

“Greg LeMond represents the best of American sportsmanship,” Thompson echoed Costello in announcing the award. “Throughout his career, Greg repeatedly dedicated his life to serving and supporting children, veterans, medical research and other causes.”

Other nonathletes receiving the Congressional Gold Medal?

Among them are George Washington, the Wright Brothers and Thomas Edison.

LeMond, 59, lives in Oakridge, Tenn., with his wife Kathy.

GREG LeMOND

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DUNNING: You are saying it all wrong From Page B1 Moving right along, I think it’s wrong when a punter enters the game and the public address announcer tells everyone in the stadium, including the opposing team, “In to punt for Cal is Herb Schmalenberger.”

How does he know Schmalenberger is going to punt? Maybe it’s a fake.

I mean, when the quarterback enters the game the PA announcer doesn’t say, “Now in for Cal to run a bootleg around left end is Will Lotter.”

The same when a placekicker runs onto the field.

Just announce his presence, not what you presume he is about to do.

I hate it when East Coast announcers ay “Nevah-duh” or “Gon-zah-guh” or “Oar-e-gone.” And I especially hate it when they welcome us to the beautiful “Will-uh-met” Valley. “It’s Will-lamb-it,” dammit.

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dditional note to announcers and officials: it’s “offside,” not “offsides,” it’s an “onside kick,” not an “onsides kick,” and a team is moving “toward” the north end zone, not “towards.”

It’s especially irritating when a 60-year-old coach who has won multiple national championships tries to ice an 18-year-old field-goal kicker by calling three consecutive time outs in the final seconds of a game. In may be within the rules, but it doesn’t sound very sporting to me.

And why does a league with 14 teams insist on calling itself the Big Ten? Can’t anyone in that league count?

Why is it that baseball players manage to spit once every five seconds, while an NBA player wouldn’t dream of spitting even once on that beautiful hardwood floor?

And how on earth is it that the cheating Houston Astros were ever allowed to play a baseball game again?”

OK, I’m done. I feel much better now.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenter prise.net.

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Allen’s bat is HOF-worthy D

ick Allen, arguably one of the five best MLB players in the 1960-70s, died this week at age 78.

Allen’s 15-year career included nine with Philadelphia, a city back then with very poor race relations.

An outspoken, brash man, Allen once punched out a soon-to-be exteammate who directed a racial epithet in his direction.

Playing in old Connie Mack Stadium, a yard that couldn’t hold his prodigious blasts, Allen routinely hit home runs that completely left the premises. Neighborhood kids would find the baseballs two blocks from the ballpark.

Opposing pitchers knew Allen could hit their best pitch, and hit it hard. Third basemen hoped his laser-powered line drives didn’t come their way.

After Philly, Allen would play with the Cardinals, Dodgers, White Sox and A’s. He was the American League MVP in 1972 with Chicago.

Over an 11-year span (1964-74), his 319 home runs were behind only Hall of Famers Hank Aaron, Harmon Killebrew, Willie Stargell and Willie McCovey. Allen’s induction into Cooperstown should have happened long before now. He

should have been able to enjoy it.

■ Here is how the Big Ten opened the door for 5-0 Ohio State to play in next week’s conference title game against Northwestern.

The previous six-game win minimum was scrapped.

“The decision was based on a competitive analysis which determined Ohio State would have advanced to the championship game based on its undefeated record and head-to-head victory over Indiana, regardless of a win or loss against Michigan.” Uh-kay.

■ Seventeen more college football games canceled or postponed this week, 141 for the season. Some teams (Stanford, San Jose State) playing “home” games in other states. Four other teams playing each other after original opponent dropped out due to COVID. ■ Two of the best NFL

possession receivers are the Rams’ Cooper Kupp and the Bills’ Cole Beasley. Each finds a seam in the field from which to operate, makes the reception and turns the gain upfield for added yardage.

■ Most stable NFL franchise: Pittsburgh Steelers. Rooney family ownership, only three head coaches (Chuck Noll, Bill Cowher, Mike Tomlin) since 1969. Consistently at or near the top of AFC standings. Anyone notice a pattern here?

■ Mike Luery retired this month after a 35-year TV news career.

He spent a Lou Gehrig-like 24 of those years at KCRA, where he covered consumer affairs and the capital, among other assignments.

A hardcore baseball fan, he wrote a book — “Baseball Between Us” — about traveling with his son to watch ballgames in parks from San Diego to Toronto.

■ How times change: Four QBs were taken in the first 10 selections of the 2018 NFL draft — Baker Mayfield (to Cleveland at No. 1) and Josh Allen (to Buffalo at No. 7).

Mayfield and Allen have each thrived, but the fates haven’t been as kind to two L.A. guys, Sam Darnold/USC (to N.Y. Jets at No. 3)

and Josh Rosen/UCLA (to Arizona at No. 10). Darnold is likely to have a new address in 2021 and Rosen is on his third NFL team, currently a practice-squad player at Tampa Bay. ■ If you want to blame Jets head coach Adam Gase for his team’s 0-12 record going into today, go ahead. But Gase didn’t just walk into Jets camp and anoint himself as the head man. He was hired by owner Woody Johnson and former GM Mike Macagnan. They must bear responsibility as well.

■ How you know the sports world has gone completely mad ...

MLB is selling authenticated game-used “dirt jars” from opening days, All-Star games and the World Series. The perfect stockingstuffer! Who needs coal anymore?

■ As we all try to keep our wits about us, a sage observation from Jimmy Buffett: “If we weren’t all crazy, we’d all go insane.”

— Doug Kelly is director of communications for Battlefields2 Ballfields and managing general partner of Kelly & Associates. Kelly also is the longtime radio and television color man on UC Davis football broadcasts. Reach him at dkelly1416@aol.com.

SQUIRE: Solid on court, in classroom From Page B1 Born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, Squire, who is fluent in French, is one of a handful of Canadians Les & Co. have tapped over the last several years. Former Aggie center Matt Neufeld (Victoria, British Columbia) as well as women’s players Mackenzie Trpcic (Hamilton, Ontario) and Sage Stobbart (North Vancouver, B.C.) and exguard Dani Nafekh (Oakville, Ontario) also hail from the Great White North.

“AAU basketball has shrunk the world,” Les says. “We can go to a tournament in Las Vegas during recruiting time and see 300-400 teams now. And those are teams from all over the world.”

And when you’ve got a product like a top-tier UC Davis education to market, that product sells.

“For a long time, basketball was a Canadian afterthought,” Les adds.

“And I think that started to change with Steve Nash and now the Raptors and you’re seeing it take off.

Canada basketball is on the rise and Damion’s a product of that.”

Squire’s talent on the hardwood was obvious from a young age.

First picking up a ball at the Boys and Girls Club of LaSalle in Montreal when he was 5, he was already turning heads by the time he reached middle school.

“I started playing because my older brother (Devon) was playing,” Squire says. “And I always looked up to him.”

Sought out by a handful of private school coaches, he eventually made his way to NCAA hoops factory

Wasatch Academy in Mt. Pleasant, Utah. There, he helped lead the Tigers to back-to-back San Fernando Valley Invitational Tournament Championships and a first-place finish at the 2014 Utah State Sectional Tournament.

His teammates from that squad included Vrankic (Santa Clara), Tristan Enaruna (Kansas), Matt Bradley (Cal), Idaho State forward Matija Ilic, Tre Williams (Minnesota), Bryan Penn-Johnson (Washington) and Seton Hall’s Tyrese Samuel.

With stellar grades in the classroom, his feats too began to draw interest from universities. Ivy League schools Brown, Columbia and Dartmouth each came calling.

In the end, however, it was Les and Aggie assistant Jonathan Metzger-Jones that successfully courted the young point guard.

His Canadian roots allowed him to play a key role last year in all seven of Team Canada’s games at the FIBA U19 Basketball World Cup in Greece. During group play versus Senegal, Squire finished with 18 points, three rebounds and a team-high four assists to help the second-ranked team in the world draw a matchup against France in the quarterfinals.

Fiery on the court, he compares his game to that of nine-time NBA All-Star and current Washington Wizards point guard Russell Westbrook.

“I can relate to how he expresses himself on the court,” Squire says.

“He plays with a lot of passion and (is deliberate) about everything he does.”

OWEN YANCHER/ENTERPRISE FILE PHOTO

UC Davis guard Damion Squire (1) avoids the defense of William Jessup’s Jordan Adams during 95-62 victory over the Warriors on Dec. 4. Squire has become an Aggie key guy.

And Les says that charged-up demeanor is infectious: “Guys respond to him. He’s vocal in practice and he’s on guys about being ready and staying locked in.”

All Aggie sports remain on pause currently with the greater Sacramento region under the state’s stayat-home order. UCD is tentatively scheduled to kick off Big West Conference play on Dec. 27 when Cal State Bakersfield visits The Pavilion for a Sunday matinee. Davis is also slated to take on Sacramento State at noon on Dec. 19 in the annual

Causeway Classic.

Notes: Nicknamed “Kleenex,” Squire is also known to spit fire on the microphone (in both English and French). His recent rap single, “Independent,” is available on Spotify, Apple Music and Pandora.

The son of Suzanne Corriveau and Richard Squire, he has two other siblings besides Devon: sisters Tania and Nadira.

— Reach Owen Yancher at oyancher@davisenterprise.net.

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the first we had even heard about (the season being in jeopardy).

“As soon as he announced it, honestly, it was a big shock.”

School compliance chief Katherine Zedonis and Petersen were immediately on the phone, exploring what it all meant, the coach says.

Petersen scrambled to send out an email to her team saying, “I’m digesting this right now, but I wanted you to know … stay positive and we’ll talk about this as soon as I can think of what we’re going to do next.

“Within a few minutes, our kids — and they’re such wonderful kids — are sending texts saying, ‘Sorry, coach: this is terrible news for you as much as it is for us.’ They understood that (staff) was pretty shocked, as well as them.”

There was some pragmatism among the ranks.

“You know, nothing is a surprise anymore,” explained women’s soccer coach Tracy Hamm. “I feel like we had kind of been prepared for this news — whether we wanted to believe it or not.

“But it’s a shock in not providing us something to look forward to or giving us a light at the end of the tunnel. Yes, it was expected in some ways, but it still doesn’t make it less shocking.”

So what is next for these fall programs?

Conners says he’s going point to the four spring event dates allowed by the NCAA. “Next is regrouping and mapping out what we can do in spring,” Conners explained. “We’ll do everything we can.

There’s not a lot of time since the announcement to figure that out, but I think it’s next

on the agenda.”

Soccer programs will work to set up their spring slates — five games are OK — while cross country received confirmation that its harriers can participate in events as unattached athletes.

As for soccer, the Ivy League and BWC are the only NCAA Division I conferences to have completely scotched their seasons.

In meeting via computer link with her team on Friday, Hamm told her charges: “Let’s just stay positive, like we’ve been the past six months: Focus on your individual development.”

Like with most fall-sport programs, a majority of athletes are off campus, preparing for finals.

Hamm hopes the battle against COVID19 is controlled enough that those five nontraditional spring games will happen. “(Those games) will keep everybody sane,” she adds.

Petersen said her teams were expected back on campus on Jan. 2 and then were to have gone through quarantine before “having our next big practice after that in preparation for the winter cross country season.”

All of that has changed with the Big West’s announcement ...

However, Petersen had a Saturday Zoom meeting “to talk about do we want to keep that date, do we want to adjust it at all? I think with school starting on Jan. 4 anyway, a lot of (the athletes) will be back in Davis and want to get into the routine.”

These latest BWC guidelines weigh in on the side of caution, with league officials cognizant of student-athlete and staff health.

“Protecting the health and safety of our student-athletes and following public health guidelines are our top priorities,” Big West

Commissioner Dan Butterly said.

UC Davis fields 25 teams, some in conferences like the Western Water Polo Association and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (gymnastics, women’s swimming, lacrosse, women’s indoor track).

Word about the status of those sports seasons is expected by year’s end.

“Making decisions like this, especially at a time like this, it’s a very difficult time to be a leader,” Conners told The Enterprise. “And leaders have to make tough decisions, and they’re not going to please everyone.

“But I do appreciate that the board of directors of the Big West is making the decision with the health and safety of the student-athletes and coaches in mind.”

All of Petersen’s 34 distance runners translate to positions on the track-and-field team, creating another period of uncertainty for those athletes as they wait to hear the allclear for spring sports.

One bit of good news, especially for senior student-athletes, came last summer when the NCAA provided an extra year of eligibility for those caught in the pandemic during this school year.

While Petersen says it’s a great opportunity for some, she noted, “It’s an extra year of paying for school, so it’s not easy for them, but it does open opportunities.”

Meanwhile, the Aggie basketball programs — given the go-ahead to play beginning Nov. 25 — have been put on hold until further notice by the Yolo County Health Department. Meanwhile, nearby Sacramento State continues to compete, and many of UCD’s conference companions are playing nonleague basketball schedules.

In the Big Sky, football is targeted for a truncated, six-game Feb. 27 start.

From Page B1 Devil swimmer who coaches at DHS. Owen, also a familiar Enterprise byline, told me: “This facility will be a game-changer for the students of Davis and aquatics users in town for generations to come.

“DHS girls water polo coach Doug Wright likes to call it the ‘wettest classroom on campus,’ and I think that’s a fantastic way to describe it and how fitness and health will factor into 21st century learning.

“There’s no question it’ll become the hub of local aquatics and a site that both the school and other Davis aquatics groups utilize for both competitions and training.”

Yancher added: “To put it in the most personal way I can, my dad (Ross) was hired from the University of Denver in 1979. He was coaching swimming and water polo there and was hired to become the coach at Davis Aquatic Masters.

“He told me before he passed away a couple of years ago that (Davis folks) had a site at Community Pool — this is 1979 — and there were talks in the works with the city then to expand Community to a 50-meter facility.”

Wright credited Owen Yancher for encouraging him to join him in being “squeaky wheels” about the project.

— Mark Braly’s column is published monthly at Davisenterprise.com. Reach him at markbraly@sbcglobal.net.

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(A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

6. Signature of Registrant(s): Paul Boulware 12/6, 12/13, 12/20, 12/27 1077

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Special, magic food can feed the soul, too O n the day before Thanksgiving, I discovered a box of cookies next to the front door of our cabin in the woods near Coloma. It was a gold-colored box, 5 inches square, with a large sticker that read “Let Our Hearts be Full of Thanksgiving.” Inside, wrapped in white tissue, was a colorful array of macaroons.

I asked my husband if he knew who left the cookies.

“I have no idea,” he said. “Just saw them myself.”

I spent a moment considering whether or not it’s safe to eat cookies of unknown origin, but since I’m not a politician or a diplomat, I popped one in.

Three cookies later, with time to study the box more carefully, I searched for clues about where it came from. There was no name, not even of the store that sold the macaroons. I started running through my list of friends in the Coloma area, mostly kayaking buddies and members of my book and magazine groups.

I wrote emails to the ones who seemed most likely to have left us cookies. To my surprise, I detected notes of regret in their replies. They wrote, “I’m sorry to

say that there are no angels living here!” and “Wish I could say that I was that thoughtful person!”

Everybody wanted to be the one who had left secret cookies and felt a little bad that they hadn’t done that.

So I stopped sending emails.

Bob and I finished the box.

Thanksgiving passed, then the week after, but no one took responsibility for the cookie caper.

Santa Claus?

Meanwhile, the anonymous donor inspired me, and a couple of days later, I went into the cookie business in a different way.

I should explain, first, that although I used to be a mom who made cookies, mostly chocolate-chip from my

mother’s easy and well-loved recipe, I stopped after our children moved away.

But last weekend Bob and I invited friends from our reading group for an outdoor widely spaced gathering next to the river.

Sometimes, the reading group is more about food than reading.

Before COVID-19, we met in each other’s homes for potluck dinners where each menu item was tastier and sometimes fancier than the next.

Whenever it was my turn to provide dessert, I struggled to bake something elaborate or new. I was a chocolate-chip cookie maker reaching for wedding cake competence.

But lately we’ve been serving snacks only and I decided to make the simplest snack I know: chocolate chip cookies.

Because I was out of practice, I over-browned a few of them but the centers were squishy and chocolate-filled, just like my mom’s. We’re talking about heart-infused food.

I brought them outside and put them on a folding table.

Immediately they began to disappear.

“My cookies are a hit,” I whispered to my husband, the accomplished chef in our family. My humble chocolate chip cookie, which I think of as the “Ford car” of pastry, was scoring big.

Just like other humble things that have become important right now — walks in the park, holiday cards, music — the cookies provided a moment of comfort.

———— The same thing happened the following day when I brought the last of them in a plastic bag to pass out to my kayaking buddies, where they were met with smiles and outstretched hands.

But, oh, how our behavior has changed in our COVID world.

We’ve become as careful about decorum as a bunch of rod-inthe-spine royals on Masterpiece Theatre.

My cookies have a tendency to stick to each other, so whenever an eager kayaker pulled out a second cookie by mistake, because it was stuck to the first one, he or she would freeze and say, “Oh, I don’t want to touch the other ones.”

Finally, we figured out how to

separate them by manipulating the bag.

The cookies were devoured.

I felt as if I had become the French Laundry, source of food so desirable you’d risk your reputation for it during a pandemic.

One companion even thanked me again via email. “It was a fun day, especially the cookies,” she wrote.

———— That evening, as I ruminated on the primal joys of sharing homemade comfort food in a pandemic, an email arrived from a neighbor down our country road.

She’s a thirtysomething mom I haven’t seen in over a year, a person with whom I have never exchanged words more intimate than “Hello” and “How are you?”

She wrote, “We stopped by last weekend … but you weren’t there. Left a container of macaroons for you by the door. I hope you found them!”

Suddenly, the neighbor felt like a friend.

Cookies, I tell you, they’re magic.

— Marion Franck has lived in Davis for more than 40 years.

Reach her at marionf2@gmail. com.

Can you imagine dealing with 2020 on your own?

BY TRACY FAUVER Special to The Enterprise

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sn’t it hard to believe that last year at this time we were barely finding out what the coronavirus was, let alone living our lives in such an altered way? Many of us kissed and hugged multiple loved ones during the holidays with no regard to “households.” We didn’t even know what the term “social distancing” was. So much can change in a year.

As we near 2021, many of us are feeling weary, tired, fearful and maybe a bit hopeful. We’ve come a long way… and the light of the tunnel is out there on the horizon. Will 2021 bring us back to “normal?”

Is there even such a thing?

Will we actually be able to hug freely again?

Can you imagine reflecting on all of this and wondering this alone? We can’t either, which is why the importance of CASA volunteers has been so

YOLO CASA obvious this past year. The pandemic gave us all a taste of the rapid change and isolation that foster children inevitably feel when they are placed in care. It’s shocking, unnerving and depressing to say the least… and having someone to get through those feelings with is crucial.

We say it often, but a CASA volunteer is often the only stable and consistent relationship that a foster child has. The dependency system is a busy place, and social workers, lawyers, and even foster parents have a lot of responsibilities and caseloads. CASA volunteers are the one person that a foster child can call their “own.”

If any year has highlighted the importance of having someone to call our own, it’s 2020. We are so grateful to the CASA vol-

unteer who bought double copies of the books she read to her CASA child on Facetime so that her CASA child could follow along.

We are grateful to the volunteer who drove 45+ minutes just to wave through a window. We are grateful for our donors — who continued their generosity during the hardest of times so that we could train and retain our volunteers.

THANK YOU for being there for our foster kids — either through volunteer support, financial support, or spreading the word. We are grateful — and hopeful — that there are better days ahead.

As always, if you are interested in making a year-end donation or becoming a volunteer yourself, more information can be found at yolocasa. org. Our winter training is just around the corner!

— Tracy Fauver, LCSW, is the executive director of Yolo County CASA.

Social Services counsel reappointed Enterprise staff Gov. Gavin Newsom reappointed Torene L.M. Schwab, 54, of Davis, as deputy director and chief counsel at the California Department of Social Services, where she has served in that role since 2015.

She held multiple positions at the California Department of Social Services from 2000 to 2015, including assistant chief counsel, senior staff counsel and staff counsel. She was an associate attorney at McDonough, Holland and Allen from 1995 to 2000 and at Burger and Plavan from 1993 to 1995.

Schwab is a member of the American Association of Health and Human Services Attorneys.

She earned a J.D. degree

BY ANDY JONES Special to The Enterprise 1. Architectural Materials. Starting with the letter S, the Italian word for “plaster” refers to a construction material made of aggregates, a binder, and water. Name it.

2. Countries of the World. French is the official language of the most densely populated country

NAME DROPPERS from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law. This position does not require Senate confirmation and the compensation is $199,368. Schwab is a Democrat.

———— Camryn Wentworth of Woodland qualified for the fall 2020 dean’s list at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn. Eligibility is based on a minimum course load of 12 hours and a grade-point average of 3.5 with no grade below a C. “Achieving the recognition of dean’s list during the fall 2020 semester is an extraordinary achievement,” said Belmont Provost Thomas Burns.

in the world. Name it.

3. Science. The name of what part of the brain of humans and other vertebrates comes from the Greek word for “seahorse”?

4. Current Events — Names in the News. What prominent living musician and lyricist recently sold his entire catalogue of 600-plus songs to Universal Music?

5. Shakespeare. What

“While we are always impressed with students’ who are able to achieve this high level of recognition in their academic endeavors, those students that reached this mark in fall 2020 demonstrated incredible diligence and commitment to their academic work during very unusual and stressful circumstances. “ Belmont University, a Christian community of learning and service, is the home of the Oct. 22 presidential debate, the final in the election season.

— Do you know of someone who has won an award or accomplished something noteworthy? Email it to newsroom@davisenter prise.net.

character in the play “Julius Caesar” speaks the line, “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves”?

Answers: Stucco, Monaco, hippocampus, Bob Dylan, Cassius.

— Dr. Andy Jones is the quizmaster at de Vere’s Irish Pub and author of the book “Pub Quizzes: Trivia for Smart People.” Dr. Andy is now also sharing his pub quizzes via Patreon. Find out more at www.yourquizmaster.com.

A CASA volunteer is often the only stable and consistent relationship that a foster child has.

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Dreams deferred and denied The issue: We must find a way to get athletes on the field We understand the argument of folks who say because the pandemic is raging in America, prep and collegiate sports should be shut down ... at least until we get a handle on COVID-19.

THIS CAT-AND-MOUSE GAME with the deadly disease makes no sense, they say: start practice, play a few games, cancel every other outing and fall back on a total stoppage of workouts. Lunacy.

But there are overriding reasons to keep the faith, to keep pushing forward in a fashion that errs on the side of caution, but allows student-athletes to pursue their dreams.

For college competitors, the NCAA has provided an extra year of eligibility, given the severity of the pandemic and the likelihood that their seasons will be at least interrupted, if not scratched entirely.

We empathize with UC Davis athletes, coaches and staff about how difficult it is to not know who you’re next playing, if you’re playing — or even if you get to practice tomorrow.

Athletes need to get into a rhythm to be at their best, and the uncertainties of the pandemic don’t allow that.

It’s difficult enough that distance learning is taking a toll with every student’s psyche. It’s a double-whammy that these young people have no idea if they’ll be able to pursue their passions on the court or in the field.

Just on Thursday, the Big West Conference canceled all fall sports. At UCD that means men’s and women’s soccer, cross country and women’s volleyball are not happening.

With that begins yet another layer of anguish for many: How will those seniors manage to recoup this lost season? Do they get on with their lives, forfeiting a final season? Or do they rearrange studies, living accommodations and put the real world on pause to return to campus in 2021?

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e have reached the end of year. This time of year can be stressful for many, even without the added complications of a pandemic.

This year as we try to find ways to continue to make our life moments special, I am continually inspired by the resilience of our community.

As I stood in front of our holiday tree in E Street plaza, recording a message for the virtual tree lighting ceremony, I could not help but feel a little sadness for the lack of families and performing community groups usually gathered. Later, as I looked at the completed video, I was heartened to see that our community was in fact intact and thriving, as best they could.

The holiday tree will be lit in E Street plaza every evening through the end of the month. The video of the holiday program is available at the city website at https://cityof davis.org. Many thanks to the city staff and Downtown

Business Association for this effort. I would also like to thank the Davis Food Co-op for organizing the candlelight parade for almost 40 years.

We will be back for our Co-op candles next year.

I look forward to the return of all our in-person celebrations next year. In the meantime, we must continue to be as vigilant as ever as we head into a particularly virulent period. While the instructions from the state, county and city can be particularly challenging to keep track of as conditions change, a continued practice of staying home, not mixing households, wearing a mask, hand washing and keeping 6 feet of

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FOR THE KIDS at Davis High, we have no words that properly frame the pain we feel.

Blue Devil seniors, if seasons are canceled, will not get that right of passage back. That final year of competition is something high school students point to, talk about for years, work harder in leading up to it and rejoice in the accomplishments.

It can mean a leg up in going on to the college of their choice, too. We know in some years, DHS produces upward of two dozen student-athletes headed to the next level.

Those of you who worry about the safety of your kids as it relates to exposure from COVID-19, we understand.

We also understand that at UCD and Davis High administrators and coaches will do everything possible to keep everybody out of harm’s way.

Right now, prospects for continued sports in the first half of 2021 are fading with the rising COVID numbers.

But, whenever possible — even if it means conducting just four games out of 20 with no playoffs in sight — The Davis Enterprise says let them play.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2020

We would like to thank Avid Reader for making private shopping available here in Davis. We had the whole store to ourselves Friday at 9 a.m. and purchased all the holiday gift books for our granddaughter and great-nephews with the assistance of the wonderful staff at Avid Reader. We strongly encourage anyone wanting to shop very safely on your own to contact Avid Reader and sign up for your own private shopping time. A great idea from a great local store!

Susan O’Bryant and Dakota Jobe Davis

Federal executions I recently became aware of the Trump administration’s decision to seek the hurried executions of five people before President-Elect Biden’s inauguration, despite widespread objections from many people and organizations.

The choice of International Human Rights Day and Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday as execution dates is particularly painful.

The ACLU, the U.S. Catholic Bishops and many other esteemed organizations have recently renewed their insistence that the death penalty be abolished.

Given the record of the aggressive prosecution and inadequate defense that many of the impoverished accused receive in both state and federal courts, it is vital that these executions be delayed until all judicial reviews and appeal processes

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distance from people should always be followed.

I realize the fatigue of dealing with this pandemic can be overwhelming, but this will not last forever. This is something we can do.

Thankfully, our partnership with the university through the Healthy Davis Together program is fully in operation and providing a host of benefits to our community. A full description of the program can be found at https://healthy davistogether.org/. In particular, we are grateful for the support to businesses and the community testing available to screen for asymptomatic individuals.

To ensure that the community remains aware of the importance of wearing masks and testing site availability, community health ambassadors on campus and in the Davis community have been busy safely interacting with the public. Until there is a

are completed. Many of the jurors and prosecutors involved in these cases believe that the severity of these sentences is no longer appropriate.

I know that these individuals have been convicted of truly horrendous crimes but these speedy executions seem to be a politically motivated action intended to rouse people’s passions and to raise money to pay off political debts — as was the recent Department of Justice rule allowing methods of execution to include use of poison gas, firing squads and hanging.

This is naked political demagoguery.

Like most violent criminals, these people need help, not punishment.

I urge everyone to: ■ Donate to the ACLU (https://www. aclu.org/donate, Equal Justice Initiative (EJI.org/donate) or other legal organizations working to stop these executions.

■ Call their representatives in the Senate and House of Representatives.

■ Sign petitions to halt these travesties of justice.

Please help renew the rule of law and common decency in this land.

Joel Mandel Davis

Reconsidering labels As a former facilitator in restorative justice conferencing and mediation, I have seen first-hand how attaching labels can very quickly shut the door for anyone who might have wanted to accept responsibility for harm caused by their behavior.

I am writing to encourage our community, in our various public forums, to consider moving away from using labels like “vandal,” “murderer,” “thief,” “killer,”

Speak out President Hon. Donald J. Trump, The White House, Washington, D.C., 20500; 202-456-1111 (comments), 202-456-1414 (switchboard); email: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact

U.S. Senate Sen. Dianne Feinstein, 331 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20510; 202-224-3841; email: http://feinstein. senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-me Sen. Kamala Harris, 112 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20510;

vaccine widely available it is good to know we have a community that cares.

Lastly, because this time of year, and this year especially, is often a time when many struggle with mental health, it is important to remind everyone to reach out and check in with each other. The 2020-21 Campus Community Book Project’s focus this year is on the topic of mental health: “Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me” by Ellen Forney.

Look for a variety of presentations associated with the topic throughout the community at https://ccbp. ucdavis.edu/. In addition, our local chapter of NAMI (National Alliance of Mental Illness) is a wonderful source of information and support for these troubled times.

Whatever form of winter celebration you participate in, I wish you much health and happiness.

— Gloria Partida is the mayor of Davis.

etc., when writing or speaking about people who have committed crimes or caused other kinds of harm.

To be clear, it’s extremely critical to acknowledge that some offenses touching our community have caused extremely grave harms. But for that very reason, perhaps in place of assigning labels, we can redirect our focus to the harms caused, the often-extensive needs created by those harms, and the accountability needed to address the harms as much as possible.

While some who have caused harm will remain incarcerated, most people currently in prison or jail will return to our communities. Though there are exceptions, many, if not most, people who have caused harm will desire to own that harm and restore the relationships their past behavior has violated.

If we move away from labels, we can mitigate at least one of the many barriers those returning will face as they seek to be re-connected in a responsible, good way to our communities. Stepping away from labels, we can actively contribute to their successful reintegration into their families and community.

Their responsible reintegration might support healing for those who have been harmed and increase our overall sense of community safety and well-being.

I’m grateful that I have not been labeled according to the most harmful things I have done in my life. Shifting away from labels is an important and responsible move toward encouraging accountability — the indispensable first step in making things as right as possible for those who have been harmed.

Diane Clarke Davis

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orking in this time of constant change, postponements and cancellations is a print journalist's worst nightmare.

In Friday’s sports section, Bob Dunning’s column so appropriately began: “WARNING: All of the games listed below may have been canceled before this newspaper hits your driveway, your computer screen or your smartphone.”

Too many times this year, I’ve come halfway through writing an article, only to learn of a new county or state action negating everything I’ve been reporting on.

Those four interviews I compiled over the last 48 hours? All irrelevant now.

The photos I shot to go along with the story? They’re no longer appropriate.

We may as well stripe a disclaimer across the top of each story, noting everything is “Subject to Change.”

Case in point: this past week’s grocery-store capacity goof-up.

Lines snaked around the building Monday at both Nugget and Trader Joe's as the state and county kicked off the week with differing policies regarding how many shoppers were to be allowed inside the door.

With Gov. Newsom capping entry figures at 20 percent (as part of the state’s new stay-athome restrictions) the California Grocers Association immediately pushed back and launched a lobbying effort over the weekend.

The state eventually acquiesced, increasing the limit to 35 percent.

Only by the time that had happened, Yolo County had already released its guidance for the 20

percent rule. And my colleague, Anne Ternus-Bellamy, who works at light speed, had already fired off a story.

“And I’d checked with the county Monday, and they’d said they were sticking with 20 percent,” Anne told me. “So I’d sent the article off.”

She’d even assigned me to stop by and take a photo.

Of course, by the time I arrived for that picture at Nugget on Covell, the county had since rescinded that rule and the long lines were gone.

But for all I know, they’ll have probably reinstated it by the time you’re reading this.

Thankfully, in that case, we were able to update the story before it went to print. But print deadlines don’t always get along well with these ever-changing rules.

You may have noticed Comings and Goings columnist Wendy Weitzel has been writing a story each week, rather than every other, for most of the pandemic. But even now, she says

it's still near impossible to keep up with it all.

or the last few months, she’s spent countless hours updating an online spreadsheet to keep tabs on the hundreds of businesses in town and how they’re adapting to restrictions. You can view it at: bit.ly/ DavisBusinesses.

“It’s nice to be able to help them by sharing what’s going on in town,” Wendy says. “But at the same time, I have to keep my sanity.”

She jokes that “Comings and Goings” has become more of a “Dine-In or Takeout” column.

“The kind of news I’m writing about is totally different than before,” she told me.

What’s making the entire situation even more confusing, for both journalists and readers, is the fact that we’re dealing with different levels of government and different rules at each of those levels.

And lately, it seems like everyone — from state legislators to

local school boards — seems content waiting on Gavin to call the shots.

But once the governor says something, for example, giving the OK for hair salons to open, that doesn’t mean all counties will automatically OK it, too.

Thus the neverending confusion and discrepancies, not to mention arbitrary restrictions — some of which seem to have zero scientific backing.

“I’m writing a story for Sunday right now,” Anne told me Friday.

“And that’s knowing I’ll probably have to completely revise it tomorrow.

"That's just become the normal."

If you’ll excuse me now, I’ve got to go edit Dunning’s sports column.

Half the games he mentioned were just canceled.

— Reach Owen Yancher at oyancher@davisenterprise.net.

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We should be talking about reopening schools

BY MIKE CREEDON Special to The Enterprise

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s physicians, public health experts, educators and parents, we are calling on parents to join the Davis Joint Unified School District Parent Coalition to demand the DJUSD Board rapidly adopt a plan to provide an in-person learning option for all students, with execution tied to the California tier system; these in-person learning options should be provided the moment state and local health prerequisites are met.

Development of such a plan, as well as implementing the reopening of schools with minimal risk, is not an impossible task. With the new leadership on the Board of Trustees, we believe the DJUSD Parent Coalition can work in partnership with District staff and Trustees to achieve this goal without needless delay.

The voices of experts are saying, in unison and as loud as they can, that schools are low-risk environments for both children and teachers. Dr. Anthony Fauci has gone on record, stating, “If you look at the data, (the spread of COVID-19) among children and from children is not really very big at all. Not like one would have suspected.” He advocates for targeting the areas that most contribute to community spread (bars, restaurants, etc.) rather than simply closing everything, adding, “we say it, not being facetiously or as a sound bite or anything, but you know, close the bars and keep the schools open is what we really say.”

The Centers for Disease Control has also gone on record to state they did not recommend school closures, either in the spring or now, finding when cases of COVID-19 appear in the schools, contact tracing has shown these cases were not acquired in the schools. Essentially, the spread of COVID- 19 in schools is extremely limited. “The truth is for kids K-12, one of the safest places they can be, from our perspective, is to remain in school” according to CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield.

In Europe, the WHO Regional Director has cautioned nations that, “Children are not considered primary drivers of transmission and, as such, school closures are not considered to be an effective measure for the control of COVID19,” urging those nations to keep their schools open. Fortunately, for the most part, European nations have heeded the advice of experts, and their children returned to campuses in the fall. In addition, UNICEF has added its voice to the discussion by sounding the alarm, stating, “The longer schools are closed, the more children suffer from extensive learning losses with long-term negative impacts, including future income and health”, after finding the threat of COVID-19 in schools appears to have been misunderstood and the fears of a “superspreader” environment unfounded.

Dr. Aimee Sisson, the Yolo County Public Health Officer, told the Board of Trustees on Nov. 19 that the available evidence supports a low-risk return to campus. Dr. Sisson told the board, “They (other public health officials) haven’t seen a big difference in the number of cases in students who are participating in distance learning vs. students who are learning in person, and there is very little to no evidence of transmission in schools themselves,” adding that “the fear of a surge in cases and outbreaks in schools has not happened, and it appears that schools and children and staff can return relatively safely to an on-campus learning environment.”

COMMENTARY The California secretary of health and human services, Dr. Mark Ghaly, has echoed these sentiments and said that he would send his own children back to school, if they were open — much as Gov. Gavin Newsom has sent his children back to classrooms. DJUSD parents deserve the same option, regardless of their ability to pay for any of the private schools in Yolo County, which have now been safely and successfully educating their students oncampus since October.

As concerned parents of DJUSD students, advised by the physicians and public health experts among our members, we have heard these experts, examined their evidence, and reached similar conclusions.

We have participated in DJUSD Board meetings and meetings of the Superintendent’s Advisory Committee. After all this work, we have reluctantly concluded the DJUSD “Phased Return to Campus Plan” provides an insufficient foundation to provide an in-person learning option to parents in a reasonable timeframe, as it lacks definitive deadlines and adheres to a relatively open-ended timeline.

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e acknowledge there are some actions being taken to reopen schools, but the process has already been needlessly delayed; almost two months after DJUSD was first allowed to bring all students back to campus under California’s tier system, there is still no actual plan in place to do so — only a “Roadmap” which, it is said, will eventually result in a plan. As it stands, we find it unlikely that the “Roadmap” will actually result in any significant return of students to an in-person model before March at the earliest — almost six months after initially being allowed to do so.

We feel it is not unreasonable for DJUSD to already have a plan in place, and are concerned that the board will not even be presented a plan until Jan. 21, “absent variables beyond our control.”

Only then will any significant preparation to actually offer in-person learning options begin. If these preparations are further delayed, this begins to jeopardize any return to campus this academic year.

This does not have to be the case.

We find ourselves in agreement with the editorial board of the Los Angeles Times, who, while cautioning that the current surge in cases is not the right time to reopen schools, remind us that, “School leaders also should consider this truth: There’s no real evidence that reopening schools is dangerous.” We echo the sentiment of the Editorial Board at the San Francisco Chronicle, who admonish that, “California should be ashamed of its shuttered schools.” Davis can do better. Davis deserves better, both for our children and our community as a whole.

We know that the consequences of keeping our children away from campus are significant and grow more so by the day. We know that the experts say, and the science now shows, children and staff can return to schools with very little risk. We can no longer afford to sit quietly — it is time to stand up for the best interests of our children and our community, and demand DJUSD provide an in-person learning option the moment state and local conditions allow.

— Mike Creedon, on behalf of the Leadership Committee, DJUSD Parent Coalition. The coalition has 450-plus members and is growing each day. To join our effort, please visit our website at https://sites. google.com/view/djusdparentcoalition.

Measure B failure suggests need for new vision

BY ROBERTA MILLSTEIN, PAM GUNNELL, NANCY PRICE, ALAN PRYOR AND COLIN WALSH Special to The Enterprise

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easure B — the measure that proposed a 200-acre business park and housing development outside of the Mace Curve — failed at the polls.

The defeat comes with official Yolo County returns showing that 16,458 people, or 52% of voters, said no to the project. In Mace Ranch and Wildhorse, 60% of voters opposed the project.

This is a remarkable result considering that the No on B campaign was outspent by over 14-to-1. As of Oct. 28, Yes on B had spent $258,919 between when B was put on the ballot in July and the election in November, while No on B had spent $18,149.

The No on B campaign, composed solely of volunteer Davis citizens, created its own literature, designed its own sign and other graphics, was active on social media, and, to the extent possible during COVID, pounded the pavement distributing flyers to let Davisites know about the negative impacts that this project would bring. It was a true grassroots effort.

There were no paid designers, no paid consultants, no multiple glossy mailers, and no push-polls to gather information on what messages would sell.

Opponents also could not table at the Farmers Market due to COVID restrictions, normally the bread and butter of a campaign lackingdeep pocket donors to finance getting its message out.

By comparison, Yes on B hired a PR Firm and other consultants more than a year in advance of the vote to help contrive and package its message and run the campaign.

The fact that Measure B was nonetheless defeated in

COMMENTARY the face of long odds and unusual circumstances shows that DISC was a bad project for Davis from the outset. It was too big, chewing up prime farmland and habitat. The promise of onsite housing for DISC employees could not be guaranteed, making the development car-and commuter-oriented with extensive parking areas. Poor public transportation options exacerbated this problem.

The DISC development would have massively increased Davis greenhouse gas emissions and made it impossible for Davis to meet its carbon neutrality goals. We are in a climate emergency, as Yolo County and other counties have recognized; Davis needs to shoulder its share of responsibility for climate impacts, including but not limited to wildfire impacts and extreme weather events locally and globally.

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wo other major problems with the project: One, the car and commuter orientation of the project would have created very significant traffic impacts on Mace Boulevard and in nearby neighborhoods. Two, the project was financially speculative and poorly timed, coinciding with the devastating economic impacts of COVID on the downtown and local businesses.

Measure B was a long time in the making — over 10 years. The project has already taken several forms, MRIC, ARC and finally DISC. But all these forms have had the same car and commuter, outdated, lastcentury business park designs.

One wonders if the developers will try to bring back DISC with minor changes and spend another quarter of a million dollars in the

hopes of gaining just enough new votes to change the outcome of the election.

What the election vote shows is that such an attempt would be a mistake.

The project proposal was fundamentally flawed and a few more bells and whistles wouldn’t change that.

More importantly, the election also demonstrates that there is a troubling disconnect between the current City Council and the concerns of its citizens, including the concerns of many downtown business owners. All five council members were enthusiastic supporters of Measure B and there was not a single voice on the council that championed citizen or city of Davis Commission concerns about DISC. We hope the Council will engage in introspection on how they came to have so disparate an opinion from the majority of Davis voters.

The defeat of DISC signals that the Davis community does not agree with the council. We hope it is part of an alternative perspective and vision for the future of the city and it is the one that youths have embraced enthusiastically — a healthy planet that equitably supports humans, other species, and ecosystems in the web of life.

It is one that rejects the massive car-oriented sprawl of the past and embraces projects that mitigate climate change, not worsen it.

It is the one that supports our local retailers and independent businesses. It is one that makes significant inroads toward providing affordable housing, not just the bare minimum that DISC offered. It is one that makes the best and highest use of precious resources like prime farmland and species habitat. It is longsighted, innovative, and progressive. It is a positive path forward for Davis.

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Parole delayed in three Yolo County ‘lifer’ cases Enterprise staff Yolo County prosecutors virtually attended three lifer parole hearings this week for inmates in three separate prisons across the state.

On Tuesday, a two-commissioner panel of the Board of Parole Hearings denied release to 27-yearold Alejandro Sanchez, who in 2010 was sentenced to prison for 15 years to life for a Woodland sexual assault.

Woodland Police Department officers were dispatched on Jan. 24, 2009, to the UC Davis Medical Center regarding the 14-year old rape victim who had been at a party where Sanchez and others had consumed alcohol and marijuana. Sanchez was 16 at the time.

“Later in the evening, Sanchez was driving the victim home and he stopped the car in the middle of the street and told her he was going to rape her, using explicit language,” the DA’s Office said in a news release.

Authorities said Sanchez choked the victim and held a knife to her head during the assault, during which the girl suffered a bite to the face and a broken ankle after jumping from the moving car.

Forensic evidence from the victim linked the rape to Sanchez, who will again be eligible for parole in five years. Deputy District Attorney Robin Johnson participated in the hearing, held virtually from Avenal State Prison where Sanchez is serving his time.

“In denying parole, commissioners told Sanchez that he needed to continue his programming and work on his parole plans,” the news release said.

Parole also was delayed Wednesday for Kenneth Smith, serving a life term

for murder at California State Prison Solano in Vacaville. Chief Deputy District Attorney Jonathan Raven represented the DA's Office at that hearing, where Smith and his attorney requested a three-year waiver of the parole hearing.

His conviction stems from a 1998 vehicle collision on South River Road near Clarksburg, where Smith was driving after reportedly raping his girlfriend and telling her that he wanted to kill himself, prosecutors said in the news release.

Smith attempted suicide by crossing into the oncoming lane, where he struck a truck driven by Bryan Tenney as he drove to work around 5:30 a.m. Tenney died at the scene.

Parole board commissioners also denied release Wednesday to 82-year-old convicted murderer William Keller, serving his sentence at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville. Johnson also attended this hearing.

Keller’s 17-years-to-life term stems from the 1984 killing of Joseph Hosner, at whom Keller fired a shotgun to the head at close range. This marked his eighth parole hearing, the next slated for 2023.“In reading their decision, commissioners told Keller that he continued to lack insight in his criminality and had not taken part in programming to address this issue,” the news release said.

When criminals are sentenced to state prison for life with the possibility of parole, they have a right to parole hearings to determine whether they are suitable for release. District Attorney Jeff Reisig began the DA’s Lifer Division in 2007 to ensure that victims of violent crimes are heard at these hearings.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2020

14 graduate from diversion program

BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer For Alyca Reynolds, Yolo County’s “Steps to Success” diversion program offered more than just a dismissed court case.

“It helped me get out of an abusive situation with my family,” Reynolds said of the program, part of the county’s Neighborhood Court restorative justice model.

Arrested in 2018 on battery and threats charges, Reynolds got a chance at redemption through Steps to Success. She says its teachings also gave her the courage to move to another state, where she’s now writing a memoir about her life.

“You don’t have to stay where you’re planted, even if it seems like you should,” Reynolds said.

On Monday, Reynolds became one of 14 people to graduate from Steps to Success last week, the milestone celebrated in an online ceremony due to the COVID pandemic.

Steps to Success is voluntary diversion program that assists those whose criminal behavior stems from mental health and/or substance use disorders. As part of the Neighborhood Court program, it uses restorative justice practices that allow offenders to resolve their cases outside of court and avoid a conviction on their records.

The program involves a partnership comprising the Yolo County Health and Human Services Agency, Yolo County District Attorney and Public Defender, Yolo County Probation, Empower Yolo, Legal Services of Northern California and CommuniCare Health Centers, who provide participants with case management, legal services, employment

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Steps to Success participants gather on Zoom for the graduation. and housing assistance.

It culminates with restorative justice conference during which participants take part in a facilitated meeting with the victims of their crimes, discuss the harm caused and reach a resolution that addresses the underlying cause of the criminal conduct.

“I have seen such a tremendous amount of growth at that point,” said Adriana Galvez, a CommuniCare social worker who led the Nov. 30 Zoom graduation ceremony. “It really is a transformative piece of the process.”

District Attorney Jeff Reisig launched the Neighborhood Court program in Davis back in 2013, later expanding it to include West Sacramento, Woodland and other Yolo County communities. Its eligibility criteria also has broadened in scope over the years, initially targeting first-time offenders of minor crimes, to now accepting repeat offenders and some low-level felony offenses.

It relies heavily on community volunteers who take part in the restorative justice conferences. At Monday’s ceremony, Reisig thanked those volunteers, as well as the

graduates “for giving this a shot, because ultimately we want all of you to come back to the community as engaged, productive members.”

One graduate, who asked to remain anonymous, acknowledged his initial skepticism with the program.

He was facing a disorderly conduct charge, “something I did to myself over and over again through the years,” he said. He balked at first over putting in the time the program required, but relented after receiving encouragement from friends and his public defender.

“I’m really glad I did. It helped me get back on my feet,” he said. “This helps us learn our lesson and take accountability and move on with our lives.”

Another graduate lauded the program’s case managers. Without them, “I don’t know how anybody does it,” she said.

West Sacramento Police Chief Rob Strange marveled at the graduates’ accomplishments, as well as the program’s long-term benefits.

“It gives you all the opportunity to dig in and face things a lot harder than a stay in jail,” Strange said. “I hope nobody looks at this program and thinks it’s a cake walk to go through.”

Steps to Success is funded by a grant under California’s Proposition 47, a criminal justice reform measure passed by voters in 2014 that reclassified certain low-level felony crimes as misdemeanors.

For more information about the Neighborhood Court or Steps to Success programs, visit https://www. yoloda.org/nc, or contact program staff directly at neighborhoodcourt@yolocounty.org or 530-6668401.

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