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Second chances

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY

Manuel Palacio, upper right, and Yolo Superior Court Judge David Rosenberg, center, listen as Palacio’s wife Beatriz Arizaga, lower center, pleas for his return from Mexico to the United States during a Feb. 3 Zoom court hearing.

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‘In the interests of justice,’ Yolo courts open new doors for two men

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prison to serve a 40-year sentence, his punishment compounded under California’s “three strikes” law due to a prior robbery conviction.

Nineteen years later, the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office petitioned the court to recall O’Donnell’s sentence and hand down a lesser term, saying his good conduct and rehabilitative efforts in prison warrant his freedom.

“Upon a careful review of the record, the people submit that Mr. O’Donnell can be a productive member of society,” Assistant Chief Deputy District

Enterprise staff writer Life had not been kind to Brian O’Donnell.

Raised in a turbulent, abusive household, O’Donnell fell into a bad crowd that introduced him to drugs, alcohol and crime at the young age of 12.

He was homeless, jobless and addicted to drugs when he robbed two West Sacramento gas stations in August 2000 to fuel his addiction. Convicted in Yolo Superior Court of two counts of second-degree robbery, O’Donnell went to state

Attorney Melinda Aiello wrote in a motion granted Monday by Judge Timothy Fall. “Further incarceration serves no purpose and is no longer in the interest of justice.”

O’Donnell was one of two men given second chances during recent Yolo County court hearings.

The other, Manuel Escamilla Palacio, vacated his 1996 nocontest plea to a felony count of furnishing marijuana to a minor, which resulted in his return to his home country of Mexico to avoid immigration proceedings he was not informed of prior to his plea.

That action, which the DA’s Office did not oppose, now allows Palacio to petition for re-entry into the United States

and reunite with his wife and adult stepchildren.

“It is one of the finest examples of prosecutorial discretion that I have seen in my 18 years as a practicing attorney and deserves to be recognized by the community,” David Pfaff, Palacio’s attorney, wrote in a Davis Enterprise letter to the editor.

Terms reconsidered The DA’s Office requested O’Donnell’s reduced sentence under Penal Code 1170, which authorizes prisons and courts to recommend revised sentences in the interest of justice. Assembly Bill 2942, enacted in 2018, expanded that authority to

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CDC advice on schools echoes county health officer’s

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY

school sports would currently be allowed in Yolo County, but elementary schools could be open in a SISSON hybrid format In sync with universal masking and 6 feet or more of distancing between students. Additionally, the CDC report said, “access to vaccination should not be considered a condition for reopening schools for in-person instruction.”

Enterprise staff writer New guidance released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on when schools should reopen and high school sports resume largely reinforce the recommendations of Yolo County’s health officer.

Dr. Aimee Sisson on Tuesday urged elementary schools to reopen for in-person instruction but cautioned that high school sports where athletes are in close contact remain risky.

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Sisson last week encouraged schools to resume in-person instruction for students in transitional kindergarten through sixth grade, saying it would be safe with layers of protection, including masking, distancing and use of cohorts, and can be done without teachers being vaccinated — something many local teachers, who would be in those classrooms, have disagreed with. Sisson also cautioned against resumption of high school sports.

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that bases the scope of school reopening on two key epidemiological metrics in the community: the number of cases and the test positivity rate.

The CDC system places in its most restrictive red tier all schools in communities where there are more than 100 total new cases per 100,000 residents over the past seven days.

Yolo County, which reported 331 new cases over the last seven days — or about 150 per 100,000 residents — would currently fall in that “high

A Davis double-homicide case is the focus of a true-crime program slated to air Wednesday on the Investigation Discovery channel.

“True Conviction” explores the story of Daniel Marsh, the then 15-year-old Davis High School student who brutally stabbed local couple Oliver “Chip” Northup and Claudia Maupin in the bedroom of their Cowell Boulevard condominium in April 2013, leaving no shred of identifying evidence behind.

“A True Psychopath” is scheduled to air at 10 p.m. local time and features interviews with Victoria

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Beginning March 15, the pool of California residents eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine will be expanded to include individuals ages 16 to 64 deemed to be at highest risk of death from the virus.

That includes people with severe and high-risk developmental disabilities as well as those with certain severe underlying health conditions.

Currently, vaccines are limited to people in Phase 1A (health care workers and residents of longterm-care facilities) and Phase 1B, Tier 1 (those over 65 and essential workers in education and childcare, food and agriculture and emergency services).

However, counties have discretion in how they prioritize vaccines and Yolo County is currently only vaccinating residents 65 and over, a process that may take many more weeks.

It remains unclear just how large the pool of eligible individuals will be come March 15 and whether this new group announced Friday will be competing for vaccines with a large group of essential workers, given the ongoing scarcity of vaccines.

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Briefly Optometrist speaks on Zoom Macular degeneration and dry eyes are common conditions as people age.

Davis optometrist Julie Helmus will talk about their prevention, diagnosis and treatment from 11 a.m. to noon Wednesday, Feb. 24. The free Zoom presentation will be hosted by the Davis Senior Center.

To register, contact the center at 530-7575696.

On KDRT: Hear about youth vote Rock the Vote is a nonprofit organization whose goal is to build the political power of young people by increasing voter turnout among 18- to 24-year-olds.

Listen to Timeout Radio on KDRT 95.7 FM to meet Mesara Jayalath and Zach Anderson from the Davis chapter of Rock the Vote. Supported by FC Davis, the group worked hard through the COVID-19 pandemic to get young people in Davis to vote in the 2020 elections.

“Timeout Radio,” hosted by 14-year-old Rohan Baxi, airs at 5 p.m. Fridays and noon Sundays on KDRT-LP, 95.7 FM and is available online at https:// kdrt.org/program/ timeout-radio.

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It’s raining pennies from heaven A while ago, in trying to come up with some creative solutions to our city’s chronic lack of funds, I wrote, “Heck, we could sell tickets to City Council meetings, institute a poll tax and charge people by the inch for the rain that falls on their rooftops.”

This, actually, was not the first time I’d mentioned the notion of rain on rooftops as a source of income for the city.

A few years ago, with tongue planted firmly in cheek, I revealed that the Davis City Council had passed a secret ordinance in closed session that declared all rain falling in the city of Davis belonged to the city of Davis.

As such, I went on, the city was working out a formula to charge us for the water that falls on our property and that ends up watering our lawns and trees and vegetable gardens.

Several folks took me at my word and fired off angry letters to our elected leaders, who could

only chuckle at the fact that even in the Smartest City in America some people could fall for such nonsense.

Well, fiction and truth are perhaps closer than we might have realized.

Thanks to my friend Elaine, I now know that “Maryland actually has a rain tax, and is the only state to have one.”

Elaine sent a story from Forbes that included a statement that “state legislators are continuously thinking of new ways to get an extra penny out of the American people.”

But isn’t that why we elected

them, to solve our problems by spending our money?

According to Forbes, one of the most oppressive taxes ever levied is the one the state of Maryland dreamed about to profit from rainfall.

Wrote Travis Brown, the article of the piece, “If you’re expecting a punch line, you’ll be waiting awhile, because it is no joke.

Maryland is the only state in the country that taxes the amount of rain that falls.”

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ere in California, of course, a couple of years ago the Catholic bishops urged us all to pray for an end to our crushing drought. I’ll bet the folks in Maryland are doing just the opposite.

The tax is formally known as HB 987 or the “Stormwater Management-Watershed and Restoration Program.”

Then again, Maryland passed this law a few years ago, so maybe they’ve had time to correct their craziness. Or maybe not.

“This tax is an annual fee on impervious surfaces such as roofs, driveways, sidewalks, garages and any other surface that could create drainage problems and water contamination situated on property owned by an individual or business.”

You can avoid the tax if you can give an accurate definition of “impervious.”

Even sillier, the tax applies only to nine of Maryland’s 24 counties, with each county deciding independently what “rain tax” rate to charge.

For instance, in Charles County, there’s a flat fee of $43 for each property, but in Montgomery County the fees can range from $29 to $265, apparently depending on whether you had a light sprinkle or a major downpour complete with thunder and lightning.

Be careful what you wish for.

Pray for rain at your own risk.

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UC asks Congress to double funding for Pell Grants

BY CALEB HAMPTON Enterprise staff writer The University of California, along with the UC Student Association, launched a campaign this week pushing Congress to double the amount of funding allocated each year for Pell Grants, which are the primary way the federal government helps lowincome students pay for college.

Started in 1965, Pell Grants help millions of students afford a higher education. Last year, more than seven million students nationwide received Pell Grants, including nearly 80,000 UC students, roughly 35% of the UC student population. “Without the Pell Grant, I would not be able to receive a higher education,” Moises Hernandez, a first-generation college student at UCLA, said in a statement for the campaign.

Most Pell Grant recipients come from households with annual family incomes of $50,000 or less. Over the past 40 years, however, the portion of an education the grants cover has dramatically declined as the value of the grant has failed to keep pace with the steadily rising cost of college. In 1979, a Pell Grant covered 77% of the cost of a public four-year college degree. In 2019, the grants covered just 28% of a public four-year degree.

“For too long in America, we have seen low-income, first-generation, and undocumented students as well as individuals of color inequitably shoulder the financial burden from a college degree,” said University of California Student Association President Aidan Arasasingham.

“Doubling the Pell takes us one step further on the path to a

debt-free graduation.”

Last year, Pell Grants provided roughly $400 million to UC students. In comparison, UC awarded $800 million in needbased grants and the state of California provided $950 million through the Cal Grant program.

“The University of California has a longstanding record of investing in financial aid and student success,” said UC President Michael V. Drake, M.D. “However, UC cannot do this alone. We need impactful, long-term support for students and for higher education across the country; we need Congress to double the Pell as a down payment on America’s future.”

For 2020-21, the maximum Pell Grant is $6,345 per academic year and is set to rise to $6,495 for 202122. UC is pushing Congress to raise the maximum

award by $2,168 each year until the grant is worth $13,000 in 2024.

UC’s Double the Pell campaign joins a nationwide advocacy effort in which dozens of institutions and student associations are asking Congress to increase the federal grants for low-income students. The request is all the more urgent, university leaders say, because of the catastrophic impact the pandemic has had on many students’ finances.

Across the state and country, college students are struggling to afford housing, food and other essentials. “Due to COVID19 I lost my job, lived in my car, and stayed late at school to finish my coursework,” Rakia White, a UC Berkeley student, said in a statement for the campaign. “If the Pell Grant was doubled it would prevent me from falling back

into that life of uncertainty.”

In addition to providing short-term relief, increased Pell Grants would benefit students and the U.S. economy for years to come, according to university leaders.

Because the grants no longer cover the majority of a four-year education, lowincome students take on debt that can prevent them from buying homes, starting businesses or earning advanced degrees.

“Ensuring a more affordable, accessible higher education across the country is one of the greatest investments America can make — not only in those students, but also in their future contributions to the economy and to society,” said UC Board Chair John A. Pérez. “Their advancement and success will yield limitless dividends over years and decades.”

County administrator leaving to join statewide lobbying group

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer Yolo County will bid farewell next month to its county administrator, Patrick Blacklock, who has taken a new position as president and CEO of the Rural County Representatives of California.

The RCRC is a 37member county service organization — of which Yolo County is a member — that champions policies on behalf of California’s rural counties.

The RCRC board of directors approved the appointment of Blacklock on Wednesday and he will assume his new position effective April 5.

Blacklock has served as Yolo County’s administrator for 11 years.

Under his tenure the

Board of Supervisors created and updated the county’s 20122025 BLACKLOCK strategic Has 11 years plans; on the job developed and implemented a long-term financial plan which saw the county’s credit rating increase from B+ with a negative outlook to A+ with a stable outlook; and completed a capital improvement plan, including the restoration of the county’s historic courthouse.

“Blacklock was also instrumental in the drafting of the first ever Board of Supervisors Governance Manual, completed in 2015,

which is now being emulated in counties throughout California,” the county said in a press release.

Supervisor Jim Provenza of Davis called Blacklock “one of the best administrators that I’ve had the opportunity to work with during my career in public service.

“His innovation and hard work have helped us

through many difficult times,” Provenza said. “The lessons we have learned from Mr. Blacklock will benefit us all for years to come and he leaves the county in excellent shape.”

The agency he is moving to, the RCRC, was founded in 1972 to advocate on behalf of rural issues at the state and federal levels,

including land use, water and natural resources, housing, transportation, wildfire protection policies, and health and human services.

“We are excited that Patrick Blacklock will be leading RCRC into the next chapter,” said Supervisor Stacy Corless of Mono County, chair of RCRC.

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Harper vaccine clinic draws a long line of cars

BY JEFF HUDSON Enterprise staff writer A six-hour COVID vaccination clinic held at Harper Junior High in Davis from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 13, attracted plenty of interested participants, generating a line of cars on Covell Boulevard that extended for nearly a mile.

Pre-registration was mandatory for Saturday’s clinic, and participants had to be Yolo County residents age 65 or older, or health care workers who work in Yolo County but had not been vaccinated. Participants were asked to be prepared to show ID and some form of proof of Yolo County residency, as well as

proof of their age, and employment in Yolo County.

Although the clinic was being held on a Davis public school campus, the clinic was organized and run by Yolo County government (rather than the Davis school district), and was not primarily aimed at providing the COVID vaccine to local school teachers, unless they met the criteria for the event.

At about 2:30 p.m., there was a single-file line of slowly advancing cars in the right lane of eastbound Covell Boulevard, extending from the Harper Junior High campus as far as Wright Drive (0.8 miles from the entrance to Harper Junior High).

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ADVICE: Yolo County at reopening threshold From Page A1 transmission” tier.

In that tier, sports and extracurricular activities must be virtual only, elementary schools could operate in hybrid mode and junior highs and high schools must largely remain in distance learning.

The advice is slightly different where communities can implement routine testing of teachers, staff and students once per week — which Davis would likely be able to do under a partnership with Healthy Davis Together. At that level of testing, sports and extracurricular activities would still be virtual only in the red tier, but all students — K-12 — could return in a hybrid learning mode provided there is 6 feet of physical distancing between students.

Under California’s guidelines, elementary schools in the most restrictive tier here — purple — can reopen for in-person instruction when a county reports an adjusted daily new case rate below 25 per 100,000, a metric Yolo County has met for several weeks now. Junior highs and high schools, however, cannot resume in-person instruction until after the county moves to the state’s

version of the red tier, a step down from the purple tier.

The Davis Joint Unified School District previously approved a return-toschool plan for elementary schools that would be hybrid, allowing for 6 feet of distance between students in the classroom, but which would not occur until certain other metrics are met — namely, that teachers have had an opportunity to be vaccinated, that MERV-13 filters are installed and air purifiers placed in classrooms and the county itself is the state’s red tier.

Meanwhile, the state currently allows high school athletes to compete in sports with the least physical contact — largely individual sports like golf, skiing and cross country running — that can be done outdoors. Those would not be allowed under the CDC’s guidance until the county reports between 50 and 99 total new cases per 100,000 residents over the previous week. That would require the county to average around 31 new cases per day. It currently averages about 47.

Once a county meets the metrics of the CDC’s yellow tier — between 10 and 49 total cases per 100,000

residents over the previous week — all K-12 schools could open for full inperson instruction with physical distancing of 6 feet or more “to the greatest extent possible” and sports and extracurricular activities could move indoors provided 6 feet of distance can be maintained. Yolo County would have to average about 15 new cases a day to reach that point.

Moving to the CDC’s blue tier, where virus transmission is lowest, would require no more than nine cases per 100,000 residents over the previous seven days — or just about 20 cases in a week for Yolo County. At that point, schools would operate the same as they did in the yellow tier and sports and extracurricular activities would be allowed with “physical distancing of 6 feet or more to the greatest extent possible.”

Due largely to the extensive COVID-19 testing being done on the UC Davis campus and by Healthy Davis Together, the county’s test positivity rate of 1.9 percent easily meets the metric for the CDC’s blue tier, which is a rate below 5 percent.

Of course the CDC’s guidance is merely that.

Ultimately the state, school districts and county health

officers will determine what resumes and when in Yolo County, and local jurisdictions can be stricter than the state, but not more lenient.

The CDC says communities should prioritize getting kids back in the classroom over resuming non-essential activities.

“K-12 schools should be the last settings to close after all other mitigation measures in the community have been employed, and the first to reopen when they can do so safely,” the report said. “This implies that decision-makers and communities should prioritize schools for reopening and remaining open for in-person instruction over nonessential businesses and activities including indoor dining, bars, social gatherings and close contact sports as community transmission is controlled.”

Many athletes, parents and coaches, however, are urging the state to allow the resumption of high school sports immediately, including football.

But the CDC report says “some close-contact sports may not be able to be implemented at any level of community transmission given the risk of transmission and inability to implement mitigation strategies.”

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ELIGIBILITY: Details still need to be worked out From Page A1 Dr. Mark Ghaly, the state’s secretary of Health and Human Services, said Friday the new group of individuals that will become eligible on March 15 numbers somewhere between four million and six million statewide.

There also remains more work to be done on implementation, including determining how health conditions will be verified.

In a bulletin sent to vaccine providers across the state, the California Department of Public Health said that beginning March 15, healthcare providers “may use their clinical judgement” to vaccinate patients 16 to 64 who are deemed to be at the very highest risk for morbidity and mortality from COVID-19 as a direct result of one or more of the following severe health conditions: ■ Cancer, current with debilitated or immunocompromised state ■ Chronic kidney disease, stage 4 or above ■ Chronic pulmonary disease, oxygen dependent ■ Down syndrome ■ Immunocompromised state (a weakened

immune system) from solid organ transplant ■ Pregnancy ■ Sickle cell disease ■ Heart conditions, such as heart failure, coronary artery disease, or cardiomyopathies (excludes hypertension) ■ Severe obesity ■ Type 2 diabetes with hemoglobin A1c level greater than 7.5 percent Or, if as a result of a developmental or other severe, high-risk disability, one or more of the following applies: ■ The individual is likely to develop severe life-threatening illness or death from COVID-19 infection ■ Acquiring COVID-19 will limit the individual’s ability to receive ongoing care or services vital to their well-being and survival ■ Providing adequate and timely COVID care will be particularly challenging as a result of the individual’s disability “The list of eligible conditions is subject to change as additional scientific evidence is published and as CDPH obtains and analyzes additional state-specific data,” the bulletin said.

OBITUARIES Leah Adele Garcia Oct. 13, 1926 — Jan. 15, 2021

Leah Garcia passed away early in the morning of Jan. 15 after a brief illness. She was born Oct. 13, 1926, in Loyalist, Alberta, Canada, to Delia Marie Herard and Harry Mumm.

She is survived by her daughter Susan Garcia, her daughter Carolyn Weiner and her husband John, her son Daniel Garcia and his wife Noriko, and her son Thomas Garcia, as well as her grandchildren Natalie and Erik Weiner, and Nicholas, Jackson, and Tara Crockett, and her wiley cat Geronimo.

She spent her childhood with her family on a farm in rural Alberta. After her father became ill, Leah worked to help support her mother and her family, finding work wherever she could. Although it was a hard life, she would later reflect on this time warmly and with good humor, telling one grandson, “We didn’t have much, but we lived richly!” before fondly recalling rides on horse-drawn sleighs and her favorite animals, including a horse named Blue and a pet lamb named Zambuck.

She moved to California in 1944 to attend San Mateo Junior College and then UC Berkeley. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in accounting from UC Berkeley in 1950 and became a U.S. citizen on March 25, 1955. In 1951, she married her college sweetheart Hector Garcia and they started a family soon after. Together, they moved to Davis in 1967,

where they raised their children.

She worked at various departments for the state of California ending up as the assistant chief for the Unclaimed Properties Department.

Hector and Lea moved to Grass Valley in 1994 for their retirement.

Her family remembers her as a profoundly curious, gracious, warm and resilient person, and an important inspiration in all of their lives. Leah possessed an unfailing predilection for corny puns that always brought a bemused smile from her beloved Hector. She led a very active life that included swimming, playing bridge and other games with a circle of close friends, keeping abreast of politics and history, and volunteering with the local food ministry. She maintained relative independence well into her final years and lived in a small house near her daughter Sue. She was preceded in death by her husband Hector in 2009. As per Lea’s request, there will be no services. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to any no-kill shelter or to Hospice of the Foothills.

Lea was known for her many catchphrases such as, “We’re off in a cloud of horsefeathers” which she would exclaim when hitting the gas and accelerating her car after stopping for a light. We can only imagine her reunited with her loved ones and putting a smile on their face with her wit and charm.

Douglas Kauffman Sept. 17, 1947 — Feb. 4, 2021

Douglas Scott Kauffman died of cancer at his home in Davis on Feb. 4. A lifelong Californian, he was born in Santa Clara on Sept. 17, 1947, to Jean and Fred Kauffman. He attended school in Sacramento and later UC Davis. Doug would be the first to tell you that he did not excel in school, being unable to muster the focus to graduate until 40 years later.

In the interim, he taught himself fluent Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Nepalese, some Hindi and Japanese as well as dabbling in Urdu and Latin. He was also a highly knowledgeable scholar of ancient history, anthropology, entomology, botany and ornithology.

As a child catching his first swallowtails in his backyard in Sacramento, Doug maintained a lifelong fascination with butterflies, later traveling extensively in Mexico and the tropics, extending his knowledge and collection. This led to a love of other fauna and flora and his garden was a gorgeous mosaic of exotic edibles, homes for birds, butterflies and insects and beautiful found rocks and hand-crafted objects.

Doug was an unusually brilliant self-taught musician. His perfect pitch was discovered when, at an early age, he told his mother that her Waring blender hummed at F-sharp.

Doug played with various porch bands in the Davis area over the years, alternating between the fiddle, mandolin, banjo, guitar, vihuela, accordion or whatever else was handy.

Endowed with remarkable imagination and artistic abilities, his calligraphy was superb and his decorative, hand-painted signs still are featured in some of the Davis Farmers Market stalls. He collected Indian baskets from his ancestral lands in Modoc County and was an avid flint and obsidian point hunter, maintaining a diverse

collection of arrowheads. He collected aphorisms, hand-made toys from around the world, masks, urns and ollas, majolica pottery, ancient Arabic script and ethnic music.

Food, friendship and conviviality were central to Doug’s life. He was one of the founders of the UC Davis Coffee House where he worked as head chef for many years and honed his knowledge of herbs and spices from around the globe, as well as establishing life-long friendships with many of his colleagues and proteges. He was a frequent and generous host of dinner parties featuring elaborate and always delicious cuisine. It was not unusual for Doug to have a gathering in his colorful and quirky garden, guests clustered around a small campfire making a paella.

Extravagantly original, Doug was passionate about chilis, poetry, fiction and nonfiction books, bats, Cold Canyon, good coffee, raisin bread, potato-anything, basketry, removing Donald Trump from office, social justice, the environment, thrift and economy, birds, insects, culture and history. Occasionally irascible but in possession of great kindness and forbearance, Doug will be deeply missed by his loyal cadre of friends and family.

He leaves behind his sister Terry Davison, nephew Mark Ryan and niece Tracy Brezinski, and their children Will, Anna, Jacob and Emily, as well as his adored adopted family, Veronica Anguiano, Javier Chavez and Lucero Gomez, along with many life-long friends.

A celebration of Doug’s life is planned for later this year when friends can safely gather.

Donations in Doug’s name may be made to Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve: https://give.ucdavis.edu/NRSD/STEGIFT or the UC Davis Arboretum: https:// arboretum.ucdavis.edu/donate.

Frances Mae Kofranek Jan. 11, 1922 — Jan. 25, 2021

Frances “Fran” Mae Kofranek passed away on Jan. 25 at the age of 99. Fran, also known as “Granny Franny,” was born on Jan. 11, 1922, in Detroit, Mich., to Thomas and Emily Craig. She had two brothers, James and Douglas.

Fran completed two years of college before marrying Anton “Tony” M. Kofranek in 1942. Their daughter, Nancy, was born in 1943 while Tony served in WWII. Their son, John, was born in 1948.

In 1950, they moved to Los Angeles and in 1968 to Davis, where Tony taught at the university. Fran taught ESL and actively volunteered. Fran and Tony divorced in 1976.

In 1979, Fran completed her bachelor’s degree from UC Davis and moved to Southern California where she enjoyed her new independence for 10 years before returning

to Davis to be with friends. In about 2000, Fran moved to Berkeley and finally, Alameda.

Fran was an avid reader and true writer. She loved playing bridge, was artistic and practiced yoga. A self-proclaimed “pragmatic Scot,” Fran lived simply, was disciplined and enjoyed walking.

Fran was giving and loving, with an understanding smile and great wit. She was inquisitive, engaged and astute with deep wisdom. Spiritually, she was a Quaker. She spoke with intelligence and sensitivity, which gave her an air of grace.

She is survived by her daughter Nancy Kofranek and son John (Marilyn) Kofranek, four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

A memorial service is TBD. In remembrance, please make a donation to a charity of your choice.

Richard Mark Spector Aug. 21, 1946 — Jan. 22, 2021

On Jan. 22, Richard Mark Spector left behind tears, suffering and fears and crossed peacefully into the light of a thousand Buddhas at Sutter Hospital in Roseville with his wife and daughter by his side. Rick passed away from complications related to a non-COVID chronic illness.

Rick was born on Aug. 21, 1946, in Rochester, N.Y. Growing up, he enjoyed pulling secret pranks with a geeky gang of neighborhood friends, experimenting with a chemistry set in his family’s basement and attending minor league baseball games (often sneaking his collie mix dog, Scottie, into the stadium).

In college and graduate school, Rick studied physical anthropology. His studies took him to the Peruvian Andes, where he did research on the physical adaptations of native peoples to high altitude environments.

Rick subsequently traveled in Asia, trekking solo through the Himalayas and living in a Buddhist monastery in Thailand. His experiences as a young man led to a lifelong study and practice of Buddhism.

Following his period of wanderlust, Rick decided to settle in California and earned a master’s of public health degree at UCLA.

He then worked for more than 30 years at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services in San Francisco, helping senior citizens and people with disabilities access health care.

Rick met his wife of 33 years, Angelina Cosca, through a local newspaper dating ad in which he described himself as “interested in Buddhism and bad jokes.” Along with their daughter, Juliana, they enjoyed camping and hiking at National Parks, watching movies set in the Marvel Universe and Middle-earth and trying new cuisines in restaurants and home cooking.

In 2020, Rick and Angi relocated to Davis from the Bay Area to be near their daughter. In addition to his wife and daughter, Rick is survived by his sister Joyce (Sanford) Donsky of Pittsford, N.Y.; brother Steven (Barbara) Spector of Rochester, N.Y.; uncle Harvey (Jaqueline) Hollander of Brooklyn, N.Y.; and many nieces and nephews. He is predeceased by his mother, Katherine Hollander, and father, Sam Spector. The family wishes any memorial contributions be made to the San Francisco Zen Center or the Alzheimer’s Association. A celebration of life will occur in Davis in 2022.

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California’s economy czar Myers looks ahead

BY LAUREN HELPER

went into effect and the virus surged again. How did you come in and start to prioritize relief efforts in that environment?

A: I started on Dec. 15, so I did walk into a difficult situation that was yet more difficult. There was already work ongoing. The governor and the Legislature had announced at the end of November that they were going to stand up this $500 million small business grant program. It opened on Dec. 30.

At the same time, the governor and team were working on his budget, which also prioritized economic recovery more broadly.

That included another round of spending on small business grants, which we’re continuing to discuss with the Legislature. It included other incentives — tax incentives, regulatory relief, other things to continue to support small businesses.

And then there are other programs, too. You know, vaccine distribution is a business-important program, right? Investments in higher education. A lot of people in economically difficult times go back to school (and) job training programs. And the Golden State Stimulus, which will put $600 into the hands of millions of Californians. So all of those programs working together Q: The second round of applications for the state’s COVID-19

CalMatters Mass confusion about vaccines.

Enough small business owners scrambling for state cash to crash a website. Contentious battles over COVID-19 reopening rules and getting kids back into classrooms.

All in a day’s work for Dee Dee Myers.

As 2020 came to a chaotic close, the former Warner Bros. communications executive and the country’s first female White House press secretary took over California’s faltering economic response to the pandemic. Myers joined as a senior adviser to Gov. Gavin Newsom and director of the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development after predecessor Lenny Mendonca resigned, a high-profile recovery task force dissolved and Newsom tried to regain credibility after attending a lobbyist’s birthday party at the French Laundry.

In an interview edited for length and clarity, Myers spoke with CalMatters this week about navigating reopening conflicts, the state’s evolving COVID-19 recovery plan and why she doesn’t fear Elon Musk’s move to Texas.

Q: You started this role leading the state’s business and economic development efforts in December, right as new stay-at-home orders

small business relief grant program closed this week, and we know there were more than 330,000 applicants in the first round. How intense was the demand this time, and how much concern is there about having enough money to go around?

A: Anyone who completed an application but didn’t get a grant in the first round was automatically rolled forward into the second round. We don’t know yet what the final number will be.

Grants will start going out later this week, and that will continue to roll out.

There’s obviously substantially more need than there is money at this point. The two rounds together, round one and round two, will be roughly $500 million. The governor had proposed another $575 million. I think the Legislature and the governor working together will provide substantially more than that, and we’ll see where it all lands.

Q: When it comes to the state’s reopening rules, we’ve also seen several lawsuits from businesses like salons, gyms and breweries that say the rules are too arbitrary. Do you see a scenario where those industry-specific rules change as vaccines roll out, or what’s your response to those concerns?

A: Yes. There’s so many things that have made this challenging.

It’s unprecedented, it continues to change. We haven’t been operating on a static playing field. It’s a three-dimensional kind of thing where the rules change on everybody every day. That said, we will definitely try to evolve our guidance as we go forward and as circumstances on the ground change, as more people get vaccinated, as we see what happens with infection rates and other metrics.

I think on the one hand, people feel relieved to see a substantial drop in infection rates. On the other hand, there are these variants out there that are big wild cards, so nobody wants to take their foot off the brakes of social distance, wear your mask, don’t mix, be smart. So that will continue, but I mean look, ideally we want to open the economy as quickly as it’s safe to do so.

Q: I did have a question about schools. I mean, you wrote the book on “Why Women Should Rule the World,” but with so many schools still closed, we’re hearing anecdotally about more women being forced out of the workforce. Are there any concrete ways the state can address or reverse that impact?

A: Yeah, it’s something we’re very concerned about. You saw last week as the federal government announced the new unemployment numbers, there was like

a five-fold impact on women leaving the workforce or losing jobs. I think that’s why there are a lot of supports in the programs that we’ve already rolled out. The small business grants targeting women, reopening the schools to help parents.

One of the priority areas for the grant program is daycare. It’s very hard for parents that do want to go back to work to find daycare if they have younger kids who aren’t in school. How can we support their return to work in a safe and equitable way? There’s a lot to do going forward on that.

Q: Communicating public health guidance that’s constantly changing isn’t easy, but the governor has developed a unique vernacular for doing it. Do you think California is meeting the moment, or are there ways the state could do this more effectively?

A: You can always improve, right? But I think on balance, California is doing better than maybe the public realizes. Not that there haven’t been some stumbles and missteps, but we’ve now distributed 5 million vaccines. That’s substantially more than any other state. That’s one good example of how I think the governor’s meeting the moment.

We’re in, I don’t know, the fifth inning of this? The sixth inning?

At the end of the game, there will be a score. Judge us by that.

Valley Clean Energy welcomes new director of finance Special to The Enterprise Valley Clean Energy announces the hiring of Edward Burnham as director of finance and internal operations. He will be responsible for oversight of finance and accounting tasks as well as VCE’s treasury, enterprise risk, information technology and audits.

Prior to joining the local electricity provider, Burnham worked for Yolo County’s Treasury Division, overseeing all revenue, treasury and finance activities, including handling investments for all county pool participants (county, local school districts and special districts), endowments and other investments. The pool was valued at an average of more

than $500 million last year.

Additionally, Burnham spent 12 years abroad, working in finance for private and publicly traded BURHAM companies in the Had worked energy sector.

His for county duties took him to China, the United Kingdom, Ukraine, Cyprus, West Africa and the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

“We are thrilled to welcome Edward Burnham to Valley Clean Energy,” said Dan Carson, VCE board chairman and a Davis City

Council member. “He comes to us with extensive experience in energy finance and has a deep understanding of Yolo County as well.”

VCE Interim General Manager Mitch Sears added, “Since the community-choice energy model is evolving quickly, we were pleased to find someone with Edward’s talent and energy sector experience for this important position who can hit the ground running. We know he will be a great asset to the VCE team and our customers.”

Burnham said he feels “privileged to join VCE and am excited about the opportunities to bring sustainable clean energy to the

community. I look forward to working with the entire team to build on the organization’s momentum and contribute to the execution of VCE’s Strategic Plan.”

Burnham earned a bachelor’s degree in international business from Stephen F. Austin State University and an MBA from Rutgers University in addition to completing studies in Spanish and Mandarin. Burnham is now pursuing his certified public accountant license with the California State Board of Accountancy.

He is actively involved with various professional finance associations, most recently serving on the board of the Sacramento

chapter of Financial Executives International and as chair of the Sacramento chapter of the Financial Executives Network Group.

A Sacramento resident, he has one son. He enjoys bringing back to life treasures found on antiquing trips, and he loves to find great local restaurants.

Valley Clean Energy is Yolo County’s community choice aggregator, dedicated to providing clean, reliable and affordable electricity to its customers in the cities of Woodland, Davis and Winters as well as the unincorporated area of the county.

For more information about VCE, visit www.valleyclean energy.org or call 855-699-8232.

MAK Design + Build gets two awards MBI’s new product aces field trials Special to The Enterprise MAK Design + Build of Davis has won recognition in two categories from Houzz, the leading platform for home remodeling and design.

The local residential design-build company was chosen in “Best of Design” and “Best Customer Service” by the more than 40 million monthly unique users in the Houzz community from among more than 2.5 million active homebuilding, remodeling and design-industry professionals. This is MAK Design + Build’s ninth consecutive year being recognized with the platform’s highest distinction.

“Anyone building, remodeling or decorating looks to Houzz for the most talented and serviceoriented professionals” said Liza Hausman, vice president of industry marketing

for Houzz. “We’re so pleased to recognize MAK Design + Build Inc.” Customer service honors are based on several factors, including the number and quality of client reviews a professional received in 2020. A “Best of Houzz 2021” badge will appear on winners’ profiles, as a sign of their commitment to excellence. These badges help homeowners identify top-rated home professionals in every metro area on Houzz. By winning both “Best of Houzz” awards MAK Design + Build is distinguished as being in the top 3% of all home remodeling professionals nationally.

“It’s an honor to be recognized on a site featuring the work of so many talented design and remodeling professionals,” said Ken Kirsch, owner of MAK Design + Build. “We always aim to complete extraordinary

projects for our clients and it’s nice to be recognized for our effort. We are especially proud of our team for consistently going above and beyond amidst the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We work with wonderful people, our clients, staff, subcontractors and vendors. It’s a team effort and it looks like we are succeeding in bringing out the best in one another!”

Follow MAK Design + Build on Houzz at http:// www.houzz.com/pro/ makdesignbuild/makdesign-build-inc.

Kirsch and Anthony Anderson, director of design, are both UC Davis graduates. MAK is a family-run business with strong Davis ties. Ken Kirsch co-owns the business with his wife, Ellen Moriarty, while their daughter, Vivi, works as the marketing manager.

Businesses can join innovation board Special to The Enterprise Yolo County’s Workforce Innovation Board is actively recruiting local businesses to fill vacancies in the private business category.

WIB is a 23-member board comprised of business, labor, education, nonprofit, government and community leaders charged with convening partners and providing policy, planning and oversight for local and regional workforce development initiatives under the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. Members represent the four Yolo County cities of Davis, West Sacramento, Winters and Woodland.

Prospective private businesses interested in serving on the board must be an owner, chief executive officer, chief operating officer or other individual with optimum policy-making or hiring authority; and provide employment opportunities in in-demand industry sectors or occupations.

For more information on requirements, board responsibilities, specific vacancies and to submit an application, visit www.

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Special to The Enterprise Marrone Bio Innovations announced today that its foliar plant health product for row crops, Pacesetter, showed outstanding performance in 2020 field trials in the U.S. Midwest.

Grower demo trials saw an average of a 6-to-1 return on investment with an improved yield of 6.4 bushels per acre in corn and 3.3 bushels per acre in soybeans.

“Growers and distributors are very pleased with the results they saw from the Pacesetter field trials,” said Timothy Knight, senior director of North and Central American sales.

“Using Pacesetter to produce healthier, higheryielding plants is an excellent example of how a BioUnite approach — combining biologicals and traditional chemistry — can help growers achieve the highest return for

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Pacesetter is recommended for use with conventional fungicides to increase leaf chlorophyll content and improve plant health resulting in increased crop yield beyond what synthetic fungicides alone can generate.

Developed for row crops such as corn, soybeans, cereal grains, cotton and more, Pacesetter has been shown to improve overall health and crop vigor, resulting in increased yields and profits.

More than 90 field trials conducted throughout the Midwest during the 2020 growing season showed Pacesetter, when combined with a conventional fungicide, outyielded fungicide use alone.

The average return on investment in the trials was above six to one and numerous plant health benefits were witnessed.

For corn, longer and

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Soybeans had healthier plants and more pods per plant.

In the past, MBI’s foliar products have been focused on specialty crops in the U.S. West and East Coast.

With the introduction of Pacesetter, MBI is now able to reach the vast corn and soybean acreage of the Midwest — expected to be over 179 million acres in 2021, according to a Nov. 10 USDA report.

The introduction of the plant health product will provide growers with a novel solution to improve yield and return on investment.

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for all living creatures.

Robinson’s talk — “Climate Ideas from ‘The Ministry for the Future’ ” — will bridge the space between the novel and our reality in ROBINSON Davis. What can we do to avert the worst? Can Author we change the course of climate change if we begin in earnest now? Robinson suggests, “We’re in a science fiction novel now, which we are all co-writing together.”

Robinson grounds the novel on the solid science of climate change, introducing the latest research and exploring ways to curb the worst impacts.

Robinson wrote to find a way out of the urgent climate dilemma. Simultaneously, he addressed racial and income inequality which worsens the impacts of climate change for people of color or low income around the globe.

In one interview, Robinson said, “I wanted … to … create a plausible future history that was … a best-case scenario. But also one you can believe in. And I did want to suggest that despite the extreme danger we’re facing, a good global response could dodge the mass extinction event. My whole notion of utopia has come

Special to The Enterprise Davis’ world-renowned sci-fi writer, Kim Stanley Robinson, will share his penetrating thoughts about our world based on his latest book, “The Ministry for the Future,” at a Cool Davis talk followed by questions and responses.

Robinson’s climate fiction explores the urgent threat of climate change and the loss of biodiversity on Earth.

His writing encompasses how to understand and transform society’s dangerous trajectory toward climate chaos. All are welcome to attend the zoom talk at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 23.

Visit cooldavis.org to register.

“The Ministry for the Future” was released on Oct. 13, as Northern California residents awoke to strange orange skies and choking smoke from multiple fires that burned for weeks.

That terrifying reality rivaled the shocking first chapter of the novel, describing a staggering heat wave in India 30 years in the future. Millions die. Chaotic climate-driven events on Earth evoke a wide variety of governmental and individual responses, all of them plausible, as the story unfolds. Members of the Ministry for the Future try to stand up for choices that will assure a reasonable future for human beings not yet born and

More to come Coming Speakers in The Davis Climate Speaker Series: Mark Reiff on climate change and capitalism — Tuesday, March 23 Hugh Safford on fire trends in California — Thursday, April 29 Ermias Kebreab on the “Green Moo Deal” — Thursday, May 13 down to just survival of the many species that are in danger.

“Contemplating what is ahead for Earth and its interdependent web of life can be terrifying and paralyzing,” said Robin Datel at a recent service at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Davis. “Works of the imagination can help us picture a way forward. I find Robinson’s imagination to be enabling, showcasing many creative and cooperative endeavors and progressing toward both sustainability and equity.”

Bring your questions for the Q&A. Your voluntary donation to Cool Davis allows it to continue its work helping Davis households prepare for climate change (scroll down).

— Lynne Nittler is a Davis resident and founding member of Cool Davis

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Bob Dunning is pictured at his desk at The Davis Enterprise office in the 1970s, shortly after his hiring as a sports writer. Below is Dunning’s photo that runs with his “The Wary I” column for The Enterprise.

Davis observes 50 years of Dunning Special to The Enterprise He’s spent the past 51 years chronicling life in Davis, sharing his opinions, prompting us to examine ours and reflecting on all that makes this town the special place it is.

Now, it’s Davis’ turn to show its admiration and respect for Bob Dunning with a springtime celebration in honor of his 51 years at The Davis Enterprise.

“I celebrate the many people, places and issues this job has exposed me to over all these years.”

Bob Dunning Journalist and columnist CHARLIE RUSSELL/COURTESY PHOTO

Flatface downingia explodes with color at the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area. At Flyway Nights on Thursday, March 4, Charlie Russell will discuss the plants of the Yolo Bypass.

Virtual presentation explores Yolo Bypass plants Special to The Enterprise At the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area in Davis, what are those flowers blooming along the road, in the rice fields or out in the canals? Are they native plants or introduced? There are many different plant habitats in the YBWA and they support a wide range of flowering plants.

Yolo Basin Foundation’s Flyway Nights speaker series will explore “Plants of the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area” with Charlie Russell at 7 p.m.

Thursday, March 4. In this virtual

presentation, Russell will identify many of the common plants that visitors are likely to come across while on foot or in a car. He’ll help participants identify the good, the bad, the ugly and even the poisonous ones.

Register at http://yolobasin.org/ flywaynights.

Russell has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in plant sciences from UC Davis. He has been photographing wildflowers for 47 years. For six years, he has volunteered as a docent at Jepson Prairie Preserve and he is a certified California naturalist.

Flyway Nights is a monthly speaker series highlighting environmental issues, the natural history of Northern California and current research topics in conservation. They are the first Thursday of each month from November to April.

A $5 donation to support the foundation’s wetland education programs is suggested. Yolo Basin Foundation members are free.

For the complete schedule and more information, visit www.yolo basin.org/flywaynights or call 530757-3780.

City offers American Red Cross babysitter training Enterprise staff Youths ages 11 to 15 can learn skills and information to provide responsible care for children in the absence of adults in an American Red Cross Babysitter Training. Sponsored by the city of Davis, the course will teach child-andinfant CPR, rescue breathing, choking rescue, preventing disease transmission and first aid. This course includes hands-on activities, videos, roleplaying and discussions.

Participants will gain confidence to make smart decisions in various babysitting situations. Participants must be at least 11 years old by the last day of class. Upon successful completion, participants will receive certifications in Babysitter Training and Pediatric CPR & First Aid (valid for two years).

Classes will be outside, weather permitting, socially distanced with an

eight-person maximum and participants will be required to wear face coverings during class. The twoday class is from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, March 27 and 28, at the

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Dunning was hired by The Enterprise on Jan. 27, 1970, as a sports writer, and he remembers being terrified of deadlines as he sat down at his typewriter that first day on the job.

Now, tens of thousands of deadlines later, he confesses that he never really wanted to be a journalist but admits that he wouldn’t trade his time in newspapers for anything.

“I celebrate the truly great and talented journalists I’ve been blessed to work with,” Dunning wrote on his 50th anniversary last year. “I celebrate the many people, places and issues this job has exposed me to over all these years. And most of all, I celebrate getting to live in a town I love and raise my family here.”

That love will be reciprocated when Davis honors Dunning with an online celebration, a socially distanced vehicle parade and

the presentation of the first Bob Dunning Scholarship this June. Fundraising has begun to endow the scholarship, which will be awarded annually to a graduating senior of a high school in the Davis school district who is considering a career in journalism.

The Davis Odd Fellows Lodge is handling the scholarship contributions, which may be tax-deductible. The EIN is 47-4578511 and the Charitable Trust number is CT0247740.

Make checks payable to “Davis Odd Fellows Helping Hands Inc.” (and write “Celebrating Bob Dunning” on the memo line of your check). Mail contributions to Lea Rosenberg, Odd Fellows Lodge, 415 Second St., Davis, CA 95616. Donors who want a receipt for tax purposes should provide their email address.

Then, all of Davis is invited to be part of the fun by joining a virtual celebration on Friday, April 9, from 4 to 5 p.m. The Zoom event will be limited to the first 100 people to sign up, and the recording will be uploaded afterward on YouTube. Details will be forthcoming soon.

Two weeks later, on Saturday, April 24, the community can show Dunning some love by taking part in the vehicle parade. Again, details are to come.

A Facebook event page and a web page have been created and will be updated as more information becomes available.

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he past four years have been brutal for American media,” said Captain Obvious when reached by phone for an interview. With a president regularly calling The New York Times and The Washington Post “fake news” and the “enemy of the people,” it’s not a surprise that many people are working from different sets of “facts.”

As a longtime news person, all of this has been upsetting to me.

But almost as frustrating is when bias is blatantly inserted into a news stories, with two recent examples screaming out “I hope readers get upset about this!” So as not to bury the lede, the stories are about Jerry Falwell Jr., and Marjorie Taylor Greene, but more on that in a minute.

Unfortunately, we’ve all gotten fairly used to clickbait headlines — “No. 3 will shock you!” — even in hard-news stories. A salacious quote often becomes a headline, compelling you to read on. In the best cases, the subhead quickly adds some context, like in Friday’s New York Times headline which states “Tokyo Olympics Chief Resigns Over Sexist Comments.” The subhead immediately tells readers he said women

cause meetings to run too long by talking too much.

But what I think might be happening in stories where reprehensible people are being portrayed reprehensibly is a form of advocacy journalism — basically journalism that combines reporting with a point of view.

My first example is the story about Falwell, a gross person based on what I have read and seen of him. As you might recall, over the summer a photo of Falwell circulated where his pants were unzipped and he was standing beside a young woman who had her pants unzipped, too. When I read the story I was stunned by how stupid it was. To take a photo like this and post it anywhere or let it be posted?

What in the actual what?

But in only one news story of the probably 10 I read in August, I saw that the reason he’d

unzipped his pants was because he was pretending to be pregnant, like his assistant in the photo. (Per Politico: “She’s pregnant so she couldn’t get her — she couldn’t get her pants up,” (Falwell) said. “And I was like, trying to like — my — I had on pair of jeans that I hadn’t worn in a long time so I couldn’t get mine zipped either. And so — and so — I just put my belly — I just put my belly out like hers.”)

Did you know this? She’d had to start unzipping her pants to make room for her growing belly, and Falwell appeared to making fun of his own belly. Why was this detail not included in every single story, if not to mislead readers into believing that Falwell had just been rolling around on a bed in the back room with a young, not-his-wife woman?

The second example is from this past week (Feb. 3). Greene, the congresswoman from Georgia, has shown herself to be an awful person — it’s her brand, and ideally she’ll be kept from doing anything to shape policy or the country.

However, why was it only reported in one place that I read on Feb. 3 (alas, I don’t recall where) that the standing ovation

Greene received by GOP members in the House of Representatives came after her half-assed apology? Instead, it was widely reported that Republicans gave her a standing ovation, full stop.

I mean, this context matters to those of us who weren’t in the room.

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ecause of that single story on Feb. 3, I was on the hunt for others that gave this relevant insight. I was disappointed while listening to NPR’s Nov. 4 “Up First” podcast, where they mentioned Greene received a standing ovation but left out her weak apology. Scouring other news stories and opinion pieces on Feb. 4, I did see more detail about the cheers she received relating to her contrition for the conspiracy theories that she was “allowed to believe.”

But so often the first version of a story is what sticks in people’s minds.

It’s too cumbersome so I’m not including links to every story that left out these apology details, but I did my due diligence and can confirm that first reports by actual news outlets — ABC News online, Business Insider, The Independent, The

Atlantic, MSNBC online and Jake Tapper of CNN via Twitter — all somehow managed to forget to tell readers why Republicans were standing and clapping.

If I were an editor of any of these writers or publications, I would absolutely require a phrase about the ovation being in response to Greene’s remorse, even if I allowed a choice adjective to be inserted before the word “remorse.”

If I’m being charitable, I’d chalk this up to lazy reporting: TV news repeats what radio news said, which came from a written description that left out this detail. But I’m concerned that it’s more intentional, where an omission of context is meant to advocate for how to think about a story.

Seriously, just holding up a microphone to Falwell and Greene is enough to expose them as jerks and undermine their credibility. The media does not need to undermine its own in the process.

— Tanya Perez lives in Davis with her family. Her column is published every other Sunday.

Reach her at pereztanyah@ gmail.com. Follow her on Twitter at @californiatanya.

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YOLO CASA

ebruary is Black History Month, but instead of talking about history, today I’d like to talk about current trends in the Black community and how we can improve them.

In Yolo County, only 2.5% of the population are Black, but 23% of the children in foster care here are Black. Two weeks ago, Anne Ternus-Bellamy reported on a recent self-assessment that the county performed.

Here are a few troubling statistics that came from that study: Between 2014 to 2018, allegations of neglect in Yolo County increased by 18.6 percent. However, in the Black population, allegations of neglect increased by 42 percent. Between 2014 and 2018, substantiations of abuse increased by 37% overall, but skyrocketed to a 133% increase among the Black population.

Furthermore, the average number of children in foster care also increased between 2015 and 2019 by 79 percent. However, when you break down the average, you see another disparity as white children in foster care only increased by 21% during that time, Latino children in foster care increased 101% during that time, and Black children in foster care increased 221% during that time.

One more statistic of note is that Black children, on average, spend two months longer in foster care than white children, and four months longer than Latino children. They are also less likely to be placed with a relative and more likely to be paced outside of the county.

So … where do we go from here?

change is made.

As a staff, we are learning about diversity, equity and inclusion. We are examining our organization up and down and making improvements, engaging in cultural humility, and allowing ourselves to be vulnerable when we fall short, so that we can do better when we know better. We are in a constant process of learning how to be better allies for children and Black, Indigenous and People of Color in our community.

We are also coming together at the state level, and in 2021, California CASA will be increasing its lobbying efforts. Legislation that promotes diversity, equity and inclusion in foster care tops our list.

In life, I’ve realized that we are always faced with two choices when we see a problem. We can either walk away, or walk through. Walking through is the hard choice. Walking through can be messy, hard, and surprising. But as with everything messy, hard, and surprising in life, the reward for walking through is great.

One lesson that I keep close to my heart in 2021 is that there is so much more to honor in the history of Black people who have lived and died in this country than one month could ever possibly hold. Let’s let February 2021 be a jump start to celebrating the history and culture of our Black families year round, and we can start by truly caring for the most vulnerable among them with love and compassion, from one neighbor to another.

— Tracy Fauver, LCSW, is the executive director of Yolo County CASA.

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Yolo CASA recruits Black, Indigenous and people-of-color volunteers so that foster children can be connect with more familiar faces.

First, as I always do, let’s go upstream. After being a social worker for nearly three decades, the first question I always ask myself when I see disparities is, “Is this group getting what they need?” In this case, with such distinct disparities, it’s safe to assume that they absolutely aren’t (though I know the county plans to take a closer look at that as well).

Assuming the Black population isn’t getting the support they need, the next question I ask myself is, “why?” When Black parents are having trouble putting food on the table, do they know what their resources are?

Do Black parents know about opportunities for respite and childcare? Does the messaging

that supportive services use even resonate with Black people?

Why or why not?

This is just the beginning.

Then that word “systemic” comes in.

Are Black people in Yolo County able to find jobs at the same rate and caliber as white people or are they suffering from generations of unequal pay and opportunity? Have Black people lost their trust of certain institutions due to years of discrimination and inequity?

The year 2020 exposed systemic racism that otherwise could have stayed buried for decades, as it had been prior to the pandemic. I am grateful that we’ve been given an opportunity to address it and I don’t take that

opportunity lightly. Here’s what we are doing immediately and in the long term to address systemic racism at Yolo County CASA: We actively recruit volunteers who are Black, Indigenous and people of-color so foster children can be represented by and make friendships with people who look like them.

We are addressing diversity, equity and inclusion in our volunteer trainings. One of our current volunteers knows that he has led a privileged life as a white man. He’s advocated for a Black teenager for four years.

His dedication to learning (and relearning) about systemic racism and how it affects his foster child’s life is an example of how

Davisites named to state commissions Enterprise staff Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed Darcie Houck, 51, of Davis, to the California Public Utilities Commission. Houck has served as chief counsel for the California Energy Commission since 2019.

She was an administrative law judge at the California Public Utilities Commission from 2016 to 2019, a partner at Fredericks Peebles & Morgan from 2005 to 2016 and staff counsel and policy adviser at the California Energy Commission from 2000 to 2005. Houck is a member of the California Indian Law Association, California Lawyers Association, Schwartz-Levi Inn of Court, Women Lead and the Association of Women in Water, Energy, and Environment. Houck earned law degree from the UC Davis School of Law and a master’s degree in community development from UCD. This position requires Senate

NAME DROPPERS confirmation and the compensation is $159,068. Houck is a Democrat.

———— Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed Siva Gangadhar Gunda, 42, of Davis, to the California Energy Commission. Gunda has served as deputy director of the Energy Assessments Division at the California Energy Commission since 2018 and was office manager for the Demand Analysis Office at the Commission from 2017 to 2018.

He held multiple positions at the UC Davis Energy and Efficiency Institute, including director of research and India initiatives from 2016 to 2017, director of research from 2015 to 2017 and program manager from 2011 to 2015. Gunda earned a master’s degree in mechanical and aeronautical engineering from Utah State University.

This position requires Senate confirmation and the compensation is $159,068.

———— Worcester Polytechnic Institute announced its fall 2020 dean’s list on Feb. 9. The criteria for the WPI Dean’s List differs from most other universities as WPI does not compute a grade point average . Instead, WPI defines the Dean’s List by the amount of work completed at the A-level in courses and projects.

Nicholas Cheng of Davis, class of ’21, majoring in computer science, and Samuel Sands of Davis, class of ’23, majoring in mechanical engineering, were among those honored.

WPI, founded in 1865, offers more than 50 bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree programs across 14 academic departments in science, engineering, technology, business, the social sciences, and the humanities and arts.

BY ANDY JONES Special to The Enterprise 1. Famous Buildings.

What is the two-word common name of the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster?

2. Stones. What violet semiprecious stone that is often used in jewelry is the traditional birthstone for February?

3. Pop Culture — Music.

Two women have had 25 songs reach No. 1 on the Billboard country music charts, which is a record for a female artist. One of those women, of course, is Dolly Parton. Who is the other?

4. Unusual Names.

What do the words brown, Jackson, moss, and smith have in common?

5. Pop Culture — Television. What former UC Santa Cruz student won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her portrayal of Vice President Kamala Harris?

Answers: Westminster Abbey; amethyst; Reba McEntire; when capitalized, they are all the last names of famous women named Kate; Maya Rudolph.

— Dr. Andy Jones is the quizmaster at de Vere’s Irish Pub and author of the book “Pub Quizzes: Trivia for Smart People.” Dr. Andy is now also sharing his pub quizzes via Patreon. Find out more at www.yourquizmaster.com.

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CHANCES: Laws allow for flexibility From Page A1 include district attorneys.

Based on the AB 2942’s passage, the Yolo DA’s Conviction and Sentencing Review Unit launched a partnership with For the People, a nonprofit organization created by former San Francisco prosecutor Hillary Blout, who drafted the law. District Attorney Jeff Reisig also involved UC Davis’ King Hall School of Law, asking Professor Jack Chin to start a sentencing clinic course.

Through the clinic, students learn about basic sentencing law and review of the files of inmates serving prison time due to Yolo County convictions.

Under Chin’s direction, students assess individual cases and make sentencereduction recommendations to the DA’s Office.

Prosecutors then file court motions to begin the early release process.

Reisig said O’Donnell’s case is one of multiple “extraordinary and deserving” cases being revisited under the resentencing law.

“My recent decision to petition the court for a resentencing of Mr. O’Donnell is a product of these partnerships and our latest effort to ensure that justice is fairly evolving with our societal beliefs and the idea that we can do things differently and still keep victims and our communities safe,” Reisig said. “Ultimately, second chances can change everything in a positive way for all of us.”

UCD law student Jennifer Puza presented the case Monday to Judge Fall, who presided over O’Donnell’s 2001 court trial.

“I recall this trial — vividly,” Fall said. At the time, he did not believe O’Donnell’s conduct

warranted four decades in prison, but “I could not find a way to say that Mr. O’Donnell was outside of the spirit of the threestrikes law” after analyzing its parameters.

Today, “he falls squarely within the people who should be reconsidered for sentencing,” Fall said.

Despite committing two major rule violations in 2006 and 2011 — a battery on a fellow inmate and possession of a heroin-filled syringe — O’Donnell has since been disciplinary-free, holding down various prison jobs while also undergoing substance-abuse treatment and pursuing an associate’s degree in sociology.

“My takeaway from these life-changing experiences is insight of all of my wrongdoing that I have caused, and taking accountability for all harm I imposed on others,” O’Donnell, now 54, wrote in a letter to the court.

“Today I see myself as a mature man with responsibility to myself and my fellow human beings with more growth in future years to come.”

With help from the Yolo County Public Defender’s Office, O’Donnell has developed a post-release life plan that includes transitional housing and employment resources, with support from his exwife and two of his three children, according to court documents.

“Mr. O’Donnell’s case is a prime example of why it is so important to take another look at many of these old cases,” said Supervising Deputy Public Defender Ron Johnson, who represented O’Donnell in court. “It isn’t just that he illustrates our human capacity for change and reformation, but his

“For too long, policy focus was on increasing draconian sentences.”

Ron Johnson Supervising deputy public defender case shines a light on how important criminal justice reforms are in real life and not just as an abstract principle.

“For too long, policy focus was on increasing draconian sentences to get tough on crime rather than think hard about what tools actually increase public safety, and we are just beginning to rectify that,” Johnson added.

Although O’Donnell was unable to attend the video hearing from prison, Fall asked Johnson to relay to him that “the court and apparently the people are very impressed with his conduct while in custody, and are glad to be able to reach this result for him.”

Family reunited Manuel Palacio was 23 years old and an undocumented immigrant when an officer conducted a traffic stop on his vehicle in 1996. With him were three other people, including two teenage girls in possession of marijuana they said Palacio provided to them.

He was arrested and jailed after confessing to providing the drugs — a statement he may have offered absent a Miranda warning, his current attorney says. In jail, Palacio suffered a fall that dislocated his shoulder, for which he received no

medical treatment.

“As he approached his court hearing, Defendant was terrified and in chronic pain from his dislocated shoulder,” Pfaff wrote in his court motion.

A language barrier with his court-appointed attorney compounded the problem.

Palacio says his lawyer failed to disclose the immigration consequences of his no-contest plea to the felony drug charge, which derailed his efforts to become a U.S. citizen.

To avoid deportation proceedings, he voluntarily left the country after marrying his wife, Beatriz Arizaga.

He is now petitioning to re-enter the U.S. and rejoin his family, having achieved numerous educational and professional accomplishments while in Mexico.

His plight caught the attention of Pfaff, who employs Palacio’s stepdaughter. Pfaff filed a petition to vacate Palacio’s plea, which Judge David Rosenberg granted Feb. 3 after receiving no opposition from prosecutors.

“The people support the request made in the motion,” Chief Deputy District Attorney Jonathan Raven said during the court hearing.

Palacio’s wife, Beatriz Arizaga, unleashed a wave of emotion upon hearing Rosenberg’s ruling.

“Thank you! Bless you!

Gracias!” Arizaga said as she exchanged hugs with Pfaff and her family.

“I guess you’ll be getting a hug in lieu of compensation,” Rosenberg noted to Pfaff.

“Everybody here is family to this office,” Pfaff replied. “Some things are much more precious than money.”

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Convicted killer Daniel Marsh took the stand at his 2018 transfer hearing in Yolo Superior Court, where a judge later rejected his bid for resentencing in juvenile court.

MARSH: Years later, case continues to draw views From Page A1 Hurd and Sarah Rice, Maupin’s daughter and granddaughter, as well as Marsh prosecutor Amanda Zambor and Chris Campion, the FBI profiler who elicited Marsh’s chilling confession to the crimes.

Watch a trailer at https:// www.dailymail.co.uk/video/ dailymailtv/video-2348034/ True-Conviction-takesdeep-dive-Daniel-Marshcase.html. It’s also available for streaming on the Discovery Plus app.

Northup, 87, was a longtime local attorney and singer/guitarist for the popular Putah Creek Crawdads folk band. Maupin, 76, served as a leader of her church and acted in community theater. The couple, married for 17 years, lived two doors down from Marsh’s father when the murders occurred.

Tried as an adult, Marsh, now 23, was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder with special circumstances and sentenced to 52 years to life in state prison.

Jurors rejected his insanity defense, in which he claimed antidepressant medications caused his uncontrollable homicidal urges.

The crime made more

headlines in 2016 when Marsh, following changes in state juvenile justice laws, sought to have his conviction overturned and case remanded to juvenile court for resentencing, which could have resulted in his release at age 25.

Yolo Superior Court Judge Samuel McAdam rejected that bid, saying in his ruling “there is virtually no chance that Marsh will be rehabilitated before he turns 25 years old. … This was a highly sophisticated, extraordinary and rare crime even for the most hardened and seasoned adult criminal.”

Marsh’s conviction continues to undergo challenges under Senate Bill 1391, a measure former Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law in 2018 that prohibits 14- and 15-year-olds from being tried as adults under any circumstances. The matter is currently before the 3rd District Court of Appeal to determine whether the law should be applied retroactively to Marsh.

Meanwhile, Marsh continues to serve his sentence at the R.J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego.

Because he was convicted as a minor, he currently is eligible for parole after 25 years, in June 2037.

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Healthy Davis Together, meet the Blue Devil Athletic Boosters.

In a win-win partnership, the COVIDtesting outreach program will begin this week with check-in protocols for Davis High athletes while simultaneously providing funding for a pandemicstrapped school sports budget.

“It’s huge,” says booster club president Sanford Gladding. “It’s a great opportunity to work toward this goal of getting sports back active and getting the kids back out on the field ... getting the young generation supporting this community effort to get healthy and get through this pandemic.”

The game plan is that Healthy Davis Together, which has a station at the Veterans Memorial Center next-door to the DHS campus, will offer regular afternoon testing for Blue Devil studentathletes.

The project, to be introduced to parents and athletes this week, should provide set times for athlete testing and a stamp card to show that the youth is being tested at least four times a month.

For those Blue Devils who follow the routine to a T, Healthy Davis Together will provide $25 to the boosters.

In turn, says Gladding, his support group will send that money to Davis High Athletic Director Jeff Lorenson to pay the bills. A normal annual DHS athletic budget pushes $1 million, according to Lorenson.

“This is a terrific program that comes at the right time for a number of reasons,” says the veteran administrator, who adds that the school district’s No. 1 priority is the safety of the kids. “This program helps ensure that.”

According to Bob Bowen of Healthy Davis Together, as many as 900 stamp cards will initially be distributed to Davis High.

“The idea is, in the global sense, HDT has this huge amount of testing capacity — like 8,000 a day — and they are only getting 2,000 a day,” Bowen explains.

“How can we get more people in?”

Bowen says the DHS “loyalty program” is one of a handful of outreach programs in place and being considered.

He says Healthy Davis Together has reached out to Little League, youth softball and other programs in which athletes are involved.

While COVID-testing loyalty cards have been distributed at apartment complexes and to other community groups, Bowen and HDT colleague Charla Kordana figured that, as matters relate to the high school, going through the boosters would be the most expedient avenue for distribution of the cards to student-athletes.

“It’s one touch point (at the boosters), and then they can get the coaches and team captains and parents to get (further card distribution) going,” Bowen told The Enterprise.

As for money filtering through the boosters, Gladding said: “It’s really a great opportunity to fit into our mission of supporting all DHS athletes ... and getting the chance to help the athletic department with their funding shortfall.

“It’s a real win-win.”

Lorenson and Gladding concur that if the HDT money covers all underfunded basic needs — coaching stipends, officials, etc. — any money remaining will be paid outthrough an already developed grant program.

Doing the math, Gladding noted that even if half the cards are validated each month, “that’s more than $10,000 a month.”

Boosters hope student-athletes will have their cards in hand in time to test at least twice in February, which, according to Bowen, means each participant would qualify for that $25 incentive. After this month, the athletes would need to be tested four times a month.

Lorenson says, in reporting to a team for practice or an event, if a participant doesn’t have testing documentation, coaches will fall back on current protocols, which include the on-site taking of temperatures and questions about physical symptom status.

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Three of the six candidates for UC Davis starting quarterback — from left Miles Hastings, Gunnor Faulk and Hunter Rodrigues — go through their practice paces.

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BY BRUCE GALLAUDET Enterprise sports editor It seems like forever since Aggie fans last saw a UC Davis football game.

For the record, that contest was a 27-17 loss at Sacramento State on Nov. 23, 2019. The Davis quarterback was recordsetting Jake Maier, who long ago signed to play for Calgary of the CFL. While 15 months should be enough time to find the next great Aggie signal-caller, it must be noted that UCD has been shrouded in COVID-19 protocols and only two weeks ago took the practice field once

again in earnest.

The Aggies have six potential quarterback starters in the fold, and with the opening kickoff versus visiting Cal Poly 13 days away, new offensive coordinator Cody Hawkins weighed in on the search for QB 1 ...

The coach says Maier’s replacement has yet to be ordained.

“We have a bunch of guys — to be honest, we haven’t had enough practice for anyone to get legitimate reps to say they’re the guy,” Hawkins explains.

The golden-armed talent includes Gunnor Faulk

(Christian Brothers High), Miles Hastings (San Marcos), Grant Harper (Campolindo), Hunter Rodrigues (Whitney/ American River), Trent Tompkins (Central High of Fresno) and Mitchell Dixon (Rio Americano).

Of the lot, only Rodrigues has seen playing time for the Aggies.

“Everybody does a couple of things well,” says Hawkins, the son of head coach Dan Hawkins, who is in his fourth season at UCD. Cody moved from receivers coach to OC, replacing Tim Plough, who moved on to Boise State.

But is it a blessing or a

stumbling block having six quarterbacks in camp?

“It depends on how you look at it,” says the younger Hawkins. “For us, it’s a blessing because they all bring different things to the table. These kids are all excited to be a part of Aggie football and are embracing their roles in the journey.

“They all have the right approach, so it’s been a blast getting all the guys, with all those skill sets and personalities, involved.”

Here’s a quick look, with Hawkins’ comments, at each of

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UC Davis swingman Elijah Pepper (40) blows past the Long Beach State defense en route to a basket during his 32-point performance on Saturday at The Pavilion.

Thanks in part to a Pepper trey in overtime, the Aggies swept the series.

Enterprise staff LONG BEACH — Spend 5 minutes playing godawful basketball at the college level — especially when your opponent is 11-2 — and you’ve probably coughed up the game.

Not so if you’re the Fun Bunch of the Big West.

Four-time defending conference champion UC Davis ran its record to 7-1 with a resounding victory, this time, 67-50, over once-front-running Long Beach State on Saturday afternoon at the Walter Pyramid.

It marked the second straight day that the Aggies laid a Next games: Feb. 26 & double-digit 27 vs. Cal Poly SLO at loss on The The Pavilion, 3 p.m.

Beach (11-3, 10-2).

Meanwhile, UCD is now 5-0 in league.

“It was a good weekend,” Davis coach Jennifer Gross told The Enterprise. “It had a championship feel coming into this weekend. This team presented a lot of different challenges for us.

“It was great to see us step up and be ready to take on that challenge, but also to get so many contributions from our bench and so many different players. Utilize our depth ... to get the wins felt really good.”

It was another blanketing first-period defense that allowed UCD to jump out front early, 21-7. The Aggies held The Beach to

Aggie women 67, The Beach 50

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BY BOB DUNNING Enterprise staff writer Elijah Pepper scored a career-high 32 points — including a clutch 3-pointer with 10 seconds left in overtime — to lead the UC Davis men to a heart-stopping 78-76 Big West Conference basketball win over Long Beach State on Saturday afternoon at The Pavilion.

“He picked a heck of a time to have a career high,”

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said Aggie head coach Jim Les, noting that Pepper also had a career-high five steals along with six treys.

The win, UCD’s third straight, evens the Aggies record at 3-3 in the Big West and 6-6 overall. Long Beach falls to 2-4 in league

and 3-7 overall.

Combined with Friday’s 68-66 win over The Beach, Les says the Aggies are right where they should be after a rocky start.

“We’re really happy with the progress we’re making,” the Aggie coach told The Enterprise.

“The approach our guys have in practice and their attention to detail and buying in to everything

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eady or not, collegiate sports are about to resume with a vengeance, even if COVID-19 rates are much higher now than they were last March when we called a halt to just about everything that moves.

In some cases, we’ll see long-abandoned fall sports crammed into a spring schedule, putting a strain on facilities, facility managers, sportswriters and team mascots.

There will, however, be some rule changes in deference to this nasty virus that can cancel games at halftime much like a thunderstorm can bring a

quick end in the middle innings of a hotly contested baseball game.

I’ve been typing for a living for more decades than I can remember, but not once did I ever think I would write, “The Aggie football season kicks off on Feb. 27 when Cal Poly comes to town for the first of two games this spring.”

First off, February is not exactly spring, even in California. And who ever heard of playing Cal Poly twice in the same season, or for that matter, a season that is only six games long?

Can you spell C-R-A-Z-Y? It’s so crazy that even in the football-crazed Big Sky Conference fully five schools have decided not to play spring ball at all.

Those eight teams that have stated their intention to play will note some differences in the newly formulated 2021 rule book.

While the football scoring system will remain the same, offensive and defensive

linemen will have to socially distance by lining up three feet in behind the line of scrimmage, creating a 6-foot gap. A player lining up offside will be immediately ejected and not allowed on the team bus home.

Pass interference will result in a 14-day quarantine for both players involved, 28 days each if both players touch the ball.

Instead of tackling, defenders will use paintball guns to stop the ball carrier, though shots to the helmet are strictly forbidden.

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he electric utility industry looks a bit like a man on a ladder with one foot seeking the rung below, unsure of where it is. But find it he must.

The industry is beset with technological change as well as social and political pressures. It isn’t in crisis, but it is in dramatic transition.

It has one overriding driver: the need first to reduce, then to eliminate carbon emissions.

The utilities have been heroic in turning to wind and solar — which have also turned out to be economically advantageous. However, those efforts are challenged by the need to store electricity produced when these “alternatives” aren’t available.

General Motors is switching to making only electric vehicles after 2035. It can stop and retool. Utilities can never stop pumping out electrons; they must retool on the go.

Most of us only realize the hidden fragility of the system when storms are forecast, and the local utility tells us to buy batteries.

Feb. 11 was the 174th anniversary of Thomas Edison’s birth. No one has affected the way we live as completely as Edison; neither king, conqueror, philosopher, revolutionary nor any other inventor.

The big pressures on the utilities are to get off fossil fuels and to increase the resilience of the system, including resilience against weather and cyberattack.

These pressures spawn other pressures, particularly how to store alternative electricity which is made when the sun is shining and the wind is blowing, often not when consumption is high.

Storage is a hot area in electric innovation. Batteries, which are front-and-center in storage, must get much better, so they can have longer drawdown times. Arshad Mansoor, president of the Electric Power Research Institute, says batteries will get much better, but not enough to take up the slack for days of bad weather. He was speaking at the virtual winter meeting of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners.

Hydrogen is a favorite to deal with days of rain, as happens in Florida and elsewhere, and wind droughts which can last more than a week in Texas, a big windgenerating center.

But hydrogen isn’t a one-for-one replacement of natural gas, the current workhorse of generating fuels. On paper, hydrogen has every virtue. In reality, it has challenges of its own: It has less than half the energy of natural gas; it is harder to handle, can explode, and can produce nitrogen oxide; and turbines have to be modified to burn it.

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ven so, a plethora of utilities, including Sempra, Arizona Public Service and NextEra Energy, are experimenting with it. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is converting a coal plant in Utah to run completely on green hydrogen (that is hydrogen derived from the electrolysis of water not from natural gas).

San Antonio’s municipally owned energy utility, CPS Energy, buys a lot of wind power and is planning to install 900 megawatts of solar power on top of 4oo MW already deployed. That means storage is critical, and the utility has launched an ambitious global search for new-andimproved technologies. This has generated 300 responses worldwide. These, according to COO Cris Eugster, include hydrogen and batteries, but also far-out ideas like compressed air, flywheels, mineshafts for pumped storage and liquefied air.

All of this restructuring, moving from big central plants to diverse generating and complex substitutions, requires recognition that data is now central in utilities — and data has to move instantly.

The speed of transition is accelerating.

The electric utilities, often thought of as staid, are going to be anything but going forward: They are becoming innovation hubs.

Edison’s birthday marks a busy time for his follow-on inventors.

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

or months, Gov. Gavin Newsom communicated about the COVID-19 pandemic via frequent webcasts in which he cited the latest statistics and beseeched Californians to wear masks, wash their hands and avoid crowds.

In the last couple of weeks, however, Newsom has shifted venues to orchestrated outdoor events at sports arenas and other mass vaccination sites.

Newsom’s change of background scenery attracts more attention from television news crews than his staid webcasts, which is probably its true purpose. It coincides with an escalating recall campaign aimed at shortcircuiting Newsom’s political career and polls showing that his approval rates have taken a beating.

Tellingly, the events feature testimonials from local officials as to Newsom’s governing prowess.

At one event in Oakland, the city’s mayor, Libby Schaaf, gushed — extemporaneously, of course — “I can’t tell you how lucky we are in California to have Gavin Newsom as our governor.”

At a similar event in San Diego, newly elected Mayor Todd Gloria, chimed in,

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The Constitution gives Congress sole power to declare war and requires Congress to oversee conduct of U.S. wars.

Since Vietnam, Congress, rather than declare all-out wars, has authorized more limited, specific military actions using AUMFs. It passed the 2002 Iraq AUMF to authorize war against Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq. That war formally ended in 2011, but its AUMF remains in effect.

It’s time to repeal this obsolete authorization for several reasons: The Saddam regime is gone and this AUMF isn’t needed for any current military operations. It still has potential for abuse. The former president cited this AUMF as legal justification for assassinating Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani in 2020.

His administration also claimed the 2002 AUMF authorized war against ISIS

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“Gavin Newsom has always done the right thing to protect public health, even when it’s hard.”

What began as a symbolic gesture of protest about Newsom’s management of the pandemic has morphed into a serious challenge. Recall backers — Republicans, mostly — are closing in on the 1.5 million signatures of registered voters they need to place a recall on the ballot.

Newsom feigns a lack of concern about facing a recall election later this year, brushing off reporters’ questions.

“I’m not focusing on that at all,” he said Tuesday while opening a vaccination site at the 49ers football stadium in Santa Clara.

The string of outdoor events, however, implies that Newsom and his advisors believe he needs to polish up his image as an effective and caring political figure, given the negative tone of the

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recent polls.

That concern has even spread to the White House.

On Tuesday, President Joe Biden’s press secretary, Jen Psaki tweeted, “In addition to sharing a commitment to a range of issues with @Gavin Newsom from addressing the climate crisis to getting the pandemic under control, @POTUS clearly opposes any effort to recall @Gavin Newsom.”

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here are other signs that the recall campaign potentially poses a real threat to Newsom.

The signature-gathering campaign has been attracting some serious financial support and the two Republicans who aspire to succeed Newsom are beginning to joust publicly.

On Monday, John Cox, the Republican businessman whom Newsom defeated to win the governorship in 2018, launched a statewide ad campaign aimed at both Newsom and Republican rival Kevin Faulconer, the former mayor of San Diego.

The 30-second ad, titled “Gavin Faulconer” depicts both Newsom and Faulconer as corrupt politicians, citing Newsom’s infamous attendance at a maskless birthday dinner in Napa and San

in Iraq, Syria and elsewhere; all these assertions were outside Congress’ original intent. Finally, repealing this AUMF is a step toward Congress exercising its Constitutionally mandated War Powers, hopefully to help keep the U.S. out of future prolonged, unwarranted wars.

There is bipartisan Congressional support for repeal. Peace advocates, Veteran’s groups, liberal and conservative have supported repeal; even the conservative Heritage Foundation agrees. But, like a bad penny, this AUMF keeps coming back, escaping repeal in the morass of Washington politics.

We thank Rep. Garamendi for his steadfast support of this effort over several years, including his cosponsorship of last year’s standalone repeal bill introduced by Rep. Barbara Lee of Los Angeles. We urge Rep. Garamendi to continue his efforts, by cosponsoring HR256, this year’s repeal bill also introduced by Rep Lee; and to work with his Congressional colleagues to build on bipartisan support that exists already.

James and Marilee Eusebio, Davis Friends Committee, National Legislation Advocacy Team

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Diego’s purchase of an asbestos-ridden building during Faulconer’s mayoralty.

“It’s time for a fresh start,” the ad says.

“John Cox needs a fresh start after burning piles of cash and repeatedly losing in landslide elections,” Faulconer campaign manager Stephen Puetz fired back.

Both Cox and Faulconer will run as replacements should Newsom be recalled or run against him in 2022 if the recall fails. However, their rivalry could be an impediment to Republican chances.

Were the recall to make the ballot, voters would make two decisions — whether to oust Newsom and, if so, to choose a successor. With low Republican voter registration, the GOP’s most viable strategy would be to have just one candidate and hope for a proliferation of nonRepublicans on the ballot, thereby lowering the number of votes needed for a winning plurality.

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environmental leadership and change but without prioritizing a swift transition to 100% renewable electricity, our state is missing an opportunity to go further, reduce emissions that contribute to climate change and create a model that other states can follow. We can’t fight global warming alone, but we can start the trend.

Climate change is undeniable. Our dependence on fossil fuels has undoubtedly made us more vulnerable to wildfires and extreme temperatures, this past summer has made that clear.

We rely too much on fossil fuels to provide for our energy needs, this is especially disappointing as we have so many other options, wind and solar energies among them. Clean energy is the future.

The consequences of climate inaction are already having a detrimental effect on our everyday lives.

The solution is clear, we must prioritize renewable sources of energy, and we must do it sooner rather than later. SB 100 laid the foundation for this necessary transition by 2045, but it is not aggressive enough.

Gov. Gavin Newsom should enact an executive order that will allow us to achieve a carbon-pollution free power sector by 2030.

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BY GLORIA PARTIDA AND DAN CARSON Special to The Enterprise

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ast month marked an important occasion — the completion of the reconstruction of a 1.3-mile section of bike path on the south side of Russell Boulevard from Highway 113 west to the city edge.

Long regarded as one of the worst stretches of pavement in our bike-path system, the city partnered with the UC Davis campus to build a new, smooth, well-marked bike and pedestrian path on campus property safely away from the trees roots that turned the old pathway into a bumpy obstacle course.

Meanwhile, the city will move forward in April with a $1 million bikepath project in North Davis. An almost $3 million pavement rehabilitation package including slurry-seal treatment of residential streets as well as grinding and overlay of new pavement on D, E and Eighth streets is also scheduled this spring.

More such projects for roads and bike paths are in the offing because of the City Council’s adoption last October of an $84 million 10-year funding plan designed to measurably improve the condition of our almost 218 miles of pavement.

Our pavement will get better. The council formally reaffirmed its goal of improving the “pavement condition index” for roads and bike paths to values that are more in line with the pavement conditions in neighboring communities and the statewide average. The council adopted a 10-year funding plan identifying and earmarking the level of resources our independent expert engineering consultant determined was needed to achieve those goals. The council then

COMMENTARY directed city staff to return with 2020-21 budget adjustments consistent with that plan.

Our consultant had initially estimated that we would have $53 million available over 10 years to complete the $84 million in work that would be needed to meet those pavement improvement goals. This estimate includes making full use of about $1.3 million in annual revenues from the 2017 state gas tax increase (known as SB 1) for pavement rehabilitation, as is already the city’s practice.

The council directed the two of us, working as a council subcommittee with city staff and the chair of the city Finance and Budget Commission, to find the rest of the money. We met about every two or three weeks from January through October 2020 to hammer out a list of credible actions to fully address the remaining $31 million funding gap. The solution list is explained in great detail in the Oct. 27 city staff reports but briefly summarized here.

Notably, the plan does not increase tax rates on Davis residents but assumes that a relatively small share of the $31 million would come from future revenue from local economic development.

No current program or infrastructure project would lose funding and other important transportation projects and program would be unaffected.

However, because this plan reprioritizes city funding to this core and critical infrastructure, it could slow commitments for new programs and projects.

Specifically, the plan takes into account prior council decisions providing money for fixing our pavement that had gone unrecognized in previous

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City crews work on the Russell bike path in October. Below, once finished, the new path presents smooth asphalt for riders. consultant modeling, such as $300,000 per year approved in the past to offset road damage from garbage trucks. General Fund “baseline” commitment to roads, unchanged for the last seven years, will increase with the overall growth in General Fund revenues, with a $1.2 million bump in annual funding after the COVID-19 recession is over.

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bout $500,000 a year in other transportation and gas tax revenues will be prioritized for pavement work as state law allows. Another $2.8 million of $13 million in uncommitted community enhancement funds from previously approved developments will go to “fix it first” pavement projects that will benefit residents who live in or near those projects as well as the city as a whole.

The plan institutes best practices to reduce the cost to taxpayers for fixing our pavement, including a moratorium on “trench cuts” on recently paved streets and roads and updated permit fees to offset damage to streets when such work does occur. City

crews will patch potholes reported by our citizens before damage worsens and escalates pavement rehabilitation costs.

The plan provides the funding needed to carry out a mix of pavement rehabilitation techniques, ranging from slurry seal to surface reconstruction with hot mix asphalt, coldin-place recycling and fulldepth reconstruction of failing pavement, depending on the needs of the particular road or pathway segment.

New systems of accountability and transparency will ensure the public

knows that the plan is being followed over time and, if not, why not. Staff will regularly audit road and bike path expenditures and carefully assess whether sufficient city staffing is in place to deliver pavement projects.

The FBC is charged with taking an active role in ensuring that this plan is implemented faithfully and to the extent city finances allow.

This plan does not solve all our city’s infrastructure and fiscal challenges.

Given the limits in available funding, it will significantly reduce, but not

eliminate, a backlog of road and bike path work that accumulated over many years. It will take 10 years to carry out this plan; obviously not everyone’s favorite piece of pavement will improve overnight.

However, in the midst of a pandemic and severe recession, our City Council has made a significant commitment to improve our transportation infrastructure and the city’s overall financial condition.

— Gloria Partida is the mayor of Davis and Dan Carson is a member of the Davis City Council.

Survey shows that local governments need help

BY MARLON G. BOARNET, SEVA RODNYANSKY AND ANDRE COMANDON

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are to be the foundation of a strong recovery, they need support that goes beyond plugging budgetary holes and boosts their ability to perform their essential tasks.

From October through December, we surveyed budget officers across 29 California counties in the Central Valley and San Francisco Bay Area, home to about 35% of the state’s population. Officials from 94 government agencies responded, representing 36 cities, 51 school districts and 7 counties or county transportation agencies.

Budgets are strained. Twenty percent of local governments that answered the survey stated that they will not balance their budget this year, and another 20% might not. Sixty-seven percent of the respondents said their government has used or plans to use reserve funds to bridge budget gaps.

Yet reserves have not been enough: 61% of surveyed governments have reduced services or deferred capital expenditures

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alifornia’s hospitals have been stretched to capacity, many workers are unemployed and their benefits are running out. Local governments — often the first source for help in difficult times — are also struggling.

Local governments are on the front line when it comes to getting vaccines into arms, reopening schools, testing and contact tracing, maintaining public safety, and caring for the poor and homeless.

Together with UC Davis’ Center for Regional Change, our research group at the USC Price School of Public Policy and Occidental College surveyed local governments to understand the impact of COVID-19 on their fiscal condition. The results show that California’s local governments need help now. They face a dual crisis from the pandemic: increasing demand for services and reduced staffing and budgetary capacity to meet those demands. If local governments

or maintenance. One in 10 respondents have furloughed or laid off personnel.

One city reported furloughing part-time workers and leaving open police department positions unfilled. Another city reduced post-employment benefits payments, deferred cost of living increases and instituted a hiring freeze. These and other cost-cutting moves are directly related to the pandemic and are not the result of spendthrift practices or mismanagement.

The survey revealed no relationship between pre-pandemic fiscal condition and current budgetary pressures.

At the same time, local governments have had to increase some services to fight the pandemic. One school district replied that they had to hire additional staff to cope with COVID-19 health and safety requirements. Another school district purchased tablet computers for students forced into home-schooling but without the means to purchase or access a computer. These are among numerous examples of local governments spending more to

provide key services to their constituents. Today, they have the vital but added burden of administering vaccines.

Our schools, cities and counties are facing a sudden loss of revenues coupled with a rapid increase in their responsibilities.

However, state and federal COVID-19 assistance has not recognized their pivotal role.

Washington, D.C., did not include any funds for state and local government assistance in the December renewal of stimulus funds. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed economic recovery plan provides nothing for cities and counties, though it does propose $450 per pupil for school districts to reinstate inperson instruction. However, this does not help the school districts struggling to balance remote instruction, reopening and the health of students and staff alike.

These omissions ignore a pressing need.

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rollout, and cities need funds to protect first responders and fund public health initiatives, the state and federal government have given little help. Local governments have already tapped reserve funds, deferred expenses and reduced services.

As new legislative sessions begin in Sacramento and Washington, the needs of our cities, counties and schools should be front and center. Without financial assistance from the state and federal governments, our localities face a prolonged deterioration of their budgets at precisely the moment when we need them the most.

— Marlon G. Boarnet is professor of urban planning in the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy. Seva Rodnyansky is assistant professor of urban and environmental policy at Occidental College. Andre Comandon is postdoctoral scholar in the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy. They wrote this for CalMatters, a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California's Capitol works and why it matters.

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Personal responsibility Dear Annie: This letter is a message to “Fed Up,” the reader whose husband dotes on their daughters. She needs to know that her husband, as well-meaning as he is, is NOT doing your daughters any favors. I know this all too well by example. My mother never learned to be independent. From her earliest childhood, my grandparents took care of my mother and father: Paying for their mortgage, bailing them out when they got into monetary trouble because of my father, and so much more.

Grandma continued this practice after my Grandpa passed, until the day she passed away. I was informed by Grandma, who I loved dearly, on my 16th birthday, that she expected me to grow up and fill her shoes. I was expected to take care of my mother, as she knew very well that my mother wasn’t capable of it.

I quietly refused and moved several hundred miles away.

Upon Grandma’s passing, I was shocked to learn that she had gone through six figures in money taking care of my mother. My mother did inherit a little money from Grandma, had my father’s pension and her own Social Security and other tiny incomes — enough that, if she were careful, she could have lived comfortably to the end. Instead, she spent it on cruises, trips and other expensive things.

In the end, she passed utterly penniless; her home was foreclosed upon because she ignored the property taxes that Grandma had always paid, and she neglected to have things repaired in the house that needed repairing. When she was evicted, she had no heat and no hot water.

Is this an extreme case? Likely, but it is also what could happen if “Fed Up’s” husband doesn’t make

Legals@DavisEnterprise.net his “little girls” grow up. Show him my letter and ask him this: What will happen to them when you and I are gone? — Saw It Before

Dear Saw It Before: Thank you for your letter. You give some stark examples of what can happen when you give and give without teaching your children personal responsibility.

——— Dear Annie: I’m very much in love with a man three years younger than me, and we are getting married in this month. We are both in our 60s. He is an incredible man. His wife of 32 years died four years ago, and I’ve been widowed for 10 years.

My issue is that he still has pictures of his wife with him on vacation, on cruises and sports events, and a huge portrait of them that hangs in the den.

Am I being crazy? This bothers me a little, but I don’t know how to approach him about it. He placed a picture of the two of us right next to a picture of him with his late wife. I own my own house, and he owns his house, and the plan is for me to move into his house. Should I let this go? It is absolutely the only thing that gets to me about our relationship.

Help!

— Picture’s Worth 1,000 Words Dear Picture: His wife of 32 years is a part of what made him special

— the person you love. At the same time, it is not fair to you to be reminded all the time about his late wife. I would let him know your feelings. Perhaps, as you move in, you could agree to have one photo of you and your late husband and one photo of him and his late wife, along with photos of the two of you.

The other photos can be saved in boxes and albums, so you will both have them to see whenever you want, but neither of you will be forced to focus on the past. You did not mention children. If there are photos of his late wife with their children or of your late husband with your children, then you might agree on a compromise for displaying them — or giving them to the children.

He sounds like a very reasonable man, and if you have this conversation before you are married, my guess is that he will understand. Congrats on finding true love.

Video conferencing tips Dear Annie: Throughout the pandemic, I’ve noted some things that make for a successful Zoom or FaceTime call. Perhaps these suggestions will be of use to your readers.

1. Look at yourself on your screen. What you see is what others will see.

2. Do not sit with a window or other bright light behind you. You

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: January 21, 2021 FBN Number: F20210063 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) Gold Oak Partnership 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California.

Business is located in Yolo County.

16730 Road 85B Esparto, CA 95627 Mailing address: 1412 Olympic Dr. Davis, CA 95616 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip David Scheuring 1412 Olympic Dr. Davis, CA 95616 and: Jose L. Melendez 16680 Omega St. Esparto, CA 95627 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: April 1, 2017 “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): David Scheuring 1/24, 1/31, 2/7, 2/14 1134

name or names listed above on: N/A “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): Jeffrey Lee 1/31, 2/7, 2/14, 2/21 1140

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: January 7, 2021 FBN Number: F20210020 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) DMSSTUDIO 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California.

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1110 Gum Ave., Suite A2 Woodland, CA 95695 Mailing address: 16 Meadowbreeze Court Sacramento, CA 95823 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Mariah Alejandra Gonzalez 1109 McKinley Ave. Woodland, CA 95695 and Daisy Karina Calderon 16 Meadowbreeze Court Sacramento, CA 95823 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: FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME November 1, 2020 STATEMENT “I declare that all information in Filed: January 22, 2021 this statement is true and correct.”

FBN Number: F20210065 (A registrant who declares as true 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) information which he or she knows to be Alta Quality Painting Inc false is guilty of a crime.)

2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of 6. Signature of Registrant(s): Principal Place of Business in California. Daisy Calderon Business is located in Yolo County.

1/31, 2/7, 2/14, 2/21 1142 2225 Glacier Dr. #67 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME Davis, CA 95616 STATEMENT Mailing address: P.O. Box 1163 Filed: January 26, 2021 Davis, CA 95617 FBN Number: F20210074 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) Residence Address, State, and Zip Davis Cards + Games Christian Altamirano 2. Street Address, City, State and 2225 Glacier Dr. #67 Zip of Principal Place of Business in Davis, CA 95616 California. Business is located in Yolo 4. Business Classification: Corporation County.

5. Beginning Date of Business: The 654 G Street Registrant(s) commenced to transact Davis, CA 95616 business under the fictitious business Mailing address: name or names listed above on: 1 6XWWHQ¿HOG 5RDG January 12, 2021 $FDPSR &$ “I declare that all information in 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), this statement is true and correct.” Residence Address, State, and Zip (A registrant who declares as true Three Eight information which he or she knows to be 6XWWHQ¿HOG 5RDG false is guilty of a crime.) $FDPSR &$ 6. Signature of Registrant(s): %XVLQHVV &ODVVL¿FDWLRQ Christian Altamirano, President &RUSRUDWLRQ 1/24, 1/31, 2/7, 2/14 1135 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME EXVLQHVV XQGHU WKH ¿FWLWLRXV EXVLQHVV STATEMENT name or names listed above on: Filed: January 25, 2021 February 1, 2016 FBN Number: F20210067 “I declare that all information in 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) this statement is true and correct.”

Heritage Oak Woodworking (A registrant who declares as true 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of information which he or she knows to Principal Place of Business in California. be false is guilty of a crime.)

Business is located in Yolo County.

6. Signature of Registrant(s): 2416 Bates Drive 0HOLVVD 6KRZDOWHU Davis, CA 95618 7KUHH (LJKW 2ZQHU 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), 1/31, 2/7, 2/14, 2/21 1144 Residence Address, State, and Zip Jeffrey Lee 2416 Bates Drive Davis, CA 95618 4. Business Classification: Individual 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business

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3. Have the light or window facing you from higher, beyond the laptop, or up to 45 degrees off to the side.

4. Incandescent lights are warmer and make you look more alive. Natural window light alone, particularly if snow is on the ground, can make you look ghostly pale blue.

5. Place your laptop on a table to keep it from moving around to dizzy others. TV tray tables work.

6. Sit close enough so your head nearly fills the screen and you are recognizable.

7. Adjust the screen/camera angle to include your full face, preferably from nearly the same level to eliminate facial distortions and dominant ceilings. Sitting on extra cushions can sometimes help.

8. If there are two of you making the call together from one device, sit close enough so both faces show equally.

9. Check your background for distracting clutter.

— Harvey V. Dear Harvey: Thanks for the tips on Zooming like a pro.

——— Dear Annie: We have two grown sons, whom I will call “Tim” and “Tom.” One is our biological son and the other is adopted. They are a few years apart and live just a few miles apart. When they were growing

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up, they were somewhat close, but they have been estranged for a number of years. There was never really a falling out or major disagreement between them or anything like that. Tim has expressed that he’s worried that Tom will take advantage of him in looking for job connections. Tom says he doesn’t want to make the first move because he says he always has to make the first move in communicating. So nothing happens. They have never communicated the reasons to each other. It was very awkward on Christmas when we did a FaceTime call together.

I’m very hurt because of this.

My one desire is for them to be close. This bothers me a lot. Do I just let things go on as they are, or should I make some effort to get them together?

— Mom with a Last Wish Dear Last Wish: I feel for you.

Every parent wishes for their children to have special lifelong bonds with their siblings. But your sons are adult men with their own lives and beliefs. You can’t force them to be closer. And trying to do so will only drive them further from you. Continue to create spaces to gather as a family, even if it’s just virtual for now, and even if it’s awkward.

Hopefully, in time, that ice will thaw a bit. In the meantime, focus on your relationships with each of them individually.

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STORAGE LIEN SALE

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There will be a lien sale at Central Davis Storage, 300 Pole Line Rd., Davis, CA, 95618 on: Tuesday, March 2nd, at 11 AM. This and enforcement is authorized by Division 8, Chapter 10 of the California Business & Professions Code, commencing without warranty or guarantee for Cash only.

Purchased items must be removed from the property immediately following the sale.

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL #02-2021 Turnkey Furniture Supplier

Davis Joint Unified School District (“District”) is requesting a turnkey furniture supplier utilizing cooperative pricing to provide design, project management and furniture solutions to the District for new furniture for new construction, expansion, modernization, and/or renovation projects (“Project”, “Projects”, or “Project(s)” relating to the The personal property stored with the District’s facilities development of its undersigned by: Luka Sandoval public schools under the Measure “M” Unit G-13 Bond Program (“Program”). Furniture 1) Large suitcase, 2) Foam mattress, solutions are required for the Early 3) One box household items.

Learning Center at Korematsu Campus, Bond # 0342850 Emerson Jr. High Science Classrooms, 2/7, 2/14 1147 DA Vinci Charter High School Tech Hub, NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER Elementary School Multi-Purpose Rooms ESTATE OF at Birch Lane ES, Cesar Chavez ES, North Davis ES, and Willett ES, and the Davis Salvadore Saragoza, Jr. Senior High School STEM building.

CASE NO. PR2021-0023 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, At this time, the District is requesting contingent creditors, and persons who proposals for design, project may otherwise be interested in the will or management and furniture solutions estate, or both, of: Salvador Saragoza, Jr. from respondents interested in being A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed considered for the Projects noted above by: Annette S. Saragoza in the Superior under this Program. Based upon the Court of California, County of: Yolo information presented in the Proposals, THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests the District’s Selection Committee will that: Annette S. Saragoza be appointed choose to contract with one or more as personal representative to administer vendor(s) who operate in the educational the estate of the decedent. market segment and demonstrate the THE PETITION requests authority most qualified capability to provide to administer the estate under the turnkey services and the greatest overall Independent Administration of Estates benefit to the District.

Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions The Request for Proposals (“RFP”), which without obtaining court approval. Before includes instructions for its completion, taking certain very important actions, is available from the District’s website however, the personal representative will at the following link: https://djusd.net/ be required to give notice to interested departments/capital_operations/capital_ persons unless they have waived notice improvement or consented to the proposed action.)

Respondents to this RFP shall submit The independent administration a completed Proposal by email authority will be granted unless an attachment in pdf format conforming interested person files an objection to to the requirements of this RFP to: the petition and shows good cause why DAVIS JOINT UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT the court should not grant the authority.

1919 Fifth Street Davis, CA 95616 A HEARING on the petition will be ATTN: David Burke, held on March 23, 2021 at 9:00 a.m.

Director of Capital Operations Dept.: N/A located at 1000 Main Street, RE: RFP #02-2021 Woodland, CA 95695.

Dburke@djusd.net IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of & amy@visionsmgmt.com the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file Questions regarding this RFP may written objections with the court before be directed to both David Burke the hearing. Your appearance may be in (dburke@djusd.net) and Amy Garber person or by your attorney. amy@visionsmgmt.com and must be IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent submitted in writing on or by 5:00:00 PM creditor of the decedent, you must file on Tuesday, February 16, 2021. your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed Answers will be emailed and posted on by the court within the later of either the District website on Friday, February (1) four months from the date of first 19, 2021. issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) ALL RESPONSES ARE DUE ON OR BY of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 5:00:00 PM ON Friday, February 26, 2021. days from the date of mailing or personal Proposals received after this date and delivery to you of a notice under section time will not be accepted and will be 9052 of the California Probate Code. returned unopened.

Other California statutes and legal 2/10, 2/14 1151 authority may affect your rights as FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME a creditor. You may want to consult STATEMENT with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

Filed: January 5, 2021 YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the FBN Number: F20210006 court. If you are a person interested in 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) the estate, you may file with the court a BW ENTERPRISES Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of of the filing of an inventory and appraisal Principal Place of Business in California. of estate assets or of any petition or Business is located in Yolo County. account as provided in Probate Code 1811 Palm Place section 1250. A Request for Special Notice Davis, CA 95618 form is available from the court clerk.

3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Signed: Residence Address, State, and Zip Michael T. Holy Benjamin Murray Wollrich Attorney for petitioner 1811 Palm Place Sacramento, CA 95818 Davis, CA 95618 916-542-1867 4. Business Classification: Individual 2/7, 2/10, 2/14 1150 5. Beginning Date of Business: The

Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: December 1, 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): Benjamin Wollrich 1/31, 2/7, 2/14, 2/21 1141 PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF AGREEMENT TO PURCHASE TAX DEFAULTED PROPERTY FOR CITY OF WEST SACRAMENTO NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, in accordance with the provisions of Division 1, Part 6, Chapter 8 of the California Revenue and Taxation Code (and the written authorization of the State Controller), that an agreement, a copy of which is on file in the office of the board of supervisors of Yolo County, and in the office of the city clerk of the City of West Sacramento, has been made between the county board of supervisors and the City of West Sacramento, and approved by the State Controller, whereby the county will sell the real property described in the agreement and in this notice. All property named in the agreement is subject to the tax collector’s power to sell tax defaulted property.

The effective date and time of the agreement shall be March 8, 2021, at 12:01 AM. If the property is not redeemed according to law before the effective date and time of the agreement, the right of redemption will cease and the undersigned tax collector, pursuant to said agreement, will sell said property to City of West Sacramento.

If the property is sold, parties of interest as defined in California Revenue and Taxation Code section 4675, have a right to file a claim with the county for any excess proceeds from the sale. Excess proceeds are the amount of the highest bid in excess of the liens and costs of the sale that are required to be paid from the sale proceeds.

Notice will be given to parties of interest, pursuant to California Revenue and Taxation Code section 3692(e), if excess proceeds result from the sale.

For information as to the amount necessary to redeem or other related issues pertaining to the property described in this notice, contact the Revenues Division of Yolo County in the State of California.

PARCEL NUMBERING SYSTEM EXPLANATION The Assessor’s Parcel Number (APN), when used to describe property in this list, refers to the assessor’s map book, the map page, the block on the map (if applicable), and the individual parcel on the map page or in the block. The assessor’s maps and further explanation of the parcel numbering system are available in the assessor’s office.

The properties that are the subject of this notice are situated in Yolo County, California, and are described as follows: APN LAST ASSESSEE 046-531-031-000 Ryder Allfam Properties I certify (or declare), under penalty of perjury, that the foregoing is true and correct. ______________________ Yolo County Tax Collector State of California Executed at Woodland, California, on January 13, 2021 Published in The Davis Enterprise on February 14th , 21st and 28th, 2021 1153

Sports

B8 THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

Briefly Devils dominate first XC meet ELK GROVE — In a small-pack outing, both Davis High varsity cross country teams won their debut meets on the road on Friday.

It was a 1-2-3-4 finish for the Blue Devil boys as Zachary Ayers’ 15:38 took top honors. Diego Perez kicked home in second (15:43) with Ansel Tucker third (16:08) and Ryan Mitchell fourth (17:22).

Jason Karim (21:24) and Jacob Nolberg (30:36) rounded out the DHS scoring.

For the girls, Corrine DeJong opened 2021 with a second-place (20:59), 20 seconds behind Elk Grove’s Abigail Ribet.

Norah Furtado (22:12), Abby Carroll (22:22) and Vivian Lee (23:07) took the next three spots as only eight girls ran.

First-place Devil Connor Cougevan covered the 2.16-mile frosh-soph boys course in 12:37. There was no frosh-soph girls division.

Davis races at home Saturday with Sheldon.

Snowboarders open season SODA SPRINGS — Shredding Alpine Meadows last Tuesday, Kurt Fisher, Nicholas Sokolov and Nico Dwyer were Davis High’s top three boys finishers in the first snowboarding competition of the pandemic-plagued season.

For the girls, Georgia Postema made it down the hill first for the Blue Devils.

In a truncated campaign, snowboarders have only three events remaining: Tuesday again at Alpine Meadows and outings Feb. 22 and March 1 at Boreal.

UCD water polo falls to Fresno Sophomore center Noelle Wijnbelt scored four goals while senior Devin Holcomb and freshman Ryan Sund each added two, but No. 16 UC Davis ultimately fell to No. 11 Fresno State in overtime, 12-11, in season-opening collegiate women’s water polo action at Schaal Aquatics Center on Saturday afternoon.

The Aggies open the year at 0-1. The Bulldogs improve to 2-0 overall.

Sophia Noble posted 13 saves and a steal in the UC Davis cage. Tess Fundter, Emily Aikema and Sam Vitt also tallied goals for UC Davis, which returns to action for a twinbill at FSU on Feb. 27.

Sign up for softball clinics Saturday clinics for local softball players will be conducted the next two Saturdays in pods of 10 or fewer (eight or less for 6U registrants).

Signups for the 2021 Davis Youth Softball Association season end Feb. 21 with the season beginning Feb. 28 and running through May 16.

Coach training will be conducted on Feb. 27 with umpire instruction being held March 6 (sessions are 1-4 p.m. at Community Park).

To register or for more information, visit davisyouthsoftball.org.

Read Mark Brayl’s column at https:// tinyurl.com/tgg6ufwv

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Houston has another problem, or three

W

e have a problem ... in Houston, that is.

It’s been such a stretch of bad road with the pandemic that the Astros’ 2017 cheating scandal has been almost, though not quite, forgotten.

Thanks for that goes to relatively new manager Dusty Baker, who will try yet again for that elusive World Series championship. He will have to do it minus outfielder George Springer, who signed with Toronto as a free agent.

Then it was the NBA Rockets turn. The relationship between team and superstar James Harden became so fractured that neither side could agree on what day it was, much less Harden’s future with the franchise.

So Harden was off-loaded to Brooklyn, where he’s playing with Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving.

Three elite players, one ball. What could possibly go wrong?

Yet for sheer drama, nothing tops the NFL Texans.

Owner Cal McNair, who inherited the team from his late father Bob, currently presides over a franchise whose quarterback, Deshaun Watson, wants to be elsewhere as the team president,

Jamie Rootes, “resigned” after 20 years with the club.

It was Rootes who fired head coach Bill O’Brien five games into last season.

Other talented on- and off-field personnel have either left on their own or been ungraciously shown the door.

Then, two days ago, franchise icon and probably the most popular Houstonian — model citizen defensive end J.J. Watt — asked for and received his release so he could continue what’s left of his brilliant career elsewhere.

Watt is a 10-year veteran who has had injury problems, but still has enough left to help any team.

Watt has donated untold sums of money to various causes in the Houston area and was front and center aiding the recovery after the 2017 floods ravaged the city.

Through his efforts, $41.6 million

was raised.

■ So many of this country’s finest journalists have written touching remembrances of Pedro Gomez, the ESPN.com writer/ broadcaster who passed away a week ago at the way-too-young age of 58.

I did not know Pedro as well as his contemporaries and colleagues, though our paths did cross at times, mainly at Giants games. I’ll always remember his smile.

Pedro never seemed to have a down day, though we all have them. Pedro loved his family and he loved baseball. This, and future seasons, won’t be the same without him.

■ Final postscript to Super Bowl LV: One team protected a 43-year-old quarterback to the extent that his uniform barely needed dry cleaning afterwards.

The other team, unfortunately, minus its two starting tackles, could not protect a 25-year-old quarterback, who spent most of the game running for his life.

Credit also to Bucs defensive coordinator Todd Bowles, whose schemes worked perfectly and kept Kansas City off-kilter all night.

What kind of odds could a wagerer have gotten that the Chiefs would not score a single touchdown?

■ There is nothing like an ultrasteaming hot bowl of chili on a rainy, wet night like we had a few evenings ago.

■ No doubt the NFL office was less-than-pleased when Tom Brady tossed the priceless Vince Lombardi trophy from one boatload of Bucs players to another nearby boatload of Tampa Bay players during the team’s championship “parade.” Wonder if that’s considered a breach of the league’s personal conduct policy?

■ The Center for Disease Control (CDC) is now telling us it’s advisable to wear a “double” mask: one that fits snugly on the face, followed by a cloth mask.

Great advice, but why didn’t they tell us this back in April?

■ Happy Valentine’s Day! — Doug Kelly is director of communications for Battlefields2Ballfields and managing general partner of Kelly & Associates. Kelly also is the longtime radio and television color man on UC Davis football broadcasts. Reach him at dkelly1416@sbcglobal.com.

PEPPER: Both teams rain 3s in contest TIME: Bye week From Page B1 we’re trying to do is really paying off. I don’t know if our team needs a week off, but the coach needs it. It’s a good time to have a break and get everyone healthy.”

UCD gets a bye next weekend.

For his part, 6-4 Washington native Pepper — like a quarterback thanking the offensive line — gave all the credit for his day’s work to his teammates.

“They kept finding me when I was open, and after my first couple of shots went down, I could really feel it. Coach was telling me to be aggressive and the shots just happened to be going in,” said the sophomore guard.

UC Davis was down, 30-19, with five minutes remaining in the first half, but Pepper (with Ezra Manjon on the bench in foul trouble) led a late charge with three long-range bombs to cut the deficit to 38-35 at the half.

Early in the second half the Aggies went on a 12-0 run to take a 51-45 lead and appeared ready

to take control, but The Beach came roaring back to take a 5-point lead entering the final eight minutes of play.

Pepper didn’t blink. His three-pointer tied the game at 65-65 as the teams headed into overtime deadlocked at 67.

UCD never trailed in overtime, but the score was tied twice before Pepper appeared to ice the game with his final trey that gave the Aggies a 78-73 lead with just 10 seconds remaining.

“We were trying to burn as much clock as we could and see if anything opened up,” Pepper explained. “I just happened to get open.”

A 3-pointer by Long Beach’s Romelle Mansel cut the margin to 78-76 in the final three seconds, but it was too little, too late for the visitors.

The Aggies started slowly, hitting just four of their first 18 field goal attempts as Long Beach led throughout the first half.

“We were getting some good looks, but the shots just weren’t falling for us,” said Les.

“We told the kids to just keep at it and do the hard work on defense and sooner or later things would pay off on the offensive end. We didn’t play a great first half, but we were only down by three because of our toughness and tenacity on defense. And that finally created some offense for us.”

Not surprisingly, Les was high in his praise of Pepper.

“He has great confidence in his game and he’s not afraid of the moment, not afraid of the big shot.”

The Aggies resume Big West play with a series at Cal Poly, Feb. 26-27. They don’t return home until March 5-6 to conclude the regular season with two games against Hawaii.

Les, however, said he’s open to scheduling a non-conference game before Cal Poly to avoid a two-week layoff in the middle of the season: “We’ll play anyone anywhere if it makes sense for us to play a game. We’ll just have to see who might be available and how it would work for our guys.”

From Page B1 2-of-12 shooting. This after limiting their opponents to 2 of 16 in the first stanza in Friday’s 67-52 win.

In the next quarter, Davis’ Mazzie Harris buried a trey, sparking her colleagues to a 29-11 lead before the Aggies hit that miserable stretch.

The Beach went on a 10-0 run until Mackenzie Trpcic broke the spell with a 3-pointer just before the horn — the Aggies were still in control, 32-21.

Another all-world performance from Cierra Hall put Davis out of reach after the break.

Hall had 20 points, seven boards and six assists. But it was her 12 points and badgering of Long Beach ball-handlers that propelled the Aggies to a 56-33 advantage going into the last 10 minutes.

Trpcic had 13 points and five assists.

Notes: Evanne Turner hit back-to-back treys to open the Aggie scoring, but while contributing in other areas, didn’t score again. ... Stop the presses! At 2:29 of the fourth quarter, Hall missed a free throw ending her school record of 34 straight charity tosses made. ... Davis has a scheduled bye next week, but the Aggies are shopping for a nonconference outing.

ARMED: UCD is packed with solid players and coaches From Page B1 the Aggie Six Pack: Gunnor Faulk (So. 6-0, 195) — Finished his 2018 CBHS senior year with 1,500 passing yards, 550 rushing. Says Hawkins: “He is a tough kid who is a naturally gifted thrower with a beautiful motion who can improvise or sit in the pocket.

“I’m not going to say he’s Patrick Mahomes, but he’s a guy who can make different throws from different platforms. Here’s a guy the team rallies around and loves.”

Miles Hastings (R-Fr., 6-1, 180) — An accomplished pianist, he found time to throw for 50 touchdowns his last two seasons as a prep. Says Hawkins: “He’s the musician of the team and a bigtime, cerebral kid. He’s very nice, but hyper-competitive. Respectful, intelligent, but as competitive as they get.”

Grant Harper (Fr., 6-2, 200) — Fifty-four TDs on 5,170 yards

passing for the one-time Eagle 5,001 yards as a senior (both Scout in his junior and senior years Central High records). Says at Campolindo. Says Hawkins: Hawkins: “The Magic Man. He’s “Very detailed. A great leader. He is just another guy who is used to bulldog-tough. He’s a great local winning. He’s a 4.0 student in high (recruit) and we’re really excited school. Fits the Davis mold. about his future.”

“He’s a guy that just makes plays.

Hunter Rodrigues (Jr., 6-0, 180) He’s very comfortable in our offense.

He’s super— As an Aggie, the former exciting. Very exciting.”

ARC quarterback has played in six games (12-ofMitchell Dixon (Fr., 6-4, 22, 126 yards, TD). Says 210) — Thirty-six scores Hawkins: “Ah, the wily ol’ and 3,400 yards passing in vet who’s not really a vet. his final two seasons at He’s a local kid who’s had a Rio. His last prep pass was ton of success in explosive a game-winning Hail offenses (at Whitney Mary. Says Hawkins: “He’s High).

HAWKINS the local hidden gem. He’s “Having that veteran UCD QB coach got all the talent and measurables that you look presence … he knows what we’ve done here and what it should for in a quarterback. He’s brandlook like. He studied under Jake a new and raw, but he’s smart and lot and he knows the guys. He’s as athletic. steady as they come.”

“If does things the right way, he Trent Tompkins (R-Fr., 6-0, has a chance to be one of the greats 220) — Led the Grizzlies to three here.” straight league titles while Hawkins promises there are no throwing for 65 touchdowns on big changes in the Aggie style of

offense, and he sees that attack as a collaborative effort ...

“Plough was one of the best coaches I’ve ever been around. But Mark Speckman is on staff. He’s a huge influence in what we do on offense. Paul Shelton is our tight ends coach, and our offensive line coach is Mike Cody. They have all been offensive coordinators before.

“We have a lot of guys who are really good football coaches ... and they’ve all had a lot of input in what we’re doing,” continued the former Colorado quarterback.

“There’s not going to be a shift in what we’re doing. Things won’t change as far as what fans are to expect from the Aggies — a multiple-personnel team that can play with great tempo.”

Now, to pick the right field general ...

— Reach DE sports editor Bruce Gallaudet at 530-320-4456 or bgallaudet41@gmail.com.

Follow Gallaudet on Twitter: @BGsportsinDavis.

DUNNING: Sports will never be played the same again From Page B1 And finally, the word “touchdown,” sends the wrong message to COVID-conscious fans, so it will now be known as a “no-touch down” to encourage people to keep their hands clean.

In basketball, a game where several dozen players may touch the same ball during the course of a game, a series of rotating balls will be used. When a team comes up with a defensive rebound, a designated bench-rider will immediately toss a new, sanitized ball into play, even during a fast break.

Track and field is in for some changes as well.

In the mile run, which is making a comeback of sorts, the first athlete to lead by at least 6 feet will be declared the winner since it will be against COVID protocols for any other runner to reduce that distance.

T

o avoid excessive touching, all schools will employ a single-use shot that consists of a 16-pound dirt clod that explodes on impact.

Sand in the long jump and triple jump pits will be changed after every use.

At the start of a tennis match, each player will be given just one ball — one orange and the other yellow — for his or her exclusive

use. No one else may touch that ball, except with the strings of a racket.

Baseball will be subject to few changes, given that there are only nine players occupying a 10-acre field, so social distancing is rarely a problem.

Spitting, which for unknown reasons is integral to the game, will be allowed only in the on-deck circle, and then only if the wind is blowing away from the dugout.

The umpire and the catcher are both heavily masked already, and the batter’s helmet will be retrofitted to include an N-95 mask that can halt a 95 mile-perhour fastball dead in its tracks.

Soccer will be reduced to just

two players per team, a goalie and a striker. Each match will consist of a best-of-three, five-shot shootout. The same for lacrosse, field hockey and cornhole.

Golf, the most socially distanced sport known to man, will undergo no changes thanks to a springloaded gadget that automatically ejects the ball once it has successfully been putted into the cup.

All the above changes have been designed with player safety in mind, so complaints will fall on deaf ears.

Let the games begin.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.