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Yolo County returns to red tier

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer

Davis Public Works employees inspect the scene where a large tree limb fell on a woman Tuesday morning at Slide Hill Park, causing fatal injuries. City officials are investigating the incident.

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Falling tree limb kills woman at park

By Lauren Keene

pieces off a corner of a concrete play table. At the time, winds in the Davis area blew 20 to 30 mph, with occasional gusts over 40 mph, according to online weather reports.

Davis Fire Department Battalion Chief Roland Pussich said a park maintenance crew witnessed the incident and, along with the first police officers on scene, were able to lift the branch off the woman.

“We ended up doing CPR. It was definitely traumatic,” Pussich said of the woman’s condition. An ambulance crew rushed her to the UC Davis Medical Center after her pulse was restored, but she

Enterprise staff writer A family’s outing to Slide Hill Park in East Davis turned tragic Tuesday when a large tree limb fell on a woman, causing fatal injuries, according to Davis city officials.

The woman’s 3-year-old child was playing nearby but escaped injury when the evergreen ash limb — which first responders estimated to be about 20 feet long and nine inches in diameter at its widest point — came down shortly before 10:30 a.m.

It fell onto the Tulip Lane park’s sandbox area near the playground, breaking several

succumbed after arriving at the hospital.

The woman’s name was not immediately released. She was reported to be in her 40s.

“The city of Davis extends its deepest sympathies to the surviving family and will work diligently to investigate this tragic accident,” Mayor Gloria Partida said in a statement released by the city Tuesday afternoon.

Paul Doroshov, deputy chief of the Davis Police Department, said his agency will enlist “whatever experts we need” to determine what caused the limb to fail.

“We’ll just collect as much evidence as we possibly can,”

including samplings of the tree to determine whether it was weak or diseased, Doroshov said at the park Tuesday as he inspected the scene.

“I am so deeply saddened by the death of the woman who was killed by a fallen tree limb at Slide Hill Park,” Yolo County Supervisor Jim Provenza said in a statement. “That her 3-yearold child was playing close by at the time makes this particularly tragic. While her name has not yet been released, my heart goes out to the family.”

— Reach Lauren Keene at lkeene@davisenterprise.net.

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Supervisors condemn anti-Asian attacks

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy

spreading the virus.

Locally, Lisa Yep Salinas, a Woodland resident (and wife of the county’s clerk-recorder/ assessor/registrar of voters, Jesse Salinas) reported being attacked multiple times at Woodland grocery stores as well as at a gym, where two women “tried to kick me out of the pool because they said I was spreading COVID-19.”

Wong, meanwhile, a West Sacramento school board trustee, said her daughter “completely understood why her grandma would not leave the house.

Enterprise staff writer Jackie Wong spent Monday evening consoling her 12-yearold daughter, who was distraught over the rise in anti-Asian hate crimes that have been reported since the pandemic began.

Across the country and right here in Yolo County, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have reported being both verbally and physically assaulted and accused of causing the COVID-19 pandemic or

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“She told me she believed that no one cared.”

But Wong shared with her daughter on Monday evening that the Yolo County Board of Supervisors would be adopting a resolution the next day “to take a stand for people like me and kids like her.”

“She was in awe,” Wong told county supervisors on Tuesday, “and asked that you continue to do this good work and to make sure that I asked you to not just adopt this because it is a trendy thing to do, but more importantly that there be action

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In presenting the resolution to his colleagues, Supervisor Gary Sandy of Woodland said, “there’s nothing more distressing to hear than a child is fearful

The UC Davis campus vaccine clinic continues to vaccinate eligible employees and students on a limited basis. Since opening earlier this month, the clinic, which is located inside the UC Davis Activities and Recreation Center, has received roughly 500 to 600 doses of COVID19 vaccine per week, according to a recent announcement by Chancellor Gary S. May. “We are hoping for more in the future,” May said earlier this month.

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Restaurants, gyms and theaters are among the businesses that can resume indoor service on Wednesday now that Yolo County has moved to the red tier.

It’s been more than three months since the county last saw red on the state’s color-coded, tier-based blueprint for reopening and this week’s move to the less-restrictive tier owes much to Healthy Davis Together and its asymptomatic testing.

That testing in the city of Davis, in addition to the testing being done on the UC Davis campus, has been driving down the county’s test positivity rate and actual case rate over the last month.

The state provides a bonus to counties testing more than the state average by adjusting their case rates downward, so Yolo’s actual case rate of 11.1 per 100,000 residents on Tuesday was reduced to 5.6, meeting the red tier requirement of 7 or below for the second week in a row.

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Briefly Pedestrian run over on freeway A 26-year-old Idaho man has been identified as the person who died in a vehicle-versuspedestrian collision last week on Interstate 5 in Woodland.

Cody Thomas Hendrix was fatally struck after running into a vehicle’s path on northbound I-5 south of East Street at about 11:20 p.m. Friday, the California Highway Patrol reported Monday.

CHP Officer Rodney Fitzhugh said the incident remains under investigation, but noted that neither alcohol nor drugs were believed to be factors in the collision.

Class of ’21 can get bonuses Supporting Our Seniors invites all members of the DJUSD Class of 2021 to participate in “Goodies for Grads” every Wednesday in March.

“Goodies for Grads” is being co-sponsored by more than 30 Davis businesses, who will offer a “goodie” in the form of a discount, BOGO or giveaway to members of the Class of 2021 from DHS, Da Vinci, King and DSIS. A school ID or some other proof of senior status is required.

There is a scannable QR code that high school seniors can use to find out what deals are being offered where.

For information, contact Raychel Kubby Adler at 530-219-5986.

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Father knows best? Not always ...

D AD TALK ... Pity poor Ted “Fled” Cruz, whose escape to Cancun has been rightly dubbed “Texit.” Instead of apologizing, he simply said he was “just trying to be a dad.”

In other words, I’m a goodhearted family man who just doesn’t know how to say no to my darling kids when they demand a trip to Mexico.

Being a dad can be hard. But I know more than one dad (or mom) who might have sat his kids down and explained to them that “Our family is rich and powerful and in a unique position to help a great many people who are desperate right now. We can go to Mexico another time, but for now, we belong here. Let’s think of all the ways we can help the people who need it most.”

I suspect Ted’s kids would have relished such an opportunity and might have come up with some great ideas.

It’s one of those times a parent likes to call “a teachable moment.”

SPEAKING OF CONVERSATIONS ... I’d love to hear Senator Cruz explain to his kids that Donald Trump built that “beautiful wall” separating Mexico from the United States, but why it’s OK to fly over that wall, back and forth, if you’re a rich American.

Cruz, you see, was born in Calgary, and there are no walls between Alberta and Montana.

HE’S SUDDENLY A WATER BOY ... Cruz is now sending out pictures of himself loading cases of water into the back of minivans, which only reminds people of his previous dereliction of duty.

THERE’S ALWAYS A SILVER LINING ... Southwest Airlines has offered Cruz a large sum of money

to appear as himself in one of those popular “Wanna Get Away?” ads.

LAW AND ORDER ... A recent headline in The Bee asked, “Should porch pirates go to prison?”

Short answer: yes.

A hundred bucks here and a hundred bucks there and pretty soon you’re a major criminal. Sure beats working for a living.

This is one of those crimes where some strict penalties might be a major deterrent.

Book ’em, Danno.

STEADY PROGRESS ... Happy to see that our teachers are finally getting vaccinated and our young athletes are returning to the field of play.

Dr. Fauci would be proud.

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NE MORE REMINDER ...

For those who may be hesitant, getting tested for this nasty virus is a piece of cake in Davis.

It’s easy to get an appointment and the “spit” test is quick and painless.

STIMULATE THIS ... President Biden seems to have a soft spot for seniors, especially those on fixed incomes even as the cost of living continues to rise.

There’s one quick and easy solution that could help some, but not

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Admit it, you want to try one. all, seniors. Simply make all Social Security payments tax free.

It makes no sense that people who paid Social Security taxes their entire lives now have to pay tax on that money when they’re finally old enough to receive benefits.

It’s a double tax if there ever was one.

With all the “stimulus” money being tossed around like candy, the cost of this would be minimal,

but the benefits would be hugely significant to the recipients.

DEAL OF THE CENTURY ...

The sign outside this Solano County landmark says it all. (See photo).

I’ll admit it’s a bit pricey, but the tamal I had was superb in every way and well worth the asking price.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

Burns in San Joaquin Valley fields Tip leads to battery arrest and orchards may finally end

By Lauren Keene

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By Rachel Becker CalMatters Laura García is haunted by the last time her daughter woke her up in the middle of the night, struggling to breathe.

It was 2019, during the rainy season, when growers burn piles of grapevines surrounding her home in Raisin City, near Fresno.

That day, García recalls smelling smoke. And that night, her daughter Kenia García was fighting so hard to breathe that she couldn’t speak.

Her father rushed her to the hospital, where doctors tried to soothe her struggling airways and lungs.

Her father stayed with her there, missing work in the vineyards, while García stayed home with their four other children, spending sleepless nights thinking about her daughter.

On video chats, Kenia pleaded with her mother to come to the hospital and be by her side. “I didn’t cry in front of her with the camera on, because she would become more sad,” she said in Spanish. “I had to show her a strong mom, to give strength to my girl.”

Throughout the San Joaquin Valley, growers burn thousands of tons of waste in vineyards and orchards a year, sending up plumes of particles and gases that are known to exacerbate asthma and cause other serious health problems.

Now, the California Air Resources Board is poised this week to decide whether to stop the burning that stretches across eight counties, from Lodi to Lebec.

Under the proposal, the board would direct its staff to work with the San Joaquin Valley’s air district to ban virtually all agricultural burning by the end of 2024.

San Joaquin Valley vineyards and orchards would have to haul vines, trees and other waste that they are still burning to composting or biomass plants, or grind it up in chipping machines.

From $15 million to $30 million a year in

federal, state and local funds would be needed to help growers cover the costs, according to an air board report.

Environmental justice advocates are watching the upcoming decision closely as a signal of the air board’s priorities under its new leadership. Air board chair Mary Nichols, who retired from her post at the end of December, came under fire from activists who said she failed to protect lowincome communities of color that are disproportionately harmed by air pollution.

“The conversation and the decision that they make there will definitely help set the tone for what’s going to happen over the next few years,” said Catherine Garoupa White, executive director of the Central Valley Air Quality Coalition. “I hope that under new leadership, they show more courage.”

A state law enacted in 2003 was supposed to end burning in the region by 2010.

Estela Escoto, who lives in Arvin and has severe allergies worsened by smoke, said four more years is too long to wait.

“It makes you feel anger, a lot of powerlessness because you’re not able to do things faster… to make these people understand that pollution is hurting human beings,” she said in Spanish.

Missed deadline Statewide, burning agricultural material spewed about six tons of fine particles per day on average in 2017— equivalent to about 12 million cars, according to the Air Resources Board.

More than a third of that pollution occurs in the San Joaquin Valley, which suffers some of the nation’s unhealthiest air quality.

Burning is the easiest way to dispose of agricultural waste, clear patches of land for new planting and beat back weeds, pests and disease. When a tree falls in an orchard, stubble is left

on rice fields or prunings and vines have piled up, the simplest and cheapest solution is usually burning.

In much of California, on days when the air is clear and weather conditions are less likely to let smoke linger, growers with permits from their local air districts can burn their prunings and other waste.

But it’s different in the San Joaquin Valley, where a 2003 state law authored by former state Sen. Dean Florez, a Democrat from Shafter, aimed to phase out burning by 2010.

The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District has already banned burning a wide range of crops, including field crops like wheat, most rice stubble and prunings from some fruit trees. But other material — including vineyards and some orchard material — is still burned because of loopholes in the law.

More than 10 years later, the valley hasn’t yet met its deadline to ban burning.

“It has to end,” said Florez, who is a member of the air board. “It was the dark ages in 2003. And we’re still in the dark ages in 2021, which is even more disheartening.”

Why doesn’t the state board just ban all burning?

It’s because regulating it comes under a complex mishmash of local and state control. Agricultural burning typically falls under air district control, largely preventing the air board from acting unless lawmakers have authorized it to, as they did in the San Joaquin Valley more than 17 years ago.

The state already has granted the valley multiple extensions of the law’s deadline to ban burning.

Now, on Thursday, the air board will consider a sixmonth extension to allow some burning and seek a near-complete ban by the end of 2024 from the local air district. Only diseased plants and beehives, as well as some weeds would be exempted.

Woodland police credit an observant bystander with officers’ arrest of a battery suspect Monday.

According to a Woodland Police Department Facebook post, the incident began with an 8:45 a.m. call to dispatchers from a “concerned resident” who reported seeing another person being punched and dragged into a vehicle. The caller gave a description of the car and its direction of travel.

“Officers found the car being driven at a high rate of speed at Pioneer Avenue and East Main Street,” the post said.

“Despite using their lights and sirens to stop the driver, 41-year-old Gomez

Gonzalez of Woodland refused to comply and kept driving.”

The chase continued onto Interstate 5 and County Road 102, where Gonzalez stopped outside a convenience store, police said.

“Initially, Gomez Gonzalez did not want to follow officers’ directions, so additional units arrived to help make the arrest,” the post said. Officers contacted the victim, who refused to report the alleged battery and kidnapping.

Police arrested Gonzalez on suspicion of evading and resisting arrest, later adding a battery charge after further investigation, police said. He was booked into the Yolo County Jail.

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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.

“I look forward to working with all Democrats in Yolo County to grow our party, support our local elected Democrats and take on the tough challenges facing our communities during the pandemic,” Deos said.

“We welcome the participation of Democrats across the county, and we will be seeking to uplift our communities who have been most impacted by the destruction of the past four years.”

To get involved or to contact the board, visit the Yolo County Democratic Party’s website at yolodemocrats.org.

Snyder’s poems to be featured Davis Poet Laureate James Lee Jobe continues his online poetry reading series on Friday, Feb. 26, with Gary Snyder’s collection of poems, “Turtle Island,” winner of the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

This free reading will be posted online by 7:30 p.m. Friday at https://www.youtube. com/jamesleejobe.

Email jamesleejobe@ gmail.com with any questions.

Genealogists plan meeting Brooke Schreier Ganz, the first genealogist to successfully sue a government archive to return records to public access, will present “Reclaim the Records: How Genealogists Can Use Freedom of Information Laws” at the next meeting of the Solano County Genealogical Society.

The virtual presentation begins 11 a.m. Saturday, March 6.

Ganz’s nonprofit organization, Reclaim the Records, seeks to obtain copies of previously inaccessible records, which it then digitizes and puts online for free.

Her presentation will explain how this is done and how ordinary citizens can use the FOI laws to obtain records that help document their family history.

Guests are welcome to attend this free event. If interested, email the society at scgs@scgsca.org no later than 4 p.m. Friday, March 5, and request an invitation.

More information on the event can be found on the society’s webpage at www.scgaca. org.

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Kaiser ups vaccine eligibility County waiting on

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer Kaiser Permanente, which has been limiting its COVID-19 vaccine doses to healthcare workers and members 75 and over, announced Sunday that its share of the state’s vaccine supply is increasing beginning next week.

That will allow the healthcare system — which serves a quarter of Californians — to begin vaccinating more members, including those 65 and over.

“I’m pleased to share that the state has increased Kaiser Permanente’s weekly vaccine allocation to better match the number of members we serve,” Kaiser CEO Greg Adams told members in an email.

“For example,” he wrote, “next week, we’re scheduled to receive 20 percent of California’s vaccine supply. And, as the state receives more vaccine from the (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), we expect our supply to continue rising to help us vaccinate the one in four Californians who are Kaiser Permanente members,

as well as residents of the broader communities we serve.”

The state distributes its allotment of vaccines to counties as well as multicounty healthcare systems like Kaiser, Dignity Health and Sutter Health.

But the limited supply of doses coming into the state has limited what healthcare providers have received and some, like Kaiser, have not received enough to expand eligibility to members under 75 until now.

Beginning this week, Kaiser is scheduling vaccine appointments several weeks out, starting with members 65 and older at highest risk of exposure or complications due to COVID-19.

Eligibility will continue to expand — based on state guidelines — to other priority groups, including to frontline workers and individuals ages 16 to 64 with disabilities or severe underlying health conditions, Kaiser announced.

“To date, we’ve vaccinated 666,419 Californians, including more than 125,000 healthcare workers and a large percentage of our members

75 and older,” Adams said.

“With more vaccine expected in the weeks and months ahead, we’re increasing our capacity to deliver more than 600,000 vaccine doses per week in California.”

Kaiser has also partnered with others to open vaccination hubs at Cal Poly Pomona and Moscone Center in San Francisco.

“Like all vaccination sites in California, these hubs are open to the public, including Kaiser Permanente members,” Adams said.

“In partnership with the state of California, we’ll also be opening additional vaccination hubs and temporary clinics to make the vaccine available to our most vulnerable and underserved populations and communities, including those with limited mobility, disabilities, or other access challenges.”

Learn more at https:// mydoctor.kaiserpermanente.org/covid-19/covid19-vaccine.

— Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@ davisenterprise.net.

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delayed shipments

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer Yolo County is awaiting the arrival of delayed COVID-19 vaccine shipments before scheduling clinics for this week, though second-dose and ag-worker clinics are going ahead as planned.

Residents are encouraged to continue checking the county’s vaccine webpage (https://www.yolo county.org/coronavirusvaccine) where links to upcoming clinics will be posted.

Severe winter weather across much of the country delayed the shipment of millions of vaccine doses, including those the county was expecting to receive last week.

“We are hoping to get shipments in today and tomorrow so we can schedule vaccine clinics for later this week,” Yolo County’s public information officer, Jenny Tan, said on Monday.

The county was able to vaccinate thousands of residents at clinics held in Woodland and West Sacramento on Friday and Saturday.

As of Monday, it’s likely

that more than 10 percent of county residents have now received at least their first dose from either the county or from private healthcare systems.

Those systems — including Kaiser Permanente, Dignity Health and Sutter Health — are still vaccinating members 65 and over, while Yolo County has expanded eligibility to workers in education and child care, food and agriculture and emergency services.

Tan on Monday urged residents to continue checking on vaccine availability with healthcare providers as well as Rite Aid and CVS pharmacies.

Residents should also continue checking the county vaccine webpage, where links to upcoming clinics will be posted when they are scheduled.

Appointments are required for county clinics and can be reserved via links posted at https:// www.yolocounty.org/ coronavirus-vaccine.

On Monday morning, just two upcoming clinics were listed, both of them full.

“Please check our page often,” Tan said.

UC Davis faculty members given science grants

By Andy Fell, Becky Oskin and Noah Pflueger-Peters Special to The Enterprise Ten faculty members of UC Davis are the recipients of 2021 CAREER grants, the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards for early career faculty.

Given by the NSF’s Faculty Early Career Development Program, the grants can run up to five years and typically include both research and educational components.

Here are the UCD recipients, all assistant professors, and their CAREER projects. n Jonathan Herman Department of civil and environmental engineering, College of Engineering: Herman’s goal is to advance a fundamental understanding of stressors facing water-resource systems and to use this information to transform the process of planning amid uncertainty. This goal is to be achieved within the context of Northern California water resources, supported by state and local water agencies. n Ambarish Kulkarni Department of chemical engineering, College of Engineering: Kulkarni aims to help design better and cheaper catalysts for fuel cell applications. Existing catalysts are made with expensive platinumbased alloys, which are difficult to scale for mass production. His project will focus on metal organic frameworks that act like nanoreactors. He and his team will develop multiscale models, allowing the researchers to narrow down the nearly endless possible designs to find those best suited for further experiments. n Xinfan Lin Department of mechanical and aerospace engineering, College of Engineering: Lin’s project aims to use machine

learning to bring efficiency and lower cost to the process of giving old electric-vehicle batteries new life in renewable energy. Many EV batteries, which are typically working at 80 percent capacity when “retired,” get “second lives” in lower-power systems that store solar and wind energy. But the batteries need to be evaluated before they are reused, and doing this manually is expensive and timeconsuming.

Lin’s goal is to develop a machine learning framework that can check the health of any battery at any point quickly and accurately. If successful, the framework will help researchers develop second-life battery systems and accelerate the green energy revolution. n Scott McCormack Department of materials science and engineering, College of Engineering: McCormack’s project will use a combination of computation and experiments to develop tools called phase diagrams for new high-temperature ceramic materials. These advanced-phase diagrams will be essential for materials engineers working to develop ultra-high temperature materials for applications in hypersonics, nuclear (fission and fusion) reactors and shielding for spacecraft, among other things. n William Putnam Department of electrical and computer engineering, College of Engineering: Putnam’s award will support research that aims to boost infrared spectroscopy, a widespread technology with uses ranging from breath analysis for early disease detection to environmental monitoring for climate science.

Putnam’s lab will use recent developments in ultrafast lasers and nonlinear optics to develop compact infrared spectrometers with vastly improved resolution

and new capabilities. These devices will enable many new applications across scientific disciplines. n Marina Radulaski Department of electrical and computer engineering, College of Engineering: Radulaski leads the Quantum Nanophotonics Lab, exploring the potential of quantum technologies in scientific research, computation and communications. Her project will explore optically active defects in semiconductors, called color centers. Integrating these color centers into nanophotonic devices could improve the performance of quantum hardware for applications in quantum communication, computation and simulation. n Nitzan Shabek Department of plant biology, College of Biological Sciences: Shabek’s project will use advanced methods from structural biology, biochemistry and plant biology to interpret the sensing mechanism of strigolactones, an emerging and unique class of plant hormones that regulate many aspects of plant growth and development.

The knowledge generated from this project may have far-reaching impacts in understanding the biology of plant hormone signaling pathways, in addition to advancing technologies in agriculture, including germination control of crops and parasitic weeds. n Aditya Thakur Department of computer science, College of Engineering: Thakur’s project tackles the problem of repairing mistakes in deep-neural networks, or DNNs, a type of machine-learning algorithm loosely modeled after the human brain, which aim to mimic human intelligence by learning from experience. They have been successfully applied to a wide variety of problems, including image

recognition, natural-language processing, medical diagnosis and selfdriving cars, but they are far from infallible and mistakes can have disastrous consequences.

Thakur’s goal is to reduce or eliminate this danger by developing techniques and tools to repair a trained deep-neural network once a mistake has been discovered. n Jesus Velázquez Department of chemistry, College of Letters and Science: Velázquez’s lab creates new materials for use in nanoelectronics, green energy and environmental remediation. His grant will support research on compounds called chalcogenides, which contain the elements sulfur, selenium or tellurium. Many chalcogenides are semiconductors, and can harness sunlight to create fuels from carbon dioxide or convert solar energy into electricity.

Velázquez and his students will use computational modeling to help develop new chalcogenides for energy conversion uses. The team will collaborate with researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder, the Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. n Katerina Ziotopoulou Department of civil and environmental engineering, College of Engineering Soil liquefaction remains a leading cause of earthquake damage worldwide. Ziotopoulo’s project will investigate new approaches for learning from geotechnical data and inform the next generation of liquefaction evaluation tools.

Her CAREER award will integrate methods to accelerate discoveries in geotechnical engineering and develop tools that contribute to reducing earthquake damage and increasing societal resilience.

Property tax postponement deadline extended in fire areas Special to The Enterprise SACRAMENTO — State Controller Betty T. Yee reminded California homeowners recently affected by wildfires that they have more time to apply for the Property Tax Postponement program.

Administered by the State Controller’s Office, PTP allows homeowners who are seniors, are blind, or have a disability and who meet income, equit, and other requirements to delay payment of property taxes

on their primary residence.

Residents of 31 counties in governor-declared disaster areas, including Yolo and Solano counties, now have a deadline of June 1 to apply for 2020-21 PTP. In the 2019-20 tax year, California homeowners postponed more than $4 million in residential property taxes through PTP. As of Feb. 10, more than

$3.6 million had been paid out for tax year 2020-21.

Funding for the program is limited, and applications are processed in the order they are received. Participants must reapply each year and demonstrate they continue to meet eligibility requirements. The interest rate for all taxes postponed under PTP this tax year is five percent. A lien is placed

on the real property, or a security agreement filed for a manufactured home, until the deferred taxes are repaid.

Applications for the 2021-22 tax year will be available in September.

Applications and program details can be found online at https://www.sco.ca. gov/ardtax_prop_tax_ postponement.html or by calling 800-952-5661.

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edding day. It’s an event in which everyone in both families wants memories to last a lifetime.

From the moment a couple decides to get married, exactly how their vows will be recited — and where, before whom and with what kind of fanfare — becomes a focal point.

Sometimes the couple wants a simple service: a handful of family and friends, maybe a backyard ceremony and a small reception. On other occasions, the betrothed reach out to friends from throughout their lives.

Large families on each side come together and the wedding could include hundreds of well-wishers.

In either case, there is a lot of planning to make the special day live on.

Enter Jennifer and Rick Tan. The longtime Davis couple operate Tan Weddings and Events (TWE) and bring a unique set of skills to the celebration.

Jennifer, a former teacher and schools administrator, and Rick — a man who earned his medical degree but dedicated his life to his family and the event-planning world — met while students at UC Davis.

Their love of music (Jennifer plays the flute and Rick is a harpist) was common ground and their passion for helping people became a catalyst for

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from choosing the perfect location to creating and sending out invitations to day-of-the-event features.

As blissful and celebratory as couples and their families want their big day to be, often the couples feel they can take on the preparations alone, or with only the help of family and friends.

There’s where the importance of hiring a wedding planner pays dividends.

Once matrimony is on the horizon, the excite-

ment of planning starts.

The Tans want it to be fun for the families involved.

“There’s a DIY myth,” Rick explained. “Couples believe ‘We’re going to save money by doing it all ourselves and not hiring all these people who we’ve been told we need to hire.’

What happens is these couples run around getting all these quotes … not realizing if they had a planner who could optimize their budget, they

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Jennifer Tan officiates a wedding at Villa De Nardi in the rolling hills of Winters. eventually becoming wedding-and-event planners.

After the couple married — yes, they orchestrated their own wedding — and left Davis for almost a decade, they’ve returned to build a thriving business that has seen Jennifer and Rick now handle 200 weddings a year.

“We live and breath it 24/7,” said Jennifer, who says her background as an administrator in Murrieta schools provided organizational acumen that allows her to ensure that not an element goes unnoticed in the Tans’ ability to provide “the complete event.”

Jennifer continued: “We just wanted everything to go right and go well for our clients. Just like running a school — you want everything to go smoothly

and solve all the problems behind the scenes … make sure (staff ) does their jobs.

“With that skill set that we have — and the fact we love what we do — we became a pretty good fit for the wedding business,” Rick told The Enterprise.

“It grew organically. We always did weddings on the side. Then it became more of a part-time job to supplement the teaching income when we moved back here. Then it kept growing and growing.”

The Tans’ experience from having seen so many weddings as celebrants and musicians has made the planning part “a pretty natural progression.”

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Plus all the coordination of event-day elements — food, floral, music, venue preparation, etc. — are handled, saving oodles of time for the families.

Having conducted weddings all over Northern California (from Yosemite, Mendocino, Napa/ Sonoma to the redwoods in Santa Cruz), TWE provides everything from spur-of-the-moment elopements to full-blown ceremonies featuring standing-room-only

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All that said, Jennifer knows that their advice and consultation with the

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“First and foremost, we tell the couple, no matter who’s signing or paying, it is their day,” said the mother of four. “Learning what priorities are, and from where those are coming, is important.”

Once a budget is estimated, Rick and Jennifer and the staff will assist in venue choice, procuring vendors, event-site mapping, timeline creation and guest RSVP management, design of decor and rentals.

The Tans even have an online workspace for tracking confirmed guests, budget and timeline.

So when should couples begin planning their nuptials?

“At least eight months out,” Jennifer said. “We really love when people hire us early because everything will fit the budget and wants. But we can plan an elopement on the same day as the query or a full blown wedding in under two weeks!”

But planning now for the summer has one huge

stumbling block: finding the right venue. “Many venues are booked a year in advance in spring through fall here in northern California,” added the Tans.

“But we have been known to make miracles happen!”

The bottom line, say Jennifer and Rick, is they want that special day to go without a hitch — and by trusting a competent wedding planner to handle the major aspects (and minutia) — that couple’s launching of forever together will be off to a good start.

Notes: Jennifer and Rick got married in 1994 at the Walter A. Buehler Alumni Center on the UC Davis campus. The couple’s four kids are Ricky, 24, a Cal Poly graduate, Joey, 21, at Claremont Graduate University, Wilson, 17, a senior at Davis High, and 9-yearold Linden. …Visit Rick and Jennifer’s website at https://www.tanweddings andevents.com.

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RED: Sisson is keeping her guard up ANTI-ASIAN: Supes

offer encouragement

From Page A1 health equity quartile — which measures test positivity rate in the county’s most disadvantaged areas — was 5.2 percent on Tuesday.

The end result is more activities will be allowed in Yolo County.

“I am glad that we are finally able to re-enter the red tier,” said Yolo County Supervisor Jim Provenza of Davis. “This will benefit gyms, restaurants, youth sports and many others.

“I would like to caution Yolo County residents to continue observing safe practices such as distancing, wearing face covering and staying away from large gatherings so that we can avoid another surge in cases and a possible return to the purple tier.”

The changes effective Wednesday include: n Restaurants may resume indoor dining at 25 percent capacity or 100 people, whichever is smaller. Only household members may share a table. n Gyms and fitness centers may resume indoor activity at 10 percent of capacity. n Retail establishments may increase indoor capacity to 50 percent. n Movie theaters may reopen indoors at 25 percent capacity or 100 people, whichever is smaller. n Schools — elementary, junior high and high schools — may resume inperson instruction. n Youth sports may resume indoor practice at 10 percent capacity. Beginning Friday, competition will be permitted between two teams for outdoor

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low- and moderate-contact sports and outdoor highcontact sports are permitted with informed consent. n All indoor gatherings are strongly discouraged and limited to 16 people from no more than three households.

Yolo County must remain in the red tier for three weeks and meet the metrics of the orange tier for a minimum of two consecutive weeks before being able to progress to that less restrictive tier. Moving to the orange tier will require an adjusted case rate of 3.9 per 100,000 residents or less; a test positivity rate below 5 percent and a health equity quartile below 5.3 percent.

Moving to the orange tier would allow businesses to expand their indoor capacity, including to 50 percent for restaurants and movie theaters. Additionally, wineries could open indoors at 25 percent capacity and live audience sports could resume outdoors with limits on capacity and other modifications.

On the other hand, if Yolo County’s case rate and test positivity rates head in the wrong direction, the county could move back to the purple tier.

Under the state’s rules, if Yolo County’s metrics fall within the purple tier for two consecutive weeks, the state will review the most recent 10 days of data, and if it determines there are objective signs of improvement, the county may remain in the red tier.

However, if the county’s most recent 10 days data does not show objective signs of improvement the county must revert to the purple tier.

“Moving into the red tier is an indication that COVID-19 cases are declining, but it does not mean that coronavirus has gone away,” said Yolo County Health Officer Dr. Aimee Sisson.

“We cannot let down our guard. Reopening must be done cautiously to avoid a surge in cases. I urge residents to continue taking precautions to keep

themselves, their loved ones, and the rest of the Yolo County community safe. Wearing masks, distancing, not gathering indoors, and getting vaccinated when it is your turn remain as important as ever.”

Yolo is one of five counties that moved from purple to red this week. The others are Humboldt, Marin, San Mateo and Shasta. A total of nine counties are now in the red tier and two in the orange tier while 47 counties remain purple. Among those purple counties are all of Yolo’s neighbors in the Sacramento region.

Sacramento County on Tuesday had an adjusted case rate of 15.3 (which is higher than the county’s actual case rate of 14.9 due to less testing than the statewide average), while Solano County had an adjusted case rate of 12.3.

— Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@ davisenterprise.net.

Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.

CLINIC: Campus urges patience as supply still limited From Page A1 “Given the very limited supply, we also advise patience as we work toward our goal of a fully vaccinated campus, hopefully before summer.”

The on-campus clinic is equipped to vaccinate up to 1,200 people per week when doses are available, and could further boost capacity by expanding operation hours, UC Davis said Tuesday in a press release.

According to May, the UC Davis campus clinic receives its doses directly from the California Department of Public Health, through the UC Office of the President Office of Emergency Management. “As such, our planning is subject to the UCOP distribution plan,” he said.

“With vaccine supply still highly unpredictable, we are doing our best to prioritize appointments for UC Davis employees at the highest risk of exposure — mainly individuals working in person, on campus,” said Cindy Schorzman, medical director for Student Health and Counseling Services.

“Student EMTs in our UC Davis Fire Department stand ready to administer vaccine doses as they become available.”

The campus clinic began by vaccinating students and employees who are aged 65 and older. On Feb. 10, it expanded eligibility to employees of any age who are at risk of exposure to the virus because of their occupation.

Eligible employees include faculty, teaching assistants and postdocs who are teaching classes in person this quarter. (The vast majority of classes are being taught remotely.)

Others who are currently eligible based on their occupation are campus child care and child development workers, police and fire personnel, dining employees including custodial staff, and agricultural researchers and specialists working in the field.

“Given the severely limited supply, we are focusing on all groups previously approved,” May said, referring to the state of California’s tiered priority system for administering vaccines. UC Davis has not yet begun vaccinating students who are younger

than 65 years old.

While a limited number of eligible employees continue to be vaccinated at the on-campus clinic, campus leaders are simultaneously urging students and employees to pursue other options. “Please get your vaccine wherever you can,” May said, “from your health provider or a pharmacy or a community clinic.”

Meanwhile, the number of COVID19 cases detected on campus has declined dramatically in recent weeks. Between Feb. 14 and 20, the most recent week with results reported, more than 14,300 students were tested. Just 17 students tested positive for a positivity rate of less than 0.1%, the lowest since November.

The number of students in oncampus quarantine and isolation housing is also down, with less than 10 of 400 units occupied.

— Reach Caleb Hampton at champton@davisenterprise.net.

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UC Davis LIVE to discuss education and the pandemic Special to The Enterprise For almost a year, millions of school and college students have been going to class remotely. Now with vaccines becoming available, governments and school districts are planning how to return students to the classroom.

What impact has the last year had on learning from kindergarten to college?

What are the educational challenges for teachers and

students in going back to the classroom? How can parents help students manage the transition?

UC Davis LIVE will host a conversation with two experts, hosted by Soterios Johnson, at 1 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25, streamed live on the UC Davis Facebook, YouTube and Twitter pages.

Michal Kurlaender is professor and department chair of the School of Education and a member of the

Death notice Alice Nishi Enterprise staff An online memorial service for Alice Nishi is planned for 4 p.m. Wednesday, March 3. Those wishing to attend may obtain entry information on the Davis Community Church website: dccpres.org. Scroll down to "Highlights" and "Special Events." A recording of the service will be available on the Davis Community Church YouTube page for viewing at a later time.

Make submissions of obituaries or death notices to www.davisenterprise.com/obit-form.

National Academy of Education. She studies students’ pathways, access to and success in higher education. With colleagues from the California Education Lab at UC Davis, she surveyed college-age students about their experiences in the pandemic for the California Student Aid Commission.

Kevin Gee is an associate professor in the School of Education affiliated with

the Center for Poverty Research. He studies how schooling affects children’s health and wellbeing and how school policies can improve health and educational outcomes for children who face a wide range of challenges such as bullying, food insecurity, abuse and neglect.

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for their relatives, fearful for their own future, and we will not tolerate that as a Board of Supervisors in the county of Yolo.”

To Salinas he said, “I’m sorry for what you’ve experienced, but the Board of Supervisors stands with you on this issue.”

He and his colleagues pledged to back up the resolution with action as well, aimed particularly at prevention and education “It’s incumbent on us as a board to dedicate ourselves anew to these underserved communities which are under attack,” said Sandy. “(A)s the pandemic subsides, we’ll be participating more with those communities so that we can learn more, understand better and further cement the bond that exists between us.”

Resolutions such as the one approved Tuesday by the board are not unusual, noted Supervisor Oscar Villegas of West Sacramento.

But this one should be different, he said.

“It seems to me that this one requires… a larger conversation.

Maybe we do something a little bit different in this instance to sort of highlight the importance of it and the fear that people are experiencing on a daily basis in light of what’s occurred,” said Villegas, who suggested a “coordinated effort to more broadly announce our disdain and our frustration with what is happening right here in our communities.”

The effort has been broadly accepted — the Woodland City Council approved a similar resolution last week and several school boards in the county are preparing to

do so as well.

But supervisors expressed frustration that these waves of racism seem to continue unabated.

Supervisor Angel Barajas of Woodland noted hostility in recent years towards immigrants — and Latinos in particular.

“Unfortunately, in our country, certain people tend to scapegoat other groups and it just shows us that we as leaders have to put all of our resources into prevention, education and outreach so we can prevent this from occurring in the future, or at least mitigate it,” he said.

Supervisor Jim Provenza of Davis agreed.

“It’s a problem that has been around for a while and I had thought when I was younger and working in civil rights that it would go away at some future date,” he said. “But it hasn’t, and it sometimes gets worse, and I think whenever it rears its ugly head, we have to jump into action.”

He also noted that “if somebody is harassed or assaulted and the motivation is racial or ethnic animus, that is a hate crime.

“And we’re not going to tolerate it.”

Salinas praised the board for taking action and said since she began speaking out, she has heard from others who have experienced the same throughout the county, including in Davis.

Said Barajas: “To our Asian and Pacific Islander brothers and sisters … we stand in solidarity with you.”

— Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@ davisenterprise.net.

Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.

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

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

Awards will be distributed in late spring.

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

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

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

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

SI Davis has several fundraisers a year, and reinvests all of its profits in its programs and projects. These include Live Your Dream: Education and Training Awards for Women, and Dream It, Be It: Career Support for high school girls. It also funds high school scholarships, anti-trafficking efforts, and these Community Grants to nonprofits.

Applicants will receive notice by May 1 of their application’s status. To apply, visit https://www. sidavis.org/grants. Direct questions to Donna Gulsvig, Community Grants chair, at donnagulsvig@ gmail.com.

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State’s plant life is different from rest of U.S. Special to The Enterprise

Tuleyome Tales

n the early 20th century, grand theories like relativity and quantum mechanics triumphed and came to define science so much that plant ecology felt it needed one of its own to be taken seriously as science.

Frederic Clements helpfully provided one. His monoclimax theory claimed all vegetation in a climate zone converged to a particular kind called the climatic climax. It seemed to make sense because in its natural state eastern North America it was largely covered by forests from Quebec to Florida and from the Atlantic to eastern Oklahoma.

In the theory, exceptions like abandoned farms, wetlands and rock outcrops were constantly pushed by succession to be covered by forest as well: the region’s climatic climax. Further west, in a drier climate, a band of nearly treeless grassland that extended from Canada south, well into Mexico, was the site of dramatic history as cattle were driven north through it from Texas to railroads in Kansas, and eventually to new pastures in Montana as described in “Lonesome Dove.” Much of what we know as the wild west took place there in the single 1870s decade from Wyatt Earp’s taming Dodge City to Custer’s defeat at the Little Big Horn. It’s climatic monoclimax, of course, was grassland.

When Clements saw California’s Central Valley, its plains reminded him so much of those in his Nebraska home state, he concluded it must have the same climate. Consequently, in his climatic climax map, that valley is colored the same yellow as the great plains. And since his theory demanded the same plants in the same climate, he found a

few bunch grasses in California related to those in Nebraska and declared them the valley’s original vegetation his theory demanded; even though John Muir 50 years earlier found the still largely undisturbed valley covered with spring and fall wildflowers and very little grass.

Despite that, Clements’ bunch grass theory was widely and dogmatically believed until quite recently.

Another plant ecologist, W. S. Cooper, knew the Central Valley’s climate was nothing like Nebraska but still believed fervently in monoclimaxes. He decided California’s unique climate deserved its own unique climax vegetation and found it in uniquely Californian chaparral shrublands. And good theorist that he was, Cooper believed chaparral had to be the monoclimax that covered all of California’s distinctive climate zone including the Central Valley, even though no one who had actually been there had ever found anything like that.

But despite scant evidence for Clements’ conclusion about central California and none for Cooper’s, both had their advocates in academic plant ecology throughout the 20th century since it often practiced what jurists call stare decisis, standing by what’s decided.

Monoclimax was never accepted much in Europe or the rest of the world outside the United States and for good reason. For one, climate is among the least stable of environmental features; hardly one likely to drag vegetation on more stable things like rocks to a monoclimax.

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Cache Creek Canyon is seen with gray-green woodland on serpentine soil and green grass on non-serpentine soil.

Still, it was significant 50 years ago at UC Davis when a young and soon-to-be-great plant ecology professor Mike Barbour, who tragically passed away late last year, chose the text “An Island Called California” by an observant amateur Elna Bakker for his classes rather than one by an academic.

Unobstructed by stare decisis, Bakker described a previously unnoticed elephant in the room: California has no single “monoclimax” but is a mosaic of many kinds vegetation that shifts across landscapes as environmental conditions change.

The reason for this mosaic is quite simple but little discussed or noticed. In California’s Mediterranean-type climate, rain falls when it’s too cold for much plant growth so water is stored underground for a few months until temperatures warm. Those months cause underground conditions to be much more important here than east of the Rockies, where monoclimax theory was invented and rain falls when plants are ready to grow. The greater dependence of vegetation in California on its diverse soils and geology during the months they store water

increases its botanical diversity and may even increase its resilience to climate change.

This tale is dedicated Dr. Michael Barbour, friend and mentor who will be remembered always.

— Dr. Holstein is a retired senior scientist from Zentner and Zentner, a Northern California biological consulting company and the chapter botanist for the Sacramento Valley Chapter of the California Native Plant Society.

He is also on the board of Tuleyome, a Woodland-based nonprofit conservation organization.

Solano County hills in May have brown grass and oaks on one soil and green prairie on another.

This is a view of a California valley as described by John Muir in 1868.

Yolo Basin Foundation has new executive director Special to The Enterprise Yolo Basin Foundation’s board of directors announces that Martha Diepenbrock has been named its new executive director.

“Martha Diepenbrock brings a deep background connecting young people with public lands and the environment through her work with the state-run California Conservation Corps and the locally based Los Angeles Conservation Corps,” said Jan SmutnyJones, Yolo Basin Foundation board chair.

“Martha has served in leadership roles in nonprofit and government agencies and helped to start up a number of communitybased organizations. She will

bring a steady, experienced hand to our team, and we’re excited to have her on board.”

Diepenbrock, who has already begun working with staff members, noted: “I am thrilled to be joining the Yolo Basin Foundation community of talented and dedicated staff, an engaged board and many devoted volunteers. I look forward to supporting and partnering with such a passionate team, to engage our community in experiences that foster an appreciation and stewardship of our local wetlands and wildlife.”

The foundation has adapted its educational programs to bring the wetlands and wildlife of the Yolo Basin into the homes of students of all ages. There is room in

Blood donors needed following severe weather Special to The Enterprise Record-breaking cold and winter storms across much of the U.S. has forced the cancellation of hundreds of American Red Cross blood drives in about 30 states and caused more than 15,000 blood and platelet donations to go uncollected.

The Red Cross is urging healthy individuals, especially those with type O blood, to give now to ensure blood products are available for patient emergencies.

People can make appointments to donate by downloading the Red Cross Blood Donor App, visiting

RedCrossBlood.org, calling 1-800-RED CROSS (7332767) or enabling the Blood Donor Skill on any Alexa Echo device.

Tina Rocco knows firsthand how important it is to have blood on hospital shelves.

After welcoming baby Gemma by cesarean section, she began hemorrhaging badly and was rushed back into the operating room.

“I was later told it was several pints of blood and an amazing doctor that saved my life,” Rocco said.

“That allowed me to hold my first daughter and go home all together as a family of three.”

the schedule to bring the Discover the Flyway educational experiences to students engaged in distance learning. Schools and teachers wanting to learn more can visit yolobasin.org.

Diepenbrock takes over from Chelsea Martínez, who will be staying with Yolo Basin Foundation in the role of deputy director.

“We are lucky to have Martha joining our team. Her experience and skills will help ensure that Yolo Basin Foundation continues to grow and thrive,” Martínez said.

Diepenbrock lives in Davis and grew up in Sacramento. She attended UC Santa Cruz and has a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard

Kennedy School. She also is a volunteer member of Yolo County’s Search and Rescue Team and heads up the Booster Club for Da Vinci Charter Academy.

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By Alexandra Zurborg HUB Staff More testing off the field, so there’s more playing time on the field.

That’s the hope of a new collaboration between Healthy Davis Together and the Davis Blue Devil Athletic Boosters. The groups launched a new incentive program called Proud Super Testers.

Sanford Gladding, president of the Davis Blue Devil Athletic Boosters, believes that pushing for athletes to get tested will bring a sense of normalcy to the community again.

“If all members of our community are proactive with testing, the spread of COVID will continue to slow and our overall community health will improve, allowing the county health officials to modify or remove social and interactive restrictions,” Gladding said. “This in turn will create the opportunity for sports to start again in full capacity sooner rather than later.

Athletes can act as role models to peers and the community. By testing regularly, their actions are demonstrating the value and importance of testing.”

Furthermore, if student athletes get tested more than four times a month, HDT will make a direct donation of $25 to the athletic boosters. To keep track of testing, athletes must sign up for a HDT account, obtain a “Proud Super Tester” stamp card, get the card stamped when tested and turn in the stamp card to their coaches at the end of the month.

To encourage testing, coaches and athletes go together. “Many programs are testing as a team prior to practices on a given day. We also have other teams that are not on campus daily and are encouraging athletes to test at a time that works for them. Students receive a stamp card from the athletic department or their coach,” athletic director Jeff Lorenson said.

Many students have already been participating in the program for more than a week, filling out their stamp cards for their coaches.

“We all try to schedule an appointment before practice so we usually come into practice with our COVID test ‘merch’ such as tote bags, gift cards and stickers. Once we start traveling in pods, our coach or the people in your car will ask for your

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Senior skier and lacrosse player Ben Presto visited Healthy Davis Together for a COVID-19 spit test on Sunday at the Mondavi Center. test result,” said senior Riley Liu. Athletes are willing to take the time out of their day to get tested as long as they are able to play the sports they love.

“Getting COVID tested will help the future of athletics because we don’t know how long this virus is gonna be around, so in order to continue to play the sports we love, we need to make sure we do it safely,” junior Lindsay Taylor said.

The hope is that more testing will promote safety as teams head into competition. “They want the kids back playing sports. This is why we are

offering the incentive stamp cards, to get athletes out here and motivated to test,” said HDT supervisor for the Mondavi center, Monica Hatch.

While the testing is not mandatory, it is very much encouraged. “It will help because it’s all about prevention. You want to make sure that (athletes) are tested so that they could get the athletics back to normal. If you don’t get the athletes tested, this is going to keep spreading,” Hatch said.

Not many communities offer student athletes the opportunity to be tested regularly. “I think that

we are very lucky here in Davis to have the ability to test like this,” said Erin Hines, HDT supervisor for the Veterans Memorial Center testing site.

HDT and the athletic boosters are hoping the new program makes the testing process easier and appealing to athletes and the community. “This program is unique to Davis and we should feel lucky to have Healthy Davis Together. By embracing this program, we are slowing the spread and taking proactive steps to getting back to our old way of social life. It is a small action that yields big results,” Gladding said.

DA’s office, activists at odds over bail reduction February is Black

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crime rate. David Greenwald, a Yolo County resident and founder of the website Davis Vanguard, has written a series of articles investigating the $0 bail schedule.

“What I haven’t seen is any real evidence that crime is surging because of the zero bail policies,“ he said. “One of the things that you learn when you study this stuff for any length of time is that most people who get caught up in the system are going to be released at some point, and all this does is expedite that release point. So is it Renee Xi really going to, in ang / the long run, drive up crime?

Probably not.”

Additionally, the implementation of the Emergency Bail Schedule has also that been largely bail effective in doesn’t slowing the actually spread of the prevent virus among jail crime from populations. So far, happening. The best crime Yolo County’s Monroe prevention is not to lock Detention Center has had people up, innocent and zero positive cases of guilty alike, but to build COVID-19. strong communities “It’s something that our through housing security, officials here in the county food security, economic decided is necessary during security, quality education, the pandemic. I believe it’s quality health care and a really too early to say variety of other social ser- (whether or not it’s a convices that are essential to a cern for public safety),” said healthy, functioning soci- Lt. Matthew Davis of the ety,” Wroten said.

Yolo County Sheriff ’s The Yolo DA’s office has Office. “It’s a pretty signifialso been under scrutiny cant change in the criminal for opposing $0 bail so justice system and it would strongly when the policy be interesting to see the may not necessarily con- real numbers down the tribute to an increase in road.”

jails that are experiencing outbreaks of COVID-19.

Those are good things.

However, it does not get rid of all bail and it will eventually end, so it’s not even really a reform,” said NorCal Resist spokesperson Tibby Wroten.

NorCal Resist is a grassroots organization which advocates for bail reform.

Its bail fund project uses community donations to pay bail for individuals arrested on protest and immigration related charges.

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In April of 2020, the California Judicial Council adopted a statewide emergency bail schedule to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in jails. The schedule set bail at $0 for most individuals accused of misdemeanors and lowlevel felonies. After the emergency schedule was rescinded in June, Yolo County was among a handful of California counties which chose to keep the $0 bail policy in place in the interest of public health.

The Yolo County District Attorney’s office has repeatedly raised concerns about the policy, citing 600plus new crimes committed by individuals released on $0 bail since April.

A recent press release from the DA’s office detailed that “464 individuals have been arrested and released on $0 bail a total of 583 times, with some benefitting on multiple occasions,” and “over 40 percent of those released on $0 bail have reoffended at least once.”

Assistant Chief Deputy District Attorney Melinda Aiello believes that the Yolo County Superior Court needs to re-examine its decision to continue use of the emergency bail schedule.

“One of the biggest

concerns about the $0 bail is the fact that when individuals are released, there is no risk assessment done.

There is no assessment done of whether or not mental health issues are causing the criminal behavior, whether or not there are addiction issues at play, and when there’s no analysis of this done, then there’s no opportunity to intervene and offer services and get people into programs,” she said.

According to Aiello, February marks the highest rate

of repeat offenses among those released on $0

bail.

“While we need to be mindful of the consequences of COVID being spread within jails, we should not do that to an extent that compromises public safety,” Aiello said.

The DA’s office continued criticism of $0 bail, however, has sparked a response from those on the other side of the argument, who question whether cash bail should be imposed under any circumstances. “(The emergency bail schedule) gets rid of some bail temporarily and helps keep some people out of the

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By Allyson Kang HUB Staff The Davis High Black Student Union held events, including a social media campaign, a keynote speaker and a movie showing, throughout February to celebrate its theme as National Black History Month.

“Everyone should take the time to participate in Black History Month because these stories and feats are what help mold our world and nation,” BSU president and senior Oluwadara Ogundiwin said.

BSU officer and senior Daniel Engotto is heading the club’s social media campaign called “The Black Experience” for different African American individuals to anonymously share their unique experiences.

“Even though ... there are many commonalities in our struggle, there are also differences. We hope to (elaborate) on those differences to show that the picture of the conflict is bigger than what is expressed in the media,” club officer and senior Valdy Ngassam said.

BSU hosted a movie night on Feb. 22 to show and discuss “Moonlight,” which covers the school-to-prison pipeline; brutality; and the experiences of a young, black, gay man.

Outside of club events, DHS students can focus on further educating themselves about African American history.

“The best way to celebrate and commemorate African American History Month is to do so by obtaining knowledge. Knowledge empowers us all. Ignorance tends to destroy us,” said Elisa White, UC Davis professor of African American and African studies.

White suggests setting aside time to devote to examining works, from screen films to art pieces, that focus on discussing the experiences of African American people.

While we do so, White suggests reflecting on two questions: “Why are we not always learning this as something integral to the history of the United States?

What circumstances have limited our opportunities to learn this history?”

Ngassam, Ogundiwin, White and junior Julian Johnson all agree that the goal is to break past the surface of African American history.

“Our history and our credits and contributions need to be heard more. There’s so much more to our race than what is presented and since we all want to believe that our country, our community is for equality and fairness in representation; we need to express (that) in everything we do, from what we learn, what events we plan out to how we treat one another as individuals,” Ngassam said.

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Big debts mean trouble ahead Reopening 101 I is a must for policymakers

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eachers unions are under attack, as our wellfounded concern for our students, their families, and yes, ourselves, is being portrayed as a political powerplay, or worse. Yet there are many problems with reopening which government officials, media commentators and the public don’t understand.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends diagnostic testing and contact tracing, physical distancing, proper ventilation (generally requiring retrofitting) and compulsory masking, handwashing, cleaning — measures the American Federation of Teachers has called for since April.

I’ve taught for 20 years, in schools public and private, union and non-union, and anyone who thinks large urban schools can implement these rapidly and effectively is naïve. By the time they’re implemented and running smoothly, the school year will be ending.

We must keep kids 6 feet apart yet shrinking class sizes down to 12 or 15 students means at best we’ll have half the kids in school one day, half the next. This eliminates half their learning time, and much of the benefit their families would get from reopening schools.

Some propose we teach half the students in class while simultaneously teaching the other half at home, but this is problematic, both technically and in terms of integrating two different teaching methods. Also, there would be many spur-of-themoment IT problems for both students and teachers, and trust me, teachers will be left to resolve them largely on our own as our classes wait.

The push to reopen presupposes an overwhelming parental demand for reopening, but the evidence contradicts this. Prominent union critic Frederick Hess acknowledges that under distance learning, “most parents don’t appear to be angry with schools, teachers or teachers unions … (surveys show) they seem generally content with their schools … (and) give schools high marks, with … no evidence of turning on unions.”

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ecently I put a bonus question on a test asking students if their parents would send them to school if schools reopened, and how they felt about returning to school. Of the nearly 100 students, fewer than a dozen said their parents would favor them returning to school.

Many cited fears of infecting the older people they live with, particularly grandparents — an important concern that gets little media attention. Most say they’re satisfied with distance learning and feel it’s better to finish the year with it. Yet if we reopen and a third or even a quarter of parents don’t send their kids back, classes will be severely disrupted.

Student focus could unravel in the chaos that would engulf reopened schools. Those who’ve never had to keep large groups of kids on task five days a week don’t understand how destructive constant interruptions, mistakes and uncertainty are. For high schools, AP exams are less than 10 school weeks away – we don’t want the hard work done by our most dedicated students to be squandered by a botched reopening.

What’s ignored in this debate is the valuable education teachers are giving students right now.

We’re still teaching, and students are still learning, and not once in 11 months of distance learning have I thought a school day was not productive. Distance learning certainly isn’t ideal, but, given the circumstances, it’s functional.

Understandably, many argue we need to reopen because students want to be back in school with their friends and their activities. Yet unsafely reopened schools will require an unpleasant regime of separating kids and imposing constant limits, with teachers and administrators policing, nagging and scolding kids to follow new procedures. It will be a big disappointment for our students.

Evidence contests critics’ dismissal of the hazard reopening represents. European experts now believe that children are a major factor in spreading COVID-19, and there have been school closures in the U.K., Germany, Ireland, Austria, Denmark and the Netherlands.

Antoine Flahault, director of the University of Geneva’s Institute of Global Health, explained “In the second wave we acquired much more evidence that schoolchildren are almost equally, if not more infected by SARS-CoV-2 than others.”

Instead of a deeply problematic reopening, we should stick with distance learning and work to reopen properly in late summer.

— Glenn Sacks teaches Social Studies in the Los Angeles Unified School District, glenn@ glennsacks.com.

nflation is an abstraction until it impoverishes you.

If you are under 40 years old, double-digit inflation is something you’ve never experienced in the United States. You need to be at least 60 to remember when inflation was 12.5 percent and it ate your paycheck.

The greater worry the last decade has been deflation.

Despite low real interest rates — which in theory inject cash into the economy — annual inflation has not topped 2.3 percent in 10 years and has averaged just 1.59 percent since 2011.

Yet there is now growing fear that inflation may be in store.

“Inflation expectations have spiked dramatically in recent weeks,” financial analyst Mark Hulbert wrote in his Feb. 19 MarketWatch column. “The 10-year breakeven inflation rate — what the bond market currently is betting inflation will average over the next decade — is now higher than it’s been in five years.”

Inflation is the result of too many dollars chasing too few goods. The reason many fear prices may dramatically escalate is we have been recklessly printing dollars — a consequence of enormous fiscal deficits since 2009 — for over a decade.

In 2007, our total federal debt was just over $9 trillion. Since then, it has tripled to $27 trillion. Our fiscal deficit last year alone was $3.7 trillion. It will be higher than that in 2021 if President Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill makes it through the Senate.

In early 1981, when we last had high inflation, federal debt was just 30.7 percent of GDP. At the end of the third quarter last year, it was 127.3 percent of US GDP and growing.

Letters U.S. is not that healthy Yearly, the world’s health is ranked at a maximum score of 100. In 2021, Spain placed first at 92.75, Italy at 91.59, Iceland at 91.44, Japan at 91.38, Switzerland at 90.93, etc. The United States, at 73.02, scored far below expectations, far below average (77.28): Spain, Italy, Iceland, Japan, Switzerland, Sweden, Australia, Singapore, Norway, Israel, Luxembourg, France, Austria, Finland, Netherlands, Canada, South Korea, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Ireland, Cyprus, Portugal, Germany, Slovenia, Denmark, Greece,

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No other country in the world gets away with our level of fiscal irresponsibility. If they try it, their currencies collapse and they quickly suffer runaway inflation.

An extreme example of that is Venezuela the last decade. The socialist governments of Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro have run enormous deficits for years — due in part to reduced oil income — and printed increasingly worthless bolivars to cover their expenses.

The IMF estimated Venezuela’s inflation rate in 2016 to be 500 percent; in 2017, 4,000 percent; in 2018, 929,790 percent; and in 2019, 10,000,000 percent.

What distinguishes the American dollar from all other currencies is it serves as the world’s reserve note, and it is often used for global trade. Foreigners — especially central banks, but also private financiers, corporations and households — hold dollars in reserve. Most banks also hold lesser amounts of Euros, Yen and gold.

When a German company, for example, buys oil from Kuwait, the payment is made in dollars. Same when Argentina sells beef to China.

Due to our industrial might and history of fiscal responsibility, the U.S. dollar replaced the British pound as the world’s primary reserve note in the 1940s. It has held that position ever since.

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That allows us to run trade deficits, where we buy more goods and services from foreigners than we sell.

They send us computers, cars and clothes; we send them cash that they hold onto.

Every year since 1976, the United States has run a trade deficit. From 1977-82, it averaged $19.4 billion per year; from 1983-1997, $88.5 billion; from 1998-2003, $348.3 billion; and from 2004-2020, $594.8 billion.

In 2020, Americans bought $687.7 billion more than we sold.

In 2011, Ruth Judson, a staff economist for the Fed, estimated that 60 percent of all U.S. dollars and 80 percent of all $100 bills were held overseas. That is likely higher today. (I could not find more recent estimates.)

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hile many people and institutions abroad possess paper bills — including those involved in illicit businesses — dollar-denominated assets overseas are also held in the form of interestbearing Treasury bills and notes. Of our $27 trillion debt, $6.81 trillion is is the property of foreigners, mainly government banks.

In July 2020, Japan owned $1.29 trillion and China $1.07 trillion. Other major lenders to the U.S. government are the U.K. ($428.9 billion); Ireland ($315.8); Brazil ($265.1); and Luxembourg ($262.5).

Considering the enormity of our debt and the huge increase in annual deficits, foreigners purchasing Treasurys have started to demand higher interest rates.

Thirty-year Treasurys now pay 2.14 percent, up from 1.63 percent Dec. 11.

That half-percent increase means the interest cost of

Malta, Belgium, Czech Republic, Cuba, Croatia, Estonia, Costa Rica, Chile, United States.

Many factors indicate the “health” of a country — access to preventative care, environment, drinking water, sanitation, lifestyle, exercise, diet, obesity, cuisine, food deserts, stress, disadvantaged, disinvested communities and quality of life.

Life expectancy, too, indicates a “healthy” country — gender, ethnic identity, genetics, hygiene, maternal and child mortality, opioid/substance abuse, unregulated firearm mortality and exorbitant “Big Pharma” prices.

To millions of Americans, the United States offers the best care money can buy. Why, then, do we fall short? Care is

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the debt on an annual basis will go up $137.7 billion. At 2.14 percent on $27 trillion, our yearly interest payments would be $577.8 billion.

If rates rise to 5 percent and the national debt hits $36 trillion — which is where it seems to be heading — interest on the debt will cost $1.5 trillion per year.

At that point, it’s hard to see the U.S. dollar remaining the world’s primary reserve currency. The fiscal responsibility which gave the world faith in the dollar starting in the 1940s would have been lost. While it’s possible another governmentissued currency — like the Chinese yuan or the euro — could replace the dollar, it might also be a cryptocurrency, such as Bitcoin.

If foreigners no longer want to hold dollars as a reserve, the buying power of our money will plummet, making Americans substantially poorer. Our paychecks will be able to buy much less food, clothing, fuel, electronics, cars and so on. As Americans in the 1970s learned, everything will suddenly cost more.

While Venezuelan currency collapse is far beyond our worst case scenario, double-digit inflation is not.

To avoid that, America needs greater fiscal responsibility soon. But because a majority of U.S. dollars are held overseas, we don’t control our destiny. Once it gets going, the Fed will have no power to slow inflation — as it did in the early 1980s — as people outside our borders holding dollars decide to dump them, transforming inflation from an abstraction to a deprivation.

— Rich Rifkin is a Davis resident; his column is published every other week.

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(1) As COVID-19 revealed — millions are habitually denied access to universal, preventative healthcare, a.k.a., “Medicare for All.” (2) The United States spends the highest percentage of its gross domestic product on healthcare. (3) We endure high maternal mortality. (4) We suffer high infant and youth mortality linked to unregulated firearms and lack of access to preventative care. (5) Meanwhile, trillions of dollars are squandered on endless foreign wars.

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armer days at the start of spring mean Easter is almost here, and the big bunny himself will be hopping around in no time delivering goodies.

This Easter, celebrate with your loved ones with a delicious and colorful Easter Bunny Butt Cake. It can bring smiles and laughter while putting everyone in a light, joyful mood.

This cake is fun and bright with a fluffy, moist interior. Complete with chocolate candy eggs, shredded coconut and chocolate chips for little bunny toes, this recipe goes all out to paint a picture of the Easter bunny.

Start by combining whole eggs, egg whites, cream of coconut, crushed pineapple, coconut extract and vanilla extract.

In a food processor, pulse flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Then add butter gradually, 6 tablespoons at a time, for a total of 12 tablespoons.

Add dry mixture to a mixing bowl then add egg mixture half at a time.

Beat until cake batter is formed.

Fill muffin tins 2/3 full and bake 18 to 20 minutes.

The remaining batter goes into an oven-safe bowl to bake for 1 hour, 40 minutes.

The buttercream frosting is made with powdered sugar, butter, milk, vanilla extract and coconut extract.

Assemble the cake using pretzel sticks to blend it together to make the

bunny butt shape. Frost the cake and spread shredded coconut over it to create a textured appearance.

Stick chocolate chips on the bunny’s feet to create toes. Place your favorite Easter or bunny candies around the cake for extra garnish.

This cake is worth every step. It’s delicious and as cute as can be, plus it’s perfect for dessert after a big Easter dinner.

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Easter Bunny Butt Cake Servings: 10 to 12 Ingredients: Nonstick cooking spray 2 eggs, plus 4 egg whites, at room temperature ¾ cup cream of coconut ½ cup crushed pineapple, drained 2 teaspoons coconut extract 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 2¼ cups flour 1 cup sugar 2 teaspoons baking powder ½ teaspoon salt 12 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature Buttercream Frosting: 3 cups powdered sugar 2 sticks unsalted butter, softened 3 tablespoons milk 1 teaspoon vanilla extract ½ teaspoon coconut extract For assembly: 4 thin pretzel sticks 1 bag (10 ounces) sweetened shredded coconut

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The Easter Bunny Butt Cake is a way to bring smiles to those around the table.

8 drops green food coloring 2 large round chocolate candy melts 6 chocolate chips mini candy-coated chocolate eggs, for garnish Putting it together: Heat oven to 325 degrees.

Line muffin pan with four paper liners. Spray oven-safe glass bowl with nonstick cooking spray.

In large bowl, whisk eggs, egg whites, cream of coconut, pineapple, coconut extract and vanilla extract until combined.

In food processor, pulse flour, sugar, baking powder and salt until combined.

Add 6 tablespoons butter.

Pulse until combined. Add remaining butter. Pulse until coarse meal forms.

In large mixing bowl, add coarse flour butter meal.

Add half of egg mixture.

Beat 1 to 2 minutes. Add remaining egg mixture; beat until combined.

Fill each muffin cup 2/3 full. Bake 18 to 20 minutes, or until done. Cool completely.

Pour remaining batter into prepared oven-safe bowl. Bake 1 hour, 40 minutes, or until done.

Cool completely.

To make buttercream frosting: In large bowl, add powdered sugar and butter; beat until fluffy. Add milk, vanilla extract and coconut extract; beat until creamy.

Turn bowl upside-down

on cake stand until cake removes from bowl. If cake needs leveled, turn cake over and trim to flatten.

Frost cake.

Remove wrappers from cupcakes. Using two pretzel sticks, press into base of cupcakes and anchor to bottom rim of bowl cake to create bunny feet. Frost feet.

Take third cupcake and cut muffin top off. Cut muffin top in half. Using one pretzel stick, anchor one muffin top half at bottom of full cupcake to form toes. Repeat with second muffin top half for other foot. Frost toes.

Attach final cupcake with remaining pretzel stick to butt area of cake to make tail. Frost tail.

Apply 1½ cups shredded coconut all over cake.

Press chocolate candy melts into bottoms of bunny feet to resemble foot pads. Add chocolate chips to resemble pads for toes.

Place remaining coconut in plastic bag. Add green food coloring. Toss in bag until coconut is colored.

Spread around base of cake for grass. Decorate grass with chocolate eggs.

Tips: Spoon flour into dry measuring cup and level off excess. Scooping directly from bag compacts flour, resulting in dry baked goods. Add 1 tablespoon additional milk if frosting is too stiff.

Keep adding until desired consistency.

Celebrating the rites and whites of spring D uring one endless COVID day, I thought about resuming a longdiscarded practice — walking the labyrinth. Maybe tomorrow, I told myself; today I’ll just wander the streets of North Davis. As usual. Suddenly, at the end of a street I turned down, there was a labyrinth painted on the asphalt.

So, of course, I walked it. It’s a small one; it took maybe 10 minutes.

Over a decade ago, I wrote a piece for The Enterprise about the history and use of labyrinths and their presence in Davis — like the turf labyrinths at the cemetery and the labyrinth at the Methodist Church on Anderson (larger than the asphalt one) that’s modeled after (though smaller than) the famous labyrinth at Chartres Cathedral.

There are two Chartres labyrinths at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, where I walked my first.

Alas, the one at the Methodist church has deteriorated over time and, though still walkable, is partly obstructed by a makeshift repair. More easily navigated is the slightly larger and very lovely one at St. Martin’s, and my friend Jan tells me that the Unitarian Church has the best one in Davis. (All are outdoors.)

One labyrinth I walked had a sign on it that said “Solvitir

ambulando — it is solved by walking. St. Augustine.” The “it,” I presume, can be almost anything — a problem, a heartbreak, a sickness, a life. The theory is that if you walk with intention to “solve,” you’ll have insights, revelations, changes of heart — and behavior.

I can’t say I’ve ever experienced anything dramatic, but walking a labyrinth is, nevertheless, a comfort: I have to slow down, I know just what I’ll be doing for the next half an hour, I feel part of an ancient community of walkers, I get to lose track of time, and I finish at least one thing during my day. And if I can solve even a tiny problem (what’s for dinner tonight?), that’s an extra perk. All good reasons to start up the practice again — which I have.

As you know if you’re a regular reader, my more usual way of solving a problem, slowing down, losing track of time, feeling a part of an ancient ritual (not to mention finishing at least one thing) is to sit down at a

candle-lit table with a good meal, a good companion, and a good bottle of wine. That, too, is something I’ve come to appreciate more than ever during these plague months.

For one thing, I’ve discovered many new and exciting and happy-making bottles. As we head into spring, as temperatures rise, as spring vegetables begin to appear in the market, the bottles tend more and more to be white. Like the terrific and very local 2019 Skinner Grenache Blanc from El Dorado. Skinner is a winery designed for the small production of natural, quality wines. It’s energy-efficient, too — solar power, natural humidity control, native-drought-resistant landscaping irrigated with gray water recycled from the winery.

This lively, aromatic (think spring blossoms), generous, fullbodied wine is, thanks in part to its vibrant acidity, as easy to pair with food as it is to drink. Try it with a beet risotto or baked polenta topped with sauteed rapini. Springtime heaven. “Our goal,” say Skinner winemakers Adam Smith and Seth Hunt, “is to celebrate Grenache Blanc by crafting a wine with a foot in the past and a foot in the present; the marriage of rustic minerality and bizarre floral-salinity, with deep texture and nervy poise.”

They succeed — and at an

excellent price, $19 at The Pip. I’m always excited when New York Times wine writer Eric Asimov writes his “20 under $20” column. In the latest version (Feb.3), he includes one of my own new favorites, the Haarmeyer St. Rey Chenin Blanc from Sutter Ranch Vineyard in Clarksburg. Asimov notes that this bottle is made from “grapes that have been foot-trod and fermented in older barrels and steel vats. The result is an exuberant wine, with aromas and flavors of citrus and flowers, and chenin’s signature rich texture.”

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’ve written before about Craig Haarmeyer’s wines — both this and his “step-up” bottle, the en foudre chenin. He makes several other chenins, too, among which is a pet nat that I really look forward to tasting.

Chenin blanc’s an undervalued grape in this country (not in France, especially not in Vouvray!), but it shouldn’t be--it’s wonderfully versatile and grows beautifully in the Sierra foothills.

Haarmeyer’s is the best I’ve had ($19 at The Pip).

I have long been a fan of the Donnafugata wines from Sicily.

The winery was founded in 1983

by Giacomo and Gabriella Rallo — a family with 160 years experience in winemaking—and continued now by their daughter and son. I had, though, not seen their whimsically labeled bottles

of late, so I was delighted to find the 2019 Lighea (Lighea being a mermaid in a Sicilian novel) on the Co-op shelves. This white is made entirely from the indigenous grape zibibbo, grown on the island of Pantelleria in southwestern Sicily.

The incredibly rich and floral aroma is surprising—until you see the alternative name for this grape, moscato d’Alessandra.

Fermented and aged in stainless steel, the wine is fresh and mouth-filling with its blossomy citrus, lychee, cedar and mineral notes. It’s a very happy wine, perfect for spring patio sipping but definitely assertive enough to stand up to a smoked mackerel dish or a creamy baked pasta.

We drank it with an escarolebased dish and the wine worked beautifully against the slightly bitter greens.

Between morning labyrinth walks and evening bottles like these three delights, I should be able to solve the nation’s problems in no time (Joe, Kamala, give me a call). If you’re still casting about for a Lenten or Chinese New Year resolution, consider joining me in this painless but productive walkingdrinking regimen.

— Susana Leonardi is a Davis resident; reach her at vinosusana@gmail.com. Comment on this column at www. davisenterprise.com.

Smith, 14, of Troop 66 achieves rank of Eagle Scout Special to The Enterprise Scoutmasters Cliff Sheppard and John Lindsey from BSA Davis Troop 66 are proud to announce that Howie Smith will be the Troop’s 121st Eagle Scout after passing his Board of Review on Feb. 9.

Smith began scouting in first grade and has achieved Scouting’s highest rank at just 14 years old. His Eagle project was to clean out and remodel the Davis Jr. Blue Devils Football Shed at the Davis Senior High School stadium. This Eagle project helped improve the safety

Name Droppers for athletes and coaches accessing the container to retrieve equipment. The project was inspired by Smith playing football with the Davis Jr. Blue Devils on the offensive and defensive lines and was suggested by his coach, Paul Hasson.

He is the son of Doug and Yanette Smith and attends Harper Junior High School.

———— Davis resident Steven Weiss, the president of strategy consulting firm The Weiss Group, was

appointed to a three-year term as a board member for CapRadio, the NPRmember station based in Sacramento. Known for its award-winning newsroom, CapRadio has a strong following in Davis. With more than 500,000 weekly listeners on-air and online, CapRadio is a trusted and indispensable source of information, music and events in the region.

Prior to establishing The Weiss Group in 2007, Weiss was vice president of marketing and public affairs for The Sacramento Bee. He was also director of

University Cultural board of directors Programs at UC for the Sacramento Davis (1992-1998), Region Community where he chaired Foundation. the building com———— mittee for the MonMei McConnell davi Center for the of Davis, an underPerforming Arts. graduate student in the College of LibWeiss is a former WEISS board chair for Appointed to eral Arts & Sciences at the University of KVIE, Sacramen3-year term Kansas, earned to’s Public Broadhonor roll distinction for casting Station, and served the fall 2020 semester. previously as board vicechair at CapRadio. Weiss is The honor roll includes a senior fellow with the undergraduates who meet American Leadership requirements in the College Forum’s Mountain Valley of Liberal Arts & Sciences Chapter and was recently and in the schools of Archiappointed to serve on the tecture & Design, Business,

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Honor roll criteria vary among the university’s academic units. Some schools honor the top 10% of students enrolled, some establish a minimum grade-point average and others raise the minimum GPA for each year students are in school.

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UCD contributes to Mars mission

By Andy Fell Special to The Enterprise “Perseverance will get you anywhere” — and after a journey of seven months, 300 million miles and a nerve-wracking sevenminute plunge through the Martian atmosphere, NASA’s Perseverance rover landed safely in Jezero Crater last Thursday (Feb. 18).

And, just like with the Curiosity rover that landed on Mars in 2012, UC Davis is part of the Perseverance mission, too.

Deploying the parachute, firing retrorockets to slow the spacecraft and lowering Perseverance to the Mars surface all relied on small explosive charges.

NASA’s engineers had to be certain that these systems would perform correctly.

To do that, they turned to UC Davis’ McClellan Nuclear Research Center, one of only two facilities in the United States able to image these critical components using neutron radiography.

NASA Chief Engineer Adam Steltzner, who earned a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering at UC Davis is

1990, designed the “sky crane” landing system first used for Curiosity and now again for Perseverance.

Jessica Samuels, who earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering in 1999, is systems engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and surface systems and mission manager for the Mars 2020 Mission.

Sara Langberg, who graduated with an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering in 2016 after studying with Professor Stephen Robinson, is a development engineer on the Ingenuity helicopter carried aboard the rover.

Professor Dawn Sumner, chair of the department of earth and planetary sciences, is a member of the Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity) team. She helped select the landing site in Gale Crater and has been closely involved in Curiosity operations as the rover has searched for signs of water and past life.

— UC Davis Dateline.

This article is adapted from an “Egghead” blog post by Andy Fell.

UCD Health is seventh for kidney transplants Special to The Enterprise SACRAMENTO — Despite a pandemic and nationwide hospital capacity concerns, UC Davis Health’s kidney transplant team was among the top 10 busiest kidney transplant centers in the U.S for 2020.

The UC Davis kidney transplant team ranks No. 7 in the country for the total volume of kidney transplants and No. 1 in California for the total number of deceased donor kidney transplants.

By the end of last year, transplant center surgeons had performed 352 kidney transplants, which is the second-highest year on record since the program began in 1985. (The highest volume year was 2016 with the total number of kidneys transplanted at 402.) The 2020 numbers drove UC Davis Health to be in the top 10 in the nation in terms of the number of all kidney transplants and third in the nation for the number of deceased donor transplants.

Behind the statistics are people like 56-year-old Margaret Gladstein and Jeff Blumenthal, cousins who began their transplant journey last year. Gladstein suffers from polycystic kidney disease, an inherited disorder in which clusters of cysts form and cause kidneys to lose function over time.

“In October of 2019, I got the news that my creatinine levels went up and my kidney function went down. Even though you know it’s coming, it was hard to hear,” Gladstein said.

Creatinine is a chemical that indicates if your kidneys are working well.

Gladstein desperately needed a new kidney, just as her brother and two aunts had before her.

“We were at a family function in Chicago about three years ago and I asked Margaret how her kidney was doing,” recalled Blumenthal, who is five years Gladstein’s senior. “I then said flippantly, ‘When you need a transplant, give me a call!’ ” Gladstein did. And in August 2020, they began the process so Blumenthal could follow up on his offer to donate a kidney.

“At first I thought, if I don’t do it someone else will,” Blumenthal said. “But then I realized if everyone thought that way, then nobody would donate.”

The successful transplant surgery was Feb. 8 of this year. Both Gladstein and Blumenthal credit the UC Davis Health team for all the precautions they took to keep them safe and healthy during the coronavirus pandemic.

“It has been a very tough year for everyone, particularly our patients in need of a transplant,” said Richard Perez, chief of transplant surgery and medical director for the UC Davis Health Transplant Center.

“Our transplant team has made many changes in our practice to make transplantation a safe option, even in the midst of the pandemic.

It is very gratifying for all of us to have the opportunity to have a positive impact on the lives of our patients during these difficult times.”

The UC Davis Transplant Center has consistently been among the nation’s top programs in terms of kidney transplant volume.

Outcomes for UC Davis kidney transplant patients also consistently meet or exceed the national average. That’s why transplant team members are astounded when people in Sacramento don’t know about the program.

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23 ___ Hall (“The Wind in the Willows” residence) 24 Brand name derived from the phrase “crystallized cottonseed oil” 25 Gave an inkling 27 Leaseholder, e.g.

28 Muscle controlled by the radial nerve, informally 30 Sports grp. founded by Billie Jean King

31 “No, you can’t be serious!”

32 Not serving 33 Hawaiian ring 35 Grp. of inspectors 37 Seat of ancient Irish kings 38 “Hurry!”

43 ___ and outs 44 Wading bird with a long, slender bill 45 King of Pop, in tabloids

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48 Offer one’s two cents 49 Get rid of the ball, in a way

50 One might be deviled 53 Mustang and Pinto, for two

54 Rockette’s move 57 Cooking utensil

58 Stop on the road 59 ___-Latin

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THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

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Public Notices FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: January 25, 2021 FBN Number: F20210068 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) Genied 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California.

Business is located in Yolo County.

3558 Mono Place Davis, CA 95618 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Ayon Kabir 3558 Mono Place Davis, CA 95618 4. Business Classification: Individual 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

6. Signature of Registrant(s): Ayon Kabir 2/3, 2/10, 2/17, 2/24 1145 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: January 8, 2021 FBN Number: F20210023 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) Syrendell 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California.

Business is located in Yolo County.

2754 Ganges Place Davis, CA 95616 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Jennifer Tan Ricardo C. Tan 2754 Ganges Place Davis, CA 95616 4. Business Classification: A Married Couple 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 2008 “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): Jennifer Tan 2/3, 2/10, 2/17, 2/24 1146 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: February 1, 2021 FBN Number: F20210095 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) Just Like a Dream 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California.

Business is located in Yolo County.

1557 Griffith Drive Woodland, CA 95776 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Michele Hardy 1557 Griffith Drive Woodland, CA 95776 4. Business Classification: Individual 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

6. Signature of Registrant(s): Michele Hardy 2/10, 2/17, 2/24, 3/3 1152 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: February 16, 2021 FBN Number: F20210146 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) Homes by Intencia 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California.

Business is located in Yolo County.

990 Central Street West Sacramento, CA 95691 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Intencia Garard 990 Central Street West Sacramento, CA 95691 4. Business Classification: Individual 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

6. Signature of Registrant(s): Intencia Garard 2/17, 2/24, 3/3, 3/10 1159 PUBLIC NOTICE

00 11 16 – NOTICE INVITING BIDS SOUTH FORK PRESERVE PUBLIC ACCESSIBILITY IMPROVEMENTS CIP No. 8747 1. Notice NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Davis (“City”) invites and will receive sealed Bids between the hours of 10:00 AM and 2:00 PM on March 9, 2021, at the City Clerk’s office of the City Manager, located at 23 Russell Boulevard, Davis, CA 95616, for the furnishing to City of all labor, equipment, materials, tools, services, transportation, permits, utilities, and all other items necessary for the SOUTH FORK PRESERVE PUBLIC ACCESSIBILITY IMPROVEMENTS (the “Project”). At said time, Bids will be publicly opened and read aloud at the City Office. Bids received after said time shall be returned unopened. Bids shall be valid for a period of 90 calendar days after the Bid opening date.

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BID OPENING PROCEDURE

3. Description Of The Work

The bids shall be opened according to one of the following procedures:

SOUTH FORK PRESERVE PUBLIC ACCESSIBILITY IMPROVEMENTS: This is a grant funded project (Habitat Conservation Fund) to help fund accessibility improvements at the SOUTH FORK PRESERVE PUBLIC ACCESSIBILITY IMPROVEMENTS. The project includes: Construction of new trails, a new boardwalk overlook deck along the South Fork of Putah Creek, and improvements of existing trails to make them accessible to people with disabilities.

1. Council Chambers at 23 Russell Boulevard, Davis, CA 95616. Bidders will be allowed to sit in the Council Chambers but at least 6 feet apart to adhere to social distancing requirements.

2. Outside of the Council Chambers at 23 Russell Boulevard, Davis, CA 95616.

Bidders will be allowed to sit outdoors near the Council Chambers but at least 6 feet apart to adhere to social distancing requirements.

3. Taped Video. City staff will record the bid opening and make viewing of the video available to bidders to view in separate rooms at City facilities.

4. Live Video Feed. City staff will broadcast the bid opening by live video feed.

For this project, City staff have determined that bid opening procedure No. 1 will be employed.

If the live video feed is selected, then results of the bid opening will be scanned immediately and made available on the City’s website for viewing by all bidders, Yolo County Order on COVID-19 You are hereby reminded that, pursuant to Section 10.c of the March 18, ORDER OF THE YOLO COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICER DIRECTING INDIVIDUALS TO SHELTER IN PLACE OF RESIDENCE AND RESTRICTING NONESSENTIAL ACTIVITIES IN RESPONSE TO COVID-19 OUTBREAK, WITH EXCEPTIONS AND EXEMPTIONS, AS SPECIFIED (full order is attached), individuals may leave their residence to perform any work necessary to the construction, operation, and/or maintenance of “Essential Infrastructure”, as defined, provided that they carry out that work in compliance with Social Distancing Requirements, to the extent possible. The full order is available here: pdf of the March 18 order https://www.yolocounty.org/home/ showdocument?id=62366 Yolo County main page for updates https://www.yolocounty.org/health-human-services/adults/communicable-disease-investigation-and-control/novel-coronavirus-2019 Social Distancing Requirements are defined in Section10.j of the Order as follows: For purposes of this Order, “Social Distancing Requirements” includes maintaining at least six-foot social distancing from other individuals, washing hands with soap and water for at least twenty seconds as frequently as possible or using hand sanitizer, covering coughs or sneezes (into the sleeve or elbow, not hands), regularly cleaning Order of the Yolo County Health Officer to Shelter in Place Page 7 of 7 high-touch surfaces, and not shaking hands.

You are hereby directed to cause all workers and subcontractors on the Project to comply with Social Distancing Requirements, to the extent possible.

2. Requesting Plans And Specifications Plans and specifications (not including standard specifications and other documents included by reference), and proposal forms, may be obtained by logging on to www.blueprintexpress.com/ davis or by calling BPXpress. The cost is $40 per set (plus shipping and handling) and is non-refundable. Any bidder that Reprographics at (916) 760-7281 fails to purchase a complete set of plans, specifications and proposal forms from BPXpress Reprographics prior to the bid opening date and time OR is not included on the BPXpress plan holder list shall have their bid deemed non-responsive.

In other words, the bidder must purchase the plan set from BPXpress Reprographics AND be on the BPXpress plan holder list to be deemed responsive. The only exception shall be in the event a bidder’s name is not included on the plan holders list but the bidder can produce proof of purchase of the plans, specifications and proposal forms from BPXpress Reprographics with a purchase date that occurred prior to the close of bidding. Any bid produced from plans, specifications and proposal forms obtained from sources other than those purchased from BPXpress by bidder shall be deemed non-responsive.

Only bidders on the plan holders list shall receive addenda notifications It is the responsibility of each prospective bidder to pay the fee and download and print all Bid Documents for review and to verify the completeness of Bid Documents before submitting a bid.

Any Addenda will be posted on www. blueprintexpress.com/davis. It is the responsibility of each prospective bidder to check the BPXpress Reprographics website listed above on a daily basis through the close of bids for any applicable addenda or updates. The City does not assume any liability or responsibility based on any defective or incomplete copying, excerpting, scanning, faxing, downloading or printing of the Bid Documents. Information on BPXpress Reprographics may change without notice to prospective bidders.

The Contract Documents shall supersede any information posted or transmitted by BPXpress Reprographics.

Bids must be submitted on the City’s Bid Forms. To the extent required by section 20103.7 of the Public Contract Code, upon request from a contractor plan room service, the City shall provide an electronic copy of the Contract Documents at no charge to the contractor plan room.

Contract documents will not be available for inspection or purchase from the City by potential Bidders.

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and include the cost of complying with all labor compliance requirements under this contract and applicable law in its Bid. 10. Retention Pursuant to Public Contract Code section 7201, the City has made a determination that the project described herein is substantially complex, and therefore a retention of 5 % will be withheld from payment until after the work is complete.

11. Substitution Requests All work shall be performed in accordance with the Contract Documents and Substitution requests shall be made all applicable laws and regulations. within 35 calendar days after the award of the Contract. Pursuant to Public 4. Engineer Contract Code Section 3400(b), the City Engineer’s Estimate: $240,000 may make findings designating that cerProject Engineer: Melissa Marshall tain additional materials, methods or services by specific brand or trade name 5. Contractor’s License Classification other than those listed in the Standard and Subcontractors Specifications be used for the Project.

Unless otherwise provided in the Such findings, if any, as well as the Instructions for Bidders, each Bidder materials, methods or services and their shall be a licensed contractor pursuant specific brand or trade names that must to sections 7000 et seq. of the Business be used for the Project may be found in and Professions Code in the following the Special Conditions. classification(s) throughout the time it 12. Award submits its Bid and for the duration of the contract: California Class A General City shall award the contract for the Engineering Contactor licence.

Project to the lowest responsive, responsible Bidder as determined by the Subcontractor Substitution requests City from the Base Bid alone. City shall be made within 35 calendar days reserves the right to reject any or all after the award of the contract. bids or to waive any irregularities or Pursuant to Public Contract Code Section 3400(b), the City may make find- informalities in any bids or in the bidding process. ings designating that certain additional materials, methods or services by specific brand or trade name other than those listed in the Standard Specifications be used for the Project. Such findings, if any, as well as the materials, methods or services and their specific brand or trade names that must be used for the Project may be found in the Special Conditions.

13. Notice to Proceed

6. Bid Security

For further information, contact Melissa Marshall, at mmarshall@cityofdavis.org.

Questions will only be considered and answered via email. Questions will not be considered or answered 48 working hours prior to the bid opening.

Each Bid shall be accompanied by cash, a certified or cashier’s check, or Bid Bond secured from a surety company satisfactory to the City Council, the amount of which shall not be less than ten percent (10%) of the submitted Total Bid Price, made payable to City of Davis as bid security. The bid security shall be provided as a guarantee that within five (5) working days after the City provides the successful bidder the Notice of Award, the successful Bidder will enter into a contract and provide the necessary bonds and certificates of insurance. The bid security will be declared forfeited if the successful Bidder fails to comply within said time.

No interest will be paid on funds deposited with City. The Bid Bond submitted shall be provided by a surety duly authorized by the Insurance Commissioner to transact surety business in the State of California.

7. Performance Bond and Labor and Material Bond The successful Bidder will be required to furnish a Faithful Performance Bond and a Labor and Material Payment Bond each in an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Price. Each bond shall be in the forms set forth herein, shall be secured from a surety company that meets all State of California bonding requirements, as defined in California Code of Civil Procedure Section 995.120, and that is a California admitted surety insurer.

Pursuant to Section 22300 of the Public Contract Code of the State of California, the successful Bidder may substitute certain securities for funds withheld by City to ensure its performance under the contract.

8. Labor Code Requirements Pursuant to Labor Code Section 1773, City has obtained the prevailing rate of per diem wages and the prevailing wage rate for holiday and overtime work applicable in Yolo County from the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations for each craft, classification, or type of worker needed to execute this contract. A copy of these prevailing wage rates may be obtained via the internet at: www.dir.ca.gov/dlsr/ In addition, a copy of the prevailing rate of per diem wages is available at the City’s Public Works Department and shall be made available to interested parties upon request. The successful bidder shall post a copy of the prevailing wage rates at each job site. It shall be mandatory upon the Bidder to whom the Contract is awarded, and upon any subcontractors, to comply with all Labor Code provisions, which include but are not limited to the payment of not less than the said specified prevailing wage rates to all workers employed by them in the execution of the Contract, employment of apprentices, hours of labor and debarment of contractors and subcontractors.

Pursuant to Labor Code sections 1725.5 and 1771.1, all contractors and subcontractors that wish to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, or enter into a contract to perform public work must be registered with the Department of Industrial Relations. No Bid will be accepted nor any contract entered into without proof of the contractor’s and subcontractors’ current registration with the Department of Industrial Relations to perform public work. If awarded a contract, the Bidder and its subcontractors, of any tier, shall maintain active registration with the Department of Industrial Relations for the duration of the Project.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the contractor registration requirements mandated by Labor Code Sections 1725.5 and 1771.1 shall not apply to work performed on a public works project that is exempt pursuant to the small project exemption specified in Labor Code Sections 1725.5 and 1771.1.

This Project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations. In bidding on this Project, it shall be the Bidder’s sole responsibility to evaluate

This Project, if awarded, will be awarded for a Spring start date. The Notice to Proceed shall be issued no sooner than April 15th and no later than June 1, 2021.

15. Further Information/Questions

16. Time for Completion As defined in the Contract, section 00 52 13 CONTRACT b., the time for completion for this project is 60 working days.

17. Pre-Bid Conference A MANDATORY Pre-Bid Conference is scheduled for Wednesday March 3, 2021 at 10:00 am to review the Project’s existing conditions at the South Fork Preserve on Mace Blvd on the south side of Putah Creek. Representatives of the City and consulting engineers, if any, will be present. Questions asked by Bidders at the Pre-Bid Conference not specifically addressed within the Contract Documents shall be answered in writing, and shall be sent to all Bidders. Bids will not be accepted from any bidder who did not attend the mandatory Pre-Bid Conference.

—————————————————— Deliver Bids To: City Offices - City Clerk’s Office 23 Russell Boulevard Davis, CA 95616-3896

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Notice is hereby given that the County of Yolo will receive sealed bids for the “Yolo County Old Juvenile Detention Facility Abatement and Demolition Project” before 2:00 p.m. on Friday, March 26, 2021 at 625 Court Street, Room 202, Woodland, CA 95695. This old juvenile detention facility is located at 238 West Beamer Street, Woodland, CA 95695. One mandatory pre-bid conference and site review walk will be held within the project site at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, March 10, 2021. Each bid must conform to the requirements of the Contract Documents which can be downloaded along with all bid documents at www.bidsync.com at no cost. It is the bidder’s responsibility to register at www.bidsync.com to ensure notification of all addenda. It is the bidder’s responsibility to arrange for printing services. For more information, send questions through www.bidsync.com.

Note to General Contractors in regard to State Public Contracting and apprenticeship: there is an additional local Yolo County requirement that states; “The County requires that all bidders on public works projects in excess of seven hundred fifty thousand dollars participate in a State of California Division of Apprenticeship Standards approved joint labor and management apprenticeship program. Proof of compliance with this instructional training requirement must be provided at the time a bid is submitted.” Contractor shall be responsible to provide documentation illustrating a qualified and approved apprenticeship training program and shall include this documentation in bid documents.

2/24, 3/3 1167 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: February 19, 2021 FBN Number: F20210166 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) AQUA-Science 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California.

Business is located in Yolo County.

630 Cantrill Drive Davis, CA 95618 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip AQUA-Science, LLC 630 Cantrill Drive Davis, CA 95618 4. Business Classification: Limited Liability Company 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: January 1, 2021 “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

6. Signature of Registrant(s): Kimberley Miller Manager, AQUA-Science, LLC 2/24, 3/3, 3/10, 3/17 1168

*NOTE* If you choose to mail your Bid Proposal via any of the overnight/ express services, the preferred services are FedEx, UPS, and USPS and the delivery MUST be a timed delivery. The delivery service MUST deliver the bid during the TIME WINDOW stated below to the City Clerk’s Office. Both the outside and inside envelope MUST be clearly marked as “SEALED BID FOR: SOUTH FORK PRESERVE PUBLIC ACCESSIBILITY IMPROVEMENTS, CIP 8747. DELIVER IMMEDIATELY TO CITY CLERK’S OFFICE”

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: February 23, 2021 FBN Number: F20210176 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) Davis Pet Advocacy & Wellness: A Clinic for Pets of the Homeless 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California.

Business is located in Yolo County.

1320 Tupper Hall Davis, CA 95616 Mailing address: P.O. Box 297 TIME WINDOW TO DELIVER BIDS Davis, CA 95616 (either by delivery service or dropped 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), off in person by bidder): Tuesday Residence Address, State, and Zip March 9, 2021 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM. The Mercer Veterinary Clinic No bids will be accepted outside this for the Homeless window.

3327 Vet Med 3A DEADLINE: Tuesday March 9, 2021 UC Davis, CA 95616 2:00. See Notice Inviting Bids for 4. Business Classification: details.

Corporation —————————————————— 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact END OF NOTICE INVITING BIDS 2/24 1164 business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: November 15, 2020 PUBLIC NOTICE “I declare that all information in this NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS statement is true and correct.” (A Notice is hereby given that the County of registrant who declares as true Yolo will receive sealed bids for the “Yolo information which he or she knows to Branch Library Project” until 2:00 p.m. on be false is guilty of a crime.)

Thursday, March 25, 2021 at 625 Court 6. Signature of Registrant(s): Street, Room 202, Woodland, CA 95695.

Alissa Burnett This new building construction project CFO, The Mercer Veterinary Clinic is located at 37750 Sacramento Street for the Homeless in Yolo, California. One mandatory 2/24, 3/3, 3/10, 3/17 1170 pre-bid conference and site review will FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME be held at the project site at 10:00 a.m.

STATEMENT on Tuesday, March 9, 2021. Each bid must conform to the requirements of the Filed: January 19, 2021 Contract Documents which can be FBN Number: F20210055 downloaded along with all bid docu1. Fictitious Business Name(s) ments at www.bidsync.com at no cost. It Cache Creek Nursery is the bidder’s responsibility to register at 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of www.bidsync.com to ensure notification Principal Place of Business in California. of all addenda. It is the bidder’s responsi- Business is located in Yolo County. bility to arrange for printing services. For 6555 County Road 47 more information, send questions Guinda, CA 95637 through www.bidsync.com.

Mailing address: P.O. Box 213 Note to General Contractors in regard Guinda, CA 95637 to State Public Contracting and 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), apprenticeship: there is an additional Residence Address, State, and Zip local Yolo County requirement that states; “The County requires that all bid- Hanah Doyle Webber 6549 County Road 47 ders on public works projects in excess Guinda, CA 95637 of seven hundred fifty thousand dollars 4. Business Classification: Individual participate in a State of California 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Division of Apprenticeship Standards Registrant(s) commenced to transact approved joint labor and management business under the fictitious business apprenticeship program. Proof of comname or names listed above on: N/A pliance with this instructional training “I declare that all information in this requirement must be provided at the statement is true and correct.” (A time a bid is submitted.” Contractor registrant who declares as true shall be responsible to provide docuinformation which he or she knows to mentation illustrating a qualified and be false is guilty of a crime.) approved apprenticeship training program and shall include this documenta- 6. Signature of Registrant(s): Hanah Webber tion in bid documents.

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sports THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE — WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Aggies scorch the nets

UCD has 40 goals in first two games

Aggie Sorana Larson has scored 10 goals and dished four assists to pace UC Davis in its opening two lacrosse matches.

Owen Yancher/ Enterprise photo

By Owen Yancher Enterprise staff writer Sorana Larson was on a mission have unfinished business, coach,’ ” Sunday. And Oregon couldn’t do a Isidor said. “She was so excited thing to stop her. about the potential of the whole The fifth-year UC Davis senior unit and it was her mission to smoked the visiting Ducks like a come back and lead these attackTraeger, netting a career-high six ers.” goals along with a pair of forced One of three UCD players with turnovers and an assist as the three or more scores, Larson, an Aggies cooked their Pac-12 foes, Ellicott City, Md., native, garnered 20-9, at UC Davis Health Sta- Mountain Pacific Sports Federadium. tion Offensive Player of the Week The win bumped Davis to 2-0 honors Monday. Another fifththis spring in women’s lacrosse year senior, Maddie Myers (four action. And following last week’s goals, nine draw controls) and 20-12 beatdown of Fresno State, it Davis High alum Alex Agnew marked the locals’ first back-to- (three goals, three assists) added back 20-goal outings since hat tricks.

2011. Oregon dropped its third “This team ... it’s rolled with the straight match to UCD. punches,” Isidor went on. “They Simply relishing any opportu- didn’t expect to have their summer nity to play, after the win, Aggie and fall (preparation) cut, too. head coach Suzanne Isidor talked And to come out and dominate about her team’s grit over the past like we have, after not being able to 11 months. When have any scrimthe pandemic mages (due to sidelined UCD Yolo County sports last March, health restricher charges had tions) — it’s great.” embarked on The eye-popwhat was shaping ping statistic of up to be one of Sunday’s ballgame Davis’ best seasons Suzanne Isidor pointed to Davis’ in program hisUCD womens lax coach aggression on the tory. offensive end: 29 The Aggies had shots on goal to beaten Cal, then Oregon and just 15 from Oregon. The Aggies Georgetown in succession. came out firing, with Larson’s first “It was devastating,” the fourth- net-bender (a filthy behind-theyear coach recalled. “We were back slip-in) coming barely a minstarting to accomplish things we ute after the starting faceoff. never had before as a team. And it In all, nine different Davis playwas still so early.” ers hit paydirt.

For four of Isidor’s six graduatAnna Hofgard whipped in a ing seniors, it was reason enough pair of goals with Natalie Wilson, to stick around for an extra year of Kate Graham, Mia Lawrence, NCAA eligibility.

Kendall Seifert and Kaley Stunz The first player to declare she’d each adding singles. be back? Larson.

“We have so many people that “She was the first to say, ‘I can score,” Isidor explained. “In the

“We have so many people that can score.”

past, our midfielders have had to dominate and we’ve needed big scorers. Now we’ve got people stepping up all over.”

The result? Forty goals in two matches.

“And we’ve gotten better from Game No. 1 to Game No. 2,” Isidor went on. “Normally, going into your first few games you start thinking about things you’ve forgotten to get ready for. But even with all our restrictions, we felt really ready.”

Seifert, Anna Belenis (another former Blue Devil), Annie Dalton and goaltender Taylor Mathieson (six saves) all ended the contest with two ground balls.

Next up on the UCD chopping block are another pair of Pac-12 challengers. The Aggies’ have their first back-to-back contests of the year to look forward to, with matches scheduled Friday against Cal (5 p.m.) and Sunday versus Stanford (1 p.m.). Both are road games.

“As this pandemic has hung around longer and longer, it’s been a challenge staying motivated and focused,” Isidor said. “But it’s also been a challenge not getting burnt out on Zooms and having to train day after day, no contact.

“But they’ve been able to channel all that energy and stay disciplined. And because of that, we’re seeing them play some really good lacrosse.”

Notes: Though it may not seem all that impressive, UCD’s 2-0 start is its first in seven years. ...In other Davis lacrosse-related news, Davis High alum Nicole Pugh tallied goals in High Point University’s matches last week against Mercer and Jacksonville University.

DHS football slated to play

Blue Devils to face 4 foes so far

By Bruce Gallaudet Enterprise sports editor Unless there is another surge in coronavirus numbers, there will be prep football in the Sacramento region this spring.

Late Tuesday afternoon, Davis High Athletic Director Jeff Lorenson told The Enterprise that the school has agreed to what is currently a four-game Delta League slate, beginning March 26 at Elk Grove.

Yolo County’s move into the COVID Road to Recovery red tier this week came on the heels of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Friday announcement allowing more leniency toward the return of prep sports.

As it stands now, after a varsity football scrimmage at Jesuit on March 12, the Blue Devils will take a week off before opening a four-game schedule. After playing The Thundering Herd on March 26, DHS travels to Sheldon (April 2), hosts Cosumnes Oaks (Saturday, April 10), then winds up at Jesuit again, this time for an April 17 contest.

There will be no postseason.

Friday, March 19, is still in play as DHS looks for an opponent, in or out of Delta League confines.

“At this point, we’re not able to allow fans or other spectators, but we are exploring every option of how we can gain approval, as a league with three different districts involved, for attendance,” Lorenson explained Sacramento and Yolo County health officials will further weigh in as to how that might happen.

“For our home game, we’re trying to find any avenue to gain approval from (those agencies) to allow more than essential staff,” the AD continued, adding that Davis High is investigating streaming options for football and other programs.

The first strata of folks who might attend Devil sports, according to Lorenson, “will be parents

or guardians. That’s our No. 1 priority. I think the parents deserve to be able to watch their kids. We just need to find a way.

“But there’s a whole variety of what ifs to make that happen,” the veteran administrator cautioned.

“Bottom line: We’ve got football games scheduled and we’re going to play.”

The recent announcements by the governor and Yolo County health officials, Lorenson explained, are good news for all sports. Volleyball can return indoors with mini-pods and basketball ostensibly could begin working on individual shots — just as long as equipment isn’t shared.

In announcing the advance to the red tier, Yolo County Health Officer Dr. Aimee Sisson’s report noted that as long as adjusted COVID cases stay within the level’s parameters, teams may have indoor practices at 10 percent capacity.

“As of (this) Friday, competition is permitted between two teams for outdoor low- and moderatecontact sports. Outdoor highcontact sports are permitted with informed consent.”

With more than 20 Blue Devil varsity sports (some of which include junior varsity or freshman teams) looking for practice or game space, scheduling has become a nightmare. After all, DHS is now jamming three sports seasons into 14 weeks.

But Lorenson said it’s among his staff’s finest hours: “I’m superhappy with our coaches’ willingness to accommodate (the unusual circumstances). … I’m happy with their willingness to say, ‘Sure, we’ll go late on that date, or (we’ll move practice).’

“It looks like we put together a solid, equitable schedule where everybody gets almost everything that they want in terms of time and space.

“But it’s still going to be an evolving schedule.”

Blue Devils girls basketball

Rattle The Cage It’s been a year since the DHS girls played

The group is looking forward to an official Delta League start on May 3. But that godate depends on Yolo County being in the yellow tier of the pandemic watch strata.

Right now, things are in the red tier. Any workouts indoors are prohibited, let alone

By Will Wyman competing again visiting schools.

Special to The Enterprise While the future is exciting to Highshoe, Davis’ South Gym — aptly nicknamed The the coach draws much of her confidence Cage — is home to the Blue Devil girls bas- from the impressive displays of the last season: a 17-13 record and two postseason ketball team and its enthusiastic fans.

However, for a whole year now, The Cage encounters.

“Although we lost our offseason, the way has sat dormant, offering refuge to neither we competed at the end of last season left our player nor supporter.

The hope for a return of DHS sports hints coaching staff and players excited for what at the reawakening of one of the county’s we could accomplish this season,” Highshoe most iconic arenas and the hoops crew that told The Enterprise. “I feel confident we will be competitive in the Delta League, and that inhabits it.

Feb. 18, 2020, was the last time the varsity our returners are eager to have a successful girls played, meeting Oak Ridge in the sec- season.”

The contributions of the returning core is ond round of the Sac-Joaquin Section playpotentially bountiful. offs.

Only one Davis player graduated, albeit Since, the absence of the ring of the ball hitting the hardwood has been hard for Devil standout Surina Beal, who is now plying her trade for UC Santa Cruz. head coach Heather Apart from Beal, the Blue Highshoe and her Devils will have a roster charges. full of familiar faces.

“It was exactly a year “We have a strong and ago (Thursday) that we very competitive group played that playoff game,” coming back in our recalled Highshoe. “It is returners and underjust crazy to think that we classmen. I know Skylar have not played a high Heather Highshoe Schouten and Emme school game in a year ... DHS girls basketball coach Eisenman will come in (we) essentially missed and lead our team in out on what would have been our entire 2020-2021 season. To be every way possible,” the coach said. “I know honest, ever since Nov. 2, which would have Mara Bledsoe will dominate in the paint. been our first day of tryouts, I’ve been con- Our opponents will have trouble with her. I stantly reminiscing on what would have am excited to see all of our players step up and pick up where we left off.” been.”

Now all that is left is to prepare. PrecariDespite the somber reminder of a year ousness surrounding restart dates and lost, hope does not elude the veteran coach: “It’s sad to think about, honestly. I’m espe- appropriate team gatherings has, like with cially sad for the girls and our seniors, but I most prep sports in America, led to a tentaam extremely optimistic about our chances tive offseason thus far. of having a season this year — even if it’s only “We have definitely missed out on a lot,” for a month.” the veteran coach continued.

Spring

“I feel confident we will be competitive in the Delta League.”

Fred Gladdis/Enterprise file photo

DHS coach Heather Highshoe tosses a jump ball for her team during a pre-COVID in 2018 Blue Devil workout. offseason workouts, summer league games, team camps, fall league games, a (true) fall preseason conditioning/training, our Blue Devil Basketball Camp which we always look forward to as a program and for our community.

“We missed out on all of May, June, August, September and October of training and preparing for the upcoming season — a lot of missed opportunity for team bonding and things we do as a program that the players really look forward to.”

Even through all the struggle, she has be able to motivate her players from afar.

“There has been a lot of uncertainty throughout all of this, but I’ve been encouraging our players to work out on their own and stay optimistic,” Highshoe reports. “Our coaching staff is currently working on putting together a ‘preseason’ workout plan, and we are all eager to get started.”

The preseason plan will likely begin in early March, with a focus on safety and fitness.

Highshoe believes things will get set in

motion with two or three weekly workouts.

“We will have to be outside, groups no larger than 16 people (coaches included), everyone with their own equipment, socially distanced,” reminds Highshoe, citing Yolo County COVID protocols. “Coaches and players are expected to wear their mask at all times, even during workouts. I’m sure that will be a huge adjustment for the players to workout/play in their masks.

“My main concern is making sure the players are in shape, basketball shape, because once May 3 rolls around, games are set to start the following week.”

Regardless of all the uncertainty and restriction, the positivity of the coach and her squad is unwavering.

“I think if we’ve learned anything this past year, it’s to not take anything for granted,” Highshoe concluded. “We just desperately want a season, whatever that may look like.

We want to practice in our gym, put on our uniforms and play the game we love.”

— Reach Enterprise correspondent Will Wyman at wymanw26@gmail.com.