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BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer

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Yolo County may have fewer COVID-19 vaccines available in the coming days after state officials placed a hold on a batch of Moderna vaccines that had reportedly resulted in higher than average allergic reactions.

The state notified providers on Sunday that they should pause the administration of lot 41L20A of the Moderna vaccine as those possible allergic reactions are investigated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the federal Food and Drug Administration, Moderna and the state.

Yolo County received 1,700 doses from the lot in question, all intended as second doses for patients who had received the first

The Davis school board will discuss its options for bringing students back into school classrooms — for at least a portion of each week — during Thursday’s meeting. Staff will point out the pluses and minuses associated with each option.

This will be the first time that the school board trustees discuss the specific proposals for return to campus during open session — the school board’s discussions up to this point have been largely conceptual, while staff has researched how the various options would play out in the context of the Davis school district and its facilities.

A hefty amount of public comment is anticipated — indeed, there has been at

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Last week, a “Wishing Tree” sprang up in Central Park, decorated with printed and handwritten notes from passersby and local students sharing their hopes for the new year. The messages ranged in origin from university students to elementary-age children. Common themes included frustration with distance learning and a longing for a return to normalcy in the near future, as well as desires to stay safe and healthy amid the pandemic.

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Phase 1B vaccinations likely still weeks away

Witness details car-crash rescue

Enterprise staff writer The state’s decision to push counties into Phase 1B of the vaccination schedule — and expand the top tier in that phase to include everyone 65 and older — is creating unreasonable expectations among the public given the insufficient supply of vaccine doses, Yolo County’s health officer said Tuesday.

The county still has thousands of healthcare workers in Phase 1A to vaccinate before it can even get to Phase 1B, said Dr. Aimee Sisson.

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Davis resident Peter Dileanis told The Davis Flames engulf a BMW that struck a utility pole north of Enterprise he was driving Davis on Saturday. A witness said good Samaritans pulled on Pole Line Road early two occupants from the wreckage, likely saving their lives.

Saturday afternoon when “They approached the car a number of he came upon the crash scene — a black times, each time retreating after a few BMW whose driver had veered off the seconds at the car door. There were othroad and struck a utility pole near County ers working on the passenger side,” DileaRoad 29. nis recalled in an email. He gave the By then, the car had caught fire, sendrescuers a blanket to help battle the blaze. ing up flames and thick black smoke that Dileanis captured on camera. Mean“It was obvious there were only seconds while, a group of men had approached left to get them out when they did a final the burning car to rescue the occupants, SEE CRASH, PAGE A4 beating back the fire as they did so.

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BY LAUREN KEENE

New methodology drives down county’s virus stats

As authorities continue to investigate Saturday’s major-injury crash on Pole Line Road north of Davis, a witness to the collision’s aftermath says the car’s two occupants likely owe their lives to good Samaritans who pulled them from the fiery wreckage.

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Yolo County’s COVID19 test positivity rate has plummeted now that the state is counting all tests done by Healthy Davis Together.

Until recently, only the positive test results were included in the state’s CalREDIE data system and on the county’s online COVID-19 dashboard.

“Previously, the state only included positive test results from HDT’s saliva-based testing in the CalREDIE system, not the negative tests, to allow contact tracing to occur pending validation of the testing type,” according to a note posted Saturday on the county’s online COVID-19 dashboard.

“Since HDT regularly conducts a large number of tests, the influx of negative tests is expected to drive the testing positivity rate down and increase the county’s testing volume above the statewide median.”

Indeed, the test positivity rate for the week of Jan. 4 to Jan. 10 was 6.7 percent. That would be good enough for the red tier on the state’s colorcoded blueprint for reopening. However, the other metric required for a move from purple to red remains out of reach, though that metric is also aided by the influx of negative test results.

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Briefly Reading features Spanish poet Davis Poet Laureate James Lee Jobe continues his online poetry reading series on Friday, Jan. 22, with the poems of Antonio Machado (1875-1939) of Spain.

This free reading will be posted online by 7:30 p.m. at https:// james-lee-jobe. blogspot.com and at https://www.youtube. com/jamesleejobe.

Virus, business on ‘Davisville’ The pandemic is coming up on a year old. The first vaccinations have been given and better days are ahead eventually, but health officials say the next few months will probably be rough.

On the latest edition of the KDRT program “Davisville,” Cory Koehler, executive director of the Davis Chamber of Commerce, talks about how Davis businesses are faring as 2021 begins, different ways they’re coping, and what might be ahead. The chamber hosts its annual State of the City gathering online on Wednesday, Feb. 3.

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Kids deserve something normal S S CHOOL DAZE ... I’m as anxious as anyone to have our kids back with in-person instruction among their friends and teachers, but I don’t want to pressure our administrators to roll the dice prematurely.

Nevertheless, with mass vaccinations looming in the next several months and a dramatically stronger COVID response in Washington, D.C., I’m hopeful that some classes might start up before the school year ends in June.

Which brings me to this year’s crop of high school seniors, who would desperately like to have a “normal” graduation with all the trappings and trimmings that go along with it.

Maybe it’s possible and maybe it’s not. This virus has been wildly unpredictable and most of the “experts” seemed to think we

some much needed hope on the horizon.

might be out of the woods by now.

So, assuming mid-June might be too early for a graduation, what if we tentatively and optimistically plan to have some sort of a modified in-person graduation ceremony in mid-July?

With enough warning ahead of time, most seniors who wish to participate could make plans to be in Davis on the specified date.

If it doesn’t happen, it doesn’t happen, but for now it would put

PACED OUT ... I don’t know about you, but I’m positively thrilled that before he left office, Donald Trump declared that the members of our brand new Space Force will officially be known as Guardians.

And never mind that the only Guardians our country seems to need right now are Guardians of the Capitol.

I was afraid that given how new the Space Force and its members in uniform are that for a while at least they’d all be called Wookies.

Speaking of rookies, I wonder if the newest U.S. Senator from Arizona will now be known as Guardian Kelly instead of Senator Kelly.

Truth be known, I need all the Guardians I can get. We all do.

Reminds me of my kindergarten

Catechism class when I learned all about my personal Guardian Angel.

We were told we couldn’t see our Guardian Angel because he or she was directly behind our head.

And, try as we might by turning our neck quickly, we never were able to see our angel.

STIMULATION ... Say, if you don’t especially need that $600 the government just sent you, find someone who does.

SUNRISE, SUNSET ... yes, last month, Dec. 21 to be precise, we zipped past the Winter Solstice, when the amount of daylight is the least of any day all year.

So here’s today’s trivia question: on what day in December do we witness the earliest sunset?

The answer might surprise you.

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CHP launches Freeway Service Patrol on I-5 Special to The Enterprise The California Highway Patrol’s Woodlandarea office, Caltrans and the Sacramento Transportation Authority are happy to announce a new service, Freeway Service Patrol, coming to Yolo County.

For motorists in need of assistance following a vehicle mechanical issue, FSP is a safe, reliable way to help get on their way or assist them to a safe location.

In early 2019, the Woodland CHP began requesting additional FSP service on a portion of the Interstate 5 corridor in Yolo County, between the Sacramento/Yolo County line to Highway 113, to address the significant increase in traffic volume.

That area has seen an increase of traffic on this corridor due to motorists bypassing heavy traffic on Interstate 80. The FSP program reduces freeway congestion by quickly finding and removing minor incidents from the freeways.

All-American Towing and Transport Inc. of Auburn will be responsible for monitoring traffic from 6:30 to 10 a.m. and 2:30 to 6:30 p.m.

Monday through Friday.

FSP operators, driving specially marked tow trucks and service trucks, continuously patrol the freeway looking for stopped or disabled vehicles.

When found, FSP operators introduce themselves to motorists and provide them with an FSP informational brochure, a survey card, and then quickly assess the situation.

FSP operators may spend up to 10 minutes attempting to mobilize a vehicle though quick fixes and minor repairs such as providing a gallon of fuel, jump starting, changing a flat tire, etc.

If a vehicle cannot be mobilized within the 10-minute time frame, the vehicle is towed to a designated drop location off the freeway identified by the CHP. FSP is operated through a partnership agreement between the STA, Caltrans and CHP. CHP provides field supervision of the program, operator certification and training, dispatching, complaint investigation and vehicle inspections.

Caltrans provides state funding, program analysis, evaluations and operational recommendations. STA provides contract administration services, accounting controls, match funding procurement and overall program management.

Funding for this project is provided by Senate Bill 1, the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017.

Davis firefighters respond to a kitchen fire at South Davis’ Wok of Flame on Saturday night.

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Crews react quickly in South Davis

BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer Davis firefighters responded to a kitchen fire at a South Davis restaurant late Saturday night.

According to a Davis Fire Department social media post, the fire was reported at about 11 p.m. when a

of 7 or below to move to the red tier, but on Tuesday it was 28.3.

The state adjusts a county’s actual daily case rate using a formula that is based on how many tests are performed, the result of which is the adjusted daily case rate used in the tier system. Yolo County’s actual daily case rate was 53.9 new cases per 100,000 residents on Tuesday but that was lowered to 28.3 because of the big increase in testing included.

Over the last seven days, the county has reported 727 new cases of COVID-19, averaging about 104 per day.

Within Yolo County, the actual test positivity rate varies widely by city.

Combined, the city of Davis and El Macero have a cumulative test positivity rate of 4.8 percent, well below any other region of the county.

According to data provided by the county, Davis and El Macero residents have been tested 31,361 times with 1,515 positive tests results reported as of Tuesday.

Unincorporated areas of the county — not including

El Macero — have the highest positivity rate — 26.5 percent — with 1,069 positive cases out of 4,030 tests performed.

The city of Woodland has a cumulative test positivity

Special to The Enterprise The transition of power between one U.S. president and the next typically goes off without a hitch — full of decorum, tradition and stability.

The current transition between President Donald Trump and President-elect Joe Biden, however, has been anything but typical.

On this month’s episode of “The Backdrop,” historian Eric Rauchway discusses how history can help inform this turbulent presidential transition, including parallels with the

rate of 15.9 percent (based on 27,027 tests performed), followed by West Sacramento at 14.5 percent (20,412 tests) and Winters at just under 13 percent (3,592 tests).

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later,” the post said. “Due to the early report and quick response no adjacent businesses were damaged by the fire and no one was hurt.”

The cause of the fire remains under investigation, “but there were no signs of anything suspicious,” fire officials said.

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passerby spotted smoke coming from the roof of Wok of Flame, 417 Mace Blvd., and called 911. The business was closed at the time.

“Firefighters quickly found and extinguished the fire in the kitchen, and the related roof fire was controlled about 15 minutes

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transfer of power from Herbert Hoover to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He also offers perspectives on the consequences of chaotic transitions and the deadly siege of the U.S. Capitol by a violent pro-Trump mob.

Rauchway, a distinguished professor of history at UC Davis, is a leading scholar of Roosevelt. His expertise includes U.S. policy, and social and economic history from the Civil War through World War II. He is the author of several books, including most recently, “Winter

War: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the First Clash Over the New Deal.”

“The Backdrop” podcast is a monthly interview program featuring conversations with UC Davis scholars and researchers working in the social sciences, humanities, arts and culture. It is available free, on demand at Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Amazon Music/ Audible, TuneIn and YouTube.

“The Backdrop” is hosted by public radio veteran Soterios Johnson.

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Joining the wonderful Machine Age I

learned to cook without much in the way of small appliances — we had an electric skillet that my parents got as a wedding present, which was used for (a) pot roast and (b) white beans with ham, and a hand mixer that we replaced with a new cheap one each time we burned it out making divinity candy. We had a hand-cranked meat grinder, which was fun to use.

Having learned to cook with a sharp knife and a kitchen fork, I mostly went on that way in my own kitchen. I have an Instant Pot instead of an electric skillet, and a food processor that we use for daiquiris and cat food, and a 1964 electric stand mixer that I bought at a thrift store. The mixer does my favorite brownie recipe and a very good white cake recipe very well. I was, I must admit, more than a little proud of my low-tech kitchen.

Skill is better than appliances, I declared, and I like kneading my bread by hand.

This all changed because of the intersection of “The Great British Baking Show” and the pandemic, because I suddenly needed to make Italian buttercream frosting. This, for the uninitiated, is a close cousin of that same divinity recipe that killed the mixers of my childhood, but beaten extra long and with the addition of two sticks of butter. It’s a fantastic frosting, not too sweet and with a lovely texture, but it was more than my poor 56-year-old mixer could manage. (Yes, presumably people made Italian buttercream long before the mixer, or even electricity. I imagine I could also, except, I am a bit older than my mixer.)

I turned, as one does these days, to social media for advice on what sort of stand mixer to buy. This resulted, as it does these days, in both useful and ridiculous advice, and also in a kind friend offering to lend me her third-best KitchenAid mixer.

Reader, it changed everything.

Italian buttercream, of course, and a lovely chocolate cake I’d been meaning to try out, and some very fluffy rolls. Then, finally the Holy Grail: a loaf of white sandwich bread that slices beautifully, without crumbling,

even if you make a sandwich and carry it to work. Herewith the recipe, with detailed instructions for those of you who like your baking to be scientific.

Bread is always best made by weight, but I’ve included volume measurements in case you don’t have a scale. This recipe is best made with bread flour or allpurpose flour with vital wheat gluten added. If all you have is all-purpose flour it will work fine, but be a little more crumbly.

You want the butter to be softer than usual for baking, so let it have at least four hours on the counter in the winter, or put it in a very warm spot to soften.

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Best White Sandwich Bread Makes 1 loaf Ingredients: 170 grams (¾ cup) whole milk 32 g (6 tablespoons) all-purpose flour 170 g (¾ cup) whole milk (yes, that’s another ¾ cup of milk) 36 g (3 tablespoons) granulated sugar 12 g (2½ teaspoons) active dry yeast 445 g (3½ cups) all-purpose flour 7 g (1 tablespoon) vital wheat gluten* 7 g (1 teaspoon) kosher salt 84 g (6 tablespoons) unsalted butter, cut into small pieces and allowed to get very soft * If you have bread flour, skip the vital wheat gluten and add another tablespoon of bread flour to the second addition of flour.

Putting it together: Measure 32 g of flour in a 4-cup or larger glass bowl. Whisk

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The Holy Grail — a loaf of white sandwich bread that slices beautifully, without crumbling. in 170g whole milk gradually, to avoid lumps. When combined, microwave on high for 30 seconds. Whisk and repeat once, then cook at 15 second intervals until thick like pudding. (Alternatively, cook in a small pan you’re your full attention until you’ve achieved the same consistency.)

You’ve just made tangzhong, a paste in which the flour has gelatinized. It can now magically hold much more moisture, which is a great thing in bread.

Scrape the tangzhong into the bowl of the stand mixer. Whisk in another 170 g of milk — this will cool it down so you don’t kill the yeast. Whisk in granulated sugar and yeast, then allow to stand for 10 minutes to give the yeast a good start.

Add the remaining flour and salt. Put your standing mixer on a sticky mat or damp towel (this stops it from “walking” across the counter) and fit it with the dough hook. Put the bowl in the mixer. Lock the head of the mixer down.

Mix on low so flour does not shoot excitingly out of the bowl, then increase to 2 or 3 and mix until flour is mostly incorporated.

It looks like you’ve done something wrong here, but it’s fine.

Cover the bowl and mixer with a towel and let stand for a halfhour while the flour rehydrates.

Turn the mixer on to 3 or 4.

Drop in the butter an ounce or so at a time, letting it mix in before you add the next lump. Stop once or twice to scrape down the sides if needed. The dough

will look even more awful. Turn the mixer up to 5 and let it run for 7 minutes. Turn off the mixer, admire the fact that the dough looks nice now, cover with the towel, and do something else for 20 minutes.

Remove the towel, turn the mixer to 5 and give it another 7 minutes. Oil a large bowl. After 7 minutes, turn off the mixer and take the dough out of the bowl.

Form into a tidy ball and drop it in the oiled bowl. Turn the ball over so both sides are oily. Cover with the towel and leave it alone for about an hour, until doubled in size.

(KitchenAid note: this dough is hard to mix, and my bowl inevitably gets jammed and won’t come out. For some reason turning the whole mixer gently on its side allows the bowl to release. KitchenAid suggests wrapping the base in a hot towel to make the metal expand, or using a little mineral oil at the base to unstick it.)

While the dough rises, butter an 8- or 9-inch bread pan.

When the dough has doubled, turn it out onto a floured work surface or unfloured silicone mat. Press the dough gently out into an 8-by-8 or 9-by-9 square, depending on your pan. Fold the dough in thirds like a letter, then fold the tripled dough in half again, so you have a long sausage. Pinch the folded edges together and turn seam side up.

Fold the ends of the sausage towards the middle, then pick up the whole impossible structure

and tuck it, end side down, into your bread pan.

Press down gently to make everything fits in snugly. Cover with that towel and let rise until it’s an inch or so above the edge of the pan, about 45 minutes.

Move the oven rack to the middle of your oven and preheat oven to 350 degrees. Ideally, your oven would have at least 15 minutes at 350 before the bread goes in, to make sure it’s evenly and properly heated.

Remove the towel and put your loaf in the oven. Let bake 20 minutes. Rotate bread and reduce oven temperature to 325 degrees. Bake another 30 to 40 minutes to an internal temperature of 205 to 210 degrees or until well browned and hollow sounding.

Remove bread from oven and let stand in pan for 10 minutes.

Turn out on to a rack and let stand until cool.

The bread can be frozen before baking. Line bread pan with foil, leaving a 3-inch overhang on the sides. Grease foil inside pan and fit bread in as directed. Place in freezer immediately and let freeze 12 hours. Remove bread from pan, wrap with that convenient foil overhang, and freeze for up to a month. To bake, butter the same bread pan, remove bread from foil, pop it back into the pan and let stand covered on the counter until it has thawed and risen over the edge of the pan, about 6 hours at my 70-degrees house. Bake as directed above.

English wine a rare benefit of global warming

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lobal warming and climate change are responsible for some odd things; the expansion of winemaking in England, for example.

My elder son Robert is a well-invested beer drinker.

He has a lovely bar set up in his sports room, with a draft-beer system that holds two pony kegs of different craft beers. The countertop bar handles advertise the choice available and the glassware is pristine, plentiful and shaped for ideal beer appreciation. Nothing could be improved.

Robert is also a spirits drinker: he has a good appreciation of scotches and also gins, although we differ profoundly on the choice of tonic for which (of course) only Schweppes will do.

Robert also maintains a rather fine wine cellar that comes into play at mealtimes.

But his main tipple is beer.

Imagine my surprise, therefore, when he turned up at our most recent family Friday afternoon Zoomtails gathering with a glass of pink champagne. I thought maybe that he had lost it and that some serious family counseling might be in order. I, therefore, enquired about this oddity.

Turns out the origins of the story of the pink champagne date back to 2014 when our family enjoyed a week’s holiday together in a large house in the Cotswolds in the UK. That house, incidentally, was part of a complex of buildings that included a disused malt house and a

working brewery that was powered by a waterfall. To reach this idyllic location, we had to pass through parts of Oxfordshire where I have a cousin in Henleyupon-Thames, also, oddly enough, living in a charming old house converted from the stables of a former brewery (Brakespear) next-door.

That visit also gave Robert the chance to call upon a friend from business school who, having made his fortune in something called private equity (whatever that is), now had to decide what he really wanted to do with the rest of his life.

The answer to that question turned out to be a winemaker — and specifically a maker of sparkling wines in (of all places) southern England. And so we found ourselves tramping around a large acreage in rural England’s Stonor Valley being planted with wine grapes, particularly those associated with the Champagne region of France and that style of wine. This is the Hundred Hills Winery. They have a splendid website.

We met and were charmed by the winemaker Stephen Duckett

and his wife Fiona and their hospitality, and were awed at the boldness of the venture and the latest equipment arriving on site.

This was clearly planned as an exquisite operation ready to make fine sparkling wines using traditional methods. In England!

That was nearly seven years ago. The wine is now being released and Robert had acquired a case of it, special delivery. He pronounced the wine excellent in every way and, except for the price of shipping, excellent value. It replaced his usual pint of beer at our Zoom-tail hour.

Global warming and climate change have had a similar effect in the United States brewing industry.

Barley acreage used to be common across the northern tier of our nation, in Montana, the Dakotas and Minnesota for example, but crops that formerly thrived in more

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southerly locations are now displacing barley.

These invaders include wheat, soybeans and corn and, because these crops are more valuable than barley, farmers naturally prefer them.

This might be particularly true of those farmers who engage in the more risky enterprise of growing special barleys suitable for malting. If they miss malting grade they could be left with low profits selling lower-yielding barley varieties for feed-grade prices.

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s a result, we do not now grow enough malting quality barley in the USA to fully support our own brewing industry. Thank goodness for Canada.

Growing grapes and winemaking reached Britain in Roman times, mostly in the southerly regions of the country and persisted in those Elizabethan walled gardens that created suitable microclimates. However, because of such cool and wet

weather, British wine has never amounted to much more than a peculiarity.

Even these days, with a significant expansion of vineyard acreage in Britain, the volume of wine made is only some 1% or so of the total consumed.

Global warming has so changed the local weather that growing grapes on the chalky soils of the south of England is now an attractive farming option; it is significantly more profitable than, e.g., wheat and so we can reasonably expect acreage to expand.

The quality of the vintage is yet very variable compared to similar regions in France, for example, though continued warming may solve that problem.

I realize that local weather is determined by more than merely latitude, but it’s intriguing that Hundred Hills Winery, in a new wine district, is only about 2 degrees of latitude north of the Champagne district where they have made wines for a long

time. That is the distance between Sacramento and Redding or about 150 miles.

Nevertheless, the longer growing season and longer hours of daylight in these more northerly climes and the cooler weather causes the grapes to reach full phenolic ripeness with high acid content and modest sugar content.

Wines made from them also have stronger aromas of the grape variety used which, taken together, have the potential to cause a good vintage for English sparkling wines to be a very good vintage indeed.

And who knows? With Brexit, a wonderful business opportunity.

— Reach Michael Lewis at lewiswales@e.com.

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PHASE 1B: County will need more doses SUPPLY: Pause hits From Page A1 And while the plan is to move into Phase 1B in the coming weeks, that will depend on receiving more than just a few hundred doses from the state each week.

“The county is working hard to secure the needed vaccine doses from the state,” Sisson said. “However, the state’s expanded eligibility is incongruent with the current reality of extremely limited vaccine supply.

When everybody is a priority, nobody is a priority.

“Pushing counties into Phase 1B and expanding Phase 1B, tier one, to include everyone 65 and older at a time when Yolo County doesn’t even have enough vaccine to finish Phase 1A, is creating unreasonable expectations,” she said.

That first tier of Phase 1B now includes those 65 and over; education and

childcare workers; food and agriculture workers; and emergency personnel. The second tier includes workers in transportation and logistics; sheltering facilities and services; critical manufacturing; and incarcerated or homeless.

The county is administering doses as quickly as possible, Sisson said, and “will begin vaccinating those 65 and older and others in Phase 1B as soon as we finish vaccinating the several thousand remaining health care workers.”

“When we do begin vaccinating in Phase 1B, we will have to sub-prioritize residents because there are tens of thousands of county residents who are 65 and older, and only a few hundred doses coming in each week from the state.”

It’s possible, a county press release noted, that the state may further revise vaccine distribution guidelines

and reprioritize groups in the future, so patience is urged.

“The county understands that this may be confusing and asks that residents stay patient,” the press release stated. “The county is working as quickly as possible to meet the needs of residents while also adhering to changing and unpredictable state revisions.”

Multi-county hospital systems such as Sutter Health, UC Davis Health, Dignity Health and Kaiser Permanente, are also administering the COVID-19 vaccine and the county currently anticipates that individuals 65 and older will be able to get their vaccines through their primary care provider if they are part of a large healthcare system such as Kaiser or Dignity.

However, those systems are also dealing with a vaccine shortage.

On Tuesday, Kaiser sent

an email to members noting that vaccine eligibility has been expanded to everyone 65 and over, but that “unfortunately, the vaccine supply to distributors has not yet been increased to vaccinate that many people.

“Right now, vaccines are in extremely short supply for all vaccine distributors in the country, including Kaiser Permanente ... At the current rate, we’re looking at vaccine distribution that is much slower than any of us find acceptable.”

Meanwhile, once the county completes Phase 1A, it will begin holding vaccination clinics for older residents who are not members of large healthcare systems or do not have medical insurance.

Yolo County residents in the first tier of Phase 1B can fill out the vaccine availability form — in English, Spanish and Russian — at http:// bit.ly/VaccineAvailability.

STUDENTS: Calendar running out on spring return From Page A1 least an hour of public comment on this topic at each school board meeting held since late November. Some speakers have spoken passionately about an urgent need to reopen school campuses as soon as possible, and point to recent research indicating very little transmission of the virus occurs at school; that transmission occurs in social and family settings, or at crowded businesses where customers are not wearing face masks.

Other speakers have spoken just as passionately urging a cautious, measured approach, with some speakers indicating that they’ll keep their children in distance learning from home until the parents are convinced that it is safe to return to in-person instruction.

Thursday’s school board meeting comes as several Northern California school districts — including several in Marin County — announced delays to their plans to bring middle school and high school students back on campus (for at least part of the week) during February. These districts have moved their target date for a return to campus until at least March 1, or later, because they feel the number of COVID cases is still too high for a transfer from restrictive Purple Tier status down less restrictive Red Tier status under the state’s COVID ranking system.

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Thursday’s meeting is scheduled to start at 6:30 p.m., and could continue through 11 p.m. or midnight. Since this will be a regularly scheduled meeting, there will be a live broadcast of the proceedings on Davis cable television Channel 17, and live streaming video will also be available online via the website djusd.tv.

Other items on the Thursday school board agenda include: ■ Air purifiers: On the consent agenda, the trustees will consider an agreement between the school district and UC Davis/Healthy Davis Together, under which the university will cover the cost ($424,385) of purchasing 1,4o0 high-end air purifiers, to be deployed in classrooms around the Davis public schools. University researchers have recommended the Medify MA-40 air purifier, which reportedly kills and mitigates the COVID-19 virus, neutralizes odors and allergines, and removes airborne particulate matter during smoky conditions.

The school district and UC Davis are also discussing the possibility of cosponsoring on-campus COVID-19 testing when the local public schools reopen, but there is no further announcement about that topic at this time, according to school district spokeswoman Maria Clayton.

■ Teachers retire: On the consent

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agenda, the trustees will receive a personnel report that includes the names of at least 22 veteran teachers (including at least two former presidents of the Davis Teachers Association) who have accepted a retirement incentive from the school district. Based on the number of teachers retiring (20+), it appears that qualifying teachers who retire will receive a $4,000 lump sum payment under a Memorandum of Understanding agreed to last October between the school district and the Davis Teachers Association.

These retirements may or may not be linked to the COVID pandemic or the eventual “return to campus” of students. Last fall, the retirement incentive offer was extended by the Davis school district after the district received notification of several funding “deferals” by state government... money that the school district had been counting on receiving this year.

At the time, many observers expected that there would be even more deferals, as California’s economy cooled as a result of the COVID pandemic triggering a decline in state tax receipts. However, state tax revenues actually increased during the months that followed, and Gov. Newsom’s January budget revision proposal actually included more money from the state to fund K-12 education, rather than less.

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patients mid-course From Page A1 Moderna shot last month.

None had been administered yet. Rather, vaccination clinics were scheduled for this week and those clinics have now been canceled, according to county spokeswoman Jenny Tan. “We’re hoping to get more doses this week from the state so that it doesn’t delay the second doses,” she said.

The county had been expecting a shipment or two from the state this week “so what we do may depend on what we get,” Tan added.

“We could use some of the first-dose allotments as second doses but that is a decision made by the health officer.”

Tan said the county is also waiting for instructions from the state Department of Public Health and the CDC about what to do with the vaccines in question.

“We apologize for the potential delay but the health and safety of our residents is our utmost concern,” the county said in a statement Monday.

Possible issues with the specified lot arose at a community vaccination clinic

held in San Diego where up to 10 individuals required medical attention after experiencing a possible severe allergic reaction during the standard observation period. All received their doses within a single 24-hour period from the same lot.

While no vaccine or medical procedure is without risk, the state Department of Public Health noted in a press release on Sunday that the risk of a serious adverse reaction is very small.

“While less data exists on adverse reactions related to the Moderna vaccine, a similar vaccine shows that the expected rate of anaphylaxis is approximately 1 in 100,000.”

More than 330,000 doses from the lot in question were distributed to 287 providers across the state, with shipments arriving in California between Jan. 5 and 12.

With investigations underway now, the state expects to have an update later this week.

“Our goal is to provide the COVID vaccine safely, swiftly and equitably,” Dr. Erica Pan, the state epidemiologist, said Sunday.

CRASH: Driver under arrest From Page A1 push and dragged the driver out and into the road,” Dileanis said. “The other group somehow got the passenger out and to the other side of the road. I have no doubt that those men saved the crash victims’ lives.”

Dileanis said the injured passenger, still dazed from the crash’s impact, was leaning on his car for support when one of two brush fires, apparently sparked by the burning car, approached his own vehicle, forcing them to move to safety down the road. At that point, electrical and phone lines began falling across the roadway.

CHP officials reported

Sunday that alcohol or drugs are believed to be factors in the 12:45 p.m. collision.

The driver, identified as 25-year-old Zachary Coker of Citrus Heights, was transported with major injuries to the UC Davis Medical Center, where he was placed under arrest on unspecified charges.

The passenger, Rocklin resident Ty Burks, also 25, sustained moderate injuries, according to the CHP. He also went to the Med Center for treatment.

Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact the Woodland CHP office at 530-6624685.

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Public Notices X FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: December 28, 2020 FBN Number: F20201024 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) VELOCITY STRATEGIES MEF CONSULTING 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California.

Business is located in Yolo County.

26957 E. El Macero Drive El Macero, CA 95618 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip MEFC LLC 26957 E. El Macero Drive El Macero, CA 95618 4. Business Classification: Limited Liability Company 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: March 9, 2011 “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): Michael Faust President, MEFC LLC 12/30, 1/6, 1/13, 1/20 1107

Iryna Shemchuk Erwin 435 Merganser Place 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: December 5, 2015 “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): Iryna Erwin 1/13, 1/20, 1/27, 2/3 1117

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: December 16, 2020 FBN Number: F20201006 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) Batchelder Real Estate 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California.

Business is located in Yolo County.

2917 Avila Bay Place Davis, CA 95616 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Batchelder Enterprises, Inc. 2917 Avila Bay Place Davis, CA 95616 4. Business Classification: Corporation FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME 5. Beginning Date of Business: The STATEMENT Registrant(s) commenced to transact Filed: January 6, 2021 business under the fictitious business FBN Number: F20210016 name or names listed above on: 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) December 1, 2020 Keep On Blooming Boutique “I declare that all information in 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of this statement is true and correct.”

Principal Place of Business in California. (A registrant who declares as true Business is located in Yolo County. information which he or she knows to be 435 Merganser Place false is guilty of a crime.)

Davis, CA 95616 6. Signature of Registrant(s): 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), John Batchelder Residence Address, State, and Zip 12/30, 1/6, 1/13, 1/20 1110

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF Daniel W. Julian aka Daniel Winfield Julian CASE NO. PR2021-0006 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Daniel W. Julian aka Daniel Winfield Julian A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: Margaret Wisdom in the Superior Court of California, County of: Yolo THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that: Margaret Wisdom be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.)

The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on February 25, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. in Department TBD located at 1000 Main Street, Woodland, CA 95695.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before

Doing Business as: QUICK SHOP MARKET (Type – FOOD AND LIQUOR STORE ) All other business name(s) and address(es) used by the seller(s) within the past three years, as stated by the seller(s), is/are: QUICK SHOP MARKET The name(s) and address of the buyer(s) is/are: DHARAMVEER SIDHU AND HARPREET KAHLON, 11837 BLUSHING CIRCLE, RANCHO CORDOVA, CA 95742 The assets to be sold are described in general as: ALL STOCK IN TRADE, FURNITURE, FIXTURES, EQUIPMENT AND GOODWILL And are located at: 1964 E 8TH STREET, DAVIS, CA 95616 The bulk sale is intended to be consummated at the office of: CAPITOL CITY ESCROW, INC., 3838 WATT AVENUE, SUITE F-610 SACRAMENTO, CA 958212665 and the anticipated sale date is FEBRUARY 8, 2021 The bulk sale is subject to California Uniform Commercial Code Section 6106.2.

[If the sale is subject to Sec. 6106.2, the following information must be provided] The name and address of the person with whom claims may be filed is: CAPITOL CITY ESCROW, INC., 3838 WATT AVENUE, SUITE F-610 SACRAMENTO, CA 958212665 THIS BULK TRANSFER INCLUDES A PUBLIC NOTICE LIQUOR LICENSE TRANSFER. ALL CLAIMS NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF BULK SALE MUST BE RECEIVED PRIOR TO THE DATE (UCC Sec. 6105) ON WHICH THE NOTICE OF TRANSFER Escrow No. 13661T OF THE LIQUOR LICENSE IS RECEIVED BY NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a bulk ESCROW AGENT FROM THE DEPARTMENT sale is about to be made. The name(s), business address(es) of the seller(s) are: OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL. MANORAMA SAH AND RAMAWATAR Dated: DECEMBER 1, 2020 SAH, 1964 E 8TH STREET, DAVIS, CA 95616 Buyer(s): DHARAMVEER SIDHU AND Whose chief executive office address is: HARPREET KAHLON 161221 DAVIS ENTERPRISE 1/20/21 1122 1964 E 8TH STREET, DAVIS, CA 95616 the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

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UCD women ready for fifth title run

Aggie men’s lineup is a diverse crew

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Enterprise sports editor

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Usually, four-time defending league champions need no introduction. But for Aggie women’s basketball fans, this might not be the case as UC Davis finally returns to action on Friday.

When we last visited coach Jennifer Gross and her high-flying roster of veterans and tantalizing new faces, they had vanquished visiting San Francisco, 82-75, and looked every bit still as queens of the mountain.

But that was 56 days ago — Nov. 25, 2020, the first day of the season.

Thanks to strict Yolo County COVID-19 guidelines, the women have been on the rack since. Almost 10 canceled games and repeated pleas to health officials from UCD to lift their quarantine, the Friday 3 p.m. return to action at The Pavilion versus UC San Diego (2-1 overall and in Big West play) feels like it should be accompanied by a big welcome-back party.

But no. Thanks again, pandemic.

Until further notice, crowds are forbidden at Aggie games. Fans will have to settle for watching online streaming (BigWest.TV), KDVS broadcasts (90.3 FM with play-byplay from Greg Wong) or live statistics at stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=320 735 streaming.

“We’re just happy to be playing again,” Gross told The Enterprise.

But are the Aggies ready or rusty?

“We’ll find out,” the coach reasoned. “I think we’re ready. At this point, we’re just happy to be playing. We’re not too concerned about what happens; we’re just ready to compete. Our (women) have been so disciplined and sacrificed so much.

“I know we’re going to play hard. I know we’re going to have fun and we’ll see happens with the rest of it.”

About that introduction, UCD has a solid core of returning players which includes seniors Cierra Hall, Emma Gibb and Mackenzie Trpcic. Juniors Sage Stobbart, Makaila Sanders, Kayla Konrad and newcomer (via transfer from Utah State) Lena Svenholm and joined by veteran sophomores Evanne Turner and Campbell Gray.

That formidable core is further augmented by freshmen Allie Carreon, Bria Shine, Matzatlan Harris, Kenedy Lilly and Megan Jones.

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If Forrest Gump’s mother was still with us, she would have loved this UC Davis men’s basketball team.

After having played only four games this season — games that now seem ancient history — the Aggies go into their first Big West competition this weekend while Forrest’s abridged saying reminds us ...

“My mom always said (Aggie basketball is) like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.”

UC Davis (2-2) hasn’t played since a 95-62 victory over visiting William Jessup on Dec. 4.

In the interim, coach Jim Les says the team has kept its head down, adhered to strict COVID-19 protocols and champed at the bit for a green light to finally play.

In their tune-up quartet of games (including three in the Bronco Invitational at Santa Clara), the Aggies showed improvement with each outing. Will more than six weeks of sequestered practice translate to continuing that pattern?

“Time will tell,” Les said. “I don’t know what that’s going to look like, whether it’s an advantage or not. We’re just excited to get to San Diego to play.”

UCD heads to the Triton campus for two circuit games on Friday and Saturday. The first game tips off at 4 p.m., the second at 2 p.m. Both will be streamed on ESPN3.

KHTK (1140 AM) will broadcast with Scott Marsh handling the mic.

UC San Diego, like most conference teams, has been dodging the wrath of the pandemic and stands only at 2-3 (0-3 in BWC). The Tritons are not eligible for postseason play while they transition to Division I. They come off back-to-back losses at UC Santa Barbara.

While noted that a long layoff is a crap shoot in that first game back, the Aggies are led by one of the West Coast’s most intriguing talents, sophomore guard Ezra Manjon.

In four games, the Heritage High product is averaging 21.3 points and leads the team in assists.

He was named Big West Freshman of the Year, all-league and was twice selected as the conference Player of the Week — the first freshman to be so honored since 1974.

While the 5-11 backcourt dynamo might have snuck up on some league opponents in 2019-20, this winter the word is definitely out. Just last week, Manjon was named first-team All-Big West Preseason Conference.

“He’s a young man who has tremendous character,” Les told The Enterprise. “He

Big West Women’s Standings School Conf. Overall Streak Long Beach State 6-0 7-1 W6 UC Irvine 2-0 5-5 W1 UC San Diego 2-1 2-1 W2 CSU Bakersfield 2-2 4-4 W3 Cal Poly 1-1 5-3 L1 UC Santa Barbara 2-3 2-7 L1 UC Davis 0-0 1-0 W1 UC Riverside 0-2 3-5 W1 Hawaii 0-2 1-3 L2 CSU Fullerton 0-4 1-7 W1 CSUN opted out of season Friday schedule UC San Diego at Aggies, 3 p.m.

UC Irvine at Cal Poly, 3 p.m.

UC Riverside at CSU Bakersfield, 4 p.m.

Cal State Fullerton at Hawaii, 9 p.m.

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UC Davis senior Mackenzie Trpcic (00) was one of five Aggies to score in double figures in their lone game this season. of talent this season comes via a 2020 NCAA edict that says every student-athlete gets an extra year of eligibility, again thanks to unsettling seasons caused by the pandemic.

For Aggie basketball, that means all hands on deck. There is no redshirting and fans will “see” the complete roster.

“And we intend to use everybody,” promises Gross.

As to how the season is shaking out, the Aggies have lost a couple of key series as their first four Big West series are lost to the passing calendar.

Games with UC Irvine (2-0, 5-5), Cal State Bakersfield (2-2, 4-4), Cal State Fullerton (0-4, 1-7) and UC Riverside (0-2, 2-5) will not be made up. The games are in the books as “no contests” by conference ruling.

After the Tritons visit this weekend, still on the Aggie agenda are front-running Long Beach State (6-0, 7-1), Cal Poly (1-1, 5-3), UC Santa Barbara (2-3, 2-7) and Hawaii (0-2, 1-3).

As if entering the play after intermission isn’t difficult enough, UC Davis — should it win the year-end Big West Tournament, this March conducted in a Las Vegas bubble — it will have to apply for a waiver to enter the NCAA March Madness (also in a bubble with all games in Indianapolis).

At the end of the summer, college’s governing body told member schools that they’d have to play 13 games to qualify for postseason. Even if a school plays more than one contest in their league’s championship tournaments, it will count as one game. A repeat in the BWC tourney would give the Aggie women 12 games heading into the big event.

UCD won the 2019 event and was the No. 1 seed headed into the 2020 shootout as the pandemic pulled the plug on all activity a day before the Aggies took the court at the Honda Center in Anaheim last March.

Davis, based on coaches’ and media preseason polls, were the odds-on favorites to “five-peat” in this truncated campaign.

Regardless how this all plays out, Gross says her crew is raring to go: “We’re real excited. Our team has been working really hard for the opportunity to compete and we’re anxious to get back on the court in a game situation. We’re tired of playing against ourselves.”

Big West Men’s Standings School Conf. Overall Streak UC Irvine 2-0 6-4 W4 CSUN 1-0 5-3 W2 CSU Bakersfield 5-1 9-4 W5 UC Riverside 3-1 6-3 W2 UC Santa Barbara 4-2 8-3 W4 Long Beach State 2-2 3-4 L1 Hawaii 1-3 3-3 L3 CSU Fullerton 1-4 2-4 L1 UC Davis 0-0 2-2 W2 Cal Poly 0-4 2-8 L6 Friday schedule (all games at 4 p.m.)

Aggies at UC San Diego Cal State Bakersfield at UC Riverside Cal Poly at UC Irvine UC Santa Barbara at CSUN Hawaii at Cal State Fullerton approaches life the right way — with great energy, enthusiasm and a tireless work ethic.

“He’s just a joy to be around.”

A preseason first-team Big West selection, Manjon was all-league in 2020. When the pandemic ended the circuit’s postseason tournament before it began last March, opponents were wary that Manjon & Co. were playing their best basketball of the season.

In those early games this campaign, Les liked the way his defense was gelling and that the Aggies were sharing the ball.

As good as Manjon is, the coach thinks his guys are hardly a one-trick pony.

“You look at the people we have and (you know) that playing Aggie basketball means solid defense ... off of which we get many scoring opportunities,” Les said way back in November.

Limited samples attest to that.

After coughing up 101 points to Nicholls State in the opener, the subsequent three Aggie foes haven’t broken 66.

Thirty-three steals and holding opponents to 43-percent shooting has helped.

And with the emergence of 6-7 forward Kennedy Koehler (10.3 ppg) and the continued strong contributions of guard Damion Squire (13) and Elijah Peppers (10 and 5.3 rebounds), it wouldn’t be surprising to see UCD quickly back in the hunt for a high postseason seeding.

Mix in Cameron Ba, Caleb Fuller and a host of yet-to-be-tested Aggies and, despite the layoff, this team could be a surprise package that nobody is excited to play.

As for UC San Diego, the Tritons are coming off a 30-1 as members of the Division II California Collegiate Athletic Association.

Aggie forward Kennedy Koehler is averaging 10.3 points per game this season.

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BWC has puzzling tie-breaker A

s Aggie fans are well aware, UC Davis basketball is last to the party when its two programs finally get underway in Big West competition this weekend.

And because the COVIDchallenged conference has such uneven standings — some schools have played as many as six BWC games while the locals have yet to compete — the rules for seeding purposes in the Big West Tournament have gone to the supersecret, double-handshake tie-breaker of Appendix 6.

When everyone played the same number of games, the pecking order was self-evident — most wins, therefore best winning percentage, ruled.

Some might have thought (me included) that, say, the Aggies come in and go 4-0, they get the

top billing — even if Long Beach State musters a 13-1 mark. Can’t touch a 1.000 winning percentage, methinks.

Au contraire.

Want an explanation? After consulting with Tudor Dimofte, a UC Davis expert in structures in quantum-field theory (and rereading Stephen Hawking’s last book), I offer a yeoman’s explanation should that very scenario happen: An Aggie team at 0-0 and another finishing at 13-1.

I’ll wait while you get your coffee. This won’t be quick.

Associate Big West Commissioner Mike Villamor pointed to Section 6.21 of the circuit’s regulations for clarity.

“If not all teams complete their entire conference schedule,” the following happens: ■ “An average number of league

games will be determined by dropping the least and most number of games played, then “averaging the remaining number of conference games played.

■ “If any team plays more than four games less than the average number of games played by all remaining conference teams, said team will add losses to their winloss record ... until the minimum threshold is met.

■ “The team with the highest adjusted winning percentage will

be awarded the regular-season championship. Adjusted winning percentage will be used to determine the tournament seedings.”

For the sake of argument, if a school played a BWC-high 16 games and another played only six, the number of games played by the middle eight teams would be added together and divided by eight.

(Breathe here)

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f the Big West women’s average was 10 games completed and, say, Davis played only six games, going 6-0, its adjusted record would be 6-4, a .600 win percentage.

So, with Long Beach State standing at 6-0 and Cal State Fullerton currently 0-4, the average number of games played in the conference right now is 2.8.

UCD — men and women — stand at 0-0 in real time.

So the four-time defending Big West regular-season champions have some work to do to get back to the top of the heap.

And what, you ask, happens if, after the fuzzy math is completed, two teams are still tied going into the year-end shootout in Las Vegas this March?

Let me fall back on my “Star Trek” training: “Dammit, Jim! I’m a sportswriter, not a doctor of enumeration and graph theory!”

Or to quote old guard Raider spirit Al Davis, “Just win, baby ...”

— Reach DE sports editor Bruce Gallaudet at bgallaudet 41@gmail.com or call 530-3204456. Follow Gallaudet on Twitter: BGsportsinDavis.

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Volunteers at the center of county vaccine effort

BY EMILY CHAPMAN HUB Staff Yolo County administered more than 1,390 Moderna COVID-19 vaccines to health care workers during last week’s drivethru clinics.

The Moderna COVID-19 vaccine (mRNA-1273) is one of two vaccines Yolo County is distributing to the public, alongside the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. Recipients of the Moderna vaccine must be given two shots 28 days apart and are recommended to be at least 18 years or older, according to the Centers for Disease Control and prevention.

The clinics on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday took place at the Yolo County Health Department in Woodland and Harper Jr. High in Davis, with 60 to 100 volunteers at each site.

Sacramento County resident Brad Ensminger decided to volunteer to give back to frontline health care workers. “(My goal) is to help, in some small way, to safeguard people’s lives and participate in this historic moment,” Ensminger said.

“It’s a tangible means of thanking health care professionals for their service.”

Ensiminger greeted participants and reviewed paperwork for completion at the Wednesday clinic, alongside Folsom nursing student Brittin Howard.

Over 4,000 first doses administered in Yolo

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Vaccine dispenser Derrick Hernandez checks an extracted dose of the vaccine in a syringe on Jan. 16.

“I felt that it would be rewarding to provide aid to those risking their lives to save our loved ones in the hospital,” Howard said.

“Being able to vaccinate over a thousand people during these few days has shown the power that we have as a collective force... Even though it was a long day, everyone had smiles on their faces and was in good spirits.”

Davis High student Emma

Nansen volunteered for three clinics in hopes of gaining a better understanding of how diseases are dealt with in a state of emergency.

“My volunteer leaders who are currently health care professionals have given me some really good insight about their experiences in the profession,” Nansen said.

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undergraduate Emily Htway wants to learn more about how public health emergency responses are coordinated, and was eager to volunteer her efforts to combat the pandemic.

“While my contribution may be smaller than others, I am still able to contribute to the general wellness of the community,” Htway said.

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interested in volunteering is welcome to participate.

According to Yolo County Public Information Officer Jenny Tan, Yolo County is planning the next series of clinics, but is dependent on the next shipment of vaccines from the state.

“We want to let the public know that we are working as quickly as we can to vaccinate people. However, how fast we go depends on the number of vaccines we get from the state,” Tan said.

Aside from needing more doses, Tan believes the clinics have been “functioning extremely well.”

“We will continue to use the (clinics) as we see fit for the industry or type of residents we’re serving,” Tan said. “For some, like the nursing centers it was easier on the residents and the staff to go to them and vaccinate them on site. For the general public, these drive-thrus with appointments will likely be easier.”

Tan recommends Yolo County residents fill out an online vaccine availability form to “be notified when their phase and tier are up next and also help the county to organize and schedule clinics much more quickly and efficiently.”

To fill out the form, look up http://bit.ly/VaccineAvailability or go to the COVID-19 information on the Yolo County website.

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Registered Nurse Derrick Hernandez prepares a syringe before administering a vaccine to a participant in Saturday’s clinic.

Bringing the outdoors indoors: Taking care of houseplants

BY PRISCILLA LEE HUB Staff With more than 5.5 million posts under the #houseplants hashtag on Instagram, many Davis residents have joined the growing trend.

Don Shor is the owner of the local Redwood Barn Nursery in East Davis.

“Houseplant sales had been increasing steadily for the last few years already, and really, really, really took off when the pandemic hit,” he said.

Luckily for people interested in getting

their first indoor plant, taking care of it is “something that can be done by anybody with almost any skill level so long as they get a little guidance, stick to a simple schedule for watering, and don’t give up just because sometimes a plant dies. Even plant experts kill plants,” Shor said.

Plants from tropical regions are recommended for beginning growers because these are deemed the hardest to kill. The most common to start with are the zamioculcas, the “ZZ plant,” or the

sansevieria, the “snake plant,” as they can handle relatively infrequent waterings every seven to 10 days. These plants are also beneficial for the environment because they clean the air of volatile organic compounds and other pollutants, according to a NASA study.

While cactuses and succulents, in general, may be appealing to those interested in growing indoor plants, these are not the best plants for beginners as they need to be placed in the sunniest place available, namely in the south side of the house, and must be grown in welldraining soil specially developed for these types of plants, according to Davis High sophomore Jared Umphress.

Umphress bought his first houseplant, an “easy ZZ,” from Redwood Barn Nursery about a year ago, which ignited his passion for growing plants.

During quarantine, he has enlivened his living space by expanding his indoor plant collection with Christmas cactus, aloe and poinsettia. He advises watering each corner of the pots twice and to let the soil dry out between each session.

In addition to tending to his plants, Umphress is an avid member of the DHS Environmental club and is the author of the blog “The Eco Soldier” where he writes articles regarding the effects of climate change on the environment and does his best to answer any questions his readers submit.

“Houseplants (are) more accessible for everybody … which is great because … when you’re growing stuff it also introduces you to environmental topics,” Umphress said.

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Two of the easiest houseplants to grow, according to Redwood Barn Nursery owner Don Shor, are the zamioculcas plant (two plants shown left) and the sansevieria plant (two plants shown right).

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ight, such a wonderful word, meaning both that which illuminates and as a measure of weight. I’ve been eeling both recently. Jan. 20 feels like a special day, a “light at the end of the tunnel” day, and a description of what feels like a lifting of weight off my daily spirits.

It helps that the sun has been shining the last few days, but it’s not just that. It feels like we may be heading into a happy and better new year. Perhaps we will make progress on responding to the climate crisis.

In any case, there has been a rash of “light” news, the kind that not only doesn’t come with a dark cloud but which also might amuse or distract. It’s not trivial; it’s just stuff that feels just right for today — a perhaps brief stall in what has sometimes seemed like a bombardment of news as we await the outcome of today’s events.

Every year in December, generally in year-in-review articles, people come up with words most used in the public sphere. Miriam Webster dictionary for 2020 predictably picked “pandemic,” but also noted a large increase in the usage of “malarkey” after Biden used it in a debate. I can only guess he was appealing to

older people like myself from a bygone era, while teasing younger folks to go look up a word that had practically disappeared.

Other authoritative institutions chose words like “lockdown,” “unprecedented,” “social distancing” and “respiratory droplets.”

As you can see, most of the words chosen by institutions are practical and probably do reflect the most usage, which is fine, but I like some of the new words, words never heard before, sometimes describing serious subjects like the climate crisis.

For example, in past years, new words included “pyrocene,” “firenado” and “hotumn” to mark our heating planet.

For 2020, a Grist journalist asked herself the question, “What happens when the climate crisis meets a global pandemic?”

She cited a study by Oxford Languages, an outfit that bills itself

as “The Home of Language Data,” that found words like ”global warming” plummeted while virus-related vocabulary skyrocketed.

OK, but here are a few entirely new words and the definitions she ascribed to them.

Anthropause, n.: “A period of diminished pollution following the COVID-19 lockdown.” Less travel by car or plane coupled with idled factories resulted in reduced energy usage and an overall decline in global carbon emissions.

People all over the world reported cleaner air, noticed the sky was blue and could hear birds singing again. Many began to wonder why this cleaner, quieter new reality wasn’t possible under non-COVID conditions, perhaps propelling policy in that direction when we get the virus behind us.

Climate arsonist, n.; “A person, sometimes orange-haired, who’s figuratively setting the world on fire.” This was another Bidenism describing the fires in California and elsewhere and asking, “If you give a climate arsonist four more years in the White House, why would anyone be surprised if we have more of America ablaze?”

Doomer, n. “Someone who is

convinced the world is headed straight for all-out collapse.”

According to the article’s author, “If last year was all about ‘OK, boomer’ as the appropriate response to a generation that has failed on climate, this year’s motto could be “OK, doomer” as a reposte to adherents of doomerism, a “mindset that, short of a miracle, problems like climate change, food shortages, refugee crises, and political instability will lead to near-term collapse of civilization — so why even bother to try and stop it.”

Ghost planes, n.: Planes that fly empty. With the virus spreading across the globe not many people were eager to sit shoulderto-shoulder in a closed cabin breathing the same air as complete strangers for hours and hours. But the planes kept flying, “often nearly empty, burning through thousands of gallons of fossil fuel.”

The airlines were in a financial freefall (maybe a poor choice of words but better than “financially crashing”) and they appealed to Congress for a bailout. Congress gave it to them but with conditions, one of which was, according to the article, that they “keep flying to every domestic airport they normally served, no matter if they

had passengers.”

This is a head scratcher. Why on Earth would a requirement to keep flying be imposed as a condition of receiving bailout funds?

There are many players in the answer to this, and I suspect the complexity is way over my head — pilots, airline terminals, and the employees that work there, to name just a few.

But one thing seems to stand out as being the most important: “slots.” There are more airplanes wanting to land and take off at airports than there is room for them. So it’s kind of like New York cab drivers, you get a medallion, or in this case a slot, and it is worth more than money. Millions. And, if you don’t use it at least 80 percent of the time you can lose it.

So, as light as I want this column to be, this last example serves to remind us of the momentum embedded in our systems and infrastructure that make it possible to make sense to fly planes and burn fuel with no passengers.

— John Mott-Smith is a resident of Davis. This column appears the first and third Wednesday of each month. Please send comments to johnmottsmith @comcast.net.

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he California Department of Fish and Game is encouraging Northern California residents to remove bird feeders for a month to help slow an outbreak of salmonellosis, a disease affecting small brown birds known as pine siskins that live primarily in wooded areas.

Pine siskins have been coming through Davis in unusually large numbers.

I noticed a pine siskin in my backyard that stayed on the ground and did not react to my coming close.

It just kept eating. I wondered if it had run into a glass window and gotten a concussion. Then I started getting email notices about the salmonellosis. I have since found a dead one when raking leaves.

According to DFG, human exposure to and contraction of the disease from wild birds is rare and unlikely, especially if basic precautions are taken.

However, pets can contract the disease, especially if they are exposed to fecal matter below the feeders.

Dog and cat owners, please take heed.

Pine siskins are brown, streaked birds with yellow patches on the wings and tail. Their diet consists primarily of seeds, making bird feeders particularly attractive. Birds contract the disease from one another, most often by eating fecal-contaminated food — but also by sticking their heads inside tube feeders where their eyes come in contact with the feeder itself.

To help control the disease, DFG biologists are urging residents to discontinue feeding birds for at least 30 days. Decontaminate feeders by using a 10-percent solution of household bleach in water; preferably clean just before

adding new food.

I will greatly miss the many bird species that come to my feeders. Especially during the pandemic, they have been a delight. However, it’s time for social distancing for the birds as well as humans.

When we resume feeding, after a month, we are encouraged to spread small amounts of seed in the sun instead of using bird boxes or feeders and vary the location of seeds.

They also suggest replacing wooden bird feeders with plastic or metal as wood harbors salmonella bacteria and cannot be sanitized as effectively.

And of course, wash your hands when finished with antibacterial soap.

———— Time for a new adventure?

This last month, our family had a socially distanced hike and lunch in Las Trampas Regional Park, just an hour and 15 minutes from Davis. Family members came from Oregon, Davis and the Bay Area to meet up in a parking lot, the staging area at the dead-end of Bollinger Canyon Road.

There, we chose the Ridge Trail, a steep climb that brings you to a ridge that looks over miles and miles of greening open space. It’s open to vistas in all directions. We could see the San Francisco Bay, Mount Tamalpais and Mount Diablo. We hiked a 5-mile loop with lunch on the top. We probably only

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Members of the Davis High Environmental Club are now regular volunteers at the new Uplands Open Space at F Street and Anderson Road. They are involved in reestablishing California native habitat. From left are students Leela Ghassemi, Olivia Kim, Hanni Yu, Jared Umphress, Emma Haines, Lewis Herring-Tillman and Mattias Rowenbale, open space coordinator Chris Garner and regular volunteer Robert Wiedenfeld. Not pictured is Yusuf Abdelnur.

Las Trampas Regional Preserve is the perfect setting for a socially distanced hike and lunch.

There is every kind of terrain to choose from in this 5,778 acres of wilderness.

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passed by 12 people on a weekday. Hiking poles were welcome for us seniors. Our well-traveled adult children and grandchildren thought it was beautiful.

Las Trampas Wilderness Regional Preserve has 5,778 acres of wilderness with many types of terrain and a system that allows

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Two major Bay Area faults account for uplift and a well-defined geological formation in the Las Trampas Regional Preserve. Nearly every kind of terrain may be experienced in the area.

for hikers, horseback riders, and dogs. You can download maps.

AllTrails.com lists the 10 best hikes in Las Trampas.

Do you want to walk through woods, through open areas or by a lake?

You can choose. It’s open and free but you need to bring your own water.

There are bathrooms at the parking area. Enjoy a new trail adventure.

———— Good news closer to home: The Davis High School Environmental Club is now volunteering at the new Uplands Open Space on F and Andersen, which rims the Julie Partansky Wildlife Area. They have worked to remove invasive grasses, plant native plants and spread mulch.

Thanks to the persistence of sophomore Jared Umphress, the group has gone through city of Davis COVID safety training offered by open space coordinator Chris Gardner and they work wearing masks and maintaining

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Time for birds to socially distance. Residents are asked to remove such feeders and water dishes to help slow an outbreak of salmonellosis, a disease affecting the small pine siskins.

There have been many flocks in Davis. social distancing.

“It feels fulfilling for our high school club to be working towards positive changes in the community,” Umphress said.

Other participants are Leela Ghassemi, Olivia Kim, Hanni Yu, Emma Haines, Lewis HerringTillman, Mattias Rowenbale and Yusuf Abdelnur.

Friends of North Davis

Ponds are deeply grateful for their hard work and dedication.

May you get outside and enjoy the healing powers of nature.

— Jean Jackman is a Davis resident. Her column appears on the third Wednesday of each month.

Got a story, comment, correction? Contact her; Jean Jackman@gmail.com

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Newsom’s big bait-and-switch

Opportunity for I a homelessness solution

BY MARTHA TEETER Special to The Enterprise

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ith COVID surging and a stay-at-home order, most of us are sick and tired of staying home. But how would you stay safe if you didn’t have a home? As homelessness and the pandemic become more dire, we need creative, long-range community solutions, and an alliance has recently formed to invent them.

When I was 6, my grandmother Maybelle died.

She grew up in a physically abusive household with few house rules. She was a brilliant pianist but two of her children died in infancy. Her husband repeatedly committed her involuntarily and later divorced her, and she lived in poverty with her two younger children. Later, she’d hitchhiked between west and east coasts to visit her children. But when arrested for vagrancy, she was committed again and died there. Each person experiencing homelessness has his or her own story, each unique and compelling.

Volunteering for nonprofits, like the Interfaith Rotating Winter Shelter, has added a human face to homelessness for many in the community. Bet Haverim IRWS coordinator and volunteer Dr. Sheri Belafsky commented on her experience with people at IRWS dinner: “It just changed everything for me, talking to people, and just learning about (them), just hearing their stories.”

Although small groups of Davis residents have for years provided meals, shared resources and given winter shelter to those experiencing homelessness, homelessness continues to increase dramatically. The 190 individuals in 2019 from the Davis Point in Time count represent a 30% increase over 2017. Most of the 190 have grown up here, been to college here or held jobs here. They are Davis’ own.

The need for a comprehensive plan to address Davis homelessness led Davis Opportunity Village or DOVe (www.davisopportunityvillage.org) to ask the City Council for support so concerned residents could create effective solutions.

The 75 at the May Davis Homelessness Solutions Summit and June Follow-Up created a 3-Year Action Plan. “I really appreciated getting to sit down with stakeholders from all over the community and from the university” noted attendee Dr. Belafsky. They were nonprofits, faith-based groups, people with lived experience of homelessness, the city (with commissions), public housing, the county (also libraries), education (UC Davis and DJUSD), business and service clubs, health providers and foundations, and community members.

t may have been the biggest bait-and-switch event ever perpetrated in California, affecting the vast majority of the state’s 6 million-plus senior citizens, people aged 65 and up. So far, there has not even been an apology from Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration, which was responsible.

If this had been an inside job aimed at stoking the current recall petition drive against Newsom, it could not have been carried out more effectively.

Here’s what happened: On a Wednesday afternoon in mid-January, the state Department of Public Health issued a press release announcing in bold black letters that “Seniors 65+ Now Eligible to Receive COVID-19 Vaccine …”

Except most were not.

It’s the latest of many embarrassments for Newsom’s 2-year-old administration, accused by recall organizers of being grossly incompetent and hypocritical. There have been the $8 billion heist from the state unemployment department, Newsom’s attendance at a too large and too unmasked Napa County dinner with lobbyists, and more.

But this incident affected by far the most Californians. Less than an hour after the health department notice went out, long before television stations and all the state’s newspapers headlined the alleged large expansion of vaccinations, cyber links to a pharmacy

vaccination scheduling website began circulating among many tens of thousands of seniors.

The site offered appointments to get vaccinated at pharmacies in dozens of Ralph’s grocery stores, owned by the national Kroger chain. Except no seniors ended up vaccinated in most counties. It was, for the most part, baloney.

Here’s the state health department’s explanation, from spokesman Darrel Ng: “The announcement is that when counties are done with the first phase of vaccinations (for health care workers and nursing home residents), they should vaccinate people over 65 next.”

Except the press release did not mention counties.

And while three counties — Orange, Riverside and Stanislaus — actually did begin serving some over-65 residents, that did not happen in most of the state.

The bait and switch was most egregious in Los Angeles County, home to more than 1.6 million seniors.

The pharmacy website was soon swamped, handing

out thousands of appointments. Large numbers of seniors went to bed that night thinking they now knew where their isolation from the coronavirus plague would begin to end and life could begin returning to normal. It was a big relief for most.

Except that when the “lucky” folks who scored appointments for the next day showed up, almost all were turned away, pharmacy workers explaining they were still vaccinating only health care workers.

Other seniors received emails canceling appointments and telling them to stay away.

It turned out Kroger executives reversed earlier corporate decisions to follow the state directive and vaccinate individuals over 65, deciding instead to follow local health officials’ guidelines to the contrary.

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t was a classic bait and switch, leading thousands to believe they would soon have the item most coveted these days by many Californians, but giving them nothing. This was caused almost purely by the Newsom administration’s decision to issue that press release.

Many seniors took this as a new sign of the governor’s supposed incompetence.

Spokesman Ng said he could not say who wrote the press release and who authorized sending it. Lines of responsibility remain unclear.

But many people’s anger was directed at Newsom, the frontman for state government, who refused several requests to discuss the widespread confusion and frustration. “The guy looks like he’s in over his head,” said one 72-year-old Los Angeles man.

Newsom press secretary Jesse Melgar did not respond to queries about how his boss plans to assuage the frustration his administration created.

Would Newsom, for example, use emergency powers to order that pharmacies and mass vaccination sites start serving senior citizens, as his administration promised? Would he apologize for the bait and switch, as he did for his attendance at that Napa dinner with his lobbyist pals?

Instead, other than referring questioners to the health department, the governor’s office said nothing.

Which leaves senior citizens as frustrated as they have been at any time in the 10-month California lockdown and Newsom more vulnerable than ever to recall this year or reelection defeat in 2022.

— Email Thomas Elias at tdelias@aol.com. His book, “The Burzynski Breakthrough, The Most Promising Cancer Treatment and the Government’s Campaign to Squelch It” is now available in a soft cover fourth edition. For more Elias columns, visit www. californiafocus.net.

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he prioritized solutions formed five goals — housing, outreach, media, emergency shelter and spending (H-O-M-E-S). Each goal has its target, its strategies and its activities.

DOVe presented to the Davis City Council in July 2019 the plan and the formation of a publicprivate advisory collaborative called the Davis Homelessness Alliance (DHA). This group would actualize the concrete plans and keep the city and community residents informed of progress.

Since last October, the DHA collaborative has met as a Steering Committee and as five subcommittees, one for each goal. DHA’s Steering Committee promotes coordination among the subcommittees and discusses overall issues.

The Housing Subcommittee explores new ways to build and obtain affordable housing for the most vulnerable. Outreach is updating a services card and creates web-based info. Media unifies homelessness public relations. Emergency Shelter is creating temporary housing in apartments for those older and medically at-risk. Spending ($) compiles funding sources for these projects.

The new apartment-based Davis Emergency Shelter Project run by IRWS is a unique, creative blend of COVID-shelter necessity and opportunity due to UC Davis being mainly virtual. It will be the subject of subsequent articles in this series.

As a retired chemistry professor myself, I was surprised to meet Patricia at a church supper and learn she was experiencing homelessness. Patricia has PhDs in geology and mining engineering and has taught in a university like I had. Once again I saw homelessness could happen to anyone — to me or to someone I love.

We invite concerned Davis residents to join the Sub-Committees of the Davis Homelessness Alliance, as we creatively invent solutions with a longterm vision and plan. We welcome your questions.

Add your concerns and your expertise as new SubCommittees members! For more information, please contact Martha Teeter at davishomelessnessalliance@gmail.com.

— Martha Teeter is the board chair of Davis Opportunity Village; and media chair and staff at Davis Homelessness Alliance.

LETTERS It’s time to close Guantanamo Jan. 11 marks 19 years since the first prisoners landed in Guantanamo. At that time, we were informed that these were “enemy combatants,” which meant that they somehow had no rights under the Geneva Convention, and in fact no rights at all, and so they were being sent to a place where the whole concept of human rights could be suspended indefinitely.

I remember thinking that this was a really bad idea. That was 19 years ago.

Barack Obama promised to shut down this prison on first taking office in 2009. That was 12 years ago.

According to the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, there are about 40 prisoners left in the prison at Guantanamo Bay for this 19th anniversary, most of whom have never been charged with any crime. Also according

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to NRCAT, we are spending about $13 million per prisoner per year to keep this prison open. After 19 years, this is still a bad idea.

President Biden has a lot of issues to deal with on taking office, but I am hoping he can take a stand for human rights and respect for international law — and finally close down this prison which should never have been opened in the first place.

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Impeach Trump I know many people who feel that with only a few days left in this current presidency that we should concentrate on restoring some sense of normality rather than pursue impeachment.

However, besides the real fear that Trump in his apparent mental instability may do something very dangerous, Congress and the American people must demonstrate that Trump be held accountable for his actions.

Remember his infamous quote, which

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reappeared in at least one federal court hearing, that Trump could kill someone on Fifth Avenue and people would continue to love and support him, or as in the federal court hearing, Trump as the sitting president could not be arrested or charged for such an action.

What happened on Jan. 5 and 6 was as close as you can get to Trump personally trying to kill as he led the assault on Lady Democracy.

To let Trump slink out the last days of his presidency isn’t even a slap on the wrist. On the contrary, it implicitly assents to his continued access to the benefits of the post-presidency with lifelong protection from the Secret Service, a million-dollar annual travel budget and other numerous perks.

An indictment, even if the Senate votes not to convict, leaves a record of the people’s enragement over Trump’s call to the Georgia Secretary of State and the invasion of the Capitol building. An indictment represents our manifest effort to hold Trump accountable.

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Jon Baiocchi, seen here with a Yampa River stagecoach brown trout, will speak to the Fly Fishers of Davis about the skwala stonefly hatch on the Yuba River on Tuesday, Jan. 26, via Zoom.

Fly Fishers discuss Yuba River’s skwala Special to The Enterprise The Fly Fishers of Davis club invites the public to hear from Jon Baiocchi, who will discuss everything a fly angler needs to know about the famed skwala stonefly hatch on the Yuba River — arguably the best winter dry fly fishery in California — at this month’s meeting, set for 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 26, via Zoom.

“Skwalas on the Yuba” covers the life cycle of this unique stonefly including identification characteristics, habitat, behavior and the importance of this big meal for the resident wild trout and steelhead. Also covered in the program is weather and timing, the other game — mayflies, trout behavior, tactics and rigging for nymphing and dry flies, water to target, and the go-to flies for nymphs and dries.

New, highly detailed animated slides and beautiful photography give this program clear and concise information that can be used on future trips by the visiting fly angler, club members say.

Baiocchi has been fly fishing and tying flies since 1972 and is a California licensed fly-fishing guide and a published author featured in California Fly Fisher, Northwest Fly Fishing and Sierra Fisherman.

He is also an educator, innovative tier and an award-winning public speaker with more than 150 presentations to his credit for fly fishing clubs, expos and trade shows across California, and Nevada.

Baiocchi was born in San Jose in 1965 and his dad, Bob Baiocchi, moved the family to Paradise in 1967 to be closer to prime flyfishing venues and to raise his family in the forests of Northern California. The elder Baiocchi was inducted into the Federation of Fly Fishers Hall of Fame in 1999 and was a

major influence in helping his son hone his fly-fishing skills at a very young age.

Like his father, Jon is active as a fisheries conservationist, serving on the Truckee Trout Unlimited board of directors, and volunteering his time with Tahoe Truckee Fly Fishers youth programs, Yuba Fest and the South Yuba River Citizens League.

After finishing high school, Baiocchi opted out of college to pursue a career as a professional snowboarder, competing at a national level, starring in feature movies and working with manufacturers in their research and development programs. After his career ended in 1993, he focused entirely on fly fishing and learning even more of the intricate details of his home waters and skill set.

Baiocchi owns and operates Baiocchi’s Troutfitters guide service in Northern California, where he has been guiding for the last 24 years. In addition, he also conducts group clinics, tours and workshops.

He takes pride in being on the pro staff for WildStream Fly Rods, GuideBox, RIO, Simms, Redington, Shwood Eyewear, Fishpond, Dr. Slick, Buff, Loon Products, and Sage. He has a reputation as a hard-working guide who’s been trained by some of fly fishing’s best-known anglers, both past and present.

The Fly Fishers of Davis usually meet to swap fish stories at 7:30 p.m. on the last Tuesday of the month in the multipurpose room at Harper Junior High School. During the pandemic, the club has been meeting virtually through Zoom. The meetings are free and open to newcomers and guests.

For club information, visit the web page at www. flyfishersofdavis.org.

Guests can register for the Zoom webinar at https:// bit.ly/3qCD2zP.

On KDRT: Just Because spreads cheer to teens Special to The Enterprise Just Because is a group of students and parents who did something special for teens in Davis to brighten up their day during this challenging time of social isolation and distance learning.

On the current edition of the KDRT radio program “Timeout Radio,” Natalie Ries and Neil Redenbaugh from Just Because tell what they did. Also on the program is the World Happiness Report and how

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