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Schools gear up for students’ gradual return If it’s not one thing it’s another. Farmworkers in Davis worked through heavy smoke while fires burned nearby last August. These days, they’re working through the coronavirus pandemic and neglect from employers and the government.

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Left behind, once again Farmworkers recount fear, exclusion during pandemic BY CALEB HAMPTON Enterprise staff writer She left Mexico for the United States three decades ago, driven by the need to pay off her father’s debts and provide for her sick mother. “Since I arrived, I have worked in the field,” said the Yolo County farmworker and mother of six. She is one of about 3 million farmworkers in the U.S. who have risked illness to continue working throughout the past year. During the pandemic, the

U.S. has largely failed to protect the low-wage workers who have maintained many of the country’s most vital functions. Black, Latino, American Indian and immigrant communities that make up much of the essential workforce are overrepresented — locally and across the country — in the number of COVID-19 infections and deaths. Meanwhile, essential workers have been excluded from resources and relief meant to address the pandemic’s impact — sidelined by their zip code, language barriers and the

digital divide, or disqualified because of their immigration status. This is especially true for California farmworkers, roughly 60% of whom are undocumented immigrants. The workers are treated as “essential but disposable,” said Natalia Deeb-Sossa, a professor in the Chicana and Chicano Studies department at UC Davis who has researched local farmworker communities for years. Since the start of the pandemic, Deeb-Sossa and a group of her students have interviewed 80 essential workers,

more than half of whom are farmworkers and most of whom work in Yolo County. The interviews paint a vivid picture of the challenges food and agriculture workers in Yolo County have encountered during the pandemic. In a presentation of her research this week, DeebSossa highlighted hazards farmworkers face, including exposure to the virus at work, lack of protective equipment or appropriate safety measures, shared transportation, overcrowded housing, denial of paid sick leave, loss of income and exclusion from benefits and resources.

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Suspected DUI crash orphans West Sac children BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer As two young children continued to recover from a West Sacramento vehicle crash that killed their parents last week, their community rallied to raise more than a half-million dollars toward their future care and education. Family members say an aunt plans to adopt Jannah Afzili, 3, and 7-month-old Azaan Afzili, who were in the back seat of the family vehicle that a suspected drunk driver struck on Jefferson Boulevard late Monday night. The children’s father, Rasul Afzili, 37, died at the collision

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scene, while their mother Anila Afzili, 29, succumbed to her injuries shortly after arriving at an an area trauma center. “My family is grieving and heartbroken over the loss of my brother and sister-in-law because someone chose to be irresponsible and selfish,” Naeema Afzili, Rasul’s sister, said in a statement on the GoFundMe crowdfunding website. “My niece and nephew are now orphans because somebody chose to get behind a wheel after drinking.” As of Saturday afternoon, the GoFundMe account had raised

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BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Yolo County’s Board of Supervisors will consider a resolution on Tuesday condemning acts of intolerance against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and pledging to combat such behavior going forward. The board’s action comes as reports of violence against Asian Americans continue to grow across the country and locally as well. Nearly a dozen people — including Lisa Yep Salinas, wife of Yolo County’s assessor/clerk-recorder/registrar of voters, Jesse Salinas — described to the Woodland City Council last week being subjected to verbal and

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With the number of new COVID cases ebbing around Yolo County, the Davis school board discussed several aspects of the eventual return to campus by students, during the course of a six-hour meeting last Thursday night. Among the many news nuggets that emerged: As part of an agreement between the Davis school district and Healthy Davis Together (the community partnership sponsored primarily by UC Davis and Davis city government), at-school COVID saliva testing (aka the “spit test”) is getting underway on the campuses of the Davis public schools. Currently, the testing program is being used by some 286 students with special needs who are already attending some class activities at schools. The program will gradually expand to serve all of the district’s 8,000 students as well as hundreds of teachers and staff members as they start coming to campus regularly as part of the hybrid education program — part in-person instruction in a classroom with a teacher, part online distance learning — that the Davis school district is beginning to roll out. Two representatives of Healthy Davis Together — Dr. Brad Pollock, an epidemiologist and the associate

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Briefly Get ‘Goodies for Grads’ weekly Supporting Our Seniors is a volunteer group of parents and caregivers of members of the Class of 2021 at the four Davis Joint Unified High Schools, which formed to celebrate and support students in their Senior year during the Pandemic. Its next initiative is “Goodies for Grads,” which is being cosponsored by more than 30 Davis businesses and which will run every Wednesday in March (March 3, 10, 17, 24 and 31). Participating businesses will be offering some kind of “goodie” in the form of a discount, BOGO, or giveaway to members of the Class of 2021 from any of the four high schools that are part of the Davis Joint Unified School District (DHS, Da Vinci, King and DSIS). School ID or some other proof of senior status is required to qualify for the discount. We have a scannable QR code that high school seniors can use to find out what deals are being offered where. Seniors must follow all COVID safety rules at all times. This event is meant to support local businesses as well as celebrate the Class of 2021. For information, contact Raychel Kubby Adler at 530-219-5986.

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There are limits to all that socialism “W hite House rejects $50,000 student loan debt forgiveness plan,” said the stunning headline in newspapers around the country. And here I could have sworn that Donald Trump had already left office. Reading on, I learned that “President Joe Biden made it clear during Tuesday night’s CNN town hall that he disagrees with other members of his party who want to cancel $50,000 of student debt per borrower.” Joe Biden? Didn’t Republicans warn us he was going to give away the store? Has he gone all conservative on us in less than a month in office? According to the report from CNN’s Katie Lobosco, “ ‘I will not make that happen,’ Biden said after a member of the audience said his proposal to cancel $10,000 per borrower doesn’t go far enough.” Added Lobosco, “Top Democratic leaders, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, are calling on Biden to cancel $50,000 per borrower. Dozens of Democrats reintroduced

a bicameral resolution earlier this month urging Biden to take action, arguing that he has the executive power to do so.” For those who didn’t go to college and are thus joyfully debtfree, the word “bicameral” is a fancy Ivy League term meaning that pretty much everyone agrees on something. Either that or it has something to do with camels. Either way, you generally have to have a Ph.D. to fully understand its meaning. Have you heard of class warfare? Just wait until you hear what our president told the town hall next. “Biden argues that the government shouldn’t forgive debt for people who went to ‘Harvard and Yale and Penn.’ ” Which is ridiculous. I mean, how many people go to three colleges?

And why did he disrespect Stanford and the “Harvard of the West,” UC Davis? Didn’t Biden’s young Inaugural Poet, Amanda Gorman, graduate from Harvard? Maybe she can compose and deliver a poem telling us exactly how much debt forgiveness would be appropriate for her and her classmates. With four hungry teenagers in our household, I’m strongly in favor of all kinds of debt forgiveness, including VISA, MasterCard, Capital One and American Express.

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remember when Elizabeth Warren was running for president she wanted to wipe out $1.6 trillion of student debt, which is about what a law degree from Yale goes for these days. However, to be fair to everyone, why not take Senator Warren’s $1.6 trillion and send every American — all 327 million of us — an equal check? That would come out to precisely $4,892.96 per person, and trust me, that’s not chump change on my side of the tracks. So what about those industrious folks who actually worked parttime or even fulltime while they

were in college to keep their student debt to a minimum? Since there’s nothing for the government to forgive, will they get a bonus check for $50,000? Will members of the freshman class of 2021, who will enter college in the fall, be able to take out student loans and then have them forgiven as well, or is this a oneshot deal for former students? And finally, why are we concerned only with student debt? What about crushing medical debt brought about by serious illness? What about debt that piled up after you were laid off from a job you faithfully performed for the last 30 years? We all have our unique stories about how we ended up holding the short end of the stick. So here’s the plan, Senator. Let’s forgive all debt, no questions asked. Maybe you can convince President Biden to do it with one sweeping executive order. That for sure would guarantee that Democrats will not end up as the minority party after the 2022 midterms, and isn’t that what all decisions are based on these days? — Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

Storms delay delivery of vaccine doses to Yolo County BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer Severe winter storms impacting much of the United States have delayed the delivery of vaccine doses to Yolo County. County-run vaccine clinics in West Sacramento on Friday and Woodland on Saturday were held as planned, thanks to assistance from local healthcare providers, the county said, and clinics for those scheduled to receive their second dose will still be held. “Please attend your second-dose clinic as planned,” a message on the county website said. “You will receive a reminder by phone, email and text 24 to 48 hours in advance

of the clinic.” But additional clinics had not yet been scheduled for the coming week as of Saturday. “We apologize for this interruption in our COVID vaccine distribution,” the county said on its vaccine webpage on Friday. “As soon as deliveries come in, the county will be scheduling clinics and posting here.” Links to register for upcoming clinics will be posted at www.yolocounty. org/coronavirus-vaccine. That site also includes links to other vaccine providers, including healthcare systems and pharmacies. Yolo County is currently vaccinating healthcare workers, individuals 65 and

up, and workers in education and childcare, food and agriculture, and emergency services. Most healthcare systems serving Davis residents are still only vaccinating those 65 and over and healthcare workers. The latest, as of Saturday: ■ Kaiser Permanente is vaccinating healthcare workers and patients 75 and over. ■ UC Davis Health is vaccinating healthcare workers and UC Davis Health patients ages 65 and up. ■ Sutter Health is vaccinating healthcare workers and Sutter patients ages 65 and up. ■ Dignity Health is vaccinating healthcare

workers and Woodland Clinic patients ages 65 and up. ■ CommuniCare Health Centers are vaccinating CommuniCare patients who are 65 and up or work in education and childcare, emergency services, and food and agriculture. Changes to the vaccination process are coming under the state’s partnership with Blue Shield, which as a third-party administrator, will be deciding how many doses will be sent to each healthcare provider and county in California. The change, which will roll out over the next few weeks, has raised concerns among county officials across the state who say what is needed is

more vaccine doses, not more logistics. Yolo County’s health officer, Dr. Aimee Sisson, has said Yolo County could end up getting fewer doses going forward. In the meantime, all California residents have been encouraged to register for vaccine eligibility notification at https://myturn. ca.gov Yolo County residents who need assistance signing up for a vaccine appointment or need an in-home vaccination should call 2-1-1 or 855866-1783. — Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@ davisenterprise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.

VIOLENCE: Overheated rhetoric leads to actual attacks on people From Page A1 physical attacks in Yolo County because of their heritage. “I have been a victim of anti-Asian racism in Woodland,” said Salinas, who cited six separate instances of racially motivated verbal or physical attacks, taking place primarily in grocery stores and parking lots. “These have been complete strangers to me and they have occurred in English and Spanish,” she said. “People have tried to assault me and all of them have blamed me for COVID-19.” Woodland council members expressed disgust over such attacks and voted unanimously Tuesday in favor of a resolution condemning them.

This week, the Board of Supervisors will consider a similar measure. The county resolution notes that during the COVID-19 pandemic, “inflammatory and xenophobic rhetoric has put Asian American and Pacific Islander persons, families, communities and businesses at risk. “Such statements have stoked unfounded fears and perpetuated stigma about Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders which have contributed to increasing rates of bullying, harassment, acts of violence and hate crimes.” Despite the such behavior, “Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have made Yolo County and our nation more secure throughout its

history and during the COVID-19 pandemic,” the resolution notes, “with an estimated 2 million Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders serving on the front lines of this crisis as healthcare providers, as first responders and in other essential roles.” The resolution says Yolo County will work to ensure all members of the

community, no matter their background, language or religious beliefs, “are treated with dignity and equity.” Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting will also include updates on a number of issues, including COVID-19 and the county’s response; the LNU Lightning Fire Complex response and recovery; and the state

of the county budget. The meeting begins at 9 a.m. and is accessible via zoom at https://yolocounty. zoom.us/j/112072974 or by phone at 1-408-638-0968, Meeting ID: 112 072 974. — Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@ davisenterprise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.

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Local leaders discuss impact of COVID-19 on Yolo County Special to The Enterprise In response to the current COVID-10 crisis, the Yolo Community Foundation will host a five-week series of discussions focused on major community needs that have risen in intensity as a result of the pandemic and associated economic crisis. The Yolo COVID-19 Community Needs Series, sponsored by Sutter Health, launches on Thursday, Feb. 25. The panels are hosted on Zoom at 11 a.m. Thursdays, and are open to all. Register for one event or several at www.yolocf. org. “Children and Families” kicks off the series on Feb. 25. Guests are Stacie Frerichs, Davis Arts Center; Jeneba Lahai, Yolo County

Children’s Alliance; Garth Lewis, Yolo County Office of Education; Heather Sleuter, Yolo Crisis Nursery; and Tessa Smith, Resilient Yolo/Yolo County Health & Human Services. “Food Insecurity” is on March 4. Guests are Michael Bisch, Yolo Food Bank; Aleecia Gutierrez, Mercy Coalition of West Sacramento; Cathleen Olsen, Winters Farm to School; and Christi Skibbins, Meals on Wheels Yolo County. “Mental Health” is on March 11. Guests are Dr. Urmi Patel, Sutter Health; Diane Sommers, Suicide Prevention Yolo County; Tico Zendejas, RISE Inc.; and Petrea Marchand, NAMI Yolo/Consero Solutions.

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Briefly Democrats elect board members The Yolo County Democratic Party elected its 2021-2022 executive board in a virtual meeting on Feb. 15. After a successful 2020 election season, with a new Democratic presidential administration, the Democratic Party is well-positioned to build support and expand outreach in Yolo County and beyond. The new executive officers are, chair, Linda Deos; vice-chair, Norma Alcala; executive director, Dave Griffin; controller, Don Stauffer; parliamentarian, Marty West; and secretary, Saira Delgado. To get involved, visit the Yolo County Democratic Party’s website at yolodemocrats.org.

Program to eye Gold Rush “Reimagining Stories from the Gold Rush” will take place at 5:10 p.m. Thursday, March 18, via Zoom. This webinar will look at how people tell stories from the Gold Rush, whose stories count, and how people can shape the future by diversifying those stories from the past. Panelists include Veronica Kandl, curator at the Center for Sacramento History; Lorena Marquez, assistant professor of Chicana/Chicano Studies at UC Davis; Brittani Orona, doctoral student in Native American Studies at UC Davis and tribal affairs coordinator for State Parks; artists Tiffany Adams and Xico González; and Cecilia Tsu, associate professor in the department of history at UC Davis. Register at https:// bit.ly/3aBuzHN. For more information, visit https://dhi.ucdavis. edu/conversation.

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Most teen bullying occurs among ‘friends’ BY KAREN NIKOS-ROSE Special to The Enterprise Teens who bully, harass, or otherwise victimize their peers are not always lashing out in reaction to psychological problems or unhealthy home environments, but are often using aggression strategically to climb their school’s social hierarchy, a UC Davis study suggests. These findings point to the reasons why most anti-bullying programs don’t work and suggest possible strategies for the future. “To the extent that this is true, we should expect them to target not vulnerable wallflowers, but their own friends, and friends-offriends, who are more likely to be their rivals for higher rungs on the social ladder,” said Robert Faris, a UCD researcher on bullying and author of the paper “With Friends Like These: Aggression From Amity and Equivalence.” The paper was published recently in the American Journal of Sociology. Co-authors are sociologists Diane Felmlee at Pennsylvania State University and Cassie McMillan at Northeastern University. Faris, a professor of sociology, said friends and associates with close ties to one another likely compete for positions within the same clubs, classrooms, sports and dating subgroups, which heightens the risk of conflict and aggression. This paper is the first known to show that those rivals are often their own friends.

This differs from some common theories and definitions of bullying, in which the behavior stems from an imbalance of power and is mainly directed at youths in the lower social strata in school or community environments who possibly have physical, social or psychological vulnerabilities. The study focuses, instead, on a broader definition of peer aggression — theorizing that aggression can actually improve the social status of the aggressor. Using a large, longitudinal social network study of more than 3,000 eighth-, ninth- and 10th-graders in North Carolina over the course of a single school year, the authors found that teens who were friends in the fall were more than three times as likely to bully or victimize each other in the spring of that same school year. This is not merely animosity between former friends who drifted apart: Schoolmates whose friendships ended during the year were three times as likely to bully or victimize each other in the spring, while those whose friendships continued over the school year were over four times as likely to bully those friends, researchers said.

‘Frenemy effect’ This “frenemy effect” is not explained by the amount of time friends spent together, Faris explained. Additionally, “structurally equivalent” classmates — those

who are not necessarily friends, but who share many friends in common — are also more likely to bully or otherwise victimize each other. Compared to schoolmates with no overlapping friendships, those whose friendships are perfectly overlapping are roughly three times more likely to bully each other, and those who share the same bullies or victims are more than twice as likely to bully each other. Finally, being victimized by friends is particularly painful, and is associated with significant increases in symptoms of depression and anxiety, and significant decreases in school attachment, researchers said.

Real-life case The paper cites the real-life case of Megan Meier, who hanged herself in 2007 after being bullied by people she thought were her friends — with the added twist of a mother orchestrating the social media bullying scheme. “The tragedy of Megan Meier highlights more than the limitations of the criminal justice system in addressing complex, often subtle, social problems like bullying,” researchers said. The case illustrates the need for research in this area: “… contrary to the once-prevailing view of bullying as a maladjusted reaction to psychological deficiencies, emotional dysregulation, empathy deficits, or problematic home lives, (the perpetrator of

the bullying) is one of millions of adolescents who has harmed a schoolmate for instrumental reasons: to exact retribution, achieve prominence, or vanquish a rival,” researchers said. Indeed, the research shows, “the desire for popularity motivates much aggressive behavior.”

Few programs work Additionally, the researchers conclude, few anti-bullying programs work. “The reason for the typically low success rates, we believe, is that aggressive behavior accrues social rewards, and to a degree that leads some to betray their closest friends. Even the most successful prevention programs are unable to alter the aggressive behavior of popular bullies who use cruelty to gain and maintain status,” the authors said. The popularity contests ubiquitous in secondary schools, the authors wrote, encourage peer bullying. The authors suggest that efforts to support and strengthen adolescent friendships — such as broadening extracurricular offerings and hosting camps, trainings and retreats — could help de-emphasize popularity and reduce the “frenemy effect.” This work was supported by Pennsylvania State University and the National Science Foundation under an IGERT award DGE1144860, Big Data Social Science. — UC Davis news

Learn all about the tule elk in California at Tuleyome lecture Special to The Enterprise The tule elk, an endemic California subspecies, has a complex natural history intertwined with the activities of both native and immigrant people. Presumed extinct by the mid19th century, tule elk have since received over a century of intense management. Joint efforts between public and private entities have resulted in remarkable increases in tule elk abundance and distribution across California, representing one of the greatest conservation success stories of our time. At 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25, Tom Batter of UC Davis and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife discusses the ecology,

natural history and modern management practices of California’s tule elk. Register for this Zoom meeting at http://tuleyome.org/ events/ (include an email address) and download Zoom. After registering, participants will be sent an email with login information. Attendees will be able to ask questions via Zoom’s chat feature. For more information, contact bgrabert@tuleyome. org. This lecture is part of the free monthly “Nature and You” lecture series sponsored by Tuleyome, a nonprofit conservation organization based in Woodland. A $10 donation to Tuleyome is requested but not required to participate in this event.

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s brick-and-mortar restaurants struggle under the weight of pandemic restrictions, mobile and delivery food businesses are finding a place at our tables. There’s a new micro bakery in Davis called Bran & Ash. It operates mainly on a weekly and subscription basis, as a “consumer-supported bakery.” Owners Casey Hardi and Zoe Mitchell focus on baked goods with local ingredients, natural fermentation and whole grains. They get their produce from the Davis Farmers Market and other area farms, and the grains from local mills. Hardi began baking at Konditorei Austrian Pastry Café in Davis, and has also worked at Columbia City Bakery, Della Fattoria and Upper Crust Baking. Mitchell’s credentials include starting a catering business and writing a cookbook. She graduates from UC Davis this spring with a degree in food science and brewing. Mitchell explained the cottage bakery’s name: “Bran and ash are both important components of flour. Bran is the husk of the wheat, so if you leave it in, you have whole wheat. This was important to us because we mill all of our whole grains, and think that it is an important component of our products. On the other hand, ash is the mineral content of flour — so how healthy and nutritious it is. Using freshly milled, whole grains allows us to conserve both … meaning that it is much better for you than just plain white flour.” Its menu includes breads, pastries, cakes, cookies, soft pretzels, granola and pasta,

with plenty of vegan options. Packages are available through weekly box purchases or regular subscriptions, as well as add-ons. Each box includes a loaf of sourdough bread, along with four to five other pastries. Preorders for the consumersupported bakery box become available at about noon on Sunday, and close on Thursday afternoons. Local pickup is Sundays at its cottage bakery, 1406 L St. CSB boxes (available to Davis, Winters and Woodland) are delivered on Sundays. Visit https://www.branan dash.com/. ———— How about some coffee to go with those pastries? Wheel House Cafe is a bike coffee cart with a semi-permanent spot at Christ Church of Davis, at 1801 Oak Ave. It provides “coffee and community to neighboring businesses, offices, high school students, staff, parents and community members while simultaneously creating entrylevel jobs (available to those who are in need of initial job experience),” its Facebook page says. Profits from the coffee cart are donated back to the community to support charitable work in collaboration with Christ Church of Davis. It posts its hours on Facebook and Instagram. Recent hours have been 7 a.m.

to noon on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Wednesdays. ———— The above businesses could learn from two Davis dinnerdelivery businesses that are thriving. Pannier Foods and Foodies compete for use of the Davis Odd Fellows Lodge’s commercial kitchen at 415 Second St. Odd Fellow Dave Rosenberg said, “Most businesses are taking a beating these days, but a few are actually booming,” he said, pointing to the two. I’ve written before about the excellent Pannier Foods, with Michelin-trained chef Michael Raub. The gourmet dinner delivery business sells out for the week (Tuesdays through Fridays) by each Saturday morning. Visit https://www.pannierfoods.com. And Foodies is doing gangbusters, too, especially since it appeared in this space. It has what are usually $10 meals for pickup or delivery from 3 to 5 p.m. on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Recently, it started offering “Foodie Wagon Fridays” from its food truck parked next to the Lodge, with pickup from 4 to 7 p.m. Visit https://www.foodies davis.com/. ———— A UC Davis grad has a new app that is helping people learn about wine and wine pairings, and encouraging them to support local wineries. Christy Serrato launched PairAnything in March 2020, after winning $10,000 in the 2019 UC Davis Big Bang! competition. The platform helps wineries connect with customers beyond the tasting room, and guides consumers on what wines go well with certain foods.

Davis Downtown Business Association introduces new board members Special to The Enterprise The Davis Downtown Business Association welcomes several new faces and bright minds to the board of directors in 2021. The new directors starting a full two-year term are Dawn Coder (Coldwell Banker), Kevin Duncan (First Northern Bank), Shelli Ramos (Pinkadot), Kevin Wan (Sophia’s Thai Kitchen), Lynne Yackzan (5th & G Plaza, Inc.) and Alexandria Yon (Woodstock’s Pizza). The DDBA also welcomes Sumei Yee (Aggie

Enterprises), who was appointed in December to an open director seat that was vacated this past year. The DDBA appreciates her willingness to jump right in and her continuous involvement with the downtown community. The first meeting with the newly assembled board of directors took place on Thursday, Feb. 11. At this meeting, the board chose officers, including Tim Mech (Three Mile Brewing) as president, Kevin Wan as vice-president,

Sumei Yee as secretary and Kevin Duncan as treasurer. The DDBA has appointed chairpersons and co-chairpersons of several standing committees, including Bar and Restaurant, Kevin Wan chair and Alexandria Yon co-chair; Marketing, Yelena Ivashchenko (Boheme Used Clothing & Gifts) chair; Parking, Tim Mech chair and Dawn Coder co-chair; and Visioning and Community Relations, Lynne Yackzan chair and Julie Helmus (Helmus Optometry) co-chair.

UCD supplier expo aims for diversity Special to The Enterprise UC Davis will present a virtual Small and Diverse Supplier Expo from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25, The event is free. Registration is required. This event is an opportunity to promote the use of small and diverse suppliers to UC Davis department purchasers as well as a way for local small and diverse businesses to learn how they can find opportunities for working with UC Davis. It is being presented by UC Davis Supply Chain Management, the campus

Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, UC Davis Health Equity, Diversity & Inclusion and UC Davis Medical Center Purchasing. There will be a panel discussion featuring members of the Sacramento Black, Hispanic, Asian Pacific and Rainbow Chambers, news about UC policies and programs designed to promote

the use of small and diverse suppliers, information on how to register as a small or diverse business with UC Davis and the and UC, a presentation on how UC Davis design and construction management conducts contracting, and more. For more information, contact Crystal O’Hara at crohara@ucdavis.edu.

“Now wineries are able to help consumers schedule visits, recommend pairings … and it streamlines the shopping experience,” she said. It’s even more relevant during COVID-19. The app lets you choose regions, including Yolo, Sacramento, Placer, El Dorado, Amador and Nevada counties, as well as wineries with UC Davis alumni affiliations. The app is web-based, so it’s available online rather than through an app store. Visit https://www. pairanything.com/. Serrato, CEO and founder of PairAnything, is a 1988 UC Davis graduate in economics. Her startup is based in Davis, at 200 B St., Suite F. She’s also a program director for the Sacramento Entrepreneurship Academy. ———— After 45 years, Vince’s Mexican Restaurant, 140 W. Main St. in Woodland, announced its closure on Feb. 9. In an Instagram post, owner Vince Rodriguez said, “It is with great sadness that we must announce the permanent closure of Vince’s Mexican Restaurant. No one could have predicted the immense impact of the global pandemic on small businesses everywhere. And while we have tried our best to remain open for the love of our community, it is no longer feasible with no end in sight to the restrictions on restaurants. We want to thank you all for your support over the last 40+ years of us serving this great city. I look forward to continuing to greet you all around town as I transition into retirement.” I left multiple messages to learn more, but none were returned.

———— I want to use this space to thank Jamie Morton, the Computer Doctor, for saving my 2014 Macbook Pro last week. When I tried to update to the new Big Sur operating system (Word and Excel said I needed to update, and my research said this OS was compatible), it crashed, and all data was lost. Luckily, I had a backup drive that we were finally able to unlock. His prices are extremely reasonable. His business is at 214 J St. Visit https://daviscomputer doctor.com/. ———— It looks like Yolo County could be headed to the red tier. Expect an announcement on Tuesday. The change would allow limited indoor dining at restaurants, and limited indoor exercise at fitness centers, among other changes. I keep track of affected Davis businesses on my Google spreadsheet, which includes more than 325 Davis businesses affected by COVID-19. It’s at https://bit.ly/ DavisBusinesses. In it, there are sheets for Restaurants-open, Restaurants-closed, Businessesretail, Businesses-service, Special hours (for older adults or compromised shoppers), and more. Please email wendyedit@ gmail.com to suggest updates or additions. — Wendy Weitzel is a Davis writer and editor. Her column runs on Sundays. Check for frequent updates on her Comings & Goings Facebook and Instagram pages. If you know of a business coming or going in the area, contact her at wendyedit@gmail. com.

Insurance professional honored Enterprise staff Suzanne Meraz of Davis was among the six leaders from CSAA Insurance Group, a AAA insurer, and 123 insurance professionals from across the country and overseas named to the 2021 Class of Emerging Leaders. Meraz serves as CSAA’s director of external affairs. She and the rest of the class will be honored at the 2021 Virtual Emerging Leaders Conference set for Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 22-23, and hosted by the American Property Casualty Insurance Association, the Insurance Careers Movement and AM Best. The conference — which is held in conjunction with the sixth annual Insurance Careers Month in February — is designed to bring together and recognize talented and diverse rising stars in the insurance industry. Those selected represent a wide range of job functions, including technology, claims, government relations, underwriting, human resources, marketing, legal, product

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Suzanne Meraz of Davis was one of 123 insurance professionals from across the country and overseas to be named to the 2021 Class of Emerging Leaders. development, actuarial and public relations. Nominees must have more than eight years of job experience and a demonstrated positive impact on their companies and the insurance industry. This year, many nominees also played a pivotal role in helping their companies navigate the challenges of the pandemic or with diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. “As society’s financial first responders, we’re making and delivering on

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LEFT: Interviews with 80 workers reveal pattern of neglect From Page A1 “We are exposed to everything — chemicals, fire, harassment, COVID-19,” a Yolo County farmworker said. Aside from one talk last spring, her employer has run the farm like it’s business as usual. “With this pandemic, they gave us nothing,” she said. “They don’t provide gloves. They don’t provide you with glasses or a mask.” According to Deeb-Sossa, local farmworkers have frequently found out a coworker had COVID-19 only because they happened to ask. “The employers are not forthcoming,” she told The Enterprise. The agricultural industry is notorious for workplace abuse, due in part to the limited recourse available to undocumented workers. (Recent studies have found roughly 80 percent of women farmworkers have experienced some form of sexual violence on the job.) This combination of vulnerabilities has been perilous for farmworkers during the pandemic. Since the emergence of COVID-19, working age adults in California experienced a 22% increase in mortality, with just a 6% increase for white working age adults. In comparison, Latino Californians experienced a 36% increase in mortality, with a 59% increase among Latino food and agriculture workers, according to an analysis of death records from the California Department of Public Health. Because of the high risk of infection in the workplace, many of the farmworkers Deeb-Sossa’s team interviewed feared infecting their families. According to a 2018 study, nearly 70% of farmworker households are severely overcrowded, with multiple families living in single-family dwellings. “The simple truth is that I am afraid of bringing the disease here to my home,” a poultry worker told Deeb-Sossa’s team. Farmworkers in Yolo County said that while they fear infection at work, financial pressures compel them to go anyway. “I pray to God I have my health to continue, because I need to help my family with the rent,” one said. “If we don’t pay the rent, they run us out.” In July, the poultry worker missed a month of work after falling sick with COVID-19. When she returned, she had to fight for the paid leave she was entitled to. Even then, she said, she only got part of it. “Most local farmworkers feel they need to go to work even if they feel sick,” Deeb-Sossa said. California’s estimated 800,000 farmworkers earn an average annual income of less than $18,000. Despite being essential, more than half of California farmworkers lost work hours and

Local Latino communities and farmworkers have struggled to access services that are readily available to others, including walk-in vaccine clinics that were meant to serve them specifically. NATALIA DEEB-SOSSA/ COURTESY PHOTO

income due to the pandemic, according to a recent survey of nearly a thousand farmworkers facilitated by the California Institute of Rural Studies and supported by UC Davis. As a result, farmworkers have reported challenges meeting basic needs, including food, housing and childcare. Nearly 60% of the farmworkers surveyed by the Institute of Rural Studies said costs and lack of insurance would prevent them from accessing health care if they got sick. “With the pandemic, I get anxiety attacks more often,” Elena, a farmworker in the San Joaquin Valley, told the Institute of Rural Studies. “I’m a single mom and I’m afraid of becoming infected because I’m the only one who supports my two daughters. I don’t have access to any government benefit.” The contradiction between the workers’ “essential” status and their treatment is not lost on them. “We’re supposedly indispensable and essential, but it feels like we’re not essential, as if we are useless trash that you can throw away and then they’ll just hire more people,” a farmworker told the Institute of Rural Studies. “The product from the field is what is needed,” a Yolo County farmworker said.

Excluded from help Despite undocumented immigrants’ outsize contribution to essential work during the pandemic, they have been excluded from most financial assistance. Both federal relief bills passed last year denied stimulus checks to undocumented immigrants. The Biden administration’s plan for another round of “survival checks” also excludes anyone who lacks legal status. (Contrary to popular myth, undocumented immigrants pay local, state and federal taxes. Collectively, they pay about $12 billion per year into Social Security, funding benefits for which they are ineligible.) Even immigrants who qualify

for benefits often avoid them, especially since the Trump administration enacted its Public Charge rule last year. The rule threatens to deny permanent resident status and work authorization to immigrants who use social safety net programs like Medicaid, food stamps and subsidized housing. A study by the Kaiser Family Foundation estimated the policy could cause up to 4.7 million immigrants to unenroll from Medicaid programs. “I haven’t asked for food stamps because I’m afraid of the news I hear that it could be a public charge,” Patricia, a San Joaquin Valley farmworker, told the Institute of Rural Studies. “There isn’t much information that convinces me to give it a try.” The Biden administration said it is reviewing the policy, but immigration experts have warned it could still have lasting effects as immigrants continue to forego public benefits out of an abundance of caution.

Local services Yolo County officials and staff have made targeted efforts to serve local farmworker communities during the pandemic, in some cases going door to door to spread awareness and offer resources. The county regularly sends teams of health workers to migrant centers and work sites to test farmworkers. This week, Yolo County began vaccinating farmworkers, administering the first 280 doses to farmworkers in Esparto. Still, Deeb-Sossa said local Latino communities and farmworkers have struggled to access services that are readily available to others. Earlier this month, Yolo County held walk-in vaccine clinics in rural parts of the county to serve residents who are undocumented or lack access to sign up online, but many of those vaccines reportedly ended up going to Davis residents who drove out to the clinics. “More affluent individuals who do have healthcare, who do have

healthcare providers, actually cut in line and received a vaccine where maybe that vaccine should have gone to somebody in West Sacramento or Knights Landing or Esparto and Madison,” Supervisor Angel Barajas of Woodland said last week at a Board of Supervisors meeting. Latinos make up 32% of Yolo County’s population, and 41% of COVID-19 cases, but as of Saturday they had received just 11% of the vaccines distributed here, according to data released by the state. Farmworkers began receiving vaccines only after weeks of advocacy and with little time left before the arrival of seasonal workers is expected to double the county’s farmworker population to roughly 7,000 people. Farmworkers and managers have also voiced frustration around access to COVID-19 testing. Davis’ Healthy Davis Together testing program has earned national acclaim — The New York Times called it “the most ambitious program of its type in the country” — but community advocates have lamented that such fast and easy testing isn’t accessible to farmworkers who live and work just outside Davis. Local farmworkers have largely relied on the county’s nasal swab tests, which take twice as long to process as the Healthy Davis Together tests and took up to 10 days during the peak in cases over the holidays. A farm manager who works at a Solano County farm 6 miles outside Davis said he had to bend rules to keep his workers safe. After a worker tested positive in January, the manager wanted to get everyone tested, but the only available options had slow processing times and required more personal information than many of his workers, about half of whom are undocumented, were comfortable sharing. The manager, who lives in Davis, registered more than two dozen of the workers for Healthy Davis Together testing, listing their home addresses as his own

and making up new email addresses as most of his workers don’t use email. He now takes the workers, and many of their spouses, to get tested every week at the Mondavi Center, and said the tests have helped identify and isolate asymptomatic workers who were positive for COVID-19. Deeb-Sossa said that while the manager’s approach is far from the norm — many employers, she found, have invested little in their workers’ safety — it illustrates local farmworkers’ desire for these services and the inadequacy of the other testing options available to them. Healthy Davis Together told The Enterprise in an email this week that the program “is planning additional outreach to community-based organizations with deep ties to the Latinx community.” According to the email, Healthy Davis Together will be working with ORALE COVID19, a UC Davis Health project focused on COVID-19 testing for farmworkers in Yolo County and elsewhere.

Recommendations After interviewing farmworkers locally and across the state, Deeb-Sossa and the Institute of Rural Studies both made several recommendations, ranging from community solutions to policy suggestions. When it comes to workplace safety during the pandemic, essential workers should be involved in discussions about minimizing workplace risks, Deeb-Sossa said. At the policy level, she said that all essential workers need to be given a pathway to citizenship. The Biden administration and Democrats in Congress have proposed multiple ways to put undocumented farmworkers on a fast track to permanent residence and U.S. citizenship. Those plans enjoy popular support from voters but they are expected to face strong opposition from Republicans in Congress. Farmworker advocates are also urging the California legislature to pass Senate Bill 562, the Healthy California Act, which would guarantee health coverage for all California residents regardless of immigration status. In the meantime, farmworkers continue to go to work each day, growing food in the fields around Davis to be consumed across the country. “We get frustrated by what is happening but we can do nothing but be here,” a Yolo County farmworker from Guatemala said. “There is no other option to support my family.” — Reach Caleb Hampton at champton@davisenterprise.net. Follow him on Twitter at @calebmhampton.

Woodland CHP offers online ‘Smart Start’ class for teens Special to The Enterprise The leading cause of death for Americans 15-20 years old is motor vehicle collisions. In an effort to reduce motor vehicle collisions in California, the Woodland-area California Highway Patrol will offer a free Start Smart class from

6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 23, on Zoom. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, mile for mile, teenagers are involved in three times as many fatal crashes as all other drivers. The CHP’s Start Smart

program is a driver safety education class which targets new and future licensed teenage drivers between the age of 15 and 19 and their parents or guardians. The Start Smart class will cover collision avoidance techniques, driver responsibility, collision

trends and distracted driving laws. Register by calling the Woodland CHP office at 530-662-4685. This is a class for parents/guardians and their teen drivers. For more information, ask for Public Information Officer Rodney Fitzhugh.

OBITUARY Robert William Agee 1945 — Jan. 10, 2021

Robert Agee passed away on Jan. 10, surrounded by his family. Bob lived a life that looked ever outward in care and service to others and ever inward seeking growth and change within himself. Born in South Gate, Calif., and raised in Arcadia, Bob always felt fortunate that he had lived the 1950s Los Angeles childhood one sees in movies. With his brother Tom at his side, “Bobby” spent his youth sailing, camping, playing baseball with the neighborhood kids and earning badges through Boy Scouts. He was the sort of kid (and later the sort of adult) who knew how to tie dozens of types of knots. His father Flint passed on to him a seriousness of purpose and a zeal for mechanical and electronic tinkering. His mother Ada showed him what it meant to embrace one’s community and advocate for public schools. Pasadena City College sparked the intellectual in Bob and his parents pushed him to seek out new experiences. Bob left Southern California for UC Berkeley, and after earning his undergraduate degree there, he entered Cal’s graduate programs in both business and education. At Cal, Bob met and fell in love with Janice. The two

married and then moved to Davis in 1975. There, they had their children Christopher, Megan and Brooke. Bob and Jan shared a zest for exploring places both close to home and far away, and over the next half-century, their growing family traveled the world together. Bob documented these trips and daily life with his ever-present camera. Bob was a quiet person, but he was also curious and empathetic. Photography suited him well. The thousands of candid photographs he took revealed the thoughtful eyes through which he viewed the world. In 1975, Bob began a two-decade career at the California Department of Education. Concentrating on school finance, Bob was a defender of California schools at a time when drastic budget cuts were threatening the state’s children. His ingenuity, integrity and work ethic made him a worthy champion of public education. Bob eventually rose to the position of chief deputy superintendent. Bob continued his public service in positions with the National Center on Education

and the Economy and the UC Davis budget division. He volunteered for Davis Sunrise Rotary and Rebuilding Together, served as the president for Academics Without Borders USA, and chaired Davis’s Business and Economic Development Commission. But as Bob drew his professional life closer to his home, he traded late-evening freeway commutes for lunch-time bicycle rides to the kitchen. He read avidly for both himself and his book club, and he began maintaining a vital, sneakily strong body through his sailing, swimming, weightlifting, bicycling and walking. In these later years, all of Bob’s children were married under chuppahs he built. Bob regarded the family he and Jan created together as his greatest source of pride. He raised his young kids on a deep catalog of campfire songs. He hunkered down with them for hours at the kitchen table, teaching calculus and constructing science experiments. And he took them on small adventures, exploring the old haunts of Los Angeles or scaling the backside of Half

Dome. For his part, Bob loved recounting these experiences — with some embellishments — to friends and strangers alike. Bob then became “grandpa,” “pom pom,” and “baba” to his seven grandchildren. Once again, Bob was singing songs, spinning yarns, constructing furniture and reprising his role as the all-in-one mathscience-and-music teacher. Bob’s generous spirit earned him many friends. He had an easy laugh and eyes that smiled. Bob was genuinely eager to listen to others; he always believed he had something to learn from those around him. Bob will be missed. And this narrative can now stand as the last fully factual statement on Bob’s life. Moving forward, we can honor Bob’s wry humor and narrative flair with “Bob stories” that are both true and embellished around the edges. Donations can be made “In memory of Bob Agee” to the Sutter Hospital Cardiac Rehab Fund with a check payable to “SDHF Cardiac Rehab Fund” mailed to PO Box 160045, Sacramento, CA 95833 or to the UC Berkeley Library Fund at https://give.lib.berkeley.edu/give-now.

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SCHOOLS: Officials see a path forward to reopen campuses From Page A1 dean and chair for public health sciences with the UC Davis School of Medicine, and Brad Stoltz, director of business development at UC Davis Health — made a 75-minute presentation to the trustees. Pollock, a gregarious speaker, said real progress is being made locally in terms of bringing the COVID-19 virus under control. By Jan. 1, 2022, “we will have a sufficient number of people vaccinated, and a high enough herd-immunity level, that things will be getting back to normal” locally in many ways, Pollock predicted, adding, “I’m very optimistic about this.” Pollock added that the communitywide Healthy Davis Together partnership (including the university, city government and school district) has put Davis in “a unique position” to help experts by providing reams of data from extensive testing across “a whole community,” rather than a specific hospital or university campus. This could yield valuable information about the variant forms of the COVID-19 virus that are now being found more and more frequently in California, Stoltz added that the broad-based Healthy Davis Together testing program is “an opportunity to study (people) who’ve been vaccinated and tested repeatedly (over months) ... We’ll be able to find out if people can shed the virus once they’re vaccinated, and help the scientific community learn a lot ... This is why it is really, really important for people to keep getting tested, even after you get vaccinated” for COVID-19, Stoltz said

Activities resuming Superintendent John Bowes said that with the governor’s Feb. 18 announcement on youth sports and revised California Department of Public Health guidance, the Davis public schools will be hosting more outdoor sports activities, which had been restricted under purple tier status. Bowes urged people to “watch our Athletics Department website for updates.” This question of when kids return to the classroom is top-of-mind for many parents. And the answer, at this point, is that it’s still too soon to say for sure. The Davis school district is moving toward a period of hybrid instruction — part online “distance learning,” and part

in-person classroom instruction. The precise date when students will return to classrooms is dependent on a number of factors outside of the school district’s control, including the availability of enough COVID-19 vaccine to vaccinate all teachers and staff who want to be vaccinated. Just last week, California received some 700,000 fewer doses of COVID-19 vaccine than expected, leading to many counties putting their vaccination clinics on hold temporarily during the coming week.

Changes to routine You will see fewer student desks in classrooms, and more open airspace between those desks, and students will be spending time with their teacher in smaller groups (or “cohorts”) than before. There will be new handwashing stations, and the school schedule will include time for mandatory handwashing at intervals. Facemasks will be required, and there will be many other changes as well. Bowes said, “We are planning for both in-person and virtual graduation ceremonies to be sure that school sites are ready to celebrate our students in the best way possible.” Expect an announcement about whether graduation ceremonies will be in-person or virtual at some point in the spring. Bowes added, “We are beginning to prepare for summer school, and how our six traditional summer-school programs will be recast to meet the learning needs of our students. The traditional summer programs focus on reading skills, language acquisition, and credit recovery. This year, we are developing options for acceleration of skills, experiences that allow for deeper learning through projects and challenges, as well as for recreation and relational opportunities.”

August start Bowes said that “based on the information available about decreasing community spread” of the COVID-19 virus, the school district is “planning for a full, regular reopening of our campuses in the fall. This means we intend to be in ‘Phase 5 — Full, In-Person Learning’ when schools open for the 2021-22 school year on Aug. 25, 2021.” — Reach Jeff Hudson at jhudson@ davisenterprise.net.

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2021

CRASH: Police still investigating From Page A1 nearly $550,000, which relatives say will go directly into a trust fund for the siblings. Meanwhile, West Sacramento police continue to investigate the deadly crash, which occurred at about 11:30 p.m. Monday on Jefferson Boulevard just south of Locks Drive. According to accounts from police and relatives, the young family had been driving home from a birthday gathering for Rasul Afzili at his mother’s house when the second vehicle struck their car at the intersection, trapping the parents inside. A bystander pulled the children from the wreckage. Azaan was treated and released for injuries, while Jannah spent several days in the hospital before being released on Thursday. The other driver also was injured and hospitalized. No arrests had been announced as of Saturday, but West Sacramento police Sgt. Stefan Iwanicki said alcohol is believed to have played a role in the collision. Although coroner’s officials and relatives released the names of the Afzili family, West Sacramento police said in a Facebook post they were withholding that information, including the identity of the other driver, “due to the ongoing investigation.” “With our tight-knit community, understandably, there are questions regarding the circumstances, and family involved,” the post said. “While we can’t currently share more information, our hearts go out to these two young children, their family and loved ones during this extremely difficult time.” A small roadside memorial of flowers and signs

officers performing a welfare check at Silvey’s Motel on West Capitol Avenue found 16-month-old Amanda Marie Owens dead of “traumatic injuries,” her 3-year-old brother Elijah also wounded.

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Flowers and signs mark the scene of the collision that killed Rasul and Anila Afzili, leaving their two young children behind. appeared at the crash scene in the days after the incident, with one sign asking that the parents’ photos not be publicized in accordance with their religious beliefs. The crash marked the second tragedy to strike West Sacramento in less than 12 hours Monday. Earlier, at about noon,

Police and Yolo County prosecutors say the abuse was inflicted by the boyfriend of the children’s mother, Derrick Dimone Woods, who reportedly fled from the motel prior to officers’ arrival but was apprehended the following day. Woods, 43, remains in Yolo County Jail custody on murder and other charges that could bring the death penalty or life in prison without the possibility of parole if he is convicted. He pleaded not guilty to the allegations at his arraignment hearing Thursday and is due back in court April 2. — Reach Lauren Keene at lkeene@davisenter prise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @laurenkeene.

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Excellent examples of hearts we’ve received that fit the standard heart template. Please use these examples for inspiration! Artists that have already submitted entries. In order from top left to bottom right: Anne Syer, Eve Dunaway, Gordon Caulkins, Katherine Berdovskiy, James Rokop, Summerlynn Burlew, Siena Dawkins, Aaron Wedra, Vicki Plutchokl, Feya Dawkins and Julie Friesen. The DDBA thanks you from the bottom of our hearts for your love of community and creativity!

A heartfelt thank you to our wonderful downtown sponsors. Your support helps us to host this art project and beautify downtown Davis.

CALLING ALL ARTISTS: OUR ONLINE SUBMISSION FORM WILL BE OPEN UNTIL MIDNIGHT OF 2/28 Special to The Enterprise The Davis Downtown Business Association (DDBA) has launched a collective art project called Heart to Hearts. The DDBA’s art subcommittee hopes to engage dozens if not hundreds of community members and UCD students to symbolically give their hearts to downtown small businesses. YOU’RE CREATIVE… RIGHT?

We think everyone is, so here’s how you can help. We

are looking for artists of all ages and skill levels to create hearts as an expression of love for small businesses and our community. We will accept drawings, paintings, graphic design and other creative submissions. The only rule is that your artwork fit within the shape of a standard heart. Submissions that do not fit the shape of a heart template may be cropped or modified. Once all submissions have been gathered our creative team will create several collages from the entries to be

printed on postcards. We will sell these postcards on our website and buyers will be able to select which business will receive the proceeds of their postcard purchase. Our local businesses love the community, and this art project offers the opportunity to show them some love back. ARTISTS CAN EXPECT THEIR WORK TO GET HIGH VISIBILITY.

Last year our Communal Art Project had over 100,000 unique visitors through our Facebook page, so we are

hosting a Facebook page for this year’s Heart to Hearts project as well. Visit https:// www.facebook.com/DavisHeartToHearts to see artists' entries. All artists’ hearts will be posted to our Facebook page, however we reserve the right of refusal for hearts being printed on postcards in the case that an entry is not well-suited for reproduction. HOW TO ENTER:

1) Design a heart—be creative! Some ideas: A heart with your favorite downtown business • A heart in memory of a loved one • A heart

with a picture of your favorite activity or with something you love to do in Davis • A heart with your favorite pet, person, or food • An abstract heart • A heart with your goals for 2021, or just something that you LOVE!

Let us kick off 2021 giving full support to our small businesses and bringing some color to the community. WE LOVE DAVIS.

2) Please make sure the art is in the shape of a HEART or we may have to crop or modify your design. 3) Between 1/25 and 2/28 use our submission form to submit a high-quality image of your artwork. The submission form can be found at www.DavisDowntown.com.

— The Davis Downtown Business Association staff, and board. From our hearts to yours!

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What last year brought, now remembered T oday is Feb. 21 and I feel like a mountain skier facing a steep series of moguls, each bump a memory from the year of COVID-19. This is the time of anniversaries. One year ago, our world was dramatically changing, but most of us didn’t know it yet. A COVID-19 fatality in Seattle, initially thought to be the first in the U.S., hadn’t happened yet, but other West Coast fatalities, not yet discovered, had already occurred in Santa Clara County on Feb. 6 and 17. One year ago, passengers on an ill-fated Grand Princess’ cruise — including at least two Davisites — hadn’t yet started their trip. Two weeks later they found themselves confined to their staterooms in the port of Oakland while some passengers and crew fell ill. On a date I’m sure they remember, not the same for everyone, they were finally released. ———— One year ago, my life was similar and different from the lives of others in a way I call “old normal.” I experienced the same weather as people who lived near me, heard the same news, and looked forward to the same calendared events, like St. Patrick’s Day, Easter and Election Day.

While the broad strokes of my experience were similar to most Americans’, the particulars were different. I wrote columns about traveling to the Falklands and seeing penguins. I volunteered for Yolo Hospice. I met weekly with my women’s group. Every day I wore different clothing. I never wore a mask, of course, or any other garment that would make me indistinguishable from other tall women. My hair was short and dyed to its original brown. I was me. ———— Then came the weekend that shook me up. My daughter and her family traveled from their home in New Jersey for a three-day visit. It was a weighty trip, a step in the family’s decision whether or not to accept jobs in Berkeley (they didn’t) but I focused on the

precious full day, March 6, that my husband and I would spend with our grandsons, ages 8 and 10. What should we do with the boys? In the end, we fell into a wonderful combination of activities, visiting the Oakland Zoo, playing on the sculptures in front of Lawrence Berkeley Lab, and reuniting with the boys’ parents at the swimming pool in their hotel. COVID-19 came up in conversation but casually and mostly in the form of comparisons. What were people thinking on the East Coast? On the west? It was strange and new to have these discussions, but they didn’t weigh heavily until the pandemic truly seized my attention, over dinner. We went to a Chinese restaurant we like named Hong Kong East Ocean, the kind of place that easily hosts huge Chinese weddings, with a dining room that seats hundreds, loud, busy, and active every time I’ve been there. But on March 6, 2020, it was not. Put simply, there was no one there. A few staff members cooked for and served the three tables that were occupied (counting ours), but we felt as if we had somehow missed a call to

evacuate. The silence was eerie, hard to explain. Was the restaurant empty because it served Chinese food? Or did others already know it would be best to stay at home? I don’t know. My husband and I drove back to Davis that evening and since then — almost an entire year — we have not seen our daughter, her husband or those two boys I love so dearly. Other losses surround this most painful one. We canceled our return trip to the Falklands, moved even our closest relationships to Zoom, and picked up our food in a parking lot. I wrote my first full column about COVID on March 22. ———— Other people have anniversaries far more fraught than mine, anniversaries of school closing, of falling ill, of losing work or vigor or money or, worst of all, of losing a loved one. None of us has just one difficult date we remember; we have a whole series of them. The last time your team played. The first special event that was canceled. The day when the hairdresser closed. A lonely Thanksgiving. A lonely Christmas. Maybe both. The last time you saw that

special relative. The last time you traveled to that important place. The last time you got plenty of sleep. Yes, there will be new opportunities for these things, but not yet. The end is not clearly in sight. The end feels threatened by an ever-morphing viral foe. This year has been a strange combination of huge quantities of repetition (I’ve eaten the same homemade lunch about 125 times) and huge quantities of novelty; learning how to behave outdoors, in a car, on line, in my kayak even, where it’s important to paddle 6 feet apart. I wonder if, in the next couple of weeks, I’ll be reminded of more personal anniversaries by listening to others talk about theirs. Or will we be silent about all that, noting public anniversaries, such as the California lockdown that began on March 19, while quietly recalling our own loss and pain? I don’t know. I do know that this day feels heavy, like a plant covered and bent in the snow. The anniversaries, the memories, there’s nothing to do but let them come. — Marion Franck has lived in Davis for more than 40 years. Reach her at marionf2@gmail. com.

VA chaplain brings perspective to the Yolo board BY CRAIG DRESANG Special to The Enterprise

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he most powerful thing I can do for another U.S. veteran experiencing a significant emotional event (SEE) is to simply show up and shut up,” says Frank Yapp, chaplain supervisor for the Sacramento VA Medical Center and the newest member on Yolo Hospice’s board of directors. “Sometimes a vet just needs you to be present and to listen,” Yapp explains. “When I am at the bedside, or in the company of a vet who is struggling with physical or emotional challenges, I often say very little or nothing at all. have found that I can foster spiritual healing just by sitting next to someone, opening my ears, and listening.” Yapp was voted onto the Yolo Hospice board of directors in January. However, he spends his days serving as a lead chaplain for a 60-bed, state-of-theart, inpatient facility that offers a full range of comprehensive health care services including medical,

YOLO HOSPICE & CWC surgical, primary and mental-health care. Prior to his tenure with the VA, Yapp worked as a hospice chaplain in the Bay Area for five years. In his current role Yapp supports whole families as much as he assists individual veterans. “I am often present to provide comfort or to be an intermediary for the family,” he says. “Sometimes people just need to be heard.” Other times, veterans need a different kind of support, especially when they experience hauntings from past trauma. Yapp once had a patient who would run and duck for cover every time he heard the blades of a helicopter swirling in the sky outside his window. The sounds placed him back in a traumatic combat zone where he would relive the emotional terror that came with that experience. “In that situation, the most powerful medicine I could offer was to listen, be

present, and let him know that I was there for him,” Yapp explains. A retired Army Combat Veteran, Yapp frequently draws on his experience in the military when working with veterans who are seriously ill or experiencing a SEE. He has a unique ability to recognize the otherwise hidden needs of other veterans who are coping with trauma and advanced illness. This is especially important for veterans who have experienced combat or suffer from moral injury. Unaddressed experiences, memories or emotions often resurface near the end of life for many veterans. “So many of our veterans, especially those who were in combat, have distinct needs at the end of life related to PTSD,” Yapp explains. “Veteran patients sometimes say, ‘I’m going to go to hell for what I did during the war,’ or ‘I can’t forgive myself,’ or ‘No one understands what I’ve been through.’ ” In those situations, Yapp says his goal is to cultivate a sense of understanding, peace, forgiveness, reconciliation,

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The Rev. Frank Yapp has a master’s degree in divinity from Andrews University in Michigan and is finishing a Ph.D. program at Gwynedd University in Pennsylvania. and closure. The goal is to help the vet finish unfinished business. Early in his military career, Yapp served as a combat medic under the Reagan administration and was stationed in Germany during the fall of the Berlin Wall. Years later, subsequent to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, he received a deployment in the Middle East. It happened quickly,” he says. “I suddenly found myself in the middle of the

Saudi Arabian desert sitting on my duffle bag and sleeping under the stars.” His deployments, and the experiences he gleaned from them, helped shape his work as a hospice chaplain. “I learned how to quickly orient myself around new realities,” Yapp says. That experience gave him insight to how he might help others orient around new and challenging realities ... whatever they may be. Beyond that, he says, “The U.S. Military is a place where you are tested on every level: Emotionally, physically, mentally and spiritually. You learn to be strong and disciplined in every way.” “Our veterans are not ordinary citizens,” says Yapp. They are men and women who served their country with distinction and honor. Their service and sacrifice has helped guarantee our way of life as Americans. It secures our freedom and our future. Those who choose to do so are not ordinary people. They are extraordinary citizens. And we should care

for and support them with extraordinary compassion and care.” Recalling an experience with a fellow veteran who was dying in a nursing home, Yapp becomes a bit choked up. “I was at the bedside of a female veteran who was totally alone. She had no family and no friends in the room with her, and no one was coming to be by her side,” Yapp remembers. “I had tears running down my cheeks. I canceled everything. I cleared my schedule for the entire day. This woman served our country for 21 years and was left alone. So, I stayed with her and held her hand until she died.” After she took her last breath, Yapp stayed with her body until the mortuary arrived. He says, “Everyone should be entitled to dignity and respect in their final hours, especially our veterans. Her life mattered and I wanted to be sure I honored that life and her contributions to our country.” — Craig Dresang is the CEO of Yolo Hospice and CWC

UCD faculty members are Sloan Fellows Enterprise staff Two faculty members at UC Davis — Rishidev Chaudhuri and Laura Starkston — have been named as 2021 Sloan Research Fellows by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Considered one of the most prestigious fellowships given to young researchers, the Sloan fellowship includes $75,000 over two years to support the fellow’s research. “A Sloan Research Fellow is a rising star, plain and simple,” said Adam F. Falk, president of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, in a statement announcing this year’s fellowships. “To receive a fellowship is to be told by the scientific community that your achievements as a young scholar are already driving the research frontier.” Chaudhuri is an assistant professor with a joint appointment between the department of neurobiology, physiology and behavior in the College of Biological Sciences and the department of mathematics in the College of Letters and Science. He studies how the brain processes

NAME DROPPERS information, drawing on ideas from information theory, dynamical systems and machine learning, and using them to build mathematical models of brain function and analyze large-scale recordings of brain activity. Starkston is an assistant professor in the department of mathematics in the College of Letters and Science. Her research is in symplectic topology and low-dimensional topology. For example, she studies how four-dimensional spaces, or manifolds, can be represented in two or three dimensions. One approach to that, Starkston said, is to construct a series of twodimensional pieces that fit together in a specific way to define a four-dimensional object, much as a floor, walls and roof can fit together to define a threedimensional house. The four-dimensional spaces Starkston studies are abstract, but could represent anything with four parameters — such as a three-dimensional object

that changes over time. The foundation awards 128 Sloan Research Fellowships a year in eight fields: chemistry, computational and evolutionary molecular biology,

BY ANDY JONES Special to The Enterprise 1. Pop Culture — Music. Who was the first artist to simultaneously hold the top three positions on the Billboard Hot R&B Songs chart with the songs “Can’t Feel My Face,” “Earned It,” and “The Hills”? 2. Science. In the world of epidemiology, what V word do we use for an agent that carries and transmits an infectious pathogen into another living organism? 3. The most commonly prescribed drug in America. Atorvastatin is the generic name for what statin drug whose name starts with the

computer science, Earth system science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience and physics. — Email Name Droppers to newsroom@davis enterprise.net.

letter L? 4. Pop Culture — Television. The TV shows “Boardwalk Empire” and “WandaVision” take place in what U.S. state? 5. Another Music Question. When it comes to albums sold, who was the best-selling male artist, and third best overall, of the 2010s? Answers: The Weeknd, vector, Lipitor, New Jersey, Eminem. — 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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Newsom says, ‘Let ‘em play,’ kinda BY BRUCE GALLAUDET Enterprise sports editor Gov. Gavin Newsom last week told Californians that prep athletes would be safe to go back in the water — or on the diamonds or football fields — if counties maintained an adjusted daily COVID-19 rate of 14 or fewer cases per 100,000 population. It was music to the ears of all the student-athletes, coaches and parents who have waited a year or more to get their water polo, football or baseball shows back on the road. Through last Tuesday, local COVID cases were holding at 6.6 per 100,000. While Yolo Public Health Officer Dr. Aimee Sisson told The

Enterprise last week that the has called for a week of acclimaticounty could go from the most zation to sports before “normal” restrictive purple tier to red by workouts can begin. Tuesday, she relayed on Friday Lorenson says the Blue Devils that she didn’t have enough time have been staying in shape by to assess the governor’s physically and mentally new guidelines to issue conditioning for this her own interpretation. bizarre 2021 sports seaCiting his state’s longson: “The good news for awaited Department of us, we’ve been in fourPublic Health report, day-a-week conditioning Newsom declared that mode (with some mana weekly testing compodated stoppages) for nent must be included if months,” says the AD, teams are to be allowed adding that he still wants NEWSOM to begin preparing for clarification on whether Issues new prep guidelines DHS has fulfilled the their seasons on Friday. “acclimatization requireDHS and Healthy Davis Together have joined for ment.” weekly testing, which began last If so, he notes, earnest workweek. outs for teams like football could Davis High Athletic Director begin as early as Friday. Jeff Lorenson notes that Newsom Meanwhile, Lorenson has

already started to meet with Delta League members, coaches and Davis schools officials to nail down new schedules and procedures. “It will be back to the drawing board (in the) Delta League,” the veteran administrator told The Enterprise. “It’s about do we recreate our seasons again? Does it mean we stay with the schedules we have, taking into account facility use and availability?” DHS football coach Steve Smyte said the Newsom announcement was a clear signal that his team would, after two season delays, be playing this spring. “We’re playing. And we’re excited about it,” he said. Smyte thought it’s possible that helmets and shoulder pads could handed

out this week, with contact starting March 1. The state practice regimen forbids contact in practice on consecutive days. Davis is expected to play six conference opponents, with the first game as early as March 12. Smyte expects 27 varsity players and 35 junior varsity to literally get in gear. “It’s not exciting just for football, but exciting for other sports that were waiting for red, but other sports who can now play … such as baseball, softball, soccer or some of those others,” Lorenson reports. Cross country, tennis and golf at DHS all started their scheduled play last week.

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TRANGER THAN FICTION ... Over the last five decades at this newspaper, I have covered hundreds and hundreds of college football games, some much more exciting than others. Still, I have never covered a college football game in February. Apparently, that record will remain intact now that Cal Poly’s visit to UC Davis on Feb. 27 has been rescheduled for March 20 due to coronavirus concerns on the San Luis Obispo campus. Moving on, I will now say I have never covered a college football game in March. Or April. This is uncharted territory, to be sure. I also have never covered a college football game where there will be no fans in the stands, though I do remember a few away games in the old Far Western Conference when fan attendance was sparse. UC Davis, by contrast, always drew well at home — win, lose or draw. WHAT IF? ... Suppose Cal Poly doesn’t conquer its COVID problems and simply closes up shop for the spring. This would drop the Aggies down to just four games and other Cal Poly opponents to five games, but some Big Sky schools would still play six games. How that scenario would play into determining a league champion and playoff selections has not been determined. MISSING PIECES ... Adding to the strangeness of this spring football season is the fact that fully five of the Big Sky’s 13 teams have elected to sit on the sidelines until next fall. Three of those five — Sacramento State, Montana and Montana State — were FCS playoff selections last year. The Hornets

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UC Davis running back Ulonzo Gilliam is back for his third season with the Aggies. Above, he finds a gaping hole en route to some serious rushing damage versus Weber State in 2019. Gilliam is expected to be a focal point as UCD searches for a balanced offense.

Can you believe it? UC Davis football inches ever closer to opening kickoff BY BOB DUNNING Enterprise staff writer Although the Aggies’ longawaited season opener was pushed back another week due to COVID concerns at Cal Poly, enthusiasm for spring football competition remains high at UC Davis. With the Poly game moved from next Saturday to March 20, UCD now opens its Big Sky schedule March 6 on the road at the University of Idaho. “This is so good for everyone’s morale to finally have a game to play,” notes Davis head coach Dan Hawkins. “We’re ready to go and see what happens. We’ve asked our players throughout this whole process if they wanted to play and every single one said, ‘Yes.’ They were adamant about it. We’re going to show

up and go to work.” The Cal Poly postponement was a sobering reminder, however, that while COVID cases are declining, this deadly virus still has the power to disrupt the best-laid plans of Big Sky administrators. That reality is not lost on Hawkins. “Let’s just say the future is highly flexible and sometimes doubtful,” he says. “Things continue to evolve and we’ll just have to see what happens. On Tuesday, we’ll take care of Tuesday. And when Wednesday comes, we’ll take care of Wednesday.” Of course, all those Tuesdays and Wednesdays at practice are ultimately put to the test on Saturdays when the Aggies will participate in a spring league for the first time in their 102-year football history. While he’s anxious for the competition, Hawkins is the first to admit that this season

will not be “normal” in any running back Ulonzo Gilliam. way, shape or fashion. A certain All-American “First of all, five league candidate, the 5-9, 185-pound teams aren’t even playing,” he Merced High product gives the says. Aggies an explosive ground “If someone goes 6-0 can game. they really say they’re the Gilliam burst on the scene league champions? If early in his freshman we win it, are we going year, finishing with to have a parade? I 976 yards and 13 don’t think so.” rushing touchdowns, Nevertheless, the with a 5.2-yards-perfourth-year Aggie carry average. coach is excited about As a sophomore, what he’s seen in camp he topped that considso far. erably in 2019 with “I think this is the 1,249 yards and 11 AMOAH Ex-DHS best team, top to TDs rushing and lineman bottom, that we’ve had caught 57 passes out of the backfield for since I’ve been here,” Hawkins notes. “There’s a lot another 354 yards and one of depth and a lot of talent, score. Much of the reason lies with much more than ever before. We might not have the big a polished offensive line, one of names like a Keelan Doss or a whom is a well-known local Jake Maier, but we do have product. some guys who can play.” One of those guys is veteran SEE BELIEVE, PAGE B3

UCD baseball swept by Washington St. Enterprise staff

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Aggie hurler Caden Riccomini (26) deals during Friday’s loss to Washington State. The Aggies were swept in Saturday’s twin bill. Second baseman Kyle Russell, background, stands at the ready.

Aggie fans lined the rooftop of the Hutchison parking garage Friday and Saturday, watching from afar as the UC Davis baseball team hosted Washington State in its first playing series since the start of the pandemic. Unfortunately for the Aggie faithful, Davis’ season opener was a wash. The Cougars piled on five runs in the ninth inning Friday en route to an 11-1 blowout. Jalen Smith plated the Aggies’ lone run in the contest, scoring on a passed ball in the opening inning. While Davis did receive more run support, including a Kyler Arenado grand slam, Saturday morning’s do-over didn’t go much better. Davis fell to WSU, 12-5, with Arenado’s sixth inning shot over the left-field fence supplying four of the Aggies’ five runs. Jackson O’Boy’s bases-loaded RBI walk earlier in the inning brought

AGGIE ROUNDUP home Cooper Morrison. It wasn’t until Davis High graduate Zach Carrell took the mound in Saturday’s nightcap that the Aggies could find a rhythm. Carrell, the southpaw, fired off four innings of shutout ball, fanning five Cougars before he exited with the locals up 2-0. But the UCD bullpen couldn’t hold steady, surrendering a pair of runs over the final two innings to help WSU force extra innings. Play, however, was suspended at 5:45 p.m. Saturday, due to darkness. Dobbins Field does not have lights. The bonus innings are set to be played starting at 11 a.m. Sunday with the two schools’ series finale to start 30 minutes after the suspended game’s conclusion. UCD (0-2) is also set to host the

University of Portland for a threegame series beginning next Sunday.

Softball SAN DIEGO — The Aggies were swept by San Diego State in a nonconference twinbill, 10-4, 3-1, on Saturday. In the opener, the Aggies (0-6) were limited to six hits and scored all four of their runs in the third inning. Marissa Jauregui lifted a sacrifice fly to left field, Megan Bower knocked an RBI double down the left-field line and Sarah Starks capped the scoring with a two-run homer to left center. Taylor Fitzgerald (0-3) took the loss in the circle. In the afternoon game, UCD had nine hits but couldn’t string them

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trange but true: NBA scoring this regular season sees teams routinely putting up 125 or more points in a game. Critics of all this offense point to the 3-point shot as the reason. Not really. The 3-point goal came into the NBA in 1979-80 (thank you ABA and international play). Of the top two highest-scoring teams of all time, one stood out in the early 3-point era ... the other is totally Old School. The Denver Nuggets hit for 126.5 points a game in 1981-82. The 1961-62 Philadelphia Warriors (125.4) are second in alltime scoring average. That Philly crew featured Wilt Chamberlain and his 50.4 points a game. Two feats happened in that 1961-62 campaign that aren’t likely to be seen again: Chamberlain scored 100 points in a single game and Cincinnati’s Oscar Robertson averaged a triple-double (30.8 points, 12.5 rebounds and 11.4 assists). ■ Long-ago Stanford coach John Ralston went from the Farm to the Denver Broncos in 1972. When asked why he left the Broncos after five seasons, Ralston replied, “Illness. The fans were sick and tired of me.” They shouldn’t have been. Ralston was 34-33-3 from 1972 through 1976. He later coached the Oakland Invaders in the

USFL and much later on, San Jose State. Ralston lived to be 92. ■ Kay Stephenson, who was head coach of the Buffalo Bills in the early ’80s and then the Sacramento Surge and Gold Miners of the World League a decade later, once noted there were three things that get coaches in trouble: “Ego. Nepotism. Pride of authorship.” Sage words. ■ Five years ago, college football’s “transfer portal” barely existed. Now it is so widely used, it resembles Grand Central Station at rush hour on Friday afternoon. ■ Another baseball season is on the horizon and the Oakland A’s are still playing in the decrepit Oakland Coliseum. If the franchise can’t get a new ballpark, a new town will not be out of the question. ■ All great pitchers have the one or two hitters who have career “ownage” over them (thank you Duane Kuiper). For Dodgers broadcasters, it was Rick Monday over the late Hall

The Philadelphia Warriors’ Wilt Chamberlain averaged 50.4 points a game in 1961-62 season and scored 100 points in a game. COURTESY PHOTO

of Famer Tom Seaver. Monday launched 11 home runs against the former Mets, Red and White Sox hurler. He hit .349 off Tom Terrific over 10 seasons. Only 16 batters (minimum 50 at-bats) hit .300 or better against Seaver. By the way, that group includes Dusty Baker (.347). ■ The River Cats, local authorities permitting, return to Sutter Health Park (formerly Raley Field) on April 15. New for 2021 are six-game series (thus cutting travel) against all TripleA West opponents, a regular Wednesday travel day for all clubs and a 142-game regular season that begins April 8 and concludes Sept. 21. There will be no postseason playoffs.

■ The outdoor NHL games at Lake Tahoe this weekend are a great idea, but the Sharks should have been one of the competing teams. ■ The main emphasis for any FCS schools playing spring football: hope and pray your cornerstone players don’t get hurt and jeopardize the upcoming 2021 season. ■ Verne Lundquist is now 80, but his wit and wisdom remain words to live by. On football: “There is no one quite as popular in any form of football than the backup QB.” On social media: “The most dangerous word in the English language is send.” ■ Whether you liked or

disliked Rush Limbaugh, one thing’s undisputed: he set an audience standard for talk radio of any genre that will likely never be duplicated. Limbaugh succumbed this week to cancer at age 70. This link below is about Rush the football player: si.com/nfl/talkoffame/nfl/ remembering-rush-limbaughthe-football-player. — Doug Kelly is director of communications for Battlefields 2Ballfields and managing general partner of Kelly & Associates. Kelly also is the longtime radio and television color man on UC Davis football broadcasts. Reach him at DKelly1416@aol. com.

DUNNING: Bison will roll From Page B1 also shared the league title. Without those three participating (along with Portland State and Northern Colorado), any Big Sky “championship” this spring will come with a giant asterisk.

Aggie sophomore linebacker Nick Eaton is back for another football season, which begins March 6 at Idaho. WAYNE TILCOCK/ ENTERPRISE FILE FOTO

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don’t really have a quarterback, but I don’t necessarily agree with that. Davis High graduate Nick We may play more than one. We’ll Amoah, who helps to anchor a vet- just have to wait to see who eran offensive line that has Aggie emerges, but there’s a lot of talent there.” hopes soaring. Included in the mix are junior “He’s very, very special,” says new Hunter Rodrigues, sophomore offensive line coach Mike Cody. Amoah — a 6-3, 290-pound Gunnor Faulk, redshirt freshmen junior left tackle majoring in aero- Trent Tompkins and Mike Hastspace science and engineering — ings, and true freshmen Grant saw action in 10 games as a reserve Harper and Mitchell Dixon. (It was “veteran” in 2018 before earnRodrigues who in ing a starting job over 2018 threw a lastthe final half of the play touchdown pass 2019 campaign. to C.J. Spencer in the “He is the most Aggies’ 30-10 loss at athletic offensive lineStanford.) man I’ve ever All of them will coached,” adds Cody. attempt to fill the “He’s very agile and large void left by the always willing to put departure of threein the work every day, year starter Jake on the field and off. Maier, who finished He’s one of those guys his career with 88 who is always pretouchdown passes pared and is an inspiand a school record ration to everyone 11,163 passing yards. around him. Plus, he Maier is now on the always has a smile on roster of the Calgary his face.” Stampeders of the Also expected to be CFL. a force on the offenNew defensive sive line is 6-6, 298coordinator Matt pound senior Kooper Coombs, a Yale gradRichardson who uate, is expecting big played at local prep things from linepowerhouse Folsom backer Nick Eaton, High. an electrifying 6-2, Meanwhile, Khris Matt Coombs 215-pound sophoVaughn leads a tal- First-year defensive more who earned Big ented receiving corps coordinator Sky Freshman of the after hauling in 53 Year honors in 2019 passes for 756 yards and nine scores in 2019. Jared Har- and was named to Hero Sports’ rell had 35 catches for 415 yards and Freshman All-American first team. Eaton singlehandedly broke up a three touchdowns, while Carson Crawford added 33 grabs for 428 tight game against Cal Poly when he intercepted a pitchout and raced yards and three scores. But the straw that stirs this high- untouched 78 yards for the score, octane concoction has yet to take appearing to be the fastest man on the field. control. Six — count ’em, six — quarter“Nick Eaton has a lot of ability,” backs are competing for the starting Coombs says simply. “He’s a guy job and Hawkins is not yet ready to who’s always going full speed. Very name a starter. fast. Plus, DE Bryce Rodgers and “We’re still evaluating everyone,” LB Connor Airey give us some great says the Aggie coach. “People say, if leadership and Devon King does a you play two quarterbacks, you really good job in the secondary.”

“I’ve heard so many good things about this school. It’s a unique opportunity. Everyone knows about Coach Hawkins and the culture he’s building here.”

Coombs, a native of Bellevue, Wash., is thrilled with the opportunity to coach at UC Davis. “I’ve heard so many good things about this school. It’s a unique opportunity. Everyone knows about Coach Hawkins and the culture he’s building here,” he says. The high-flying Big Sky, however, is no picnic for a defensive coordinator. Hold the opposition under 30 points and consider yourself successful. Adds Coombs: “In the Big Sky, you get to see so many different coaches and players, some really talented people. You face a lot of different schemes every week, so you have to be ready for just about anything. “There are a lot of ways we’ll prepare to slow some of these offenses down, and it’s my job to have our guys prepared so they can have some success. It’s a real challenge.” Coming off a 5-7 season that seems like ancient history, the Aggie challenge now — after the Cal Poly postponement — is to get ready for Idaho. “Hopefully, we’ll get a chance to play somebody pretty soon,” Coombs says. “We just have to clean up a few details, but this whole group is coming together. It’s been a long time since we’ve played a game. We’re really excited.” A long time indeed. Notes: With the entire fall 2020 season scrubbed, UC Davis has not played a game since a 27-17 loss to Sacramento State in late November of 2019, a span of 15 months. ... After the Idaho game on March 6, the Aggies will be on the road again at Weber State in Ogden, Utah, then return home for games against Cal Poly, Idaho State and Eastern Washington before finishing the season at Cal Poly with a second game against the Mustangs. ... All Aggie home games will be televised on CW31. That’s important because, for the forseeable future, there will be no fan attendance at any UC Davis athletic events this spring. — Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

PLAYOFFS? ... I think the high schools have the right attitude when it comes to spring football. They’re just happy to hopefully play a few games in the spirit of competition and love of the sport. No playoffs at season’s end. At the UC Davis level, however, the NCAA has announced it will host a 16-team FCS national championship playoff beginning in late April and running through the title game, May 15, in Frisco, Texas. That means an extra four contests for the two teams that reach the championship game. Most football coaches will tell you that playing competitive football until the middle of May, then turning around a few weeks later to begin getting ready for the normal fall season is not good for the human body. The folks running high school football seem to realize this. Not so in the collegiate game.

ROLL ON YOU MIGHTY BISON ... North Dakota State gets a jump on most of its FCS brethren when it opens the season today against Youngstown State. The Bison have won 38 straight games and a mindboggling eight of the last nine national championships, a feat almost unheard of in any sport at any level. But get this, NDSU has eight regular-season games planned for the Missouri Valley Conference this spring. Plus, if history is our guide, four more games in the FCS playoffs. That makes 12. Next fall, the Bison will have 11 regular-season games, plus — presumably — four more playoff games for a total of 27 in the same amount of time when they would normally play just 15 games. It’s hardly spring in North Dakota, but that’s why the Bison graze indoors at the 19,000-seat Fargodome. TRIVIA QUIZ ... When’s the last time UC Davis had football, basketball, baseball and softball were all going at the same time, but no Picnic Day Parade? Answer: Never. — Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise. net.

PLAY: Are others ready? From Page B1 One possible cloud still on the horizon, regardless of how Yolo County is doing with its test numbers — or what tier it sits in — is that Davis High’s opponents are sprinkled throughout the region in other counties. The Sacramento cases per 100,000 stands at 18.7. Solano (18.4) and Placer (11.4) are other counties that have schools with which the Blue Devils are to play. Notes: Newsom said he was confident in his health department’s assessment of the pandemic as it relates to

California sports: “We’ve been looking at data and science. We (know) with the new guidelines we can get youth sports running again.” California Interscholastic Federation Executive Director Ron Nocetti concurs: “I think it’s very much a positive way forward.” ... Nonetheless, major counties like Los Angeles (20 cases per 100,000) and San Diego (22) seem not ready to roll. — Reach DE sports editor Bruce Gallaudet at bgallaudet 41@gmail.com or call 530320-4456. Follow Gallaudet on Twitter: @BGsportsin Davis.

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together to push across enough runs. The Aggies lone run came in the second as Jauregui (4 for 6 on the day, two doubles) sent a bases-loaded single into right field. Kenedi Brown (0-3) collected the loss. San Diego State capitalized on UCD’s errors to go ahead. The teams square off again today on the Aztecs home diamond at 11 a.m.

Despite capturing the double’s point, the UC Davis women’s tennis team fell 4-2 to UC Santa Barbara at the Marya Welch Tennis Center on Saturday. In doubles, the No. 1 Aggie duo of Sara Tsukamoto and Lauren Ko notched the first win, 6-3, while at No. 3, Yana Gurevich and Kristina Evloeva battled for a 7-6 (7-3) win for the point.

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want to share good news about how we are getting closer to meeting the established conditions for a safe reopening in hybrid learning in Davis Joint Unified. I am pleased to report that indicators are trending positively and we are actively planning for a return to campus for our students. As we navigate our own local conditions, we are pleased to see improved coordination of federal, state and county governments that are providing meaningful and long-lasting ways of addressing the pandemic on a broad scale. At the federal level, just this week in his comments at a CNN Town Hall, President Biden said, “I think we should be vaccinating teachers. We should move them up in the hierarchy.” In addition, one year into the pandemic, we have guidance from the Centers for Disease Control, which confirms many of the protocols and practices that DJUSD has prepared and put into place. At the state level, in his Feb. 19 press conference, Gov. Newsom announced that 10% of each county’s vaccine allocation will be prioritized for educators starting March 1. Additionally, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond affirmed in a recent interview with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchel, “My conversation with state leaders is how do we get as much COVID testing to our schools as possible, how do we accelerate getting the vaccine to educators; to me those are the keys to being able to do what the CDC Guidelines say?” Lastly, as the governor and Legislature continue to negotiate a funding bill, we are closely tracking how that will affect our hybrid reopening and Summer School offerings. At the county level, Yolo County Public Health Officer Dr. Aimee Sisson made the decision that Yolo County will join a number of other Sacramento area and northern California counties to prioritize teachers and education employees in the current Yolo County vaccination rollout. Finally, here in DJUSD, I am pleased to report that locally an agreement has been reached with the Davis Teachers Association consistent with Board of Education-approved motions. In addition, we have established oncampus testing COVID-19 testing sites for staff and students at almost every campus through our excellent partnership with Healthy Davis Together. You can learn more about on-campus testing on our website. We now turn our attention to finalizing the logistics for returning to campus, including sharing information and issuing separate parent and teacher surveys that will inform the selection and implementation of hybrid and distance-learning programs when conditions are met. ———— s mentioned previously, Yolo County announced this week that the county has expanded COVID-19 vaccination efforts to all of Phase 1B (those over age 65 and essential frontline workers), which includes all DJUSD employees. With this expansion, all DJUSD educators and staff will be eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in Yolo County. This is most welcome news, and we appreciate this important step. Of the over 730 employee responses to our most recent survey, 22% reported to have received at least the first dose of the vaccine and an additional 66% are willing to be vaccinated when the doses are available. Every day, more of our employees get vaccinated. ———— We are planning for both in-person and virtual graduation ceremonies to be sure that school sites are ready to celebrate our students in the best way possible. All high school sites have the goal of offering a ceremony that marks this milestone with inperson components. We also are working to provide options for on-campus activities even before hybrid learning begins. At the elementary level, schools are starting a variety of clubs including robotics, gardening, running, sports games and book clubs. The junior highs are looking to expand clubs that have been operating virtually to organize oncampus meetings. — John Bowes is the superintendent of the Davis Joint Unified School District.

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he starkest aspect to California’s evolution from a relatively conservative state into a blue bastion has been an evolving attitude toward crime and punishment. In the 1980s and 1990s, California became a national leader in increasing penalties for crimes large and small, symbolized by a threestrikes-and-you’re-out law calling for life imprisonment of repeat offenders. Not surprisingly, despite construction of many new prisons, they became horrendously overcrowded with inmates. However, as California made its almost 180-degree political turn to the left over the last couple of decades, attitudes about crime also evolved, culminating in legislative acts, ballot measures and administrative policies that repealed or softened the state’s sentencing laws. The number of felons locked up in state prisons has dropped by at least one-third in recent years. That said, what supporters call “criminal justice reform” is not universally accepted. Some law-enforcement officials believe it’s gone too far and has contributed to recent upticks in violent crime — a conflict now rippling through the state’s local district attorneys.

In 2020, George Gascón, who had been district attorney of San Francisco, challenged and defeated Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey and immediately issued new operational rules that downplayed punishment. He prohibited his deputies from seeking the death penalty, prosecuting juveniles as adults, attending parole hearings or seeking “enhancements” that increase a defendant’s prison term. The union representing those deputies sued, alleging that Gascón was ordering them to violate criminal laws, and won an initial judgement.

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hat really blew up the conflict politically was support from the California District Attorneys Association (CDAA) for the union position. In its supporting brief, the District Attorneys said Gascón’s orders meant that “the voices of victims fall silent and the might of the

LETTERS Our giving community I have had the great honor and privilege of serving on the Yolo Crisis Nursery Board of Directors since January 2017. During my tenure, I have been continually impressed with the generosity of the Yolo County community in which I live, and since the onset of COVID, I am in absolute awe. In the past year, the nursery has experienced a remarkable increased response to our outreach efforts to help us meet the surge in demand for our services. Our hearts are overflowing by the response and also for the unsolicited giving from a multitude of individuals, organizations, and institutions. On an average day — pre-COVID — the children and families that we serve were already experiencing challenges involving domestic violence, mental and physical health emergencies, substance abuse and addiction, homelessness, sudden job loss and other adversities. As you can imagine, every issue weighing on our client children and families has been exacerbated by the reverberating effects of the pandemic, and the number of referrals to the Nursery for critical assistance has substantially risen. Yolo Crisis

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state has failed its most vulnerable.” Last week, Gascón resigned from the organization with a two-page letter that he posted on Twitter, accusing the association of being racially insensitive, closed-minded about criminal justice reform and even corrupt. “CDAA continues to be a member organization solely for those willing to toe the ‘tough on crime’ line,” Gascón wrote. “For the rest of us, it is a place that fails to support us, our communities, or the pursuit of justice.” Gascón and several other like-minded district attorneys have founded their own group, the Prosecutors Alliance of California, to push for criminal justice reforms. It includes Gascón, San Joaquin County’s Tori Salazar, Chesa Boudin of San Francisco and Contra Costa County’s Diana Becton. Gascón’s election and the burgeoning conflict with more traditional prosecutors is part of a larger phenomenon — a nationwide effort by left-of-center organizations to change criminal justice policies one election at a time. Billionaire businessman George Soros is a major figure in the campaign, having donated millions of dollars to

Nursery is an essential provider for children and families whose situations went from urgent to potentially catastrophic with the arrival of COVID in our community. Following strict safety mandates, the doors to the nursery have remained open 24/7 to the infants and children who need us and to the families of essential workers with nowhere else to turn. COVID has taxed the nursery’s staffing and resources like never before, but as our executive director, Heather Sleuter, frequently reminds me, “we figure it out” because we never say no and we never turn anyone away. I am deeply proud of my compassionate community, and on behalf of our entire organization — our staff, volunteers, and Board of Directors—and from the children and families that we serve, thank you from bottom of our hearts. JoEllen Welsch President, Yolo Crisis Nursery Board of Directors

Downtown must densify One of the things that makes Davis a high-quality-of-life town is our downtown, but that’s because of its density relative to the rest of the city. Other cities’ downtowns were bulldozed for parking lots and oversized shopping centers

reform-minded candidates. The movement has scored some victories, such as Gascón’s election, and also suffered some losses, such as a failed challenge to Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert. The conflict also colors Gov. Gavin Newsom’s selection of a replacement for Attorney General Xavier Becerra if he is confirmed as the federal health and human services secretary. ewsom seemingly supports the criminal justice reform movement. He sponsored a ballot measure to make marijuana legal, has sped up reductions in prison populations and declared a moratorium on executions. He could appoint a new attorney general sympathetic to the Gascón-led faction, such as Oakland Assemblyman Rob Bonta, but such a move would carry some political risk. Were Newsom to face a recall election this year, as seems likely, opposition from police and prosecutors could be a critical factor. — CalMatters is a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s state Capitol works and why it matters. For more stories by Dan Walters, go to calmatters.org/ commentary.

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(we’re looking at you, Woodland) and have suffered for it. Where I come from (back east) the downtown was the most valuable area in a sea of suburbs and I suspect the same is true here. However, we cannot freeze our downtown in amber with NIMBYism, that is only a recipe for stagnation and decline. We must allow for development and densification especially in residential buildings. We must also remember that our downtown is far from dense. Most of the land cannot be more than four floors, and much of the rest of the land has “floor-toarea” ratio requirements that all but force properties into either one story tickytacks or multi-story tower-in-garden wastelands. Finally, if I may be bold, we must expand our downtown (yes this is possible). If we allow for the same density in the area around downtown we’ll slowly develop unproductive shops and small homes into apartments. Zachary Cosenza Davis

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ive in Davis long enough and you realize there’s almost always a local angle to national news stories. So I wasn’t too surprised this past week to learn about the late Rush Limbaugh’s connection to the Davis area. Limbaugh, who announced a stage IV lung cancer diagnosis last October, died Wednesday. The radio icon was 70. As KCRA 3’s Vicki Gonzalez wrote earlier in the week: “Before Rush Limbaugh became a conservative juggernaut in talk radio, he got his pivotal start in 1984 in Sacramento.” Indeed, Limbaugh graced the local airwaves, from 1984-88, after which his show became nationally syndicated. But his Davis connection runs even deeper. So deep, in fact, that former Davis Mayor Dave Rosenberg, jokes he helped Limbaugh hit the “big time.” From 1986-87, Rosenberg and Limbaugh appeared alongside each other, three times a week on local TV. Sacramento’s ABC affiliate KOVR would air a live segment on Channel 13 called “At Odds” during its 5 p.m. newscasts, during which the two would debate policies or events. Now a Yolo Superior Court Judge, Rosenberg would, of course, take the liberal lean. And Rush ... well, he was Rush. “It was live, it was unscripted and it was unrehearsed,” Rosenberg told me earlier this week. About 20 minutes before the two went live, producers would

let them know the question of the day — usually one picked along with a daily news story. “What do you think of abortion on demand? Gun rights? Freedom of speech? You name it,” Rosenberg remembers. “It was often a very controversial, difficult question. “And we’d have at it.” “Those were the days when conservatives and liberals were not at each others’ throats,” Rosenberg explained. “We debated. We discussed. We disagreed. But we didn’t threaten (each other).” The segment became wildly popular — to the point that the station began showing numbers on the screen reflecting viewers who would call in and indicate which side of the debate they agreed with. “Limbaugh usually got the most votes,” Rosenberg admits. “He had that huge radio following that also watched him on television.” But over the span of the 120plus live debates between the two, Mayor Dave held his own. He guesstimates around onethird of the segments swung his way.

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Former Davis Mayor and now Superior Court Judge Dave Rosenberg appeared alongside the late Rush Limbaugh in a 1980s ABC segment called “At Odds.” “(Rush) had developed a massive and loyal following in the Sacramento area,” Rosenberg told me. “He’d become such a big radio personality that (ABC) wanted to put him on television. So they devised this plan to have him on.”

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o they had Limbaugh, the conservative. But ABC still needed a liberal counterweight... “At the time, I was mayor of Davis, which was perceived as a liberal community,” Rosenberg explained. “But I also happened to be practicing law.” One of his many clients happened to be that KOVR TV station. “So the station manager (called me up) and said ‘How

would you like to debate Rush Limbaugh?’” Obviously, Rush ascended to the top of the entertainment industry, joining the select few known by their first name’s alone. “The Rush Limbaugh Show” became the highest-rated talk show in the U.S., with over 600 radio stations broadcasting it nationwide. Over his nearly 40 years on the airwaves, his radio revolution earned him more than $1 billion. Locally, the Rush-and-Dave show, “At Odds,” lasted just one year after Limbaugh inked a national partnership in 1988. Ferried to New York, he was given a $250,000 annual base salary and prominently featured

along with the launch of the 54-station Excellence in Broadcasting Network. Over the years he authored two New York Times best-sellers in “The Way Things Ought to Be” and “See, I Told You So.” Known for his bombastic style, he had a way of reaching out to listeners through the radio — a talent that helped cultivate an audience nearly 50 million strong. Over the years, he welcomed thousands of callers onto his broadcasts — those who agreed with him as well as those who despised him. “He wasn’t warm and fuzzy,” said Rosenberg, who worked alongside a then 36-year old Limbaugh. The two even appeared on the cover of TV Guide in 1987. “But I found him to be completely professional,” Rosenberg went on. “He was completely focused on his craft and being better at what he did. I would see him sitting in a corner, exercising his instrument, which was his voice. “He had the dedication and focus that’s necessary to achieve the pinnacle — whether it’s journalism or show business or baseball or law,” Rosenberg said. “If you want to achieve the heights, you have to be totally dedicated. Totally focused. Only then can you achieve the heights. “And that’s what he did.” — Reach Owen Yancher at oyancher@davisenterprise.net. Follow him via Twitter at @dhspunter.

UCD prof publishes photos from critical year in China BY ELISABETH SHERWIN Special to The Enterprise Dr. Donald Gibbs is Emeritus Professor of Chinese language, literature and film at UC Davis. Beginning his teaching career at Harvard University, he founded the department of Chinese and Japanese at UC Davis. He also founded the UC system-wide summer session which took him to China every year from 1979 to 1990. More recently, he was the UC Education Abroad Director resident at Peking University in Beijing. Upon retiring from academics, he developed a second career as a business consultant and participated in the introduction of the MiniMed insulin pump and other medical devices to China.” ———— hat’s the official biography of my friend, Don Gibbs. I know him a little differently — as a true friend of China who wants everyone he meets to understand and love that country. We Americans always say in the face of hostile international criticism: “Love us, not the government!” Don says the same thing about China: Love the people, not the government. I got to know Don and his beloved Chinese wife, Loretta, when I was a reporter at The Davis Enterprise newspaper and Don taught at the university. Each time I heard him give a lecture or talk about his travels, I learned something new about China. In 1996 I traveled to China to meet Don and Loretta at Peking University when he was UC Education Abroad director. Every day was an experience. We went to a portion of the Great Wall, ate dumplings in a real Chinese dumpling restaurant, rode Flying Pigeon bikes to the local food market, visited art museums and — my absolute favorite holding every position on the Top Ten of things to do in Beijing — visited the Saturday-morning ghost market. This market, which opened at dawn when farmers brought their goods to sell, no

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longer exists in the same form. But from real antiques to fabulous fakes it was a treasure trove. That’s another story. Let me back up for a second. I well remember when Don, Loretta and I were having dinner at the dumpling restaurant in Beijing. While we were there, a young Chinese boy, maybe 7, turned in his chair and began staring at Don, apparently fascinated by the fact that this foreign man was ordering more dumplings in Chinese. Don turned to the boy: “It’s very easy to speak Chinese, even children can do it!” Everyone laughed. All of this and more has come rushing back to me over the past few days because Don recently published an extraordinary book of photographs, “The Year That Changed China.” Spoiler: That year was 1979. “My aim for this book is to present a snapshot of China in 1979 as a baseline to better understand how far China has come since 1979 and also to be a testament to the magnetism, the resilience and the strength of the Chinese people,” wrote Don in the foreword. I received this “presentation edition” in advance of what Don hopes will be a second, smaller and more affordable book not yet on the market. Don says he got many of the shots in the book by talking to and joking with the otherwise rather shy people, many of whom had never seen a foreigner before, just as I saw him talk to the boy in the restaurant. But the next edition will not have something priceless that the presentation edition offered: Several loose pages tucked in an envelope at the back of the book contained objections by the Chinese government to Don’s captions. For instance, one of his photos showed a woman with a camera. The caption read: “During the most extreme period of Mao’s radical policies, cameras and photographs were declared bourgeois and therefore decadent. Red Guards — teenagers, mainly, with empowering arm bands — raided homes to destroy

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This itinerant musician was accompanied by a storyteller. The custom of bringing entertainment to rural villages stopped during the Cultural Revolution but seemed to be returning after Mao’s death. Below, there is only one most beautiful child, and every mother has it. cameras and burn photos. When interviewing an elderly couple I asked if the Red Guards had given them a hard time. ‘Oh no,’ they said proudly, ‘we burned all our photographs before they got here.’ Thus, this earnest young woman in a public park with a camera is a true sign of the times: no more radical policies.” The censors wanted the entire paragraph referencing Mao’s policy deleted leaving only the sentence: “This earnest young woman in a public park with a camera is a true sign of the times.” “You see how thinskinned and insecure the most powerful government on earth is when it comes to the written word,” Don said. He had wanted the book to be published in China but because of the censorship it was published elsewhere.

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n a way, it is amazing that Don became a Chinese scholar. “I grew up with no connection to China at all. There was not one single Chinese kid in any class I ever took from first grade through college. We lived in San Francisco so we took visitors to Chinatown, but that was it. “Then the Korean War broke out. The Army gives tests, I tested with an aptitude for language, took a test, passed, and was offered a choice of several languages. Those strolls through Chinatown had convinced me with the lettering on Chinese

storefronts that the written language of China was exotic and would therefore be pretty interesting to learn. “The Korean War was transformative for many. In my case, I worked with a team of Chinese civilians from Taiwan and lived in tents and bunkers with them in stressful times. That got me bonded to Chinese people.” Don also was horrified by the wastefulness of war and the necessity for communication. “I saw North Korean towns so leveled that you could lie on your belly and see nothing above a foot high.” After the war, Don finished college and was chosen for a position with the Asia Foundation that sent him to Taiwan, to the very same university where Loretta was teaching, thus making them colleagues. And, in relatively short order, husband and wife. But that, too, is another story. “So I continued studying Chinese, got the Ph.D. so I could make a living at it, tried to instill in my students a love of Chinese culture, a respect for its civilization, an affection for the people. When I took students to China I always made the point that there are two countries: the China of the people and the China of the government. “Have as much to do with the people as you can, steer clear as much as possible from the other,” I told them. Don was hired at UC

Davis in 1976, the year Mao died. Three years later, it was evident the country was headed in a new direction. Don and Loretta took advantage of that change, traveling widely in China every year from 1979 to about 2017. In the early years, a curious crowd would form wherever Don went. “I always carried a camera, I always interacted with people when I took their photos. (Back in the U.S.) I used the photographs, color slides, to make presentations at every opportunity, sometimes to faculty, more often to students, occasionally, when invited, to the community,” he said.

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n addition to his lectures, Don also brought Chinese films to the Davis community and showed them at his annual film festival on campus. He and Loretta hosted students and Chinese visitors at their home on Kent Drive. Why did he do all of this? Because he wanted people to understand China? “No,” he replied. “I understand Hitler but I don’t love him. I want more than an understanding; I want the audiences to love the people of China.” He also wants people to know that Mao left China in a terrible mess and the Chinese people suffered dearly. But, being a strong and optimistic people, they

built the prosperous China of today. And the Gibbs family is continuing to foster good relations between the two countries. Don’s son, Ker, is the president of the Shanghai American Chamber of Commerce. “In China, that is a very big deal, interfacing between the American government to whom it recommends policies and advises legislators and also the Chinese government to whom it tries to explain as a ‘local friend’ the American policies. To the local governments in China, AmCham is more approachable than the U.S. government,” Don said. “Ker speaks Chinese. He got two planeloads of personal protective equipment (PPE) to the U.S. from China when we were so desperately low on them.” Don and Loretta, who have been married for 64 years, now live in San Francisco. Don has come full circle, celebrating a people and culture in a world that extends far past Chinatown. To see photos from Don’s collection ahead of the release of the second edition of his book, go to https://dongibbschina photos.com/home/. — Elisabeth Sherwin is a former Davis Enterprise staff writer and longtime Davis resident.

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ding (which was actually a lot of money for me) meant so little to them that they didn’t feel the need to tell me in person that the wedding was off and explain the situation that they could not get the money back. I don’t want my money back and totally understand the circumstances, but I feel I shouldn’t have heard this through a third party. I am sure the other mothers were told in person. So my question is this: Should I bring this up to them at some point or just let it go? Normally, I am the type to keep to myself, and if someone hurts my feelings I “just get over it” without saying anything. But this hurt is lasting much longer, and I feel resentment building inside of me. — Unappreciated Stepmom Dear Unappreciated: Maybe sometimes we can just will ourselves to “get over it,” but most times that’s a recipe for resentment. This seems to be the latter. So there is no other option than to talk with your stepson. Make it a conversation, not a confrontation. Using “I” statements, let him know that you didn’t expect to be part of the wedding planning process, but that you felt a bit hurt when you learned about the change of plans from someone else. Go into it with an open mind. It may turn out that there was some miscommunication or context that changes your understanding. But you sound like a thoughtful, supportive stepmom, so I have no doubt you’ll be able to handle this with care.

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Dementia or decluttering? Dear Annie: It’s just an idea, but maybe “Missing My Things’” husband has dementia, not compulsive decluttering. A few years ago, I discovered too late that while I was out grocery shopping my 77-year-old husband found a storage bin labeled “Smith Family Mementos” in a closet, went through it and threw most of it in the garbage before I got back. I didn’t notice anything was missing until days later, long after the garbage truck had come and gone.

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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. Business is located in Yolo County. 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: November 1, 2020 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME “I declare that all information in STATEMENT this statement is true and correct.” Filed: January 5, 2021 (A registrant who declares as true FBN Number: F20210006 information which he or she knows to be 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) false is guilty of a crime.) BW ENTERPRISES 6. Signature of Registrant(s): 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Daisy Calderon Principal Place of Business in California. 1/31, 2/7, 2/14, 2/21 1142 Business is located in Yolo County. 1811 Palm Place STORAGE LIEN SALE Davis, CA 95618 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), There will be a lien sale at South Davis Storage, 4836 Chiles Rd, Davis, CA 95618 Residence Address, State, and Zip On: MONDAY March 15th, 2021 at 11 am Benjamin Murray Wollrich This enforcement is authorized by Division 1811 Palm Place 8, Chapter 10 of the California Business & Davis, CA 95618 Professions Code, commencing without 4. Business Classification: Individual 5. Beginning Date of Business: The warranty or guarantee for cash only. Registrant(s) commenced to transact Purchased items must be removed business under the fictitious business immediately following the sale. name or names listed above on: The personal Property stored with the December 1, 2020 undersigned by: LISA POWELL “I declare that all information in FIRST UNIT A17 (bicycles, bicycle parts, this statement is true and correct.” duffle bags, tackle box, skate board, chair, (A registrant who declares as true cloths, bedding, misc crates and bags of information which he or she knows to be hhi) false is guilty of a crime.) The personal property stored with the 6. Signature of Registrant(s): undersigned by: ADAM WALSWORTH Benjamin Wollrich 1/31, 2/7, 2/14, 2/21 1141 SECOUND UNIT A48 (cloths, 2 chars, mattress, 2 dressers, end table, sofa, tv, kitchen ware, misc bins of hhi) The personal property stored with the undersigned by: MONIQUE JOHNSON THIRD UNIT A61 (stroller, cloths, bedding, kids toys, misc bins boxes and bags of hhi) BOND#0342850 2/21, 2/28 1162

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: January 26, 2021 FBN Number: F20210074 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) Davis Cards + Games 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California. Business is located in Yolo County. 654 G Street Davis, CA 95616 Mailing address: 1 6XWWHQ¿HOG 5RDG $FDPSR &$ 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Three Eight 6XWWHQ¿HOG 5RDG $FDPSR &$ %XVLQHVV &ODVVL¿FDWLRQ &RUSRUDWLRQ 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact EXVLQHVV XQGHU WKH ¿FWLWLRXV EXVLQHVV name or names listed above on: February 1, 2016 “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): 0HOLVVD 6KRZDOWHU 7KUHH (LJKW 2ZQHU 1/31, 2/7, 2/14, 2/21 1144 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.

Woodland, CA 95695 4. Business Classification: Individual 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact If the property is sold, parties of interest business under the fictitious business as defined in California Revenue and name or names listed above on: Taxation Code section 4675, have a right to May 1, 1995 file a claim with the county for any excess “I declare that all information in proceeds from the sale. Excess proceeds this statement is true and correct.” are the amount of the highest bid in excess (A registrant who declares as true of the liens and costs of the sale that are information which he or she knows to be required to be paid from the sale proceeds. false is guilty of a crime.) Notice will be given to parties of interest, 6. Signature of Registrant(s): pursuant to California Revenue and Ryan Fullerton 1163 Taxation Code section 3692(e), if excess 2/21, 2/28, 3/7, 3/14 proceeds result from the sale. PUBLIC NOTICE For information as to the amount necessary to redeem or other related NOTICE is hereby given that on February issues pertaining to the property 18, 2021, a designee of the County described in this notice, contact the Administrator approved a minor Revenues Division of Yolo County in the modification (ZF #2021-0003) to the Teichert Schwarzgruber Reclamation State of California. Plan (ZF #2011-0035), in accordance PARCEL NUMBERING SYSTEM with Sections 10-5.210 and 10-5.804 EXPLANATION of the Yolo County Code. The Project The Assessor’s Parcel Number (APN), Site is located at 16550 County Road when used to describe property in this 96, Woodland, CA 95695, and consists list, refers to the assessor’s map book, of a single parcel (APN 025-350-038) of the map page, the block on the map (if approximately 132.3 acres. applicable), and the individual parcel The approved minor modification on the map page or in the block. The expands the area of enhanced riparian assessor’s maps and further explanation reclamation by an additional 7.5 acres, of the parcel numbering system are and deepens the vertical extent of available in the assessor’s office. reclaimed soil in those areas to between The properties that are the subject of 10 and 20 feet, in order to improve this notice are situated in Yolo County, the success rate and longevity of California, and are described as follows: revegetation. This increase in riparian APN LAST ASSESSEE habitat is achieved by a corresponding 046-531-031-000 Ryder Allfam Properties 7.5-acre reduction in the area of I certify (or declare), under penalty of perjury, reclaimed grasslands. The decision of the Director shall become final fifteen (15) that the foregoing is true and correct. days from the date of approval, unless ______________________ appealed to the Planning Commission, Yolo County Tax Collector as provided in Article 10, Chapter 4, Title State of California Executed at Woodland, California, on 10 of the Yolo County Code. January 13, 2021 Copies of the full text of the Published in The Davis Enterprise on approval and related documents are February 14th , 21st and 28th, 2021 1153 available for review online at www. yolonaturalresources.org, or in-person FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME at the Yolo County Planning and Public STATEMENT Works Department (292 W. Beamer Filed: February 19, 2021 Street, Woodland, CA 95695) during FBN Number: F20210161 regular business hours. Questions may 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) be directed to Elisa Sabatini, Manager Superglass Windshield Repair of Natural Resources, at Elisa.Sabatini@ 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of yolocounty.org or (530) 406-5773. Principal Place of Business in California. 2/21 1161 Business is located in Yolo County. 17189 County Road 96B Woodland, CA 95695 Mailing address: P.O. Box 97 Esparto, CA 95627 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Ryan Fullerton 17189 County Road 96B

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California to review carbon-trading program BY RACHEL BECKER CalMatters Newsom administration officials said today that they will evaluate the role of California’s landmark cap-and-trade program as the state examines its strategies for tackling climate change over the next decade. At an oversight hearing today, Jared Blumenfeld, secretary for environmental protection, and Air Resources Board Chair Liane Randolph said the carbon-trading program will be a key part of the conversation as California updates its climate roadmap, called a scoping plan, over the next two years. Neither Blumenfeld nor Randolph, however, would say specifically what will be examined or how the program might change. “Any changes would need to be carefully thought through and accompanied by economic and environmental processes,” Blumenfeld said. Launched in 2013, California’s cap-and-trade program is the nation’s first economy-wide carbon market. The program sets a declining cap on greenhouse gas emissions that polluters — including oil refineries, power plants and manufacturers — can meet by buying and trading carbon credits or updating their facilities. Independent experts have raised concerns that the program might be too weak to achieve California’s ambitious climate goals. In addition, environmental justice groups have long criticized California’s carbon market, saying that former air board chair Mary Nichols had done too little to protect vulnerable Californians living in the shadow of fossil fuel polluters such as oil refineries and power plants. Randolph addressed those concerns at the hearing, but as market administrator of the cap-and-trade program, she was cautious about saying anything that might affect the market for carbon credits. “This remains an important space for us to work directly with

environmental justice and community organizations to ensure that their views are incorporated into our work,” Randolph said. California in 2016 pledged to cut its climate-warming pollution 40% over the next 10 years, and it is relying on the carbon-trading program for nearly half of those reductions in 2030. “We’re calling on all our existing climate policies to do more in the next decade. We have no choice but to accelerate the rate of emission reductions dramatically,” Blumenfeld said today. No changes to the program would happen soon. The process will begin this spring, and the final plan is expected to be presented to the board in late 2022, Blumenfeld said. “Opportunities to further strengthen the cap-and-trade program will begin as part of the public process to update the scoping plan. To do so now would be premature,” Blumenfeld said. Today’s hearing was held by a Senate budget subcommittee chaired by Sen. Bob Wieckowski, a Democrat from Fremont. Wieckowski asked Randolph, who was appointed chair of the air board in December, whether she planned to revisit the weight of cap-and-trade in the new scoping plan. “Yes, basically, the answer is yes,” Randolph said. “The scoping plan process will rely on analyzing the existing programs and authorities to determine how to achieve reductions and then to determine what additional reductions need to be addressed by cap-and-trade.” The statements at the hearing reaffirm Blumenfeld’s commitment in a letter to Wieckowski over the summer to weigh “the ex10t to which the state’s climate strategy should rely on the capand-trade program reductions relative to other approaches.” The discussion met resistance from oil and gas producers, but was welcomed by environmental justice groups. “Changing this market-based system now would only create economic uncertainty for

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California’s cap-and-trade program offers oil refineries, like this Valero plant in Wilmington, the option to buy credits to offset carbon emissions. businesses and raise costs for consumers, all at a time when the state’s overall economy is in a precarious position,” said Rock Zierman, CEO of the California Independent Petroleum Association, which represents independent crude oil and natural gas producers. Kevin Slagle, a spokesperson for the Western States Petroleum Association, said “cap-and-trade is doing exactly what it was in10ded to do — driving innovation — which has helped the state meet its climate goals almost four years earlier than anticipated.” California’s environmental justice advocates have long opposed the program because they say it comes at the expense of climate policies that would benefit low-income communities of color that are disproportionately burdened by air pollution. “The upcoming CARB scoping plan update is an opportunity to address the bifurcation of climate and air pollution, and move towards a mechanism that will allow for direct emissions reductions,” said Neena Mohan, climate justice associate at the California Environmental Justice Alliance. In January, the program entered a new phase that adds new requirements through 2030. These include doubling the rate

at which the emissions cap drops and adding a price ceiling for credits to prevent costs for industries from increasing past a certain point. Ross Brown with the Legislative Analyst’s office said at the hearing that California’s 2020 greenhouse gas target, which the state reached four years early, required cutting emissions by about 1% each year. To meet the 2030 goals, California would need to increase those cuts to roughly 4% each year, he said. “Just having the program in place is not sufficient to ensure that the program is achieving the goals,” Brown said. “Implementation of the program and design of the program matters a lot.” One concern that Brown and others have raised is that companies may be banking unused pollution credits, called allowances, to use later. “It’s possible that when you get out into the later years up to 2030, that large bank of allowances could be used to comply with the program,” Brown said. “And as a result, the state might not be close to its ambitious emission targets out to 2030.” Wieckowski said that problem haunts him. “I lose sleep at night, knowing that we were told that we couldn’t amend that bill, when staff and you in particular were saying that

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this allowance problem was a very big problem,” he said. “And now we have to deal with it.” The Independent Emissions Market Advisory Committee, which is made up of researchers and academics appointed by the governor and leaders in the Legislature, has proposed metrics for tracking the bank of extra credits. “I think we are going to see that the number of banked allowances is far in excess of what the board said in its previous rulemaking statement,” said Danny Cullenward, a lecturer at Stanford Law School and a member of the emissions advisory committee. He said an air board analysis of banked allowances is expected by the end of this year The hearing came one day before a cap-and-trade auction where companies and others can bid to purchase pollution credits. The timing raised red flags for oil companies covered by cap-andtrade. “Our concern is that the hearing may unnecessarily create uncertainty about the cap-andtrade program that could affect the auction,” Slagle said. Cullenward questioned, however, whether those concerns were justified. “Why is it not appropriate to ask questions about the performance of the program? If not now, when is it OK?” he said.

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