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Local leaders concerned about ‘scary’ coronavirus variant

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer The governor may have lifted the regional stay-at-home order covering Yolo County last week, but a more infectious new variant of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, and continued high case levels connected to holiday

gatherings, call for increasing vigilance, according to those overseeing Healthy Davis Together.

In an update to the Davis City Council last week, Dr. Brad Pollock, chair of the public health sciences department in the UC Davis Medical School, said he was “a little surprised by Gov. (Gavin)

Newsom’s lifting the stay-athome order now, given the fact that we think there’s still going to be an increase (in cases).”

The region is OK for now as far as hospital and ICU capacity — on which the order was predicated — he said.

However, “the variant … it’s a little scary.”

First identified in the United Kingdom, the B.1.1.7 variant has since been found elsewhere in the world, including in Los Angeles County on Saturday. The variant doesn’t appear to make those infected sicker or more likely to die, and evidence indicates the Pfizer vaccine, at least, protects against it, Pollock said.

But it is more infectious and will likely displace the current variant locally in about two months, officials have said.

That’s bad news, according to Ken Burtis, chief operating officer of Healthy Davis Together.

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School board ponders reopening

BY JEFF HUDSON Enterprise staff writer

“It’s not a healthy or safe place,” he said. “And the impact on the neighborhood is such that depending on how close you are, the more upset people are. But the people who are the closest … are totally up in arms

Is now it time for the schoolchildren of Davis to start returning to campus, for at least part of each week, after a long stint of online distance learning that began last March?

Or should the Davis school district wait until the new coronavirus vaccines become more widely available, and perhaps wait until Yolo County goes from Purple Tier (meaning widespread transmission of the virus) down to less restrictive Red Tier status (due to a decline in the number of new cases of the virus, indicating less transmission in the community).

That’s the question that the Davis school board spent several hours discussing during a special board meeting on Saturday. The school board trustees will be discussing the same topic again on Tuesday, Jan. 19 (starting at 6:30 p.m. and viewable as a Zoom session) at another special meeting, and then take up the topic once more during the regularlyscheduled school board meeting on Thursday, Jan. 21 (starting at 6:30 p.m. and viewable live via Davis cable television Channel 17, and on school district website www.djusd.tv) Further details of how to watch those meetings are at www.djusd.net.

The question of when all students (and teachers) should return to school classrooms has been hotly discussed, nationally and locally, since late November. That’s when Dr. Anthony Fauci, the highly respected director of the National Institute of

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SEE REOPENING, PAGE A4

Tents line the railroad tracks west of the Cannery in North Davis.

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Untangling issues City, county pledge cooperation dealing with homeless encampment

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY

far more elaborate and approaching the height of a two-story building. Here, a number of the city’s unhoused population have made shelters — and more.

Enterprise staff writer No issue in Davis has prompted more constituent complaints in the past year for Yolo County Supervisor Jim Provenza than the ever-growing encampment between F Street and the Cannery along the railroad tracks.

Stretching from Covell Boulevard to the northern end of the Cannery are makeshift campsite after makeshift campsite — some little more than open-sided structures, others

Davis City Councilman Will Arnold said he received a tip that there were makeshift bridges that had been laid across the drainage ditch that runs parallel to the road.

“I went and checked it out myself,” he said during a recent meeting between city and county officials.

The bridges, he said, were “basically long pieces of wood so folks can get from one side to the other.”

“So that’s beyond just campsites,” said Arnold. “That’s infrastructure being built there.”

Like Provenza, Arnold said he continues to hear, through both official channels and conversations on the greenbelt, concerns from area residents.

“I sense a general understanding by most folks that I talk to of the difficulty of the situation and the limited

options that we have at our disposal,” said Arnold, “but that does not in itself mean that folks think that the status quo is acceptable, and they’re right.”

Said Provenza: “It’s a bad place for the homeless.”

What’s behind UCD’s COVID tests?

UC Davis shelves budget-reduction plans

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Special to The Enterprise UC Davis is “passing the COVID test with flying colors,” MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle said, using a play on words as she concluded a recent interview with Professor Brad Pollock, associate dean for public health sciences, about the university’s COVID-19 testing program.

The saliva testing program started Sept. 14 when students began moving into campus housing for

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Businesses feeling UCD students’ absence T he ASUCD Coffee House closed indefinitely on Friday. Noting a lack of business, its management said the CoHo will remain shuttered at least through winter quarter.

In a Jan. 14 statement, Darin Schluep, longtime director of Associated Students Dining Services, said, “We will be utilizing this break in service to evaluate the past year’s operations, and identify key learnings and improvements to implement as part of the reopening strategy for the Coffee House and its satellite operations.”

Schluep said Dining Services management will determine by the end of winter quarter whether to extend the closure through spring and summer.

He encouraged patrons to support other food-service operations on campus. Locations and hours of operations are available at https://housing.ucdavis.edu/ dining/open-locations/. While the Segundo and Tercero dining commons are open just to mealplan holders, there are several markets and cafes available to UC Davis employees and the public.

They include the Segundo Market, Tercero Market, Latitude Market, Sage Street Market & Cafe, Scrubs Cafe, Spokes Grill and Peet’s Coffee at the Silo.

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Ramen Hook, at 825 Russell Blvd. inside University Mall, is closed temporarily. A note on its door says that it will remain that way “until (UC Davis) classes are back in-person.” The university has tentative plans to bring more students back for fall quarter, which begins Sept. 20.

———— Cable Car Wash was set to reopen on Monday. Hours are 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays at 904 Third St. ———— A correction on Chando’s Tacos, which started parking its food truck in Davis on Monday.

It’s in front of University Park Inn, 1111 Richards Blvd., and is open from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily.

Lisandro “Chando” Madrigal gave me the incorrect location and hours when I spoke to him for last week’s column.

It will transition to a permanent restaurant as soon as April.

It’s updating the former Redrum Burger restaurant spot at 978 Olive Drive.

———— Plans are still in the works to reopen El Toro Bravo, which closed in February. The restaurant is at 231 D St. Owner Derar Zawaydeh said Friday, “We don’t have a clear timeline but hopefully as COVID-19 state regulations improve, that would get us closer to opening.”

———— The downtown Starbucks at 623 Second St. reopened on Monday. It was closed temporarily due to a COVID-19 case, an employee confirmed. The University Mall store closed permanently in October.

———— Paesano’s, 139 G St., closed temporarily on Jan. 7 and reopened on Wednesday. It has closed at least two other times for COVID cases.

———— Collision Pros recently purchased A-1 Body Shop at 215 I St. in Davis. The Loomis-based company has five other body shops in Northern California.

“We are proud to continue the business founded and run by the Cross family since 1967,” said Brian von Tress, Collision Pros founder and president. “A-1 was a natural fit for Collision Pros because the emphasis Brian and Deirdre Cross put on customer experience matches our own. We plan to enhance A-1 with our

technology and training, taking what was already a great brand and making it even better.”

Collision Pros is working to make all of its repair facilities Tesla-certified. “We have been working with Tesla for years in other locations, and believe that the Davis market can really use a Tesla repair specialist.”

Cameron Young will continue to manage the auto body shop.

Collision Pros CFO Darin Salk is a Davis resident. The company’s other shops are in Woodland, Loomis, Auburn, Chico and Red Bluff.

———— Windermere Real Estate recently acquired Lyon Real Estate. Windermere is a familyrun Seattle-based firm founded in 1972. A news release said Windermere was the largest regional real estate company in the Western United States.

Lyon Real Estate has been a fixture in the greater Sacramento region for 75 years and has more than 800 agents. Under the terms of the deal, Lyon continues to operate under its name and brand, and maintains its leadership team. The Lyon Real Estate in Davis is at 401 Second St. ———— Parcel Dispatch PDQ celebrates its 40th anniversary on Monday.

“We opened our business at a

little hole-in-the-wall location at 139 G Street on Jan. 18, 1981,” co-owner Laura Christensen said. “We rented mailboxes and grew from there, adding UPS and FedEx shipping, notary and fingerprinting services. We moved to 216 F St. in 1986.

We’re still family owned and operated and glad that the community is so supportive.”

———— The state lifted the stay-athome order on Wednesday, reopening hair salons and outdoor dining but keeping us in the most-restrictive purple tier. I keep track of affected Davis businesses on my Google spreadsheet, which includes more than 325 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 or additions.

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

Windermere Real Valley Clean Energy has new board leaders Estate acquires Lyon Special to The Enterprise

Special to The Enterprise Lyon Real Estate has been acquired by Windermere Real Estate, a familyrun firm and the largest regional real estate company in the Western United States.

Lyon Real Estate has been a fixture in the greater Sacramento region for 75 years with more than 800 agents who generated over $2.86 billion in sales last year.

Windermere Real Estate was founded in 1972 in Seattle and is operated by second-generation leadership Geoff Wood, Jill Jacobi Wood and OB Jacobi.

Both companies are members of the prestigious Leading Real Estate Companies of the World and Luxury Portfolio International networks, which is how the leaders of the two companies first met.

Under the terms of the acquisition, Lyon Real Estate will continue to operate under its name and brand and will maintain the current leadership team, including president and chief operating officer Pat Shea.

Lyon Real Estate agents and their customers will benefit from Windermere’s enhanced marketing resources, professional development, relocation and referral services and an in-house chief economist.

“This new chapter for Lyon Real Estate is a perfect fit when taking into account our mutual values of superior customer satisfaction, and long-term relationships with our clients, agents, and community,” said Laura Lyon, former chair of the

board and the daughter of William L. Lyon, the company’s founder. “The JacobiWood family brings a new and highly engaged second generation of family leadership that is committed to growth and giving back.”

Shea describes this union as the blending of two accomplished and wellrespected real estate brands.

“We will each continue to maintain our own identity,” he said. “Our company and agents will have the absolute best of both worlds.”

Shea added that over the years, Lyon Real Estate has been approached by a number of suitors seeking a strategic growth opportunity.

“This timing is right because Windermere is well suited to maintain the company’s legacy and grow it in the future,” Shea said. “The Lyon family’s first priority is that they leave the company they built and have run for the past 75 years in the best possible hands for the long term,” he added.

OB Jacobi, Windermere co-president states, “We’ve been looking for the right opportunity to grow our network in Northern California and chose Lyon Real Estate because of the strength of their brand, leadership team and our aligned culture and values.

We are fully committed to supporting this great agent network, as well as the admirable work of the Lyon Cares Foundation.”

As a new year dawns, Valley Clean Energy announces a change in leadership for the nonprofit local electricity provider.

Dan Carson, a Davis City Councilmember, was elected to chair the VCE board for 2021, and Winters City Councilmember Jesse Loren was elected to the position of vicechair. Both votes were unanimous.

The VCE board includes two representatives from each of the communities it serves — the cities of Woodland, Davis and Winters and unincorporated Yolo County. Loren’s appointment couldn’t be more timely, as the community of Winters is currently enrolling customers for VCE service.

“My main responsibility as board chair will be to work with our vicechair, Jesse Loren, other board colleagues, our excellent staff and our Community Advisory Committee to faithfully implement the agency’s first-ever strategic plan to provide increasingly clean and low-carbon power to our customers,” Carson said.

He added that the strategic plan was drafted under the guidance of Don Saylor, a Yolo County supervisor who chaired the VCE board in 2020.

“Valley Clean Energy is pursuing ambitious efforts to buy more costeffective clean and renewable power, such as solar and wind and battery storage resources, including some power from producers within our own county,” Carson continued.

“We are making terrific progress in our efforts to respond to the threat of climate change and reduce our community’s electricity-related

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Dan Carson is the new board chair for Valley Clean Energy. At right, Jesse Loren has taken over as vice-chair. greenhouse gas emissions.”

Carson said another major goal is to preserve and enhance local control over electrical power choices, “seeking solutions that will help us to control our own energy destiny and give our customers what they demanded — greater energy independence and resilience.”

Loren said the agency is also working hard to bring innovative energy programs to the communities it serves, such as the deployment of $2.9 million in grant funding for public electric vehicle charging stations in strategic locations, among them two sites in downtown Winters.

“It’s an honor to be part of an agency with such high values of stewardship and local control,” she said. “I am honored and excited to work collaboratively with staff, fellow directors, and Chair Dan Carson in 2021.”

Carson and his wife Maureen have lived in Davis for 30 years and raised

three sons there. Before his election to the Davis City Council in 2018, he spent 17 years at the California Legislative Analyst’s Office, retiring in 2012 as deputy.

He was responsible for budget and policy analysis work by that office relating to energy, environmental programs, health, social services, criminal justice, transportation and general government.

Loren, who was elected to the Winters City Council in 2016, raised her three children in Winters. She taught English, math, integrated science, AVID and journalism in Yolo and Solano County school districts, retiring to pursue her career in public service.

The VCE board members are appointed annually by their respective agencies and are not paid by VCE. They convene monthly in open meetings at which the public is invited to participate. Meetings during the COVID-19 pandemic are held virtually, via Zoom.

For meeting schedules, visit https://valleycleanenergy.org/boardmeetings/. To receive meeting notices, visit https://valleyclean energy.org/get-in-touch/.

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ENCAMPMENT: Virus impact REOPENING: Fauci’s words linger From Page A1 and it’s a potential crisis point for the city and county.”

The pandemic has limited options for officials, said Yolo County Administrator Patrick Blacklock.

Guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are to not disrupt homeless encampments, said Blacklock, “because of the potential for COVID-19 spreading.

“So that’s generally been the approach we’ve been taking countywide in the unincorporated area. But where we do have situations like this, we often have our homeless outreach team go out and meet with the individuals to see if there’s a better solution for them.”

In some cases, he said, “we’ve even done trash removal, brush clearing, etc., to discourage further growth of the encampments.”

At Wednesday’s meeting between city and council officials — which also included Davis Mayor Gloria Partida and Yolo County Supervisor Don Saylor — there was consensus for both jurisdictions to work toward a solution, and not one that would involve law enforcement rousting inhabitants out.

City and county officials, said Saylor, share “a desire for our teams to be in close cooperation and to focus on

holistic approaches to the encampments and the wellbeing of the people who are living in them, as well as the potential impacts on the surrounding land uses.”

One solution the city is already pursuing: a sanctioned camping site.

Last year, the City Council directed staff to return with options, including possible locations and funding opportunities, for a site in the city where individuals could set up a campsite.

And just this week, the city submitted a grant application in partnership with the Interfaith Rotating Winter Shelter that would provide just over $600,000 to support a sanctioned camping pilot program, according to Davis City Manager Mike Webb.

If the city had such a location, Partida said, “you’d have a way to monitor the conditions that people are living in a little better.”

But there also needs to be something in between, she said.

“We can think of ideas to make some of those individual encampments a little safer for the health of the people that are there, and also mitigate some of the displeasure that is aimed at them from the public,” she said.

“I think we can really help by putting some parameters around some of those encampments that say, ‘Look, you can have a tent

and be within so many feet within a bike path, but you can’t put up a bridge and two-story tent. Because some of those things that people are living in are getting to be quite elaborate,” said Partida. “And it draws a lot of attention from the public.”

Provenza said the biggest problem for those living between F Street and the railroad tracks “is that’s not a good place for the homeless.”

“I know we can’t force the issue during COVID, but we have to have an alternative place for them,” he said. “I worry about the safety of the people there, the health of the people there and the impact on the neighborhoods.”

“So that’s something I would like to work on.”

The agreement between council members and county supervisors to work together going forward will likely be appreciated by residents in adjacent neighborhoods.

Provenza described a situation “where somebody requested by email a cleanup and apparently the city person said, ‘It’s the county,’ and the county person said, ‘It’s the city.’ ” Fortunately, Provenza said, Blacklock and Webb interceded.

“It’s, ‘We’ll look in to it together and decide who does what,’ ” said Provenza.

OBITUARIES Sophie Ritrosky Salo Nov. 1919 — Jan. 2021

Sophie Ritrosky Salo, a resident of Davis for more than 25 years, passed away peacefully in bed at her home in the early evening of New Year’s Day. Sophie was born in Greenport, N.Y., on the first WWI Armistice Day anniversary in 1919, commemorating the end of WWI. Her mother was Anna Procak, born in Shenandoah/Blackwood, Penn.; and her father was Josephat Ritrosky, born in Galicia Province, Austria.

Sophie married her husband, Michael V. Salo, in January 1942 and they remained happily married for more than 64 years.

Her husband Mike, a U.S. Navy veteran from WWII, passed away in 2006 and was interred in the Military Veterans section of the Davis Cemetery on Pole Line Road, where Sophie will also be interred.

Sophie and Mike had three beautiful children during their marriage. Her firstborn son, Dr. Michael Wayne Salo, a highly respected medical doctor at UC Davis, tragically passed away in September 2020.

Sophie is survived by two loving sons, Ronald J. Salo, living in Arlington, Texas, and Jonathan P. Salo, residing in New Zealand; as well as five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren, and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.

Sophie lived an amazing life, growing up on a farm in mid-state New York, the last surviving member of 10 siblings. She lived through the Great Depression of the 1930s and, then WWII while her husband and most of her brothers served in various branches of the military.

She remained employed (with short breaks for three babies) from WWII until 2016 when she retired from working at Costco in Woodland at the age of 96. She was first employed at the match factory in New York during WWII, later working on Hawk and

Sparrow missile production at defense contractor Raytheon in the 1950s.

Then Sophie found employment in the mid-1960s as a biological technician and then a research doctors’ assistant. She worked in the vaccine/immunology division of the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Md. for more than 20 years (headed for a time by Dr. Anthony Fauci), loving the work and challenges.

Upon moving with her husband Mike to Davis in the 1990s, she found staying at home boring and missed working and meeting people. Sophie soon found work at Nugget Markets in the Covell and Mace stores in the bakery department and then in sales promotion for Boar’s Head before moving to Costco in Woodland as a sales adviser.

She was interviewed by Channel 10 in Sacramento in 2015 while working at Costco (with special permission from Costco). Portions of the interview appeared on local ABC news affiliate Channel 10 on “ABC News At 6” during January 2015 in daily segments titled “95 and No Slowing Down!” Sophie never lost her sense of humor. When asked by Channel 10 reporter Bianca Graulau why she still was working, she replied “I like getting out and meeting people.” When asked what the best part of the job was, Sophie answered with a laugh, “The money of course.”

Sophie walked at least two miles every day until 2018, she was an avid reader and she loved adventures — traveling with her husband or sons throughout Europe, North Africa, New Zealand, Canada and the U.S. many times.

She will always be lovingly remembered by her family, her friends and the communities of Davis and Woodland. Fare thee well Sophie. We love you and we miss you!

From Page A1 Allergy and Infections Diseases, said in a television interview that the time had come to “Close the bars, and keep the schools open.”

Then, in January, the American Academy of Pediatrics released new guidance recommending that “the goal should be to have students physically present in school” sooner rather than later, because “new information tells us that opening schools does not significantly increase community transmission of the virus ... (However), schools must take a multilayer approach to protect students and staff ... It is important not to let down our guard.”

That message was amplified locally on Jan. 7, when Dr. Aimee Sisson, Yolo County’s Public Health Director, repeated many of Fauci’s talking points during a meeting of the Davis school board.

Sisson acknowledge that there is no single “magic key” that will suppress the virus, but she told the trustees that in California, some schools have reopened safely by taking a “layered approach” by using “several different measures to control (spread of ) the virus at the same time.” In large part, Sisson said, schools need to continuously, doggedly make sure that students wear face masks all day at school, wash their hands regularly, and stay home when they’re sick.

Many school districts are increasing the amount of space between students’ desks, to reduce the spread of exhaled droplets

that contain the virus. The increased distance between desks, however, reduces a classroom’s seating capacity, so many current classroom student lists will be broken up into “smaller cohorts” of 10-12 students, and those smaller cohorts will rotate through the classroom at different times, doing online “distance learning” activities at other times.

Switching to this “hybrid schedule” will likely involve moving some students into a different class group with a different teacher, in mid-school year, Reopening the elementary schools (where students spend most of the day in the same classroom with the same teacher) will be easier than reopening junior-high and highschool campuses (where students move from classroom to classroom, sitting with a different group of classmates).

The school board trustees are also coming to grips with the likelihood that some teachers — still waiting to get an opportunity to receive the new COVID vaccine — will decide to retire, rather that go back into the classroom unvaccinated. (In fact, several local teachers have said as much during public comment during recent school board meetings ... they have mentioned concerns about being exposed to the virus at school, and then passing the virus on to their elderly parents their very young children.) Hiring new teachers to take the place of any retiring teachers may be difficult, since the COVID pandemic has

come on top of an existing teacher shortage.

During public comment at recent school board meetings, some parents have told the school board that they’ll pull their kids out of the Davis public schools, and enroll those kids in a private school that’s offering in-person instruction, if the school board doesn’t reopen the Davis public schools soon.

And sometimes these parents cite Dr. Fauci’s November advice that schoolchildren resume learning in school classrooms as soon as reasonably possible.

Other parents have told the trustees that they don’t want their children returning to the classroom until the spread of the virus is brought under better control ... these parents sometimes note that the daily COVID death toll in this country has hit alltime highs in recent weeks.

New school board trustee Vigdis Asmundson may have instantly qualified herself for some sort of “understatement of the year” recognition during Saturday’s school board meeting, when she observed that “(this) is not an easy decision.” and veteran school board trustee Tom Adams confided that this is “the hardest thing to make decisions about” during his long career, including as an administrator with the California Department of Education.

The discussion will resume when the next special school board meeting begins on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. for what is expected to be a four-hour meeting.

VARIANT: Vaccine should still function From Page A1 lockdown, he said, the R0 (or R-naught) factor, which measures rate of transmission, goes down to about 0.9, meaning each infected person is infecting fewer than one other person. That’s what gets the virus under control.

“When it’s exploding, it might be at 1.4, 1.5, up there,” said Burtis.

“With the new variant, estimates from studies in Great Britain have shown if you’re doing everything

to have your situation be at 0.9, it will be at about one and half times that with the new variant floating around. So everything we think we’ve been doing right, may not be enough once that’s here. So this is not the time to let up on the brakes.

“Just because we’ve moved back into the purple,” he said, “that’s no reason to back off. If anything, people will need to redouble their efforts to get ready for the arrival of this new variant.”

Otherwise, he said, “it

really could get out of control quickly once it’s here.”

There is some good news.

For one, said Pollock, early evidence with the Pfizer vaccine indicates its efficacy is not impacted by the new variant.

“The Moderna data aren’t there quite yet,” said Pollock, “but we’re pretty convinced of that, and while it’s a little bit of a harder reach, if we do see some diminution of efficacy, using these messenger

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Thomas Richard Rumsey Dec. 5, 1943 — Jan. 10, 2021

Thomas Richard Rumsey — beloved husband, father, grandfather, brother, friend, and colleague — passed away at home in Davis on Jan. 10, two years after receiving a terminal cancer diagnosis.

Tom was born and raised in Woodland, spending his formative years on the family walnut farm with his parents Richard and Helen — and his slightly older fraternal twin brother, Jim. After graduating from Woodland High School in 1961, Tom studied engineering at U.C. Davis — where he met his London-born wife, Gillian. They married and settled in San Francisco, while Gillian finished her studies at UCSF and Tom completed a master’s degree in engineering.

After finishing his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at UCD, Tom joined the Air Force and attended officer training school in San Antonio, Texas. Tom and Gillian spent the next several years at military bases in New Mexico. He worked on many classified projects including the creation of guided systems for the Maverick Missile, and

[REDACTED]. Together the newlyweds made life-long friends and started their own family. All three of their children — Heather, Michael and Elissa — were born on military bases in New Mexico.

Tom left the Air Force in 1971 with the rank of captain. He returned to California with his family, where he continued his studies in engineering. After earning his Ph.D. at UCD in 1974, Tom worked at the United States Department of Agriculture.

In 1977, he became a professor at UCD, teaching biological and agricultural engineering. Tom was a pioneer in mathematical and computer modeling of agricultural processing, including the drying and treatment of food and the use of solar energy. His mathematical solutions and programs were known for their efficiency and elegance. Tom worked at UCD’s Bainer Hall for decades, conducting research, teaching, and bonding with many of his graduate students. As professor emeritus, Tom remained able to continue the mathematical modeling he loved.

Throughout his life, Tom always made

time for sports, especially those involving his children. Tom was a “girl-dad” before it was popular, serving as an assistant coach for his daughters’ softball teams.

One summer he earned the nickname “Rom Tumsey” after a misprint by the local newspaper. “Rom” could be seen driving his creme-colored Oldsmobile station wagon all over town, often filled to the brim with kids, usually on their way to a baseball, softball, or volleyball tournament.

Tom was a devoted dad, who was exceptionally close to his three children.

He took every opportunity to spend time with them and served as the best possible role model as they became parents themselves.

In addition to coaching softball, Tom himself played, most recently in a seniors’ league in Woodland, always alongside his twin brother, Jim. At 6 feet, 4 inches, Tom was a looming presence on the mound, ably served by his twin at first base. Jim swore his baby brother could somehow make an underhand slow pitch curve, and that he always maintained

stellar aim, that of an ace pitcher, which is how he viewed his twin brother. Tom also enjoyed playing virtual fantasy football with a group of former softball teammates, now living across the U.S., but who remained virtual friends. Once a friend, always a friend, was how Tom lived his life, and his friends were a vital and important part of who he was.

The number of emails, texts, letters, and cards Tom received over the past two years demonstrates how valuable his friendships were. He cherished each correspondence and while he was unable to reply to all, each one made him smile and feel loved.

Tom is survived by his devoted wife of nearly 55 years, Gillian, and their three children — Heather of San Luis Obispo, Michael (Liane) of San Ramon and Elissa (Chad) of Washington, D.C. Tom is also survived by six grandchildren, Gus, Max, Derek, Amanda, Abigail and Nicholas.

Tom is also survived by his twin brother, Jim, his wife, and their three children.

The family plans to gather for a memorial service as soon as is appropriate.

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Saliva samples ready to process after a night of growth in the COVID testing laboratory on Jan. 11.

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IntelliQube highthroughput quantitative PCR machines, using “array-tape” technology, are key to the testing program.

Instead of sample tubes or plates with wells, the machines analyze tape printed with thousands of tiny wells, each of which can carry out a PCR reaction.

Originally developed for use in agricultural genetics, array-tape machines can run thousands of PCR tests a day, far more than machines built specifically for medical diagnostics.

Plant sciences professor Richard Michelmore, director of the Genome Center, and his team developed the testing program and proposed it to the campus. Funding came through Aug. 4, just over a month before students would arrive. “This triggered a tremendous mobilization across campus,” Michelmore said.

Taking the test involves the simple matter of spitting in a tube and the results are typically returned within one to two days. The test is for people who do not have COVID-19 symptoms: Students with symptoms should go to Student Health and Counseling Services, while others should go to their health care providers.

Testing requires making an appointment — in an online process that produces an individualized barcode, which, upon your arrival for testing is matched to a barcode on your sample tube. Take a sip of water, drip it back into the tube, cap it and you’re done.

The de-identified barcoded tubes are taken to the Genome Center, where the samples are heattreated to inactivate any virus. SARS-CoV2 virus particles survive well in saliva, Michelmore noted.

The samples are then treated with papain protease (aka meat tenderizer) to reduce the viscosity of the saliva and transferred into 384-well plastic plates, then automatically transferred to tape. The reaction takes about an hour and a half; each IntelliQube can run about 6,000 tests in a 12-hour day. The results are analyzed with cloud-based UgenTech FastFinder software.

The PCR test is adapted from protocols approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The laboratory is CLIA-approved as an extension of the UC Davis Student Health Center’s laboratory.

The test can detect as few as 15 copies of the virus in a microliter of saliva, below the threshold of what is likely to be an infectious individual. Initially, the saliva tests were compared

to nasal swabs taken at the same time and processed at a commercial laboratory, but this was discontinued once the accuracy of the saliva test was confirmed.

Two separate teams of technical staff, led by DNA Technology Core manager Lutz Froenicke, work to run the tests on different days with a reserve team as backup.

Michelmore credited a “massive effort across campus” with getting the testing program up and running, including Ralph Greene of the UC Davis Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cindy Schorzmann, medical director of Student Health and Counseling Services, and Sheri Belafsky of the UC Davis Medical Surveillance Program — and many, many others who have worked to stand up and run the testing kiosks, acquire machines and equipment, run tests and analyze and report out results.

While Michelmore has received many inquiries from other universities and businesses, he noted they are not currently planning to expand testing beyond UC Davis, Davis, other locations in Yolo County, and UC Merced due to finite capacity. However, he noted that none of the protocols and workflows are patented and could be replicated by others.

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California’s proposed state budget promised increased funding for UC Davis, May and Croughan said. One-time savings that various campus units sacrificed in response to the pandemic’s financial impact also factored into the decision.

UCD expects to receive a total of $50.9 million in new federal stimulus money, which was announced in late December. About $17 million of that money will go towards financial aid, while the rest is available to cover other expenses.

Last week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom released his 2021-22 proposed budget, which includes an increase in funding for California’s public universities.

Because of the pandemic, UC suffered about $300 million in state budget cuts in 2020-21, along with massive losses in revenue from campus housing and dining and unforeseen expenses associated with shifting to remote learning.

Newsom’s 2021-22 budget proposal provides $136.3 million of new ongoing funding to the UC system, including $103.9 million to partly restore the $300.8 million in cuts made last year to

the system. University leaders praised the budget proposal, which exceeded expectations even while falling short of demands.

“This is good news and an improvement over our planning assumptions,” May and Croughan said.

According to their letter, the balance of the state budget reduction in base funding for UC Davis remains at around $30 million.

In addition to state and federal funding, campus units have generated more savings than expected.

President Drake asked UC Davis campus units to identify $18.8 million in spending that could be saved. According to May and Croughan, campus units at UC Davis far exceeded that target, coming up with more than $50 million in one-time savings, which have either already been achieved or are planned to occur this year.

“Our community has met so many challenges so ably in recent years, and especially during the pandemic,” May and Croughan said. “We recognize the many sacrifices that have already been made by all members of the UC Davis community.

Mid-year budget actions would only add further stress during these challenging times.”

At the same time, May and Croughan cautioned against complacency.

“This decision should not trigger a sigh of relief,” they said. “Budget challenges remain, and we continue to face difficult decisions at all leadership levels. We prefer the most strategic approach and believe our collective efforts are best focused on the multi-year planning framework, rather than mid-year budget actions.”

May and Croughan advised campus deans and vice chancellors to anticipate new budget savings targets and asked them to continue to identify opportunities for savings within their units. “The principle of shared sacrifice is relevant here as savings may need to be redirected throughout your school, college or administrative unit to more strategically mitigate financial challenges,” May and Croughan said.

They also said feedback they received on potential salary reductions indicated a preference to protect lower-paid employees at the expense of those earning higher salaries.

“This is good advice that we may rely upon should circumstances deteriorate substantially in the future, and we find ourselves faced with such options again,” they said.

VARIANT: Genome center is ready and waiting From Page A4 RNA vaccines, it is possible to go in there and kind of re-engineer them more easily than in the old days of vaccine development, but it would still take time and slow us down.”

The other good news: the Genome Center at UC Davis — which is processing all the Healthy Davis Together salivabased COVID-19 tests — can test for the variant here.

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Here comes the sun

News flash: Montana is pretty cold

Big West says ‘go’ to spring competitions

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The news out of the Great North hit like a bolt of lightning on Friday when Montana, Montana State and Portland State jointly announced they would not be participating in the Big Sky Conference’s spring football experiment that was to begin Feb. 27.

Which means you can scrub Montana State and Portland State from UC Davis’ initial spring schedule, which is currently in the process of being redrawn.

The Enterprise reported that the two Montana schools will play several games in some sort of reduced, nonconference slate in April, but won’t participate in league games. And even that “modified” schedule doesn’t seem certain at this point.

According to Dean Hendrickson’s piece in 406mtsports.com, this dramatic, late-in-the-game switch, at least for the two Montana schools, was “due to health and safety concerns related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the proximity to the fall 2021 season and weather.”

According to Montana State head coach Jeff Choate, who was a finalist for the recent top-spot opening at Boise State, “Here in Montana we’re uniquely challenged in keeping our studentathletes safe and healthy, which is our top priority, while preparing and playing in deep winter conditions.”

Indeed it does get cold in Montana every single winter, more dramatically so in Bozeman than Missoula, with the latter jokingly referred to by natives as being in the state’s “Banana Belt.”

But, and here’s the big question, did these folks just now realize it gets cold in Montana in January, February and March? Why didn’t they object to this arrangement when it was first announced on Nov. 4?

At least Sacramento State had the good sense to pull out entirely at the first hint of a spring schedule.

For the record, the all-time record low in Bozeman is 43-below, established on a day in February, with a March record of 29-below and an April record of 10-below. Bozeman also averages 86 inches of snow every year, with most of it coming from January through March.

The all-time low in Missoula, by contrast, is a balmy 33-below.

Both Montana schools, by the way, play their football in outdoor stadiums.

I know firsthand about bitterly cold Bozeman. I covered a basketball game there one January night and walked through the snow several blocks from my hotel to the MSU fieldhouse. I almost had to call 911. Probably should have worn shoes.

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first values to Boise State.

His ability to develop quarterbacks and lead explosive and precise offenses is evident by the production of his previous teams.”

Avalos also had crossed paths with Dan Hawkins — at Colorado from 20062008 — before working at the University of Oregon the last two seasons as the Ducks defensive coordinator. He also spent time across the Causeway at Sacramento State as a Hornets graduate assistant (2011).

A former quarterback for UCD, following graduation in 2008, Plough also worked as a student assistant, to former head coach Bob Biggs. He later became the team’s quarterbacks coach before being promoted to passing game coordinator in 2010.

His play-calling talents drew attention from far and wide during those years, as Davis finished second or better each season in the Great West Conference.

Eventually, Northern Arizona came calling, stealing Plough away for a four year stint.

During that stretch, he served as the Lumberjacks’ receivers coach and offensive coordinator, mentoring NAU quarterback Case Cookus to the FCS Freshman Player of the Year distinction in 2015. That season, Plough’s offense ranked No. 1 nationally in passing efficiency (180.18),

If you’re a collegiate sports fan, it looks like the sun is peeking through the clouds at UC Davis.

Earlier in the week, the Aggie men’s and women’s basketball teams received Yolo County approval to resume play after California lifted its stay-at-home order for the greater Sacramento area.

Then, on Friday, after intense meetings, the Big West Conference announced it was going forward with its spring schedule — this coming a month after it pulled the plug on five fall sports (soccer, cross country and women’s volleyball).

“It’s all been good news this week ... that there’s a light at the end of the tunnel,” UCD Interim Director of Athletics Rocko DeLuca told The Enterprise on Saturday. “We still have quite a few things to work out with testing requirements and facility usage, though.

“Some of that hard work will continue in earnest, and we’ll do everything we can to be ready to get going.”

In addition to Aggie basketball on Friday and Saturday, women’s swimming will head to Fresno for an event as softball, baseball and both water polo teams gear up for their campaigns.

DeLuca confirmed that baseball and softball are expected to debut “at the end of February.”

But the first proof of life in the Big West since last March comes when the basketball women host UC San Diego on Friday and Saturday while the men head to the Triton campus.

The news from the Big West comes on the heels of three more Big Sky football schools shying away from conference competition.

On Friday, Montana, Montana State and Portland State announced they were scrapping their league commitments in lieu of “possible” closer-to-home schedules that could include as few as three games.

The loss of Montana State means the Aggies now have a vacant date on Feb. 27. The Bobcats were to have opened the truncated season at UC Davis Health Stadium. Also, with PSU out, there is another hole where the locals were to have traveled to

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Former UC Davis offensive coordinator Tim Plough, left, joined the Boise State football staff on Tuesday as the OC and quarterback’s coach.

Changing places Plough heads to Boise State; Cody Hawkins new UCD OC

BY OWEN YANCHER Enterprise staff writer Almost exactly a year removed from making a change at defensive coordinator, the UC Davis football team has made a move on the offensive end.

Former Aggie OC Tim Plough is headed to Idaho.

Boise State made Plough’s transition to Broncoland official on Tuesday. He’ll serve as BSU’s OC and quarterbacks coach following three years in the same roles in Davis, including the last two as associate head coach.

Fourth-year UCD pigskin boss Dan Hawkins has named his son, Cody, as the Aggies’ next offensive coordinator.

The younger Hawkins, who played quarterback for the University of Colorado (2008-10), while his father was the Buffaloes’ head coach, has spent the last three seasons in various team roles, including director of football operations and receivers coach.

Plough, 35, was the first piece of Andy Avalos’ Broncos staff assembled following the announcement of his hire as head coach by school officials on Saturday.

“When I got this job, there was one person that

CODY HAWKINS The University of Colorado graduate has worked as the Aggies’ director of operations, receivers coach and now, OC. came to mind for our offensive coordinator position, and we are very lucky to have him,” Avalos said. “Tim is a great husband and father, and someone who will bring family and team-

“I’ve worked with a lot of great offensive guys, but (Tim) Plough is elite.

He truly values everybody’s input and just being a part of what he’s doing on offense is special.”

Cody Hawkins Coached with Plough

Let’s put some madness into the NCAA’s March

O

hio State got into the College Football Playoff with six games played.

The original Big Ten minimum was seven, but the conference hierarchy made an exception.

With a precedent already set, and March Madness coming up, what about the D-I men’s and women’s basketball teams that have had multiple games canceled already?

Solution: Let everybody into the NCAA Tournament.

No. 1 opens against No. 316.

Play games around the clock for however long it takes to get to a Sweet Sixteen, then a Final Four.

Games could be viewed on CBS, CBSSN, TruTV, Turner, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, FOX, FS1, Nickelodeon, MeTV, History Channel, Game Show Network, Hallmark Channel and Davis Community Access TV. Every hoops commentator, regardless of competence, could find work.

■ Alabama’s dominant performance in Monday’s national championship waxing of Ohio State cemented the Tide as being

one of the greatest college football teams of all time.

Maybe as a result of the cancellation-ridden college season as a whole, the game unfortunately had the lowest TV rating ever (18.7) in the BCS playoff era.

■ There is a glaring deficiency of game officials in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Players, coaches and administrators abound, but only one official, Hugh “Shorty” Ray, is enshrined, and that came way back in 1966. The Hall should put together a panel of current and former officials to evaluate the worthiness of those who ought to be considered. Then submit this list to the voters prior to next year’s Super Bowl.

■ This year’s HOF selection committee will have two new faces: ESPN reporter Lisa Salters and longtime Buffalo, Carolina and Indianapolis executive Bill Polian. The 48-voter lineup looks like this: a voter from each NFL city (32), 11 at-large (43),

president of the Pro Football Writers Association (44) and four Hall of Famers (Dan Fouts, James Lofton, Tony Dungy and the aforementioned Polian).

■ Coors Light is pushing former Raiders/Seahawks coach Tom Flores for HOF induction; his picture is on their cans. Imagine if Johnny Walker Red had gotten out front for Ken Stabler ...

■ Now that Aaron Rodgers is occupied for at least one more week (and possibly longer), his offseason gig will have to wait.

He’s lined up as one of several guest upcoming guest hosts on “Jeopardy.”

■ Only one major league ballplayer collected 500-plus hits with

each of four different teams. Who is he? (Please, no cheating, answer at bottom).

■ For the good of the game, let’s not have any of the remaining NFL playoff contests decided by a 40-plus-yard defensive pass interference call.

■ NHL players are now wearing corporate logos on their helmets. For the Sharks, it is Zoom.

Wonder how long it will take the NFL to catch on?

■ Where Are They Now? This Raiders LB was the hero of Super Bowl XVIII and even made the cover of Sports Illustrated. With the Raiders leading 14-3 late in the second quarter, he stepped in front of a Joe Theismann pass and returned it 12 yards for a touchdown. The Silver-and-Black was at the time known as the Los Angeles Raiders. The won going away over Washington, 38-9.

The man in question played four seasons with the Raiders and one in Miami before leaving football. Since then, Jack Squirek

has operated a cleaning and building-maintenance company in the greater Cleveland area.

■ I never understood why any football team that wins the coin toss doesn’t defer to the second half. If your team trails at the half, you need the ball to try and get back in the game. If your team is ahead at the half, you need the ball to possibly expand your lead.

■ MLB trivia answer: Rusty Staub had 792 hits with Houston, 531 with Montreal, 709 in two stints with the N.Y. Mets and 582 at Detroit. Staub — know as “Le Grand Orange” in Canada, broke in as a rookie at age 19 and retired at age 41.

Overall he collected 2,716 hits.

— 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.

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A look back at a busy sports week Enterprise staff It’s been a mixed bag of sports news that saw UC Davis basketball get the OK to resume competition next weekend, but started with the announcement of the departure of Aggie football offensive coordinator Tim Plough.

Concerns over COVID-19 protocol violations put the spotlight on a local youth gathering and there was a retirement on The Enterprise sports staff.

Here’s a reminder with links to articles you might have missed.

Play ball!

After six weeks without a

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT game due to local public-health protocols, UC Davis women’s and men’s basketball programs got the green light on Thursday to resume competition under new guidelines issued by Yolo County Health Officer Aimee Sisson.

Davis already canceled home and away series with Cal State Fullerton this weekend, but the men will be allowed to travel to UC San Diego and the women will host the Tritons on Jan. 22 and 23.

Link: wp.me/p3aczg-3WeP

Big Sky loses 3 more Bowing to concerns about

the continued threat of COVID-19, team travel, the weather and the turnaround time between spring and fall seasons, three more Big Sky football schools have bowed out of conference play, it was announced by Montana, Montana State and Portland State on Friday morning.

Each is expected to compete in a two- or three-game amended slate. This announcement comes after Sacramento State last year opted out of spring competition altogether.

Link: wp.me/p3aczg-3WgO

Probe is over After a prolonged investigation into allegations regarding

Thanks for everything

the conduct of Davis High girls basketball coach Heather Highshoe, an independent attorney has found — in the parlance of the sport — no harm, no foul.

Link: wp.me/p3aczg-3Wgt

Longtime Enterprise staffer Bruce Gallaudet, 73, says goodbye — for a second time in the last three years.

Gallaudet joined the newspaper in 1979 as managing editor and has most recently served as sports editor. He is leaving April 1.

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Workout row Davis police were summoned to Community Park at about 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 9, when a youth football practice culminated in an altercation between a coach’s wife and the mother of one of the players.

One witness estimated “about 100” players, parents and coaches were in attendance scrimmaging when the confrontation took place.

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Let’s use stadium Columnist Owen Yancher suggests UC Davis follow suit of other sites around the state and use UC Davis Health Stadium to distribute the COVID19 vaccine.

Link: wp.me/p3aczg-3VRk

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From Page B1 Oregon on March 27.

It’s reasonable to expect, said one source close to the Big Sky, that the blank spots in the Aggie campaign would be filled by schools that also lost foes on those coinciding dates.

Might that mean Davis opens with Eastern Washington and replaces Portland State with Idaho?

DeLuca said the situation remains “liquid,” and an announcement could come as soon as mid-week.

Meanwhile, the pandemic — which has resulted in zero positive tests among either of the sequestered Aggie basketball teams — did hit several UCD student-athletes in other programs.

Those teams’ practices have been paused, according to DeLuca. While he declined to specify which programs are in hiatus, the AD said he believes “everybody will have plenty of time from when they exit quarantine until their first scheduled games.”

LUCA UC Davis Yolo County Health Officer interim AD Aimee Sisson no longer requires daily antigen testing for collegiate athletes and staff members, therefore, UCD will revert to weekly polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing.

When the Big West OK’d spring play, it also granted member schools the right to schedule nonconference games. DeLuca said coaches are now scrambling to retool those early encounters with a keen eye on another BWC travel concern.

“Our (coaches) already have a good schedule framework in place,” DeLuca pointed out, adding that, despite the best-laid plans, some games are going to have to be scrapped because the conference will not allow flight travel.

Also, direction is pending as to whether spring sports, which for the most part are played outdoors, will allow attendance.

“Each member institution (football or otherwise) will determine stadium capacities in accordance with local and/or state health ordinances and government officials,” DeLuca said.

— Reach DE sports editor Bruce Gallaudet at 530-320-4456 or bgallaudet41@gmail.com. Follow Gallaudet on Twitter: @BGsportsinDavis.

seventh in scoring offense (39.3 ppg) and eighth in passing offense (303.2 ypg).

He returned to Aggieland in 2017 to join the elder Hawkins’ coaching staff as OC. Across his three seasons crafting Davis’ offensive attack, he continued to engineer some of the top passing numbers at the FCS level, gaining national attention along with the successes of UCD weapons like quarterback Jake Maier and Las Vegas Raiders wideout Keelan Doss.

The pair set 20 offensive team records, helping Davis to a playoff appearance in 2018.

“I’ve worked with a lot of great offensive guys, but Plough is elite,” the younger Hawkins told The Enterprise in a 2019 interview. “He truly values everybody’s input and just being a part of what he’s doing on offense is special.”

Coincidentally, the job of crafting that prized Aggie onrush now falls on his shoulders.

A volunteer assistant with the UCD offense in 2017, Cody took over

wide receiver duties the quarterbacks and served following fall as Doss folin several posts as an lowed up a season in offensive coordinator. which he led the nation in One of Dan and Misti hauls (1,499 yards) with a Hawkins’ four children 1,334-yard and nine(Drew, Ashley and Brittouchdown performance tany), Cody and his wife, in 2018.

Tianna (a fourth-grade That same year, Cody teacher at Saint James took on an expanded role, School in Central Davis) aiding the Aggies’ recruitlive in town with their DAN HAWKINS ing efforts.

1-year old daughter, FinUCD head football A two-time Idaho Gatorade Football Player of the coach once coached ley. his son, Cody, who Year, he quarterbacked Notes: Monday, UCD now coaches with him Bishop Kelly High (Boise, announced that offensive Idaho) to twin 12-0 line coach Mike Cody will become records and consecutive state titles the Aggies’ wide receivers coach. his junior and senior year.

Mike Cody, who played for UCD The achievements prompted a from 2010-11, had formerly served recruiting visit from the man occupy- as the offensive coordinator at the ing the bedroom just two doors down College of Idaho, under the leaderfrom his own at home, who’d recently ship of Cal Aggie Hall of Famer been hired as the new head coach at Mike Moroski. He also worked Colorado. alongside Plough during two years Cody’s coaching résumé includes on staff at Northern Arizona. stops at Los Angeles Valley College, — Reach Owen Yancher at Ohio State and with both Team USA and the Stockholm Mean Machines oyancher@davisenterprise.net.

Follow him via Twitter at of the European Premier League.

He’s mentored wide receivers, @530athletics.

DUNNING: Aggies face a very long road trip From Page B1 TO CHEER OR NOT TO CHEER ...

According to Big Sky officials, when it comes to whether or not fans will be allowed to actually witness this spring football circus, “Each member institution will determine stadium capacities in accordance with local or state health ordinances and government officials.”

With all due respect to folks who are trying to bring some “normalcy” back into our lives, allowing one team to have fans for home games while another team has to play in an empty stadium creates a decidedly unlevel playing field.

Home-field advantage is a wellknown truism in sports. The rules should be the same, no matter the venue.

The Big West Conference, which the Aggies call home for men’s and women’s basketball, declared at the start of this stop-and-go season that no fans would be allowed in any league arena. That was the proper decision.

AND LEAVE THE DRIVING TO US ... While I’m thrilled that our Aggie men’s and women’s basketball teams will finally be returning to action next weekend, for the men it’s going to be one long bus ride to take

on UC San Diego Friday and Saturday.

That may just be the longest road trip in UC Davis history, eclipsing that long-ago, annual trip to Humboldt State in the old Far Western Conference.

Singing “99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall,” will get them maybe to Stockton, but after that they’ll still have miles to go before they play.

And yes, they’ll have to take the same bus back home after this twogame stand at one of UC’s truly beautiful campuses.

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

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Filed: December 10, 2020 FBN Number: F20200997 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) Frumious Fantastical Foundry 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California.

Business is located in Yolo County.

1007 Plum Lane Davis, CA 95616 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Alex Thomas Harrison 1007 Plum Lane Davis, CA 95616 4. Business Classification: Individual 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: Nov. 15, 2020 “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

6. Signature of Registrant(s): Alex Harrison 12/27, 1/3, 1/10, 1/17 1105

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: December 22, 2020 FBN Number: F20201014 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) NFC Auto Sales 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California.

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5100 Chiles Rd., Suite 205 Davis, CA 95618 Mailing address: 1201 Fulton Ave., Apt. 13 Sacramento, CA 95825 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Natalie Bondartchouk 1201 Fulton Ave., Apt. 13 Sacramento, CA 95825 4. Business Classification: Individual 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.”

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• E-mail your public notice to legals@davisenterprise.net • Be sure to include your name and phone number • View public notices at www.capublicnotice.com ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case Number: CV2020-1777 1. Cristian Valencia filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Cristian Valencia to Cristian Stark 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition should not be granted.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: February 18, 2021 Time: 9 a.m.

Dept: #9 Room: N/A The address of the court is 1000 Main Street, Woodland, CA 95695 3. a) A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: The Davis Enterprise 315 G Street, Davis, CA 95616 Date: December 31, 2020 Daniel M. Wolk Judge of the Superior Court 1/10, 1/17, 1/24, 1/31 1116

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: January 12, 2021 FBN Number: F20210033 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) Blue Collar Handyman 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California.

Business is located in Yolo County.

1260 Lake Blvd., Ste. 235 Davis, CA 95616 Mailing address: 1365 MacDonald Court Dixon, CA 95620 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Dylan Dion Davies 1365 MacDonald Court Dixon, CA 95620 4. Business Classification: Individual 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: December 19, 2020 “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.”

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

6. Signature of Registrant(s): Dylan Dion Davies 1/17, 1/24, 1/31, 2/7 1120

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Seriously, who was that person in 2016?

I don’t know what it would take to make me read something not related to the current situation in American politics, but I believe by not devoting this column to some hot takes on President Trump, the Proud Boys, impeachment, murderous mobs, etc. I am guaranteeing zero reads.

Maybe the only thing that could divert me from political news right now would be plotreveals of shows we are waiting to return — “What are Marty and Wendy Bird going to do with their drug ring now? Read on for details!” — or finding out Jared and Ivanka won’t let Secret Service use any of the six toilets in their house so taxpayers have been paying $3,000 per month to rent a neighbor’s bathroom.

Google it.

Or just maybe, we’d all enjoy laughing at the naïveté that was my 2016 Election Day prediction. I mean, it’s a hoot!

Here’s what a kinder, more trusting Tanya wrote on Nov. 11, 2016, with my 2021 thoughts in italics: Upon going to bed Tuesday

night, I was feeling mighty crappy. But when I woke up on Wednesday, I started looking for good news … or at least signs of not the worst news ever.

I’ll be honest, it wasn’t easy to find positive insights. In fact, it was easy to find a lot of doom and gloom among the news outlets and locals I follow on Twitter. However, the following sentiments have eased my worries a bit, so I thought I’d pass them along.

Maybe it’s Pollyanna-esque (It really is, and it’s humiliating), but here’s what’s keeping me buoyed: From Donald Trump’s acceptance speech: ■ “Now it is time for America to bind the wounds of division … To all Republicans and

Democrats and independents across this nation, I say it is time for us to come together as one united people. … I pledge to every citizen of our land that I will be president for all of Americans, and this is so important to me.

OM GOD! Do you even believe the insanity of this statement?

“For those who have chosen not to support me in the past, of which there were a few people, I’m reaching out to you for your guidance and your help so that we can work together and unify our great country.”

Ah, unification ... good times.

From President Obama’s remarks upon Trump’s victory: ■ “We’re actually all on one team. This is an intramural scrimmage. We’re not Democrats first. We’re not Republicans first.

We are Americans first. We’re patriots first.

OK, Mr. Obama. You’re feeling a bit chagrined, too, I can tell.

“We all want what’s best for this country. That’s what I heard in Mr. Trump’s remarks last night. That’s what I heard when I spoke to him directly. And I

was heartened by that.” And then you were heartsickened by that.

From Hillary Clinton’s concession speech: ■ “We have seen that our nation is more deeply divided than we thought. But I still believe in America and I always will. And if you do, then we must accept this result and then look to the future. Donald Trump is going to be our president. We owe him an open mind and the chance to lead.”

Seriously, there’s no point in even trying to offer a comment on Mrs. Clinton’s musings of 2016.

From CBS News anchor Scott Pelley: ■ “Do these words sum up, for you, the faults in these campaigns: ‘passionate partisanship, absurd judgment, and ambitious self-serving behavior?’ If so, consider, those are the words John Adams used in 1776 to advocate for a constitution with three branches of government: Separate, equal and hopelessly encumbered by hobbles known as checks and balances. James Madison called the separation of

powers ‘the essential precaution in favor of liberty.’

“The American government is inefficient. These days we call it gridlock. But that is what the founders were striving for. A system that would slow down, even stop, when politics became too partisan, absurd and selfserving. The Constitution is a circuit breaker that prevents real damage.”

Oh, how you jest, Scott Pelley!

Checks AND balances? Nah. Trump’s Twitter account: ■ And finally, from Friday, very oddly at 3:14 a.m.: “Love the fact that the small groups of protesters last night have passion for our great country. We will all come together and be proud!” This one has aged particularly well. What a nice surprise to learn that the brand new president enjoyed a good protest.

Seriously, humiliated.

— 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.

We need a plan of care for an ailing America

BY CRAIG DRESANG Special to The Enterprise

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aya Angelou, the great American poet and civil rights activist, once said, “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

With great intention, that sentiment drives the delivery of care at Yolo Hospice and Citizens Who Care. It is why our staff never enter someone’s home without asking, “How are you feeling today?” And, before a clinician leaves someone’s house, they will say, “Is there anything more I can do. . . to help you feel better? I have time.”

The responses vary greatly. Some folks may ask for additional help with uncomfortable symptoms or pain. Others ask for assistance in reconnecting or reconciling with estranged family members, completing an unfulfilled bucket list or wrapping up some unfinished business, whatever that may be.

A few years ago, one patient told his hospice chaplain that, before he died, he wanted to legally marry his partner of 34 years. Not only did the Yolo Hospice team pull

YOLO HOSPICE & CWC together an impromptu in-home wedding for the couple, they helped this man reunite with a son that he had not seen in two decades. His wife later told us that her husband rode that wave of bliss until he took his last breath.

Understanding how someone feels helps inform decisions we make about their care. But the goal is not for people to just feel well. It is to help them be well.

I have been thinking a lot lately about our philosophy of care and its possible application to a country that is not feeling well these days. I am also wondering how the national mood may direct the way we as a country will pull together our own plan of care. We all want to feel better, but the overarching goal should extend beyond feeling well. We Americans need to be better, too.

In a recent survey published in Forbes, 75 percent of Americans say they are sick and tired of being sick and tired. The study, conducted by OnePoll, asked 2,000 citizens across the nation how the

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Dee Martinez, left, clinical manager, and LaDonna Seeley, clinical educator, discuss a plan of care in Yolo Hospice’s new Clinical Education and Simulation Lab. year has treated them. The results showed that threequarters of Americans are exhausted from feeling overwhelmed by the tumultuous year. Another 46 percent of Americans feel like they are living on the brink.

With half of Americans working remotely, the quarantine has nearly ruined their work-life balance. Nearly 50 percent of respondents admitted they have not slept well since they began working from home. More than half (55%) of those surveyed shared that they are just too tired to focus on selfcare and have given up altogether.

As our collective mental

health continues to deteriorate, there are a few rays of sunshine poking through the storm clouds.

Seven in 10 respondents said they make it a priority to do something positive every day as the quarantine continues. And 34 percent try to make someone laugh daily or they make it a priority to share positive news with their loved ones.

According to the study, the 10 top tricks Americans are using to keep their spirits up include: 1. Watching a favorite movie: 46% 2. Eating a favorite snack: 43% 3. Going for a walk: 43%

4. Calling a friend: 40% 5. Cuddling their pet: 38% 6. Taking a nap: 37% 7. Hugging a loved one: 37% 8. Baking cookies: 31% 9. Singing in the shower: 25% 10. Having a solo dance party: 19% While these personal survival strategies are effective for individuals, they do not address the underlying issues that have made the country sick. It is time for all of us to hold each other, as well as private and public leaders, accountable to make America well again. For this to happen, we will have to create a plan of care for ourselves and for the nation.

The first steps should focus on making our citizenry feel better. This will happen through local, state and national initiatives ... work that will clarify and codify American values. In hospice, we routinely check in with patients, asking them, “What is most important to you? What goals do you have with the time you have left?” The nation could benefit from a similar soul-searching process.

Or, perhaps, we are already in the midst of that messy, uncomfortable,

clarifying work.

Who are we? What values are important to us as Americans? Will we commit to ideas and principles that are unifying and respect the dignity of folks who think differently?

What goals do we have for our future? The answers to these questions could serve as a framework for a national plan of care.

Such a plan would also need to address the root cause of what is making us sick to begin with. This phase of care planning will necessitate a willingness to step outside our comfort zone. It will require a much bigger dose of transparency, accountability, and truth-telling, and an openness to face criticism.

There is no doubt that Americans will not forget how this era has made them feel. We will remember individuals, not for what they said or did, but for how they made us feel.

That actualization will undoubtedly lead to big and impactful changes that we cannot yet see or fully anticipate. Those changes could usher in a new era of hope and resolve. If so, we will certainly feel better, but we will actually be better, too.

— Craig Dresang is the CEO of Yolo Hospice and Citizens Who Care.

Two Davis High School grads earn fellowships in architecture Enterprise staff Two Davis High School graduates received prestigious fellowships in architecture and are featured in a national showcase.

Karen Kubey (DHS ’98) and Galen Pardee (DHS ’07) were invited to present in the “Projecting Fellows” virtual lecture series, hosted by the University of Virginia School of Architecture.

The event series brings together the 2019-20 class of fellows from American architecture schools to explore a cross-section of emerging interests in the discipline. Kubey will present on “Publics” at 3 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 19, and Pardee will speak on “Infrastructures and Ecologies” at 3 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 26. Kubey was a 2019-20 Faculty Fellow in Design for Spatial Justice at the University of Oregon. Pardee is the 2019-21 LeFevre Emerging Practitioner Fellow at The Ohio State University.

Lecture series information and free registration are online www.projecting fellows.com.

NAME DROPPERS Kubey is an urbanist specializing in housing and health and was a 2019-20 Faculty Fellow in Design for Spatial Justice at the University of Oregon. Raised in Davis, she is the editor of Housing as Intervention: Architecture towards Social Equity (Architectural Design, 2018) and served as the first executive director of the Institute for Public Architecture.

Kubey co-founded the New York chapter of Architecture for Humanity (now Open Architecture/New York) and co-founded and led the New Housing New York design competition.

Holding degrees in architecture from the University of California, Berkeley and the Columbia University Graduate School for Architecture, Preservation and Planning (GSAPP), Kubey began her career as a designer of below-market housing. She has received support from the New York State Council on the Arts and MacDowell.

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This gallery installation by Galen Pardee is at The OSU Knowlton Pardee is an architect, educator, and researcher; currently the LeFevre Emerging Practitioner Fellow at The Ohio State

University. Originally from Davis, he received his bachelor’s degree from Brandeis University and a master’s degree from

Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP).

He has taught at Columbia University and Ohio State, and led design teams for institutional and cultural clients in New York and California.

Focusing on the intersection of architecture, geopolitical machinations, material economy, and the character of designed objects, his work explores dimensions of architectural advocacy in his practice, Drawing Agency. His research projects have been funded by The Ohio State University, Columbia University GSAPP and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.

———— Matthew Blackwell, class of 2021, of Davis, achieved dean’s list status at Bucknell University for the fall semester. To earn this recognition, Blackwell had to have achieved a grade point average of 3.5 or higher on a scale of 4.0.

Located in Lewisburg, Pa., Bucknell University is

a highly selective private liberal arts university.

———— Gov. Gavin Newsom reappointed Lisa Halko, 60, of Davis, as chief counsel at the Department of Conservation, where she has served in that role since 2017.

Halko was an administrative-law judge at the California Department of Social Services from 2012 to 2017, staff counsel at the California Prison Health Care Receivership from 2010 to 2012 and associate and shareholder at Greenberg Traurig LLP from 2004 to 2010. She was court counsel, general counsel and court executive officer at the Yolo County Superior Court from 1997 to 2003 and a sole practitioner from 1994 to 1997. She was an associate at Livingston & Mattesich Law Corporation from 1990 to 1994.

She earned her law degree from the UCLA School of Law. This position does not require Senate confirmation and the compensation is $179,820.

Halko is a Democrat.

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ast week, the California Democratic Party attempted to link the Republican-backed drive to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom to the riotous invasion of the U.S. Capitol building by supporters of soon-to-be exPresident Donald Trump.

“This recall effort, which really ought to be called ‘the California coup,’ is being led by right-wing conspiracy theorists, white nationalists, anti-vaxxers and groups who encourage violence on our democratic institutions,” state Democratic chairman Rusty Hicks said.

It was an overreach, as media accounts quickly pointed out, to compare the clearly illegal and violent incident at the Capitol to the constitutionally protected recall process, and Hicks grudgingly conceded the recall’s legality.

If anything, the effort signaled Democratic worries that the campaign to collect enough signatures to place Newsom’s fate before voters may succeed. Organizers say they’ve collected about twothirds of the 1.5 million signatures needed to qualify the recall.

However, had they done their homework and not

BY GLORIA PARTIDA AND GARY MAY Special to The Enterprise

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ast year at this time, it would have been hard to imagine how normal it would feel to wear a mask every day, that we could celebrate with joy even when we’re not together, and that we could develop effective vaccines in record time. But here we are, doing things we never imagined we would or could.

It’s with that same sense of challenge and possibility that we tell you that it is possible for Davis to be a town without COVID-19 in 2021. As in the coming weeks, not late summer when most of the country is expected to be vaccinated. A new, weekly routine of regular asymptomatic COVID19 testing — can help get us there. Here’s how.

Healthy Davis Together, a joint project between the City of Davis and UC Davis, provides a remarkable opportunity to offer free testing to everyone who lives or works in Davis. Frequent testing is the best tool we have to detect infection before it spreads. The point of this approach is not to confirm that you are negative on the day you got tested (though that certainly brings a sigh of relief ).

It’s catching the asymptomatic positive cases as soon as possible that makes the biggest difference. With every positive test result, we can quickly provide the quarantine support a person needs and mobilize contact tracing efforts to find the people who might have been unintentionally and unknowingly infected.

In the last few weeks, we’ve identified more than 700 community members who had no idea they were infected. On some days we are finding 1 in 25 people tested are found to be carriers. Knowing this information helped them protect their families and prevent the spread of the virus.

Weekly is a key part of the equation. A test result is only accurate on the day a person took that test. Just because you are negative today doesn’t mean you’ll be negative tomorrow which is why testing weekly is so important. Even if we are going out with masks on — for groceries, a walk, or a socially distanced “hello” with a pod-mate — we need to get tested.

If you go out rarely and carefully, this may mean once a week, but for many others whose jobs require more interactions, twice a week would be more beneficial.

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overreached, Hicks, et al, could have made the very valid point that while rightwing extremists are not leading the recall drive, they are certainly trying to make it happen with outright lies.

Rightist propaganda outlets are flooding YouTube with videos that profess to be giving viewers factual information about Newsom and the state he governs, but are plainly attempting to stir up support for the recall with misinformation.

For instance, a youngish man who calls himself “John Williams” and describes himself as a financial adviser, has posted numerous videos excoriating Newsom and backing the recall.

“Newsom wants essentially to destroy California and turn it into a communist state where he is the ruler, the dictator and god over 40 million people,” Williams

LETTERS Student housing is housing

aliva-based testing is free, painless and fast. You’ll spend more time making your morning coffee than getting tested and results typically returned within one to two days.

Thanks to continuing advances, starting Jan. 2, the UC Davis testing lab we are using will be able to do 6,000 tests a day, seven days a week, with even greater capacity to come. The hardest part may be making it a regular habit. But as the last 10 months has showed us, we can do things we never thought we could.

Until there’s widespread vaccination, getting tested regularly is critical, along with continuing to wear masks, social distancing and regular hand washing.

Weekly asymptomatic testing is a commitment you can make today by scheduling appointments for you and your family through HealthyDavisTogether.org.

Encourage your friends, neighbors, podmates and coworkers to join in as well.

However, if you are experiencing symptoms, go to your healthcare provider and get tested.

Together, we can drive COVID-19 infections to the lowest levels in the nation, and Davis can achieve its potential to be a town without COVID — but only with your help.

— Gloria Partida is the mayor of Davis.

Gary May is the chancellor of UC Davis.

Something that has come up as opposition to new housing is that it often caters to students (dorm style), thus leaving non-student renters in the cold. This strikes me as wrong for two reasons: (1) Davis is primarily a college town, so it stands to reason that the majority of new housing is directed at students.

(2) When “student” housing is built, some units will be occupied by new residents, but many will be occupied by people previously living in town. That will open up those units to non-students.

Thus, student housing is housing.

What's worse, as a student, is the derision that we face. We pay taxes here, don't use the schools, often don't own cars, and shop at Davis shops. We contribute. Yet I wonder how many readers once opposed the very apartment I am writing this letter in.

Zachary Cosenza Davis

She has it wrong on Israel Boy, does Sherrill Futrell have it wrong in her criticism of Israel and the financial aid it gets from the U.S. She cites the disruption of the prayers of Greek Orthodox monks by Israeli settlers, but that is an outlier at odds with the overall religious tolerance of the country. (Would the monks prefer to be located elsewhere in

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In another, posted on Dec. 30, he tells viewers that Newsom has signed five new laws that would take effect on Jan. 1.

“Freedom, liberty and justice died — all thanks to these new laws,” the video claims. “California as we once knew it is gone forever and it’s all thanks to these new laws signed into effect by Gavin Newsom and they become official next week.

This is absolutely insane!!”

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nd what are these horrendous new laws?

In fact, Newsom signed only one of the five cited, Assembly Bill 3121, which creates a commission to study reparations for California’s role in the enslavement of Black people.

The other four cited are not new laws, but merely recently introduced bills that would declare racism to be a health crisis, extend a moratorium on renter evictions, push social media platforms to police their content, and make voting-by-mail permanent.

All four can be legitimately criticized, but they haven’t even had legislative hearings, much less been passed by the

the Middle East — say Turkey?) Consider who controls the Temple Mount in Jerusalem — the Muslim Waqf in Jordan.

Despite the site’s historic holy significance for Jews, Israel has retained and cooperated with the Waqf ’s management.

Israel is very much a multi-racial nation. Today most Israeli Jews are Sephardim whose families came from the East (Iraq, Iran, Syria, etc.). And many Israelis are Black, largely as a result of the remarkable absorption of Ethiopian Jews.

Relations with the Palestinians are much more complex — both positive and negative — than Futrell recognizes.

About a fifth of Israeli citizens are Palestinian Arabs who are represented in the Knesset and Supreme Court. Other Palestinians in the region are governed by the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank which has a mixed contentious/ cooperative relationship with Israel.

As to the $4 billion in annual U.S. aid to Israel — this is hardly a “surprise” since Congress regularly votes for it without much controversy. It recognizes that Israel is our closest ally in the volatile Middle East, sharing our democratic values and having common defense interests. The funds support intelligence gathering, technology, training and other joint activities.

So welcome to the real world!

Al Sokolow Davis

Biden leadership Following Democrats’ castigation of

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;

Legislature and signed by Newsom — and saying otherwise is a bald-faced lie.

Another YouTube misinformation site is called “California Insider,” a subsidiary of Epoch Times, a right-wing propaganda outlet founded by members of the Falun Gong religious movement and one of Trump’s most ardent cheerleaders.

California Insider generates a steady stream of seemingly straightforward interviews focused on California’s shortcomings due to poor governance by Democratic officeholders. It often features well-known Republican political figures.

Whether Newsom deserves to be recalled is debatable.

But he certainly doesn’t deserve to be slandered by misinformation, lies and guilt-by-association. Hicks could have made that legitimate point instead of engaging in overheated character assassination himself.

— CalMatters is a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s state Capitol works and why it matters.

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the senior California senator for her failure to more forcefully oppose the SCOTUS nomination of Justice ConeyBarrett, due to her conservative Catholic views, Democratic voters experienced a miraculous Christian conversion in electing Joe Biden, who reportedly attends mass daily, and quoted the Bible on the night of his election.

After openly mocking the evangelical Christian views of Vice President Pence over the past four years, Democratic voters elected an evangelical Christian minister as one of two new senators from Georgia.

I am therefore hopeful that these newly enlightened Democrats will reject the vindictive leadership rhetoric of Speaker Pelosi and Sen. Schumer, and embrace Jesus’ words in Matthew, Chapter 5: “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you …”

Later in that same gospel (Matthew 18), Peter came to him and said “Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, until seven times: but, until seventy times seven (KJV).”

If the words of candidate Biden are to be believed, then under President Biden let us forgive the sins of the past and “build back better” — this will be the true test of his leadership.

David Kutz Davis

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Birds flock to the Yolo Bypass in 2018.

State offers restoration lessons

BY JULIE RENTNER AND MANUEL OLIVA Special to CalMatters

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he new year presents opportunities for decisive and positive action, including the launch of the United Nations’ Decade on Ecosystem Restoration which reinforces the importance of healing degraded ecosystems around the world before it’s too late.

It gives us great hope to know that California is committed to leadership through investment and sharing lessons learned from decades of experience.

Our diverse ecosystems, abundant natural resources and a mild climate have helped attract millions of residents and developed California’s world-class economy. Sadly, our approach to economic progress has imperiled our unique wetlands, grasslands, rivers and mountain meadows — natural assets directly responsible for purifying and storing our drinking water, sequestering carbon, providing recreational opportunities, supporting diverse wildlife habitat and so much more.

To take just one example, California has lost more than 90% of its wetlands since the arrival of European settlers. Wetlands play an increasingly crucial role in absorbing excess water and protecting coastal and inland communities from flooding. They also provide critical habitat for wildlife, including a variety of species found nowhere else on Earth, some of which are at risk of blinking out of existence.

The organizations we lead, River Partners and Point Blue Conservation Science, have decades of experience studying, planning, implementing and evaluating restoration projects around the state.

Together, we’ve identified three critical lessons California has to offer

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commitments coming together to accelerate ecosystem restoration.

the world to improve restoration on a global scale: First, all restoration needs to be “climate smart.” We can’t aim to simply restore landscapes and habitat corridors to how they once were.

We need to prepare them for climate extremes. That means, for example, using drought-hardy plants to prepare for drier years ahead. At the other end of the spectrum, we must establish robust native forests and marshes to buffer and protect our communities from the more intense flooding experts predict from increased rainfall and sea-level rise.

Second, we need ongoing science.

In California, we are connecting scientific innovation to the practice of wetland and river restoration at scales seen nowhere else on Earth.

For more than 20 years, River Partners and Point Blue Conservation Science have worked to link cuttingedge research with large-scale restoration to deliver significant public benefits such as flood control, carbon capture and biodiversity, renewing tens of thousands of acres of wetlands and forests across California’s most imperiled regions.

Third, strong partnerships are essential for getting anything done.

Decades of successful collaboration among farmers, land managers, local stakeholders, scientists and policymakers here have achieved tangible, lasting benefits for our natural resources and communities.

While diverse interests may not agree on everything, the power of collaboration over confrontation produces transformative results needed at this critical time.

At a moment when we could all use a little hope, the UN’s declaration is just one of many key

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n October, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bold executive order charging state agencies with developing strategies for addressing the global biodiversity and climate crises here at home. As part of the order, Newsom established the unprecedented goal of conserving at least 30% of California’s land and coastal waters by 2030.

In doing so, California joins a global movement of countries, including the U.S. through pledges from President-elect Joe Biden, committed to achieving equally bold targets. Bipartisan passage of the Great American Outdoors Act this summer permanently funded the Land and Water Conservation Fund to help provide desperately needed resources to better steward our public lands.

Scientists urge that the world has the next decade or so to avoid the most dire environmental scenarios.

With no time to waste, and with the robust knowledge that restoration is a good societal investment, the recent national and international commitments to restoration should give us all hope for 2021 and beyond. We call on California to increase investments in community-based restoration, and we’ve already rolled up our sleeves to turn pledges into progress.

— Julie Rentner is president of River Partners, an NGO that builds multi-benefit floodplain habitat restoration projects across California.

Manuel Oliva is the CEO of Point Blue Conservation Science, a California-based wildlife conservation and research nonprofit. They wrote this for CalMatters, a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s Capitol works and why it matters.

.L. Mencken, journalist and essayist, wrote in 1940, “Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.”

Twenty years later, the same thought was reprised

by A.J. Liebling of The New Yorker.

Today, these thoughts can be revived to apply, on a scale inconceivable in 1940 or 1960, to Big Tech, and to the small number of men who control it.

These men — Jack Dorsey of Twitter, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Sundar Pichai of Alphabet Inc., and its subsidiary Google — operate what, in another time, would be known as “common carriers.” Common carriers are, as the term implies, companies that distribute anything from news to parcels to gasoline.

They are a means of distributing ideas, news, goods and services.

Think of the old Western Union, the railroads, the pipeline companies or the telephone companies.

Their business was carriage, and they were recognized and regulated in law as such: common carriers.

The controversial Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act recognizes the common carrier nature of Big Tech internet companies by exempting them from libel responsibility. It specifically stated that they shouldn’t be treated as publishers. Conservatives want 230 repealed, but that would only make the companies reluctant to carry anything controversial, hurting free speech.

I think the possible repeal of 230 should be part of a large examination of the inadvertently acquired but vast power of the internet-based social media companies. It should be part of a large discussion embracing all the issues of free speech on social media which could include beefed-up libel statutes — possibly some form of the equal-time rule which kept network owners from exploiting their power for political purposes in days when there were only three networks.

President Donald Trump deserves censure, which he has gotten: He has been impeached for incitement to insurrection. I take second place to no one in my towering dislike of him, but I am shaken at the ability of Silicon Valley to censor a political figure, let alone a president.

That Silicon Valley should shut out the voice of the president isn’t the issue. It is that a common carrier can dictate the content, even if it is content from a rogue president.

This exercise of censor authority should alarm all free-speech advocates. It is power that exceeds anything ever seen in media.

The heads of Twitter, Facebook and Alphabet are more powerful by incalculable multiples than were Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst and Henry Luce, or is Rupert Murdoch. They can subtract any voice from any debate if they so choose. That is a bell that tolls for all. They have the power to silence any voice by closing an account.

BY ANDY JONES

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hen Edward Murrow talked about the awesome power of television, he was right for that time. But now technology has added a multiplier of atomic proportions via the internet.

It may not be wrong that Twitter, Facebook, and others have shut down Trump’s account when they did, at a time of crisis, but what if these companies get politically activated in the future?

We already live in the age of the cancellation culture with its attempt to edit history. If that is extended to free speech on the internet, even with good intentions, everything begins to wobble.

The tech giants are simply too big for comfort.

Will the freedom of speech belong to those who own the algorithms?

— Llewellyn King is executive producer and host of “White House Chronicle” on PBS. His email is llewellynking1@ gmail.com. He wrote this for InsideSources.com.

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Answers: Cavalcade, Andrew Jackson, Montevideo, tannins, “Fathers and Sons.”

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