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UCD offers students $75 to stay put

By Caleb Hampton Enterprise staff writer

A drive-through clinic in Woodland on Sunday saw around 500 childcare workers receive COVID-19 vaccines.

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County to vaccinate thousands at clinics

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy

hand sanitizer, books and blankets to childcare providers.

Clinics at farm sites on Tuesday and Wednesday were to provide vaccines to around 800 farmworkers while clinics Thursday through Saturday will vaccinate more than 1,500 people, including those 65 and older as well as those working in restaurants, grocery stores and in childcare.

“We will be all over this county, from Esparto to West Sacramento, and from Davis to Woodland,” Tan said Monday.

Additional spots may open up to the public at clinics scheduled for Thursday, Friday and Saturday, so those looking for a

Enterprise staff writer Yolo County continues to vaccinate residents at a rapid clip.

Multiple large clinics are scheduled this week targeting seniors as well as those working in food and agriculture and childcare. Staff and inmates at the county jail will also receive COVID-19 vaccinations, according to county spokeswoman Jenny Tan. At a clinic held at the Yolo County Office of Education on Sunday, around 500 childcare workers were vaccinated. First 5 Yolo, meanwhile, used the opportunity to hand out free supplies including diapers,

vaccine should keep an eye on the county’s vaccine webpage — www.yolocounty.org/coronavirus-vaccine — where links to register will be added when slots open up.

Meanwhile the pool of those eligible for vaccines will expand next Monday when individuals 16 to 64 with severe health conditions or disabilities will become eligible.

The list of conditions that apply include: n Cancer, current with weakened immune system n Chronic kidney disease, stage 4 or above n Chronic pulmonary disease, oxygen dependent

n Down syndrome n Solid organ transplant, leading to a weakened immune system n Pregnancy n Sickle cell disease n Heart conditions, such as heart failure, coronary artery disease or cardiomyopathies (but not hypertension) n Severe obesity (A body mass index equal to or greater than 40) n Type 2 diabetes mellitus, with hemoglobin A1C level greater than 7.5 percent Or, if as a result of a developmental or other severe high-risk

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Yolo remains on cusp of orange tier

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy

The state plan is to dedicate 40 percent of vaccine doses statewide to the most disadvantaged communities. Zip codes that fall into the lowest quartile of the Healthy Places Index, which measures a slew of socioeconomic indicators, are the beneficiaries.

Enterprise staff writer Yolo County’s COVID-19 cases remain low and the county narrowly missed meeting the orange tier metrics in Tuesday’s update of the state’s blueprint for reopening.

The county’s adjusted case rate for the week ending Feb. 27 was 4 cases per 100,000 residents and the threshold for the orange tier is between 1 and 3.9 cases.

Moving from red to orange would allow businesses in the county to increase capacity indoors, including restaurants, gyms and movie theaters. The earliest the county can now make that move is March 24.

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The county’s health equity quartile rate of 4.3 percent met the orange tier metric and the countywide test positivity rate of 1.1 percent met the least restrictive yellow tier metric.

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However, the state’s blueprint will be undergoing changes in the future that will allow counties to progress more quickly through the tiers as vaccine equity goals are met.

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In Yolo County, those communities are in the Broderick neighborhood of West Sacramento as well as the towns of Brooks, Guinda, Madison and Dunnigan.

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During the month of March, free testing is available every day in Davis and most days elsewhere in the county.

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With spring break approaching, UC Davis is asking students to avoid travel during the week of March 22-26 in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19. As an incentive, the city-campus partnership Healthy Davis Together is offering students Spring Break Grants of $75 apiece to be used for “staycations,” UC Davis Chancellor Gary S. May announced Friday in a message to the campus community.

By offering students cash incentives to stay in town, Healthy Davis Together hopes to encourage behaviors that align with COVID-19 public health directives, help students find fun and safe alternatives to in-person gatherings, and help protect the Davis community, according to the grant’s application form.

To qualify for the grants, students must be living full-time in Davis, agree not to travel during spring break and have scheduled a COVID19 test during the break. Students have until 5 p.m. Wednesday, Mar. 10 to apply for the grants.

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Briefly Audubon offers journaling The Yolo Audubon Society is offering a virtual nature journaling workshop at 9 a.m.

Sunday, March 14. The workshop is free and will be conducted over Zoom. No experience is necessary. (Note: March 14 is the first day of Daylight Savings Time.)

Alison Kent will introduce the art of nature journaling, with a discussion of tools and materials for about a half-hour. Participants will then go out in their own neighborhoods or another area of choice to walk and journal. The group will reconvene at 11:15 a.m. to discuss and share their journals.

Examples of nature journaling, suggested art materials and additional resources and information are available on the Yolo Audubon websites: yoloaudubon.org or facebook.com/yolo audubonsociety. Those interested should register for the Zoom event on either website.

Yolo Audubon, a chapter of the National Audubon Society, is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to foster an appreciation of birds and conservation in Yolo County

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All that money, coming our way H ONORING OUR SENIORS ... Our beloved Congressman, John Garamendi, has decided not to wait until Christmas to tell us about all the presents the American Rescue Plan will bring our way.

According to Garamendi’s piece in Sunday’s Enterprise, the plan includes “much-needed support to crush COVID-19, put students safely back in classrooms, put vaccines in arms, put money in people’s pockets and put Americans back to work.”

Put, put, put, put, put, put, put, put, put.

Including in the plan, which still has to be approved by Santa himself, is a staggering $48,535,000 for Yolo County schools, of which $6,608,000 will flow into the Davis Joint Unified School District. (Woodland is getting $21.5 million, but we can argue about that later.)

The DJUSD has several stellar high schools in town and between them there will be something like 1,000 graduating seniors this June. And let’s just say that the last several months of their junior

year and all of their senior year have not been anything near what they envisioned when they began their educational experience back in kindergarten.

How can we make it up to them?

Well, how about dividing $6,608,000 by 1,000 seniors and giving each one of these stellar students a graduation gift of $6,608.

Full disclosure: We have a graduating senior in our household, but that simple fact has not influenced my judgment in this matter in any way.

FINGERNAILS ACROSS THE BLACKBOARD ... During the otherwise excellent Pluto.TV

telecast of the Aggie-Idaho football game last Saturday, a color commentator who shall remain nameless referred to UC Davis as “Cal Poly.” And he did so three times in a matter of minutes.

After a producer presumably climbed into his headset and told him to drop the “Poly,” he started referring to us as the dreaded “Cal-Davis.”

Now, it’s okay to call us the Cal Aggies, the Harvard of the West or even Cal Worthington, but you can’t call us Cal-Davis.

Heads will roll.

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USSET REMINDER ... In addition to being told halfa-dozen times during the Aggie-Vandal telecast that the great state of Idaho produces a whopping 13 billion pounds of potatoes annually — but very little sour cream or chives — it was also noted that the University of Idaho is the “No. 1 Best Value Public University in the West.”

With all due respect to the fine folks in Moscow, I suspect there are some alums at “Cal-Davis” and perhaps others at Cal Poly who

would dispute that assessment.

LENTEN SACRIFICE ... I enjoyed the recent Safeway ad that urged me to “Dive Into Lent.” Diving is not exactly how I approach these 40 days and 40 nights, but I appreciate the sentiment nevertheless.

Immediately to the left of that headline was a photo of a USDA Choice T-bone steak.

Elsewhere, the same ad says I should be “Celebrating seafood during the Lent season” with such items as lobster tail, shrimp skewers and fresh Atlantic salmon.

Such a sacrifice.

Safeway also offers “Fresh wildcaught Dungeness,” as if these wily crustaceans were caught in some sort of a fair fight.

If you’ve ever seen a Dungeness crab at the seashore, you’ll know they can frequently attain speeds of up to 1 mile per hour. If you can’t catch one in your crab pot, you certainly don’t deserve to eat one.

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TESTING: County offers multiple places to get checked From Page A1 or make an appointment.

Locations and hours are: n Davis Senior Center 646 A St. Mondays — 7 a.m. to 2:15 p.m.

Tuesday through Friday — 8:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.

(Closed for lunch from 11:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.) n Marguerite Montgomery Elementary School 1441 Danbury St Monday through Wednesday — 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Closed Thursdays Fridays — 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

(Closed for lunch from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. n Mondavi Center 523 Mrak Hall Drive Seven days a week from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

(Closed for lunch from 11:15 a.m. to noon)

n Veterans Memorial Center 203 East 14th St. Monday through Friday — 8:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.

(Closed for lunch from 11:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

———— Yolo County is also providing free nasal-swab testing throughout the county and all ages are welcome.

Participants must be residents of Yolo County and will need to bring a document with their name and address on it, such as a driver’s license, ID card, utility bill or something similar. Items such as a magazine or piece of mail with name and address are also acceptable.

Registration is recommended but not required — it makes the process faster, but does not guarantee a test. When registering online, you will not be able

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Healthy Davis Together technician Jessica Scheurer sanitizes a station at the testing site at Marguerite Montgomery Elementary School on Monday. to select a time slot and you will not receive a confirmation of receipt. Register at https://www.avellinocoro natest.com/patient.

Testing is on Mondays from 3 to 7 p.m. at the Davis Senior Center, 646 A St., as well as Fridays from

Student-run veterinary Obituary nonprofit earns $10K Special to The Enterprise Through the Churu Vet Feline Fund, the Orphan Kitten Project at UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine will receive one of five $10,000 awards.

It was selected as a winner after submitting an essay on how they would use the funds to save the lives of cats in their care.

The Churu Vet Feline Fund was designed to help animal shelters and rescue facilities across the country with the cost of caring for animals in need. The Orphan Kitten Project plans to use the funds to continue its effort of taking in abandoned and orphaned neonatal kittens and provide necessary medical care. The project currently provides all necessary supplies to foster homes, so the funds will also go toward those purchases.

Dr. Jane Brunt, executive director of the CATalyst Council, a nonprofit organization formed to create the greatest lasting impact on feline health and care, participated as a member of the Churu Vet Feline Fund

judging panel.

“We are privileged to be part of awarding these shelters in need,” Brunt said. “We hope these funds, along with the use of Churu Vet, will help shelters foster and home more kittens and cats in the future, and help promote veterinary care throughout their lives.”

Churu Veterinarian Formula is an all-natural appetite motivator for cats. The liquid-based puree can be used to reduce anxiety, increase socialization, aid in surgery recovery, deliver medication and more.

Churu Vet delivers calories and hydrates while enticing appetites when cats otherwise won’t eat or drink anything else.

Clipper Distributing, the master distributor for Churu Veterinarian Formula and creator of the Churu Vet Feline Fund, is honored to provide these funds during this unprecedented time.

“We know fundraising has been difficult during this pandemic,” said Kevin Speltz, president and CEO. “The winning facilities will be able to create new programs and expand their resources.”

Death notice Robert E. Ulrich Enterprise staff Robert E. Ulrich of Davis, born Aug. 14, 1927, died on Feb. 28, 2021. He was 93. He is a former radio and TV broadcaster and retired from UC Davis Cooperative Extension, where he was a manager of visual media.

The burial will be at Sacramento Valley National Cemetery in Dixon with a celebration of life held later.

7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Winters Community Center, 201 Railroad Ave. Find other days and locations at www.yolocounty. org/coronavirus.

———— The state’s OptumServe testing is available by

appointment or walk-in service. Appointments can be made by calling 888634-1123 or completing an online application at https://lhi.care/covid testing.

This testing is open to anyone in the community, including agricultural workers and homeless or undocumented employees and residents.

During March, testing is available Tuesdays through Saturdays from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. in the portable next to the Juvenile Detention Center, 2789 E Gibson Road in Woodland; in Winters on Fridays from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Winters Community Center, 201 Railroad Ave.; and West Sacramento Mondays through Thursdays, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., at Club West, 1125 Riverbank Road in Broderick.

David Beaty Pelz

June 3, 1936 — March 30, 2020

David Beaty Pelz died peacefully at home with his family in Davis on March 30, 2020, of complications from Alzheimer’s disease. He was 83 years old.

David was born June 3, 1936, in Fresno to Fred and Doris Pelz, the second of three sons, including Roger and Phillip. He graduated from Mt. Whitney High School in 1954 and then College of the Sequoias two years later (both in Visalia). In 1959, he graduated from UC Berkeley with a civil engineering degree and married his wife, JoAnn Feaver, two days later.

After five years working for the Federal Bureau of Public Roads as a highway engineer at various locations throughout the western U.S., he settled in Davis in 1965 with JoAnn and his two children, Kimberlie and Jeffrey. He spent a productive 35-year career in the city of Davis Public Works department, serving the last 27 years as director.

Beyond the Davis community, Dave represented the League of California Cities on the Caltrans Bicycle Advisory Committee, was a steadfast advocate for bicycle and bus transportation and a loyal supporter of the public works profession as a charter member of the Sacramento Chapter of the American Public Works Association from 1965, including a term as president in 1988.

He was preceded in death by his parents and older brother Roger. He is survived by

his loving wife of 61 years, JoAnn, brother Philip, daughter Kim and her husband Frank, son Jeff and his wife Karin, and grandchildren Joshua, Delany and Aubrey.

Dave was a thoughtful, articulate man of faith, serving in a variety of capacities in his churches and community throughout his life.

His passion for and contributions to Davis’ internationally acclaimed bicycling infrastructure, among many other public works projects, are reflected in the community today.

Dave’s patience and talent for listening meant that he was loved and respected by all who knew and worked with him. He had an especially positive attitude toward life, an uplifting sense of humor, and an amazing capacity for finding the good in every person and situation.

An online memorial service is planned for 2 p.m. Saturday, March 20 to recognize the first anniversary of Dave’s passing. All friends, public works associates and family are welcome. For entry, go to the Davis Community Church website at dccpres. org, scroll down to Highlights & Featured Events for the article and link to the service. Please contact Julie Herdt for information at julie@dccpres.org.

Memorial donations in Dave’s memory may be directed to Davis Community Church, Yolo Hospice or the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America.

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The year that was: A coronavirus chronicle March 13, 2020 Dear Diary, Today is Friday the 13th and it sure feels like bad luck. I kept the kids home from school today because Corona is starting to spread.

The news is scary but I’m sure we’ll figure it all out. Until then, we’ll enjoy a long weekend. I’ll probably send the kids back next week. I’m such a worry-wart. More to come.

April 9, 2020 Dear Diary, Well, it looks like we are going to quarantine for a while. Or in our case, with four teenagers, we’ll call it “quaranteen.” Ha, ha.

It will be good to spend more time together.

April 11, 2020 Dear Diary, I’ve decided this is a great time for some self-improvement, to take care of myself and learn some new things. When this quarantine is over, I’ll be fabulous. Here are my goals: n Have an hour of quiet time every morning before everybody gets up n Write my memoir n Learn to play the piano n Find a fitness program that works for me n Plant a flower garden n Minimize the clutter in my life July 5, 2020 Dear Diary, Gosh, I never realized how small our house is. Thank goodness for the warm weather, sunshine and a big backyard. I spent all day in the hammock. Didn’t do dishes or laundry. It felt good to relax.

December 2, 2020 Dear Diary, I love our little house so much.

We are lucky to have a warm home when it’s too cold to spend time outside. It’s pretty small with six people, but thankfully, we all like each other. Such great family time.

December 3, 2020 Dear Diary, AAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGG GGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHH. December 4, 2020 Dear Diary, Today I went for a solo ride in the country. It was lovely to have some “alone” time and I returned

home refreshed. It’s important to take care of yourself.

December 6, 2020 Dear Diary, Today I went for a solo ride in the country. When I hit Rd. 25A, I unrolled the windows and screamed my lungs out. For 10 minutes. It was lovely and I returned home refreshed.

December 14, 2020 Dear Diary, I’m worried my potential Mom of the Year award is in jeopardy.

Today Mick casually mentioned that it was “OK” that I didn’t get him a little cardboard advent calendar like I have every other year since he was born. He told me that opening the little pill packs on his allergy medicine felt almost like opening those little perforated windows where the chocolates are hidden. I’m such a bad mom.

December 24, 2020 Dear Diary, I felt pretty bad about not getting the kids advent calendars this year so I made some homemade gift certificates for a trip to Hawaii and put them in their stockings. I’m pretty sure we can’t afford a trip to Hawaii and there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight for COVID. We’ll probably never get on an airplane again. But the certificates turned out cute (I used lots of seashell and palm tree stickers) and I feel better for sure.

January 6, 2021 Dear Diary, 2021 is feeling a lot like 2020.

Ugh. January 11, 2021 Dear Diary, Today I unfriended and then refriended and then unfriended a Facebook “friend” because of his political persuasion. What is wrong with me? Wait. What is wrong with him?

February 1, 2021 Dear Diary, For the first time, I had to pull the plug on watching a television

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show with my kids. “Riverdale” is gross. It has absolutely no redeeming value and that says a lot considering we forced our way through a season of “Tiger King.”

Thank God for “Punky Brewster.”

Eighty-eight episodes of wholesome family viewing, circa 1984.

We’re going to watch them all.

February 8, 2021 Dear Diary, Three of our kids just got their driver permits. Three. At the same time. Isn’t that great? It’s the end of my “alone” time in the van, but great that Bob and I can take turns spending time with the kids in the car.

February 15, 2021 Dear Diary, Turns out, teaching a kid to drive is similar to teaching a kid to ride a bike. Except for the white knuckles, clenched jaw and cursing. Similar. Also, when I said, “Yes, of course” to the question, “Can I play my music when I drive?” I didn’t realize the playlist would include songs like “Crash My Car” by Coin and “Running Red Lights” by The Avalanches. So. Much. Fun. February 20, 2021 Dear Diary, If there’s one thing I’m thankful for, it’s bib overalls. They are the only thing I wear anymore because they have no waistband and lots of pockets for snacks. I can fit a whole sleeve of Thin

Mints in the bib pocket without crushing them. Also, they give the illusion that I may have, at some point, been working.

I shouldn’t be so hard on myself.

I actually painted our bedroom, the hallway and the laundry room last week. It’s a little embarrassing that I kept wearing my paint clothes for two days after the paint job was done. It was like that time I wore my maternity clothes until I realized my “baby” was tying his own shoes. Not good. I did notice that today, when I finally showered and put on clean overalls, every single person in the family told me I looked nice. Sheesh. The things I need to do to get a compliment.

February 25, 2021 Dear Diary, Tonight I had a lengthy and heated debate with one of my kids on the value of 1990 sitcom reboots. She thinks they’re awesome and I think they’re trash.

One life stage of Lizzie McGuire is enough. We both went to bed mad.

March 1, 2021 Dear Diary, Just read my April 11, 2020 entry. LOL! My new goals: n Get out of bed n Replace the flapper on the toilet in the kids’ bathroom March 4, 2021 Dear Diary, Today 17-year-old Emme and I

rented a pickup truck from All Star Rents and drove all over Yolo County playing country music full-blast and pretending we were cowgirls.

March 5, 2021 Dear Diary, Well, it’s been almost a year and I didn’t find a workout routine that worked for me, although I did watch a lot of promotional videos for workout routines. Can’t say I didn’t try.

On a brighter note, I committed to applying white strips to my teeth for 12 days in a row, so I’m feeling pretty good about my sparkling smile.

Also, I didn’t learn the piano but I have perfected my impersonations of all the actors in the Prevagen commercials: “My name is Greg, I’m 68 years old and I do motivational speaking in addition to the substitute teaching …” and “I’m Patricia. I’m always busy in my life because I’m always doing something…” I’m quite good, if I do say so myself.

March 8, 2021 Dear Diary, Thanks for being here for me.

I know that in 20 years when I read this again, I will laugh and cry and miss these days. Until then, so much more to come.

— Shelley Dunning is a Davis resident and a mom of four.

Reach her at dunningsm@ gmail.com.

When it comes to celebrities let’s talk dirty (wine)

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elebrities seem to have an affinity for buying vineyards and “making” wine. Some, I’m sure, are passionate winelovers, but I suspect that others just like to see their names on pretty labels or to associate themselves with a prestigious world or to dispose of their income in some way that provides serious business losses for tax purposes. (I’m sure you’ve heard the joke: “If you want to make a small fortune in wine, start with a big one”) These folks do, of course, sometimes hire good winemakers but most resultant wines are, from my own limited tastings of them, mediocre. You know, California fruit-and-oak bombs enhanced by association with fame and fortune.

Two celebrities (though I’d never heard of either before I came across their wines) have decided to upend the wine world about which they recently discovered terrible things: wine comes from pesticide-laden grapes; wines have all manner of additives — some quite nasty.

Hence the “clean wine” movement, starring (among others) celeb-based Aveline.

You can read all about it on the Aveline website and

what said celebrities are doing to counter the dirty wine world. They’re all about organic grapes and wine without “unnecessary” additives (“necessary” being the ones they choose to add) and transparency, though their labels don’t mention grape varieties or their winemakers or just what those additives are.

Nor is there any acknowledgment of the decades-old natural-wine movement which, however unregulated, does insist at minimum on organically grown grapes, indigenous yeast, and no additives besides a very small amount of sulfur, maybe. Aveline makes no such claims, as indeed, it cannot since there are such additions in their wines (which you can discover only by following several links on their website), which include yeast.

I don’t mention this to disparage the wine, which I haven’t tried (though the reviews aren’t enthusiastic), and the additives they do use seem relatively harmless. But their claims of innovation seem ignorant at best and calculating at worst. For the $20 a bottle they charge (available at your your local supermarket, they boast — you don’t

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have to go into a snobby wine shop), I can buy a favorite wine from Folk Machine (like the cab franc) or Broc Cellars (like the Brea Pinot Noir) or Matthiessen (like Tendu Red) or numerous other natural winemakers both here and abroad.

And snobby wine shops?

I’ve actually been in a couple with snobby staff (and have run across very snobby supermarket wine staff, too) but for the most part they’re dedicated to supporting good wine and helping customers find something they’ll really enjoy.

And then there’s the matter of “clean.” Well, OK, “clean” in the sense of not filled with chemicals, but wine’s not really a clean thing: the main ingredient grows in dirt; tradition was (and in some wineries still is or is again) grapes crushed by human feet. And wine is a living, fermenting thing filled with bacteria.

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and Rowdy Winery, whose name and labels acknowledges that neither wine itself nor the process of making it is entirely a “clean” thing. (They make great wine, too. though most of it is a bit out of my price range; their website is delightfully irreverent — check it out.)

Another “dirty” characteristic of most “natural” wines is that they’re unfiltered, which means sediment in the bottom of the bottle. How dirty is that? I actually love it when I drink an unfiltered bottle; sometimes I even shake it up to make sure the sediment gets into my glass.

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ne absolutely stellar “dirty” gem I’ve tried recently is the Andert Pamhogna Weiss, which comes from Austria (by way of The Pip Wine Shop), just a few hundred yards from the Hungarian border. Michael and Erich Andert are the farmers and winemakers. Visitors report that the the whole operation (Demeter Certified for two decades) is brimming with life — from large glass jars filled with fermenting vegetables to meats smoking and curing to herbs drying.

And, of course, open-vat fermenting wine — made

from biodynamic grapes grown on acres shared with (and fertilized by) chicken, geese, ducks and sheep.

Sounds pretty dirty to me.

The Weiss is a blend of local grapes that changes every year but is mostly Ruländer, Neuburger and Weissburgunder. This 2019 vintage has a bit of chardonnay from their good friend’s biodynamic vineyard nearby. “Weiss,” of course means “white,” but a few days’ skin contact has produced a decidedly orange-hued wine. Fermented in old Hungarian oak, this bottle was wonderful with a butterfish filet from Farmers Market, cooked quickly with sauteed leeks and lots of lemon. At $30 it’s a splurge but definitely worth it.

A dirty blend that’s much more local — grapes grown in the limestone-rich Rorick Heritage Vineyard in Calaveras County — is Queen of the Sierra Red (it comes in other colors, too) from Forlorn Hope. Mostly zin, barbera, tempranillo, trousseau noir, and mondeuse, this tart, complex, delightful bottle has lots of fruit tempered by good tannins and acidity. A really versatile red, it’s light on its feet but stood up nicely to a putanesca sauce. It’s also terrifically

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As with all of Matt Rorick’s creations, this is a nothing-added wine—that is, clean as well as dirty. It’s also a great, inexpensive ($20 at the Co-op) introduction to Forlorn Hope wines, which generally run $30-40 (like their terrific Zinny Man “Nonna” zinfandel, which I wrote about in a recent column).

In these days when our poor masked and distanced bodies are perhaps dirtstarved, these clearly alive bottles might help restore our gut microbiome as well as our sanity.

— Susana Leonardi is a Davis resident; reach her at vinosusana@gmail.com.

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By Glenn Sacks Special to CalMatters United Teachers Los Angeles’ members voted 91%-9% last week to resist a forced return to unsafe schools, with three-quarters of UTLA’s 33,000 members participating.

For nine months critics have been trying to shame us into returning. It hasn’t worked.

Some reopening advocates have been blaming teachers’ unions for the rise in teen suicide. Yet I’ve watched numerous students and families struggle over the past year, and in terms of causes, I’m not sure if distance learning even makes the list.

Parents have lost jobs, seen their businesses evaporate, face possible eviction or foreclosure, and have spent their life’s savings. Our 16-year-old students are working fast-food jobs five evenings a week to help their families survive. Spouses are fighting. People are mourning loved ones lost to COVID-19 — more than half a million so far — and are isolated from their friends and social connections.

Recently, I received a heart-wrenching text from one of my seniors. She wrote: “I’m sorry if I disappoint you with this text. My family and I have been going through a lot with both my grandparents dying from COVID less than a week apart from each other this month. I thought I would be good to take the test but honestly, studying has been a little hard for me because I have just been grieving.

I promise next time I’ll do better.”

The problem causing student stress is not school closures in and of themselves — the problem is COVID. Other reopening advocates are portraying us as lazy ingrates luxuriating at taxpayer expense. Union critic Frederick Hess says since we’re enjoying our “shortened” workday, “returning to work is less appealing than the status quo” as we “are earning the same salary and benefits.”

Broadcaster John Stossel agrees, writing “Not working seems to be a big union goal.”

Stossel cites our relatively modest class schedule — “Nice non-work if you can get it” — yet those limited class schedules serve parents, not teachers.

Parents oppose having their kids online for long periods of time — class time locks up their limited number of computers and strains their internet at a time when much of the family is working online. Distance learning also forces parents to create numerous quiet zones with large blocks of quiet time.

Hess, Stossel and other critics don’t understand that the end of our school day is in no way the end of our workday, it’s just the end of the first shift. The second shift includes researching and planning lessons, helping students, grading essays, tests and other papers, and numerous other tasks. Moreover, under distance learning, we’ve had to retool all of our lessons, tests and materials, which is very time-consuming.

Teachers support United Teachers Los Angeles’ position — Los Angeles has one of the highest COVID-19 rates of any major American city, and the second-highest deaths per capita in California.

The recently-released Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations on whether and to what extent schools should reopen are being misinterpreted as a green light to open all schools. Yet CNBC noted that the doctors they interviewed said these guidelines would “keep more than 90% of schools … from fully reopening.”

Dr. Megan Ranney, an emergency physician, says, “most of the schools also are absolutely unable to put the (CDC’s) safety precautions in place.”

United Teachers Los Angeles explains that the COVID death rate among Latinos in Los Angeles is triple the rate for whites, and four times higher in the poorest areas than in the wealthiest areas. Over 70% of Los Angeles Unified School District students are Latino.

Most LAUSD students and their families are very vulnerable to the spread of this disease. If their teachers and schools don’t act to protect them, who will?

— Glenn Sacks teaches Social Studies in the Los Angeles Unified School District, glenn@ glennsacks.com. He represents United Teachers Los Angeles at James Monroe High School in the Los Angeles Unified School District. He wrote this for CalMatters, a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s Capitol works and why it matters.

’ve always had an adventurous spirit and enthusiasm for exploration. Some of that’s innate. But my joy of discovery was nourished in my childhood in Davis in the 1960s and ’70s when kids were allowed to roam.

I grew up on the west side of town. When the Rifkins arrived, we were on the frontier. Our house abutted the farm where West Davis Intermediate School was later built.

When crop-dusters weren’t buzzing our roof and spraying petrochemicals on the crops, my friends and I were often out in the fields, exploring, playing, making our own adventures. The only rule was to get home in time for dinner.

If there is an adult equivalent 50 years later, it is riding my bicycle into parts unknown.

I’ve been riding bikes my whole life. I took off the training wheels when I was 3 years old — coincidentally right when Davis striped the first on-street bicycle lanes in the United States. My bike was my primary mode of transportation in childhood, college and grad school, and I’ve been able to ride to most places I’ve worked.

But it was not until I was in my 40s — after running marathons ruined my knees — that I took up biking as a recreation, as serious exercise, as my pastime.

What I’ve learned venturing into the unknown — what some might call getting lost — is that bicycling is the only way to see a place.

In a car, you can cover longer distances. But at 60 miles

DAs serving justice Tom Elias starts his Friday, Feb. 19, column with a false, black-and-white choice that leaves the concept of fair justice completely out of the picture. There is no district attorney in the state that would describe their job as “serving criminals,” that’s just absurd. There are district attorneys that care about justice for the accused and the convicted, as well as justice for victims, but I think none that see their job as helping criminals at the expense of justice for victims.

Elias, after noting that voters “OK’d mercifully minded measures” in the last 10 years, fails to take the next logical step that these measures need some mercy-minded district attorneys to properly implement the voters’ wishes (and, those district attorneys, of course, were also elected). We have a lot of people in the prison system that were placed there under the older, harsher

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per hour you never see what’s around you. You can drive up a hill for miles and fail to notice the gradient. On a bike, you feel every ascent, every descent, every turn, every bump in the road.

On foot, your pace is slow enough to witness your surroundings. But, unless you are an ultra-marathoner, you rarely get very far from home.

When I was running, I’d occasionally do a 20-mile circuit around Davis or jog 14 miles to Winters, where I’d catch a bus back home.

I didn’t wake up in the morning and traverse Yolo County, Solano County and Napa County. I couldn’t run 80 miles.

But a few days ago, a friend of mine and I rode that far — from Davis to West Sacramento to Clarksburg to Courtland and back. We explored the Sacramento River and both sides of Elk Slough. We saw thousands of acres of wine grapes and an endless array of wildlife. We rode past ancient oaks and newly planted fields of hops.

After having covered every paved road within 50 miles of Davis and many further afield, a whole new world opened up to me a couple of years ago when I bought my first gravel bike. I’ve since been riding and exploring every unpaved road in our region and beyond.

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The Davis area may be too flat for mountain biking. But it’s great for gravel — as long as you like to explore.

All along the Sacramento River and the many creeks that flow into it there are endless, gravel-coated levees.

Other than on a windy day, it’s fun to ride up high on a levee, exposed, looking down on bodies of water and farmers’ fields.

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ast year, with a group from Davis, I have a fond memory of riding north in the Yolo Bypass, halfway between I-80 and I-5, when we looked down to our left and saw a couple of grand American white pelicans searching for fish in a channel.

A moment later, we spotted a half-dozen more of those large white birds on the shoreline. Then a whole flock lifted off the water, flying low alongside us before they parted for a rice field.

With larger tires, disk brakes, a sturdy frame and a big range of gears, gravel bikes can get you where a road bike often can’t. But at issue in certain places is whether bicycles are permitted.

Under California law, other than on freeways, bikes are allowed on all public roadways that permit cars.

So it was a surprise — and a disappointment — to find that the legislature has allowed the California Dept. of Fish & Wildlife to ban bikes on state lands they manage, including the Yolo Basin Wildlife Area. Where a five-ton, smoke-spewing, diesel truck is allowed to kick up dust and shake the earth with its huge tires, the codes of

laws — shouldn’t they see mercy in appropriate cases?

We have a prison system that has systematically jailed people of color out of proportion to their percentage in the population and more importantly — out of proportion to their alleged crimes (some are clearly innocent). Shouldn’t district attorneys at least cooperate in righting these historic wrongs, in bringing some racial justice to the system?

Elias should know that cash bail is an abomination — leading to excess imprisonment to those without the means to sacrifice 10% ransom money to the bail industry, affecting disproportionately people of color. Elias should know that the process for deporting nondocumented in this country has been badly broken and abused in the last four years (if not longer) and minimizing cooperation with this system is just and promotes public safety. Elias should know that seeking reevaluation of “possibly wrongful convictions” is an act of justice, not an attempt to “serve” criminals.

That staff attorneys in the system are not yet on board with the new approach to

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DFW prohibit bikes — unless the cyclist is a licensed hunter carrying his gun.

Their argument is bicycles scare wildlife. But hunters, shotgun blasts, tumultuous trucks and clamorous cars do not? The anti-bicycle regulations make no sense.

A couple of weeks ago, I was riding along a gravel road in the Bypass — south of a Putah Creek crossing that locals call Rifford — when I noticed thousands of geese covering several acres. I quietly stopped to spy the scene. I didn’t want to upset this avian majesty.

But then a little lady in a giant pickup drove up behind me, honked and shouted at the top of her lungs, “Bikes don’t belong here! Sir! Bikes don’t belong here!”

I hadn’t realized I was in the Wildlife Area. I thought the restricted area was north of Rifford.

Unfortunately, the combination of the driver’s big tires, massive engine and tempestuous voice scared score after score of birds into flight and out of sight.

Not wanting to confront the martinet, as she chased me in her truck, I continued south to the end of the road and out of the refuge. Stuck in some unknown place and not interested in reversing course, I hopped a fence and rode several miles though a tranquil cattle ranch, praying it wasn’t breeding season.

Eventually, I got to a paved road and figured out where I was.

What a relief. What an adventure!

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

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justice is not surprising — they are embedded in the old system which often did not serve justice. Relieving crowding in jails by not automatically opposing parole for octogenarians that have served their time is actually sound public policy.

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More on Bob Dunning I may have the distinction of being one of two people still alive who read Bob Dunning’s stuff before he joined The Enterprise!

It was 54 years ago, in 1966-67, when Bob was a student in my UCD political science courses on state and local government. Of course I read his exams, but I still remember his great research paper on Davis politics. The other living person with this distinction is my colleague, Alex Groth, who had Bob in one or more of his comparative politics courses and who now lives in Ohio.

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Tan noted that while the pool of those eligible for the vaccine will grow next Monday with the addition of these individuals, “the county is not getting more doses.”

“So even though the state has added a group that is now eligible, without more doses, it means that each existing group gets less doses and this may slow things down,” Tan said.

Additional changes are afoot in the next few weeks impacting vaccine distribution, namely the expected onboarding of Yolo County to the state’s MyTurn system.

While many questions remain about how the system will work locally, all county residents who have not yet received a vaccine should register at www.myturn. ca.gov as the state has said that will be the only way to receive a vaccine appointment in the weeks and months ahead.

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First 5 Yolo provided free supplies to childcare workers during Sunday’s vaccine clinic.

Find all of that — and links to upcoming clinics in Yolo County his week — at www.yolocounty. org/coronavirus-vaccine.

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purchase supplies in four categories: Get Active, Get Artsy, Home Improvement and Let’s Stay In,” May said.

Specifically, the grants are redeemable at Fleet Feet, The Paint Chip, Ace Hardware and The Avid Reader. “Students who receive the grant will pick up the gift card at the store location,” UC Davis spokesperson Melissa Blouin told The Enterprise. All told, the grants will inject roughly $56,000 into the local economy while giving students an incentive to avoid travel and abide by public health guidelines.

“The funding is provided as part of the incentive programs launched by Healthy Davis Together,” Blouin said. “Healthy Davis Together was able to obtain federal and state funds and philanthropic gifts designated for supporting this public health initiative within the Davis community. Funds secured for this project have been tied specifically to the public health goals.”

The Spring Break Grants are not the first time Healthy Davis Together has tied cash incentives — meant to aid in the city’s economic recovery — to public health measures. According to the city, gift cards given out to incentivize Davis residents to get tested for COVID-19 through Healthy Davis Together have infused hundreds of thousands of dollars into Davis businesses during the pandemic. Healthy

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Davis Together purchases the gift cards directly from businesses and then distributes them to the community.

There is evidence that the system gives businesses a far bigger boost than the face-value of the gift cards because, once incentivized to patronize a local business, people tend to spend their own money on top of the gift card.

Kevin Wan, owner of Sophia’s Thai Kitchen, said last month that the restaurant’s sales were up 20% since the gift card program began in early February.

“The spend per gift card has been on average four times what the gift card is,” he said. “People come with a $10 gift card, they usually spend 40, 50 bucks. So it’s been a tremendous boon for us.”

The $75 incentive for students to avoid spring break travel comes as the number of local cases continues to decline and after Yolo County recently moved into the red tier of California’s reopening scheme, a more permissive phase that allows some businesses to reopen with fewer restrictions.

“The shift in tiers will not significantly change Davis campus operations over the next few weeks,” May said in a recent press release. “We are being cautious because we do not want to start reopening, only to have to shut down again.”

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF Sidney L. Linver CASE NO. PR2021-0044 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Sidney L. Linver A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: Mark Linver in the Superior Court of California, County of: Yolo THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that: Mark Linver be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on April 16, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. in Department TBD located at 1000 Main Street, Woodland, CA 95695.

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IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

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Blood drive perseveres through pandemic restrictions

By Emily Chapman HUB Staff On the early morning of Oct. 22, Davis High students sat shoulder-to-shoulder waiting for their turn to donate blood for DHS Red Cross club’s semi-annual blood drive. Fast-forward to spring of 2020, when the club’s hopes of hosting a second drive vanished with the onslaught of the pandemic.

This week the blood drive is back with bloodmobile vans fanning out through the city. The DHS Red Cross club is supporting the effort by hosting a virtual blood drive throughout the month of March to encourage residents to donate blood, incentivized by online raffles with prizes ranging from shirts to first aid kits.

Red Cross club treasurer Olivia Taylor is optimistic about the online promotion of the blood drive.

“We hope this new method of promotion will help the student body get excited about donating blood by giving them an extra incentive to sign up,” Taylor said.

The Red Cross club works with Vitalant, a national nonprofit organization that “exists to make a difference in people’s lives by bringing together the best people, inspiring individuals to donate blood,” according to Vitalant’s mission statement.

In a typical year, a Vitalant bloodmobile would set up camp on the high school’s campus. This year the Red Cross club recommends three locations off campus for donors to go to: the Davis Vitalant center, a bloodmobile on Olive Drive and a bloodmobile on Cowell Blvd. However, participants in the incentive program can donate anywhere as long as the Red Cross tracking link is used.

Participants go online to make an inperson appointment at a blood bank or bloodmobile, which follows strict safety protocols to ensure that donors stay safe.

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A local woman participates in a whole blood donation at the Davis Vitalant center. Donors can give plasma, platelets, red cells and whole blood. has donated blood with Vitalant during the pandemic and has found the process to be “smooth and safe.”

“The people at Vitalant in Davis explained every step along the way and made sure I felt comfortable,” Kang said.

Donors go through a three-step process to donate blood: beginning with a medical screening, followed by their blood donation and ending with refreshments to replenish the body.

Vitalant is also looking for ways to help COVID-19 patients with these donations.

“Vitalant was at the forefront of convalescent plasma therapy which has shown to have a significant impact as a treatment for patients in hospitals fighting COVID-19,” Vitalant Donor Recruitment Representative Mary Gillen said.

Convalescent plasma (CCP) comes from people who have recovered from COVID19 and tested positive for COVID-19 antibodies. This gives donors who have these antibodies a chance to help those now battling the virus.

“It’s important to us to find another way that our donors can save lives,” said Meredith Spencer, manager of donor recruitment at Vitalant.

Red Cross club project coordinator Melissa Lee is excited about the opportunity to hold a blood drive.

“Donating blood is essentially giving someone the gift of life because a single blood donation can save up to three lives,” Lee said. “Donating blood is so important because of this and the fact that blood is something that can’t be manufactured.”

Davis resident Jennifer Canvasser has found blood donations to be a gift for her family. Canvasser’s son, Micah, was born prematurely and developed necrotizing enterocolitis, which led to health complications such as kidney failure. Prior to passing away in December of 2012, Micah received 211 units of blood to keep his kidneys working from various donors, for which the family is extremely thankful.

“We were able to have a lifetime of memories with Micah which would not have been possible without these donors,” Canvasser said.

For information on how to participate in the March blood drive, go to tinyurl.com/ DHSvirtualblooddriveguide. Anyone who is eligible to donate blood — not just DHS students — can participate.

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Yolo County Public Health officer Dr. Aimee Sisson announced on March 3 that 69 percent of adults in Yolo County age 65 and over have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. The announcement came at the annual “town-gown” meeting between the city of Davis, UC Davis and Yolo County.

Retired Davis teachers Nancy and Steve Lege are among the residents who have received their vaccine.

Their son works at Mercy General Hospital in Sacramento. The hospital offered the vaccine to eligible family members of employees. “(Our son) called us one day and said, ‘Oh, do you want to come get the vaccine?’ We thought we would wait until later just because we figured essential workers ... should get it first,” Nancy said. “But then we thought, you know if somebody offers you this, you should take it to help with the herd immunity.”

For some older adults in the community, finding a vaccination appointment has been much more challenging.

Davis High junior Adrian Zaragoza volunteered at a drive-through vaccine clinic. Zaragoza greeted people as they drove up.

“A lot of people were telling me that they had a really rough time making their appointment… because they don’t have internet access,” Zaragoza said.

To help overcome some of these hurdles, the Yolo County Library is loaning out hotspots as well as providing computer access by appointment.

Even for those who have access to technology, the digital divide, or the gap between those who can and cannot utilize technology, serves as an additional barrier for some seniors to making their vaccine appointments.

“You could have internet and give grandma a laptop but if she … doesn’t know how to get it going, you still don’t have access,” said Shelia Allen, executive director of the Yolo Healthy Aging Alliance, a program dedicated to supporting older adults in the community.

Other Davis residents eligible for the vaccine may have to contend with a language barrier.

DHS sophomore Nicole Risch lives with her parents and her grandparents, who are 75 and 79 years old.

“They’re from the Philippines so they don’t really understand. If they were to get the vaccine or wanted to get the vaccine, they would definitely need to go to my mom because she can translate everything for them,” Risch said.

The county is aware that “the language barrier is something we also have to consider,” said Jenny Tan, the Yolo County Public Information officer. In an effort to reach as many people as possible, the county is running ads in several languages.

According to Tan, one of the most challenging barriers

moving forward will be what Allen calls “vaccine hesitance.”

“Once the majority of the population is vaccinated, it will be a huge effort to vaccinate the rest of the people who are hesitant to get it,” Tan said.

People may be “vaccine hesitant” for several reasons.

Risch’s grandparents, for instance, are concerned about side effects from the vaccine.

“They feel like there are going to be symptoms after they get the vaccine,” Risch said.

However, many people who have got the vaccine do not experience extreme side effects. According to data from the Center for Disease Control, 99.94 percent of people who received either the Pfizer-BioNTech or the Moderna vaccine did not experience adverse effects (6,994 reported adverse effects out of 13,794,904 people who received a COVID-19 vaccine).

“I think there’s a common understanding that the second shot there’s more of a reaction. (Nancy and I) both definitely noticed it but it wasn’t something that was earth shattering or something to really avoid,” Lege said.

For anyone seeking a vaccine appointment, Allen recommends visiting the Yolo County website and checking if they are eligible for the vaccine through their health care provider. Alternatively, residents can call the county’s Yolo 2-1-1 number or the Yolo Healthy Aging Alliance at 530-7575583 for help booking an appointment.

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By Lyah Fitzpatrick HUB Staff While senior citizens and teachers share the COVID vaccination spotlight, another body has gained access to the vaccine: food service workers. Among them are some Davis High students.

DHS junior Ethan Tan, an employee at Good Friends Poke, received a link to a vaccination clinic from his boss. He immediately signed up.

“I was just like, I want to get it right away, no hesitation at all,” Tan said. His clinic was Saturday at Harper Junior High School.

DHS senior Celia Cariou found a clinic through her dad, who works in the agriculture industry. As an employee for Jack’s Urban Eats, Cariou was able to sign up for the clinic along with her parents.

“I was very happy, very excited,” Cariou said. “I did not have one doubt in my mind (about receiving the vaccine).” She attended a clinic in Willows.

However, some individuals newly qualified for the vaccine have found it difficult to find a clinic. UC Davis senior Alexis Laratrejo is an assistant manager at the Vacaville Panda Express. Although Solano County is also in Phase 1B, Laratrejo has not received access to the vaccine.

“I’m a little annoyed at Panda because I feel like they should be able to sort of expedite it for us, because we, along with other food services, have been open the whole pandemic,” Laratrejo said.

As assistant manager, Laratrejo is “always talking to (his) associates and customers (and has) to resolve conflicts with customers.” He thinks a vaccination would better protect himself and others.

Yolo County Public Information Officer Jenny Tan admits Yolo County, too, has faced difficulties during the Phase 1B vaccination distribution.

According to Tan, about 7,000 to 8,000 individuals fall into the food/agriculture category in Yolo county.

“We’re getting about 2,000 doses a week,” she said. “It’s going to take time.”

At this point, Tan says 15 to 20 percent of the county population is vaccinated. “There’s a lot of work that goes on behind the scenes, a lot of people don’t see that,” she said.

She advises any person eligible to get the vaccine in order to reach herd immunity of about 70 to 80 percent vaccinated.

“I’m really excited to take a step forward in getting back to normal life,” Cariou said.

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avis Aquatics Masters has snagged a top collegiate swimming coach — Craig Mallery — as its new program leader.

In 2010, Mallery was named Pacific Collegiate Swim Conference Coach of the Year for both men and women. He built the Seattle University swim program from zero to national prominence.

A Woodland native, he started swimming at 5 years of age and swam competitively for Davis High. He was four years on the varsity swim team at Boston University, where he also started a masters program. Later, while at Seattle to get a master’s degree in education, he started that university’s swim program.

Leaving his current position as coach of the Taos, N.M., masters swim club, he said he is looking forward to outdoor recreation.

Taos, a ski area, can get very cold.

So he is looking forward to swimming outside, meals outside and an outdoor companionship. He is hoping to find a place to live close to Civic Center pool so he can use the pool as his patio.

He joins an illustrious line of DAM coaches, which included Dave Scott (six-time winner of the Hawaii Iron Man triathlon) and Ross Yancher, who started the Brute Squad and other competitions.

In May, he replaces Stuart Kahn, head local coach for the past 11 years, and assistant head coach Mary Kahn.

I asked Stu what he considered his greatest MALLERY achievements in Former his DAM tenure.

DHS swimmer He began sentimentally ...

“Having the joy of working with the woman I love, in a job that I love,” came the reply.

His and his club’s list of accomplishments are lengthy: Growing the club to its highest-ever U.S. Masters Swimming membership level; creating the annual longcourse Summer Splash; taking the annual DAM Brute Squad to a national event; creating the DAM Grand Prix; placing third at the USMS National Championships; having his members break more than 60 percent of the 1,500 club records; and DAM being selected as USMS Club of the Year.

Mallery’s cerebral approach matches that of Kahn, who often used underwater videos to teach DAM swimmers and conduct seminars with well-known coaches.

“My knowledge of swim technique and conditioning is the culmination of direct collegiate head-coach leadership experience, developing think tanks with other coaches to exchange best practices and ideas, and staying current with empirical research,” Mallery said in a letter to the DAM search committee.

Masters coaching, he said, “remains a professional passion.”

He has coached masters for 20 years, including every age group from beginning swimmers to Olympic qualifiers.

He says he believes no one participant is more important than the other, and everyone has something to learn and contribute to the community.

Away from the pool deck, Craig’s personal passion is painting. He recently sold his first painting — a very large abstract.

DAM boasts a membership of over 500 ages 18 to 90-plus, all dedicated to the simple pleasure of a good swim. Ordinarily, the club holds 43 coached workouts every week. Mallery will be a busy man.

— Mark Braly’s column is published online each month at Davisenterprise.com. Reach him at markbraly@sbcglobal.net.

Idaho players tested positive

By Bob Dunning Enterprise staff writer Three UC Davis football players are being monitored for COVID19 symptoms after coming in contact during Saturday’s game with a player from Idaho who later tested positive for the coronavirus.

“We’ve been watching film of the game and determined that these three had contact for two or three minutes with the player (from Idaho) involved, but we’re hopeful that the contact was minimal enough that they will be fine,” said UC Davis Interim Athletic

Director Rocko DeLuca.

DeLuca indicated he hopes that all three will be cleared for Saturday’s showdown against topranked Weber State in Ogden, Utah.

“Our goal is to test them daily and if they pass the Thursday window, they should be good to go,” DeLuca noted, adding: “We’re in pretty thorough discussions with our medical staff and taking extra precautions with them, but we don’t want to hold them out of the game for no reason.”

Questions have been swirling about the advisability of playing last Saturday’s game at Idaho after it was revealed two days before the game that eight Vandal starters would not be suiting up, presumably because of COVID concerns.

“We felt we were playing a team that had taken the proper precautions.”

Rocko DeLuca UC Davis interim AD “We had conversations with our medical staff and people at Idaho and the Big Sky Conference, and ultimately we felt we were playing a team that had taken the proper precautions and didn’t have an issue with who they would be putting on the field,” DeLuca explained.

However, at least four more Vandals who did participate in the

game are now presumably COVID-positive, leading Idaho to postpone its game this Saturday at Northern Arizona and the Aggies to begin more closely monitoring three of their own players.

Asked after Saturday’s game why he held out eight starters, Idaho head coach Paul Petrino’s reply was vague: “I don’t think I’m legally able to say why they were out. I’m not 100 percent sure I can tell you that. I’ll just say they were unavailable.”

Federal law forbids coaches and administrators from talking about student-athlete health issues. In this case, COVID falls under those so-called HIPAA guidelines.

DeLuca noted that his staff was

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UC Davis women honored by postseason accolades include, from left, Mackenzie Trpcic, Sage Stobbart, Player of the Year Cierra Hall and Kayla Konrad.

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Embarrassment of riches UCD women take top conference honors

By Bruce Gallaudet Enterprise sports editor Given the bounty bestowed upon the UC Davis women’s basketball team this week, one can forgive the Aggies if they had decided to stay at the Treasure Island Hotel for the Big West Tournament in Las Vegas.

But the locals aren’t focused on taking bows just yet. There’s the serious matter of navigating through nine other championship hopefuls as play got underway in the scramble to see who will have a berth in the NCAA brackets in San Antonio.

Davis starts its tourney journey today (11 a.m.) in the Michelob Ultra Arena at the Mandalay Bay Resort against ninth-seed Cal State Fullerton. The Titans came from behind to upend UC Riverside, 55-51, in the BWC tourney opener on Tuesday.

“We’re just excited,” Aggie coach Jennifer Gross said after her charges beat the Rainbow Wahine, 54-46, on Saturday to capture their fifth-straight BWC regular-season championship. “I can’t believe we made it to March. For all of us coaches in the conference it has been a wild and crazy year.

“There’s been all kinds of adversity for each of us in different ways. I’m just really proud of our team for overcoming challenges and sticking together ... using the adversity to bring us closer. We’re really looking forward to competing.”

After losing to Hawaii on Friday, the Aggies’ first Big West setback of the truncated season, Davis (10-2, 9-1) had to win on Saturday to keep its perch atop the league standings. In the fuzzy math that prorated schools’ won-lost records based on the average number of games played in the Big West, UCD nipped UC Irvine in adjusted win percentage (.818 to .733). But had Davis lost, its win percentage would have fallen to .727 and the Anteaters would have been declared the top entrant.

With all the mumbo-jumbo, on-again, off-again haze of the COVIDimpacted campaign behind them, the 10 teams of the Big West Conference now enter a realm that even the most casual observers can understand: win and advance.

As an aside to intense preparation to be ready for Prime Time today, the Aggies learned on Monday that senior swingman Cierra Hall had earned BWC Player of the Year, post Sage Stobbart was named first-team all-league and Player of the Week for her 13-block performance in two games at Hawaii.

Coach Jennifer Gross earned her fifth consecutive Coach of the Year title (shared this winter with UCI head coach Tamara Inoue) and guard Mackenzie Trpcic was accorded honorable mention all-league while forward Kayla Konrad and Stobbart were named to the all-defensive Big West crew.

So how did these Aggies, after a precautionary two-month shutdown by local health

officials, manage to keep focus and return to the court with their typical crisp basketball?

“The challenging thing was we weren’t (off ) for just 10 days or 14 days ... We didn’t even know if we were going to get to play at any point,” Gross told a Sunday online press briefing for West Coast sports media.

Gross said her team talked about what they wanted to do regarding the ever-shortening season: “(The women) met and came back with a resounding ‘We want to keep going. We

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Memories of a storied past rekindled

By Bruce Galladuet Enterprise sports editor The meeting of UC Davis and Cal State Bakersfield men will rekindle basketball memories of a storied past that saw some epic Division II competition between the two schools.

The Aggies and the Roadrunners haven’t played since 2008, when the locals managed to win the last two meetings. But overall, Bakersfield leads the series, 11-29. Back in 1997-98, it was these same two teams that stood at the top of the DII rankings as a 31-2 Aggie team under former coach Bob Williams captured the national title from Kentucky Wesleyan.

In preseason that year, Davis nipped the ‘Runners, 65-59, but never got to met in the NCAA tournament.

Now, it’s all on the line in this strangest of basketball seasons as the No. 4-seed Aggies (9-7, 6-4) meet a Cal State team that comes in at 15-10, 9-7. Game time Thursday is 2 p.m. from the Michelob Ultra Arena at the Mandalay Bay Resort.

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Quarterfinal matchup: Thursday, Aggies vs. Cal State Bakersfield, Las Vegas, 2 p.m.

Listen: KHTK 1140AM Watch: ESPN3 After missing almost two straight months due to Yolo County health pandemic restrictions, coach Jim Les’ crew has been sizzling down the stretch. The Aggies have won six of their last seven, including a payback, 74-66, over Hawaii on Saturday.

So, is Davis where Les hoped going into postseason?

“They continue to get better. There’s no question that layoff — physically, emotionally — was draining for our guys: not knowing what to expect or when they were going to play again was really a challenge,” Les told an assembled media during a Sunday Big West online coaches gathering.

“I was really pleased with how (the players) rose to the occasion during that challenge. To be expected, we got off to a slow start (0-3 in conference) because it was just

so different: the game scenario, game legs and playing teams that had been playing ... (it was tough) to get up to speed as quickly as possible.”

But now, with both Damion Squire and Christian Anigwe back from injury and the rest of the Aggie lineup looking in midseason form, maybe the interruption became a plus — at least as far as having a healthy, somewhat rested cast.

“It was a complete, new learning experience for them,” Les explained about how UCD navigated the uncertainty. “We talked about having a marathon approach and working at getting better ... with each practice and each game. We knew the best part of the season, the biggest prize (winning the BWC tourney), was still ahead of us. And that’s what we’ve been focusing on — making sure we’re peaking at the right time. And we’ve made some really good strides in that direction.”

Davis has been led by dynamic all-league guard Ezra Manjon, but the coach says his

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Briefly Kreidler joins spring traning With a couple of spots open in spring training, the Detroit Tigers have asked Davis High graduate Ryan Kreidler to join the parent club.

Outfielder Parker Meadows and infielder Kreidler (Class of 2016 by way of UCLA) “are coming to Tiger Town as members of the team’s minicamp in Lakeland,Fla.,” reports the Detroit Free Press.

Kreidler was picked in the fourth round of the 2019 draft.

“Those two were next on the list, as driven by player development,” manager A.J. Hinch said. “Al (Avila, general manager) made the decision, and we’re going to get them up and running. We’ll see Kreidler in a game probably faster than Meadows because we’re going to look for some infield coverage.

“But I met them both, and I’m anxious to see what they are and where they can factor in. And get their development underway.”

Kreidler enjoyed his time last year, hitting a grand slam against the Yankees.

DHS X-country dominates field Reporting 29 personal bests, Davis High crosscountry teams took all four divisions in a weekend dual with Sheldon.

For the varsity girls, Corrine DeJong’s PR of 20:10.5 lead the pack, followed by Abby Carroll (20:46.9), fourth-place Grace Dwyer (21:08) and then Vivian Lee (21:34). Each time was the individuals’ best.

For the boys, Zachary Ayres was first in 15:05.5 with Ansel Tucker and (15:33) and Ryan Mitchell (16:15) next. Cole Dudley (16:58) and Luca Maes (17:16) were fourth and fifth.

Next up for DHS is a Friday meeting at Pleasant Grove.

UCD lacrosse players honored UC Davis middies Maddie Myers and Ally Deremer earned Mountain Pacific Sports Federation offensive and defensive player of the week honors, respectively, after helping the Aggies lacrosse team to a split of its recent Southern California road trip against San Diego State and No. 18 USC. Myers’ award marks the third time in four weeks that an Aggie has brought home offensive player of the week laurels this season, and is her second award overall in her career. Deremer earns her first career weekly award, and gives UCD back-to-back defensive players of the week.

UCD softball Aggie right fielder Anna Dethlefson, pitcher Kenedi Brown and shortstop Isabella Leon swept this week’s Big West Conference awards. Respectively, the trio captured freshman, pitcher and field player of the week nods for the period ending March 7. All three Aggies earned their awards for their performances during the 2021 Capital Classic, during which UCD went 5-1 versus Sacramento State, Pacific and Santa Clara.

Dethlefson went 7 for 11 with three doubles and her first collegiate home run. Brown made four appearances during the week, resulting in three complete-game wins plus a save.

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The day the earth stood still, revisited

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year ago, I was in Anaheim as the sports world — in reaction to the spreading pandemic — shut down. In mid-tournament, Big West basketball was called off as the rest of prep, collegiate and professional sports pulled their plugs, too.

We didn’t know what would happen. Everybody was guessing. Well, here we are a year later and the smoke I wrote about seems to at last be clearing. At least a little.

A couple of people in my ever-shrinking circle suggested I republish my first take on the COVID-19 outbreak and what I was thinking.

That idea seems appropriate, given that the amended 2021 Big West Tournament is under way.

Here’s a journey back to last year with a column I wrote from an Orange County hotel while I called around to see who was selling face masks and sanitizer: March 13, 2020: As it relates to the coronavirus, the world has smelled smoke for almost two months now. Once those flames were finally detected, prevention and how to quarantine existing hot pockets of the disease

became political and don’t-blame-me footballs.

History will help us understand at whose feet the cause of the spread of this pandemic will fall, but right now, God and science have become hopeful partners in knocking down this new virus.

I’m no epidemiologist. So understanding what’s right and what’s wrong in getting a handle on COVID-19 is beyond my pay grade.

But I am a sports writer, and seeing what the outbreak has done to my beloved world of escape is a double-whammy for the mental health of our planet.

When things go terribly wrong in the real world, we’ve always had pastimes to fall back on. Escapes like movies, concerts, gatherings with friends and sports …

Ah, yes. Sports. There’s nothing like the dawning of a new baseball season — when hope springs eternal — to lift a person’s spirits.

Or college basketball and the start of conference tournaments followed by the ever-energizing Big Dance.

As the NBA season winds down, the drama always thickens. The 2020 Olympics and all the intrigue of

trials leading up to Tokyo are at hand, too.

Whatever world or national crises arise, we’ve always been able to find solace in something. For many of us, sports provide the most comfortable pillow.

As the virus continues to spread, we’re hammered every day with how the Earth is going to hell in a hand basket.

Oil prices are tanking, the Russians are getting, well, more Russian and our stock market has become mincemeat.

At least we’ll have the escape of sports to half-right our sinking psyches.

Not this time. Following and reporting on the last 72 hours of intercollegiate athletics has become a cement life preserver.

Last week, the Big West Conference basketball tournament was a go, but eliminating fan attendance was under consideration.

Then came the formal

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hen, less than three hours later, NCAA officials announced the cancellation of the Big Dance after No. 1 Kansas and Duke pulled out of the event, starting an avalanche of withdrawals.

The day didn’t even end before UC Davis Athletics announced that it was suspending all winter and spring athletic events. Some schools have definitively canceled sports through the end of the school year.

MLB, the NBA and MLS also are on hold. While we are rained upon with all this doom and gloom about world events, our safe room — athletics — has been locked. Where do we turn?

I’ve spent much of the past two days in a hotel

room in Anaheim. Up until 24 hours ago, I thought I was covering a Big West Tournament that would bring delight to Aggie fans — spotlighting athletes playing their hearts out, some for one last hurrah — and ultimately providing a season that would extend to at least Saturday.

But everything ended Thursday morning.

Last night, as I looked out my window at fireworks shining through the raindrops just beyond the Matterhorn at Disneyland, I thought, thank goodness … there’s still “The Happiest Place on Earth.” Maybe my wife and I will head over to Mickey’s House before driving home this weekend.

Then my phone dinged: “Disneyland to suspend operations beginning Saturday due to the coronavirus.”

Now, where do I turn?

March 10, 2021: After two vaccinations against COVID-19 and watching as the sports world inches back to normalcy, I’ve discovered you really don’t know what you’ve had until it is gone.

Be grateful that we’re back in action.

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

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From Page B2 sophomore’s growth is “making his teammates better players.”

Averaging 15.9 points a game, the Heritage High (Brentwood) graduate has been special on defense and is causing opponent problems away from the ball. “He’s still scoring ... but he’s making the players around him better because of things he’s doing without the ball,” Les said.

For example, off-guard Elijah Pepper (14.9) has had some big offensive games while leading UCD in steals (36). Caleb Fuller, center Kennedy Koehler, Anigwe and Squire can go toe-to-toe with any foes, believes the coach, who says clogging the middle of defense is a key. For their efforts, it was announced on Monday that both Manjon and Pepper had earned secondteam all-BWC honors.

Play in the paint is an element that could provide an answer to who wins on Thursday.

While Davis has been on-again, offagain inside, Cal State Bakersfield crashes the glass.

Ronne Readus, the 6-9, 240-pound Roadrunner center, is a tough torso to move. And Les, in what little he’s seen of Cal State, knows they fly around inside.

“We know it’s going to be a great battle.

From a distance, they play really hard and come at you in a multitude of waves,” Les pointed out. “Their rebounding prowess is eye-popping.”

Bakersfield is almost a plus-10 per game in rebounding.

And they have eight players averaging 5 or more points, including Taze Moore (12.2), Kansas State transfer Shaun Williams (9.8), Justin Edler-Davis (9.5) and Justin McCall (8.4).

But Davis showed last weekend that it knows how to correct a problem, to be stiff inside ...

After being out-boarded, 42-22, by Hawaii in a 73-68 Friday loss, the Aggies beat their guests, 36-22, rebounding and won, 74-66, the following day.

But this week, schools don’t get a second chance to correct fatal mistakes. Lose one

announcement — no audience.

Thursday morning brought word that the men’s and women’s conference tournaments were canceled, and regular-season BWC winners would advance to March Madness. The news was bittersweet for UC Davis: The men wouldn’t have a chance to fight for a banner like they had in 2017, while the women were headed to the NCAA tourney as reigning champs.

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Second-team All-Big West Conference guards Elijah Pepper, above, and Ezra Manjon hope to elevate UC Davis against Cal State Bakersfield on Thursday.

and you’re done.

Notes: On that championship 1997-98 stood Kevin Nosek, the former Davis High guard who now is associated head coach of UCD. ... The Big West finale is slated for Saturday at 8:30 p.m.

want to play.’ They told us basketball was an outlet for them, a positive thing in their lives.”

Practice restarted after a three-week hiatus during around the holidays, but the first four Big West series were canceled.

Conducting practices “like we would have been playing weekend games,” Gross says the process paid off.

Once back, the Aggies won their first eight league outings and climbed to No. 11 in the CollegeInsider. com mid-major polls.

But Davis almost got ambushed in Hawaii on Friday, dropping a 70-60 decision. It was the Aggies first setback since losing on Feb. 6 at then-AP No. 12 Oregon, 73-67.

Not to worry, the following evening in Honolulu, UCD put the clamps on the Wahine offense. Hawaii, which led 29-27 at halftime, would shoot 26 percent for the game. Davis begin the third period with a 12-1 run and got its usual balanced scoring when Evanne Turner canned a game-high 13 and Sage Stobbart and Cierra Hall carded a dozen each.

Stobbart, who set a school record with nine blocks in the loss, almost turned in a triple-double on Friday, then came right back in the win nine rebounds and four more blocks.

It’s tough to know who to cover on this deep Aggie squad, but one thing is sure, seniors Hall and Trpcic are contributors night after night.

“Mackenzie has been giving us energy whenever we’ve needed it,” Gross recently told The Enterprise.

“And Cierra Hall, when she’s on the court, we take her lead. She was big for us this weekend. Mackenzie is our floor general and she’s kinda the voice in huddles and time-outs.”

On defense, Gross loves the contributions of post Stobbart and swingman Konrad. Meanwhile, mix in the long-range beauty of Turner’s rainbows providing pots of gold on the scoreboard and ...

“It’s pretty cool to see each person use their personality to lead in their own way,” Gross said.

Notes: UC Davis has not played Fullerton this season, nor has it met the Titans in the Big West Tournament. ... Twice the Aggies have made the Big Dance — which this year is targeted for the bubble surrounding San Antonio. In 2011 and 2019, UCD lost NCAA firstround games at Stanford. ... All tournament games will be streamed by ESPN3 with Aggie action being called on the radio

by Greg Wong on KDVS (90.3 FM). ... If Davis wins on today, it will play Friday at noon versus the winner of Wednesday’s 4-seed Cal State Bakersfield and No. 5 Hawaii.

The championship game is slated for Saturday at 5 p.m.

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

Follow Gallaudet on Twitter: @BGsportsinDavis.

CONCERNS: Win provides team optimism for the season From Page B2 informed on Thursday that Idaho had a number of COVID-positive tests, but after meeting with his own team doctors and other medical personnel — and after conversations with Idaho and Big Sky officials — the decision was made that it would be safe to travel to Moscow and compete on Saturday afternoon.

“We felt comfortable when we got on the airplane on Friday that the game was not going to be canceled,” said the Aggie athletic director. “We got every indication from Idaho that they wanted to play the game — and that the proper protocols were being followed.”

The Aggies open their three-game

home season March 20 against Cal Poly, a team that has already postponed its first two Big Sky games due to COVID concerns within its athletic program.

“As far as we know, they’ll be able to play, but I guess we’ll just have to wait and see at this point,” DeLuca offered.

Despite the recent COVID news, optimism is soaring at UCD after the Aggies opened the spring football season with an impressive 27-17 win at previously 19th-ranked Idaho.

UCD, unranked in the preseason, now finds itself among the nation’s FCS elite, listed at No. 20 in the Athlon poll and No. 23 in the Stats Perform FCS rankings.

The Aggies travel to No. 1 Weber

State for a noontime Big Sky battle Saturday with the high-flying Wildcats. Weber State opened the season with a 49-21 rout at Idaho State.

Davis rallied from a 17-7 halftime deficit ...

“I was really proud of how resilient our guys were,” said UCD defensive coordinator Matt Coombs.

“It would have been easy to get down or start to have doubts when we were behind, but the guys were just trying to get settled into playing a football game again and that took some time. We managed to clean some things up at halftime, and they came out and competed and battled on every play and leaned on each other. Their resolve to finish strong was impressive.”

Coombs was especially pleased with the play of linebacker and team captain Connor Airey, who earned Big Sky defensive player of the week honors after a performance that included an interception, 10 overall tackles and a quarterback sack. Airey also captured similar honors from CollegeSportsMadness.com.

“I can’t say enough good things about Connor,” noted Coombs about his walk-on standout.

“He has a tremendous work ethic and is a great leader for us. What you saw on the field Saturday is what he brings to practice every day of the week. He’s full speed. He never takes a play off.”

Airey is a 6-0, 215-pound senior out of Servite High (Anaheim).

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ORANGE: New metric kicking in From Page A1 the state will make it easier for counties to move to the red tier.

“Currently 1.8 million doses have been administered in this quartile,” Dr. Aimee Sisson, the county health officer, said Tuesday, and the state estimates that the 2 million mark will be hit in the next week or two.

At that point, counties in the purple tier will be able to move to the red tier with a higher adjusted case rate.

However, since Yolo County is already in the red tier, it won’t be impacted by this first trigger.

But a second trigger — 4 million doses administered in the statewide quartile — “may impact Yolo County’s tier status because it will raise the upper threshold for orange to six (cases per 100,000) and yellow to two,” said Sisson. “I anticipate that Yolo will already be in the orange tier when the second trigger is met and the shift will make it easier to move into the yellow tier at that point.”

Sisson told Yolo County supervisors Tuesday that the underlying reasoning for the state’s vaccine equity metric makes sense.

“My understanding is that the relaxation is based on the fact that as more people are getting vaccinated, certain activities that were not necessarily considered safe before, become safer,” said Sisson.

“That does make sense.”

Tying it to the lowest quartile of the Healthy Places Index also makes sense, she said, because many frontline workers live in those disadvantaged communities and “what we don’t want to see is counties and the state opening up before frontline workers … are vaccinated.”

And while she supports that, Sisson said the numbers the state is using — 2 million, then 4 million — “are relatively arbitrary and I think there could be more than public health decision making at play.

“I know there’s obviously a lot of political pressure being placed on our state leaders and it’s pretty clear that that’s playing a role as well. But the general approach of relaxation when more people are vaccinated and making sure that it’s equitable vaccination, that makes sense.”

That said, Sisson said the designation of Broderick in West Sacramento as well as those towns in more rural areas of the county are not

necessarily where vaccine equity is the worst in Yolo County.

But it is difficult to assess vaccine equity here because the race and ethnicity of 23 percent of the county residents who have been vaccinated is unknown.

What is known: n Latinos make up 31.9 percent of the county population but just 12.9 percent of residents vaccinated. n Asians make up 15.1 percent of the county population but 8.5 percent of those vaccinated. n Whites make up 46 percent of county residents and 43.6 percent of residents vaccinated. n Blacks make up 3 percent of county residents and 1.2 percent of those vaccinated.

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