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Davis school board hears an earful on COVID plans

Sutter Davis ER nurse Fiona Moore received the COVID-19 vaccine from fellow nurse Laura Caban on Friday morning. Moore is among the frontline hospital workers receiving doses from Yolo County’s first batch of the Pfizer vaccine.

BY JEFF HUDSON Enterprise staff writer

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Sutter gets its shots in Vaccine brings glimmer of hope to frontline workers BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Fiona Moore has been one of those healthcare workers on the front lines. A registered nurse in the Sutter Davis Hospital emergency department, Moore has spent the last nine months treating COVID patients as they’ve arrived — some who walked in with a cough or fever, others who arrived code three in an ambulance needing to be intubated.

“We’ve seen all of that,” she said Friday. It has been emotional and exhausting — the work itself and the worry of contracting the virus and passing it on to vulnerable family members. Moore said she always felt very protected by the personal protective equipment provided by the hospital, but also carried the fear and guilt that she could still catch the virus and give to her mother-in-law, her parents, her non-COVID patients. “That scares me that I would

be the cause of that,” said Moore. Still, day after day, week after week, month after month, she and her colleagues continued the work of carrying for all of their patients. “None of us expected it to go on this long,” said Moore. And while it all will likely go on for quite some time, with ever-increasing new cases followed by hospitalizations, Moore and her colleagues on the front lines at Sutter Davis at least received a

glimmer of hope on Friday. In fact, said Moore, “I was giddy driving here today.” She was also armed with a little extra PPE provided by her children: a small camo BandAid to apply after receiving the Pfizer vaccine. Moore was among the first acute care workers in Yolo County to receive the COVID19 vaccination (her colleague, Lucia Sorensen, was the first) and she says it was an emotional moment, especially thinking about how excited her children were. “It’s scary for them and I

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NorCal Rapist’s learns fate: 897 years to life BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer Roy Charles Waller, the serial rapist who counted three Davis women among his nine victims, received the maximum sentence of 897 years to life in prison Friday for his crime spree that for decades was attributed to an unknown suspect dubbed the NorCal Rapist. Of that term, 70-plus years to life stemmed from Waller’s two Davis attacks, which occurred in 1997 and 2000. “This incident has strongly impacted my daily life. It has been so many years, but I will never forget that day,” one Davis victim wrote in an impact

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statement read aloud in Sacramento Superior Court during Friday’s hearing. “I always have insecure feelings and cannot be left alone or tolerate any sudden noise.”

WALLER Reckoning has come

To preserve public safety, “he has to stay in the box. He deserves the punishment for the rest of his life,” the woman wrote. “Sitting in the box, let his conscience kill him every single moment and hopefully, he will

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think through what he has done so many years and to many victims.” Testimony in his month-long trial began on Oct. 19, roughly two years after Sacramento County law-enforcement leaders announced his arrest based upon Waller’s DNA match to multiple NorCal Rapist crime scenes, using a technique known as Investigative Genetic Genealogy. At the time, Waller worked as a longtime safety specialist at UC Berkeley, living in Benicia with his wife. The NorCal Rapist committed his first known assault in 1991 and went on to target nine

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victims in Sonoma, Solano, Contra Costa, Yolo, Butte and Sacramento counties, carrying out his final offense in Natomas in 2006.

During the Dec. 17 school board meeting, the trustees discussed the current COVID-19 situation in Yolo County, as well as the emerging plans for an eventual return to campus at some point in the future, after the health threat from the COVID virus has receded to a sufficient degree. Leading off the COVID discussion was Dianna Stommel, president of the Davis Teachers Association, who acknowledged that due to the virusrelated closure of school campuses, and the switch to distance learning (by teachers giving their lessons online, etc.) the present school year has been “difficult.” “I see how difficult distance learning is for our students, Stommel said, acknowledging as well the “technological difficulties, isolation from friends, the demands of screen time,” and other factor. She added that she is “so proud” of local students, who she said have pursued their studies diligently, despite the many changes in the daily school routine.

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UC Davis looks toward a full reopening BY CALEB HAMPTON Enterprise staff writer

He raped two roommates, both UC Davis students, in their Adams Street apartment on Jan. 25, 1997, then returned three and a half years later to abduct a recent UCD graduate from her Alvarado Avenue townhouse and sexually assault her in her own car.

After three quarters of remote learning during the pandemic, UC Davis leaders released an anticipated timeline this week for the eventual return of campus operations to “something very close to normal.” Winter quarter, which begins in January, is expected to look much like the fall. The incidence of COVID-19 in Davis remains high and strict precautions will remain in place. However, campus leaders said the distribution this month of the first COVID-19 vaccines, along with UC Davis’ robust testing program, has made them optimistic that students will be able to begin returning to classrooms in the spring, summer and fall.

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Waller’s dozens of charges included 11 counts in connection to the suspect’s two Davis attacks.

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Briefly Luminaria display returns Residents of Burr Street in West Davis invite community members to share a 42-year-old tradition this Christmas Eve. Luminarias — candles set in sandbased paper bags — will line the street from 5:30 to 10:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 24. Local residents are invited to walk, bicycle or drive — using only their parking lights — down Burr Street. Only rain or high winds will cancel the tradition. Burr Street is off of Arthur Street and Humboldt Avenue, near Emerson Jr. High.

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Where we were and where we are T his is the time of year when economists and social scientists and political reporters and even sportswriters put out their predictions for the new year. That’s all well and good, but what I really like to do is save all those predictions from last December and early January and compare them to what actually happened in the previous 12 months. That would be especially interesting when it comes to 2020, described by many of us as a year like no other. Last January I don’t believe anyone would have dreamed that Donald Trump would receive anywhere near 75 million votes for president. There were many predictions about who would win college basketball’s March Madness, but absolutely no one predicted that there would be no March Madness at all. And who would have dared to suggest that our beloved Aggie football team would go winless during the fall of 2020? All of which brings me to a piece I saved that ran in The New York Times, the second-greatest newspaper in America, late in

But wait, my friend Tim probably didn’t know about the virus when he penned his piece last December. Back then I was worried about the drought and global warming and the price of gasoline and who was going to win the Super Bowl. But I wasn’t worried about the coronavirus.

December of 2019. “Take Time to Focus on You for a Change,” said the self-help headline in The Times just before the calendar flipped us into a new decade. “8 Simple Ways to be Kinder to Yourself in the New Year,” said the sub-head over a story by Tim Herrera, the Smarter Living editor at The Times. Since we don’t have a Smarter Living editor here at The Enterprise to help us with our daily struggles, I figured it might be wise for me to read Tim’s piece. Writes Tim, “With everything happening all the time, it’s easy to forget to take care of yourself.” I’ll say. I’ve been so cooped up worrying about this dreaded virus that it sometimes seems as if it’s the only thing that matters these days.

o go ahead with your healthy advice, Tim. I didn’t mean to interrupt. “How can we focus on ourselves when there is so much going on around us, not even to mention worrying about careers, families, money, stress and everything else that comes with modern life.” Tim, stop. You’re stressing me out. “This year, Smarter Living published loads of stories centered around self-acceptance and self-care, whether that means acknowledging a small achievement, being OK with your guilty pleasures or just trying to be a little more scarce. I think we’ve all been a little more scarce, Tim.” Under the heading “Solitude Can be Good,” Tim noted that “choosing to spend time alone can benefit your social relationships,

improve your creativity and confidence, and help you regulate your emotions so that you can better deal with adverse situations.” Oddly, I find that spending time alone invariably makes me lonely, but if works for Tim, who am I to argue with an expert? The next suggestion is to “Just do nothing at all.” Fine for some folks, I guess, but I find that doing nothing generally leads to boredom and a lack of self-worth, which turns into stress over not doing anything. Next up, I’m told to “Cultivate casual friendships” by talking to the other parents when I drop kids off at school or chatting with my favorite bartender or exchanging greetings with fellow dog owners at the park. Problem is, ever since March I haven’t been dropping kids off at school, chatting with my favorite bartender or exchanging greetings with fellow dog owners at the park. If you can make all those things happen between now and Jan. 1, Tim, I’ll be anxiously awaiting your new set of tips for the Year of Our Lord, 2021. — Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

Virtual Picnic Day will celebrate silver linings BY CALEB HAMPTON Enterprise staff writer UC Davis’ 2021 Picnic Day event, scheduled for April 17, will have the theme “Discovering Silver Linings” and will feature Dr. Lawrence Torry Winn and Maisha T. Winn as its marshals, Picnic Day Publicity Director Alexis Tornero announced Friday in a press release. For the second year running, the annual event will be held virtually in 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic, Tornero announced last month. “Picnic Day takes almost a whole year to plan, and we want to make the safest decision for all participants and guests,” said Picnic Day Chair Caitlyn Liu. “Having more time to plan a virtual event allows the Picnic Day Board to innovate and think creatively when it

comes to reimagining how people experience Picnic Day.” The theme and Picnic Day marshals were chosen by the Board of Directors for Picnic Day, comprised of eight UC Davis students. “We selected ‘Discovering Silver Linings’ because despite all that has happened this year, the UC Davis community has continued to find silver linings everywhere. Our campus is on a relentless pursuit to inspire hope and work toward a better and brighter tomorrow” said Liu. “With a virtual Picnic Day, current, prospective, and past Aggies, as well as Davis community members can attend Picnic Day no matter how near or far they are. I think that in itself is a silver lining.” Maisha T. Winn is a professor and associate

dean for academic programs, chancellor’s leadership professor, and co-founder and faculty director of the Transformative Justice in Education Center. Dr. Lawrence Torry Winn is an assistant professor of teaching in education and co-founder and executive director of the TJE. In 2018-19, the Winns received the Chancellor’s award for Diversity and Community in recognition of their dedication to campus diversity and inclusion. “The Winns work to bring racial equity and transformative justice to

our UC Davis community and inspire others to become social justice advocates along the way,” said Picnic Day Vice Chair Amanda Portier. “This year’s Picnic Day will be a bright spot in the upcoming year. The Winns complement that well with their positive energy and all the work they are doing with the Transformative Justice in Education Center,” Liu added. The first Picnic Day was held in 1909. Before last year, it had been canceled five times. The last cancellation before the coronavirus pandemic was in 1945,

when Army Signal Corps controlled the campus during World War II. In recent years, Picnic Day routinely drew more than 70,000 students and community members. The virtual event in 2021 will feature video content from past events as well as online activities throughout the day, according to the press release. “We hope everyone will enjoy this virtual experience from the comfort of their home and urge everyone to follow public health precautions,” said Liu. “It’s a challenge, but it’s an exciting challenge.”

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The DHS Key Club officers are collecting bras, menstrual-care supplies and general-hygiene products for the needy. The club is working in partnership with the official Her Drive, a nonprofit organization that works to provide these items to under-resourced individuals. The drive will be Dec. 19 to 21 and Dec. 26 and 27. Besides bras and menstrual products, they are collecting hygiene items like hand sanitizer, soap, body wash, dental care, and gently used and new clothing.

For people interested in donating, they must complete a form at bit.ly/Her Drive. Donors are asked to place items outside their specified location by 11 a.m. on their chosen pickup date. All Key Club officers will be wearing gloves and masks during the contactfree pick-up. The items will be donated to Empower Yolo, an organization that provides emergency support services to Yolo County residents. For more information, email d7ndaviskeyclub@ gmail.com.

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The science of candy and sweets Dodd recognized by BY SARA THOMPSON Special to the Enterprise

uring the holiday season, candy and treats are made at home or bought in stores. Many of these yummy treats have precise and interesting science behind them. Confectioners and bakers need to constantly monitor the temperature their treats are cooking at or risk ruining it. Some the preciseness and what goes into some candies is very similar to chemistry. The first step of any candy is to dissolve sugar in water while it’s boiling. When boiling the sugar syrup, the solution will pass through several stages, called candy stages, that produce specific types of candies. The longer the boiling time and the higher the temperature, the higher the sugar concentration becomes, due to the water being boiled out of the solution. The names of the stages are based on the tests used for each stage. Thread stage occurs between 230 and 235 degrees, and sugar concentration is around 80%, when put in water the solution forms a small, liquid thread. Next is softball stage, ranging in temperature from 235 to 240 degrees, sugar concentration is around 85%, when dropped in water the substance forms a soft, malleable ball. Firm-ball stage is between 245 and 250 degrees, with sugar concentration around 87% — when dropped in water the substance would still form a malleable ball, but not as soft as the previous stage. Hardball stage is between 250 and 265 degrees, sugar concentration is up to 92%, and when dropped in water a hard ball is formed that takes

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EXPLORIT SCIENCE CENTER some effort to squish. Next is soft-crack stage, this happens between 270290 degress, sugar concentration is 95%, and forms solid, flexible threads. Hard-crack stage occurs between 300 and 310 degrees, sugar concentration is around 99%, and makes hard, brittle threads when dropped in water. Beyond this the sugar concentrations are 100%, but the sugar molecules begin to break down and can begin to burn if not watched or treated properly. Many different candies can be formed in the stages mentioned earlier. The thread stage is great for glazes and drink sweeteners. Softball stage is where most fudges are formed. Firm-ball stage is best for soft caramels. Hardball stage is great for marshmallows and rock candies. Soft-crack stage is where saltwater taffy and butterscotch if formed. Hardcrack stage is best for toffees and brittles. When candies reach these stages confectioners can add

things to the candies. Gelatin is added to the sugar solution at hard-ball stage to make gummy candies. Citric acid can be added to make candies sour and tart. Cinnamon or capsaicin can be added to make hot and spicy candies. Science can be found anywhere, even candymaking. Sugar syrups need to be constantly watched to make sure they are removed from the heat at the correct temperature, or risk entering the next candy stage. Confectioners usually use a candy thermometer to help them keep track of how hot their boiling solution is, and which stage it is in. Candy is based on precision just like any type of science.

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Special to The Enterprise State Sen. Bill Dodd, author of a law this year to help protect nursing home residents from coronavirus by allowing them to receive care in their homes, was recognized for his legislative leadership by Disability Rights California. “The board of Disability Rights California is pleased to recognize Sen. Dodd as one of our legislative leaders of the year,” said Andrew Imparato, the organization’s executive director. “Sen. Dodd has a long history of supporting disability rights issues and supporting persons with disabilities. We appreciate his leadership and commitment to inclusiveness of all persons and ensuring the rights of persons with disabilities are advanced.” Dodd was recognized alongside Senate President pro Tempore Toni Atkins, Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon and others in a virtual event hosted by Disability Rights California. Each year, the organization honors legislators it believes do the most to further the rights of people with disabilities. “We must do all we can to protect our most

vulnerable populations, especially as the COVID19 pandemic continues its deadly toll,” said Dodd, D-Napa. In September, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 214, written by Dodd, allowing lowincome seniors and people with disabilities to receive support in making the transition from nursing facilities to receiving care in their homes. SB 214 allows for the expansion of an existing program, California Community Transitions, which successfully transitioned 3,629 from institutional settings since 2007. In addition to getting people into the most inclusive setting possible, the program creates an average savings of $60,000 per person per year. Dodd last year wrote SB 167, a new law that helps low-income people on life-support equipment to receive backup power during wildfiredriven power shutoffs. Earlier this year, he introduced follow-up legislation, SB 862, which would have required utilities such as PG&E to pay for community resource centers for vulnerable people.

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SHOTS: Nurses feel burden of crisis From Page A1 didn’t actually realize that until this morning,” said Moore, “how much of a toll that me doing my job has taken on them.” Every day when she came home, they would ask if it was safe to hug her. “They were up before me today and they knew I was getting the vaccine and they were like, ‘Mom! You’re getting the vaccine today!’ They were so excited. For them I feel like it’s this glimmer of hope.” ———— “It really does feel like the holidays came a few days early, to be totally honest,” Tammy Powers, Sutter Davis Hospital’s chief executive nurse said on Thursday. By then the hospital knew frontline staff would be receiving the vaccine the following day, “and if you were here, you would see everyone with a special spring in their step,” said Powers. Planning for the vaccinations has actually been underway for weeks, determining which staff were at highest risk for exposure to the virus and in which order the vaccine would be given. “We are focused on ensuring that the frontline team who is closest to our COVID-19 patients are the first staff that get access to the vaccine,” said Powers. That includes not just nurses and doctors, but also respiratory therapists, phlebotomists, “any of our individual staff who are responsible for caring for those COVID patients.” “I think what this vaccination means for this team,” said Powers, “is

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Vials of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine — each one containing five doses — were removed from the county’s ultra-low-temperature freezer Friday morning and delivered to Sutter Davis Hospital. there is the potential that we are going to experience a change, and it’s going to be a new day. “It’s a monumental experience for all of us, managing through a pandemic, caring for patients during a pandemic, and then seeing this portion, the beginning of a new phase in the COVID-19 journey … this is the one we’ve been waiting for.” ———— That latest phase in the journey began on Thursday when Yolo County received a batch containing 975 doses of the Pfizer vaccine. They were promptly stored in the ultra-low temperature freezer the county had acquired earlier this month and were sent out to Sutter Davis and Woodland Memorial hospitals Friday morning. Under the guidance of the state and county, general acute care hospital workers would receive the first doses. If any are left over from the initial batch, they would likely go to staff and residents at longterm care facilities in the county.

Additional doses of the Pfizer vaccine as well as the Moderna vaccine are expected as soon as next week. Vaccines will likely continue to arrive in small batches, and when they do, they will be given according to a phased system that prioritizes essential workers after healthcare workers and longterm care residents and staff. Those at highest risk due to age or health conditions would follow from there. Members of the general public who don’t work essential jobs or qualify via age or health conditions may not have access to the vaccine until the middle of 2021. Those are some of the people Moore was thinking about Friday. “I feel like I owe it to my patients,” she said. “I am the one who has the opportunity put in front of me because of my job, and a lot of people in vulnerable populations don’t have that opportunity yet. “If I’m able to protect them, that, to me, is why

I do this job.” ———— Powers and Moore credit the entire staff at Sutter Davis for the teamwork and mutual support that has carried them through this pandemic. “This team has been phenomenal since the first patient that we received here at Sutter Davis,” said Powers. “The culture and commitment to quality that this team has for any patient at Sutter Davis is tremendous. But there has been a very deep commitment to ensuring that we are doing everything we can for our patients that have COVID19.” For Moore, who was born and raised in Davis, working at Sutter Davis was always her goal, and she’s been working in the emergency department there for the last four years. “It’s a special little hospital for sure,” she said. As for her colleagues, Moore said, “You have to rely on the teammates that you’re working with and I think that’s what’s gotten us through this. That and our families.” The darkest days of the pandemic still lie ahead, county officials have said, and things will get worse before they get better. Hospitals around the state — and in Yolo County — are filling up, intensivecare units are overwhelmed with COVID patients and frontline workers like those at Sutter Davis are facing the biggest challenges yet in what has already been a year like no other. But at least on Friday they received a glimmer of hope, along with a literal shot in the arm.

BOARD: Union urges caution going forward From Page A1 Stommel urged everyone to remain diligent for a bit longer, saying “we are currently living through a national disaster” and “making a mistake (in handling the COVID pandemic) could cost people their lives.” She added that “given the (COVID) numbers, clearly our approach and the mandatory shutdowns (of schools) is appropriate.” The school board also acknowledged that they have received dozens of messages regarding the COVID pandemic and the timeline for reopening schools at some point. Reading all those messages aloud in their entirety would have taken 90 minutes or so. So instead, staff read about 30 minutes of messages from the public, described as a “representative sampling” of the comments that the school board had received. Many of these public comments urged the school board to reopen the schools soon. But there were also messages urging the trustees to be cautious, since the health of teachers, students and their families are at stake. Superintendent John Bowes said “Under current conditions, now (December) is not the time to reopen campuses,” but he added that the district is preparing for the day when students and teachers will once again work together in school classrooms.

The school board plans to hold a wide-ranging discussion of the COVID pandemic and the eventual reopening of campuses during a school board meeting in January, when school district staff will present a draft of a “Return to Campus” plan for the school board trustees and the community to consider.

Officers elected Elsewhere on the agenda, new school board trustees Vigdis Asmundson, Lea Darrah and Betsy Hyder (elected in the November general election) were sworn in, and the school board elected officers for the coming year. Trustee Joe DiNunzio will continue as school board president, with trustee Tom Adams as school board vice president. Recently elected school board trustee Lea Darrah will serve as the school board’s legislative liaison, and trustee Vigdis Asmundson will be the Davis school board’s representative on the Yolo County School Boards Association. The committee assignments for the trustees for 2021 include: ■ Facilities/Real Estate Assets: Lea Darrah, Joe DiNunzio ■ Budget/Fiscal: Joe DiNunzio, Betsy Hyder ■ Board Policy: Tom Adams, Lea Darrah ■ Superintendent’s Evaluation: Tom Adams, Lea Darrah ■ Legal: Betsy Hyder,

Vigdis Asmunson. ■ Parcel Tax: Tom Adams, Vigdis Asmundson ■ City 2x2: Vigdis Asmundson, Joe DiNunzio ■ County 2x2: Tom Adams, Lea Darrah ■ UCD/School District Partnership: Vigdis Asmundson, Betsy Hyder ■ California School Employees Association 2x2: Tom Adams, Vigdis Asmunson ■ Davis Teachers Association 2x2: Joe DiNunzio, Betsy Hyder ■ Yolo County School Boards Association: Vigdis Asmundson ■ Legislative Liaison: Lea Darrah ■ District Technology: Betsy Hyder ■ Local Control Accountability Plan: Vigdis Asmundson, Lea Darrah ■ Davis School Arts Foundation: Tom Adams ■ Davis Schools Foundation: Joe DiNunzio ■ Davis High Blue and White Foundation: Lea Darrah ■ Farm to School: Betsy Hyder ■ Athletic Program/ Coach Review Liaison: Joe DiNunzio The trustees were also assigned several schools to stay in touch with: ■ Tom Adams: Chavez Elementary, Davis Adult School, Davis High School, Harper Junior High ■ Vigdis Asmundson: Birch Lane Elementary, Patwin Elementary, Korematsu Elementary ■ Lea Darrah: Fairfield Elementary, North Davis

Elementary, King High, Davis School for Independent Study ■ Joe DiNunzio: Emerson Junior High, Willett Elementary, Da Vinci Charter Academy, Davis Parent Nursery School/ Children’s Center ■ Betsy Hyder: Pioneer Elementary, Montgomery Elementary, Holmes Junior High. The school board also postponed until the Thursday, Jan. 7, meeting a consent calendar vote on construction contracts relating to the proposed Aquatics Center at Davis High School. Asmundson and Darrah requested the delay, indicating that as newly sworn-in trustees, they would like more time to evaluate the contracts and related agenda material carefully before voting on what is widely agreed to be landmark multimillion dollar project. Deputy Superintendent Matt Best said that waiting until Jan. 7 to vote on the contracts would not represent a delay in construction, since late December is a period when both the school district office and the construction companies are by-and-large taking a holiday season break.

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REOPENING: UCD plans count on vaccinations From Page A1 For spring quarter, all lectures will be held remotely, but some discussion sections and seminars will be considered for in-person instruction, according to a letter UC Davis provost and executive vice chancellor Mary Croughan sent Friday to campus deans. In-person course offerings will need to meet certain criteria and will be geared towards offering a final quarter of classroom experiences to students graduating in June. “With spring graduation in mind, we invite proposals for in-person courses for graduating students,” Croughan said. Additionally, the campus is accepting in-person instruction proposals for courses that feature hands-on learning or have small class sizes. All of these courses would need to follow numerous guidelines to protect the health of students and faculty. Discussion sections and seminars would be restricted to 25 students per session with 6 feet of physical distancing maintained and face coverings worn at all times. Instructors would also need to have a plan to accommodate students who are unable to attend in-person.

Laboratory, studio, performance classes and other hands-on courses and activities would be limited to 50 students per session with the same public health precautions practiced at all times. Faculty who wish to propose in-person courses or activities must seek approval from their department chair. All students and employees who access campus facilities, including classrooms, will continue to be tested weekly for COVID-19. If the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines goes according to plans, a significant portion of the UC Davis student population could be vaccinated during spring and summer quarters, paving the way for a return to something like a normal campus life and in-person learning environment. “We write with optimism and to convey our expectation that instruction in the fall of 2021 will return to pre-pandemic, in-person delivery,” Croughan and UC Davis Academic Senate chair Richard Tucker said Friday in a letter to faculty. “We will remain in close partnership with our local public health colleagues and we will continue to base our decision-making on then-current public health guidance.”

FATE: ATM camera captured first image of Waller in 1997 From Page A1 Two of the Yolo County victims testified during Waller’s trial, who despite the passage of decades offered detailed recollections of the horrific crimes, one woman breaking down in tears at the memory of her assault. “I was so afraid, so scared,” said T. Doe, a 1997 victim whose name was altered in court to protect her identity. She remembered trying to jump out of a secondstory window to avoid the assault, and that she and her roommate initially felt ashamed of what had happened to them. “We didn’t want anyone to know,” she said, adding that to this day only seven of her relatives are aware of the attack. For her two sisters who accompanied her to court, “this is the first time they heard my story. … I never told them in detail.” The 1997 crime revealed one of the first-known

images of the NorCal Rapist, whose masked face was captured by a ATM camera as he used one victim’s bank card in Woodland. Although DNA science was still in its early stages back then, investigators were able to collect the suspect’s genetic material from the back seat of the 2000 victim’s vehicle. Using DNA familialtracing techniques, the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office cold-case unit identified Waller as their prime suspect. “On behalf of the residents of Yolo County, I offer my thanks to (Sacramento County District Attorney) Anne Marie Schubert and the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office for bringing this violent predator to justice,” Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig said Friday. “Their determined and innovative staff have done a great public service for Northern California.”

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All will be well; tacos, beer on their way T he owners of Guads Tacos & Beer hope to have the new restaurant open as soon as the end of February. The ownership trio includes brothers Rigo and Chris Hernandez — their family owns the two Taqueria Guadalajara restaurants in Davis — and longtime friend Shekib Nayebkhel. Nayebkhel said, “We’re working hard every day to get it up and running,” The restaurant will fill the ground floor and basement of the site at 231 Third St. The top floor is housing. Remodeling began in mid-September. The kitchen is downstairs, with service and tables at street level and outside. They are prepared to open even if onsite dining is still closed, Nayebkhel said, but will have a nice patio area once that is allowed. It’s a nice setting along the newly improved Third Street corridor. Fans of Taqueria Guadalajara will find the menu familiar. “The chips, salsa, flavors, ingredients and recipes will be the same,” Nayebkhel said in an earlier interview. “We’ll still have the basics like tacos, burritos, nachos and quesadillas.” Nayebkhel plans to add some new items, like corn-on-the cob, and an “Aggie Blue” shrimp/fish taco with blue corn tortillas. Eventually, there will be a dozen or more beers on tap, plus wine.

———— If you still need a fresh-cut Christmas tree this year, you may be out of luck. ‘There’s a huge shortage in the area,” a Davis Ace Hardware employee said Thursday evening. “We had eight delivered this morning, and that’s it for us.” There were six left. The Davis Boy Scout Christmas tree lot ran out of trees more than a week ago. As of Friday morning, the Davis Food Co-op was sold out of full-size trees but had three or four 30-inch potted trees left. I drove by Save Mart on Thursday evening and it still had some. There may be other places that sell them in town but those are the biggies. ———— Get Fit Davis closed as of Dec. 15, consolidating all operations into Get Fit Davis Sport. The first Get Fit Davis opened in 2013, taking over the former Peak Performance spot at 2795 Second St. In 2015, owner Nick Walejeski purchased the larger Davis Athletic Club at 1809

Guads Tacos & Beer is expected to open as soon as late February at 231 Third St. in Davis. COURTESY PHOTO

Picasso Ave., operating it as a second location with more amenities. In the announcement last month, Walejeski said declining memberships led to the “gutwrenching decision” to close one gym and “do what we can to keep at least one location going.” ———— Wondering what’s still open? In short, hair salons and similar personal care businesses are closed (though I’ve seen a few defying the order), and restaurants are limited to takeout/ delivery only. Indoor retail

shopping has a 20 percent capacity maximum, except grocery stores, which have a 35% max. These restrictions are in place through Dec. 30. They will be extended if our ICU vacancy rate remains low. Unfortunately, that seems likely. 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

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Online marketplace to feature local businesses Couple creates virtual shop focused on Yolo County Special to The Enterprise Carla and Jamell Wroten say it’s an important time to shop local, and the Winters-based couple is working to make that vision a reality for their neighbors by partnering with small businesses in the launch of Yolo. Boutique, an online shop that focuses exclusively on local goods from around the county. Available now and 24/7 online at https://yolo. boutique, they’ve teamed up with local publisher McNaughton Media — owners of The Davis Enterprise and Winters Express — to create a bustling online marketplace for locally sourced goods. Current items for sale include apparel, small gifts, home goods, food, wine, beer and gift cards.

“It’s a unique time when as business people we’ve started to cooperate in ways we’ve never done before.”

Carla Wroten, a fourthgeneration local entrepreneur, has for years been selling local goods like honey and olive oil from her coffeeshop in Winters, but says that the pandemic has helped forge a clear path forward for her company, Steady Eddy’s, to go all-in on expanding that effort into a digital marketplace. “It’s a unique time when as business people we’ve started to cooperate in ways we’ve never done before,” said Wroten, a Vacaville native. “We started to realize that when one of us was doing well, we were all doing well; on the flip side, when it was difficult for one of us it became difficult for all of us.” The businesswoman says she hopes Yolo.Boutique becomes an easy option for local vendors to tap into an existing e-commerce network and audience and start selling their goods online as quickly as

Carla Wroten Local business owner

in-store pickup at Steady Eddy’s in Winters and delivers locally to Woodland, Davis and Winters. It ships nationwide via UPS and USPS and sells goods anywhere customers want to buy them, from eBay to Instagram. The Wrotens hope to be an easy option for even the most overwhelmed local shopkeeper. McNaughton Media partnered with the duo to

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compromised shoppers), and more. Please email wendyedit@ gmail.com to suggest updates. ———— Unless there’s some breaking news, I may not have a column next weekend. Enjoy the holiday week and see you in 2021. — 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.

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MARKETPLACE: Neighbors can shop local without leaving home From Page A7 power Yolo.Boutique’s brand marketing and technology. The family-owned local-media company publishes Yolo Magazine, a local and tourist adventure magazine, and the annual Best of Yolo contest. Chief technology officer Taylor Buley says his company is putting its full weight and audience behind the nascent e-commerce operation to boost small business revenue amid tough times for traditional retail operations. “We want to marry our neighbors’ desire to shop local with the need of our small business partners to diversify their revenue sources,” he said.

“We’ve been growing small businesses for over 100 years,” Buley added. “We’ve got access to the best writers, photographers, editors and advertising technology around and I’m happy to put our team to work for local entrepreneurs.” He says the store helps through direct sales, “click-to-brick” online browsing and the ability to

bundle and share purchases and delivery costs. “And, of course, we’re paying to promote the heck out of it,” he joked. The e-commerce team launched the store in early December and says they are already on track to generate tens of thousands of dollars in online sales over the next year. They are seeking additional local businesses to join the platform, especially from the Woodland and Davis communities, and ask interested businesses to contact them by email at team@yolo. boutique. To shop local online, visit https://yolo.boutique.

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Steady Eddy’s owners (and local e-commerce entrepreneurs) Carla and Jamell Wroten pose for Comstock’s Magazine in January.

OBITUARIES Patricia Parker Robinson

Juanita Purvis Shacklett

Oct. 7, 1924 — Dec. 8, 2020

We celebrate a life full of love and family as we mark the passing of Patricia Robinson at age 96. Patricia Parker Robinson was born in Berkeley, on October 7, 1924, and lived most of her life in Berkeley. She attended Berkeley schools, Anna Head School and Cal. While at Cal she met her loving husband Bill Robinson, and they married June 24, 1944, in Roswell, N.M. prior to Bill being sent overseas with the Army Air Corps. They were married for 52 years. Pat is survived by two of her daughters Carol Henshaw (Paul) of Clayton and Lynn DeLapp (John) of Davis and preceded in death by Ann Heinemann (Bill). They had six granddaughters and four great grandchildren.

March 8, 1917 — Oct. 14, 2020

While at Cal, she joined Gamma Phi Beta where she made life-long friendships. Throughout her life, Pat volunteered in her community at John Muir Elementary School, Girl Scouts, Alta Bates Hospital, and the Oakland Museum. Her first love was her family and their many happy times at their cabin near Lake Tahoe. Pat lived in Berkeley, Moraga, Rossmoor in Walnut Creek, and finally at University Retirement Community in Davis. The family will gather at the family cabin next summer to honor Pat. Any contributions in her name, can be made to The Heifer Project or the League to Save Lake Tahoe, 2608 Lake Tahoe Blvd., South Lake Tahoe, CA 96150.

Louie F. Varni

April 1, 1925 — Dec. 12, 2020 Louie Frank Varni passed away on Dec. 12 at the age of 95, after a brief illness following a stroke. He was born on April 1, 1925, in Modesto to John and Katy Varni, and had three older sisters, Olga, Lydia and Virginia. He was a veteran of World War II and served in the Navy and was stationed on the Ulithi atoll in the Caroline Islands. He met the love of his life, Nunzia Vizziello, in 1949 at an Italian Catholic Federation dance. They married in 1950 and lived in Merced, where he was a tomato farmer. They had three daughters and moved to Sacramento in 1960, where he was the manager of a rendering plant. The family then moved to Davis in 1972, where they lived until 2013, at which time they moved to assisted living in Cameron Park and later Placerville. He had a wonderful life filled with so many happy and loving memories of family and friends. There were the yearly camping trips to Fort Bragg, horseback riding, swimming, barbeques, Easter egg hunts, Thanksgiving celebrations and always the beautiful Christmas prime rib dinner. He was an avid fisherman and loved fishing for catfish in the Delta on his boat, the Nancilou, with his loving wife and an ice chest full of salami sandwiches and beer. He was a devoted San Francisco Giants

fan, as well as a San Francisco 49er fan, never missing a game, either watching them on TV or listening on the radio. He loved to build model airplanes in his shop and learned to fly them with radio control. He spent many hours woodworking, making bowls, cradles for his grandchildren, swings and various gifts for his children. He was predeceased by his loving wife, Nunzia, in 2016, after 66 years of marriage and his grandson, Daniel DeSaussure in 2020. He is survived by his three daughters, Mary Louise DeSaussure (Jeff ), Joanne Chiles (Joe) and Virginia Ratto (Paul), his four grandchildren, Sean Chiles, Kristin Chiles, Sarah Nelson (Bobby) and Jessica Cerrudo (Kyle), his great-grandchild Wendell Nelson and many nieces and nephews. We would like to thank his wonderful caregivers at Gold County Retirement Center for the special attention they gave to him in his last few days, especially during these difficult times. No one could ever ask for a more devoted, loving and patient husband, father, uncle and grandfather. We will miss his funny sense of humor and Italian jokes and we will cherish so many amazing memories of family get-togethers. In his famous words, “The next time we see each other, we’ll be together.” Rest in peace Louie ... you are forever in our hearts.

Juanita Bohannon Purvis Shacklett, born March 8, 1917, passed away peacefully at her home in Davis on Oct. 14 at the age of 103 1/2. Juanita’s beautiful smile and generous heart were beacons of warmth to all who knew her and she remained lucid and vivacious until the end of her life. Juanita was born in Kentucky on March 8, 1917, the eldest child of Cleo Purvis and his wife Lily Bohannon Purvis. As a young woman, she graduated from Transylvania University in Lexington, Ky., and subsequently earned a master’s degree from Lexington Theological Seminary. She served as an editor of children’s publications in St. Louis, Mo., before moving to New York, N.Y., in 1955 to become a writer and editor of children’s publications at Friendship Press. In 1958, she married Dr. Comer D. Shacklett, a research chemist at E.I. duPont de Nemours, Inc. The couple relocated to Westfield, N.J., where they lived from 1963 until 2004. In Westfield, Juanita was active in the Parent-Teacher Organization, served as a volunteer librarian at Tamaques Elementary School, and was a Girl Scout troop leader. A talented singer and pianist, she was active in the Musical Club of Westfield. She enjoyed decorative painting as a member of the Garden State Society of Tole and Decorative Painters. She was also very active in both the College Woman’s Club and the Woman’s Club of Westfield, serving as president of WCW for several years in the 1980s-early 90s and as co-president in 2000-2001, “retiring” at age 84. In June 2004, she and her husband

moved across the country to Davis, where her husband died later the same year. She continued to live independently in her own home until her death, remaining in contact with friends and family around the country and traveling to Europe in 2006. In 2017, Juanita celebrated her 100th birthday, surrounded by family and friends, and participated in the Centennial celebration for the city of Davis. In March 2020, she was fortunate to celebrate her 103rd birthday with a small group of friends just days before COVID-19 restrictions began. Appropriately, her birthday (March 8) falls on the day designated by the United Nations as International Woman’s Day. Survivors are her daughter Barbara Shacklett and son-in-law Jean-Jacques Lambert, both faculty members at UC Davis. Other survivors include daughterin-law Rose Lambert, eight nieces and one nephew, several grand- and great-grand nieces and nephews, one first cousin, and friends too numerous to count. She will be greatly missed. A virtual memorial service will be held within the next few weeks. Juanita’s remains will be interred alongside those of her husband in the columbarium of the church where they met and were married, Park Avenue Christian Church in New York, N.Y., once travel restrictions have ended. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the UC Davis Hospice Memorial Fund. For detailed information on donations, please see https://health.ucdavis. edu/homecare/hospice/donations.html or https://health.ucdavis.edu/homecare/pdfs/ Online%20Donation%20Form.pdf.

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Janet Louise Mentink July 25, 1937 — Nov. 28, 2020

Janet Louise Mentink, 83, of Davis, passed away on Nov. 28, 2020, at home surrounded by her family. Her life was rich in love of family and friends, in service to others, and bolstered by an emphasis on education. She lived by her motto, “She thought she could, so she did.” Janet was born in Merced to Frances and Archie Miller on July 25, 1937. Attending Calaveras High School, Janet was very involved — tennis, cheerleading, student government and band. That is where her eagerness to see what life had to offer began, including all aspects of learning, art, music and athleticism. In 1958, Janet married Victor W. Mentink, Jr. in Davis. They enjoyed 59 years of marriage before Vic’s death and proudly raised their three children — Mark, Doug and Lisa. Education and continual learning were important to Janet, who said, “I’ve had a wonderful and exciting career!” A consistent highlight of her work life was being a pioneer when nursing was expanding and new healthcare roles were created. Her first nursing job was at Woodland Memorial Hospital where she worked for 12 years, mostly in the Emergency Room. She said, “I had to be really sharp — there were no paramedics then.” She worked for two Ob-Gyn doctors; then in public health in Yolo County, but it wasn’t enough action for her. She moved on to a cutting-edge program — nurse practitioner school. Janet started the NP program at UC Davis because there were more clinical sites available — especially in rural and underserved areas. There was a constant fear that the program would be closed down because of

animosity from Schools of Medicine. “It was risky, there were no laws,” Janet recalled. Describing going to work as a student with a “true family practice doctor” in downtown Sacramento: “The doctor was very religious, never saying a bad word about anyone.” When Janet reported for work on the first day, he had his head on his desk. The Medical Licensing Board created a Cease-&-Desist order on the use of NPs and PAs. “I don’t want you to put yourself at risk!” he said. “To hell with them!” they both said simultaneously. They continued. Nothing happened. Their important work went on! At first, there was flexibility as graduates of the UC Davis program could practice as either an NP or a PA. “They were sort of making it up as they went along!” Janet said. The plan had been for it to be a master’s degree, but there were no master’s candidates. The NP faculty had diverse responsibilities — leading satellites and a lot of outreach. After graduating, Janet immediately took over the N. California (Redding) satellite training site and visited and evaluated students in clinics throughout the region. Her teaching centered on behavioral medicine, depression, anxiety and severe mental illness. Based on her behavioral medicine interest, Janet decided to enter a doctoral program at the Fielding Institute, while still working full time as a faculty member at UC Davis. Her goal was to earn a doctorate that was focused outside of nursing, which would also give her extra capabilities. Janet was proud of the Ph.D. she earned in psychology in 1994 and put it to good use, though she said, “it took so long.” In the midst, her

beloved son Mark died, then her in-laws and then her mother. Yet she forged on, as always. In 1989 after the sudden death of her good friend, Correne Treguboff, who had effectively led the NP/PA Program at UC Davis, Janet was named the new program director. She rose to the challenges of this unexpected yet fulfilling opportunity. Once again, Janet was part of an expanding pioneering team! The West Coast PA programs stuck together and the faculty members became each others’ support group. Because of her husband Vic’s job as chief of police for the city of Davis, Janet hadn’t traveled much. In her new role, she traveled to places she wouldn’t have gone otherwise. For several summers, Janet was a group leader for a retreat for PA educational leaders at Sugarloaf Resort in Maine. In addition to more formal learning, the group hiked part of the Appalachian Trail as a ‘bonding experience.’ Per Janet: “I met some great people and some real characters. I didn’t have to be the leader, but I certainly did a lot of good.” Though she was a busy lady, Janet was never too busy to be a devoted, loving mother and grandmother — sewing clothes and costumes; serving as a Cub Scout leader; taking her children camping and even cooking berry pies (if the kids picked enough and didn’t eat on the way back to camp). She signed them up for sports and music lessons; exposed them to the arts; and traveled with them. In every instance, Janet provided a rich and encouraging upbringing to her children and grandchildren. Janet took pleasure in her many hobbies, with a focus on painting, sculpting, building

bird houses and countless projects. She traveled to England, Italy, the Netherlands, Canada and Mexico, and loved visiting Kauai with her sisters-in-law and friends. Despite ventures abroad, Janet adored living in and being a part of the Davis community — she and Vic had season tickets to Cal Aggie football and basketball, sharing their love of sports with their grandchildren. Janet was rich with friends and loving relationships from all facets of her well-lived life. “She thought she could, so she did.” And she most certainly did. Janet did it all! Janet was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Victor and her son, Mark. She is survived by her children Douglas Mentink (Lea) and Lisa Grewohl (Doug); her sister Donna Miller; her niece Justine Lane and nephews Cody and Tim Lane; and grandchildren Brandy Grewohl, Michael Moore, Michael Grewohl, Danielle Mentink and Emily Mentink. Janet survived three years with pancreatic cancer and was lovingly cared for by family, friends and WeCare4Yolo caregivers Ally, Eva and Victoria. Janet continued supporting nursing in her retirement through her involvement with Sacramento City College Nurses Alumni Association. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to “Los Rios Colleges Foundation.” Donors should include a note directing their gift to the Ethel Muhs Nursing Scholarship, in memory of Janet Mentink. Checks may be mailed to: Sacramento City College Philanthropy, 3835 Freeport Blvd., Sacramento, CA 95822 A memorial service will be held at a later date when it is safe to gather.

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Santa by Zoom Special to The Enterprise The Odd Fellows Lodge just finished â€œZoom Visits with Santaâ€? â€” the 2020 alternative to Breakfast with Santa â€” and the proceeds from the event will be delivered as a donation to the Yolo County Food Bank. Parents and grandparents who signed their children up for Zoom visits with Santa, donated money for the Food Bank, and $1,530 was raised through these donations. The Odd Fellows Lodge will deliver a check to the Food Bank in the amount of $1,500. The remaining $30 will be retained to cover the minimal costs of the event. â€œWe were so pleased

that 168 children were able to participate this year, visiting with Santa via zoom over three days,â€? said Dave Rosenberg, one of the organizers. â€œItâ€™s not the same as personal times on the lap of Santa, but the Zoom visits were clearly enjoyed by the children and itâ€™s the best we could do under the pandemic environment.â€? The special committee which organized the event included Doug Hatton, Beth Dovi, Juelie Roggli, Danny Tomasello, Diana Schmiegel, and Lea and Dave Rosenberg. The Odd Fellows plan to bring â€œBreakfast with Santaâ€? back for the community in December of 2021.

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Local prep seniors ink NLIs BY OWEN YANCHER Enterprise staff writer Collegiate athletic recruiting on the West Coast has been a train wreck in 2020. On one hand, high school athletes haven’t had the opportunity to play and showcase their talents since last winter. At the same time, universities have been denied the chance to recruit as they normally would. “If (college scouts) are looking at film, it’s likely from over a year ago, if not two years ago,” Davis High athletic director Jeff Lorenson explains. In a typical year, the sixth-year AD would be hosting college coaches on campus right now. During the fall and winter,

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hile I would have voted for John F. Kennedy had I been old enough when he ran, he did make a statement while in office that offended some of us who were attending Davis High School at the time. The year was 1963, I was a junior at DHS and JFK was just beginning his third year as president. According to a story by Davy Crockett in ultrarunninghistory.com, “John F. Kennedy had campaigned with a goal to improve the nation’s physical health, and once in office, he made that a priority.” Ah yes, the President’s Council on Physical Fitness, cited by many PE coaches as the reason why we should be lifting weights and running laps instead of shooting baskets and tossing Frisbees during class hours. Kennedy, noted Crockett, “feared that future generations would be spectators of sport rather than participants on the field of play because of their lack of physical fitness.” And, since he was a genuine war hero who was fond of playing touch football on the White House lawn, he was within his rights to call us a bunch of “marshmallows,” and worse. “Shortly after he was elected, Presidentelect Kennedy published an article in Sports Illustrated called ‘The Soft American,’ in which he wrote, ‘We can fully restore the physical soundness of our nation only if every American is willing to assume responsibility for his own fitness and the fitness of his children. All of us must consider our own responsibilities for the physical vigor of our children and of the young men and women of our community. We do not want our children to become a generation of spectators. Rather, we want each of them to be a participant in the vigorous life.’ ” Oh boy. No more maple bars from the Vienna Bakery for breakfast. “Back in 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt issued an executive order that every Marine captain or lieutenant should be able to hike 50 miles in 20 hours.” Kennedy apparently discovered this executive order and asked Marine Commandant David M. Shoup to find out how well his present-day officers could

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it’s been common for next-level scouts to visit Blue Devil practices, weight-training sessions and games. But in this Year of the Pandemic, that’s not possible. “Schools are basically looking at two things,” Lorenson says. “They’re looking at kids’ faces on Zoom and their stats on paper.” Despite the impediments, a handful of DHS athletes have still managed to navigate the recruiting process. And as of this past week, Big Blue has confirmed 11 commitments from students across nine of its sports teams. The early signing period began nationally for most sports on Nov. 11. Normally one of the first to learn when an athlete makes the big decision,

Lorenson says he’s been more likely to hear about commitments on Twitter this year, with all DJUSD students still taking classes from home. “Last week (cross country coach) Tim Groth reached out to let me know Ansel Tucker had committed to Gonzaga,” Lorenson reports. “And (wrestling coaches) John Rosendale and Ben Davis let me know Adrienna Turner had picked (Grand View University). “But besides that, it’s a weird situation.” The following senior Blue

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Devilish duo Whitworth University-bound Davis High football stars Zach Brooks, left, and Patton Miller stretch Monday at a small-pod workout. OWEN YANCHER/ENTERPRISE PHOTO

Gridiron leaders head north Brooks, Miller stick together BY OWEN YANCHER Enterprise staff writer The drive to Spokane, Wash., from Davis takes just over 13 hours. But Davis High football standout Zach Brooks had an inkling — even before his family’s car had left Yolo County — that the Lilac City

was the place he wanted to spend the next four years. Taking the trip up Interstate 5 earlier this year to check out a handful of college campuses, Brooks and his Blue Devil teammate Patton Miller made several stops en route. Recruited heavily following the 10-2 DHS Delta League title run last fall, both had offers from a sprinkling of Northwest Conference schools. Among them, Willamette, Winfield, Whitworth and Pacific University.

And as hundreds of high school athletes across the state announced their college commitments this past week — including more than a dozen from Davis as part of the early National Letter of Intent signing period — both Brooks and Miller said their choice was a no-brainer. The Devil duo — both AllDelta League honorees — is headed to Whitworth, a private Christian university of approximately 3,000 students. Its campus is located 10 minutes north of

downtown Spokane. “We didn’t plan it together,” the 5-11, 265-pound Miller promises. “But it ended up that way. “It just so happened that Zach was thinking the same thing I was the moment we both stepped on campus.” So how did a school way out in the Washington plains corral two of Davis’ best? Devil football coach Steve Smyte says it was the right combination between good

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COVID testing gets UCD back on court But Aggies still denied games BY BRUCE GALLAUDET Enterprise sports editor Who can and who can’t play — and why — has become downright mystifying as college basketball teams throughout California try to deal with the effects of the pandemic. UC Davis men’s and women’s hoops programs — neither of which have had a positive COVID test since reconvening in August — have had their remaining nonconference games as well as their first four Big West games canceled. This

is while most BWC schools continue to play. Among the men’s teams, the Aggies are 2-2 and haven’t played since a 95-62 victory over visiting William Jessup on Dec. 4. The defending conference champion UCD women haven’t played since the season opener on Nov. 25 — an 82-75 Davis win against visiting San Francisco. The men haven’t practiced as a team since Dec. 3, and the women haven’t practiced since Dec. 5. So, while men’s teams like UC Irvine (2-4) and women’s teams like Cal Poly (3-1) continue to play — earning weekly accolades and on-court experience

— the Aggies weren’t even practicing, much less playing games. The Aggie limits were set by the Yolo County Health and Human Services Agency, in turn forcing the Big West to cancel Aggie contests with Cal State Bakersfield and UC Riverside. The health department, reacting to locals being in the restrictive purple tier in combatting COVID-19, had forbidden contact practices and competition. But in moving the needle toward renewed play, local public health officials last week told professional and collegiate teams in Yolo County that they could have contact practices (indoor and outdoor) as long as there is “a negative daily test

documented and ... a face mask (is worn).” This applies to coaches, trainers, players or any other personnel essential to practice. Still, teams like women’s and men’s basketball remain anchored — no competition, home or away. “The reality of it is we’re all trying to figure out what we can and cannot do ... make it work with what’s in our control,” Aggie women’s head coach Jennifer Gross told The Enterprise. Late last week, the threetimes-a-week testing for Aggie student-athletes was replaced by daily antigen testing. Gross and UCD men’s coach Jim Les report that this testing will allow

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DUO: Blue Devil standouts felt Division III university was a perfect fit From Page B1 recruiting, good academic situations and the fact that Brooks and Miller are guys who are not “enamored by the big lights.” A Division III program, Whitworth’s recruiting net stretches further than most schools it competes with. A quick glance over the Pirates’ roster typically shows players from Washington, Oregon and Idaho. But a surprising amount of footballers hail from other states, among them California, Texas, Arizona and, even, Hawaii. Pursuing multiple Devil standouts back in June, Whitworth assistant coach Nate Thompson told The Enterprise he initially found Davis High talent by searching online “for what the best football programs were.” The offensive-line mentor, who played collegiate ball at Wheaton College in Illinois, said one school kept popping up on every California list he found: Davis. “I was told … ‘(This is) a school you have to check out,’ ” Thompson said. Lucky for him, the fit was right. At Whitworth, Miller has found a business-major path that points students into MBA programs. Likewise, Brooks’ interest in one day pursuing a nursing degree aligns perfectly with the school’s healthsciences major. And with both sporting grade-point averages knocking on 4.0, it was easy for the Pirates to dole out some well-deserved academic scholarships.

But back to the football ... He credits DHS line and associate head coach Yijie Ge, along with American River An accomplished wrestler, the word was out about Brooks’ feats on the mat. He was College head coach Jon Osterhout of the NorCal-based Linemen Win Games drawing interest from schools from as far (LWG) training group, for always pushing as the Ivy Leagues. His top-10 finish at the him to improve. CIF State meet made him the first Devil boys wrestler to place in the tournament Miller has also attended camps by Men since 1976. in the Trenches — an organization founded by former San Francisco 49ers “But with COVID and a lot of guys staycenter Jesse Sapolu — and frequented ing on (college) rosters for an extra year of Vacaville’s Suspension House Fitness. eligibility ... that made a big difference,” Brooks explained of the recruiting process. He’s quick to also point out that he’s had “When you have a roster as some special teammates small as a wrestling team line up to his left and right. does, (the pandemic) “In the moment, you changed things.” don’t really understand The defending Delta how good your team is,” League Defensive Player of Miller says. “It isn’t until the Year, Brooks paced the you look back that you conference with 123 tacktake in the fact that you les and four fumble recovwere playing alongside eries as Davis’ middle three college lineman.” Jeff Lorenson linebacker. Between Nate Bitners The 6-foot, 225-pound (now at Sierra College), DHS athletic director play-stopper says wresGerad Christian-Lichtentling played a key role in han (Colorado) and Marhis success last season. quist Allen (Dartmouth), he’s had some decent comrades in arms. And another “There’s no doubt in my mind,” he says. name to add to that college list might soon “Wrestling improved my overall fitness. A be Kieffer Jones — another Devil lineman big part of it for me was getting to refresh who has since transferred to Bishop Gormentally and do something different than man High in Las Vegas. football all year round.” With hopes for their senior season all A dual guard/tackle on Davis’ offense but evaporated at this point (the CIF has line and two-time first-team all-league delayed any potential start for high school selection, Miller’s work up front translated sports to Jan. 25 at the earliest) Brooks into more than 2,500 rushing yards by the says his and Miller’s plans for the time Devil attack in 2019.

“They’re always out there picking up and leading their teammates.”

NLIs: Blue Devils sign up with next-level programs From Page B1 Devil athletes have committed or signed early National Letters of Intent: ■ Adrienna Turner (Grand View University): Ranked No. 2 in the nation in the 127-pound weight class by USA Wrestling, the mostdecorated girls wrestler in DHS history, has won three straight SacJoaquin Section individual titles and took fourth place at the state tournament just before the pandemic hit last spring. ■ Amara Higgins (Army): The Golden Knights’ newest addition has been one of the biggest producers offensively for the DHS girls lacrosse team in each of the last two seasons. Also a field hockey standout, Higgins’ five assists led the Lady Devils in last spring’s pandemicshortened season. She added 11 goals, 14 draw controls and secured a team-best 15 ground balls. ■ Ansel Tucker (Gonzaga): Buoying the Blue Devil boys cross country team as they surprised California with a 10th place finish at the last CIF state meet, Tucker will join the Bulldogs with a Delta League Center meet title under his belt. An accomplished distance runner for the DHS track team as well, he’s been one of Big Blue’s top performers since his sophomore campaign. ■ Genevieve Aubert (Cal): A standout rower for the Sacramentobased Capital Crew squad over the last several years, Aubert is headed down I-80. In Oct. 2019, she competed in the Head of the Charles race in Boston, the world’s largest two-day rowing event. She’ll join the Golden Bears’ women’s crew team next year and be mentored by fivetime National Coach of the Year, Al Acosta. ■ Luke Carrell (UC Davis): The dual-threat DHS football and baseball star will join his older brother Zach on the Aggie baseball team. Toeing the rubber for the Blue Devils, the southpaw has fanned 31 batters across his 48 innings pitched and owns a slick 2.90 ERA. He also passed for more than 2,500 yards with 26 touchdowns as the Devils’ quarterback.

■ Megan Looney (Chico State): A three-year varsity starter at Davis, Looney’s soccer career will continue with the Wildcats. The 5-foot-7 center-mid was a key piece as the Devils won section titles in 2018 and 2019. ■ Mia Mark (Occidental): Mark will continue her softball career as a member of the Occidental College Tigers softball team in Los Angeles. A product of the Davis Youth Softball Association, the 5-foot-6 slugger has been a dual threat at outfield and first base for the Devils. Mark plays club ball for Firecrackers North-Thomas, a top competitive travel team based in Elk Grove. ■ Natalie Bercutt (Wisconsin): One of the top breaststrokers in DHS swimming history, Bercutt will take her talents next year to Madison’s Soderholm Aquatic Center and join the Badgers’ women’s swim squad. A three-time CIF qualifier, Bercutt helped boost the Devils to Sac-Joaquin Section swim titles in 2018 and 2019. ■ Patton Miller (Whitworth): A two-time All-Delta League lineman, Miller will toil in the trenches for the Pirates football team in Spokane, Wash., next fall. The 5-11, 265pound tackle/guard won the 2019 conference championship with the Blue Devils — Davis’ first league title in over 20 years. Whitworth competes in the Northwest Conference, rivaling Whittier, Puget Sound and Willamette University. ■ Summer Baron (Chico State): One of the Devils’ top scorers in seasons’ past, Baron will head north to join the Wildcats’ women’s soccer squad. At DHS, the attacker helped the locals to multiple Delta League and CIF Sac-Joaquin Section titles. ■ Trey Doten (UCLA): Public Enemy No. 1 for the Davis High boys water polo team, Doten led DHS in scoring last fall with 118 goals. He’ll join his older sister Brooke, a member of the Bruins’ women’s polo squad, in Westwood. The 6-foot-3, 175-pound gunslinger netted 61 goals as a sophomore en route to an All-Sac-Joaquin Section first-team distinction. ■ Zach Brooks (Whitworth): Joining Miller in Spokane will be

being are to keep up the conditioning. Both also expect to participate in specialized training through Ge’s Davis Strength and Conditioning gym over the next several months. “LWG also has six-week cycles to help keep us sharp,” Miller says. “And we’re finally back to small-pod workouts with DHS (practices with strict COVID safety protocols in place).” “But we’re all still holding out hope we still get something out of the season,” Miller says, even if that winds up as just a few games in league. Brooks and Miller also drew high praise from DHS athletic director Jeff Lorenson, who says Whitworth is “stealing two great character guys.” “I’ve been right there on the sideline for pretty much every single one of their high school games,” Lorenson said. “And they stand out on the field, but people don’t get to see their leadership on the sidelines — how they’re always out there picking up and leading their teammates — whether they’re winning on the scoreboard, or losing.” Added Lorenson: “It’s really encouraging to see athletes take into consideration what fits them best and their focus. In this day and age, we as a society put on a pedestal and emphasize ‘Division I.’ “The reality is, any time an athlete moves on past the high-school level (to compete), it’s rare. And it’s a huge accomplishment. DI, DII, DIII, junior college — it doesn’t matter. At the end of the day, you’re a college athlete. And that’s pretty cool.”

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Amara Higgins is headed to the U.S. Military Academy as Army’s newest addition. Higgins has been one the top lacrosse and field hockey players in the region.

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Luke Carrell, a two-sport standout for Davis High, will join his older brother Zach on the UC Davis diamond. Luke’s arm earned him a 2.90 ERA on the mound and more than 2,500 passing yards on the football field. the Blue Devils’ leading tackler (123) last fall and two-time firstteam All-Delta League linebacker Brooks. His efforts on defense warranted the 6-foot, 205-pounder last year’s Delta Defensive Player of the Year honor. A DHS wrestling star as well, Brooks placed eighth at last winter’s CIF State meet. — Know another Blue Devil that’s committed to college? Let us know. Reach Owen Yancher at oyancher@davisenterprise.net. Follow him via Twitter at @530athletics.

do the 50-mile test. “An Associated Press article was published nationwide on Feb. 5, 1963, that shared the story of the Roosevelt test and Shoup’s order to test his Marines.” You can imagine the reaction. “The door was flung open for all who wanted to challenge themselves. An unexpected 50-mile frenzy swept across the U.S. like a raging fire that dominated the newspapers for weeks. Tens of thousands of people attempted to hike 50 miles.” As I’ve noted in this space before, the day after that story ran, four of us from Davis High put our heads together and decided this was a challenge we could conquer. Actually, we thought it would be easy. Heck, just put one foot after another for 50 miles. What could be so difficult about that? We convinced my dad, who saw combat duty in Europe with the U.S. Army during World War II, to let us attempt this challenge. He readily agreed, on one condition. He asked a young adult co-worker of his to accompany us in case we ran into any difficulties. On the morning of Feb. 16, 1963, I jumped out of bed at 3 a.m. and into our old Ford station wagon with my dad at 4 a.m. After we picked up the other members of our party, Dad drove us through Woodland and Madison and Esparto and on up the Capay Valley until the odometer hit “50.” At which point he let us out, wished us well and asked what words we wanted on our tombstones. It was still dark outside. My motto, out of respect for Teddy Roosevelt, was “Walk softly and carry a big lunch.” Even if my feet hurt, I figured, my stomach would be satisfied. Off we set — Ed and Bob and Dave and Jay and our adult member, Bill — long before there was any hint of daylight. At first, our pace was brisk, but after a while it

became obvious that this would be more difficult than we had imagined. Once we reached Capay, about halfway home, our adult member did what adults do. He found a small, lonely bar, ordered a beer, and shortly thereafter used a pay phone to call for a ride home. And then there were four. Jay eventually succumbed to severe calf cramps at the 30-mile mark, making the three surviving members of our fivesome realize that we ought to slow down and smell the just-emerging almond blossoms. Every 5 miles or so we’d sit down in a field or orchard to rest our weary selves. Each rest became longer than the previous one and inevitably our leg muscles would tighten up during the stop and we’d have warm up all over again. After the fourth such stop, Dave said he couldn’t handle our lingering pace any more and shot off on his own, shouting over his shoulder, “I’ll see you guys in Davis.” Turns out he saw us not in Davis, but just east of Woodland, where he had stopped to eat at the Willow Oak Grocery and simply couldn’t get up. Ed and I were determined to press on, but the last 12 miles or so, from Aoki Farms at Brown’s Corner in Woodland to the Davis Super Market on Russell and Anderson (later State Market) was a killer. It wasn’t until we reached West Davis Elementary that we became convinced that we would actually make it. Harry Low, the most talented photographer in Davis at the time, was there to greet us when we arrived in the dark of night, figuring the local newspaper might like a photo of this historic event. It was 12:30 a.m. on Sunday morning, 19½ hours after we started and just 30 minutes under Teddy Roosevelt’s deadline. — Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise. net.

UCD: Coaches, players try to stay optimistic under strict Yolo edicts From Page B1 full practices to resume late this calendar year. The health department, one source says, is expected to revisit its ban on any competition around Jan. 4. “The way we’re going to start back is some individual skill workouts, then gradually build up into team workouts ... after Christmas,” Les said. And how fair is it that UCD basketball programs are the only ones in the nation without a COVID case that have been prohibited from playing? UC Davis officials and coaches weighed in ... Insiders in the UCD athletic department say there is frustration with some Yolo health edicts,

given that the green light remains lit in other Big West counties. But on the record, the Aggies are taking the high road. “We’re nothing but supportive … of what (county health is) doing to keep the community safe, and we’re trying to work within their guidelines to allow our teams to compete,” UCD Interim Director of Athletics Rocko DeLuca told The Enterprise. “We’ve had open communication with the county … and we’ll continue to work down that path.” DeLuca, Gross and Les each had high praise for campus medical staff for keeping not only student-athletes safe, but all campus officials, students and employees. Coming out of finals week, Les’

men met via Zoom on Wednesday regarding going forward: “We’re making sure they’re comfortable with all these protocols in place. The players seem very motivated to get on the floor.” Les and Gross want to ensure that, given the layoff, their teams are not “rushed” in working to get back: “In lieu of protecting them from COVID, we don’t want them at risk for other injuries because we haven’t been as active,” Les explained. “That tells me all the protocols that have been in place are working. That’s a credit to all the program members’ discipline ... our people are staying safe. That’s ultimately the No. 1 motivator: to get through this safe and sound. “Understand, they want to be competing, playing,” Les continued.

“They want to be on the floor ... but we’re also trying to keep some perspective on that. There are people who have lost family members to the virus, there are businesses that are struggling due to the virus. There are so many other negatives going on. “As much as we’re disappointed and want to play, we have to keep in the context of what is going on around us and in the world and be measured about our approach going forward. “We have to have a little bit of tunnel vision of what makes sense for UC Davis, for our programs and our student-athletes,” Les added. “Inevitably, that’s going to be different than what other people are doing.” As for her team’s morale, Gross said ...

“It’s been challenging, especially in early December where we had three different games that we prepped for ... and they got canceled. As a student-athlete, you get juiced up and ready to go, then you are really disappointed.” But Gross says her team understands the rationale of Yolo County public health trying to keep everybody safe, adding, “It remains difficult for our women to go through this.” Says Les: “The (team’s) approach and attitudes with each other and with their optimism and their energy, it has been really commendable. “I’m proud to be an Aggie. (COVID) challenges are only going to make us stronger, individually and collectively ... and I believe that.”

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So yeah, a rat is owning the Perez household

his year we wanted to add some adventure to our Christmas tree outing. So instead of going to our usual place in Davis, or even the cutyour-own places weâ€™ve enjoyed over the years, we got a National Forest Christmas Tree Permit. This means that for $12, we got to trudge around in the mountains near Truckee for a tree between 6- and 20-feet. Incidentally, a 10-foot tree in the forest is tiny; when you bring it into your house, itâ€™s gigantic. While not the focus of this particular story, I want to put in a plug for this new tradition. Husband S and I wound our way up the snowy mountain (AWD was required, by the way) to a perfect spot to find our tree. We chose one that was too close to its neighbors to successfully reach its potential, and we con-

tributed to thinning out the forest a bit. Anyway, we brought the tree home on Thursday, Dec. 10, and put it in its stand, with a plan to decorate it over that weekend. Garage Rat had other ideas. As S came in to the house after going out to the garage for the Christmas decorations, he oozed a combination of disgust and rage. â€œThereâ€™s a rat in the cabinet where the Christmas stuff is,â€? he reported.

As a long-time soother of my husband when he has seen vermin, I calmly replied, â€œBummer. Letâ€™s check that cabinet later and - - -â€? Before I finished my sentence, S was on his way to Ace Hardware for rodent traps. Now might be a good time to explain the Perez Vermin Rules. S and I will have been married for 30 years in March. In this time weâ€™ve learned some valuable things about each other; paramount among them for me is that S will not tolerate rodents living in the house. I mean, itâ€™s not like I want rodents in the house, but Iâ€™ve managed to convince him that we donâ€™t need to burn it down when we see a little mouse poop in the garage. Side note: Ants and roaches

are also supposed to live outside the house too but S has finally bought in to my â€œItâ€™s just natureâ€? speech. Iâ€™ve found articles and talked to experts, and he now understands that bugs in the house is not necessarily a sign of filth and disgust. Thus we have not had our house â€œtentedâ€? and fumigated every month for the past three decades. However, Garage Rat is not following any of the vermin rules and has overstepped the bounds of decency. It cannot live indoors, and when confronted by the humans, it needs to at least act intimidated. Instead, as S went out to the garage to put out various traps and baits, Garage Rat held its ground. Even as S reached into the cabinet and pulled out the ornaments and the Lego train that chugs around the bottom of

the tree, Garage Rat acted only mildly concerned. The Christmas tree lights, however, have been fully claimed by the rat, which sits territorially atop the plastic zipper bag that contains them. Today, I broke down and got new tree lights, seeing no way to win this standoff. Those lights are dead to me now, even if the rat isnâ€™t. Having said that, if I come downstairs one morning and Garage Rat is wearing a little, striped engineerâ€™s hat, riding our Lego train around the base of the Christmas tree, there will not be enough water in the ocean to put out the fire I start. â€” Tanya Perez lives in Davis with her family. Her column is published every other Sunday. Reach her at pereztanyah@ gmail.com. Follow her on Twitter at @californiatanya.

When peace of mind has a tail to wag for you ... BY CRAIG DRESANG Special to The Enterprise

f you need more love in your life get yourself a dog. A growing number of researchers are saying that if your happiness index is off, you can find extra joy through canine companionship. I guess a cat will do, too. Although, nothing can lift your spirits more than getting down on the floor with your pooch. Hospice professionals have long understood that family pets can prove to be strong medicine. Every fur-covered package can carry a potent dose of comfort and companionship. For nearly 25 years, research has shown that living with pets can lower blood pressure, lessen anxiety, boost immunity, and even help someone get a date. For some patients, their pet is their lifeline. Pets can help soothe the anxiety that comes from dealing with a serious medical condition. For other patients, keeping their pets nearby during an illness and finding homes for them after they die can become an important

YOLO HOSPICE & CWC piece of unfinished business. The bond between humans and their pets can be traced back at least 15,000 years to the BonnOberkassel dog that was found buried with its two human companions. In fact, dogs have been referred to as â€œmanâ€™s best friendâ€? for centuries. For pet families, the human-pet bond takes on deeper meaning and value when the pet parent is facing a life-limiting or terminal illness. Pets may serve as their sole source of companionship, comfort and love and give them hope and a reason to wake up every day. As their illness progresses, most patients will need help with pet care issues. Some patients are fortunate to have a broad support network and receive all they assistance they need. Unfortunately, as some families deal with grief and loss surrounding the patientâ€™s illness, beloved pets may be overlooked or treated as an

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afterthought by family members who are unfamiliar with the patientâ€™s bond with a pet. â€œWe have patients where all they have is their dog or their cat,â€? says Louise Joyce, director of community development at Yolo Hospice. â€œThatâ€™s their family. Thatâ€™s the reason they are motivated to keep going every day.â€? Understanding this bond between people and their pets is what led to the establishment of a new program at Yolo Hospice

called Pet Peace of Mind. The program is part of a national movement and organization that has been embraced by just four other hospices in California. The other closest Pet Peace of Mind program is 120 miles away in Lake County. At its core, the program allows seriously ill patients to keep their pets through their illness, and then place their dog or cat with a new adoptive owner if/ when the time comes to relocate their four-legged

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had advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He suffered from dementia and spent most of his time in bed. Missy, one of his four dogs, was usually nestled by his side. According to Carterâ€™s wife, Barbara, â€œMissy stayed on his bed all the time â€” she protected him.â€? So, when she told Roland that she was not sure she could keep caring for the dogs, along with him, he became distraught. He pleaded with his wife, â€œPlease donâ€™t get rid of my dogs.â€? Fortunately, the Carters made use of Pet Peace of Mind and were able to keep their dogs through Rolandâ€™s illness. In some cases, volunteers feed and walk the pets or take them to veterinarian and grooming visits. Sometimes, for pet owners who are in financial need, the program pays for pet food and other essentials for dogs and cats. If the owner dies, pets can be placed with new families if necessary. Solutions vary, person to person and pet to pet. In one recent case, a woman

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Granholm will N have tough job BY LLEWELLYN KING Special to The Enterprise

resident-elect Joe Biden’s decision to nominate Jennifer Granholm — former governor of Michigan, lawyer, politician and television host — to be the next secretary of energy is curious. The idea circulating is that her primary assignment, in Biden’s mind, will be to speed Detroit’s development of electric vehicles. That is hardly the job Granholm will find confronting her when she heads to the seventh floor of the Forrestal Building, a bareand-square concrete structure across from the romantic Smithsonian Castle on Independence Avenue in Washington. Secretary of energy is one of the most demanding assignments in the government. The Department of Energy is a vast archipelago of scientific, defense, diplomatic and cybersecurity responsibilities. Granholm’s biggest concern, in fact, won’t be energy, but defense. The DOE, nicknamed the Little Pentagon, is responsible for maintaining, upgrading and ensuring the working order of the nation’s nuclear weapons. A critical launch telephone will go with her everywhere. That is where much of the department’s $30 billion or so budget goes. The energy secretary is responsible for the largest scientific organization on earth: the 17 national laboratories operated by the department. They aren’t only responsible for the nuclear weapons program but also for a huge, disparate portfolio of scientific inquiry, from better materials to fill potholes to carbon capture, storage and utilization; and from small modular reactors for electricity to nuclear power for space exploration. The national labs are vital in cybersecurity, particularly to assure the integrity of the electric grid and the security of things like Chinese-made transformers and other heavy equipment. The DOE has the responsibility for detecting nuclear explosions abroad, measuring carbon in the atmosphere, making wind turbines more efficient, and developing the nuclear power plants that drive aircraft carriers and submarines. The department makes weapons materials, like tritium, and supervises the enrichment of uranium.

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OE scientists are looking into the very nature of physical matter. They have worked on mapping the human genome and aided nano-engineering development. Wise secretaries of energy have realized that not only are the national laboratories a tremendous national asset but they can also be the secretary’s shock troops, ready to do what they are asked — not always the way with career bureaucrats. Their directors are wired into congressional delegations, including California with Lawrence Livermore; Illinois with Argonne; New Mexico with Los Alamos and Sandia; Tennessee with Oak Ridge; South Carolina with Savannah River. Verifying the START nuclear weapons treaty with Russia falls to the DOE as will, possibly, renegotiating it. Another job would be being part of any future negotiations with Iran over its nuclear materials. Likewise, the energy secretary would be involved if serious negotiations are started with North Korea. An ever-present headache for Granholm will be the long-term management of nuclear waste from the civilian program as public opposition to the Yucca Mountain site in Nevada is adamant. Also, she will be responsible for vast quantities of weaponsgrade plutonium in various sites, but notably at the Pantex site in Texas and the Savannah River site in South Carolina before it is mixed with an inert substance for burial in Carlsbad, N.M. Then there are little things like the strategic petroleum reserve, the future of fracking, reducing methane emissions throughout the natural gas system, and bringing on hydrogen as a utility and transportation fuel. DOE has been charged with facilitating natural gas and oil exports. Now those are subject to the objections of environmentalists. Compared to the awesome reach of DOE in other vital areas, electric cars seem of little consequence, especially as Elon Musk with Tesla already has scaled that mountain, and all the car companies are scrambling up behind him. — Llewellyn King is executive producer and host of “White House Chronicle” on PBS. His email is llewellynking1@gmail.com. He wrote this for InsideSources.com.

early halfway through his first term, Gavin Newsom faces a critical period that could make or break his governorship. After climbing the political ladder to the governor’s office, Newsom intended to make his mark with “big hairy audacious goals,” such as ending homelessness and creating a single-payer health care program. However, scarcely a year after inauguration, and without making much progress on anything hairy or audacious, Newsom was forced to pivot into managing a response to the deadly COVID-19 pandemic. It’s not the role he sought, but it’s the one that likely will define his governorship. To date, his managerial record has been spotty at best and chaotic at worst. Since issuing his first emergency order in March, Newsom has taken the state’s 40 million residents on a rollercoaster ride. He initially imposed restrictions that shut down much of the economy and threw hundreds of thousands, even millions, out of work, then relaxed them two months later only to crack down again in July, and ease up a few weeks later. Finally,

this month, he clamped down again as the state’s infection and death rates soared and hospitals were nearly overwhelmed with patients. Newsom insists that his actions are based in science, but some decrees on what was shut down and what was allowed to remain open defied simple logic and seemed to be dictated by which sectors were deemed expendable and which would cause a political backlash. Through it all, Newsom made regular appearances on internet webcasts to explain, or so he said, what was happening, but they were mostly repetitive talkathons filled with jargon and jumbles of numbers, rather than straightforward messages to a confused and frightened public. Worst of all, as Newsom was beseeching Californians to wear their masks and avoid infection-spreading gatherings, he was caught on

camera having an intimate dinner, sans masks, with some Capitol lobbyists at a very expensive restaurant in Napa. Newsom apologized after the San Francisco Chronicle revealed the dinner, but the damage was done. He was exposed as a hypocrite who exempted himself and his cronies from the personal restrictions he wanted everyone else to follow. Newsom now has a chance to redeem himself, at least partially, as long-awaited coronavirus vaccines begin to be administered. Once again he’s begging Californians to obey the personal behavior guidelines he had violated. “This is the beginning of the end,” Newsom tweeted. “We can do this. Wear a mask. Stay home as much as possible. Let’s crush this curve and get to the finish line.”

he vaccine rollout will be critical not only to Californians and their battered economy, but to Newsom’s tarnished image. If it goes smoothly, he’ll bask in the glow of success. But if there are major glitches — if inoculation becomes another managerial catastrophe like the Department of Motor Vehicles or the Employment

Development Department — it will be hung around his neck. A recall movement lurks in the background and seems to be benefiting from the restaurant incident. The state Republican Party and other conservative groups say they are more than halfway toward the 1.5 million signatures needed to put a recall on the ballot with three months to go in their 160day window. Eighteen years ago, those who wanted to recall thenGov. Gray Davis were roughly in the same boat until Darrell Issa, a wealthy Republican congressman, contributed enough money to place the recall on the ballot, culminating in Davis’ ouster and the election of action movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger. Those who want to shortcircuit Newsom’s career are looking for another angel with deep pockets and if they are successful, Newsom’s management of COVID-19 could face a direct referendum next year. — CalMatters is a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s state Capitol works and why it matters. For more stories by Dan Walters, go to calmatters.org/ commentary.

LETTERS City Council’s purge The Davis City Council’s purge of three city commissioners is a slap in the face of the 16,458 of us who voted against the Davis Innovation and Sustainability project. We are not obedient sheep who followed the opinions of the purged commissioners; most of us were not even aware of the Commissioner’s opinions about DISC. Rather, we saw the project for what it was — a commercial opportunity designed to pad the pockets of its billionaire promoters, not as its public relations consultants portrayed it. Neither innovative nor sustainable, it fell short of the mark. It would clearly have had serious adverse impacts on the emission of greenhouse gases, added to traffic problems, taken agricultural lands out of production and not diminished the concern about availability of affordable housing. With each new housing development, housing costs rise because of the target markets for the new housing — students and equity-rich households relocating to more desirable locations. The removal of the commissioners echoes a kind of Trumpian tantrum that is all too familiar. Paradoxically, it further undermines confidence in the council — we remember how poorly it negotiated with and caved to Brixmor, the developer of University Commons. The 83 percent affirmative vote for Measure D reflects, in part, the lack of confidence in our elected officials to represent and defend the interests and values of our citizens. The council now needs to work to repair the damage to its credibility. Desmond Jolly and Julia Jolly Davis

what power we have to end discrimination and declare that the injustices for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color must end. We’re working to birth a new era here in Davis. The other day our newest Black Lives Matter banner disappeared. We’ll replace it as we always do. But here’s what I’m asking of the community: would you work with us to turn this malicious act into something good that cannot be stolen? I’m asking you to send a holiday donation to one of my favorite local advocacy groups, Davis Phoenix Coalition or to a BLM organization you admire. DPC, led by our own Mayor Gloria Partida, works to engage and unite the Davis community in eliminating intolerance, preventing hate, and promoting a broader civic culture that embraces all aspects of our diverse community. Please send your financial gift to the Davis Phoenix Coalition, davisphoenixco.org/donate. Let’s work together to raise awareness and put an end to hate and intolerance in our community. The Rev. Dr. Chris Neufeld-Erdman Davis Community Church

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In March of 1965, Davis Community Church’s pastor at the time, the Rev. Dewey Pruitt, boarded a bus with people from around the country. He marched the 54-mile highway from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., to leverage his whiteness for the sake of justice and equality for black Americans. Ever since, DCC has worked to balance the scales of justice for all Americans. These last few years, our advocacy for immigrants, DACA status students, and the Black Lives Matter movement has meant, among many things, that we post banners here in our downtown location to promote justice, equality and leverage

Thanks to UC Davis for extending its COVID-19 fight into our community. Unfortunately, the phrase adopted by the city, “Healthy Davis Together,” is inappropriate. The university has had a zero-tobacco policy since 2014. The campus doesn’t make wood smoke, like we have around town from fireplaces. UC Davis makes me proud to be an alumnus, a donor, a neighbor and a visitor. When will the city of Davis take new steps to reduce neighborhood air toxins from tobacco and wood burning? People might say, “I like the smell, don’t you like the smell?” Words may

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suggest there is only a sensory perception when debris and chemicals enter lungs, blood, and brains, giving some of us headaches and making breathing difficult. Our beautiful climate does not require burning for survival or even for comfort, only extra layers of clothing in winter. To the few who burn wood in your homes, please reconsider. When feeling cold in the evenings, go for a walk to warm up. If you encounter smoke, join me in raising awareness that burning dumps toxins into our shared public air. One step we can take is to discourage real estate ads from mentioning fireplaces as a positive feature. Such advertising contributes to air pollution by misleading home buyers. As housing density increases and neighbors live closer together, we should ban fireplaces and wood stoves in new construction, already done in the Bay Area. San Francisco recently enacted a ban on tobacco smoke in apartments, where children are more likely to develop breathing problems from nearby neighbors. Regarding all burning, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District has been advocating clean neighborhood air, saying “smoke is smoke.” Hopefully, our own Yolo-Solano AQMD will catch up. It seems outrageous that our “Don’t Light Tonight” program essentially says to wait until the air is best for breathing, and then it is OK to add toxins. Our shared Davis values include healthy living, education, and not intentionally harming others. Let’s spread the word that smoke is harmful, so change can happen. John Whitehead Davis

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BY JESSE SALINAS Special to The Enterprise

t has been just over two weeks since we certified the general election in Yolo County, a function of my role as the registrar of voters. In my other role as the county assessor, I find it my responsibility to inform Yolo County residents of one Proposition on the ballot that was passed by California voters that will greatly impact property tax assessments for certain taxpayers — Proposition 19. Proposition 19, billed as “The Property Tax Transfers, Exemptions, and Revenue for Wildfire Agencies and Counties Amendment,” passed with 51.1% of California voter approval in November. As a result, 2021 will see significant changes in property taxes assessed on certain personal residences. Typically, a property’s assessed amount is set when the owner acquires the property, and can only increase by up to 2% a year, until the property is sold and reassessed at the market value.

What does Prop. 19 mean for property tax transfers and exemptions? Individuals over the age of 55 and some other taxpayers will benefit from greater flexibility to transfer their existing residential property tax base to another home within the state. However, Proposition 19 also changes the exemptions for parents who want to transfer their properties to their children. The key upcoming changes due to the passing of Proposition 19 are: ■ Eligible homeowners — people 55 years or older, those with severe disabilities, or individuals who have lost a home in a natural disaster -- may now transfer their tax basis to a new home anywhere within the State of California, including to a property of greater value. Previously eligible homeowners were limited to transfers within certain counties and to homes of the same or lesser market value. ■ Increases the number of

times that eligible homeowners may transfer their base year tax assessments. After April 1, 2021, eligible homeowners will be able to transfer their tax assessment up to three times (up from one allowable transfer previously). ■ Requires market-value reassessments for transferred properties that are not used as the child’s or grandchild’s principal residence. To expand on the third point, Prop. 19 will considerably limit the availability of the parentchild exclusion for purposes of real estate tax assessments and will result in significant property-tax consequences. Prior to the passage of Proposition 19, parents could transfer a primary residence to children without the transfer resulting in a new fair market reassessment, regardless of how the children chose to use the real property. This allowed children to maintain the same property tax basis that their parents had. Additionally, any secondary property, such as a vacation home, rental

property, or commercial property, with up to $1 million of the assessed value could be transferred while still maintaining the same property tax basis their parents had regardless of its use by the children. The same exemption applied to transfers from grandparents to grandchildren.

eginning Feb. 16, however, children or grandchildren who receive real property from their parents or grandparents may have to factor in increased property taxes in the decision to keep or sell the property. For example, if parents purchased a rental property in 1960 for $70,000, and the market value of the rental property is $700,000; when it is transferred to a child after Feb. 16, and the child intends to continue to lease out the property, the parents’ tax basis does not pass to the child. The child will now have to pay property taxes based on the assessed fair market value ($700,000) which may affect

the child’s decision to keep the property or sell. If these upcoming changes will affect your family, you might want to consider spending time this holiday season talking with family members about Proposition 19 and its potential impact to your family’s financial planning efforts and if appropriate seek advice soon from a reputable tax advisor. Please note that the Yolo County Assessor’s Office is unable to offer legal advice. Accordingly, this proposition overview is only meant to be informative, and should not be construed as legal advice or advice to take any specific action. As always, be sure to consult a knowledgeable professional for assistance with legal or financial issues. I wish you and your family a well-planned and safe holiday season. — Jesse Salinas is the assessor/ clerk-recorder/registrar of voters for Yolo County.

All teachers want for Christmas this year ... COMMENTARY

BY CORY WIEGEL Special to The Enterprise

magine that you’re a teacher or service provider for some of the neediest and most at-risk students in Yolo County. There’s a pandemic going on and no one knows when the needs of your students and their families will be fully addressed. You’re overworked, your program is underfunded, and you can’t find the support you need in a reasonable amount of time. You go to sleep at night worrying about your students’ mental health and their academic deterioration. You shop on the weekends for foods and materials to help your students succeed and pay for it out of your own pocket. You spend your lunch breaks searching the Internet for do it yourself repairs in your classroom. You beg, borrow and steal from other professionals to make ends meet. You solicit families and the community for essential supplies like Kleenex, sanitizing wipes, paper and pencils. You cry on your spouse’s shoulder, wondering if you can do this heart-breaking job for another year. Ask yourself … what do you want for Christmas? What if I told you it was just to have a student’s puke on the carpet in the corner of your classroom, which has been drying for months on end, to finally be cleaned up? What if I told you it was to just finally have the therapeutic equipment you need to reduce a student’s sensory dysregulation delivered to you after sitting in maintenance storage for months? How about if it was just to have your air conditioner fixed or the holes in your wall covered? Maybe to get a new chair for your desk because the 20-year-old one you’ve been sitting in keeps breaking on you? What if it was to have a proper rest room for your medically fragile student to use instead of the bucket in a closet that was provided to you? Can you imagine just wanting to have the carpets vacuumed once in a while? These simple wishes and many more go unfilled every year for teachers throughout Yolo County. Our superintendents and their deputies, our directors, our principals, and the administrative support teams are instrumental in ensuring that these wishes — which in reality should be essential

tasks — are granted. We submit requests and they seemingly disappear or simply aren’t addressed for months on end, sometimes years. We follow up multiple times and are told to be patient. We talk to our supervisors and they tell us it’s our responsibility to hold them accountable despite repeated inquiries. We talk to their supervisors and they tell us these problems don’t exist, and that everyone’s doing a fantastic job. We sit in board meetings where superintendents and their deputies suggest students are doing well, all of the teachers’ needs are being met, and families are being cared for during the biggest crisis we’ve seen in decades. We involve the union, we prove that they are not telling us the truth and they promise to do better, but then to add insult to injury they grant an “employee of the month” award to the very people we challenged to do better for our students. They celebrate the people who fail us. They embrace toxic positivity while we agonize over the reality of teaching in Yolo County.

ne thing has become clear to many teachers throughout this county. We can no longer expect our current elected officials and educational leaders to collaborate with us in a respectful and meaningful manner. We can no longer expect them to just tell the truth, which should be the bare minimum public service requirement. In this public health crisis, they are more concerned about their reputations, their images, and their long-term career prospects than serving us. Teachers can, however, ask that the public take action. Ask questions. Make public information requests. Demand answers and accountability. Challenge superintendents and board members for their jobs. Our students and families, and the people who care for them with all of their heart and grit, need the public to step in and make their expectations clear. Maybe this is how all of our wishes are granted this year. Merry Christmas. — Cory Wiegel is a special education teacher with the Yolo County Office of Education, and organizing chair and shop steward with the Yolo Education Association.

Don’t fall for fossil fuel propaganda BY BLANCA ESCOBEDO Special to CalMatters

he consequences of climate change do not impact all Californians equally, and here in the San Joaquin Valley, community members and agricultural workers are on the frontlines of the air pollution, water scarcity and increased heat that are inextricably tied to climate change. Our health, well-being and future prosperity depend on enacting meaningful solutions to accelerate the transition off of polluting fuels. That’s why it’s so disheartening when the lawmakers we’ve elected to represent us push false climate solutions rather than championing the bold action we so desperately need. California legislators have pushed a misleading picture of the climate benefits of so-called “renewable natural gas” while ignoring the air quality and water impacts that will burden San Joaquin Valley communities even more. Numerous studies show that renewable natural gas — the fossil fuel industry term for biogas produced from organic material like crops or animal manure — is limited, expensive, environmentally risky and a potential environmental

COMMENTARY justice disaster. It is not the silver bullet against climate change that fossil fuel companies and their backers describe. In fact, documents from fossil fuel companies show that renewable natural gas is at the center of a communications campaign aimed at stalling the transition to clean energy. By claiming that mixing a small amount of renewable natural gas into the existing gas system can cancel out climate pollution from gas, fossil fuel executives intend to stall the transition to truly clean and green energy. By ramping up the production of renewable natural gas for use in buildings and in cars and trucks, California will expand unsustainable agricultural practices that continually pollute nearby communities.

he San Joaquin Valley won’t benefit from larger dairies — we will, however, benefit from sustainable agricultural practices that not only produce food for local communities, but also protect our air and groundwater. If the renewable natural gas supply is expanded, we also risk expanding and creating new sources of methane

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emissions. Renewable natural gas facilities only capture and convert a portion of the methane produced from manure on factory farms into gas. Meanwhile, more cows mean more methane from enteric emissions, more air pollution and more groundwater pollution. On top of the climate and environmental risk, there are also economic risks. In reality, the potential for profit comes out of the pockets of fellow Californians. Renewable natural gas is four to 17 times more expensive to generate than fossil gas. Without corporate welfare, in the form of taxpayer subsidies, the renewable natural gas machine runs dry. Here in the San Joaquin Valley, we know that the stakes are too high. We will not allow fossil fuel or pseudo-renewable energy companies to thwart our transition to clean energy by pushing false climate solutions. — Blanca Escobedo is a policy advocate for the Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability, bescobedo@ leadershipcounsel.org. She wrote this for CalMatters, a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s Capitol works and why it matters.

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Vet students expand care for homeless pets HOSPICE: Comfort critters bring peace BY ROB WARREN

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Crissy Phillips has been a pet owner for many years and grew up with horses and other animals. Nothing has stopped her from providing the best possible care for her animals — not homelessness, not her battle with clinical depression, and not her daily struggles to provide for them. Her dedication shines through — easily apparent as she unveils a thick file of her two cats’ medical records — and just became a bit easier with the opening of a new clinic for pets of the homeless in Davis. Davis Pet Advocacy and Wellness: A Clinic for the Pets of the Homeless is a local satellite clinic of the existing Mercer Veterinary Clinic for the Pets of the Homeless established in Sacramento by students and faculty members of the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine (SVM). Opened in November, Davis PAW looks to establish monthly clinics, and not only provides a valuable service to the community’s homeless population, but also provides hands-on experience for UC Davis veterinary students, as well as a basis for research on pets of the homeless. The new clinic has been more than a year in the making and arose out of SVM faculty member Dr. Janet Foley’s desire to provide for an important demographic that was not being served by the Mercer Clinic. “The Davis community is our home, so it’s important for the veterinary school to provide this service beyond Sacramento,” stated Foley, Davis PAW’s faculty advisor. “It has always been important for me to give to the community. I have volunteered with homeless

From Page B3 had to go to a nursing home that would not allow pets. A volunteer adopted her dog and took her to see the woman every week until she passed away. For the Carters, the most urgent need was veterinary care for their three boxers, Missy, Max and Buck, and their Pomeranian, Molly. Because Roland needed almost constant care, Barbara had been unable to get out of the house long enough to take the dogs for their annual vaccinations. “It really has given me peace of mind,” said Barbara. “I know they are well fed, and they have had their shots. More important, they were there for Roland. Sometimes when he got confused about where he was and he saw the dogs coming to him, he’d say, ‘We’re home,’ and I’ll say,

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UC Davis DVM student Jordan Nunes (left) and faculty mentor Dr. Janet Foley examine Mamas the cat at the Davis PAW clinic. This is certainly the case for Phillips, a Davis PAWS guest at their December clinic, who credits her cats — Mamas, a black cat; and Mow Mow, a Maine coon — with saving her life. “I don’t think I’d be alive today if it weren’t for my cats because of my depression, anxiety, and mental health issues,” said Phillips. “They definitely improve my attitude about life and keep me optimistic about the future. They know when I’m sad and attempt to cheer me up. They help keep me happy.” Currently in treatment for depression and posttraumatic stress disorder, Phillips struggled for years with homelessness. “When I was homeless, I always felt safer with my cats around,” Phillips said. “They protected me from strangers.” She and fiancé Johnny Burgos found housing recently in Sacramento through the Section 8 Housing Program. While Burgos’ minimum wage salary delivering pizzas and Phillips’ Social Security

shelters over the years, but not in a veterinary capacity. Given my skillset as a veterinarian, this is the best way for me to give back to Davis.” Dr. Kim Conway, a veterinarian and graduate student in the SVM’s Master of Preventive Veterinary Medicine degree program — of which Foley is chair — was eager to get on board. While brainstorming research ideas, the pair decided on a collaboration with Davis PAW. Conway’s research project — titled “Pet ownership in the homeless population in Yolo and Sacramento Counties” — was hatched. Her research is focusing the benefits, disease prevalence and public perception of the homeless community owning pets. “If you look at the published literature on this subject, it’s overwhelmingly apparent how beneficial pets are to the homeless,” Conway said. “Pets can improve their mental and emotional health, as well as prevent suicide and decrease drug use.”

Disability Insurance help make ends meet, their life is far from ideal. “We live in kind of a rough neighborhood,” Burgos said. “It’s not uncommon to hear gunshots where we live.” Phillips and Burgos credit Mamas and Mow Mow with helping them traverse their difficult lives. That is why they are eager to keep them healthy, but veterinary care is not in their budget. “You have no idea how helpful this clinic is for us,” Phillips said. “For many people living in unsheltered circumstances, they have animals that are key parts of their lives,” said Ryan Collins, homeless outreach services coordinator with the Davis Police Department. “Often times, these animals can act as a barrier for them to access services or housing they need to improve their circumstances.” “They’re my family,” Phillips said. “They’re like my children. Pets need to be loved and cared for just like people.”

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Daisy has been a Yolo Hospice mascot since 2014 when she arrived in Davis with Craig Dresang. ‘Yes, we’re home.’ ” Yolo Hospice recently received a generous grant from the Glide Foundation to support the Pet Peace of Mind Program. For more information, please call 530-758-5566 or visit our website at www.yolohospice.org. — Craig Dresang is the CEO of Yolo Hospice & CWC.

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Finding campus friends Dear Annie: I am sibling No. 3 out of four. I am estranged from Nos. 2 and 4. This was my choice, and a wise decision. They are manipulative bullies, and after years of trying to have a relationship with them, I finally gave up. My younger sibling tried to manipulate me with a fake suicide threat because I would not give in to her demands. My older brother is an emotionally unavailable bully who has taken advantage of my father by using his credit cards and then not paying him back. I have tried to address these issues, but they always turn the table and tell me that I am the problem. Dad turns 90 next summer, and my oldest sibling wants us to fly home (COVID-19 permitting) to have a dinner celebration at a restaurant. Annie, I don’t want to go. I cannot bring myself to sit across the table from these two. I refuse to fake it or pretend that everything is fine. If I do this, I will be resentful toward myself. I am not willing, not even for Dad. I am planning to fly later in the month to take Dad and my stepmother out to dinner. We get along really well. They are aware of the estrangement and have remained neutral, which is good. Do you have any other suggestions? — Sibling 3 Has Left the Building Dear Sibling 3: It sounds like there’s a great deal of hurt, anger and miscommunication here. A suicide threat is never something to dismiss as just being manipulative. It is often a cry for help (which I’m hoping she received from a professional). As far as your older brother being emotionally unavailable and taking advantage of your father, he can’t be a very happy person. But on your point that every conversation ends with the tables being turned on you, this might be an indication of things you have to work on as well. Relationships are two-way streets, and rarely is one person completely at fault. Be introspective and see if you can find forgiveness in your heart for them, at least so you can go to your dad’s 90th birthday. You don’t have to sit at their table, and remember, it’s not a birthday about you; it’s for your father, and my guess is that nothing would make him happier than having all of his children in attendance.

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Legals@DavisEnterprise.net Dear Annie: This is for “Concerned Mom” whose daughter was having trouble making new friends in college during COVID19. The first point of contact for the student is her academic adviser. “Trouble making friends” is a good reason for a visit. Most universities now have “cohort courses” for first-year students with the intended purpose of establishing community among freshmen and transfers. Often, there is a separate such course for each major program. Colleges also have clubs and other extracurricular organizations — some of which may still be active during the pandemic. Finally, I’ve noticed that students often set up group chats on platforms like Snapchat to talk about specific courses. “Concerned Mom’s” daughter can make sturdy, lasting friends pretty fast by giving help to another student, or receiving help from another. — Professor Who Cares Dear Professor: Thank you for reminding us how often opportunities for connection and friendship are available; we just need to ask. It’s amazing to hear how resilient college students have been during this unprecedented time.

— A Grateful Al-Anon Member Dear Grateful: Thank you for sharing your experience and appreciation for this program. It’s great to know how much support you’ve received and contributed to the Al-Anon community. ——— Dear Annie: I’m writing with a warning. My hubby had his annual sinus cough that hung on with a slight fever this summer. He tried to see our doctor and had to get a COVID-19 test. It was negative. A week passed while we waited for the results, and they wanted another test and another X-ray. Three weeks later, my husband was sick with a fever. He went to the appointment and was told to go to the emergency room. He was dead within a week from pneumonia and toxic shock. If they had seen him or sent him to the ER sooner, I might not be wondering what I should have done. I wasn’t allowed to go into the hospital, so he was all alone. Please tell the world not to wait for medical issues. — Missing My Husband Dear Missing: I am so sorry for your loss. Your advice to seek immediate medical attention, especially if you have a preexisting condition, is on point. This is a difficult time, and not being able to be with a loved one who dies adds a layer of pain that, frankly, no person should endure. Let loved ones support you, and consider finding a grief support group to help you process your loss.

unhappiness, then suggest that she move out. In the end, it is up to your friend and her mother to communicate better and try and live in peace. However, you do not have to allow her to complain about her mom every time you are together. Next time you are with her and she starts to share negative commentary about her mom, let her know that you appreciate her being open with but you’re wanting to talk about more positive topics. Focusing on the positive doesn’t discount the difficult, though it can remind us of the good. You don’t need to stay in these toxic conversations. The best thing you can do is be patient with your friend, but don’t let her dump all of her negativity onto you. And encourage her to seek the help of a professional. We all need to share our feelings, and a counselor or therapist can offer an empathetic ear. ——— Dear Annie: Online romance scammers are a real problem, and I have a few suggestions for how to detect them and how to deal with them. Typically, they write sweet nothings and paint themselves as perfect. Some dead giveaways are that they don’t answer your questions, and they use poor grammar and punctuation in their typing. Their “sweet speeches” are probably copied and pasted over many times. Very often, they are from out of state or even out of the country. If you are suspicious of someone on a dating site, then ask him to take a selfie and send it to you. He probably won’t do it. If he refuses, report him to the dating website. I’ve done this several times. He’ll be off the site tomorrow. — Seen It Before Dear Seen It Before: Thank you for your suggestions. I hope your insights will help others in similar situations.

Hard to listen to friend’s complaints Dear Annie: This is in response to “D.K.,” who complained about Al-Anon. Al-Anon is often described as a selfish program. Those who constantly are thinking about their alcoholic loved ones may be at a loss when they are encouraged to start thinking about themselves. I, for one, thought plenty about myself and, like many others, came to Al-Anon to learn how to fix the alcoholic so I could get back to my normal life. I, too, had ideas of how my meetings should change. Yet, I knew Al-Anon was a decades-old program that worked for many others. I read every program-approved book and pamphlet. I learned the slogans and worked the steps. I learned to give service to others. Sometimes by simply being silent in meetings. I learned about my part in relationships. I learned how to love my God, myself and my fellow man and how to live with them. Al-Anon groups will tell you straight out: “We aren’t perfect. The welcome we gave you may not show the warmth we have in our hearts for you. After a while, you’ll discover that though you may not like all of us, you’ll love us in a very special way. The way we already love you.”

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Dear Annie: My good friend, who happens to be in her 40s, moved back in with her parents over five years ago because of her health and for financial reasons. Her parents have allowed her to live with them and don’t require her to pay rent. My friend is constantly complaining about her mother. She makes her mom out to be one of the worst moms ever. She feels her mom isn’t very nice to her and that her mom finds fault in everything that she does. This gets hard to listen to every time we’re together. Her parents are in their late 70s and early 80s. Perhaps her mom just wants to enjoy being retired together with her husband — to not have to take care of, or tiptoe around, a daughter who doesn’t appreciate what she has done for her. I would love to say these things to my friend, but I am afraid she won’t take it well from me. I really think she would have a better relationship with her mom if she moved out. What do you think? — Concerned Friend Dear Concerned Friend: You are probably correct that some distance between your adult friend and her mother might be a good thing for their relationship. If she is really a good friend, and you are concerned about her

A distant companion Dear Annie: I’m 65, and my boyfriend is 70. We’ve been in an on-again, off-again relationship for more than eight years. I met him online six months after my divorce from my spouse of 32 years. He told me he had been divorced 25 years and had never remarried, only for me to find out that he had been briefly married a second time (when critically ill in the hospital). In the beginning of our relationship, I never met his family. At times, he wouldn’t call for days, and I suspected he may have been seeing another woman, so I broke up with him a few times, once for three years. During that time, he would call periodically and beg me to reconcile with him. We’ve been back together for almost two years, and things are different. I’ve met members of his family; he attends my family events; and he never misses a day without calling me several times, which includes a phone call

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before going to bed. He has taken me on many nice, all-expenses-paid vacations, helped me move and paid my moving expenses. He’s always willing to help me in any way he can. While things are better now in our relationship, I still don’t totally trust him. I truly love this man, and every day, he tells me he loves me. And yet, he does not want to cohabitate or marry me. For an entire year, he told me he would move in with me after his lease was up but then told me he had changed his mind and moved into a new apartment. When I asked him for a reason for his decision, he got very angry with me and said, “Maybe try to find someone else to live with.” Even though he later apologized for making that statement, it hurt me deeply. It’s probably important to mention that we live in neighboring states — only about an hour’s drive away. We saw each other more often before the COVID-19 pandemic, and now we only see each other about once a month. He also has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which seems to be getting worse over the years. I live in a two-story home. I’ve wondered if these were reasons for his decision that he just didn’t want to share with me. My dilemma is this: I really want to get married again. I absolutely hate living alone. I get lonely and don’t want to spend whatever time I have left living alone. I’ve explained this to him and feel it’s unfair to me that we can’t even have a conversation about it without him getting angry. Annie, am I just being impatient, or am I right to feel that I should move on and seek a man who also hates living alone and wants to be married as much as I do? — Am I Wasting My Precious Time? Dear AIWMPT: It sounds like you’re looking for more than this man can give you. That doesn’t make either of you wrong, but it might make you wrong for each other. If you expect him to wake up one day and suddenly want to get married, you’re being unrealistic and setting yourself up for disappointment and, eventually, bitter resentment. End things now while you can do so amicably, and look for someone whose capacity for companionship is closer to your own.

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State advocacy efforts mobilize local artists Special to The Enterprise

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Artists need their work to be seen and heard. But a statewide arts advocate says the arts industry is being overlooked in the pandemic. Julie Baker, executive director of California Arts Advocates and for the statewide nonprofit Californians for the Arts, told some 25 participants at a Dec. 9 Arts Alliance Davis video meeting that their organizations need to demonstrate how essential they are. “We want to be seen. We want to be part of the solution,” Baker said from her Nevada City base. “We’re an industry. We’re not a cause. We can support California socially and emotionally. We know that’s what the arts can bring.” California Arts Advocates is the only statewide group that works to protect arts funding for the whole arts community. Baker said arts are 8 percent of the state’s economy, yet artists are often not seen as essential — or even recognized as workers. Two-thirds of artists are selfemployed and don’t qualify for traditional unemployment. Some are truly starving artists. “The challenge is we’re often not invested in, or prioritized as part of the social, economic and mental-health fabric of the community. We’re not being seen by the policymakers and people who hold the purse strings.” Rachel Hartsough, Davis’ arts and culture manager, said although the city has a history of supporting the arts, arts funding took a big hit in the 2020-2021 budget. She cited a 40 percent cut in city grant funding available to the arts community as an example. Baker urged attendees to be thoughtful in their messaging to show how artists are a big part of making communities healthier. “A lot of time people think of arts as entertainment, as an elective. Of course, food and shelter are important but what makes a healthy community is when you have all of those things.”

Baker said if artists were recognized as second responders, they could serve roles to address homelessness, mental health and food insecurity, for example, to help rebuild lives and communities. Meanwhile, Baker said the state should create guidelines for the arts industry, so facilities and staff can be ready for a healthy reopening. Arts buildings sit empty, though many of the new performance centers have topnotch ventilation systems, making them some of the safest indoor spaces. They should be some of the first spaces allowed to reopen. “Let us be in service to the public health crisis. We are an industry that can actually help. We are great communicators. We know how to put on safe and controlled events,” Baker said. Arts Alliance Davis was formed a few years ago as a grassroots effort to give artists and their supporters the opportunity to gather, collaborate and create meaningful impact. Meetings, typically every other month, are open to anyone. Each meeting includes introductions and announcements from participants, who shared these ideas and updates: Alison Flory, executive director of YoloArts, spoke about the $12,600 in federal CARES Act funding it has to award in grants to arts and cultural organizations that serve socially vulnerable populations and communities of color. Grants will be between $500 and $3,000 to maintain operations or support existing projects. Visit https:// yoloarts.org. Davis resident NJ Mvondo, who runs Multiculturalism Rocks!, an organization celebrating cultural diversity in the arts, suggested help in the form of technical support to artists trying to develop an online presence. “Christmas is usually a time when artists make the bulk of their sales,” she said. Help could be formulating messaging that promotes their COVID

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This graphic is an example of messaging arts organizations can use to show how artists are a big part of making communities healthier. safety protocols, assistance setting up a website or serving as a matchmaker linking artists with teaching opportunities. Lorie Hammond, the founder of Peregrine School, said it’s offering good pay to artists to teach online classes that will replace its usual after-school sessions. The 10-week series runs from January through March, but single workshops will be considered. Those interested in teaching may email Rachel@ peregrineschool.org. Yelena Ivashchenko, owner of Bohème Hip Used Clothing, said the Davis Downtown Business Association has a “Season of Hope” theme for the holidays, and is letting bands play ambient music downtown in the E Street Plaza for a small stipend and tips. There’s also a coloring contest, a photo backdrop in the plaza and more. The organization plans a Valentine’s Day message: “United Community: From My Heart to Your Heart.” She’s also hoping to work with an artist to develop an original song “about why we love Davis.”

She may end up working with Joel Daniel, an independent Davis musician who in nonCOVID times plays children’s music with The Hoots. With no performances, he’s lost half his income, while his rent has increased about 25 percent in the last five years, he said. Daniel is working to improve the quality of Davis music, pointing to a lack of venues, rehearsal space, affordable rents and other factors he said led to a decline. He hosts an online songwriting workshop called “The Song Doc,” where he has critiqued close to 500 songs. The Zoom sessions are on the first and third Wednesday of each month, starting at 8 p.m. It’s all part of the Davis Independent Music Initiative, which will award $6,500 from a city grant to give a boost to an emerging Davis musician. Applications, available Feb. 1 and due in March, are to “create a new, original music work that will come from Davis, and add to the Davis culture,” Daniel said. For information, email davisin dependentmusic@gmail.com.

This is the time of year the Davis Chorale usually has its sellout holiday concerts. David Hance said hopefully that will be possible next year. Meanwhile, the group rehearses weekly via Zoom, with several former members joining from out of town. Online collaboration has been a plus for Imagining America, too. Pepiro Gutiérrez is its communications director. Because of the pandemic, the group’s annual national gathering of scholars, artists, students and cultural organizers turned into a monthlong event on YouTube. Since it’s free to anyone, it has reached a wider audience and created a collective, creative engagement, he said. Some at the meeting said they are using the downtime to upgrade facilities. That’s the case for the Veterans Memorial Theatre and International House Davis. Katherine Schultz used her speaking time to promote new programs at Pence Gallery, including four new ArtSmart classes for children, virtual programming of an art history series and an emerging artist award. Applications are open until April for the $6,000 award, where the artist also earns a solo show at the gallery. Visit https://www. pencegallery.org. Stacie Frerichs, director of Davis Arts Center, just published a book on the city’s centennial that’s a creative natural history guide of Davis. The book, for sale for $25, features the handpainted work of more than 500 people, and 100 items of natural history significance to the community. Book orders may be placed at https://davisartscenter. org/creative-natural-historyguidebook. For more information on Arts Alliance Davis, to post an event or opportunity, or to subscribe to the mailing list, contact Autumn Labbé-Renault at info@arts alliancedavis.org. Learn more at https:// www.facebook.com/Arts AllianceDavis or artsalliance davis.org.

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