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School board will hear virus update Reopening back on agenda BY JEFF HUDSON Enterprise staff writer On Thursday evening, Jan. 7, the Davis school board will assess the status of the coronavirus pandemic in Yolo County, after hearing an update from Yolo County Health Officer Dr. Aimee Sisson. The school board trustees will hear a presentation by school district staff describing several different scenarios for the eventual return of students and teachers to BOWES school classroom, Superintendent and consider an appropriate timeline for the resumption of classroom learning. In addition, the trustees are likely to discuss Gov. Gavin Newsom’s recently announced “Safe Schools for All” initiative — a proposed $2 billion program that would offer local districts a number of financial incentives to reopen elementary schools to students and teachers during the early months of 2021. (The fine details of the governor’s proposal, which was announced at a press conference on Wednesday, Dec. 30, are

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Sac region to remain under stay-at-home order BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer The greater Sacramento region’s ICU capacity dropped to 6.9 percent on Saturday and is expected to remain below 15 percent for the foreseeable future, according to the California Department of Public Health. That means the region — which includes Yolo County — will remain under a stay-at-home order that bans all gatherings with members of more than one household, requires everyone to stay at home except for essential work and activities, closes hair salons, curtails retail capacity and limits restaurants to take-out and

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Locals line up in November for COVID testing at the Davis Senior Center. OWEN YANCHER/ ENTERPRISE FILE PHOTO

As fall arrived, crisis got worse ■ Editor’s note: This is the second part in a series on the COVID-19 crisis in 2020.

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer September seemed to offer a measure of hopefulness as Yolo County entered Month 6 of the COVID-19 pandemic. New cases of the novel coronavirus were declining during the strict lockdown measures that came with the county’s placement in the purple tier of the state’s color-coded reopening blueprint. Early in the month, Woodland Christian School became the first in Yolo County to receive a waiver to reopen for

would expand into the city of Davis many of the programs and resources already in place on campus, the most significant of which was the saliva-based COVID-19 testing program. All students moving into campus housing in September were tested and that regular testing would soon expand to anyone entering campus before expanding to the community as a whole. On Sept. 29, cases of COVID19 had decreased enough for the state to move Yolo County to the red tier, clearing the way for restaurants, gyms, churches and more to reopen for indoor services. Bad news came too, though, as it had all year, in the form of

in-person instruction of students in grades K-6. Other schools, including Peregrine in Davis, Davis Waldorf School and Grace Valley Christian Academy soon followed. But public schools, including those in the Davis Joint Unified School District, remained closed. September also introduced the community to Healthy Davis Together, likely one of the brightest moments in Yolo County’s year of COVID. The joint effort between the city of Davis and UC Davis, Healthy Davis Together aimed to stem the spread of the virus both on campus and off. Building on UCD’s Campus Ready plan, Healthy Davis Together

cancellations: announcements that the beloved Davis Children’s Nutcracker would be canceled, as well as the downtown Halloween treat trail and the Davis downtown tree lighting ceremony. Still, September was, on balance, one of the better periods of 2020, a month in which Yolo County reported fewer than 400 cases of COVID-19 and three deaths. Some began expressing hope that a move to the less restrictive orange tier loomed, but the county’s interim health officer warned that with schools reopening and college students returning, orange might be a

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Davis Ace employees allege retaliation amid positive tests BY CALEB HAMPTON Enterprise staff writer On Dec. 18, management at Davis Ace Hardware informed employees at the store that one of their co-workers tested positive for COVID-19. Despite the positive test result, the store would stay open, management said. Davis Ace had implemented public health protocols like masking and physical distancing, and it was gearing up for its holiday clearance sale. Within a few days, nearly a dozen employees were calling in sick. Most of them had

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symptoms consistent with the virus, they said. On Dec. 22, an employee asked Davis Ace management to guarantee hazard pay for employees or temporarily close the store, according to an account posted online by the Sacramento Solidarity Network, a volunteer group that advocates for workers’ rights.

“The (Davis Ace) team has worked very hard to be a safe and valuable community resource during this pandemic,” Schulein said. “Unfortunately claims to the contrary have been made, along with other false claims that we vehemently deny. It is disappointing that with our hard work, determination and

A Davis Ace employee confirmed to The Enterprise that the post was a firsthand account written by Davis Ace employees and posted by the Sacramento Solidarity Network to reach a wider audience.

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Davis Ace Hardware manager Mike Gunter declined to comment on his employees’ allegations. He directed inquiries from The Enterprise to Ace Hardware President Mark Schulein.

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Briefly LCI studies ‘The Color of Law’ The Social Justice Group at Lutheran Church of the Incarnation, Davis, invites the community to join in a four-week conversation in which the group ponders questions of law and race, drawing on historical insights from “The Color of Law” by Richard Rothstein. Beginning Jan. 14, the group will meet online on Thursdays from 7 to 8:30 p.m. to discuss why many live in such different realities and how faith compels re-examination of individual and collective choices. To receive a Zoom invitation and weekly reading guide, email Jill Van Zanten at jillvz@ sbcglobal.net. For information, visit lci davis.org/social-justice.

ArtSmart to return virtually The Pence Gallery’s ArtSmart Program for kids will return virtually in January. Designed for children ages 6-11, this afterschool program includes four projects designed to stimulate a child’s creativity. The first program, meets online from 3:15 to 4:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Jan. 5, 12, 19 and 26. Register at https:// pencegallery.org.educa tion.html. Fees are $70 for members and $80 for nonmembers, which covers the cost of all supplies and instruction.

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K, when the House and Senate meet together on Wednesday to tally the electoral votes officially, this should be a quick and easy affair. A mere formality, as they say. I mean, the rules for this final step toward Joe Biden being sworn in as president on Jan. 20 were originally established at the birth of this nation in 1789, with a few revisions and modifications along the way. Article II, Section 1, Clause 2, of the U.S. Constitution states that “Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress.” With minor variations in Nebraska and Maine, all 50 state legislatures have voted to award their state’s electors by the popular vote in their state, using a winnertake-all format. These electors then meet in their state capitols in December to cast and certify the votes that are then signed by the governor and sent off to the President of the U.S. Senate (Mike Pence) in Washington, D.C. For 2020, the electoral vote count came out to 306-232 for Joe Biden, with 270 needed to be named president. Simple math. However, there is one final, formal step to this process and that’s where Wednesday’s joint meeting in the House chamber comes in. States the 12th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, “The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted. The person having the greatest number of votes for President shall be the President if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed.” This whole legal process is further defined in 3 U.S. Code, Section 15 (“Counting Electoral Votes in Congress”), which notes “The President of the Senate shall be their presiding officer.”

It goes on to say “Two tellers shall be previously appointed on the part of the Senate and two on the part of the House of Representatives, to whom shall be handed, as they are opened by the President of the Senate, all the certificates and papers purporting to be certificates of the electoral votes, which certificates and papers shall be opened, presented and acted upon in the alphabetical order of the states, beginning with the Letter A.” Thus, it appears that Vice President Pence needs a sturdy letteropener and nothing more. His role is merely that of a presider or moderator. A master of ceremonies, if you will. After opening the certificates, Pence is required — by law — to immediately hand them to the tellers, with absolutely no authority to do anything else. “Said tellers, having then read the same in the presence and hearing of the two Houses, shall make a list of the votes as they shall appear from the said certificates, and the votes having been ascertained and counted, the result of the same shall be delivered to the President of the Senate, who shall thereupon announce the state of the vote, which announcement shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of the persons elected President and Vice President of the United States.”

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n other words, Pence opens the envelopes and then is charged with announcing the winner after the four tellers actually count the votes. He has no other role. And yes, only the tellers count the votes, not the vice president.

Straightforward, right? Well, some folks from the Party of Law and Order and Strict Construction of the U.S. Constitution are falsely claiming that Pence has the authority to not only open the envelopes, but to reject any certificates of electors he doesn’t happen to like and submit fake certificates or electors that he does like. Believe it or not, fake certificates for Donald Trump that do not reflect the popular vote in those states, have been submitted by Republicans in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico. Joe Biden won the popular vote — and thus the electoral votes — in all seven of those states. But, as anyone who can read pure and simple English understands, Pence has no role in either accepting or rejecting any state’s certified electors. Open the envelopes, Mike, and hand them to the tellers. That’s what the Constitution is telling you to do. In any already dismissed recent lawsuit filed by Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert and a handful of Republicans from Arizona that was argued before a Trump-appointed Federal judge, the claim was made that Pence — and Pence alone — has the authority to accept or reject the electors from each state. Never mind that when 158 million Americans went to the polls last November they believed they were the ones selecting the next president. Nope, according to Gohmert, Mike Pence has the authority to overturn every single one of those 158 million votes and can then decide all by himself who the next president should be. Which means there’s really no point in anyone voting in the first place. If this is a correct understanding of the Constitution — it’s not — Vice President Al Gore could have declared himself president in 2000 and Vice President Joe Biden could have declared Hillary Clinton president in 2016. Not to mention the fact that if Pence declares Donald Trump to

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f there is a protest by at least one Representative and one Senator, each body votes separately whether to accept or reject that state’s electors. If either body votes to accept the electors, they are accepted. It takes both bodies to reject a slate of electors. That system dramatically favors Joe Biden, given that his party has a majority in the House, which is enough all by itself, no matter how the Senate may vote. Even still, the Senate, too, is expected to accept all of Biden’s 306 electors. Nevertheless, 140 Republicans in the House and at least 12 Republicans in the Senate say they will object to Biden’s electors in certain swing states in an attempt to overturn the will of the voters. Oddly, all 140 of those House members and several of the 12 Senators were just elected in the very same election that they claim was rigged. Yet, none of them claim that the votes they received were fraudulent, even though they were on the same ballot as Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Mike Pence might be trying to be Mike Sus-Pence as we all await Wednesday’s drama, but the smart money says he’ll play it straight and follow the clear and specific dictates of the United States Constitution. And wouldn’t that be a great day for the rule of law, the will of the people and the future of democracy in this country we all love? — Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

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be president on Wednesday, he will naming himself as vice president at the same time. Apparently, these Republicans believe that Pence is also empowered to retroactively declare the winner of last year’s Super Bowl, no matter what the final score was on the field. Now, there is a process for members of the House and Senate to object to the electoral votes of specific states being counted, but Pence has no role in it, other than to preside.

From Page A1 delivery only. The region has been under the order since ICU capacity dropped below 15 percent on Dec. 11 and was eligible to exit the order Jan. 1. However, the state announced Saturday that because the area’s four-week projected ICU capacity does not meet the criteria to exit the order, it will remain in place. Projections are based on current estimated regional ICU capacity, current community COVID-19 transmission, current regional case rates and the proportion of ICU cases being admitted. Once a region’s fourweek ICU projection shows a capacity of greater than or equal to 15 percent, the order will be lifted for that area. Earlier in the week the state announced two other regions, Southern California and the San Joaquin Valley, would remain under the regional stay-at-home order as well. ICU capacity in both regions has been at zero for some time. The Bay Area is eligible to exit the stay-at-home

order as soon as Jan. 8, but given ICU capacity for that region was 5.1 percent on Saturday, such a move seems unlikely. Northern California remains the only region in the state to avoid the order. As of Saturday ICU capacity for that region was 32.6 percent. ———— Yolo County reported no good news as the new year dawned; rather, the county reported 149 new COVID-19 cases and six deaths since New Year’s Day. Thirty-five county residents were hospitalized with COVID-19 on Saturday. Over the last seven days, 789 county residents have tested positive, a high number given limited testing availability during the holidays. Eight additional deaths have been reported during that same time frame. The city of Davis added 26 new cases since Friday, all but one under the age of 55, including 10 between the ages of 18 and 24. — Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@ davisenterprise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.

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Marshall McKay, former chairman of the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, has died of COVID-19. A statement issued by the Yocha Dehe Tribal Council on Thursday called McKay “a resolute protector of Native American heritage here, within our own homeland, but also throughout California and Indian Country.” McKay, who was born in Colusa, served on the Yocha Dehe Tribal Council from 1984 to 2015 and spent a decade as chairman. During that time, the tribe was a key partner with Yolo County on a number of fronts and a benefactor to many local nonprofits. “Marshall’s leadership was marked by a stalwart dedication to the preservation and promotion of Native American arts and culture, the affirmation of sovereign tribal governance, and the international effort to protect the rights of all indigenous people,” the tribal council said. “He was instrumental in helping Yocha Dehe achieve economic independence, he helped the Tribe grow and diversify its agricultural operations, and he helped greatly expand the Tribe’s land holdings within Yocha

Dehe’s ancestral territory.” McKay became ill with COVID-19 while in Los Angeles. “The Tribe is profoundly grateful for the care Marshall received from frontline healthcare workers in Los Angeles where his illness developed, an area particularly hard-hit by the pandemic. “We know our pain is shared by so many families facing the devastating effects of this pandemic. We know also the pain of Marshall’s loss is shared by the many who loved him and learned from him. We will miss his strength and wisdom.” McKay was the son of renowned healer and basket weaver Mabel McKay and was the first of his tribe to attend college (Sonoma State University). He spent 15 years repairing and maintaining nuclear submarines for the Department of Defense, according to the tribe. He would become a founding member of the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation and was appointed to the Board for

Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. McKay also was the first Native American to be appointed Chairman of the Board for the Autry National Center (which includes the Southwest Museum of the American Indian, the Museum of the American West, and the Institute for the Study of the American West). “Marshall was a fierce advocate for the environment and tribal land rights, and a champion for sustainable living and landuse practices,” the tribal council said. “He was dedicated to protecting tribal sovereignty and the rights of Native tribes and peoples, serving on the Board of the Native American Rights Fund. He was a founding commissioner of the California Native American Heritage Commission, whose charge is to protect Native American cultural resources, including places of religious and social significance to Native peoples, such as tribal cemeteries on private and public lands.”

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t’s clear one of the biggest stories of 2020 was the pandemic’s pummeling of small, local businesses. And just as the year wound down, downtown Davis suffered two blows: the closure of B & L Bike Shop and KetMoRee Thai Restaurant & Bar. B & L Bike Shop, at 608 Third St., closed its doors on Thursday. Owner Dave Grundman posted the following on social media on Dec. 24: “It is with a heavy heart we are announcing the store will be closing its doors for the last time on Dec. 31, 2020. We wish to thank every single customer that ever graced our doorstep over the past 55 years. Please stay safe, ride smart and keep the rubber side down.” So, with bike sales on the rise, what happened? It’s a supply problem. The shop recently downsized to a smaller space, relying on quick, custom orders rather than a large inventory. Grundman, no doubt busy with the store’s closure, didn’t respond to requests for comments for this column. But Beth Annon — who owned the shop from 1997 to 2016, and remained its bookkeeper till the end — offered some insight. In January 2020, Grundman gave up the large showroom space at 610 Third St. The new tenant is a leasing office for an upcoming apartment community called Ryder on Olive, which I wrote about in my Oct. 25 column. “With the smaller location, Dave carried very little stock and was doing more custom, special orders” since most suppliers delivered in a day or two, Annon said in an email from her Texas home. “This worked well for the first couple months but when COVID hit, suppliers quickly ran out of inventory, so doing special

orders became extremely difficult. Then the university went fully remote, and business really dried up.” B & L’s core clientele was college students, commuters and families, Annon said. “While I owned the store, we started seeing a large influx of students bringing online purchased bicycles and accessories into the store for us to work on, build or install. … Over the years, the online sales of bicycles, and trying to stay price-competitive got harder and harder.” With the lease due to renew on Jan. 1, “it just made sense for Dave to shut down instead of signing another five-year lease. It was the smartest decision ... It is sad, but I completely understand.” B & L Bike Shop opened in 1965. Annon recalls the first owners as “Mr. Brandon,” and Lee and Helen Pool. (B & L initials are for Brandon and Lee.) The Pools’ son, Ron Pool, and son-in law, Jeff Kowes, sold it to Annon in 1997. She sold it to Grundman in late 2016. The longtime shop cat, Milo – a customer favorite — died in March. ———— Locals are also mourning the loss of KetMoRee Thai Restaurant & Bar, which closed on Wednesday. In a Dec. 26 announcement via social media, it said, “Despite every effort, the pandemic with its stringent operating

restrictions and the on-andoff again shutdowns, has made it impossible to continue the business. ... We would like to express our heartfelt THANK YOU to our loyal customers for their patronage and support over the last decade-plus.” The restaurant opened in April 2009 at 238 G St., filling the space left when Strelitzia Flower Co. moved to Second Street. Owner and chef Ketmoree Yungvanitsait opened the new, larger Thai restaurant to replace her 2K Thai, which had been open since 2002 at 223 G St. 2K Thai (named after the family’s corporation, Kanit and Kate) was converted to Red 88 Noodle Bar, a more casual, Asian fusion restaurant. Red 88, owned by Yungvanitsait’s daughter Net, will remain open. Yungvanitsait’s other daughter, Nu, was general manager of KetMoRee, taking over most operations in the last seven years, as her mom semi-retired. (In 2012, son Nate Yungvanitsait opened University of Beer, which now has pubs in Sacramento, Vacaville and Rocklin. The Davis taproom is temporarily closed.) From an observer’s standpoint, KetMoRee appeared in a better position than many Davis restaurants. Online ordering was in place, and it did its own delivery. This spring, KetMoRee quickly added outdoor tables, creative seating arrangements and shade structures. The loss of the bar and nightclub scene was probably the biggest hit in income, however. Nu Yungvanitsait said even before COVID-19, “it was already becoming harder, over time, for businesses in downtown Davis. … (The pandemic’s) constantly changing restrictions and labor issues were simply too

much.” She said there are no plans to bring it back. But there is some good news. “Net will be incorporating some of her favorite KetMoRee recipes into her offerings at Red 88,” Nu said. It will include about a dozen seasonal menu items, such as Pad Kee Mow and Yellow Curry. There are no plans — or space — for a nightclub. “My sister is entirely about the food.” Visit https://red88noodlebar. com/. ———— So, let’s review the Davis restaurants that closed in 2020: Bistro 33, Chickpeas Kitchen Davis, China Bistro, City Hall Tavern, Extreme Pizza, KetMoRee, La Piñata Mexican Grill, On Tap, Round Table Pizza, and Starbuck’s Coffee in University Mall. There are more temporary (we hope) closures, including: D Street Steakhouse, Delta of Venus, DeVere’s Irish Pub, El Toro Bravo (plans to return), Sam’s Mediterranean Cuisine, and Uncle Vito’s. (I’m not listing the bars temporarily closed under the state’s stay-home order.) Other restaurants that paused in 2020: Barista Brew closed, replaced by Black Frog Coffee; CREAM rebranded as Cookies N Cones; and Mr. Pickles Sandwich Shop closed for a time, then reopened with a new franchisee. Shuttered retail and service businesses are: Awards & More (owner says it’s temporary), A’bout with Hair, B & L Bike Shop, Bernard’s Tire, Cost Plus World Market (last day was Dec. 31); Davis Sport Shop, Davis Welcome Service, Get Fit Davis (GFD Sport remains open), GNC, Partners in Learning, Pawsitive Groomers, Personalized Pilates, and Restler Brothers Barber Shop.

———— Fit4Mom Davis-Woodland changed hands in December. After five years, Emily Monley handed the reins to Allison Olson. The business “provides fitness classes and wellness courses for moms in all stages of their motherhood journey,” a news release said. Monley praised Olson’s dedication, passion and “desire to soak up everything, while also bringing her own flair. … She’s a rock star, and so is her team!” Olson added, “I am so honored to be carrying on what Emily created, and forever indebted to her and this amazing community. It is my wish to continue to provide our members the fitness and fun (and yes, burpees!) you’ve come to love.” Olson plans to add more classes and program options. Fit4Mom offers in-person instruction at Davis and Woodland parks (following safe practices) as well as virtual class options. Visit https://daviswoodland.fit4mom.com. ———— Wondering what businesses are still open? My Google spreadsheet, updated at least weekly, lists more than 300 Davis businesses affected by COVID-19. It’s at https://bit.ly/ DavisBusinesses. In it, there are sheets for Restaurants-open, Restaurants-closed, Businessesretail, Businesses-service, Special hours (for older adults or compromised shoppers), and more. Please email wendyedit@gmail. com to suggest updates. — Wendy Weitzel is a Davis writer and editor. Her column runs on Sundays. Check for frequent updates on her Comings & Goings Facebook and Instagram pages. If you know of a business coming or going in the area, contact her at wendyedit@gmail.

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VACAVILLE — While the challenges of 2020 are unprecedented, there were more opportunities this year than in Travis Credit Union’s 70-year history, to create value for its members and local community. In a nine-month span, Travis Credit Union implemented multiple financial relief initiatives for members and distributed over three million dollars 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 COVID19 Member Relief Programs that have resulted in: ■ More than 337 emergency loans totaling nearly $1.3 million (Consumer Lending Disaster Relief ) ■ More than 44,000 monthly consumer loan

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roposition 19, changing elements of property tax in California, narrowly passed in November. So, what does it mean for your estate plan? First, the basics. When property in California gets transferred between two people, current law requires the county to reassess the value for property tax purposes. For example, if I were paying property taxes based on my purchase 20 years ago at a price of $200,000, and you purchased that home from me today, you would now pay property taxes based on current fair market value. That would normally increase your property taxes by a lot. But there are exceptions to this reassessment requirement, called “exclusions.” One of the exclusions is for transfers between a parent and child. For example, if I transfer my principal residence to my daughter, I will transfer to her my

COMMENTARY property tax base as well, and she would pay the same property taxes I was paying regardless of how she used the property. She could use it as a rental, or a vacation home, and the property taxes would remain the same. In addition to this “principal home or farm” exclusion, I could transfer another $1 million’s worth of other real property to my children, free of reassessment. But under Prop 19, starting Feb. 16, this exclusion applies only if my child uses the property as their own principal residence (or farm). In addition, there is now a cap equal to the parent’s tax base in the property plus $1 million. The “other $1 million” exception has been eliminated. This requires folks to revisit their estate plans, especially if property values have increased, if they were counting on leaving property to their kids with property tax savings in mind. For some, it may

even make sense to make a gift of their primary home before the 2021 date kicks in. But note that there are gift tax considerations to assess, and timing issues here as well. Under the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the “lifetime exemption” of assets you could pass without gift tax was greatly increased ($11.58 million per person in 2020, and $11.7 million in 2021). Under the new Biden administration, these exemptions could be reduced, with a retroactive date to Jan. 1. Prop. 19 did make other changes to property taxes, so be sure to consider all aspects before making changes to your estate plans. And as always, if you need specific advice as to your own circumstances, research the law or speak with a trusted attorney. — Raphael Moore is a partner at Moore & Moore, a law practice in downtown Davis. Reach him at thelaw@mytrust edlawyer.com or at 530758-8317.

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ACE: Employees decide to submit complaint with NLRB From Page A1 necessary protocols required by the state and the county,” Tan said. According to employees, Davis Ace management declined the request for hazard pay and shrugged off the employee’s health concerns. Aside from the one worker who tested positive for COVID-19, a manager reportedly said the sick employees probably just had the flu or a cold. Meanwhile, local coronavirus case numbers were surging. That week, Yolo County reported nearly a thousand new cases, more than any other week of the pandemic. Running short on medical staff and intensive care beds, local hospital executives — joined by elected officials — begged the public to stay home. Davis Ace management offered to relay the employee’s concerns to Ace Hardware’s corporate office, according to employees. That was the best they could do, they said. Instead, Davis Ace employees decided to take

that line of communication into their own hands. The employees drafted a letter to the human resources manager at Ace Hardware’s corporate office. In the letter, they asked for hazard pay, for a temporary store closure, and for specific logistical changes that would make it easier for them to physically distance while working in the store. “The high volume of customers has placed at risk the health of all staff members and their cohabitants, and we request that the possibility of physical distress and medical expenses be acknowledged,” the employees said in the letter, which requested hazard pay of an additional two dollars per hour. (According to employees, the highest paid Davis Ace employees make $15 per hour.) “We are grateful for the care management has taken in enforcing strong safety procedures to keep us safe,” the letter stated. “That being said, we believe that it is important for the store to close for ten days with workers compensated

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The alley along Davis Ace between Third and Fourth streets is mostly empty in March, during the early days of the pandemic. with their normal wages so that all employees have time to isolate and therefore protect coworkers from this new wave of COVID.” On Dec. 23, the day after the letter was written and signed by several employees, Ace management found out about it and, employees said, began retaliating against everyone involved. Management suspended the employee who had previously approached them and told other employees they weren’t allowed to talk to each other.

“Management is hoping that by retaliating and intimidating the employees that they can keep them from demanding better and safer conditions,” the Sacramento Solidarity Network post said. The employees hadn’t even had a chance to send the letter, one of them told The Enterprise. And after seeing their employer’s reaction, they decided not to send it. “The letter was never sent as we feared more retaliation,” the employee said. On Dec. 24, Davis Ace management notified

employees that a second employee tested positive for COVID-19. Four days later, management fired the employee who had first raised concerns about the store staying open. “I told the store managers that I needed this job’s health insurance to afford treatment for my autoimmune disease,” the employee reportedly told a co-worker. “Now I’m without health insurance.” A report has been filed through the National Labor Relations Board regarding the employee’s termination, which Davis Ace employees allege was done illegally. According to federal labor laws, workers can engage in certain protected activities without having to fear retaliation from their employer. Regardless of whether they are unionized, employees are allowed to raise concerns about their wages and about workplace safety issues without being penalized for it. While much praise has been heaped on essential workers during the pandemic, no laws have been

passed that compel Davis Ace Hardware or most other businesses in California to provide hazard pay to employees who risk exposure to the virus while at work. Controversy over the events at Davis Ace Hardware first surfaced several days ago when the Sacramento Solidarity Network posted the employees’ account online. A Davis Ace employee told The Enterprise that, pending action from the NLRB, the employees are aiming to keep the issue in the public eye. “The bureaucratic process is slow, and we would like our former coworker’s job back as soon as possible,” the employee said. “Additionally, we want Ace to address our other concerns seriously, and we are hoping community pressure will force them to do the right thing for their employees and customers.” — Reach Caleb Hampton at champton@ davisenterprise.net. Follow him on Twitter at @calebmhampton.

UPDATE: Worsening pandemic keeps wrecking plans across the state From Page A1 not entirely clear yet). Owing to the New Year’s Day holiday, the Davis school district’s administrative offices were closed on Jan. 1, and the agenda for the meeting was not posted online on the Friday preceding a school board meeting, as usual. However, Superintendent John Bowes of the Davis school district offered a brief preview of the agenda in an email to The Enterprise. “We look forward to learning more about state plans designed to make the reopening of classrooms a priority,” Bowes said, “with careful attention to the needs and resources necessary for the safe return of students and staff. “The governor’s initiative is well-timed for the Davis school board’s Jan. 7 meeting that will include a discussion about the conditions necessary for a potential safe return to classrooms,

consistent with our phased return to campus plan,” he added. “Staff intends to then bring a recommendation to the board regarding the reopening model(s) on Jan. 21.” Bowes suggested that for the latest information about the school district’s planning for the reopening of schools for classroom instruction, people can visit the district website at https:// djusd.net/covid-19. “We are carefully monitoring and reviewing the details of the governor’s ‘Safe Schools for All’ plan, along with other legislative initiatives, such as the proposed legislation AB 10,” Bowes continued. He said this new information, as it becomes available, “will inform our efforts to safely augment in-person instructional offerings at our campuses.” A lively — and likely lengthy — discussion by the five trustees is expected school board meets on Thursday. At recent school board meetings, the trustees have also generally heard an hour (or more)

of public comment regarding when and how students and teachers should return to campus classrooms. Thursday’s meeting comes as California reported 585 deaths stemming from the coronavirus on Jan. 1 (reflecting deaths that occurred on Dec. 30). Those 585 deaths reflect the largest singleday death toll due to the COVID19 virus since the pandemic hit California about 10 months ago, according to some news reports. The hospital intensive care units are reported full at most hospitals in Southern California and the San Joaquin Valley, and state government is setting up temporary “field hospitals” in various locations around the state (including Sacramento) to provide additional health care. At the same time, a number of California school districts have recently considered implementing shifting from distance learning to what is known as “hybrid learning” — a combination of

in-classroom and online instruction. Most California school districts have been offering primarily distance learning to students since last March, when the vast majority of California’s public school campuses were closed due to the coronavirus. A number of California school district had been planning on bringing students back into classrooms this month via hybrid learning. But Marin County’s Tamapais Union High School District, which operates five high school campuses in the affluent southern portion of that county, had planned to start bringing students back into the campus on a limited basis starting on Monday, Jan. 4. However, in a decision announced on Dec. 30, the Tamalpais district said it would stick with all-distance learning, at least for the time being, until the still-rising number of new coronavirus cases begins to decline. Tara Taupier, superintendent of

the Tamalpais district, told the Marin Independent-Journal that “We are still operating under the guidelines that require Marin County to be in the Red Tier to reopen (campuses),” Taupier said. “If those guidelines change, we will reevaluate our plans.” Marin County (like Yolo County, and indeed all but four of California’s 58 counties) is currently in the state’s restrictive Purple Tier status, reflecting “widespread” cases of the COVID-19 virus. The Jan. 7 Davis school meeting will be carried live on local cable television on Channel 17 (starting at 6:30 p.m.), and video of the meeting can also be live online at www.djusd.tv. The video of the meeting can also be viewed on demand following the meeting at www.djusd.tv. — Reach Jeff Hudson at jhudson@davisenterprise.net.

OBITUARIES Joan Hogan

Jan. 13, 1928 — Dec. 25, 2020 Joan Hogan, a 45-year resident of Davis, passed away surrounded by her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. She was born in New London, Connecticut to Laura Brooks Query and Aldrich Query. The family lived on Fishers Island, New York but moved to Essex Junction, Vermont when Joan was a child. Her mother was a homemaker, and her father was an engineer and career officer in the Army Corps of Engineers. The family moved again to Montgomery, Alabama at the beginning of WWII in connection with her father’s career. Joan graduated from high school in Montgomery and went on to university at Sophie Newcomb, a coordinate women’s college of Tulane University in New Orleans, LA., which only admitted men. She went on to graduate Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Duke University in North Carolina in 1948. Joan graduated first in her class, but she was very modest and attributed her academic success to the fact that “all really smart boys had gone off to war.” She married Matthew John Hogan Jr. in 1949 and settled in Mobile, Ala. where they raised their four sons and a daughter. Joan was a homemaker and activist to expand voting rights in Alabama and served as president of the local League of Women Voters. The family relocated to California in 1965 upon her husband’s transfer to McClellan Air Force Base where he supervised jet fighter maintenance contracting and Joan pursued her passion for education by enrolling in a Ph.D. program in political science at UC Davis. She loved political philosophy and was an avid student of Marvin Zetterbaum, but she also was fascinated with local government and studied under Alvin Sokolow. Her Ph.D., dissertation analyzed policy in unincorporated communities in the Sierra foothills in rural California. After completing

her Ph.D., she went to work for the California League of Cities in 1988, focusing her efforts on tobacco cessation policy in municipalities in California. She retired in 1998 but she was very active as a volunteer in nonprofit organizations. She served on the boards of Alta Regional Center, the Friends of Yolo Adult Day Health and was a founder of the Yolo Community Foundation. In 2006 she was honored by the Yolo Women’s History Month for services to the community. In addition to her many achievements, Joan loved to travel and made a trip to Uman, travelled with granddaughters to Turkey (including overnight busses), went on family trips to Mexico, to England and Italy with her daughter, more family trips to the Czech Republic, Russia, and most recently to France to attend a grandson’s wedding She enjoyed spending time at Inverness where she was an avid bird watcher and took long beach walks. Joan loved the movies, especially the classics, and she attended the SF Opera, live broadcast performances of the New York Metropolitan Opera, and the SF Ballet. She also loved attending OLLI classes through the UCD Extension. As a returning graduate student, she was an inspiration to women who wished to pursue higher education, and to her many friends, she was a model of activity in retirement. Her greatest impact was as the matriarch of her extended family. She always focused on what she called ‘the things that mattered most.” She is survived by her sister Jane, and her five children, Matt (Patricia), Mark, Michael (Darlene), Laura (Stephan) and Christopher and ten grandchildren as well as 18 great grandchildren and many nieces and nephews. A memorial service is planned for 2021 at a time we can safely gather to celebrate her life.

Arline Merrick

Aug. 21, 1922 — Dec. 23, 2020 Arline passed away peacefully in the home of her daughter in Woodland. She had lived in Chicago, San Francisco, Long Beach, Sacramento, Cupertino, Lake Almanor, Elk Grove and Davis in her long and eventful life. She was born Arline Elizabeth Forrer in Chicago, Ill., to Hendrik (Henry) Forrer and Emma Margarette (Schneider) Forrer on Aug. 21, 1922, being the youngest of their four children (Geraldine, Henry, Emma). All preceded her in death. During WWII she was sent to San Francisco to work as an overseas telephone operator to fill in for the positions of many previous operators who had taken higher-paying “Rosie the Riveter” jobs in the Bay Area. After her year of duty in San Francisco, she married her neighborhood pal, Robert Benjamin Merrick, in Tennessee where he was on leave in 1944. Together they had four children, Robert Benjamin Jr., Sandra Jean, Roy Stewart and Cynthia Louise, who were raised in the Santa Clara Valley area as Bob worked at NASA Moffett Field. They were married 72 years before Bob’s passing in 2016. Arline worked many years as a school secretary, allowing her summers and holidays

off with the kids. She was active and fun-loving, participating in volleyball, bowling leagues, PTA, Girl Scouts, square dancing and golf. The family went on many cross-country adventures together. She instilled a love of the outdoors in her family. She ardently stood up for what was right and was never one to be taken advantage of. She continued to live independently at Atria Covell Gardens until the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, at which time she moved to her daughter and son-in-law’s home. In the quiet comfort of their home, she could finally let her guard down and pass to Heaven where she prayed every night to go. Arline leaves behind son Bob Merrick (Sandee) of Dubuque, Iowa; son Roy Merrick of West Sacramento; daughter Cyndi Young (Keith) of Woodland; grandchildren Kelley Christianson (Dane), Sarah Till (Pat), Laura Merrick, Cory Reynoldson (Priscilla), Jamy Reynoldson (Tonya), Dan Merrick (Jamilah), Amanda McNicholas (Joe) and Neal Young (Michelle); and 16 great-grandchildren. Her daughter Sandra Reynoldson preceded her. A private service of interment will be held at the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery in Dixon.

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CRISIS: As calendar advanced, so did toll from disease From Page A1

Those deaths were concentrated among the elderly, with one-third being people 85 and older.

tier too far. The county would need to average no more than eight new cases per day, a threshold that hadn’t been seen here since spring, when there was far less testing going on. Meanwhile, new cases were beginning to tick up elsewhere in the state, as were warnings about a fall surge. At the end of September, Yolo County’s numbers were 2,836 cases and 55 deaths.

November

October In early October, voting by mail got underway in Yolo County. All active registered voters received mail-in ballots for the presidential election as COVID-19 had necessitated changes like the closure of neighborhood polling places. At the same time, the county began seeing a new uptick in COVID cases, though cases on campus remained low as students had returned. By mid-October, the prospect of Yolo County moving to the orange tier was diminishing and the odds of a move back to purple were growing. The county was averaging more than 11 new cases per day by midOctober, driven in part by an outbreak at the Alderson Convalescent Hospital in Woodland as well as social gatherings. The county’s interim health officer, Dr. Larissa May, told county supervisors on Oct. 19 that if the upward trend continued, the county would be moving back to the purple tier, risking the survival of many local businesses that would be facing their third shut-down. With similar trends happening statewide, California had issued an order limiting all gatherings to no more than three households, to be held outdoors and for no more than two hours. Yolo County went a step further, limiting those gatherings to 16 people total. “The purpose of this is really to try to get a handle on the local parties and the gatherings,” said May. “It’s a sacrifice that the community needs to make in order to allow us to continue to support businesses and also to allow our students to be in school at some point.” May concluded her tenure as interim health officer a week later, when Dr. Aimee Sisson

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Nichole Arnold pours a small amount of water under her tongue before spitting into a vial to provide a saliva sample for COVID-19 testing at the Davis Senior Center. became the county’s health officer. Sisson had been hired by the county in September, just two weeks after she resigned as Placer County’s health officer following that county’s termination of its COVID-19 health emergency. She would become the third health official to shepherd Yolo County through this pandemic, following Dr. Ron Chapman, who retired in June, and then May, who had agreed to serve as interim health officer during a search for Chapman’s replacement. On Oct. 31, the county reported its highest one-day total of new cases — 28 — in six weeks. As had been the case throughout the month, all ages and all areas of the county were impacted by the virus, but none moreso than the city of Woodland. There cases were not only cropping up throughout the community, but at skilled nursing facilities as well. The outbreak at Alderson would ultimately surpass that at the Stollwood Convalescent Hospital in the spring, infecting more residents and staff and resulting in more deaths. By the end of October, Yolo County had reported 3,292 cases of COVID-19 and 60 deaths. More than half of those who had died were Woodland residents, while 14 were residents of West Sacramento. Ten people living in unincorporated areas of the county had died from COVID-19 as had two Davis residents and one Winters resident.

By the first week of November, the likelihood that the county could avoid a return to purple appeared to be diminishing. By then, the county was averaging 25 new cases per day, well above the 15 per day required to remain in the red tier. But Yolo was not alone. The fall surge many predicted and feared appeared to be underway across the state. Locally, the spread of the virus in the community was impacting more of the county’s most vulnerable residents, with outbreaks reported in skilled nursing facilities across the county. Woodland was particularly impacted. County supervisors urged that testing of employees be increased from once a week to twice a week, a move that soon followed, aided by Health Davis Together which would later provide longterm care facilities with its saliva-based testing. On Nov. 16, the state moved Yolo County back to the purple tier, requiring restaurants, gyms, fitness centers, movie theaters and places of worship to cease indoor activities and services and reducing retail capacity to 25 percent. A few days later, a curfew went into effect for all counties in the purple tier, prohibiting nonessential activity outside the home between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. That same day, Yolo County reported a record-high 91 new COVID cases, a record which would not stand for long. Just three days later, 108 cases were reported. County officials pleaded with residents to hunker down, avoid Thanksgiving gatherings with those outside their households, and quarantine upon return if they did choose to travel. There was some good news in November. Healthy Davis Together opened its free, salivabased testing site at the Davis Senior Center, where anyone who lives or works in Davis could be tested. Meanwhile, the county announced that 61 formerly homeless individuals in Yolo County had been permanently housed thanks to Project Roomkey.

But in the end, November proved to be the county’s worst month up until that point in the pandemic, with 1,625 new cases reported that month. By comparison, there were 456 cases in all of October and 387 in September. By Nov. 30, the county had reported a total of 4,893 cases of COVID-19 and 77 deaths.

December If November was bad, December was worse. Virtually everywhere. State officials announced at the beginning of the month that regional stay-at-home orders would be coming as ICU capacity throughout the state declined. As part of the greater Sacramento region, Yolo County businesses would face new restrictions when the region’s ICU capacity dropped below 15 percent. Those restrictions included an end to outdoor restaurant dining (restaurants would be limited to take out and delivery only); closure of hair and nail salons; and retail would be limited to 20 percent of capacity. Yolo County issued its own order ahead of that, limiting nongrocery retail stores to 20 percent of capacity and limiting sports activities at all levels (youth, college and professional included) to non-contact, physically distanced drills and conditioning only, prompting the cancellation of UC Davis basketball games. Meanwhile, COVID cases in the county continued to rise, with the adjusted daily new case rate hitting 27.2 cases per 100,000 residents on Dec. 8. Two days later, on Dec. 10, the greater Sacramento region was placed under a regional stay-at-home order. By then, the county was averaging 100 new cases a day. On Dec. 12, the county surpassed 6,000 total cases, just 10 days after hitting the 5,000 mark and saw a record-high 34 hospitalizations on Dec. 14.

As the holidays approached, December brought some good news. Healthy Davis Together announced plans to infuse Davis businesses with $500,000 and vaccinations got underway at the county’s two hospitals and longterm-care facilities. But healthcare workers and hospital administrators pleaded with the public to stay home and avoid travel and gatherings over the holidays. Hospitals were being overwhelmed, with no adult hospital or ICU beds available on some days in Yolo County. The county’s darkest period lay ahead, Sisson told county supervisors. “We are probably about to enter one of the darkest times of the coronavirus pandemic so far, based on the rise in cases, the rise in hospitalizations, and the predicted continued rise in hospitalizations that may exceed our healthcare system’s capacity,” she said. The county hit 7,000 total COVID-19 cases on Dec. 20, just eight days after hitting 6,000, and surpassed 8,000 cases on Dec. 30. The totals for December: 3,310 new cases and 34 deaths, by far the worst, and deadliest month in the county’s year of COVID-19. All told, Yolo County entered 2021 having reported 8,238 cases of COVID-19 and 111 deaths. All hopes for the year ahead seemed to rest in vaccinations. Acute-care hospital workers at Woodland Memorial and Sutter Davis hospitals began receiving their first vaccine dose in midDecember and would begin receiving their second dose Jan. 8. Vaccinations were also underway in late December at skillednursing, assisted-living and similar facilities throughout the county. — Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@davisenter prise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.

Pharmacy technician Joel Miyake checks on boxes of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at the UC Davis Medical Center. WAYNE TILCOCK/ UC DAVIS HEALTH PHOTO

OBITUARY Gayle Joanna Erlandson Flanders Sept. 24, 1919 — Dec. 23, 2020

It is with deep sorrow that the family of Gayle Erlandson Flanders announces her passing Dec. 23, 2020. She was 101. A devoted wife and mother to five children, she was a born fighter. Her parents were first-generation Swedes, Sara Ellamine Erlandson, a schoolteacher, and Oscar August Erlandson, a homesteader, who made a life for his family in North Dakota. The youngest of five, Gayle had to elbow her way into the world. A bright, vivacious and incredibly quick child, she excelled at school and earned the highest grades recorded at her high school and played clarinet in the school band. She made friends for life in North Dakota who shared a history of living through the depression in a small town where everyone knew everyone else. There was a Jersey cow in the back for milk which her mother skimmed, chickens behind the house, five raucous kids, books to read, Mahatma her cat, Trixie her horse, and Jungle Red nail polish to sport behind cereal boxes so her father wouldn’t see. She learned to drive at 12 on a tractor on one of her father’s wheat ranches. She remembered the plague of locusts that darkened the skies and descended upon the screens of her home, making the house pitch black and eating the laundry off the line. And her memory of those depression years, of the dust, made her a life-long conservationist. Somehow throughout her life, she always found a way to use water incredibly sparingly and sometimes for three different purposes. She learned tennis through a WPA program and she loved sports and maintained a very active lifestyle until late in life. She attended Macalester College. She took a year off to help her brother establish his new John Deere franchise, and following that, she transferred to Iowa State University where she majored in home economics. The course was rigorous. She took classes in running a house, in design, in economics and in hygiene and health, and she put these to use making beautiful homes wherever she went. At Iowa State, she met John Elbridge Flanders, a chemical engineering major. The first Democrat she had ever spoken with, he soon converted her to the policies

of FDR, and she became a registered Independent who voted Democrat. This put her at odds with her family. John and Gayle were married on a hot August afternoon in North Dakota in 1941. There were so many local ranchers at the wedding that her new husband described it as a lumber convention masquerading as a wedding, organized as an occasion for Gayle’s father, Oscar, to hard-sell his new Lumberyard. Gayle and John started their life together moving to Port Arthur, Texas, where John had $8 in his pocket and a job. Her husband was unable to enlist in the U.S. Navy because he was considered more valuable as a maker of bombs stateside. So John and Gayle moved to Pine Bluff, Ark., where he ran a munitions factory, and Gayle worked in payroll. Gayle had two babies only 12 months apart, Sara Joanna and Marian Gayle. Following the war, their lives became peripatetic. Housing was short, and they moved where work could be found. In Decatur, Ill., Gayle gave birth to John E. Jr. and Martha Jane, and went on to live in Frederick, Md., and Cleveland and Lakewood, Ohio. She cleaned diapers on washboards and boiled bottles for babies’ milk. She made homes in each place and then she packed the house, and piled the four children under the age of 6 into a car. And moved. And then she did it again. And again. Sarah attended first grade in three states. The constant uprooting took all of Gayle’s strength. In 1954, John accepted a job that moved the family to Glendale, Calif., and then to Burlingame. Here, finally, the children would set down some roots. In between working as a Cub and Girl Scout leader, a librarian at the school, and as a teacher at Sunday school, she ferried her children to countless extracurricular activities. She took Haute Couture Sewing, Haute Cuisine cooking and Ikebana flower arranging classes. The gorgeous work she did on prom dresses, and the Cordon Bleu meals she set before her children were extraordinary. For she was of the generation of women educated, smart and creative who, rather than enter the workforce, harnessed their talents within the home and whose

sacrifices were often not appreciated or acknowledged. Always engaged in current trends and philosophies of the times in which she lived, Gayle and John joined a film club in North Beach and viewed all the avant-garde movies from France and Italy and topped off the evening with an Irish coffee at the Buena Vista Café. They took the kids out of school to attend JFK’s rally at the Cow Palace in South San Francisco in 1959. They wanted to be where the action was. Gayle had her fifth child, Kristin, in 1963. The first three children all went off to college – John Jr. at 16 years old — to UCLA. The family moved to Los Angeles for a brief period, but soon after, John was offered a job in Europe with Bechtel. The plan was to live outside the U.S. for two years. It stretched to 13. First London, then The Hague and back to London. John, Gayle, Martha and Kristin enjoyed living in the Netherlands. But then Martha went to college leaving the smallest unit. Gayle and John now drove across Europe just as they had driven across the United States and visited as many museums as there were towns and checked out the crops in the fields as they drove. They read the Herald Tribune and Herb Cain, and discussed politics endlessly. The children came home from Barnard and Berkeley – cigarettes were smoked, plates were thrown. The home in The Hague was a hotbed in the summers. Later in London, Gayle studied to become an accredited Montessori School teacher. Deeply engaged in her church, St. Paul’s, she attended Bible study and cooked and fed the homeless several times each week. She always remembered her Depression years and her responsibility to the hungry. John retired in 1979 and they came to Davis in order to be close to their first grandchild Corrina, Marian’s daughter. Gayle spent her remaining 41 years in Davis. She joined the University Covenant Church and volunteered for yard duty in Pioneer School where she was legendary and is no doubt remembered by a generation of schoolchildren. She made her great friend

Janet Day at Pioneer School. The two were neighbors and would walk together each evening. They talked to everyone they met on the street. They brought wine and rye bread to recent transfers to the area. And through these walks, they brought the community together. She became known as her neighborhood’s mayor. What made Gayle special was her desire to know everyone’s story. She listened and, most importantly, she remembered. One story at a time, she deepened her understanding, her picture of your life. And she did this for everyone. And then she linked the stories, yours, your neighbor’s, and in this way helped bind a community. John died in 2003. She returned to her roots and became a member of the Davis Presbyterian church. Gayle kept walking and talking and listening to Fresh Air and attending meetings of the New Yorker Club and volunteering at All Things Right and Relevant. To be engaged in rigorous thinking, in what was happening in the world, this is what mattered to her. When she was unable to read due to macular degeneration, her neighbors and Alan Jones, her ex-son-in-law, would read to her. Her mind was still fierce. Weeks before she died, she listened to Fresh Air. She called her youngest child and said, “I have been listening about Black Lives Matter, and you know what, they do. I hadn’t given this enough thought throughout my life. We have to change.” This was Gayle. Always evolving. She voted always and especially in 2020, she made sure to vote. If anyone moved hearts and minds, it was Gayle on her beat, walking and talking. She will be missed so very, very much. Her survivors include her children, Sara, Marian and her husband Leo, John, Martha, and Kristin and her husband Bart; her grandchildren Corrina, Nathaniel and his wife Susie, Eleanor, Emma and her husband Scott, Andrew and his wife Lauren, Catherine, Lucia and Phoebe; her great-grandchildren Henry, Calvin, Charlotte, Antony, Abel and Jake; and her dear friends Janet, Beverly, Karen, Ruth and many others. Donations in her memory may be given to the Environmental Defense Action Fund (https://bit.ly/34VZH1z) and Action Against Hunger USA (https://bit.ly/38TW3qi).

Living

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Priorities: When my no supersedes his yes S F and I have lived in Davis for 20 years this year. I realize that makes us newcomers to many people, but this is inarguably a long time to live somewhere. Because of S’s propensity to travel places and imagine himself living there — my theory is he loves hotels so much that everywhere feels like a potential home — I have spent a lot of time analyzing why I like living here. And even more so, why I don’t like living there. I grew up in a Southern California suburb. My first house was in Covina, where my newly transplanted-from-Detroit young parents bought a tiny tract home. The streets were pretty much on a grid, and the sameness of the houses in the neighborhood was a defining characteristic. We moved to a brand-new suburb — Diamond Bar — when I was in fifth grade. This is the place I most identify with when I think of my happy childhood. Maybe it was my age, or that our house had stairs that I liked to play on, or that I had new freedoms and could ride my bike to

the store, but this seems to be a formative time in my psyche on what I wanted in a neighborhood. Coincidentally, S was growing up in a very similar situation about 60 miles north in Westlake Village. We have had many conversations about the forts we were able to build on the undeveloped land near our houses, and the roadrunners and snakes and coyotes that traipsed around the perimeters of our neighborhoods. He also loved living there and being able to ride his bike and skateboard everywhere. In my junior year of high school, my stepdad got a job in Northern California and my family moved. We had taken a road trip to Oregon the summer before, and my parents fell in

love with the open spaces of the Sacramento area; my stepdad requested a transfer, and everything fell into place at a perfectly awful time for a 16-year-old. We moved to Cameron Park in March of my junior year and I was beyond miserable. It’s impossible for me to separate this time in life with the place itself, but the house we bought in Cameron Park was exactly what my parents had dreamed of. It was on a little bit of property with a creek in the back and amazing views of woodsy areas. In fact, after their infatuation with pseudo-country living, they built a house in a much more remote area on 10 acres, surrounded by 2,000 undeveloped acres. But I was long gone by the time they built that house. By June of that year in Cameron Park, I’d plotted my return to the Los Angeles area to finish high school where I’d started. My dad and stepmom lived in Silver Lake, and I moved in with them (and their two babies!), for my

30-mile, one-hour commute to high school. All of that is a story for another column.

ast forward to S’s and my shared households — we lived like normal newlyweds in a Sacramento apartment while he was in grad school. But when my stepdad’s job transferred him to a semi-rural area in the foothills above Stockton, my parents weren’t sure they wanted to sell their super-rural place in El Dorado County. So S and I moved in to it while he finished up at UC Davis. It’s hard to describe the loneliness I felt living out there. It was absolutely beautiful, S and I were thrilled with our lives together, we had dogs, the house was perfect ... but I had a sense of gloom. As I drove home from work down the winding roads to the homestead, seeing deer scamper through the woods, I would feel an oppressiveness settle over me. When I returned to my studying husband, he enthusiastically talked about his day of walking the dogs down to the American River, or chopping wood for the

wood stove, or using the riding mower to cut the grass — he was revitalized. So what does a couple do when one is a suburbanite and the other enjoys the rural side of life? Lucky for me, S loves me a lot, and Davis as well. He has actually enjoyed everywhere we have lived, so he has the advantage of being open to living anywhere, assuming he will love it there, too. Me? Not so much. I love it here and know I have the capacity to hate where I live. I think the takeaway from this story is that some people’s no’s are more important than other people’s yeses. While S could beg and plead with me to move to a rural area where he could have horses and run fence line, he’d be a fool to foist that life on me. He loves it here and I’d hate it there. Man, I’m lucky. I’m gonna be extra nice to S today. — Tanya Perez lives in Davis with her family. Her column is published every other Sunday. Reach her at pereztanyah@ gmail.com. Follow her on Twitter at @californiatanya.

January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month Special to The Enterprise

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anuary marks the welcoming of a new year; it’s also Human Trafficking Awareness Month a month to raise awareness about human trafficking issues and support survivors. After drug trafficking, human trafficking is the world’s second most profitable criminal enterprise and in California, there is an increasing need to provide more assistance and care for the victims and survivors of these heinous crimes, according to the Law and Justice section of Yolo County’s official website. U.S. law defines human trafficking as the use of force, fraud, or coercion to compel a person into commercial sex acts or labor or services against their will. The one exception involves minors and commercial sex. Inducing a minor into commercial sex is considered human trafficking regardless of the presence of force, fraud or coercion. Human trafficking strips victims of their freedom and violates our nation’s promise that every person in the United States is guaranteed basic human rights. Women are particularly vulnerable to this crime. The victims of human trafficking are often young girls and women. Young girls and women are 57.6% of forced labor victims and 99.4% of sex trafficking victims. Traffickers, also known as pimps, can be anyone (including family members, parents, friends, gangs, trusted adults or “boyfriends”) who profits from the selling of a person to a buyer.

Traffickers target vulnerable children and adults and lure them into sex trafficking using physical and psychological manipulation, and sometimes they may resort to violence. Any child may be vulnerable to such a person who promises to meet their emotional and physical needs. Often traffickers will create a seemingly loving or caring relationship with their victim in order to establish trust and allegiance. This manipulative relationship tries to ensure the victim will remain loyal to the exploiter even in the face of severe victimization. These relationships may often begin online before progressing to a real-life encounter. “Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic has increased vulnerabilities making more individuals at risk for exploitations,” said Empower Yolo associate director Celina Alveraz. Online access has also increased vulnerability. “Distance learning has given children increased internet access making them more susceptible to social media and online traffickers. Someone simply saying hi or showing interest in a child is all it takes to begin to lure a child into inappropriate conversations, which can lead to abuse or exploitation,” Alveraz said. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children noted an increase from 2 million to 4.2 million reports of online exploitation from March to April 2020. “Financial stressors including loss of jobs and income have increased vulnerabilities making the

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ease of earning money seem appealing,” Alveraz said. Because people are more financially desperate due to the pandemic, they are more easily preyed upon.“The demand for sex remains high; Sacramento County completed a sting operation of sex purchasers resulting in the arrest of 46 individuals from September to mid November 2020,” Alveraz noted.

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here are many signs and indicators of human trafficking — chronic truant, runaway or homeless youth; excess cash or hotel room keys; multiple cell phones; signs of branding (tattoos, jewelry); having expensive items with no known source of income (especially hair, manicures, cell phones, clothes); lying about age, false identification or inconsistencies in information being reported; dramatic personality change; evasive behavior especially around a “new boyfriend”; talk about being “taken care of ”; disengagement from school, sports, community; lack of knowledge of a given community or whereabouts; evidence of being controlled; inability to move or leave a job; bruises or other signs of physical abuse; fear, depression, appearance of being tired or overworked; not speaking on ones own behalf; no passport or other forms of identification or documentation; working excessively long hours; living in place of employment; checking into hotels with older adults and referring to males as boyfriend or “daddy,” which may be slang for pimp; poor physical or dental health; and untreated sexual transmitted infections.

“Sex trafficking of minors in our community is something that is difficult to accept, but it is happening every day in Yolo County to our youth. I am grateful for all the efforts to stop the exploitation of children by bringing awareness to this crime, services to its victims, and consequences to the exploiters,” said Cameron Handley, Director of Yolo County’s Children’s Advocacy Center. Yolo County is not immune to issues of labor and sex trafficking. Local law enforcement agencies, advocates, prosecutors, social workers, probation officers, mental health providers and healthcare professionals continue to organize and collaborate in an effort to raise awareness, provide services to survivors and prosecute offenders. No one system, agency, or individual is capable of stopping human trafficking alone. In order to successfully combat this national epidemic, agencies, as well as individuals, must create strategic partnerships to respond to the issue on all levels. Yolo County has a coordinated community response so that when victims are identified services and support can start immediately. Empower Yolo has advocates on call to respond to a human trafficking investigation and offer support to a victim whether it be at a local hospital, law enforcement agency, forensic medical exam, CPS office, or forensic interview. Although some hospital protocols may be temporarily suspended due to the pandemic, advocates are still available

to support survivors. Empower Yolo provides services for survivors of human trafficking including safe shelter. There’s also a designated human trafficking advocate who works with survivors providing support, information, resources, and advocacy. In an effort to raise awareness and highlight services available to survivors Empower Yolo is cosponsoring a free film screening of “California’s Forgotten Children: Let their voices be heard” from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 27. “California’s Forgotten Children” is a feature documentary about child sex trafficking. The film recounts true stories of girls and boys who were commercially sexually exploited in California and are now survivors and courageous leaders fighting for the rights of victims worldwide. This film gives viewers the tools to combat this epidemic and empowers survivors on their path to freedom. The full screening is in partnership with Yolo County Office of Education, Woodland Community College, and the Foster and Kinship Care Education Program. To register, contact Alveraz at celina@ empoweryolo.org.

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e encourage community members to get involved by watching the film screening to learn more about the issues and what they can do to support their neighbors, friends and community. Empower Yolo will also be hosting a toiletry drive for human trafficking survivors for January. Please donate new, travel-size toiletry items (i.e. shampoo/

conditioner, body wash, soap, deodorant, Chapstick). Other helpful items are gift cards for coffee, fast food, gas and groceries; non-perishable snacks; sweat pants (any sizes); towels or wraps to keep warm. Items can be dropped off at the main office at 175 Walnut Street, Woodland, or 441 D St., Davis during office hours; or donate to our human trafficking program any time at: empoweryolo.org. Please follow our efforts throughout the month on Facebook at @empower yolo, Instagram and Twitter at @empower_yolo. For more information on human trafficking contact Alveraz or call our 24-hour hotline for support at 530-662-1133. All services are free, safe and confidential. Thank you to Bayer for sponsoring Empower Yolo’s Human Trafficking Awareness Month efforts; we are grateful for their support. We also appreciate Soroptimist Davis and Woodland for providing comfort backpacks for human trafficking survivors. Empower Yolo thanks all of our supporters and donors for their support throughout the year helping us in our mission of promoting safe, healthy and resilient communities. Stay connected with Empower Yolo in 2021 at empoweryolo.org and for updates on programs, services and opportunities in the New Year. — Natalia Baltazar is the Director of Development and Community Relations of Empower Yolo.

County appoints new agricultural commissioner Special to The Enterprise On Dec. 15, the Yolo County Board of Supervisors appointed Humberto Izquierdo to the position of agricultural commissioner/sealer of weights and measure; he will assume his new responsibilities effective Jan. 19. This position originally was held for 11 years by John Young until his retirement in September. Chief deputy agricultural commissioner Dave Guerrero has served as the interim agricultural commissioner. Izquierdo is a Yolo County resident and has most recently served as the agricultural commissioner/sealer of weights and measures for the Napa County since 2018. Izquiergo has more than 10 years of experience working in the ag departments for Napa and Alameda counties in various positions, including deputy

NAME DROPPERS agricultural commissioner and assistant agricultural commissioner. He graduated from UC Davis with a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences and earned a master’s degree in management from Argosy University in Alameda. Izquierdo also serves as chairman to the Coast Commissioner’s Group and is a member of the California Agricultural Commissioners & Sealers Association. “I am excited to serve in the community where I live and look forward to working with the growers, farmworkers and the citizenry at large of Yolo County,” Izquierdo said. “I would like to thank the Board of Supervisors and County Administrator Blacklock for the opportunity to

work in a county with such rich and diverse agricultural production.” The Agricultural Commissioner is responsible for the administration of the County Department of Agriculture which works with the public, business community and agricultural industries to promote agriculture, regulate pesticide safety and compliance, prevent the spread of agricultural pests and ensure equity in the marketplace. “We are quite pleased to find an individual of Mr. Izquierdo’s experience and education to serve in the pivotal role of agricultural commissioner,” said Yolo County Board Chair Gary Sandy. — Do you know of someone who has won an award or accomplished something noteworthy? Email it to newsroom@davisenterprise.net.

BY ANDY JONES Special to The Enterprise 1. A Riddle. It is the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space. It is the start of every end, the end of every place. What is it? 2. Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman’s first name is not, in fact, “Wonder.” What is it? 3. Music. Of whom was Bruce Springsteen speaking when he said this: “He loved the saxophone, loved our fans and gave everything he had every night he stepped on stage”? 4. Great Italians.

Galileo was born and attended university in what city whose name starts with P? 5. Television. Ethan Hawke stars as what abolitionist in “The Good Lord Bird”? Answers: The letter E, Diana, Clarence Clemons, Pisa, John Brown. — 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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ow ’bout dem Buckeyes? ... Back in September, when there were rumors that some major colleges might attempt to actually play a football season, I was skeptical. I tended to agree with the decision of the Big Sky Conference, of which UC Davis is a member, to play a spring schedule instead. Still, it didn’t take long for some schools to get their seasons underway, though the Big 10 waited until late October and the Pac-12 until early November to engage in legitimate competition. While some Saturdays in the fall featured a number of cancellations, the games went on, leading to all sorts of awkward scenarios when COVID kept some teams sidelined for three weeks at a time and others not at all. All the while, the College Football Playoff Committee doggedly maintained that a national championship game would be held on Jan. 11, which seemed doubtful for a time, though it now looks certain. Some teams played in front of empty stadiums, while others had something like 25 percent of capacity in attendance. Fake crowd noise became the rule of the day for those of us watching on television. As this whole experiment draws to a close, I remain hopeful that we’ll be back to “normal” come next September. Only time will tell.

Yolo restrictions don’t allow for any competition BY BRUCE GALLADUDET Enterprise sports editor It’s a new year, but the same old story for college athletics as campuses nationwide are struggling to get a foothold on how competition ultimately will shake out during the pandemic. UC Davis basketball — which had its first two Big West Conference weekends canceled due to restrictions in local COVID-19 guidelines — had hoped to get a green light from the local Health and Human

Services Agency. Last month, county Public Health Officer Dr. Aimee Sisson issued an edict that forbade professional and collegiate teams in the county to compete or hold indoor practices. The regulation put UCD basketball on hold after the men played four contests and the women played only one. UCD Interim Director of Athletics Rocko DeLuca on Saturday told The Enterprise the university received no changes in county policy as “both (basketball) teams are continuing to practice.” DeLuca said he expects “more news early (this) week.” After missing their first four Big West Conference games, UCD has games scheduled for Friday and Saturday (the men

traveling to UC For Sisson to allow return to play, the Irvine and the state must predict an women hosting the ICU availability rate Anteaters). of 15 percent or better A couple of within the next four important things weeks. must happen for A couple of weeks those contests to ago, the university play out — and Sisand Sisson — after son said on WednesDELUCA UCD began daily day that they’re still UC Davis antigen testing for possible. interim director athletes — reached a First, Gov. Gavin of athletics compromise to allow Newsom has to resumption of workrevise his stay-athome order for the greater outs. But the ban on games, in Sacramento area. To do that, or out of the county, remains. It’s that last part of the proavailable ICU beds must remain above 15 percent. To tocol that has miffed some show how quickly things Davis basketball fans and has change, this region stood at campus officials gnashing their 19.1 percent as of Tuesday. By teeth, knowing that Yolo Saturday, that rate shrank to SEE HOLD, PAGE B2 11.1.

A chilly start to 2021 There was no starting point or finish line Friday as riders hit the Bike Loop for the Davis Bike Campaign’s annual Jan. 1 Polar Bear Ride. The self-guided event to ring in the new year took place from 10 a.m. to noon in both Davis and along the Woodland Bike Loop.

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PEAKING OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL ... Way back when, after Alabama and Clemson both creamed the opposition in their respective season openers, I said that we ought to just let Alabama and Clemson play for the national championship and send everyone else home. Week after week, as the Tide and the Tigers continued to roll, it seemed as if my suggestion would come true. In Friday’s semifinal round, the playoff committee, clearly following my prediction, wisely decided to have Alabama and Clemson play separate opponents so the two could meet in the championship game a week from Monday. Alabama did its part in Friday’s first game by thoroughly dismantling an overmatched Notre Dame team, but as I sat back smugly to watch Clemson do the same to Ohio State, a strange thing happened. Apparently unaware that my cherished scenario had them losing to Clemson, the Buckeyes routed the Tigers in a shocker. Wasn’t close. So Alabama and Ohio State it will be. And then it will all be over.

SPRING BALL ... As strange as it may seem, UC Davis is still planning to

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Lewin thinks outside the box FC Davis mines ‘Futures’ squad BY OWEN YANCHER Enterprise staff writer How do we not have a local community-college soccer program? That’s a question FC Davis owner Adam Lewin has been asking for years. With soccer hotbeds in Davis, Dixon, Woodland, Winters, Esparto and Vacaville, the talent pool runs deep. Yet, unlike Sacramento, San Francisco, Napa and San Jose, area players have never had access to a local community-college program on this side of the causeway.

Now, Lewin is years — then folhoping to change lowed things up by that. creating a women’s team the next season What began as — wasn’t about to casual back-andjust check out. forth talks with nearby communityLewin put on his college leaders in thinking cap. And 2018 — conversaafter parsing through tions about the value a variety of competLEWIN of athletics for stuing scenarios and FC Davis owner dents after high debating how differschool — Lewin’s ent organizations original vision was to help lift a could be leveraged, the followlocal athletic program off the ing thought came to mind: ground. “I said ‘What if FC Davis just Then COVID hit — shelving created its own communityany schools’ hope for new ath- college team?’ ” letic endeavors. It’s an unorthodox idea, and But the same man who gal- Lewin will be the first to admit vanized a conference-winning it. But the 33-year old soccer National Premier Soccer guru (who wears many hats as League side in less than two the UC Davis club soccer coach,

and a local youth mentor) is confident he can make it happen ... That is, forming a communitycollege soccer team, without a community college. “Trying to explain to people there is a community-college team that doesn’t compete in a community-college league can be a bit of a head scratcher,” Lewin explains. No kidding. “But let’s face it, this is not the first time we’ve tried a concept that may have seemed crazy until proven successful,” he adds. Lewin says FC Davis has applied to put its new “Futures” program in the United Premier

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Aggie squads treading water WWPA committee set to meet this week BY OWEN YANCHER Enterprise staff writer With many expecting a delay to the spring, the Dec. 10 outright cancellation of the 2020-21 Aggie volleyball, cross country and soccer seasons by the Big West Conference came as a shock to some. For others, they felt it was just a matter of time before the announcement. UC Davis cross county mentor Emma Petersen, who serves concurrently as UCD’s long-distance track coach, acknowledged back in summer the logistical challenges associated with a postponed season. The potential overlap would have affected both her two-sport athletes and her two-sport coaching staff. But the Aggies have three fall sports teams that compete outside the Big West:

men’s water polo (Western Water Polo Association), football (Big Sky Conference) and field hockey (America East Conference). All three of those teams are still holding out hope for spring competition. In October, the America East endorsed a full round-robin schedule (eight games) for field hockey, beginning March 19 and ending on April 17 with its top four teams qualifying for the league championship (April 22 and 24). Meanwhile, the Big Sky unveiled a six-game conference schedule for Aggie football — its season kickoff on Feb.27 and concluding April 10. The WWPA, however, is yet to announce plans for its men’s water polo season, which was postponed from the fall through Jan. 1. If the men were to play this spring, the defending WWPA champs’ schedule would overlap with the women’s Big West season for the first time in NCAA history. That could, in turn, create pool-time issues for some schools — a problem that would no doubt be amplified by the current plan to push the winter swimming season to

the spring as well. According to former Aggie polo coach and now-WWPA Commissioner Steve Doten, The Association’s executive committee is set to reconvene this week. It’s been a stop-and-go struggle for Aggie aquatics teams over the last several months, as state and county health orders have stunted training regimens. That said, as local COVID-19 testing capabilities through the UCD Genome Center have expanded, the Aggies have been able to get back in the water at Schaal Aquatic Center. A junior on the women’s polo team, Davis native Grace Gulsvig says the Aggies are fortunate in that sense, considering many of their conference counterparts are still barred from campus facilities. “When we are in the pool, we’re still distanced,” the 5-foot-11 former Davis High attacker explains. “We’re all in separate lanes and it’s a little different practicing

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UC Davis junior Grace Gulsvig is happy to be able to get practice time in the pool.

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akeaways from Friday’s CFP semifinal games ... Notre Dame claims to have “competed,” whatever that means. But once Alabama’s lead grew to 31-7, the only suspense was whether the betting line (Tide by 19½) might be affected. It was, 31-14. ■ Later, Ohio State outplayed and outmuscled Clemson on both sides of the ball. No team giving up 645 yards total offense — as the Tigers did to the Buckeyes — is going to win many games. ■ The Washington Football Team executed the easiest type of transaction earlier this week. They told pain-in-the-backside QB Dwayne Haskins his services were no longer needed. (Also known as addition by subtraction). After no team claimed the 2019 first-round draft choice, he parted ways with his representatives and will now try to hook on somewhere as a 2021 free agent. Haskins thus joins a list that includes Tony Mandarich, Ryan

Leaf, JaMarcus Russell and Johnny Manziel, among others, as one of the biggest draft-day busts. ■ Only in 2020: Three teams, Dallas, Washington and the N.Y. Giants (all with losing records) are still alive in the chase for the NFC East “title.” A Washington win eliminates the others and the D.C. Team would host a wild-card game next weekend. But a Giants win and Washington loss would give New York, at one time 0-5 and 1-7, a playoff berth. ■ One suggestion for canceled bowl games is to play them next August as “preseason” games. Doing so would give many players the usual experience of going to a bowl. ■ Kudos to former Sacramento Monarchs player Kara Lawson. It’s Coach Lawson now, and she let her female Duke players make the decision to discontinue their season due to COVID concerns. “I also didn’t believe we should be playing,” Lawson said.

■ Since COVID-19 knows no calendar, how might that affect baseball’s spring training and the already once-canceled March Madness? ■ You’ve never heard of Chris Hauty, but you will soon. His debut counter-terrorism novel “Deep State” is an excellent read. ■ I’m sorry, but a Rose Bowl Game played anywhere but in the Rose Bowl itself just isn’t the same. But Alabama would have beaten Notre Dame anywhere. ■ In Jon Gruden’s second Raiders go-round, his team is 17-29 with today’s game at Denver remaining. Gruden makes $10M annually in the third year of a 10-year contract. ■ Kansas, Arizona and

Vanderbilt, total combined 2020 football wins: none. All three, however, were bowl-eligible. ■ For the first time since 2005-06, Joe Thornton will be playing in the NHL for someone other than the Sharks. He signed during the offseason with his hometown Toronto Maple Leafs, in the belief he has a better chance at winning the Stanley Cup with Toronto than San Jose. With the Sharks rebuilding, hard to fault his decision. Due to 2021 scheduling, Leafs do not play in San Jose this season. ■ Turned on my video box the other morning in time to hear some youthful ESPN-talk-show type inform me that Ben Roethlisberger is “unequivocally finished” as an NFL QB. Wonder if Ben’s been made aware? ■ If anyone can help turn around the Detroit Lions, it’s Chris Spielman. A linebacker at Ohio State then with the Lions from 198895 and later with Buffalo and Cleveland, Spielman recently

departed FOX for a full-time position with his old team in which he reports his observations directly to the president/ CEO. Spielman will also take part in the search for a new GM and head coach. ■ Mississippi State has a football player named Will Rogers. Think he might have met someone he didn’t like in that Armed Forces Bowl postgame melee with Tulane? ■ Cleveland’s baseball team needs a new nickname. How about Rockers? Cap logo could be a classic Gibson electric guitar from that city’s Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Fame. ■ We’re three days into 2021. So far, so good. Let’s keep it that way. — Doug Kelly is director of communications for Battlefields 2Ballfields 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.

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From Page B1 play an abbreviated six-game Big Sky football schedule beginning Feb. 27, even as Aggie basketball has been sidelined for a month now. It will be a strange season, to be sure, given that defending 2019 co-champion Sacramento State has decided to sit this one out. If everything goes as planned, the season (for some) will culminate in midMay with the FCS national championship game in Frisco, Texas. This year, however, the playoff pairings will be reduced to 16 teams from the standard 24, but if a Big Sky team makes it all the way through to the championship round, they’ll end up playing 10 games. And then, little more than two months later, everyone will turn around and begin camp for a supposedly regular fall 2021 season. So far, the Big Sky has announced there will be no changes to the fall schedule, which was announced some time ago and features eight league games and three nonconference opponents. Die-hard Aggie fans will remember that 2021 was the season when UC Davis was slated to take on the Mighty Trojans of USC at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. After the Men of Troy decided it was beneath their dignity to play such a “lowerdivision” opponent, the Aggies lined up a game at Tulsa instead. Bottom line: UCD remains undefeated against USC. — Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise. net.

Soccer League, a national amateur league with local teams from Sacramento, Elk Grove, Vacaville and Fairfield. To be a part of the FC Davis Futures squad, players will be required to: ■ Enroll full-time at Woodland Community College. ■ Establish plans for a transfer to a fouryear university. ■ Maintain the minimum GPA required by that transfer institution. ■ Take on a summer internship. ■ Take a personal finance course. ■ Complete 30 hours of community service each season. “And we believe (those) requirements have the chance to change individuals’ lives, families’ trajectories and the communities in which they live,” Lewin says. The team plans to source a majority of its roster from area high schools. But Lewin says spots will also be made available for players looking to return to the classroom and get their educations back on track. “This is a critically important option for those that want to use the game of soccer as a platform to move their life forward,” he says. So what’s the next step? Looking to start up the FC Davis Futures

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FC Davis players Noah Wilson and Thomas Arnstein warm up before a contest. program within the next two years, local soccer mentors Allan Espinoza, Andres Olmedo, Didi Cordova, Joel Rodriguez and Al Arevalo will join Dixon Leon President Rudy Baltazar

and Woodland Soccer Club Director of Coaching Luis Gomez to find the best local talent and shape FC Davis Futures to best serve the community, academically and athletically. Along with Lewin, they’ll serve as team ambassadors and recruiting coordinators, with their eyes out for local talent in the coming months. Student-athletes can also enter in their information to FC Davis’ newly created recruiting database starting their freshman year of high school — a tool Lewin says will allow staff and coordinators to monitor player development during their high-school careers. “FC Davis is thrilled to start another amazing project for our community,” Lewin says. “We look forward to providing another player pathway that will inspire countless high school student-athletes in our local area.” Notes: While FC Davis Futures will start with a men’s side, the Golden Lions hope to expand their community-college offerings to a women’s team as well. For more information about the effort or to learn more about FC Davis, visit footballclubdavis.com or email info@footballclubdavis.com. —Reach Owen Yancher at oyancher@ davisenterprise.net. Follow him via Twitter at @530athletics.

WATER: Scheduling could make for a ‘hectic’ spring From Page B1 drills with no defense. “But my teammates and I realize we’re so, so lucky. We get to have some normalcy in our lives in a time that’s completely abnormal.” When Gulsvig says adapting hasn’t been an issue, she means it. A triple-sport athlete during her prep days as a Blue Devil, she helped DHS to a combined five Sac-Joaquin Section titles between her storied swimming and water polo careers. Her talents on the hardwood also helped the Lady Devils to a playoff basketball appearance in 2016. “It might be hectic in the spring,” Gulsvig admits. “But even if it is, we’ll make it work.” The uber-flexible communication major points to UCD’s

strength and conditioning staff as inspiration. On a day’s notice earlier in the pandemic, the Aggie cross-training gurus converted an area of Toomey Field into an outdoor weight room. The tented gym has since been utilized by UCD athletes on a near-daily basis, with Aggies spread out, then sanitizing equipment after each use. “That’s what’s been so great,” Gulsvig explains. “When there have been bumps in the road, we all adjust.” How exactly they’ll need to adjust for a spring season to happen? That’s still unclear. Typically, more than two-thirds of UCD’s water polo season consists of nonconference match ups. And with COVID

precautions likely prohibiting large gatherings, multi-team tournaments appear to be off the table at this point. Longtime women’s water polo coach Jamey Wright tells The Enterprise there have been discussions about mimicking the Big West Conference’s approach to basketball, which involved scheduling back-to-back contests between schools in order to limit travel and exposure. But what makes planning in the age of COVID near-impossible is that at any given point, everything is both on and off the table. “It’s so easy to look at things as if our cup is half empty,” Wright says. “The reality is, ours is more than half full. “Our Med Center at UC Davis has given us a huge leg up on

most schools. We can all get tested every single day of the week if we want to. “And because of that, what we’ve been able to do is as good, or better, than anybody in our conference.” Notes: While their league rival BYU opened its season last month, UCD’s swimming and diving team’s season remains in limbo. Aggie swimmers compete in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, along with Davis’ gymnastics and women’s lacrosse squads. Swimming season generally starts in early November, while gymnastics activities usually kick off in January. — Reach Owen Yancher at oyancher@davisenterprise.net. Follow him via Twitter at @530athletics.

HOLD: Healthy UCD has 8 games canceled in Big West Conference From Page B1 state with such a rigid no-playanywhere edict. Through Saturday Big West Conference games, 14 of 20 men’s contests have been canceled and six of 16 women’s games have been deleted. Of those, eight canceled games belong to the Aggie programs. But with a 2-2 record and being back on the court last week for practices for the first time since Dec. 4, the Aggie men are antsy about playing again. “I’m happy that other people are getting the opportunity to play and compete,” UC Davis men’s basketball coach Jim Les said. “It shows that if you do it right … you can play, compete, practice and be on the floor. “We’ve proved since August that we can handle it. Both the men’s and women’s teams have been unbelievable in their sacrifice and their commitment to

“We’ve proved since August that we can handle it. Both the men’s and women’s teams have been unbelievable in their sacrifice and their commitment to staying safe and staying healthy.” Jim Les UCD men’s basketball head coach staying safe and staying healthy.” “At a certain point — and we’re never going to jeopardize their health and safety — but you have to say they’ve earned the opportunity to play and compete,” Les added. “If the ICU capacity is projected (to be higher than) 15 percent four weeks from now, then the regional stay-at-home order would be lifted immediately,” Sisson continued, meaning UC Davis basketball could rejoin

their Big West competitors. But Sisson added an ominous addendum ... “I think it is unlikely that the state will be lifting the order for the Sacramento area,” Sisson said. “It just depends on what the projections show. “It’s a little bit complicated. I think this, right now, is very confusing with not a lot of clarity coming from the state. We just have to be patient.” Meanwhile, the rest of the Big

West wags on ... While others play, UCD sits idly by — one of the few West Coast schools that hasn’t reported a COVID case in their athletics departments since summer (and those two Aggies were identified as they reported back to school in August, not after starting workouts). BWC Commissioner Dan Butterly told The Enterprise that his circuit has put together a plan “that addresses all of the factors involved in playing these games in a safe and responsible manner.” “Our testing and gamemanagement protocols have placed the safety of our studentathletes at the forefront, and we are confident that the season will continue (thanks) to these protective measures,” he added. Butterly said the Big West meets weekly to discuss testing and competition, “moving forward with strong testing protocols in place.”

Notes: As the pandemic takes an ever-increasing toll on Southern California (as of Saturday, Los Angeles County ICU beds remained at capacity), the BWC year-end tournament — usually played at the Honda Center in Anaheim — has been moved to Las Vegas. ... Before the season began, the CSUN women’s team opted out of league play because eight players either chose not to play or where stranded in travelrestricted countries. Now the men announced they are taking two weeks off due to positive COVID tests within their program. ... The UCD (1-0) women haven’t played since opening night, an 82-75 victory over visiting San Francisco on Nov. 25. The local women have won four straight BWC crowns. — Reach DE sports editor Bruce Gallaudet at bgallaudet41@gmail.com or call 530320-4456. Follow Gallaudet on Twitter: @BGsportsinDavis.

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Big Tech should be left to innovate BY LLEWELLYN KING Special to The Enterprise

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irst, my best wishes to all for a safe and prosperous new year. I can almost audibly hear the collective sigh of relief expressed as this difficult year comes to an end. I am also painfully aware that many have lost their health and even lives to COVID19 this past year. So as we take stock and count our blessings, let us also pause and remember those that were not as lucky. The change of calendar is a good prompt for many to recommit to improvement of habits and charting of visions. This is true for public entities as well. Especially after an election of new members. For the city of Davis, our November election returned two previous members and one new member to our dais. Lucas Frerichs (District 3) will start a third term on council and Will Arnold (District 2) will start a second term. Our newest member is Josh Chapman (District 5). I believe that Josh will make a great addition to a team that I have found to be hard working, thoughtful and connected to our community. I am looking forward to collaborating with all my colleagues in the coming year as we begin the work of presumed recovery. I qualify our recovery because while I am hopeful at the arrival of the COVID-19 vaccine, I am cognizant of the long steep road to normalcy. In particular, I am aware of how fatigued we are with social distancing and the reality that it will take a while still for all to be vaccinated. This reality highlights why it is so vital that we all take advantage of the free testing, for asymptomatic individuals, offered through Healthy Davis Together. In a span of two weeks, almost 200 people in the community who had no idea they were shedding the COVID-19 virus were identified through testing. Asymptomatic individuals, people who have no symptoms even though they are infected, and who are unaware that they are risking the lives of people around them just by going about their essential daily activities, is one of the most dangerous aspects of COVID-19. Don’t let this be you! By regularly taking advantage of Healthy Davis Together’s free, convenient, and painless saliva-based COVID-19 testing program you can be a part of stopping the spread. Testing is available at two locations — The Mondavi Center at UC Davis and the Senior Center (646 A St.). For full details and to register for your free COVID19 test, visit the Healthy Davis Together website (https://healthydavistogether.org/ testing/).

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nce you register, you don’t even need to have an appointment although they are highly recommended to keep wait times manageable. This opportunity to receive free regular testing is unique to our community. No other city in our area has this valuable service. It can mean the saving of hundreds of people’s lives. It can also be the difference between a rapid or slow recovery for the economy of our city, the full restoration of our children’s education and the security of income and housing. Our participation in this testing can also fully return our attention to the many important city issues looming on our horizon. This year brings the consideration of our housing element, long range plans and decisions on how best to help our unhoused. It also calls us to continue serious work on economic development and a plan for climate action. I look forward to engaging around these and the many unplanned new issues that always arise this coming year. Although hopefully not too many new unseen issues. As always I am happy to hear from the community at gpartida@cityofdavis.org. — Gloria Partida is the mayor of Davis.

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hen it comes to invention, we ain’t seen nothing yet. The chances are good, and getting better, that in the coming year and the years after it, our world will essentially reinvent itself. That revolution already is underway but, as with most progress, there are political challenges. Congress needs restraint in dealing with the technological revolution and not to dust off old, antitrust tapes. With the surging inventiveness we are seeing today across the creative spectrum — inventiveness which has given us Amazon, Tesla, Uber, Zoom, 3D printing and, in short order, a COVID-19 vaccine — you may wonder why the government is using antitrust statutes to try and break up two tech giants. Conservatives think big social media companies are unfair to them. Liberals worry about the financial power of the Big Tech companies: The five largest have a market value of over $7 trillion. The Justice Department has filed an antitrust suit against Google, and the Federal Trade Commission has

filed one against Facebook. The only tools it has are outdated, anti-competition statutes — some passed over a century ago. Sometime in the future, it may be desirable to disassemble Big Tech companies, but not when they are bringing forward new technologies and whole new concepts like autonomous vehicles and drone deliveries. These need to happen without government shaking up the creators. Antitrust laws on the books don’t address the internet age when global monopoly is often an unintended result of success; hugely different from Standard Oil seeking to have absolute control over kerosene. Policy, though, may want to examine the role of Big Tech in relation to startups: the proven engines of change. When today’s tech giants were in their infancy, it was the beginning of the age of the startup as the driver of change. It went like this: invent, get venture-capital financing, prove the product in the market, and go public. The initial public offering was the financial goal. But the presence of behemoths in Silicon Valley has

LETTERS City Council’s ‘vision’ I find the debate about Measure B and the Davis City Council’s “vision” interesting. It would seem to me that the Council’s support of DISC means that their vision comports with that of nearly half of Davis voters — that’s not wildly out of step to me. I’m an environmentalist. I have solar on my house, energy-efficient lights and appliances, hang-dry laundry, limit meat consumption, and have driven almost exclusively on electricity for nearly 20 years. I carefully read through the DISC proposal, the environmental impact reports, and the arguments opposing the project and then voted for it. I believe that by the time DISC would have been built out most of the car trips to and from the site would have been with electric vehicles powered by electricity that is at least 80 percent carbon-free. I believe in net-zero development, but also understand that one simply cannot make that happen in all cases without some offsite reductions to offset onsite carbon emissions. One cannot build a net-zero medium rise or high rise building without offsite reductions — there is simply not enough space for on-site zero carbon energy production and not

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changed the trajectory for new companies. Rather than hoping for a pot of gold from an IPO, today’s startups are designed to be sold to a big company. Venture capitalists demand that the whole shape of a startup isn’t aimed to public acceptance but rather to whether Google, Apple or Amazon will buy that startup.

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enough room in our lifestyles for significantly less energy use than allowed by state building code. I have worked for 40 years in the area of energy and climate policy and understand the benefit of offsite reductions and trust the protocols and monitoring that makes those fully legitimate. I also think that there is plenty of room in the Davis zoning code for denser infill development. Three story development opportunities downtown are abundant, and higher developments are possible with variances if deftly planned. My favorite candidate is the strip mall just north of the Co-op. It’s outdated and I could see a very nice mixed-use development there of three or more stories. Granny flats are allowed and could be developed in nearly all the existing R-1 and R-2 areas. A code change in which tasteful four unit apartment buildings, no more than two stories, in R-1 and R-2 zones, similar to what Minneapolis has adopted, makes sense to me. Timothy Tutt Davis

Solidarity The Celebration of Abraham sent the following letter to the two historically black churches in Washington, D.C., that were attacked on Dec. 12: Pastor William H. Lamar, Metropolitan

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

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

firmament; because whether they are still creative or whether they are just drawing rents on previous creations or acquisitions, they will still be hoovering up engineering talents that might well be better employed in a smaller, more entrepreneurial endeavors or, ideally, as part of a startup. The issue is simple: While the big companies are still creating, adding to the tech revolution which is reshaping the world, they should be left to do what they are doing well, from creating autonomous, over-the-road trucks to easing city life with smartcity innovation. The time to move against Big Tech is when it ceases to be an engine of innovation. Innovation needs an unruly frontier. We have had that, and it should be protected both from government interference and corporate timidity. Happy and innovative New Year! Hard to believe in this time of plague, but much is changing for the better. — Llewellyn King is executive producer and host of “White House Chronicle” on PBS. His email is llewellyn king1@gmail.com. He wrote this for InsideSources.com.

African Methodist Episcopal Church; Rev. Dr. Ianther M. Mills, Asbury United Methodist Church, The Celebration of Abraham is an interfaith group in Davis, Calif. We write to offer our condolences and express our outrage over the violent Dec. 12 attacks on your congregations. As people of faith, we believe that the religious freedom and free speech rights of your congregations were trampled on by the perpetrators of these attacks. The obvious racism of the actions violates the universal tenet embedded in all our faiths that the dignity of each individual is sacred. Your public statements of hope and healing reminds us that we can get through this and build a better, more loving future. We will keep you and your congregants in our prayers and hearts. Helen Roland Cramer Chair, Celebration of Abraham

Iran deal In case of President Biden reaching a nuclear agreement with Iran or North Korea, it must allow for the immediate opportunity to scrutinize any site suspected of violation. If it is not immediate, they can keep moving the objectionable materials to another site before the previous one is open to inspection. Alex Sokolow Davis

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Change the rules, you change the game P eriodically, owners of major league sports teams change game rules and in doing so they inevitably affect the games’ outcomes, purposely or not. Politics are no different. Changing the rules of campaigning, voting and other political procedures affects election results. We saw an example of that adage this year. Loosening voter registration requirements, allowing or disallowing ballot harvesting and, in some states, shifting from in-person voting to voteby-mail affected voter turnout, altered the composition of the electorate and thus ultimately had an effect on what or who won or lost. Obviously, writers of rules — federal and state legislators, mostly — have a motive in changing them to benefit themselves, their parties and their allied interest groups. That’s why, for instance, the

national Democratic Party poured untold millions of dollars into state legislative campaigns. The campaign’s avowed goal was altering the partisan balance of statehouses, now mostly Republican, to affect how congressional districts are redrawn after the 2020 census, but it largely failed. Two constitutional amendments introduced in the California Legislature’s newly convened session attest to the continuing desire of politicians to change political rules and thus outcomes. Senate Constitutional Amendent 1, submitted by Sen. Bob

Hertzberg, a Democrat from Van Nuys, would flip how referenda — measures to overturn laws passed by the Legislature — are submitted to voters. Currently, an interest group opposed to a new law can challenge it by collecting enough signatures to place a referendum on the ballot. Voters are then asked to either validate the new law by voting “yes” or repeal it by voting “no.” Hertzberg wants a “yes” vote to repeal the new law and a “no” vote to keep the new law in place. Is the current procedure a little confusing? Yes, particularly since the referendum process is only occasionally used. But it’s doubtful that SCA 1’s change would be less confusing. Hertzberg apparently believes that the change would decrease the chances of a successful referendum because if voters are somewhat undecided or confused about the underlying issue,

they are more likely to vote “no.” He introduced SCA 1 a month after his landmark law abolishing cash bail for criminal defendants was overturned by a referendum, Proposition 25, sponsored by the bail bond industry. Voters marked nearly 55% of their ballots “no” on Hertzberg’s bail bill.

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roposition 25 is widely seen as a template for other referenda by business groups adversely affected by laws passed by a liberal Legislature. Senate Constitutional Amendment 3, offered by Sen. Ben Allen, a Redondo Beach Democrat, would make a huge change in recall elections. Currently, when enough signatures are collected to seek the recall of an elected official, such as then-Gov. Gray Davis in 2003, the issue is placed before voters in two simultaneous ballot measures. One is on the recall

itself and the second is to elect someone to replace the ousted officeholder if the recall is successful. With 135 candidates on the second ballot, action movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger succeeded Davis with about 48% of the vote. SCA 3 would place the targeted officeholder on the same ballot as the challengers, meaning the incumbent could stay in office with a plurality of the vote instead of the harder-to-achieve majority vote currently required for the recall ballot. When you change political rules, you likely change the outcome of the political game, just as in football or baseball. — 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.

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welve months without you, my Mark. An entire nightmarish year since we walked out that door a team and I returned a widow. I’d yelled, “Be right back!” to our beautiful boy and you had jokingly added, “Maybe!” We walked under that branch you said needed cutting, under the tree where you had woven twinkling lights, past the struggling hedge where you said you’d build a fence instead. Had I known you’d leave me that day, I’d have held your hand as we walked. I wouldn’t have started the conversation that angered you. I’d have insisted on sitting in the back of the ambulance when I heard you fighting to breathe, whispered that I loved you into your ear when they couldn’t save you in the emergency room, when they said they didn’t have the “right equipment.” I would have told you that you weren’t done being a father, my husband, my best friend. I would have never suggested taking that walk. If you came back, I wonder if you’d recognize me. My hair’s turned white and I wear your sweatshirts everywhere I go. I no longer look forward to early mornings; that part of the day that used to hold so much promise. I wait for night to fall, so I can place my head on your spot on the sofa where sometimes you appear in my dreams. You’d wonder who that weepy woman was, since I cry in public now. In the store because I saw the olives you liked and the pita I never bought because no one made it as well as you. At the bank because the teller asked about my plans for the day and I no longer make those. I cried when the sprinklers stopped working, followed by the microwave, the bathroom fan, the pool sweep and the garbage disposal. When my wisdom tooth was removed, since everything hurts more now, and

because Emma made me mashed potatoes; when mail arrives addressed to you, and when I found the last two apples you bought, the bag neatly tied, tucked into the back of the refrigerator drawer. When I step into the garage and see your car and think of all the places we won’t visit again, me in the passenger seat drifting to sleep, you safely navigating wherever we needed to go. I cried when the battery died because I couldn’t bring myself to drive your car, when the kind mechanic lied to make me feel better by saying it wasn’t my fault. When your framed photo fell off the wall in the corridor where no one was walking, I decided the house was rebelling. I’m pretty sure I killed the leaf blower, too. If you came back, I’d tell you that Bailey got a job just days after he lost you, because I’d no idea how we’d survive. That he then got terribly sick and I perched on his bed night after night until his fever broke. I’d tell you that our sweet Emma moved back home and tried to feed me when I couldn’t imagine eating, that she graduated from university and walks into a room smiling like you used to do, that her chef whites arrived and she’ll be leaving in a few days and I’ve got to let her go. I’d tell you that Bailey’s using your beard trimmer and gets creative when it doesn’t work. He’s got one quarter of studies left and you’ll miss his graduation too. I’d tell you that he insists on cleaning the bathrooms and that Emma cleans the fish tank and neither of them complains; ever. I’d tell you that the buttery yellow gingko leaves swirling to earth have carpeted our garden, and a leaf from your cherry tree floated into my pocket as I stood beside it; a gift from you. That your best friend Todd fixed the fan and Stacey brought me a cooler

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full of snow because I won’t have any more snow days with you. I’d tell you that Cindy insisted on mowing our lawns and Scott showed up with a security camera and light after Bailey and I were assaulted in front of our house.

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nd when the anonymous letter arrived, saying that I should’ve been the one who died, not you, I agreed, because you were kinder and wiser and our kids would’ve been better off with you. I’d tell you that Bailey recited the blessing over the Hanukkah candles and I hadn’t realized he’d been listening to you all these years, and that I drive him to infusions myself now, where your comforting presence is so needed. I’d tell you that some acquaintances have become friends, and some friends and family have become strangers; and that I get angry when told that I’m smart and I’ll figure it out. I’d tell you that I’m drinking your scotch to numb the grief, that you missed an election and a pandemic, and that those who complain about being stuck at home don’t understand that their life will resume and they still have each other, while I’d give anything to spend just one more ordinary day with you. Tell me what to do, my Mark. Tell me how to stop reaching for the fourth dish when I set the table. How to capture the faint trace of your smell in the clothes you left in the closet; how to make your enchiladas, how to keep this house from falling to pieces around me. Tell me how to walk through this town where we fell in love, without seeing you on every corner; how to sleep in our bed again. Tell me how to stop imagining the life we planned, and what I’m supposed to do for the rest of my life without you. Tell me that it’s time to wake up so we can be us again. — Karen Levy is a Davis resident.

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s 2020 draws to a close, ending what is unofficially the longest year on record, California workers are facing more uncertainty than ever. While the vaccine rollout may signal light at the end of the tunnel, economic devastation continues to ripple through communities across the state. Despite an initial flurry of legislation, California workers need more bold and urgent action to address a worsening COVID-19 surge and the ongoing threats to fair wages and equitable working conditions. As we head into the new year, it’s important to take stock of what rights and protections workers won — and lost — and what battles lie ahead. At the onset of the pandemic, we saw the federal government pass unprecedented measures to deliver a one-time direct payment to families, provide emergency paid sick and family leave, and bolster unemployment benefits. The state Legislature also responded with urgent measures of its own. Emergency paid sick leave was expanded to nearly all workers, plugging the significant gaps in coverage left by Congress. California workers also gained an easier path to claim workers compensation if they contract COVID-19 while working. And if an infection occurs at work, employers are now required to quickly notify other employees at the worksite and explain what rights and benefits they are entitled to. Efforts to advance workers’ rights still suffered some significant setbacks. Proposition 22, bankrolled by over $200 million from Uber, Lyft and DoorDash, was passed by voters to systematically exclude a large portion of gig-economy workers from labor law protections under the false promise of better benefits. The Legislature also

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failed to pass bereavement leave protections for grieving workers even in the face of the staggering toll the pandemic has taken. Moreover, workers in some of the hardest-hit sectors were denied the right to return to their old jobs when the economy recovers. Domestic workers providing critical care work were also denied protections under our health and safety laws. Finally, ambitious efforts to ensure our state’s labor protections could meet the scale of this crisis — such as expanding our paid sick leave laws beyond the meager three days — were quickly stymied. As we turn the page on the long COVID-19 winter to a more hopeful spring, California workers should expect more help on the way. On the federal level, the new presidential administration has made clear that defeating the pandemic and rescuing the economy will be its top priority. At the state level, lawmakers must act quickly to ensure that workers will have equitable access to all extended federal benefits. For example, the latest federal relief bill renews the employer tax credit for providing COVID-related sick leave — but does not extend the requirement to actually provide it. Other issues exacerbated by the pandemic, such as the accelerated adoption of worker surveillance at home and at work, must also be tackled. A just recovery demands bold action. Lawmakers should address these urgent needs to ensure California emerges from this crisis stronger than ever. — Ken Wang is the policy associate for the California Employment Lawyers Association, ken@cela.org. CELA advocated for many of the state law protections included in this commentary. He wrote this for CalMatters, a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s Capitol works and why it matters.

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Living in Space: International Space Station In 1984, the United States invited countries around the world to build an international space station. Now, with the participation of 18 countries, it has truly become a global cooperation project. The flags below represent the 18 countries participating in the International Space Station project. Unscramble the letters to discover the name of each country.

When completed in 2010, the ISS was longer than an American football field, has a living and working space the size of a 747 jumbo-jet, and is able to house up to seven astronauts. How does it get electricity? Hold this sentence up to a mirror:

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When did the United States invite other countries to join in the building of the ISS?

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In which year did each of these events happen? Do the math to find out! Astronaut Neil Armstrong walks on the moon. (21 X 3) + 6 U.S. sends four monkeys into the stratosphere. (25 X 2) + 1 U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik 1 satellite into space. (25 X 2) + 7 John Glenn becomes first American to orbit the earth. (15 X 4) + 2 Standards Link: Number Sense: Use multiplication and addition to solve problems.

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indeed major cause for pause. Unless you can say “I do” with all your heart, then it’s better not to say it.

Fiancee’s fishy friendship Dear Annie: I am about to get married to a woman I am still madly in love with, five years after we first met. Within two months after our first date, we told each other we were in love with each other and wanted to date each other exclusively. Yet, within four months, she was lying to me, going off for a night here and a night there, claiming to visit her sister, but actually staying with a married man she’s known since high school — a man with whom, she has admitted to me, she cheated on her late husband. During our first year of dating, she tried reassuring me that it’s “emotional, not physical.” Is that supposed to be better?! I told her she knows how I feel, and I’d appreciate her not talking to this man, at this point. Yet, one day she was showing me something on her phone and accidentally showed me photos of them together. I looked at her phone later and saw the photos were dated recently. She lied to me about her whereabouts on those days. I have confronted her about her ongoing relationship with this man. She refuses to admit they still see each other. We have lots of years and dating histories under both our belts. I realize that. I am not trying to control her, but I am also not willing to share her — not in this way. Is it wrong to ask to see her phone records to see if she is still talking and texting with him before I say “I do”? Is just having the question in my head enough that I should call it off? — Looking for Information Dear Looking for Information: Reviewing her call logs might provide you with temporary relief, but it wouldn’t actually heal the fractured trust. In fact, in the long term, it could just make things worse, by reinforcing a dynamic where you feel compelled to play private investigator to quell any suspicions. Unfortunately, it does sound as though your suspicions are wellfounded. It’s OK for our significant others to have friends of the opposite sex or even to be platonic friends with exes. But there is a difference between a friendship and an emotional affair. It sounds like your fiancee is swept up in the latter and has been for some time. Given her history with this man, it’s reasonable that you would feel uncomfortable with her spending time with him. It’s hurtful that she continues to do so after you’ve expressed your discomfort. And the fact that she lies about seeing him — that is

Dear Annie: I have always been a giver and enjoy making people happy. I remember everyone’s birthdays with cards and gifts. My Christmas list seems to grow longer every year. Most of the recipients are out of town, which means expensive mailing postage. I live in constant credit card debt. How can I cut back on or eliminate gifts altogether without offending anyone? Do I send a “notice” at the beginning of the year as a heads-up so they won’t send me anything throughout the year? Please help me. — Broke Not Cheap Dear Broke: The point of a gift is to let someone know you were thinking of them. Toward that end, a thoughtfully written card is just as good — and often even better — than a material present. I don’t think it warrants an official notice. When you talk to close friends and family on the phone, be honest with them: Let them know you’re trying to pay off some debt and will be cutting back on gift-giving this year. Those who mind don’t matter and those who matter won’t mind.

Holiday hijinks Dear Annie: I’m frustrated with my sister-in-law and the way that she plans the holidays that she hosts or organizes. Generally, what happens is that she will reach out to the family to see what will work for everyone. We’ll make any other plans around the agreed-upon plan. Then, closer to the holiday, my sister-in-law will change the plans saying that the new plans work better for her family. Most often the new plans conflict with other plans that we’ve made. This year, she not only changed the day and time of our family get-together but also decided that it would be held at her house rather than ours. I don’t want to miss seeing the rest of our family since we likely won’t go to other holiday events that are being held indoors this

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year, but I feel like, if we keep accommodating her behavior, it will continue to happen. What’s your take on it? — Tired of Accommodating Dear Tired of Accommodating: My take is simple: Don’t go to or host indoor gatherings with people outside of your household. In the future, if and when your sister-in-law attempts these lastminute changes, just say no — politely, of course. You can keep it simple: Something like, “We’d like to keep to the time and place that we all agreed to.” It’s reasonable to ask that everyone stick to the agreed-upon time and place, out of consideration for everyone’s schedules. That’s the whole point of plans, after all.

Honesty needed in a healthy marriage Dear Annie: My husband doesn’t spend time with me anymore. We have been together for eight years and married for three. We were inseparable most of that time, but, all of a sudden, he doesn’t want me around. He says most married people hardly ever hang out. He tells me the honeymoon is over. I have tried everything. At marriage counseling, he puts on a show and tries to make me look bad. He mostly ignores my calls and texts when he leaves, and when he does respond, it’s very nasty. I’m not sure if he is cheating or not. I don’t think I want to be married to him anymore. How do I handle this? Is asking for a divorce reasonable? How do you do that? — Still Unsure Dear Unsure: Are you telling the marriage counselor that you feel he puts on a show and tries to make you look bad? It is important to be completely honest during your counseling sessions or else they won’t work. Once you have said all of that during your therapy sessions, and you still want a divorce, then you can most certainly ask for one. Honesty, love and communication are all pillars for a healthy marriage, and you deserve a man who understands that. ——— Dear Annie: My husband and I have been married for 24 years, and we have two adult kids who no longer live in our household. My husband has always treated me as if I were his maid. I am told to do all the housework. I don’t mind, but sometimes a little help is nice. When he’s not upset, he’s the sweetest man. About three years ago, he made me quit my job because I cheated

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Overly familiar in-laws overwhelm holidays Dear Annie: I’m seeking advice on how to handle a situation we’ve been dealing with — poorly — the past few years. We’re a long-time married couple with grown children. Because of job transfers, we have lived away from our hometown and my large extended family for more than 25 years, so holidays have always just been our “core” family. We see other relatives on an annual trip back home in the summer. My husband has only one sibling, a brother, to whom he is not particularly close. The brother and his wife are childless by choice and were never at ease visiting us and our children, claiming kids made them uncomfortable. Well, as my “kids” became

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young adults, the childless couple started expressing more interest in visiting us, and we have been happy to include them. However, it has become assumed on their part that they are invited for every Thanksgiving and Christmas. Our children have started lives and careers in different cities, and so now these major holidays are the only time we all see each other together, at our family home. The uncle and aunt are not pleasant guests. They are very self-centered and politically opinionated to the point of being rude. My kids are very respectful and engage pleasantly, letting the couple hold forth with their chatter. This is awkward enough, but they have also begun questioning the young people on things like their love lives, their plans for starting families and even how much money they earn! They assume a closeness that they have not earned, simply because they are related. My husband does all the planning and interacting with his brother. I have asked him to make it clear that they are invited for one holiday or the other but not both. I have also said that we can get together with them outside of the holidays when our time with our children (and now spouses/ grandkids) is not as precious. He hesitates to cause any hurt feelings and just lets them dictate the plan. I struggle with being “selfish” and wanting to savor our rare family time to ourselves. Or should I be more “charitable” and include these relatives who have no other family to visit on holidays? Any advice is extremely appreciated. — Simmering in the South Dear Simmering in the South: Your idea of limiting your in-laws to one holiday is a great one. And encouraging them to get together at times that are not as precious to you is also a wonderful solution. You deserve to be with your children, spouses and grandchildren in your own home without feeling like this couple is ruining your holidays. While your husband hesitates to hurt his brother’s feelings, he is clearly hurting yours and your children’s feelings by not setting boundaries with his brother. Have another talk with him and ask him to ask his brother to not dominate the conversation or act rude. It is not fair to your children. If they can’t behave, then they can’t be invited to either holiday. You are not being selfish; you are being a good mother and wanting to relish and enjoy the time you have with your children.

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on him. He made me delete all social media, and I was unable to take individual pictures of myself. We have been having lots of disagreements, and one day in our home, he hit me. That left me with bruises and a bad headache because he hit me on the head. I told him I didn’t love him and wanted to divorce him. As soon as I said that, he promised he would never hit me again and that he would be a better person in the future. He always does this. He slaps me and then promises he will never do it again. And then he does it again, and I fall into his little game — again. After the most recent incident, he bought me a belt and clothing that I have been wanting so that I would forgive him. What do I do to get away from him? I have no money or job. How do I leave this man? — Trapped By a Monster Dear Trapped: It might feel like you are trapped because 24 years of living with a man who is abusive is a long time. But you are not trapped. There is help available. There are many local and national hotlines available to help women in your exact situation. I encourage you to contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 or chat with someone via their website (https://www.thehotline.org). The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence is another great resource at https://ncadv. org/get-help. If you feel like you are in immediate danger, call 911. Just remember that you have the power to leave the cage that you feel trapped in. There are groups and people out there.

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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 December 7, 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 December 14, 2020, cannot be considered. ——————————————————————————————————— ASSESSOR’S PARCEL NO. PROPERTY ADDRESS PARTIES OF INTEREST 051-182-015-000 3070 CR 88B Spears Patrick Shay 051-182-015-000 3070 CR 88B Solano County Child Support 051-182-015-000 3070 CR 88B Humboldt County Child Support ——————————————————————————————————— 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 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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Briefly ID released in East Davis death; no sign of foul play An autopsy began Wednesday afternoon to determine what caused the death of a woman found inside her East Eighth Street residence the day before. Yolo County coroner’s officials identified her as Shannon Minton, 26. Chief Deputy Coroner Gina Moya said while Minton’s cause and manner of death likely will remain undetermined pending further investigation, “it is not anything suspicious.” Davis police initially classified Minton’s death as suspicious Tuesday due to her young age. She was found inside her residence shortly after 2 p.m., when emergency personnel responded to a request for medical aid. Deputy Police Chief Paul Doroshov told The Davis Enterprise there were no signs of foul play at the scene.

Cops track down domestic violence suspect A Davis man is facing domestic violence and other charges in connection with a Christmas Day incident in Winters, the Yolo County Sheriff ’s Office reported Thursday. According to a sheriff ’s Facebook post, 33-year-old Tyler Webster physically struck his girlfriend and attempted to hit her with his vehicle on Christmas, but fled the scene before authorities arrived. After conducting a follow-up investigation, sheriff ’s detectives conducted a surveillance operation Wednesday night in Dixon, where they tracked down Webster in his vehicle and arrested him on charges of domestic violence and assault with a deadly weapon, officials said. A subsequent search of Webster’s vehicle reportedly revealed about an ounce of methamphetamine and $700 in cash, which officials said could lead to additional drug-related charges in Solano County. “Webster is currently on Yolo County probation for possession for sale of a controlled substance and has been booked into the Yolo County jail three separate times for possession for sale a controlled substance since July 2020,” the Facebook post said.

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Newsom announces incentive to reopen schools BY ANA B. IBARRA AND MIKHAIL ZINSHTEYN CalMatters After painting a dark forecast for the pandemic earlier this week, Gov. Gavin Newsom offered parents and students some hope: He has a $2-billion plan for schools to start inperson learning by spring. Newsom’s January budget will call for providing a onetime payment of $450 per student to school districts that offer in-person instruction to help cover their extra costs related to the virus. The phased-in approach would prioritize the state’s youngest learners, kindergarten to sixth grade, beginning in February, Newsom said. Distance learning will remain an option for families, he said. Schools serving low-income families, English learners and foster youth could qualify for more than $450 per student, according to the plan posted by the California Department of Public Health. The proposal would need the approval of the Legislature, since it’s a major increase in spending for the state’s budget. “It’s a good start, and we look forward to partnering with him on the details,” said Sen. John Laird, a Democrat from Santa Cruz who is chairman of the budget education subcommittee. The announcement comes as California faces the toughest time in the pandemic, with hospitals strained and transmission rampant. A strain of the virus that has a greater rate of transmitting infections has been found in Southern California, Newsom said today. Newsom’s plan isn’t a guarantee that schools will reopen soon. Schools will only qualify to reopen in counties with a seven-day average coronavirus case rate of 28 per 100,000 residents, and they must publish a safety plan. That means students in the most highly populated and hard-hit counties, such as Los Angeles, Fresno and Riverside,

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probably will have to wait longer to return to in-person learning than students in other areas with lower infection rates. Los Angeles County, for example, currently has 7,209 infections per 100,000 residents, a rate that is 257 times higher than the state’s guideline, according to the county’s surveillance dashboard. For months, school leaders have been pushing Newsom to enact a plan for reopening. In a November letter, superintendents from across the state asked Newsom for additional funding and a “common standard” for reopening. “As we plan for a new semester … there is a pressing need for a clear and consistent set of guidelines which would set forth the health, education and employee practices and standards needed to reopen our schools, and keep them open,” the letter said. The extra state money could help deflect concerns of school districts about the cost of reopening with social distancing procedures and other steps needed to reduce the risk of infection. Newsom said the state will support schools with frequent coronavirus testing of students and staff, contact tracing and personal protective equipment. Staff and students will have to wear face coverings — surgical masks are recommended for staff, according to the plan. Reflecting on his own experience as a parent with four young children, Newsom said, he is aware younger children

have a harder time learning online. “Kids are learning. They’re just not learning equally,” he said. In California, elementary schools are allowed to seek waivers to reopen even if they are in the purple, most restrictive tier of the state’s coloredtier system. But the majority of the state’s students are in schools that have not reopened and continue to learn via Zoom, a system that has notably hurt students without reliable broadband connection. Some officials noted that risk at schools is minimal. Among California’s 24,738 COVID-19 deaths, six have been among children under 17. “Many of our school districts are open, and they are open safely with little or no transmission, even in this time,” said Linda DarlingHammond, the president of the California State Board of Education. The state’s department of public health points to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study that shows transmission among students is uncommon, and that children are more likely to become infected in social gatherings and other less-controlled environments. Dr. Anthony Facui, who today spoke to Newsom in a live-streamed event, said reopening schools is important for children and their mental well-being, but also for working families. “If you really want to get society back to some form of normality, one of the first things

you have to do is get the children back in school,” said Fauci, who is the nation’s leading infectious disease expert. Newsom has been pressured by parents and legislators to reopen schools as many children fall further behind in their studies. But California’s largest teachers union has sought to slow down back-to-school plans. The California Teachers Association sent lawmakers a letter this month saying schools in purple tier area should not re-open. Newsom said his plan got buy-in from the CTA. “The vast majority of what you’re hearing today has come from their input,” Newsom said today. But E. Toby Boyd, president of the CTA, said that the union will continue to support distance learning while California remains a COVID-19 hotspot. “We have been calling for tougher safety standards, rigorous and consistent testing, data collection and transparency. While these tenets are addressed in the proposal released Wednesday, there are many unanswered questions and the devil is always in the details, particularly as it relates to implementation and execution,” Boyd said in a statement. A coalition of superintendents from school districts that enroll more than a million students expressed support for bringing students back to the classroom, but fell short of endorsing Newsom’s plan today. The group promised to “look carefully” at the plan and provide feedback before lawmakers reconvene Jan. 11. Earlier this month, a group of legislators introduced legislation, AB 10, that starting March 1, would require public schools to reopen soon after they get permission from public health authorities. — CalMatters COVID-19 coverage, translation and distribution is supported by generous grants from the Blue Shield of California Foundation, the California Wellness Foundation and the California Health Care Foundation.

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