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Additionally, we invite the community to watch an online celebration on Friday, April 9th, where we will trace the highlights of Bob’s career. Locals are also invited to show Bob some love by participating in a socially distanced vehicle parade planned for Saturday, April 24th.

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State of the Campus: May talks pandemic, UCD budget

BY CALEB HAMPTON Enterprise staff writer UC Davis Chancellor Gary S. May opened his annual State of the Campus address Thursday by commending faculty for their “resilience and ingenuity.” His address, which occurred “almost a year to the day that Zoom meetings and remote work became the new normal,” focused on UC Davis’ successes confronting COVID-19 and on ongoing budget challenges related to the pandemic.

“From the COVID-19 pandemic to hazardous wildfire smoke, MAY we’ve had to make UC Davis significant and often chancellor complex changes to our campus operations,” said May, who delivered the remarks during a virtual meeting of the Academic Senate’s Representative Assembly.

“Together, we aren’t just surviving.

We are thriving.”

Indeed, UC Davis has earned nationwide acclaim for its response to the pandemic. Recently, Healthy Davis Together, the campus’ collaboration with the city of Davis to provide free, fast and easy COVID-19 tests to anyone in Davis, has been featured in The New York Times and on MSNBC. The tests are processed on campus at the UC Davis Genome Center.

Since September, the center has processed over 170,000 tests for students, staff and faculty — many of whom are required to be tested weekly — and many thousands more tests for Davis residents through the Healthy Davis Together program.

“Public health experts say the initiative is the most ambitious program of its type in the country and could be a model for other universities,” The Times said. May highlighted these accolades and commended the community on its efforts. “Overall, we can be proud,” he said. “Our UC Davis community is stepping up and showing the value of being a highly ranked research university with a world-class health system.”

During the pandemic, UC Davis has also made strides in research, receiving more than $941 million in sponsored research funding, a new record for the campus. “UC Davis is being sought more than ever to

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City to remove G St. tent following large gathering

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer The large tent erected by the city on G Street to support local businesses that were unable to serve diners indoors over the last several months will be removed thanks to a big gathering over the weekend.

The crowd of hundreds — few wearing face coverings — who gathered under the 40-foot by 80-foot tent sparked numerous complaints to police and the city. On Monday, during a meeting of city officials and local business leaders, there was

consensus that something needed to be done, and quickly, in part because word was already spreading among UC Davis students that there was a new gathering spot downtown.

“The irony, of course, is we put it out here for a safe environment for people to come and support our businesses,” Assistant City Manager Ash Feeney said Monday.

“But 200 under a tent, that’s not what we had in mind.”

The tent on G Street, along with another smaller tent in the E Street

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Dave Guerrero posted a video of the gathering on Facebook.

“Tallahassee or Davis, Ca.,” he wrote, “you make the call. ... This is why we don’t have nice things.”

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A memorial of flowers and written tributes mark the location where local mom Jennifer Comey sustained fatal injuries from a falling tree limb at Slide Hill Park.

Coroner identifies woman killed by tree limb at Slide Hill Park

BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer The Davis woman fatally injured by a falling tree limb at Slide Hill Park on Tuesday has been identified as 44-year-old Jennifer Comey, according to Sacramento County coroner’s officials.

Comey, her husband Ted Pitts and their daughter Margaret, now 3, moved to Davis from Ohio a year and a half ago when Pitts joined UC Davis’ King Hall School of Law as its statistics and metadata librarian, according to a GoFundMe page created by the family’s friends and neighbors, Alison and Joaquin Feliciano.

Comey’s family asked for privacy when contacted by a Davis Enterprise reporter Thursday afternoon, and UCD officials also declined to release additional information.

The Felicianos described Comey and Pitts as “wonderful neighbors, thoughtful friends, and dedicated parents. ... Jen was a stay-at-home

mom, and listening to her play with Margaret next door always brightened our day.”

“This family really needs our support. We are asking for donations to help cover Ted’s immediate expenses as he grieves and helps Margaret make sense of this incomprehensible tragedy,” they wrote. “Any funds raised beyond the goal will go toward Margaret’s long-term care and education as well as a donation to Jennifer’s favorite charity.”

Meanwhile, city officials have launched an investigation into the incident, including an extensive analysis of the evergreen ash tree that lost the roughly 20-foot limb around 10:30 a.m. Tuesday near the park’s playground area.

The limb, which first responders described as being nine inches in diameter at its largest point, fell onto Comey in the sandbox area as Margaret played nearby. It broke from the top half of the tree, which

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More than 2,000 county residents were vaccinated last weekend at clinics in Woodland and West Sacramento, on top of thousands the weekend before in Davis and Woodland.

Among those vaccinated were people 65 and over as well as workers in education and child care, food and agriculture and emergency services. Most signed up through links provided on the county’s own vaccine webpage.

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Yolo County officials expressed frustration this week about losing local control over the COVID19 vaccination process just as the county has made headway in vaccinating hard-to-reach populations.

Over the next couple of weeks, the state is turning over to Blue Shield a thirdparty administrator role that will allow the insurer to decide how doses are distributed to counties and healthcare providers and, in turn, who those entities vaccinate.

Meanwhile, all Californians are being asked to register with the statewide MyTurn vaccine notification system to receive alerts when they are eligible for the vaccine and to make appointments.

Issues with that notification system — which the state created to ensure equity in vaccinations — this week led to access codes intended for hardto-reach communities being used by many young, healthy and privileged individuals to get vaccine doses in Southern California and the Bay Area.

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Briefly Cat killing leads to cruelty arrest Yolo County sheriff ’s deputies arrested an Esparto man on animal cruelty charges earlier this week — less than five months after his prior arrest for the same offense.

Both crimes involved the killing of a cat, the latest incident occurring Sunday on the Esparto High School campus, the Sheriff ’s Office reported Tuesday in a Facebook post. The suspect, Demetrius Nicholae Martinello, 23, was booked into the Yolo County Jail on counts of animal cruelty, burglary and trespassing.

Sheriff ’s officials said Sunday’s incident had “circumstances similar” to the one that led to Martinello’s arrest on Sept. 30, also on Esparto school district property. Yolo Superior Court records show he pleaded no contest in December to a misdemeanor animal cruelty count, for which he was sentenced to a year of probation and time already served in jail.

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More bullets means more freedom “M ontana’s GOP governor signs ‘constitutional carry’ bill to allow concealed firearms without a permit,” said the headline over Eric Dietrich’s report in the Montana Free Press.

But wait, there’s more.

“Gov. Greg Gianforte signed a major ‘constitutional carry’ bill Thursday that will let Montanans carry concealed firearms in public settings, including banks and bars without a permit, in addition to limiting university system officials’ ability to restrict firearm possession on college campuses.”

But wait, there’s even more.

“Bill would allow Montana colleges to serve alcohol at games.”

That headline ran over Jordan Hansen’s story in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle.

So what we have here, all in one neat package, is the charming combination of college students carrying concealed weapons on campus without a permit as they head to the university football stadium to watch a game while belting down some brewskis with their buddies as kickoff approaches.

And let’s just hope that one of the guys in the striped shirt with a whistle in his mouth doesn’t call pass interference on the home team at an inopportune moment.

I mean, what could go wrong?

UC Davis, of course, plays football in the Big Sky Conference, which includes the University of Montana in Missoula and Montana State in Bozeman.

I remember covering our beloved Aggies on a beautiful Montana fall afternoon in 25,000-seat Washington-Grizzly Stadium on the University of Montana campus.

And let’s just say those fans, while kind and decent folks for sure, are also just a bit rabid. If that scene wasn’t grizzly enough as the Griz and the Aggies engaged in mortal combat, just imagine what it might have been had booze and bullets been involved.

Just so you know, Gov. Gianforte is the same guy who earned high praise from Donald Trump, not to mention a citation for misdemeanor assault, after body slamming a reporter when Gianforte was running for Congress in 2017.

“Our Second Amendment is very clear,” Gianforte noted during a bill-signing ceremony between the birthdays of Abe Lincoln and George Washington.

“The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Every law-abiding Montanan should be able to defend themselves and their loved ones.”

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ut wait a minute, Governor, I think I heard some infringement in your voice.

I’ve been looking over the Second Amendment and I don’t see anything in there about the right to keep and bear arms being limited to “law-abiding” folks.

“The measure allows concealed firearm possession without a permit by default in most places in the state, with exceptions including secure law enforcement facilities, courtrooms and K-12 schools.”

There you go with more infringement.

“Property owners and tenants would have the ability to expressly prohibit firearm possession in private homes and businesses.”

Even more infringement. Pretty soon the Second Amendment will be unrecognizable.

“Additionally, the measure forbids the state university system from restricting firearm posses-

Supes slam PG&E for outages

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer The winds were howling anew on Tuesday as Yolo County supervisors received an update on the last wind event here, one that brought prolonged power outages to much of the county, including the city of Davis.

And while supervisors praised PG&E line workers for their bravery in late January as they repaired equipment amid heavy rain and wind, they also had some sharp critiques of the utility itself.

Among the criticisms: The lack of information from PG&E at the time on where outages had occurred and when customers could expect restoration of service left county supervisors limited in their ability to help constituents.

“The real key for us,” said Supervisor Oscar Villegas of West Sacramento, “is communication.”

“There’s got to be a better way to communicate rather than having folks calling me 24 hours a day and I have no information because I’ve been given no information to share.

That’s incredibly frustrating and I know you guys can do better,” Villegas told a PG&E representative.

“There’s got to be a way of being more forthright, even when you don’t know,” he said.

Beginning on Jan. 26 and through Jan. 31, more than 30,000 county residents lost power, some for

hours, but others for days.

Some 9,000 customers in Davis lost power, along with more than 13,000 in West Sacramento, nearly 8,000 in Woodland and others in Winters and unincorporated areas, according to the county.

In rural areas, the loss of power meant for some the loss of water, and throughout the county people reliant on medical devices that required electricity were left wondering where and when to get help.

Critical infrastructure was also impacted, including the wastewater system in Winters and Woodland Memorial Hospital.

“Power was restored in different areas at different times due to the nature of the damage,” noted Dana Carey, the county’s director of emergency services.

“Some of it was power poles, some was lines; all of it had to be assessed before restoration.”

The weather event was not a surprise — both the county and PG&E had advance notice.

However, said PG&E’s Brandon Sanders, “this storm was… the strongest we’ve had since 2011 and the highest outage activity threshold since 2010, so a really substantial event.

“We knew it was coming,” he said. “We prepared.

We activated our operations emergency centers throughout Northern California… we brought crews from out of the area (and) staged those resources in

addition to a lot of contract crews.”

However, he said, “it was just a highly damaging event.”

“We understand the frustration of our customers and the duration of those longer outages and we’re definitely wanting to work in partnership with you all and your office of emergency services to do what we can to better prepare and address your concerns for future events.”

As for supervisors’ criticism about PG&E not providing customers with timely estimates of power restoration, Sanders said that, too, was a function of the severity of the event.

“We did face some challenges with customer communications just based on the scale of the event,” he said. “It’s a step-by-step process.”

That process, he explained, includes, first ensuring public safety, then determining the location and the extent of damage for each individual outage, then sourcing material, engineering fixes and deploying crews.

“That’s the point in time where we have a clear vision of when that estimated time of restoration will be,” Sanders said. “So just given the scale of the event, I think we were somewhat challenged because there was so much assessment that needed to occur and we were also facing that inclement weather which is a safety concern for our personnel also."

Cops recover stolen catalytic converter

BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer The Davis Police Department's continuing investigation into a rash of catalytic converter thefts got a tiny break Thursday during a routine traffic stop.

Shortly after 5 a.m., officers conducting an enforcement stop at F and 10th streets made contact with Davis resident Tucker Neithercutt, 27, who was driving with a suspended license and is on searchable probation, police said in a Facebook post.

The officers arrested Neithercutt on suspicion of possessing illegal drugs and drug paraphernalia. A subsequent search of his GMC Yukon revealed more — "a freshly cut portion of vehicle exhaust pipe containing a catalytic converter, a Rigid Jobmax reciprocating saw and several other

tools," the post said.

Police are now attempting to find the owner of the property, pictured in the Facebook post. Anyone who has been the victim of catalytic converter theft, recognize the property shown or have any information about the recent

thefts is asked to contact Davis police at 530-7475400.

Anyone observing suspicious activity that may be related to catalytic converter thefts is urged to immediately call the police department's emergency line at 530-758-3600.

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sion on campus beyond requiring gun owners to have safety training akin to a hunter’s education course and safety measure requiring that firearms be transported in cases and stored with gun locks.”

Infringement run wild, if you ask me.

“Higher-education officials have opposed the measure,” but according to Gianforte’s press secretary, “The Board of Regents has the authority to oversee and manage the university system, but it does not have the authority to take away Montanans’ constitutional rights.”

Nevertheless, after the regents argued strenuously that booze, bullets and ball don’t mix, Montana lawmakers finally agreed to restrict students from carrying firearms into football games if there are armed guards present.

But they didn’t say anything about concealed weapons at the pregame tailgate in the stadium parking lot.

What all this Montana madness proves once again is that the United States Supreme Court was correct (Tinker v. Des Moines) when it ruled that students don’t leave their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse door.

Or the stadium gate.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

Fatal West Sac crash draws murder charges

BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer An Elk Grove man allegedly had a bloodalcohol content nearly twice the legal limit or higher when he caused a West Sacramento collision that orphaned two young children last week, Yolo County prosecutors said Thursday in announcing murder charges filed in the case.

Gabriel Rhythm Poletti, 27, already had a prior DUI conviction from 2016 when his car collided head-on into another vehicle occupied by a young family traveling home from a birthday party celebration on the night of Feb. 15.

The crash on Jefferson Boulevard near Locks Drive caused fatal injuries to Rasul Afzili, 37, and his wife Anila, 29. Their two children, ages 3 and 7 months, survived with minor to moderate injuries, according to police.

“Information gathered through the investigation indicates Poletti may have been under the influence at the time of the collision,” the West Sacramento Police Department said in a Facebook post Tuesday announcing Poletti’s arrest earlier that day.

Poletti, who sustained serious injuries in the crash, was taken into custody at a relative’s house in Sacramento, where police served him with a warrant charging him with two counts each of murder and DUI causing injury, according to the Facebook post.

In California, prosecutors can pursue murder charges in fatal DUI cases under the Watson implied-malice rule.

It pertains to defendants with prior DUIs who, at the time of their

conviction, receive warnings about the dangers of impaired POLETTI driving, Two people as well as killed in crash the advisement that a future DUI resulting in a death could expose them to murder charges.

On Thursday, the Yolo County District Attorney's Office announced the formal filing of murder charges and two additional counts of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated with a prior DUI conviction. The charges carry various enhancements alleging infliction of great bodily injury, causing bodily injury or death to multiple victims, and having a blood-alcohol content over 0.15 percent.

The legal BAC in California is 0.08 percent.

Poletti remains in Yolo County Jail custody on a no-bail hold, his arraignment set for 1:30 p.m.

Thursday in Yolo Superior Court.

Relatives of the two orphaned children, who will be adopted by an aunt, have received more than $580,000 in a GoFundMe campaign they say will go directly into a trust fund for their future care and education.

Meanwhile, West Sacramento police say their investigation into the deadly collision is “active and ongoing.” Anyone with information is asked to call police dispatchers at 916-372-3375.

— Reach Lauren Keene at lkeene@davisenter prise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @laurenkeene

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An Argentinosaurus skeleton on display in Fernbanks Museum of Natural History.

Dinos keep getting bigger

BY SARA THOMPSON Special to The Enterprise

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he long-necked sauropods are some of the most recognized dinosaurs of all time.

These behemoths begin appearing in the fossil record around the late Triassic and early Jurassic periods. By the mid and late Jurassic sauropods would have diversified into dozens of species and spread onto every continent, even Antarctica! Sauropod diversity peaked in the Jurassic, but these enormous animals would continue to live and thrive until the end of the Cretaceous, going extinct at the same time as the rest of the dinosaurs.

Sauropods are easily the largest animals to ever walk the Earth. One of the smallest sauropods was the ohmdenosaurus, which was only about 13 feet long and 6 feet tall. Current thinking is that Argentinosaurus was the longest sauropod at around 115 feet long, and also the heaviest at an estimated 65-80 metric tons. The tallest, however, is currently barosaurus which stood about 72 feet tall.

Several factors went into their enormous size including the hollowing of their bones, the inclusion of air sacks into their skeletons, and the ability to eat large quantities of food at once.

The hind feet of sauropods were both wide and long and the forefeet of sauropods were smaller and had a horseshoe shape. Even though the forefeet were smaller, the rest of the limbs were built for incredible weight-bearing. Unlike modern animals, sauropods did not have

EXPLORIT SCIENCE CENTER a fleshy pad on their feet to help, as evidence from trackways found all over the earth.

One thing that helped the sauropods to support their own weight is having hollow bones.

Much like birds, these animals shed excess weight by lightening their bones. There is also evidence in almost all species of sauropods of air sacks in their skeletons, indicated by indentations and hollowed spaces throughout the skeletal body.

How sauropods held their heads and neck is still up for debate and may not have been standard across all the species.

Many species of sauropods had forelimbs shorter or equal to the length of their hindlimbs and is currently accepted that they held their heads and necks horizontally. This would reduce the energy needed to get blood to the head.

Brachiosaurids might have held their heads and necks upright since their forelimbs were longer than their hind limbs. The difference in head and neck posture, as well as varying teeth shapes indicates that different species of sauropods ate at different vegetation levels or different plants all together. This made it possible for multiple species to live in the same ecosystem and not compete for resources.

Sauropod teeth were not built for chewing and evidence of stones being swallowed to aid in digestion suggests that sauropods might not have chewed

their food much, but rather swallowed it whole. By reducing the energy needed to chew and digestion, sauropods could instead use that energy to reach their massive sizes.

Like all dinosaurs, there is still much to discover about sauropods. Paleontologists are constantly finding new specimens to study or using better technology and techniques in interpreting the fossil record. We will never truly know how these animals lived or how they got to be so super-sized, but they will continue to inspire and fascinate scientists of all ages.

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UC Davis LIVE hosted a roughly 40-minute webcast about COVID19 and education Thursday, covering topics including distance learning, how the pandemic has exacerbated existing inequalities and student learning loss.

The talk used a question-andanswer format, with answers coming from two UC Davis School of Education professors. Michal Kurlaender, department chair of the school of education, largely talked about the experiences of college students while Kevin Gee, affiliated with the UC Davis Center for Poverty Research, focused on K-12 students.

Kurlaender discussed the results of a survey of 76,000 college students she helped conduct last May in a joint effort between the California Education Lab at UC Davis and the California Student Aid Commission. The majority of surveyed students had lost some or all of their income, she said. Most were still planning to continue on with their education plans, but many were unsure about their ability to succeed in distance learning.

Nationally, Kurlaender said, college enrollment is declining, and at a disproportionate rate among community college students, students finishing high school and students from low-income backgrounds. Many students described the challenge of supporting their families while trying to study in survey responses, she said.

“They clearly have an intention to pursue their educational goals, but are perhaps experiencing a lot of struggles to get there,” Kurlaender said Another survey of 100,000 students was carried out in Fall 2020, she said, but the results are still being analyzed.

Gee said the concept of learning loss — the amount of learning that’s happening during the pandemic compared to pre-pandemic — immediately comes to mind when trying to describe how K-12 students have handled school over the past year. Additionally, he said, there’s been plenty of anecdotal evidence that mental and physical health is a major concern.

“They’re feeling a bit disconnected, they want to be with their friends, levels of anxiety and

depression I think are definitely on their minds,” Gee said. “We know that schools serve more than an academic purpose, so we want to be thinking about the kind of supports that schools need to be providing to look after the socio-emotional well-being of our students.”

Gee said it’s not really known yet what learning loss looks like during the current academic year, but, if this year is anything like last year, learning loss is expected. He brought up a recent report from Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) that found learning losses in English language arts and in math after analyzing data from 18 districts and 50,000 students from fourth to 10th grade.

The learning losses tend to be concentrated in earlier grades, Gee said, and are more pronounced among California’s most disadvantaged groups.

“If we just look at fifth grade English Language Learners, their losses are nearly 30% of the typical gains they would have made.”’

Responding to a question about what’s been learned about distance learning in the past year, Kurlaender said it’s been effective for some students, but the effectiveness depends on stability in the student’s learning environment, which can be destabilized by food insecurity, health issues, or internet connectivity problems, among many other reasons.

Gee said the human connection aspect of teaching is much more difficult in distance learning than it was in pre-pandemic in-person schooling.

“We know that connecting with adults matters, we know that connecting with peers matters, that’s how kids get socialized,” Gee said.

“That’s extremely difficult over a remote platform. I like to read the room when I teach. I like to look at reactions and faces and now we’re in a world where it’s tough to do that.”

Kurlaender added that school districts and colleges need to wrestle with how the pandemic has exacerbated existing inequalities when transitioning back to inperson learning.

“We are going to face many decades of exacerbated inequalities if we don’t address this now,” Kurlaender said.

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Off to Texas? Think about it Extend Medi-Cal M benefits to undocumented

BY MARÍA ELENA DURAZO AND SARAH DAR Special to CalMatters

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he Biden administration’s current decisions will have dire consequences for Americans who have borne the brunt of deaths, illness and economic hardship caused by the COVID-19 crisis.

For undocumented, uninsured immigrants, including millions of essential workers taking on disproportionate occupational risk of COVID exposure, these decisions will mean the difference between life and death.

But with no quick federal solution, it is up to states like California to step up and lead with an inclusive recovery plan for all.

California is home to 2.3 million undocumented immigrants who make up about 6% of the population and nearly 1 in 10 of the state’s workers. Undocumented Californians generate $63 billion in government revenue and $263 billion toward the state’s formidable GDP every year through labor and taxes. They are overrepresented in jobs deemed “essential,” and wage theft and exploitation are unfortunate realities for many.

Unfortunately, California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s state budget proposal is not adequately responsive to this demographic picture of our state.

Our undocumented neighbors are deeply embedded in our economy, schools and communities and the cultural fabric of our state – Californians by every measure. That’s why we need bold legislation like Senate Bill 56, introduced by state Sen. Maria Elena Durazo, and Assembly Bill 4, introduced by Assemblymember Juan Arambula, a Democrat from Fresno, that ends the systematic exclusion of lowincome undocumented adults from Medi-Cal, especially seniors.

Last year, Newsom included Medi-Cal for undocumented seniors in his proposed budget. But when the pandemic and ensuing economic downturn hit, Newsom withdrew his proposal, leaving a high-risk group – 65 and older – to fend for themselves without comprehensive health care.

The state set up temporary programs for the uninsured to access COVID-19 treatment, but this barely scratches the surface. For seniors, if they are infected with the virus, it may be too late. Undocumented seniors may have gone decades without a check-up and may have unknown chronic conditions and need preventative treatment and medication for all of their health issues.

emo to Larry Ellison (Oracle Corp.), Elon Musk (Tesla) and other Californians eyeing a move to Texas because it has no state income tax but does feature lower living expenses and far less government regulation than California: Think twice, maybe three times, before you leap.

That’s one lesson of the mid-February combination of blizzard and deep-freeze that struck the Lone Star state, dropping some outdoor temperatures near zero and indoor levels into the 30s and sometimes lower.

Ice and snow froze water pipes, some placed two feet below ground level. Several hospitals were left without safe water, forcing mass patient transfers in extreme weather. All this just three years after Hurricane Harvey reduced much of Houston, the nation’s fourth-largest city, to a bunch of rivers and ponds.

It’s one thing to see how virtually non-existent zoning that stems from the Texas ideal of little government control can let junk yards and body shops exist alongside posh homes. It’s another to see Houston reduced to non-functionality twice in less than 40 months.

And not merely nonfunctionality in a business sense, but in much more human ways. In the midst of

Texas’ weeklong superfreeze and blackout, some water purification works went the way of business activity and home heat: They did not work. More than 10 million Texans who still had running water were told to boil it before drinking it. That meant wide use of portable camping stoves — if households had them — because natural gas operations were also stuck in the deep freeze. Never mind the threat of carbon monoxide poisoning.

The length and extent of the blackouts dwarfed anything modern California has seen, even in the energy crunch of the early 2000s, trouble primarily caused by Texas companies whose executives gloated publicly over “stealing from California grandmas” — before they were convicted and imprisoned.

In short, the approximately 300,000 former Californians who moved to Texas over the last six years because of lower real estate and energy prices suddenly learned why their big new homes cost so little. They

now know they bought into the mere façade of a solid place to live.

Yes, Texas’ far-right Republican Gov. Greg Abbott tried to blame all this on the fact his state’s grid — independent of surrounding states that could have aided it (but did not) because Texas would have no federal regulation of its electric supply — gets about 20 percent of its power from solar and wind developments. What about the other 80 percent? In any case, Abbott’s own appointed energy experts said whatever green power Texas uses did not create this crisis.

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t was reminiscent of the old saying that when you eliminate a tradition, you soon learn why it became one. This time, Texas worked assiduously to avoid federal control and influence, then learned why those can sometimes be a big plus.

There there are Texas politicians. It wasn’t just that Abbott tried to scapegoat renewable power and the nonexistent Green New Deal. No top-level politician in California has been as dishonest and deflective during an emergency in more than 100 years.

The freeze also featured panicked or irresponsible behavior by other officials.

Two examples: Republican Sen. Ted Cruz fled to

80-degree Cancun with his family when the going got tough. That’s the same Ted Cruz who tweeted that California’s liberal policies created blackouts during recent wildfire crises. “I have no defense (of that tweet),” he conceded before flying south.

And Colorado City, Tex., Mayor Tim Boyd was forced to resign after ranting on Facebook that local residents were “lazy.” The city and county, he told constituents, “owe you NOTHING. Sink or swim, it’s your choice. If you have no water, you deal with it and think outside of the box.” This, while some families tried for days to melt snow as their sole source of water.

It all can serve as a timely and on-point warning to Californians who seek to get rich and live like kings by selling houses high here and then leaving for greener pastures and bigger homes at much lower prices.

Those pastures may not look so green after you’ve been in the new place awhile, especially if it’s Texas.

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

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n a moment of reckoning with racial injustice and structural inequity, California has a clear choice.

We can fix the systemic exclusions that brought us here, like making all Californians eligible for MediCal, or we can settle for temporary, surface-level policies that return us to the pre-pandemic status quo of glaring health and economic disparities.

Comprehensive health insurance makes good public health sense in the face of a rapidly spreading virus. It makes us all safer and healthier.

Simultaneously it protects against financial hardship. Medical debt is a leading cause of bankruptcy, and in a health care system dependent on insurance, trying to pay one’s medical bills and prescription costs out-of-pocket is a recipe for financial ruin. Why should any elderly, low-income individual have to choose between an exorbitant bill for routine doctor visits and illnesses and money spent putting food on the table and weathering this recession?

California’s Legislature and governor have taken some positive initial steps. They disbursed one-time cash assistance for workers hard hit by the pandemic who did not qualify for federal stimulus checks and unemployment insurance due to immigration status. The state also rectified the senseless exclusion of those who use an individual taxpayer identification number instead of a Social Security number to file taxes from eligibility for the California Earned Income Tax Credit, a modest rebate for low-income tax filing households. This year, the governor and Legislature worked together on a Golden State Stimulus that includes these same tax filers in a $600 state stimulus payment.

These policies are the beginnings of an equitable recovery. The governor’s focus on economic support amid layoffs and lost wages is critical. But with families unsure how to cover next month’s rent, groceries and other bills – especially undocumented and mixed-status families who are locked out of other assistance – much more is needed for survival.

SB 56 is a critical priority in 2021. While we await a federal fix for our broken immigration system that bars so many from a pathway to status, inclusive state policies help move us closer to a true “California for All.” — State Sen. María Elena Durazo, D-Los Angeles, represents California Senate District 24. Sarah Dar is the director of Health & Public Benefits Policy at the California Immigrant Policy Center, sdar@caimmigrant.org. They wrote this for CalMatters, a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s Capitol works and why it matters.

LETTERS Thanks Genentech Tree Davis has received a $5,000 philanthropic charitable grant from Genentech, a leading biotechnology company that discovers, develops, manufactures and commercializes medicines to treat patients with serious or life-threatening medical conditions.

This grant will support Tree Davis’ Urban Forestry Education Program that it is pursuing in collaboration with the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden, with additional financial support from Congregation Bet Haverim.

The funds will contribute to the design, production and dissemination of educational tree tags for both mature and young trees that describe the connection between trees, public health and wellness. This is an interactive project that invites the public to learn more about the value of the urban tree canopy by connecting broad concepts — like mitigating the urban heat island effect — directly to individual trees in our community.

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Given the COVID-19 crisis over the past year, TreeDavis has pivoted its operations, delivering more digital educational offerings than ever before.

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Eliminate the filibuster Congress has the opportunity to pass a sweeping anti-corruption and voting rights bill that seeks “to expand Americans’ access to the ballot box, reduce the influence of big money in politics, and strengthen ethics rules for public servants.” This bill was first introduced in 2019 by Rep. John Sarbenes (D-Maryland). It was co-sponsored by every Democrat in the House, and passed but

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We have another chance.

On Jan. 4, the For the People Act (HR1) was reintroduced and now has 217 co-sponsors (thank you Congressman John Garamendi). With the Senate under Democratic control (however split 50-50) H.R.1 can pass but not without the elimination of the filibuster, So where are our senators? Sen. Padilla’s office line has had a full mailbox, Sen. Feinstein’s DC line has you wait two minutes, cuts you off, you can’t leave a message and her staff in the SF office were not able to tell me if she supports eliminating the filibuster or whether she has endorsed HR1.

As voters from the largest state in the U.S., Californians are the least represented proportionally of any state. The filibuster only makes that worse by letting as few as 20 states with as little as 11% of the total U.S. population dictate the legislative agenda. That’s not democracy!

Call/email/write to your members of Congress to let them know it is time to eliminate the filibuster, clearly an antidemocratic practice and let them know how important the HR1 resolution is to fixing out democracy.

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Da Vinci in search of names for tech hub

BY EDWARD BOOTH Special to The Enterprise Last week, the Da Vinci Charter Academy Advisory Board began soliciting suggested names for its upcoming “Tech Hub,” which is scheduled to break ground this summer, be constructed over roughly a year-and-a-half and open in 2022-23.

The completed Tech Hub building will stand at 14,707 square-feet on the blacktop of the Valley Oak Campus in East Davis, which houses Da Vinci along with the district’s Children Center.

The $16.4 million project is being funded through Measure M, a local school facilities bond that voters approved by a 74.5 percent margin in 2018, and partly through $9 million in Career Technical Education grants received by the district last year.

Tyler Millsap, principal of Da Vinci, said the building will include a gathering space for students and for community events. The southern end of the building will contain physicaleducation locker rooms

and office spaces and a new science lab. And, perhaps most significantly, the northern end of the building will include four CTE classroom spaces that will be used by the school’s digital media arts program and software and systems development program.

“There will be a fabrication lab, CNC routers, laser cutters, things like that,” Millsap said. “There will be a large makerspace. There will be a dedicated computer lab of like, modern, Google-y looking work stations, large monitors, collaborative work stations, high powered computers.”

Millsap name selection for the building, after receiving community suggestions, will be handled by the Da Vinci advisory board — a group consisting of 13 members, including students, teachers and an at-large community member. The advisory board will eventually recommend a name to the Davis Joint Unified School District superintendent, who will submit it for approval to the Davis school board.

The building will

continue to be referred to as the “Tech Hub;” the naming process is to attribute a namesake to the building, similar to how the Performance Hall at Davis Senior High School is officially titled the Richard Brunelle Performance Hall, according to a Da Vinci press release.

Millsap said he believes the Davis superintendent would like the name to be finalized by the end of the year. Ideally, he said, the name will be decided on by the end of the last advisory board meeting this school year, in April.

“The spirit of it is we’ve always valued community, particularly our community, having input on things,” Millsap said.

That’s just a hallmark of our program. We have a lot of student-led events, we like to put the student voice and community voice at the forefront.”

The naming process for the school was also driven by community input, Millsap said, and Da Vinci leadership wants the naming of the Tech Hub to, in a sense, carry that legacy.

“Da Vinci was this renaissance man that really dabbled in all areas, a well rounded learner, citizen, that type of concept,” Millsap said. “We want to mirror that and make sure that this new building, which is really the future of our program, has an equally important name.”

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Millsap added that he thinks of the building as representing the next iteration of Da Vinci, where the school will be able to amplify its project-based learning approach to education.

“We’ve always prided ourselves on being a place of innovation. Our teachers try a lot of new and different things. And the name of the building itself, Tech Hub, suggests innovation, moving into the future,” Millsap said. “That’s the type of work we want students to be doing there. It really aligns with our spirit of innovation.”

— Reach Edward Booth at edward.booth@ mcnaughton.media. Follow him on Twitter at @Edward_E_Booth

Tater Among is them is Tater (A185885), a 6-year-old Chihuahua who is happy to go for walks or cuddle on the couch. His favorite time of day is treat time!

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s the name implies, Davis Media Access is a community media center, but it’s generally classified under the larger umbrella of arts and culture organizations. This is one of those things that has bearing as we apply for grants, but it also plays out in our day-to-day work, as we teach both media technology and media arts.

One of the hats I wear in our community is as chair of Arts Alliance Davis. We’re a coalition of artsminded folks from all around Yolo County: we’re artists, we staff diverse arts organizations, and we promote arts opportunities. In normal times, we meet approximately six times per year to network and strengthen the arts in Davis and beyond. I love this role, as I’ve learned much about many hidden gems (people and places) across Yolo County.

It’s been an excruciatingly hard year for many of our participating organizations and artists. As Julie Baker of CA Arts Advocates recently noted on Facebook, “From the CA $227 billion budget, CA is in good shape financially with a $15 billion projected surplus. Preliminary read for creative industries, looks like state arts agency stays around the same with $25 million for Cultural Institutions in grants in the next round of $575 million for small businesses.

“It is a start but considering the devastation to the creative industries as compared to our economic impact pre-COVID (larger than that of both construction and transportation) it is simply not enough,” Baker said.

You read that correctly — and in her December presentation to Arts Alliance Davis, Baker said, “Arts are 8 percent of the state’s economy, yet artists are often not seen as essential — or even recognized as workers.

Two-thirds of artists are selfemployed and don’t qualify for traditional unemployment. Some are truly starving artists.”

Like our fellow arts and culture nonprofits, DMA has had some

opportunities for Paycheck Protection loans, but we’ve lost out on event, services and grant income, and an underwhelming amount of relief funds has gone to arts in Yolo County, or indeed, statewide, with notable exceptions. And at the federal level, the Save Our Stages Act was a tremendous step forward, but only addresses one aspect of an evolving crisis.

A recent article in the the Chronicle of Philanthropy encapsulates this particular tension nonprofits are experiencing well (“Nonprofits Lost 50,000 Jobs in December” https:// bit.ly/3cD4qK9) notes that “Nonprofits shed an estimated 50,760 jobs in December (2020), a ‘striking reversal’ of what had been months of slow-but-steady job growth among nonprofits, according to a new report from Johns Hopkins University. As a result, nonprofits employed nearly 930,000 fewer workers in December than they did in February, before the pandemic, a 7.4 percent decline.”

The article details how arts and culture nonprofits continue to be the hardest hit, noting that since the start of the pandemic in March 2020, such nonprofits have lost 130,360 jobs, or 36.6 percent of roughly 355,965 jobs.

In Davis, last year’s Civic Arts Grants were cancelled (the City’s Arts & Culture Fund has been able to fund a few projects that span both arts and social justice, but the small annual grants many independent artists rely on were cancelled), while neighboring Sacramento spent $19.8 million of CARES Act funding on the local creative economy.

In the arts, we sometimes refer to ourselves and our organizations as “second responders.” It’s a term coined by Californians for the Arts, (and you can read an excellent op ed they wrote: https://bit.ly/2NZ5jCo), but in short what it means is, “First responders save lives; second responders help put people’s lives back together. Artists are essential

workers in our society and our economy, helping us recover, reflect, and rebuild.”

I frame it this way: the arts help us sift through and make sense of what happened, and provide context and meaning as we move forward.

I’ve had many conversations with funders and community leaders throughout the pandemic, and they’ve run along these lines: “people are giving according to Maslow’s hierarchy,” or “right now, we just need to focus on feeding, housing and caring for people.” I get that — and I don’t disagree with those needs, but I’m struggling with the widespread shutout of arts funding, and what that means for our future.

The truth is —I know of a few local nonprofits that are counting how long they can stay in business in weeks, and several more who are doing the same in months. So, what happens when life is normalized, and people are once again looking for after-school programs, summer camps, internships, and other enrichment opportunities that in normal times make up a large portion of our local arts and culture nonprofit services?

Meanwhile, there’s information to be had, and some virtual services and creative pivots to explore. I invite you to visit https://artsalliance davis.org for an overview, and Arts Alliance Davis on Facebook for frequent updates on local events and opportunities. My gratitude to City Arts & Culture Manager Rachel Hartsough for her tireless work to connect us all.

— Davis Media Access is the only nonprofit community media center in Yolo County. KDRT 95.7 FM is a project of DMA. Autumn LabbéRenault has served as its executive director since 2007, where she writes and blogs about a wide variety of media issues. Tune into KDRT 95.7 FM/https://kdrt.org Tuesdays at noon for her radio show, the “COVID19 Community Report.” Learn more at http://davismedia.org, email info@davismedia.org, or call (530) 757-2419.

‘Timeout Radio’ set to discuss pandemic pets Special to The Enterprise Since March 2020 there has been a huge surge in animal adoptions fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Melissa Bain, a professor at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine will discuss the joys and challenges of pandemic pets and what to consider when adopting animal companions during the

pandemic on KDRT’s “Timeout Radio.”

Also on the show is 14-year-old Davis resident Kate Phillips, who will talk about her canine companion Winston, that joined the Phillips family last summer.

Listeners will hear about the science behind the deep bond between dogs and humans and learn some cool facts about dogs, like

dogs first joined the human pack 23,000 years ago in Siberia.

“Timeout Radio,” hosted by 14-year-old Rohan Baxi, is a radio show and podcast based in Davis for children and teens. It airs on KDRT 95.7 FM from 5:30 to 6 p.m. Tuesdays and 8 to 8:30 a.m. Saturdays.

All episodes, including the one on pandemic pets, are archived online at

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At Rotts of Friends Animal Rescue, you’ll find Buddy, a 12-year-old neutered male terrier.

He’s a delight; superfriendly and just wants to snuggle, although he is happy playing with other small dogs. Buddy is looking for a quiet, loving retirement home. He has one non-functioning eye. He’s very curious and as cute as can be. His owner had to be placed in a retirement home and couldn’t bring him along.

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For information on adopting, contact adoptycas@gmail.com.

All shelter animals are up-to-date on vaccinations, microchipped, and spayed or neutered.

The shelter is closed to the public for nonemergencies but the staff is available to assist at 530-668-5287 during new temporary hours:

Nala is a tall 2-year-old spayed female Rottweiler.

She loves kids, is very smart and learns quickly.

She is somewhat dogreactive one a leash but she comes with free obedience training lessons.

Everyone who meets her falls in love.

The next Rotts of Friends’ adoption event is from 8 to 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 27, at 34505 County Road 29 in Woodland. Come by 10 a.m., as it takes at least an hour to meet and adopt a dog; everyone who will be living with the dog should come out to meet it.

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

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Flower Arrangers welcome Justice Special to The Enterprise The Davis Flower Arrangers announce that Michele Justice, the owner, designer and instructor of K&M Floral at 537 Main St. in Woodland, will be the presenter at 7 p.m.

Wednesday, March 3, via Zoom.

Justice has an impressive 30-plus-year career in the floral business.

To begin with, she is a California certified nurserywoman and for several years worked as the manager of Valley Gardens Nursery, which led her into floral design for

Med Center ranks high again for maternity care Special to The Enterprise

weddings and into developing her talent to create beautiful silk flower arrangements.

She then opened and managed her own Sacramento florist business for many years before retiring to travel extensively. But this was not the end for her, as her vital passion for flowers and floral design led her to purchase K&M Floral and Gift Shop five years ago.

Her delight and enthusiasm for flowers and floral design light up all of those around her and the connection she makes

SACRAMENTO — UC Davis Medical Center was named to Newsweek’s 2021 list of Best Maternity Care Hospitals this week.

The distinction recognizes facilities that have provided exceptional care to mothers, newborns and their families, as verified by the 2020 Leapfrog Hospital Survey.

Best Maternity Care Hospitals is part of Newsweek’s Best Health Care series, powered by data from The Leapfrog Group.

Best Maternity Care Hospitals were first designated in 2020.

“Our team is pleased to receive this recognition from Newsweek for a second year in a row,” said Gary Leiserowitz, chair of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at UC Davis Health. “Congratulations to our dedicated team of doctors, nurses and staff for the

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Flower arrangements by Michele Justice from K & M Floral in Woodland will be highlighted at the next Davis Flower Arrangers meeting, set for Wednesday, March 3, via Zoom. with clients is renowned.

She is proud that K&M is a premier florist shop and was voted the best florist in Yolo County in 2017 and 2018.

For her presentation, she will demonstrate how she creates arrangements based on Ikebana principles and guidelines.

She is recognized for her distinctive arrangements that incorporate the movement and linear style of Ikebana along with dramatic colors of fresh-cut flowers.

Program attendees will have the opportunity to watch her construct several arrangements and to

ask questions about her style, vision and inspiration.

Anyone who is not a Davis Flower Arranger member can participate by either sending a check for $40 to become a member or send a check for $10 for this presentation to Jo Anne Boorkman, 2205 Butte Place, Davis, CA 95616.

An invitation to the Zoom meeting will be sent prior to the meeting and will also allow access to a recording of the presentation For further information, contact sundari.katir@ gmail.com.

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“Best Maternity Care Hospitals showcases an elite group of hospitals nationwide,” said Nancy Cooper, global editor in chief of Newsweek.

Hospitals named as a Best Maternity Care Hospital have fully met The Leapfrog Group’s rigorous standards for maternity care excellence.

This includes achieving lower rates of C-Sections, early elective delivery, and episiotomy, as well as assuring bilirubin screening for all newborns and blood clot prevention techniques for mothers delivering via C-section.

UC Davis Medical Center was one of fewer than 225 hospitals nationwide to receive the prestigious accolade. The full list of recipients appears in Newsweek online and at newsstands nationwide.

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MYTURN: Local initiatives threatened CAMPUS: Federal From Page A1 has enabled the county to reach lowincome seniors, the homeless and other vulnerable populations in private clinics.

In many of those cases, outreach through employers and communitybased organizations ensured targeted populations signed up and were vaccinated.

Clinics held in Esparto, Knights Landing and unincorporated areas of the county reached individuals with less access to online signups by restricting doses to residents of those communities only and not requiring online registration.

But whether the county will be able to continue to do all of that remains uncertain, Health Officer Dr. Aimee Sisson told the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday.

“There’s a lot that we do not know about what we will and will not be able to do once we migrate to the MyTurn platform,” Sisson said. “A lot of the things we’re currently doing with private clinics may or may not be available to us.

“Our hope is we can continue to do outreach through community-based organizations and employers to get people signed up in the same way that we are now,” she said. “(But) it’s very difficult to plan when we don’t know exactly what rules we’ll be required to follow.”

Sisson said the transition “to both the third-party administrator and the MyTurn onboarding is full of challenges and I have many concerns about how the process is going to go moving forward.

“I and many of my health officer colleagues have expressed those concerns to the state and it remains to be seen whether changes will be made accordingly.”

Yolo County Supervisor Gary Sandy of Woodland called the situation “absurd.”

“I feel like we’re in a period of

constant change here,” he said. “I think it’s destructive for the overall movement, because we’re having to re-explain, retrain people all the time and now here we go to another centralized unit that requires us to scrap everything we’ve done before.

“It just does not strike me as a way to run things,” Sandy said.

Supervisor Jim Provenza of Davis agreed, and asked whether the county could request an exception from the state to operate outside of the MyTurn system.

“Can we push back?” he asked.

“Can we ask to be a pilot county outside of the MyTurn system? Because I see this as going from a more efficient system to a less efficient system if we switch to MyTurn.”

Provenza added that MyTurn was set up for those counties “that weren’t doing it right, not for counties that were doing better than average.”

County Administrator Patrick Blacklock said the concerns in Yolo County “are being echoed throughout the state.”

The County Supervisors Association of California has expressed those concerns to the state, he said, but the state “has been impervious to that advocacy to date and is insisting on continuing on this course.”

“Particularly challenging for us,” Blacklock said, “has been the MyTurn transition. Our own staff had multiple appointments canceled by the MyTurn team trying to figure this out.

“We’re now several weeks down the road and seemingly delayed in understanding this partly because we keep getting canceled.”

Sisson encouraged supervisors to advocate to the state on behalf of Yolo County. County supervisors agreed to do so and also asked the public to weigh in on behalf of the county as well.

“I would urge members of the public to let the state know that we’re doing this pretty well on our own and we don’t want them necessarily to

come in with a system that’s going to make it more difficult,” said Provenza.

Supervisor Don Saylor of Davis also recommended working with local partners, including the farm bureau, on advocacy, “because the one-sizefits-all approach prevents us from reaching the groups we’re trying to reach.

“They would not want additional, cumbersome bureaucracy,” said Saylor. “We do need to reach out in a variety of ways to make sure we can continue doing the creative things that are happening here.”

Currently Yolo County is scheduled to join the MyTurn program March 14, while the role of Blue Shield as third-party administrator remains unclear.

Blacklock said as of last Friday, “counties … were reporting that they were hearing that the Blue Shield contract was essentially unsignable as formatted at that point and unsignable because of the provisions that it included.

“They were quite frustrated with both the MyTurn and Blue Shield transitions,” he added.

“I wish I could offer more hope on the horizon in terms of being able to retain our local system.”

That local system, as of Tuesday, had seen 33,511 county residents (or 15 percent of the county’s population) receive at least one dose of a COVID19 vaccine, 60 percent of them through the county health department.

First-dose clinics this week targeted farmworkers, educators and other frontline workers as well as those 65 and over, while AMR was vaccinating homebound seniors. The county will continue operating as it has at least through March 14.

But all county residents who have not yet been vaccinated should still register at https://myturn.ca.gov.

— Reach Anne Ternus-Bellamy at aternus@davisenterprise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.

TREE: Outside consultant will examine scene From Page A1 city officials estimate to be 55 to 60 feet tall.

A park maintenance crew and the first police officers on scene moved the limb off Comey, who received CPR from firefighters. The lifesaving efforts revived her pulse, but Comey succumbed to her injuries at the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento.

It was the first of several unusually windy days in the Sacramento region, with winds reportedly gusting 40 to 50 mph in the Davis area, although whether that factored into the tragedy remains under investigation.

Yellow caution tape cordoned off Slide Hill Park’s playground, sandbox and surrounding trees Thursday, as well as a picnic table where park-goers left flowers and written tributes in Comey’s memory.

On the NextDoor social media platform, friends and strangers alike coordinated a plan to ring bells and observe a moment of silence in support of Comey’s family.

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Supporters have set up a gofundme site for Jennifer Comey, who was killed by a falling tree branch in East Davis’ Slide Hill Park.

“I feel like it would be nice to do something for her and to remind us of how unknown our future is, focus on our community members, and it can help open conversations with your loved ones,” resident Marc Burgat wrote.

‘Red flags’ In response to queries from The Davis Enterprise, city officials said the trees under the city’s care are inspected every seven years on average, with inspectors ordered to notify Davis’ urban forestry division of any issues or concerns.

Davis Deputy Police Chief Paul Doroshov,

serving as the city’s spokesperson on the incident because it involved a death, said Wednesday that the ash tree was last inspected in November 2019.

Previous inspections occurred in August 2017, April 2013 and August 2006.

West Coast Arborists of Sacramento, with whom the city contracts for its tree inspections, deemed the ash tree safe following another inspection conducted after Comey’s death, Doroshov said.

But an arborist not affiliated with the city told CBS13 that while most of Slide Hill Park’s trees appear to be in good shape, two of

them — including the ash tree, which he said showed signs of multiple limb failures — raised his concerns.

“It breaks my heart knowing what happened here,” Daniel Hovarter of Tree Services Sacramento told the news station during a walk-through of the park. “These two trees are gigantic red flags.”

According to Doroshov, the city plans to bring in an outside consultant, John Lichter of Tree Associates Inc. in Davis, “to provide an independent analysis of the tree” starting Friday. Possible outcomes of that inspection could be to leave the tree as is, prune it back or remove it altogether.

Through Doroshov, city officials noted that Davis has bolstered its urban forestry program over the past three years, including adding one employee position, funding and completing a comprehensive citywide tree inventory, and obtaining a $514,000 Cal Fire grant to prepare an urban forest master plan.

— Reach Lauren Keene at lkeene@davisenter prise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @laurenkeene.

TENT: City officials alarmed by impromptu gathering From Page A1 Plaza, were erected as part of the city’s partnership with the Davis Downtown Business Association to further the “Open Air Davis” initiative. The tents were purchased with county CARES Act funding and, along with the tables beneath them, were intended to aid local restaurants while the state limited them to takeout and delivery only.

Now the city is removing the large tent on G Street and making additional modifications, effective at 9 a.m. on Thursday.

“The city is trying to help downtown businesses during the pandemic by allowing the flexible use of outdoor space, but public health has to come first,” Vice Mayor Lucas Frerichs said on Wednesday.

“All tented areas will now be

assigned as temporary-use permit spaces where businesses are responsible for space management, cleanliness and alcohol use. We appreciate the continued collaboration with Davis Downtown as we work through these community safety issues.”

Modifications that went into effect Thursday include: ■ Requiring all alcohol to be served by businesses within their temporaryuse permit areas, which are generally in front of each business, with a ban on open containers on G Street.

■ Removing the 20-foot by 50-foot tent from the E Street Plaza area and redeploying it, and the tables beneath, to G Street for the businesses that had to remove their original temporaryuse-permit spaces to accommodate the larger tent. Businesses will be responsible for their portions under the tent.

“If other Davis downtown businesses wish to manage a TUP area, the city is eager to work with them on tent and table resources,” a city press release said.

Those businesses should contact Sarah Worley at sworley@cityofdavis. org regarding permits.

Davis Police Chief Darren Pytel, who met with city and downtown business leaders on Tuesday, said, “the gathering that took place was clearly unacceptable, and these changes to the downtown tent areas are necessary to prevent gatherings like we saw this past weekend.

“We ask the public to continue to abide by state and county COVID-19 rules for their own safety and for the safety of the community,” Pytel said.

— Reach Anne Ternus-Bellamy at aternus@davisenterprise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.

funds boost coffers From Page A1 address some of the world’s most pressing issues, especially in the middle of a pandemic,” May said.

Over the past several months, UC Davis has been on the forefront of COVID-19 vaccine research. At the Medical Center in Sacramento, UC Davis Health enrolled participants in clinical trials for the COVID-19 vaccine created by Pfizer and BioNTech, which involved 30,000 participants worldwide. UC Davis has also conducted clinical trials for the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine. Trials for that vaccine are still underway.

The chancellor also highlighted impressive rankings UC Davis was given over the past year, including Money Magazine’s fourth best public university, Washington Monthly’s second best public university for social mobility, and the Wall Street Journal’s best university in the country for agriculture. “There’s no doubt that UC Davis is in the conversation as one of the best universities in the country,” May said.

Shifting gears, May discussed pandemicrelated budget challenges, which he said “continue to be an area of great focus.” UC Davis’ total budget for 2020-21 is $5.7 billion, including the UC Davis Health system, which accounts for 45% of the budget. However, May said that estimated budget was “established before the full extent of the pandemic was clear and we expect the final outcome to be lower.”

Due to the pandemic, UC Davis has lost $120 million because of Medical Center impacts and $210 million in campusrelated revenue, much of it from housing and dining services.

The “core funds” available for general university operations such as instruction and research, which account for about 18% of the budget, come from student tuition and state funding, which has remained relatively stable. California Gov. Gavin Newsom recently promised to keep state funding level with last year, and

student enrollment and tuition did not drop amid the pandemic.

While facing challenges, UC Davis has benefited from federal relief funding, receiving $33.8 million from the CARES Act last spring and $50.9 million in federal stimulus funding in December. Much of that money was used to provide students with emergency financial aid grants.

UC Davis will be dealing with the financial fallout of the pandemic for the coming years, May said. Staffing will likely be modestly reduced, he said, but layoffs will be used only as a last resort.

“We will need the creativity, ideas, and spirit of shared sacrifice from the entire community,” he said.

The chancellor also addressed other orders of business, including the search for a new athletic director. Former athletic director Kevin Blue left UC Davis in December to become the chief sport officer for Golf Canada.

UC Davis has partnered with a national search firm to identify potential candidates for that position. Interviews will begin in March.

“We have some big shoes to fill here,” May said, noting Blue’s contributions to the athletics program and to student athletes. Student athletes at UC Davis graduate at some of the highest rates in the country, May said.

The student athlete graduation rate at UC Davis is 85% compared to a national average of 69%.

UC Davis continues to plan for the resumption in-person instruction in the fall, an objective that is contingent on the successful vaccination of students, staff, faculty and the wider community.

“I’m looking forward to this year and all that we’ll accomplish. Of course, we will face challenges and many unknowns,” May said. “But no matter what, we continue to rise through the strength, talent and creativity in our university community.”

— Reach Caleb Hampton at champton@ davisenterprise.net.

Follow him on Twitter at @calebmhampton.

Podcast discusses media and political polarization Special to The Enterprise Conventional wisdom has held that as people are exposed to more partisan news, they become more polarized. But a new study finds that’s not so.

On this month’s episode of “The Backdrop,” Magdalena Wojcieszak discusses a couple of new studies she has coauthored that found no correlation between media exposure and political polarization.

Wojcieszak, a professor of communication at UC Davis, studies how the changing media environment creates both

opportunities and challenges for informed publics, tolerant citizenry and responsive governance.

“The Backdrop” podcast is a monthly interview program featuring conversations with UC Davis scholars and researchers working in the social sciences, humanities, arts and culture.

It is available free, ondemand at Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, TuneIn, Stitcher, Spotify and YouTube. “The Backdrop” is hosted by public radio veteran Soterios Johnson.

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The Artery features jeweler, photographer Bracken and Riel team up for show of wearable art, images captured around the world Special to The Enterprise The Artery will present “Enamel and European Explorations,” featuring jeweler Laura Bracken and photographer Darlene Riel, from March 5 to 27.

This exhibit celebrates the beauty of the ancient art of cloisonné and the allure of old-world Europe.

Laura Bracken transforms metal and glass, using hammer and flame, into exquisite jewelry.

She specializing in the technique of enamel — fusing glass onto metal.

Most of her enamel pieces start with sheets of pure silver. She then fuses several layers of enamel (colored, powdered glass), using a 1450-degree kiln.

In cloisonné, tiny wires are bent into the desired design, separating one color from the next. Most pieces require 15-20 layers of

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Darlene Riel’s “Meteroa,” her photograph of the famous rock formation in central Greece, will be among the images she captured during her travels that will be showing at The Artery from March 5 to 27. Also on display will be metal and glass jewelry creations by Laura Bracken, including her cloisonné pendent “Berries Blue Moon,” at right. fired enamel before the design is complete. Lastly, the piece is stoned down, sanded and polished.

Bracken states on her website,

“Being able to take a design idea and translate it from the mind to the hands to the material breathes life into my work.”

Her website includes more

about her jewelry and philosophy: www.brackendesigns.com.

Darlene Riel has traveled extensively throughout the world.

Photography lets her express her

creativity and share her love of travel.

She is especially attracted to European villages that are living, breathing reminders of the past.

Her photographic art lets us experience cobblestone streets, colorful local markets and ancient landscapes.

She captured her images as she explored Croatia, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain and Turkey.

On her website, she explains, “I am drawn to more intimate images, one that draws your eye to an interesting focal point or a dramatic dash of color.” Find out more about her work at www. rielphotography.photoshelter. com.

Woodland Opera House streaming ‘Wizard of Oz’ adaptation Special to The Enterprise The Woodland Opera House presents its Young Adult Performer’s Series production “The Wizard of Oz — a New Modern Play” adapted for the stage by Jon Jory from the book written by L. Frank Baum.

Set for 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, March 6 and 7, the play is underwritten by Music to Grow on Music Therapy Services Inc. Directed by Cheryl Watson, the play was rehearsed completely remotely and recorded on Zoom.

“We wanted to provide an outlet for our skilled teen acting students who are eager to continue performing. To rehearse safely, Cheryl devised an efficient rehearsal system on Zoom and spent countless hours creating

delightful virtual backdrops to transform each cast member’s living room “over the rainbow,” explained executive director Angela Baltezore.

“We wanted to provide a complete performance experience for the cast and audience including creative, colorful costumes designed by Denise Miles.”

In this faithful and playfully short adaptation of the original novel, Dorothy (Mia Fisher) lands in Oz and must find her way home to Kansas.

But first, she must find the Yellow Brick Road, make it through the poppy field, avoid the flying monkeys and defeat the Wicked Witch (Frances Thayer). No big deal.

Luckily, she has the Scarecrow (Kate Kasten), Tin Man (Zoe Rosendale), Cowardly Lion

Kate Kasten plays the Scarecrow in the Woodland Opera House’s Young Adult Performer’s Series production of “The Wizard of Oz — a New Modern Play.”

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(Brady Stephens) and Glinda the Good Witch (Amelia RobinsonBurmester) on her side.

There are some surprises along

the way in this faithful adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s classic story.

The show will be streamed on

ShowTix4U with tickets available on the Woodland Opera House website at www.woodlandopera house.org.

Readings by award-winning writer and UCD alumni planned Three master’s in English grads have newly published books Special to The Enterprise The UC Davis Creative Writing Program will present free online readings Tuesday and Wednesday, March 2 and 3 — one by a star of the literary world and another by three UCD alumni with newly published books.

Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the MACHADO bestselling memoir “In the Best-selling Dream House” and the author award-winning shortstory collection “Her Body and Other Parties.”

“In the Dream House” traces the arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman and Machado’s struggle to make sense of how what happened shaped her.

KAMINSKI She will read at 4:30 Master’s in p.m. Wednesday, March 3.

2005 Machado is a winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction, the Brooklyn Public Library Literature Prize, the Shirley Jackson Award and the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize. She was a 2017 finalist for the National Book Award.

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students Anna Tuchin and Brianna Cockett-Mamiya will also read.

Register at bit.ly/3uwVKLI. Three graduates of the creative writing program will return to campus virtually to read from their books published last year at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 2.

Megan Kaminski (master’s in English in 2005) is the author of three poetry collections, the most recent titled “Gentlewomen.”

An essayist as well as a poet, her writing has been published in the American Poetry Review, The Atlantic and other publications.

ARAKIKiik Araki-Kawaguchi KAWAGUCHI Master’s in (master’s in English in 2011 2011) is the author of the

novels “The Book of Kane and Margaret,” published in 2020, and “Disintegration Made Plain and Easy.”

He also is a widely published poet.

Becky Mandelbaum MANDELBAUM (master’s in English in Master’s in 2016) won the Flannery 2016 O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and the High Plains Book Award for First Book for her story collection “Bad Kansas.”

Her new book is “The Bright Side Sanctuary for Animals.”

Her work has appeared in One Story, The Sun, Prairie Schooner and other publications.

Register at bit.ly/3dG0qsU.

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Big Sky kicks off football season Weber State early favorite, UC Davis sits out first week

Hill, now in his seventh year, says he’s never had more experience along the offensive and defensive lines.

“I think we have a couple of real difference-makers in those groups. That should be a big benefit to us,” he noted during a meeting with Utah media.

The biggest difference-maker of all, however, may be junior running back Josh Davis, who rushed for 1,362 yards and nine touchdowns in 2018 and 1,136 yards and 11 scores in 2019, including a 328-yard outburst against Northern Arizona.

Despite its lofty ranking, the Wildcats have listed co-No. 1s at quarterback: junior Randall Johnson and freshman Bronson Barron — neither of whom have taken a snap for Weber State.

BY BOB DUNNING Enterprise staff writer Although the Big Sky Conference was formed 58 years ago with just six teams, it has never hosted a spring football championship.

This year will be the exception.

The league, one of the powerhouses in the Football Championship Subdivision, now has a whopping 13 teams, though only eight have decided to play football this spring.

Six of those schools will be in action Saturday. Only UC Davis and Cal Poly will wait (until March 6) to begin their seasons due to COVID concerns on the San Luis Obispo campus that postponed a UCD-Poly matchup. The Aggies and Mustangs originally were to play for the Golden Horseshoe on Feb. 27. Now, it’s March 20.

Nonetheless, the Grand Experiment begins Saturday with Eastern Washington at Idaho, Weber State at Idaho State and Southern Utah at Northern Arizona.

The Aggies open March 6 at Idaho, then head to Weber State (March 13) before their homeopener for that March 20 date

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Eastern Washington running Tamarick Pierce (24), seen scoring against Portland State in 2019, could be one of the break-out stars in the eight-team Big Sky spring football season. UC Davis has a bye in this first week of action. with Cal Poly.

Of the five schools that decided not to play this spring, the biggest holes will be left by 2019 co-champion Sacramento State, along with Montana and Montana State. All three were postseason participants in 2019, along with co-champion Weber State. The Wildcats and Montana State reached the semifinal round.

Weber State Weber State, ranked No. 4 in the land by STATS.com, is thus the odds-on favorite to claim the spring crown in a season that features just six games. It is the first Big Sky competition for any team since the fall of 2019.

Wildcat head coach Jay Hill has built the league’s most consistent winner in Ogden, with

four straight playoff appearances, three straight Big Sky titles and a 21-3 league mark over the last three seasons.

The Wildcats have defeated the Aggies four straight times since 2015, and in addition to this spring’s March 13 meeting, the two will meet again in September as part of the fall 2021 schedule, with both games in Ogden, Utah.

UC Davis Speaking of folks who are excited about the upcoming season, UC Davis head coach Dan Hawkins is another one who says, “This is the best group talent wise, top-to-bottom, we’ve had since I’ve been here.”

UCD does have a big hole to fill with the departure of all-time school passing leader Jake Maier, but All-American candidate Ulonzo Gilliam returns at running back. On the defensive side, linebacker Nick Eaton heads a solid

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This girl is on fire Trpcic has Aggies playing at a championship pace

BY BRUCE GALLAUDET Enterprise sports editor

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Davis swimmer Mia Motekaitis waits between events at a recent swimming championship.

Broken foot?

She still wins Motekaitis overcomes pain, injuries for an epic victory

BY OWEN YANCHER Enterprise staff writer You hear about football players toughing it through injuries: somebody who finishes out a game with a broken finger or a fractured rib.

But a swimmer? That doesn’t happen often.

That’s why jaws dropped this past weekend (at least behind masked faces) at the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Swimming and Diving Championships when UC Davis’ Mia Motekaitis was chauffeured by teammates to the starting blocks in a wheelchair.

A courageous effort to just start. But then the former Davis High swimmer proceeded to dive in and win the women’s 500-yard freestyle event.

Still reeling from the pain of a flip turn she’d

botched the week prior — slamming her heels onto the wall of Pacific’s zeroentry pool in Stockton during warmups at a dual competition — the distance standout wasn’t going to let a fractured left foot and slipped disc keep her from finishing out her sophomore season on a high note.

“I didn’t really know how I was going to do it,” a still bruised-up Motekaitis told The Enterprise. “But my goal for that race was to get out fast and stay ahead of the pack, so that, if I needed that buffer and had to start pushing off with just (one foot), I’d be able to.”

Her heels still lined with bone bruises, Motekaitis rumbled out a 4:58.23 in that 500, edging Santa Barbara’s Maelynn Lawrence by a third-of-a-second to become the first Aggie to

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When Mackenzie Trpcic came to UC Davis in 2018, Aggie coach Jennifer Gross said the transfer from the University at Albany (New York) “could be one of the best guards we’ve ever had here.”

High praise, plus the coach knows what’s she is talking about since Gross also is one of the best guards UCD has ever had.

Trpcic was required to sit out a season due to NCAA rules, but when she suited up in 2019-20, the all-business player from Hamilton, Ontario, begin to prove Gross correct.

Trpcic was among the nation’s leaders in assists, played in all 29 Aggie games and helped the locals earn their fourth straight regular-season title. In fact, the Big West Tournament’s No. 1-seed Davis was poised for a return to the Big Dance when the pandemic hit and wiped out sports.

Even with 11 games canceled this season by COVID-19, Trpcic didn’t miss a beat. In fact, she’s among the top guards on the West Coast and certainly is a thorn in the side of everyone who has faced the Aggies.

“Mackenzie last year was just getting comfortable in our system, getting used to the players around her … figuring out how to be the best point guard in our OWEN YANCHER/ENTERPRISE FILE PHOTO system,” Gross told The Enterprise.

“From Day 1, we knew she was a tremendous Aggie guard Mackenzie Trpcic, shown scoring against passer and that she was great in transition. Since she Oregon on Feb. 6, has been a catalyst for the No. 12 arrived, we’ve been working to develop her entire UC Davis women’s basketball team. game to the point where she’s still tremendous in transition, but also really understands how to set up The following afternoon, Trpcic had 5 points, two our half-court offense and put her teammates in sitoffensive rebounds and two assists in the opening 10 uations where they’re at their best as well.” minutes as Davis started fast en route to a 78-61 vicIt was on Feb. 6 that Trpcic’s complete game tory. almost did in then-No. 12 Oregon in Eugene.

The Aggies (7-1, 6-0) now stand tall in the Big “What she gave us in that game carried us in West standings, chased by The Beach (11-3, 10-2) places,” remembers Gross. and UC Irvine (9-6, 7-2).

While scoring 6 points, Trpcic’s 13 assists — one With so many of her tools finely off Molly Gruebel’s school-record 14 — sharpened, what does Trpcic see as her and eight rebounds (against the tallest primary responsibility on this starteam on the West Coast) kept Davis in laden squad? the game to the final minutes of the “Catering everything to my team73-66 loss. mates and trying to set them up for Last season, Trpcic averaged 7 points success,” she believes. and a little more than two caroms a But what if everybody is covered? “I game. She shot 38.7 percent from the look for my pockets. My time to shine floor. Her 133 assists (4.6 per game) when I need to score.” were more than double those of the Trpcic isn’t surprised by her colsecond-place Aggie. leagues’ fast start.

The 5-foot-7 dynamo has eclipsed “We set a high bar for ourselves. That each of those statistics this winter.

TRPCIC especially goes for our defense. While I She’s averaging 8.4 ppg, is shooting Averaging 8.4 ppg and think it’s pretty good right now, I think 47.4 percent and is averaging six assists shooting 47.4 percent we could still tighten up a lot of things,” a game. Trpcic’s 36 rebounds are the Trpcic says of a team that’s allowing just 59.3 points third most on a team that pays close attention to the a game, third best in the Big West. glass.

“We say we want to be the team with the best “Mac does everything we ask of her,” Gross continues. “She’s a good role model for the younger players. communication on the court at all times. We need to (elevate) our consistency in that, and if we do, that’s She is relentless.” going to really put us over the bar.

For example, it didn’t seem like much at the time, “Overall, I feel like we’re hitting the groove. Not a but when Davis was down 22-11 at UC Santa Barlot of games in, but we’ve had a lot of practice and bara three weeks ago, without Trpcic and her 8 points in the first period, the Aggies wouldn’t have come back to win, 67-65.

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BIG SKY: Plenty of action packed into schedule From Page B3 crew brimming with both experience and confidence.

The Aggies have a bit of proving of their own to do after finishing an uncharacteristic 3-5 in the Big Sky and 5-7 overall in 2019. The “off ” season comes after a championship year and playoff run in 2018. (See UCD football story links at end of article.)

While Weber State is ranked as a top-five team, the Wildcats will have an untested tandem at quarterback.

Left is QB Randall Johnson. The other is Bronson Barron. Neither has seen live action as the Big Sky opens Saturday.

Eastern Washington Another serious contender for a conference title is No. 12-ranked Eastern Washington, the last Big Sky team to win a national championship (accomplishing the feat with a dramatic 20-19 win over Delaware in 2010 with a chap named Joe Biden in attendance).

The Eagles got off to a slow start in 2019, but won their last four games to finish 7-5 overall and narrowly miss a playoff bid.

Over those last four games, they averaged 612.5 yards per game, but were still overlooked by the NCAA selection committee.

Head coach Aaron Best is using that snub as motivation for a team that is loaded on the offensive side of the ball after leading all of the FCS in total offense the last time around.

Back to lead that offensive explosion once again is senior quarterback Eric Barriere, a super talent who was fifth in the Walter Payton Award voting in 2019.

That was the year that Barriere averaged 355.8 yards of total offense per game, tossed 31 touchdown passes and added eight more scores on the ground.

For his career he has rushed for 1,219 yards and is always dangerous to make big yardage with his feet on a broken play.

Barriere broke Aggie hearts twice in 2018, once in the regular season and once in the FCS playoffs.

Says Best of his offensive phenom, “Eric is one of the most electrifying playmakers I have witnessed play in person. He is

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Link: wp.me/p3aczg-3X9Y certainly one of the best players in this league and at this level. I expect his senior season to be even better. I can’t wait to see what is in store.”

But the EWU is no one-trick offense. Taking over for the graduated Antoine Custer Jr. at tailback is St. Mary’s High product Tamarick Pierce. The 5-10, 215-pounder had bided his time and insiders say his senior year could be a game-changer.

Idaho The Vandals, who host the Aggies in the Kibbie Dome in Moscow, picked up votes in several national preseason polls, landing at No. 24 in the Athlon rankings, a bit of a surprise for a team that finished 5-7 in 2019 and hasn’t had a winning season since 2016.

But, as with most teams that

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have yet to play a game, optimism runs high in the Palouse, especially after the Athlon rankings were released.

“I think it’s great,” Idaho head coach Paul Petrino told The Spokesman-Review. “I think any time you get that, it helps motivate them, gives them a great reason to go out on the field and work hard to get it.”

The transfer portal benefitted Idaho football when strongarmed quarterback Mike Beaudry, a graduate transfer from Connecticut, joined the Vandals.

Idaho State Idaho State head coach Rob Phenicie is excited that he landed former Wyoming quarterback Tyler Vander Waal in the offseason.

Vander Waal, a three-star recruit out of Christian Brothers in Sacramento, where he was coached by former Aggie quarterback Dan Carmazzi, started 13 games for Wyoming over two years with mixed results before deciding to transfer.

“It doesn’t matter if we’re playing in December, March or February, I’m just happy to be playing,” Vander Waal says, clearly happy that he landed in Pocatello.

Davis High golfer Unnati Uppal keeps her head down in the wind during blustery conditions at Wildhorse Golf Club on Wednesday. The Blue Devils, with senior Uppal shooting a 55, took a decision from Cosumnes Oaks.

Grace Mun was a medalist with a 54. Saera Ojha shot 56, Brooklyn Bolnik came in at 57 and Aly Kang carded 57. Overall, DHS had a 282 in conditions that Devils’ coach Michele Salisbury called “horrible.”

win an MPSF individual title in two years.

Surrounding the water at Cal Poly’s Anderson Aquatic Center, her Aggie teammates went wild.

“We didn’t get a senior meet,” Motekaitis pointed out. “We didn’t even get a home meet this year.

“We faced so much adversity,” she added. “But we pulled through.

“People ended up with the highest individual scores they’d ever produced, we had a ton of best times, and people we didn’t expect to have the greatest of meets really over-performed expectations.”

The Aggies finished third at the conference championships, with 13 UCD athletes claiming a total of 24 all-conference honors.

Along with junior diver Taylor Hornberger, Motekaitis was named to the MPSF first-team after the competition, which marked the final meet for head coach Barb Jahn, who announced

FIRE: Aggies up to No. 12 From Page B3 we need to focus on setting games in our pace. That’s the key going forward.”

Davis has moved up to No. 12 in Tuesday’s CollegeInsider.com midmajors poll and takes the court again today and Saturday as it hosts Cal Poly (11-7, 7-5 in BWC) at The Pavilion.

With only four BWC games left, does Gross expect the fast starts to continue?

“Mac gets us going when we need to get going. Then she’s really capable of setting us up, getting the play or the match-up that we want,” the coach points out.

“She’s obviously known for her playmaking and the way she distributes the ball, but this year when opportunities present themselves to score, she’s ready to take advantage of that. And we’ve needed that in a lot of games.

“Mac’s a veteran, a floor leader for us with a really good pulse on

the game: a knack for doing what makes sense.”

Notes: Redshirt senior Trpcic plans to find the right pre-med graduate program next year. She has another year of eligibility remaining (thanks to the NCAA COVID rule) and says if grad study brings her back to Davis next fall, so be it. She’d also like to play professionally. ... The daughter of Pamela and Brando Trpcic, Mackenzie hasn’t seen her parents since September. Her sister Madison is a junior guard at Bryant University. ... The UC Davis men (6-6, 3-3) joined the women for a bye last weekend. Jim Les’ crew is off to Cal Poly for games today and Saturday. Men’s games start at 2 p.m., the women tip off at 3 p.m. this weekend.

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

Follow him on Twitter: @BGsportsinDavis.

The Thunderbirds, which have announced their intention to leave the Big Sky for the Western Athletic Conference, will nevertheless compete for the spring crown in 2021.

SUU, coached by former Aggie Demario Warren, has new coordinators on offense and defense as they attempt to rebound from a 2-6, 3-9 campaign that saw them mired in a five-way tie for last place in the Big Sky with Northern Arizona, Cal Poly, Idaho State and Northern Colorado.

Notes Warren: “Our offensive line has been phenomenal because we have a lot of experience and returners. Our running back group is deep, our quarterbacks are really picking up the system as we go along, and I think our secondary having a big veteran presence has really stepped up and taken some ownership.”

Cal Poly The Mustangs, who are scheduled to play the Aggies twice this spring, have a new coach in Beau Baldwin — the guy who led Eastern Washington to its 2010 national championship before spending several years at Cal as an assistant.

Northern Arizona The good news at NAU as Chris Ball begins his second year as head coach (2-6, 4-8 in 2019) is placekicker Luis Aguilar, the 2019 Fred Mitchell Award honoree who is rated as the nation’s top returning FCS kicker.

Aguilar had a 57-yard field goal among his 118 points scored in 2019, with 56 straight PAT successes and a nation-leading 61 touchbacks.

Kickers alone, of course, won’t get you to the Promised Land, but Ball is optimistic with the addition of Oklahoma State transfer Keondre Wudtee, who has earned the starting quarterback job.

After the Lumberjacks averaged just 123 yards per game on the ground last year, Ball hopes to place more emphasis on the running game to complement what Wudtee is expected to do through the air.

First-week Big Sky competition on Saturday includes Southern Utah at NAU, Eastern Washington at Idaho and Weber State at Idaho State.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

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Poly was just 2-6 and 3-8 in 2019, but Baldwin is hoping he can work the same winning magic with the Mustangs that he did at EWU. The first order of business for Baldwin is to scrap Poly’s run-atall-costs triple-option offense in favor of a wide-open attack that worked so well at Eastern Washington.

“There is a different edge and a different hunger that this group has,” Baldwin says.

“This group has a lot of talent in a lot of spots. They have that chip on their shoulder, they have that edge, they have that ‘want to get better’ mentality.”

Although Jalen Hamler started all 11 games at quarterback in 2019, he will face still competition to keep that job in Baldwin’s new offense.

“It’s still wide open,” Baldwin says.

her retirement prior to the season — her 46th on deck with the UCD. A three-time Sac-Joaquin Section champion during her prep days as a Blue Devil, Motekaitis reflected on a heartfelt moment she shared with her head coach during the meet: “We were leaving the team vans at one point, me in my wheelchair, and Barb said, ‘I feel so bad for you. I would be so embarrassed.’

“And I stopped her,” Motekaitis said. “I told her, ‘No. This is great. There’re all these rumors going around and people talking about that girl in the wheelchair. I’m the underdog now.

There’s no more pressure on me.’ ” Smiling through the pain, Motekaitis would also finish second overall in the women’s 200 freestyle and anchor the Aggies’ third-place 400 freestyle relay.

“Barb talked about trying our best to create memories that didn’t revolve around COVID this season,” Motekaitis said.

And whether she liked it or not,

her accomplishments despite the injury certainly stood out as some of those memories.

“Everyone’s going to remember that I was there in the wheelchair that one year,” Motekaitis said.

“They literally all pushed me around at one point or another.”

Little did the Aggies know that the whole time, it was actually Mia pushing them.

Notes: In a pandemic-shortened spring season, the UCD swimmers swam just three times. In its opener, Davis beat Fresno State for the eighth-straight season, 152-47.

The Aggies then smothered Pacific 160-94. Davis finished with 575 points at the MPSF Championships, with Hawaii (794.5) winning the meet and BYU (727.5) placing second. Swimming and diving for the final time this spring were: Tori Kaleta, Kathryn Bockman, Amanda Chau, Kyla Leacox, Alisha Miller, Sophie Murff, Theresa Nowack, Hayley O’Brien, Leah Timmerman and Katie Truong.

Big West Conference basketball standings Men’s standings Conf. Overall Streak 10-2 16-3 W12 8-4 12-8 L1 5-3 10-6 L1 8-6 14-9 L2 4-4 5-7 W2 3-3 6-6 W3 6-8 8-8 L1 5-7 6-7 W1 4-6 8-9 W1 1-11 3-15 L5 Friday games Aggies at Cal Poly, 2 p.m. BigWest.TV, KHTK (1140AM) UC San Diego at UC Irvine, 4 p.m.

CSUN at CSU Bakersfield, 7 p.m., ESPN3 UC Santa Barbara at UC Riverside, 8 p.m., ESPN2 Long Beach State at Hawaii, 9 p.m.

Saturday games Aggies at Cal Poly, 2 p.m. BigWest.TV, KHTK (1140AM) UC San Diego at UC Irvine, 4 p.m.

CSUN at CSU Bakersfield, 7 p.m.

UC Santa Barbara at UC Riverside, 7 p.m., ESPN3 Long Beach State at Hawaii, 7 p.m.

School UC Santa Barbara UC Irvine UC Riverside CSU Bakersfield Long Beach State UC Davis Hawaii Cal State Fullerton CSUN Cal Poly

Women’s standings School Conf. Overall Streak UC Davis 6-0 7-1 W2 UC Irvine 9-2 11-6 W3 Long Beach State 10-4 11-5 L4 Cal Poly 7-5 11-7 W2 CSU Bakersfield 7-6 9-8 L1 Hawaii 4-5 5-6 L1 UC Riverside 5-7 7-9 L2 UC San Diego 4-7 4-7 W2 UC Santa Barbara 4-8 4-12 W2 Cal Poly 1-13 2-16 L2 Friday games Cal Poly at Aggies, 3 p.m., BigWest.TV, KDVS (90.3FM) Hawaii at Long Beach State, 4 p.m.

UC Riverside at UC Santa Barbara, TBA, ESPN3 UC Irvine at UC San Diego, 5 p.m., ESPN3 Saturday games Cal Poly at Aggies, 3 p.m., BigWest.TV, KDVS (90.3FM) Hawaii at Long Beach State, 4 p.m.

UC Riverside at UC Santa Barbara, TBA, BigWest.TV UC Irvine at UC San Diego, 5 p.m., ESPN3

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One of my mother’s sisters was still living and was able to provide me with the names of her grandparents and greatgrandparents. I started researching on the internet in 2000 and was put together my maternal family from my great-great-grandparents forward, which I shared with everyone who wanted a copy.

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the County website (www.yolocounty. org) and available for viewing outside of the County Administration Building located at 625 Court Street, Woodland, CA 95696 at least 72 hours in advance of the meeting.

The Board of Supervisors will hold a public hearing to act upon a recommendation from the Planning Commission to certify the Final Environmental Impact Report (EIR) prepared for the Cannabis Land Use Ordinance (CLUO); amend the Countywide General Plan to revise and add new policies in the Land Use and Community Character and Agriculture and Economic Development Elements to establish a policy base for cannabis land use regulation; and, amend the Zoning Regulations of the County Code to adopt the CLUO that will regulate cannabis activities in the unincorporated area of the County. The ordinance includes regulatory requirements for permitting cannabis activities through land use, zoning, and development standards, and addresses assumed numbers of operational activities, allowed locations based on zoning, controls on overconcentration, and required buffers from identified land uses. The Planning Commission’s recommendation to adopt the CLUO includes: assessment of program effectiveness every two years; prohibition of retail storefront license types; a 100-foot setback for cannabis greenhouses in an Agricultural Zone; a requirement for 1,000-foot buffers from residences on Agriculturally-zoned parcels and 1,000-foot buffers from the zone boundary of any Residential Zone; and, the addition of buffer easements. An Environmental Impact Report has been prepared for the CLUO pursuant to the California Environmentally Quality Act (CEQA).

rents for similar rental units in the areas Altiplano Enterprises, Inc. in which the project is located.

1525 Lemon Lane Davis, CA 95616 Up to 50 PBV vouchers are available 4. Business Classification: Corporation under this RFP. Project-based assistance 5. Beginning Date of Business: The is limited to the greater of 25 units Registrant(s) commenced to transact or 25 percent of the units in any one business under the fictitious business development, except in proposals to name or names listed above on: N/A serve elderly or disabled households “I declare that all information in or households receiving supportive this statement is true and correct.” services.

(A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be RFP packets are available at the Yolo false is guilty of a crime.)

County Housing website www.ych.ca.gov 6. Signature of Registrant(s): on February 29, 2021. The submission John Terlecky deadline is 5:00 p.m., Monday, March Treasurer, Altiplano Enterprises, Inc. 29, 2021.

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR For questions about this RFP and the CHANGE OF NAME PBV Program, contact Janis Holt, General Director, 530-662-5428 or jholt@ych. Case Number: CV2021-292 1. Avalon Nicole Hendricks filed a petition ca.gov.

2/26 1174 with this court for a decree changing names as follows: NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER Avalon Nicole Hendricks ESTATE OF to Reinlinde Berta Siwek Kinsley Imrie Titchener CASE NO. PR2021-0030 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, interested in this matter shall appear contingent creditors, and persons who before this court at the hearing indicated may otherwise be interested in the will or below to show cause, if any, why the estate, or both, of: Reinlinde Berta Siwek petition should not be granted.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been NOTICE OF HEARING filed by: Elizabeth A. Davis in the Date: April 15, 2021 Time: 9 a.m.

Superior Court of California, County of: Dept: #10 Room: Zoom Yolo The address of the court is THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests 1000 Main Street, Woodland, CA 95695 that: Elizabeth A. Davis be appointed as 3. a) A copy of this Order to Show Cause personal representative to administer the shall be published at least once a week estate of the decedent. for four successive weeks prior to the THE PETITION requests the decedent’s date set for hearing on the petition in will and codicils, if any, be admitted to the following newspaper of general probate. The will and any codicils are circulation, printed in this county: available for examination in the file kept The Davis Enterprise by the court.

315 G Street, Davis, CA 95616 THE PETITION requests authority Date: February 22, 2021 to administer the estate under the Samuel T. McAdam Independent Administration of Estates Anyone who wishes to comment on this Judge of the Superior Court matter may do so in advance by emailing Act. (This authority will allow the personal 2/26, 3/5, 3/12, 3/19 1178 representative to take many actions clerkoftheboard@yolocounty.org or The Enterprise is FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME without obtaining court approval.

Before telephonically at the public hearing.

OPENSTATEMENT for business!

Copies of the full text of the proposed taking certain very important actions, ordinance are available at the Office of however, the personal representative will Filed: February 16, 2021 ToNumber: SUBSCRIBE, please call 530F20210147 the Clerk of the Board, 625 Court Street, be required to give notice to interested FBN 756-0826.

Name(s) Room 204, Woodland, CA 95695, by persons unless they have waived notice 1. Fictitious Business telephone (530) 666-8195, or at the Yolo or consented to the proposed action.) T&L Exotics Total Beauty place an AD,City, email nhannell@ independent administration 2.To County Web site (www.yolocounty.org). The Street Address, State and Zip of authority will be granted unless an Principal davisenterprise.net or call at Place of Business in Nancy California.

Pursuant to California Government Code interested person files an objection to Business is located 530-747-8032. in Yolo County.

Section 65009(b)(2) and other provisions the petition and shows good cause why 179 First Street For LEGAL NOTICES, email of law, any lawsuit challenging the the court should not grant the authority. Woodland, CA 95695 approval of a project described in this A HEARING on the petition will be 3.legals@davisenterprise.net or call List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), notice shall be limited to only those held on April 2, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. in Residence Address, State, and Zip Shawn at 530-747-8061. issues raised at the public hearing or Department TBD located at 1000 Main Christine Jones described in written correspondence Street, Woodland, CA 95695.

For Ave. CLASSIFIEDS or 1100 Howe delivered for consideration before the IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of Sacramento, CA 95825 OBITUARIES, email classads@ the petition, you should appear at the 4. Business Classification: Individual hearing is closed. davis enterprise.net or obit@ hearing and state your objections or file 5. Beginning Date of Business: The davisenterprise.net written objections with the court before Registrant(s) Dated: February 26, 2021 commenced to transact the hearing.

Your appearance may be in Julie Dachtler, Senior Deputy Clerk usiness under e tth the he h e fic fi ctitious busin business fictitious business person or by your attorney.

Yolo County Board of Supervisors am me o am aame ames me m e s llisted ist iis sstt ed e above on: name orr n names 2/26 1169 IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent February ebrrua eb ru ua u arry y 16 16, 1 6, 20 6 2 021 21 2021 creditor of the decedent, you must file dec de ecc llar e laar a r e tthat haaatt all hat h all l information in nffo nfo f o rm r m a tion in “I d declare your claim with the court and mail a copy PUBLIC NOTICE his sstatement hi ttaaatte tat te em eme me m e ent ntt is n is true trrru ttru ue and and d ccor orrre o re this correct.” to the personal representative appointed A re reg eg e g iis ist sst rran raaan nt w ho h o d dec de ecc llar e aarres e s aass ttrue es (A registrant who declares ATTENTION OWNERS/DEVELOPERS by the court within the later of either nfo nf orm rm maat ati to on nw whi wh hiicch h h he he o orr sshe he e kkn now ow wss tto o be information which knows INVITATION FOR PROPOSALS (1) four months from the date of first alse al alse e is is g gui gu uiilty u lty o off a ccr cri rim ri me. me e e..) false guilty crime.) issuance of letters to a general personal ig gna nat nat atu urrre ure eo off R Re eg giiisstra gis ttrrraant nt( n t(ss): t( s))):: Signature Registrant(s): Yolo County Housing (YCH) invites representative, as defined in section 58(b) 6.. Sig hrriist h ssttiin ine ne n e JJo ones ne n ess, O e wn wne w ner ne Jones, Owner owners and developers of property in of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 Christine /26 6,, 3/5 6 3/ 3 //5 5, 3 //1 /12 12 1 2, 3 /1 //19 19 1 9 1 3/5, 3/12, 3/19 1179 the County of Yolo to submit proposals days from the date of mailing or personal 2/26, for participation in the Housing Choice delivery to you of a notice under section FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME Voucher (formerly Section 8) Project 9052 of the California Probate Code.

STATEMENT Based Voucher (PBV) program. The Other California statutes and legal Filed: February 23, 2021 primary purpose of this allocation is to authority may affect your rights as FBN Number: F20210177 existing housing, rehabilitation or new a creditor. You may want to consult 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) construction projects with planned with an attorney knowledgeable in Pet Practice Partners completion by December 31, 2020 that California law.

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Street Address, City, State and Zip of are safe, decent and sanitary for rental YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the to low income families who are eligible court. If you are a person interested in Principal Place of Business in California. for Veterans Administration Supportive the estate, you may file with the court a Business is located in Yolo County.

Housing (VASH) or Mainstream Vouchers. Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) 3703 Ascada Place Higher ranking will be provided to of the filing of an inventory and appraisal Davis, CA 95618 proposals that include on-site supportive of estate assets or of any petition or 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), services tailored to meet the needs of account as provided in Probate Code Residence Address, State, and Zip James Jared Clark residents. section 1250. A Request for Special Notice 3703 Ascada Place form is available from the court clerk.

Davis, CA 95618 Proposed projects must comply with Signed: Raphael S. Moore and Department of Housing and Urban Moore & Moore Attorneys at Law Cassandra Marie Linder Development (HUD) program regulations 413 F Street, Davis, CA 95616 216 Willoughby Dr. and requirements as specified in 24 CFR 530-758-8317 Naples, FL 34110 983.57 including, but not limited to the 2/26, 2/28, 3/5 1176 4. Business Classification: following: deconcentrating poverty FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME General Partnership and expanding housing and economic STATEMENT 5. Beginning Date of Business: The opportunities; the program site(s) must Registrant(s) commenced to transact be suitable from the standpoint of Filed: February 22, 2021 business under the fictitious business facilitating and furthering full compliance FBN Number: F20210172 name or names listed above on: N/A with Fair Housing laws; and the program 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) “I declare that all information in site must meet the minimum Housing Andes Gifts Quality Standards and Housing 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of this statement is true and correct.”

Accessibility requirements as specified in Principal Place of Business in California. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be 24 CFR 983.101 and 983.102. Proposed Business is located in Yolo County. false is guilty of a crime.) project costs and operating expenses will 1525 Lemon Lane 6. Signature of Registrant(s): be the responsibility of the owner. Rents Davis, CA 95616 that are established for the project will be 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), James Jared Clark commensurate with other comparable Residence Address, State, and Zip 2/26, 3/5, 3/12, 3/19 1180

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What’s black and white and loved by kids all over the world? Pandas, of course!

Read on to learn about these gentle creatures.

3 Can you imagine a world without pandas?

Only about 1,800 giant pandas live in the wild today. They are in danger of becoming extinct—gone forever.

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Giant pandas live in the Sichuan mountains of southwest China, where they feed on bamboo.

9 Scientists debated this for years. About 20 years ago, a group of experts determined that giant pandas are most closely related to bears, Panda although they are also a eye lot like raccoons.

Pandas are losing their habitat. Giant pandas need forests with lots of bamboo to survive.

These forests are rapidly disappearing as humans use them to meet their needs.

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Standards Link: Life Science: Students know changes in the environment can be detrimental to organisms.

The Chinese call the panda “Da xiong mao,” which means “giant bear cat.”

3

Pandas are different from Bear other bears. For one thing, eye they have eyes like a cat.

And their front paws have an unusual thumb—sometimes called a false thumb. This is not actually a thumb, like a human thumb. It is a part of the wrist bone that sticks out to the side like an extra finger.

3

Do the math to find out the number of giant pandas in each of these zoos in America and Canada:

Smithsonian National Zoo, Washington D.C.

14+8-18 = ____ 3

While bamboo makes up most of a giant panda’s diet, pandas sometimes eat small animals.

Because of this small amount of meat eating, giant pandas are classified as carnivores.

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2 The panda is a symbol of peace in China.

22-13-7 = ____ San Diego Zoo

Zoo Atlanta

3

Invent a Creature Number the pandas in order from smallest to biggest.

A mother panda is about 800 times heavier than her baby. (If a human mother with a 7-pound baby weighed 800 times more, she would weigh 5,600 pounds. That’s nearly 3 tons!)

Standards Link: Life Science: Students know there is a variation among individuals of one kind within a population.

Use these four missing letters to fill in the blanks to discover the name of the organization.

_ OR _ _ _ I _ _ _ I _ E _ UN _

17+23-38 = ____

38-19-15 = ____

The largest giant pandas can grow to be about 250 pounds. Ask five friends how much they weigh.

Add up their weights. Does it equal 250 pounds?

Because of its distinctive features and its status as endangered, the giant panda was chosen by the world’s largest conservation organization as a symbol of conservation.

Toronto Zoo

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Standards Link: Number Sense: Calculate sums to 30.

Baby pandas are itty-bitty bears. They weigh only 4 to 6 ounces at birth (114-170 grams).

Memphis Zoo

9+8-14 = ____ 5

PANDA CHINA MOTHER HUMAN BABY GIANT BAMBOO CAT BLACK WHITE BEARS CREATURE ZOOS EYE FOOD

Look through the newspaper and cut out parts of different animals to create a new animal. Give your creature a name.

Describe where your animal lives and what it eats.

Several of these zoos have Panda Cams.

Complete the grid by using all the letters in the word BEARS in each vertical and horizontal row. Each letter should only be used once in each row.

Some spaces have been filled in for you.

Standards Link: Writing Applications: Write brief expository descriptions.

Find the words in the puzzle, then in this week’s Kid Scoop stories and activities.

E Y E O C S B E T Y Y G T O A J R Z B T Z I I M E U W A O A

This week’s word:

A A H P T O B O E S

The noun status means the position or rank of a person or thing.

N N W A O O B M A B I T E N S N Z O O S H R T D M O T H E R C O N A M U H P Z Y D O O F C K C A L B Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognized identical words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.

STATUS

Sarah lost her status as leading goal scorer when she broke her leg.

Try to use the word status in a sentence today when talking with your friends and family members.

The Cutest Animal in the World

What’s black and white and red all over?

Look at one page of today’s newspaper and circle in red all the words you know that begin with the letter P. ANSWER: Winnie the pew!

Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow simple written directions.

All giant pandas and their cubs are on loan from China.

Agreements between these zoos and the Chinese conservation organizations are helping to preserve these endangered species.

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Giant pandas need to eat a lot of food every day. They eat day and night, constantly wandering through the forest eating and eating. Add up the numbers along the correct path of the maze to find out how many pounds of food one giant panda can eat in a day.

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About 300 giant pandas live in zoos and research centers worldwide. Threatened with extinction, these captive breeding programs are seen as hope for the giant panda’s survival.

Which animal do you think is the cutest animal in the world? Why? Write a paragraph to convince other children of your opinion.

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2021

‘The Dig’ is quite a captivating excavation Intriguing story highlights some fascinating history

‘The Dig’ Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan, Lily James, Johnny Flynn, Ben Chaplin, Ken Stott, Archie Barnes and Monica Dolan Rating: PG-13, and much too harshly, for brief sensuality and fleeting partial nudity Available via: Netflix

BY DERRICK BANG Enterprise film critic Director Simon Stone’s wellseasoned character drama is a thoroughly absorbing slice of oldstyle British filmmaking: a fascinating, fact-based story inhabited by engaging characters, set in England’s luxuriously verdant countryside.

The countryside in question is Suffolk, the year 1939: just as Britain is battening down the hatches in anticipation of war with Germany. Odd, then, that widowed aristocratic landowner Edith Pretty (Carey Mulligan) chooses this moment to investigate the large barrows (burial mounds) that dot her 526-acre Sutton Hoo estate (but, well, the actual Pretty did just that).

She hires local archaeologist/ excavator Basil Brown (Ralph Fiennes) to investigate; after surveying the various mounds, he settles on a particularly large one.

The digging is arduous, painstaking and slow, even with the help of a few estate workers. As the days and weeks pass, with Edith and her adolescent son Robert (Archie Barnes) taking an active interest — and since Basil is living on the estate — he becomes a welcome part of the family.

That’s no small thing since the working-class Basil is akin to a servant himself. Although Edith clearly gives no thought to that sort of thing.

Nothing is quite as condescending as British class snobbery, and Fiennes does a marvelous job of imbuing Basil with quiet dignity and patient resolve when confronted by it.

His deepening bond with Edith and Robert notwithstanding, he

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After a harrowing reminder that amateur excavation can be quite dangerous, Edith Pretty (Carey Mulligan) makes sure that archaeologist Basil Brown (Ralph Fiennes) has suffered no more than a terrible fright. also tends toward obsession, ignoring frequent letters from his wife, May (Monica Dolan).

Basil becomes convinced that these Sutton Hoo barrows might pre-date the Viking era (eighth to 11th century): in fact, might be Anglo-Saxon (as early as the fifth century). Naturally, his disdainful “learned” colleagues dismiss this notion.

Then Basil finds some iron rivets. A ship’s iron rivets. (Bear in mind, we’re well inland.) Only figures of immense merit — such as kings — were buried with their ships.

And, suddenly, Basil is nearly shoved aside by an official team led by condescending Cambridge archaeologist Charles Phillips (Ken Stott, appropriately stuffy). But it’s Edith’s land, and she calls the shots; she insists that Basil share supervisorial responsibilities, and be allowed to continue digging.

Phillips’ colleagues include Peggy Piggott (Lily James) and her husband, Stuart (Ben Chaplin). Edith also asks her cousin Rory Lomax (Johnny Flynn) to participate, and he becomes the project’s official photographer.

I know what you’re thinking: Watching people slowly excavate an archaeological site must be about as interesting as waiting for paint to dry. But you’re wrong; Moira Buffini’s deftly crafted screenplay — adapted from John Preston’s 2007 historical novel of the same title — focuses more on these intriguing characters, than on the project itself; the brief “dig sequences” are reserved for key discoveries, which Stone shades in a way that maximizes the excitement of the moment.

As always is the case with wellscripted drama, each of these characters has issues and traumas. The self-absorbed Basil disregards his

wife, who worries about him.

Edith’s health is fragile; she’s warned by her doctor to avoid stress. Peggy is stuck in a loveless marriage with Stuart, a closeted homosexual: a situation recognized by the ruggedly handsome Rory (this story’s sole fictitious primary character, inserted to add tension to the Peggy/Stuart dynamic).

Fiennes and Mulligan are captivating, as the bond between Basil and Edith deepens. Fiennes excels at reserved, calmly capable individuals, and he makes Basil the sort of inherently fascinating character you’d love to have as a neighbor, and on whose every word you’d hang.

Mulligan, in turn, radiates intelligence, kindness and fragility; we ache every time Edith winces, while slowly walking with a cane.

But vulnerability doesn’t confer weakness, as we’re reminded each

time Edith sharply puts Phillips — or anybody else — in his place. And I love the fond smile and quiet warmth that Mulligan displays when recalling how she and her late husband met and married.

James, almost unrecognized behind jam-jar glasses, deserves more screen time: both because she’s so adept at inhabiting her role, and also because the actual Peggy Piggott was as important to this project as Basil Brown. To be fair, Peggy does get a key moment — as she did, in real life — and James’ wide-eyed astonishment is palpable enough to elicit smiles and cheers from us viewers.

Chaplin’s Stuart is mildly withdrawn, and frequently abashed, but he isn’t an insensitive monster. We can tell he regrets the pain he’s causing his wife while trying to make the most of his own predicament.

As the film concludes, a final text block is positively heartbreaking: a reminder of the petty and deliberately nasty behavior to which “recognized experts” can resort.

The best historical dramas always send viewers to books and online resources, and this one certainly qualifies. I mean, really … who knew?

— Read more of Derrick Bang’s film criticism at http:// derrickbang.blogspot.com.

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Stories on Stage podcast episode features sci-fi novel excerpt Special to The Enterprise Stories on Stage Davis will release the 12th episode of its allpodcast eighth season on Saturday, Feb. 27, with an excerpt from Adam Peter Johnson’s novel, “Branches,” read by actor Jason Oler.

The narrator in this short story, fearing he only has a short time to live with his wife Meredith and young son Nolan, is surprised to receive his diagnosis, which turns his life upside down in an

unexpected way.

Combining science fiction, politics and family, the first chapters of this novel susJOHNSON pensefully Featured author introduce an alternate present-day world while holding up a mirror to our own reality.

Adam Peter Johnson is the

author of the novel “Branches.”

He is a former journalist who lives in Minnesota with his wife, son and golden basset.

Reading “Branches’’ is Jason Oler, a Davis native making his debut with Stories on Stage Davis. Oler’s first theater experience was in elementary school when he was cast as the Lizard in “The Lizard of Zo.” Some years later, at Davis High School, he began participating in theater more consistently and

over the years, has had the opportunity to be in more than 20 productions.

He has performed with Sacramento OLER Theatre ComFeatured pany (as Puck in reader their production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”) and with Bike City Theatre Company.

The Stories on Stage Davis podcast airs new episodes every second and fourth Saturday, and its eighth season will run through June 2021. Upcoming and past episodes, as well as ways to support the series, can be found on the Stories on Stage Davis website. Stories on Stage Davis is a sponsored project of YoloArts, a nonprofit arts organization.

For more information, and to listen to the podcast, visit stories onstagedavis.com.

‘The Little Things’ make watching this a big mistake Strong cast just can’t save this idiotic thriller

BY DERRICK BANG Enterprise film critic You don’t often see three Oscar winners starring in the same film.

Too bad they’re so illserved by this inept crime drama.

“The Little Things” benefits from the participation of Denzel Washington and Rami Malek, both of whom bring far more to the table than writer/director John Lee Hancock deserves.

In fairness, Hancock can be a talented director. He guided Sandra Bullock to an Academy Award in 2009’s “The Blind Side,” and I thoroughly enjoyed how he handled Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson, in 2019’s “The Highwaymen.”

But as a writer, his record is spotty at best; his best efforts are adaptations of existing books, as with “The Blind Side” and 1997’s “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.” He certainly has no flair for concocting a psychological crime thriller such as this one, which repeatedly screams for the superior touch of a seasoned mystery author.

The year is 1990, likely to avoid the intrusion of cell phones, social media and DNA evidence. Kern County Sheriff ’s Deputy

‘The Little Things’ Starring: Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, Jared Leto, Chris Bauer, Michael Hyatt, Natalie Morales, Terry Kinney and Isabel Arraiza Rating: R, for violence, disturbing images, nudity and profanity Available via: HBO Max Joe “Deke” Deacon (Washington) is sent down to Los Angeles, for what should be a quick evidence-gathering assignment. He runs afoul of preppy L.A. County Sheriff ’s Homicide Department Sgt. Jim Baxter (Malek), whose “college boy” condescension provokes little more than an amused smile from Deke.

Washington delivers it with quiet élan. Actually, pretty much everything Washington does emerges with elegance and dignity.

Turns out Deke has “history” with this Los Angeles department, having departed under something of a cloud. (Hancock shares these details via maddeningly sparse and fleeting flashbacks, as the film proceeds.) Deke left behind a few friends — Det. Sal Rizoli (Chris Bauer), and L.A. coroner’s assistant Flo Dunigan (Michael Hyatt)

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Looking to show off in front of visiting veteran detective Joe “Deke” Deacon (Denzel Washington, center rear), homicide Det. Jim Baxter (Rami Malek) browbeats a junior officer, while Det. Jamie Estrada (Natalie Morales) looks on nervously.

— but most other department stalwarts were happy to see the back of him.

Baxter heads the task force charged with tracking down a serial killer who has been doing nasty things to attractive young women.

Perhaps as a passive/ aggressive means of showing up the old-timer, Baxter invites Deke along to a fresh crime scene, where the newest victim has just been discovered. This ploy fails, forcing Baxter to reluctantly admire Deke’s methodical analysis and careful eye for “the little things.”

The two men begin an initially prickly — but soon mutually respectful — partnership.

Because, as it turns out, the details of this current murder spree have uncanny similarities to the equally morbid serial killer case that Deke obsessively pursued, back in the day: to the cost of his health, his marriage and his job.

Up to this point, Hancock’s film is on firm ground. Washington and Malek develop a solid dynamic, built primarily from brief conversations taking place during the grinding process of crime scene analysis, crosschecking old data, and chasing down slim leads. Baxter can’t help admiring Deke’s tenacity and shrewd instincts; Deke warily

recognizes that the happily married Baxter is in similar danger of losing himself in his job.

Deke soon chances upon a potential suspect: skeevy appliance repairman Albert Sparma (Jared Leto, so memorable in 2013’s “Dallas Buyers Club”). At this point, Hancock’s film begins its inexorable slide into lunacy. He’s clearly trying for the über-creepy, cat-and-mouse suspense that Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt and Kevin Spacey generated, in 1995’s “Se7en” … but doesn’t get within shouting distance.

Deke and Baxter are convinced this is The Guy, particularly since Leto

(over)plays him as such a spooky, eyes-just-this-sideof-madness oddball.

Sparma loves the attention, making himself look as guilty as possible while revealing absolutely nothing. Although Leto’s performance initially seems beguiling and tantalizing, Sparma’s condescending smugness quickly becomes tiresome.

Nor do Deke and Baxter’s increasingly agitated antics — in their efforts to dig up proof — seem within character.

Even at this point — Washington and Malek having built up considerable good will — we hope that Hancock can somehow salvage what is becoming an increasingly contrived mess.

It’s not to be.

At the 95-minute mark, this story takes a blindingly stupid, jump-the-shark shift that would have had patrons jeering in noisy disgust were this a shared movie theater experience.

Truly: one of the worst, most imbecilic plot contrivances I’ve ever had the displeasure to endure.

Things don’t improve; indeed, they get worse.

Everything we previously admired about this story, and its characters, is dashed on the shoals of scripting incompetence.

This is one of those films that leaves a very bad taste when the end credits finally roll.

Be smart. Give it a miss.