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City, PAC respond to grand jury

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer

The Stephens Branch Library in Davis will stop collecting late fees in April.

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Library eliminates overdue fines

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer The Yolo County Library will stop assessing and collecting overdue fines effective April 1.

The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to eliminate late fees on regular items, special materials and electronic equipment borrowed from county libraries, including the Stephens Branch and South Davis Montgomery branches in Davis.

The move comes two years after the board ended overdue fees for children’s accounts.

According to Yolo County librarian Mark Fink, that decision in January 2019 resulted in

a 28-percent increase in borrowing by children and youths compared to 2018.

“This finding is consistent with results nationwide that the elimination of extended-use fees reduces barriers for customers to access library resources and leads to increased use for all of our customers,” Fink’s report to the board said. “This change in practice is consistent with the library’s mission to provide access for all to ideas that inform, entertain and inspire.”

“I love it,” said Supervisor Oscar Villegas of West Sacramento. "This makes all the sense in the world."

The move will result in a loss

of about $40,000 in annual library revenues, representing about 1 percent of the Yolo County Library budget.

But Fink said it will also improve efficiency.

“Collecting overdue fines requires further bookkeeping and staff time to work out conflicts with patrons,” he told county supervisors. “There’s a lengthy process that’s required if we’re waiving fees and fines, so by eliminating late fees, we will be freeing up time for staff for other forms of public service.”

More than 50 library systems around the country have eliminated overdue fines, Fink said.

They include the public library systems in San Francisco and Berkeley as well as the San Mateo and Contra Costa county libraries.

The San Francisco Public Library issued findings following its elimination of overdue fines, including that five of the seven libraries saw increases in borrowing and four saw increases in the number of patrons using the library.

Why? Overdue fines act as a barrier to access, leading to account suspension.

“They also prevent some folks from wanting to borrow or use

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Parents get an assignment from school district

By Edward Booth Enterprise staff writer The Davis Joint Unified School District is asking district parents to complete a survey by March 14 asking whether their children will remain in distance learning or return to school campuses for in-person learning next month.

The district is planning to reopen school campuses for hybrid learning on April 12, though the plan is contingent upon COVID-19 conditions remaining stable. Information to help parents make a decision about whether or not to send their children back to school

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can be found in the district’s Return to Campus Family Guide. The guide was mailed out by the district to families and is also available on the district website, in English and Spanish.

the guide — to share information about how the in-person learning will soon be operating on school campuses — and provides reassurance about the health and safety of students and staff.

The 44-page guide provides an overview of the district’s reopening system and walks through how the hybrid model — Phase 3 in a five-step process, from full distance learning to reopening schools entirely — will operate.

“It is important to remind ourselves that on-campus learning will look different from the school we once knew, but our commitment to keep our students, staff and community safe and healthy, to provide highquality education and to provide the essential socialemotional connections for both students and our staff is unwavering,” Bowes wrote.

Superintendent John Bowes provides an introduction on the first page of the guide, where he covers the general purpose of

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Bowes wrote that the district plans to open for full in-person learning, Phase 5, in fall 2021,

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Phase 3 includes in-person instruction with modified schedules, in-person social and emotional support, on-campus activities — many of which have already started up — and retains a full distance learning option.

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Yolo County officials continue to express reservations about the looming transition to the statewide MyTurn online system where all residents will register for and receive COVID-19 vaccine appointments.

For weeks, the county was expecting to be onboarded around March 15, but county health officer Dr. Aimee Sisson said Tuesday that the county’s current system will remain in place likely through the end of the month.

“We’re being told in terms of the MyTurn transition that the only requirement is that we pilot at least

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The city of Davis and its Police Accountability Commission offered mixed reactions to a Yolo County grand jury report from last fall that found shortcomings in how the PAC conducts its business.

City officials provided the responses in December to the grand jury, which posted them Monday on its county website.

At issue: whether the PAC — formed in late 2018 in response to a violent Picnic Day brawl between civilians and three plainGENNANCO clothed police offiIndependent cers that occurred police auditor the year before — has fulfilled its mandate to address police accountability issues.

Much of the grand jury report focused on that April 2017 altercation, which triggered public outcry when it came to light that the Davis Police Department minimized the involved officers’ roles in the incident.

That in turn led to a police internal-affairs investigation and a revamped police oversight system

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Briefly UCD police warn of car break-ins A recent series of vehicle burglaries on the UC Davis campus triggered a crime alert Wednesday.

“During the last few weeks there have been multiple vehicles that have been burglarized on our campus,” police said in an email alert.

“The primary method has been by window smash to gain access to property left out in plain view inside the vehicles.”

“Various items were stolen such as wallets, purses, jars of coins, and other property of potential value. In some cases, stolen credit cards were then used fraudulently at various nearby businesses,” police said.

The crimes were reported between Feb. 16 and March 8 by people who parked their vehicles in the areas of Levee and Hopkins roads, the 200 block of First Street, 500 block of Regan Hall Circle, Crocker Lane and the Putah Creek lodge parking lot.

A possible suspect vehicle, seen at one of the crime scenes, is described as a black or dark green late ‘90s-model Ford Mustang hard top with a rear spoiler, whitewall tires and no front license plate.

“An investigation is ongoing,” police said.

Anyone with information about these or similar incidents is asked to call UCD police at 530754-2677.

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Wait, so can we hang out or not?

“P eople fully vaccinated against COVID can gather safely indoors without masks, CDC says,” noted the headline over a story by McClatchy’s Katie Camero.

“For those itching to return to pre-pandemic normalcy, federal health officials just released new guidance that offers some good news — but only for people who have been fully vaccinated,” said the opening paragraph.

“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Monday that people who have received both doses of the PfizerBioNTech or Moderna vaccine, or one dose of the Johnson & Johnson shot, can gather indoors two weeks after completing their vaccinations with other fully vaccinated individuals without masks or physical distancing.”

That ought to be some party.

Imagine seeing your neighbors or best friends up close and maskless for the first time in nearly a year. I mean, I hope the CDC will agree to provide everyone with name tags.

I suspect the CDC has been anxious to hand out some good news after spending the last year of the Trump administration as the Centers for Disease Denial.

But now, after months of warnings and scary numbers and

charts and graphs that seemed always to be going the wrong way, the CDC is now passing out good news like snacks at a Christmas party.

Added Camero’s story, “The risk of infection in such scenarios is low, the agency says.”

So go ahead. Get together. Hug, squeeze, shake hands, high-five, kiss on the lips if you dare.

But wait, every silver lining has a cloud inside, and here it comes.

“Including individuals who have not completed their vaccinations — or those who have not been vaccinated at all — in indoor gatherings can increase the chances someone gets infected.”

You think? Does that mean I can’t visit the great-grandkids after all? Wait, I don’t have greatgrandkids.

“That’s because the currently available COVID-19 vaccines do not fully prevent coronavirus infection, meaning vaccinated

people can still get infected and spread it to others.”

Yes, with so-called “protection” of 94 or 95 percent, it’s a certainty that some folks will slip through the cracks. So it will never be foolproof, but at some point we have to accept the small risk involved and move on with our lives.

“Data indicate the shots make it less likely that an infected vaccinated person could spread the virus to others or experience symptoms.”

Now I’m starting to get dizzy.

“The CDC says fully vaccinated people can meet with unvaccinated individuals from a single household indoors without masks or distancing if those people are at low risk for severe COVID-19.”

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’m sorry, but I dropped out of medical school a week before graduation and lost the ability to determine low-risk for COVID people from high-risk for COVID people. And what difference does it make if they’re from a single household? Have no cases ever been detected from single households?

“Those who have completed their vaccination series can also refrain from quarantine and testing following a known exposure if asymptomatic.”

My dizziness has now morphed

into a migraine. How am I supposed to know I’ve been exposed if the exposure came from someone who is asymptomatic? Unless, of course, the asymptomatic person got tested and called me with a warning. Except if they’re asymptomtic, I shouldn’t worry. That’s a lot to decipher before dropping by for a beer or a cup of coffee.

“Still, fully vaccinated people should avoid large in-person gatherings and take precautions in public such as wearing well-fitted masks and physical distancing, especially when around unvaccinated people.”

Simple math will tell you that the risk of exposure is higher in a large crowd than a small one, but even a gathering of two can be deadly in one of those two is infected.

I think what we need to do here is start vaccinating people on the forehead with an indelible purple dye for all the world to see. Put the second vaccination right next to first, making the first vaccination in the shape of the letter “O” and the second in the shape of the letter “K.” And then, when you see someone with “OK” on their forehead, give them a hug.

Or even a head butt.

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Suspect in fatal hit-and-run thought victim ‘was going to be OK’

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer A Davis man accused of causing a hit-and-run collision that killed his friend told police he left the scene because “he thought Ernie was going to be OK.” Ernie was Ernest Seyfert, the 66-year-old Davis resident who died Jan. 3 after Scott Ekoniak allegedly

struck him with his truck on Olive Drive.

“He thought Ernie was going to get up and go,” Davis Police Officer Michael Muscardini, who interviewed Ekoniak after his arrest, testified at the defendant’s Feb. 22 preliminary hearing in Yolo Superior Court. “He said he’s a tough guy and that he was not going that fast to

where he thought he would be that injured.”

Ekoniak, 47, also admitted to sharing a 30-pack of Coors Light with Seyfert earlier that day as the pair watched football in Seyfert’s Olive Drive apartment, Muscardini said.

“He told me that he is about 220 pounds and he can drink an 18-pack, no problem,” Muscardini

testified, adding that Ekoniak told him he “had eight or nine or maybe more” of the beers during the day.

Afterward, he spent about 45 minutes sobering up in his truck before leaving the Cesar Chavez Plaza apartment complex.

By then, Seyfert also had left the apartment on foot and, according to Ekoniak and at least one witness,

crossed in front of Ekoniak’s westbound truck on a dimly lit stretch of Olive Drive.

“The guy ran into me,” Ekoniak blurted out at his Jan. 6 arraignment hearing, where he pleaded not guilty to charges including gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, driving under the influence causing injury and hit and run causing death or injury.

CLINICS: Officials worry about effects of MyTurn From Page A1 one clinic by the end of the month and we do have that on the calendar,” Sisson told Yolo County supervisors on Tuesday.

“So it means for the next several weeks, we can continue doing what we’re already doing to target workers and residents of these harder-hit communities.”

“For example,” she said, “our farmworker outreach does not rely on MyTurn, it doesn’t involve MyTurn, it doesn’t require any electronic advance sign-up, so we’ll be continuing with that approach to target farmworkers as long as we can.”

That approach has been successful, with 35 percent of the county’s farmworkers having been vaccinated as of Monday with more vaccinated at clinics Tuesday and Wednesday.

County spokeswoman Jenny Tan said Yolo County residents should still sign up for notifications through the MyTurn system (myturn.ca.gov) but to

continue to look for appointments on the county’s vaccine website (www. yolocounty.org/coronavirus -vaccine) or by calling 2-1-1 and checking with healthcare providers, community clinics and pharmacies.

Yolo County supervisors have expressed frustration with the state’s plan to transition all vaccine appointments to a single, centralized system, particularly given how successful they believe the county has been not only at vaccinating older residents (72 percent of all those 65 and over) but also farmworkers and other residents with less access to the technology needed to book appointments online.

“I am gravely concerned about the MyTurn rollout and its emphasis on connectivity because I just think that strands some of these participants completely outside the system,” Supervisor Gary Sandy of Woodland said Tuesday.

“I am very much concerned that that is going to be a disastrous turn of events in reaching these underserved populations

who are facing a multitude of challenges as it is around housing and occupations and language barriers, etc. … Insisting people have the connectivity up front is just disastrous.”

Yolo County, Sandy said, is “making great and outstanding progress… really remarkable progress.

“In some areas of the county we need to just up our game and I don’t know how we do that with the state overseeing everything that we do and restricting what we do. Seems like we’d be better advantaged if the state would just let us run our own programs the way we know to run them in concert with the population that we serve on a daily basis.”

Sisson said the county health department continues to have concerns “about how we will target appointments to disadvantaged populations using MyTurn, as well as how clinics will be able to run in areas of the county without internet access.

“But we’ve been assured by the MyTurn team that solutions to these problems

LIBRARY: No benefit to keeping fees From Page A1 the library in the first place,” said Fink.

“For many people, they may not have the disposable income to pay off their overdue fees and a fixedrate fine policy is inequitable in that it most harms individuals already facing financial insecurity,” said Fink.

Libraries that have eliminated overdue fines have not experienced increases in late returns, Fink said.

In the San Francisco system, one library saw its late return rate drop from 9 percent to 4 percent following the elimination of fines.

Additionally, while late returns are a reality facing every library, none of the libraries in the San Francisco

study experienced increases in late returns, longer hold times or gaps in the collection, he said.

“There is no evidence that overdue fines consistently serve as a motivating factor to return items on time; rather, these fees just continue to act as a barrier and punish individuals without the financial resources to pay off the fines.”

Asked by Supervisor Don Saylor of Davis if those with existing overdue fines and suspended accounts will “be invited back in,” Fink said they will be offered an opportunity to “read off their fines” beginning with the summer reading program.

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are being developed,” Sisson said.

Even when the county does transition to MyTurn, she added, “we’re hopeful that some of the functionality that is supposedly being added around private clinics and single-use codes will still allow us to set aside doses for farmworkers.

“I think the challenge is MyTurn and the state team are still figuring out exactly how that is going to work,” she added. And “we don’t want to take a step back by any means.”

One consolation, Sisson added, is that those without access to the internet can call a toll-free number to set up an appointment with MyTurn (1-833-4224255) and the county is working to use its own 2-1-1 system to connect people to that number.

Supervisor Don Saylor of Davis said he’s been very impressed with the rollout of vaccine clinics in Yolo County, “both geographically and to targeted

populations — teachers, childcare workers, farmworkers, restaurant workers…

“We all share (Sandy’s) trepidation,” he said, but the county’s existing partnerships and resources — including family resource centers, First 5 Yolo, ApoYolo and more — will be able to bolster outreach to communities, including helping people who may not have access to the internet still sign up for vaccine appointments.

Meanwhile, the pool of county residents eligible for a vaccine will increase on Monday with the addition of individuals 16 to 64 with severe health conditions or disabilities.

The expansion will not be without its challenges.

“What we’re going to see come Monday is a huge increase in the number of people who are eligible for a vaccine but no change in the number of vaccines that we actually have,” Sisson said.

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Explore exciting electromagnets

By Sara Thompson Special to the Enterprise

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lectromagnets can be found in a number of places, ranging from how a doorbell works all the way to helping particle accelerators perform their job. For something with so many applications, an electromagnet has a very simple construction.

An electromagnet is a magnet where the magnetic field is created by an electric current. To create an electromagnet, a wire is wound tightly around a metal core and then connected to a source of electricity. This simple tool has almost countless applications and is used in many everyday things we may not think about.

In the 1820s, Hans Christian Oersted noticed his compass would act abnormally when a battery in his lab was switched on and return to normal when turned off and discovered that a magnetic field is generated by the battery.

In 1824, William Sturgeon built the first electromagnet by wrapping copper wire around a horseshoe-shaped piece of iron and connecting it to a battery.

His electromagnet was able to attract other pieces of iron and demonstrated its magnetic force by lifting nine pounds with only his seven-ounce iron piece wrapped in wire.

Explorit Science Center Ever since these breakthroughs, scientists have continued to study electricity, magnetism and electromagnetism, and have continued to adapt the design to fit many aspects of modern life.

The core of an electromagnet is known as a solenoid. On its own, it usually does not have an electric current, and the atoms in the object are oriented randomly.

Once the coil is added and a current moves through it, the solenoid’s atoms realign and generate the magnetic field.

Our homes and industry are full of electromagnets being found in something as mundane as a doorbell, where pushing the button completes the electric circuit and activates the clapper on the bell to the large magnets in junkyards that can lift cars are also electromagnets, allowing materials to lift objects much heavier than themselves.

MRIs use electromagnets to generate the magnetic fields and waves that create the images doctor’s view. Even large particle accelerators use electromagnets to control the particle’s trajectory and speed, so it doesn’t damage the machine.

Campers in this week’s Everyday Engineering

Six local women will talk about their experiences as people of color in the Davis community at a free virtual forum from 6:30 to 8 p.m.

Wednesday, March 17.

Presented by the League of Women Voters Davis Area, “I, Too, Am Davis” will explore systemic racism in Davis and efforts to promote equality and social justice.

The moderated forum will begin with keynote speaker Sandy Holman, a nationally recognized leader in social justice, equity and anti-hate programs.

Founder of The Culture C.O.O.P., an organization that helps people and organizations work on diversity in education, business and the community, Holman directed the documentary “The Cost of Darkness” and is the author of award-winning children’s books including, “Grandpa, Is Everything Black Bad?” Panelists for the program include: n Organizer and activist Adelita Serena; n Gloria Partida, mayor of Davis; n Dr. Jann MurrayGarcia, pediatrician and

Pets of the week Special to The Enterprise

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Lots of animals are waiting for “forever homes” at the Yolo County Animal Shelter, 2640 E. Gibson Road in Woodland.

Among is them is Ester (A185949), a sweet, young and loving 1-yearold female Doberman looking for a family that will appreciate her loving disposition. Ester walks nicely on a leash but sometimes reacts to other dogs and will need to be reminded to stay calm when meeting new friends.

A diagram of an electromagnet. camp made their own electromagnets with some wires, a small battery, and a nail. They also built buildings, cars, racetracks, and even a rocket from donated, recycled materials.

Our after-school camps are currently full but keep a lookout for more in the future. Camps will be Monday to Friday from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. for students in grades K-6. Price is $120 for members, $145 for non-members. Additional information and registration can be found at https://www.explorit. org/camps.

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restrictions and the health and safety of our staff and visitors, our gallery will remain closed. Staff regularly check messages and email. n Like many small businesses the closures have had a significant impact on our income and sustainability. Now is a great time to donate and help Explorit continue to educate and inspire the scientists of tomorrow: https:// www.explorit.org/donate.

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Davis Citizen of the Year 2020; and n Vigdis Asmundson, Davis Joint Unified School District trustee.

Some of the questions the forum hopes to explore include: What past challenges did you or your family face in a predominantly white community and what challenges remain? How has race and culture played a role in your work or activism? Has it played a role in your decision to get more involved in the community? What are the resources available to people of color now versus yesteryear?

The panel will be moderated by Komal Hak, director of communications, strategy and marketing for the Davis League.

Surveyed early this year, league members selected social justice as their top priority in 2021.

The forum is the beginning of the LWV’s efforts to educate its members and the community on diversity, racial inequity and efforts toward a more inclusive culture in Davis, Hak says.

Register for this event at https://rb.gy/t5zjon or https://lwvsocialjustice. eventbrite.com.

Ester Also hoping for a good home is Louie (A186006), a 13-year-old terrier, who is kind and looking for a family to spend his sunset years with, enjoying lazy days and laid-back nights.

Louie is charming ready to give you a lifetime of devotion.

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 non-emergencies but the staff is available to assist at 530668-5287 during new temporary hours: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. from Mondays to Fridays and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays.

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Kringle For information, visit www.petfinder.com/ member/us/ca/woodland/ yolo-county-animalservices-ca283/.

At Rotts of Friends Animal Rescue, you’ll find Kringle, a 13-monthold neutered male Rhodesian ridgeback cross.

He came in with his brother Kris. Kringle is a friendly, bouncy funfilled big boy. He is tall, long and lanky with a great personality. He needs obedience training but he comes with free lifetime classes.

Rocco is a purebred 1to 1½-year-old neutered male Rottie. Rocco is young, moldable and smart. He walks on a leash and comes with free lifetime obedience training classes. He’ll do best in an adult home.

The next Rotts of Friends’ adoption event is from 8 to 11 a.m. Saturday, March 13, at 34505 County Road 29 in

Rocco 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.

All dogs adopted from Rotts of Friends are healthy, microchipped, up-to-date on their vaccines and come with free lifetime obediencetraining classes. For more information, visit face book.com/rottsoffriends.

Obituaries 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.

Colleen Griffith passed peacefully at home on Feb. 6 with her family by her side. Born in Sidney, Mont., Colleen grew up in Vancouver, Wash.

She worked for the telephone company as a switchboard operator after high school and two years later met the love of her life, Doug Griffith, an Air Force officer. They married three months later and honeymooned across the country in their ‘53 Ford on their way to a new assignment in Florida.

Military life meant moving often around the country including to Beale AFB in California, Grand Forks in North Dakota and Goose Bay in Labrador, Canada.

A devoted wife and homemaker Colleen poured her energy into her family which grew rather quickly having four boys in three years, two sets of twins.

The family settled in Davis after Doug’s military retirement in 1971. Colleen worked in the Davis High School lunchroom and later as a secretary in Doug’s calculator business but she will best be

remembered for raising three generations of children. In addition to her kids, Colleen raised four grandchildren and was affectionately known as Grandma to countless kids she graciously sheltered, fed and welcomed into her home. She loved weekly coffee outings with dear friends but enjoyed most being at home, among all “her” kids.

Colleen attended St. James Catholic Church and along with her husband was actively involved with the Davis VFW chapter.

“You seemed So Nice, So Quiet, So Gentle, Sweet, Innocent, Protected, Trusting,” Doug later wrote in a love letter describing the day they met. To everyone who knew her, Colleen was simply a saint.

She is preceded in death by her daughter Sherrie, son Robert and husband Doug.

She is survived by her sons Mike, Brad and Steve; grandkids, Christian, Stacy Lampkin, Bradley, Melissa Barnett, Bobby, Aaron and Anthony; and great-gandkids, Jayden, Sophie Grace and Maddie.

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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

Colleen Griffith

Jan. 24, 1934 — Feb. 6, 2021

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Missing my sister Dear Annie: My sister is relatively young (early 60s) but lives in a nursing home. For months now, she has not been allowed to leave her room except to shower.

She was put in a room that has no phone. After she’d been there for a month, I called and the front desk told me that she’d be allowed visitors in a week or two. I waited two weeks, and called again, and they said she still wasn’t allowed visits. I am allowed to drop things off, and last week I noticed that one of the residents was in the lobby. I asked an employee what was up with that, and the employee said that residents are allowed to go outside for cigarette breaks, supervised.

At this point I feel that the nursing home administrators are not telling the truth. If they can leave their rooms to go outside, then certainly they can have a visitor, even if just through a glass window, right? — Miss My Sis Dear Miss My Sis: Trust your gut. While the coronavirus pandemic has necessitated restrictions, you should still be allowed phone calls with your sister at the very least. It sounds like her facility might not be on the up and up.

Reach out to them in writing to log your complaints, so that you have a paper trail. Then see if a long-term care ombudsman can intervene. You can locate ombudsmen at https://theconsumervoice.org/get_help.

Dear Annie: I have a good one for you, Annie. This past Christmas, I assembled Italian-dinner care packages for two of my neighbors, with jars of my homemade sauce, homemade meatballs, Italian bread and boxes of spaghetti. For one of the neighbors, I also included a nice candle and a throw blanket. She had knee surgery last year, and I wanted her to know I was thinking of her. She has three grown sons so I included a lot of meatballs and sauce. To the other

neighbors, I gave just the sauce and meatballs. The young children in that family wrote me a thank-you note.

For one friend, “Sherry,” I made a Christmas tree out of fabric (with lights on it) and a scarf made of pom poms — real pretty.

I gave her husband, “Raymond,” an antique truck with small added Christmas trees, like the truck was hauling the trees. I gave another set of friends, “Mary” and “Will,” my crafted tree and truck, too, along with sausage, cheese and crackers.

I got a few gifts from Sherry and Raymond but nothing from Mary and Will or any of my neighbors. I called and left a voicemail with the ones who did give me a gift and asked to give me a call if they were happy with the gifts I gave them. I never heard a word of thanks from anyone. I wasn’t upset they gave me nothing, but I was hurt and upset that I didn’t even get a thank-you.

I did call one couple and let them know I would not be exchanging gifts next year. I have had it, doing for others and receiving nothing in return. How rude people are. I work and I have limited time and still I worked hard

on the things I gave them and can’t even get a thank-you. What do you think about that?

— No, Thanks Dear No, Thanks: My advice to your neighbors and friends would be to send thank-you notes when they receive gifts, especially thoughtful homemade gifts like yours. It was inconsiderate of them not to.

But you’re the one who wrote me, so here’s my advice to you. If you want to spare yourself future resentments, give gifts unconditionally or don’t give them at all.

You have limited time, as you mentioned, and there are better ways to spend it than inventorying presents and cataloguing grudges.

——— Dear Annie: I’d like to share my thoughts for “Not Ready for the Earhorn,” who was frustrated with the volume mix of televisions shows: Please, get your hearing checked. I had the same problem with hearing the TV dialogue. I went to the doctor about it and was diagnosed with hearing loss. My hearing aids are Bluetooth and barely noticeable and have improved my quality life. My mother denied a hearing

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Public Notices FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: February 3, 2021 FBN Number: F20210106 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) WECARE4YOLO SLS 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California.

Business is located in Yolo County.

846 West Main St. Winters, CA 95694 Mailing address: P.O. Box 4436 Davis, CA 96617 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Kelli Villanueva 846 West Main St. Winters, CA 95694 4. Business Classification: Individual 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: February 2, 2021 “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.”

(A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

6. Signature of Registrant(s): Kelli Villanueva 1160 2/19, 2/26, 3/5, 3/12 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: February 22, 2021 FBN Number: F20210172 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) Andes Gifts 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California.

Business is located in Yolo County.

1525 Lemon Lane Davis, CA 95616 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Altiplano Enterprises, Inc. 1525 Lemon Lane Davis, CA 95616 4. Business Classification: Corporation 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.”

(A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

6. Signature of Registrant(s): John Terlecky Treasurer, Altiplano Enterprises, Inc. 1177 2/26, 3/5, 3/12, 3/19 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case Number: CV2021-292 1. Avalon Nicole Hendricks filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Avalon Nicole Hendricks to Kinsley Imrie Titchener 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition should not be granted.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: April 15, 2021 Time: 9 a.m.

Dept: #10 Room: Zoom The address of the court is 1000 Main Street, Woodland, CA 95695 3. a) A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: The Davis Enterprise 315 G Street, Davis, CA 95616 Date: February 22, 2021 Samuel T. McAdam Judge of the Superior Court 1178 2/26, 3/5, 3/12, 3/19

Davis, CA 95618 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip James Jared Clark 3703 Ascada Place Davis, CA 95618 and Cassandra Marie Linder 216 Willoughby Dr. Naples, FL 34110 4. Business Classification: General Partnership 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.”

(A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

6. Signature of Registrant(s): James Jared Clark 2/26, 3/5, 3/12, 3/19 1180 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF Margaret Carhart CASE NO. PR2021-0037 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Margaret Carhart A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: Elizabeth Cocores in the Superior Court of California, County of: Yolo THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that: Elizabeth Cocores be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.)

The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on April 8, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. in Department TBD located at 1000 Main Street, Woodland, CA 95695.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

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.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Signed: Jill Gregory Attorney for petitioner 620 Newport Center Dr., Suite 1100 Newport Beach, CA 92660 949-514-8842 3/10, 3/12, 3/17 1190

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: February 23, 2021 FBN Number: F20210177 PUBLIC NOTICE 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) Pet Practice Partners Public Notice 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Principal Place of Business in California. Notice is hereby given that the County Business is located in Yolo County. of Yolo will receive sealed bids for the “Gonzalez Roof Project” until 10:00 a.m.

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on Tuesday, April 06, 2021 at 625 Court Street, Room 103, Woodland, CA 95695.

This construction project is located at 25 N. Cottonwood Street in Woodland, California. One mandatory pre-bid conference and site review will be held at the project site at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, March 23, 2021. Each bid must conform to the requirements of the Contract Documents which can be downloaded along with all bid documents at www.bidsync.com at no cost. It is the bidder’s responsibility to register at www. bidsync.com to ensure notification of all addenda. It is the bidder’s responsibility to arrange for printing services. For more information, send questions through www.bidsync.com.

PUBLIC NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Yolo County Board of Supervisors will conduct a public hearing on Tuesday, March 23, 2021 at 9:00 a.m., or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard, via teleconference in order to discuss possible applications for funding under the next fiscal year’s (July 1 to June 30) State Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program and to solicit public input on possible competitive and over the counter activities to be included in the application. The Note to General Contractors in regard meeting will be held virtually pursuant to State Public Contracting and to Executive Order N-29-20 (March 17, apprenticeship: there is an additional 2020) with participation instructions as local Yolo County requirement that set forth on meeting agenda posted to states; “The County requires that all the County website (www.yolocounty. bidders on public works projects in org) and available for viewing outside excess of seven hundred fifty thousand of the County Administration Building dollars participate in a State of California located at 625 Court Street, Woodland, Division of Apprenticeship Standards CA 95696 at least 72 hours in advance of approved joint labor and management the meeting. apprenticeship program. Proof of compliance with this instructional The Community Development and training requirement must be provided Economic Development allocations at the time a bid is submitted.” of the State CDBG program will be Contractor shall be responsible to published in a combined “Notice of provide documentation illustrating a Funding Availability” (NOFA) each qualified and approved apprenticeship program year. Eligible cities and counties training program and shall include this may submit Community Development and Housing applications for CDBG funds documentation in bid documents.

3/12, 3/19 1192 under the 2021 NOFA for a maximum per application request of $1,500,000.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME It is estimated that the funding of the STATEMENT State 2021 CDBG program allocation is Filed: March 4, 2021 approximately $30,000,000.

FBN Number: F20210201 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) The Economic Development “OverCarlton Senior Living, Davis the-Counter” (OTC) allocation has Carlton Senior Living of Davis an approximate maximum limit of 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of $1,500,000. The NOFA also includes the Principal Place of Business in California. Native American and Colonia allocations.

Business is located in Yolo County.

The Native American allocation is only for 2726 5th Street areas with high concentrations of lowincome Native American residents, who Davis, CA 95618 are not part of a federally recognized Mailing address: Native American Indian tribe or 4071 Port Chicago Hwy., STE 130 Rancheria. The Colonia funding is only Concord, CA 94520 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), for designated communities within 150 miles of the Mexican American border.

Residence Address, State, and Zip Carlton Senior Living, LLC ELIGIBLE ACTIVITIES UNDER THE 4071 Port Chicago Hwy., STE 130 ABOVE ALLOCATIONS IN THE 2021 Concord, CA 94520 NOFA CONSIST OF: HOMEOWNERSHIP 4. Business Classification: ASSISTANCE AND HOUSING Limited Liability Company 5. Beginning Date of Business: The REHABILITATION PROGRAMS; PUBLIC Registrant(s) commenced to transact FACILITY AND PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS business under the fictitious business PROJECTS (INCLUDING PUBLIC name or names listed above on: IMPROVEMENTS IN SUPPORT OF NEW HOUSING CONSTRUCTION); PUBLIC 04/1/2016 “I declare that all information in SERVICE PROGRAMS, PLANNING STUDIES, this statement is true and correct.” ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BUSINESS (A registrant who declares as true ASSISTANCE AND MICROENTERPRISE information which he or she knows to be ACTIVITIES. ELIGIBLE ACTIVITIES PAID FOR WITH STATE CDBG FUNDS MUST false is guilty of a crime.)

MEET ONE OF THE THREE NATIONAL 6. Signature of Registrant(s): OBJECTIVES LISTED IN CDBG FEDERAL Timothy MacDonald STATUTES AS FOLLOWS: BENEFIT TO LOW Manager, Carlton Senior Living, LLC 3/12, 3/19, 3/26, 4/2 1193 –MODERATE INCOME HOUSEHOLDS OR PERSONS; ELIMINATION OF SLUMS ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR AND BLIGHT; OR MEETING URGENT CHANGE OF NAME COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT NEED (WITH Case Number: CV2021-349 PRIOR DEPARTMENT APPROVAL).

1. YE JU LIN filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: The County of Yolo anticipates YE JU LIN submitting an application under the to NOFA published during the next YEJU LIN program year. The County of Yolo has 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons or anticipates receiving approximately interested in this matter shall appear $187,000 in CDBG Program Income that before this court at the hearing indicated must be expended prior to expending below to show cause, if any, why the awarded grant funds. petition should not be granted.

NOTICE OF HEARING The purpose of this public hearing is to Date: 4/21/2021 Time: 9:00 AM give the public an opportunity to make Dept: 9 Room: N/A their comments known regarding what The address of the court is types of eligible activities the County of 1000 Main Street, Woodland, CA 95695 Yolo should apply for under the State 3. a) A copy of this Order to Show Cause CDBG program. shall be published at least once a week If you require special accommodations to for four successive weeks prior to the participate in the public hearing, please date set for hearing on the petition in contact the Clerk of the Board at (530) the following newspaper of general 666-8195. circulation, printed in this county: The Davis Enterprise If you are unable to attend the public 315 G Street, Davis, CA 95616 hearing, you may direct written Date: MARCH 4, 2021 comments to the County of Yolo, 625 Daniel M. Wolk Court St., Room 202, Woodland, or you Judge of the Superior Court may telephone Colleen Brock at (530) 3/12, 3/19, 3/26, 4/2 1194 669-2228. In addition, information is

available for review at the above address between the hours of 8:00 am to 5:00 pm on Monday -Friday.

The County of Yolo promotes fair housing and makes all its programs available to low- and moderate-income families regardless of age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, marital status, or handicap. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the County of Yolo encourages those with disabilities to participate fully in the public hearing process.

DATED: March 12, 2021 Lupita Ramirez, Deputy Clerk Yolo County Board of Supervisors 1195 3/12 PUBLIC NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING AND ORDINANCE SUMMARY NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Yolo County Board of Supervisors will conduct a public hearing on Tuesday, March 23, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. during the regularly scheduled meeting of the Board of Supervisors. The meeting will be held virtually pursuant to Executive Order N-29-20 (March 17, 2020) with participation instructions as set forth on meeting agenda posted to 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 for the adoption of an ordinance adding Section 3-4.02 to the Yolo County Code of Ordinances to authorize the intercounty transfer of base year values for property tax purposes to a replacement property following a disaster. This authorization would provide that the base year value of a property that was substantially damaged or destroyed in a declared disaster may be transferred to a replacement property located in another county, provided that the replacement property is located in a county that has adopted an ordinance that allows such a base-year value transfers.

Anyone who wishes to comment on this matter may do so in advance by emailing clerkoftheboard@yolocounty.org or telephonically at the public hearing.

For further information, please contact Patricia Sanchez, Principal Appraiser, by e-mail patricia.sanchez@yolocounty.org, or telephone (530) 666-8160.

Dated: March 12, 2021 Lupita Ramirez, Deputy Clerk Yolo County Board of Supervisors 1196 3/12 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case Number: CV2021-357 1. Dibakar and Jenifer Barua filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: ANISH BARUA to AUNISH BARUA 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition should not be granted.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: 4-30-21 Time: 9:00 AM Dept: #9 Room: N/A The address of the court is 1000 Main Street, Woodland, CA 95695 3. a) A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: The Davis Enterprise 315 G Street, Davis, CA 95616 Date: March 5, 2021 Daniel M. Wolk Judge of the Superior Court 1197 3/12, 3/19, 3/26, 4/2

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THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 2021 A7

PAC: Commission limited in its authority to investigate From Page A1 that includes the 10-member PAC and the hiring of Michael Gennaco as the city’s independent police auditor.

The grand jury issued 11 findings stemming from its investigation, to which the city and PAC responded, addressing matters including police representation at PAC meetings, commissioner training on law-enforcement issues and and the committee's working relationship with the city and Gennaco.

1. The practice of excluding DPD leadership and officers from meetings of the Davis PAC limits candid dialogue between the PAC and the DPD. City: Agree. See PAC response.

PAC: Agree. The PAC agreed on this practice based on concerns expressed by multiple people from the public and our commission liaisons. The PAC now has DPD staff come to meetings when discussions of police policy/practice are on the agenda.

2. The practice of excluding DPD leadership and officers from meetings of the PAC limits the PAC’s ability to obtain the specialized knowledge it needs to make recommendations to the City Council.

City: Disagree partially. The PAC does need technical expertise if they are expected to make technical recommendations, and the PAC does not regularly have police representation at every meeting. However, the commission is working to identify agenda items where law enforcement presence is necessary and beneficial, and is inviting representatives to those meetings for those specific items.

As for the police chief ’s ability to attend meetings, the chief, along with other city staff, must balance a variety of meetings and other work obligations into schedules. Staff attempts to meet the requests for attendance at city-related meetings, schedule permitting.

This balances the need for technical expertise with the role of the PAC in reaching disenfranchised groups or individuals in the community, who may not be comfortable at a meeting with law enforcement present. Part of the reason for the PAC is to provide outreach to disenfranchised groups in the community.

PAC: Disagree partially.The PAC does not exclude DPD leadership from meetings and lists DPD participation on agendas, which are publicly posted. In the past, the PAC has wanted the chief to attend a number of meetings but there has been reluctance on his part. The PAC created a subcommittee to have regular meetings with the chief

and his staff. One meeting was held.

There was agreement that the chief or his designee would attend PAC meetings as appropriate.

This has occurred several times (see finding 1). The IPA also supplements the PAC’s understanding of DPD policy and procedure, although in a limited manner as he is not within DPD. 3. Sensitivity to a limited number of individuals has outweighed the claims of the larger community to benefit from hearing the insights and perspectives of the DPD as the PAC attempts to fulfill its responsibility to provide meaningful guidance to the Davis City Council with respect to police policies, procedures and practices.

City: Disagree partially. The PAC tends to attract individuals who are interested in police accountability, however it is not unusual for a small portion of the population to be actively involved in any city commission.

It is the Council’s role and responsibility, however, to take information from all sources, including commissions, and weigh all information appropriately, in order to make wellrounded decisions to benefit the community. Further PAC outreach and engagement with the broader Davis community to gauge community wide topics of interest and perceptions is strongly encouraged.

PAC: Disagree. We are unclear who the grand jury is referring to related to “the claims of the larger community.” The PAC has heard multiple specific requests for the police to not attend. We have not heard specific requests for the police to attend PAC meetings.

4. The PAC has not fulfilled its responsibility to provide annual written input to the city manager and the City Council on the effectiveness of the IPA. City: Agree. The PAC discussed the IPA evaluation at their November meeting and completed an evaluation at their December meeting.

PAC: Agree. As a new committee, members have asked about the evaluation and have not gotten responses that led us to make this a priority.

5. During calendar year 2019 and the first quarter of 2020, the PAC did not coordinate with the IPA to identify and prioritize topics to be audited by the IPA. City: Agree. In the original structure, it was thought that the IPA and the PAC would coordinate on topics to audit, however, that has not turned out to be the primary focus of either entity.

Instead, the IPA is auditing complaints and bringing information to the PAC to advise them of trends, issues, and concerns. The

City Council formally revised the PAC’s authorizing resolution in November 2020 to clarify the roles Council expects of the group.

The PAC refers to recommendations made by the Auditor earlier in 2020. Many of those recommendations require further review, and staff resources have been redirected since the spring to address COVID needs. The staff liaison is aware of the recommendations and will continue to work with the Police Department to determine whether/how to implement PAC: Agree. The PAC did ask the IPA to confirm whether IPA recommendations have been implemented by the DPD. In the DPD report, it was noted that several recommendations were not fulfilled and the explanations provided were not complete. In the May 2020 meeting, the PAC asked the IPA and city staff to request further explanations from the chief. So far, no further explanations have been received.

6. As stated in its authorizing resolution, the PAC is to provide community-based police accountability by way of interactions with the public, the IPA, the DPD and others. The PAC’s responsibility to provide police accountability is not limited by the non-action of the Davis City Council at its July 30, 2019, meeting (declining to re-open the Picnic Day investigation at the PAC's request).

City: The City Council has a number of advisory commissions that assist the Council with information gathering, public outreach and decision-making. The Council considers recommendations of all its commissions carefully, but ultimately, may not agree with every recommendation. That does not mean the recommendations or the process by which the recommendation was made and considered are not worthwhile.

The PAC exists in an advisory capacity to the City Council, but remains a resource for the community, regardless of the Council’s action on one recommendation. Further, the use of the terminology “nonaction” by the City Council is misleading.

The City Council did take definitive action — to elect to not investigate further. This decision was reached in a public hearing and based on information and options presented by the PAC, a staff report, considerations presented by the IPA and after hearing public testimony.

PAC: Disagree. When PAC received a Picnic Day review by IPA and asked the Council to take action to reopen an investigation into the incorrect press release,

the council declined. The PAC is unsure what else it can do because our authorizing resolution does not include investigatory privileges.

7. With IPA input, the PAC is charged with systematically reviewing DPD policies, procedures and training for topics to be audited by the IPA. To meet this obligation, the PAC is authorized to inquire into departures from DPD policy, procedure and planning during and following the Picnic Day 2017 incident, including the DPD press release of April 24, 2017, and the release of the edited dash-cam video on May 10, 2017.

City: Agree. The PAC was created in late 2018 in part because of the 2017 Picnic Day incident, after a lengthy community process, an enhanced auditor position, and changes to the Police Department’s policies. The PAC can inquire into the 2017 Picnic Day incident and to make recommendations to the Police Auditor and/or the City Council. The PAC is not, however, an investigatory body.

PAC: Disagree. Three pieces of information provided by the grand jury are different from pieces PAC heard at the time: that the dash-cam video was slowed down, that there were protocols related to congestion management that were not followed, that there was the ability to know who sent out the incorrect press release.

The DPD changed their policy regarding crisis press releases, now requiring that supervisors must review any crisis press communication prior to its release to the public. The PAC has agreed to review adherence to this policy after any further crisis DPD press release.

8. The PAC, with input from the IPA, is authorized to provide community-based police accountability by inquiring as to why the (outside) attorney investigators (probing the Picnic Day incident), working under the direction of the Davis city attorney, failed in following the procedures set out in the Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights, which led to no DPD officer being held individually accountable for the inaccuracies in the April 24, 2017, press release.

City: Disagree. See PAC response.

PAC: Disagree. This finding appears to suggest that the PAC has investigatory privileges which it does not. It is a question that could be made to the IPA to clarify as it is under his scope of work.

9. PAC commissioners lack understanding of how internal affairs investigations are conducted, how findings based on such investigations are made,

how (police accountability law) SB 1421 requests should be presented, and how the DPD responds to SB 1421 requests.

City: Agree partially. See PAC response.

PAC: Agree partially. The PAC is a citizen commission whose members have a variety of backgrounds and who represent the community. The group has access to utilize the IPA and the Davis Police Department for training and information.

10. The PAC, with input from the IPA, is authorized to provide community-based police accountability by inquiring into the DPD’s public misrepresentation of the decision-making process for the release of records under SB 1421. The DPD misrepresented in January 2019 that the Custodian of Public Records made the decision to refuse release of the Picnic Day 2017 investigation.

City: Disagree that there was misrepresentation on the part of the DPD PAC: Disagree (See finding 6).

11. Because appointment to the PAC is limited to people who do not have law-enforcement backgrounds, training is critical for existing and incoming commissioners. For PAC commissioners to be justifiably perceived as knowledgeable on topics of police accountability, both by the public and by the DPD, commissioners require training in a wide variety of best practices for policing, including specific training in DPD police practices, policies and procedures.

City: Agree partially. The PAC is a citizen commission whose members have a variety of backgrounds and who represent the community. The group has access to utilize the IPA and the Davis Police Department for training and information. That said, their required monthly time commitment is two hours, with additional time as individual schedules permit. The PAC is also able to act as a conduit for community concern about policing, without technical training.

PAC: Disagree partially. To fulfill the training required, a commitment of more hours per month will be required of volunteer citizen commissioners and the city will be required to allocate time and funds to provide training. PAC should join the National Association for Citizen Oversight of Law Enforcement (NACOLE) to be kept up to date on best practices of policing and oversight.

— Reach Lauren Keene at lkeene@davisenterprise.net.

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PARENTS: School district gears up for students, staff to come back From Page A1 depending on state and county public health guidance.

Hybrid schedule The hybrid schedule will work with a three group system. Groups A and B are in-person learning groups that each attend school two days each week. Group C is reserved for students using only distance learning.

The hybrid schedules for elementary school and secondary school differ, and preschool is entirely different, with students participating in-person on every day except Wednesday.

For secondary schools, groups A and B will learn remotely on the two days they’re not on campus, according to the guide.

Wednesday classes will be taught with only distance learning for all students.

For elementary schools, all groups participate in distance learning early in the morning on every day except Wednesday. Groups A and B show up for inperson learning in the afternoon, from 1 to 3 p.m.,

on their respective two days of the week. After a brief morning meeting over Zoom, Wednesdays are mostly taken up by asynchronous learning time, during which students complete independent work assigned by their classroom teacher.

COVID-19 testing The handbook contains a return-to-campus checklist, with items that include watching district-provided COVID-19 training videos with children, ensuring children are up-to-date with immunizations required by the state and reminding students about basic COVID-19 safety precautions, such as masking and maintaining social distance.

Additionally, the checklist asks for the development of before and after school routines: completing a daily illness screening checklist — available on the district website — for each member of the household before students come to campus, making sure each student has a face covering before school, that face

coverings are washed each day, and that students routinely pack needed belongings before heading to school, such as laptop computers, charging cables and a personal refillable water bottle.

The checklist also contains four health screening items, which ask that parents keep children home if they have COVID-19 symptoms or close contact with someone who has the virus; for them to be familiar with local COVID-19 testing sites for regular testing; that if their child develops symptoms they should notify their healthcare provider or the county health department to arrange testing; and that they begin a daily illness screening survey upon their child’s return to school date.

The daily screening survey, also available on the district website, starts with a question about whether the student or any members of their household

have been exposed to someone who tested positive for COVID-19 in the last 24 hours. Then it asks if the student, or any member of their household, has developed any symptoms within the past 72 hours. It ends by asking for the student’s temperature and whether they or any household member has a fever equal to or over 100 degrees.

The guide notes that, if the results of the survey indicate a student should stay home, they or the parent should not go to any district site. Instead, parents should notify the site administration and email the district at covid19 reporting@djusd.net.

When a student or staff member has close contact with someone who tests positive for COVID-19 within the previous 14 days, they must email the same address and their school site to report the exposure.

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The guide also contains a seven-page section titled, “A Day in the Hybrid Model” which gives miscellaneous details on how schools will operate. The section covers preschool,

elementary grades, secondary grades, non-classroom spaces, technology expectations and safety protocols, special education, English learners, music, athletics, extracurricular and cocurricular activities, meal service, physical education, and recess.

There’s also a questionand-answer section, a page with contact information for school leaders and one for district workers who will answer questions on specific topics, and an appendix at the end containing links to necessary materials such as the daily illness screening checklist.

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A8 THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 2021

Here are a few tips on green gardening Jennifer Gilbert and Dawn Calciano

Environmental

Special to The Enterprise

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A fresh look at landscaping principles through the lens of current environmentally focused practices in order to create a sustainable landscape for years to come. Considering a change? Here are just a few items to consider when greening your garden.

Consider your goals: When designing your landscape, keep your goals in mind. Is your goal to grow food? Attract pollinators? Reduce water usage? Have year-round color or create a relaxing outdoor sanctuary?

Landscapes can add visual beauty, provide cleaner air and water, provide food and support wildlife. Thinking through the outcome you wish to achieve with your landscape in advance will help to determine plant selection, irrigation layout and maintenance needs.

Resources on planning landscapes and irrigation can be found at SaveDavisWater.org under Helpful Links.

Plan for stormwater: Consider ways to keep water from running off from your property and into the storm drain and retain rainwater on-site by redirecting downspouts to landscape areas,

incorporating rain gardens, dry creek beds or swales, permeable pavements, and adding rain barrels to your garden.

To keep soil and mulch onsite, create borders around your landscape so materials are not washed away by rain or wind.

Optimize water efficiency: Consider plants’ water needs.

Hydrozoning (or grouping plants by water usage needs), ensures that all plants receive the appropriate amount of water.

If you haven’t already, consider switching your irrigation system to drip irrigation to provide water directly to plants and reduce runoff. Always check that your irrigation system is functioning properly and repair any broken or misaligned sprinkler heads.

You may also want to consider alternative ways of collecting water for irrigation purposes, such as adding a laundry-tolandscape greywater system, where water leaving the washing machine though a discharge hose flows directly to outdoor landscape irrigation.

Whichever methods you use to conserve water, you can sign-up for AquaHawk, the city’s online water-use portal, to track your

water usage and see how much water is used for irrigation (SaveDavisWater.org).

Choose green materials: Green building materials can be incorporated into your landscape. Use old fence boards and scrap lumber to build planting beds and wood chips from tree removal companies for mulch.

Other reused, recycled or sustainable building materials can add character and needed enrichment to your yard while diverting materials that might have otherwise ended up in the landfill.

Build sustainable soils: Building sustainable soils will help to ensure the continued health of your landscape. Prior to planting, incorporate compost, manures or other natural fertilizers into your soil to provide needed nutrients for plant growth. Use mulch to increase soil water retention, to keep soil and plant roots cool and to reduce weeds.

Be sure to look for natural and less-toxic pest control options at OurWaterOurWorld.org.

Make a home (or a pit stop) for wildlife: Residential landscapes can serve as safe wildlife travel corridors and can go a long way to encourage residency of beneficial species. Consider pollinator plants that help support native bees, butterflies and birds. Install bat and/or barn owl boxes to keep insects and rodent

populations under control.

Reduce garden waste: When choosing plants, consider how much work you want to put into maintaining your landscape and the amount of yard trimmings different landscapes might generate. To minimize maintenance work, select plants that grow more slowly and don’t require frequent pruning. Be sure to choose the right plant for the space available. Placing a large plant in a small area results in more frequent pruning.

“Leaf ” it onsite: If you do have leaves and other yard trimmings, consider “leafing” them onsite and using them as an alternative to mulch. Instead of bagging grass clippings, try using the mulch feature on your mower.

Mulch mowers chop grass into tiny pieces that are recycled back into the soil. You can also try composting yard trimmings onsite in a backyard compost pile.

Find more green gardening information and resource links at GreenerDavis.org and Save DavisWater.org (under Helpful Links).

Bulky waste voucher Due to the continued impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the city and Recology will again offer a Bulky Waste One-Time Voucher in lieu of the typical Bulky Items Drop-Off Days in

April for city of Davis customers.

The one-time voucher will be valid from April 1 to the end of November and will be mailed out to all Davis residents at the end of March. The voucher is your ticket for the program, so watch your mail, be sure to hold onto it, and bring it with you when you go to the landfill.

The voucher will allow Davis residents to dispose of one free load of bulky waste at the Yolo County Central Landfill. The load can be up to a full-size pickup-truck bed, full-sized van or small trailer (less than 3 feet high and less than 8 feet long).

Disposal of additional items must be paid for by the customer. Please see the voucher for details on material acceptance.

This voucher will be valid only for city of Davis residents; commercial haulers and business materials will not be accepted.

Only one voucher will be accepted per household and proof of residency within the city of Davis will be required at the landfill (ID, utility bill, etc.).

For more information on the voucher, please contact Recology at 530-756-4646 or Recology Davis@Recology.com.

— Jennifer Gilbert and Dawn Calciano are conservation coordinators with the city of Davis; this column is published monthly. Reach them at PWWeb@CityofDavis.org.

UCD helps bring Salish Sea to fifth-graders

By Justin Cox Special to The Enterprise Tacoma Public School students are taking a big step into their local ecosystem.

While the pandemic has disrupted in-person schooling nationwide, Tacoma Public Schools is piloting a new Explore the Salish Sea science curriculum district-wide that adventurous fifth-grade teachers at two Tacoma schools implemented last year.

Explore the Salish Sea is an education program of the SeaDoc Society — a marine science organization based on Orcas Island and a program of the Karen C. Drayer Wildlife Health Center at UC Davis. The curriculum is built on the book of the same name, authored by SeaDoc Society science director Joe Gaydos and board member Audrey Benedict.

Mira Lutz Castle, SeaDoc Society education coordinator, developed the curriculum with input and direction by marine scientists, tribal members and classroom teachers throughout the region. It is being implemented not only in Tacoma, but also throughout the Salish Sea, which encompasses the Puget Sound, the San Juan Islands and the waters off of Vancouver, British Columbia.

“Driven by their own curiosity and imaginations, the kids engage in solving mysteries in the sea nearby,” Castle said. “They take the helm to uncover clues, following the real process of science with support of scientists and traditional knowledge holders in their own communities.”

Hands-on curriculum Inspired by Mary Lyon Elementary School, which built Salish Sea elements into their new school

SeaDoc Society/Courtesy photo

A fifth-grader in Tacoma, Wash., samples a local creek for water quality. design and integrated Explore the Salish Sea book pages into their playground equipment, Castle held her first educator workshop in Tacoma in 2018 — the first of many throughout the region.

The workshops allowed teachers, marine educators, scientists and tribal leaders to come to the table and help shape the learning process. The result is a hands-on curriculum aimed at sparking wonder and curiosity and encouraging young people to actively engage with their home ecosystem.

Helping students see science The curriculum soon caught the eye of Tacoma Public Schools instructional facilitator Ryan Patterson, who worked with Castle to bring the Explore the Salish Sea curriculum into every fifth grade classroom throughout the district.

“One look at the beautiful book and I was sold!” Patterson said.

“Helping students see science in their local habitat helps foster curiosity and encourage actions that will help make a difference.”

With a grant from the Mitsubishi Corporation, Castle provided class sets of “Explore the Salish Sea: A Nature Guide for Kids” books to 2,400 Tacoma students and developed an online multimedia training course to allow the district’s 90 fifth-grade teachers to learn the curriculum and how to implement it remotely. That training is now live, and Tacoma educators are completing it at their own pace.

From killer whales to salmon recovery The infrastructure and technology are in place for this year’s students to find solutions to challenges faced by southern

resident killer whales through engineering ocean technology and supporting salmon recovery.

Fifth-graders will replicate last year’s salmon study in Swan Creek, only this year it will involve the whole district and an all-star cast of expert community partners.

Students will work to solve the mystery of why coho salmon aren’t surviving to spawn in nearby urban streams, whether their local Swan Creek is safe for coho fry, and if so, where is the best site to release their fry.

“We’re not telling them the results,” Castle said. “We’re showing them! They’ll see drone footage of each stream site, color charts for water quality, macroinvertebrates wiggling in bins, the amount of shade provided by trees — and they’ll document the findings in their journals and graphing programs.”

Students will make evidencebased arguments about where to release their fry, and they will make science and traditional knowledge-based recommendations for salmon enhancement actions.

Thanks to Mitsubishi Corporation and community partners, students will take those actions — from planting native plants and removing invasive ones, to building rain gardens with Orcas Love Raingardens — and create a public outreach art installation on salmon and orca recovery at the Seaport Museum this spring.

“In their new curriculum, the fifth-graders are the engineers, scientists, artists and citizen caretakers of our shared Salish Sea — hopefully for a lifetime,” Gaydos said.

— UC Davis news

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Wednesday, March 17.

The marbled murrelet (Brachyramphus marmoratus) is a small seabird in the family Alcidae, with a range extending from Northern California up through Alaska. All alcids forage in the ocean and exclusively inhabit marine environments when not breeding.

Most alcids nest in large groups near the coast, but marbled murrelets typically nest solitarily on the limbs of large trees in forest sites that can be found more than 50 miles inland.

Unfortunately, this split habitat strategy renders them vulnerable to declines in habitat quality in both oceans and forests. In 1992, they were listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Valente is working on the Oregon Marbled Murrelet Project, a scientific research effort launched in 2015 to advance knowledge about the bird’s basic biology.

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LAS VEGAS — If good fortune is going to smile on you, it might as well be while you’re in this glittering desert oasis.

So, while it seemed like a roll of the dice not to call a timeout with UC Davis in possession of the ball, game tied and less than 20 seconds remaining, who better to shoot than Aggie guard Ezra Manjon?

Knifing through two defenders in the paint and scoring as the clock evaporated, Manjon and UCD won their opening contest in the Big West Conference men’s basketball tournament on Thursday, 58-56, over Cal State Bakersfield.

Playing before no fans at the Michelob Ultra Arena at the Mandalay Bay Resort, Manjon and backcourt mate Damion Squire helped bring UCD back from an 11-point, first-half deficit. The No. 4 locals advance to play top-seed UC Santa Barbara, which sent Long Beach State home, 95-87, in the first game of the four-contest slate.

The Gauchos and Aggies square off at 6 p.m. today.

With Manjon’s 16 points leading the way, Davis once again got balanced scoring Next games: and gave as good as it got on Semifinal: No. 4 Aggies vs. the glass.

Christian Anigwe and No. 1 UC Santa Barbara, Elijah Pepper each tallied a today, 6 p.m. dozen points for the victors Final: Saturday, 8:30 p.m. and Squire added 9 and a Listen: KHTK 1140AM game-high four assists.

Watch: ESPN3 Davis was also able to hold the taller, more experienced Roadrunners to 26 rebounds while collecting 24 of its own: significant in that not only was it a season-low rebound total for Bakersfield, but the No. 5 seed had been out-boarding its opponents by 10 caroms a night.

“We knew they were a physical team,” Squire said during a postgame interview. “A big, athletic team as well. We just told ourselves from the jump, we were going to have to be the aggressor. We were going to have to initiate contact, and we did that.

“Our bigs, who were guarding their bigger guys, did a great job keeping them out of the way, and as guards we just came and cleaned up the job. I think we did a great job as a team on that.”

But it was Squire and Manjon scoring the final two buckets of the contest in the waning 30 seconds. Each time, their baskets put Davis ahead by 2 in the frenetic finish.

Halfway through the first period, it looked like the Roadrunners were doing to the Aggies what head coach Jim Les warned them about: playing fast, intimidating basketball.

“We talked all week about how physical they were,” Les noted. “How their physicality could overwhelm you.”

But the coach thought his guys were “a little surprised”

Every March — well, not last year — but almost every March, you hear the mantra, “Survive and advance.”

It has to do with postseason basketball tournament and was coined by the late coach Jim Valvano, whose 1983 North Carolina State Wolfpack won an improbable national championship.

On Wednesday, the top-seeded UC Davis women didn’t fashion their A-game, but they did enough to survive a late Cal State Fullerton rally and advance with a 61-54 victory in the quarterfinals of the Big West Tournament in Las Vegas.

After Davis looked like a runaway winner, leading at halftime by 16, the Titans chipped away to close within 4 points in the final period. The obvious was staring the Aggies in the face: At tournament time, everybody comes to play — even a No. 9 seed like Fullerton.

“We had some good stretches (Wednesday), but overall we were a little inconsistent with our energy and execution,” UCD head coach Jennifer Gross told The Enterprise. “We need to improve in that area to be Next games: Semifinal: No. 1 Aggies vs. successful this week.”

Next up for the Aggies is No. 5 Hawaii, today, noon.

Hawaii, an 81-67 WednesFinal: Saturday, 5 p.m. day winner over Cal State Listen: KDVS 90.3FM Bakersfield. The Wahine Watch: ESPN3 Warriors and UCD just split a two-game series on the island last weekend and are reconvening to decide the rubber game at noon Friday at the Michelob Ultra Arena at the Mandalay Bay Resort.

“But I was really pleased with our ability to make plays down the stretch,” Gross added.

It wasn’t their best. But against a team that came in 4-17 and would shoot 30.6 percent for the game, it was enough for the top-seeded Aggies.

Fullerton managed a 2-0 lead, but UCD — using its entire arsenal — exploded for a 13-0 run midway through the first quarter and kept the Titans’ gunners off balance.

All except for CSF forward Joy Krupa.

For the second straight outing, Krupa managed a double-double, this time scoring 25 points with 16 rebounds.

Fortunately, it was sterling play from Kayla Konrad, whose 3-pointer, layin and two assists provided the jet fuel for that Aggie outburst and a 32-16 lead at intermission.

But after Sage Stobbart’s bucket at 3:47 made things 17-7, Davis went into a prolonged offensive funk. The fivetime Big West regular-season champions had but one field goal (Mackenzie Trpcic) over almost the next 10 minutes.

Still, when Hall parted the fog with a trey off a nifty Konrad helper, the Aggies found themselves still ahead, 25-14.

Even with Davis sputtering, Cal State was beside itself trying to score.

When the schools retreated to the locker rooms at halftime, Fullerton was shooting 16.7 percent overall and had

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Above, Aggie guard Ezra Manjon drives for 2 of his 16 points in Thursday’s 58-56 semifinal win over Cal State Bakersfield.

Below, Aggie guard Cierra Hall lays in 2 of her 20 points against Cal State Fullerton on Wednesday. She had 10 boards in the win.

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Baseball: another sure sign of spring Blue Devils eager to return to action against Jesuit

By Bruce Gallaudet Enterprise sports editor Anyone who has been on the Davis High campus recently has certainly heard the welcome sounds of spring.

No, not birds chirping ... it’s the crisp click of bats smacking baseballs.

Blue Devil fans have already forgotten last spring, like it didn’t happen. Before even getting a chance to warm up, DHS lost two games, then stowed its gear in mothballs for 10 months.

With the mitts and cleats dusted off, this edition of the DHS diamond crew once again plies its trade at a noon home scrimmage Saturday with Jesuit.

“We have a lot of depth; a lot of arms who can be competitive on the mound,” former Blue Devil and “secondyear” coach Ethan Guevin told The Enterprise. “It will be a weird year, but we’ll go with the flow, make adjustments, expect some adversity — but I expect our guys to handle it.

They’ve done a great job throughout this entire yearlong ordeal.”

Losses to Vacaville and Rocklin in 2020 are distant memories. With a jury-rigged schedule that won’t feature year-end playoffs, Davis has 28 regular-season games slated and an understanding about the unique path ahead.

“It’s really hard to know what that (road) is,” Guevin continued. “First of all, we have a really great group of kids. And they’ve all been working really hard trying to keep up with their baseball.

“It will probably take us a while to remember how to play actual baseball games. Once we do that, we’ll be in pretty good shape.”

The scrimmages on Saturday and Monday will give Guevin a better feel, but when the scorebooks come out for real at Vacaville on March 22, the coach thinks his guys will be ready.

“We have a good number on the pitching staff,” he said.

“We just need to work out where people are … in terms of starting and relieving.”

That promising staff will be anchored by left-hander Luke Carrell, the two-sport standout who passed on simultaneously playing football and will pitch for UC

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It’s that time again as Davis High baseballers will head back to the diamond beginning this weekend with a Saturday scrimmage against visiting Jesuit. Above, Blue Devils skipper Ethan Guevin delivers a technique to pitcher Joby Antony, background.

Davis upon graduation.

“Obviously, Carrell will get a ton of work. But we have Jack Wright, then probably Rockwell Lybbert as a third starter,” Guevin added.

Jason Henkel will take the ball on occasion while seeing a lion’s share of his duty at third base. Outfielder Dante Romero is ticketed for pitching duty as is Saul Israel, the probable starting first baseman.

“Saul has been a leader for us throughout the fall,” the coach pointed out. “He does a really nice job communicating, keeping our defense together and making sure everybody is ready.”

Joby Antony and a couple of others will spell Israel when he heads to the mound.

Up the middle, Grafton Shorts returns at second base with Lybbert at shortstop. But everybody needs to be on their toes if Lybbert is pitching. Guevin says that means Shorts will head to the left side of the diamond while “any number of capable players” could fill in at second: “(Grafton) could be our everyday shortstop, too, depending how pitching shakes out with the Rockwell. We have a pretty fluid (keystone) where we have five or six guys who are really competitive.”

In the outfield, it looks like returning senior Jordan Painter has center field locked down, with Brian Chin pushing guys like Romero, Mike Finerty, Griffin Szymoniak and Lucas Profaci — among others — for playing time.

Youth prevails at catcher, with sophomores Koen Carston and Carter Stoltz.

“We’re lucky because they’re both really good behind the plate,” said a smiling coach, who knows a successful team can never have enough catchers.

Guevin has more than 60 players out for three teams.

The freshman coach is Matt Mascio, and one-time American Legion mentor Matt Castles will handle the junior varsity. Assisting Guevin are veteran DHS pitching coach Marc Kenner, Jared and Rich Kahoalii and conditioning and skills coach Carina Bender-Abrams.

Guevin says Scott Pfeifer and 15-year ex-MLB reliever Randy Choate “will help out as they can.”

Delta League play begins April 13 at Franklin, and the season concludes on May 29 with a home game versus Cosumnes Oaks.

Notes: Guevin and his wife Rachel just welcomed a twinbill to their family. Two weeks ago, Amelie and Eliza joined 4-year-old Riley in Devil Nation. ... The last full season for the Blue Devils was in 2019 when they went 18-11, finished second in Delta League play at 13-5 and had a couple of promising sophomores in Carrell and Lybbert. Carrell went 5-1 with a 2.16 earned run average and Lybbert became a starter, hitting .241 and creating 23 runs in the process. ... The 2019 campaign also marked the end of the long coaching career of Dan Ariola, whose guys captured three Sac-Joaquin Section titles. ...

On Ariola’s 2004 championship crew was a fellow named Guevin. It just so happens that Guevin was the winning pitcher in that year’s title-clincher in Lodi versus St. Mary’s.

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Demanding gridiron slate continues for UCD Aggies look to upend top-ranked Weber State

By Bruce Gallaudet Enterprise sports editor Even with the amended spring football schedule being limited to play within the Big Sky Conference, a lot is being asked of UC Davis early on.

After going to then-No. 23 Idaho and vanquishing the Vandals, 27-17, now the Aggies are having to take it up a few notches as they travel to Utah for a Saturday meeting with a Weber State crew that is arguably No. 1 in the Football Championship Subdivision.

Polling among STATS voters list the Wildcats No. 2 behind James Madison. Athlon Sports says WSU is No. 1. In either case, folks see the 2021 Aggies as No. 23.

“Weber is well-coached, good personnel, good culRODRIGUES ture,” says Aggie head Makes an coach Dan Hawkins. “I encore have the upmost respect for (WSU coach) Jay Hill. I think he does amazing work.”

Hawkins says there’s a reason the ’Cats have a three-game win streak against Davis, but adds: “For us, again, it’s just continue ... to grow, keep improving. We have had some moments against those guys in the last three years. Not enough of them and with not enough consistency. And that’s the difference between a championship team and a contender. It’s being able to play consistent football for the duration of game.”

Weber State, who had an unexpected bye last week when COVID-stricken Cal Poly postponed a meeting, laid a 49-21 defeat on Idaho State in Week 1. The Wildcats —

led by freshman quarterback Bronson Barron’s 314 yards and four passing touchdowns — rang up more than 600 yards in total offense.

Running back Josh Davis had 106 yards rushing as WSU covered exactly 300 yards on the ground.

Given the Aggies’ brilliant second-half defense at Idaho last week, it’s doubtful Weber State will see such numbers at Stewart Stadium on Saturday. And, if there’s a crack in the Weber armor, it could be on the defensive side.

The Wildcats yielded 415 yards to the Bengals in the opener.

Enter the Aggie trio of Hunter Rodrigues, Ulonzo Gilliam and Carson Crawford ...

Junior quarterback Rodrigues, in his first Davis start, threw for 243 yards on 23-of-29 without an interception. He hit Crawford eight times for 120 yards and two scores. He also found Jared Harrell four times for 55 more yards and a touchdown.

Meanwhile, steady tailback Gilliam picked up where he left off each of the past two seasons. The owner of 2,370 career yards rushing, he went for 145 (a 5.6 average) against Idaho.

It was an especially encouraging opener for Crawford, whose promising 2019 season ended early due to injury.

“It was really unfortunate because he was becoming Jake’s (Maier) go-to guy, then he got rolled up at North Dakota,” Hawkins recalls. “(Crawford) is really talented, smart, consistent and supercompetitive. He’s a good player ... as are (the rest) of the receiving corps.”

Notes: Kickoff is slated for noon PST and the game will be broadcast on KHTK Radio 1140 AM: Scott Marsh and Doug

Wayne Tilcock/Enterprise file photo

Aggie wideout Carson Crawford (6) is congratulated by offensive tackle and former Davis High all-leaguer Nick Amoah after scoring against Montana in 2019. UC Davis would love to see this scene repeated at least once on Saturday when the locals travel to Utah to take on top-ranked Weber State. Both teams are 1-0.

Kelly at the mic. WatchBigSky on Hulu carries the television broadcast. ... The Aggies can expect a “sell-out” crowd of 5,000 at Stewart Stadium (capacity 17,310) in Ogden, Utah. Ticket sales were reduced due to COVID protocols. ... LB Conor Airey (Big West Defensive Player of the Week) and DL Bryce Rodgers will be called upon to pressure QB Barron, thus giving the UCD veteran and deep secondary

time to flip the field against the young Weber signal-caller. ... The Aggies last played a No. 1 team on Sept. 21, 2019 — losing 27-17 at North Dakota State. ... The last time UCD beat a Top 20 school was in 2010, topping No. 18 Cal Poly, 22-21.

— Reach DE sports editor Bruce Gallaudet at bgallaudet41@gmail.com or call 530-320-4456. Follow Gallaudet on Twitter: @BGsportsinDavis.

Season is already a tough one Davis High’s Trajan Clark is expected to lead the Blue Devils at quarterback in COVID Campaign 2021. In scrimmaging Will C. Wood tonight, Clark will get a lot of help from a standout corps of wide receivers — which will include Ryan Jaramillo, below.

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Don’t tell Devils this is only a scrimmage

By Bruce Gallaudet Enterprise sports editor When Davis and Will C. Wood high schools get together for a “football friendly” tonight, it will be more than the normal preseason scrimmage.

First, the 7 p.m. kickoff at Brown Stadium marks the first time the Blue Devils have lined up against different uniforms since November of 2019.

Second, it signals a changing of the guard — especially at quarterback — as Trajan Clark takes over for All-Delta League selection Luke Carrell, who has opted to play baseball this spring. After graduation, Carrell is headed to pitch for UC Davis, on the same staff with brother Zach.

Gone also are line anchor Gerad Christian-Lichtenhan (Colorado), tight end Joey Asta (Claremont Mudd Scripps) and running back Taylor Vaughn.

DHS coach Steve Smyte was asked what he believes his Devils have in the junior right-hander Clark: “He’s a real athletic quarterback. He’s extremely quick … a kid who loves the game. The guy just works his tail off. He soaks up information like a sponge.

“And that’s where you start with a quarterback,” says the veteran mentor. “You ask going in, are you willing to work harder than anybody else? Trajan is.”

In the offseason, the former junior varsity QB has gotten “100 percent better on his reads, his footwork is a lot better,” Smyte added. “His throwing mechanics have improved. All in a short time.”

Smyte also said he is delighted with Clark’s poise: “He’s focused on his receivers, not worried about the rush. He’s comfortable in a dirty pocket.”

Despite the pent-up anticipation of Blue Devil fans, only student-athlete parents and guardians (two for each player) and

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iven the terrain of the schools that play football in the Big Sky Conference, even without the pandemic there are enough cliffs to fall off or rushing rivers to carry one away.

But throw COVID-19 into the gridiron mix, and the season has become downright surreal.

And while most of us thought that putting a six-game campaign on the schedule — after five Big Sky schools opted out of playing this spring — was courageous, Aggie Nation has discovered that no matter how hard UC Davis tried to avoid the virus (and succeeded), it still cast its fate to the wind.

When Yolo County Public Health Officer Dr. Aimee Sisson applied what some called draconian limits to local prep and college competition last fall, a crimp was put on practices and competitions. The Aggie football team had to socially distance at practices long after some schools were in full pads. UCD basketball teams were forced to cancel games for almost two months while others didn’t miss a Big West contest.

T essential personnel are allowed to attend tonight, according to state health guidelines.

So, after such a long hiatus, what does Smyte expect to accomplish during this upscale practice?

“We’d like to get a little bit of rhythm on offense. Then on defense, play our base package. Get a lot of guys playing time.

That’s the real key,” the coach explained.ß “I know who (returning all-conference players) Patton Miller and Zach Brooks are.

I know they’re going to show up. What I’m looking at is where do we get our depth from?”

Davis is expected to field 25 players.

“The big thing is to come out of Friday healthy,” Smyte concluded.

That should be easy, in light of how well Davis High officials did with the herculean task of keeping players safe during the pandemic. According to school officials, no COVID cases have been reported among

student-athletes once sports started ratcheting up last fall.

DHS begins its unusual “regular” season on March 19 when Vacaville High visits for a nonconference outing. Delta League play begins the following Friday at Elk Grove; then at Sheldon (April 2); tentatively at home on Saturday, April 10, against Cosumnes Oaks; then wrapping up at Jesuit (April 17).

Notes: Among a talented receiving corps for Davis are Donovan Garvin, Ryan Jaramillo, Cameron Nelson, Cole Knudson, tight end Andrew Baum and newcomer Jet Aquino. ... About suiting up only 25 players, Smyte says he reminded his team that Monterey Trail won a section title a few years back, fielding just 22 ablebodied citizens.

— Reach DE sports editor Bruce Gallaudet at bgallaudet41@gmail.com or call 530-320-4456. Follow Gallaudet on Twitter:@BGsportsinDavis.

here were muted complaints about Sisson’s handling of the county’s restrictions, but, on the record, officials at Davis High and UC Davis said they “understood” the new health chief ’s rationale, and complied.

The result? Almost no COVID positive tests in UCD athletics (none reported among players who were in their appointed practice bubbles) and none at the high school.

County pandemic protocols slowly eased, and Sisson worked with public schools to allow for leniency in their routines. As a result, these past two weeks have had a degree of normalcy.

However, regardless of how brilliantly we kept the lid on COVID, an overriding concern of Sisson and area medical experts was outside influence on the local players and coaches. n Were visiting teams being as diligent as UCD or DHS? n What would confined-space travel do to athletes who could no

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Calendar SATURDAY Davis High BASEBALL — Blue Devils vs. Jesuit (scrimmage), noon; UC Davis BASEBALL — Aggies vs. Pepperdine (DH), 11:30 a.m.

FOOTBALL — Aggies @ Weber State, noon.

LACROSSE — Aggie women @ Fresno State, 2 p.m.

TENNIS — Aggies vs. New Mexico State @ Golden State Invitational, Marya Welch Courts SOFTBALL — Aggies vs. Cal, 12:30; vs.

Fresno State , 6 p.m. @ Bulldog Classic; Aggiesn @ San Francisco, 3 p.m.

BEACH VOLLEYBALL — Aggies vs. Arizona, 8 a.m.

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A look at the early days of March Madness Enterprise staff Today’s action features four games, two in each division. All play is conducted at the Michelob Ultra Arena at the Mandalay Bay Resort. The tournament, which does not allow fans, has been underwritten by the Air Force Reserve and The Hawaiian Islands.

After UC Davis and Hawaii women advanced, there were a couple of quarterfinal nail-biters when second-seed UC Irvine nipped UC Santa Barbara, 92-90, and Cal Poly got past Long Beach State, 61-60.

Women today n UC Davis (11-2) vs. Hawaii (9-7), noon n UC Irvine (14-8) vs. Cal Poly (13-10), 3 p.m.

Big West Conf. Tournament roundup Men today

in the first stanza.

n UC Davis (10-7) vs. UC Santa Barbara (21-4), 6 p.m. n UC Irvine (17-8) vs. TBA A look around ...

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The men n UC Irvine survived against Cal Poly, 58-51. n Seven of the last 10 UC Davis games have been decided by five points or less. n Heroics are a regular thing for Ezra Manjon, who made a game-winner on Feb. 12 against Long Beach State and hit another shot against the Beach the next night to send the game into overtime. n The Aggies scored 15 points off of 11 Roadrunner turnovers

n UCD coach Jennifer Gross offered superlatives regarding Fullerton (4-18) and its forward Joy Krupa, whose 25 points and 16 rebounds kept the Titans in the game: “I want to take a second to congratulate Cal State Fullerton and coach Jeff Harada.

What a tremendous job they’ve done with so much adversity, injuries and to be playing so well at the end of the year. Also I want to compliment Joy Krupa ... (she) really did a super job to keep it tight.” n Cierra Hall’s 20-point performance vs. Fullerton was her fourth such accomplishment this season.

n Aspirin, please. Long Beach State, 10-0 in conference play before losing back-to-back games against visiting UCD, went into a deep funk down the stretch. The Beach lost seven of its final eight contests against Big West schools, including the 61-60 elimination loss to Cal Poly. n Davis, which won the 2019 Big West Tournament by beating Hawaii after falling 17 points down, now plays in its sixth straight semifinal BWC postseason contest. In 2011 and 2019, the Aggies won the tourney and advanced to the NCAA March Madness only to lose each time in the first round to Stanford. With this year’s NCAA shootout headed for a San Antonio, Texas, bubble, it seems unlikely that should Davis advance it will see Stanford again. Previous pairings have had a regional bent to them.

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SUNDAY Davis High No events scheduled UC Davis SOFTBALL — Aggies vs. Cal, vs. Fresno State @ Bulldog Classic, 10 a.m. & 12:30 p.m.

BASEBALL — Aggies VS. Pepperdine, 1 p.m.

MONDAY Davis High BASEBALL — Blue Devils @ Folsom (scrimmage), 3:30 p.m.

GOLF — Blue Devil girls vs. Sheldon @ Wildhawk Golf Course, 2 p.m.

UC Davis No events scheduled TUESDAY No events scheduled WEDNESDAY Davis High SWIMMING — Blue Devils @ Jesuit, 3:30 p.m.

gone 2 for 16 (12.5 percent) from beyond the arc.

The comfy lead gave Gross a chance to mix-and-match her lineups as nine Aggies saw prime time in the first 20 minutes.

But it was Hall, with 10 points and six rebounds at the break, who was significantly on her way to a double-double while Konrad (5 points, four rebounds and two assists) was also general anesthesia for any Fullerton offense.

Davis managed to shoot 40 percent overall and watched as Fullerton had 27 more attempts. A couple of differences in the final score were the Aggies’ 6 for 15 from Treyland to the Titans’ 4 of 29 (14 percent) and free throws (of which UCD went 19 of 29).

When Davis hit that end-of-game drought, it maintained its lead by hitting 12 of those charity tosses to conclusion.

“We have to make sure we take everybody seriously,” Hall said of the Titans, who upset No. 8-seed UC Riverside, 55-51, on Tuesday.

“Anything can happen. We have to make sure we’re playing our game, playing our best.

“I think we (need to) get into our offensive flow. I thought we played good defense.

We need to bring our own energy.”

Gross thought about how her team (despite having no buckets during that long stretch of the game) relentlessly attacked the basket: “I was really pleased with our ability to make plays down the stretch. Our team is really excited about the opportunity to play again. In March, it’s survive and advance.”

Aggie guard Evanne Turner (15) had 9 points in Wednesday’s win over Cal State Fullerton.

Big West/Courtesy photo

Really? Seems we’ve heard that somewhere before.

Notes: UCD freshman Mazzie Harris tallied 7 points off the bench and contributed significantly to Cal State’s offensive woes. ... This marked the first meeting between Fullerton and Davis in Big West Tournament history. ... Titan Clarissa Rodarte

scored 11 points. ... After splitting their last two regular-season contests at Hawaii, the Aggie women slipped to No. 15 in this week’s CollegeInsider.com poll.

— Reach DE sports editor Bruce Gallaudet at bgallaudet41@gmail.com or call 530-320-4456. Follow Gallaudet on Twitter: @BGsportsinDavis.

MANJON: Another nail-biter win

UC Davis No events scheduled THURSDAY

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Davis High FIELD HOCKEY — Blue Devils @ River Valley, 5 p.m.

GOLF — Blue Devil boys vs. Jesuit @ Del Paso CC, 2:30 p.m.

UC Davis No events scheduled FRIDAY, March 19 Davis High FOOTBALL — Blue Devils vs. Vacaville, 7 p.m.

UC Davis BASEBALL — Aggies vs. UC Irvine, Big West opener, 2:30 p.m.

SATURDAY, March 20 Davis High

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Aggie guard Damion Squire had 9 points and four assists in UC Davis’ quarterfinal win Thursday.

at just how physical Bakersfield actually was.

“Once we gained our composure and brought the fight back to them, I thought that’s when the game turned,” Les continued.

After a couple of teeth-rattling dunks by Taze Moore, UCD trailed by 10. Suddenly, the Aggies began to circulate the ball on offense. Kennedy Koehler scored inside, Anigwe hit a jumper, Pepper tallied twice (once off a textbook pass from Squire) and Manjon ... well, Ezra was Ezra, scoring his team’s last basket of the half to take a 32-29 lead into period No. 2.

With only 17 games under their belts, the up-and-down events of 2020-21 might have been too much to bear for some teams. But not these Aggies. Davis went 2-2 in four games last fall, got shut down, didn’t play for almost two months thanks to strict COVID protocols, then came out of the Big West box losing three straight before winning their next five.

“For a while it was really tough for us, especially in December,” Manjon reported.

“We all (stayed together) because we knew

the goal: We wanted to be victorious in March.”

And here they are.

Moore led all Roadrunners with 12 points but only two rebounds. Six-foot-six Justin McCall was held to 6 points and only four boards. Center Ronne Readus, the 6-9 glass cleaner, led all players with six rebounds and managed 9 points.

Notes: The win moves the Aggies to 10-7 on this unusual season while Bakersfield dropped to 15-11. ... “I’m just really proud of these guys,” said Les. “We wrote on the board ... that our ability to win this game would be in large part due to our physicality and defense. If we could do those two things, we’d give ourselves a chance to win.” ... Another challenge for Davis was that it hadn’t played the Roadrunners in Big West play.

The conference-opening series with Bakersfield was canceled by Yolo County health department edicts. Les, mentioning “I’ve been doing this 19 years,” said he had never come into a conference tournament without at least seeing his postseason opponent. ...

Bakersfield scored 21 points through 10 minutes of play. It would take 21 minutes to score its next 21.

CROSS COUNTRY — Blue Devils @ Jesuit, 9 a.m.

GALLAUDET: Aggies did well with county guidelines

FIELD HOCKEY — Blue Devils @ Bella Vista, 11 a.m.

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UC Davis BASEBALL — Aggies vs. UC Irvine (DH), noon.

FOOTBALL — Aggies vs. Cal Poly, 1 p.m.

SOFTBALL — Aggies @ Cal State Fullerton (DH), Big West opener, 1 p.m.

TRACK — Aggies @ Hornet Invitational, all day.

Notes: By order of the Yolo County Health and Human Services Dept., no fan attendance is allowed at either Davis High or UC Davis sporting events.

At DHS, two parents or guardians are admitted to supervise to their studentathletes.

longer keep their distance? n What kind of sanitization insurance awaited Aggies or Blue Devils once they took to the road themselves? n Who were these people attending games (for example, the 2,000-plus who showed up last weekend at Idaho’s indoor venue, the Kibbie Dome)?

UC Davis found out on Saturday that not everyone is, well, UC Davis ...

Some Aggie fans wondered why the Davis 27-17 victory looked like an Idaho lay-down in the second half. It was partly that coach Dan Hawkins had his healthy crew completely ready for the fray. But it was also partly that the Vandals were missing nine frontline players.

The normally forthright Idaho coach Paul Petrino was cagey about why his players were gone so suddenly. Gametime decisions, undisclosed injuries, discipline? Media were left to postulate, while Petrino said he wasn’t allowed to talk about such things.

And while discussion of exact health issues among athletes is forbidden by federal HIPAA regulations, for the week leading up to Saturday’s game, there were rumors of “COVID issues at Idaho.”

But there was no official word from Idaho about what was going on. According to UCD Interim Athletic Director Rocko DeLuca, the information the Aggies were getting was satisfactory, so they made the call to head north.

However, DeLuca told The Enterprise this week that three Davis players came in contact with an Idaho player who tested positive immediately after the game.

Those Aggies were held out from practice this week, while final testing for COVID among all the players was done Thursday — luckily, with no positive reports. Findings, said DeLuca, were to have been released early Friday.

Given that clean sheet, all is well to venture off to Weber State on Saturday for a showdown with No. 1/2 Weber State.

The upshot of all of this? n Yes, it’s great to have football back. And hats off to Yolo County health officials for an abundance of caution.

n Congratulations to UCD for having the best campuswide COVID-prevention protocols among all the schools in the United States. n Thanks, too, to UCD for its partnership with the city in its Healthy Davis Together program — the envy of a nation. n And after all, a bow to Sisson’s insightful attention to prevention. The feeling here is, even though frustrating for sports fans, the restrictions were in the best interests of the community.

It’s just a shame that we still have to worry about setting foot outside our front doors.

— Reach DE sports editor Bruce Gallaudet at bgallaudet 41@gmail.com or call 530320-4456. Follow Gallaudet on Twitter: @BGsportsinDavis.

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ndependent contractors are excluded from traditional employment benefits such as unemployment insurance, minimum wage standards, workers compensation and protection from discrimination and harassment.

The lack of protections is particularly acute among arts workers in California where 35% are self-employed.

This lack of protections includes business owners, sole proprietors, independent contractors and gig workers. If independent workers had access to additional social insurance programs, worker protections and other employer-conferred protections during the COVID-19 pandemic, more people experiencing unemployment would’ve had a safety net, and our economy could recover more quickly.

As the economy’s reliance on gig workers expands, California has tried to protect them by ensuring they’re not mistakenly excluded from the benefits and protections they should be receiving.

In 2019, the California Legislature passed AB 5 to address misclassification of independent contractors who should be employees. Misclassification denies individuals workplace protections and benefits. A subsequent bill, AB 2257, clarified who should be treated as employees and exempted some occupations and business relationships from AB 5, including creative occupations such as fine artists.

While unemployment insurance benefits were temporarily extended to independent contractors under the CARES Act, legislation since hasn’t extended worker protections or solutions for true independent contractors who don’t meet the definitions of an “employee.” As so many workers are struggling amid the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s become clear we need robust safety nets that include independent contractors, gig workers and freelancers.

In a recently released report titled “Arts Workers in California,” researchers from the Urban Institute examine how independent workers can be included in benefits and protections conferred by more traditional employer relationships. The study explores the need for worker protections by describing the experience of arts workers, a group that is three times more likely to be freelancers.

alifornia’s Republican Party appears bent on making the seemingly inevitable fall recall election against Gov. Gavin Newsom into a symbolic vote on the political revival ex-President Donald Trump so avidly desires.

As the days wound down before the March 17 deadline for submitting recall petition signatures, it became clear that three men with links to Trump would likely be the most prominent figures on the recall’s list of prospective Newsom replacements.

As in any statewide recall election, voters would have two votes this time — a yes-or-no choice on dumping Newsom and a second vote choosing from a list of would-be alternatives. The winner in that contest would not need a majority, just more votes than anyone else running.

So far, the three most prominent likely candidates include former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer, San Diego County businessman John Cox and Trump’s former acting director of national intelligence, Richard Grenell.

If the list of alternates does not soon add a figure or two who’s more palatable to the state’s dominant Democratic voters, it appears the recall won’t have much chance no matter how poorly Newsom

may fare in the polls.

Cox lost to Newsom in the November 2018 runoff election by a massive 62to 38-percent margin, running as a strong Trump ally determined to end California’s status as the state most resistant to his policies. That’s almost exactly the same margin by which Trump lost California last fall. It may represent the best any conservative Republican can do in this era.

The thumping frequent candidate Cox took did not dampen his enthusiasm for calling Newsom incompetent and hypocritical.

Yet, he likely won’t get as enthusiastic backing from Trump this time as three years ago.

For Grenell, said to plan on entering this list when the recall formally qualifies for a vote, has been among Trump’s most loyal operatives.

During the Trump presidency, Grenell served first as spokesman for the U.S. mission to the United Nations, then ambassador to Germany and finally as acting director of national intelligence during

Trump’s final year, after the ex-president fired the previous chief spy for reporting publicly that Russia was interfering in the election on his behalf.

Grenell would not enter this race if he did not have Trump’s blessing, reportedly secured during the annual meeting of the Conservative Political Action Committee last month in Orlando.

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aulconer is not so obvious a Trumpist.

He downplays his Republican identity in this state where the GOP label has lately meant certain defeat in statewide races other than those involving movie muscleman Arnold Schwarzenegger.

But Faulconer at times leans heavily to the right.

Example: he endorsed former U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa early on to replace the disgraced and resigned San Diego Republican Duncan Hunter in a Mexicanborder congressional seat.

The hard-right Issa “retired” in 2018 from his former seat in north San Diego County when that district became too liberal for him to be re-elected. The Hunter district leans far more toward Trump loyalty.

There was also Trump telling Fox News last June, after Faulconer visited the Oval Office, that “(Faulconer) was just in my office, great guy. He came up to thank me for having done the (border) wall …

Faulconer quickly denied saying that, his spokesman claiming he and Trump discussed only a trade deal. Still, Newsom can use the Fox News video against him, and never mind Faulconer’s denial.

A big difference between this recall and the 2003 ouster of then-Gov. Gray Davis is the absence of anyone with the innate popularity of Schwarzenegger, who dominated that vote.

All this should make it easy for Newsom’s veteran campaign team to cast this as a Trumpian attempt at a backdoor takeover of California.

If he succeeds at beating back the recall, Newsom would have already defeated all his likely major 2022 re-election opponents, plus California’s most active Trump supporters. So he could — like some previous recall survivors — emerge as a popular hero in his own party, with an easy path to re-election next year as well as a promising potential national future.

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rts work is typically project-based, short-term, intermittent and involves overlapping and simultaneous “gigs” at one time. Consequently, artists also face challenges that are shared by other independent workers unable to plan ahead due to unpredictable income, limited accrued savings, difficulty paying off student loan debt and affording health care, families and retirement.

When laws protecting workers were created, lawmakers hadn’t imagined how robust the freelance workforce would be. Gig work is clearly here to stay, yet the social insurance supports and legal protections available to independent workers haven’t caught up to the changing workforce.

Current law assumes that freelancers have power to negotiate their contracts and the resources to provide their own safety net. The report focuses on a specific segment of this workforce — the arts — to dissect these assumptions and demonstrate why accessible benefits and protections matter for arts workers and those invested in a more inclusive arts field. If we can get this right for artists, we can get it right for the many other gig workers who share their conditions.

The Urban Institute’s report proposes solutions, including strengthening classification laws to prevent employees from being misclassified as independent contractors — as AB 5 intended — extending worker protections and social insurance programs to freelance workers and other contractors, and scaling collective action and nontraditional worker organizing efforts to rebalance power.

New forms of collectivizing for workers are needed for accessing portable benefits and protections, bargaining power, affording health care, and protecting workers from discrimination and harassment. Each of these paths would improve conditions not only for arts workers, but for the millions of Americans who make their living through independent work.

In addition, by providing access for all types of workers to labor protections and benefits, it helps businesses comply with labor laws and spread costs more evenly across hiring entities, taxpayers, consumers of art and workers themselves.

California has a history of being at the forefront of implementing policies to protect workers, and this is the moment to think outside conventional boxes to make our economy more resilient. This is the moment for California to consider innovative new ways of extending protections and benefits to workers whose work never fit into the traditional employer model.

— Angie Kim is president and CEO of the Center for Cultural Innovation. Amanda Briggs is a research associate at Urban Institute. They wrote this for CalMatters, a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s Capitol works and why it matters.

Letters Fast results Your COVID-19 results are ready.

That’s the first sentence in the text I get every week from Healthy Davis Together. Before clicking on the link, I still get a bit anxious and mentally rehearse what I would do if, despite my careful lifestyle, I tested positive.

Thus far, my results have always been negative.

I am so grateful to live in a community where being tested is so simple and easy. I have become a champion “spitter” despite my first very poor attempt at saliva production. The team staffing the Senior Center location is very friendly and kind and insisted that I get a free coffee from the cheerful owner of Common Grounds coffee — ’twas an excellent decaf Americano.

So if you have not yet followed the guidance from our mayor, what’s taking you so long? We all need to support this unique opportunity we have

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Mandated treatment is not the way to go I am disappointed that The Enterprise has chosen to support a misguided and cruel effort to increase incarceration and further criminalize substance abuse problems and stigmatize those who suffer from these disorders. (Our View: A new way forward on sentencing, Feb. 28) AB1542 (McCarty) is a thinly veiled attempt to harshly criminalize those who suffer from substance-abuse disorders and targets the homeless population in Yolo County.

The list of crimes in this bill encompasses any crime that is not a non-violent drug possession charge, sex crime, violent offense or serious felony.

This includes speeding, shoplifting, loitering, illegal camping, etc. It is unclear what crimes are really being

targeted by this bill and what problem is trying to be solved. Additionally, putting someone in the criminal justice system has significant negative outcomes for employment, housing, social relationships, etc; which are critical factors in an individual’s path to recovery.

It also falsely claims that some of the costs will be borne by MediCal. MediCal does not reimburse for treatment in correctional settings.

This is bad policy disguised as reform. A better solution would be to recognize substance abuse disorders for the illnesses they are and decriminalize and destigmatize them.

This is simply a workaround so Yolo DA Reisig can pick up more homeless people from the streets and incarcerate them under the guise of treatment.

I urge The Enterprise to back away from its current position and look beyond incarceration as a solution to substance abuse disorders and the people that suffer from them.

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Exhibit honors African American women Special to The Enterprise

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n a timely exhibit, YoloArts in collaboration with Women in Leadership, Davis, presents paintings, watercolors and screenprints honoring female African American heroes and civil rights leaders and women who have been killed by the police. “Art. In. Action.” opened Thursday, March 11, at The Barn Gallery in Woodland.

Originally exhibited on a freeway overpass in Davis, during “For Our Mothers, For Our Sisters, For Our Daughters,” a protest march held in August, the artwork also commemorates the 55th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act and the centennial of the passage of the 19th amendment, giving women the right to vote.

Women honored in this special collection of protest art include Harriet Tubman, Breonna Taylor, Kamala Harris and Rosa Parks to name a few. The exhibition will also present video footage of the march.

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“Kamala Harris” by Ruth Santer is part of the “Art. In. Action.” exhibit on display through Saturday, June 19, at The Barn Gallery in Woodland. Also is the show are “Breonna Taylor” by Stephanie Thayer, below left, and “Dorothy Dandridge” by Hisani Stenson, bottom right. the work of artists Hisani Stenson, Stephanie Thayer, Kate Mellon Anibaba, Seana Burke, Danielle Fodor, Sasha Santer Hill, Nelson Loskamp, Anya McCann, Aislinn Murray, Jennifer Nachmanoff, Gilda Posada, Ruth Santer

and Eden Sunday.

“Project: Hope” and “Black Lives Matter,” two books of drawings by a collaboration of students in the UC Davis department of design, are also included in this exhibition. The books were created by 43 students in three “Design 15: Form and Color” courses facilitated by professor Melissa Chandon and artist Harold Linde.

“Art. In. Action.” is being presented in collaboration with Women in Leadership, Davis (WiLD), a group supporting women leaders, African American women and other Black, Indigenous and People of Color.

WiLD’s goal is to mentor women of all ages through logistical and community support, empower young women to pursue leadership roles and educate the community to bring awareness to systemic barriers of success facing women of marginalized groups

through community events.

“We need to put faces to the names of Black women who have been victims of police brutality as well as Black women who led the civil rights movement and brought the Voting Rights Act into being. This is why this installation at the Barn Gallery is so important,” said Dzokerayi Minya, co-founder of WiLD. “We hope families and the community will see this art and take the conversation home about how past and current laws affect Black families and in particular Black women.”

A recorded preview will be available on yoloarts. org and social media throughout the exhibition’s run.

In it, Exhibition artists and local activists talk about the artwork and the organization’s mission to empower BIPOC women leaders and bring awareness to systemic barriers

“We need to put faces to the names of Black women who have been victims of police brutality as well as Black women who led the civil rights movement and brought the Voting Rights Act into being.”

Dzokerayi Minya Women in Leadership, Davis co-founder facing women and girls of color in the community.

Exhibition artwork can also be viewed online at https://yoloarts.org/ online-galleries/#current.

“I first saw this artwork displayed on a freeway overpass in Davis during the march last August and

was reminded of the power of art to move and educate people,” said Janice Purnell, creative director at YoloArts.

“This exhibition offers an extended opportunity for everyone to see these works up close, learn more about the stories and bravery of these women, and gain a deeper understanding of the goals and vision of Women In Leadership, Davis.”

On May 12, Minya and guest artists will talk about the role of art and stories in social movements at the monthly Knowledge @ Noon series. “Art. In. Action.” closes on Saturday, June 19, with a Juneteenth Freedom Celebration from 12:30 to 3 p.m. at The Barn Gallery.

The Barn Gallery, 512 Gibson Road in Woodland, is open 2:30 to 5 p.m. Thursdays and two Saturday afternoons monthly; eight people are allowed in the gallery at a time. Face coverings and social distancing is required.

For more information, contact ya@yoloarts.org.

Davis Community Chorale plans online arts auction Special to The Enterprise The Davis Community Chorale is pleased to announce its firstever Online Arts Auction and Celebration. The multi-talented members in the group will be showcased beginning at 5 p.m.

Saturday, March 20.

“We enjoy having members with diverse backgrounds, beliefs, and skills and believe this enhances our development as a cohesive entity,” said chorale secretary Lynda Garcia. “This also strengthens our ability to continue to provide music that elevates the spirit. To further this, creative items and services from artists/craftspeople within the chorale have been donated to the auction.”

A sampling of the items to be auctioned include a handmade quilt by Davis’ own alto Leslie Cooper, DVM, along with handmade goods such as pillows, scarves, shadow boxes, a musicthemed felted bag and greeting cards by other artistic members.

Highlights include a signed original acrylic painting by locally renowned artist Mary King, an alto in the choir, and a signed copy of tenor Matthew Zavod’s new book “Dr. Ridiculopickulopot

and the Shot,” a timely children’s book aimed at reducing anxiety about getting shots at the doctor’s office.

There will also be an evening of piano music offered to the highest bidder, to be performed by award-winning musician LuAnn Higgs.

“The chorale, like everyone else, has had to adjust the way things are done in this past year, due to COVID-19. But we are still going strong,” Garcia said.

“Although rehearsals have been moved to Zoom since mid-March 2020, we continue to learn new music so that when we are able to meet in public again, we will be ready to perform to the standard of excellence our audiences have come to know and expect,” she said.

The format of Monday night rehearsals has been altered to include, along with revisiting previously performed pieces and learning new pieces, learning about the different periods and styles of music. Each first Monday of the month, the chorale examines another period, thanks to artistic director Alison Skinner.

In November 2020 the group recorded a virtual chorus piece, “Now is the Month of Maying” by

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The Davis Community Chorale performs at the “Messiah” Sing-a-long at the Veterans Memorial Center in Davis in 2018.

Thomas Morley. Each member recorded their part alone at home, then one of the tech-savvy members, Tom Estees, combined those individual recordings into a single choral piece. (To hear a sample, go to the chorale website at https://davischorale.org/ and click on “Listen Now.”) The members have been staying connected to each other using

“Chorus Connection,” an online platform that houses not only the music they are rehearsing but also contact details for each chorale member, among other files.

The board members each have “Board Buddies” assigned to cover the entire chorale and check in with them regularly to make sure all is well and that needs are covered.

“Like many other arts organizations, we are looking for new ways to bring in funds so that we can hit the ground running and start performing immediately when it is safe to do so,” Garcia said. That’s where the Virtual Arts Auction comes in. More information will be firmed up next week. In the meantime, “Mark your calendars!”

Momentum Dance Company show explores ‘Connected Isolations’ Special to The Enterprise The Momentum Dance Company of Davis High School has created the concert “Connected Isolations: Movement Apart that Brings Us Together.”

In this time of uncertainty, Momentum’s dancers have united to overcome, through dance, the challenging obstacles that quarantine presents.

The collection of dances will be released in video format, free to the community, on Friday,

March 19. The link is at https:// dshs.djusd.net/ (scroll down to news items).

“Connected Isolations” is a collection of dance performances that consists of a variety of dance styles, including contemporary, African and ballet.

“It’s challenging not getting to dance in person with others, but technology has given us a way to connect and to dance on,” Momentum dancer Emily Haws said.

Performing “El Baile de las Faldas” are Momentum Dance Company dancers, from left, Donya Pirouzi, Emily Haws, Maya Moore, Ayisi Ni, Eliot Maroney-Sutton, Katelyn Vo, Lynsey Hsieh and Stella Maze.

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‘Gamemaster’: It’s all in how you play Winning documentary illuminates the creative urge

‘Gamemaster’ Starring: Nashra Balagamwala, Charlie Bink, Reiner Knizia, Elan Lee, Scott Rogers, Jason Serrato and Klaus Teuber Rating: Not rated, and suitable for all ages Available via: Amazon Prime, Vudu and other services

By Derrick Bang Enterprise film critic Full disclosure: Constant Companion and I owned and ran a board game and puzzle store here in Davis, from fall 1978 through winter 1997. So, yes; I’m more interested than most when it comes to this topic.

But don’t assume that such a specific level of interest is required to embrace director Charles Mruz’s engaging little documentary.

His film adopts the format that made earlier documentaries — such as 2002’s “Spellbound,” and 2018’s “Science Fair” — so entertaining. We meet and follow the progress of four would-be game designers as they navigate the discipline’s necessary trials and tribulations.

You think it’s hard to get a book published? Try bringing a game to the retail market.

Mruz chose well. Each of his four subjects is personable, creative, enthusiastic and delightfully humble: well aware of the difficult path ahead.

Scott Rogers, a former video-game designer and Disney engineer, began creating his first-ever

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Charlie Bink, designer of the board game “Trekking the National Parks” contemplates whether to tweak the rules one more time. Note his game’s high-quality wooden and glass components. tabletop game while undergoing chemotherapy for Stage 4 Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The process was its own form of therapy since it gave him something on which to focus.

“I’m a really big ‘Star Wars’ fan,” he cheerfully recalls, “and I went, ‘I wanna make a ‘Star Wars’ game.’ And my friend said, ‘Pfft, forget ‘Star Wars,’ make your own damn ‘Star Wars.’ And I’m like, Yeah, I could make my own damn ‘Star Wars.’ ” The result, dubbed “Rayguns and Rocketships,” became all-consuming: play-testing, fine-tuning the rules, play-testing, making the components, play-testing … you get the idea.

Charlie Bink’s parents, over time, traveled to all of the U.S. national parks.

That proved inspirational; the three of them collaborated on the development of a gorgeous board game titled “Trekking the National Parks.” Veteran gamers will adore the highquality components.

The toughest part — as Bink admits — involved the degree to which he and his folks didn’t always see eyeto-eye with respect to publishing options and running a small business.

Early on, Bink believes it’s important that the game be an American product, given its focus. But that pushes the potential pricepoint higher than seems practical.

What, then, to do?

Jason Serrato designed his game, “Thug Life,” to reflect his own childhood experiences while growing up in 1980s Pico Rivera, in

Southern California, along with his fondness for late ’90s pop and street culture.

He quickly faced two obstacles: His desire for the playing pieces to be metal mini-figures made the game prohibitively expensive; and his decision to finance the game via crowd-funding led to blowback from folks who found the theme — well — tasteless.

So it’s back to the drawing board.

Nashra Balagamwala, finally, is the most captivating of this quartet. The Pakistani-born young woman created her game, “Arranged!,” as a means of poking gentle fun at her native country’s tradition of arranged marriages. The game also reflects her own personal refusal to participate in this custom; she’s a

forthright speaker on behalf of her sisterhood.

This film’s “voice of experience” is Elan Lee, co-creator of the improbable hit game “Exploding Kittens,” which became a Kickstarter legend on par with Brad Pitt being “discovered” in 1991’s “Thelma & Louise.” Lee and co-designer Matthew Inman sought a modest $10,000 when they posted their Kickstarter campaign on Jan. 20, 2015.

That goal was achieved in eight minutes (!), and — upon completion of the campaign — Lee and Inman had raised $8.8 million from 219,382 backers.

Needless to say, their future is assured. No surprise, then, that folks such as Balagamwala, Rogers, Serrato and Bink hope to catch that same rainbow.

We also meet the genial Klaus Teuber, developer of the iconic 1995 game “Settlers of Catan”; and prolific

board-game designer Reiner Knizia. Both hail from Germany, from where — as those in the know are aware — many of the world’s best games have come for many decades now. (Look no further than the massive and enormously popular Ravensburger line.)

Budding developers can shop their concepts — and make connections — at the industry’s most important annual gaming conventions: Gen Con, North America’s largest game convention, held in Indianapolis; and Essen Spiel, a four-day board game trade fair held each October in Essen, Germany, which hands out the highly coveted Spiel des Jahres Award each year.

Think San Diego’s Comic-Con, but (for the most part) without the cosplay. The size and scope of both cons are breathtaking, the enthusiasm off the charts.

So: While the subject of Mruz’s documentary can be considered “niche,” the execution is both approachable and (at times) quite fascinating. And, as to how our four neophyte designers fare … … well, you’ll just have to roll the dice — which is to say, watch this film — to find out.

— Read more of Derrick Bang’s film criticism at http://derrickbang. blogspot.com. Comment on this review at www. davisenterprise.com.

‘Space Sweepers’: This one’s a real hoot ‘n’ a holler Frenzied space opera gets by on energy and momentum

By Derrick Bang Enterprise film critic This South Korean sci-fi epic, the country’s first “space blockbuster,” is absolutely dog-nuts.

It’s also a lot of fun.

Scripters Yoon Seung-min, Yoo-kang Seo-ae and Jo Sunghee “borrow” from a variety of predecessors — “Silent Running,” “Blade Runner” and “Elysium” immediately come to mind — and overlay those familiar elements with a cheeky original premise. Director Sung-hee Jo’s handling is somewhat chaotic, which befits the rather “messy” future inhabited by a quartet of misfit heroes.

The year is 2092. Earth has become an environmental nightmare, with fading sunlight and increasingly acidic soil contributing to the spread of deserts and the destruction of forests.

Thanks to a technological “miracle” orchestrated by the UTS Corp., the wealthy and “connected” enjoy luxurious living in a massive, verdant and enclosed habitat orbiting Earth, reachable via a geosynchronous “space elevator.”

The rest of humanity is stuck on the planet’s poisonous surface.

Ah, but all is not lost. UTS head James Sullivan (Richard Armitage) — doctor, physicist, aerospace engineer, historian and the world’s richest and oldest man (at a spry 152) — has ambitious plans to terraform Mars, transforming it into the forested paradise that Earth used to be.

Meanwhile …

‘Space Sweepers’ Starring: Song Joong-Ki, Kim Tae-ri, Jim Sun-kyu, Yoo Hai-jin, Richard Armitage and Ye-Rin Park Rating: TV-MA, for profanity and sci-fi violence Available via: Netflix Thanks to more than a century of orbital development, the region above Earth has become its own nightmare, as satellites fail and other floating debris turns hazardous. This has created a new business model for rag-tag independents who earn a meager living as orbital garbage collectors: “catching” and then salvaging space junk.

It’s a ruthlessly competitive, wholly unregulated industry and the champs staff a nuts-and-bolts spaceship dubbed Victory. Its fourperson crew comprises genius pilot Tae-ho (Song Joong-Ki); the somewhat mysterious ex-space pirate Capt. Jang (Kim Tae-ri); resourceful and heavily tattooed engineer Tiger Park (Jim Sun-kyu); and a reprogrammed military robot named Bubs (Yoo Hai-jin).

Our heroes are a quarrelsome bunch, forever bickering while partying hard during their downtime. Each also has a backstory, although we learn the most about Bubs and Tae-ho.

The gangly, wholly mechanical robot has long hoarded cash — much of which it wins while outplaying the others at poker — in the hopes of one day accumulating enough to purchase a humanoid exterior, thereby “passing” successfully.

Tae-ho (Song Joong-Ki, left), Jang (Kim Tae-ri, right) and the robot Bubs find something extremely unusual in their latest haul of space salvage.

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Tae-ho, once a UTS “peacekeeper” — think nasty “Star Wars” storm troopers — quit when he no longer could stand the corporation’s cruelty to helpless civilians. That noble act ruined his life, leaving him unable to properly care for his adopted young daughter. Worse yet, a subsequent accident separated them; he has sought her ever since, hoping to raise the exorbitant sum demanded by a UTS “lost person” company that employs DNA and nanobots for such searches.

On this average day, after Victory beats competitors during a debris chase — an exhilarating sequence orchestrated by editors Mira Ha and Na-young Nam, and the film’s massive sfx team — they discover they’ve retrieved a mostly intact space shuttle.

And within it … a 7-year-old girl, named Dorothy and played by the utterly adorable Ye-Rin Park.

Ah, but is she actually a little girl? She matches the description

circulated by Sullivan and UTS of a ticking hydrogen bomb disguised as a human-like robot.

Figuring that this is the perfect means to raise the money they all need, our impulsive heroes demand a sizeable ransom for the “device’s” return.

Needless to say, attempting to extort UTS isn’t a smart — or safe — career move.

Once we get beyond all of the first act’s necessary exposition, Jo’s film becomes quite a ride.

The effects razzmatazz is terrific, whether we’re dealing with space battles and pursuits or Bubs’ mere presence (given that there’s no way it’s ever a person in some sort of costume).

Jin is a hoot as the gruff, growly Tiger Park, forever laboring below decks, in an effort to keep Victory in — more or less — working order. The eternally snarky Bubs gets the best oneliners, many of which are delivered as asides that you’d likely not hear without the subtitles.

Tae-ri’s Jang is feisty, reckless

and quick to anger; Joong-Ki’s frequently glum Tae-ho is A Tortured Soul. Yes, these characters are thinly sketched and clichéd, but the actors work well as a group.

Sullivan — no surprise — proves far less benevolent than his public persona appears; Armitage is quite adept at switching from soothing to sinister in the blink of an eye.

Despite its South Korean origins, this film is an international affair. The (presumably) American Sullivan speaks English and the various other space sweepers are piloted by crews conversing — and cursing — in French, Russian and quite a few other languages.

Given this film’s entertainment value as a giddy, goofy roller coaster ride, I’m sure a lot of viewers will opt for a second viewing.

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

Comment on this review at www. davisenterprise.com.

Stories on Stage features story about escaping abuse Special to The Enterprise Stories on Stage Davis will release the 13th episode of its allpodcast eighth season on Saturday, March 13, with Lauren Hwang-Finkelman’s story “Remains,” read by Danika Sudik.

Set in seasonless Southern California, the narrator is an aimless young adult who feels stuck as long as she continues to live with Ben, her mother’s abusive ex.

Hope comes in the form of a plan to drive cross-country to see the Atlantic, and as she starts this

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pivotal journey, she confronts the complexity and difficulty of escaping her situation.

Lauren HwangFinkelman is a writer and horticulturalist from California.

Her favorite tree is the Fremont cotton-

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She will receive a bachelor’s degree in English with an emphasis in creative writing and a minor in horticulture from UC Davis

in summer 2021.

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Her education programs, workshops and curricula have been used by many theater companies and in K-12 classrooms across Southern California.

Her work (directing and producing) was nominated for several awards for the Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble’s critically acclaimed “War Cycle” by Tom Burmester.

In Davis, she co-founded the Ground and Field Theatre Festival in partnership with the department of theater and dance at UC Davis.

More recently, she has enjoyed directing/performing in Bike City Theatre Company’s Salon Series and Radio Plays.

She holds a master’s in dramatic arts from UCD and a bachelor’s

degree in theater, film and television from UCLA. The Stories on Stage Davis podcast airs new episodes every second and fourth Saturday. Its eighth season will run until June.

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.

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his March at the Pence Gallery, I was lucky to work with three fantastic artists on their solo exhibits. Susan Tonkin Riegel is a prolific artist who enjoys learning through taking artist residencies abroad.

She’s been to Sweden, France and many other countries, spending a month or so immersed in the culture of a foreign country, and making art that distinctly reflects the vibe of the place she’s in.

In the past two to three years, she’s created a dynamic new series of abstract mixed-media work in residencies in France.

Her compositions vibrate with gestural lines, both drawn and stitched, and saturated areas of color on paper and other surfaces.

New two-dimensional work includes elements such as French words, symbols and enigmatic figures. Her piece “Le Chat de Noyers” is a colorful rendition of a cat, who speaks French and walks amidst vibrant hues of pink, orange and blue. Her exhibit is on display at the Pence through Sunday, April 18, and is sponsored

by Helen Richardson.

Susan and I will have a conversation about her work from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Friday, March 19, via Zoom, in which she’ll share some of her artistic process and themes, and what makes her work so distinctive. To hear this free virtual talk, sign up on our website at www. pencegallery.org.

In our Coldwell Banker Main Gallery, collages and paintings by Bay Area artist Judith Foosaner literally take over the walls.

She is an abstract painter and mixed-media artist, and a professor emeritus at California College of Arts.

Her exhibit title, “Decameron,” also titles the large installation piece made of cardboard, and black acrylic paint. It’s an invigorating piece that seems to dance as the abstract shapes reach toward the ceiling.

“The installation that I call ‘Decameron’ started three weeks into the (COVID-19) lockdown, although really it started when I was a child,” she said.

“We had no money, so if

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you wanted something, you didn’t buy it, you made it. My mother was very creative, always coming up with ideas and assignments for us. Cardboard was a favorite material and my sister and I spent many hours folding, cutting, shaping, drawing and painting it. Later, when I was teaching, cardboard became a material I used in some of my drawing classes.”

As she explains, “The original ‘Decameron’ is a 14th century collection of novellas by Giovanni Boccaccio, in which 10 young people flee Florence and the plague for a secluded villa. In the evenings, each tells a tale. At the end of 10 days and nights, there are a hundred tales — and this becomes ‘The Decameron.’ ” Her exhibit, up at the Pence through Sunday, April 18, is sponsored by Wil Uecker and Karen Fess Uecker. Catch her video about making the piece on our YouTube channel, as well as a video about Susan Tonkin Riegel’s exhibit.

Sandy Fong Whetstone’s playful exhibit is titled “Beyond Pets,” and it’s up through Sunday, March 28, in our Andresen Gallery.

Susan Tonkin Riegel’s “Le Chat de Noyers” includes a talking cat and other interesting details, and was completed in an artist residency in France.

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Judith Foosaner’s installation piece “Decameron” shows her use of available materials, such as cardboard, during the early months of the COVID-19 shutdown last year.

Whetstone, a ceramic artist who also includes prints and mixed-media pieces in her exhibit, is a Sacramento-based creative who explores “the beauty of nature and our oftenfraught relationship with it. I struggle with wanting nature to bend to my will and imposing my ideas of beauty and human qualities to nature’s bounty, to simply appreciating the inherent beauty and perfection of nature as it is.”

Her dogs in particular show a human-like love of fine things, such as coffee, wine or cigars. Each canine is inspired by the particular cigar box that they sit on as their dog house.

Thus, “Captain Jack” is a beagle with a parrot and eye patch, seated on a glossy black Sinistro cigar box.

It’s a lively exhibit of all sorts of chipmunks, goats, birds and bees.

The Pence’s Art History Lecture series continues this spring, with a virtual talk from 2 to 3 p.m. Saturday, March 20, by Pat Chirapravati. A professor of art history at Sacramento State, she will

Sandy Whetstone’s sculpture “Captain Jack” has a pirate feel to it, with the dog bearing a tattoo, eye patch and pet parrot on his arm. discuss her recent research exploring clothing and politics as a means of reinventing national identity in Southeast Asia. Chirapravati is a fascinating speaker on any topic, and this subject is part of a new book she is editing. To

register for this free talk, email pencegallery@ gmail.com by Friday, March 19.

— Natalie Nelson is the executive director and curator of the Pence Gallery; her column is published monthly.

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What to look for when test driving preowned vehicles Special to The Enterprise Preowned vehicles have become hot commodities in recent years, reflecting a change in what drivers are looking for when it’s time to get a new ride.

According to the market and consumer data experts at Statista, preowned vehicle sales increased every year between 2014 and 2019 and more than doubled the number of new cars sold each year during that period. For example, in

2019 United States car buyers purchased 40.8 million preowned vehicles and right around 17 million new vehicles.

There are many reasons why more car buyers are increasingly looking to the preowned vehicle market when replacing their existing vehicles. Certified preowned vehicles have increased consumer confidence in used cars and trucks and extended warranties have helped ease

concerns buyers may have about such vehicles.

As reliable as preowned vehicles can be, prospective buyers must remain diligent when considering a used car and truck. Potential mechanical issues can be discussed with a mechanic of buyers’ choosing, but it’s up to drivers to gauge other factors that can affect how enjoyable it may or may not be to drive a given vehicle. Test drives remain a great way to get a feel for preowned vehicles and prospective buyers can consider various factors to determine if a given car or truck is for them.

Comfort Comfort is a big consideration when purchasing new vehicles, and there’s no

reason to downplay the importance of comfort when shopping for preowned vehicles. Consider the available headroom and legroom when test driving a vehicle, but also take note of comfort-based accessories that the vehicle may or may not have. For example, if you’ve grown accustomed to heated seats on your existing vehicle, then a preowned vehicle without such seats, or one without functioning heated seats, will likely bother you in the years to come.

Visibility Sight lines vary from vehicle to vehicle, so make sure your test drive is long enough to give you an accurate idea of a vehicle’s visibility. Blind spots may not

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differ much in new versus older models or even in vehicles made by the same manufacturer, but they can differ considerably between manufacturers (i.e., Toyota versus Nissan). Get a feel for blind spots during the test drive to determine if the you’ll be comfortable driving a given vehicle.

Connectivity Modern vehicles are designed to connect with our devices, and drivers have quickly grown to prior-

itize connectivity. Compatibility with devices can make it easier to use GPS and stream music while driving, so don’t hesitate to connect your phone when test driving a vehicle. If the car and phone are incompatible, that can affect how much you enjoy driving the car.

Preowned vehicles are incredibly popular. Buyers considering used cars or trucks can look for certain things during a test drive to determine if a given vehicle is the right fit for them.

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