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Teachers eligible for vaccine

County may be a week away from red tier

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer Teachers and farmworkers are among those now eligible for COVID-19 vaccination at Yolo County clinics.

The county announced Tuesday that while large healthcare providers in the county are not yet expanding eligibility to essential workers in Phase 1B, Tier 1, the county will be doing so effective this week.

Previously the county was providing vaccines only for healthcare workers and those 65 and over, but many have been pressuring the county to move farmworkers and teachers, among others, into the eligible pool.

The county will now do so, beginning by offering a limited number of appointments this week for frontline workers who live or work in Yolo County, with more clinics to be announced next week.

The newly eligible group includes those who work in education, childcare, emergency services, and the food and agricultural industries.

The county’s announcement said anyone in those groups could register for this Saturday’s clinic in Woodland using the link on the county’s vaccine webpage, www.yolocounty.org/ coronavirus-vaccine or by calling 2-1-1.

However, the link indicated

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer

“For this reason, the county asks for continued patience at this time during the vaccine

Yolo County may be a week away from a return to the red tier based on numbers released by the state on Tuesday.

The county’s adjusted COVID-19 case rate was 6.6, the lowest it has been since the fall and below the threshold of 7 required for the red tier.

Additionally, both the test positivity rate of 1.8 percent and health equity quartile rate of 5.7 percent meet the red tier benchmarks.

The county must meet the red tier’s metrics for two consecutive weeks to move into that tier. The soonest that could occur is Feb. 24.

So what does moving to the red tier mean?

All schools — elementary, junior high and high school — can reopen for in-person instruction once a county has been in the red tier for at least five consecutive days, provided school districts decide to do so.

The Davis Joint Unified School District has set its own criteria for reopening schools, including the county remaining in the red tier for two weeks before reopening and all teachers having the opportunity to be vaccinated.

Also with a move to the red tier, many local businesses can resume

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With the vaccines here, focus has moved on to equitable distribution. the clinic was sold out as of noon on Tuesday. More clinics will be scheduled.

Dignity Health and Yolo County will also partner on specialized clinics to quickly vaccinate teachers and school staff already in the classroom or on campus along with emergency services personnel, including law enforcement.

For farmworkers, the county will conduct a pilot vaccine clinic for 200 workers at a local farm in Yolo County on Wednesday. Following the pilot, additional farmworker clinics will be scheduled at various worksites.

Yolo County has at least 19,000 frontline workers in the education, childcare, emergency

services, and food and agricultural industries, so how quickly the vaccine timeline goes will be reliant on the supply of vaccine doses from the California Department of Public Health.

July trial set in UCD visa-fraud case

School board to hear virus update

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of that ongoing saga.

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Staff will provide an update to the school board about the status of COVID19 in Yolo County, and also learn more about the Healthy Davis Together initiative (primarily sponsored by UC Davis).

Enterprise staff writer A federal judge set a July trial date last week for Juan Tang, a former visiting researcher at UC Davis, who is charged with visa fraud and lying to the FBI about her alleged connections to the Chinese military.

Tang was arrested in San Francisco last July amid rising tensions between the United States and China.

The same month, U.S. officials ordered the closure of the Chinese consulate in Houston, accusing diplomats of economic espionage and trying to steal scientific research. At least

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two other Chinese researchers at California universities were arrested TANG on similar Trial begins charges. on July 12 The cases made national headlines.

Tang has pleaded not guilty. She was indicted in August and held in the Sacramento County Main Jail for a month before being released on bail. Tang’s bond was not paid in cash but was guaranteed by Steven X. Cui, a local attorney,

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who agreed to let Tang live with his family and guarantee her appearance at court hearings. Cui is liable for $750,000.

On Feb. 8, Tang appeared in federal court in Sacramento for a scheduled jury trial. District Judge John A. Mendez vacated the trial and ordered Tang to return for a status conference on April 6, a trial confirmation hearing on June 1, and a jury trial on July 12 at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California.

Tang is accused of concealing her alleged ties to the Chinese military when

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Old Aggie spirit won’t be denied W

HERE THERE’S A WILL, THERE’S A WAY ... As we all know, even in those sports that are allowed to go forward on the UC Davis campus, no fans are allowed. This rule is strictly enforced.

However, Aggie fans are a diehard bunch who don’t like to take “no” for an answer.

So, when the UCD women’s softball team opened its home season last weekend at their beautiful La Rue Field diamond, their loyal fans climbed the outfield fence using benches and stepladders and each other’s shoulders and any other elevating device available. One creative chap even stood on the frame of his bicycle.

Shades of the old Knothole Gang of baseball lore, it warmed my Aggie heart to see such dedication.

(Enterprise ace Owen Yancher captured the scene.)

several other senators indicated they felt he was guilty as charged, but couldn’t be convicted because he was no longer in office.

I don’t have a dictionary handy, but I suspect a 57-43 loss does not fit the definition of “vindication.”

overwhelmingly negative. So certain was I of the outcome that I offered to happily eat crow in the town square at high noon if I turned out to be wrong.

This caused many folks to ask “How do you like your crow prepared, Bob?” to which I had no answer.

A “Noni,” who claims to be living in a foreign land, suggested I substitute pintade for crow, but I promised to stay true to my word.

Alas, the crows of Davis are in no danger of ending up on my plate. Or in my stomach.

SOMETHING TO CROW ABOUT ... Before the impeachment trial in the United States Senate, I expressed the opinion that it was simply not possible for Donald Trump to be convicted.

The reaction to that opinion was swift and certain and

SIMPLE MATH ... Sources in Mar-a-Lago (the guy manning the sprinklers on the 17th green) report that Donald Trump is feeling vindicated by his most recent acquittal and is even talking about running for president again in 2024.

BOARD: Trustees to get a rundown of COVID statistics From Page A1 It is expected that elementary school activities including robotics, gardening, book clubs and running clubs will start to resume sometime soon. And at the high school level, a variety of athletic teams are resuming their activities on a limited basis, while the high school robotics program is fearing up for participation in a “virtual” online competitive event.

The update will include a recap of statistics stemming from the big surge of the COVID-19 virus during January, when 10 school staffers and 49 school district students tested positive for the virus (during a time when students and teachers were not getting together in classrooms).

The update is also expected to include a presentation describing the recent decline in the number of newly diagnosed COVID-19 cases in Yolo County, the current decline in the test-positivity rate for the virus in Yolo County, and the current status of local vaccination efforts being conducted locally by public health authorities.

The current status of several “variants” of the COVID-19 virus

that are now turning up more and more frequently in Northern California will be discussed.

Some of these variants are considered to be more transmissible than the original version of the virus, and can also be more deadly in certain individuals as well. It is likely that the school board trustees may pose a number of questions to staff regarding the impact that the reopening of school classrooms might involve at a time when these new variants of the virus are spreading through Yolo County’s population.

Thursday’s school board meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 18. Since the school board meeting will be taking place online (with the trustees and staff participating from a variety of different locations), it is not possible to attend the meeting in person (meeting participants will not be present together in the same room).

The meeting will be carried live on Davis cable television Channel 17, and will also be carried online as live streaming video on school district website djusd.tv. The meeting will also be available for viewing on demand as archived video on the djusd.tv website.

CAMPAIGN MESSAGE ...

When and if private citizen Trump hits the campaign trail once again, I’m sure he’ll show a stirring video of the January 6 rioters and remind everyone that he loves the folks depicted because they are “very special.”

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It wasn’t a great view, but it was a view. Aggie softball fans just wouldn’t miss out on the action.

Given that the final vote on the question of whether our former president committed High Crimes and Misdemeanors was 57 “guilty” and just 43 “not guilty,” it’s clear Mr. Trump is not a math wiz.

Seven of those guilty votes came from Trump’s own party, and

VOTING IS FOR SUCKERS ...

The Republican chair of Arizona’s House Ways and Means Committee has introduced a bill that would give the legislature the authority to override the secretary of state’s certification of its electoral votes, according to a report

by Dartunorro Clark of NBC News.

The bill was introduced by Rep. Shawnna Bolick and grants the legislature the right to overturn the will of the voters “any time before the presidential inauguration.”

I am not making this up.

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Dodd introduces to-go cocktail-sales legislation Special to The Enterprise SACRAMENTO — State Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, introduced legislation on Feb. 11 that throws a lifeline to California restaurants struggling to survive the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic by allowing them to sell to-go cocktails as part of take-out and delivery food orders.

“Keeping small businesses alive while they do their part to observe COVID-19 restrictions is of paramount importance,” Dodd said. “If allowing restaurants to sell carryout cocktails alongside a meal helps keep their doors open, we must do it.

Ultimately, it’s about preserving jobs and getting our economy back on track.”

Senate Bill 389 comes as restaurants nationwide experience an estimated $165 billion in losses since March because of lockdowns and social-distancing requirements to stop the spread of coronavirus. A survey by the National Restaurant Association found 78% of restaurant owners who began selling take-out alcohol rehired laid-off employees compared to 62% overall. At

least 33 states including California are temporarily allowing the sale of to-go cocktails during the pandemic.

To ensure the economic recovery of California restaurants, SB 389 would make permanent the practice currently allowed by the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. Under the legislation, no alcoholic drinks may be sold unless accompanied by food. And the proposal calls for appropriate safeguards enforced by ABC to ensure alcohol is not sold to minors.

Dodd, who is chair of the Senate Governmental Organization committee overseeing such areas as alcohol regulation, introduced the bill with the support of the California Restaurant Association.

“California restaurants remain on serious lockdown, as they are only allowed to utilize extremely limited on-site space,” said Jot Condie, California Restaurant Association president and CEO. “The ability to include cocktails with to-go meals has been helpful for many restaurant owners who are barely hanging on.”

Obituaries 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.

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Briefly Two hurt in hit-and-run Two people were hospitalized Saturday following a four-vehicle hit-and-run collision at a South Davis intersection, police said.

As of Tuesday, police had yet to identify the driver, who according to Lt. Art Camacho ran a red light while traveling westbound on Cowell Boulevard at Pole Line Road shortly before 6:30 p.m.

Camacho said the vehicle, a red Chevy Cobalt, struck a vehicle that was traveling through the intersection, then veered into the eastbound lane and hit a second car and a motorcycle. Witnesses reported seeing the driver, a Hispanic male, flee from the scene on foot.

Two people were transported to the hospital with unspecified injuries following the crash, Camacho said.

Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact the Davis Police Department at 530-747-5400.

Police seek stabbing suspect Woodland police are searching for the suspect in a weekend stabbing that left the victim with life-threatening injuries.

The victim suffered his injuries at about 3:45 p.m. Saturday at Freeman Park on Main Street, where emergency personnel arrived to find bystanders rendering aid to the injured man, Sgt. Victoria Danzl said. He was later transported to the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento.

Detectives later identified the suspect as Jimmy Lavalle Jr., a 45-year-old Woodland resident.

"Please be careful if you see him," police said in a Facebook post, urging residents to avoid contacting Lavalle directly and instead relaying his whereabouts to dispatchers at 530-6662411.

Fire displaces Davis woman A woman was displaced from her Olive Drive residence after it caught fire early Tuesday morning.

Crews from Davis and UC Davis fire departments responded to the blaze at the Davis Mobile Estates, 1027 Olive Drive, where the blaze woke up the woman at about 12:50 a.m., Davis Fire Department Division Chief Paul Swanson said.

She escaped injury but has been temporarily displaced from the residence due to the damage, Swanson said.

Fire officials alerted the Red Cross to provide assistance to her.

Meanwhile, the cause and origin of the fire remain under investigation, Swanson said.

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Suspect in custody for West Sacramento child’s death

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer A man suspected of inflicting fatal injuries upon a 1-year-old child in West Sacramento was arrested Tuesday following a 24-hour regionwide manhunt.

Derrick Woods, 43, was taken into custody at about noon at an undisclosed residence in Sacramento, where West Sacramento police served a homicide arrest warrant with assistance from Sacramento police and Yolo County District Attorney’s Office investigators.

Woods also is suspected of injuring the little girl’s older brother, who reportedly was hospitalized as a result.

As Woods awaited booking into the Yolo County Jail on Tuesday, the Yolo County coroner’s office held off on releasing the identity of

the victim pending an autopsy, which Chief Deputy Coroner Gina Moya said is scheduled for Wednesday.

Officers found WOODS the girl dead of Arrested what they described as “traumatic injuries” at about noon Monday in a West Capitol Avenue motel room, where they had been summoned to perform a welfare check.

Her injured brother also was in the room.

Witnesses reported seeing Woods fleeing from the area on foot prior to officers’ arrival.

Sgt. Eric Angle, spokesman for the West Sacramento Police Department, told The Enterprise that Woods was not biologically

related to the children, but was in a dating relationship with their mother for the past six months.

The homicide was one of two tragedies to occur in West Sacramento on Monday. That night, a traffic collision on Jefferson Boulevard claimed the lives of two people who were in one of the vehicles.

Five people suffered injuries in the two-car collision, including a man who ultimately died at the scene and a woman who succumbed to her wounds at an area hospital, Sgt. Stefan Iwanicki said.

Two children who also were in their car are in stable condition.

Alcohol is suspected to be a factor in the crash, according to Iwanicki.

Rob Strange, the city’s interim police chief, offered condolences to the victims’ families in a social media statement, describing the

community as “reeling” from the losses.

“A loss of life in our community always hurts. Yesterday’s tragedies are even harder to bear with victims so young and innocent and a suspect still on the loose,” Strange wrote in the statement, which he released prior to Woods’ apprehension.

Strange’s message included links to resources “for those facing stress through the challenges of COVID19 and by other family and life pressures,” including the Yolo County Child Abuse Prevention Council: https://www.yolokids. org/child-abuse-preventioncouncil; Yolo County mentalhealth services at https://www. yolocounty.org/.../men.../mentalhealth-services; and the local NAMI chapter at https://www. namiyolo.org.

VISA: Suspect faces 15 years in prison if feds prove case From Page A1 she applied for a visa last year to conduct cancer research at UC Davis and again when she was interviewed by the FBI in June at her Cranbrook Court apartment in Davis.

According to a federal criminal complaint, Tang was issued a J-1 visa on Nov. 5, 2019. She entered the United States on Dec. 27, 2019 and, according to UC Davis, left the university at the end of June 2020.

On her visa application, Tang said she was not affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party and had never served in the military, statements U.S. prosecutors say were false.

Internet searches conducted by the FBI revealed a 2019 article about Tang’s

medical research, which included a headshot of her wearing a military uniform that bore the insignia of the Civilian Cadres of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army.

In a Statement of Probable Cause, the FBI cited three news articles that list Tang’s employer as the Air Force Medical University, formerly known as the Fourth Military Medical University, in Xi’an, China.

“It appears that Tang is part of a civilian cadre whose members are considered active-duty military personnel,” the criminal complaint states. FBI agents said in the complaint that Tang told them she, like others at AFMU, wore the uniform as was required and was unaware of the insignia’s meaning.

According to a UC Davis spokesperson, Tang came to Davis through an exchange program affiliated with Xijing Hospital, which has been part of the Air Force Medical University since 1954 and is one of China’s top teaching hospitals.

“Juan Tang was a visiting researcher in the department of radiation oncology, funded by the Chinese Scholarship Council, a study-based exchange program affiliated with China’s Ministry of Education and Xijing Hospital in China,” UC Davis Director of Media Relations Melissa Lutz Blouin said in an email to The Enterprise.

According to Tang’s federal defender, Alexandra Negin, the pieces of evidence cited by federal authorities as proof of

Tang’s secret military connections “lend themselves to many innocent explanations.”

“Ms. Tang apparently attended a prestigious medical school that is run by the military in China.

That does not mean that she was ‘in the military,’” said Negin. “The civilian students have no rank in the military and are free upon graduation to go wherever they wish to work.”

Tang was arrested in late July after having sought refuge inside the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco for a month, where she said she went because the FBI had seized her passport.

Tang is one of several visiting researchers from China recently charged with visa fraud “in connection with a scheme to lie

about their status as members of the People’s Republic of China’s military forces,” the U.S. Department of Justice said in a July press release.

“In addition to these arrests, the FBI has recently conducted additional interviews of visa holders suspected of having undeclared affiliation with the Chinese military in more than 25 American cities,” the press release stated.

Tang faces a maximum of 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000 if convicted of visa fraud and an additional maximum statutory penalty of five years in prison and another $250,000 fine if convicted of making false statements to the FBI.

VACCINE: Sisson credits ‘gradual increase’ in county’s supplies From Page A1 rollout,” the county press release said.

Yolo County first began vaccination efforts in December 2020 for healthcare workers and long-term care facility residents in accordance with Phase 1A of the vaccine prioritization framework. In February, the county moved into Phase 1B and prioritized vaccination of residents 75 and older, followed by residents 65 and older.

Since Feb. 1, Yolo County has conducted at least 50 vaccine clinics, including targeted outreach and clinics for underserved communities in Knights Landing, Esparto and the Capay Valley.

Residents have also been able to receive the COVID-19 vaccine from primary healthcare providers and,

more recently, CVS and Rite Aid pharmacies. According to state data, 36,423 doses have been administered to Yolo County residents as of Feb. 15. While not all residents 65 and older have been offered a vaccine yet, demand has begun to slow, the county said.

“This is likely a result of the gradual increase in weekly vaccine supply and the number of available vaccine providers,” the county reported.

That’s why Yolo County Health Officer Dr. Aimee Sisson decided to expand vaccine distribution to frontline workers.

“I appreciate the patience of our frontline workers as we prioritized vaccinations for those most likely to die from COVID-19,” Sisson said Tuesday. “I am excited to now be

able to offer vaccines to essential frontline workers whose jobs put them at risk of exposure to coronavirus, including workers in food and agriculture, education and childcare, and emergency services.

“We won’t be able to vaccinate this group all at once, because doses remain limited and the group is large, but being able to broaden eligibility marks a major milestone in the vaccine rollout.”

Under guidelines from the California Department of Public Health, food and agricultural workers include all people at risk of occupational exposure to COVID-19 through their work and any employee working in a restaurant.

Additionally, the education and childcare workers eligible for vaccine include staff in educational

support services and administration, bus drivers, monitors and crosswalk guards.

Yolo County vaccine clinics are posted on the county’s vaccine webpage at www.yolocounty.org/ coronavirus-vaccine, with additional appointments to come.

Those who are homebound and need an in-home vaccine or need assistance with the online vaccine appointment form may call 2-1-1 or 855-866-1783 for assistance.

Individuals not yet eligible for a vaccine are encouraged to fill out the state’s MyTurn vaccine registration system at www.myturn.ca.gov, which will notify you when you are eligible for a vaccine.

For information, visit https:// www.yolocounty.org/coronavirus -vaccine.

TIER: Restaurants would be able to add seating From Page A1 indoor service, albeit at limited capacity, including restaurants, movie theaters and gyms.

Specifically, once in the red tier (and provided the county health officer agrees): n All retail can increase indoor capacity from the 25 to 50 percent. n Museums, zoos and aquariums can open indoors at 25 percent. n Places of worship remain at 25 percent. n Movie theaters can open at 25 percent. n Gyms and fitness centers can open indoors at 10-percent capacity. n Restaurants can resume indoor dining at 25 percent or 100 guests, whichever is fewer.

n Bars and breweries that do not serve meals remain closed.

COVID-19 case numbers and positivity rates have been falling across California, though Yolo County has been doing significantly better than most of its neighbors.

Sacramento County remained firmly purple on Tuesday with an adjusted case rate of 18.7. Likewise, Solano’s adjusted case rate stood at 18.4; Napa County’s was 14.2; Lake County’s was 20; and Colusa County’s was 20.9.

Yolo County continues to benefit from the testing done by UC Davis, both on campus and via Healthy Davis Together. That large volume of tests has not only driven down the county’s test positivity rate, but the

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Faulconer may be top GOP hope

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By James C. Ramos Special to CalMatters

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apoleon Bonaparte once said, “What is history but a fable agreed upon?” California’s Native Americans can relate and are coming forward to reject tales concocted about their history, including the Mission period.

Until last summer, a statue of Junipero Serra stood atop a stone replica of the map of California in Sacramento’s Capitol Park, tucked among a grove of Camellia trees. It stood there for 53 years, erected with state funding to honor the Franciscan founder of California’s Mission system.

I could find no known opposition to the statue or record of Native American input.

Since the statue’s 1967 dedication, Serra’s legacy has come under greater scrutiny. Last year, Serra monuments were removed from Sacramento and cities including Los Angeles, Ventura and Carmel.

Santa Clara University, a Jesuit institution in Silicon Valley, cleared its statue from campus grounds and placed it in storage pending a more comprehensive interpretation of history based on a campus committee’s recommendations.

While not condoning last year’s vandalism that took down the Capitol Park statue, I believe it is long past time for a more accurate and complete telling of the Mission period’s impact on California Native Americans and Serra, the symbol of that era. That is why with encouragement and sponsorship from six Sacramento-area tribes I introduced Assembly Bill 338 in January.

My proposal repeals a statutory requirement that a monument to the friar be maintained on Capitol grounds. The measure would replace it with a suitable tribute to the Sacramento regional tribes. It would also require that the proposed new Capitol Annex include a hearing room mural dedicated to California’s First People. As AB 338 is debated, an overdue analysis of Serra’s legacy can ensue.

Controversy over Serra has simmered for decades. It came to a boil when the Catholic Church canonized the Franciscan. Now, even the Catholic Church is reassessing its role in European settlement of the New World.

In 2015 while visiting Bolivia, Pope Francis denounced colonialism and admitted “many grave sins were committed against the native peoples of America.” He continued, “I humbly ask forgiveness, not only for the offenses of the church herself, but also for crimes committed against the native peoples during the so-called conquest of America.”

he last time San Diego elected a moderate Republican mayor with strong potential for appealing to voters statewide, it was Pete Wilson, a onetime state assemblyman who later won election to the U.S. Senate and two terms as governor.

Now, while Californians think about possibly recalling Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, there’s San Diego’s recently termed-out ex-Mayor Kevin Faulconer, who figures to be on both the recall’s list of possible replacement governors and the state’s June 2022 primary ballot.

Faulconer hopes to take a page from the playbooks of both Wilson and ex-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Like Wilson, he’s busily purveying a message of moderation and effectiveness. Like Schwarzenegger, he hopes a recall can propel him to the next level of politics.

With Faulconer as mayor, San Diego was the largest American city with a Republican governor. Now, the other major GOP figure planning to be on the recall list, John Cox, has devoted the recall season’s first major TV commercial to blasting Faulconer. Cox, a big loser to Newsom in 2018, knows who is his main threat this time.

Faulconer has sometimes sought to downplay his Republican identity in this state where the GOP label has lately meant certain

defeat for anyone seeking statewide office other than the movie muscleman Schwarzenegger.

Some Republicans hope Faulconer can rescue them, giving California a Republican very different from the hugely unpopular (in California) President Trump.

But Faulconer sometimes makes moves that belie his image as a moderate.

One came in January, when he endorsed former U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa to replace the disgraced and resigned San Diego Republican Duncan Hunter in a Mexican-border congressional seat. Issa, hardly a moderate, “retired” in 2018 from his former seat in north San Diego County when the district became too liberal for him to expect reelection. The Hunter district leans far more to the right.

Faulconer took some risk in endorsing Issa, a persistent harasser of ex-President Barack Obama while Issa chaired the House Government Operations Committee through much of the last decade.

Then there was an appearance by Trump on Fox News last June, just

after Faulconer visited the Oval Office. “(Faulconer) was just in my office, great guy,” Trump said. “He came up to thank me for having done the (border) wall because it’s made such a difference. He said it’s like day and night; he said people (had been) flowing across and now nobody can come in.”

Faulconer quickly denied saying any of that, his office claiming he and Trump discussed only a trade deal.

For sure, Newsom can use the Fox News tape against him, and never mind Faulconer’s denial.

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ut Faulconer hopes to win over more voters with another move than he might lose with any of that.

Besides his own campaign, he plans to sponsor a statewide ballot initiative on the homeless issue aimed for the 2022 election, claiming San Diego has had more success on this than other large cities.

Faulconer wants the stillunwritten measure to make it easier for cities and counties to “encourage” homeless individuals to accept psychological treatment and shelter beds. He also wants to roll back some laws like the winning Propositions 47 and 57, which reduced penalties for drug use and crimes like thefts and car burglaries valued under $950.

“California has lost its way on homelessness,” he

said in a speech. “We have to speak the truth about what causes homelessness (referring to drug addiction and mental illness, as well as high rents and home prices).”

Faulconer said San Diego cut homelessness after a hepatitis outbreak by sending nurses and paramedics to “every riverbed, canyon and street corner, vaccinated more than 100,000 persons, sanitized streets and built four bridge shelters.”

That dropped his city’s homeless count by 9 percent in 2019, Faulconer said, the only significant city in California with any reduction.

Faulconer’s stances on many things almost replicate Schwarzenegger’s, and Schwarzenegger remains the only Republican elected statewide since 1998. But he was a famed movie star and Faulconer is neither famous nor an actor.

So the jury remains out on the mayor’s statewide political viability. But so far, despite Cox’s claim to the contrary, the state GOP has no better hope.

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

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erra established nine of California’s 21 missions that stretch up and down the state.

After his death in 1784, colleagues built another 12 church hubs.

Some argue Serra should not be blamed for “grave sins” committed during the Mission era or be judged by today’s values. However, scholars point to reports by French Navy Captain JeanFrancois de Galaup, who arrived in Monterey Bay in September 1786. Shocked by the missionaries’ harsh treatment of Native people in their “care.”

He wrote, “Corporal punishment is inflicted on the Indians of both sexes who neglect the exercises of piety, and many sins, which in Europe are left to Divine justice, are here punished by irons and stocks.” Spanish Governor Felipe de Neve also admonished Serra for cruelties.

Decades later, in 1851, California’s first governor, Peter Burnett, demanded that Indians be “exterminated” and the Legislature raised militias and bounties to carry out his order.

Massacres and disease decimated the Indigenous population by 1900. My own family was nearly wiped out during this period on their tribal lands in the San Bernardino Mountains. In 2018, I became the first California Native American elected to the state Legislature — 167 years after Burnett’s heinous call for genocide.

Genocide against Native populations resulted from deliberative and well-organized public policies motivated by bigotry, cruelty and greed. All the more fitting that AB 338 mandates a deliberative and collaborative process to replace Serra’s statue with a monument honoring Sacramentoarea tribes. Input would be sought from regional tribes, and all California Native Americans would share in the belated recognition and symbolism of a monument adjacent to the state Capitol.

Such a process would produce a proper testament and acknowledgment of the state’s First People, the human toll they endured and their survival through Spanish, Mexican and American settlement and rule.

— Assemblyman James C. Ramos is a Democrat who represents the 40th Assembly District in San Bernardino County, James.Ramos@asm.ca.gov.

He is the first California Native American elected to the Legislature and a lifelong resident of the San Manuel Indian Reservation.

Letters Housing segregation How did housing become so segregated in America when for more than 100 years we had laws to prevent it? Understanding our national history regarding the blatant disregard for law by governments at all levels helped me to understand many moving parts from segregation through Jim Crow laws to federal transportation policies to local Realtor and banker behavior that pushed African Americans into segregated and usually poor neighborhoods.

These actions, over decades, created drastic economic gaps. And it’s clear that these policies benefited white Americans at the expense of Black Americans. The hidden-in-clear-sight facts are presented with clarity in “The Color of Law” by Richard Rothstein (about 25% of the pages are footnotes, so don’t let the size scare you off a great read!). I recommend this to our Davis City Council members, our Planning Commission who are currently reviewing “housing element,” to our DJUSD

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administrators (lots of educationrelated outcomes) and any community members who are wondering how we begin to address systemic racism.

One critical goal for me is to promote more diversity in housing options. But we as a town also need to identify who we want to be as a community in order to measure how we go about meeting that goal. Reading and discussing this book was a good start to that process.

I want to thank the Lutheran Church of the Incarnation’s Social Justice Committee for opening their study group regarding this fine book to the broader community. Thanks to The Davis Enterprise for helping to publicize this community event. Thank you to the group leaders who took 32 readers through the book in a thoughtful way.

A study guide and more information are online at https://www.lcidavis.org/ social-justice. Perhaps you belong to a group that is looking for a good read that will get them talking about racial justice and our fair city. Here is a great starting point.

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On reopening I understand that there’s low spread and less severe symptoms among K-6 children — that’s a good thing! But I am surprised that Dr. Sisson made no mention of the safety of adult staff who are in the classroom.

We should be concerned about their health and we should also be concerned about the disruption if teachers get sick.

Teachers with COVID are out 10-plus days. Students in their classroom will either be quarantined themselves or under the care of a substitute (are there substitutes?).

Reopening schools is a complex issue where we need the advice of both scientists and educators. I believe the plan the school board has approved is reasonable: return to in-person learning when we are in the red tier and when teachers have access to vaccinations.

Dr. Sisson can help reopen Davis schools by giving educators and other essential workers access to vaccinations now, concurrent with seniors age 65-plus.

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Time for lovely vegetable-based comfort food

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ike pretty much every other family, we have a roster of dishes that we like for dinners. The current list has 20 items, which is a gracious plenty given that we get takeout at least once a week and that it’s crab season, which means my husband will have crab and I’ll have anything not-crab fairly regularly until that ends.

In current heavy rotation is a veggie bowl notated as “Puree+crumbs+roasted veg” because you don’t have to give recipes names if you’re cooking at home. Let’s call it a Winter Veggie Bowl, shall we? It’s based on a picture of a dish torn from a magazine, and it’s a very pretty picture indeed. The recipe that went with it was overly cheffy and had a lot of ingredients we couldn’t be bothered with.

(Perhaps other people have time to pickle blueberries and simmer dates in balsamic vinegar for dinner?)

The basic concept, however, is well worth exploring: a lovely vegetable puree topped with a variety of veg, grains and tasty bits.

Even that may sound too cheffy, until you realize how well it works in a home kitchen: You can assemble the whole dish from leftovers, or let the prep

lead you into a gloriously vegetable-filled dinner week. If you go the leftover route, you could make butternut squash soup and set aside some of the squash for the puree, have roasted cauliflower as a side dish and save a bit for the bowl, cook double on a grain and so forth until you’ve assembled a nice arsenal of leftovers to build into a bowl.

Alternatively, you could prep a whole weeks’ worth of vegetables, using half as your side dishes for the week and half for your veggie bowl. In either event, I find it ups our dinner game for the week and results in a lot of vegetables on our plate.

As far as the specifics go, you already know how to cook everything that’s needed, but here are some suggestions: The puree should be creamy and a little thinner than mashed potatoes. It’s usually celery root and parsnip for us, steamed and

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The Winter Veggie Bowl can take on many shapes and forms depending on what’s in the pantry. then whizzed with a bit of cream and garlic. It could just as easily be winter squash or sweet potato, or white beans if you’re looking for extra protein. In the summer I think it will be Greek yogurt with basil and garlic.

The bulk of the dish is roasted vegetables, and any assortment you like will do nicely. Right now, we tend towards cubed butternut squash, broccoli and cauliflower, all cut nicely and tossed with olive oil and kosher salt.

Roasted peppers would be grand, as would mushrooms. In summer we’ll skip the oven and instead grill corn, summer squash and tomatoes.

A little handful of whatever greens you like best is good here.

We always have baby spinach, which I toss with a little salt, olive oil and vinegar before putting it into the bowl. Arugula or any other sturdy green would work just as well.

This is a nice opportunity to add a whole grain to your dinner if people will eat it: wheat berries, quinoa, whole wheat

couscous or brown rice would all work provided they’re well cooked and seasoned. At my house we prefer homemade breadcrumbs, toasted in a pan with olive oil and garlic until beautifully browned and crunchy. (No one will know if these are whole wheat breadcrumbs, so take advantage.) If you like a whole grain and a crispy breadcrumb go right ahead — it’s your veg bowl.

Tasty bits can be anything you have handy. I almost always have a jar of toasted walnuts and a jar of toasted pepitos on my counter because I love crunch. Shards of Parmesan cheese are a nice addition, and I expect a bit of blue cheese crumble would also go well. Dried fruit is delightful if you like the sweet/savory combination. Bits of leftover meat work well and may make your carnivore happier about dinner.

An egg cooked in your favorite fashion would be lovely.

You don’t really need a dressing or sauce for this dish, but depending on your composition

and your diners, you may want to finish it with a drizzle of balsamic vinegar, a scant spoonful of a flavorful oil (toasted pumpkin or walnut) or a bit of chili crisp or other hot sauce.

— Email Julie at jacross@ dcn.org or visit her on Facebook at The New Home Ec.

Winter Veggie Bowl Ingredients per serving: 1 cup vegetable puree, warmed 3 cups roasted veg, warmed 1 cup of sturdy greens (spinach, arugula, baby kale) dressed as you like ¼ cup cooked grains or toasted bread crumbs ¼ cup nuts, dried fruit, cheese or meat (optional: 1 egg cooked to order) Condiments: nut oil, vinegar, hot sauce Putting it together: Spread the puree in the bottom of a dinner bowl. Top with other ingredients as it pleases you. Take a shot for Instagram and eat in the warm glow of winter veggie virtue.

The secret to bright beer and beating COVID

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have been using double masking as a barrier to contracting COVID-19 since the earliest days of the pandemic. I planned to write about that some time ago but I was scooped by a columnist in a rival publication — The New York Times.

However, because brewers have a unique perspective on this subject, and controversy continues to swirl around this topic while new more virulent versions of the virus arise, I thought the topic might be worth visiting here.

Beer, in its most common iteration, is a clear product. Indeed, brewers might describe beer as “bright” or, better yet, “brilliant.”

Beer does not achieve clarity as a natural part of the process but as a part of the technology brewers use to bring to market the most acceptable products. Although there are several options for doing this, the most common form of clarification is by filtration.

A mask functions as a filter.

As a beer filter removes particles from a stream of beer; a

mask functions to remove particles from a stream of air. A mask that fits perfectly filters the air that is inhaled and that which is exhaled. It serves to remove, or at least reduce, the moisture particles that might carry the virus as we breathe out or breathe in.

The principles and objectives of beer filtration and air filtration are the same.

Brewers use two sorts of filters: absolute filters and depth filters. An absolute filter can deliver sterile beer that can be sold unpasteurized as “draft beer in bottles.” The filter itself is a thin membrane with holes, each of which is smaller than a bacterium. If there are too many particles such a filter quickly clogs,

and so has application only to beer that is already thoroughly pre-clarified.

A common method of such pre-clarification is a depth filter — one using diatomaceous earth (kieselguhr). This material is mined near Lompoc, among other places. It includes in its substructure the silica skeletons of diatoms; the “bones” of these skeletons, like those of a human rib cage on a macro-scale, occupy a lot of space relative to their mass. Thus a bed of this material might be 75% space and allows water or beer to flow through it easily. However, there is no clear, simple path through for suspended particles; they become entrapped in the bed and the beer is clarified.

A mask is a depth filter. It works because there is no simple path through for particles that, in this case, are the virus-bearing moisture particles.

We might make an analogy.

Imagine a filter made of one sheet of chain-link fencing. Acting as an absolute filter it would allow air through but prevent a

cat from passing because each hole is too small, though a mouse would pass easily. Now if we add layers of chain-link fencing to the first, with each layer slightly offset from the next, we would create a barrier even a mouse could not penetrate.

Thus a depth filter, unsurprisingly, depends for its effectiveness on its depth. I like to wear a cloth mask on the outside and a paper surgical mask inside it to improve depth and fit. If my glasses steam up with a mask, it is not fitting as well as it might.

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ven so, a mask or doublemasking works best with distancing because that dilutes any potential infection that might challenge my face filter. Although I’ve had both my vaccine jabs, I persevere with public health recommendations as best I can.

There is a certain proportion of our population that eschews masks. They mock doublemasking: If two are good why not three, or five or more masks?

Well, that would indeed be

better as an exercise in air filtration, but we run into certain practicalities: We still have to breathe and more masks fall prey to the law of diminishing returns.

That same population eschews mask mandates on the basis of freedom to behave as they wish and because mandates are not enforced. Ergo why have a mask mandate? Well, I guess we are free to break any law (mandate) society, in the form of government, imposes upon us. However, such a mandate provides a guide to reasonable social behavior whether or not it is enforceable. Most drivers exceed the speed limit but not by much; theft is common but not usual.

A mandate might have moderating effects and would help the message to get through that masks work. A mask is a proven and worthwhile barrier to infection and double masking is usefully more effective.

— Reach Michael Lewis at lewiswales@me.com. Comment on this column at www.davisenter prise.com.

Alumna names UCD Engineering Student Design Center Special to The Enterprise Representation and diversity are two words that Diane Bryant champions.

With her gift to name the new Engineering Student Design Center at UC Davis, the alumna and information technology executive hopes to inspire women and other underrepresented students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM; fund essential learning for aspiring engineers; and solidify her legacy as a leader in tech. She graduated in 1985 with a bachelor’s degree in electrical and computer engineering.

Bryant’s $6.5 million historic gift is the largest-ever single donation to the College of Engineering by an individual. The Diane Bryant Engineer-

ing Student Design Center — now under construction after the groundbreaking last October and due to open in fall 2022 — will offer hands-on educational experiences and encourage students to envision how they will change the world.

The center will provide a supervised space to practice manufacturing and fabrication techniques and include a student start-up center. Team projects and real-world applications will add to students’ business acumen, as they develop the collaborative skills and hands-on experience necessary for success.

Entirely donor-funded, the ESDC has been made possible by supporters who have contributed to the $2 billion fundraising campaign.

A first-generation college student who

experienced homelessness at 18, Bryant herself succeeded against all odds to go through college and become a leader in her field.

After earning her degree, Bryant gained an entry-level position at Intel and would go on to have a distinguished 32-year career at the industry giant, rising to become its most senior technical woman. Her four patented technologies came with the invention of the laptop computer in 1990, including the invention allowing the computer laptop to dock and undock while active.

In 2017, Bryant joined Google as COO of Google Cloud. Today she is the CEO and chairperson of NovaSignal Corp., a medical start-up that develops robotic ultrasound technologies to scan blood flow in the brain.

Diane Bryant, UC Davis donor and chairperson/ CEO of Nova Signal, is giving $6.5 million to the UCD College of Engineering for its new student design center, which will be named for her.

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Yolo County faces obstacles in vaccine distributions

By Renee Xiang HUB staff Local public health workers are facing a bottleneck in COVID-19 vaccine rollout due to high demand and a shortage in supply of doses.

In mid-January, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that counties could begin vaccinating anyone over the age of 65, expanding eligibility from the California Department of Public Health’s initial 1a phase, which included only health-care workers and long-termcare residents.

This expansion, however, was accompanied by a limited number of state-supplied doses of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.

In Yolo County, approximately 28,000 residents fall into the 65-orolder category. Though supply from the state varies, the county is currently receiving approximately 1,000 doses of vaccine per week, according to Yolo County Public Health Officer Aimee Sisson.

“We absolutely have a limited supply and that’s primarily what is creating the slow pace at which we’re able to roll out the vaccine.

The county’s actually administering pretty much all of the vaccine it gets every week by the end of the week, it’s just that we don’t have enough coming in,” she said.

Approximately the same number of doses that are sent to the county are also sent to local health-care facilities such as Kaiser, Sutter, Dignity and UC Davis. On the whole, about 2,000 doses are arriving in the county each week.

“To get 28,000 people done at 1,000 doses from the county, 1,000 from the health system, it’s going to take 14 weeks — three-and-a-half months — to get through just 65-and-older,” Sisson said.

Several counties in California have specifically reported a shortage of second doses, which need to be administered either three or four weeks after the first dose, depending on the vaccine manufacturer.

Yolo County receives separate first and second dose allocations from the California Department of Public Health, and is currently “only (using) second doses as second doses,” according to Sisson. Both doses of the vaccine are required to prevent severe illness from COVID19.

In addition to the shortage, the county has encountered obstacles with distribution equity.

“Reaching underserved or hard to reach populations requires targeted efforts to ensure (everyone has) the opportunity to be vaccinated,” said Yolo County Emergency Services Manager Dana Carey.

To combat this issue, public health workers have been hosting vaccine clinics in underserved areas and targeting outreach to specific populations to ensure all who are eligible receive a vaccination.

Several appointment-based vaccination clinics take place each week for the phase 1b population, but according to Carey, “available appointments for vaccine clinics fill up shortly after they are released.”

The county currently has the capabilities needed to administer vaccinations at a much higher rate.

“If we had more doses, we could give more doses. We have lots of volunteers, we have a good drivethru vaccination model. We could run 1,000 people a day through a site if we had 1,000 doses a day, but we don’t,” Sisson said.

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Senior Siddarth Merchant works on wiring the power to the motors of the robot’s drive train as he meets with his new robotics small group.

DHS robotics team now meeting in person

By Caroline Chilcott HUB staff The international FIRST robotics program offered challenges for robotics teams this year, but the local Davis Citrus Circuits team found they couldn’t complete the challenges from home.

Coach Steve Harvey knew that his team needed to get back into the classroom for this competition. After discussing possible options with the district, some extracurricular and cocurricular programs, including his team, were granted permission to meet on campus.

The approved plan for the robotics team started the week of Jan. 11. Three main cohorts, each with a maximum of 14 students and two mentors, were formed. In order to minimize contact, each cohort consists of three subgroups that include up

to four students and one mentor, who meet at three separate locations: M1 and M2 classrooms, as well as outside.

According to Harvey, M2 groups work on the lathes and mills to fabricate parts for the robot while the outside group works on robot assembly with the M1 cohort working on testing the robot and completing the various “at home” challenges.

However, there are still 100 team members working on software, business/media and other tasks who are continuing to work from home in a virtual setting.

Prior to this in-person cohort, certain tasks were nearly impossible to complete and were handled at home. Senior Livy Taylor, the team captain, says that certain machines, like the router and laser cutter/3D printer, couldn’t be lent for the safety of the students. In-person access to the shop allowed students to make parts on

those machines.

Fabrication, design, electrical and robot programming teams now meet at Davis High multiple times a week.

According to Taylor, students aren’t allowed to move between subgroups. Students also take their temperature every day, fill out a Daily Illness Screening Checklist, get an official COVID-19 test once a month at minimum and wear masks at all times.

Senior Nathan McAllister, the mechanical one of three members of an outside group, works on robot assembly to build a few robots: one designed over the summer, and the other two designed over the past month.

“The robotics program is extremely grateful to our administration for allowing us to meet in M1 and M2. Without their support, we would not have been able to participate in the FIRST Robotics program this year,” Harvey said.

Parent groups disagree on pace for reopening

By Lewis Herring-Tillman HUB staff It was a Farmers Market Saturday like any other in Davis Central Park on Feb. 6 when the DJUSD Parent Coalition took to the streets, equipped with hand-written signs, flyers and petitions. Demonstrators, including parents, teachers and others, rallied for a faster reopening of Davis schools.

At the forefront of the group was Heather Marshall, a mother of three and a privateschool teacher herself.

She started the Coalition in November and has watched it grow. The group’s main goal is to open schools even earlier than a plan for reopening approved by the Davis Joint Unified School District board of trustees.

“A lot of people have worked hard on this plan but it doesn’t seem to align with what the CDC’s guidelines are,” Marshall said. “The health experts are telling us to reopen, but the district has gone a different direction.”

After a winter surge, with cases leveling off, Marshall and others are eager to see in-person instruction resume.

Marshall does not believe vaccinations should be required

before school sites reopen.

“Of course we want all teachers to go back and be safe, but because vaccines aren’t readily available in Yolo County, the experts say it’s not absolutely necessary,” Marshall said.

Just across from Marshall at the rally was the group Safe Classrooms, Safe Communities, formed as a counter to the Parent Coalition. Anoosh Jorjorian, a diversity consultant and Davis parent, founded the group, whose goal is to support the district’s plan for reopening.

“Teachers are feelingly increasingly unsupported, feeling like other community members don’t value their health,” Jorjorian said. “We’re here to show that the majority of people do support the district’s benchmarks, which are scientifically proven and robust.”

The district’s reopening plan hinges on what it can and can’t control; it can control distancing, masking,

air filtration, testing and quarantining after exposure, but it can’t control other conditions for reopening: the lower countywide case. So Yolo County moves from the most restrictive purple tier to the red tier and vaccine availability.

Vaccination is currently unavailable for most Yolo County teachers because health officials plan to vaccinate residents over age 65 first. But teachers are up next for vaccinations.

“We can see the light at the end of the tunnel,” Jorjorian said.

“There’s a vaccine now, and it’s only a matter of time before we can open school for everyone, safely.”

Perhaps most important to Marshall is preventing youth suicide and mental illness.

There is inconclusive evidence that increases in suicide may be tied to school

closures, but for Marshall it’s still worrisome.

“It makes my stomach turn every day,” Marshall said. “I’m also incredibly concerned for students in unsafe living conditions… It’s impossible to see abuse in a Zoom meeting.”

Just like parents, students have varied views on when to reopen. “When parents and teachers can get a vaccine it’ll be safe,” sophomore Caroline Lu said.

Other students felt the same way.

“I don’t want to be in school when the majority of the kids are not vaccinated,” junior Anabelle Sweeney said.

Both Marshall and Jorjorian agree that hybrid schooling is not the best solution.

“Schools that have done a hybrid program are miserable,” Jorjorian said.” It can be incredibly complicated figuring out which kid will go to school on which day.”

“If it’s hybrid or nothing, then we’ll take hybrid, but it’s not ultimately what we want,” Marshall said. “We need more flexibility than what we’ve been seeing.”

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Finally, Devils have their day in the sun Some DHS sports have started; others get ready

By Bruce Gallaudet Enterprise sports editor Yes, those are Davis High athletes you’re seeing out in the February sunshine. They’re everywhere these days — on campus, at the golf course, at Arroyo Park Pool, up in the Sierra ...

Those local student-athletes must feel like bears coming out of hibernation.

Last week, the DHS cross country team traveled to Elk Grove for its first competition in 16 months. Girls tennis hosted Pleasant Grove on Tuesday and the netters play again Thursday.

Blue Devil girls golf tees off today in Sacramento versus Sheldon.

These aren’t the basketball or wrestling seasons we equate with February, but as the Yolo County COVID-19 numbers trend downward, it’s a parting of the pandemic clouds ... at least for now.

Girls volleyball — which needs the county to jump from current purple-tier restrictions up two levels to orange in order to return to indoor play — has been back at work since Gov. Gavin Newsom rescinded his stay-at-home order three weeks ago.

Veteran coach Julie Crawford spoke for all of her colleagues and Davis athletes when she said, “It’s nice to get back to work. I’m really trying my best to provide them with as much opportunity to stay active and involved as possible.”

And that’s the key right now: back with teammates, getting in shape. But for what? “(Coaches) are doing our best to stay hopeful and optimistic and are encouraging (athletes) to keep that same attitude,” says Crawford.

Crawford says she’s had “safe, organized outdoor conditioning, following state, county and district policies since June.”

Volleyball, like all DHS sports, took the holidays off then returned to Zoom while Yolo County shut down. Small pods and social distancing are the norm.

Track and field will apparently wait for the cross country schedule to play out (on March 27) before starting competition, while football, soccer, boys lacrosse and swimming — among other programs — wonder how quickly Yolo County can get to the orange tier. For basketball, indoor cheerleading and dance and wrestling, the final gold tier will open the flood gates.

But how soon can these sports get to their promised landing spots? And will parents and fans be allowed to attend events?

“We could move into the red tier as early as Feb. 23 if our numbers continue to trend in the right

Tenth-grader Nicole Risch and the rest of the DHS volleyball team, above, practice in Brown Stadium because health orders prevent them from working out inside.

Left, Blue Devil softball coach Tyler Gibson pitches to one of his players during a recent practice.

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direction,” Yolo County public health officer Aimee Sisson told The Enterprise.

Once in that next level, baseball, field hockey, girls lacrosse and softball can start competition.

The county then has to hold the line in reported cases for three weeks before moving to orange, where football, boys lacrosse, soccer and water polo can begin their schedules.

Three weeks in orange without countywide upticks in COVID cases move the locals into gold (back to normal).

“Our numbers are trending down in the right direction, which shows that we’ve made headway in slowing the spread,” Sisson continued, but with a caution: “However, people should not be complacent and still need to get tested and follow protective measures, like wearing masks and physical distancing. COVID has not gone away. People are still

“(Coaches) are doing our best to stay hopeful and optimistic and are encouraging (athletes) to keep that same attitude.”

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DHS Athletic Director Jeff Lorenson says his coaches, staff and student-athletes have been living by the letter of the law. The Blue Devil Athletic Boosters and Healthy Davis Together have set up a regular testing program to keep athletes safe and, at the same time, fundraise to minimize

the DHS athletic budget shortfall.

Regular testing with coaches has been ongoing before a sports participant can attend a practice or event.

“The campus, the kids, the county, the coaches ... the district, we have done everything possible to ensure the safety of our student-athletes,” Lorenson says, noting that no Blue Devil COVID cases have been reported this year.

Crawford says there’s still a long way to go, but she’s confident that sometime in April there again will be volleyball.

“Our pod workouts are a mix of both strength and conditioning and individual ball-handling (all the girls bring their own ball),” explains the coach. “Conditioning and ball-handling, in person (outdoors) at the stadium, and strength, at home, over Zoom, with dumbbells.

“The two pods are made up of

girls who expressed interest and committed to the in-person training and conditioning until we enter into the orange tier and can be back indoors,” Crawford continues. “The pods are optional, and are not set teams.Pods do not make or break chances of being selected for a team.

“Once we receive clearance to be back inside and begin a season, I will hold some sort of tryout that will be open to all girls interested in being selected for a team.”

As Lorenson has said, “Most schools are now playing it by ear.

Each seems to have different sets of guidelines from county officials.”

The California Interscholastic Federation has called off all championship tournaments in an effort to allow member schools the flexibility to develop their own schedules.

Given the recent dip in COVID numbers, Sisson weighed in on what’s ahead as it relates to athletics: “My concern is for disease transmission. Many sports involve individuals coming into close physical contact with each other, which poses a risk for transmission of coronavirus,” she told The Enterprise in a Tuesday email.

“Younger athletes (grade school) are less likely to have symptomatic disease and severe disease than older athletes (high school).

“High school athletes are more like adults than younger athletes when it comes to disease transmission and severity. COVID infection in young adults can be serious and the impacts longlasting.

“For example, several UC Davis athletes who have been infected with coronavirus are experiencing long COVID (effects) and have not been able to return to their previous level of performance.

“It is important to protect high school-aged athletes from COVID-19,” Sisson adds.

Notes: Originally, when the California Interscholastic Federation combined the fall sports season with winter and spring and delayed all three until after Jan. 1, it enforced the ruling that forbade student-athletes from participating in same-sport club and high school seasons simultaneously. CIF then allowed the dual competition in January.

But this month, the state prep governing body again yanked the privilege. ... “Nothing is easy,” Lorenson said of sports during the pandemic, adding that he hoped there would be enough room on campus for everybody to use all the facilities “at basically the same time now.”

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

Cody Hawkins nails how hard this year’s been

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othing has been easy this past year. If you own a restaurant, had a new family addition outside your bubble, are a healthcare provider or politician or taught in a classroom ...

It doesn’t matter who you are, what you do or what you originally planned, these past 12 months have been unlike any others in our lifetime.

Sports, meanwhile, has tried to walk a tightrope that has been jiggled back-and-forth by pandemic protocols and a segment of society that argues that athletics have no standing right now.

As one who makes his living following those bouncing balls, I haven’t been able to separate myself from the vast majority who cried, “Let them play.” My hat is off to the professional leagues that waded through the COVID mire to provide sportsstarved fans with a little joy (even if we couldn’t attend games in person).

But nothing was easy. College

and high-school sports programs were especially hard-hit.

It’s only been recently that Davis High and UC Davis athletics seem to be breaking through the fog of the pandemic. And it’s none too soon.

The emotional reassurance of actually being on the gridiron or tennis courts aside, more than ever our student-athletes need their coaches — and our coaches need their charges.

I

was chatting with UCD assistant football coach Cody Hawkins about his team’s prospects as a weird spring campaign looms ... and the topic turned to how disappointing the past 12 months have been.

Hawkins nailed the angst.

“I can’t put it on one thing,” he told me. “It’s been a new disappointment every week. The hardest thing is developing team chemistry when you could only meet digitally or in groups of 20.

“You have 105 guys on your football team and you can never have entire groups together.

We’ve never had them all together, in person, at any point since March.”

From a standpoint of getting things done, talking to your men via computer or with a mask on, the emotion, urgency or humor often doesn’t translate.

Continued Hawkins, “No matter what anybody says, coaching is so much about the human experience. And what COVID has done, given the protocols we have to follow to keep people safe — devalues the interpersonal relationships: You can’t hug someone, you can’t gather together ... you can’t love on each other and mentor people the way you want.”

Hawkins noted that mental

health issues were “exponentially more than we’ve dealt with in the past.”

It’s got to be tough managing studies from afar, then not seeing your family and friends when you’re told not to return home because busting out of your bubble will require further quarantine.

And from a utilitarian perspective?

“Then you have incoming guys (in whom) you’re trying to instill the culture when they have to now do it in a vacuum ... you not being able to be shown how things work (in Aggie Nation),” adds Hawkins.

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ut he understands what’s happened, and he, like most of the rest of the Davis sports community, has rolled with the setbacks.

“We want to keep our guys safe,” said the former Colorado quarterback who happens to be the head coach’s son.

(It must be noted that UCD is on the cutting edge of COVID testing and social-distancing

techniques — all with a keen eye on county, campus and state protocols.)

With a unique six-game, spring football season at hand (the opener is Feb. 27 versus Cal Poly at home), offensive coordinator Hawkins believes his players will be good to go — even if they’ve only had three weeks of unusual practices: “Our guys are going to be in shape, but you can’t simulate football without playing football. We really haven’t played in more than a year (the pandemic ended spring ball the weekend before the Aggies’ March 16, 2020, team scrimmage).

Sure, not playing a game has been traumatic for the Aggies.

But as Hawkins so eloquently put it, the toughest part is not being able to “love on each other.”

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

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hat a week that was, and I don’t mean about what was happening in Washington, though I guess that also factors in. I’m talking about the avalanche of news reports coming out about car companies and their plans for the future.

Friday, Jan. 29, the New York Times headline read, “G.M. Decision To Go Electric Rocks Industry” with the lead paragraph reading: “The days of the internal combustion engine are numbered. General Motors said Thursday that it would phase out petroleum-powered cars and trucks and sell only vehicles that have zero tailpipe emissions by 2035, a seismic shift by one of the world’s largest automakers that makes billions of dollars today from gas-guzzling pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles.”

Further on, the carmaker’s action is “evidence that even big businesses have decided that it’s time for the world to begin to transition away from fossil fuels that have powered the global economy for more than a century.”

This is big news, and not just through the lens of tackling the climate crisis. It affects a lot of people very directly. General Motors is a major part of an industry that employs more than a million workers, not including those who currently fix transmissions (electric cars don’t have one) and need oil changes (mechanics).

Also, how will the nearly 200,000 “service stations” in the U.S. adapt when “fill ’er up” means plugging in rather than pumping gas, turning them into essentially convenience stores selling fast foods to travelers?

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The transition that needs to happen will have significant and unavoidable echoes throughout the economy.

Backing up a few days on the calendar, the GM announcement followed President Biden (oh, that sounds good) indicating he would reinstate fueleconomy standards implemented by former President Obama but axed by the most recent occupant of the White House; require that the federal government purchase electric vehicles when replacing its quarter-million passenger vehicles and, where possible, its more than 400,000 trucks, install a half-million charging stations; and propose incentives and rebates for customers to purchase electric vehicles.

He is certainly getting the ball rolling.

Sidebar: Bloomberg Businessweek reports that “despite all the buzz about how electric vehicles will reshape transportation, the real transformation in the auto business has been consumers’ race away from traditional cars and to so-called light trucks (which include not only pickups, but also SUV’s and minivans). Few people these days drive what we think of as a “car.” In fact, 76 percent of all vehicles sold in 2020 were these so-called trucks.

Moving on to Jan. 30, a Page 1 N.Y. Times story indicates that General Motors is putting its money where its mouth is, committing $27 billion just between now and 2025 to come up

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avis citizen scientists are serving us once again for the Great Backyard Bird Count, the 24th Annual GBBC. Participants anywhere in the world are asked to count birds for as little as 15 minutes on one or more days of the fourday event and submit a checklist to e.bird.org. Last year, more than 160,000 participated.

It’s a real-time snapshot of bird populations, which are always shifting and changing. You can watch real-time checklists submissions at e.bird.org.

Professionals use these sightings for science and conservation.

At North Davis Ponds, a team of five bird experts — Ed Whisler, Chris Dunford, Ken Ealy, Joshua Greenfield and Kelli O’Neill — socially distanced, spread out and recorded for two hours.

They spotted 52 bird species and many tree toads.

Jo Ellen Ryan reported from Friends of West Pond where they held the 11th year of their two-day count. A team of eight birders spotted 34 species at the West Ponds on Saturday. They counted 40 species on Sunday. They saw more yellow-rumped warblers than expected — 41. A flock of seven hooded mergansers flew in to land on the pond at dusk like clockwork.

We are fortunate because we are on the Pacific Flyway where each spring and fall birds migrate through. The Central Valley is a critical stopover for the birds. There is great variety as to what can be seen in February.

I wrote my first column 18 years ago in February and that column featured river otters putting on a show at the Northstar Pond. The river otters came every year for a long time. I guess we don’t see them now since John Whitcomb, the developer, is no longer stocking fish in the Northstar Pond.

I checked back on columns in February for the past 18 years to note variations on what has been at the ponds and what events were held. On Valentine’s

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Northern flickers were counted at North Davis Pond and West Pond. This is a bird Davis residents can see now in their neighborhoods. Listen for its piercing keew.

Day in 2005, we had a pair of white pelicans. In 2006, Larry Rembold watched two large otters cross F Street, headed toward the ponds. They are able to climb the fence. Otters were common along with goldeneye, killdeer and canvasback in 2007.

In 2009, we had earlyarriving Swainson’s hawks and gray foxes. In 2014, we had our first Friends of North Davis Ponds meeting and began organizing the monthly first-Saturday bird strolls.

They are still happening during the pandemic, but with only five people per bird expert. Active hummingbird nests and 100 cedar waxwings were noted in 2015.

The first western bluebird was sighted in 2016.

We knew her name, that she had been born near Old Davis Road and who

her mother was due to the bands put on as part of the Putah Creek Nestbox Trail.

In 2015, my grandson made wood-duck nest boxes and they are now a regular presence. This GBBC, we counted seven wood ducks.

In 2016, we got new editors for our Facebook Friends of North Davis Ponds, who created over several years many videos you might want to check out.

You will see seasonal birds with identification, accompanied by music.

And then there was the bear that visited the West Pond in 2020. Nature’s surprises keep coming.

In 2019, we added 14 nestboxes for western bluebirds and tree swallows installed from the Veterans Memorial Center to the Northstar Pond. We counted six bluebirds on

our GBBC, but there will be more. One set of parents nested three times in the Northstar Pond nestbox. In 2020, we began planting and weeding the new Open Space Uplands on F and Anderson.

Friends of North Davis Ponds work out there every Thursday morning on habitat restoration.

And nestboxes were added there.

Melanie Truan, Ph.D. research ecologist at UC Davis and Alison Ke, a graduate student, gave a final report on the 2020 Davis Nestbox Network: Covell Greenbelt/North Davis Ponds/Davis Uplands Trail season-end report: It was a very successful year, despite the Covid restrictions, producing — out of only 20 nest boxes — 85 banded Western bluebird and tree swallow fledglings from 22 clutches. The five new Davis Uplands boxes were taken up immediately, which is unusual, attesting to a need for nesting sites in our parks and open spaces. As in 2020, Alison and I look forward to monitoring the trail and banding the fledglings in 2021

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Cedar waxwings peppered the trees at North Davis Ponds. They especially like the tree next to Tandem and the path. Listen for their unusual buzzy high sreee note in irregular rhythm.

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Yellow-rumped warblers were in abundance at North and West Ponds. West Pond birders counted 41 on Saturday and 46 on Sunday. North Pond birders counted 24. This is an adult male in winter plumage.

POND: Get outside to enjoy the birds From Page B3 and to bringing on volunteers if future Covid guidelines permit.

It’s a perfect time to plant something in your yard to feed the birds. My manzanita bush is blooming and the hummingbirds are loving it.

But don’t just read about this. Get out to the ponds and enjoy. It would only take 30 minutes for a healing, pleasurable visual tonic. Binoculars help

focus up close on a mandala of nature while shutting out the view/thoughts of everyday concerns. Rain or sun, I promise you’ll be glad you got out there!

And if you have a story, a sighting, please contact me.

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

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There’s some skepticism about this plan. How in the world do they plan to pay for and implement such a massive change of direction? New models must be designed. Factories need to be built and tooled for an entirely different manufacturing process. Workers need to be trained. Supply sources need to be identified and contracts made for a different set of parts and materials, including massive numbers of batteries.

Advertising budgets need to be established to encourage consumers to buy all these vehicles.

And it’s not like they are already selling a whole lot of electric vehicles: only about 21,000 Chevy Bolts in 2020. They do plan to introduce any day now a EUV (see above) version of the Bolt, and, somewhat incredibly, an electric Hummer pickup and an electric Cadillac — by 2022.

Jumping ahead a bit on the calendar to Feb. 11, another Times article reports on what might seem to be a simple, straightforward and

obvious answer to the above. GM apparently reported a profit in 2020 of $6.4 billion, down just a bit from the prior year, but not bad for a year dominated by a pandemic and economic dislocation.

Mostly, GM forecasts continuing strong sales of its current line-up of gasoline-powered vehicles, in particular pickup trucks and SUVs, resulting in profits that will enable, as noted in the title of the article: “Gas Guzzlers To Bankroll G.M.’s Shift To All Electric.”

But there are other factors involved. They know that a primary consideration in whether to buy an electric vehicle is how far the car can go on a charge, how long it takes to recharge and how convenient the charging stations are. They see all these factors as improving.

They also know cost is a consideration and forecast that steadily declining costs, most notably for batteries, but also for other key inputs such as lithium and cobalt, will continue their steep decline.

This sounds to me like significant progress, the wet blanket being the more than 250 million vehicles now on the roads in the U.S. mostly burning gas or diesel. They will be with us for a while.

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