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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Vacancy rate hits 12%

As rules change, vaccine slots fill up

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer

By Caleb Hampton Enterprise staff writer Apartment vacancies in the city of Davis reached some of their highest rates in nearly half a century, according to the results of an annual survey released Wednesday.

The survey, which was commissioned by UC Davis Housing and Dining Services, found that roughly 12% of apartment units in Davis are vacant as most instruction at UC Davis continues remotely amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The blended vacancy rate in Davis — including apartments leased by unit and by the bed — has hovered around 1% for the past several years.

The current vacancy rate during the pandemic is the highest since the survey began publishing combined data for the two types

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All over Davis, university students are gone, driving vacancy rates to historic lows. of leases in 2016.

The current vacancy rate for apartments leased by the unit, which account for 83% of the rental inventory that was surveyed, is 8.4%, the survey found, the highest such rate since 1992.

The vacancy rate for bedleased units, which account for 17% of the surveyed units, is roughly 30%, the highest since the survey began collecting such data in 2013.

The results are from UC Davis’ annual vacancy and

rental rate survey, which was first conducted in 1975.

Survey respondents, which included landlords and apartment managers, also reported other consequences of the pandemic.

Roughly 75% of apartment complexes that participated in the survey reported broken leases or units that were fully leased but were never occupied.

Apartment complexes also noted that their implementation of COVID-19 public health precautions

included modified staffing, limitations on offices hours and adjusting access to onsite amenities like fitness centers, pools, spas and shared laundry facilities.

According to Michael Sheehan, associate vice chancellor for Housing, Dining and Divisional Operations at UC Davis Student Affairs, some apartment owners have worked closely with campus officials to establish

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Two busted for widespread catalytic converter thefts

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer A five-month Davis Police Department investigation into catalytic converter thefts in the Sacramento region and beyond yielded two arrests on dozens of theft charges, officials announced Wednesday.

According to a news release, detectives served multiple search warrants Tuesday in Sacramento and Elk Grove related to the thefts, which occurred in Yolo, Sacramento, El Dorado and Napa counties, and the Bay Area.

Following the searches, officers arrested Dao Xiong, 43, of Elk Grove; and 37-year-old Shaneel Lal of Sacramento.

“Detectives believe that Xiong and Lal have been involved in numerous catalytic converter thefts and were actually arrested for related charges during the course of the investigation,” the news release said. “Each time after their release, it is suspected that they immediately continued stealing catalytic converters in violation of their temporary release conditions.”

Both men were booked into the

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Yolo County Jail on charges including 60-plus counts of grand theft, conspiracy and enhancements due to violating the terms of their earlier release LAL from jail, which followed arrests in Davis and Folsom. Their bail is set at $250,000 each.

Although none of the allegedly stolen parts were recovered, police seized several catalytic converters during a previous contact with Xiong, according to Deputy Police Chief Paul Doroshov.

“Catalytic converter theft is a national problem because they contain precious metals that can be recycled and sold making it a profitable crime for thieves,” police said.

“Although California has laws that make it harder for thieves to recycle here, the parts are often quickly removed from the country and sold overseas making it difficult to track where they are going.”

Residents are encouraged to pay attention to their surroundings and call 911 immediately if they hear or

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see anything suspicious, as well as take a few simple precautions to help deter catalytic converter thieves: n Park in a welllit, highly visible area XIONG (near security cameras when possible). n Park high-riding vehicles (such as trucks and sport utility vehicles) near low-profile vehicles. Doing so will make it difficult to access the catalytic converter on the taller vehicle. n Consider having a cage installed around the catalytic converter. n Etch your vehicle’s license plate number or identification number (VIN) into the converter. This will make it easier to trace the catalytic converter if it’s stolen.

Assisting Davis police during the lengthy joint investigation were the police departments in Sacramento, Elk Grove, Napa, Folsom, Rocklin, Rancho Cordova, Fremont, Antioch and Chico, as well as the Sacramento County and El Dorado County sheriff ’s offices.

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Enterprise staff writer Yolo County residents still face great risk even as the number of new cases of COVID-19 continues to decline daily and more people are vaccinated, the county’s health officer said this week.

“We are emerging slowly from what has been the largest surge in COVID-19 cases to date,” Dr. Aimee Sisson told the Davis City Council on Tuesday, “(and) the number of new cases that we’re adding each day is now on the decline.”

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However, the lower numbers seen just over the last week are still nearly double what the county was seeing daily during its summer surge and the emergence of new variants of the coronavirus will require continued vigilance on the part of the public.

“I don’t want to send a message that coronavirus and COVID-19 are gone,” Sisson said. “We are in a time of great risk even as our cases decline.”

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When far fewer than expected people signed up for COVID-19 vaccination clinics scheduled this week for older residents in underserved areas of the county, health officials had to quickly pivot to ensure doses didn’t go unused.

They succeeded.

Within hours of expanding eligibility for those clinics to all county residents 65 and over Tuesday evening, all appointments were taken, including 1,200 slots available at a Saturday clinic at Sutter Health Park (formerly Raley Field) in West Sacramento.

The clinics, scheduled throughout the week in Esparto, Knights Landing, Woodland and West Sacramento, were initially open only to those 75 and over who live in the most socioeconomically disadvantaged areas of the county and who are either uninsured or receive care from community clinics.

Among those specifically excluded were residents of Davis and Winters.

But when appointments were very slow to fill, with only about a quarter of the slots taken, said Yolo County Health Officer Dr. Aimee Sisson, “we made the decision to expand to anybody 65 and older living anywhere in Yolo County with any healthcare provider or insurance type.

“My understanding,” she told the Davis City Council on Tuesday, “is that when the press release went out, most of the appointments were taken up pretty quickly.”

However, she added, “(for) people who were not able to secure an appointment this week, we’ll have another batch of appointments and clinics next week as well.”

Those clinics will also be open to all county residents 65 and over. Once dates and locations are finalized, appointments can be reserved at links posted at https:// www.yolocounty.org/ coronavirus-vaccine.

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Expressive therapy focuses on healing through a creative lens.

Based on the interrelationship of body, mind and emotion, it uses art, writing, music and movement, together with verbal sharing, to further the emotional, physical and spiritual integration of the participant.

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For the record Jan. 27’s Lexicon Artist column misstated the cost of maintaining the current PCI of Davis roads. The correct figure was $98 million over 10 years. The Enterprise regrets the error.

In addition, the column relied on data from an engineering report presented to the City Council in January 2020. Subsequently, the engineers updated their estimates in October 2020. An update in October 2020 estimated the shortfall at $82.2 million, with a 10-year funding deficit of $31 million.

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You can still party ... all by yourself L et’s just call this whole deal “Fauci’s Folly.”

Yes, sports fans, put away the nachos, the Buffalo wings and those cute fondue forks. And don’t even think of pummeling that luscious avocado like a mashed potato and mixing it up with your favorite salsa.

Dr. Anthony “Killjoy” Fauci has banned the Super Bowl party, a cherished American tradition that dates all the way back to the days of Benjamin Franklin.

I don’t know what Fauci’s doctorate is in, but it certainly isn’t gastronomy. I mean, hasn’t this guy heard of the pursuit of happiness, not to mention the pursuit of potato skins?

A religious man who was raised in the Jesuit tradition, Fauci’s favorite scripture verse begins “For where two or three are gathered together in My name, be sure to wear a mask.”

According to reports in dozens of newspapers nationwide, Fauci, who has now replaced both

Marcus Welby and Doogie Howser as America’s favorite doctor, is telling people to “Lay low and cool it,” come Sunday afternoon.

Which proves his doctorate is not in English either. That would be “lie low,” Dr. Fauci, unless you’re talking about chickens.

“You don’t want parties with people that you haven’t had much contact with; you just don’t know if they’re infected,” said Fauci, who spends 80 hours a week appearing on cable television and one hour a week in his coronavirus lab.

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Davis to be pretty much COVIDfree thanks to the Healthy Davis Together initiative, maybe our humble town can be the exception to the “No Super Bowl party” rule.

“Every time we do have something like this, there always is a spike,” added Fauci, passing up a chance to coin this as the annual Super Bowl Super Spreader.

Of course there’s a spike every time we have a Super Bowl.

There’s a spike in the end zone after every touchdown. It’s a hardand-fast rule in the National Football League.

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ortunately, our family of six — mom and dad and four teenagers — have worked out a foolproof system to enjoy the game without partaking in Fauci’s forbidden fruit platter.

Barring overtime, the Super Bowl is exactly 60 minutes long in terms of actual playing time on the stadium clock. Dividing six into 60, you get 10 minutes.

In order to avoid any human contact during those 60 minutes,

each person in this one-TV family will be assigned a 10-minute period to watch the game while the other five family members retreat to a bedroom, a bathroom or the backyard.

The person watching the game is required to leave a written synopsis of the action — 25 words or less — along with the score at the end of their 10-minute shift.

In order to maintain the suspense for the other family members in quarantine, the person actually watching the game will not be allowed to cheer, stomp their feet, throw a brick at the television or yell “Go 49ers.” In this family no one has yet accepted the fact that the 49ers are not in the Super Bowl this year.

Due to his intimate knowledge of the game of football, dad will take the final shift after spending the first 50 minutes guarding the refrigerator.

Dr. Fauci would be proud.

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CHP urges Super Nonprofit organizations can Bowl street smarts apply for a Soroptimist grant Special to The Enterprise Football fans may have to come up with a new game plan for this year’s Super Bowl festivities, but the California Highway Patrol still reminds everyone to put safety first.

California’s public health recommendations encourage residents to gather outdoors and with no more than three households. In addition, Californians should stay close to home and limit nonessential travel to reduce the transmission of COVID-19.

If you must travel, the CHP wants to remind you of some important traffic safety tips to help you arrive safely: Drive sober, avoid distractions, always buckle up and leave plenty of time to get to your destination.

“The Super Bowl is one of the most celebrated sporting events of the year, and I am encouraging Californians to celebrate responsibly,” CHP Commissioner

Amanda Ray said. “If you choose to drink, do not get behind the wheel. Designate a sober driver.”

CHP officers will be on high alert for impaired drivers this weekend. Alcohol is not the only substance that can lead to an arrest for driving under the influence. Cannabis, prescription medications and illegal drugs can all impair your ability to drive.

According to preliminary data from the CHP’s Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System, four people died in alcohol-involved collisions in California on Super Bowl Sunday in 2020, and 120 people were injured. In addition, the CHP made more than 300 DUI arrests that day.

The public can help keep California roadways safe by calling 911 if they suspect an impaired driver. Callers should be prepared to give the vehicle’s description, location, license plate number and direction of travel.

Special to The Enterprise Soroptimist International of Davis is accepting applications from local nonprofit organizations for Community Grant funding for 2021.

In 2021, the club has $8,000 budgeted for community grants of up to $3,000 each. Nonprofit organizations that align with the Soroptimist mission are encouraged to apply. The deadline is March 5. Awards will be distributed in late spring.

Grant applications are evaluated for their alignment with the Soroptimist mission, vision, core values, community impact

and feasibility. Any organization, including previous recipients, is encouraged to apply.

Soroptimist is a global volunteer organization that provides women and girls with access to the education and training they need to achieve economic empowerment.

Applicants are asked how the requested funds would address the needs of women and girls in Yolo County, and support Soroptimist core values of gender equality, empowerment, education and diversity.

SI Davis has several fundraisers a year, and reinvests all of its profits

in its programs and projects.

These include Live Your Dream: Education and Training Awards for Women, and Dream It, Be It: Career Support for high school girls. It also funds high school scholarships, anti-trafficking efforts, and these Community Grants to nonprofits.

Applicants will receive notice by May 1 of their application’s status. To apply, visit https://www. sidavis.org/grants.

Direct questions to Donna Gulsvig, Community Grants chair, at donnagulsvig@gmail.com.

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By Autumn Labbé-Renault Special to The Enterprise

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his month marks 23 years that I’ve written this column in The Davis Enterprise, which has allowed me and many others to write about nonprofits, businesses, lifestyle, arts, climate, culture, and more, for decades.

I probably don’t stop often enough to feel grateful for that experience and for a hometown paper. I’d worked as a newspaper reporter, editor and publisher, and I started simply writing about the organization that was then called Davis Community Television, and what we did. But media and media technology, and the need to understand it, changed so rapidly in those two decades, and somewhere along the line I started writing about media policy and have chronicled more than 20 years of media consolidation. So, thanks, Davis Enterprise.

Over the past few years, I’ve had a couple opportunities to guest lecture to college students, and I’ve described the three systems of media that exist in this country: commercial, public and community. Broad terms, I know — The Davis Enterprise is commercial, but so is CNN. Public media — think PBS and NPR — are nonprofit, with a mix of public and private funding, generally regional in nature, and provide in-depth coverage, but government funding makes them a frequent political target.

The third is nonprofit community media, with roots in Public, Educational and Government (PEG) access television. It’s extremely local, typically serving neighborhoods, municipalities, schools, and government. It focuses on public meetings, nonprofits, schools, youth, local elections, arts and culture, events, and community voices, and plays a strong role not only in content

Davis Media Access creation, but training, access to facilities and equipment and community development.

It may also encompass radio, print, digital and broadband. It’s a media system that has thousands of local variations in thousands of communities around the country, but is often left out of federal policy discussions unless targeted by the FCC or telecom corporations.

There is incredible content that comes out of all these media systems every single day. And while larger newspapers are faring OK with online engagement and subscriptions, and the state has made some money available to news outlets during the pandemic, typically those on the smaller end struggle for survival.

Many have already lost that battle.

The same is true for organizations all along the nonprofit media route — inconsistent soft funding, uncertain government funding or declining user fees make planning and building capacity difficult.

So the questions are, what happens after pandemic loans and grants end? How can something so important be so underfunded?

What happens if more of these local outlets go dark?

Those are questions Karthick Ramakrishnan, a professor of public policy at the University of California, Riverside, and director of its Center for Social Innovation, articulates in his recent CalMatters article calling for a revisioning of support for all communitycentered media organizations (https://bit.ly/ 2YHMI04). In discussing the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, Ramakrishnan says the event revealed many gaping holes in the foundations of our democracy, including

“the role of digital media platforms in exacerbating and weaponizing disinformation.”

He writes that even as the government is dealing with the impacts of social media, it “need(s) to pay urgent attention to investing in community media — local media as well as ‘ethnic media’ or ‘media of color’ — to build an ecosystem of reliable and trustworthy news that can serve the needs of our 21st century democracy.” He cites efforts already underway, such as the American Journalism Project’s initial fundraising goal of $50 million to provide investments and in-kind support to 35 nonprofit news organizations around the country, and Facebook’s $25 million in grants to assist more than 200 local news organizations.

He notes that these efforts, while good, are minuscule compared to the scale of the problem of local media outlets facing extinction, and the even greater risks facing media focused on communities of color.

Given the enormous scope of the challenges, he writes, we need to craft a national solution that is scalable locally.

Ramakrishnan concludes with, “Perhaps (this) is where regulation and financing could meaningfully intersect. As Congress and state governments contemplate social media regulations that better serve the needs of our democracy, they should also consider financing mechanisms like media license fees and general taxes that can support the evolution and growth of community-serving media.

In addition, the Biden administration’s desire to “build back better” should consider not only infrastructure projects in energy and transportation, but also the civic infrastructure of communities including reliable voting systems and trusted, well-resourced

community news media.”

DMA — with our projects Davis Community Television, DJUSD.tv educational access, and KDRT Low-Power FM radio — is an example of nonprofit community media, and we’re the only such outlet in Yolo County. Our mission and our reach is big, our budget tiny, and the impacts of the pandemic on top of funding that’s already in decline due to cord cutting are real. We’ve greatly diversified our funding streams in recent years, and it is still tough to meet community need and stay whole. (That notwithstanding, I am extremely grateful to the City of Davis for its vision and longtime support of PEG media.)

Journalist Amy Goodman once told me that community media outlets are something that people would really miss if they were to disappear, and that my job here was perpetual vigilance to ensure that doesn’t happen. I’ve taken that mission seriously because I passionately believe that local media of all stripes makes for considerably more connected — and invested — communities. I agree with Ramakrishnan that it’s going to take wholesale revisioning the role of our local media, and how society supports it. What might be lost is insupportable.

— Davis Media Access is the only nonprofit community media center in Yolo County. KDRT 95.7 FM is a project of DMA. Autumn Labbé-Renault has served as its executive director since 2007, where she writes and blogs about a wide variety of media issues. Tune into KDRT 95.7 FM/https://kdrt.org Tuesdays at noon for her radio show, the “COVID-19 Community Report.”

Learn more at http:// davismedia.org, email info@davismedia.org, or call (530) 757-2419.

Pets of the week Speical to The Enterprise Lots of animals are waiting for “forever homes” at the Yolo County Animal Shelter, 2640 E. Gibson Road in Woodland.

Among is them is King (A158426), a very smart 8-year-old German shepherd who can’t wait to show you his tricks. King is absolutely attentive and knows how to play ball games, give high fives, sit and shake. King is a loving and happy shepherd and should not live with cats.

King Also hoping for a good home is Beanies (A185230), a 4-year-old female gray tabby domestic medium hair.

Her temporary foster mom says Beanies is a sweetheart with a big purr and loves attention.

However, Beanies has been through a lot and needs time to decompress and come out of her shell. She needs someone who can give her lots of patience and love to help her shine.

Beanies would like to be an only cat.

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Yolo Hospice receives $1M grant from Yocha Dehe Special to The Enterprise Yolo Hospice has been granted $1 million by the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation to research, strategize and implement a program that addresses the barriers to end-of-life care and advanced-care planning experienced

by Native American and rural communities.

Access to quality, timely healthcare is critical to ensure the long-term health of any community. Rural and indigenous populations face barriers to care that can have a profound and negative influence.

Financial inability to pay for services, a lack of transportation or not being able to take time off work have made it so these communities do not receive the care and attention they need.

About 45% of Medicare decedents in California received at least one day of hospice care in 2017, according to the National Hospice and Palliative

Virtual info nights for Da Vinci Special to The Enterprise Da Vinci Charter Academy invites sixthand ninth-grade families to the following virtual events. Students and staff will present the unique project-based learning program. These sessions will provide an opportunity for individuals to make informed decisions in advance of the 20212022 school year.

The high school night is from 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11, via Zoom.

The junior high night is from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 16, via Zoom.

Applications are due by 4 p.m. Friday, March 12. Visit www.davinci charteracademy.net for application information, forms and Zoom links.

Care Organization. Of that population, only .4% were of Native American descent.

These statistics are why both Yolo Hospice and the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation want to start this project as soon as possible.

“This grant is about developing strategies to meet the unique needs for indigenous and rural communities in California,” Craig Dresang, CEO of Yolo Hospice said.

The grant will fund a three-year project headed by Yolo Hospice in partnership with the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation.

Yolo Hospice will begin the first year of the project by performing research and collecting data so that the needs of these communities can be fully understood. An academic partner will be secured to work on the project alongside Yolo Hospice as well as other end-of-life care providers.

The second year of this project will

then analyze these findings so that Yolo Hospice and other community leaders can strategize the best approach to bring these communities accessible, quality end-of-life care.

Yolo Hospice and Yocha Dehe will use those years of research and planning to establish a program in 2023 that will make the services offered by organizations like Yolo Hospice — palliative care, hospice services, bereavement services and caregiver relief — much more obtainable to populations that are routinely left out by urban-based practices and ideals.

“Providing comfort to a loved one in their final days is one of the most difficult challenges a family will ever face.

Those difficulties are compounded in rural and Native American communities where too often it’s a struggle to find help with providing that care,” the Tribal Council of the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation said. “We are humbled to be part of the solution.”

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The shelter is closed to the public for nonemergencies but the staff is available to assist at 530-668-5287 during new temporary hours: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. from Mondays to Fridays and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays.

For information, visit www.petfinder.com/ member/us/ca/ woodland/yolo-countyanimal-services-ca283/.

Lucille At Rotts of Friends Animal Rescue, you’ll find Lucille, an adorable 3-year-old spayed female pit bull terrier. She is as sweet as can be; Lucille loves everyone and is a happy, smart little dog.

She recently had puppies and is now ready for a home of her own.

Clarence is a 7- to 8-year-old neutered male Rottweiler. He’s a very calm, friendly boy looking for a peaceful home where he can keep his owners company. He loves treats and walks.

Clarence The next Rotts of Friends’ adoption event is from 8 to 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 6, at 34505 County Road 29 in Woodland. Come by 10 a.m., as it takes at least an hour to meet and adopt a dog; everyone who will be living with the dog should come out to meet it.

Bring proof of homeownership, such as a mortgage statement or property tax bill. If you rent, please bring proof that you are allowed to have a dog in your home, such as a pet clause in your lease or a note from your landlord.

All dogs adopted from Rotts of Friends are healthy, microchipped, up-to-date on their vaccines and come with free lifetime obedience training classes. For more information, visit face book.com/rottsoffriends.

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Obituary Tung-Ming (Tom) Hsieh June 8, 1949 — Jan. 20, 2021

Longtime Davis resident Tung-Ming “Tom” Hsieh passed away on Jan. 20 at the age of 71, surrounded by loved ones and after a courageous battle with complications from COVID-19. Known to many as “Uncle Tom” and the owner of the local restaurant Orange Hut, Tom will be remembered for his cheerful spirit, big heart and funny ability to spark a smile in any passerby he met.

Tom was born in 1949 in Nantou, Taiwan, and immigrated to the United States in 1970. In his earlier years, Tom lived a life of adventure and odd jobs throughout the United States. He eventually settled in Davis, where Tom’s older brother, Dennis, was a professor on the UC Davis faculty.

In 1979, Tom married his wife Kim, and in 1980, the couple opened Orange Hut, one of the first Chinese restaurants in town. Located next to the UC Davis campus, Orange Hut became a popular joint over the next three decades for university students and faculty to enjoy an affordable meal. In addition to managing a restaurant business, Tom stayed busy as a licensed

real estate agent and property manager of several properties in Davis.

In his 45 years as a Davis resident, Tom and his wife Kim were active in the community, known for their generosity and willingness to open their restaurant and home to anyone in need. They were faithful members of the Davis Chinese Christian Church and avid supporters of the Greater Sacramento Taiwanese Association.

The couple raised three children — Annie, Sean, and Lynn — whom Tom always considered his greatest pride and joy.

In addition to his wife and children, Tom is survived by three grandchildren (Leila, Jadon and Eliah) and his siblings and their spouses (Dennis and Lucy Hsieh, Bernice and Ben Song and May and Kurt Chang).

Tom was known for his boisterous laugh, goofy personality, passion for big ideas and compassion for those he loved and served. He was much beloved and will be sorely missed.

An online memorial will be held at 4 p.m. Friday, Feb. 5. Details are at www.tungminghsieh.com.

Obituary policy The Enterprise publishes brief death notices free of charge. These include name, age, city of residence, occupation, date of death and funeral/memorial information. Paid-for obituaries allow for controlled content with the option for photos. Obituaries will be edited for style and grammar. Submissions may be made via www.davisenterprise.com/obit-form/. For further information about paid obituaries or free death notices, call 530-756-0800.

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VACANCY: Prices see an increase Audubon offers journaling workshop From Page A1 plans for isolation and quarantine at their facilities and to ensure they are in compliance with local public health guidance.

Twenty-one apartment complexes applied for federal emergency loans to keep their workforce employed, according to the survey results.

The temporary reduction in demand for housing in Davis did not correlate with reduced housing costs. The average monthly rent for apartments leased by the unit rose 2.2% from $1,901 last year to $1,943 this year.

The average monthly rent for apartments leased by the bed rose 4.7% from $1,003 to $1,050. Combining the two types of leases,

Learn to preserve citrus Special to The Enterprise “Got Citrus? Preserve it,” a free Zoom workshop, will run from 1 to 2:30 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 13. It will demonstrate researchbased ways to preserve various kinds of citrus fruit.

Register in advance at https://bit.ly/3oUc5pL. After registering, a confirmation email will be sent with the Zoom link.

The workshop will intermix live demonstrations with filmed presentations.

Handouts will be sent to those who register ahead of time and following the workshop too. Demonstrations will illustrate how to safely preserve food by canning, drying or freezing it.

This event is sponsored

by UC Master Food Preservers, University of California Cooperative Extension volunteers.

monthly rents increased by 3.1%.

Despite the overall increase in rent, a third of apartment complexes that were surveyed reported decreasing their asking prices in order to fill vacancies. The reductions ranged from 3% to 15%.

Meanwhile, 44 complexes said they offered special incentives, like discounted rent, gift cards or waived application fees, in order to fill vacancies. A total of 114 apartment complexes and property management companies representing 8,938 rental units responded to the survey.

On campus residence halls and apartment complexes at UC Davis were also surveyed. With many students taking classes remotely from homes outside of Davis, roughly half of the campuses 11,850 units are vacant.

UC Davis has announced plans to resume normal campus operations and inperson classes in fall 2021, pending a successful vaccine rollout and evolving public health guidance.

— Reach Caleb Hampton at champton@ davisenterprise.net.

Follow him on Twitter at @calebmhampton.

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Special to The Enterprise The Yolo Audubon Society is offering a virtual nature journaling workshop at 9 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 14. The workshop is free and will be conducted over Zoom.

No experience is necessary.

Alison Kent will introduce the art of nature journaling, with a discussion of tools and materials, for about one-half hour. Participants will then go out in their own neighborhood, or area of choice, to walk and journal. The group will reconvene at 11:15 a.m. to discuss and share their journals.

Examples of nature journaling, suggested art materials and additional resources and information are available at yoloaudubon.org or facebook.com/ yoloaudubonsociety. Register for the Zoom event on either website.

Yolo Audubon, a chapter of the National Audubon Society, is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to foster an appreciation of birds and conservation in Yolo County. The group is offering virtual events in an effort to educate and inform the public about birds and birdwatching. More information is available at the websites above.

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207 E Street, Unit B Davis, CA 95616-4514 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Acacia Psychological Corporation 281 Magnolia Ave., Suite 300 Goleta, CA 93117-3608 4. Business Classification: Corporation 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: January 9, 2017 “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.”

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6. Signature of Registrant(s): Jessica P. Rodriguez CBO, Acacia Counseling and Wellness 1/15, 1/22, 1/29, 2/5 1119 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case Number: CV2021-40 1. Radha Elam filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Radha Elam to Radha Dolly Devi-Elanchezhiyan Elam 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition should not be granted.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: March 4, 2021 Time: 9 a.m.

Dept: #10 Room: N/A The address of the court is 1000 Main Street, Woodland, CA 95695 3. a) A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: The Davis Enterprise 315 G Street, Davis, CA 95616 Date: January 12, 2021 Samuel T. McAdam Judge of the Superior Court 1/22, 1/29, 2/5, 2/12 1123

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: January 15, 2021 FBN Number: F20210041 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) STEALTHSHARK DESIGNS 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California.

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1410 Spruce Lane Davis, CA 95616 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Johnathon Vidaca 1410 Spruce Lane Davis, CA 95616 4. Business Classification: Individual 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: January 4, 2021 “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.”

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6. Signature of Registrant(s): Johnathon Vidaca 1/22, 1/29, 2/5, 2/12 1124 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: January 15, 2021 FBN Number: F20210044 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) REFLECTEE SHIRTS 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California.

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6. Signature of Registrant(s): Alejandra Cuevas Rash 1/22, 1/29, 2/5, 2/12 1126 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: January 20, 2021 FBN Number: F20210057 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) FRESH AND CLEAN

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1720 W. Miramonte Dr. Woodland, CA 95695 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Brenda Robles Javier Robles 1720 W. Miramonte Dr. Woodland, CA 95695 4. Business Classification: A Married Couple 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: January 19, 2021 “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): Javier Robles, Co-owner 1/22, 1/29, 2/5, 2/12 1128 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: January 7, 2021 FBN Number: F20210018 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) BASKIN ROBBINS OF WOODLAND 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California.

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91 W. Court Street Woodland, CA 95695 Mailing address: 3105 Octave Ave. Roseville, CA 95747 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Dhillon Group, LLC 91 W. Court Street Woodland, CA 95695 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: November 30, 2020 “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.”

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

6. Signature of Registrant(s): Sandeep Dhillon Managing Member, Dhillon Group, LLC 1/22, 1/29, 2/5, 2/12 1130 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: December 30, 2020 FBN Number: F20201033 1. Fictitious Business Name(s)

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30 West Main Street and 11 West Court Street Woodland, CA 95695 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Gary W. Shaffer 101 Shell Drive Watsonville, CA 95076 4. Business Classification: Limited Partnership 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: November 1, 1996 “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.”

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6. Signature of Registrant(s): Gary W. Shaffer 1/29, 2/5, 2/12, 2/19 1139 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: January 7, 2021 FBN Number: F20210021 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) Swanston Properties 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California.

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49873 County Road 127 West Sacramento, CA 95691 Mailing address: PO Box 894 Homewood, CA 96141 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Matt Swanston, 555 Capitol Mall, Suite 995, Sacramento, CA 95814 Katie Ronquillo, 20092 Spruce Ave. Newport Beach, CA 92660 Jennifer Jacobson, 5623 Shepard Ave. Sacramento, CA 95819 Meredith Gonsalves, 1581 51st Street Sacramento, CA 95819 Brannely J Turpen 11269 Wolverine Circle, Truckee, CA 96161 Zachary Turpen, 1321 Los Rios Drive Carmichael, CA 95608 Michael S Turpen, 207 Selby Ranch Rd., Apt 2, Sacramento, CA 95864 Samantha L Turpen, 13603 Marina Pointe Dr #C318, Marina del Rey, CA 90292 Robert Swanston IV 420 Laurel Lane, Salinas, CA 93908 Martin Swanston, 20 San Fernando Circle, Salinas, CA 93901 Charles Swanston 585 Blue Wing Loop SE Ocean Shores, WA 98569

Michael Swanston 3953 Goldfinch Street, San Diego, CA 92103 Timothy Swanston, 421 Ross Way Sacramento, CA 95864 John Hudson Swanston 2774 Lacy Lane Sacramento, CA 95821 Chris Swanston 1511 Brookside Drive Houghton, MI 49930 David M Higgins 4111 Pine Meadows Way, Pebble Beach, CA 93953 4. Business Classification: General Partnership 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: January 8, 1988 “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.”

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6. Signature of Registrant(s): David Higgins 2/5, 2/12, 2/19, 2/26 1148 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: February 2, 2021 FBN Number: F20210103 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) Cricket Pitch Development and Management 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California.

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2021 A5

VACCINE: Access an obstacle to the elderly VIGILANCE: As numbers From Page A1 multi-county health systems like Sutter Health, Dignity Health, Kaiser Permanente and UC Davis Health seek vaccines with their providers. But with doses in low supply everywhere, and some of those systems only vaccinating patients 75 and over, the county will remain an option for all residents 65 and over in the weeks ahead.

But Sisson does expect as more doses become available everywhere, vaccinating underserved populations will be the county’s primary responsibility. Figuring out how to get them vaccinated will likely require additional work, however.

Asked by Davis Mayor Gloria Partida what the challenges were in getting those 75 and over signed up for vaccines, Sisson said, “we’re still trying to sort this out.

“But my understanding is that the 75-and-older population is the least likely to be getting their information from social media, from the internet, over email,” she said.

And that is how the county has been getting announcements out.

“That is the quickest way to disseminate information,” said Sisson.

But when the sign-up links for clinics went out electronically, “the news was slow to spread to the 75 and up group,” she said.

“We are going to continue to expand on our targeted outreach to the most vulnerable, including 75 and older, who may not have internet access,” said Sisson, who added that effort may even include going door to door in some neighborhoods.

“We’ll be working with community partners to really focus on that

group and I think it may also require setting aside vaccine appointments or even entire clinics dedicated to folks who don’t have an easy way to sign up over the Internet, so they’re not being out-competed by the younger and more tech-savvy folks in other parts of the county,” Sisson said.

Another group that may require additional efforts are farmworkers and the undocumented.

As the county scheduled a clinic for Thursday in Knights Landing, “we were hearing that many undocumented people did not feel comfortable signing up in advance, giving their information to the government,” said Sisson.

In response, the county reserved vaccine doses for walk-ups at the clinic and also limited them to residents of Knights Landing only, “so people could show up without having to put all their information into a computer in advance.”

And while there aren’t many farmworkers over age 65 eligible for vaccines right now, there will be many in the essential-worker category that will be next in line.

When the county gets to them, “we want to make sure to have a good strategy that’s going to allow those people to sign up for appointments and not be out-competed by people who have fast internet access.”

That could still be months away however, as the county estimates it will take 14 weeks to vaccinate all county residents 65 and over if the county continues to receive the vaccine in weekly allotments of 1,000 or so doses.

“The biggest challenge to the vaccine rollout to date,” Sisson told the

City Council, “is the scarcity of doses.

“We have the ability at the county to administer more doses per day than we’re currently receiving, but we don’t have those doses, so we can’t give them.”

As has been the case and will be going forward, clinics will be planned on a week-to-week basis because allocations vary week to week with little advance notice.

None have been scheduled in Davis recently but council members urged Sisson to do so.

“I would like to see one of these scheduled in Davis and I’m quite certain that our Healthy Davis Together partnership could help facilitate whatever logistical needs there may be,” said Councilman Will Arnold.

Sisson agreed.

“We definitely have the intent of doing a clinic in Davis with county doses and I know the Healthy Davis Together team is very interested in serving as a vaccine provider,” she said.

“I think they have a great foundation that they’ve built through testing and right now the challenge is finding the doses for them to administer.

“But we are certainly having ongoing conversations with them and hoping more doses will be coming … so we can get them rolling with an efficient vaccine distribution plan.”

For now, all county residents should keep an eye out for links to upcoming clinics on the county’s vaccine webpage, https://www.yolo county.org/coronavirus-vaccine.

They can also fill out a vaccine interest availability form at http:// bit.ly/VaccineAvailability.

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she said. The UK variant, B.1.1.7, is more transmissible than the version that has been circulating here for some time and more than 100 cases have been identified in Southern California already, said Sisson.

“We know that variant is probably one and a half times as infectious as our wild-type strain that’s predominately circulating in the United States right now and there’s some evidence that it may be up to a third more deadly than our current strains,” she told the City Council.

Two other variants are also concerning — B.1.351, first identified in South Africa, and the P.1 variant out of Brazil, the latter of which is of most concern, Sisson said.

In both the South African and Brazilian variants there is evidence that antibodies may not be as effective, particularly in the Brazil variant, said Sisson, who recounted the experience in the Brazilian city of Manaus, where 75 percent of residents were infected with the novel coronavirus last spring, but where they are now experiencing a new outbreak of COVID-19 “even though they should have had herd immunity.”

“So this suggests a significant potential for reinfection,” she said.

Concerns have also been raised about how well existing vaccines will protect against those variants.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Moderna vaccine currently used in the United States may be less effective against the South African variant "but additional studies are needed."

Likewise, with the variant from Brazil, "there is evidence to suggest that some of the mutations in the P.1 variant may affect the ability of antibodies (from natural infection or vaccination) to recognize and neutralize the virus, but additional studies are needed," the CDC website says.

“So we must not be complacent,” Sisson said.

Rather than give into pandemic fatigue and gather with non-household members — including during the Super Bowl this weekend — county officials are urging residents to continue doing everything they’ve been doing for nearly a year now: wearing masks, staying six feet apart from others, not gathering in groups, staying home and washing hands regularly.

Living Senior

How tech (and sleep apnea) brought us together n Editor’s note: This is an updated version of a column that ran in April 2018.

By Jacci O’Connor and Jay Woods Special to The Enterprise We often write about how tech can connect you to your loved ones. Tech connected us, too, but our story has a twist.

This is our story.

We are seniors and we are newlyweds. That part of the story alone seems to make people smile. We’re not officially newlyweds anymore because we're coming up on our fifth anniversary this year. But we still like saying it.

Our wedding was the kind that only seniors get to experience, because only at this stage of life could you have your children and grandchildren make up your wedding party. It was magical and sweet.

But there’s more to our story and here’s where tech comes in. Technology, in fact, is how we met.

But not on a dating website as you might expect

Tech over 60 when we tell you “We met online.”

In 2012 before we met, we were both diagnosed with sleep apnea, a condition which causes obstruction of breathing during sleep. At the time, Jay lived in Reno and Jacci was a longtime Davis resident.

While struggling to learn how to sleep with a CPAP machine — the gold-standard treatment for sleep apnea, and a miracle of medical technology — we both happened to discover an internet patient support forum for folks dealing with the same challenges.

Cpaptalk.com became somewhat of a lifeline during that getting-usedto-it phase of treatment, and the term “tech support” now had a new meaning.

Most online forums have options for “private messaging” where forum participants can correspond one-to-one rather than posting a message to

everyone on the forum. We exchanged a few private messages about our CPAP adventures — mask leaks, getting CPAP machines through airport security and such.

And then our online conversations became deeper. Soon we were talking about careers, our children, and the physical and emotional aspects of getting older.

After a few months we decided to meet in person.

Our plan was to review the reports generated by our CPAP machines using a laptop and a cool computer program called Sleepyhead (making tech even more a part of our story). We were looking forward to an afternoon of data diving — clearly we were tech nerds before we ever met.

On the day we met, we may have looked at one of those reports and discussed it briefly, but we were too busy falling in love that day to care about the data. It was immediate and it was mutual. We chuckle at the irony —

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2021 B1

‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’: Absolutely unforgettable Period drama an ugly portrait of racial inequality

By Derrick Bang Enterprise film critic August Wilson’s plays are not for the faint of heart.

Even acknowledging that, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” is acutely harrowing: a cry of rage whose 1982 stage debut was almost six decades removed from its 1927 setting, and — sadly — just as relevant today, almost a full century after the events depicted within.

Wilson’s play is the second in what would become his 10-play “Pittsburgh

Cycle.” It’s the third chronologically, following “Gem of the Ocean” (set in the 1900s) and “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” (1910s).

Director George C. Wolfe and scripter Ruben Santiago-Hudson have “opened up” this film adaptation a bit, tweaked the narrative chronology here and there, and amplified a key climactic metaphor (the latter a powerful enhancement).

But rest assured: This remains Wilson’s play, and its frustrated anger and impotent despair are delivered via stunning work from stars Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman (the latter’s final film, prior to

At first, the other combo members — from left, in the rear, Toledo (Glynn Turman), Slow Drag (Michael Potts) and Cutler (Colman Domingo) — are amused by the arrogance and swagger of the much younger Levee (Chadwick Boseman). But he’ll soon wind them up far beyond patience and endurance.

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2021

‘The Midnight Sky’ is oppressively cheerless There’s not much to recommend in this post-apocalyptic tale

By Derrick Bang Enterprise film critic Check a dictionary for the phrase “profoundly depressing,” and you’ll find this film.

There’s a tiny cinematic subgenre that I’ll call “futility drama,” wherein a given premise is catastrophic from the onset — and then gets progressively worse.

Heroic action is either inconsequential or useless; failure is inevitable. Recent examples include 2003’s “Open Water” and the 2009 adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road.”

“The Midnight Sky” isn’t quite that bleak, but the distinction is so insignificant, that you’re unlikely to find it comforting.

The setting is February 2049, three weeks after “the event.” This

incident never is specifically disclosed, but visible computer modeling screens reveal that it began in major metropolitan centers and then spread outward; the implication is the mutually assured destruction of war. The result is that Earth’s air has become radioactive or poisonous, killing everything: all plant and animal life forms.

The effect hasn’t yet reached the Arctic Circle’s Barbeau Observatory, which has been abandoned save for Augustine (George Clooney), a scientist who — alone among the facility’s sizeable staff and research team — chose not to return home, and to certain death. The irony is rich: Although he suffers from some undisclosed medical condition that requires frequent blood transfusions, he already has outlived everybody else on the planet. He’s literally the last man on Earth.

(Right away, the psychology feels totally daft in scripter Mark L. Smith’s adaptation of Lily

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alifornia’s public transit agencies are facing unprecedented budget deficits due to depressed ridership, reduced sales tax revenues and the high cost of implementing health and safety measures designed to keep transit frontline workers and riders safe.

To remain viable, public transit agencies have been forced to make painful decisions, like reducing service levels, slowing capital projects and furloughing employees. Without further federal and state action, these decisions could become permanent, leaving communities across the state with service that is severely compromised.

Sadly, we know that those hurt most by the pandemic-induced service reductions are lowincome people and people of color, the very Californians already suffering disproportionately from the health and economic impacts of the crisis. These Californians, who are essential to our state no matter the time, face longer trip times and less reliable service, making it harder for them to get to work, access medical care and to care for loved ones.

Federal and state governments must take immediate action to support these Californians and lay the foundation for an equitable recovery with transit at its core.

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s January budget acknowledged this and signaled his support for ongoing federal relief for California’s transit agencies. His push, which complements our own efforts in Washington, D.C., helped secure relief for transit in President Joe Biden’s proposed $1.9 trillion emergency relief bill. The plan is expected to be debated by Congress soon.

While we wait for Congress to act, the state Legislature must take a series of immediate actions to support transit and those who rely on it. Specifically, we request that the Legislature extend a series of statutory relief measures passed last year that provided transit agencies with short-term relief from the efficiency requirements in various transit funding programs. These requirements, which impose financial penalties on transit agencies for non-compliance, wrongly focus on transit efficiency at a time when transit is operating as a lifeline.

ebruary is Black History Month, a time to celebrate the historic contributions of African Americans and honor our struggles and triumphs. It’s a time to reflect on the contributions we’ve made to society and how much work we still need to do.

Black History Month also reinforces the importance of role models and mentors. I think of the role models who inspired me throughout my life, from Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela, John Lewis, Muhammad Ali and Hank Aaron.

I’m grateful for the mentors throughout my career who helped shape my journey. In return, I’ve made it a priority to uplift others on their own roads to success.

This month, I’m honored to be selected by the Sacramento Kings as one of their 2021 Dream All-Star recipients. The recognition is for Black community leaders who have made a positive impact in the Sacramento region.

This award comes with a bonus. I was asked to name a young mentee who is making an impact in our community and who deserves recognition, and I selected Mahiri Moore Jr. Mahiri is a UC Davis

freshman with big dreams and talent, and an even bigger heart.

He’s the founder of “Moore Truth More Change,” a nonprofit that aids underrepresented and underprivileged minorities to be successful. One of his efforts included dressing as Marvel’s Black Panther to give books and comics to young families. He’s organized community clean-up projects and mentored lowincome students who are transitioning to the rigors of university life.

I have no doubt that Mahiri will find great success in life. But I also recognize that his journey hasn’t always been easy. He remembers feeling isolated as the only Black student in his AP English 3 class in high school, and one of few students of color in its Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) program.

I can relate. When I received my Ph.D. from Berkeley in 1991, I was one

of only about 30 African Americans that year who earned a doctorate in the field of engineering. You could have put all of us in a single classroom. In so many lecture halls and laboratories throughout college, I was typically one of very few Black people in the room.

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hat’s why mentoring has always meant so much to me. To this day, I think of Dr. Augustine Esogbue, who took me under his wing when I was an undergraduate student at Georgia Tech. “Dr. E” as we called him was the first Black engineering professor at Georgia Tech. He was also the world’s first Black Ph.D. in industrial and systems engineering and operations research.

Dr. E inspired me to help others find their paths as well. Throughout my career, I’ve launched programs to grow and mentor the pipeline of diverse talent in higher education and in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math.

Both professionally and personally, it’s been gratifying and sometimes humbling to be recognized for these efforts. In 2015, President Obama awarded me

with the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring. And just this week, I received a Lifetime Mentor Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

In acknowledging this recognition, it’s students like Mahiri who keep me motivated. At a young age, he understands the importance of mentoring and wants to pay it forward in honor of those who’ve guided him or served as role models.

In his words, Mahiri says: “Who would have Thurgood Marshall been without Charles Hamilton Houston (a prominent Black lawyer)?

Or Nelson Mandela without Walter Sisulu (an antiapartheid activist)? You see, mentorship is essential. I have been planted, and I am beyond excited about the great tree I will evolve into from my mentors.”

Now that’s what I’m talking about.

I hope you will also honor those who made a difference in your own life and think of how we can work together in the name of harmony and justice. Black History Month is the perfect time for that.

— Gary May is the chancellor of UC Davis; his column is published monthly.

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dditionally, the Legislature must continue to provide — and further expand on — flexibility in the use of key transit funding sources, ensuring that funds can be directed to their best use during the pandemic: preserving transit service. The governor’s budget acknowledges the importance of such relief.

The state must also ensure that transit frontline workers have priority access to COVID-19 vaccines alongside other essential workers. While funding is vital to transit operations, so too is our workforce.

Throughout the pandemic, transit workers have transported other essential workers to their jobs on the front lines. They have also continued to provide critical services, like paratransit service to elderly and disabled people throughout California, providing lifeline access to grocery stores, doctor’s appointments, pharmacies and recreation. These workers will be vital to ensuring equitable access to vaccination sites for countless low-income families, seniors, individuals with disabilities and Californians without vehicles.

As we look to the future, public transit agencies must continue to evolve to deliver service that responds to changing commute patterns, addresses the unfounded skepticism about the safety of transit service and that more fully meets the needs of their core ridership. Already, public transit agencies are making operational improvements that will deliver faster, more reliable, increasingly coordinated and equitable service to communities statewide.

With continued state support, transit agencies are also continuing to work toward the goal of transitioning all transit buses in California to zeroemission vehicle technologies by 2040. These steps demonstrate that even as we grapple with the worst of the pandemic California transit agencies have not lost sight of their California values or the role they play in expanding access to opportunity and improving our environment.

We know that we have a long journey ahead of us to restore transit and to ultimately build back better from the pandemic. We are committed to doing the work, but we need immediate assistance from the federal and state government to overcome today’s challenges. Restoring public transit is key to an equitable recovery for all.

— Michael Pimentel is executive director of the California Transit Association, Michael@caltrans it.org. He wrote this for CalMatters, a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s Capitol works and why it matters.

Letters Listen to the experts Argumentum ad passiones is a logical fallacy characterized by the manipulation of the recipient’s emotions in order to win an argument, especially in the absence of factual evidence. Failures at the highest levels of government to heed the experts has led to the pandemic’s incomprehensible toll in our country.

The great irony is that those who educate our children have fallen victim to the same fallacy. The DJUSD Board recently agreed to reopening parameters that are not aligned with public health recommendations. While DJUSD has consulted public health experts, no experts were present at the meeting in which the board, excepting Trustee Hyder, approved a reopening plan that contradicts science and expert opinion. Current public health guidance allows K-6 schools to reopen with a case rate of 25 per 100,000.

The board voted on a rate of under 7 per 100,000 (note that DJUSD failed to reopen when Yolo County was at that rate months ago). While vaccination holds the key to ending the suffering caused by the pandemic, numerous experts and scientific publications have cited the very low risk of transmission in the elementary school setting and recommended

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reopening without the requirement for student and teacher vaccination. In a striking display of privilege, DJUSD stated that they will not reopen until two doses of vaccine are received by teachers and staff. DJUSD has not said why it is OK for other essential workers, including childcare workers, to continue to work without having received immunizations.

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If science showed the classroom to be a high-risk setting, my letter would support continued distance learning.

Gratefully, this virus has unique mechanisms of infection and transmission that have allowed millions of children and teachers to safely return to school, including many in our community.

We count on our educators to partner with us in teaching our children to use rational thinking and evidence, not emotion, when making important decisions. It is time for the Board of Education to listen to the experts.

Andrew McDaniel Davis

Following unlawful orders is unlawful I served in the U.S. military as an officer for 27 years and a staff member of VA hospitals for almost 12 years. The Uniformed Code of Military Justice

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

U.S. Senate Sen. Dianne Feinstein, 331 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20510; 202-224-3841; email: http://feinstein. senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-me Sen. Alex Padilla, B03 Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20510;

(UCMJ) covers what constitutes a lawful order and what constitutes an unlawful order.

Boiled down to its essence: following an unlawful order is unlawful and punishable according to the UCMJ. So, the clowns that say they were following the order of the President to trash the Capitol and kill cops is beyond belief. And some of these clowns were trained in the U.S. military. They have no excuse.

Here’s a bit of history: “I was only following orders,” was unsuccessfully used as a legal defense in hundreds of cases, most notably by Nazi leaders at the Nuremberg tribunals following World War II. Hopefully, these new, native Nazi nut jobs (aka Vanilla Isis) that stormed the Capitol will also be unsuccessful when they use this pathetically passive defense during their trials. I’m all for these traitors getting something akin to the justice they wanted to mete out to our duly elected officials, which, according to military tradition, would include a cigarette (optional), a blindfold (also optional) and a firing squad. There would be one vital variant, though.

This would be accomplished by a legitimately vetted and constitutionally commissioned chain of command following lawful orders that are clearly permitted under the UCMJ, as distinct from a mob of murderers and marauders who were incited by a deranged demagogue.

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Moxley’s artwork showing Online writing workshop set this month at Logos Books Special to The Enterprise

Special to The Enterprise Logos Books — Friends of the Davis Public Library continues its commitment to local artists while the ArtAbout program has been shut down due to the pandemic.

This month’s exhibit features watercolors by Mary Moxley. These detailed and colorful images of children and bicycles throughout Davis are on display through Feb. 26.

Logos Books at 513 Second St. in Davis, plans to continue having art exhibits every month.

Operating hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays.

For more information, visit https://davislibrary friends.org/logos-books or Logos Books’ Facebook and Instagram accounts.

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Mary Moxley’s colorful images of children and bicycles throughout Davis are on display at Logos Books.

Bike City Theatre Company member Andrea J. Love is offering a five-week, by-donation group writing workshop for all levels.

Meetings will be 7 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesdays starting Feb. 17, continuing weekly through March 17. They are recommended for ages 16 and older. Register at bike citytheatre.org.

As described by Love, “Whether you enjoy sending the occasional pithy e-mail or have professional work circling the literary world, you are welcome to this weekly 90-minute workshop. We will provide a focused space in which you can write in your genre of choice and receive supportive feedback from your fellow creatives.”

Workshops will begin with a reminder about (or introduction to) a specific literary device or tool, then provide time to explore its

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Andrea J. Love is offering a five-week, by-donation group writing workshop on Wednesdays starting Feb. 17. application. The workshop aims to give writers, both novice and experienced, a place to play with language, engage their powers of observation, and most of all, write.

The instructor is a local actor, teacher, and writer, as well as the resident music director and company

member of Bike City Theatre Company. She graduated from Agnes Scott College Summa cum Laude after winning multiple awards for her nonfiction, lyric writing and composition, and received a master’s degree in acting from the University of Alabama.

Since then, she has had play readings at 3Girls Theatre Company in San Francisco and Bike City Theatre Company in Davis.

She also co-wrote the parody musical “Westeros Side Story,” which premiered in Davis to popular acclaim.

Her environmentally focused children’s musical, commissioned by the city of Davis and BCTC, was set to tour Yolo and Solano counties before 2020 exploded.

She also was named a semifinalist in the National Alliance for Musical Theatre 15-Minute Musical Challenge for a new folk musical in development during the quarantine.

MA: Viola Davis stunning in portrayal of complex lead character From Page B1 his untimely death last August).

Only rarely is a film able to deliver the intensity of live performances by charismatic actors, who literally suck the air out of the room when they saunter onto a stage.

This is one of those occasions.

A brief prologue establishes legendary singer Ma Rainey’s enormous popularity — deservedly dubbed “The Mother of the Blues” — among fans in her native Columbus, Ga. We then cut to Chicago, during the sweltering summer of 1927, where Ma has agreed to interrupt her current tour long enough to cut a record for the flyspeck Hot Rhythms label.

(Ma is the sole character in Wilson’s 10-play cycle who is based on a real person. She also was an unapologetically “out” lesbian, who in her song “Prove It On Me,” crooned “Went out last night with a crowd of my friends/ Must have been women, ’cause I don’t like men.”)

Her band arrives first: pianist Toledo (Glynn Turman, who has played the role on stage), bassist Slow Drag (Michael Potts) and trombonist Cutler (Colman Domingo). Cornet player Levee (Boseman) is a bit late, having been distracted into purchasing a pair of flashy yellow shoes spotted in a shop window.

We’ve already seen — in the aforementioned prologue — that Levee has a high opinion of his musical chops and has a tendency to upstage Ma (to her visible displeasure).

Once assembled, the four band members are confronted by the two white men supervising the recording session: exploitative, penny-pinching studio owner Sturdyvant (Jonny Coyne); and Ma’s manager Irvin (Jeremy

The passion — and pain — that Davis puts into her performance is mind-blowing. At moments we sense that Ma wrathfully speaks not only for herself but for her entire race.

Shamos). Both want to know where the hell Ma is; Irvin does his best to calm Sturdyvant’s mounting anger.

Ma’s tardiness is deliberate: a power play intended to reinforce her insistence on obeying nobody’s rules but her own.

Numerous turbulent dynamics emerge and evolve, as the narrative proceeds; Ma’s initial confrontations with Sturdyvant set the tone. Unpleasant and imperious as she is, Ma is no fool; she repeatedly relies on the only card at her disposal — her talent, and willingness to walk away — given that the white world controls the rest of the deck.

Sturdyvant wants her on record, and she knows it.

Ma eventually arrives with a small entourage: nephew Sylvester (Dusan Brown) and current girlfriend Dussie Mae (Taylour Paige).

The rest of the story bounces between two locations: the shabby basement “ready room,” where the band members rehearse and wait to be called upstairs; and the studio, where the imperious Ma wages war with Sturdyvant.

The tension becomes equally pervasive downstairs, where the arrogantly cocky Levee constantly mocks, demeans and insults his much older colleagues. He’s bewildered by — and contemptuous of — their pragmatic willingness to accept a demeaning status quo that leaves them essentially anonymous in the music world (although, it must be mentioned, blessed with steady gigs).

Levee is smart, charismatic and talented — and knows it — and has lofty ambitions of staking a claim in the music industry, by fronting a band under his own name.

The question — as the other three musicians keep insisting — is whether it’s reasonable to envision a future full of promise and possibility, or whether the still festering demons of America’s recent past will keep him imprisoned.

Not to mention Levee’s own demons … and he has plenty. As the story proceeds, Levee’s prodding behavior prompts an eruption of blistering stories and recollections from Toledo, Slow Drag and Cutler, each of whom has witnessed horrific things.

As has Levee.

Boseman’s grinning, cock-o’the-walk swagger is both beguiling and infuriating. On the one hand, we can’t fault his ambition; at the same time, his behavior toward his bandmates slides into outright cruelty … even as they patiently tolerate his insolence.

But the shift, when Levee rises to the bait and confesses his own childhood truth, is impressively powerful: Boseman’s eyes blaze, his features twisted into righteous anger, his body positively vibrating with fury, his words emerging in a shower of saliva.

We can’t help recoiling, almost in terror.

And not merely from the

‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ Starring: Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman, Colman Domingo, Glynn Turman, Michael Potts, Jeremy Shamos, Jonny Coyne, Taylour Paige and Dusan Brown Rating: R, for profanity, sexual candor and violence Available via: Netflix electrifying intensity of Boseman’s performance, and the quieter, more dignified — but equally compelling — work by Domingo, Turman and Potts. Their stories and memories are sickening and horrifying, all the more so for the calm resignation with which the three older men relate them.

Then there’s the matter of a stuck door, along one wall of the basement: a door that Levee can’t remember having seen before.

His fixation on that door, and what he ultimately does with it, becomes a tragic metaphor.

Our initial glimpse of Davis, as the film opens, is almost shocking. Her Ma is strikingly, defiantly unpleasant and unattractive: overweight, laden with bling, and buried beneath far too much makeup. She’s rude, bullying and intolerant; she’s particularly cruel toward Irvin, who does his best to have her back with Sturdyvant.

Even so, we quickly come to admire the way she fights for herself and for her talent.

The passion — and pain — that Davis puts into her performance is mind-blowing. At moments we sense that Ma wrathfully speaks not only for herself but for her entire race (which is, of course,

deliberate on Wilson’s part).

Coyne is appropriately smarmy as Sturdyvant, who vibrates with unspoken rage every time he loses an argument to Ma. We constantly feel sorry for poor Shamos’ meek, toadying Irvin, who isn’t near the negotiator he imagines and is in fact powerless before Ma and Sturdyvant.

Paige is enormously unsettling as the shamelessly flirtatious Dussie Mae, who provocatively wiggles her lithe body in a deliberate effort to arouse anybody watching. Brown wins our hearts as young Sylvester, eager to please and wanting to “fit in,” who is given an impossible task by Ma; the embarrassment emanating from Brown is palpable.

Wolfe, editor Andrew Mondshein and cinematographer Tobias A. Schliessler deftly cut back and forth between studio and basement, blending groupand two-shots with tight closeups. This is a rare film that can’t have too many of the latter because all the actors make excellent use of them.

The blues tunes — including the one that gives this story its title — are a lot of fun, and Branford Marsalis’ underscore slides between poignant, unsettling and downright apprehensive.

Be advised: The language is coarse, earthy and relentlessly profane. There’s simply no other way to present this story, which builds to a horrific conclusion.

And the coda — which, if I’m not mistaken, slyly indicts celebrated (white) bandleader Paul Whiteman for cultural appropriation — leaves an even more bitter taste.

You’ll not soon forget this one.

— Read more of Derrick Bang’s film criticism at http://derrick bang.blogspot.com. Comment on this review at www.davis enterprise.com.

MIDNIGHT: Plot becomes contrived ‘everything goes wrong’ narrative From Page B1 previously undiscovered moon orbiting Jupiter. The five-person crew, commanded by Adewole (David Oyelowo), has no idea that they’re returning to a dead planet.

They need to be warned but the Aether still is too far away; the observatory’s antenna isn’t strong enough for a signal to reach them.

Thus, the challenge: Can Augustine figure out a way to contact the Aether, and — even if he does — would such information even be useful?

Augustine doesn’t know it but the latter can be answered in the affirmative; the Aether’s crew learned that K-23 is a luxurious, Earth-like world quite capable of sustaining life. (At which point, sci-fi geeks probably are thinking, Shades of the 1951 adaptation of Edwin Balmer’s “When Worlds Collide.”)

Then, an additional

hiccup: Augustine discovers that he isn’t alone. He’s startled to discover a little girl (Caoilinn Springall), and we’re reminded — thanks to one of the flashbacks showing the base being evacuated — that a frantic mother was separated from her daughter.

The girl remains silent but watchful; this film’s closest brush with levity comes from the crusty Augustine’s grudging acceptance of her presence as a companion.

Clooney and young Springall definitely have a rapport and it’s well utilized.

From this point onward, the narrative bounces back and forth between Barbeau Observatory and the Aether.

In addition to Adewole, its crew includes Sully (Felicity Jones), Mitchell (Kyle Chandler), Sanchez (Demián Bichir) and Maya (Tiffany Boone).

It’s quite refreshing that Smith’s script makes them

‘The Midnight Sky’ Starring: George Clooney, Felicity Jones, David Oyelowo, Kyle Chandler, Demián Bircher, Tiffany Boone, Caoilinn Springall, Sophie Rundle and Ethan Peck Rating: PG-13, for dramatic intensity and fleeting profanity Available via: Netflix a mature and capable team; we get none of the stupid melodrama or temper tantrums so common to lesser examples of deep space missions. These are professionals, which they’d need to be, having lived and worked closely for two years.

Mitchell, the pilot, is a family man, eagerly looking

forward to his return home. Sanchez, an astrodynamicist and navigation specialist, has a wry sense of humor; Bichir’s ready smile is quite captivating.

Adewole and Sully have become an item and the latter is pregnant. Maya, younger than the others and on her debut mission, is enthusiastic but clearly unseasoned.

Unfortunately, having introduced us to these engaging characters — the pair on Earth, the quintet in space — this becomes more than merely an “end of life as we know it” scenario; it’s also an increasingly contrived “everything goes wrong” narrative.

That’s both tiresome and disheartening; it feels like Smith and Clooney — who also directs — are jerking us around out of sheer bloody-mindedness.

The narrative aside, there’s no denying the awesome design and verisimilitude of the Aether itself and all of the space

Smith’s dubious handling of character psychology and behavior becomes an issue again toward the story’s end, with a decision that I didn’t buy for a moment. sequences; visual effects supervisors Matt Kasmir and Chris Lawrence were kept busy, and the result — thanks also to cinematographer Martin Ruhe — is breathtaking. The Aether is essentially an immense, mobile space station with all manner of tech and compartments jutting out at odd angles (as would be

the case in a gravity-free environment).

The isolated and empty Barbeau Observatory is equally striking, courtesy of similarly excellent work by production designer Jim Bissell. No question: Clooney’s film looks sensational.

Too bad it’s saddled with such a dour, dreary and distressing storyline.

Smith’s dubious handling of character psychology and behavior becomes an issue again toward the story’s end, with a decision that I didn’t buy for a moment. Perhaps worse, Clooney — as director — cheats, with respect to point of view. In light of what eventually transpires, several earlier scenes are simply false. That’s a literary no-no.

And it’s merely one of many aggravating elements in a storyline that feels utterly pointless. I’ve yet to find an entry in the “futility drama” sub-genre that is worth a damn and this one’s no exception.

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731 Peach Place $1,305,000

39423 Black Hawk Place $1,209,000

24319 Fairway Drive $1,205,000

810 Peregrine Avenue $1,201,000

3730 Gaviota Place $1,200,000

1106 Ovejas Avenue $1,145,000

1515 Magellan Street $1,049,000

748 Elmwood Drive $939,000

200 Huerta Place $905,000

422 Jardin Place $875,000

1226 Bucknell Drive $875,000

2340 Benton Place $810,000

1111 Eunice Drive, Woodland $799,000

522 Rutgers Drive $794,000

1024 Plum Lane $791,000

1103 Mesquite Drive $790,000

911 San Sebastian Street $755,000

1914 Regis Drive $754,500

742 Plum Lane $720,000

901 Pine Lane $715,000

502 W. Keystone Avenue, Woodland $710,000

2706 Tiber Avenue $701,500

1039 Acacia Lane $700,000

3901 Vistosa Court $679,000

2764 Brookshire Circle, Woodland $655,950

2009 Edgington Circle, Woodland $626,990

910 Sycamore Lane, Woodland $625,000

18257 Gadwall Street, Woodland $620,000

1388 Via Colonna Terrace $615,000

3152 Newport Terrace $610,000

1943 Renoir Avenue $591,000

1712 Cork Place $590,000

1518 Tulane Drive $590,000

720 Pamplona Drive $586,000

2744 Brentwood Place $575,000

2961 Layton Drive $563,000

1944 Henry Court, Woodland $557,500

34866 Pintail Street, Woodland $548,000

1215 Cypress Lane $525,000

400 E. White Oak Place, Winters $470,000

963 Zaragoza Street $457,500

848 Laugenour Court, Woodland $450,000

1419 Crystal Springs Drive, Woodland $430,000

1445 Bridle Lane, Woodland $416,000

2849 Janet Drive, West Sacramento $415,000

748 Stonehaven Loop, Woodland $375,000

612 Clover Street, Woodland $358,000

1809 Fremont Court #1 $310,000

1811 Donner Avenue #2 $310,000

211 Cleveland Street, Woodland $300,000

132 Full Circle $165,000

11 Leisureville Circle, Woodland $113,000

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