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‘Miracle babies’
BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer
Separated 11-month-old conjoined twins Abigail and Micaela Bachinskiy get a wagon ride out of the pediatric ward of the UC Davis Medical Center on Tuesday. UCD HEALTH/ COURTESY PHOTO
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connected at the head, were separated in a 24-hour separation surgery that spanned Oct. 24 and 25. They have spent nearly two months recovering at UC Davis Children’s Hospital.
SACRAMENTO — Christmas came a little early for the Bachinskiy family: formerly conjoined twins Abigail and Micaela were discharged from UC Davis Children’s Hospital on Dec. 23 and spent their first Christmas together at home. “I think it’s the best present of my life, to be home with them, my nice, beautiful, healthy girls,” said mom Liliya Miroshnik. The 11-month-old craniopagus conjoined twins, born
“They are healthy and happy and their futures are bright,” said pediatric neurosurgeon Michael Edwards, who has been caring for the girls since birth. He stopped by to wish them well and walk them out. “So many people in our hospital, at all levels, have been touched by
these girls and their story,” he said. It was a bittersweet sendoff for the hospital staff, many of whom have been involved in the girls’ care for nearly a year. “It’s been an emotional roller coaster,” said clinical nurse specialist Dawn Harbour, who spent much of the morning caring for and cuddling both girls, now nicknamed Abby and Mica. “It’s just miraculous that they’re separated,” said Harbour, fighting back tears. “We’re
just in awe and so thankful that we got to be part of a miracle here at UC Davis.” Hospital staff members waved and clapped as the girls traveled via wagon through the hallways on their way out, and several accompanied them all the way outside to say goodbye. It was another milestone in a year packed with them. Parents Liliya and Anatoliy have dubbed them “miracles”: the birth of their girls, taking them home for the first time via the UC Davis Children’s Hospital ambulance, a tissue expander surgery to create enough scalp
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Fauci: Vaccines should allow colleges to teach in person BY MADDIE BECK CalMatters While coronavirus cases are surging across California and overwhelming intensive care units, the country’s top infectious disease expert said last week he’s “cautiously optimistic” that college students can return to campus in the fall. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said he anticipates that COVID19 vaccines will begin to become widely available to the general public in March and April, and that immunization combined with aggressive testing of students would bode well for an in-person school year. “If we do that efficiently, and the doses of vaccine come in … by the time we get to
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April, May, June, July, August, we can get the overwhelming majority of the people in this country vaccinated so that by the time we get to the 2021-2022 term, I think we could be in good shape,” Fauci said. Fauci made the comments in a livestreamed conversation with California State University Chancellor Tim White. The university, one of the first nationwide to pivot to online education this spring, announced last week it expects its nearly 500,000 students will return to in-person learning in the fall of 2021, citing the progress on producing COVID-19 vaccines. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has so far authorized two separate vaccines, made by Pfizer and Moderna, for inoculation against the virus. “While we are currently going through a
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Yolo County headed into the Christmas holiday weekend on more of a tsunami of new coronavirus cases than a surge. With 954 new cases reported during the week ending Dec. 24, the county was averaging 136 new cases a day. On Saturday, the county added 108 more. Whatever family gatherings and traveling that residents have engaged in since the beginning of the week will start showing up in the county’s case numbers in the next two weeks and any impact on local hospitals will follow after that. Earlier last week, county supervisors urged residents to stay home as much as possible throughout the holidays. “COVID-19 cases in Yolo County are at the highest level since the beginning of the pandemic,” Supervisor Jim Provenza of Davis said in an email message. “Yolo County hospitals are often at or near capacity. On many days, there are no intensive care beds available. Worse, hospitals outside our county are also experiencing a surge and cannot be relied
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very difficult surge in the pandemic, there is light at the end of the tunnel,” White said in announcing the plan. As President-elect Joe Biden’s selected chief medical adviser, Fauci will work with the Biden administration to prioritize vaccinating teachers and doing surveillance testing at K-12 schools and universities to hasten the return to in-person learning, he said. No decision has been made on whether the CSU system will require students or professors to receive a COVID-19 vaccination or what role campus health centers might play in vaccine distribution, CSU spokesperson Mike Uhlenkamp wrote in an email. However, there is precedent for
SACRAMENTO — As 2020 comes to a close, the California Highway Patrol sent out a reminder to highlight some new roadway safety laws that take effect in 2021. License points for distracted driving (AB 47, Daly; 2019): Using a cell phone in a handheld manner while driving is currently punishable by a fine. Beginning July 1, violating the hands-free law for a second time within 36 months of a prior conviction for the same offense will result in a point being added to a driver’s record.
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s we continue to struggle with our pandemicinduced hibernation-inplace, I remain hopeful that one day soon we’ll be free to once again move about this wonderful world that surrounds us. However, if we do have to travel down this road another time for whatever reason, I hope we have a few days notice so we can get to wherever it is we’d like to be for an extended period of time. Whether we’ll be spending that time in a tent, a cave, an RV or a rental home or maybe holed up in a cheap motel is yet to be determined. In any regard, I already have a long list of places where I might hope to be when the shelter-inplace order is given. Those places, in order, are as follows: Priest Lake, Idaho ... This is easily my first choice, especially if it’s mid-summer when the shelter order comes. That means the wild huckleberries will be dotting the landscape with abandon. Socially distancing will be a snap in the vast and dense forests of Northern Idaho or on a rowboat in the middle of the lake or on one of the area’s abundant hiking trails. Just be sure to bring some bear spray in case you have grizzly competition
and several nearby wonders of the world, I’m pretty sure God made Utah first. Years ago a local Cedar City football coach told me that Kolob Canyon was the very best part of Zion and he wasn’t wrong. When I came around the bend and saw the beautiful orange cliffs that had been hidden from view, I could hear the angels singing.
in the huckleberry patch. Remember, too, to bring a lawn chair for your late-night beach bonfire and a gallon or two of vanilla ice cream to slap on top of your huckleberry pie. Seaside, Ore. ... One of the longest, deepest beaches in the country, ideal for walking or taking a chilly jog right where the water spreads out onto the sand. A wide and charming boardwalk for skating or bike riding or just strolling with your sweetheart. Plenty of room for effective social distancing and ocean air so cool that wearing a face mask will be a joy rather than a distraction. Bring extra tartar sauce in the hope that all of Seaside’s restaurants will be open for delivery. Or catch your dinner in the cold, wet sand where the mighty razor clam resides. And no, a clam gun does not use bullets. Zion National Park, Utah ... Based on the raw beauty of Zion
To learn more about ikebana, the Davis Flower Arrangers are honored to have Helen Tashima, renowned and respected sensei of ikebana at this year’s first workshop, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 6, via Zoom. Ikebana is a unique Japanese style of floral art design, which is essentially a sculptural art form where nature and human creativity unite to create artistic flower arrangements. Ikebana arrangements include flowers, but also emphasize the branches, stems, and leaves of the plants. Shape, line, and form are key to creating the artistic expression of the design. Tashima remembers being inspired by ikebana while observing her mother create an amazing arrangement while taking ikebana lessons. However, Tashima did not pursue this interest until much later as an adult, when she was encouraged by Rhody Vallejo at a Davis Flower Arrangers meeting to make arrangements for the Yolo County Fair. She began ikebana classes in 1991, taught by Sensei Shuko Kobayashi in Sacramento,m and received her first teacher’s certificate after nine years of study under his guidance. She continued her studies for 18 years with Sensei Kika Shibata, who teaches monthly ikebana classes in Sacramento. Tashima now coordinates this class and is treasurer of the Sacramento Chapter of Ikebana International, where she
For the Davis Flower Arrangers workshop, Helen Tashima will demonstrate how to create a variety of arrangements. has been an active member since 1995. She has also been a longterm member and former board member of the Davis Flower Arrangers. Tashima has taught ikebana workshops at various Shambhala Meditation Centers in the Central Valley and for the Davis Flower Arrangers and was previously a research analyst in the research section of DMV in Sacramento. For the Davis Flower Arrangers workshop, Tashima will demonstrate how to create a variety of
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arrangements using branches, various greens and flowers following two key elements of ikebana; structured design using basic principles of form and freestyle with creative uses of greens and flowers. She enjoys ikebana because it is an art form that has endless possibilities for creative uses of materials and her dedication and passion are sure to inspire you to create your own arrangements with resources from your own garden. Members will receive an invitation sent from Davis
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Cozy up to a safer New Year. Don’t invite COVID-19 to your New Year’s Eve celebration. Staying in and counting down to the New Year with only those in your household protects you and the people you care about—plus, it helps prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our community. Let’s all resolve to start 2021 safely. For more information, visit HealthyDavisTogether.org
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Tapping the darkness to see what comes I ’m sitting here with a glass of wine, typing with my eyes closed. Sometimes I overthink things, so I call on my stream of consciousness. This is the resulting column. I’m one of the lucky ones with secure housing, food and savings. Not only that, I live with someone I want to live with and whose company I enjoy. We had a good holiday. I’m thousands of miles from my children and grandchildren, but I know it won’t be that way forever. Generally, I’m happy. A day at home can get boring during the long hours between dinner and bedtime, but I always find something to fill my time, constructive things like reading, walking or calling friends. In the daytime I have meetings to attend, committee work for Yolo Hospice, and I’m always happy to Zoom with my colleagues from that amazing organization. I exercise more than I would have expected, fitness class three days a week, yoga two days and paddling the river on weekends, even as the days get cold. My husband feels my muscles and says, “Hmmmm.” My curiosity, a key character
trait, is not in remission. I’ve done interviews to prepare for columns, I ask questions of friends all the time, and I read news. I’m trying to understand this experience while we’re going through it and I try to imagine how we will look back on it, when it is done. I think about people who missed it, like an insightful hospice patient I knew who died last September. He wouldn’t have wanted to skip out on something so big in our world. As a scientist, he would have been fascinated and yet by virtue of a few months, he missed it all. I’m older than he was, and at 73, I fear death from COVID-19 or from some other illness before I get to see my children again. I view such thoughts as “worrying too much” so I put effort
into squelching them. One of my lighter worries is about my looks, specifically, how different I will look to my children and grandchildren when we’re finally together again. I have long gray hair now and my face has acquired a year’s worth of new wrinkles — maybe more. They’ve seen me on Zoom, but do they know I walk on rocks more cautiously now, that I hold onto the banister on the stairs, that I avoid slippery leaves because I know how hard falls are on older bodies? ———— I think about the trip my husband and I took to China last fall. We even visited Wuhan. Before we got there, we spent three days in Tibet, where I was terribly sick and missed everything I would have liked to see. Was COVID-19 in Tibet last September? Now in the vise of communist China, Hong Kong is no longer the place I visited in October, the place where I cheered for marchers, waved and smiled and wished them the best, while they told me to stand back, be careful. They knew more than I did, that’s for sure. Where is each of them now? I picture
their fervent faces, even when masked. My heart aches as I think about them. I’m a novice yoga practitioner, having started during Covid, but I’ve learned to press my hands together in front of my heart and to say “namaste,” a word that feels generous and open to the world. It doesn’t mean “peace” exactly, but close enough. ———— My wine glass is more than half-empty now. I’d have to open my eyes to refill it, but I don’t want to stop typing, trying to report as simply and directly as possible on feelings I don’t understand. In my first coronavirus dream, I am naked, sitting among a large group of people in an audience of some kind, perhaps listening to somebody speak. I feel panic when I realize I’ve forgotten my mask. In real life, thanks to consistent effort, I never forget. I choose which mask to wear carefully. When I’m in good spirits I match my clothing; other days I pick the one that feels tightest on my face. Sometimes I can’t believe I’m wearing a mask at all; meanwhile, it warms my
face, fogs my glasses, confers anonymity and keeps me from smiling at many times when I would have smiled before. I worry about my grandkids, especially the ones in online school. In their loneliness and frustration, children are acting up, lashing out. I don’t lash out. I grieve. As I did when my mother suddenly died, I wish that what happened didn’t happen and I can’t believe what has happened has happened. I look for solace, but everyone else is hurting too. I’m still writing without stopping, my eyes still shut. My current life isn’t bad, but it isn’t good either. It has an underlying bed of pain, like a fraying sheet or a musty sleeping bag I have to sleep on. So many people have written columns about our times. We all have so much to say. Are there even enough listeners for all of us who want to talk? I think not. But I keep typing. I put my effort there, also hope. I love the person I live with. That is good. — Marion Franck has lived in Davis for more than 40 years. Reach her at marionf2@gmail. com.
Finding gratitude in a time of challenges and adversity BY HEATHER SLEUTER Special to The Enterprise
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t has been more than 10 months since the first COVID-19 case was diagnosed in Yolo County. In that time, much has been asked of all of us, from flexibility, bravery and resilience to fortitude, patience and austerity. At Yolo Crisis Nursery, we have also seen firsthand the even greater impact this time of uncertainty, grief and upheaval has had on our community’s most vulnerable young children and families. Yet, today, even as we are called on to address worrying increases in domestic violence, homelessness, and mental health emergencies, it is not difficult to conjure a deep sense of gratitude, which comes from knowing that we at the Nursery are not meeting these challenges alone. Recently, a former Yolo Crisis Nursery parent took the time to share this note: “We need caring and compassionate people more than anything, especially now. You are front line workers not just in this pandemic, but always, for every crisis. As a family
YOLO CRISIS NURSERY who benefited directly from your compassionate work, and also just as fellow caring humans, we are forever grateful for and inspired by the strength, dedication, kindness, proficiency and understanding with which you provide crucial services to our community.” I couldn’t agree more. Today, I am grateful for our staff at the nursery who have never wavered in their commitment to our mission. The work of protecting children from abuse and neglect requires building and maintaining supportive, trusting and empowering relationships with families. Every day our staff continues tirelessly to innovate and adapt to changing safety protocols, never losing sight of the importance of staying connected with the people we serve. I am grateful for our Board of Directors and volunteers who have rallied in so many ways to guide and support the nursery through this
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From all of us at the Yolo Crisis Nursery and the client families we serve — thank you! We wish you a healthy new year. unprecedented time. Their steadfast contributions of time, talent, and resources make it possible for us to respond nimbly to the evolving needs of vulnerable children and families. I am grateful for our fellow nonprofits and service providers working diligently to collaborate in the best interest of children and families during a time of greatly increased need and decreased resources. Many of the families we serve are essential workers facing health and safety
hazards they never anticipated, while coping with serious hardships and childcare challenges as they struggle to make ends meet each month. I am grateful the nursery can be a resource for families who contribute so much to our community. Whether it is the gift of a warm coat, a care package of formula and diapers, or a safe stay for a child while a parent addresses hardship — we see and hear the gratitude and relief when a family in crisis understands that
they are not alone. In addition to gratitude, I look ahead to 2021 with a sense of hope. Just today, I learned that a single father, Frank, who came to us months ago on the brink of homelessness, has secured a job promotion and stable housing where he can safely raise his young son with autism. With the support of the Nursery and our collaborators, Frank can now see the light at the end of the tunnel. Stories like Frank’s and so many others help
me see that light, too. As this challenging year comes to a close, and we look to 2021 with hope for health, happiness, and a return to some version of normal, I invite you to join us with an end of year gift to the Yolo Crisis Nursery to ensure that families, like Frank’s, see and feel the hope of the new year. To donate or learn more about the Yolo Crisis Nursery, please visit our website www.yolocrisisnursery.org. — Heather Sleuter is the executive director of the Yolo Crisis Nursery.
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s we approach a new year, many of us are reflecting upon challenge after challenge experienced in 2020. For those who have lost loved ones, for those who have lost their jobs or businesses, for those who have lost homes, for those who have become food insecure, for healthcare workers who are on the frontline caring for our community, for those who are going through treatment for cancer, for those have come to know the loneliness of isolation due to their health, and more, these are among the most difficult of times. In the midst of all this, this year also represents the most significant of times — the generous expressions of kindness by neighbors, the selfless sacrifices of our healthcare professionals, the renewed relationships among family members simultaneously working and living at home, the self-discovery of our resilience, and the many who are giving their time, energy, and resources
THRIVING PINK to help those in need. This truly represents the hope we claim for this coming new year. We have been inspired by the work and dedication of our Thriving Pink Team of volunteers, supporters, and generous community partners. Thank you also to our caring family members and friends who have helped us to sustain our mission and core programs. Together, we are helping those in Yolo County impacted by breast cancer to thrive with a compassionate network of support and resources in partnership with the community. We remain steadfast in our commitment as the only nonprofit in Yolo County that focuses on serving and supporting local breast cancer survivors. Our Granting Pink program now has applications available to provide individual financial assistance for immediate and essential needs, including medical treatment, housing, and groceries. Our
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Mentoring Pink program continues to provide Pink Peers for newly diagnosed women, and ongoing health-and-wellness focused educational workshops and support groups at no cost. ———— RSVP to info@thriving pink.org to attend these upcoming open and free virtual workshops in January: ■ Writers Circle Workshop, 7 to 8 p.m. Monday, Jan. 4 ■ Stitches of Love, 10:30 a.m. to noon Thursday, Jan. 7 ■ Pink Connection Support — Pam Cordano, 7 to 8 p.m. Monday Jan. 11
■ COVID Vaccine Workshop — Dr. Robert Wiebe/Emma Hunter MPH, 7 to 8 p.m. Monday, Jan. 25 To support or learn more about Thriving Pink, our mission, and our workshops or programs, please visit www.thriving pink.org. Together, we embrace this upcoming new year as our time. May the path ahead in 2021 be filled with more hope for healing and restoration. All best wishes for a healthy, safe, and meaningful new year. — Submitted by the Thriving Pink board of directors.
1. Books and Authors. Charles Dickens gave live readings of his story “A Christmas Carol” every year until the year of his death, the same year that Vladimir Lenin was born and that Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States. What is this year that ends in a zero? 2. Davis Culture. At what grocery store did the Davis holiday parade historically begin? 3. Science. What is the hottest planet in the Solar System? 4. Books and Authors. Titled “Greenlights,” what Oscar-winning actor’s poorly reviewed
memoir debuted at No. 1 on The New York Times nonfiction best-seller list for the week ending October 24, 2020? 5. Sports. What former Minnesota Timberwolf was known as "the Big Ticket" for his emphatic dunking and athleticism? Answers: 1870, the Davis Food Co-op, Venus, Matthew McConaughey, Kevin Garnett. — Dr. Andy Jones is the quizmaster at de Vere’s Irish Pub and author of the book “Pub Quizzes: Trivia for Smart People.” Dr. Andy is now also sharing his pub quizzes via Patreon. Find out more at www. yourquizmaster.com.
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Special to The Enterprise Kaiser Permanente is supporting local nonprofits as they seek innovative ways to enroll eligible households in CalFresh, California’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The program has seen a surge in applications during the COVID-19 pandemic. The goal is to ensure people have access to and can afford nutritious food, so they can stay healthy. Kaiser Permanente is awarding $95,000 to the Yolo County Children’s Alliance to help increase enrollment in and use of CalFresh and Pandemic EBT in Yolo County. YCCA plans to use the funding to increase outreach staffing. It will also maintain oneon-one application assistance for 500 clients, including immigrants, families, seniors, those for whom English is not their first language, and those without stable housing. “We feel extremely
fortunate that we continue to receive support from our local community and dedicated sponsors like Kaiser Permanente, especially during these trying times,” said Katie Villegas, executive director for the Yolo County Children’s Alliance. “Now more than ever, the families that YCCA serves need support to make it through this challenging period. This grant will help us leverage more of our resources to reach those affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and who are new to accessing public assistance, like the CalFresh program.” This is one of 18 grants Kaiser Permanente is awarding to food banks, community clinics and family-resource centers in Northern California to increase enrollment in CalFresh, with an emphasis on outreach to underserved communities. CalFresh helps low-income individuals, families and
households to purchase nutritious food, providing up to $204 a month per household member in food benefits. “People cannot maintain and achieve total health without stable access to nutritious food,” said Sandy Sharon, senior vice president and area manager for Kaiser Permanente in Sacramento. “We know by supporting organizations like YCCC, we will address the critical issue that food insecurity has become amid the pandemic.” CalFresh applications have quadrupled and 98% of food banks have reported a jump in demand for food assistance since the state implemented COVID-19 stay-at-home orders. Kaiser Permanente has awarded additional grants, including $200,000 to California Association of Food Banks and $100,000 to California WIC (Women, Infants and Children) Association.
Marrone’s Pro Farm UBP seed treatment heads to Uruguay market Special to The Enterprise Farmers in Uruguay will have a new solution to grow a more sustainable crop thanks to a new arrangement that will allow PGG Wrightson Seeds, New Zealand’s largest seed company, to distribute Marrone Bio Innovations Inc.’s line of Pro Farm Technology products. The agreement provides PGGWS with exclusive crop-dependent selling rights to MBI’s Pro Farm UBP seed treatment line for the next five years in Uruguay. “South American markets are of key importance to our international expansion plans and this new partnership with PGGWS supports that global growth strategy,” states Kevin Hammill, chief commercial officer of Marrone Bio Innovations. “The introduction of our UBP Seed Treatment to the
Uruguayan market provides an innovative product that helps farmers establish healthier plants and increase crop yields.” The UBP Seed Treatment is based on a proprietary process turning plant-based lignin into a supramolecular, nutrient complex that supports plant growth and improves plant health, resulting in improved yields and crop quality. The seed treatment has proven applications on soybeans, wheat, oats, sorghum, and forage crops, all of which are widely grown in Uruguay. Matti Tiainen, managing director of the Pro Farm added, “PGGWS, owned by
DLF Seeds, is an industry leader in providing key crop inputs for Uruguay’s forage and row crops. They also have a presence throughout South America, most notably including Argentina and Brazil. We hope this is the beginning of a growing partnership in the region.”
VACAVILLE — In a nine-month span, Travis Credit Union implemented multiple financial relief initiatives for members and distributed more than $3 million to community partners providing essential services, all while serving and advocating for our members and neighbors in new and creative ways. “The pandemic and wildfires resulted in a team effort to show up for one another, our members and our community,” said Barry Nelson, president and CEO of Travis Credit Union. “We are witnessing incredible resilience in the midst of astonishing hardship.” Travis Credit Union rapidly implemented COVID-19 Member Relief Programs that have resulted in: ■ More than 337 emergency loans totaling nearly $1.3M (Consumer Lending Disaster Relief ) ■ More than 44,000 monthly consumer loan
payments skipped (including personal, auto and home equity line of credit) ■ More than $2.75 million in deferred mortgage payments ■ Fee relief for over 13,500 members (waived skip fees) ■ Deferred payments on business loans totaling more than $1.1 million (P&I payments) ■ More than 260 emergency loans totaling $17 million (Paycheck Protection Program) In response to immediate needs, Travis Credit Union disbursed $1 million to nearly 100 nonprofits in the counties it serves for relief during the pandemic. In addition, The Travis Credit Union Foundation raised more $1 million for the COVID-19 Relief Initiative, which was matched by TCU, for a total of $2 million for 80 local organizations. Relief efforts in response to the LNU Complex Fire resulted in successfully raising over $17,000 for
Travis Credit Union employees impacted by the fire and another $89K for those in our communities who needed support rebuilding. “It isn’t just about the relief we provide through the loans we make, or the fees we waive,” Nelson said. “It’s about the impact and the lives we change. In 2021 and beyond, TCU will continue to be defined by our ‘Awesome Cause’ — which is to change lives and lift communities through financial wellness. As a credit union, we are dedicated to ‘people helping people’ — through a pandemic, social injustice or wildfire — today, and every day of the year.” Financial wellness classes offered in the communities we serve transitioned to a digital format in 2020. A wide variety of valuable financial education presentations are now all available for free through videos and webinars, live and on-demand at traviscu.org/webinar.
Davis Farmers Market will take Wednesday off Special to The Enterprise The Davis Farmers Market will close Wednesday, Dec. 30, with the Saturday market returning on Jan. 2 with regular hours — 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Davis Farmers is filled with farmfresh products like citrus and pomegranates, poinsettias, nuts and nut butters,
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SURGE: Local ICU capacity stays just above state’s limits From Page A1 upon to accept all of our patients. This affects not only COVID patients but people who suffer heart attacks or have other lifethreatening conditions.” “Please stay at home as much as possible,” Provenza pleaded. Supervisor Don Saylor of Davis sent out a similar message, saying, “I know how difficult it is to stay home, adjust our plans, break traditions and celebrate the holidays differently this year, but it is so important.” “We will get through this by considering the big picture, making informed decisions and sacrificing a bit this year so that we can get back to our traditions next year.” Whether county residents are heeding that message remains to be seen, but what was clear on Christmas Eve was that cases, hospitalizations and deaths had
already reached heights never before seen here. Over the course of the 10 months since the pandemic started, Yolo County has reported 7,604 cases of COVID19 and 109 deaths. More than 40 percent of those cases (3,138) and 32 percent of the deaths (35) were reported between Nov. 24 and Dec. 24. During that same one-month period, cases in Davis increased from 528 to 1,072 and deaths from three to 12. Health officials have linked the spike in cases and hospitalizations over the last few weeks to travel and gatherings related to Thanksgiving. On Saturday, there were 35 COVID-19 patients in the county’s two hospitals, as many as any day previously during the pandemic. What’s happening locally is happening throughout much of the state. California’s Department of
Public Health reported Saturday that ICU capacity in two regions — the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California — remain at zero percent and the Bay Area’s ICU capacity was at 11.3 percent. For the last several days, ICU capacity in the greater Sacramento region, of which Yolo County is a part, has been slightly above the 15 percent threshold set by the state for its regional stayat-home order. On Saturday, capacity for this region was 16.9 percent, according to the state. The soonest the county can exit the regional order is Friday and that will depend on the region’s projected ICU capacity and whether it will continue to meet or exceed 15 percent. The order reduced retail capacity to 20 percent and grocery store capacity to 35 percent, closed hair salons and barbershops, and limited restaurants to take-out and delivery only.
Even when the greater Sacramento region exits the stay-athome order, Yolo County will likely still be solidly purple in the state’s color-coded blueprint governing what businesses and activities can open and when. To move from the most restrictive purple tier to the slightly less restrictive red tier — where multiple businesses could resume indoor operations at limited capacity — the county must have an adjusted daily new case rate of less than seven per 100,000 residents. But when the state updated tiers last Tuesday, the county’s rate was 46.1, up from 40.1 the week before. Also up was the county’s test positivity rate — from 11.4 percent on Dec. 15 to 12.7 percent on Dec. 22. On Saturday, it increased even more to 13 percent. Some of the county’s most vulnerable residents — those in
congregate care facilities such as skilled nursing facilities — continue to be impacted by the high rate of spread locally. Health officials have said the virus is brought into facilities by employees who have picked it up in the community. As of last week, 588 residents and staff in long-term care facilities have tested positive for COVID-19 during the course of the pandemic and 61 have died, according to the county’s online dashboard. Recent deaths have followed outbreaks at Courtyard Healthcare Center on East Eighth Street in Davis, where four have died, as well as The Californian Assisted Living and Dementia Care in Woodland where one person has died. An outbreak at Carlton Senior Living in Davis involving 14 residents and one staff member was reported earlier this month.
VACCINES: CSU campuses not mandating across-the board testing From Page A1 colleges to require students to be vaccinated. The CSU system currently requires that students show proof they’ve been inoculated against measles, mumps and rubella, hepatitis, and several other diseases. The best COVID-19 prevention results on campuses have come from a combination of testing students prior to their return to campus, conducting intermittent surveillance testing, and providing a separate floor or dorm to house infected students, Fauci said. Surveillance testing — monitoring the entire student population to find outbreaks and isolating those who test positive — has been made easier due to the development of rapid antigen testing, which can yield results within 15 minutes. They are “not as
sensitive (as regular COVID-19 tests), but can give you a considerable amount of important information,” Fauci said.
approach is not to be confrontational, but instead to point out examples of how science has been helpful in the past.
Currently, most CSU campuses do not require across-the-board COVID19 testing — as the University of California and a number of private colleges have done — though San Diego State University has mandated testing for students living on campus and taking in-person classes. Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo has announced that it will do the same for winter quarter, according to the student newspaper, Mustang News. A few CSU campuses have seen large COVID-19 outbreaks, with more than 2,000 students and employees infected at San Diego State.
“If you look at and point out to them examples of the important fruits of science and what science has brought to us, I think that we can convince a substantial proportion of the people — who for one reason or another have established an anti-science approach — that we can win them back,” he said.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has served as the nation’s top infectious disease expert during the coronavirus pandemic, will stay on when President-elect Joseph Biden takes office. testing policy. “We have encouraged them to review their respective plans and reassess in light of the
recent surges throughout the state,” he said. Asked how schools and universities can combat the
misinformation and distrust of science that has helped fuel the virus’ spread, Fauci said his
— Beck is a fellow with the CalMatters College Journalism Network, a collaboration between CalMatters and student journalists from across California. This story and other higher education coverage are supported by the College Futures Foundation. Follow the College Journalism Network on Twitter at @collegebeatca.
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Big brains and white matter: Scientists find autism clues MIND Institute tracked children’s MRI’s for years Special to The Enterprise SACRAMENTO — Two studies at the UC Davis MIND Institute provide clues about possible types of autism linked to brain structure, including size and white-matter growth. The research is based on brain scans taken over many years as part of the Autism Phenome Project and Girls with Autism, Imaging of Neurodevelopment studies. It shows the value of longitudinal studies that follow the same children from diagnosis into adolescence. “There is no other single site data set like ours anywhere,” said Christine Wu Nordahl, associate professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, MIND Institute faculty member and co-senior author on both papers. “In one of the studies, we have over 1,000 MRI scans from 400 kids, which is unheard of. It’s been 15 years of work to get here.”
Big brains: An autism subtype? In the first study, published in Biological Psychiatry, the researchers used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to track brain size (volume) in 294 children with autism and 135 children without autism between the ages of 3 and 12. In children with autism, they found evidence of larger brain size relative to height — or disproportionate megalencephaly — a subtype that has been linked to higher rates of intellectual disability and poorer overall prognosis. Previous cross-sectional research had found that children with autism have larger brains at early ages, but no evidence of larger brains in later childhood. The widely accepted theory is that these brains “normalized” or shrank as the children grew up. The MIND Institute study found that wasn’t the case. The children who had bigger brains at age 3 still had bigger brains at age 12. Why? Unlike most research, which studies different individuals at different time points, this research studied the same children over time. Also, unlike most other studies, this one includes children with significant intellectual disabilities.
builds on a previous These were the children MIND Institute study, who tended to have the which found that while “big brain” form of many children experiautism. ence fairly stable levels David Amaral, the of autism symptoms co-author on both studthroughout childhood, ies, suggested that the a significant portion difference between this can be expected to and previous research increase or decrease in was that children with their symptom severity intellectual disability over time. were left out of previous cross-sectional studies “This new analysis focused on older chilprovides an important dren. clue about the brain “Bigger brain size in mechanism that may autism has been linked be involved in some of to lower IQ, and chilthese changes,” said dren with intellectual Amaral. disabilities are harder to scan as they get older,” said Amaral, a distinguished professor of psychiatry and The studies are behavioral sciences and unusual not only MIND Institute faculty because they include member. “It’s a matter children with severe of sampling bias and intellectual disability, the previous ‘dogma’ but also because they appears to be an artifact include a larger numof who got scanned ber of girls, who tend to when,” he explained. be under-represented Children under age 5 in autism research. can be scanned while “For the first time, we they’re asleep, but Norare able to have a large dahl and her team have enough sample of girls, created unique, innovaUC DAVIS HEALTH PHOTO where we are able to tive protocols that allow evaluate their brain traresearchers to more Researchers tracked brain growth and structure in jectories separate from easily scan older chilhundreds of children from 3 years old to 12. boys to see how they’re dren with intellectual different,” Nordahl said. disabilities while they’re developing children who served “For example, we don’t see the big awake. as controls, between the ages of brain subtype as frequently in “It’s so critical that we include 2.5 and 7. girls, but we do see subtle differthose aspects of the autism specThe researchers found that the ences in how autistic girls’ brains trum that most impact quality of development of the white matter are growing.” life, such as intellectual disability, tracts in the brain was linked to Nordahl, who has also studied anxiety and verbal functioning,” changes in autism symptom sever- the role amygdala size may play in said Joshua Lee, a postdoctoral ity. They observed slower develop- psychiatric challenges for young scholar at the MIND Institute and ment in children whose symptom girls, noted that the MIND Instithe lead author on the study. “It’s severity increased over time, and tute’s longitudinal data set is important to capture everyone who faster development in those with likely to play a key role in many has autism, not just the ones who decreased severity over time. future studies about sex differare easiest to get images from.” “From a biological standpoint, ences in autism. this emphasizes the role of white “Collectively, I believe these matter development in autism studies are so important because and autism symptoms,” said they get us closer to a point where Derek Sayre Andrews, a postdoc- we can use our understanding of The second study, also pub- toral scholar at the MIND Insti- the underlying biology of autism lished in Biological Psychiatry, tute and lead author on the paper. to directly improve the quality of linked changes in the brain’s “We hope that in the future, mea- life for individuals in the autistic white matter growth with autism surements like this can identify community,” Andrews said. “And children who would benefit from that really is the ultimate goal of traits in some children. The researchers used a type of more intensive intervention — our research.” MRI scan called diffusion- and serve as a marker to deterweighted imaging, which allowed mine the effectiveness of an them to look at white matter intervention for a particular regions, or tracts, in the brain. child,” he said. White matter provides the structural connections in the brain, The Autism Phenome Project allowing different regions to comand Girls with Autism, Imaging municate with each other. of Neurodevelopment studies rely on MRI scans of the same chilThe study included 125 chilThe white matter research dren — both with and without dren with autism and 69 typically
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autism — over many years in order to track brain development. Scanning the brain of a young child is less challenging; it’s done while they’re asleep. But after about age 5, things change, especially for children with more severe intellectual disability. “If you take a nonspeaking child with intellectual disability, it’s still fairly manageable to get them scanned when they’re sleeping, but as they get older and bigger, scanning during sleep gets really tricky,” said Christine Wu Nordahl, MIND Institute faculty member and neuroimaging expert. “We had to develop brand new methods to scan kids with lower IQ and verbal skills while they were awake.” Nordahl and other MIND Institute researchers enlisted the help of behavior analysts — those doing autism therapy — and broke down the MRI process into many sections, starting with entering the building, to make it less scary. “We use reinforcements specifically tailored to each child,” Nordahl said. “We talk to parents ahead of time about what motivates their child, which could be anything from pistachios to a cartoon character, and we use those to make the child more comfortable.” Nordahl’s team uses a mock MRI machine that children can try out before their actual scans. When the child is in the MRI machine, they are also able to watch a movie or a show, and utilize weighted blankets, if desired. “It’s very challenging to do this, but it’s worth it to ensure that our research includes the full spectrum of children with autism,” Nordahl said. Co-authors on “Longitudinal Evaluation of Cerebral Growth Across Childhood in Boys and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder” include Sally Ozonoff, Marjorie Solomon, Sally J. Rogers and Derek Sayre Andrews. Funding was provided by the National Institute of Mental Health; the UC Davis MIND Institute Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center; and Autism Center of Excellence. Co-authors on “A Longitudinal Study of White Matter Development in Relation to Changes in Autism Severity Across Early Childhood” include Joshua K. Lee, Danielle Jenine Harvey, Einat Waizbard-Bartov, Marjorie Solomon and Sally J. Rogers. Funding was provided by the National Institute of Mental Health. — UC Davis Health
OBITUARY Richard E. Rominger July 1, 1927 — Dec. 21, 2020
Richard E. Rominger passed away on Dec. 21 with his family by his side. Richard was born July 1, 1927, in Woodland as the first child of Albert H. Rominger and Anne Violet Ehrhardt Rominger. Rich had his elementary education in the rural one-room Union School. He graduated as valedictorian at Winters High School. After service in the U. S. Navy at the end of World War II, he attended the UC Davis, which is where he met his future wife, Evelyne Rowe. Rich played trombone in the Aggie Band and third base on the Aggie baseball team. He graduated with highest honors with a degree in plant science. He was a member of Alpha Zeta, the National Agricultural Honor Society, and a life member of the Cal Aggie Alumni Association. After having worked on the farm growing up, including summer vacations during high school and college, Rich started farming full-time with his father and brother Don. He and Evelyne were married in 1951 and raised their four children, Richard Stuart, Charles Albert (deceased), Ruth Elizabeth and Bruce James on the family farm in the home they built in 1959. The farm is now being operated by their sons Rick and Bruce, with their wives Patty and Robyn. Rich was active in many farm and civic organizations, including the Yolo County Farm Bureau where he served as a director for 25 years and president from 1971 through 1973. He started his Farm Bureau career with the Young Farmers and Ranchers and was the statewide president 1954-55. He was a co-founder and founding
president of the Yolo Land Trust. He served on the board of the American Farmland Trust for 17 years. He was chairman of the Yolo County Water Resources Board 1971-1977, a member of the Yolo County Agricultural Round Table Steering Committee for 18 years, chairman 1973-75, and also served on many other agricultural organizations and committees. Rich was appointed by Governor Jerry Brown as director of the California Department of Food and Agriculture in 1977, where he served for six years. He later served President Bill Clinton for eight years as deputy secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C. He also served as a regent at the University of California. He was active in his community, state and country, and continued to support the causes he believed in up until the very end of his life. He is survived by his wife of 69 years, Evelyne, his children and their spouses, Rick and Patty, Ruth and Lars, and Bruce and Robyn, daughter-in-law Cairn, and his grandchildren, Katherine, Justin, Sarah, Cienna, Aldo, John and Rachel, and his 3-week-old great-grandson, Alexander. To continue Richard’s work, donations can be made in his honor to the Yolo Land Trust, 221 W. Court St., Suite 5, Woodland, CA 95695, and to the Bradford-Rominger Agricultural Sustainability Leadership Award Fund at the Agricultural Sustainability Institute of UC Davis, care of CAES Deans Office University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616. No services are planned at this time.
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Lynn W. Gallagher June 2, 1943 — Dec. 15, 2020
Lynn W. Gallagher died on Dec. 15, 2020. He was born in San Francisco and raised in Marin County. After earning a bachelor’s degree at UC Davis in political science, he joined the Peace Corps. He taught primary school for two years on the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, and then joined an agricultural project on the shores of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. This last experience caused him to refocus his goals from law to agriculture so he returned to UC Davis to earn a doctorate in plant genetics. His first job was in Debre Zeit, Ethiopia, after which he joined the University of Minnesota’s agricultural program in Morocco, spending eight years there breeding barley, teaching, and developing a faculty of agriculture. The last 30 years of his professional life were spent at UC Davis
as its barley breeder. He released a great many varieties of feed, food, forage, and malting barleys. His most recent achievement was the invention of several malting barley varieties bred specifically for California conditions, the first since World War II. One of them, Butta 12, has been enthusiastically received by California growers and artisan brewers. Lynn loved to travel. At any opportunity, he would board a plane or ship to explore new places and people. He was a skilled photographer who shared his travel photos on Facebook. He is survived by his wife, Judy Smith; his brother and sister-in-law Bill and Liz Gallagher of Santa Rosa; and two nieces and their families. He was cremated and his ashes will be scattered at a later date.
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From basketball to ballet, trouble on the horizon TRAFFIC: New laws BY JAMES BIKALES CalMatters While some California industries have managed to adapt their business models to the coronavirus pandemic, for many, the show simply cannot go on. Spectator sports, catering and the performing arts rely on live events as the centerpiece of their business, and each has been decimated by the pandemic. Tens of thousands of Californians who work in sports arenas, the arts and catering have lost their jobs. All three of these industries in California saw declines in employment of more than a third, and most of those jobs haven’t come back. As pandemic restrictions tightened this month throughout the state, there’s no recovery in sight for these hard-hit businesses. Kent Wong, director of UCLA’s Labor Center, said
the deep layoffs in these industries have harmed the broader California economy. “It has a ripple effect with regard to the shutdown of major sports venues, major performing arts venues and all of the related industries that support them,” he said. “That includes catering, that includes transportation, that includes hotels and restaurants — all of those are heavily reliant on spectator sports and performing arts and so, as a consequence, many of those subsidiary industries are suffering.” The three industries have had deeper cuts — and are slower to recover — than California’s workforce as a whole. While statewide unemployment rates rose to a record high of 16.4% in April and May, they fell back to 8.2% in November. California’s special food services sector, which includes catering and food carts, lost almost half of its
jobs between February and April — dropping from 74,400 to 37,700 employees, according to state employment estimates. Some of the jobs have returned, but most have not: The latest state numbers, from October, show 40,600 people employed in the sector, a decline of 45%. Likewise, more than a third of the jobs in spectator sports in California that existed in February disappeared by April, as the number of jobs dropped from 13,300 to 8,600. Jobs have continued to vanish since then, with just 7,600 in the industry as of October, or 43% of the prepandemic jobs. California’s performing arts, such as dance troupes, symphonies, operas and theatre, also saw a precipitous drop in employment this spring because all live events were cancelled. By June, 45% of the 15,100 jobs that existed in the sector in February were gone,
and by October, just 1,600 of the lost jobs came back. That leaves the industry at 34% of pre-pandemic employment levels. Large public events have been banned or heavily restricted in California since mid-March under health orders issued by Gov. Gavin Newsom and counties. And since early December, after a surge in hospitalizations, people in most of the state have been asked to stay home except for essential activities. California was the hardest hit state for job losses in the creative industries, which include film, graphic design and music, according to a Brookings Foundation report in August. About 453,332 jobs were lost between April and July. The most impacted subsectors within the arts nationally were the fine and performing arts, with a staggering 50% of jobs disappearing, the report concluded.
SEPARATED: Family gets great holiday news From Page A1 skin for their separation, their successful separation surgery and seeing each other for the first time. “We’ve been praying for this day and praise God, it’s here,” Liliya said. And now, a Christmas wish of finally being home together as a family under the same roof with their three sons and twin daughters. A Christmas miracle made possible by the team from UC Davis Children’s Hospital. “The UC Davis team is the best. We are really thankful for everyone here. They will always be part of our family because we will always see their work in the girls,” Liliya said. — UC Davis health.
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This applies to the violations of talking or texting while driving (except for hands-free use) and to any use of these devices while driving by a person under 18 years of age. Unattended children in motor vehicles (AB 2717, Chau): Exempts a person from civil or criminal liability for trespassing or damaging a vehicle when rescuing a child who is 6 years old or younger and who is in immediate danger from heat, cold, lack of ventilation, or other dangerous circumstances. The law takes effect Jan. 1. “Move Over, Slow Down” amendments (AB 2285, Transportation Committee): Extends the provisions of the “Move Over, Slow Down” law currently in place on freeways to also apply to local streets and roads so drivers approaching a stationary emergency vehicle displaying emergency lights, including tow trucks and Caltrans vehicles, must now move to another lane when possible, or slow to a reasonable speed on all highways, not just freeways. The law is effective Jan. 1. Emergency vehicles (SB 909, Dodd): Allows authorized emergency vehicles to use a “Hi-Lo” warning sound. This distinctive sound, different than a siren, would be used to notify the public of an immediate need to evacuate an area in an emergency. The CHP is developing regulations to
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No surprise on year’s top story COVID-19 upends local sports world
Enterprise staff As if fans need to be reminded, the overriding “top” sports story of 2020 has been the pandemic and its far-reaching impact on athletics from Little League to the Olympics. In Davis, the spread of COVID-19 pulled the rug out from underneath youth activities and gyms as well as high school, club and collegiate sports. For prep athletics, the pandemic meant at first a delay in spring sports, then cancellation entirely, with the hope that programs might return to a degree of normality in the fall. That promise evaporated when the California Interscholastic Federation postponed fall play and tried to jam three seasons into two, with a scheduled start after Jan. 1. Now, that debut of fall sports has been delayed even further — until Jan. 25 —
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Cardboard cutouts, like these in The Pavilion for a UC Davis men’s basketball game earlier this year, have been the majority of “fans” in the stands around the country since March. with the season trimmed and championship play scratched altogether.
CIF clings to the hope that winter and spring seasons still will take place.
On the collegiate level, UC Davis first saw all fall sports postponed. Then two weeks ago, the Big West Conference canceled soccer, volleyball and cross country. Previously, the Big Sky — in which the Aggies play football — pushed its gridiron calendar back to Feb. 27 and culled the schedule to six games. UCD awaits word from some of its auxiliary leagues like the Western Water Polo Association and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation as to what’s up with their season plans. The pandemic has been sinister as it relates to the health and psyches of the athletes, their families, fans and coaches. If there’s a ray of good news in the grip of this pandemic, it’s that UCD and Davis High have had no reported cases of COVID19 since the start-and-stop cycle of the sports world got uber-serious last August. After more than 335,000 deaths nationwide (including 108 in Yolo County), the prayer from The Enterprise sports staff is that this time next year we’ll be writing about coronavirus having been wiped out by a sensible American population and a totally effective set of vaccines.
Good riddance, 2020 Individuals, teams who left their marks
4. A game-changer
Enterprise staff While it may seem like ancient history in recapping the slim pickings of top play in 2020 sports, it wasn’t difficult to define a Top 10 list of events, moves or accomplishments from the past 12 months. In saying a fond farewell to some people — and applauding others for their contributions — we mostly say good riddance to the Year from Hell. As The Enterprise sports staff wishes our readers a heart-felt Happier New Year, we delve into the remaining nine stories from our 2020 Top 10 list ...
2. UCD feeling a little Blue In just under five years, Director of Athletics Kevin Blue was responsible for a whirlwind of accomplishments at UC Davis. The Edwards Family Athletic Center KEVIN BLUE (No. 4 on our list), the AD off to hiring of football Golf Canada after coach Dan Hawkins transforming UCD (among other hires), elevation of the Aggie brand and the addition of new women’s
programs were just some of the hallmarks under Blue’s supervision. But in a surprise to Aggie Nation, Blue announced earlier this month that he is heading back to his native country to head Golf Canada. “I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to have worked with an exceptional group of student-athletes, colleagues and donors at UC Davis,” Blue noted before naming one of his more significant hires, Deputy AD Rocko DeLuca, as interim athletic director. Blue officially leaves UCD next week.
3. Aggie women’s basketball Talk about a cliffhanger in the ongoing saga of UC Davis women’s basketball ...
New, centrally located digs for the UC Davis athletic department have been a gleam in the eyes of campus officials for decades. But it wasn’t until three years ago when rookie AD Kevin Blue and key program benefactors began to puzzle out a game plan for a new 38,000-square-foot training, teaching, office and sports medicine facility. Thanks to donor Bruce Edwards and his largest single gift to Aggie athletics FRED GLA (eventually joined by UC DDIS/E NTERPR ISE GRA Davis Health and other indiCoach Jennifer PHIC vidual benefactors), the school Gross’ charges had just won unveiled the artist’s renderings for the their fourth straight regular-season Big development late in 2019. West title. They were a day away from taking the court in the conference tournaThis May, ground broke and the new ment in search of their second consecucomplex will open in spring 2022. tive Big Dance appointment when the pandemic forced cancellation of the rest of the season. After winning their only game of the The Davis aquatics community will be new campaign on Nov. 25, the Aggie losing longtime UC Davis women’s swim women are again on hold as stringent Yolo coach Barb Jahn and Davis Masters menCounty public health protocols forced tors Mary and Stu Kahn. UCD to cancel its remaining nonleague But with a fond farewell also comes games and the first four BWC contests. future promise, as local schools inch closer to the construction of an aquatics Meanwhile, five former Aggies — allcenter on the Davis High campus. time leading scorer Morgan Bertsch, For 46 years, Jahn has been the face of Nina Bessolo, Katie Toole, Pele Gianotti and Sophia Song — are tearing up SEE 2020, PAGE B2 European pro ranks.
5. The shape of water
Weighing in on what was and what might be
‘Normal’ feels like heaven
This coach is enlightened
The future is still super hazy to me
Smack texting is just not as fun
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don’t think I’ll ever forget March 13, 2020. Looking back, I now realize it happened to be Friday the 13th. It was the day DJUSD announced a month-long pause on all school activities, including athletics. For a fourth-year coach at Davis High like me, it was a hard announcement to stomach. At that point, I didn’t quite understand coronavirus — I don’t think any of us did. What was even harder, though, was later that afternoon, as students on my swim team arrived for practice at Arroyo Pool searching for answers. What are you supposed
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s we close the books on 2020, easily the worst year for most of the world’s population, the inevitable next question is, “What’s next?” Guess what? Nobody knows. Anyone who thinks that when Dec. 31 morphs into Jan. 1, that a new day is coming ... well, hold your horses. When I was asked to shelve my normal Sunday format and try to predict what the sports world will be like in 2021, my initial reaction was — and remains — how do I know? The answer to that is simple. I don’t. Anyone can make a prediction on just about anything. That is why preseason guesses on how pro football, college football and the other major sports are just that. Guesses.
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sk most people what they’ve missed during the last year and they’ll say, “People.” My answer is similar, but with a special caveat. I’m not a big hugger, and as an only child, I can do alone pretty well, so I’m OK with missing “people” in general. Nonetheless, I miss my sports friends. Instead of getting together at the ballpark and eating overpriced food, we texted and instant messaged. Trying to keep the event as real as possible, I scrounged through the kitchen looking for snacks while the National Anthem played. For added realism, I’d even yell at myself to hurry and stop holding up the line.
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common greeting these days goes something like this: “I hope your 2021 is better than your 2020.” This is accompanied by a sympathetic frown and a bittersweet chuckle. The proper response, of course, is, “It can’t be any worse.” Or, if you prefer, “2021 can’t come soon enough.” As if everything will suddenly be better once the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve. Indeed, we are all wondering when things will go back to normal. We long for normal. We crave normal. Normal used to be so
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he worst year in most people’s lives is about to be behind us, but in calendar form only. When December 2020 flips to January 2021, the coronavirus won’t magically disappear — although our president promised that would happen last spring. We have a long ways to go before yet-to-be-understood new normalcy unveils itself. It’s almost too much to bear ... Raise your hand if you’re sick and tired of seeing college sports decimated by the pandemic. Keep your hand up if the periodic delays in the seasons, constant false starts and eventual cancellations of schedules have you at your wits’ end. Acknowledge in some way
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IN MEMORIAM
Davis mourns losses Enterprise staff As horrible at 2020 was, it became even more difficult as the Davis sports community mourned the loss of several outstanding individuals during the year. With head bowed, hats in hand, The Enterprise looks back at those local folks we lost ... ■ Karl Ronning — After a prolonged battle with cancer, longtime Davis High boys golf coach and teacher Ronning died in February, surrounded by family and friends. He was 60. A 1977 Davis High graduate and member of the golf team, Ronning returned to his alma mater in 1995, teaching math until illness forced his retirement in 2018. During his 19-year tenure, the Blue Devils captured 15 league titles and three Masters championships. Ronning first became involved in coaching at DHS 25 years ago, when he served as the assistant junior varsity football coach before moving to golf as head coach in 2000. Ronning then proved instrumental in expanding a program that historically featured low turnout. His first move at the helm: speaking with then-El Macero head pro Eric Pollard to discuss how to inject change, excitement. “We sat down together and started talking about what was important and motivating kids and that’s what really started focusing me and really emphasizing effort and focusing on processes rather than outcomes, sort of a Zen philosophy of staying in the moment,” Ronning told The Enterprise in 2018. Only eight players participated on the 1999 squad, a number that jumped to 13 in Ronning’s first year. These days, the team roster usually hovers around three times the number that Ronning started with. He is survived by his wife, Heather Allen, and his daughters Kaity and Kristen. ■ Evelyn Andrews — After battling cancer twice, former Davis High studentathlete Evelyn Andrews died in February due to complications from leukemia. The Blue Devil and Humboldt State softball standout was only 20. “She was easily the most intense competitor I ever coached. Never took a play off,” Evelyn’s high school coach Lyn Christopulos said on Thursday. “But when she smiled? She lit up a room … a dugout, for that matter. Her intensity was one of her greatest strengths, and it was contagious. “We will all miss her terribly. A huge loss
for all of us.” In her junior softball season, Evelyn hit .420, accounting for 53 runs. She earned Delta League first-team honors, Offensive Player of the Year and MVP awards. Shortly thereafter, Andrews’ health battle began when a cancerous tumor was found between her heart and lungs. She beat that cancer and returned for her senior Devil diamond year. At Humboldt, where the hard-hitting Karl Ronning grew the Davis infielder majored in kinesiology, Andrews High boys golf team into an area redshirted her freshman season. She was powerhouse during his 19-year working out in anticipation of the 2020 tenure. softball campaign when a bad-hop ground ball broke her nose. After a high fever and ENTERPRISE FILE PHOTO continued nose-bleeding ensued, Evelyn was admitted to the UC Davis Medical Center for more tests. Colorado, was hired by UC Davis as a proThere, a bone marrow biopsy revealed fessor of civil engineering and hydrology in acute myelogenous leukemia — a second 1948. He was an integral force in the Davis cancer in less than two years. But aquatics community for nearly a the young woman continued to half-century. fight back and was, according to Along with his son, Dave, he family and her own words, close to helped form the Davis Aquatic being cancer-free again. Masters organization in the 1970s But a blood-clotting complicaas well as the Davis Aquadarts tion, all too frequently common in youth swim team in the 1960s. AML patients, developed and could His efforts also led to the first not be overcome. Davis Triathlon in 1970 and the ANDREWS “Eve was an inspiration to everyeventual addition of triathlon as Davis High one she came into contact with,” an Olympic sport in 2000. DHS Athletic Director Jeff Loren- softball player “The current successes of the son remembers. “She was a leader Dart team flow from these foundand competitor that put her heart ing members (like Verne),” says into softball and herself behind her Davis Aquadarts head coach Billy team. Doughty. “Thoughts go out to the “Evelyn always wanted to see Scott family.” others succeed and was willing to Davis High alum Dave Scott, an be the teammate who made everyinductee of the school’s first Hall one better just by her very presof Fame class. Dave is the guy who ence. Evelyn is — and will always SCOTT eventually put the Ironman Tribe — an example of what it means Davis Triathlon athlon on the map, but it was his to be a Blue Devil athlete.” creator dad who was the catalyst in the Andrews talked about her battles sport. with cancer in a moving essay for In 2008, Verne Scott was the California Collegiate Athletic inducted into the USA Triathlon Association. Titled “In This Family, Hall of Fame, also a member of No One Fights Alone,” Evelyn that shrine’s inaugural group. shares her thoughts, chronicles her ■ Marc Manfredda — A UC illness and describes how she figDavis football stalwart at center in ured she’d beaten cancer twice.It is the early 2000s, Manfredda died a melancholy read. in March as the result of a recreEvelyn Andrews is survived by MANFREDDA her mother and father, Laura and Standout UCD ational accident in St. Augustine, Fla. Adam, and older brother Sam. football player Center Manfredda stood 6-3, ■ Verne Scott — The death of 300 during his playing days and Verne Scott, 96, this month had Davis aquatics circles remembering the pioneer- anchored a massive offensive line that helped the Bob Biggs-coached Aggies avering he did during his days in town. Scott, who in later years lived in age 400 yards a game. Manfredda was
twice named to the all-Great West Conference first team and upon graduation signed with the San Diego Chargers. “He certainly will be missed,” Biggs said. “He was a great person and a great player. Very tragic. He was arguably one of the best to ever play at Davis. He was in the Shrine All-Star Game and a two-time captain. “More importantly than that, for some guys it’s just their leadership and their personalities, toughness … You talk to the guys who played with Marc, they’ll tell you — he was unquestionably the leader of the team.” A 2004 graduate with a degree in community and regional development, Manfredda is survived by his wife, women’s long-drive golf champion and Sacramento State alumna Heather LeMaster. Manfredda was the director of the southeast region of Edwards Moving and Rigging in Florida. ■ Chris Stretch — Former UC Davis baseball player Stretch passed away in January. He was 42. Stretch was recruited to play football at UC Davis but changed his focus to baseball. He earned all-conference and allregion honors his senior year and signed a minor-league contract. After three years with the Solano Steelheads, Stretch moved onto a sales career. He found a way to turn his personal struggles with fear and anxiety into a way of helping others. He was an active member of the Student Mental Health Provider Task Force and partnered with organizations including Beach Cities Health District, South Bay Families Connected, Positive Coaching Alliance, Amigos Unidos and others.
2020: Blue Devil grappler takes down top-ranked foe From Page B1 the UCD women’s swimming and diving program. Effectively the lone head coach in the program’s varsity history, Jahn’s final year on the deck will be the 2020-21 season. “In 1975, I embarked on what was to become a lifelong adventure,” Jahn told The Enterprise. “This coaching job was my first, and only, full-time job of my lifetime.” The Kahns have headed up Davis Aquatics Masters since 2008 and count more than 500 locals among their current numbers. “We’ve been coaching together for two-thirds of our lives, and we’re ready to start writing our next chapter,” the couple said. “While it has been a distinct honor and privilege to be part of this incomparable club, it isn’t possible to fully describe the trust, support and friendship we have felt these many years.” As those coaching doors close, a facility door opens ... In move that will save taxpayers more than $3.4 million on the sale of Measure M bonds, the Davis school trustees will work to expedite nine construction projects planned, including the Davis High Aquatics Center. The 25-yard-by-50-meter facility will include 17 competition lanes, bleachers and changing rooms. It will be able to host two concurrent water polo
matches. The complex will be nestled between the two DHS gymnasiums off Oak Avenue.
6. Taking it to the mat After winning three straight Sac-Joaquin Section individual wrestling titles, Davis High senior Adrienna Turner continued to climb in the national standings. A grappler since joining the Davis Wrestling Club as a seventh-grader, the senior finds herself ranked No. 1 in her weight class in the latest USA Wrestling poll. On Halloween, Turner made headlines by turning away four opponents to win the Brian Keck Memorial Preseason Nationals in Des Moines, Iowa. Wrestling at 127 pounds, Turner stopped then top-ranked Montana DeLawder (Gettysburg, Pa.), 2-0, to take the title. “I was excited and happy,” Adrienna said of the victory, adding: “But what that does is it’s just made me more motivated.” Turner heads to Grand View University (Iowa), a wrestling mecca, this fall.
7. UC Davis kills PE Students and faculty members alike were both surprised and disappointed in September when UC Davis officials announced plans to immediately terminate the school’s physical-education
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Davis High swimming coach Owen Yancher, far back, oversees the final day of practice in March. It was a morning of fun and games for the Blue Devils, who had no idea it would be their last time in the pool for a very long time.
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Davis High senior Adrienna Turner dominated state and national competition to earn the No. 1 ranking in her weight class by USA Wrestling. program at the conclusion of 2020. In the following weeks, faculty protested, students circulated a petition and ASUCD senators drafted a resolution asking the university to pause the elimination. A handful of California legislators even weighed in, all urging the university to reconsider. But with PE lecturers set to be laid off this month, campus leaders moved ahead with their decision to end the program. In recent years, more than 5,000 UCD students had enrolled annually in classes offered through the program. Created before World War I, Davis’ PE department had produced leaders in sports psychology, coaching and other specialties. Recently, the campus had offered dozens of activity courses per year, ranging from kickboxing to aquatics to women’s self-defense, as well as lecture courses on subjects like “Healthful Living” and “Sport in American Society.” The courses were largely taught by current and former coaches of UCD’s athletics teams, an arrangement the campus’ Academic Senate insisted on preserving as a condition of Davis’ 2003 transition from Division II to Division I athletics.
The decision to end the program was primarily “based on steadily declining enrollment in PE over the years,” UC Davis spokeswoman Melissa Blouin told The Enterprise. UCD says scrapping the program will save $1.2 million per year. Though they will no longer be required to teach courses, athletic coaches will see their salaries remain the same.
8. A new icon on the diamond? When Davis High baseball coach Dan Ariola retired after three section titles and more than 20 years at the helm of the program, everyone figured the position would be one of the most sought-after in Northern California diamond circles. But it took the Blue Devils six months, a couple of false starts with candidates and four separate job listings to find their man — and find their man they did. Enter former Blue Devil Ethan Guevin, a key member of the locals’ 2004 Sac-Joaquin Section banner-raisers. Guevin was on the mound when DHS won both the Delta League and CIF title games. “I’m really excited about the opportunity,” Guevin told The
Enterprise when named in December of 2019. “And I’m really excited to take over at a place where there’s already been some expectations and standards that have been set.” But, as for most this year, Guevin’s first season started and stopped ... The hope remains that the 2021 campaign is one that will a) start, if not on time, and b) play through to a June playoff conclusion. Guevin has blue coursing through his veins. After that championship run as a junior, he hit .462 in his senior season. His first post-prep experience came in a four-year career at Carleton College (Minnesota). Australia and Belgium were his next stops as a player, followed by coaching stints with the Lehigh Valley Catz of the Atlantic College Baseball League and then the University of South Carolina Upstate. “I’ve been fortunate to have baseball be my job my entire adult life,” Guevin reports. “It doesn’t get much better than that.”
9. Everything is Jake The bad news for Aggie football fans as we moved into 2020 was that all-everything quarterback Jake Maier had graduated and wouldn’t be around to aid UC Davis fortunes as he had for the previous three record-setting seasons. The good news for Maier was that, despite not being selected in the NFL draft or landing a free-agent contract with an NFL team, he did attract considerable attention from the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League. Unlike basketball, where a great number of professional options exist around the world for those who don’t earn an NBA contract, professional football opportunities are much more limited. Maier, who was the first Aggie in the Division-I era and the
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2020: UCD baseball wins epic battle From Page B1 second Aggie overall to play in the prestigious Hula Bowl all-star game in Hawaii, signed with the Stampeders in May. “The best way to describe (the signing) is ‘excitement,’ ” Maier told The Enterprise. “It’s now on me to be prepared and produce at an elite level. It’s about doing whatever it takes to win and to show the team that they made a great decision by bringing me on board.” Unfortunately, the entire 2020 CFL season was eventually scrubbed by the pandemic after an
emergency request for a $30 million loan from the Canadian government was denied. Maier is one of five quarterbacks currently on the roster. Maier set UC Davis records for career passing yards (11,163) and completions (992) and is second in touchdown passes with 88. He led the Aggies to their first Big Sky championship and into the FCS playoffs in 2018, his junior season.
10. Extra, extra It was Friday, Feb. 28 — a good afternoon for a little baseball. And when Loyola Marymount visited
UC Davis that day, the Aggies looked ready for prime time. An opening-pitch fastball by UCD righty Brett Erwin was called a strike, and off the two teams went. Tied through six innings, tied after nine. Still deadlocked into the twilight. In the 13th now, umpires said this would be the last inning. But it didn’t end there. Carried over to Saturday, 11 more innings were played before Spencer Gedestad’s sacrifice fly scored Tanner Murray in the 24th inning. Six hours and 32 minutes. Twenty-four innings. No matter
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how you viewed it, the game was college baseball’s longest (albeit in a season that was canceled the following month). It was also considered one of 2020’s most interesting contests, making several nation “game of the year” lists. “I’m really proud of the team,” UCD skipper Matt Vaughn said at the time. “They just kept going. The energy was phenomenal, all
day and (Friday) ... I think it would have been if we kept playing (the season). There’s something really fun about this team.” For local fans, let’s hope we’ll be able to see what makes these Aggies so special in 2021. — Enterprise sports staffers Kim Orendor, Bob Dunning, Owen Yancher and Bruce Gallaudet contributed to this recap.
DUNNING: Big moments missed YANCHER: Never too old to learn From Page B1 boring. Now, it seems like heaven. When they closed our public schools on Friday the 13th of March, none of us could imagine what we’d be facing over the final nine months of 2020.A week, maybe two, we thought. Then things will go back to normal. Two of our daughters were on the Davis High track team, attempting to break their dad’s DHS personal best in the mile run of 9 minutes and 16 seconds, established nearly six decades ago. They never got the chance. The season was scrubbed after just one meet. Our young son was thrilled to have made the junior varsity boys volleyball team and we were equally thrilled to watch him and his teammates perform at their first and only match of the season, a close loss at Freedom High in Oakley. But hey, they finished undefeated at home.
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ait until next year, I told them. But now that next year is upon us, it seems as if it will still be a number of months before any teenager in town will proudly be putting on a Blue Devil uniform. As a college basketball fan, I never thought I’d see the powers that be at the NCAA flat-out cancel March Madness just as it was about to begin. I was so looking forward to seeing how far the powerhouse Aggie women’s team would go in the tournament, and I truly felt the Aggie men had overcome their mid-season struggles and were ready to make a post-season run. My longtime colleague and friend, Bruce Gallaudet, was already in Anaheim last March, in anticipation of covering the men’s and women’s Big West tournaments, but had to settle for interviewing Mickey and Minnie Mouse instead. I had no interest in watching the NBA
playoffs in front of fake fans in the Orlando “bubble,” and Major League Baseball in empty stadiums was so devoid of excitement that I turned to the Weather Channel instead.
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till, as this dreaded virus seemed to loosen its grip a bit in the summer, I started to hope that there might be a “normal” college football season after all, and I’d be taking my familiar seat in press boxes all over the west as our Aggie warriors ventured into battle. Alas, that, too, was scrubbed, swapped out for the promise of a six-game schedule this spring that seems more unlikely by the day. (Sacramento State went so far as to scrap football altogether, citing not enough time to turn its athletes around in time for a healthy transition from spring to fall schedules.) Leave it to a couple of legendary local football coaches to put all this into perspective. Hornets head coach Troy Taylor told Joe Davidson of The Sacramento Bee, “If not playing football is the worst thing any of us will go through, then we’ve had a good life.” Indeed. And yes, that’s the same Troy Taylor who was a standout quarterback at Cal, and the same Joe Davidson who began his writing career at The Davis Enterprise. Not so long ago, after the Aggies had finished a 15-practice session without a game in sight, UC Davis’ Dan Hawkins told our own superstar Gallaudet, “We know this year is not normal by any means.” But, Hawkins added, “You’re still getting a degree from UC Davis. You’re still playing Division I football. You’re still in a culture that loves you, supports you and helps to develop you. A lot of people want to play the victim. We can just as easily play the victor.” Amen. — Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@ davisenterprise.net.
KELLY: My best guess From Page B1 No two seasons for any pro or college team are ever alike. The 2020 editor of the 49ers are a perfect example. So ... no predictions. Instead, you’re getting a few observations: ■ Through 16 weeks, the NFL has managed to get all of its scheduled games played. In so doing, for the first time in league history, at least one game has been played on each day of the week. ■ The college football season has been a mess from Day 1. The SEC, ACC and Big 12, for the most part, played relatively full schedules. The Big Ten and Pac-12, which originally decided to play in the spring, abruptly changed course when TV’s money train was about to leave the station. Those two in essence played half a season. More than 150 games were either canceled on rescheduled. The bowl “season” has seen 15 games canceled to date, and more could follow in the coming days. A 2-8 team (South Carolina) was invited to a bowl, but had to bow out due to positive COVID tests. Same went for 3-7 Tennessee. There is nothing good about any of this. ■ The President-elect told the nation this week that the first quarter of 2021 could well produce another spike in infections. “The worst is yet to come.” ■ When ballparks, stadiums and arenas reopen nationwide, fans will have had a full year without high ticket prices and no exorbitant parking fees. Yet they will have seen the sports programming of their choice on TV screens, much of it for free. If I am a sports team owner,
university president or athletic director, that is a sobering thought. All the sports, pro or college, will have to recultivate their fan bases. Merely opening the gates won’t cut it. There will likely be testing involved. Even with proper distancing and only a percentage of seats available, would any fan be comfortable in the vicinity of someone they don’t know who may inadvertently be a “super-spreader?” One man’s guess as to when the ballparks reopen? How about sometime between Memorial Day and July 4? (Hope it’s sooner, we need sports in our lives. But not at the expense of our health.) ■ And a fond farewell is due the 107 former major league baseball players who passed away in 2020. Included are a number of Hall of Famers, and others who played the game at the highest level. They have left the stage, but their careers will never be forgotten. We recognize the Cooperstown residents: Lou Brock, Whitey Ford, Bob Gibson, Al Kaline, Joe Morgan and Tom Seaver. Others of note included Dick Allen, Don Larsen, Johnny Antonelli, Horace Clarke, Tony Fernandez, Lou Johnson, Jay Johnstone, Matt Keough, Julio Becquer, Phil Linz, Mike McCormack, Bob Oliver, Ron Perranoski, Ed Sprague, Claudell Washington, Jim Wynn. Godspeed, gentlemen ... ■ Have a healthy, happy and safe 2021. — Doug Kelly is director of communications for Battlefields2Ballfields and managing general partner of Kelly & Associates. Kelly also is the longtime radio and television color man on UC Davis football broadcasts. Reach Kelly at dkelly1416@aol.com.
From Page B1 to tell a kid in a situation like that? There’s no section written about “pandemic delays” in any coach’s manuals. Are leagues canceled? Is our season over? How bad is this virus? Are we going to die? Thirty sets of eyes turned to me looking for answers I didn’t have. What was there to say? I leveled with them. I told them I was just as confused as they were. Just as shocked. Just as scared. I didn’t lie. I didn’t try to predict the future. I didn’t try to inspire any false hope. That would’ve been unfair. And it probably came out sounding cheesy, but I told them we needed to be there for one another in the coming days — days that would likely be a struggle for some of them and their families. Little did I know ... Because the district allowed it, we decided to hold one, final, entirely optional practice the following morning. About 20 kids showed up. All we did was play games. We did over-unders. We swam relays. We played music. We brought out Hot Wheels cars and had them race along the bottom of the pool. We let kids be kids.
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urns out, it was probably one of the few opportunities they’ve had to do so this year. In the weeks that followed, we obviously learned we wouldn’t be seeing each other again at the pool. First came the cancellations of our conference meets; then our postseason league championship; then the section and state meets. For a short period, we did our best to keep the season alive with Zoom training workouts. But they just weren’t the same. So our coaching staff put its thinking caps on ... We brainstormed, called other coaches, and later on borrowed ideas
from a few. I drew inspiration from several folks at UC Davis. We organized a team trivia night. We surprised each of our seniors with “Blue Devil Swimming” lawn signs. We even held a virtual swim competition against our rival school, St. Francis, substituting inthe-pool events for videos the kids edited together of four athletes swimming the individual legs of a medley relay. We made the most of a cruddy situation.
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ut my favorite activity actually ended up being an optional writing assignment I gave to the team. In a nutshell, the prompt was: Write a letter to your former self with advice you’d like to give that younger version of you, knowing what you know now. I encouraged them to think back four or five years and reflect on their accomplishments, challenges and experiences, both good and bad. The responses blew me away. Kids opened up like I’d never seen before. They wrote about problems at home, self-doubt, struggles with anxiety and mental health, bullying ... even self-harm. I cried while reading some. Others were more practical and made me laugh: “Start a hand-sanitizing business,” one wrote. Another said, “Bet all your money on the Eagles in the 2018 Super Bowl.” All in all, the hour or so I spent reading each of their 32 responses was one of the most rewarding moments of my coaching career. I felt like I learned more about some of them in 5 minutes of reading than I had in four years as their coach. As this pandemic has dragged on and on and on, I’ve felt deflated and defeated on more than one occasion. But those kids have been my inspiration to press on. — Reach Owen Yancher at oyancher@ davisenterprise.net. Follow him via Twitter at @530athletics.
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With my plate of pretzels and hot dogs secured, I put my reasonably priced drink in the cup holder on the overstuffed and extra-comfy couch. The closest person is 2 feet away, safely tucked into their own soft leather heaven.
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he early obligatory texts arrive: P: We really need this one. Me: Word! O: You may be the only person watching Crystal Palace now. It’s hard for English fans to watch sometimes. Me: Maybe, but, yesterday was a good day for the lads. O: True. Good luck with your Dodgers. Me: Thanks. UG: How are your parents? Me: Great. We’re watching the Dodgers. UG: They suck. Me: You suck. This is when it hits me how much I miss interacting with people at sporting events. And it’s not just the trash talk, although that is especially fun when it comes to certain family members and friends. Texting is not fast enough and the brilliance of my sarcasm is often lost, even with emojis. But, it’s the easiest way to talk with multiple people around the country at the same time.
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he game is slightly more than halfway done when I make another visit to the kitchen to restock my snack dish. With the everincreasing commercial time, there is plenty of time to also run to the restroom (which, unlike the stadium, never has a line and always has toilet paper). There is a moment that every sports fan feels when the manager is about to do something stupid. Momentum is squarely on your team’s side, and the squad is six outs for a solid win. P: Oh, my gosh. Why is he pulling him?! Stupid analytics. Me: He just can’t seem to let well enough alone. P: He did this last time, and they lost! Lame. Me: True, but if it works this time, he’s a genius. P: Doesn’t mean I have to like it. Me: Oh, but you know you will. My hope is that in the future, I will once again be squished in some horrible hard plastic seat eating an overpriced soft pretzel and cheering for my team in a sea of people. — Kim Orendor is a staff writer for The Davis Enterprise. She wishes all a safe and happy 2021.
From Page B1 that your heart goes out to the college and highschool student-athletes who live in limbo, wondering if the promise of a reconfigured season will happen at all.
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t least the college performers have been given an extra year of eligibility by the NCAA. The prep kids have lost, or are losing, the chance to enjoy some of the best times of their lives — their senior year in high school. Keep your hand up if the sight of professional athletes playing in relative bubbles has left you flat. The NBA with no fans, playing in Florida, what might as well be a million miles from home? The truncated MLB campaign with few home games (which wouldn’t have mattered anyway, sans fans). Even the COVID-confronted NFL feels hollow. Is that arm tired yet? Prop it up if you haven’t been able to hold your newest granddaughter, born nine months ago. Although she lives less than 70 miles away, she hasn’t been able to visit your house. Keep your hand up if you haven’t enjoyed dinner at a friend’s home, or any visitors to your home, or have had to walk wide around someone you’ve known for decades — then backed up, almost in a reverse trot, when that acquaintance tried to engage you in chat. Maybe your best friend of 65 years died in July. Maybe your job’s hours have been cut in half and you are rejoicing that your duties haven’t been scrapped altogether. But you remain concerned about job security going into 2021. Maybe you wonder if your profession will evaporate altogether in the coming years, exacerbated by the pandemic.
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see an awful lot of hands still up. I imagine those of you following this erratically bouncing ball worry 24/7 about your loved ones whom you don’t get to see, some of whom are essential personnel like teachers, medical researchers or relatives who assist adults with physical and mental disabilities. I also know those of you whose arms are aching from having your hands raised wish I had never written this column, reminding us of what we’ve gone through in 2020. Reminding us of what still might lie ahead. I know I’m tired of writing this. It look longer than I thought, typing with one hand while my arm was raised during every single thought you just read. — Reach DE sports editor Bruce Gallaudet at bgallaudet41@gmail.com or call 530-320-4456. Follow Gallaudet on Twitter: @BGsportsinDavis.
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2020
Virus may have permanent effects
It will be like W a second Christmas BY LLEWELLYN KING Special to The Enterprise
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reckon there are two Christmases: the one we celebrated on Dec. 25, and the one that happens when something goes terribly right in our lives.
Those rare but wonderful days of pure golden joy when something has gone too right to have been anticipated, when you hoot and holler, jump up and down for joy, and run around your house or office or down the street. Well, I know when my Christmas next year will come. I can’t tell you the day or hang out decorations or send invitations to the party, at least not yet. But it is coming, that second Christmas, and it is going to be big, like the end of World War II or the moon landing or when the Super Bowl was won by your team. I can just remember the end of World War II, when Hitler was defeated — Victory Europe — and the huge public celebration with lots of kissing and hugging and embracing strangers.
hen the state Employment Development Department released a new report on jobsthis month, it had a tinge of optimism. California’s unemployment rate had dropped to 8.2% in November, exactly half of the record-high 16.4% recorded in the spring as the first wave of COVID-19 pummeled the state and Gov. Gavin Newsom shut down large segments of the economy. Viewed narrowly, the report indicated a strong recovery of about half of the more than two million jobs that had been quickly erased by the early shutdown orders. But appearances were deceiving. After seemingly retreating during the summer and early fall months, thus allowing many economic sectors to resume hiring, the stubborn disease exploded with a vengeance in late November and Newsom has once again clamped down on businesses deemed to be infection hot spots, such as restaurants. Unemployment is also soaring again as affected employers shed workers, likely sending the jobless rate over 10% again. “In isolation, California’s November job performance is
not terrible; in 2019, a ‘normal’ year, it would have been by far the best preforming month,” Taner Osman, research manager at Beacon Economics and the UC Riverside Center for Forecasting, said. “But because job losses since February measure at more than a million workers, and because of the continued surge of new COVID cases in the state, this is not a report that will bring much-needed cheer to California’s workers.” The pandemic is straining health care providers to the breaking point. “We are at or near capacity everywhere,” Greg Adams, CEO of Kaiser Permanente said as he and other medical executives pleaded last week with Californians to avoid infection-spreading holiday gatherings. “As the bed count continues to dwindle we simply will not be able to keep up if the COVID-19 surge continues to increase.”
The undulating nature of COVID-19 and the state’s economic decrees bode ill as 2020 stumbles to a close and a new year beckons. We obviously don’t know how severe this current COVID-19 flareup will be or how long it will last. Although vaccines have been approved and are beginning to be administered it will take months — perhaps a year — for enough Californians to be vaccinated to put at least a semi-permanent lid on the disease.
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e cannot know how long the current economic restrictions will be in place, but we do know that the longer they remain, affected businesses, especially small businesses, are less likely to reopen. Their doors are closed and they have no revenue, but their rents and loan payments continue and many will not survive. The pandemic has clearly widened California’s socioeconomic fault lines. Those on the upper rungs of the economic ladder and their employers have fared relatively well because they have adjusted through working at home and other arrangements. But service businesses that depend on personal
patronage, such as restaurants and hotels, and their relatively low-income employees don’t have such options. Between November 2019 and November 2020, the state lost a net of 1.4 million jobs and a third of those were in the “leisure and hospitality” sector, more than twice the losses in any other category. However, the “financial activities” sector that includes banks, insurance companies and stock brokerages was actually employing 4,300 more Californians in November than a year earlier. The economic effects of COVID-19 will be severe and in many cases permanent. We may be seeing another economic mega-evolution, akin to the explosion of the state’s high-technology industry four decades ago or the collapse of its aerospace industry three decades ago, with life-changing impacts on housing, education, transportation and even politics. — 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.
For me it was quite innocent and I wish it had all happened, especially the kissing, 10 years later, but you take what you can get when you can. Even at age 5, I realized this was big stuff. That day in Cape Town, I saw the handsomest sailor in the world in his dress uniform, my dad, and I celebrated his survival. The first time I got published in an adult newspaper as a contributor, that was unscheduled Christmas, and I ran around in an intoxication of joy, as excited as it is possible to be. I thought I had scaled the ramparts and would never come down. I came down. But the celebration was fantastic, a Christmas for sure. Sometimes it becomes us to think of Christmas past, not those of Dickens’s Scrooge, but those things that happened. Perhaps it was the day when Cupid’s arrow found its mark, and you knew your life was changed for the better when you didn’t expect it — or felt you didn’t deserve it. This is a somber Christmas in 2020. But there will be a day of joy in the not too faroff future.
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hat will be when it is clear that COVID-19 will no longer be on its killing spree; when we will have had our jabs, restrained our human contact, worn our masks and celebrated Christmas in a tender but reduced way, thinking on the meaning, on the happiness we have and not what we are postponing. Likewise, New Year’s will be subdued but as anticipatory as ever. There won’t be just one day, alas, when we ring the bells, blow horns and hug strangers. But there will be a day sometime next year when we can believe that the wicked witch is dead, that the virus is vanquished, and that life may return to what will be a new normal but nonetheless so welcome. I wish it were all to happen on the same day, but it won’t. However, I think a day, one day, should be designated when it is clear that COVID-19, like polio, is in the rear-view mirror. I yearn for that day: when I can go out to dinner, when I can see the faces of the noble clerks in the supermarket, embrace those who have borne the battle, manning the ambulances, the hospitals, and the nursing homes. A day when we remember those we have lost and celebrate those we have. I would suggest we have a new national day of remembrance: VV Day, for Victory Virus. Happy, safe holidays to you. — 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.
LETTERS Kudos to Garamendi Local members of Citizens’ Climate Lobby extend our hearty thanks to Rep. John Garamendi for his co-sponsorship of HR763, the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act (EICDA). This bipartisan bill would cut CO2 emissions from greenhouse gases by 40% in 12 years by placing a steadily rising fee on fossil fuel at the mine or wellhead. Among those with the lowest 60% of incomes, 83% would receive dividends greater than their increased fuel costs. For an additional 13% of these people, added costs would be less than .02% of income, $100 on a $50,000 annual income. Those with larger incomes, who typically have higher consumption lifestyles, would spend more than their dividend. The gasoline and diesel fuel used in agriculture would be exempt. Residents in CA District 3 want climate action. The Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (https:// climatecommunication.yale.edu/visual izations-data/ycom-us/) estimates 69% of District 3 residents believe fossil fuel companies should pay a tax on carbon. And 62% say climate change is already affecting the weather. President-elect Biden has said climate
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Missed opportunity The authors of “Measure B failure suggests need for new vision” claim that DISC’s defeat means that it’s time for a new vision. But the truth is that Davis remains an excellent location for an innovation center that retains and builds on the transformative technologies coming out of UC Davis. We wouldn’t have proposed the project and spent the money to move it forward if that wasn’t true. Without a project like DISC, those new ideas and businesses will just go elsewhere, as they’ve been
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doing for decades. That creates a missed opportunity for Davis to play a more significant role in actually addressing climate change, food insecurity and other pressing global issues, and for the city and Yolo County to benefit from the hundreds of millions of dollars in research funding that flow annually to UC Davis. The authors also claim that DISC’s defeat has climate-change benefits. But the truth is that it means highly qualified Davis residents who could be working locally will instead continue commuting to jobs in Sacramento and the Bay Area. Lost jobs, missed opportunities to positively shape and impact the future, and longer work commutes … that’s hardly a win for the environment and an undeniable loss for Davis. Dan Ramos DISC Project Manager
Thanks from Sunset Rotary We would like to thank Lampost Pizza, Super Owl Brewery and those who supported and donated to our fundraiser last Friday for our water project in Rumbiye Kenya. For more information about this project you may want to visit our website at: www.sunsetrotarydavis.org. It is a small world and if everyone does their part we will all be just fine. Richard Stein President, Sunset Rotary Davis
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What can we learn from an awful year? I first became acquainted with National Public Radio my senior year of high school. My first-period economics class at Davis High happened to be taught by my swim coach, Mr. Stapleton. And for that reason, I made sure to never, ever, ever be late. Oftentimes, I’d be the first one in the room. But every morning, without fail, Mr. Stapleton would have the radio on the shelf behind his desk tuned in to NPR before the start of class. Sometimes it would be playing so quietly I’d strain to listen — still only half-awake at that point. But because I sat in the front row at the desk closest to his, I’d usually be able to hear the closing minutes of the “Marketplace Morning Report” before he turned the volume dial down
and began lecturing at 8 a.m. Years later, I still listen to “Marketplace.” But in 2020, I’ve gone from listening over the airwaves on my drive to work, to listening via podcast on my iPhone. The other day, though, I did get to listen to NPR, live, as I was on my way to the store for Christmas gifts. The program featured a behavioral therapist speaking about some of the major and gradual changes in Americans’ lifestyles brought on
by the pandemic. It was a fascinating conversation that explored everything from changes in peoples’ shopping habits over the last several months to the possible fading away of the customary handshake greeting during the course of our lifetimes. Following the segment, as NPR often does, the host threw out a conversation starter and opened up the phone lines. The question was simple. But it was also excellent and thought-provoking: What will you miss most about the pandemic when it’s over? It certainly made me stop and think. Something I’d enjoyed about the pandemic? The same pandemic that’s furloughed me at work, canceled the season of the high school swim team I coach and, oh, yeah, killed a quarter
million Americans? I’ll admit I laughed a little. But as I thought more and as listeners continued to call in and share their thoughts, I realized there actually has been a lot of good sprinkled into this otherwise godawful year. One common theme touched on by callers, was the fact that they’d become closer to their neighbors during lockdown. People talked about everything from socially-distanced street parties to learning the names of their neighbors’ dogs and sharing recipes. I related to it all. Another one mentioned that struck a chord with me, was how much people had enjoyed going out for walks around their neighborhoods. Again, relatable. Early in the pandemic and into the summer, I’d take hourslong walks around Davis.
I noticed so much I’d never seen before and marveled at the silliest things. I stopped to stare at houses. And trees. And sunsets. And I actually took the time to read all the plaques and placards around town and on campus at UC Davis. As we return to our always onthe-go lives in the coming year, I hope we’ll still pause to chat with that neighbor across the street. And as our worlds expand, I hope we’ll still stop and take notice of the small things that bring us joy. Appreciate the kindness and beauty around you. You look for it more when the world is smaller. — Reach Owen Yancher at oyancher@davisenterprise.net. Follow him via Twitter at @dhspunter.
Child care is essential work, and it’s in crisis COMMENTARY
BY CHARLOTTE NEAL Special to CalMatters
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OVID-19 squeezes families with parents who can’t work from home. Delivery drivers, retail workers and health care professionals need a safe and nurturing place to send their kids during the workday, or they won’t be able to provide for their families. Family childcare providers like me are their solution. But this formula for success may not survive much longer because providers are at a breaking point. Nearly 6,000 family childcare providers — mostly Black and brown women — closed their doors in California this year. Many may never reopen, jeopardizing the availability of affordable childcare for working families. Some providers closed from fear of exposing themselves, staff, loved ones and families they serve to COVID-19. Others closed from the burden of growing out-of-pocket costs. For the last 18 years, I have run a family childcare center out of my home. My first kid gets dropped off at 3 a.m. It’s relentless and rewarding work, complicated by the demands of providing childcare during the COVID-19 pandemic. I sanitize my home and provide masks as if my house were an operating room. I responded to prolonged school closures by helping school-aged kids continue their education. I hired additional staff, bought more food, upgraded my internet connection and purchased tablets to do it. All of these new costs add up quickly because providers already operate on thin margins. But there is no alternative. Is anything more important than helping children get through the stress of living during COVID-19? I don’t think so. As the pandemic surges and debts pile up around me, I see the writing on the wall. I cannot handle these pressures much longer. Other family childcare providers can’t either. We have been taking on mountains of risk and cannot continue facing these challenges alone. We need the state of California, which is responsible for most of our pay and working conditions, to acknowledge this and adapt — just like we have.
For providers, this is the great irony of 2020. We entered this year on a wave of optimism after winning our union rights. We have a seat at the table to make California’s childcare system work better. Now we need the state to engage before it falls apart.
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t’s been a waiting game. We asked for aid to reopen if we close following a potential COVID exposure and for increased payments to cover the 75% increase in costs we’ve faced as we support kids taking part in distance learning. State leaders informed us, in October, they would reverse an effective pay cut we took to cover fees associated with families keeping their kids at home as a safety precaution, but we’re still losing money every month with no actual relief in sight. As COVID-19 surges across California, it’s clear the pressures working families and childcare providers face will worsen before they improve. We desperately need a breakthrough. California can’t beat back the virus unless essential workers continue working, so the rest of the state can quarantine at home. Essential workers can’t work without childcare. This makes childcare providers essential workers too. Working parents plus quality childcare equals success. This formula hasn’t changed under COVID-19, but its implications have taken on new significance. Before the pandemic, I viewed my work in childcare as helping keep families whole. Now I see it and our childcare system as the foundation for California’s recovery. With so much at stake, the neglect of childcare providers into a closure crisis must stop. We need action from the state, and we need it now. — Charlotte Neal has been a family childcare provider for more than 18 years in Sacramento and is a member of Child Care Providers United, CCPU-UDW/AFSCME Local 3930, charlotteccpu@gmail. com. She wrote this for CalMatters, a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California's Capitol works and why it matters.
California’s electric grid needs an overhaul BY AMIT NARAYAN Special to CalMatters
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alifornia has a power problem that’s only going to keep rearing its head until we solve it. Over the summer and fall, the state’s rolling blackouts have persistently left residents in the dark during heat waves — in August, the number reached as high as 300,000 homes without power. Some were quick to call clean energy the problem — but California’s grid operators, along with many third-party experts, firmly clarified that they are having no issues integrating renewables. The true culprits are an antiquated grid and archaic market constructs that are holdovers from a less efficient era, when power moved in one direction: from power plant to consumer. Today, we have far greater and far more complex energy needs — yet we’re still working with a set of tools and rules developed generations ago. Like many other states moving forward with energy transition strategies, California is beset by a decades-old system for moving power that lacks flexibility when it’s most needed, as during our recent heat waves that lasted through October. Skyrocketing demand during heat waves is one challenge facing California’s aging model for delivering power — but there are others. Solving them is a matter of survival for California’s traditional grid. California energy rates clock in at a whopping 19.9 cents per
kilowatt-hour — far higher than the national average of 13.19 cents. Combined with unreliable supply, this high cost of electricity is pushing many larger customers toward solar and energy storage solutions, which allow them to use less grid power. Unfortunately, this leaves the middle class and other pricesensitive customers to bear the bulk of infrastructure costs. As electric rates spike, Californians are also exploring options to reduce their reliance on the grid, fight rising electric bills and hedge against emergency shutdowns. California’s potential for a middle class exodus from the grid means the remaining citizens have the choice to pay for the increasing cost of electricity or get off utility power. Those who can’t afford to leave the grid will end up footing the bill, putting both these residents and traditional utilities in financial jeopardy. As Californians explore these new energy options, energy suppliers are answering the call with more flexible models. Consumers are joining community choice aggregators that give customer groups greater control over their energy mix, and solar and battery leases have become much more accessible through energy-as-aservice providers. With more flexible services and differentiated, less expensive offerings, these organizations are attracting Californians away from traditional utilities. In addition, a number of large-scale oil and gas companies have entered the clean energy market. Shell, Total and BP have all set carbon neutrality goals
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and are bringing their increased scale to clean power systems. Shell has also pledged to become the world’s largest power provider by 2030 and made a number of investments and acquisitions to get there. These companies are merely steps away from giving consumers access to flexible, reliable power. So what does this mean for California’s traditional grid? If utilities don’t get competitive, the often predicted “utility death spiral” will come hard and fast. The network of utilities and operators running California’s grid must rethink existing business models to create a more flexible, sustainable system for delivering power or they risk being eaten by faster, nimbler enterprises. Traditional price caps and capital investment incentives will no longer work in this new business model. Utilities have an abundance of data at their disposal to maximize the value of generated power. By forecasting demand and available resources, utilities can better manage their grids, optimize their energy supply and available resources, and reduce waste to meet consumer demand. California is at a crossroads, though one path can be ruled out right away: further delaying the overhaul that will create a more reliable, flexible grid. — Amit Narayan is the Founder and CEO of AutoGrid Inc., a company that provides software for the energy industry, autogrid@antennagroup.com. From 2010 to 2012, he was the director of Smart Grid Research in Modeling & Simulation at Stanford University.
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Disrespectful son Dear Annie: Two years ago, I got on my then-17-year-old son for using a very derogatory term for women. I told him that the word should not be a part of his vocabulary, and it would cause great harm to his reputation if he were to use the word in public. He got angry with me. The argument ended with him leaving my home. He went to stay with his mother and didn’t come over to my house for his normal visits for his entire senior year of high school. My son blamed me for the rift and refused to see me. I got married later that summer and even though he said he would attend, he didn’t show up, and neither did my younger son. A year later, I attended his high school graduation and things seemed to be on the mend until, during a discussion, he said he was not sorry for cutting me out of his life for his senior year and doesn’t regret it. His blazon arrogance and narcissistic personality are very much reminiscent of his maternal grandfather, whom he idolizes. This has caused me to not enjoy being around him, and I did not want to spend much time with him the past year. As a parent, should I just ignore the bad behavior and suffer having him around? Or should I continue to refuse to see him until he matures and learns that my wife and I deserve to be treated with respect, requiring him to apologize for his past behavior if he wants to spend time with us? — Dad with Questions Dear Dad with Questions: If you refuse to see your son until the day he wakes up having spontaneously metamorphosized into a mature human being, you might never see him again. But if you silently suffer his bullying behav-
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Dreading birthdays Dear Annie: I am approaching my 72nd birthday. I am an only child. My dad died in 1995. My mother was nearly 97 when she died in 2004. Ever since my mom died, I have become very despondent as my birthday approached. The day of my birthday could not go by quickly enough. My wife and my two adult sons walk on eggshells on my birthday. They want to celebrate the day with me, and I want no part of it. I tell them that I would be glad to celebrate the occasion but not until after the actual date has gone by. I was hoping as the years passed since my mom passed away that time would heal. Unfortunately, it has not. Any suggestions? — Dreading the Day Dear Dreading: I hope you don’t mind my saying this, but happy birthday. If you want to celebrate your birthday on a differ-
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Ex invited to Christmas Dear Annie: My sister passed away in September, and I was really looking forward to spending an evening with her family during Christmas. I’d not really been close with her husband or children in the past, but it’s important to me to spend time with them now. Well, apparently, my ex-husband has been invited to their house, along with his wife of three years. We divorced five years ago, after he verbally and emotionally abused me for 21 years. Admittedly, I left the marriage in a not so great way, with the first person who told me that I was beautiful. This holiday situation has created a lot of tension between me and my children, and it’s heartbreaking. I declined to go, because my ex would be there, and I just don’t want to see him. But I was wondering if you think what my brother-in-law, niece and nephew are doing is right. — Sitting It Out Dear Sitting: I’m so sorry for the loss of your sister. Let’s withhold judgment of her husband and children, who are also deep in grief. Maybe they didn’t even want your ex to come, he just invited himself. That would square with the history of emotionally abusive behavior that you mentioned. Whatever the case, what you are doing is right — because everyone should be sitting out holiday gatherings this year. Fortunately, even from afar, you can still get closer with your niece, nephew and brother-in-law, through video
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1007 Plum Lane Davis, CA 95616 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Alex Thomas Harrison 1007 Plum Lane Davis, CA 95616 4. Business Classification: Individual 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: Nov. 15, 2020 “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant PUBLIC NOTICE who declares as true information which he ADOPTED ORDINANCE NO. 1532 or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) NOTICE is hereby given that at its 6. Signature of Registrant(s): regularly scheduled meeting of Alex Harrison December 15, 2020, the Yolo County 12/27, 1/3, 1/10, 1/17 1105 Board of Supervisors adopted Ordinance No. 1532 amending Chapter 14 of Title 10 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME of the Yolo County Code regarding the STATEMENT banning of industrial hemp cultivation, manufacturing, processing, storage, and Filed: December 22, 2020 related activities, excepting exemptions FBN Number: F20201014 adopted previously. 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) NFC Auto Sales The Ordinance was adopted by the 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of following vote: Principal Place of Business in California. Business is located in Yolo County. AYES: Provenza, Villegas, Saylor. 5100 Chiles Rd., Suite 205 NOES: Chamberlain, Sandy. Davis, CA 95618 ABSENT: None. Mailing address: ABSTAIN: None. 1201 Fulton Ave., Apt. 13 Sacramento, CA 95825 Copies of the full text of the Ordinance 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), are available at www.yolocounty.org/ Residence Address, State, and Zip agendas or at the Clerk of the Board Natalie Bondartchouk of Supervisors Office, 625 Court Street, 1201 Fulton Ave., Apt. 13 Room 204, Woodland, CA 95695. Sacramento, CA 95825 4. Business Classification: Individual Dated: December 27, 2020 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Lupita Ramirez, Deputy Clerk Registrant(s) commenced to transact Yolo County Board of Supervisors business under the fictitious business 12/27 1102 name or names listed above on: N/A “I declare that all information in FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME this statement is true and correct.” STATEMENT (A registrant who declares as true Filed: December 10, 2020 information which he or she knows to be FBN Number: F20200997 false is guilty of a crime.) 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) 6. Signature of Registrant(s): Frumious Fantastical Foundry Natalie Bondartchouk 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of 12/27, 1/3, 1/10, 1/17 1106 Principal Place of Business in California. Business is located in Yolo County.
Copies of the full text of the Ordinance are available at www.yolocounty.org/ PUBLIC NOTICE agendas or at the Clerk of the Board ADOPTED ORDINANCE NO. 1530 NOTICE is hereby given that at its of Supervisors Office, 625 Court Street, regularly scheduled meeting of Room 204, Woodland, CA 95695. December 15, 2020, the Yolo County Board of Supervisors adopted Ordinance Dated: December 27, 2020 No. 1530 establishing the Juvenile Justice Lupita Ramirez, Deputy Clerk Coordinating Council and Subcommittee. Yolo County Board of Supervisors 12/27 1101 The Ordinance was adopted by the PUBLIC NOTICE following vote: AYES: Provenza, Chamberlain, Villegas, Saylor, Sandy. NOES: None. ABSENT: None. ABSTAIN: None. Copies of the full text of the Ordinance are available at www.yolocounty.org/ agendas or at the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors Office, 625 Court Street, Room 204, Woodland, CA 95695.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: December 4, 2020 FBN Number: F20200975 Dated: December 27, 2020 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) Lupita Ramirez, Deputy Clerk Picnic Table Farm Yolo County Board of Supervisors 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of 12/27 1100 Principal Place of Business in California. Business is located in Yolo County. PUBLIC NOTICE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME 3218 Morro Bay Ave. STATEMENT PUBLIC NOTICE Davis, CA 95616 Filed: December 3, 2020 ADOPTED ORDINANCE NO. 1531 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), FBN Number: F20200969 NOTICE is hereby given that at its regularly Residence Address, State, and Zip 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) scheduled meeting of December 15, 2020, Paul Boulware The Orange Tree Apartments the Yolo County Board of Supervisors 3218 Morro Bay Ave. 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Davis, CA 95616 adopted Ordinance No. 1531 an urgency Principal Place of Business in California. 4. Business Classification: Individual ordinance establishing requirements and Business is located in Yolo County. 5. Beginning Date of Business: The procedures for the removal of fire debris 311 7th Street Registrant(s) commenced to transact from private property following the LNU Davis, CA 95616 business under the fictitious business Complex Fire. Mailing address: name or names listed above on: N/A 707 Pamplona Ave. “I declare that all information in The Ordinance was adopted by the Davis, CA 95616 this statement is true and correct.” following vote: 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), (A registrant who declares as true Residence Address, State, and Zip information which he or she knows to be AYES: Provenza, Chamberlain, Villegas, Shuching Wang Saylor, Sandy. false is guilty of a crime.) 707 Pamplona Ave. NOES: None. 6. Signature of Registrant(s): Davis, CA 95616; ABSENT: None. Paul Boulware Hung Jung Lin 12/6, 12/13, 12/20, 12/27 1077 ABSTAIN: None. 436 Avocet Ave. Davis, CA 95616 PUBLIC NOTICE 4. Business Classification: Joint Venture NOTICE OF RIGHT TO CLAIM EXCESS PROCEEDS (PARTIES OF INTEREST) 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact I, Chad Rinde, Yolo County Tax Collector, State of California, certify that: business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A Excess proceeds have resulted from the sale of tax defaulted property listed on this “I declare that all information in notice on December 7, 2020. Parties of interest, as defined by California Revenue and this statement is true and correct.” Taxation Code section 4675, are entitled to claim the excess proceeds. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be All claims must be in writing and must contain sufficient information and proof to false is guilty of a crime.) establish a claimant’s right to all or any part of the excess proceeds. Claims filed with 6. Signature of Registrant(s): the county more than one year after recordation of the tax collector’s deed to the Shuching Wang purchaser on December 14, 2020, cannot be considered. 12/6, 12/13, 12/20, 12/27 1076 ——————————————————————————————————— ASSESSOR’S PARCEL NO. PROPERTY ADDRESS PARTIES OF INTEREST 051-182-015-000 3070 CR 88B Spears Patrick Shay FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME 051-182-015-000 3070 CR 88B Solano County Child Support STATEMENT 051-182-015-000 3070 CR 88B Humboldt County Child Support Filed: December 7, 2020 ——————————————————————————————————— FBN Number: F20200985 Claim forms and information regarding filing procedures may be obtained at the Yolo 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) County Tax Collector’s Office, 625 Court St, Room 102, Woodland CA 96695, or by Dowling Real Estate Trust calling 530 666-8190 between 8 am and 4pm, Monday through Friday. DRET 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of I declare, under penalty of perjury, that the foregoing is true and correct. Principal Place of Business in California. Business is located in Yolo County. Chad Rinde, Yolo County Tax Collector 503 Third Street Executed at: Woodland, Yolo County, California, on December 21, 2020. Davis, CA 95616 Published in: The Davis Enterprise on: December 27th, 2020, January 3rd and January Mailing address: 10th, 2021 1098
PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF RIGHT TO CLAIM EXCESS PROCEEDS (PARTIES OF INTEREST) I, Chad Rinde, Yolo County Tax Collector, State of California, certify that: Excess proceeds have resulted from the sale of tax defaulted property listed on this notice on October 26, 2020. Parties of interest, as defined by California Revenue and Taxation Code section 4675, are entitled to claim the excess proceeds. All claims must be in writing and must contain sufficient information and proof to establish a claimant’s right to all or any part of the excess proceeds. Claims filed with the county more than one year after recordation of the tax collector’s deed to the purchaser on November 16, 2020, cannot be considered. ——————————————————————————————————— ASSESSOR’S PARCEL NO. PROPERTY ADDRESS PARTIES OF INTEREST 051-201-009-000 NO SITUS Chappell Carnegie & Mildred Estate ——————————————————————————————————— Claim forms and information regarding filing procedures may be obtained at the Yolo County Tax Collector’s Office, 625 Court St, Room 102, Woodland CA 96695, or by calling 530 666-8190 between 8 am and 4pm, Monday through Friday. I declare, under penalty of perjury, that the foregoing is true and correct. Chad Rinde, Yolo County Tax Collector Executed at: Woodland, Yolo County, California, on December 21, 2020. Published in: The Davis Enterprise on:. December 27th, 2020, January 3rd and January 10th, 2021 1099
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