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New charges filed against sex-assault suspect

By Lauren Keene Robert Van Ostrand gives a speech Saturday as local parents kept up the pressure in their effort to get Davis schools to reopen full-time.

Enterprise staff writer

Many of the protesting parents now say they’re dissatisfied with the proposed reopening date and the specifics of the hybrid model, primarily the four in-person hours elementary school students will have on school campuses each week.

An effort to recall four out of five members of the school board — everyone except Trustee Betsy Hyder — has even started.

The suspect in a South Davis rape attempt is back in jail custody, accused of committing two more sex offenses in Sacramento and Sonoma counties.

Prosecutors say Jose Trinidad Perez-Meza committed an indecentexposure offense in the Sacramento area back in December, while he was free on bail for the August 2020 Davis attack.

Prior to that, he allegedly assaulted a woman in Santa Rosa in June 2018.

Charges in that case were filed just last month, the result of evidence uncovered during the Davis crime investigation, according to documents filed in Yolo Superior Court.

Both the Yolo and Sonoma cases are being prosecuted locally, after Sonoma County prosecutors ceded jurisdiction to the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office.

The new case charges Perez-Meza, 36, with assault with intent to commit rape, unlawful sexual penetration and sexual battery in connection with the June 17, 2018, attack at a Santa Rosa apartment complex.

According to court documents, the alleged victim was tackled from

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Parent group keeps up pressure Hybrid proposal not enough for those pushing for full return to school

By Edward Booth

Parents and children hold up colorful signs to passing traffic which read “Open Davis Schools,” “School is Essential,” “Support the Kids,” I’m Being Socially Starved!,” and other similar messages. Passing cars and trucks can be heard honking in support; the Davis Farmers Market bustles in the background.

Enterprise staff writer About 20 people showed up Saturday at the intersection of Fifth and B streets, across from the Davis Joint School District central office, to call on the district to reopen for in-person learning.

The scene is familiar to anyone who’s walked by Central Park on recent Saturdays.

Saturday marked 365 days

since the Davis Joint Unified School District closed school campuses in response to COVID-19. Shortly after, the district moved to implement distance learning, which students have been instructed under for roughly a year now.

Several of the protesting parents — many part of a group called the DJUSD Parent Coalition — said their call for reopening comes from negative experiences with distance learning. Pure distance learning will soon halt, as the district plans to reopen school campuses for

in-person learning under a hybrid model April 12.

City seeks increase in stormwater fees

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer City officials are reaching out to property owners ahead of a planned Proposition 218 vote to increase stormwater fees for the average household from about $6 to $13 per month.

The City Council voted in December to initiate the process, which led to notices being mailed to all property owners within the city this week.

The notices will include details for upcoming community meetings about the

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stormwater initiative as well as the process the city must follow for adopting a higher fee.

Property owners will have the opportunity to vote against the fee hike either by mail or in person at a City Council meeting in May. If more than half of property owners submit written protests against the fee hike, the city cannot go forward with it.

The current storm sewer and drainage fees were put in place decades ago, according to the city, and rates have remained

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By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer

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The Richards Tunnel Pump Station was built in 1924 and is among the city pump stations overdue for replacement, according to the city. unchanged since 2005.

“As such, the current rates do not provide sufficient revenue for necessary capital improvements and

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Meeting set on road connection The city plans a community meeting about the Pole Line/Olive Drive Connection project at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 18.

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OW YA GONNA KEEP ’EM DOWN ON THE FARM? ... The folks at the University Farm have come up with a great idea to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 during spring break.

The answer is simple: cold, hard cash. Well, not cash exactly, but a reasonable facsimile in the form of gift cards to downtown businesses.

I know the deadline to apply has passed, but students were eligible for 75 bucks apiece if they agreed to stay in town over spring break instead of joining Ted Cruz in Cancun or Gavin Newsom in Yountville.

UC Davis already offers gift cards in smaller amounts for anyone getting a free COVID test, which has led the four teenagers who share our living space to become spit-test regulars at the Mondavi.

This is a campus/community project that is the envy of the

Heck, for $75 a day, I’ll put on a mask, build a fire in the fireplace, order a double pepperoni pizza, social distance from the dog and stay home permanently. Just keep those gift cards coming.

M nation, having been written up in such esteemed publications as The New York Times and The Davis Enterprise.

We, indeed, have become the spit-test capital of the world, with some folks mastering the art on their first try and others having to constantly wipe their chins.

I’m hoping in the spirit of towngown cooperation, the good folks on campus will extend the deadline and expand the $75 offer to all Davis citizens, which will bring $450 into our humble household.

And trust me, that’s not chump change on my side of the tracks.

ARCH MADNESS ... I don’t know about you, but I think it’s special that the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments are bringing all competitors together in the same city — San Antonio for the women and Indianapolis for the men.

In non-COVID years, games are spread out at regional sites all across the country, with only four lucky teams making it to the city hosting the Final Four. Everyone else has been sent home before they reach the Promised Land.

Included in the excitement in San Antonio are the UC Davis women, whose coach, Jennifer Gross, is putting together a Big West Conference championship streak that would make John

Wooden jealous.

It will be interesting to see the Aggie women match game plans with the best of the best. Don’t ever count them out.

STIMULATE THIS ... I wonder how the voting in Congress would be different if every time the feds pass a stimulus bill the benefits go only to those states whose Congressional delegation voted for the legislation.

We heard many House and Senate members claim that Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus plan would bankrupt the country. If they truly believe that, they shouldn’t be concerned if stimulus dollars don’t flow to the residents of their states. That would save the government billions of dollars, which should make those who opposed the stimulus happy.

I’m sure their constituents will understand.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

School board to talk hybrid model and budget

By Edward Booth Enterprise staff writer The Davis school board on Thursday will hear an update on the district’s ongoing process of returning students to campus and a presentation on the district’s second interim financial report.

The board will also hear from Jessie Salnas, the Yolo County assessor, clerkrecorder and registrar of voters, who will give a presentation on the Youth Empowerment Summit — an event focused on instilling civic engagement and social responsibility in youths that will take place on April 24 from 9 a.m. to noon.

This board meeting will be the first to feature a new voicemail-based public commenting system. Previously, emailed comments were read aloud in succession by district staff members during the meeting.

The new system will involve community members recording public comments by calling a district phone number.

The recorded comments will then be played at the appropriate time in the meeting.

Commenting opens up at

noon on the day of the meeting, March 18. The number to call to make a public comment is 530757-5344.

Hybrid learning rolls forward The district is planning to open schools for in-person instruction using a hybrid model on April 12, if COVID-19 conditions remain stable. The hybrid model is a middle ground between in-person learning and distance learning; parents may also choose for their child to remain in pure distance learning.

Students in a hybrid cohort will attend school, in-person, for two successive days each week.

The agenda documents lay out a timeline for the return of students to campus over the next month. A digital return to campus family guide was sent out last week alongside a survey to determine whether parents intend to send their children to school campuses or continue on with only distance learning. Out of 4,491 responses, 73% of families said they’d be transitioning to in-person instruction, while 27% said

they’d remain in distance learning, according to the agenda documents.

The responses need to be verified by the district over the coming days. Meanwhile, the campuses and classrooms are being readied by the district to comply with safety precautions.

Four professional development days will be held for school staff before students return to in-person learning. Welcome-back activities are scheduled from April 5 through 9 for all school campuses.

The back-to-school activities include virtual classroom tours, in-person school tours for new students and meet-and-greet events with teachers. Additionally, the Da Vinci Charter Academy Dino Pack and the Davis Senior High School Link Crew will be holding activities for 10thgraders. Both groups focus on welcoming new students to their respective schools.

Then, if everything goes well, the hybrid learning model will kick off on April 12 and most likely run to the end of the school year.

The district is planning to fully reopen schools in the fall; that action will also

depend on COVID-19 conditions.

Budget report The second interim budget report covers the financial activity of the district from July 1 last year through January 2021, a period enmeshed in the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to the agenda, the district is able to meet its financial obligations for the remainder of this fiscal year and the next two fiscal years. That means it currently has a “positive” budget certification, though that certification is dependent on school funding put forward in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s January budget proposal. A clearer picture of district finances will emerge when the final state budget is approved in June.

The agenda notes that the district is experiencing declining enrollment and future deficit spending, which means budget cuts are eventually going to be needed to maintain the district’s state-mandated minimum 3% reserve.

Unrestricted fund projections estimate that the district will have a surplus of about $6,000 this fiscal

year and about $860,000 next year. The district is projected to fall into a roughly $3.9 million deficit in the 2022-23 fiscal year.

The district has spent about $4.7 million on COVID-19 mitigation measures, according to the agenda documents, out of about $4.9 million currently awarded. The funds were spent on addressing learning loss; providing internet connectivity devices; professional development for distance learning; providing personal protective equipment and supplies to clean school facilities; and health, counseling and mental health services, among others.

Extra funding for combating COVID-19 includes about $2.4 million in Federal funds from the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund and an estimated $7 million coming from a $6.6 billion state budget package to encourage schools to reopen that was signed into law by Newsom early this month.

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Rock-throwing leads to assault arrest City’s summer recreation

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer Davis police arrested a rock-throwing suspect on assault and other charges Monday following a downtown altercation.

Lt. Art Camacho reported that officers were summoned shortly before 9:30 a.m. to the area of

Fifth and G streets, where a motorists reported being “approached by a person on foot who threw a large rock at his vehicle for no apparent reason,” breaking the windshield.

The suspect fled and the victim gave chase, dodging additional rocks the suspect allegedly threw at him,

Camacho said. Responding officers located the suspect and took him into custody.

Joni Daniel Jimenez Martinez, 39, of Dixon, was booked into the Yolo County Jail on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and throwing a substance at a vehicle, Camacho said.

Woman charged with storage-unit burglary

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer A burglary victim helped police solve her own case, thanks to a chance encounter last week.

The victim was at a South Davis coffee shop on Friday when she spotted a

vehicle parked at a nearby motel, noticing it matched the description of one seen near her storage unit that was burglarized the day before, Lt. Art Camacho reported Monday.

Officers responded to the scene, located the vehicle’s

owner and searched the car, which allegedly contained more than $3,000 in property taken from the storage unit, Camacho said. Tiffany Kellerman, 45, of Davis, was jailed on charges of burglary and receiving stolen property.

guide available now

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer Day camps, cooking camps, sports camps and more will be available to Davis kids this summer.

The city’s summer recreation guide is available online and the first round of registration will begin April 13.

After seeing most summer rec programs canceled last year with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the city is returning this summer with more programs open to more participants.

Registration will be held on two separate dates: April 13, beginning at 8 a.m., for programs running from June 14 to July 18; and May 18 at 8 a.m. for programs running July 19 to Aug. 31.

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RETURN: Teachers want to be vaccinated From Page A1 Others, including members of a group called Safe Classrooms, Safe Community Davis say they’re satisfied with the district’s plan. They argue that the plan and the year of distance learning are reasonable given the unwieldy year of COVID-19.

Dissatisfied Robert Van Ostrand, a UC Davis chemistry doctorate student, teaching assistant and district parent, said he shifted his two daughters to homeschooling last year after they underwent a week and a half of distance learning filled with connectivity issues and tears.

His frustration with the situation grew throughout 2020, and so he started protesting in January by Trader Joe’s for the district to reopen school campuses.

He was accompanied only by his daughters at first, but others gradually joined.

“We got so much positive feedback from people we decided to turn it into something bigger,” Van Ostrand said.

And so we started coming here during the Farmer’s Market because we have so much traffic and there’s so many people here to spread the word to.”

Entering homeschool alleviated the tech issues, Van Ostrand said, but teaching his kids while trying to carry out his professional duties has put a lot of pressure on him. The Davis School for Independent Study homeschooling program has been great for what it is, he said, but it still requires his absolute attention and presence. His kids have also lost a lot of enthusiasm for learning, even with him trying his hardest.

“As an employee at work, I feel bad, and then I feel bad as a teacher because I can’t do what the teachers at Davis did,” Van Ostrand said. “We just feel like we’ve been grinding for so long and the results are terrible.”

Van Ostrand added that the parent group is excited about the return to school, but disappointed with how the model will actually operate. Specifically, he said, there’s dissatisfaction with how elementary school students will only be at their school sites for in-person instruction four hours each week, from 1 to 3 p.m on two days.

“Two hours two times a week would actually make it a little bit more difficult for some parents who can’t just leave work multiple times a day,” Van Ostrand said.

Xin Fang, a district parent, said she thinks distance learning has disproportionately affected

low-income families who don’t have the resources to either supplement it or find an alternative. She added she knows parents who, because of their jobs, can’t be at home with their children while they’re in distance learning, and so the older children end up effectively parenting their younger siblings.

Tisha Yeh, a pediatrician at the UC Davis Children’s hospital and parent of two district children, said she was one among 130 local healthcare providers to sign a letter in support of the district returning to in-person learning late last month.

The letter itself — from the group of healthcare professionals, who call themselves Yolo County Doctors and Healthcare Professionals in Support of Safe School Reopening — notes widening equity issues and an increase in anxiety and depression, among other mental health problems, as a result of school campus closures.

On Saturday, Van Ostrand gave a speech to the crowd of protesting parents. He said the hybrid model will be difficult to handle for most parents and students, that the board has artificially delayed a return to in-person schooling and that Davis schools could have already opened. He criticized a decision by the board to limit the reading of public comments sent by email at its March 4 meeting to 20 minutes. He said Davis’ parents needed a seat at the table and that distance learning is a disaster, even if it isn’t the fault of the teachers.

He said, “The science has been absolutely clear that we can and should return to school safely now.”

Prioritizing safety Anoosh Jorjorian, a parent of two district students, said in a phone interview that some of the initial demands the parent coalition made seemed reasonable, such as wanting the district to create a plan exploring what reopening would look like. But, she said, the resulting reopening plan created by the district in collaboration with teachers and community members plots a safe, sensible middle path between opening all classrooms and safeguarding public health.

Jorjorian started up the Facebook page called Safe Classrooms, Safe Community Davis that’s supportive of the district’s plan. Some members of the parent coalition say they’re thankful for what teachers have done and their concerns are more with district leadership. But Jorjorian said that doesn’t change that their effort to reopen schools

and send teachers back into classrooms was felt as an attack.

The teachers, she said, were trying their best to teach in a new medium and weren’t exempt from the stressors of COVID-19.

“I can tell you for a fact that teachers were very dispirited; they felt like no one in Davis was supporting them,” Jorjorian said.

“You want to talk about mental health, teacher’s mental health was really suffering at that time.”

She said regardless of whether Sisson or public health agencies said teachers could return for in-person instruction without being vaccinated first, the teachers made it clear that they wanted to be fully vaccinated before returning to classrooms.

“Our position has always been that teachers’ personal concerns for their health, their safety and their family’s health and safety is absolutely valid and needs to be taken into consideration as we try to find a solution that works for everyone in the district, not just a select few,” Jorjorian said.

Jojorian also said nothing the district does seems to satisfy the parent coalition.

“The fact that they are constantly dissatisfied with whatever the school district does and continues to escalate their opposition, despite some concessions to what they want, is indicative of maybe an overall pandemic frustration that they’re taking out on the school district and especially on teachers,” Jorjorian said.

Teachers’ view Davis Teachers Association president Dianna Stommel said the union has prioritized safety in its negotiations with the district — safety of schools, students, teachers and staff.

The DTA ran an internal survey when vaccinations were starting to become more available, and a very significant majority of teachers wanted to be vaccinated before coming back to school. Many teachers fell into high COVID-19 risk categories because of their age, and many lived with others in high risk categories, Stommel said.

Stommel added that she thinks the key thing to remember is that it’s been a very difficult year for everyone, and that the district didn’t receive much leadership coming from the state or federal government for much of the pandemic.

“People have made significant sacrifices because of the pandemic,” Stommel said. “But I think the kind of key thing to remember is that we weren’t really given much direction from

the state or from the federal government and metrics changed, how the tier system worked changed at some point. It’s just dealing with evolving information.”

Until recently, the district has been restricted from reopening schools by the purple tier of the state’s color coded blueprint for a safe economy. The district could’ve potentially requested a waiver to reopen in the purple tier, Stommel said, but it’s more difficult for public schools to meet the requirements of the waiver than it is for private schools because public schools had to demonstrate that they had community buy-in to the reopening — which would include union support.

Distance learning has been disruptive to teaching, Stommel said, because teachers have had to adapt to an entirely new system. But It’s also disruptive to teaching when COVID-19 cases emerge in in-person learning and send cohorts into quarantine and back into distance learning.

Even moving to hybrid learning is going to be disruptive, but the DTA understands that the community priority is to get students back in the classroom so they can socialize and begin to gain a sense of normalcy.

Public engagement Van Ostrand said he’s critical of the Davis school board members because he and the members of the parent coalition feel like they haven’t been properly heard. Part of this, he said, is the public commenting system which involves a member of the district staff reading off emailed comments in succession.

A new voicemail-based commenting system will debut at the board meeting on March 18.

Davis school board president Joe DiNunzio said there were ways to manage in-person public comments before the pandemic that don’t exist in the current public commenting system. If three were too many speakers, the board could, for instance, ask each speaker to limit their comment to a minute or for members of the public to raise their hands if they agreed with a public comment rather than speak themselves.

DiNunzio said that, on the positive side, shifting to emailed comments has allowed a greater number of people to participate than they previously could, as commenters were limited previously by having to be physically present at the board meetings.

The board reads all the comments, and DiNunzio tries to respond to each of them as well.

FEES: City says it needs funds to fix system From Page A1 release issued Monday. “In addition, the costs to maintain the city’s aging stormwater infrastructure and to preserve clean water has surpassed the current rate revenues.”

The revenue currently generated is not sufficient to pay for the operations, maintenance and new regulatory requirements “that are very costly and were not anticipated to the extent of their costs at the time the previous fee was adopted, to proactively service the system and ensure that stormwater flowing to the creeks is clean,” according to the city.

Notably, “the Richards Tunnel Pump Station No. 6 was built in 1924 when the city was much smaller, and the amount of water runoff pumped by this station was much less.”

Likewise, the South Davis Pump Station No. 5 “is also very old and is subject to major flooding within the station.

“Both of these pump stations are overdue for replacement with new, more energy efficient and higher capacity equipment, but there are no funds available from the current fees to pay for these and other high priority capital improvement needs,” the city said.

Under the plan, the two fees paid monthly by city property owners — a storm drainage fee and a storm sewer fee — would be combined into a single stormwater fee based on the amount of impervious surface on each property.

For a single-family home on an average-size lot, the proposed fee would be about $13 per month and would replace both the storm sewer and storm drainage fees which currently combine for about $6 per month. The fees would range from about $10 per month for the smallest lots to more than $19 for the largest in town and the total city utility bill for the average home would increase by 5 percent.

Residents can learn more about the stormwater fee initiative, as well as about the system itself, at stormwater.cityofdavis.org More information will also be available at virtual community meetings planned for Wednesday, March 24, at noon; Tuesday, March 30, at 6 p.m.; Thursday, April 8, at 6 p.m.; and Saturday, April 24, at 1 p.m.

Participants at each meeting will watch an informational video to learn about the city’s stormwater system and the initiative. After the video, Public Works Utilities and Operations staff will host a live question-and-answer session. Each presentation will include the same information.

Obituaries Miriam Ethel Legakis July 7, 1946 — Feb. 12, 2021

Miriam “Mimi” Ethel Legakis passed away peacefully at age 74 on Feb. 12. She was a 50-year resident of Davis.

Mimi was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on July 7, 1946, and moved with her family to Alhambra in 1950.

She was a loving sister to two older siblings, Marilyn and Martin, and two younger siblings, Carol and Mark. Her parents, Pastor Gustav and Ethel Schramm, raised her in the Lutheran church.

She continued her strong faith throughout her life, singing in choirs and serving in the Lutheran Women’s Missionary League. It was her steadfast faith that gave her the ability to overcome many obstacles throughout her life.

Mimi pursued her passion for teaching when she was accepted into Concordia Teachers College in Seward, Neb. Taking a break from college, she married and became a banker for San Diego Federal Savings. She worked in San Diego and then as the Greenhaven branch manager in Sacramento.

She and her husband adopted siblings, Cara and Page, ages 1 and 3, through the Children’s Home Society. Mimi dedicated many years of volunteering and fundraising for the Children’s Home Society. She became lifelong friends with many of her fellow volunteers.

After resuming her undergraduate studies at UC Davis, Mimi completed a bachelor’s degree in English in 1983 and taught eighth-grade English in Winters. In 1985 she married John Legakis and gained two stepsons, Justin and Nathan. Soon after, her daughter Allison was born. Her family later expanded to include six grandchildren that she deeply loved and treasured.

Always cheerful and smiling, Mimi will be remembered for her strength and courage. After a stroke at age 43 that paralyzed her right side, she persevered and resumed a full and joyful life. Unwilling to succumb to her physical challenges, she continued to care and cook for her family and drove her children to countless activities. She walked her neighborhood greenbelt daily and would bring warmth and a smile to many friends along the way.

After raising her children, she traveled extensively to Germany, England, Greece and Spain. She was a bright light, continually selfless, and an inspiration to her family and others. We will all miss her boundless love.

Mimi is survived by her husband John Legakis of Davis, stepson Justin Legakis and his wife Jessie of Los Altos, stepson Nathan Legakis and his wife Lesley of Windsor, daughter Allison Massopust and her husband Bo of San Francisco, Cara Snow and her husband Jim of Las Vegas, and Page Ponsford. In addition, are her brother Marty, sisters Marilyn and Carol, and her grandchildren Abraham, Jaina, Bode, Thomas, Wyatt and Mackenzie.

Mimi was preceded in death by her parents Gustav and Ethel Schramm and brother Mark Schramm.

Thank you to all friends and family for reaching out and for your support. A celebration of life is planned for later this year. We will be dedicating a memorial bench for Mimi on the city of Davis North Davis Greenbelt. In lieu of flowers, if you would like to donate to this memorial, please contact Allison Massopust at amlegakis@gmail.com.

Karl Wayne Current, Ph.D. Feb. 7, 1949 — Feb. 8, 2021

Karl Wayne Current, Ph.D., peacefully passed away the day after his 72nd birthday, on Feb. 8, at Sutter Davis Hospital, in the arms of his wife and daughter, following years of pain.

He was the loving husband for over 50 years to Linda Fiut Current.

He leaves behind his devoted daughter Emily Current, son-in-law David Brotherton, and two young granddaughters, Wallis and Lyle, who adored their very special Pa. Wayne was born in Memphis, Tenn., on Feb. 7, 1949, to Andrew and Ruby Current, the eldest of three sons. He played football at Titusville High and worked summer jobs at Cape Canaveral before putting himself through the University of Florida, Gainesville; earning his bachelor’s and master’s degrees and Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science.

He worked briefly at TRW in Redondo

Beach before becoming a UC Davis professor in electrical engineering in 1976. He earned early tenure, and regularly consulted with Lawrence Livermore National Labs on the highest security national and international projects. He published many papers and books and spoke at professional conferences around the globe sharing his research.

Wayne was a lover of vintage cars, beginning with his first 1931 Model A Victoria he drove in high school to the present. His collection grew to six vintage cars, and his joy was to restore and drive them. He also loved science fiction, animals, his pets, and taking his family on road trips and to Hawaii.

Following his wishes, there won’t be a gathering, but his friends, colleagues and students are encouraged to write a story or memory of an experience with Wayne to later share with his grandchildren. Email them to currentL@csus.edu.

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Alarms sound H for California drought

By Jeffrey Mount and Caitrin Chappelle Special to CalMatters

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e’re facing another very dry year, which follows one of the driest on record for Northern California and one of the hottest on record statewide.

The 2012-16 drought caused unprecedented stress to California’s ecosystems and pushed many native species to the brink of extinction, disrupting water management throughout the state.

Are we ready to manage our freshwater ecosystems through another drought?

After the last drought, the Public Policy Institute of California reviewed environmental management during the crisis. Despite notable efforts to avoid harm, we found that managers were unprepared for the impacts of an extended drought, which led to ad hoc decision-making and actions that were difficult, controversial and in some cases too late.

Some examples include: n The failure to properly manage cold water reserves in Shasta Reservoir, leading to the near-complete loss of endangered winterrun Chinook salmon eggs and juveniles in two consecutive years. n Controversial, last-minute mandatory reductions in water use on tributaries to the Russian River, intended to save endangered coho salmon and steelhead trapped in drying streams. n Emergency releases of water from Trinity Reservoir to save migrating salmon in the lower Klamath River. n Contentious negotiations with landowners on tributaries to the Sacramento River to preserve flows for spring-run Chinook salmon.

Two key lessons emerged from that drought: better preparation can mitigate drought impacts to the environment; and cooperation and communication leads to better outcomes.

Many state and federal agencies need to respond to environmental drought, but two state agencies must lead the way. The Department of Fish and Wildlife is responsible for planning and implementing actions to protect native freshwater species. The State Water Board has authority over water rights permits and sets flow and water quality standards.

istorical revisionists are hard at work today, not just in California but all over America. In some places, this practice has merit, but it’s expensive and often seems unjustified.

In Virginia the other day, a local school board lifted the names of past Presidents Woodrow Wilson and John Tyler from elementary schools. Wilson, the first Southerner to become president after the Civil War, was not dishonored for leading America into World War I or for doggedly promoting the former League of Nations, for which the Senate rejected U.S. membership.

Rather, the onetime head of Princeton University, wrote a textbook praising both the slavery-centered Confederacy and the Ku Klux Klan. The school formerly bearing his name will now be called Manor High School. At about the same time, Princeton removed Wilson’s name from two of its institutes.

Tyler, the 10th president, also later sided with the Confederacy and briefly served in its House of Representatives.

His namesake school is now called Waterview Elementary.

Those renamings, done so that Black children would not have to attend schools called after men who worked to keep their forebears enslaved, look justifiable in the modern era. Slavery,

odious through all time, is not open to much debate.

But the revisionism in California can sometimes become ludicrous. For every justifiable effort to remove the recently sainted Junipero Serra’s name from streets and schools because the chain of missions he founded in the late 1700s survived through Native American forced labor, there are multiple others without much merit.

Even Abraham Lincoln and current U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein have been targeted.

Lincoln, often credited with freeing the slaves via his Emancipation Proclamation (which officially freed only slaves in Confederate states), is now targeted by some Native Americans and their allies. These efforts are nowhere stronger than in San Francisco, where 42 schools see their current monikers challenged for the alleged sins of their namesakes.

Was Abe Lincoln a bad guy, despite struggling to hold the Union together and letting most slaves go free? Well, note some, he enabled the

U.S. Army to carry on the Indian Wars. That, of course, ignores the fact that Lincoln would have been ridden out of Washington, D.C. on the proverbial rail if he had not provided men and resources to protect white settlers during America’s expansionist era.

If he had not done this, of course, the shape of the modern world would be quite different from today, in ways no one can know.

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o, should his name disappear from all those Lincoln High Schools and middle schools? It’s an open question. The same for George Washington, long recognized as “the father of his country,” but also a slave owner. Washington, admired for refusing to become king of America when he could have after his two terms as the first president, instead retired to his Mt. Vernon plantation where he was served by scores of slaves.

Should his name become anathema because he was born into wealth in an English colony? Just how much rebellion against his day’s norms can we expect from him? It’s another open question.

Feinstein has been condemned by the San Francisco school system for her alleged role in evicting 150 elderly Chinese and Filipino residents of a hotel that was

demolished in 1977 — a year before Feinstein became her city’s mayor. The school board also calls her out because a Confederate flag once flew at City Hall during a design exhibition — years before she was mayor. Trying to hold Feinstein responsible for these episodes looks like unfair historical revision.

Other activists around California want to remove the names of poet James Lowell and pioneering conservationist John Muir from schools and buildings because they were insufficiently supportive of Black equality in their turn-of-the-20th-Century era, when very few whites were active in that cause.

It’s all supposed to give schoolchildren proper heroes to admire and emulate. But because most humans live in their own times and don’t know the future, it’s hard to assess how politically correctly we can expect anyone to have behaved in prior eras.

Or maybe, suggested one wag, we should give our schools numbers, as in New York. Anyone for P.S. 19 instead of Lincoln High?

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

For more Elias columns, visit www.californiafocus.net.

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he governor’s Water Resilience Portfolio, finalized last June, calls for these two agencies to “develop strategies to protect communities and fish and wildlife in the event of drought lasting at least six years.”

Although these strategies have not been developed yet, the board reviewed the last drought and made recommendations for reform, and the Natural Resources Agency just released a comprehensive review of major state actions during the drought. If we are at the beginning of an extended drought, these agencies will again need to respond as it unfolds.

Perhaps the single most important thing both agencies can do is communicate — in advance — what their actions are likely to be during a drought emergency.

These agencies can’t do it on their own.

They need cooperation from other state and federal agencies as well as the water user community. And they need the resources to do the job. Without more funding and staffing these perennially resource-limited agencies will have a tough road ahead.

Ultimately, the state also needs a longrange plan for protecting freshwater ecosystems from droughts and a changing climate.

This is likely to require a change in philosophy and a shift toward a new approach — one that is more focused on ecosystem health than endangered species and adaptive to changing conditions.

If the coming spring and summer are like last year — or much of the past two decades — a drought emergency will be upon us shortly, leaving little time and resources to respond. Now is the time to act with urgency to get ahead of this problem.

— Jeffrey Mount is a senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California Water Policy Center, mount@ppic.org. Caitrin Chappelle is associate director of the PPIC Water Policy Center, chappelle@ppic.org.

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This bill is urgently needed to counter the most sweeping and concerted assault on voting rights since Jim Crow.

Its passage can only be achieved if the Democratic majority reforms or eliminates the filibuster.

I strongly support Senator Jeff Merkley’s “carve out” rule that allows exceptions to the filibuster for legislation as fundamental to the integrity of our democracy as For the People.

If we want a democracy that is inclusive rather than exclusionary, if we want to end gerrymandering and ensure fair and equal representation, the status quo cannot stand.

When forced to choose between protecting the filibuster and protecting voting rights, what will our elected representatives do?

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Back in the early days when Bob began writing for The Enterprise, we were hooked on the paper and soon looked forward to his columns, too. Depending on the column, we smiled, laughed out loud, ho-hummed a bit, or sometimes even sniffled as we read his words week after week.

With Eldridge’s death in October of 2018, I am the only one reading The Enterprise in my new apartment. Bella, my cat, is not much of a reader — although if I am reading the paper, she keeps me company by nibbling the edges.

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Where will we be when books become the enemy?

Some of Dr. Seuss books are now being seen as being racially insensitive, “The Muppet Show” needs a warning about content and Hasbro is rethinking if Mr. Potato Head needs to be neutral gender.

It’s no wonder Republicans can easily find ways to fuel their views that “extremist politically correct Socialist Democrats” are wrecking havoc on America. This is a cancel culture in their view.

I’m afraid I agree that the latest moves to make such radical changes without discussion is uncomfortable for me.

I am a retired educator and one policy in my classroom was always to allow discussion of different views without giving weight to one over the other. Teaching moments, in the classroom, in our homes and in the media would serve a much greater purpose than making generalizations that my opinion is right and yours is wrong.

Take a moment to look carefully at where these changes will lead in our society, once a few are allowed to pressure changes because they only see one view is not healthy for any of us.

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CHARGES: Linked to more crimes ORANGE: State will change parameters From Page A1 behind and assaulted by a man while walking through the complex on crutches.

Security cameras captured the suspect passing through area several times in the half-hour before the attack, stopping at one point to stare at the woman’s apartment.

The perpetrator fled when several witnesses heard the woman’s cries for help and intervened.

Despite the camera footage, Santa Rosa police investigators were unable to identify a suspect until February 2020, when they obtained a geofence search warrant — a relatively new investigative technique through which they collected data from mobile devices used around the time and location of the assault.

The warrant yielded information from four people — two women, a man who did not match the suspect’s description, and Perez-Meza, who did, the court document says.

But it wasn’t until months later that Davis police, while investigating the South Davis assault, photographed a distinctlooking jacket in PerezMeza’s Sacramento residence also worn by the suspect in the Santa Rosa attack, prosecutors say.

PEREZ-MEZA Suspect Perez-Meza, who regularly visits family in the Santa Rosa area, acknowledged being in the camera footage but denied involvement in the assault, and the victim was unable to identify her attacker in a photo lineup.

He already was a registered sex offender, however — the result of 2017 and 2018 sexual batteries in Sacramento and Sonoma counties — when he allegedly attacked a local woman along the Putah Creek bike path on the night of Aug. 2, 2020.

“The defendant strangled her in a headlock and the victim then awoke on the ground. The defendant told her not to scream and that he had a gun. The defendant demanded the victim’s cell phone which he took so she could not call police,” prosecutor David Robbins wrote in a bail motion in that case, The Enterprise previously reported.

It goes on to describe the rape attempt, which the woman convinced her assailant to halt. "The defendant then insisted that he walk her home,” tightly gripping her hand as they headed to her apartment.

“The defendant tried to convince the victim to sit outside alone with him on a chair in the apartment complex, but the victim told the defendant to come inside of her apartment,” where the victim apparently intended to ask her roommate in another language to call the police, the motion says.

“The defendant was given a cup of tea which he left a fingerprint on. The defendant lied about his name to the victim and lied about what he was doing in Davis,” it continues.

When Davis police arrested Perez-Meza several weeks later, he denied being in Davis and committing an assault that night, despite the left-behind fingerprint and the discovery of the victim’s phone number in his own phone, according to the document.

Now jailed on a $1 million bail hold, Perez-Meza is due back in court Monday for appointment of a new attorney after his privately retained lawyer withdrew from the case last week.

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week’s will be based on the week ending March 13.

If Yolo County does move to the orange tier on March 24, the following changes would occur: n Places of worship could expand indoor capacity from 25 percent to 50 percent n Movie theater capacity would expand from 25 percent or 100 people (whichever is fewer) to 50 percent or 200 people (whichever is fewer) n Gyms and fitness centers could expand indoor capacity from 10 percent to 25 percent n Restaurants could expand indoor capacity from 25 percent or 100 people (whichever is fewer) to 50 percent or 200 people (whichever is fewer) n Wineries, breweries and distilleries could open indoors at 25 percent capacity or 100 people (whichever is fewer) n Bars could open outdoor service n Family entertainment centers such as bowling

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alleys could open indoors at 25 percent capacity n Museums, zoos and aquariums could expand capacity indoors from 25 percent to 50 percent n Outdoor live events, including sports, could allow spectators at 20 percent capacity, with reservations required and assigned seating only.

Effective April 1, maximum capacity in the orange tier increases to 33 percent.

Meeting the metrics for the orange tier — which Yolo County has never done before — requires an adjusted case rate below 4 per 100,000 residents; a countywide test positivity rate below 5 percent and a health equity quartile rate of 5.3 percent or less.

However, once the state has administered 4 million vaccine doses in California’s lowest socioeconomic zip codes, the blueprint will change again. At that point, an adjusted case rate below 6 will meet the metric for the orange tier.

Dr. Aimee Sisson, the county’s health officer,

said last week she believes Yolo County will have moved to the orange tier before that change occurs.

Once Yolo County moves to the orange tier, it will have to remain there for a minimum of three weeks and meet the metrics of the yellow tier before progressing further.

Tuesday’s tier update saw numerous counties, including Sacramento, make the move from the most-restrictive purple tier to the red tier.

That movement was made possible by the state increasing the adjusted case rate for the red tier from a maximum of 7 per 100,000 residents to 10, after 2 million vaccine doses were delivered in disadvantaged communities. Sacramento County's adjusted case rate of 8 would not otherwise have allowed it to progress to red.

As of Tuesday, the only counties in the region that remain in the purple tier are Glenn, Yuba, Nevada and San Joaquin.

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

Business is located in Yolo County.

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

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

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

“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): Alissa Burnett CFO, The Mercer Veterinary Clinic for the Homeless 2/24, 3/3, 3/10, 3/17 1170

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: January 19, 2021 FBN Number: F20210055 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) Cache Creek Nursery 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California.

Business is located in Yolo County.

6555 County Road 47 Guinda, CA 95637 Mailing address: P.O. Box 213 Guinda, CA 95637 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Hanah Doyal Webber 6549 County Road 47 Guinda, CA 95637 4. Business Classification: Individual 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME name or names listed above on: N/A STATEMENT “I declare that all information in Filed: February 23, 2021 this statement is true and correct.”

FBN Number: F20210176 (A registrant who declares as true 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) information which he or she knows to be Davis Pet Advocacy & Wellness: false is guilty of a crime.)

A Clinic for Pets of the Homeless 6. Signature of Registrant(s): 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Hanah Webber Principal Place of Business in California. 2/24, 3/3, 3/10, 3/17 1171 Business is located in Yolo County.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME 1320 Tupper Hall STATEMENT Davis, CA 95616 Filed: February 1, 2021 Mailing address: FBN Number: F20210093 P.O. Box 297 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) Davis, CA 95616 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), 7KEYS BUSINESS ADVISORS 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Residence Address, State, and Zip Principal Place of Business in California.

The Mercer Veterinary Clinic Business is located in Yolo County. for the Homeless 1520 E. Covell Blvd., STE. B5-446 3327 Vet Med 3A Davis, CA 95616 UC Davis, CA 95616 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), 4. Business Classification: Residence Address, State, and Zip Corporation 5. Beginning Date of Business: The 7 CONSCIOUS CONNECTIONS LLC Registrant(s) commenced to transact 1520 E. Covell Blvd., STE. B5-446 business under the fictitious business Davis, CA 95616 name or names listed above on: 4. Business Classification: Limited Liability Company November 15, 2020

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5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: October 8, 2020 “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): Crystal Rankins Manager, 7 CONSCIOUS CONNECTIONS LLC 3/3, 3/10, 3/17, 3/24 1182 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME Filed: February 18, 2021 FBN Number: F20210150 Old FBN: 2016-246 The person(s) or entity listed below are abandoning the use of the following fictitious business name(s): Name of Business(es): Martini Custom Clean The fictitious business name was filed in Yolo County on March 23, 2016 and is being ABANDONED by the registrant(s) listed below: Jaime Martinez Martini Alma Serrano Serratos 1393 Colette Way Woodland, CA 95776 Corporation or LLC name & address and county of the principal place of business: N/A 1393 Colette Way Woodland, CA 95776 Yolo County The business was conducted by: A Married Couple I declare that all information is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

Registrant Signature: Jaime Martinez Martini 3/3, 3/10, 3/17, 3/24 1184 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

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case Number: CV202-0342 1. Ann Cimella Ragsdale filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Ann Cimella Ragsdale to Cimella Ann Ragsdale 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: 4-27-21 Time: 9:00 AM Dept: #10 Room: Zoom Ct. 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: 3-2-21 Samuel T. McAdam Judge of the Superior Court 3/17, 3/24, 3/31, 4/7 1198 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: March 16, 2021 FBN Number: F20210238 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) JE CARE 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California.

Business is located in Yolo County.

3735 Topaz Road West Sacramento, CA 95691 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Nithit Umnartyutithum 3735 Topaz Road West Sacramento, CA 95691 4. Business Classification: Individual 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 03/16/2021 “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): Nithit Umnartyutithum 3/17, 3/24, 3/21, 4/7 1199

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To our beloved and resilient community: A year has passed since the pandemic changed the course of life as we knew it in Davis. It has been both a shared and very individual experience for everyone across our community. And as we eagerly look ahead to resuming regular activities, it is important that we acknowledge and give ourselves permission to mourn all that has been lost. The birthdays and holiday celebrations, life events from graduations to weddings and funerals. The hand we couldn’t hold and the hugs we couldn’t share. And, most importantly, the loss of friends, family, and community members to whom we did not get to give a proper goodbye.

We have been fortunate as a community. From the early days, we did what we do best and adopted a “we’re in it together” mantra that has held steady throughout the course of this pandemic. We have rallied around our local businesses, found ways to keep up with family and friends from a distance, and prioritized the collective health of our community. As a result, we have been able to keep our COVID-19 numbers low.

We feel a sense of relief – and hope – when loved ones are vaccinated.

And there is much to look forward to as we head into spring and more will have their turn. The supply of vaccines looks promising, and we are off to a strong start vaccinating our healthcare workers, seniors, first responders, and now educators and childcare workers. And we encourage you to get vaccinated when it’s available to you.

We have a vital ask: please keep doing what you’re doing to hold COVID-19 at bay. It’s important that we continue to wear face coverings, stay six feet apart from others, wash our hands, and yes, continue to get tested regularly for COVID-19 even after getting the vaccine. It will be hard to resist jumping back into life, especially as more of us are vaccinated, but we need to hang in there a little longer until we all can safely enjoy being together again.

As a reminder, you can learn when you are eligible for a vaccine at CovidTesting.YoloCounty.org. To make your appointment for free COVID-19 tests, visit www.HealthyDavisTogether.org/testing Thank you for doing your part to keep Davis healthy.

Mayor Gloria Partida

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UC Davis Chancellor Gary May

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County health workers direct residents through an appointmentbased vaccination clinic held on March 13.

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County receives first shipment of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine

By Renee Xiang HUB Staff

Yolo County received its first 500 doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine last week. Unlike Pfizer and Moderna, the newly FDA-approved vaccine requires only one dose for full vaccination, which could have several implications for the rollout process.

The single-dose nature of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine could prove to be a huge advantage for overcoming distribution inequity. The county is planning to make the most of its current stock, and is working to target groups who may have a harder time getting access to vaccination — specifically, the homeless population, agriculture workers and prison inmates.

“We’re definitely utilizing the Johnson & Johnson doses for those populations that are just a little bit harder to nail down for that second dose… We really want to be strategic about that,” said Yolo County public information officer Jenny Tan. On March 10, 311 out of the 500

Johnson & Johnson doses were given to farm workers. County health officials plan on giving the remaining 200 doses to individuals who have been incarcerated.

The introduction of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine also allows for a significant conservation of energy and resources. Supplies like needles and syringes, gloves, and even paperwork will only need to be used once for each resident receiving the vaccine, which will save providers time and money.

“It’s just a lot easier logistically to be able to schedule one appointment versus two appointments,” said Kristin Weivoda, Yolo County emergency medical services administrator. “I think we’re going to be able to reach a lot of population and get them protected from severe illness and disease a lot quicker and more efficiently.”

Though residents have been mostly indifferent to vaccine brand up until this point, that could change with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and its distinctive features. The bottom line being stressed by all public health officials is that any of the

three vaccines will protect against the virus.

The Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines are all believed to be 100 percent effective at preventing severe illness and death caused by COVID-19. However, the Johnson & Johnson vaccine may be less effective at preventing symptomatic illness from COVID-19.

“We let our residents know that (if ) you get a vaccine, it’s great... But we don’t want people to feel like one is better than the other. We want them to know that all three are great and that they are all three effective against COVID-19,” Tan said.

According to Tan, it may be a few weeks before the county receives its next shipment from Johnson & Johnson.

“I think the state received maybe 300,000 doses of Johnson & Johnson, so across a state of 40 million people, they really had to think about where those doses went. But we are grateful that we did at least get that one shipment of 500 so far,” Tan said. “Because it’s still hit or miss, we’re not sure what to expect in terms of planning for the future (and) how many

Johnson & Johnson doses we can really rely on.”

The company has pledged to deliver 20 million doses of the vaccine to providers across the U.S. by the end of the month.

Despite now having a third option, though, a shortage in vaccine supply still remains an issue in Yolo County.

“We would like to (vaccinate everyone) tomorrow, but we have to wait for our state and federal allocation to come in. As it comes in, our big focus is to be getting the communities that are harder to reach,” Weivoda said.

Tan emphasizes that the process of vaccinating everyone within the county will be gradual, but any resident who wants a vaccine will receive one.

“Every dose that we get, it gets into the arms of a person,” she said. “We’re going to be vaccinating people through the spring, through the summer. Their turn is definitely going to come. We’re not going to forget a population, we’re not going to forget an age group, but it’s going to take time.”

School administrators plan for end-of-year celebrations

In-person or online?

By Alexandra Zurborg

By Lyah Fitzpatrick

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As the class of 2021 is wrapping up its final semester at Davis High, details of highly anticipated celebrations like graduation are still uncertain.

“We understand this year has been very challenging for all students, but especially for our seniors who are not able to participate in many of the traditions that other graduating classes have

been able to enjoy,” said Troy Allen, director of secondary education and leadership.

On Feb. 28, DHS Principal Tom McHale informed seniors via email that more information will be forthcoming.

“We know this year has been really difficult for you, and we’re proud of the perseverance you’ve shown. As we get closer to spring, we want to be sure you know about the plans we’re making specifically for you, the Senior Class of 2021,” Mchale said.

Some of the events that are in the works include an in-person graduation, a cap and gown parade, a senior walkthrough to replace grad night and on-campus activities.

An in-person graduation is up in the air at the moment, but the administration has a fairly good idea of what the parade will look like.

“Last year’s car parade to our campus was a great success and we are grateful for our parents who are organizing an event where you are safe, celebrated, and can see your

community come together for you.

You will be invited to drive through where displays, stationary floats and your community will be out to celebrate your accomplishments,” McHale said in his message.

While planning these events, staff and parents must be flexible in case the county is in a more restrictive tier.

“Some of the events, like a Senior Parade, are planned with the most restrictive guidelines in mind so that we know we can follow through knowing that our planning could become more flexible,” Allen said.

In order to collaborate with each other, all of the secondary principals meet to discuss important updates about each event every two weeks.

“We’re still waiting to find out if it’s going to be some sort of in-person or virtual graduation,” said Tyler Millsap, principal of Da Vinci. “We really like the way our virtual graduation came out last year, so we feel even if it has to be virtual, we could put together a pretty nice individualized graduation.”

Da Vinci’s June 2020 graduation combined a live feed with prerecorded portions.

The administration and the schools have enlisted the help of parent volunteers to help organize and plan these celebrations.

“We have a senior parent group that has around five to six parents that meet every Sunday.

They had a really nice parade for seniors last year, so there’s a lot of parent power that goes into these events,” Millsap said.

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Before responding to a school-wide survey due March 14, Davis High students weighed their options as they chose between returning to on-campus schooling in a hybrid model or continuing virtual school.

Going on-campus “Interact(ing) with my class-

mates and teachers is really important and being without that has been one of the hardest parts of quarantine.”

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Going on-campus “I’ll be fully vaccinated by the

time school starts, and I’ll be able to focus better if I’m at school ... even if class is pretty much the same.”

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Ex-Devil back in playoffs Blackwell leads Bucknell v. USC

Despite loss, Aggies ascend national poll

Enterprise staff Bucknell is an eastern power in men’s water polo, and again this season the Bison are back in the postseason mix when they take on No. 2 USC in Los Angeles on Thursday.

Why is this first-round NCAA playoff match so important to Davis sports fans? One of the key ingredients in the success of Bucknell these past four years has been former Blue Devil Matt Blackwell.

A former all-league swimmer and water polo player at Davis High, the senior helped his Bison brethren go 4-1 in the COVID-clipped season. Bucknell took the Mid-Atlantic Water Polo Conference crown with an 11-3 victory over LaSalle. Along the way, Blackwell shared the team scoring lead (seven goals) with Josh Yardley.

The senior attacker has 27 goals and 20 assists in his career.

Matt, who played with the Davis Water Polo Club and in the USA Olympic Development Program, is the son of local educators Jolanda and David Blackwell. He has three sisters, Haley, Lauren and Emily. He swam and played water polo at Davis High for coach Tracy Stapleton.

During his ascension to Division I water polo, Blackwell earned a number of honors away from DHS. He was a twotime USA Water Polo Academic All-American and earned the USA Water Polo Nick Johnston Inspiration Award while in Olympic Development. He also competed at the USA Water Polo Olympics.

MATT BLACKWELL Ex-Devil at NCAAs

Football moving on up

By Bob Dunning Enterprise staff writer

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UC Davis post Sage Stobbart fields questions during Monday’s press conference after the Aggie women were selected as a 12 seed in the Alamo Region of the NCAA posstseason tournament.

Stobbart and her teammates play Missouri State next Monday.

Ready & rarin’ UCD women head to Texas for NCAA Tourney

By Bruce Gallaudet

at the multi-site “bubble” tournament in San Antonio, Texas, the Aggie women collectively held their breath, waiting for the CarAfter getting the good news on Monday dinal opponent to be announced. about a No. 12 seed in the Alamo Region of In Davis’ two other D-I trips to the next week’s NCAA women’s basketball tourNCAAs, they’ve driven to Palo Alto and nament in San Antonio, the Aggies were off fallen to Stanford. When Utah Valley was to Texas on Tuesday. unveiled as the Cardinal foe, broad smiles Getting rested, then ready, will be on the and a smattering of applause came from the UC Davis agenda as the locals will meet Mis- assembled Blue-and-Gold. souri Valley Conference champion Missouri “It’s not that we didn’t want to play them,” State in the first round on Monday, March Big West Player of the Year and tourney 22, at 4:30 p.m. PDT. MVP Cierra Hall told The Enterprise. “It The game will be conducted at the Bill was that we just wanted to play somebody Greehey Arena on the campus of St. Mary’s else. That’s why we were happy.”

University. It will be televised by ESPNU. In an unusual twist over the weekend, The Aggies (13-2) were winners of the Big Missouri State opted out of the MVC postWest regular-season and season tournament. postseason titles.

The No. 5 Bears, mindWhen the Aggies’ name ful of the ongoing COVIDwas called at a socially dis19 concerns, exited before tanced team watch party their semifinal contest Satfor the ESPN Selection urday against Bradley. The Show at The Pavilion, the Braves had support perentire UCD squad jumped sonnel test positive for for joy with whoops and COVID on Friday and the applause. The 12th seed regular-season MVC was a show of great respect champs’ administration for the mid-majors’ No. didn’t want to chance a 15-ranked team. confrontation given their “We had so many of our Jennifer Gross certainty for being invited nonconference games canto The Big Dance.

UCD head coach celed. The opportunities Gross said she didn’t we typically have against know much about Missouri Stanford and we had Oregon State canceled, State, but during this finals week at UCD, the to see where we’re at … those games got cancoach and her charges would be taking a celed,” Davis head coach Jennifer Gross crash course on their next opponent. explained. “We were fortunate we were able The Bears field a host of notable players, to schedule that Oregon game. Our team led by point guard Brice Calip (13.5 points a played them tough (a 73-67 loss at the No. game) and front-line defender Jasmine 12 Ducks). Hopefully, that caught the attenFranklin, who adds 11.8 ppg to her 9.2 tion of the committee as well. rebounding average. The Bears have five “But I think being consistent throughout other players who average at least 5 points a conference was another thing I hope they game. Missouri State has been outscoring its noticed — the fact that we’re not just in and foes, on average, by 16 points a night. out one year, but we’re consistently building Joining UCD and Missouri State in the a championship-level program that is getsub-regionals are Arkansas (19-8) and ting better and better.

Wright State (18-7). Advancing winners “That’s exciting that our players are getting respect and recognition for all their hard would play on Wednesday.

Go 2-0 and guess who the Aggies probawork.” bly play? If you said No. 1-seed Alamo Davis had another reason to cheer on Region seed Stanford, you’ve already seen Monday. When Stanford was announced as the brackets. the top seed in the so-called Alamo Region

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“That’s exciting that our players are getting respect and recognition for all their hard work.”

Vacaville at Davis High football

A brave new world for Blue Devils

By Bruce Gallaudet Enterprise sports editor So many questions to be answered when Vacaville High travels to meet Davis on Dewey Halden Field this Friday. n How will both schools react to not having played a game in more than 15 months? n Have the Blue Devils sufficiently rebuilt one of their best offensive lines in history? n Will the Bulldogs take to their new offense? n How will the changing of the guard at quarterback affect the DHS offense?

For both camps, the 7 p.m. kickoff at Brown Stadium can’t come soon enough — although the game will be played before only essential personnel and parents and guardians of participants.

Davis is coming off a scrimmage with Will C. Wood last week that drew praise from Devils outgoing coach Steve Smyte ...

“We saw a lot of good things,” said the

longtime football guy, who this month announced his retirement after this school year. “I thought that offensive line played really, really well. Fired out. Gave us chances.”

After losing tackle Gerad ChristianLichtenhan (Colorado) and center Kieffer Jones (transfer), a reworked quintet featured veterans Josiah Roa at left tackle, Patton Miller at right guard and playanywhere Zach Brooks at the other guard.

Cooper Christiansen debuted at center with Jacob Allen at right tackle.

“They gave our running backs a lot of space,” Smyte added. “Very pleased.”

Davis will feature Trajan Clark at quarterback. He replaces Luke Carrell, who opted for baseball.

Also on fire was kick-return man Ryan Jaramillo, the author of a 74-yard kickoff return for six. While Smyte thought the special teams were “getting close,” he says every team is in the same boat. “We won’t really know until that first game.”

For Vacaville, Friday marks a tectonic

plate shift for the Bulldogs.

Having run the Wing-T for what seems like before World War II, VHS has converted to a pro-spread offense behind quarterback Ryan Vaughan.

“We hope to be balanced and uptempo,” ‘Dog head coach Mike Papadapolous told The Reporter (Vacaville). “On defense? We will provide multiple looks within our scheme.”

“Papa” also promised to bring pressure.

Both schools are coming off playoff experiences. Monticello Empire League champ Vacaville finished “last year” at 8-3. It exited the postseason in the first round after a 52-29 loss to Elk Grove.

Davis, which was 10-2, won the Delta League, hammered Gregori in the first round before losing to Inderkum.

The Blue Devils did beat Elk Grove during the regular season, 42-35.

So, does Smyte think his guys are ready to roll on Friday?

“We’ll see.”

UC Davis may have taken a heartbreaking loss at Weber State last Saturday, but you’d never know it from the latest FCS college football rankings released by STATS and Athlon.

Coming off an 18-13 loss to the No. 1 team in the nation in the Athlon poll, the Aggies (1-1) moved up a surprising eight places to No. 12.

Perhaps, if they lose again, they’ll be rewarded with a spot in the Top 10.

UC Davis also advanced in the STATS poll, though much more modestly, moving from No. 23 to No. 21.

Weber State, meanwhile, was dropped one spot to No. 3 by the STATS pollsters despite its 2-0 record and seemingly clear path to the Big Sky spring title.

Now the Aggies will return to action Saturday in their home opener against struggling Cal Poly in a makeup of a COVID-postponed game originally scheduled for Feb. 27. Game time is 1 p.m. at UC Davis Health Stadium. No fans will be admitted in the renewal of the Battle for the Golden Horseshoe.

In this strange, confusing and sometimes interrupted six-game spring schedule, UCD will turn around and play Cal Poly again in three weeks.

Cal Poly opened its season by falling behind, 31-7, to Southern Utah before rallying late in dropping a 34-24 decision.

In college football, of course, especially in a season as convoluted as this one, coaches never count their chickens — or their wins — before they hatch, but let’s just say that playing fully one-third of your season against Cal Poly appears to be highly advantageous.

However, Cal Poly just hired a new head coach in highly regarded Beau Baldwin, who had a national Enterprise file photo championship at Eastern UC Davis defender Isaiah Washington in 2010. Nonethe- Thomas (1) intercepts a pass less, the Mus- against Cal Poly in a 2019 tangs have miles Aggie victory. to go after having their first two spring games postponed.

Baldwin came in and changed just about everything at Poly. It will take him a while to get the personnel in place to run the wide-open offense for which he’s famous.

Weber State also has Cal Poly in the weeks ahead, along with Northern Arizona, Southern Utah and a return match with an Idaho State team the Wildcats pummeled, 49-21, in their season opener.

The Big Sky champion earns the league’s automatic bid to the 16-team FCS playoff, though at least one other conference team is almost certain to be invited as an at-large participant. The 2019 FCS playoff featured 24 teams, including four from the Big Sky. Davis was 5-7 and missed the party.

The Aggies could have landed much higher in the two polls had the game at Weber State been called at halftime with UCD leading, 10-0, and threatening to rout the Wildcats.

But a couple of big plays ignited the Weber offense and before they could blink, in a span of less than six minutes, the Aggies were down 15-10 and never caught up.

“We’re disappointed, sure, but our kids played their hearts out,” said UC Davis defensive coordinator Matt Coombs. “We’ll get back at it and watch some film on Cal Poly and get ready to move on. It’s a big game for us. A rivalry game. It will be nice to be back home after a couple of weeks on the road.”

Senior linebacker Cole Hansen led a stout Aggie defense with 10 tackles, while team co-captain Connor Airey had seven tackles, including three solo. Hansen, Airey and Jaylin White all had one tackle for loss.

Aggie quarterback Hunter Rodrigues is becoming a threat to run the ball. He carried 18 times for 52 yards against Weber State, mostly on designed plays.

The national FCS picture gets interesting this weekend as No. 4 North Dakota State (4-1) hosts No. 2 North Dakota (4-0) in the Fargodome.

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Quick survey: What’s in your pantry?

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t’s been a year since everyone did that frantic lockdown shop, so it’s probably time for a pantry refresh.

I polled some of my food-loving friends for the best ingredients in their house right now, since I’d like some variety as well! I’ll explore some of the new ones (avocado-cilantro hot sauce?) and report back, but in the meantime, here are some thoughts on staple items old and new, and what you might do with them.

Canned tomatoes: Prepandemic, I was a fan of Muir Glen, which could not be got for love nor money for months. Instead, we bought Simpson brand and now will eat no other. Confusingly, they come in a white labeled can with a design of San Marzano tomatoes marked “SM”, but are grown and packaged in the U.S. They taste of summer and are perfect for pizza sauce or Chili Mac. Olive oil: You almost certainly have some in your pantry. Buy whatever tastes good and is priced well, so long as it has a harvest date (not a use-by date) on it that’s within the last 12 months. It’s nice to have a really fresh local olive oil around for salad dressing and finishing dishes — I am forever a fan of Yolo Press.

Stale bread: Fresh bread is nice, but stale bread is pantry gold. Cubed and waiting in the freezer, it quickly turns into bread pudding, stuffing or croutons. Whizzed up in the food processor to make bread crumbs it’s miles better than any packaged product for meatballs or breading. Don’t waste a scrap!

Fresh herbs: If you don’t garden, now is the time to buy a few pots of fresh herbs, which cost about the same as that bunch you’ll buy at the grocery store and never finish. Put them where they’ll get a bit of sun and water them once in a while. Snip yourself a few leaves from each and keep in a jar of water on the counter as if they were flowers so they’re handy. You can add the soft little leaves to salads, or put a whole stem of woody herbs like rosemary in the pot to cook for a while. Or make crispy crumbs to improve almost anything.

Butter: Buy organic butter if you can afford it: unsalted for baking and eating, salted for eating only or European for eating and using in recipes that call for it — baking with European butter may require some adjustments because it has a much lower water content. Butter freezes beautifully. If you like clarified butter it’s easy enough to make and will keep roughly

forever. Save the solids from clarified butter for the next time you make mashed potatoes — used in place of plain butter they make a delicious tangy addition.

Beans: Whatever you like — dried beans to cook in almost any fashion, frozen cooked beans to save you at dinner, canned beans because they are the perfect backup plan. If you’d like fun new beans, Llano Seco in Chico has beans by mail order along with all manner of sustainable ethically raised meat (https://llano seco.com/). Greens with Beans and Bacon is an awesome dinner, reprinted here for the umpteeneth time because someone surely needs it right now!

Cabbage: To quote my friend Lisa in Wisconsin, “it lasts forever, easy to make a quick slaw for bbq, side salad or tacos, also to braise or sauté for meat sides or even on the grill in slabs!” If you don’t usually put cabbage on your tacos, you’re missing out. I like mine made into Curtido for extra zing.

Lemons: If you have a surplus now, be kind to your future self and store some up. The easy way is to wash and zest your lemons with a microplane, then juice them. Freeze juice in a silicone mini-muffin pan (it’s seriously worth buying one for freezing alone) or ice cube tray, then pop cubes out into a freezer container for long-term storage.

Freeze zest loose so you can scoop out what you need.

My friend Elizabeth says she freezes wedges whole to pop into summer drinks, which I plan to try this very afternoon.

Parmesan or Pecorino: buy these in chunks, not pre-grated. (If you’re just tuning in, pre-grated cheese has additives to prevent clumping, and the flavor is less than.) Microplaned for topping pasta or pizza, or stirring into Caesar Dressing, shards for adding to salads, chunks for your cheeseboard. Save the rinds in a bag in the freezer to add to soups and sauces for extra flavor. (Take the rind out of the soup or sauce before serving, because it’s very chewy.)

Yeast: Instant yeast is fine — it’s finely ground so it can go straight into your dough without proofing. I say I like the flavor of regular yeast better, but it may actually be that I enjoy watching the happy little yeast wake up and float to the top of the bowl. In any event, if you

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Homemade croutons make the salad. have any sort of yeast you have pizza dough in very short order, or a Filled Milk Bun Ring for fancy. Keep your opened yeast in the fridge so it stays asleep.

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Chili Mac Serves 2.

Ingredients: 1 teaspoon olive oil 1 onion, nicely chopped ¼ pound ground beef or substitute 2 cloves garlic, minced 1 teaspoon dried oregano 1 teaspoon Aleppo pepper flakes 1 teaspoon chili powder 1 teaspoon kosher salt 1 can (14 ounces) tomato sauce 6 ounces uncooked pasta shapes (1 can sliced black olives) Grated Monterey Jack cheese Putting it together: Heat a large heavy skillet and add oil. Sauté onion 2 minutes. Add beef and cook until pink is gone. Add spices and garlic and sauté 30 seconds.

Add tomato sauce. Cook over low heat 10 minutes.

Taste and adjust seasonings.

While tomato sauce is simmering, cook pasta according to package. When just done, use a slotted spoon to scoop into the pan with sauce. Add olives if using. Stir, cover and let rest a minute or two. Serve topped with cheese.

I make larger croutons to float in soup and smaller ones for salads. Both are delicious eaten out of hand, which is usually what happens.Any bread can make a good crouton, but brioche or milk bread will make softer but still crispy croutons.

Croutons Ingredients: 6 slices day-old bread

2 tablespoons olive oil 2 tablespoons butter 1 teaspoon garlic granules 1 teaspoon dried oregano 1 teaspoon dried thyme 1 teaspoon kosher salt Putting it together: Cut bread into cubes.

Heat oil and butter in a large skillet. Add spices and salt and cook briefly.

Add bread and stir well to coat. Cook over low heat, stirring occasionally, until nicely browned. Cool and store in an airtight container for up to five days.

Herbed Crispy Crumbs These are delicious on top of cooked vegetables or poured over casseroles at the last minute.

Ingredients: 1 cup fine fresh bread crumbs 4 to 6 tablespoons olive oil 1 tablespoon fresh herbs — tiny thyme or sage leaves, minced rosemary, etc.

2 cloves garlic Putting it together: Place bread crumbs in a skillet over medium heat. Add 2 tablespoons olive oil and the herbs and cook over low heat, stirring frequently. You may need to add more olive oil; the mixture should never look entirely dry nor soupy.

Cook until bread crumbs are toasty and herbs are fried and crispy. Add garlic, finely minced or pressed and remove heat. Stir well and let stand a minute before using.

Greens with Beans and Bacon Serves 2 Ingredients: 2 to 3 strips bacon 4 cups greens — beet, chard, etc.

1 onion, minced 1 clove garlic ½ to 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes

serving. Once chilled, taste and adjust seasonings.

2 sprigs oregano 3 tablespoons vinegar 1 tablespoon honey or sugar salt to taste 1 cup or more of any beans, cooked

Clarified Butter

Putting it together: Wash greens well, then cut into strips. Cut bacon into 1” pieces with scissors and cook in a large skillet until crispy. Remove bacon from pan. Reserve 1 Tbsp of bacon fat and save the rest for another use. (Bacon fat freezes just fine.) Add onion to bacon fat in skillet and cook over low heat, stirring, until nicely browned. Press or mince garlic and stir into onions. Add spices, vinegar and honey and bring to a boil. Add greens and cook, covered, until done to your taste. Stir in beans and heat through. Add bacon.

Taste and add salt or pepper if needed.

Curtido (Cabbage Salad) I like Napa cabbage and Nantes carrots in this, but you can use what you like.

By the same token, your favorite vinegar will work well here. It’s a forgiving dish!

Ingredients: 4 cups shredded cabbage 2 carrots peeled and grated boiling water 3 green onions — whites and light greens minced 3 tablespoons vinegar 2 tablespoons water 1 tablespoon fresh oregano or 1 teaspoon dried ½ teaspoon kosher salt (1 teaspoon Aleppo pepper) Putting it together: Combine carrots and cabbage in a large bowl.

Pour boiling water over carrots and cabbage and let stand for 5 minutes.

Drain well. Combine remaining ingredients with blanched carrots and cabbage. Best chilled before

Clarified butter has a higher smoke point, so you can use it to sauté without fear of burning. It’s traditionally used as a dip for seafood and the soon to arrive asparagus. It’s lovely for homemade potted meat or shrimp.

Put it in a heavy bottomed pan (a light-colored one is a little easier) and cook over medium heat.

Butter will melt and foam up: skim off the foam and continue cooking, skimming foam as needed, until butter is clear and solids have separated out to the bottom of the pan. Try not to let the solids brown. This takes a good half an hour to do, and isn’t something you can rush.

Pour off butter and chill until firm, at least one hour.

Reserve foam and solids for flavoring baked goods and mashed potatoes — butter solids will keep in the fridge for a week or the freezer for months.

Caesar Dressing This makes a thick dressing — thin with more lemon juice or a bit of water if desired. It seems like a lot of cheese, but it’s actually just right.

Ingredients: 2 anchovies 2 garlic cloves ¼ teaspoon kosher salt 3 tablespoons mayonnaise 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil 1 ounce (a scant ½ cup) finely grated Parmesan 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice ½ teaspoon finely grated lemon zest Putting it together: Mash anchovy, garlic and salt into a fine paste. Mix in remaining ingredients. Taste and adjust seasonings. This makes a thick dressing — thin with more lemon juice or a bit of water if desired.

Reopening breweries — it’s complicated W ith the continuing decline of COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations and even deaths, counties can now look forward to some easing of public health restrictions on businesses. Breweries that serve food have been open for some time because they are considered to be restaurants; this weekend we were even offered a table indoors at a Sacramento restaurant, but chose the patio.

Breweries that operate a taproom and do not serve food are essentially bars and they may reopen for outdoor service only, and with some other restrictions: the county must be in the Purple or Red zone, clients must make advanced reservations, stay for only up to 90 minutes and beer service must end at 8 p.m. Also, I wonder how much fresh beer brewpubs will currently have in their tanks.

I understand the color-zone restriction because that reflects

the local rate of infections; in fact, I am surprised that purple is considered OK even for this cautious re-opening. The other restrictions strike me as odd, other than to make going to a taproom a bit awkward and hence marginally safer. I guess the idea is that if drinkers are allowed to stay too long or too late they are more likely to get more raucous and so increase the chance of disease transmission — even outdoors.

Bars need to wait until a county reaches at least the red or yellow tier of infection to reopen for outdoor service. That is they

are more susceptible to the purple condition than breweries; I’m not sure I understand why this should be. Perhaps bars are considered more intimate or perhaps the potential to drink all kinds of stronger alcoholic concoctions made of gin or whiskey, which is not always sold in precise measures, increases the implied risk of disease transmission. That may be so, I suppose.

Another wrinkle that my son Robert drew to my attention is the source of the data used to define the color zone assigned to a county.

The data used is the number of cases reported as the sevenday moving average. However, the most recent number is not used but one that is a week old; that is a 7-day lag. Plus, a county must remain numerically in the lower tier for two weeks before it can officially move to that lower tier. Thus, data from the first week of March defines the tier available by the end of the

second week but the county must wait to the end of the month to claim a lower tier. So Yolo, now in the red zone, could in reality be yellow.

I guess one could say that in a time of steadily declining rates of infections this is a wise conservative approach to numbers. Nevertheless, with the pressure to reopen as many businesses as possible in a soon but safe way, using antique data may not be the most progressive way to go.

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nterestingly, the infection rate that defines tiers eased this weekend: a county now needs 10 infections per 100,000 of population or 0.01% to move from purple to red (formerly, 7 infections per 100,000 was the standard). That makes the restrictions on opening a county a little easier so it can open a little sooner and maybe makes Newsom a little safer.

A month ago I got my second vaccination for COVID-19 so, for

the standard variety of the virus at least, I am about as immune as it is possible to be. I’m pleased the vaccine I received is at least 90% effective, although that number applies to the test population used to validate the vaccine, not to me. Therefore, I am still using double masking in most places that I go and practice physical distancing as much as possible by avoiding crowds, especially indoors.

This morning I had an invitation to visit my son David and his family in Virginia for Easter.

In past years, that has been a tradition that we enjoyed a lot.

However, even though we have not seen them since Thanksgiving 2019, the idea of airports and TSA lines and airplanes and baggage carousels gives us the creeps and we have had to refuse that invitation with great regret.

— Reach Michael Lewis at lewiswales@me.com. Comment on this column at www.davis enterprise.com.

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or your light reading, items from various news sources, some of which appear believable and serious, others not so much: Cambridge, Mass., home to Harvard University, has adopted an ordinance to require the placement of stickers warning of the climate emergency on fuel pumps at gas stations.

The bright yellow stickers are the brainchild of a group called “Beyond the Pump” and read; “Continuing to burn gasoline (or diesel) worsens the climate emergency, with major projected impacts on your health increasing over time.”

A spokesperson from the group indicates, “The gaspump stickers will remind drivers to think about climate change and hopefully consider non-polluting options. The labels are designed to create a feeling like someone has broken a rule or violated a law. This feeling, along with increased social pressure, like smoking labels, can translate to a collapse in trust for the current system, thereby increasing the public appetite for alternatives.”

Cambridge is the first to implement this new strategy. Will others follow?

A California city has taken the gas-station issue to another level. The city of Petaluma is also looking to be the first in the nation on a gas-station-related issue. The city council voted to ban all new gas stations and to prohibit existing ones from expanding or relocating.

Lest a reader thinks this was done willy-nilly, the Petaluma Argus-Courier article points out that the ban is the culmination of a two-year moratorium with research finding that everyone in the town of 60,000 is within a fiveminute drive of a gas station, so who needs another one? The city council also streamlined the process for establishing electricvehicle charging stations and, potentially, also hydrogen fueling.

Interestingly, at least to me, the ban evolved out of a lawsuit by the citizens’ group Save Petaluma against Safeway building a gas station at one of its stores. This should sound familiar to Sacramentans, Curtis Park residents specifically, who had a similar tussle with a developer wanting to include a gas station with a proposed Safeway grocery store.

I suppose, if carmakers are really serious about ending the production of fossil-fuel vehicles, at some point gas stations are going to have to come up with a different business model or go out of business.

In any case, Petaluma recently moved up its goal for carbon neutrality from 2045 to 2030 and this is one of the actions they’re relying on to get them there.

Speaking of changing business models, friend and neighbor Don recently sent me “38 Predictions” related to the coming of the electric vehicle. Here are a couple.

Auto shops will disappear. I’m not sure about

this one. The article claims electric car motors only have 20 parts compared to 20,000 for a gas or diesel engine, so what is there to work on? Take it to what resembles a car wash, settle in with a cup of coffee, your car will be towed through the “shop,” robots will find and fix your problem and 20 minutes later you’ll have a new or fixed motor.

Another: A baby born in 2021 will have to go to a museum to see a “personal” car. People won’t own them; you can go ahead and convert your garage to a gym, workshop, sewing room, “granny flat” or whatever.

Vehicles will be autonomous, guided by artificial intelligence. If you need a car, or truck or van you just summon it, use it, let it go, and summon another for a return trip. A continuously circulating taxi service, so to speak.

Sounds pretty crazy, but the pace of change is crazy.

Most college students today were born before there were smartphones or the omniscient internet.

“Disruption” used to be a word used for things like disrupting a classroom discussion. Now it is a primary element of business strategy for startups, in particular, looking to completely change the way a technology is used or a business is operated.

A good example is photography. Way back in 2000, you took a picture on a camera, took the film to a place like Long’s Drugs, who sent it to Kodak for processing. You waited a week or so to pick up the pictures, took them home and put them in a photo album.

The nearly 200,000 employees of Kodak, who sold and processed all that film would see their industry “disrupted” and their employer bankrupted in a few short years. For that matter, who knew that a phone and a camera would be one and the same thing?

Lastly for today, in the “believe-it-or-not” category is the effort currently underway to build floating nuclear power plants. The idea stems from the perception of some that many small and developing (and coastal) countries could use some help producing electricity, and a barge with a nuclear power plant on it moored off the coast is just the thing. A Danish company says it will start taking orders in 2022 for nuclear barges to be delivered in 2025.

And, lest this be perceived as a far-fetched and impractical idea, the company has one now, operating since 2019, supplying electricity to the Russian port of Pevek on the East Siberian Sea. — John Mott-Smith is a resident of Davis. This column appears the first and third Wednesday of each month. Please send comments to johnmottsmith@ comcast.net.

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512 G Street, Davis • www.kingproperties.com Becky King Owner

2300 5th St. Davis • (530) 756-4187 DavisHomeTrends.com

Parcel Dispatch, PDQ 216 F Street

Downtown Davis

530-756-7084 Mon-Fri 9-5:30 & Sat 10-2

L TO R: GARY, ANDREA, LANDON, LUKE, LAURA, LYNN

Come in to PDQ today and help us celebrate 40 years in business!

Parcel Dispatch, PDQ is celebrating their 40th anniversary. Family owned and operated since 1981, PDQ provides UPS, FedEx, USPS, Notary, Fingerprinting, Mailbox Rentals and great customer service.

Owners Lynn and Laura Christensen enjoy working with their children, Katie, Landon and Gary and their “adopted” employees, Luke and Andrea. PDQ works hard to provide their customers with the best service possible and enjoy treating people like they are part of the PDQ family.

Moore & Moore Attorneys At Law

40 RS! A YE

Personalized and Comprehensive Service for your Individual and Business Legal Needs

The firm is a participant of the U.C. and State of California ARAG employee legal benefit program.

Phoenix House • 413 F St. • Davis, California 95616 Tel (530) 758-8317 • Fax (530) 758-8318 e-mail: thelaw@mytrustedlawyer.com

216 F Street • Davis, CA 95616

(530) 756-7084 FAX (530) 756-3090

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Gillian Brady, Attorney Mediator Mediating divorce, parenting, family and elder law for over 15 years.

(530) 756-2536

www.FindingCommonGround.com

$45/week (3 month commitment)

Call Nancy Hannell at 530.747.8032 or email nhannell@davisenterprise.net